skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Top 50 Vendors Used by Startups
I will simply say that we've got a broad portfolio of current and future products, spanning the entire range from the data center down to your personal devices, and we are working hard at commercializing all of them.

Sorry for the platitudes; I'm not authorized to speak on behalf of anyone other than myself.
please find your seats guyzzzzz
No, you can't write a function spread across modules depending on the value of its input, short of implementing a dispatch system.
I work on Windows Azure. Email me ntotten at microsoft and I'll make sure you get the issue solved.
Confusing Crypto Blobs
A "rather large online retailer based in Seattle" is a Linux shop and started using Kerberos for ssh to excellent results a few years back. Once properly set up, the ability to ssh around between Linux and Windows boxen is just pure bliss. Once you're kerberized, just click an ssh: link in a Nagios report and boom, you're on the host.
did I get a downvote for that? why?
Sure, why not? But when you make it big you have to buy me a pina colada. :)

Edit

Won't work. HN wont allow for the same URL to be posted twice. Change the URL with a A/B identifier and let me know. Email me (in profile).
I don't know anything about the brain and consciousness that requires mind not to be the brain. If you damage the face recognition module, you damage the mind's ability to recognize the fact.
10 Steve Wozniak Quotes That Criticize Apple
Yes, but there are some annoying licensing issues, especially with GHI's proprietary libraries (for microchips wifi module, for example).
Life moves pretty fast. Here are things that help you slow down
Sadly, it's because you aren't reading enough books.

Read more books.
great article; thanks for posting.

vextec's site is here - http://www.vextec.com/ - and the patents for what i guess are the core technology are here - http://www.vextec.com/our-technology/patents

from reading the first article it seems that they extend finite element analysis down to the level of crystals (they say "microstructure based") (which is what you'd guess from the wired article). there's more detail related to particular models (crack nucleation and growth) that i don't completely get - i suppose those are different approximations used in the models (and where the hard science is). and then they seem to do monte-carlo on top of that.
Visual: http://gearcrave.com/2008-09-26/the-philippe-starck-gun-lamp...

Actually at $1400, you certainly could just get someone to do it custom with an actual AK, provided you live in a country without an assault weapons ban.
Relevant: History of the browser user-agent string

http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
If you're actually arguing that FB doesn't have a positive impact on people, you are so far off the mark that you can't be reasoned with.
You might be able to argue about Zuckerberg's methods, but the end result is that he created something that made hundreds of millions of people's lives better.
Unless you've done the same, you don't really have the moral high ground here.
Qatrix 1.0 is released A lightweight and high-performance JavaScript framework
I really enjoy watching but I am a bit occupied today. Where can I find a recording?
I suppose that how safe a grammar is to parse depends on whether or not there are language constructs that can generate exponential growths of memory usage, how much memory you have available for the task, and whether or not it can even be parsed at all.

It seems like the only way to totally secure an automated system against this kind of attack is to have a limit on parser memory usage and CPU cycles, and reject input when the parser breaks any of these limits.
Makes me want to start a small side project that routinely sends oppressors and other individuals with ambition of world domination on a free ride into the space.
You only need to open 1 udp port afaik. That's what I do anyways.

Opening a high port in the 60000s is less risky than 22. You should probably remap ssh to something else. Or you can use ec2 security groups to limit access to certain ips.
More specifically: Lobbyists tend to pursue an agenda of bans and mandates, and so long as your political system is dependent on the interests of lobbyists and their associated campaign financing, these goals will often be achieved.
That sounds like a serious accusation. Can you provide a citation?
What should a modern research publishing platform look like?
API Hack Sunday - $500 in cash prize, free beers and handmade italian food
How McDonalds fries are made.
Twitter Spring
Thanks! We did it ourselves over a couple of weekends. The voice actor we found on a voice actor forum, I did the script and our designer did the flash animation. This was the first animation that we did so we tried hard to make it look professional.
What is Windows RT? Redmond, We Have a Problem
Zuckerberg Tells Startup School: MySpace Had Chance To Succeed
It is absolutely not the case that people tend to get encrypted blobs right nowadays. All-zeros IVs, ECB-mode encryption, failure to authenticate date, repeated CTR nonces, wrappable/seekable CTR counters --- these are all things that we've found just within the last several months.

