skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kudos:

Nice design, I think it's pretty clear, and everythings got it's place which is nice. Definitely a welcome change from the advertisement riddled sites that are out there today (though you might want to consider even a little bit of addage, maybe choose one of those ad providers that emphasizes sexy looking ads)

I liked your about/info section -- solving a problem that you encountered is a good way to go into a side project.

So after browsing around for a little, some questions (I didn't browse too deeply, so questions may have been answered on the site somewhere I didn't see)

Clicking through to get a quote, the site seems merely like a referral site (just an aggregation of links to other sites by area code) -- are you considering adding any price-showing features? Like by giving people the option to report the quotes they got, or putting up some quote data, or even a rating system, people could know a little more about the comapanies they're about to click through to?

I looked for life insurance, and saw 5 companies I'd never heard of before, and clicked through to one of their sites and it looked pretty bland -- something to better inform that click-through decision would be nice
Hey guys!

I built something like this to scratch an itch at Zapier (both personally and for a few of our customers). I've mulled over releasing it someday for fun. This is a real need because (frighteningly?) a majority of the business world runs on:

* Generated emails
* Spreadsheets

First of all, I realize this stuff can get complex. But I have one major critique: your extractor UI is way way way too complex. It should be outrageously simple. As in, here are your emails, highlight the data you want to extract. It's hard to build, I know, but I have doubts that your average user will sit through this: http://i.imgur.com/5xjy4dS.png.

The concept is great though. The landing page is wonderful. Simple, to the point, decent use cases, inside the app has a nice onboarding and great options around exporting, etc... I really dig it.

Best of luck guys!
It's not just Filezilla. I have been using PDFCreator for years, and the latest installer from SourceForge has more adware, spam, and crapware than I have ever seen. It replaces your browser and email handler, adds Windows file handlers, and I don't know what else. I tried removing everything, and opening files still shows me ads for crapware. I tried to post a warning on the SourceForge review page, http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/reviews, but they have removed all posts.

I don't know if this is SourceForge's or PDFCreator's doing, but I will never download anything from the site again.
I was thinking about you guys just the other day as I walked past your old place on Atherton. Been meaning to catch up; you want to grab lunch sometime soon?
I think Mandrill is for sending out e-mails, which is quite different from what this post is about.
RDRAND does have non-determinism. The problem is that you can't directly measure or monitor how much non-determinism. The values you get from RDRAND come from a DRBG that is periodically and automatically re-seeded from a NRBG, but if you call RDRAND many times in rapid succession, then the DRBG may not have been re-seeded between each invocation. RDSEED differs only in that it guarantees that the DRBG is re-seeded between invocations. If you are using the instructions infrequently enough, then the two are functionally identical, but "infrequently enough" has a value known only to Intel.
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I went to relative numbering a while ago and I can't go back. It's awesome.

The only problem is that it's new in vim 7.3, so there are times where I'm forced to use an older version of vim and can't use the feature. I'll look up 10 lines, see "583" and automatically hit 583k without thinking. Not a big deal, and of course I can just do 583G to fix my mistake, but it's definitely some combination of funny and irritating.
Thanks everybody, you made this joke possible:

https://github.com/zedshaw/fuqit#investor-statement
Verge is French slang for a phallus, which might make it an unpopular title in some regions.
> Had this withheld information been allowed into evidence, it would tend to undermine the claims that Martin was a peaceful person, supporting Zimmerman's assertion that Martin started the fight and ultimately supporting his claim of self-defense.

Whether Trayvon Martin was a peaceful person or not is irrelevant, there are no direct witnesses of the actual fight between him and Zimmerman and Martin had definite reason to fear for his own safety that night. This evidence seeks to imply racist stereotypes of black men being hyper-aggressive.
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IcedCoffeeScript is neat but as far I can tell it lacks anything equivalent to non-deterministic choice (select in Go, alts! in core.async) eliminating many useful patterns especially for UI programming.
Your company sounds like a fun, wacky place to work!
The change the NSA made was to replace the s-boxes used with ones that made using differential crypto analysis slightly less efficient than brute force. As it happens, the s-boxes provided by the NSA were also among the worst 9%-16% possible with respect to linear crypto analysis. "A software implementation of this attack recovered a DES key in 50 days using 12 HP9000/735 workstations" [1]. I do not know the specs of said workstations, but for reference the book claims that was the fastest attack at the time of writing (1996).

This is not to say that the NSA was aware of linear crypto analysis when they made their recomendation. Indeed the fact that their s-boxes also happened to be just good enough to beet differential, and the fact that an independent government investigation (the details of which are classified) cleared them of wrongdoing, are enough to convince that they did not intend to introduce a hole. Furthermore, the NSA has also now published the requirements they used to generate their s-boxes. Schneier suggests in his book that the s-boxes were weakened unintentionally by the act of introducing structure to them, without knowing to defend against linear analysis.

