skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently made an app to graph spot prices:

http://ec2price.com/
An entrepreneurial success story doesn't belong on HN?
Probably the most awesome Kickstarter I've ever backed. I'm so excited!!! Planetary Resources is a really cool company.
Ask HN: As a founder, what do you wish you knew about security?
The reason I ask this question is because I have joined an accelerator program as a security mentor, and would like to focus in on the areas that are going to be of best value.

This question relates to physical, network, application, and operations security, as well as business risk management.

Thanks for your feedback!
I highly recommend everyone to listen to his latest atp.fm podcasts. I found it is easy to misinterpret Marco (as if he wanted to be a public person, ha) but after hearing from the guy, I can only applaud him.

Just a bit from ATP #14: "I'm terrified of doing anything that would make me look like a jerk in front of my family and friends"
I didn't get your point. Should we stop controlling road traffic and prevent car accidents until the very last malaria mosquito is dead?
There are cases where the lower bound to solve some problems (e.g. sorting) have been proved to be less than any known algorithm at the time.

If you prove that the lower bound for any NP-Complete problem is O(p) where p is a polynomial, then P=NP and you do not necessarily have the algorithm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_and_lower_bounds
I'd say if you can do it in two years, including deficiency courses, and without publishing, you're probably not getting your moneys worth and yes it will be looked down upon. Three years(take a lot of courses) and/or a publication or two will look much better. Of course, if you think you can do extra curricular activities to create a portfolio(github projects, contributing to open source, create a product), then it might not matter how well the MS is looked upon, if you show you have a track record of delivering.
That sounds like hubris.
I didn't read the page, but it isn't FUD; this is how they have handled every other upgrade in the past.

I'm glad that they chose to change their mind on this one.
> I'm not sure if this is fair, but it strikes me as somewhat slapdash to take a sample right there in the field.

It makes sense to take a sample immediately and preserve it ASAP.
Looking at my girlfriend's gmail Inbox makes my eyes bleed, it's a mishmash of seemingly irrelevant email, lots of promos or facebook notifications more than half of which is unread. I sometimes find it hard to control myself not to "clean it up". This seems like a perfect addition for her... as for me, I've already setup my filters and am already happy with gmail as is; I don't think this will interfere with that. Seems like a feature designed for the 99% of people who don't frequent HN.
Samuel L Jackson to read 300 words chosen by Reddit. Great marketing.
Do you teach math to children? Can you recommend some good resources for this method? My son is not there yet, but in a couple of years will be, and I'm already interested in the subject, and studying different methods so I'll be able to help him and interact with him in a positive way.
P.S. As far as I know, most schools here (Brazil) use a lot of the "Say out loud what is x plus y" way.
Announcing donat.io
As a non-engineering graduate student at a top-25 CS university, I took 2 classes in the CS dept for fun (my undergraduate degree is CS). The first was a subject on the phD qualification exams and populated by phD students. It was the hardest class I've ever taken, both conceptually and workload-wise. I am prouder of that B+ than any A I've ever received. The second was full of Master's students, there on their employers' dimes. For less than half the effort (including re-writing a teammate's entire final project contribution on the due day because his MBA ass was too busy trying to schmooze the professor into doing it for him), easy A. It was my own personal introduction into the difference between a phD and a Masters - at a fairly decent university.
The differentiation between what Moz does and what SEOs do is both real and useful. Moz hasn't fit into the paradigm of "SEO" for a while, so it's best they don't call themselves an SEO tool company anymore.

Interestingly, the same is true of many consultancies who have also become tired of the expectations and (in my opinion, justified) stereotypes of SEOs as spammers. Many have begun removing "SEO" from their branding messages.

I really don't think anyone is going to confuse Moz and Mozilla. Would you? Outside the tech community, most people only know "Firefox" anyway. Those who are even vaguely familiar with either brand will immediately see the difference.
You can read some research on name-your-own pricing in e-commerce from my former prof: one is here from the Journal of Marketing http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~tellis/PriceAuct.pdf (for more just check out Google-Scholar and type „name your own price“)
All this advanced functionality and still no sorting by date. :(
It's entirely possible to do that, but that's a string that's (often) visible to the user. Now I'd have to remember which "Windows Boot Manager" is Windows and which is Linux.
Its hilarious, so in one camp you have the people asserting this is proof positive there is life on Mars, and in the other camp you have people asserting this is proof positive that NASA is faking the whole thing and its just in a warehouse somewhere pretending to be on Mars.

