skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got to level 6 before I quit. I'm certain I could complete it but I could not justify spending any more time on it.

In contrast to their previous ctf, this time the contest itself seemed less technically robust. The site didn't work in a browser without javascript support (elinks). On level 6, the "social network" app did not work with the (quite old) version of Chrome I have; Opera could post a single message after loading the page, but after that it would silently fail to post any further messages.

I still have the shirt from the previous ctf. Dealing with disassembly was a lot more enjoyable than trying to learn jquery.
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Instead of chasing funding, you could focus on building a business from day 1 and look at funding as a nice-to-have. It worries me that so many startups seem so focused on funding, rather than creating a product and business. You only have 2 eyes...if one is focused on funding, you only have 1 with which to create your company. Worse yet, both eyes focused on funding to the exclusion of a sound business.
C++ sequence points and undefined behavior
I don't think it's fair to treat him this way.

Except for the kernel, pretty much everything I use is GNU or was inspired by GNU. From the coreutils to the window environment, passing through the compiler, most linux systems are half GNU.

Besides, we need activists like Stallman in the same way we need activists like Peta or activists like Greenpeace. They might be too radical and close-minded, but they always have a point; they force society to rethink some of its values, and act as whistle-blowers for some injustices that might go unnoticed.
Not sure. My safari is completely broken at the moment (my fault!)
with "free" I meant without additional effort for the developer.

When you set a cookie with a Set-Cookie header, the client will automatically send the cookie with all further requests.

When you put the session-ID somewhere in DOM storage, you have to manually amend all requests with that session-ID - either by appending it as a get parameter or, when you do nothing but AJAX, as an additional request header - but whatever you do, it's considerably more effort.

Also, looking at our logs, I see way more users with DOM storage disabled than with cookies disabled, but that might just be my user base.
The side effects in the scaffolding are purely an implementation detail.

For non-interactive use (like a compiler) you could implement the program as a function taking and returning a string.
Ooh, have you tried http://beeminder.com ? It tracks arbitrary data and has had export from day one. We even now have streaming export where you can enter a callback URL and mirror all the data Beeminder gets to your own server in real time.

Danny of Beeminder

PS: We blogged about Lift recently: http://blog.beeminder.com/lift
You forgot "reactivate FB account" as step one. Although I'm considering doing that to check this out - it looks very cool.
Wow. That's impressive. Big step forward in social analytics.
I want to try out Go, but the problems exposed by the garbage collector on 32bit systems scared me away.

Is that still the case with the latest version 1.0.2 ?

Also, is there any chance for a precise generational garbage collector to get implemented for Go? As far as I know, pointers make the implementation of precise garbage collectors difficult.
You have zsh set to autocorrect sl to ls even if sl is installed? That seems a bit extreme, is that what the default behaviour is these days? I have all the autocorrection turned off in my setup.
padrino and whatever backend i need for the job at hand.
You can do the same for ls - apt-get install sl IIRC. Generally more productive to just do an alias though :)
Update after 00:00 Pacific Daylight Time (12.25 PM local time): it works now. It could be an issue if you didn't allow updates to future entries but didn't take timezones into account.

I'll send you a mail with both of these posts.
Thats fascinating that Chrome on Android is capable of delivering the desktop experience of this concept even with the limited hardware specs of the Galaxy Tab.

I wonder whats so different under the hood of Safari Mobile on iOS 5 vs Chrome on Android 4 to deliver such different results, maybe its a hardware thing with tablets vs phones?
> At this point, I think I'd rather program in Groovy or even go to JavaScript if I had to, than use Go. Oh...the language name sux.

Which language name were you talking about?
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Shenzhen minimum wage rise could impact tech product costs worldwide
We're four people now and would like to grow to seven total. I think the underlying numbers justify it, otherwise we'd be staying put.

Obviously, the app reflects a lot of our own tastes about how we think social software should be done (start simple) and what we think is fun (positive, simple). But we also run a lot of Lean Startup techniques, which means we are testing, measuring, surveying, interviewing, etc like crazy just to validate our ideas and create a constant feedback loop for what our intuition is telling us (constantly informed intuition).

The first time I read The Lean Startup book I thought the metrics could really drive a lot of your decisions. They don't usually. They mostly reflect a lot of noise. But every now and then they highlight some signal that you're missing.

The big surprise signal for us is that we hadn't realized how prominent and effective casual self-tracking is across all levels of society. This isn't just something new invented by quantified self. Consider the cultural impact of fifty years of Weight Watchers. So we ended up seeing crazy high retention and qualitative feedback way before we expected (like at the point where you could track but not see your history).