[1] Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography
It's documented to have the potential to not return random data, so in that sense it's blocking like Linux' /dev/random. Sample code shows some type of polling loop IIRC.
Windows 95, 98, and Me used Ctrl+Alt+Del for Task Manager.

Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, etc use Ctrl+Shift+Esc for Task Manager, while Ctrl+Alt+Del was reserved for the lockscreen.

What was confusing, though, was that Windows XP (and ONLY Windows XP, not 2000 or Vista) in default settings would use Ctrl+Alt+Del for Task Manager, although in domain mode Ctrl+Alt+Del would still open the lockscreen.
Just serve .py as CGI. Hardly the stuff of legend.
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I've got to say, for someone with nothing but negative comments on this thread, you've yet to produce something constructive.
FWIW, we <3 you guys
Linus does not have the option to reimplement the wheel. Software cannot generate random numbers.
This has too much functionality. Sometimes I just want to statically serve all the files in a directory and its subdirectories.

cd not_my_porn_folder
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
This is nothing more than speculative emails.
> I think it's relevant given how much time the prosecution devoted to painting Trayvon as a child who was merely buying candy and returning from his childish errand back home, when everything occurred.

I don't know what media you saw when this case started, but Travyon was described as a young adult, not a young child. Further he was merely buying candy and going home when he was stalked by Zimmerman, doing nothing that should trigger suspicion or aggression.

> If prosecutors want to paint a personal portrait of someone for the sympathy of the jurors, stuff like this should absolutely be included by the defense.

The extra photos from the cell phone are entirely irrelevant to the facts of the case and they should not be presented to the court as though they were. The defense wanted to include those photos to paint a portrait of a scary black man to a group of white women in the jurors box.
The best backdoors are indistinguishable from dumb bugs when they're discovered.

They'd looks something like Debian's OpenSSL. But I believe that was not an intentional backdoor.
Updated patent to emphasize that this is why I'm mentioning it:

They offer an inbound feature which isn't emphasized!
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Ask HN: What are the best tasks to sell a new social media marketing tool?
I am working on a social media tool (nothing new - just a rehash of things already existing) that I want to market and sell. What would be the best action items for me?

The target segment is bloggers and ebook authors.
I am not surprised, this is the government that also recognizes pizza as a vegetable.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45306416/ns/health-diet_and_nutrit...
I did one of these! The RHP Hypertext Preprocessor - https://github.com/gunn/RHP

Someone asked on stackoverflow why PHP is so easy to learn, so I wondered how much learning curve we could cut away. Drop .erb and .haml files in a dir. Done.
>Clicking through to get a quote, the site seems merely like a referral site (just an aggregation of links to other sites by area code) -- are you considering adding any price-showing features?

At the moment I'm using a company called surehits to provide the listings, and the info they provide is very basic. I do have plans to create a far more interesting platform for connecting customers and insurers, but I decided to keep it very simple to begin with and take the project in steps. My day job keeps me busy so I didn't want to bite off too much for this side project. I've started a few other projects in the past that I didn't finish and I didn't want to do that again.

I do like and appreciate your suggestions and have copied them down - thanks!
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It does support it if you include es5-shim, though IE8 is effectively dead. It's at < 5% share globally, around the same point we all dropped IE6 in the past, and effectively at 0% for any web service / startup out there. It's commonly surpassed by visits from Safari/iOS/Android.

Firefox, Chrome and Opera are available for Windows XP :)
The RDRAND circuits perform continual health checks and will signal a error instead of outputting bad data. See section 3.3 of http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-digital-rando...
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Signed up; how do I parse the text in the Body of the email? Is there a tutorial?
I definitely get that, not finishing is definitely a thing that happens, congrats on finishing, and it's definitely a usable, good looking site
Google says outage is over
Great advice in this thread. If I can leave anything, it's to be very careful not to fall into the I-need-a-COO hole. If you start thinking you need a COO (I really f'n hate that title btw), take Brad Feld's advice and make sure you can define the role as Head of _______. If you can't define that something, you definitely just need a CEO coach and a few smart soundboards to hang around with.

Good luck!

PS - The sharks will all want to be CEO and talk about comp before they've tried out your service...they're easy to flush out.
Link between quantum physics and game theory
What if it's not going to be used as evidence by you, but maybe perhaps the defense? How would you know what could necessarily interest the defense? It seems a prosecutor could argue that they had no idea these images they saw would ever be considered evidence. Why bring them up? This just smells retaliatory, though.
Responsible disclosure is one of the worst things to happen to the information security industry, and the sale of exploits is similarly terrible. Modern-day white hats have effectively turned into 'green hats' whose goals are no longer compatible with the previously-held ethical hacking belief system.

