skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After keeping a thoughts.txt diary for a year, one of the best things is that I can grep my thoughts.
So what you're saying is what's really important is being cool and artsy girls?

And countless real artists have been obsessed with money, fame and the life that surrounds it. You're putting out just as many naive generalizations about people as you're accusing "startup hipsters" of having.

I'm also really curious what you do with your time and your life that puts you above all this?
Good work! I see that you are collecting information from exisitig free courses out there & organizing it in one place. Right?
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Thank you. I actually appreciate your feedback. It is my
First site I have ever build. I will work harder to improve it.
DRAMA. Also, nice post!
Ok, off topic, sorry, but... Are you saying that if/when quantum computing comes around, existing encryption systems would be suddenly ineffective? So if the NSA gets their hands on a quantum computer, they'd be able to brute force a 1024bit RSA encrypted file in far quicker time than their other super computers?

I found some info here, but I didn't get enough out of it to answer my question directly. I think the answer is "Well theoretically, but it's complicated":

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2768807/quantum-computing...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer#Potential

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography

[...] most currently popular public-key cryptosystems
rely on the integer factorization problem or discrete
logarithm problem, both of which would be easily solvable
on large enough quantum computers using Shor's algorithm.
Even though current publicly known experimental quantum
computing is nowhere near powerful enough to attack real
cryptosystems, many cryptographers are researching new
algorithms, in case quantum computing becomes a threat in
the future.
INAL and I'm wondering, why can't Amazon redistribute it under the GPL?

Does GPL permit that anyone redistributes it or does GPL permit that Amazon does it the way they would like to do it?

What exactly is stopping Amazon from distributing GPLed content?
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Maybe this has to do with the default for new accounts to be included in the "these people viewed this page" feature. Maybe because of that no one wants to log into their account in fear of sharing what they view, so this requirement is to reverse the trend of users logging out as a result of that fear?
Why didn't you think you could take on P90X and/or exercise DVDs?
I think you're missing the point of Dan's article. For me, the takeaway from that was "giving yourself too concrete of goals too fast will often lead to abandonment of the entire process to preserve your ego". While I do agree solid goals are important eventually, I agree with Dan's overall point.

It's just the idea of getting comfortable with the grip and texture of the rungs at the bottom of the ladder before trying to climb it.
Higher user count => more $$$
> The problem is that login form has no analog in real-life, so in this one designer just went crazy for the sake of it.

That is not a problem. A problem is: "it is hard to use", "it uses a lot of bandwidth", "people dislike it in A/B testing and buy less".
Technically he never had a supermajority of Democrats in the Senate. It was only with caucusing with independents that they could break the 60 vote threshold to end filibusters.

They had a caucused supermajority in the Senate from:

July 8th, 2009 - August 25, 2009
and
September 25, 2009 - February 4, 2010

Or about 4 months to make any change he wanted (that the caucus which included Joe Lieberman, an extreme defense hawk, and Arlen Spector who just switched parties, approved).
yes I am learning code right now , just I wanted to launch something moderate in the mean time because I need the $.
> cryptographic algorithms are largely implemented relying on primes

One of the steps in generating an RSA key is, "Randomly generate two large prime numbers p and q. Multiply p and q, and save the product pq = p*q as part of your public key."

If anyone can figure out p and q from pq, then they can figure out your private key.

A while ago there was an article on HN about using the Euclidean algorithm to break SSL.

If you have two keys pq and rs, and one of the factors is the same (like p = r), then there's a well-known algorithm dating back thousands of years which you can use to quickly figure out the common factor's value.

So what the authors of a paper did was gather a couple million public keys from SSL websites, then run the Euclidean algorithm on each pair of keys, and many of them had common factors. Why? As noted above, the prime numbers are supposed to be picked "randomly," but they weren't picked randomly enough. (Getting a computer to produce random numbers is an interesting problem. The usual approaches are "faking it" -- technically called pseudorandom numbers -- and using input from hardware that interfaces with the outside world, like the system clock, keyboard, mouse, network, etc.)
Did you contribute back to the open-source community or individuals you (pick a verb: leveraged, used) for profit each time?
also, most platforms I have used have some kind of software to look up characters, e.g. on OSX you have something like "character map" where you can search by name/category
BugMeNot already has an official Firefox extension, FWIW: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bugmenot/
I wish they would, but Pixel's been offering those for years now and nothing's really come of it.
Perhaps it is because I've spent the majority of my career as a developer that I when I put my manager hat on, I want a team full of Rodrigos. Quick standup meetings and dev-owned granular task breakdowns are easy ways to address Rodrigo's lack of proactive communication and disinterest in deadlines.

