skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parfumuri de lux
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Exactly what I was thinking. If you forget to put the cap back on your Sharpie, you suddenly have a nice black line on the screen of your brand new iPad Mini.
Square's company motto: Don't be Oval.
SPAM is not the only attack that can be carried out with this kind of exploit.
Salesforce Laying Off Radian6 Employees and Executives
Minireviews for popular Machine Learning books
Perhaps the metaphor was crap, my point was I feel these desktops are a cheap and silly way to attract attention to an otherwise good operating system.

I was trying to draw the parallel with girls who do crazy things to get attention when they have better qualities to share. It seems like that point wasn't well drawn out, which is my fault.
welcome to my morning ;)
You asked a question that had nothing to do with my comment, so I've declined to engage with you on that point. I'm not interested in litigating whether DKIM is "useless" or not.

But I'm happy to continue backing up why this particular Wired headline is silly. DKIM is a cryptosystem backed by the insecure DNS. Mail has been spoofable since before RFC822. The whole idea behind phishing attacks is that you can't trust email. Nobody credible has ever suggested that DKIM resolves that problem; you will find no credible Internet security advice anywhere suggesting that a DKIM signature on a piece of email from Paypal or Chase means you should click on a link in that email and log into something.
Few Winners in Heated Cellphone Wars
Barnes & Noble warns customers of data theft
Project Networking Utility - Algoy
Please extend the Passenger Enterprise $99/year "Startup" license to include "hackers" as well as "startups, students, educational use, and non-profits".

I have a handful of pet Ruby projects in the pipeline which won't make money, and I'd like to run them on a VPS using the Passenger Enterprise mass deployment feature with rolling restarts. At $249/year, I'm not too keen. But at $99/year I'd go for it.
No, what he means is that Page.ly went above and beyond what is reasonable for the price you're paying them. Yes, it was very nice of them, and most likely they did it because they are a young and hungry company. At the end of if all, I don't really get a sense from what you wrote that WPEngine service was terrible. It sounds like you were a difficult customer with difficult architectural issues that were ultimately the root cause of your performance issues.
Although... "While we can make purchases for you, we cannot do certain things including reservations (at hotels, etc), and airplane tickets."

So fancyhands couldn't have helped the writer of the blogpost with his airplane ticket problem
The QR Code Bubble
7 Costly IAM Mistakes
I see a flaw here. How would we know that the source code made available to US officials is the actual code built and shipped on their devices? They could be showing officials 'cleaned' code, and then ship different code with spyware/malware baked in. The only way to really trust the code is if an end user can download the source, review it, build it, and install it on their device.
What is really amazing is to launch a website this big and have a typo right on the front page.
"Sains frais" just means nothing. My guess is they wanted to say "Sans frais", which is "without fee".
Nobody speaks French at Square ?!
Most people I've talked to hate Unity, a few say it's "OK" and a tiny fraction actually like it. If you like it and can use it that's great, but most people don't and their opinions are being ignored by Canonical.
The case for “good enough”
Iterated SHA2 is inferior to bcrypt and far inferior to scrypt, and yet both these Stormpath.com articles recommend it. The advice in these articles is worse that Coda's articles; developers should read Coda's post and implement it.
Thanks for suggestions. We're targeting gardeners as early and mid-term adopters, of whom there are quite a lot in the US. However, we certainly are keeping an eye on the commercial markets you mention. The biggest problem that I see is that for those markets, you need quite a lot of produce to start replacing a large percentage of their fresh plant offerings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
Loren Brichter’s Comeback: Letterpress
A Conversation With Loren Brichter
I don't agree with you, but I can understand why you feel that way.

In case you are wondering, I don't make any money from the traffic. Each of the blogs decide for themselves whether to host advertising.

