skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I submitted a critical vulnerability (session hijacking), they asked me if I'd some solution in mind, I give them my solution, they never contacted me again.
I'm pretty sure they do the same with 99% of bugs reports, the 1% is just for having people publishing articles like this one to get attention from crackers so they keep sending reports.
If you're looking for money (or even a simple "thanks") don't go to the facebook whitehats bs.. just post it on full-disclosure or whatever...
Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon, with xmonad as window manager
Why do you use Sandy? I use dwm and I'm also a big fan of suckless, but I've never heard of Sandy before, and I'm genuinely curious why this would be preferable over vi or emacs (depending on which camp you're in).
Segments the market into people who know about their browser's incognito/porno mode, and those that don't.
IPhone 5 automatically rotates using vibration
Feinstein supported this, too. I wrote her a letter; her response was along the lines of "I don't care, and in any event it's good for you."

Haven't voted for her since.

With recent events, even though I don't live in CA any more, I plan to give her opponents money, for any election she's a candidate in.
Couldn't get this to run on OSX despite installing it through macports. Would love to use it as well on Windows as Chrome keeps getting more and more bloated
One of the interesting factoids I came across a while ago was the assertion that 85-90% of pharmaceutical companies' expenses were marketing. Perhaps if they didn't spend so much on marketing, they wouldn't need to have patents for so long or charge so much?
> clearing high-five or even six figures

> those who know how to edit cookies or alter referrers

On a global scale, these are both minorities, and I'm not even so sure which one is tinier.
Very odd. I could have used a different email, but I can't imagine having used a different name. I just went back to the application page and went through it to test and make sure it did a submission after just filling out one page of stuff. I do clearly remember both the questions and the look of the thanks for applying page. Given you just went through the DB, though... I don't know.

Either way, I'm clearly not the deomographic your program is looking for. There is another program with a different tuition model that I was really pursuing. That's the one I had really pinned my hopes on.
I use FreeBSD on my servers, most of them with ZFS. I wish there was some facility (like in Solaris) than as soon as a harddisk in a mirrorset fails, a spare is automatically swapped in. I will probably have to write that myself ;-)
"There is nothing Patrick is doing that most people on HN couldn't do"

Sure if they applied themselves and put the effort in. Big "if" there though.

In any case I don't think Patrick falls into the "aw shucks" category at all. The post he did was long and detailed and I don't remember much (just rescanned quickly maybe I missed) about how he did it all and managed to still travel and have fun (he might have but I didn't see that). The sheer amount of detail in that post is great. I don't even have time to read it fully I can only imagine the effort that went into writing and editing.

There is also this sentence at the end:

"I think that, aspirationally, career/job/business/etc was never supposed to be my #1 priority, but be that as it may it sucked up a disproportionate amount of my twenties."

So Patrick did what he had to do to make it happen, this is no "boating accident" (it's a shark) and his success is the result of hard work. Not everyone has what it takes to do that. (I'm reminded of the Karate tournament that I was in when I was younger where I was absolutely blown away by opponent who clearly had put way more effort into preparing than I did.)

I'm not sure all, or even that most, HN'ers could achieve that because while they may be smart and they may read and learn everything they can they might not actually be good at applying that information, taking chances, having other things in their life suffer etc. or just plugging away.
Hackulous Shuts Down, Taking Its iOS Piracy App Installous With It
Oh yes The Register, please tell us about the enormous number of people who went to Mint? Hmmmm, not a single number in the whole article?
The Creative Product Process
What's even worse is when you get to a website pretending to be an iphone app... using an android device.
I've been enjoying http://techzinglive.com/ lately
There are two separate points here: first, whether PRZ released PGP because of what Biden's bill symbolized, and second, whether Biden was anti-crypto.

For the first, see PRZ's contemporaneous statement:
http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html
It was this bill that led me to publish PGP electronically for free that year, shortly before the measure was defeated after vigorous protest by civil libertarians and industry groups.