Major components of popular high level web stacks have had bugs of this severity lurking in them for years.
Which he did: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4678309. This is a tale in which cody pretty much ends up owning ccbill.
JSON: {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{... and so on.

It isn't exponential, no, but you're quite likely to still crash something if the receiver was not programmed to handle that.
Unity randomly loses focus of the active window for me, making it pretty annoying to use with the keyboard.

Additionally, it is hard to remember which number activates which program in the side-bar, and unfortunately it waits a long time before showing the numbers when pressing Winkey.

The old shortcuts to maximize/minimize windows (Alt-F10, Alt-F9) were replaced with more clunky shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+5, Ctrl+Alt+0).

All in all, Unity was a pretty big regression over Gnome 2, when it comes to keyboard operability.
more than that, you can be both. that's really what consultants are (at least, the "small" kind, like me). there's a market for people that can both code and talk. and, if you like to code more than talk, but can talk when necessary, then it can be quite lucrative.

and it actually makes the coding easier. some of the most frustrating parts of development come from not being in control - you are very much dependent on the person above whose talking to the client. and it helps the client too, because with less buffer they can get faster feedback. which again helps you, because you can do faster iterations and understand more closely what the customer wants...
Don't get me wrong, people get it wrong all the time, but I think it's a minority these days. That could be strongly skewed by the stuff I'm auditing these days, though. In fact, it almost definitely is; I should rephrase that line.

Edit: Done, thanks.
Maybe. In what way do you think I'm projecting?
>However, their private-repo based pricing model is obscene, in my opinion.

Completely, 100% agree. It's ridiculous. I would use Github exclusively if not for their ass-backwards pricing scheme.

I'm a freelancer, I have about 60 closed source projects from clients and BitBucket lets me have them online for free.

Meanwhile if I used Github I would have to pay 84$ / month to host the same content.

That's RIDICULOUS.

Github, please. Unlimited free private repos for up to two contributors. Anything else and stsart charging. Lots of people want to use your site, but don't because of your greedy pricing scheme.
Much of what you wrote is what Apple marketing wants you to think. It's kind of hard to know for sure how much effort was put into the EarPods or what's going on with the micron tolerances. Apple is not immune to errors, the antenna in the iPhone4, Apple Maps has major problems and Time Machine seems to be broken for many using OS X Mountain Lion.

Apple Stores are a big part of Apple marketing. The service received a these store can range from exceptional to terrible. They don't pay the people who do technical support or work in retail big bucks either.

I am not surprised Apple is doing so well, given the premium they charge for their devices.
I'm not sure I understand how C's lack of high-level exceptions makes a difference for a high-level language that compiles down to C. The high-level language can provide exception support, just like large-scale C packages sometimes do using longjmp.

Similarly, are you really suggesting that C programs can't have thread-local storage?
Would this be a computer "mouse" instead of "bug?"
> Yeah, which is why traditionally a LOT of languages, particularly early in their careers, have compiled down to C. Really aside from JVM targeted languages, it still tends to be the trend.

What about .net/mono targeted languages, javasvcript targeted languages? And custom interpreters jit(frequently but not always written in c)
Show HN: "dynameme" HTML5 Meme Generator
Rather than nitpicking the terminology, can we answer the actual question: is there any legitimate use case for defining an entity in terms of another entity?
I've been mulling over whether to take a dive into EC2 to launch a public beta actually so thanks for your comment. I've been trying to decide between EC2 or getting another 512 Linode to start. I think I will go for EC2 now mostly just to learn a few new skills and sharpen some old ones. Thanks.
Any and all comments are warmly welcomed. This is one of those "scratch your own itch" kind of projects, but I'd be interested in any directions and advice that people were willing to offer.
Philip Roth: An Open Letter to Wikipedia
>You must not [...] //

I'm not sure which part you're responding to there.