And we spent a couple of months validating that with different cohorts. For example we were suspicious that our friends & family were skewing the results high so we went looking for more mainstream people. Turns out our friends are total slackers and were the worst performing cohort we looked at.

We had been thinking that we would have to pull off some real magic (like making willpower obsolete) in order for this to work. But now we're finding a lot of people who are psyched for a simple utility that also happens to have a bit of built in support and works for practically any goal you could ever think of. It's been amazing to walk into work every day and get new success stories. Really fun.

There's still a ton of challenges ahead and things we need to prove are possible. But everyone on the current hiring roadmap is about either proving something new or moving faster toward things we're already trying to prove.

FWIW, I don't think anyone in the company is acqui-hire inclined. We've been mostly backed by Obvious, which is three ex-Twitter founders/execs. It would be hard to get them excited about that sort of payday. My last company was a great lifestyle business (profitable, supported a bicoastal life, only required 1/day of work/week), so I know what leisure is and I know it was boring. My co-founder is the same way. We just want to work on something meaningful--which is exactly what we feel like we're doing right now.
My company is self hosting sentry for about 30 Python & Java in-house services and it was the easiest deployment of anything that's taken me more than apt-get install to deploy.
Apple granted patent for location-based camera phone disabling
keeping a session id in the URLs is way less secure as it is susceptible to XSS attacks, it can leak in referer headers, it can be accidentally shared by people copy & pasting the URL and by extension, the session ID might even end up in a search engine and depending on your bad luck, the bots might visit the page just often enough so the session doesn't expire on the server at which point an authenticated session is in the search engines.

Session cookies on the other hand can be marked as http-only, mitigating XSS in many browsers (there are some that still screw this up with XmlHttpRequest) and by not having the session id in the url, the id is much less likely to be shared with others, nor to appear in search engines.

Also, it keeps the URLs nice looking.

So why exactly would one want to disable session cookies?

Because of all of the above reasons, I'd much rather keep users with cookies disabled away from my application than to subject them to the ugly URL fallback which will impact their security much, much more than the perceived privacy loss of session cookies (which go away when you close the browser)
For those who are looking for the list of supported languages it's buried here

https://circleci.com/docs/environment#languages

No Perl at all. No Python 3. But they do support Clojure.
The cable carriers outbid you for access

I wasn't aware that I was in competition with a cable company. I guess I should read my own S-1 statement sometime...
Yes flow is what I'm aiming for, specifically I'd like to track my progress using number of pomodoros completed in a day
+1 for export. It's coming.
Regarding 1)... Yes, in this particular case you could just throw an UnrecoverableError (or whatever) and pass a string with a message of what went wrong to its constructor. But that wasn't my point at all. I wasn't trying to make a point about how to structure code or deal with errors/exceptions, I was trying to make a point about naming conventions. My example could just as easily have been something like:

"PtgSL. PatagonianSeaLion. Which of these names describes the class better?"
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Wasn't the CEO of HBO doing some naysaying of his own recently? I think I remember an article where he said cord cutting was (a myth, overblown, exaggerated, ???)

Maybe he was just offering a little misdirection, but it didn't seem like it.
Thanks! Will consider that :D Btw. I have taken down the video. Any suggestion how to make a better video?
Wait until my mom posts her review. She's really adamant that she doesn't just love Lift because I'm working on it. I'm really excited to see the disclaimer on her review.

Funny that Ev ended up as a top review. He's not really just a well-known investor for us, he's basically a co-founder. We work in his office and he's been a huge supporter. I think he's being honest in that review and I've heard him say the same thing for a long time. Two apps changed his life: Lift and Uber. I guess he left Uber out of his review. But still, he does genuinely like Lift or he would have lost interest in working with us.

FWIW, I'm glad Ev reviewed it and I'm glad he left the disclaimer.
Do you count cache hits as a request?
Saying "the success" was what caused it isn't really accurate, though.

If it hadn't been for a large, US corporation lobbying AT&T to allow their product on the handsets, would it have gone through?

A future where AT&T allows the Amazon and Google app stores only is still one that could happen.
Sorry about that. Each mew version has had a lot of networking improvements. We just submitted an upgraded version to the App Store review process today, so you should have a closer-to-rock-solid version in about a week.
The main problem people have with C syntax is that it's 'old' and 'old' things are bad because new things are better.
We're an industry built on fashions. Largely the outcome of the massive success programmers can have without any formal education and so just get by knowing the "best" way to do things instead of understanding why.
Complete tangent, but I love that there is another company called Circle (my company is https://circleci.com). You would think that another company of the same name would be confusing, but it's actually been quite useful so far.

