skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's pretty neat - it seems to only cover one aspect of what makes something a "cyber attack", though. Doesn't appear to cover things like XSS, SQLi, and other malware vectors - just network vulnerability probes and break-in attempts. Not that that's a bad thing, the information presented is still quite fascinating. :)
What about testing how well you know these terms - are you thinking about expanding to a sms based quiz tool?
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Let's see: You are a high profile figure who happened to step on someone's tail. What should we do to make you behave?
I know, we'll show the whole world how you download child porn. Did I say "child porn"?

You mean the burden of proof is on you that you secured your network? How can you prove this, because, you know, you can't!
It very well might not be, depending on how you define "porn search engine". If you mean "search engine on which porn searches are ever conducted", then sure. Otherwise, it's far more up in the air.
> They've also got politicians who would love to go to their constituents during campaign season and tell them "Look, I supported clean air!"

Because there are people who actually care about clean air.

> Contrast this to opposing civil liberties restrictions, which can very easily and effectively be spun by political opponents as leaving America open to terror attacks.

Supporting environmental legislation is very easily spun by political opponents as costing America jobs.

The amount of political opposition to environmental laws is otherworldly. There are a few companies here and there making money off things like Rapiscanners, but the companies whose profits are hurt by environmental regulations account for trillions in US revenue each year. Everything from Exxon Mobil to small chemical plants with $10 million in revenues. And while "think of 9/11" has a certain impact, it's not only fading but even at it's peak never compared to the visceral cultural opposition towards environmental laws. Industries impacted by environmental laws are literally ways of life in many parts of the country. People in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, etc, fight to allow coal companies to keep poisoning them as part of their cultural heritage.

To put things into context: adding up U.S. box-office, DVD/Blu-Ray/etc, and music (digital and CD) revenues doesn't break $40 billion a year. Apple by itself made more than that last quarter. Exxon by itself makes 10x as much in a year, and there are 8 other petroleum companies in the Fortune 100. But environmentalists somehow manage to get some wins. While tech people whine incessantly about how "the system" is why they can't make any headway against the RIAA/MPAA.
assertTrue() recently did a series on this. If you're interested in this kind of thing, it's worth a read.

Here's one of the posts (ignore the linkbait headline) - http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/03/how-to-live-30-longer...
I don't think there is any argument that cooking can be a pleasant activity. However, the truth is that's the only option because we need to eat every day.

Tonight I can get home from work and spend time with my partner cooking and it'll be great. And after work tomorrow, if we want to spend time together, we can cook or eat out. And the day after that... more cooking.

The opportunity here is not that we'll never cook again but, instead, that maybe we can do something else together once in a while.
> But... now you can connect your city to that of your friends. That's far more fun than building a sprawling metropolis right?

It's fun right up until the day your friends buy another $40 game to play. Then the game starts to die for you.
Reminds me of that parody of a VC guy telling siri to "clear out my inbox with wishy-washy responses to everything": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WZA0TATcEI. This is what he means by wishy-washy reponses. :)
Try this: yes 'c=(╱ ╲);printf ${c[RANDOM%2]}'|bash

It doesn't do any harm, promise.
`yes` will do the same thing. It's just accumulating all the output from yes inside your shell. The yes command is actually pretty crappy for making fork bombs.
I invite you to look at the ridiculous amounts of JS lines twitter uses in its interface.
If it were possible to remain healthy long term, I'd totally sign up for a pill or drink that took a minute or two to consume and contained everything that we need to survive. I might not do it every day because there are some foods that I really like, but generally I don't enjoy eating and find it irritating that I have to spend so much of my life doing it.
I don't have a drinking problem, you have a problem with my drinking, and that is not my problem.

In other words, you're the one with the problem. It is open by design, and there isn't a problem with the design.
the more spanish i speak the more i want to drop english words, and the more confortable i am moving the subject of the adjective to the end of the sentence.
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I totally agree that we should not prosecute based on being the originator. But I'm saying it is a reasonable place to start an investigation. Being able to pick a starting point for an investigation even if it just narrows the search to a neighborhood or city or even country(even if it may not totally be correct in cases of people of high technical skill) is at least a better starting point then searching for John Doe who is somewhere, presumably on the planet earth.