For the second, I'd say Biden was more pro-law enforcement (and law enforcement wanted domestic controls on encryption) rather than anti-crypto. This played out not just in crypto but also Biden's support for CALEA, FISA expansion in the 1990s, the Patriot Act, etc:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10024163-38.html
What I'm writing below is meant in general, and not at the OP.

The purpose of an MVP is to find the minimum amount of value that a customer can't live without. An MVP is finding the 5 things you should have done in hindsight out of the 30 on your mind.

It sounds like you're focussing on yourself, and making your own life easier with TDD and not the customer. Wrong priority. You shouldn't expect your MVP to be here in 10 months.

Quit trying to prematurely optimize an empire that doesn't exist yet. Even if you write everything perfectly, you'll rewrite it from coding yourself into a corner and having to work out of it. You don't know what the problem-solution fit is, let alone whether theres a market of people willing to pay for it.

As history has shown, customers don't care what you code in, or how you code. It's more about building software that solves a pain and a problem, first, if you're serious about using the term "MVP". Sometimes folks keep doing what they've been doing and sprinkle some lean terms on it to make it sound like they're different.

TDD helps where there is complex business logic, not getting and setting basic information, which most MVP's do. If you have something that complex, it might not be an MVP.

Focus on the MVP, finding a product-market fit, and a problem-solution fit. Get out of the building and quit using methodologies as an excuse to analysis paralysis yourself.
I've been a google supporter for years, until they do something ugly to you, and now that love is gone. Fuck you google, if you don't listen to your users you're doomed to extinction.

You stole my hard earned money in adsense for over a couple of years. All of a sudden you decided to close my account for activity fraud. I swear to god I never clicked a damn ad. My stats show no abnormal visits (analytics from google) just a steady flow of a hundred visitors a day, just ten cents a day in adsense.

But you stole it without any explanation, just that you can't give any info to protect your algorithms and your sponsors.

Well fuck you, then who protects the user?

You stole just $100 from me, but I hope you lose it all. I'll do all I can to see you on your knees.

Fuck you google.
One little-known fact about Biden is that he authored the [Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995][1]. This bill was a precursor to the PATRIOT Act in several ways, such as by ["allowing secret evidence to be used in prosecutions, expanding FISA and wiretap laws, creating a new federal crime of 'terrorism' that could be invoked based on political beliefs, permitting the U.S. military to be used in civilian law enforcement, and allowing permanent detention of non-U.S. citizens without judicial review."][2] See the Center for National Security Studies [analysis][3] (written in 1995) for more detailed info.

In his own words: "I drafted a terrorism bill after the Oklahoma City bombing. And the bill John Ashcroft sent up was my bill" (his bill was actually introduced before the Oklahoma City bombing).

[1]: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d104:s.00390:
[2]: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10024163-38.html?tag=newsL...
[3]: http://w2.eff.org/Legislation/Bills_by_number/s390_hr896_95_...
Traditional banner advertising isn't ideal for mobile screens. Mobile advertising WILL be huge - but it will come from ads being baked into the app experience rather than simple banners.
Ask HN: Is Grunt, Yeoman & other Unix-based build tools worth using w/Windows?
Sometimes it can be such a hassle to try to work these tools into windows that it slows down my workflow instead of speed up, is it worth the time to "make it work". Are people using these on windows?
The nail in the coffin for crypto bans seemed (to me) to be the rise of crypto competency overseas. In the mid to late 1990s there was a lot of progress outside the US.

Also, when VISA comes politely knocking, saying "We'd really like our stuff to be secure, and available to anyone," congre$$ tend$ to li$ten.
Could someone please give an executive summary? (I know there may be some irony in asking this.)
She doesn't need your vote.
The bounty for that page is ~$10k or such, no? Did you get anything?
I hope she loses in the next election. She was the one that pretty forcefully pushed the FISA reauthorization with as little debate as possible through Senate. It made me angry just hearing her talk about how the Senate shouldn't waste any time with the amendments and just quickly pass FISA before the year is over.
You're trying to create a categorical distinction between "negligible" and "absent" marginal costs that doesn't have any practical significance.

What if I went into a Prada store, took a handbag, and left an amount of money equal precisely to the marginal production cost of the handbag plus the cost of restocking the item. Is that morally justifiable? After all, the creator is no worse off than he was before. I haven't taken away an item from someone else--the money I left precisely compensates for manufacturing and restocking a new one for another customer. He has lost a potential sale to me, but who says I was going to buy it in the first place?

Most people would say the Coach example is not morally justifiable, but in purely economic terms the circumstances are identical. As long as the "taker" compensates the creator by an amount equal to the marginal cost (in the case of a digital music distributor, zero), the creator is no worse off than he was before. There is nothing magical about the transition from small marginal costs to zero marginal costs in economic terms.
"I do think that locking yourself in a room with a book and focussing is important, at least to build the platform of understanding from which you can move to group interactions."

Studying learning is inherently difficult because it requires intelligent people to try and figure out how they got that way. The tendency is to extend personal learning styles upon the population!

In this case, I bet that you learn the best from sitting down and reading a book. I'd double down and suggest that you take incredible notes and that your favourite books are thick with notes and underlined passages.

If I'm correct, it means that you learn best from reading/writing. This is one of the most common learning styles. However, some people are auditory learners (they learn the best during lectures), others are visual learners (they learn best when graphics are used to explain the concepts), and still others are kinesthetic (they learn best from doing).

To complicate matters, these learning styles are far from perfect type theories. In practice, people employ different learning strategies in different situations.
JKZ has some good videos on YT for anyone looking to learn more about mindfulness meditation.
Nerd rage avoidance: http://spreadubuntu.org/en/material/brochure/1204-poster Unity grows on you...

If you want Gnome 2 back: CentOS / Scientific Linux / Springfield Linux fully supported for the next 4 years. Same kernel/applications generation as Ubuntu 10.04

XFCE4 on Debian Wheezy is pretty good. Will be updates coming down the line soon as they get ready to release Wheezy as stable.

I can see myself going back to dwm/dmenu: http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/pages/linux-dwm-window-manager-on-de...
It's dangerous to make the comparison to Moneyball when none of the factors used in this "algorithm" track cleanly to measurable statistics that are indicative to future success like you have with sports.

There is also nothing in this algorithm that seems to account for scrappiness, determination, ability to take hard hits, and a host of other intangibles that make someone a good entrepreneur. I'm not sure you can measure that algorithmically, other than possibly from past entrepreneurial experience, although that's a story better told by the entrepreneur rather than some arbitrary proxy.

If I ever take VC, I hope it's from a VC that believes in me, my team, and what we're doing, and not just whether I fit into their mold of what they think an entrepreneur should look like.
Representative Bob Goodlatte was a proponent of relaxation of encryption controls; pushing for a law in 1999, only 6 years after assuming office. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Goodlatte

Conrad Burns was a sponsor of the PROTECT Act which was an attempt to overhaul encryption regulations, including prohibiting domestic controls of encrypted software. He did this after being in office for about 8 years.
http://www.techlawjournal.com/cong106/encrypt/19990414burns....

edit: Goodlatte was a Rep, not a Senator.
so then westboro baptist church is not a hate group, thanks for the clarification
I like the railscasts theme. I use it in macvim and sublime text 2. https://github.com/jpo/vim-railscasts-theme
Looking closely at them side by side, there are minute differences, so I withdraw my complaint.

They look awfully similar though.
I would like something like this but for querying Python objects (dict containing lists of dicts with particular key-values that are needed, etc.) sort of like a declarative way of cleanly creating a new data structure from a response, or even yielding elements that match the definition I give. Does anything like this exist already? I am constantly writing different code to do this.
http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/08/a-terrible-reason...

Here is a short piece on the immortal dictator argument that shows up from time to time as one of the reasons given to continue to let billions die of aging: "But what if, the critics continue, you had a dictator who could live more or less for thousands of years? Wouldn't it be a good thing if he was guaranteed to die at some point and the people he oppressed had a chance to start anew? Wouldn't the sacrifice be worth it? No, it wouldn't, and here's why. Basically, we're being asked to give a potential means of extending our life spans so we can be sure that just a small handful of people and their cronies would be dead at some point in time. We can't always kill them or depose them, so we'll be outsourcing the assassination to nature. Anyone see the problem here? Of the over seven billion people who aren't dictators, who do we think is expendable enough to die alongside our targets for the sake of the anti-dictator cause? If I may reach for a little hyperbole, how different is the logic that all the billions who will die in the process are fair game because their death helps the cause from that of all terrorist groups who believe that civilians of the countries they hate can be on the hit list because killing them hurts an enemy and may force him to retreat? This is a rather crass way of saying that the ends justify the means and I doubt that they really do in this case. We could take this logic further and cast all modern medicine as being a dictator enabling technology. Maybe last week Assad would've tripped, fallen, hurt himself, then got his wound infected and was soon dead from septic shock, helping to end the civil war in Syria. Does this mean we must now give up our disinfectants and advanced medical treatments to make sure bad people die easier?"
Term limits would solve most of the lobbying/bribing/corruption problem in Washington. It wouldn't fix for good, but it would make paying for passing new laws a lot more expensive for companies. Also if everyone could only run once, they'd be a lot less worried about begging for donations for the next campaign. According to Larry Lessig representatives spend up to 70% of their time trying to get donations for their next campaigns, instead of doing their job properly, and passing laws for the actual benefit of the people.
For most simple servers/projects I use Debian/some sort of linux, so I'm pretty unknowledgeable but curious about the BSD side of things.

What are the advantages/differences of using bsd over any other linux distro?

Edit: For anyone interested, I actually Googled the question and found a pretty interesting article: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
Agreed, Moneyball works because of the vast amount of data that is collectable in baseball. Even more fluid sports like basketball and football have a hard time applying algorithms to player ratings (though it's beginning to happen).

While I do think there are probably some useful objective ways to measure entrepreneurs, unless someone has enough data points under his or her belt the "Moneyball" approach is never going to give reliable results.
Mental health in that sense is physical health - age-related mental decline is caused failure in the physical processes of the brain. E.g. loss of blood vessel integrity, buildup of aggregates, diminished stem cell activity in response to rising cellular damage, etc.
Ask HN: What are your daily must-read sites?
As Hacker/Developer or designer interest, beside HN of course ;)
Not sure Rep. Bob Goodlatte was a senator. :)
Loving Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon, very very tired of Ubuntu Unity
I completely agree, and let me add to your point:

> manually testing code and fixing bugs is expensive

The codebase almost always starts small and simple, and the ratio of cost of development to the cost of testing will look misleadingly acceptable. Here's a made-up ratio:

2:1

As the codebase and complexity increase, keeping those ratios in the same proportion when manually testing is pretty much impossible, and the ratio may actually invert. Again, a made-up number:

