skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the saying goes, there's a sucker born every minute :D

This got me wondering if the naming firm described as the minds behind "Jamcracker" still exists. Sure enough, it does:

http://www.ahundredmonkeys.com/

And they have a useful page listing all the names they've ever sold:

http://www.ahundredmonkeys.com/category/all-names/

Scroll down to "J", and... boom. "Jamcracker: Unified platform for IT management." Right between "Jacks" and "Jamoka."
You can throw money at a problem like security, but it's the underpaid employee earning $7.99 an hour that you should be throwing money at if you want a secure company. The weak link in any security is always people.
I more often hear they say to write. Though I'll concede reading a lot is also important.
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The only thing I feel I got from college is meeting my wife. Oh, well that and 85k in debt. I did graduate, with a 3.0, but the sentiment is the same. College hasn't done anything for my career so far.

That said, the whole "I can learn more in one afternoon vs a semester" is just dribble. Total BS. And turns me off to the whole message, sorry.
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Look at the ruby libraries for syslog. Iirc, there is a ruby standard library for syslog.
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That's actually one of the things I miss most when using other editors. Most seem to undo a bit too much.
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I always thought both Facebook and Twitter would be better if they limited the number of people you could follow or friend to somewhere between 100-230 (Dunbar's number). I think this would make everything a bit less spammy and more meaningful but I was curious to see what others though.
Heh. Usually that criticism is even worse at higher ranked universities since they're research focused.

Lower ranked ones tend to be teaching focussed.
Sounds like one lazy and irresponsible student to me. It's great that you made it. More power to you for that. But why did you waste your money if you were not gonna do the work? Doesn't matter how scared you were from your parents. You dropped out and then decided to grow up.
I'm a guy that does NOT believe college is for everyone.
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I'm also confused about the p-value. Also, I'd love for someone who really knows statistics to explain: how are tests like confidence interval and p-value meaningful when (1) your only two choices are Agree & Disagree? (2) when your weighted agree/disagree curve is the opposite of a normal curve (low in the middle and high on the edges)?
Give me some third party examples.
False. There's a glut of lawyers. For the good paying legal jobs, it's insanely competitive. By that I mean "oh crap, you better be at least borderline brilliant and incredibly hard working"
50-75% of stories on TC are one way or another originated from hacker news...
On the other hand, if 90% of my friends sign up for the $1000/year plan, and I cannot afford that, they just lost a user.

Would the people willing to pay a high amount make up for the loss of the lower-tier levels? (Keep in mind that this is the kind of decision that you cannot ctrl-z out of.)
It's a small difference, but these small differences version after version add up to a lot of nickels.

As I mentioned in another comment, increasing performance for ID selection (which is already much, much faster than other types) at the expense of other types makes for sexy benchmarks, but is less than stellar in the real world.
I have been looking into this recently and it seems that a lot of sites are using OAuth2 over OpenID.

Even when they are using it as a simple authentication mechanism (The scenario that lots of "OAuth2 vs OpenID" posts, blogs and tutorials say is where you should be using OpenID )

Since this site is also using OAuth2 instead of OpenID can I ask for your reasoning?
A few different ways, I think Path is amazing for what it does, btw. A real inspiration for all of us. It seems to really promote you to share with your friends. We don't share at all. We also import your activities from other networks. You can post to it by email, view it on the web...please give it a try and let us know what you think.
what do YC see in Everyday.me to make it worthy of being funded?

That they are "ex-Googlers."

It may be disingenuous to say that other applications do the same thing; it's as if you were saying ConnectU and Thefacebook do the same thing. In any case, they are simply launching their product. It's the first step in a long journey.

It's sometimes difficult to notice a great startup unless you've launched. For example, Groupon was a much more modest "tipping point for change" type of startup before they realized they could apply the same concept to small business commerce.
If you have a strong project and all you need is a mac to get the project going then; 1. Find someone with a mac that will let you use it for a cut of the profits. 2. Rent one from someone. 3. Find family or friend investors that will loan you some money to get a good mac in return for profit sharing.
There goes any incentive for a company to set up a twitter account to interact with their customers who don't want to pony up the yearly fee.

I like being able to tweet @some_company and get a faster response than I would by filing a ticket.
"Also, why are people still developing exclusively for iPhone? Last quarter there were four times as many Android phones sold as iPhones."