Personally I feel that the sale of exploits should be outlawed, or at least specifically to customers have no intentions of fixing the exploit (buying a hackers silence), or to governments that are intent on conducting clandestine/offensive operations.

I also agree with the EFF's stance on exploit sales, and that is that they should be front-and-center in any and all national cyber-security debates:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/03/zero-day-exploit-sales...

Also on Schneier.com:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/06/the_vulnerabil...

No I'm not arguing for zero disclosure or that security researchers shouldn't be compensated for their hard work, I just think that the people and organizations that sell these exploits are effectively complicit in the destruction resulting from these exploits.

The world of information security is slowly but surely moving towards a Cold War scenario where nation-states are fostering sustained and escalating tensions, especially where they maintain a stockpile of exploits to be deployed in war-time scenarios.
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(Or, how to better organise a discreet relationship with the Director of the CIA.) from https://github.com/agl/pond (the source) is a good elevator pitch, for people (like me) who are taking their time getting what this is.

also, is code like this https://github.com/agl/pond/blob/master/server/server.go#L15... just extreme defensive programming? or is there some other reason for the check (eg is not everything locked)?

also, does 2. A GPA can learn when messages are sent to a non-home server and which server that is. get weaker if there are many users?

and why is it so quiet here? am i asking dumb questions? i've been deleting the ones i work out answers to!
My point wasn't that I don't care, my point was to give an alternative to self-censorship in terms of what you say and what websites you visit.

I've repeatedly asked for advice on HN in terms of what I can actually _do_ to improve the situation. I also recently posted a long rant asking for personal advice on leaving the country so as to not provide indirect support to what's going on [1]. If you have any suggestions, I'd really appreciate it.

I was really puzzled about what to do, because the Founding Fathers would NOT put up with this shit. Then I realized the key difference. The Founding Fathers started the American Revolution _because they could win_. They didn't worship freedom like some kind of religion. They were not self-sacrificial. They were trying to make their lives better. They were egoists.

What can I do, that has any remote chance of success? I can't think of anything. A revolution today would be a huge disaster, not that I'm even capable of starting one. All I can do is keep advocating a bit, and wait it out, and hope it gets better. To cease producing and go on strike at this point would not make any difference, except to be self-sacrificial.

If you have any suggestions, please let me know. However, I don't think suggestions like "Call your Congressman" are viable, and that's what I often get.

If we could get all the productive people in the country to refuse to put up with this shit and go on strike, we could do something. If everyone in the NSA and the military had the scruples and moral principles of Snowden, we could end this shit overnight. But there is too little agreement. Such a strike will not happen, and if it did, whatever these people came up with next would probably be much worse than what we have now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=QFgl37XVMgSe59KGmzDlnj (though I don't recommend you waste your time reading it)
That's a great article.
The first version now is minimalistic. But to be a second Ruby on Rails framework, your system will get more complicated soon. Good luck.
I would be all about increasing reliance on sugar beet crops if it wasn't for one thing. Sugar beets have one of the highest utilizations of genetically modified seeds. If we are going to use mire of it lets get Monsanto out of the picture.

The other thing is most people don't realize how many things HFCS is in. Ketchup, iced tea, most cereals, most "fruit" drinks.
Pro typers frequently remap Caps Lock to backspace. Backspace/delete is in an inane position on most keyboards.
This looks quite useful to me.

Feature request: allow the user to select separate colors for the relative and absolute line numbers, and for the slash. So three separate colors in total. That would make it easier to read.

Another idea is to have relative line numbers on the left side of the screen, and absolute line numbers on the right (or vice-versa).
I swear I'm not trying to be rude or snarky here, but do you also believe that manufacturing and selling weapons (guns, ammo, aircraft carriers, whatnot) should be illegal?
Ask HN: Inner City Transformation via Empowerment.
Greetings,
My name is Derrick Johnson, my team and I are exploring the use of technology to improve the quality of life in under served communities.

Our goal is to empower at-risk youth, ex-offenders, and individuals society has left behind to control their destiny. We believe by exposing them to mentors which typically are outside their sphere of influence, curriculum which equips them with baseline MBA skills, and introductory courses in software and hardware design; we can help create positive systemic change.

My question is are there any individuals who could lend a hand in providing curriculum, assistance, and ideas to help this endeavor become successful.

If you would like to contact me direct, my email is derrick@dreammke.com

I appreciate any feedback or assistance you provide.
If I were in your position, I would apply to YC.
In case you're wondering about the cool status bars for Vim/tmux, it's Powerline: https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline
Just to add to the general chorus, what you really want are good consultants (or coaches, depending on your vernacular) for the specific problems you're facing. Crossing your fingers and letting a new CTO or CEO figure out the big picture for you is attractive, sure, but the risks are too high.

