skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious, what the answers to the comparisons you mentioned would make you conclude positively in WordPress's favor?

Is security based on the number of users of your application?

1 in 6 websites on the Internet runs WordPress.

Is security based on the number of publicly disclosed vulnerabilities as compared to competitors?

It's open source code so every discovered vulnerability is public knowledge. Many competitors are closed source and may not disclose vulnerabilities (doesn't mean there aren't any). On this point, I'm not sure what could be improved on given it's FOSS or what "winning" would look like.

Is security based on some formally-definable metric that can be created by examination of the code itself?

If you can come up with the metric, I'm sure it can given the code is FOSS. Perhaps I don't follow what you're looking for here.

Is security based on some financial guarantee from the backers of an application?

It's Free Open Source Software, no FOSS I know of has a financial guarantee by its very nature. Examples like RHEL are not free (as in beer). The guarantee of FOSS comes from the degree of sunshine placed upon the code that everyone has an aligned interest to disclose vulnerabilities.

Perhaps you could elaborate on what would make you feel "X is secure"?
Why not, it seem to be a great business model, that's what America is all about lately.
I'd throw in .01 or .02 BTC (what are we to call these, Bitcents?) for that, I tried to read the complaint but simply don't know enough about law, especially CA law, to interpret this until I read his comment. HN's greatest attribute is the wealth of experts in different fields that are here to help elucidate these complicated things for we the confused.
Really? If I were MITMing a person who accesses this site, I would make sure to tamper with the page so that it does send the password to a server under my control.
Yeah. Because the only two options are to send the money to mars or squander it on public education.
Congratulations on solving your own contrived false dichotomy.

I am not really sure why going to Mars is a good idea, and no one has been able to give me an answer outside of new age manifest destiny bullshit.

If you want to research on living in desolate waste lands there are huge swaths of fucking desert.
The "zuckerberg's law" = exponential growth premise seems a little red flag-y.
> commercial EV platform

Check out Smith Electric:

http://www.smithelectric.com
Nope. In fact, it would probably be demoralizing because the public's appetite for spending money on the space program would probably be exhausted.

We've already ventured off the planent. Now we need to figure out a way to permanently leave the planet. What's the most effective way? Expensive manned missions to Mars is not the place to start.
Not sure if you're joking or not, but I'll offer a quick explanation. Interest in this context does not mean interest on a loan, but rather how many people are interested in shorting the stock. The 46% short interest meant that almost half of Tesla's stock was shorted. To put it another way, 46% of Tesla's stock was loaned out from various parties to sell to other various parties. This is a bad thing for the short sellers because they now have to pay more for their borrowed stock than they got for selling it in the first place. It's like owing more for your car than the car itself is worth.
He earned what "several times over"?

What logic compels you to conclude that if you get viciously and frivolously sued by someone and publicly badmouthed by him (on his weblog) you should give him a lucrative and prestigious employment (i.e. the Entrepreneur In Residence)?

Do you think a sane SV VC should employ a toxic person that publicly calls Zuckerberg a psychopat?

So far he filed a bunch of frivolous lawsuits against anyone who came into contact with him and looked at him funny. He always represents himself, so there's no cost for him but it hurts the defendants because they have to hire and pay for real lawyers.

His previous lawsuit has been dismissed by the judge http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=716057

His other lawsuit (http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=716056) is in shambles on procedural grounds because his California lawyer wants to withdraw from the case which would leave Greenspan as the only lawyer and, just like in this case, he sues on behalf of his company and a company can't represent itself, so his has to have an outside counsel to proceed.
With an high deductible plan, which many have, or for those with less money to afford good insurance, they very well COULD be stuck with a bill like that, or a large portion of it.

For a broken arm. I think we had a lower bill for my kid's childbirth costs.
If you sell puts against a short position from May 8 to May 17 (strike: 55.00, price: ~3.40), you can make >5 percent in 9 days. I'm guessing that most of the people borrowing shares at that rate are selling straddles to retail that make the overall position look less crazy.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=TSLA+Options

...the implication is that unhedged longs are carrying the real risk.
I too find maintenance inconvenient; but my used station wagon doesn't require much of that either. In the past three years, I've only ever had to have it inspected, tires replaced, and oil changes. Now, the Tesla doesn't have oil changes, so that one aspect is removed, but it does have annual maintenance. So, I'm looking at maybe two oil changes per year, vs. one annual servicing; a small improvement in maintenance hassle, but not amazing.

But anyhow, I'm not claiming that there are no convenience advantages of a Tesla; just that there are also a lot of things that are quite inconvenient, especially if you don't have a driveway or need to take long trips. Claiming that the Tesla is better in every regard but range is vast hyperbole. For some use cases, it may be more convenient; for mine, far less.