Again, a huge benefit of having people there would be to walk over and look at it. In the mean time it would be nice to develop robotic technology that you could rely on to go check something out, without risking having it becoming stuck in a pocket of sand.
Network security is a problem but breaking https doesn't seem trivial in the wild. That's why I'm inviting people to try exploits on a real app and willing to use a malicious network to let them break it.
Building an open source program for technology co-founders
Anyone have a reference to the Tutsplus tutorial? Curious to see how that differs from this one.
I need the views of:

developers,
those thinking about creating their own startup,
those who are in it creating their first production,
those who have supported technologists on their journey,
those who have done it several times.
I don’t care if you have succeeded or failed share it! I need all your questions and experiences
https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/secure_generate.html

Niggers. Fucken Geiger count random numbers. Q. E. fucken D.

God says...

8:15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health,
and behold trouble! 8:16 The snorting of his horses was heard from
Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his
strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all
that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.

8:17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which
will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

8:18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in
me.

8:19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because
of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not
her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven
images, and with strange vanities? 8:20 The harvest is past, the
summer is ended, and we are not saved.
Without knowing what program you've been through, what program you're planning on entering, and what focus or purpose you have in seeking a MS in CS, I can only describe things based on the program I went through.

A student ought to have studied and understand discrete math, data structures, and fundamental concepts of computing and programming languages. CS isn't about programming, but for your mind to be in the right place and in order to participate in the program you really ought to be a strong coder with at least one language under your belt. Research will almost certainly require significant coding, even if the work is theoretical in nature.

Beyond that it really depends on what program you're doing and what your focus will be. In many cases you'll want significant mathematics background, including areas like abstract algebra (important for crypto studies), numerical analysis, experience with proofs (useful for theory of computations studies)...it goes on and on.
Nobody's going to spend 10k hours doing something unless they're naturally drawn to it.
People wanting to censor dissent are a big problem on this site.
> What's interesting are those things-- chess, music, writing, film making, etc.-- that aren't tied to physical types, and so far the evidence seems to be that talent is largely a myth.

Its not clear to me that you actually read what I wrote, since I addressed this exactly, albeit in the domain of programming. There is significant reason to believe that, at least in that domain, talent is innately important in the same way that physical structure is in sports - that is, that it can eliminate a majority of people (but doesn't really differentiate between the significant minority that remains).
Keep hitting the 'unsubscribe' links. For those that don't work, put in a filter to auto-delete before you see them.
Will this new inbox work with Google Talk or it's Hangout only?
Fresh Mocha: Live Refresh TDD with JavaScript
This is my native city (more than 1M of people): http://earthengine.google.org/#intro/v=54.739011,55.95804350...
Everything seems fine so far. :)
Google’s New Office Graveyard to Make Dying at Work More Convenient
SJCL fills its initial entropy pool with crypto.getRandomValues()
How to Negotiate a Job Offer
Lyft is lying to you - they are not really a donation-based service
This is extremely subjective but as a speaker of two languages (English and French), I find it interesting how certain things come to me in one language and other things in the other. I have friends more or less in the same boat as I am and it's funny to see how we switch languages when expressing different ideas without even thinking about it. Funnily enough, I happen to talk in my sleep on occasions, and I apparently speak a mash-up of both languages, but in a fairly consistent manner (i.e. words will be one language or the other). The brain's a wonderfully intricate thing :)
Did you study in an English-speaking country or somewhere else? Because it seems that "informatics" is often a synonym for computer science, only that it is a more direct translation of the name of field from the original language. I've personally taken a lot of courses at an institute at my university which is called "institute of informatics", but I haven't found much mismatch from the course-material there and the subjects that are usually thought of as computer science.
so if it's fine with the vanished 90%, why should one be bothered about 10%?
What the global development industry must learn from Software Developers
For a sufficiently big input (N) polynomial will be faster without any doubt.
Seems like the video and solition was tailored for that crowd. Didn't see any invites to Maker Faire in the video's inbox.
This project is the first thing I thought of, but LIGO is attempting to detect changes at the subatomic level. [1]

> Based on current models of astronomical events, and the predictions of the general theory of relativity, gravitational waves that originate tens of millions of light years from Earth are expected to distort the 4 kilometer mirror spacing by about 10−18 m, less than one-thousandth the charge diameter of a proton.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO#Observations
I'm pretty ignorant about linguists, so, honest question: if AAVE is considered "equal" to Standard English, why is it called a vernacular?
There is a spectrum from recreational hobby, casual pursuits and being an expert. And if your goal is to be an expert, it basically means you have to be better than most.
Politics are endemic to all organizations, and the larger an organization becomes, the more it loses the ability to keep politics from interfering with an employee's work and abilities to do that work. Workplace politics are a kind of professional corruption, and this corruption easily hides behind headcount.
KolibriOS now supports USB devices
It gets reposted so often because many people still seem to think that organizing the worlds information or 'search' is google's core business.
No.