After you've filled in the blanks, you'll feel much more comfortable, and at that point make some hires to deal with those specific business areas, while still maintaining overall control. As others have said, you guys are doing something right or you wouldn't be in this position in the first place.

If I was over in SF, I'd love to help you out, but I'm based in Sydney.

Anyway, best of luck to you.
Oh, important point. "Computer Shopper" in the US is not even the same type of thing as the same-named magazine in the UK. US: articles from Steven J Vaughan-Nichols. UK: articles from Charles Stross. SJVN now reports on open-source stuff for ZDnet, and Stross writes SF. Both are occasionally seen on HN.
The Iranians outsmarting NSA encryption? Not likely. Possible in theory and a huge deal, but not likely. If they decrpyted something from a military aircraft, it's much more likely that shoddy engineering work was done on that aspect of said aircraft because it was decided that security wasn't a top concern. (And, indeed, having pictures of JFK _isn't_ a big deal.)
I think that this is a poor analogy. Saying that a problem suffers an "exponential slowdown" is making a statement about how the performance suffers relative to the size of the problem. As the amount of data to be processed increases, the time required increases exponentially.

The type of slowdown you would get just from moving to a system with a weaker processor (like a cell phone) should be approximately linear. You might get worse-than-linear for certain types of RAM issues (more swapping, etc), but this wouldn't be the same as saying there's an exponential slowdown, and it's not a hard fact about the simulation algorithms themselves.

Anyway, the point isn't that classical computers are just less powerful, the point is that they're so fundamentally different that calculating quantum phenomena can become actually impossible (as in, process will not finish before the heat death of the universe) relatively quickly as the size of the problem increases.
It's safe to assume every core technology company has been compelled to be in bed with the NSA in some form or another. Intel has been anti-trust managed by the government for nearly two decades. Getting access to the monopoly desktop / laptop processor maker would be far too rich a target to ignore.
I also found it difficult. On the product description page, there's a green icon in the upper-right that says "Get Tonido Plug". That icon is a link to the purchase page.
Why have there been so many new accounts created on HN lately?
Maybe my perception is faulty, but there seem to be a lot more green accounts around lately.

Where are they all coming from? Are they legitimate people, or socks? Does anybody have a way to check and see if the account creation number actually has been abnormal, in order to confirm or reject my suspicion? (Obviously pg can...)
My problem with relative numbering is that it doesn't seem to work correctly when a line is wrapped.

Say I want to move 6 lines down. I use 6j, but one of the lines I want to jump over is wrapped and occupies 2 lines in my editor. That will mean my cursor will end up at the line that was previous numbered 5. This behavior drives me nuts.
No, absolutely not. There are many instances in history where fear and uncertainty were used as political tools to disarm and otherwise control 'untrustworthy' or 'unreliable' people. I'm sure you can imagine what usually follows that line of thought.

I have a hard time reconciling that with my feelings about information security and I can see how this would contradict my statement above, but I have different feelings about information security and physical security (ie: in information security there is a very fine line between offensive and defensive capabilities). You and anybody else are welcome to convince me otherwise.
Skype says it will kill its Desktop API by end of 2013
Trayvon had mild fatty metamorphosis of the liver. he was buying the ingredients for watermelon drank (aka lean)
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The Cost of Unpaid Experience
Show HN: Tracking the FISA Court in real time with a bit of code
If you take that analogy seriously, a lot of current exploit sales would already be illegal, even without restricting weapons sales further (which I personally think should be done, but that's another discussion).

For example, you cannot generally export weapons to another country without a license. In the U.S. you cannot even sell weapons across state lines without a license. Many countries also restrict the sale of even low-level devices likely to be used for sabotage, e.g. molotov cocktails, and that may extend to marginal sabotage devices like spray paint as well. Burglary tools are another example of a restricted device that has some analogies.

Lots of what the "security industry" does would land them in jail in any other field, even if it were selling low-level burglary devices to car thieves. Whether it's a good thing it doesn't, I'm not sure. The people taking money for exploits in a "don't ask what they'll do with it" kind of arrangement have a pretty dark shade of gray on their hats.
Exactly. You can anonymously sort for IQ, but not for EQ. And the IQ parts can be gamed. (I know of someone who "cheated" their way into Microsoft)
flightmonitor.com

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potentially for sale, email me if interested (see my profile)
Each of the three startups I worked for as one of the first 10 employees were ruined when the 'seasoned pros' were brought in. Don't hire any C level or VP people. There is a class of losers in the Bay Area who bounce around between VP of Engineering/Ops/Product jobs at post-funded startups and sink the ship while using their inflated salaries to redo their deck in Los Gatos. Hire additional engineers / marketers / finance / designers as needed and promote from within (as needed).
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