Beyond that, the price is a major disadvantage; at 4 times the price of a new economy car for the entry level model, and twice the price of lower-end luxury brands, it's well outside many people's price range; and you don't even save that much because you're not buying gasoline, as the combined cost of electricity plus replacement batteries winds up being pretty close to the cost of gas you would pay for the same number of miles (depending on exactly how long the batteries last, and assuming that the relative costs of gasoline vs. electricity don't diverge too much; of course you could say that gas prices are likely to go up faster than electricity, but they may go down too).
In fact, the economist Dean Baker has been arguing for just that as a free-market reform that would actually bring health care costs down. And the converse, too: that Medicare/Medicaid patients should be allowed to get cheaper health care abroad.

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&#...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/21/free-tra...
Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion
No, it doesn't. Size of application can correlate strongly with complexity and thus number of queries to the server, but there is nothing that dictates a 1.44MB+ HTML5 application ever even touches a server.
I've been on LinkedIn for a while, without engaging with it that much. In the early days, if someone sent you an invite to connect, there was an option "I don't know this person," with the implication that they would be somehow censured for spamming someone they didn't know.

That option is long gone, but I don't know when it disappeared. Does anyone know when this happened? If anything, that's a sign of when it jumped the proverbial shark.
There are incredibly powerful vested interests in the US who find it useful to convince as many people as possible that socialized medicine is awful and must be avoided at all costs. As a result, there's a huge amount of propaganda floating about, using techniques ranging from cherry-picking (it's bad because of these specific example cases) to outright lies (socialized medicine is why European states are bankrupt). A sadly large number of Americans believe it. Everyone then gets terribly confused when such a person bumps into a European who never noticed that the health care system they used all their life is actually a communist hellhole.
That would have helped me out a bit... I have no effin' clue who Aaron Greenspan is. Well, except that now I know he's the guy who is suing YC and a bunch of others.
And more useful still if this worked on more than just portable class libraries [like the "original" Pex]
This isn't talking about average Americans, it is talking about dual citizens who are living in and have significant assets and income in foreign countries. It is saying that more and more people are deciding that the many benefits of American citizenship are being outweighed by the onerous tax laws placed on American citizens . . . rules that no other country places on their citizens.

While it would improve the article to have better reporting, it is not a controversial idea. And, it is not limited to Americans. A famous French example is Gérard Depardieu who recently renounced his French citizenship in exchange for Russian citizenship explicitly for tax reasons (and he had no prior connection to Russia).
10001000
Nice binary number.
could have stopped with "LinkedIn annoys me."
I would be curious as to which decisions you are referring to.

The infamous 41 shades of blue was under Ms. Mayer's (now of Yahoo) reign[1] and likely would have driven anyone with a shred of art education into the fetal position given the adaptive nature of human vision[2].

It is difficult to deduce if you are suggesting that the status quo remains at Google or if you have been noticing the decisions that are more design focused.

[1] http://gawker.com/5189298/marissa-mayer-is-right-80-percent-...
[2] EG http://www.lottolab.org/articles/illusionsoflight.asp
| it will be the same with a mission to Mars.

At a national level, maybe, but Elon Musk/SpaceX have ambitions of Mars. We may see the private sector make it to Mars first.
He wouldn't be saying to sue the policymakers, he's be saying to have the policymakers change the policy.

But with that in mind my understanding of the courts is that they try to stay away from "judicial activism", and if they can't do that they try to limit it to tearing down bad laws instead of forming up new ones, as would have to be done here to find the defendants liable.
Yeah, one of the main reasons I use Name.com is MFA.

I'm not happy that my domain registrar was hacked by a group that wasn't even targeting the company; it was simply the weakest link. Not good.
> Nowhere is there any express private right of action that gives any private citizen the right to file suit complaining about alleged violations of these laws.

I thought California 17200 allows for private citizens to sue on behalf of the general public and that no actual injury against the plaintiff is required. Is there something different about this case?

(below quote and link for other HN readers, I'm sure grellas is familiar.)

"Thus the statutory language allowing actions to be brought "by any person acting for the interests of itself, its members or the general public" effectively deputizes the world to find and bring environmental violators to the bar of justice."

http://www.envirolaw.org/Library/17200tools.html
Facebook phone price cut from $99 to 99¢ within a month of launch
Ganhe dinheiro agora na internet
Those in that situation should probably start by optimizing the whole "frequently loaded" part... by not frequently loading it. Then they would realize this shaving of a few hundred bytes here and there is, indeed, micro-optimization.
The Actions ATM7029 CPU Has A Secret
> The email addresses for your twitter accounts should be on a system that is isolated from your organization’s normal email. This will make your Twitter accounts virtually invulnerable to phishing (providing that you’re using unique, strong passwords for every account).