After the other Circle's last Hackathon, we got a couple of new users who "found us after hearing about the hackathon". And we occasionally meet people who "have heard of Circle". Which Circle? Maybe ours, maybe theirs, but it doesn't really matter, because they have heard the brand, and they know something good about it.

So, an upvote for you guys, and for your hackathon (which seems really cool), and for your app which I hear great things about, and for a mutually beneficial co-naming situation :)
Safari 6.01 Webkit nightly build worked fine.
Wow. I was one year old when this was published.

Stallman's combination of sort-of-maddeningly-precise nerdspeak and revolutionary zeal has always made me cock my head and listen--if not to every word, then at least to some of his more apt analogies:

"I think it is important to say that information is different from material
objects like cars and loaves of bread because people can copy it and share it
on their own and, if nobody attempts to stop them, they can change it and make
it better for themselves. That is a useful thing for people to do. This isn't
true of loaves of bread. If you have one loaf of bread and you want another,
you can't just put your loaf of bread into a bread copier. You can't make
another one except by going through all the steps that were used to make the
first one. It therefore is irrelevant whether people are permitted to copy
it—it's impossible."

This idea, if a bit utopian, feels like it has a very fundamental truth about the future at its core. To me. And this was 1986. I'm not sure that someone born 50+ years ago who doesn't think about this stuff as much as Stallman feels it in their gut like I do. My grandfather, who lived through the Great Depression, might reject it as utter nonsense.

That quote also reminded me of Paul Graham talking about how "files move around like smells" at his PyCon keynote this year. He was responding to a semi-panicked question about "how will we make money if we can't charge for copies of software?!":

"If you imagined that we lived like on the moon, and everything--you know, we
had to get like air in pipes, and paid for the air, right? People could charge
for smells. People could charge for good smells, right? And so it would seem
reasonable for smells to be property. But now, you walk by restaurant, and you
smell this delicious smell, you get this like free boost--for nothing! And
like, I think the record labels are like these people who are from the moon,
right? And they used to be able to sell these things because the only way you
could get them was through their channel. But now, files move around like smells.
And it's not convenient to charge for them. Ultimately this stuff is
pragmatic. I realize that doesn't sound very principled, but historically it
seems to be the way things work."

That whole back and forth is transcribed at https://gist.github.com/3549855 (And see the press catch up on some of these ideas, too: http://www.fastcompany.com/1842581/why-millennials-dont-want... )
Very light on details, anyone got more info?
Ahh. Makes sense, but the habit I want is a substring of an existing habit.
There's a serious lack of information in this post. No background, nothing. Is it the same kind of patent claim as the one that Samsung faced in the US?
No, I do not find the article bad. It's a good one or maybe above that.
And it's not even Brajeshwar's fault(submitter) to bring it on top, I am sure upvoters did that.

However, your comment is very stupid for a 'many submissions', '2017' days old account ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bootload.

Because you implied two things:

1. When Mozart farted it became a sonnet.

2. People, who are new on HN, do not have to be sarcastic (while others can)
apple wins in america. samsung wins in asia. coincidence?
It would be possible to implement "did you mean" feature in bash, even for command arguments (bash tab completion already knows them.) Not sure if worth it though.
If anything it could be a sign that the US trial was flawed, because believe me, the Japanese don't particularly like (or benefit from the success of) Korean companies.
There is code to make the garbage collector more precise currently in review. A few packages from the stdlib were changed to reduce the chance that package level variables might pin used sections of memory.
Most people have no problems with the garbage collector on 32bit systems.
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Had no idea what human.io did until I read this comment. Then I was "Oh, wow. That's a good idea."
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The real war? Couldn't the market for HBO be bigger in Europe than in the US? (given that there's more people here ;)
Except requiring you to compile it into your app. Presumably you're not including it in every build configuration, but that means you can't run it against just any build.

I think it only does outgoing requests, but rvictl can also be handy for inspecting iOS network traffic. With a single command on your Mac, it directs device traffic through a network interface on the Mac. Wireshark works great on it.
unless you're the one maintaining the api and the calling code doesn't/won't/can't distinguish between insert and update because the de-dupe algorithms are not up to snuff or the current financial year doesn't have budget to get the third party feeding your api to re-develop it.....

bitter? me? nah
I get stuck in redirects.
Ha ha! 'More of a reward than a punishment.
OK a little contrived, I know. But if you normally prefer to pay in Japanese Yen you would save $31.16 by instead paying in Brazilian real.

