skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot believe I wasted time reading this article.

The picture of the tape and the business card sucked me in.

I was hoping that the author will be sharing in detail the travails of Ang Lee during his early years and how he managed to pull through. Instead the author spins his own story of how Ang Lee stayed the course.

The reality of how Ang Lee felt ( 1984 - 1990 ) and kept himself motivated or if he was even worried about "success" remains a mystery and I am still curious to know more about this wonderful director and his early years...
Actually, 'spam' in the electronic sense is apparently linked to a Monthy Python sketch involving a restraunt where everything contains Spam. From Wikipedia: In the 1980s the term was adopted to describe certain abusive users who frequented BBSs and MUDs, who would repeat "Spam" a huge number of times to scroll other users' text off the screen. In early chat rooms ..., they actually flooded the screen with quotes from the Monty Python Spam sketch.

One could therefore argue that uppercase is the correct presentation.
Is there an "import from Trello" feature on the cards? If I could do that it would be easier to compare properly. It looks great though, well done.
Sorry, unintentional mistake :)
I'm a longtime iPhone user/fan, but I'd have to say that it's actually the worst hi-res phone for long form reading. Its relatively narrow screen is great for one-handed usability, but not ideal for extended reading. And 4" is on the low end for what you'd want in a reader.
> and that they have a good idea whether they want a website to use that space or not.

"What's a website? I just double-clicked on my e-mail google and now Foxfire wants to fill up my disks. Is this going to put a virus on my Microsoft? Why don't they put it up in the clouds?"
Load testing web apps with Siege
I think there's much more to it than what the post says. It seems the author is looking at the freelance testing industry (is 'industry' the right word here?) through rose colored glasses.

Freelance web designers and SEOs are everywhere because you don't need any experience and often times don't even require any actual skill to do the job. All you need to know is how to repeat the whole "Social media marketing your business reach customers user experience blah blah nonsense" spiel and people say "Yeah! I want to miraculously reach the top of Google for everything and make a billion online like Zuck" and hire some dude for $300 who read "HTML and CSS for Dummies" last week at a Barnes and Noble. I know this because I used to be that asshole (not the business owner, the freelancer).

Other kinds of web/tech freelancing have very simple-to-understand values. In the minds of a lot of people who hire freelancers, Web design = Branding or Marketing = Profits. Simple. Not exactly correct, but that's the line being fed to everyone these days. Same with SEO. SEO = Rankings = $1B profit.

Testing is different though. I have to say however that if a company even needs to test software to begin with then they're probably playing at a higher level than the companies hiring freelance designer/devs and SEOs. Still, the value of a tester is still nebulous. You don't hear freelance testers out there drilling "Testing will make your customers love to use your product, increase efficiency on yours and the customer's end, and save you a ton of money" or something equally easy to market. To most businesses testing means "we played with the app on the staging server and it worked fine for us. time to push it live". It just comes off as an extra expense that isn't worth the investment.

And why is that? Because freelance testers, unlike other freelancers, have failed to create a consistent, marketable appeal to business owners (i.e. tell them why it's going to make them tons of cash) the way other freelancers have. And it's probably because those who do testing are a little more thoughtful and less about pizazz and flash than designer/developers and the nature of testing itself is kind of boring unless you're really into it yourself. Design is fun because everyone wants to be an artist. SEO is fun because people are given the idea they're in control of which keywords they'll pop up for and such. Testing? Totally boring. Some guy's gonna come in here and find bugs in our software? We can do that ourselves or just make sure to mark all the complaint emails as TODOs in Gmail.
I'm as much in favor of car analogies as the next person, but I don't think yours really fits the situation.

It might fit if speeder was trying to buy a laptop without RAM or a hard drive so he could put in his own, but my reading of your comment is that you're talking about having a physical part of the product removed and wanting a refund. What speeder is asking for seems more like asking Lenovo to offer an option to order a car with an upgraded the sound system, tires, seats, or engine. This is something many auto makers offer.

