skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those complaining about extrapolation may like to read the paper, rather than the article...
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://arxiv.org/pdf/1304...

There's discussion of measuring DNA complexity; issues in extrapolation (there's evidence suggesting recent increases are hyperexponential, which would push back the origin of life even further); section 8 notes function complexity has increased much faster with the "mind" (as in what birds and mammals have) which is not reflected in DNA complexity (chimp-human encephalization rate is x100 faster).

I love the fresh perspective of not tying the origin of life to the origin of earth - nice and non-geocentric!
A few things.

First, people who read hacker news are not "most people".

But more importantly "most people" live hand to mouth or have living arrangements that are on the fringe of what they can afford or are only a short time period away from hot having enough money to pay the mortgage.

The idea is to live your life in a way that you have the money to do something like this if you need to do it.

Almost impossible to say of course without knowing the specific person or not whether they should gamble the $1000 (arbitrary) that it might take to take this chance.

Note I also said that I had pre arranged a few interviews and contacts before making the trip.
The hacker claims it to be a CF 0-day vulnerability:

> 05:05 < ryan_> manager.linode.com was breached with a coldfusion exploit

...

> 05:33 < Ruchira> ryan||: give us the link to cold fusion vulnerability that you are talking about

> 05:34 < ryan||> Ruchira: 0day

> 05:34 < ryan||> linode staff apparently failed to deduce it themselves and relied on chmodding CFIDE to 000
Yeah, we talk about "means testing" social security payments in this country, but little talk of "means testing" welfare recipients.

I worked with people 20 years ago (at a burger king) who would turn down shifts because that extra $15 for a 5 hour shift would put them over a limit and they'd lose all their food stamp money. We're very keen on progressive taxation, but apparently progressive welfare is too far out of our realm of possibilities.
E-Waste is amazing.

Here's a clip form a programme about luxury goods. This is about the e-waste dump in Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sch78)

(http://videobam.com/rcEUM)

It's pretty depressing. There's no kind of sensible plan to recovering useful stuff. Seeing a boy smashing polyester / polystyrene capacitors off an old PCB with a rock so he can sell them is just grim.

All the lead, tin, copper, heavy metals, leach into the soil and thus water supply. Wires and cables are burnt to get rid of the insulation and leave copper - these fires happen in the open air, with no kind of masking.

I love the idea of tiny, cheap, single purpose electronics. But often the quality is not great; and they're totally locked down. Manufacturers should learn that leaving some test pads on the boards, and putting a few documents on some websites, means that hackers will tinker, and that can lead to a lot of publicity.
You know something is wrong when the complex and evolutionary trees of "mammals" and "eukaryotes" are single points on a graph. If the geekbait Moore's Law didn't tip you off, the paper is garbage.
I don't think that we can change that. But what we can do is hold ourselves to a higher standard of decency and treat people the way we'd want to be treated.
Wouldn't doing that be a massive PCI violation? Aren't there extensive audits for this sort of thing?
multiple exchanges could sit on top of this software and in effect decentralize the exchanges.

This model leads to failure. Each exchange would have a small order book which would discourage anyone from using it, ensuring that liquidity never reaches critical mass. Small exchanges cannot afford security audits so they are guaranteed to be hacked. Small exchanges also cannot afford FinCEN compliance, so if they touch USD then they're illegal.
Are you aware of zipline ports (or similar libraries) in Ruby or ObjectiveC (or plain C)?
The paste-bin link he provided seems to time out for me.

But if the things he claim in there is even half way true, nobody involved with linode should ever be allowed to be in business every again.
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Finding work should be your primary focus, yes. But employment counsellors will tell you that you cannot and should spend 8 hours a day doing it. That's just a recipe for burn out. After you've applied for a few thousand jobs and been rejected a few thousand times, applying for more jobs is an exercise in futility and a recipe for depression. You're obviously doing something wrong. Figure out what you're doing wrong, fix it, and then try again.
Ask HN: Suggestions/tools to get feedback for a consumer mobile app?
Our app is already out in the market place, and we have a feedback form, but would like to get more directed feedback. Any suggestions?

Have you tried emailing users? So far the response rate has been pretty low. What response rates have you seen? Have you tried incentivizing? If so, how much?

I know that a lot of the questions are context sensitive, but any direction would help.
Was it a 0-day? The purported linode chatlog makes it sound like poorly configured CF:

http://turtle.dereferenced.org/~nenolod/linode/linode-abridg...