I sometimes forget that because I have about 3k advertising servers blocked in my hosts file ...
He meant a programmer. A business analyst. A CEO. A CFO. The President, Secretary of Defense. You know anyone and everyone that uses a keyboard daily at work and home.
The price point is way out of line. $25 ???
Now View Twitter Conversations with Ease, on your iPhone
Thanks to Nouveau reverse engineering, you can actually run a number of recentish OpenGL GPUs with a completely open source stack including even the GPU firmware itself.

Now, I guess NVidia could put a high-powered processor on their GPUs and move their entire OpenGL driver stack onto it as "firmware" so that they could claim their drivers were open source, but that doesn't seem like something they'd do.
Qualitative difference between expert with years of experience and twentysomethings lacking any experience justifies it not working both ways.
While you're looking into this, you really need to jump on your cofounder Jason, who is currently making a complete ass of himself (and WPEngine) with bullshit like this:

https://twitter.com/asmartbear/status/261103840231825409

https://twitter.com/asmartbear/status/261103530855784448

Ben, I really appreciate you taking the time to post this here and demonstrate that you take this seriously, but your cofounder is currently publicly ridiculing customers who have paid good money and been dissatisfied with your service.

As a current customer of WPEngine (who has had issues), nothing makes me want to bail on you guys as much as those two tweets. From the CEO.

Completely disgusting.

EDIT: This is more what I expected to see from Jason, though even this has a weird tone: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4086553
Running IE10 I see <5% CPU utilization.
The hey girl crap needs to end. Now.
Page.ly was awful. When my sites weren't down due to botched infrastructure upgrades, users would get locked out of the admin interface by "FireHost Website Protection" (FireHost was/is their underlying hosting provider). The same sad cycle repeated multiple times:

1. Email FireHost with the event IDs and a request to unblock.

2. FireHost doesn't reply for 24 hours, or if they do it's with "we can't find that event in our logs".

3. I open a Page.ly ticket

4. "El Vaquero Furioso" (yes, that was his name in Zendesk) replies that the issue is fixed and won't happen again.

5. I ask for the root cause and what steps were taken.

6. Crickets, or a snide response from the founder that "we're all on the same team".
Home Free: Airbnb Raises $117M, According To SEC Filing; $2B-$3B Valuation?
The Original Inventrepreneur: Billy Carmen and his Small Brand Nation
GoDaddy is "suboptimal" for hosting WordPress
A guide to using Facebook's reports tool
I don't see how an ordinary multisite installation -- which they specifically namecheck on their website -- is a "difficult architectural issue".
HN cracks me up sometimes. Above-and-beyond customer service is now "bad strategy"? Hah. :-)
>Can you remember when the iPad came out and everyone said it was a giant bloated iPhone (myself included.) Now it’s indispensable to most.

This is a little OT, but I just find it hilarious when people say this sort of thing. Something like 10% of people in the US have an ipad.
Translation... I already own an IPad (may be several of them), I am insecure to read about other options out there because their advantages may make my device look like lacking and hence I become a stupid consumer. For me to be considered a smart consumer, I should constantly remind the rest of the population how awesome my IPad is.
The limitations of DKIM are bigger than the fact that it relies on DNS. The bigger challenge is that domain names are not a particularly valuable trust boundary. Applications on the Internet are full of bugs that allow attackers to source messages from other domains.

DNSSEC is a boondoggle, and so far as I know no popular application on the entire Internet relies on it for security. But we don't need to hash out DNSSEC vs. DNS to see why a cracked DKIM key isn't a major Internet security hole.
And thicker/heavier. Plus fan noise. And several hundred dollars more expensive.

It'll be interesting to see if the Surface Pro feels more like an iPaddish-tablet or more like a traditional PC-ish tablet. Unless it's really good at what it does, I think it can easily end up doing more harm than good to Microsoft through Surface brand dilution, consumer confusion (x64 vs ARM, which apps run where), etc.
Luckily, markers are not permanent on glass. Some glass cleaner or even regular rubbing alcohol will clean it off. Now if you have a screen protector, all bets are off...
It wasn't covered in the blog post, but it is also interesting how slowly WordPress performed compared to DotNetNuke. I never felt there was a performance problem with my web site until I moved from DNN to WP. I suppose it could also be GoDaddy's MySQL servers vs their SQL Server servers. Maybe their MySQL servers are bogged down.