It seems that Lenovo, in this case, has decided that the market for cars with steel wheels is too small, and is selling cars without that option. You can only get alloy wheels on your Lenovo car.
I haven't decided if I agree with you. I was able to convert 2 Trello boards to it in under 10 min (smaller boards). Pretty much the circles equated to the columns the way I was using in Trello (todo, waiting on, in process, done) however I liked the idea that I could break out todo into multiple circles based on the channels the tasks came through. I then was able to color code all the circles for easy visibility. I am not saying I am by any means a convert from Trello at this point, but the fact I could get all this up in a rather quick manner and have a quick visual representation to look at quickly was nice and gives me enough faith to test it out for a week or two.

Note: Trello has this color representation also with editable labels, of course. For some reason I dig the circles though.
That's the same argument for not hiring freelance developers or project managers. And IMHO it leads to lazy coupling of software systems and services, a system that has to be built and tested by different or changing groups has to have much much better scope and decoupling.

In short, if you have small (micro) services, they are easy to build and easier to test.
I had no idea formspring started as a side project. also super cool to note - most of the companies started because there was a need to be filled. seems like a great way to start a side project is to fill a need of your own.
The Startup Check List
Why Geneticists Need Designers: Making DNA Into Art
Bingo. The whole point of Trello is to mock up some manual end-to-end process. The natural state of this is columns that consist of "Backlog, TODO, Doing, Done". More advanced versions of this look something like, "Vetting, Grooming, Backlog, TODO, Doing, Done".

The circles kind of kill the whole point of a taskboard, IMO.
I just came across this website looking for a guide on tcpdump, which I found at http://danielmiessler.com/study/tcpdump/ and I thought someone else might like it too!

The website is made by http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=danielrm26 I see some of the articles/guides have been posted here before.
Ubuntu Linux – Using KDE, Gnome, Cinnamon and XFCE
I played with it a bit and unless I missed something, the size of the circle is only related to how many other circles are inside it.
It sound like they hate synchronous APIs. Well, the synchronous nature of it wouldn't be a problem if:

1. JS has a language-level support for asyncrony.
2. The implementation of retrieval was performant enough or allowed for some way to control granularity of reads from the code.

I really dislike that the idea that the only simple API for local storage will be gutted because of reasons quite tangential for what it does.
http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ and http://www.waybackletter.com/ are both worth subscribing to.

If you're on HN a lot you'll have read most of the articles, but I found they helped me cut down on the amount of time I spend on the site.
Revolutionary browser on Kickstarter - "PolyBrowser"
We (at PolyScomuite) are developing an innovative browser, called PolyBrowser, that transforms how people use the web. It's the first browser that lets you see and control all of your websites simultaneously, significantly accelerating how you search and browse the web. With PolyBrowser, your websites are spread out horizontally like cards on a table, enabling you to move through them quickly and easily.<p>PolyBrowser is currently 80% complete, and to help get it to the finish line, we’ve launched a Kickstarter campaign (at http://PolyBrowser.com). Please share this, and you can even pledge for free to show support (we are refunding the first 100 backers)... Every backer shows that there is community interest. We would be grateful for any assistance.<p>Many Thanks,
Aaron T. Travis, MBA, CUA
CEO
PolySuite.com
Trying to install it can total the computer, esp. if you are unaware of the relatively new locking measures.
This looks like a headache to work with. Wasn't a fan and didnt have enough value to try and test out. Will keep on radar but doesnt look promising or a decent replacement to trello
As true as your comment is I would like to point out that there is a value in itself to have 'fresh eyes' on QA. An experienced and talented tester unfamiliar with a system/product/service can actually work as both QA/UI and UX resource if he or she has the right background.