---------
05:43 < ryan||> Well linode also had terribly configured coldfusion

05:57 < ryann> <cfif ListLen(cgi.script_name, "/") gt 2 AND ListGetAt(cgi.script_name, 2, "/") eq "linode" AND NOT ListFind("index.cfm,linode_edit.cfm,linode_resize.cfm,label.cfm,cancel.cfm,dc_choose.cfm,su.cfm,pastdue.cfm", ListGetAt(cgi.script_name, 3, "/"))> <cfinclude template="/members/linode/common/dsp_topNav.cfm"> </cfif>

05:57 < ryann> this code

05:57 < ryann> It's so dirty I feel bad reading it
I'm running firefox on mint and it worked; it just takes a long time to load. Maybe just give it a minute and/or try reloading.
I wonder if the same effect applies if you took a couple of years off to do a Masters or PhD full-time?
My experience is different. I don't receive a lot of spam with Disqus. If I disable it I receive 10s of spam posts everyday.

I prefer to leave blog threads open since I don't know when people will find my sites and contribute. Except for posts really connected to a specific event, technical posts has a larger life.
I didn't read it as "playing to... your audience." When I write a public blog post, I put some thought into coherence, logical ordering, etc. and I (at least briefly) proof read the post for massive errors. I wouldn't do that for a diary entry, but it helps me clarify my thoughts.
The reality is that you are competing against people who have been increasing their skill at relevant tasks and you have not. It's no more complicated than that. Fairness has nothing to do with it.
Notice how they cherry-pick among genomes to get their fitted line. A common fallacy is to associate genome size with the "complexity" of an organism. Even assuming that there is a simplistic linear ordering of organismal life (i.e., "lower" and "higher" organisms), a "lower" organism like the poplar tree has more than two times the number of genes as the human genome.
> I've studiously avoided working for EA

For what it's worth, I found work-life balance increased steadily during my tenure at EA. The whole ea_spouse thing brought a lot of attention to problems. It still wasn't great, but it was better than when I started.

When I left EA, I was working 40 hours a week reliably. This was in large part, though, because that was a high priority for me and I moved off game teams and onto shared tech stuff because it was less high-pressure, even though that wasn't ideal for my career.

> And Kickstarter is democratizing the music industry as well!

I'm really excited about Kickstarter too. However, even when it works well, I don't think you get much more than a living wage. I think that's OK, but it's worth keeping in mind that it isn't a golden ticket.

I also worry that the social structures around Kickstarter have not settled down yet. Right now, I think a lot of money coming in is based on novelty or optimism. As Kickstarter matures (and more projects fail) I think both of those will wear off. It can still work, and I hope it does, but it won't be as easy as it is right now.

> The biggest problem in games/music/movies is typically that you have to make them before you can sell them.

Yes, it's inevitable in any product where the initial cost is very high and the marginal cost is effectively zero. Digital content like games and movies one example. Drugs are another, I think. I wonder if oil drilling is similar?

It seems like in all of these cases, a consequence is conservatism in investment leading to missed opportunities.
I don't think Paul Krugman would agree that if there are two types of spending, A and B, both are equally good. He would say that having people sit on cash in a deflationary situation is quite bad.

If you had only two choices, no spending, and spending, then yes, spending is better. But your choices are often between not spending, building a bridge or a school, feeding or educating a kid, or building a bomber. And Krugman's point is that spending on the latter when borrowing is at historical lows is better than austerity.

I find it ironic that a lot of the principle people upset by Krugman's analysis of Bitcoin are Austrian Business Cycle enthusiasts, who often promote the idea that volatile cycles are a creation of the government pumping money and credit, but who don't seem to recognize that a currencyt like Bitcoin has its own volatility that itself could drive crashes from instability.

Here we have the world's greatest scientific laboratory test of libertarian monetary policy, a free market, "cryptoanarchist" currency, and if by running this experiment, we see that the traditional economists, who have been pointing out the flaws of the goldbugs and Austrians for years, have been right all along, will views moderate and accept the data?
I submitted a "Show HN:" Link (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5544603) for my demo video this past Saturday.

It received only 4 upvotes but the video has about 115 views two days later.

My favorite posts on HN are about new products/startups and even failed products/startups, but to be fair I should warn if you submit on HN multiple times for purposes of showing your startup- without a new feature, achievement, ect...- people may associate your product with spam.
I know you have thought about and/or already have a strategy to deal with the opposition from rental companies. Care to share some details? I'm curious as to how long it will take for them to start using their legal muscle, and industry connections.
Depending on who you're talking to, an app-level vulnerability in a Linode management console might be called a "0-day". But it's true that a CF stack flaw is not impossible.
pastebin is a directory listing of linode.com - trying out a few of the files checks out, including very difficult to guess file names such as:

http://www.linode.com/y_key_57284cb2de704e02.html
Fascinating. I'm Canadian too and have made similar observations, yet was surprised to read what you wrote. Our self-image is so strongly one of not being nationalistic that we're for the most part unconscious of this behaviour. Most Canadians would react to your comparison to Texas as an obvious joke or a weird paradox.
Right, and even better than a document fragment since fragments have both unusual semantics and API limitations that normal elements do not (e.g., no getElementsByTagName or getElementById).
Extensive PCI audits. Heh.
That's an exaggeration. While Seattle is painfully distant (painful really is the word for the 520 bridge) Bellevue is right next door. Bellevue is a city of 122k people, bigger than Ann Arbor. It's no great cultural center, but it's certainly more than just Microsoft people.
That's totally shit.