I'm not suggesting that we have a system where someone can look up what anyone is doing on the Internet at any point in time. I'm simply saying that if there is no way to connect an action made online to the real world such that it cannot be used as evidence against someone then anything a person does on the internet has no possible repercussions. Which I think would have some horrific consequences. Yes there is room for some abuse, and an actual implementation of any system would have to work out how to minimize this abuse, but at a certain point you need to trust your government. They have the ability to do a lot worse to a person then find out what they are browsing online.
Right, technically English doesn't let you drop pronouns. On the other hand there is a pretty long tradition of dropping first person pronouns in writing. You see it in informal correspondence and journals from before electronic media were omnipresent. Stuff like, "Went to the store today. Got stuck in a snow bank and had to call a tow truck."

I don't think it comes from immigrants that speak other languages, so much as economizing long passages of text that's all in the first person. The "I" at the beginning of every sentence just gets dropped.
Maybe it's because some people are genuinely good people.
That, and anyone in a collaborative field would gladly welcome beneficial tweaks to their product. Karma.
What makes you think there are things we don't know we need?
Everyone in this thread is looking at this the wrong way. I'm surprised HN is reacting in such a negative way.

If his diet is unbalanced, it's an issue with the official daily requirements being wrong.

If he's planing on marketing his innovative product, it's a failure of marketing.

Either way he's not very liable of failure.
I'd honestly advise using Urban Dictionary instead. A creampie may or may not be disgusting, but if it is, you'd probably prefer a textual description.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=creampie
I think YC is great.
Perhaps in the sense that they are languages that target the JVM and that rely on interoperability with the Java standard library to bootstrap people making apps with them?
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May not fit with the current narrative running around the likes of Reddit and HN, but some data points to consider.
Facebooks neuer Newsfeed erinnert stark an Tumblr.
That's a cool plug in - I generally don't trust the Netflix ratings as much as the other two.
You forgot the one letter signature, so pressed for time.

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I agree. But if I'm sharing my WiFi connection, a "security breach" can't be defined as "someone using my IP address" as I'm also sharing that willingly through my NAT router.

Or, are you going to turn off the public WiFi and pretend there was a breach should you get into trouble?
It wasn't clear to me that "YC partner" meant somebody working at YC, rather than a VC firm that had a formal relationship with YC. The satire went completely over my head on first reading.
As much respect as I have for triathletes, they aren't really representative. Food choices are incredibly important for athletes in weight class-limited sports (eg wrestling) or where muscular hypertrophy is important (eg powerlifting). Gymnastics is another one. Believe me when I tell you that coaches have diet absolutely dialed in for many classes of athlete.
"lisa ann" comes up in a large number of countries, too. I'm really not sure how to interpret that.

Israel's #3 search was "college rules". Not "college".

Nigeria's #3 search was "things i jack off to".
What mechanism can you imagine that would produce such a nightmare scenario? Is there a fat-soluble (or otherwise stored) nutrient of which most human bodies contain a five to ten year supply?

No I didn't think so. If Soylent Dude and his merry band of poor cooks can prove our current nutritional understanding wrong by dying five to ten years from now, then they should.
>Contrast this to opposing civil liberties restrictions, which can very easily and effectively be spun by political opponents as leaving America open to terror attacks.

How is that different from anything else? Pollution controls are painted as "job killing regulation" or "will raise the price of energy" or whatever this year's talking points are.

I kind of get the feeling that the reason things don't get done is only that people think they can't do anything. So they don't write to Congress or protest or donate money to EFF, and then their pessimism becomes self-fulfilling and self-reinforcing.

If you want change then you have to make it happen.
Massachusetts and Connecticut have also merged apparently.
Especially when you post it to your very public blog. Who is this post meant for?
I don't know... I think Backbone's approach to documentation would be awesome. ;)
I mean, if I have to prove that there was a breach, I couldn't.

The whole thing is "it's your network you go to jail". That's all they got. And it is not correct, because they can't prove that it was me or someone else, the same way I can't. But if the argument is only on network ownership, then I loose because now the burden of proof is on me and I can't prove anything.
>why would you ask somebody with no experience in C to develop your C codebase?

The message I replied to said:

>It's quite strange to me that people would identify as or look for a "[language] programmer".

So what I was saying was that you would want a C programmer to develop in a C codebase.

>There are plenty of programmers that wouldn't want to touch C to begin with, regardless of past experience.

I wouldn't want to do a lot of original development in C myself. I have used C -- and assembly language -- to do nontrivial things in the past. But I'm ready to be done with C myself.