Mostly I was just surprised how much the effective price varies by currency.
I shall ask, probably easier than I think :-) Thanks.
Indirect exchange site. You put in what you are willing to give away e.g. a CD and what you are looking for e.g. a coffee mug. The site trawls all the 'swap' sites (like Craig's list) looking for intermediate swaps that will achieve the desired result e.g. you have a CD, Tom has a tennis ball and William has a coffee mug. William wants a tennis ball and Tom wants a CD. The program matches you all up so you give your CD to Tom, Tom gives his tennis ball to William and William gives his coffee mug to you. A 'mega-barter' system like this removes the need for a currency ...
I think there's a bit of truth in both

And you can't use go outside of the "PC" (that is, embedded systems).
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/technology/in-japan-a-setb...
Agree. With Google, better be safe than sorry.
AFAIK, yes it is still the case (although somewhat slightly improved), but precise collector is officially expected (and being worked on) for version 1.1 . The latter was explicitly said on a Q&A session on Google I/O conference, the video is available somewhere on teh interwebs.

edit: I think it's this one: http://youtu.be/sln-gJaURzk ("Meet the Go team"), but maybe some other from: http://blog.golang.org/2012/07/go-videos-from-google-io-2012... (sorry, don't have time to watch them all again now to make sure ;)
Is Open Source democratic?
or cgo? http://golang.org/cmd/cgo/
Questions that NBA fans and ticket holders should ask NBA and Ticketmaster 
NBA and Ticketmaster partnership is expected to be the biggest leap when it comes to NBA events, and this is because it is planned in such a manner that it would accumulate the entire market when it comes to the ticket selling of NBA events.
They should both be using the html5 parser now, so "errors" should be well defined rather than browser dependent. Could be a bug in the implementation.
"Just out of curiosity, and without naming any (domain) names, would you consider the systems where you're running on a nonstandard port to be "popular" or "high value" or "interesting" targets for attackers? (i.e. subjected to targeted attacks rather than just the typical bulk/blind/dumb attacks)?"

No, not at all.

But remember what we are talking about here. You said moving ports is "pointless", and I argued that's it's not because it stops a lot of drive-by attacks. Instead of simply acknowledging this, you spent a lot of words arguing a straw-man.
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I had this problem too. Looks like this thing relies on browser implementation details to run properly.
I am using http://www.habitualist.com and it is quite good. Doesn't have a mobile app yet.
Interesting URL it says Sept 1 for a story dated 31 aug. I wonder is it a conservative estimate of the date to take all time zones in consideration.
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...and some are saxophonists.
"Asia" isn't an homogeneous mass. And historically Japan haven't been overly fond of the Koreans and really have no reason to want to see them succeed.
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The long name, of course.

Now whatever you do, long names should be reserved to infrequently used things. If a long name litters your program, you'd better use a shorter one. Conversely, short names belong to frequently used things. This is because a long name is a cognitive burden. On the other hand, one needs to learn what is behind each label, and don't want to forget it.

Fortunately, good long names (such as "PatagonianSeaLion") tend to be about very specific things. So specific that you rarely need them. But there can be bad long names, like "System_Out_Println". Something this pervasive should never have such a long name.
It's also possible to inspect HTML/JS on WebView based apps (phonegap)?
The cars will be programmed to always ensure that there is enough room to stop the car safely when something unexpected happens. BMW already has a system to automatically stop the vehicle safely if the driver is suddenly incapacitated. And Volvo has one that stops you rear-ending someone. Pretty soon we'll have cars that are pretty tough to crash, even though the human will still drive it almost 100% of the time.

That will be amazing, I can't wait!
I love the idea of viewmodel and automatic UI updates! What I don't really like is the implementation of that concept by these three frameworks.

For example, from Knockout's homepage: http://knockoutjs.com/img/homepage-example.png

That mixing of HTML and JS variables (in data-bind: chosenTicket, tickets) and behavior (click: resetTicket) looks very alien to me. It just doesn't feel right.

It does make automatic UI update very very easy to implement but at what cost? Is code like this maintainable? Is it easily testable? Does is scale well?
That's for webapps, not native applications, is it not?

The point of TFA seems to be that it's using the webkit developer tools to inspect and debug native cocoa applications, not web applications.
This is actually a good question. There's no reason that you have to permanently give up formal education to go start a company (or anything else for that matter).

I made exactly this choice (slated to take 2 years off, but same idea), and definitely see myself returning to school in the future. Perhaps when I go back I'll be a wiser person. An even better student. My school says it'll be happy to have me back.

In the meantime, I can pursue my crazy ideas and try things, taking risks I might not like to as I age. Building something whose time has come.

The relevant chorus to the Byrds' song "Turn Turn Turn" goes:

"To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)

There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)

And a time to every purpose, under Heaven"