Its also why we invoice and take wire payments rather than storing CC details. There's just so much to go wrong.

Also PKI is shit for this sort of thing. As demonstrated, the moment that public key is gone, then the whole system falls like a house of cards. For the non believers of this fact, why else would there be a certificate revocation list and root CA updates for windows periodically...
buttercoin literally just started 2 days ago (on 4/13). It's coming along quickly, a lot of developers have shown interest. It might be a while before we see an exchange based on this project. There are other high performance exchange projects starting up too.

I don't think buttercoin vs any of the existing exchanges has any proper analogy that would match your git/mercurial vs svn example. The only diff between buttercoin and those is that it will be open source. It doesn't actually decentralize. You might even see MtGox take buttercoin and use that to run their exchange.
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Just list it alongside other jobs.
It probably helps to have a real company name with a website etc.
Which of the words I used were "big"?

You're right: I'm definitely pooping on the comment. Can't claim the high ground there at all.
Err no. PCI DSS is basically farts in the wind. Its beyond useless and the testing agencies are all snake oil salesmen.
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A patch has recently been issued (09 APR 2013) by Adobe for the various versions of ColdFusion:

"This hotfix resolves a vulnerability that could be exploited to impersonate an authenticated user (CVE-2013-1387).

"This hotfix resolves a vulnerability that could be exploited by an unauthorized user to gain access to the ColdFusion administrator console (CVE-2013-1388)."

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-10.ht...
I've done PCI "audits" for several companies I've worked for; it's a checklist you go down yourself. That's why its called a "pci self assessment".
If this is true then all the trust that Linode has built up over the years was just thrown out the window. According to the hacker they've known for 2 weeks and made a deal with the hackers. Ultimately, they were as far from transparent as it gets and on top of that they did a horrible job with their security.

Hopefully, they own up and start being transparent.

If this is true then what alternative hosts should I look at, besides AWS?
Is Mars habitable? There's an equation for that.
Well said. This article is meant to be useful, and act as a simple reference while designing your own products. And they are based on Dieter Ram's years of experience as a designer.

Just because, it's simple doesn't mean it's not valuable. The best experts I know make things as simple as they possibly can.
Cloudopt rocked, but it's being renamed Union Bay Networks or something. http://www.linkedin.com/company/union-bay-networks
Then did extending unemployment insurance to 99 weeks actually screw the people it was intended to help?

I have not read the details of the original study but this article seems to indicate that a recently employed person in a different industry has an easier time getting a job than a long-term unemployed person with industry experience.
No. I am stating that the copyright status of the files sitting at the end of my links is unknown. They may be hosted legally with the rights holder's permission. They may be hosted legally under fair use.

On the other hand, general access could exceed fair use - e.g. the hosted copy was made for archival purposes of a licensee. Or the hosted file could simply be an illegal copy. While hosting at MIT has some correlation with legitimacy in this particular case, it in no way insures it.

Right now, the papers are there for anyone with a web connection. The risk of breaking that far outweighs the benefits of fixing readscheme.
I'm sorry for the error. I shouldn't have submitted it to hacker news right before leaving for a meeting. Lesson learned, it's fixed now.

The reason, in case anyone is interested: the footer shows the most recent posts. Someone created some posts that contained data that I wasn't expecting. That caused the footer to raise an error. I removed the recent posts from the footer (from my phone, before the meeting) and the site returned to normal.

I'm really sorry for the error, but I learned something from it, so thank you!

PS, existing blogs weren't affected, it was only the homepage.
Especially during his 2008 campaign, as much as (or more so, parsing the details of his language) making specific, topical promises, Obama... "preached" and promised to be an advocate.

I think that as much as in specific deliverables, "the Left" feels rather thoroughly betrayed, on that front.

In this specific instance, he should have called Congress out on their behavior.

People understand real compromise. They also understand that when the other party is completely intractable, there comes a time when you confront them on this. Or you lose power.

Or... your original position was actually different from what you projected.
"It probably exists for a reason. Understand the reason. Then take action."

Exactly. You can't defeat the "enemy" (for lack of a better way to put it) unless you understand what they are thinking, motives weaknesses etc.

More typical that people want to put no effort into research or understanding and just have something work out.
Laziness.

The good news is that by putting in the effort you can easily take advantage of a typical shortcoming like this.
Most PCI audits are not mandatory unless you have had a breech that compromises data. Before that "self-certification" reigns.
Sounds about right.