>>If you've used C++ and C, then sure, you can probably jump to just about any language.

>Nope.

Umm...[citation needed].
From: edw519

To: Paul Graham

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your note and sending ?investor? our way, we really appreciate it and always enjoy meeting with YC followers. Keep 'em coming!

We loved ?investor? and are impressed by both his pedigree and the portfolio he has assembled thus far. It's exciting to see investors seeking "real-world" opportunities in important areas, which aligns well with our long-tail world view.

However it's currently a little early for us to get sidetracked here. We'd like to see ?investor? show a few more exits and demonstrate a more complete core understanding of our market. We've offered to introduce him to a few value-add founders within our network, who we think could really help him work through and grasp some of the technological issues fundamental to achieving a product/market fit in our industry. We plan on keeping in close touch and will be iterating back once he's at a more appropriate point to deserve equity from those who have worked so hard.

On a separate note, I feel like we could be doing more to help YC groupies. We're amazed at what people want to throw money at and we'd love to grab a coffee and talk more about how we could help investors better understand the opportunities we've poured so much of our hearts and souls into.

Best,

edw519
If I understand it correctly, Graph Search uses only directly disclosed data. If you're searching for, say, Christians you'll only get people who list "Christian" in their profile. Facebook isn't doing statistical analysis to find people who don't list themselves as Christians, but are "probably" Christian.

I see that as a lot less troubling, mostly because it's much easier to understand what you do and don't write in your profile v.s. the unconscious patterns in your behavior.
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This guy just reminds me of the book by Claude Lévi-Strauss called the culture code. The US (and northern european) code for food is fuel, while in southern Europe it's pleasure. The fact that he looks at drinking soylent as a way to save hundreds of dollars a month in food and energy probably means he views food as a fuel and an inconvenience instead of pleasurable highlight of the day.

I find it amusing but not for me. I for one consider food pleasure and even bigger pleasure when eaten with friends and family.
The bill is too short to lie about what's in it. Anyone with about 5 minutes and a 4th grade reading level can at least muddle through.
I like getting boilerplate responses from people, it's basically a message to me: You are worth nothing to me and if I can make a profit by throwing you under the bus, I will make no hesitation to do so, and you shouldn't expect me to.

It's actually a refreshing whiff of the jungle. Kill, or be killed.
Again? We jhad this a week ago or so. I can't use HNSearch, because it doesn't work on the Blackberry browser (don't ask why I'm using that) but I'm sure there was significant discussion.

In particular, although he gets the right answer, no one can work out why he's using the PDF he does.
Ask HN: Is Reddit and Stack Overflow down for you?
https://reddit.com/ and https://stackoverflow.com both show certificate errors from different CA's. Does anyone know what's going on?
Thin, flexible interface paves the way for new imaging technologies
Other direction you could go would be to put a bunch of the RAM on a peripheral bus (e.g, PCIe).
The explanation is completely incorrect. The outer invocation of `yes` is never actually started. The reason is because the inner invocation is being used as an argument to the outer invocation, which means bash needs to know the entire output of the inner invocation before it even starts the outer invocation.

Instead, all you're seeing is bash thrashing as it tries desperately to capture all the output of `yes no` in-memory.

I expect you'd see the exact same behavior with echo `yes no`.

Now if you really want to screw over your machine, the classic bash fork bomb is

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Show HN: Daily digest of close friends updates from FB/Twitter/Instagram
Great that you included firefox too. I can't watch netflix on linux, so it helps to have the firefox option for wine.
The video is a reaction to the meme that a group of college kids can whip up an interesting product in a few days over spring break. I agree that this kind of thinking has gone overboard. However, I disagree that it takes $1M to build something interesting.

I have built software services that others have categorized as premium services. In just a few months of my time as a lone developer, I created 3 distinct business implementations of a single core technological development. Each of those has attracted enough attention that I have a pilot implementation either started or on the verge of starting.
I think this qualifies as interesting and I funded myself to the tune of tens of thousands a very long ways from $1M.

What I am finding though is that the process of market testing and development is where I could really use the money. Spending a million on visual design, UX/UI, marketing collateral, advertising and 2 or 3 top notch enterprise sales guys would tell me whether these products I have built are really viable as businesses or whether they were merely interesting.
http://www.openoffice.org/ - OpenOffice, pretty much the gold-standard in open-source office suites. Very similar to LibreOffice, since they are both descended from the same original Star Office code.
One reason for this is that "ebony" gets split with "black", whereas "asian" isn't strongly split by anything else.
It's not grammatical English, but nor are a variety of other constructs that we see as normal, such as "ain't no," or even "they" as a gender-neutral singular pronoun (this one matters only to sticklers). Convenience need not obey the rules. Would love to expand further if you are interested.