Edit: added a missing word.
I'm curious to hear what you think about DKIM in general.
Edit: Alright, they updated the blogpost saying this.

But it's not an SSD 'cache' right? It's two separate disks/units merged by the OS. Not like Intel, OCZ, etc which is an HDD with some SSD chips "before the bus", Right?

http://s2.gizmologia.com/files/2011/06/2011-05-31-ocz.jpg

Or I am missing out?
The great barrier reef, Grand Canyon, and snow mountains, the street view needs to be renamed. It is very exciting, the street view technology is turning into something more. They are now on path to capture rest of the planet's surface. It seems like a fun future where we can zoom google earth to anywhere on planet and keep zooming and it goes to street view, everywhere. Awesome.
Ouch! Impressive. I have become so used to things "pure" CSS/HTML5 where it really is Javascript doing the work.
I have a kindle but I find that it's still cheaper to buy most paper books, I just buy them used and the price is still cheaper than getting a kindle version. I use the kindle for checking out books from my local library for free.
At the end of the day critics are a dime a dozen. This is not the forum nor do I have the time nor do I care enough to argue, so I won't bother to poke holes in your logic.
I was going to say exactly the same thing. It's automation only if you remove the biological elements from getting tasks done.

Delegation is just getting someone who earns less money than you to do your boring stuff for you.
Seems like Chrome/-ium is the culprit. Runs with low cpu on opera but it visible jitters.
Shortcut to ad free Dilbert has anchor text of "unix/Linux"
"I've talked to many random people and they love the idea and have no idea about any competitors."

I would recommend not talking to random people. Talk to people who are in your target market instead. And don't just ask if it's a good idea. Ask them if they would want to pay $X per month for it.
When you're experienced in anything your advantage is that you can put things in relation quickly, which helps you learn things faster.

For me, I learn most when I create something or put my learning in practice immediately. Whether it's languages (natural or programming) or a certain framework, or paradigm. The key is that by running into problems you see how a piece of technology fits into the big picture.
I wonder if the paradox of choice[1] is relevant to an app store. Perhaps not. Still, I think more important than number is quality. If they can get some quality (and premier) apps in the store, that will go a long way to quash any fears of app dearth.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice:_Why_More...
I've been interested in a virtual assistant since 4HWW came out - never thought I was busy enough to justify something like GetFriday.

I dealing with general fake-work but seems like there's just as much work involved in getting someone else to do these things as just doing them yourself?

Also - any recommendations for other services to compare to?
You are focusing too much on what to tell investors.

Focus instead on your messaging to potential CUSTOMERS instead.
For me, square.ca goes to a small 'Search The Web' page still. As linked in their press release.
You're talking about Bcrypt like its some magical golden unicorn that will cover your ass from all attack vectors. Sure, its awesome. But modern security requires more than just an awesome encryption algorithm.
Touche, but they make a desktop client (oracle virtual desktop) and even an ipad app.

Pretty good, but I agree it isn't yet enough.
I wouldn't say so. A low-volume product takes engineering costs into the price point, and while engineering might have been reasonably cheap here, I doubt it was free. Replacement tips are quite cheap as well ($6).

It's marketed as a premium tool and selling at a low volume. I don't know how quality it actually is, and I probably wouldn't buy one, but if I were in the market for a capacitive stylus, I wouldn't balk at $25. Pogo styluses (are crap) sit between $10 and $20. And they're useless for writing due to being squishy.
agreed - I'm a Seth fan - but he can totally afford to get his own app
How to take control of your VPN performance - part2
So how can you run a Kindle fully open source?
It's two separate disks/units merged by the OS.

That's my understanding, and in fact I expect that would make it work better in some ways.