I haven't been in a situation where Gabriella is someone I'd want on the team. Devs are often more productive if they check their email a few times a day, rather than every minute. If there's an issue that needs urgent attention, I'm generally capable of stopping by their desk or calling them on the phone.

I'm also annoyed by the subtle sexism that underlies this article. In my experience, female developers are much more likely to be highly skilled than not.
Well, a trivial example:

class Foo
def bar
puts "Hello from Foo"
end
end

a = Foo.new
def a.bar
puts "Hello from a special Foo"
end

Now, even if you change the definition of "bar" in Foo's class definition, "a" will still have it's own version. This might not seem like a big deal, but as you do more metaprogramming with Ruby, more examples like this pop up.
Sure; the evidence is pretty low tech. Between us we can remember the interviews of all the most successful startups, and in no case there was any debate about whether we should fund them.

Home runs are so rare that it's not a matter of percentage per batch. A batch will have 1 or 0, and probably 0. It will be a few years before I can tell if the rate is increasing.

Selecting winners and weeding out losers seem the same thing to me. There are companies we think will almost certainly fail, but we can never be sure. An ineffectual person would be least likely to succeed as a startup founder.
OP: How do you suggest that people go about setting specific, challenging, and achievable goals? While you've described flaws in Dan Shipper's arguments, you haven't provided concrete advice about what the right thing to do is.

I found Jamie Wong's post on negative social incentives[0] to be helpful in motivating oneself once a specific goal has been set, but I still find myself having trouble figuring out what goals to set in the first place.

[0] http://jamie-wong.com/2011/12/30/immersion-and-schadenfreude...
If I had any feedback, it might be to produce a frank document of trade-offs in your system: workloads that work very well, pathological workloads that perform poorly or lead to some awkward code, given the mechanisms at play. I'm sure you have chosen your trade-offs carefully, or else you wouldn't have bothered doing the hard work to commercialize them. Here you may want to assess the advantages of other general approaches (I think specific implementations would be too much detail and invite a quagmire of nit-picking) versus your own, but the problems they also create that you do not have.

It's something I'm going to try to do anyway, but it would make me feel as though I have a more constructive relationship with the company rather than trying to guess what mix of design decisions you fall in, probably all of which have at least been implemented at least once independently before in some system or another -- however, your mix is likely novel.

However, I don't see this done very often in proprietary offerings (that's still the case for FoundationDB, right?), and I'm not sure if that's because such frankness is a stupid idea or if because everyone is just doing what everyone around them does. It is something that more collaborative open source projects do more freely.
Thanks for the kind words and sorry to the OP for hijacking this thread. I was really just floored by the coincidence...

Great suggestion, by the way! I added this feature so now adding "www." will go to the subdomain as well.
How do they make more money if my pageviews are associated with an account?
Use a functional languages for documents, not markups
Good - the skeu on Rebirth helps orient people on what they're using: a virtual re-creation of a piece of hardware.

Bad - screen-rendered knobs are awkward to work with using pointer oriented input (mouse, touch pad/screen, stylus).
>The list, published on Tuesday at the World Conservation Congress in South Korea, the quadrennial meeting of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), was compiled by 8,000 scientists, and is the first of its kind.

What I hate most about news articles is when they fail to link to the actual source they're discussing.
I could do without the snark. There is obviously more to it than just titles. If not I guess we'd be forced to vote for the incumbent every time.

As far as time before president, I will take 4 years of governor over 4 years in the senate and any amount of time in the state senate.

Your also conveniently forgetting about all of Romney's time in the private sector running multi-billion dollar businesses and saving the Olympics. I count that experience ever so slightly higher than "community organizer".
> Can we agree to stop using Anonymous as a collective noun?

Then, can we agree to stop using:
"Scientists have just..."
"Al Qaeda destroyed..."
"Economists think that..."
"Experts believe..."

Tabloid-level writing at best. This is wrong in so many ways since in each case, you assume:
- the group is a consistent entity
- the group has no face and all members think alike
- your ignorance about how that entity is actually working.

We should never use such expressions - being specific is the right way to write about opinions and facts.
Not only that but her fuck ups give management the leverage necessary to put the process in place to prevent Gabriella fucking up the whole codebase which stifles just about anyone from getting anything done.

Suddenly you're not allowed to use the ternary operator because Gabriella can't tell the fucking difference between a statement and an expression. Suddenly you have to use a massive DI framework and fucking checked exceptions because she can't understand what a lambda does, or that a closure doesn't change the value of variables outside the closure.

Then they start blaming the process instead of the developers who fucked up the code. If you broke the build, you fix the build is all the process a company needs.