If it's that he states the reason as you quote? A point being that he was lured to buy tickets by some other more base desire, yes perhaps an irrational feeling that he would win, but that for a person in his position the admittance of that could be difficult, a personal cost of face.

Kinda like the old saying you buy Penthouse for the articles?

Pure speculation but then his side is self-promoted anecdote so I reckon it's all even. Just shooting my mouth off though probably.
what's seekable CTR counter mean (i know what CTR mode is)? would appreciate a reference if you have one. thanks.
When Mobile Browsers Attack
Yeah, IdentityFile + IdentitiesOnly is useful for those hosts.
No webcast for Horowitz? Why?
Shampoo: a set of tools for remote Smalltalk development with Emacs
CTR generates a keystream using a nonce and a counter as inputs; neither the nonce nor any single value of the counter can be used for more than 1 item of data.
What the hell is that about?
Is a glossy or matte LCD screen better for long coding sessions?
Completely understandable. Good luck in bringing those products to market, hopefully it's not too long before you'll be able to discuss them openly.
Wait. Are you really doing that badly? You are converting, I'd guess based on your data, about 5% of your download base, which is actually very reasonable. But you are losing like 25% immediately, so your conversion of active users is actually quite higher, maybe 7.5-10%. You may be focusing on the wrong metric. I would consider instead focusing on getting downloads higher.

Additionally, I wouldn't offer the bundle packs but instead sell everything individually. I read a great article a few weeks ago on making in app purchase work for games. (I write productivity apps.) One of the things they said was have lots of ways for people to spend money. Only a small percentage of people spend so you need them to spend a lot. The comment was that the best performing games are generating upwards of $50/spending user, all via in app purchase, all from like 1-2% of the download base.
Perhaps they are expecting too many f-bombs...
More specifically, you're just making up theories.
So sad. I was waiting to see him. One of my favorite people on Venture Capital.
>The "productive people" were driven away because they didn't want to live next to black people.

This is wrong. You think one day all the white people said "Hey, wait a minute! We've been living next to black people for generations, and that has to stop"? It's not the taxes on people that are the problem, it's the taxes and regulations on businesses. Detroit took the attitude the car companies would always be around no matter what stupid rule the city came up with. The problem is businesses come and go. If your city sucks for business, more go than come and eventually you're Detroit.

>It's also a little funny considering that 27% of US GDP comes from just seven heavily regulated, heavily taxed metros: NY, LA, Chicago, DC, Philly, SF, and Boston. And it's not just population, these cities only account for 20% of the US population.

Yes, and eventually those places will end up like Detroit. Hell, NYC almost went that way in the '70s and was only rescued by the financial industry they seem intent on driving away today.
..and there I thought my internet connection was lost.
This post epitomizes the fun of being a hacker
Sure. I'm basing mine on Portland, Seattle, and SF (areas I've lived in). I'm sure the housing price jump definitely adds to it more now than ever.
If I'm not mistaken, the memory load even is linear. You could protect yourself by just setting a maximum size limit for the buffer.
When the Web’s Chaos Takes an Ugly Turn
It's possible that he might have requested it if he expected to divulge some sensitive information.
Yeah that's what I mean. List comprehensions are faster than StringIO for string manipulation, for example. I always like to read about real-world applications of this stuff, the presentation was very interesting nonetheless.
She barely survived. Coma for 27 days with a fractured skull and broken vertebra. Remarkable.
Right, that's the root of the problem: feature creep. Common with design-by-committee.

As with any feature, there are possible use cases. Perhaps you want to create a form document and use custom entities that you modify later to fill the document out.

But the amount of times that's useful is not likely to be worth the potential harm of things like billion laughs. Easy to separate that functionality, and have your XML parser do an element data replace with your own custom tokens. Eg node.replace("{name}", customerName);
> They don't pay the people who do technical support or work in retail big bucks either.

The fact that they hire those people at all represents an expense and a service that Android manufacturers just don't have. The operating costs for an Apple store are probably higher than Nexus 7 retailers like Gamestop, Sam's Club, Staples, Office Depot, or Kmart--and the level of service is largely a step ahead as well. Either way, it's still an expense that isn't accounted for in manufacturing margin, which was the original point of the exercise.
While not discouraging the original author, Vala from Gnome has taken this thinking a lot further. Vala is actually quite fun to use even for non-GUI projects. And it doesn't have to depend on GTK libraries to produce working programs.

https://live.gnome.org/Vala/Documentation
Aren't there tech reporters attending this?

Sounds more like for 'exclusivity' of being physically present there kinda thing to me.

Any veterans want to comment on whether this is historically consistent or something new?
I doubt attendees had to sign an NDA - even if they did, Scoble is there ;). Pretty lame (not your comment, the 'no webcast').
Supernatural "explanations" don't actually explain anything, they don't make any testable predictions. They aren't very useful or interesting. They're "not even wrong".

A good argument for why the "mind is the brain": http://lesswrong.com/lw/p7/zombies_zombies/
I found this interesting (by user Jenny on the linked page):

No, he did NOT ask for protective custody (and I know as I'm in contact with his mother), this is how Sweden treats everyone being held pre-trial. There is a case right now where a guy who has been locked up like this for TWO YEARS is trying to get the supreme court to rule about his treatment. There is no time limit on how long anyone can be held like this, it can (and in many cases it has) go on for years. Amnesty and the European Council have criticized Sweden for this in the past.
I sent an email to their video support and just got a confirmation that this session is not being webcast.

Webcast will resume at 4pm.
Foreign Key Arrays in Postgres
Minutes after going live: "You're nuts. There is no Atlanta tech scene."
From "a" GNOME/Mono guy? Read the byline again.
Simple & fast, nice work. Quite enjoyable on mobile as well.
Zuckerberg admits: If I wasn’t the CEO of Facebook, I’d be at Microsoft
The Ultimate Guide To Network Attached Storage
Under the Surface: an inside look at how Microsoft's tablet came to be
The standard bash_completion[0] package includes SSH host completion.

[0] http://bash-completion.alioth.debian.org/
thanks.. i am sure there is some kind of agreement to not give out information on what he is talking because the liveblog is also not updating anything.
What damn thing? .ssh/config? 'Host foo' and the domain in the list in the 'search' option in /etc/resolv.conf works fine for me.
http://statmilk.com/NCAAF/MatchUp/107/674/
I came to the conclusion long ago that the world is ready for an autoconf replacement (note I did not say "new build system" or "replacement for make"). It's too arcane, and it's long since grown too large for M4.

Projects like CMake, SCons, and Jam try to obviate the need to write make files, but they treat the configuration step as an afterthought.
A first crowdfunding review site that lets you filter, sort and compare.
Pro-tip for next time - park in Palo Alto or somewhere near the free shuttle [1] and bus it to campus. Or pack a bike.

[1]: http://transportation.stanford.edu/marguerite/
YAML is acutally trivially compatible with this exploit, in a sense, though the result is not particularly disastrous with Psych.

lol1: &lol1
"lol"
lol2: &lol2
[*lol1,*lol1,*lol1,*lol1,*lol1,*lol1,*lol1,*lol1,*lol1,*lol1]
lol3: &lol3
[*lol2,*lol2,*lol2,*lol2,*lol2,*lol2,*lol2,*lol2,*lol2,*lol2]
lol4: &lol4
[*lol3,*lol3,*lol3,*lol3,*lol3,*lol3,*lol3,*lol3,*lol3,*lol3]
lol5: &lol5
[*lol4,*lol4,*lol4,*lol4,*lol4,*lol4,*lol4,*lol4,*lol4,*lol4]
lol6: &lol6
[*lol5,*lol5,*lol5,*lol5,*lol5,*lol5,*lol5,*lol5,*lol5,*lol5]
lol7: &lol7
[*lol6,*lol6,*lol6,*lol6,*lol6,*lol6,*lol6,*lol6,*lol6,*lol6]
lol8: &lol8
[*lol7,*lol7,*lol7,*lol7,*lol7,*lol7,*lol7,*lol7,*lol7,*lol7]
lol9: &lol9
[*lol8,*lol8,*lol8,*lol8,*lol8,*lol8,*lol8,*lol8,*lol8,*lol8]
Whatever he talks about will get posted somewhere, guaranteed. It's just going to be released in a spotty way now. Lame.
it's really the underlying macro system that's recursive - http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.3.2