But if that's so - if it's two commodity pieces of hardware managed by some driver-level software - then it would make sense for it to be cheaper than the custom-hardware solutions from other sources. Or at least, we might expect the per-unit cost to Apple to be lower than the custom hardware systems.

So that just makes the alleged overpricing worse.
That sucks.

I guess it's like how, in this thread, lots of people are saying they've had great experiences with WPEngine and then there's me, suddenly internet-famous as that unhappy WPEngine customer.
> Aside from being exciting to FOSS enthusiasts for philosophical reasons

Freedom is not a philosophical reason.
The technology isn't really relevant. Sure, organizations with unlimited budget would probably choose some other vendor than Huawei. But that really doesn't include most mobile operators in the world. And then what starts mattering is that Ericsson or NSN charges twice as much for the same capacity. Or that Huawei is willing to give financing on good terms (including on parts of the network supplied by other vendors).
lol argues about irrelevant js snippets on apple.com, doesn't even have a working comments page.
Lessons learned from the Amazon Web Services outage
There's another way, but it's highly technical: Proof carrying code.
Zynga Quietly Announces Mass Lay-Offs During Apple Keynote
I would be very skeptical about dealing with this company...

Level 2 ask for a CSPNG to be used to generate the salt. Why? Given that the salt is assumed to be a piece of public knowledge when attacking a system like this there's no need for it to be output from a CSPNG as there's no concern about a random number generator weakness as an attack vector.

Level 3 it's not clear if bcrypt/scrypt are used or just some SHA iterations. There's a difference between the two.

Levels 4 and 5 don't seem to provide much additional security over getting the hashing right. Also, there's an awful lot of 'we do secret stuff' that worries me.

And specifically the claim in part 5 that all the stores would have to be compromised seems erroneous to me. Suppose I compromise one store and I have part of the hash, I can still run a password cracker and compare with part of the hash I have. Sure, there's some error there but I can then take the guessed password and try it to see if I got it right.
> How is that propaganda?

defn: "Information, esp. of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view"

http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/propaganda

2: the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person

3 : ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause; also : a public action having such an effect

> You don't think most countries have that kind of computing power?

The quote itself states that: "...or a large group with sufficient computing resources could pull it off."

I think you may have misunderstood my point of view.
The point is, in his quote, the interviewee (Zachary Harris) singled out Iran.
As it stands it is an out-of-the-blue assertion.
I suppose I should clarify - my paying (target) customers would be the restaurants/bars but their patrons would be the ones using it. So, I'd consider anyone who goes out to eat to be the users.

I do recognize there are two perspectives: 1. what the paying customers wants (restaurants/bars) 2. what the users want (patrons of restaurants/bars)
Microsoft Surface gets the thumbs down in early reviews
Customer service 101: don't publicly shame a negative review. It only helps your ego, not your business.
Just a decade ago, this would have made a fine April Fool's Day joke from Google but now it seems like the obvious next step. After this, I can imagine live web-cams on busy intersections or frequently changing views (construction sites like 1 WTC) being integrated into the street-view so you can see updates in real-time. Or quad-copters roaming around updating the views much faster than ground-based cameras.
A model of productivity
If Hitler called you cruel for kicking a dog, he'd still be right.
When you grow plants with no soil (only neutral substrate such as clay or gravel), it is necessary to provide extra nutrients (esp. nitrates) that are hard to dispose properly. In the case of vegetables or edible plants, it is also necessary to "rinse" the system by running only water through eat before it's ready for consumption.
(Disclaimer : I'm not a hydroponics specialist.)
That was my understanding. I had thought they had automated the process of having an SSD for often-used applications plus an HDD for files and less-used applications that can be loaded slowly.

It's not a new concept, I do it now on my Win7 machine, but the automated part seems handy.
I think the referral link is a great idea - both from a discount perspective and because you are referring us.

I'd propose just disclosing exactly that: "here's a referral link, and you get 50% off the first month by using it." If folks are uncomfortable with using it, they presumably can find Fancy Hands' website on their own. Or offer both direct & referral links.
Just write a better, non-link-bait headline.