I really wish the OP reversed the genders of the examples because by sheer gender imbalance in the tech industry there are a lot more male Gabriellas.
A Steady State Economy
HP sells better hardware for less price than Apple. Their only problem was design and now they have solved it by copying Apple. I was looking for an all-in-one computer to buy and now that HP computers have both great design and great specs, I will probably buy them. I am no longer in a trade-off between ugly design and worse specs for my money.
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Quick question since you might have some knowledge on the area...

Is there a way I can use a controller (like xbox360 or something) where my PC is still kept in my 'office'.

ie. Can I play games from my PC on my TV in the lounge room, without having to have an actual PC in the lounge room?
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Isn't this the definition of counterparty risk?
Contractually I can't provide any details on the deal but I can tell you that the offers were very different depending on the company's perceived value. Nodester would have probably been worth even more to a PaaS company that didn't yet have a Node.JS play. Even having a Node.JS offering, Nodester has a strong community and brand with instant credibility. In the end, you need to be happy with the opportunity and people.
Not bad at all for the first site.

I'd work on the idea first. Then I'd think of the UI. Then I'd work on the site.
Verisign does not have an ssl/identity business anymore. This was sold to symantec in 2010.
That might do the trick.
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Yeah, imgur makes money because it is basically 99% Reddit traffic. I'm surprised that they are still two different companies...
Chris,

Congrats, and thanks for sharing. Could you clarify one thing for me? Nodester was an open source product you produced. So what was the business that got acquired? Did you also launch a business based on the open source Nodester product?

Thanks, and again, congrats!
This is a junk submission. Where to start? This project hasn't shown activity in 10 months.

Furthermore, the project is largely written in VBScript and batch files, which is insanity, even according to Microsoft themselves.

It was time to move to Powershell a long, long time ago. You even have solid projects like NuGet to jump off from for code and design. I can't take a project seriously when it's written in VBScript because so many of its constructs are shoddy.

But again, those last two paragraphs are meant as advice for living projects, which this one is not.
It appears that they don't actually understand what the problem is, and are solving it by introducing a situation where the database will just stop working in the face of a partition. Maybe that's not right, but they need to stop hand waving.

A much better solution is being worked on by a Mr. Hellerstein who will be speaking at the upcoming Ricon: http://basho.com/community/ricon2012/
Why is your example more "real" than the original? You've made Gabriella a worse programmer, Rodrigo into a worse employee.*

*The most important task is the current one; no allowance for business priorities?
Lost in the glee over GoDaddy going down, is all the people whose websites went down with it.

Can Anonymous do their vigilantism without getting innocent people involved?
And we had a couple more around Paris a few years back as well.
Hmmm... I'm not so sure about this. Looking at the studies he links to, the goals are assigned to the subjects by the researchers, not self-set. When you're doing something for someone else, you don't have the problem of wondering if it's the right thing for you -- you just do it to please/impress the authority figure, something we've all been trained to do from a very young age. The subjects have already decided that whatever token reward they get for participation is worth their time, so they're not worried about whether the task will contribute to their personal growth. They get to feel altruistic for contributing to science.

But when there is no authority figure telling you what to do, it's a whole different game. You wonder whether the pain of growing in a certain direction is worth the future uncertain reward. That's what Dan Shipper's article is about -- not letting those thoughts paralyze you and taking small steps in the right direction without putting too much pressure on yourself. Overly-specific goals in this case can be self-defeating because they can often be set without enough knowledge of the territory you're going into. Trusting yourself to explore and learn before getting into specific goals can be important. Big life goals like personal contentment and peace of mind often can't be made very specific anyway. Who knows what is going to make you happy?
Would have been nicer, although admittedly much more impractical, if the scale didn't keep on changing. Didn't quite fill me with as much awe as numbers those large should have.
They can show more registered users. I imagine they will turn around and show investors the inflated count when they raise more money ...
Thanks for sharing Chris. It has been fun watching Nodester grow!
quite possibly, dbm: no sql at all, and has been around for 40 years.
Better to evolve a great piece slowly over time than to force a mediocre one prematurely into the world.
Well they released a report saying that it would stay under 8% and this is the report they used to promote the bill. He may not have said in a public speech "this will keep it under 8%", but we're intelligent folks here, we can read between the lines.

He did very explicitly and repeatedly say it would save or create 3-4 million jobs. As the unemployment rate shot well above their predictions for even the not passing the bill case, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say they were wrong.
Well, here's a post on the blog under discussion of a brightly-colored UI that definitely has a "busy box" vibe: http://skeu.it/post/28492549355/crysonic

(A lot of music software has this ultra-skeumorphic vibe. I guess to appeal to luddite musicians? Or just because it's fun to do. Maybe both.)

A lot of the skins from Audion ( http://panic.com/audion/index.html ) had a busy box/toy kind of vibe too, though the animation was pretty limited: http://panic.com/audion/gallery/previews/panman.jpg http://panic.com/audion/gallery/previews/contragrav.jpg - the better ones, for me, had this kind of "here's a cool vinyl toy for your desk, except it's virtual, and plays music".
There is obviously more to it than just titles.

Oh that other comment of yours seemed to indicate they were important.

"Going back to Carter: Carter: Governor of Georgia Reagon: Governor of California H.W. Bush: Ambassador, CIA Director, Vice-President Clinton: Governor of Arkansas W. Bush: Governor of Texas Obama: 4 years of 1 Senate term, 2 of which he spent running for president.

no?
Laying out the buttons in the same way as the controller and the groups in a circle rather than a square must help quite a bit.
How to implement TreeView with Backbone.js
Plus it's been submitted multiple times in the last few months already: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3312009, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4085022
Thin‐layer cyclic voltammetry (TLCV)
In 1998, Shi and Anson applied a related but less complex approach by coating a thin layer of an organic solvent on the electrode surface to examine the electron transfer process between the thin layer and the adjacent aqueous solution. This method overcomes the effect from IR drop efficiently and it is anew approach that is prompt, simple and costless. Based on the experiments, they drew some conclusions about the novel styles. Shi and Anson measured liquid/liquid interface electron rate constants that emerged from electro active substance between 1,3‐diferroceny 1‐2‐buten‐1‐one (DMFc) in the organic phase and Ru(CN)63‐/4‐ or Mo(CN)83‐/4‐ or Fe(CN)63‐/4‐located in the adjacent aqueous phase.
Everyone plans to be around :) The fact is that if some company decided to hand you $500 mil to acquire you and shut down Filepicker.io you would (and you should!). In terms of the price, it really came down to the integration. I want everything on my site to look fully integrated. I couldn't justify spending $500 a month to achieve this with Filepicker.io when I could do it myself for $1.50 a month for a good enough solution.
I've been using UnxUtils as a lightweight alternative for a while now. Its available on sourceforge.
"The following are national US pager intercepts..."

Can someone explain what that means? This is pager data and not sms txt data, correct?
Oh Fox news says they created 3.1 million jobs

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/15/fact-check-where-obama-...
This mentality bothers me a bit. Not everything is all or nothing. Things can be made to be better, or worse.

It's like if you had a jetski, but it was the wrong color. From your approach, you'd say "I'll never ride on that jetski! I'm perfectly fine not riding it."

Yes, clearly you are. You totally, completely, without question have the right to go on living without it. No problem. But the real question isn't whether or not you'll be fine without it. The real question is: are you missing out on pleasure you could be experiencing?
0.6.0 seems to have been released in the last 24 hours. You are probably right with the rest though
Misleading title - these are pager intercepts (people still use pagers? Who knew?)

Text messages would commonly be referring to SMS for mobile phones.
You don't think running something, anything, would be useful to running the country?
Good point. For those interested, here is Matias Duarte talking exactly about this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shmKDELDr4w
Pager data is generally unencrypted and simply broadcast over the entire coverage area, so anyone with the proper equipment (read: a hacked up pager) can receive any pages broadcast nearby.
Video Content Analysis and Adaptive Rate Allocation
In classical rate control, all GoPs are treated equally, and frame-level bit allocation is basedon the frame type and a complexity measure, sometimes with multiple passes over the video, but without considering the semantics of picture content. In the H.264/AVC reference encoder, the GoP borders are determined according to a predefined pattern of frames, and the same target bit rate is used for each GoP given the available channel rate. As a result,the video quality varies from GoP to GoP depending on the video content. The problem with this approach is that in some applications, e.g., wireless video, the total bit budget is not sufficient to encode the entire content at an acceptable quality.
How hard is it to figure out that something can be important and yet not the only thing to consider? I think running something would be pretty useful experience to being President. I do not however plan to vote for every incumbent President simply because the job title President is more impressive than anything else someone could do.
You'd be surprised how many companies still use pagers for oncall alerts. After all, they're cheap, the batteries last a long time, the coverage can often be better than a cell phone, and most importantly you won't accidentally silence your pager when you silence your cell.
Show them the money. Show people where the money is in the idea. Show them you are a winner, you know how to plan and follow through on your goals. You are productive and can close deals. You know how to launch. When you do learn to write your own code, you will still need to be these things and more.
If you need $ now, exploit your existing skills and abilities that others will pay you for.
BTW this is from 3 years ago.

I know it's 9/11 but does this really need to be posted again?
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