and that's probably because macros systems typically are recursive since they are otherwise fairly limited, so this is a way to give them sufficient expressive power. so the explanation is probably "tradition" (and likely made more sense in sgml, which was the precursor to html).
So Miguel objects to any use of third-party m4 macros at all?
Because these are the possibilities:

1. You install from your package manager

2. You install from a source tarball, which contains a configure script

3. You install the bleeding edge version from a development repository

4. You do 3. but somehow you managed to break your autotools install (and I don't really want to know how you did), or you're running a long-eoled distro that ships an ancient version of pkg-config that doesn't include the pkg.m4 macro.

The fourth scenario can cause macro trouble, but it takes a sophisticated kind of user to install from development repositories rather than a better-supported option (not to mention breaking autotools), so I think it's on those users to troubleshoot and fetch the missing macro.
Sadly, I downvoted you. I wouldn't have if you had actually given some book suggestions, but instead your post amounts to "read more lol" which is not only unhelpful but also condescending.
Please consider that none of those posts with any comments in them took place within the last two years. And "sadly" gets created just to tell people to read more books. Sad indeed...

EDIT:

HN seems to be stuck with XSS, SQLi, and malformed XML

HN is not a person: half of today's HN didn't exist two years ago [1].

[1] http://blog.rjmetrics.com/surprising-hacker-news-data-analys...
Wait. Are you really doing that badly?

If they've made $124 I'd wager they're doing worse than their business plan calls for, because that's about 17 hours of work at federal minimum wage.
Also, Chrome on Nexus 7 has a lot of "accessibility" options, so you can size the default reflowable text to your comfort, which reduces any need to manually squeeze/expand. (Nexus 7 is dramatically superior to a New(3) iPad.)
Good tips, for those who don't have kids! Good inspiration for me to write a blog post about the same subject while having 2 munchkins running around for 12 hours a day.
Wow. I wish I'd known about that! Thanks.
..and this my friends is why Julian Assange wants nothing to do with being extradited there. Of course, there's also the fact that he'd be shipped to the US once they actually found him again.
not that it would be terribly common, but a single letter on a line is usually taller than the image itself. may want to look into max-height of sorts
But three keypairs (one for each machine) is still not "quite a few"... And if you had more than one per machine, can you clarify why?
Why do they even need to store arbitrary data in the blob at all? You can simply use it as a token-id for the server. While it does dramatically increase the amount of data that needs to be stored, and accessed, it nearly prevents attacks like this.
I'm surprised the article didn't end with explaining how he got his phone number out of Google Voice.
Other than forgot-password, why use blobs at all? Only other rare use of blobs that I can think of is proxying users from one domain to another (single sign-on, session sharing etc.)

Why would a site use blobs for reporting?
How a start up today is the same as starting a punk band in the early noughties
My theory is that the reports were really a compressed and encrypted query. Obviously that shouldn't be exposed to the user in any way (because of tampering and information leakage issues) so an encrypted blob is actually a reasonable approach when doing the handoff from one part of the site to another.
It’s just opinions. There isn’t any answer there. (I’m not even sure there is one. The difference may be too small to be able to say that in general, one or the other is better. Maybe it’s really down to opinion.)
Absolutely! Just gotta be careful not to develop a God complex in situations like that...
Agreed, he made a mistake by spamming and rather than say flat out he made a mistake, he is sugar coating his words to not admit it outright, save some face.

I have more respect for someone that admits mistakes outright.

An apology has 3 parts:
1. You say "I made a mistake"
2. You apologize to the person for the mistake
3. You dont make the same mistake again

1. I made a mistake
2. I am very sorry that I did this to you
3. I wont do this again.

Someone who doesn't use a 3 step apology doesn't mean it to begin with.