Also: http://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Tolerance-Punctuati...
Um, are you not inviting an email bomb in your inbox?
Checking it out - looks like your PHP lib doesn't explicitly declare CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST and CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, so that could be vulnerable to peerjacking. If I have some free time tonight I might be able to submit a PR for it.
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Agreed. I would rather rate boilerplate than rate no response at all.
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I live in an area of the US where the temperature ranges from approximately -15F to 32F for 3 months of the year. Heat pumps are not particularly efficient in those temperature ranges. In more mild climates, heat pumps are great. It's just not a panacea.
It depends on whether you think "ungrammatical" means "not approved of by prescriptivists", or you mean "not used and/or not understood by fluent speakers".

Given that you know the word "pro-drop", I assume you know this, and I'm not sure if I should bother continuing in this vein. Maybe you're asking for a descriptive grammaticality judgement from fluent English speakers?

I agree that from a prescriptivist perspective, this is improper formal writing.

From a descriptivist perspective, I try to avoid biz guys, but I suspect the GP post nailed it, with respect to common usage in the appropriate sociolect (the same sociolect that has "proof points", "value-add", "circling back", etc). Although maybe not for the last sentence of an email that already had that much circumlocution.
Compilation is an advanced technique where for convenience you stack multiple silicon wafers into a single unit called a 'book' (colloquially known as a chip.)
You are missing my point. My problem with this approach is that he thinks that food is only for "staying alive". Like many others here, even I love my work and I too constantly figure out ways to make myself lot more productive.

But giving up a regular meal for a formula sounds like over optimization for me.
Awesome idea, insta-installed.
Ask HN: Who or what do you aspire to be?
More specifically, is there someone in your work environment that you aspire to be like? If no, what do you think this indicates?
How do you check for the status of the job? Do you hold the client connection open and block the process while you wait? Or do you notify the client through some other mechanism (polling, websocket, etc).

The advantage of evented I/O is that you don't have to do either of these things.
I believe I read that the sims find the nearest place that has a job available and the nearest house at the end of the day.
Great idea but the reviews in the chrome store indicate that it sometimes shows the incorrect ratings. If it works well I'd use it but I'd rather have no extra ratings if I can't trust them.
Freedom to voice politically unpopular beliefs is far more important than making law enforcement easy

I am a firm believer in this as well. My post way probably a little too aggressive on the side of overwatch, but I tend to go a little to extremes in these kinds of conversations to push the discussion. You're obviously correct, my point was just that there needs to be some kind of accountability for someones action online. Total anonymity and lack of accountability can be just as dangerous in my opinion. Obviously any real life implementation like this would need to find a balance between perserving the rights of the individual and aiding in identifying and prosecuting criminals.
Also generalizable. Email pattern-mining software, anybody? It would classify patterns within social groups as defined by LinkedIn and Facebook social network topography.
The author is not putting the Business Model Canvas into the appropriate context. The BMC should be used to structure the kernel of your business, not create a new product. The Lean Canvas much better suited for iterating towards the product/service offering. Once you have the product/service, you build the business model around it.
> Is there a ready-made solution for this?

https://github.com/filamentgroup/SocialCount

I'd be interested in learning about good alternatives.
>Getting such a law passed does nothing to prevent a future law from saying the opposite.

What it does is make the proposal for the future law look like a much larger departure from the status quo, which makes it a harder sell. Furthermore, members of Congress don't like to change their positions for a number of reasons relating to both ego and what it allows election opponents to put in political advertisements, so if you can get them on record supporting your cause then you make them less likely to go against you in the future.
But he doesn't have a 'miracle drink'. He has a generic food mash and his only claim is 'contains basic nutrients and calories'.
I thought I'd seen "Friends of Christians who like...", "Spouses of friends of Christians who like..." which does a lot of the legwork for you in terms of inferences.

The problem with Graph Search is, well, it's a graph; I suspect many people are slightly surprised by graph theoretic results - Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon et al.
My office is above yours and about four offices down. Where did you end up living?
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You're right: I removed his last name and full number.