This, of course, is an artefact of the well-known, old problem of your email being the single point of failure for your entire online identity.

Google might be able to do something to help here: Surely, they can detect with high reliability if a given email contains a password reset link, and trigger an extra challenge. I'm not sure what it should be, as obviously the account password isn't going to cut it. It could really just be a very short PIN-style code for opening "sensitive" email.
Qui tam? but that would be more like he was convincing the govt to take up a criminal case and not "I was personally damaged here and here's why I deserve relief"
but then (and I only got through a bit of the reading) he could have just come out and said that...
I've always found it a bit strange that libertarians' solution to everything is always "sue!"
| someone else should pick up the tab because
| you like to play wild in the snow

Do you believe that broken arms are 100% avoidable, and only result from people taking unnecessary risks? It's not like he got some injury that was very specific to skiing or 'extreme' sports.
that's what I just posted, it sounds more like a qui tam like action except he should be convincing the state/govt to act
Name.com seems to think it's true.
Except for the current supreme court.
People waiting is better than poor people not getting any health care at all.
Companies have costs, nothing is 100% profit.

Revenue is Sales

Revenue > net profit

Revenue > cash flow

net profit != cash flow

Edit: I missed the bullet point about their 97% margin. 97%! Probably gross margin, but still...I am in the wrong industry.
>>>Your heart attack bill: $3,300 in Arkansas, $92,000 in California

And: Your rent bill: $600 in Arkansas, $2,500 in California.
Health care in the US is the most broken one on this planet (I have been in Hong Kong and China). It is even worse than the communism countries like China. In China at least all the prices are listed before you decide to take the treatment. And the price is the same for everyone. Not to mention it is much lower than in the U.S. (abdomen sonogram is like $30 or less while in the US you can easily get billed $1200).

The ultimate solution IMO would be globalized free market just like the IT industry. If doctors and medical professionals from other countries can come to the US as easy as software engineers, I would expect the cost will go down to a level that we don't even need to be insured.
I've been using Braintree for a few years, and I'm very happy with them.
or if he was feeling really generous the entire Burn Notice series
But if you leave your sunglasses in a restaurant, and the government wants to take fingerprints off of them, they can.
Child birth costs my parents paid for me: ~$30

Child birth costs some friends paid for their kid: ~$60

Child birth costs I paid for my kid (poor insurance plan): ~$3300

I think that the total bill for the child birth (in my instance) was around $18K. I'll note that if you were uninsured, that would probably be significantly more. That $18K cost is negotiated between the hospital and the health plan I had at the time.
Mildly apropos of this topic, I've had the same surgery (kidney stone removal, sorry for TMI) performed in both California and Arkansas. Random! Fancy my chances of seeing an article like this.

The procedure in AR was much cheaper, involved less invasive and expensive procedures, and was performed every bit as competently, if not more so.

When I look back at the experience, I think a lot of it came down to the sheer amount of redundancy and unnecessary procedure baked into the treatment in CA. I could speculate about the reasons why (fear of litigation being much higher in CA, for instance), though the article does a good job accounting for some of them.
Worst I've had was a chemistry 101 prof. With the knowledge, I'm sure, that chem 101 and bio 101 are far and away the most popular classes that fulfill science gen ed reqs, the professor chose not to write his own textbook but to create a (horrible) DVD with all the class content on it. Functionally, we're basically talking about chapters of powerpoint presentations with recordings by one of his T.A.'s explaining each diagram.

This was a while ago, so I can't say how many sections of his 101 class there were (though he also taught 102), but we're talking in the neighborhood of 300-600 total students. $45 per DVD. Which you had to buy, because everything other than the exams (i.e. homework, quizzes) could only be submitted online...with a unique key from the DVD you bought.

So assuming no royalties (he made the DVD himself), $45 * we'll say 400 students = $18,000 per semester. Minus the overhead of blank DVD's, to be fair.
I believe the preferred naming for 0.01 BTC is a Satoshi [1]. They were named such to honour the author of the original paper.

[1] Third sentence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
Sounds quite a bit like PP/ACA.
Have you tried looking at the World Data Bank?

http://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx
My problem is the enormous amount of disk space my photos take. Hundreds of GBs. Now you say trovebox supports dropbox, but that doesn't really solve my problem since dropbox just keeps everything on my local hard disk as well.

Is it possible to set this up so that I don't have to take up hundreds of gbs on every device I own?

I also don't see any option for importing iphoto libraries. What if I want to preserve the tagging/album information I have there?
stripe, easy to use.
They might be able to seek a writ of mandamus compelling the appropriate authority to enforce the law.
I've always liked Steve Gibson's site for entropy:
https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm
Federal judge denies motion to throw out evidence gathered via fake cell tower
My personal concern when I looked at the site was it reminded me of a time when a boss gave me a gift card, and I was infuriated because I hadn't had a real raise or a proper employee review in years. It felt like a cheapshot.