There's a certain snobbery about people who had their act together. Not everyone knew what they wanted to do as an undergrad. You might have more aptitude than people with a BS CS. Pick a program that doesn't treat you as a cash-cow: one where you can take the same courses as undergraduates and PhD students. Then ignore nay-sayers.

If it's a two-year program, you can likely get enough courses in to learn something serious. I have less respect for one-year BS/MS masters programs simply because you won't be taking that much. In two years, you could take 12-16 courses and maybe do some research in the second year.

When it comes to university credentials, people like to "lock-in" their value. If you went to Harvard, no matter how much of a failure you turn out to be, you went to Harvard and people should respect you. So, if I have a BSCS, there's a great temptation to say, "no, you can't go back in time and get to the same level as me. Even if I'm incompetent at my job, employers should devalue you no matter how good you are because you're that 'absolute lowest form of life in software engineering'". But we shouldn't think that way. You're trying to better yourself. Kudos!

To be realistic, you might come out of the program not on-par with the type of student that would be capable of applying to top PhD programs, depending on how rigorous your courses are. Two years can be a short time, especially if you're starting with intro to programming. However, if it's a good program, I think you can come out well among those looking for software engineering jobs.
KolibriOS [1] is an open source (GPLv2) operating system written entirely on x86 assembly language, using FASM. KolibriOS has forked off from MenuetOS in 2004.

USB support code has been written by a hacker who calls herself CleverMouse during the last two years.

Currently it supports OHCI + UHCI (USB 1.1) and EHCI (USB 2.0).

USB keyboards, mice, storage and hub devices are currently supported. Now they work on printers.

If you want to help, please consider donating to their KickStarter project [2], thank you.

[1] - http://kolibrios.org/en/

[2] - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kolibrios/kolibrios-help...
Presumably a more accurate clock will make it much easier to detect small relativistic effects. This could be useful for e.g. measuring gravity waves. Or it may just make it possible to do various kinds of experiments on a smaller scale. An early direct test of relativity involved putting an atomic clock on a jet to measure time dilation due to relative motion. A more precise clock might allow the same test to be done with an automobile.

In the end, the real answer to your question might well be something that we currently know nothing about. In other words: "If we already knew the answer to that question, we wouldn't need the clock."
> Could you imagine Gmail requiring you to download your whole multi-gigabyte mailbox to do a simple full-text search?

I can imagine syncing a client to a backend and running an inverted index search on as much as, say 10GB locally, even on a mobile device, when 64GB of storage on a memory card is very affordable. Once indexed, you don't have to store the message locally, but you do have to sync it to each endpoint once. If you need enforceable confidentiality as a lawyer, for example, or if you just want privacy, the price of this small increment of additional memory is small.

On a laptop, the numbers are even more compelling. Your mailbox is probably a fraction of the storage digital media files occupy on a typical laptop.

The economics of Web mail, cloud storage, and bandwidth for sync have moved on from the early days. While it may be that a privacy enhanced cloud service would need to be subscription fee based, it need not be a very large fee.
I see your point. I guess I don't really see anyone buying many extra photo disks beyond the one or two required to make this into a funny gift for someone.

I've been trying to put my finger on exactly what this brings to mind. I think I have it. This is "singing fish" level technology.
An Apple Developer Explains How iCloud is Broken
Sounds like an excellent reason to avoid large organizations.
I wish they would have taken more time to better support tabbed browsing instead of implementing their own floating compose windows in javascript.

Now they've implemented their own version of tabs.

Just support native browser controls, please. People understand them. They're simple. They work. The more stuff they add, the heavier Gmail becomes... and the more of a pain it is to load in multiple real tabs.
Checking the Social Overnights
Apologies, I missed that on first glance. I'm not sure why you'd want to run your CSRNG through a bunch of additional functions, at best you're doing nothing, at worst you're reducing the quality of the entropy.
Hoy No Circula (One Day Without a Car)
LR and e-gold are the same people, in fact.
Seems like a good way to get the Facebook and other social network spam out of people's in boxes, or at least buried under a tab. A subtle way to combat the G+ competitors and spammers.
Short answer - not anytime soon.

Longer answer: there might be a clever way to use clocks to pick off gravitational waves, particularly at low frequency, but I doubt that they'll be competitive with pulsar timing/LISA.

There are proposals to use atom interferometers for gravitational wave detection. The community is quite divided on the chances for success (I'm in the pessimistic camp at the moment). Barring any surprises, an atom interferometer is much more likely than a timing-based measurement to see any gravitational wave signal. On the LIGO front, so long as the source estimates for gravitational wave signals are correct and as long as Advanced LIGO hits its sensitivity goals, a LIGO GW detection is imminent.

There's always room for cleverness.
I think Dan would disagree.

http://thedanplan.com/

Dan has specifically stated he had no natural interest in golf and had played it less than a handful of times in his life.
Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out
"Build your damn company here."
Gmail previously had 5 types of inbox view. Now it has 6. Feel free to choose the one you like.
Food Trends Cartoon
Archeologists Discover Nearly 5,000 Ancient Cave Paintings in Mexico
JRE #360 - Graham Hancock
This has been true since the beginning of film's history, with rare exceptions. Spectacle sells, even going back to the point when the technology of film itself was the spectacle. (See for example the always-thrilling L'Arrivée d'un Train Ã la Ciotat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dgLEDdFddk)

If you want "film as art," it's generally best to avoid studio mega-corps designed to make cash.
I wrote a blog awhile back that kinda relates to this. I argued that employers should be focusing on developers with great portfolios of innovative and USEFUL software, rather than focus only on candidates who have earned a degree.

If a hacker decides to get a degree, it shouldnt be because the job he wants requires it. Rather college should be a personal pursuit to accomplish a life goal. Something for them to look in the mirror and say, "Your pretty damn bitchin at this thing called life."
automatic mail filter rules
N2O: Erlang Web Framework on WebSockets
In this landscape, that can be a lucrative specialty to have. Do you actively market yourself as such?

> Sometimes it's better to cut the team down from 5 to maybe 2-3 instead of adding more people

Tried and true.

> If there isn't one, stand up an automated test harness with as many tests as possible

What do you think about adding on another developer to just do testing? What about a full-time QA person, so that you don't have to build automated tests?
How about built-in PGP? Even if google stored the private keys by default, it would be a huge step in the direction of getting people to actually use PGP and care about the privacy of their communication.
Irony: his app is down.
Meet Fidi, The Super Cute GoldenDoodle puppy living on Wall Street
Anybody know if the DNA structure of species that are approaching extinction being preserved for possible regeneration at some point in the future?
I think it's more correct to say that Portuguese is a modern version of ancient Galician (usually known as Galician-Portuguese), just as modern Galician is.
You could rephrase the weak version to make it undeniable (if banal): the whole point of language is to influence the way others think! If I want to create thoughts in your brain, language is a pretty effective means.

(I got this from Stephen Pinker's books.)
Clickable: https://notecrypt.appspot.com/
How about, sit back, watch what happens and learn.

Even if one of us calls it right, which is sheer luck with so little information, the OP clearly has most to gain from experience.

That is the only way to learn to correctly identify problems, and perhaps more importantly, what is the best way to deal with for you personally.
So let's talk this through.

I think the idea behind crypto in the browser is cool, but it seems like anytime you're requesting the JS from the server, you need to trust the server -

Instead of serving crypto.js, you could server plaintext.js, and I wouldn't ever notice the difference, would I?

So if we agree that I need to trust you, to serve the JS crypto properly, then what's the difference between doing that and trusting you to encrypt the text for me?
NP. Checking code is a good. It's not the clearest code since the initialization is located separately from the main RNG function. If you actually tried to read the inline minified version of SJCL, I'm sorry but impressed.
Do they have any published results/webpage?

(Also, the inverse problem for the Laplacian is hard. Hiding a dense object inside a sphere of lower density (in a background of uniform moderate density) is easy, and fully cloaks against external gravitational detection.)
I recently attended a coding dojo where we wrote code in elm and tests in coffeescript. I was new to both languages but I was surprised how easier elm felt compared to coffeescript (note: I have some haskell background ;]).
Here are the results: https://github.com/dzsodzso63/PreziCodingDojo/tree/master/fr...
Facebook launches Verified Pages and Profiles to guarantee authenticity
> as demand increases at that price, it keeps going up

Don't most ISVs/startups already have that? Just not in real-time, which would be punishing/annoying prospects needlessly.
Led Strip
With LED Strip, we can decorate and give ambiance to our projects. Can be used for:

Enlighten low shelves.
Highlight contours of objects, walls, ceilings etc structures.
Give indirect light indoors.
Architectural lighting.
Enlighten spaces that can change color.
Outline circular and square spaces with indirect light.
Here's a list of languages that compile down to Javascript:
https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang....

I didn't realize how many there were.
> because you can turn it off

I think the fear is that eventually they won't let you turn it off. Google has a habit of doing this type of thing with Gmail (eg the new UI, and the new compose)
For those interested in compiling down to Javascript with a strongly and statically typed language, there's a brilliant proper subset of Haskell that compiles down to Javascript called "Fay": https://github.com/faylang/fay/wiki
Confessions of a Sociopath