TLDR; Sometimes you can gain valuable input from a fresh pair of eyes.
Interesting variation on the Bloom filter. One notable difference: in a Bloom filter you say an element is a member of the set if ALL hash values are present. In this case you say an element is a member if ONE hash value is present. This seems to weaken the properties of the Bloom filter quite a lot.

Caveat: I only skimmed the article. If I got it wrong, let me know.
eInk is easier on the eyes than the highest resolution display available on any smart-device. I have half a dozen smart devices and still choose to read (books, not comics or web-pages) on my eInk device when given the opportunity.
What do you mean when you say tester? If you mean "someone to run manual test cases," it is probably because those sorts of jobs are pure tedium... They can be outsourced to websites too.

If you mean a software engineer that designs software to validate that other complex software systems function (often dealing w nontrivial engineering efforts and undecidable problems) , they probably don't freelance because we denigrate them by calling them "testers" and they'll get hired fulltime by companies that understand the value of their work.
I think this could be a great addition to the normal list view. Different people process things better or worse with pictures vs lists vs charts,etc.

I think this could be a great tool for planning or just looking at a snapshot of your day, developer, project, etc.But in order to be a full fledged issue tracker, you need to be able to filter, report,pivot,etc.

Just my two cents.I think it looks great and is promising.
How Close Are We To A Single Computing Device?
I'm trying to track down the link I got it from. It's freely available (I downloaded it from Google career site) I just can't figure out where, now.
Um, B&N should keep making hardware and they probably will. They are doing well and have a built in market. If they lose hardware, they won't have a strong enough software distribution mechanism and will lose by default to Amazon.

It would be stupid, bordering on insane to give up the one good thing B&N has going for it. Without Nook, B&N is Tower Records. Nook software is pointless without hardware, same as Kindle software.
Ugh, the writing in this article is atrocious. Between the (low quality) stock photos, flashing ads, and poor writing, I'm wondering if this site is some sort of content farm.
Casting doubts and aspersions when you don't know anything and haven't
bothered to read up on what they do is extremely unfair.

They do some very impressive cryptographic deduplication. Essentially
it's a method to deduplicate already encrypted data reliably. If you
don't realize how amazingly cool that is, you need to do some reading.
It's a really tough problem, and it solves a major pain point for anyone
with large volumes of encrypted data (i.e. governments).

EDIT: Links

https://www.conformal.com/

https://www.cyphertite.com/
MS astroturfers? (they've pretty much ruined /. by now, wouldn't be surprised if they took control of HN too)
Vimeo Looks to Become the Instagram of Video Adding 500 New Creative Filters
HN dislikes anything that shows that real people have real emotions. Humour, anger and whatnot have no place here.
FTA: "By analysing the logs from the command servers, we have observed 59 unique victims in 23 countries."

How does a random IT security company get logs from the command servers, especially if they're located in Panama and Turkey, where receiving quick cooperation from law enforcement is presumably difficult?
Do you guys really not understand, that this was not censorship, but just an over-aggressive spam filter?
Where do you guys find out about security vulnerabilities?
This is nice but miss a way to order tasks and groups (using priority for example). Would be also nice to relate groups to each others with a link (arrow something) to organise your project diagram.
Finally the print doesn't work. If you cannot print to provide an overview of all the tasks of the project then this tool is less useful for me as I would like to bring my task split to a meeting room without an internet connection for example. It would be nice to print only a sub selection as well (only the selected groups).
Anyway I like the zoom an unzoom functionality that provide a quick way to have an overview of the tasks.
From hacking on Xbox to building cyberweapons used in the Syrian civil war
The article uses 'shadow' in the sense of: region of less light behind an object. But actually, at this small scales the wave nature of light becomes quite important, since for an object smaller than the wavelength the distortion of the light wave is damped exponentially on an scale of the wavelength. So I think the word shadow is as appropriate as silhouette, since both somehow imply light rays ( and are therefore a rather loose usage on the meaning of the words).
CoffeeScript usage post-mortem
Basin (a Digital Ocean client) for Android introduces iOS version
A question is how much Microsoft wants to be in the business of making Android tablets... http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-barnes-and-noble-joint-ventur...
Seeing Google Glass as half-full
eInk devices are also crazy-light, even compared to a paperback, and the battery life is measured in weeks.
> I played with it a bit and unless I missed something, the size of the circle is only related to how many other circles are inside it.