Have you ever been in a 2-3 person startup? You have to make a choice and do something exclusively. iPhone is the right choice if you want to get to market and start talking to users sooner. It's also the right choice if you want to raise money and get tech press in the Valley (it turns out virtually no investors or bloggers have anything but an iPhone).
Programming it to make straight cuts without setting up a fence alone would make this a buy for me, shapes be damned.
Can someone explain how/why a $2.6 billion piece of equipment appears to have cameras that can't match a $100 digital camera?
I know it takes a long time for data to travel from there to here, but I am sure a lot of people wouldn't mind waiting for 1080p, full-color video footage of the red planet.
Instead, we get these 1-megapixel, black-and-white shots that need to be stitched together to create a half decent panorama image.
Sorry, there is probably a good technical reason for this, but I am just ignorant of it and I would appreciate an explanation.
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I did, I had a rather high IQ, and solid high-school achievements so I could probably gone to MIT etc, instead I went to a small, local, and cheap liberal arts school. One of the things I realized in HS was being a slightly better programmer is not really that important and does not actually make you significantly more money etc. But, avoiding debt and actually having fun in collage is worth a hell of a lot.

It took 3.5 years plus ~70k. I did learn quite a lot both from computer classes and the more liberal arts. But, in the end it was the social scene that IMO was the most important part.

PS: I did take 23 credit hours one semester just to see what it was like, and even making mostly A's with one B I think I learned more when I had free time than I did cramming in more course work.
We actually do, within our controllers. I'll add something about that in our detailed AngularJS blog.
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See this discussion and article from earlier today:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4360502
College is also too much for some people who have very specific goals that don't include a well-rounded education.
We actually use Rails in the back end, but AngularJS makes your life far _far_ better when dealing with the front end. I think they work perfectly together.
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I don't know that this is actually surprising. There are only 38 companies acquired. None have been acquired by Microsoft, IBM and many other large technology companies.

Consider this from a founders point of view, many of these companies may have had multiple offers. If you had an offer from Yahoo! and Facebook, or Microsoft and Google, which would you be more likely to take?

This is part of what Marissa Meyer is going to try to change. At the moment, Yahoo! isn't a cool place to work.

Plus, if you had the option of Yahoo! or pre-IPO Facebook equity, I assume you'd go with Facebook as well. Not a lot of faith in Yahoo! (or even Microsoft to a certain extent).

It is believed (not sure if it's true) that Google and Facebook are more start-up friendly.
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I am quite sure this can be countered - the wood could be clamped and the router could be tracked and the picture adjusted.

Further, the amount of movement would not make your routes completely useless/wildly inaccurate.
I'm guessing there's no basis, beside that approach being what we heard about most recently with Dropbox.

It would be a little ironic if a company that's been strongly advocating the use of multi-factor authentication for many years now didn't enforce it for their own superusers. If that's not the case, then it's double ironic that those superusers are able to access the password digests in the database through that panel.
The article seems to suppose that the purpose of education is a job. The purpose of education is not a job.
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I like the idea. Though I don't like social anything, would a smart long game here be, after many users, to turn this into a social network where users can opt to change their content from private to public ?

Millions of profiles could go live on the same day? All individual content as well as types of content (tweets, images, posts, etc) could have public/private flag, giving you ultimate control but also free to have all tweets or images display instantly from twitter or instagram?
It's more than a common pattern- they are lowercase numerals, even if they don't get used much. Although I see what you meant by random in the sense that lowercase 'g' "randomly" descends while lowercase 'l' randomly ascends.
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MacVim supports stuff like Cmd-S for Save just fine.
The highest I've seen on a dyno (this is all on Heroku) is over a day, web #13 and #14 are on 22 hours now. I think they're actually eventually running out of memory or being retired and replaced by Heroku rather than crashing but I'm not sure, it's not being caught in the exception catching.

Most of the crashes come down to stupid things, it's so easy to make a mistake when you don't have a compiler watching your back. External dependencies can hurt if they're laggy or unavailable. Unterminated requests are a really easy accident as well.

