skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's certainly related. The difference here is that 1) they're comparing output of multiple systems, rather than looking for obviously erroneous behavior of one (segfaults, memory leaks, failed assertions); and 2) the input data is all correct - fuzzing (per my understanding) usually implies tossing bad data in to see if the system breaks (frequently just slightly bad data is more interesting than complete garbage, but either falls under "fuzzing").
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Creating a portable demo environment to showcase MFA on a Windows 8 tablet
Take a look at http://divshot.com/. Someone pointed me to this today.
How did he get pwned or not take necessary precautions? He could have re-imaged it after running the virus to prevent something like this from happening (assuming that's how it did), but it was all in a virtual machine, so there wasn't much risk to not doing it.

Disclaimer: I'm not a professional virus analyst.
Any example showcases?
Is the quality of the site being kept up, though?

Questions certainly feel "worse" than they did 2 years ago when I first started following SO.

Way more "homework" or "newbie south-east Asian programmer asking for THE CODEZ" type questions than there ever was back in the day.

I'm not really sure how you fix that, although slightly raising the barrier to entry (perhaps require they at least pick a username?) might help reduce the "drive bys" who ask a poor question, and never accept an answer.
From what I gather from the Wikipedia page, it's due to the transmission cables being underwater and hence having a much larger capacitance, which is a larger loss than normal DC loss. (Correct me if I'm wrong on that.)

So, while AC is still more beneficial for transmission via cables in air/ground, DC appears to have less overall loss for underwater transmission.
Not the Creator of Dressed here.

The point of Bootstrap is to make it "so easy your grandmother can do it" so why would I pay $149 for your layouts when inevitably it's going to require some form of customization you haven't thought of. Great job at taking advantage of the internet sheep, I will give you that.
Atleast I can login to "old" greplin when using https://www.cueup.com/auth#login_
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So Which Is It?
Best advice I can offer if the agency who recruited you can't help is to talk to one of the British Consulates in Brazil and look at http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/countries/brazil/?langname...
This has to be the worst product launch ever.

What happens to the index of personal data they created when I gave them access to all my PII? I can go in and manually deauth Greplin from all my accounts (PAIN IN THE ASS) but that doesn't delete whatever data they stored on their end.
I use 'git h', which is very similar. It was gifted to me when I moved to SF.

(in ~/.gitconfig under the [alias] section...)

h = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative

https://img.skitch.com/20120619-c9xq67ysdbmrasmfgur6raba1d.p...

I'd love to see how stuff like this spreads. I just use git h because the person that gave it to me used that.
transaction fees?
That's the thing about this movie, they do things like make first contact with the only alien life mankind has ever met or reanimate a centuries old alien head and each event is about as monumental as reading the morning paper.
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C compilers can be buggy, particularly when you start working with vendor-supplied compilers for embedded platforms. A colleague was furious when he realized that his board's compiler didn't support function pointers.
Fine, the article should therefore argue, "Stop claiming to be profitable since day 3: claim to be cash flow positive not including consumer expenses such as apartment, car, home Internet and mobile telephone, since day 1." Such an important semantic difference. (Not.)
This is the "Stack Overflow sucks because it doesn't have enough lolcats" argument. You might like lolcats, and good for you if so, but not every site is about lolcats and you should not try to force every site to become a meme-fueled jokestravaganza.

There's nothing wrong with having focus. Moderators do often prevent communities from growing as much as they otherwise would, but so will any filter that keeps quality high by some metric that isn't "Do we get the most readers possible?" In Stack Overflow's case, a large part of its utility is that it's a no-messing-around question and answer site. Being "the unification of people with a shared interest in a programming language or knowledge domain" is not the site's goal any more than hosting funny pictures of cats is, so no surprise that the moderators kill that potential.

I do think they draw the line a little closer than I would and a lot of stuff they kill I would think it's OK to allow, but that's just armchair quarterbacking. The broad strokes of what they do seems like a good thing.
Most people with the title "Software engineer" are not software engineers. I don't know that this is any more prevalent among web programmers than, say, Java programmers.
Most of the easy answers are solved, so that is part of it. Maybe the OP is partially getting bored what with over 19k of karma.

As an aside, I have to say spolsky that SO has made a real, measurable impact on my life. The number of times I type my query site:stackoverflow.com into google is higher than any other site.
I couldn't find any mention of ICANN or control over DNS in any of the leaked documents I looked through.

It seems like the article authors or the leakers are "reading between the lines" but I'd be happier to have a link and a reference number so I could read the proposal in context.
Note that "ramen profitable", as I understand the term, means "throwing off enough money that the operators of the business can pay for adequate shelter and enough ramen-quality calories to avoid starvation".

That sounds like a pedantic distinction but it's not: ramen-profitability have runways denominated by the willpower of the founders, not extrinsic factors like "founders will soon be homeless".

Beer-money profitable carries none of the same connotations.
Please don't misunderstand my comment for a lack of excitement about this domain. I'm going to keep a close watch on this to see where it goes. Absolutely agree about the state of Bootstrap themes, which is why I tend to go pure custom with outsourcing. One suggestion I would have is to really hit hard about how yours stand out. Clearly, they are well designed, but someone who would be a buyer at that price point (doesn't need custom, but needs something nice and flexible) may not be educated enough to know why they should choose yours over the cookie-cutter $30 theme. The custom form and tables are particularly nice, but they are buried in the demo. I've spent a lot of time digging through bootstrap themes, and it took me awhile to figure out what made this one more compelling; less experienced users will surely have the same issue.

Good luck though; this is definitely an interesting space and I think you'll get some good results over time.
Revenue from plays directly supports the ecosystem. Anyone can submit a comprehensive how-to for review and the revenue generated from plays is split three pronged. http://www.startupplays.com/blog/supporting-the-startup-ecos...
The economical (and successful) model for handling data of this sort is batch processing, possibly with some tool like Hadoop -- and our market research shows that many potential customers are already using this.

If we provided a live database to customers we'd have to make at least 10 times the revenue in order to cover variable costs and I'm not sure we could provide a service with satisfying performance at that level.

RDF technology is rapidly advancing and there's no substitute right now for a customer providing his triple store on his own machine with a lot of RAM and a few SSD drives.
I used to do the same stuff, we didn't even see it as malicious back then, just a "prank" really. Most the people we "infected" were via IRC and ICQ, embedding the exe client into a JPG (or just changing the exe icon to a JPG one) and DCC'ing it to them.

Once infected, we'd screw around, make errors pop up on their screen like "Computer Is Low On Coffee, Please Insert Coffee Cup" then make CD tray eject, etc. Then we'd chat to them, and they usually had a good laugh, and we'd tell them how to not get infected in the future, then self-destruct the client.

We didn't really investigate it much or ponder the deeper implications behind it, so it took us a fair while to realise the level of maliciousness that was possible, which scared us off, so we stopped messing with it (we'd already been in trouble for other stuff so didn't want to push it!)
Wikipedia editors can also come across as jerks. A lot of new members get turned off and end up leaving the community... this happens even more often with female editors.

On the one hand, it's wonderful that both SO and Wikipedia are "well-kept gardens":
http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/

On the other hand, at some point both communities struggle with being inclusive and welcoming.

Maybe Joel is right though, and the two goals are mutually exclusive? I personally hope that they're not, but don't have any examples to point to that are successful on the level of Wikipedia or StackOverflow.
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Examples? I don't get what market you're appealing to.
Well, they don't want Stack Overflow to be a social network. But like Soylent Green, it's made out of people. In SO's case, inconveniently alive people.

Humans are inherently social, and the amount of effort SO staff and moderators have to go to trying to stamp that out is a sign that SO really is a social network.

I always think it's a bad sign when product designers think they know much better than their users what they want. I think that's what killed Friendster. I think that's why Google Plus is kinda sad and sterile. If you're going to go to all the trouble of making a product for people, I'd rather you listened to them from time to time.
Your grandmother knows HTML & CSS?
> realizing that best user experiences come from harmony between hardware and software

You mean there are some Windows specific features in their tablet? Which? And why couldnt they have asked the other manufacturers to implement them?
They showed off a working physical prototype at the press conference.
Is there a way to make the filenames in a 'git diff' stand out/coloured? I always have trouble figuring out where one file's diff ends and the next one begins.
If I recall correctly, they only generated programs that had well-specified behavior. Not just legal, but specified.
Actually, that answer would very likely be appreciated as long as you phrased it politely. I've very often told people on Stack Overflow that they were asking the wrong question, told them how to start off on the right path, and gotten the checkmark for it.

(I actually will sometimes answer the original question if it's not too involved or impossible, and include a note along the lines of "See this? This is why it sucks for what you want to do.")
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> Typically for any one site the style for most elements should remain consistent - you wouldn't have half a dozen different styles of input[type=text].

You could easily have more than half a dozen. You might have 3 different color schemes (light, medium, dark inverted), 5 different widths (what kind of form field is it?), 3 different font size contexts with customized padding, one with autocomplete and one without, one that's flat and one that's 3D, one that displays default text and one that doesn't... multiplying those yields 360 different variations, generated from 17 different classes.

Not all those variations will actually be used, but this is certainly a reasonable visual vocabulary for a medium-size site.
not sure if this is the type of thing you're looking for, but i recently came across this:

IM-Creator
http://imcreator.com/

i’ve just begun messing around with it (building a simple personal site) and I’m generally very pleased. the templates they have up are really quite nice and are very easy to customize. though it does feel a bit limited (may not be quite suitable for you), it is free and they seem to be pretty active in addressing any issues and taking feedback into consideration for improvements.
For virtually everyone on HN, the difference between $1000/mo profitable (which BTW is a dream scenario for the majority of would-be founders here) and $11k/mo underwater is about as extreme a distinction as can be made.

Why do people keep talking as if this is a semantic argument?

It isn't a semantic argument.

I know it feels amazing to build something with enough traction to reliably put $1500 a month in the founder's pockets, but that "profitability" is counterfeit. You cannot run that business forever; it is paying you less than the minimum wage.

If you think this is a semantic difference, try re-reading Steve Albini's "Some Of Your Friends May Already Be This Fucked" rant.
Maybe we just aren't talking about the same thing. What does "stagnation in the community" mean to you?

If it means "overall, people lose interest and stop visiting to ask and answer questions," I don't see that. I'm not visiting to fill in all the gaps in SO's content, and feeling disappointed when there aren't many gaps to fill. I'm running into questions, Googling, and hoping to find my question already answered.

If I find it and it's not answered, I'll do research and try to answer it myself. If it doesn't exist, I'll ask. If I find the answer before anyone else does, I may answer it myself.

I'm not going to stop doing that, and I don't see why anyone else will, either. What the overall trends are in the site really has no bearing on my individual participation, so it never feels "stagnant" to me.

Maybe you're imagining users who show up and surf for questions to answer, and those people are getting bored? That's just not the way I use the site, though.
Apple Moves towards Robotic Manufacturing
Hydrogen has a number of unique safety issues: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_safety

Unlike most gasses, hydrogen gas flowing through leak warms up, and the low ignition energy means this can be enough to start a fire, and hydrogen flames are invisible.

I'm not a chemical engineer, but I would assume that methane infrastructure cannot simple be re-used for hydrogen without significant changes.
MongoDB TTL collections
From the looks of it, they are either planning on entering the travel guide sector, or protecting their brand from others entering this sector.
Getting upvoted is a positive experience. Getting downvoted is a negative one. If you don't know that you've been downvoted, you can't get upset about it. It's true that if you go back to a question, look for your relative position, and do the math, you may also have a negative experience, but that's much rarer.

Note that voting isn't the only thing than ranks answers. They also have some subtle reputation system going on.
I routinely find the question I'm asking has already been answered when googling, and have rarely had a question go unanswered.

The hard part in my experience when going to try and answer some questions is it seems like there are more and more questions by inexperienced coders expecting people to write basic code for them, or not formulating the question in a way that will be useful to others in the future - instead they're pasting in their code and asking, "why isn't this working". Instead of, "I would expect this framework to behave as follows but it's not" it's "Here's 50 lines of code, why isn't it working?" The only way to answer such questions is to get their code up and running somewhere, perhaps on a jsfiddle, figure out what's wrong (often something as trivial as a syntax error), and then tell them. Doesn't feel very gratifying to do one off debugging on behalf of the person asking especially if the answer is unlikely to be useful to others in the future.
Does anyone have a setup where the git log (perhaps with grep) is synced with their public changelog file?
I actually have found QR codes to be effective when used in presentations at tech conferences. At the end of each talk, I have a QR code on the final slide that points to a page where attendees can get more info.

About 1/4 of all people who visited that page at my SXSW talk this year came in through a QR code. This is kind of an anomaly because a SXSW talk is probably the perfect place to use a QR code.

My one complaint is, of course, that they are hideous. It would be nice if there were a central database where you could upload your own symbols and assign them to URLs.
Did BO2K/Sub7 allowed to be notified when being debugged ? Maybe it's an easy 'plugin' to write when you have a flexible payload generator I guess.
"Create a profitable website in 5 minutes"

Unless it makes money within 5 minutes it's not profitable in 5 minutes.
The landing page looks nice, but it really doesn't tell me anything about the product.

Only if I pay close attention to the screenshots can I infer that it's a calendar that gets information from multiple sources, and that tries to bring up the relevant information.

But why would I need an app different from the default Calendar app? Sure you get the relevant info for my lunch from OpenTable and from my flight. But really, that doesn't happen very often that I have in the same day a lunch and a flight with info that just a calendar event wouldn't have. For the most part, I can just pull to get the notification center and most of the same info is there.