This is true - the group (used to categorize task circles) grows to fit the content. We did play with allowing task circles to be resized to show priority/effort, etc, but couldn't get it to work well. We may revisit it, though.
Skyflash: Jetman-like wings designed to allow ground take off
I personally don't care what people use it for. My point is that it is primarily good for illicit and "grey market" transactions, and really nothing else. You entire argument demonstrates that you missed my point completely.

Why would I buy a cheeseburger with Bitcoins? Say the cheeseburger costs 0.1 Bitcoins (today). Tomorrow, who knows what those (fractional) Bitcoins will be worth!

Dollars (or whatever) on the other hand are generally pretty stable. Currency fluctuations, on a day-to-day basis, are very, very small. Sure, there's the occasional hyper-inflationary episode (several South American countries have experienced these somewhat regularly), but that's the exception.

The problem is that Bitcoin is, at least at this point, more of a commodity that people trade when they can't (or don't want to) use traditional money. It is not a "currency" in that sense.
Great, sorry if I was too harsh in the original post
Anybody know what we're supposed to be seeing here? It looks like the "issues" page for a random project, with one open issue.

What does this have to do with Spam? Or even Github for that matter (apart from being a url at github.com?)
How does being a "professional practictioner of all 3" qualify one to make that assertion? And how do you reconcile that with the fact that every objective measure available shows otherwise?
Apple worlds most admired company for 6 straight years
That's a good approach before you take into account the effects of marketing/positioning. Customers will not always hire the cheapest freelancer, they will often (irrationally?) believe that successful developers with a high hourly rate must be particularly good.

When I founded my company (with a different business, i.e. not around web development for clients) in 2000 after a year of freelancing, I set my hourly rates ridiculously high (about 18 times my previous rates) because I didn't really want to do any development for clients at that time and to my surprise, I still got some clients who felt that I must be particularly good. So while you cannot generelly expect to make more money on average by setting your rates very high, it's foolish to set them based on your cost calculation and general demand only.
What happens when you have a blackout / internet failure / computer error, or another random problem? You lose everything as well, and usually through someone else's "fault" (and no adrenaline for you :) ).

I used to play Mario 3 on the NES, and at the time my country had a bad electrical infrastructure, I hated going back to the beginning due to a blackout.
I'm by no means an expert but these are some of the links/books I've found informative.

Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit [1]
Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering [2]
The IDA Pro Book [3]

The iOS Hacker's Handbook [4] was interesting as a sort of case study on exploiting and hacking embedded hardware.

Mostly what I've found, though, is just starting with a question and googling the answer yield the most results. For example, see mention of a stack overflow attack google how and why stack overflow attacks work (or don't) and once that side of things is understood the thought process behind finding them becomes easier to understand, although not really easier to do (for me, at least).

[1] http://insecure.org/stf/smashstack.html

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Reversing-Secrets-Engineering-Eldad-Ei...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/IDA-Pro-Book-Unofficial-Disassembler/d...

[4] http://www.amazon.com/iOS-Hackers-Handbook-Charlie-Miller/dp...
Demo http://isthis4real.com/orbit.xml
Waho, I think this project is fascinating. Anyone wants to work with me something like 2/3 days to release a web app, that transpose their code in a more "webby" way?

(We have their own solution: http://videoscope.qrclab.com/ but with all the respect this guys deserve! It's unfortunately far from perfect.)

I am based in Austin, my email is hartator_AT_gmail.com
It's very hard to write an exploit when executable, environment, and countermeasures are all unknown.
3 Golden Rules of Remote Work
Because nobody cares about your world view.