At this point I just use exception catching and dump the results into Redis unless I'm specifically hunting down a bug and want the crash to occur:

http://api.playtomic.com/load.html
College isn't necessarily about well-roundedness at all. If your very specific goal is to become (say) a doctor, lawyer or professional engineer then you don't have much of an option of avoiding school (though you can certainly take a pass on a liberal arts degree, that isn't college in general).
Thank you for sharing this. The attention he received for it was absolutely unwarranted. Anyone who reads the paper and understands what was written would also understand that. Unfortunately, not many people take the time to do that. I've not heard of anyone else attempt it -- it took me several hours of intensive thought to finally figure out what he'd done. At the end of it I felt so disgusted that it was being presented as "rat brain flies plane" that over the years I've often been tempted to do a write-up chastising the author for advancing his scientific career by tricking people rather than discover something new or build something innovative.

This story has been reposted to HN a few times over the years. My reaction to this particular repost was to feel intensely guilty that so many people were still being tricked by the same old snakeoil. Then I looked up what the author had done in the subsequent years, and it's a pleasant surprise: DeMarse has worked on some wonderfully interesting projects which are quite unique.

I'm glad that I never tried to expose this "brain in a dish" as the lie that it is. Everyone deserves to make a mistake once in awhile, and his, I think, was merely to be flattered that reporters were interested in his work at all, which is quite a natural reaction. I'm sure he regrets that he wasn't as careful as he should've been with correcting the reporters' assumptions.
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When it boils down to it, every perk is an entirely cosmetic abstraction layer over money. The company spends money, and employees save money.

The interesting perks are the ones that save the employee more than money. Free food does more than save employees from spending money on brown bag lunches or fast food joints: it saves employees from having to even think about how they'll eat lunch. Shuttle service? It doesn't just save employees the money they'd spend commuting, it saves them time and the frustration of dealing with traffic or public transportation.

In that sense, a survival benefit like this isn't just the company throwing a few extra dollars for life insurance at employees. It's not just saving employees money, it's saving employees from the pain of having to concern themselves with how their surviving dependents will get along. They don't need to see a doctor for a physical to get this benefit. They don't need to calculate their number of expected children, multiply by their expected college expenses in a decade, figure in the remaining cost of their mortgage, the time it will take their spouse to find employment, etc. in order to put a number of how large a life insurance policy they need to take out; they can simply rest easy knowing that their dependents will be taken care of for a decade or longer and not give it a second thought.

The survival benefit Google offers in addition to industry-standard life insurance is only "an entirely cosmetic abstraction layer" in the most uninteresting of ways.

(Disclaimer: I'm a software engineer for Google, but these opinions are entirely my own.)
I haven't studied SRP, but a quick look at it and it seems that one also needs to perform the v = g^x. While still vulnerable to brute forcing due to lack of entropy in a password, this is more expensive than bare SHA1. The opine.me post you linked elsewhere completely glosses this over.

edit: okay, just to give you some very rough numbers from 'openssl speed' on my machine. 16 byte SHA1 is about 1M/sec. Projected dsa256 (based on dsa512 and its ratio to dsa1024) signatures (most of which is an exponentiation) is about 3k/sec. It's certainly not a purpose-built tunable KDF, but it's orders of magnitude harder than SHA1.
At school we had a network of Acorn Archimedes machines. We all had space on the file server, which the grumpy admin would search through regularly. There was an autorun feature in RiscOS which allowed a hidden script to execute on opening a folder, eg my network folder. It just so happened that passwords were stored unhashed, so I had everyones passwords appear in my folder one day. I must have been 12 or 13, as my family relocated when I was 13.

At the new school they had the same machines, so I put my knowledge of the platform to good use. I wrote an app which played a sound sample of a loud obnoxious burp at random intervals during class.

At college they had a Novell network. The login was a simple text prompt, which I discovered called in to a novell DLL. I wrote my own substitute login command which also saved the password to local disk somewhere, and replaced the default version on a few machines.

In both cases my reaction was the same on discovering my password hacks had actually worked. I crapped my pants and covered my tracks!
By the time I had started uni, I had largely grown out of that stuff. But something triggered a latent interest I had neglected for too long... the campus accommodation was based in tower blocks, with an entry intercom system. I noticed 4 very quiet dtmf tones whenever buzzing my friends apartment. I can't remember how I did it, but I found a way to get a dial tone and to my delight, 9 for an outside line worked fine using the type of handheld dtmf dialer banks used to give out.
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The reason seems to be: It's the way it was planned 10 years ago and we don't go back on planning on a project like this one.
Bingo. That's one sentence that sums up the vast majority of tech startups nowadays.
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Well that's it then. 'g' and 'N' are published in your code, and they are using SHA1 as the hash.

GAME OVER. These passwords are cracked. Please see full explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4364826
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Then why not just say you list things chronologically? Why confuse your potential customers by making them work backward from Facebook's Timeline feature to simply listing things chronologically? If you have to attach to Facebook's success in order to sell your product, you probably have a long way to go. Try defining it in your own words.
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My highschool courses were all graded on essays except the hard sciences. College is not the only place to learn to write. I also remember my 5th grade teacher telling me we all deserved As (for average instead of E for excellent) but that if anyone were to have an E it was me or this other girl. Writing is encouraged at all ages, not just college.
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This is a really cool idea. I could see some disruption in the online shopping industry via their Zappos-like model.

I don't feel inclined to buy a polo, however. I care about comfort, brand, and fit - in that order. I have never had a problem with one of the default sizes in practically every brand. Perhaps there is a bigger market for fitted polos though; I'm sure the Vastrm guys know more than I do!

Nearly every girl I know shops for clothes over the internet and I also assume they would be more inclined to want a perfect fit - but I'm sure women's clothing is more logistically difficult to create. Hopefully they work on adding women's clothing, anything, before expanding their men's collection.

I'll be interested to see how this goes.
Please read the RFC, it's right here: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2945.txt

Password entries are generated as follows:

<salt> = random()
x = SHA(<salt> | SHA(<username> | ":" | <raw password>))
<password verifier> = v = g^x % N

G = 47
N = 112624315653284427036559548610503669920632123929604336254260115573677366691719

What was stolen was no better than LinkedIn hashes -- for the purposes of dictionary attacking the database
See below, the algorithm is clearly specified in the RFC, and it's no better than plain SHA1 in terms of preventing dictionary attacks once the database is stolen.
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Aside from the fact that your answer wasn't an answer, you are essentially making false claims on your Web site using words like "never" and "anything." Hopefully you don't get sued by a paying customer who holds you to account for those claims.
This reminds me of the EA spouse article [http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html] which was regarding conditions 8+ years ago at EA. I thought the games industry had progressed since then - obviously not.
It's the former. RIT is a pretty good school for science, technology and visual arts (Kodak and Xerox donated stupid amounts of money over the years). Like any college, you get out what you put in. It also has its fair share of over-confident freshmen. You know the type: always the smartest person in the room all throughout high school. When they actually have to do work to keep up, they "lose interest." Sometimes they don't even understand what they don't understand, and start to think they can teach themselves as much in an afternoon as a course covers in a quarter. As they say in the computer departments, "If you can't hack it, pack it." Someone has to design those boxes for Apple.

None of this is to say that university is the one (or even best, or even a good) way for a specific individual to start his/her career. But college-bound kids could do much worse than RIT.

I went there for a few years, so take what I say with the appropriate amount of salt.
Hence the manager demands 15 hour days, and on we go!
It's a good TechCrunch published the piece because the former Zynga worker deleted the answer.
I just received that yesterday - can confirm it is an awesome read. Pud certainly doesn't pull any punches.
Alas, there is no linux port.
And Quora requires you to sign up to read all the answers.
See http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_t... and http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/india/thestory.htm...

> How are kids that can't read going

A picture is worth a thousand words.
Yet another startup trying to use the success, brand or popularity of other companies or products to attract customers. Everyday.me, how about defining yourselves instead of "We're the Facebook of" or "an Evernote for?" Be confident about your product--that it can stand on its own and has merit above and beyond what competitors can offer.
How much does this cost?
I tried it, I liked it but I'm not going to sign up unless I know a price.
Not too bad, but I wish the screenshots weren't just thumbnails of about 1/3 of the screen. I'd rather have the whole thing on the page than having people click on it. Overall pretty well done though. here's mine - http://www.smore.com/46nn-debt-snowbal
Why would I voluntarily hand over all this data to a third party if the only person who SHOULD ever consume the data is me?
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