Side note: I find it more and more common to have that kind of beautiful landing page that are too much about the design and not enough about delivering information.
I wasn't talking about the cost of YC.

As an early stage company you go from 0 to 10mil.
If you are already a 1-2 mil, where do you go?
SO is slowly driving away the more senior participants who haven't been drawn in by the gamification of the site. Every few months it seems like the questions on the site are more and more of the "I could have googled this but it was faster to ask it on SO." variety.

In short, SO is becoming a Mechanical Turk for searching for answers to software questions, and the reason is because Google is becoming less and less useful (as it tries to be more and more helpful) for searching for answers to software questions.

I don't know how that fits into the long-term goals of SO.
"(in particular, people doing things like comparing with n-1 in loop boundary conditions"

There's your problem: that's like saying cars are more dangerous than motorcycles because your finger can get squeezed by the door.

"There's a reason Java, C# etc. default to signed integer"

Legacy? And in Java/C#, and you usually use ints, not so much chars, shorts, etc and casts are probably more picky

I stand by my point, you should only use signed if you know what you're doing and for a specific use only (like math)
One of my businesses can easily pay the wages of an employee for the time they are needed, but being highly seasonal work, it would not pay for an employee year round. Or to put it another way: On a per hour of work basis, it makes a programmers salaries look like chump-change, but amortized out to a yearly income it's not enough to sustain a living.

Is that profitable?
I provided arguments with evidence. You resorted to ad hominem.
What technology is being used to create this?
Both of you are WASTING YOUR TIME. Now keep worshiping "ycombinator" like they are God--meanwhile, someone stops this comment from showing. I don't care. Internet commenting is a waste of time. Hug your children or something, JEEEZ.
Thanks a lot for bringing up this subject. I feel unimaginably ashamed for never considering iOS Simulator was in fact, as the name might suggest, a simulator!
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Reminds me of those good times when we discovered Trojan me and my friends. We kept infecting people, until they found out about it and started doing it as well. It became a war between us. Almost everyone got infected in our class.

I remember the pranks we used to pull, like printing "Help me I'm trapped inside the printer!", changing the wallpaper for a porn one, typing messages instead of the person on MSN.

Once we infected some random guy we didn't know, and popped up a black chat screen (like the one in matrix) and before we could write "Hi Neo" the guy was already writing to us "hey what's up?".
The guy was so stupid he chatted with us like it was a normal thing.

Then we all grew up and we fell a bit bad for finding stuff we shouldn't have found, so we stopped.
> 2. Purchase the multi-thousand dollar version on custom hardware published by the plaintiff. (Presumably insurance companies normally pay for this option.)

The family met with a salesman for the "original" software. It didn't work for Maya. It's mentioned in the 2nd blog entry about this.
Felt like you were trying to make a transaction happen before you had sold the product - I was choosing features and being shown costs before I had any idea about how they would work or how I would go about constructing them within your system.
The problem with writing Operating Systems for general purpose hardware (such as the PC) is that it is expected to work with just about any components - no matter where they are sourced. Sure there are "reference" specs but at the end of the day the OS has to make up for a lot and still try and shine.

The next generation of Windows is crucial to the success of MS long term. Their OS must be seen to be not just relevant to the next generation of hardware - but seen to shine in that role.

I think it is entirely sensible for MS to produce a new product that show the world how they think things should be done - with complete control over every aspect of the design. [has risk of course]

Other manufacturers (the traditional PC companies I suppose) will be free to offer their hardware vision alongside the one from Microsoft.
Back a bit (yes, I am dating myself here), I worked for a floppy disk duplicating company that was hired by a certain software company to attempt to duplicate the disks with built-in copy protection. The customer provided a routine where they would have the end-users' disk controllers read a hidden half sector at the end of a half-sized normal ninth sector, I think was the gist of that particular scheme.

If I remember correctly, they had typed some example code in plain ascii, so we obliged with the typical "help, I'm being held captive in a Chinese disk duplication company." Which was almost true, as the owners of our company were of Chinese decent. And in my defense, we did have a number of all-nighters (with Pizza) when another software company would call us with a sudden "we've changed the masters - erase and re-dupe whatever you have)." I was younger, then...

Anyway, a few messages were passed back and forth this way, before we got back to serious business and implemented the copy protection scheme. Not really a virus, but still geeky fun.

Did you know that 8" floppy disks had excellent aerobatic qualities when flung from the top of a building? The trick was holding them by the corner during the wind-up...