"Apple.com takes 25 minutes to load"
"Wired says Microsoft Surface is Quite the Stunner"
Meaningless benchmark. From comments it sounds like he's trying to identify a regression in software rendering performance for Canvas, but drawing single pixels using fillRect isn't a very good way to do it.
Good, reasonable response, IMO.

Ben, I don't know Jacques and don't pretend to speak for him, but I gather from his post that the scaling issue, and you not being able to accommodate him, would have been no big deal if he had not already been through the nightmare of migrating with bad documentation and support not handling that properly.

I think cascading frustration is what got him.
Having looked at this site, these boards seem very affordable and extensible. The Spartan-3, in particular, seems to offer everything I could want, and their development environment looks to support VHDL and Verilog. My only reservation is that the free tools they offer from their website are probably not very much like what's really used in industry, but it's a very cool start. Thanks!
He mentioned in response to my comment that he doesn't have full hardware acceleration, which is probably why his results differ from so many others'.
It is now !

Not a bad one either.
since nobody has posted it yet, here's the obligatory link to an old esquire article that takes this idea to the extreme. Presenting: "My life outsourced" http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0905OUTSOURCING_214
Writing an input device in linux.
No kidding. Today's front page at theverge.com is 11MB. That's something like 20s of transfer time alone at 6Mbit/s.
Partition? Why won't a simple DBMS index help?
What makes someone think "Hey, our service is blowing up on HN today, I'm going to post of public tweets bad mouthing this guy"?
Github Archive
Could you share links to these services?

What pros/cons have you found in using them?

Thanks!
Why not? You might meet some interesting people and maybe even see what it takes to ship/demo something really quickly. (Not that this kind of cadence is really healthy for you or the software product long term..)
My bad, your webhook proposal, thinking of it, would indeed facilitate immensely the integrity between our database and the S3 files.

It would require us coding a scheduler. But it would be easy to write and would be way more efficient (than what we can do today). Would simply need to check your notifications against our database and accordingly clean up/validate the files in the S3 buckets.

Great stuff.
Sounds like ReadyBoost that Windows Vista introduced...
How do you handle the credit card processing fees - do you end up charging your end-user more to compensate?
Why you should quit your job and become a salesman
I don't see what you think is disgusting about these tweets, they express a personal opinion, here they are in case they are deleted:

@billmcneely yup, there's always someone bitter and hateful. Sometimes they even have a point, but choose to make it in a destructive way.
@P_Doubleya @gozmike thanks guys. That's also why I ignore HN. There's always haters.

That's not ridiculing customers, and it's not disgusting or disrespectful, it's just saying that there will always be people critical of your service (not even necessarily customers), particularly when an online mob forms as in this case, furnished with a one-sided story of how things went wrong.

Of course you may disagree with the tone, or the content, but disgusting is a little strong isn't it? Can we dial down the hyperbole a little?
No, I'm talking about bcrypt like it's better than iterated SHA2, which is very, very fast on GPUs. There is no such thing as a unicorn.
Leveraging DevOps in a ‘water-SCRUM-fall’ world
great advice here
Hello Ben, I would like to talk to you regarding our bad experience and maybe discuss a refund?, in our case we are a small shop and have been hosting a local newspaper with 500k+ posts and ~60k page views a day for almost 2 years without much trouble.. (nginx cache magic^^)

Since our customer was looking for a more agile development & deployment workflow I personally recommend them switching from us to WPengine based only on Jason reputation and your technical expertise.

Almost a month has passed since they signed in for the service, $500 in fees and ~ $700 on WPmovers afterwards, they keep hosting with us and couldn't arrange a 0 downtime migration at all, neither provide a fixed quote for the migration.

Our case right know is being handle by Sergio, maybe you can talk with him and our customer to find a happy ending?

I've always been an advocate of WPengine and big fan, but after our bad experience and seeing others having similar issues too, I'm probably not recommending WPengine in a while..

Regards

M