From the HN submission guidelines[0]:

> ... please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

[0] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would love to be a freelance tester. I have no idea how I would start though.

I have a lot of experience testing desktop apps for my day job, but I'd love to start something on the side.

Anyone here have ideas on where to start?
(I'm the other person responsible for gemcanary)

Having a record of all the security vulnerabilities that affect the Ruby community is important. To that end, we help maintain https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/ which is free for anyone to use or contribute to.
Why I Agree With Marissa Mayer
Analyzing APT1 with Cuckoobox, Volatility, and Yara
Thanks for this. I personally like just clicking off to dismiss the modal, but admittedly if we keep this we need to be a bit cleverer in terms of not just losing the changes.
Assuming Mars and the comet are perfectly round and have the same density, this comet will change the speed of Mars by about 0.004 feet per year, or about a quadrillionth of it's current speed. A body large enough and fast enough to destabilize a planets orbit (in the short term) would have a pretty good chance of breaking the planet into pieces.
Facebook Is Radically Changing How The Tech World Works Behind-The-Scenes
Yes. There are probably some other NYU film classmates of Lee who tried just as hard and didn't make it.
One rat brain 'talks' to another using electronic link
Note the inherent flaw in "by the hour" billing: if you want to increase your income you either must work more hours or raise your rates. In other words, hourly billing guarantees a built-in cap to your annual income. You have a maximum, but no minimum income. This is a world that I do not want to live in: a voluntary upper limit on my achievements.

Hourly billing is a method of setting prices by looking at the cost of the product you are selling. In fact a customer does not care what it costs for you to deliver a product or service. You could be delivering a product that is made of diamonds and unicorn horns. It doesn't matter.

What matters is the value of your product or service to the customer. Your job, as a business owner, is to set your price based on the customer, not based on your costs.

Set your price based on the value that you deliver. Then adjust the inputs (hours of worker time, etc.) until you can deliver the value at that price. Mercedes Benz adjusts the inputs for a C-class car until it hits the target price. It adjusts the inputs differently for an E-class or S-class car.

There is a lot of information out there in the wide world about this. It is not "fixed pricing." Call it "value pricing." Fixed pricing is just computing the cost of your inputs, adding a margin, and declaring a price. Value pricing is a matter of working backwards from the customer's value desires to set the price.

For you math people, this is an "area beneath the curve" problem.

I'm an international tax lawyer. I make far more money (and have happier customers) when I charge a declared price than when I bill by the hour.

All that being said, one of the points in the article is exactly right: raise your prices and you will get better quality customers.

Go see www.verasage.com as a jumping-off point for discussions of pricing in professional service firms. All business are alike. Don't think that advice to an accounting firm is inapplicable to you. It's not. It's all "delivery of a service to a human being in exchange for money".
Boring round lists of tasks.
I've got a Kobo e-ink device, an iPad 1, a Nexus 7, a Nexus 4, and a Nexus Galaxy.

The best device for reading novels IMO is the Nexus Galaxy. Most of my reading is done in bed, lying down, and for that the OLED screen and one-handedness of the small device wins by far. OLED is a lot better than LCD in the dark because there's no backlight glow.

In bright light the eInk is obviously a better screen, but I still believe that a 4.5" screen is a better size for reading novels than a 6" one.
My goodness, a whole year.

People bitch and moan about Microsoft being closed off from the rest of the development community, then when they offer the rest of the development community a way to use VS to write in their language of choice, they get this crap.

A lot of what Microsoft does is shit, but the constant and pointless anti-MS circle jerking is ridiculous.
But Linux servers require root access (or physical access, which frequently amounts to the same thing) to modify the bootloader. If you've already got root, then you don't really need to install a bootkit - you may as well just install a modified kernel or kernel module rootkit.
There is something missing from the story. It is not clear what the "actual case" is. Nor is it clear what fraud was committed.