The friends I've had spend time in games industry have either left or transitioned to design consulting for all the same reasons cited.

However, I tend to think this problem is in the process of solving itself through the continued rise of "indie" game development and slow collapse of studio tiles [1].

There are all sorts of great outlets for people who are so inclined make and publish games that didn't exist even 5 years ago.

Developers/designers don't have to buy into the established industry culture to make and consumers don't have to pay into it to play.

1: http://www.polygon.com/2012/10/1/3439738/the-state-of-games-...
MRI - Not the magnetic one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_MRI
Agree that lots of small crappy exchanges with incorrect legal status will pop up, but that doesn't mean that at least one or two or three large-ish buttercoin ones won't start up. I think that will happen. So your point is partially correct, but it doesn't matter, because larger ones will pop up. There is nothing to stop Gox from migrating to buttercoin either.

I think the first credible implementation that doesn't have any major red flags in terms of trustworthiness or being run by amateurs will quickly siphon off volume from Gox.
"It's long, noisy and cruel to LEGO bricks."

Now I'm curious: how well do the lego knockoffs hold up?
Using a processor who stores the card number outside of your infrastructure (ie. Stripe) can also be helpful.
no, you're down front with the goofy glasses. answering most of the questions. being smart. i'm the one futzing with the mouse and asking awkward questions like a wank.
That makes no sense, for so many reasons. Here's one: 10 years of experience with a 6 month break is worse than 5 years of experience and a 2 month break? Here's another: skill increase is not linear. Here's another: People are different.
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So if it isn't science, and isn't engineering, what is it closest to in terms of other endeavors?
Not all customers. I didn't receive any notice.
The chatlog does provide some evidence that it is indeed the hacker, but does little to convince me that he got CC info and Linode is not telling us the whole truth. The evidence he provides is just simple source code snips and the directory listing, which would be expected based on what Linode has told us.

This could very well be the hackers own submission to /. trying to get more attention for his hack by claiming he has CC numbers which I doubt he has.
It is - I can't imagine working without it. But I'm not sure I'm the poster child for how to use org-mode properly. Every piece of code in the repo actually resides in the org file which is a big monolithic journal of where I'm at.

o-blog is a great emacs package that lets you publish sites straight from org.
Read "This Is Your Brain On Music" by Daniel Levitin.

Some interesting points/arguments that I remember from reading it several years ago:

- In many languages, the word "sing" is the same as the word "dance".

- It's relatively recently in our history that the majority of people have become only listeners of music, instead of creators.

- As humans evolved, one's ability to sing, dance, and play instruments well displayed good physical, intellectual, and emotional health to the opposite sex, and so gave you an evolutionary edge.

- Something about how even the most non-musically-inclined people can extract the beat from a song better than a computer and repeat it later perfectly (memory is hazy on this one...I'm probably saying something stupid here).

That's all I remember for now...references are in the book of course. Very good read.
Well I'll wait for a response from linode, but it certainly looks like they were very dishonest. I think I will close my account.
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Until they have a security breach.
I agree. Usually it is better to scale vertically on the user data. Even if it seems painful. The alternatives like partitioning are not really that easy either. There is pain involved as well.

I think, of the existing solutions, one is not better than the other. The choice in the end is which one fits best with your team and infrastructure, and specially which disadvantages are you willing to put up with.
I'd love to take a look at pistachio, I didn't see it either.

I'm glad you like the idea, that's exactly why I created it. You can use the Evernote webclipper to clip articles and the site uses embedly to add rich content automatically. I'll have a screencast on how to use it to create a link blog in the coming days.
The fact that they are childless indicates that they don't have time to have children, but how the hell is the fact that they're white relevant to the point they're trying to make in the article?
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you also have to consider the amount of talent that this industry will never see simply because developers have done their due diligence ahead of time, have identified these quality of life issues, and have redirected their careers.
Had the same thought. There are also multiple problems with using the "functional, non-redundant" part of the genome, which presumably means the exons.
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Technically, the goal is to "avoid previously rendered cursors." But the effect is the same, ultimately.
>Isn't MtGox over as a bitcoin trading platform?

I wish. I keep waiting for some more interesting news from Coinlab [1][2], but so far, Mtgox are still the largest exchange by volume. Here is a chart showing volume by (selected) exchanges. http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/currency/USD.html

The recent events seem to only have got them more customers (though it remains to be seen how many of them will stick). In any case, some of the other exchanges have API's that are similar to mtgox.

[1] https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130228.html

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/04/24/coinlab-at...
I found a great site that has improved my life: 750words.com

Forces you to write 750 words every day. It can be nonsense, it can be a story, or it can be like a diary. It's helped me structure my thoughts a lot.