1:2

If the business is relying on rolling out new features to continue to grow the business, this could become a big problem if revenue isn't growing at an even faster pace.
The history of that law, CALEA, is a bit more complicated than that. See:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10024163-38.html
CALEA represented one step in the FBI and NSA's attempts to restrict encryption without backdoors. In a top-secret memo to members of President George H.W. Bush's administration including Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and CIA director Robert Gates, one White House official wrote: "Justice should go ahead now to seek a legislative fix to the digital telephony problem, and all parties should prepare to follow through on the encryption problem in about a year. Success with digital telephony will lock in one major objective; we will have a beachhead we can exploit for the encryption fix; and the encryption access options can be developed more thoroughly in the meantime."
I wouldn't call it trivial - you'd need a stateful firewall (not necessarily a NAT) to keep track of which network flows are active. It would also be exploitable - you could open a TCP control connection to host X, and have host Y stream you data over UDP, to which you never reply directly, but rather use the host X control connection to ack the data.
Well, you can still install custom ROMs even with a locked bootloader. You just can't change the kernel. The custom ROM needs to be using the same kernel.
I think term limits only make sense if you believe that you don't get better at being a legislator with experience. If you don't, then yes, absolutely, term limits will make buying votes far more expensive, but if you do, then you're constantly running the country with a team of redshirt freshmen, which may well be worse than corporate interests being able to influence policy decisions.
Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon
Sorry, I was needlessly hostile in my preceding comment.

You wrote about the bill as was part of an actual effort to restrict cryptography. But it wasn't. In fact, the bill preceded CALEA, which was a very important bill that established statutory authority for lawful intercept; lawful intercept is the most important concept captured in Biden's (practically meaningless) amendment, and cryptography is only ancillary.

Further, the record over the rest of the '90s supports that interpretation. Most importantly CALEA, which Biden cosponsored, and which forbids the federal government from requiring telcos to adopt any specific equipment (ie, the government could not mandate that MCI use switches with specific lawful intercept features) and which all but demands that telcos stay out of the business of encrypting and decrypting altogether, which is exactly what the cipherpunks wanted.

I'd like to see actual evidence supporting the idea that Biden opposed general-purpose cryptography. It may well exist, but I haven't found it on the record. Phil Zimmerman is many things, but "legal expert" is not one of them; we need to do better than "Phil Zimmerman felt like he was under attack" (all commercial cryptographers felt that way even after CALEA passed) and "Biden thought the director of NSA was competent" (hey, he probably was.)
Add devices to the list, too. If you have a hardware issue with a Nexus 4 / Nexus 7 / Nexus 10, clicking through the support center will eventually drop you at a phone number to call. Returns/exchanges and warranty repairs are handled by phone.
Because vi and emacs are just too complex and do things that should be done by separate programs, like formatting?
First off, if you need to resort to name-calling then you haven't argued your case well enough.

Secondly, my work has never taken my near mobile advertising, so this is purely a personal opinion: you really think that avoiding adverts is anywhere near the top of reasons why people would use a mobile device over a PC/laptop? Have you ever known anyone cite that as a reason? Compare it to reasons such as portability, etc...

Disclaimer: Given a large amount of the small company I work for's revenue comes from selling advertising on our websites, and separate to that I spend six figures monthly on buying advertising elsewhere, I'm one of the "jerks" so perhaps my opinion is biased.
It's harder to move having a house, certainly (which I do), and where you live or move to will affect whether you need a car or not. In some ways, by not having a car, you're limiting your experience by saying "I'll never consider living in these places". That's OK, but it does have an impact. Likewise, if you wanted to have a car, you're sometimes restrained by the cost of parking the car in certain locations.

Gas - certainly a concern, but so is bus/subway fares, which replace gas if you don't have a car but still need to move around.

Taxes - for 2 cars we pay about $150/year.

Insurance - possibly $1000 per year.

So... maybe $100/month for taxes/insurance on 2 cars - for most people this won't break the bank. This also allows us to live in a more rural area with a somewhat lower cost of living (lower taxes for a start).

Maintenance - yeah, some. I don't think we worry about it, much like you don't 'worry' much about your electric bill or internet bill. It's a factor in life - there are repairs that come up, but again, the ability to be mobile when we want, in areas that aren't otherwise served by mass transit - is, for us, a plus right now.

Replacing gas/tax/insurance with monthly subway tickets, which I'd probably need to do if I lived in a major city, seems like it might be about the same (IIRC, a two week pass in Moscow cost be about $50?).