I could see the program working in certain businesses, but managers need to be trained to use it correctly, especially in creative fields: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
What logic compels you to conclude that if you get viciously and frivolously sued by someone and publicly badmouthed by him (on his weblog) you should give him a lucrative and prestigious employment (i.e. the Entrepreneur In Residence)?

Let's start with the fact that his startup (lawsuit) actually does more good for society than 95% of these VC-istan social media companies (that are just excuses to waste young peoples' careers). If nothing else, he's drawing attention to the "we'll fund your competitors if you don't play our way" aspect of VC-istan, pointing out the problems with a law, and one could argue that he's (indirectly) shining light on the VC-istan collusion problem.

I'm not saying that Greenspan deserves to be a billionaire, but he's way past having earned EIR-- if VC-istan were the meritocracy it claims to be. That's an obvious fact at this point.

Do you think a sane SV VC should employ a toxic person that publicly calls Zuckerberg a psychopat?

Wait, so having a disagreement with one powerful person means that someone deserves to be completely blacklisted? Isn't this the kind of antiquated corporate conformity that people went to California (back when it was great; before conformist corporate asshats got in) to escape?

I've been called worse and I, frankly, don't think a person deserves not to have a career just because he says something nasty, about me or anyone. That's just a ridiculous and mean-spirited idea.

His other lawsuit (http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=716056) is in shambles on procedural grounds because his California lawyer wants to withdraw from the case which would leave Greenspan as the only lawyer and, just like in this case, he sues on behalf of his company and a company can't represent itself, so his has to have an outside counsel to proceed.

The courage alone that Greenspan has shown proves him to have superior courage to 95+ percent of the VC-istan cool kids, most of whom are useless, morally redundant, corporate shills.

If nothing else, Greenspan has established that he's intelligent. That alone confers merit in a world where it can't be assumed.
Didn't the US basically go with the Swiss model with the ACA?

We've still got all of our previous healthcare systems (Medicare, Medicaid), but the ACA added mandatory insurance with specified minimum coverage, and helps pay for the insurance of the poorest people.
I went through a cardiac event, and in the end it cost me $12,000.00 to find out I was fine. That was just the cardiac part of the testing. I also spent a grand or two to find out where the problem lie neurologically. Turns out the same nerve that allows you to know you're having a heart attack, can also have totally unrelated issues itself, and basically give false positives.
I wonder if it would be possible to phish 2factor while you're at it... Something like:

1- get target to enter google credentials

2- log into target's account using those credentials with a proxy/controlled IP that shows up nearby in geoip DBs

3- display a credible message, asking for 2factor code (something something DHCP something something more buzzwords - dummy mode on)

Any reason this wouldn't work?
Life expectancy estimates are often all over the board and wrong. Imagine it's a close relative who is having the heart surgery. Would you actively try to persuade them to not do the surgery to possibly extend their life because their kidneys might fail later, so they might as well die now because they're not worth the money that would go into the surgery?

It's easy to say a Big Mac isn't worth the cost on the menu, it's harder to say that your mom's life isn't worth the cost.

Keep in mind we're talking purely about economics here, as that is what your post is about. We're not talking about quality of life.
I think you'll find that humans are fueled by what you'd call 'bullshit'. What is the reason behind making works of art? What is the utility of music? Alcohol is a waste of resources. Climbing mountains is a needless risk.

I don't consider manned space missions inherently as a research project. More of an engineering project combined with an iconic act. I'm sure the egyptians didn't have to build the pyramids, but eventually we are all going to be dust anyway. Why not take part in something grand?

You're right my view was presented with only two options, but my point was that we may end up with a win/win. A scenario where academic achievement goes up in addition to having a manned mars mission. I understand that there may be yet better alternatives, perhaps you could present some?
Who do all those ManagingDirectors [sic] direct? Title inflation ahoy.
Which would, of course, lead to a completely calcified health care system with no incentive to improve or innovate.

I'm sorry for your $41k bill. I really am. But the problem isn't that we need more control by central authorities. They are what lead to that bill in the first place. No one can seriously contend that the actual cost of the services you received could be anywhere near $41k. Clearly there is a significant distortion of pricing occurring. My GP physician charges $70 for a visit, which lasts maybe 30 to 45 minutes, and that of course covers his overhead as well. Extrapolate that out how you will to your situation, but it's clear that your situation is a failure of the system as it is.
That's the one I was thinking of. Thanks for the links. That Falso system is fantastic.
They do this now in the US as well, using 7-Eleven convenience stores equipped with a set of Amazon-branded lockers that has an ATM-like device in the center -- you type in a PIN that opens the specific locker holding your package, as shown here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoJiizFlxno