skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'm running a $2 million and growing company, and i can say that if you're doing $10 million dollars in 2 years (TWO YEARS) and think you have a "lack of technical and managerial skills" you are being intellectually dishonest with yourself, and possibly being disingenuous to your audience here.

from what we've seen and what we've heard, basically starting at $1 million/year in revenues, you will hit a serious new set of problems (some call these inflection points) at every doubling thereafter (i.e., 2M, 4M, 8M, 16M)

obviously there are exceptions (some businesses are simply born to be able to handle massive amounts of revenue in a flat manner) but basically, every time a business doubles, the problems change. this doesn't mean you're incompetent, or that you lack skills.
I love one tab. Thank you.
AIUI the story goes like this: for a long time NSA required all CPU vendors to provide a "popcount" instruction (to count the number of one bits in a register) for any hardware contract. NSA was buying a lot of Intel processors, but Intel CPUs lacked a documented popcount instruction until very recently. So, there was speculation that an undocumented opcode would function as a popcount instruction in older Intel CPUs (perhaps after modifying the CPU microcode), and from there people speculate that there may be other undocumented instructions and CPU features. Or so the story goes.
People have their domains of interest. Not all hacker-minded people focus on the latest fad programming language or database.
I can't say for sure, but the ending quote from the article

“I have to share the credit,” Bradley joked. “I may have
invented it, but I think Bill made it famous.”

seems to support the theory that he reinvented it independently. I'd be interested to know who at MIT picked the key combination Ctrl-Meta-Ctrl-Meta-Rubout for the Lisp Machines.
Understanding Design through iOS7
Good use of lens flare.
The dissenting opinion is a worth a read.
Awesome, Pixar on Leap.
As a designer, I don't get a lot of value for DN that HN doesn't already provide. With the membership being closed down its too cliquey - -

It feels like these design sites are offering design for design sake instead of designing something usable on a daily basis. This is one area where HN has done quite well in my books. Once our arrows are unicode we're set. :)
Part 1 of a review made for iOS7
I think, perhaps, you should read some of his other articles before making a judgement call on the Atlantic's quality or Alexis' qualifications.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/when-t...
I'm really happy this is happening. Is the static nature of the playing field actually a good thing? Does a single game even need to survive more than 2 Olympics (I also don't think video games need to be incorporated into the Olympics)? The vast majority of skills in video gaming carry over just fine to the next generation of the same genre. Flash was the undisputed god of SC1, and he is fast rising to that spot in SC2 less than a year after switching.

I think the evolution of the playing field is actually a great thing, and something I wish conventional sports did more. A rule change in a physical sport happens so rarely.

The only reason conventional sports remain balanced and interesting to watch at all is because they are nearly 100% symmetrical (ex: 5 on 5, symmetric court/field, tip-off to start, etc). In my opinion, this actually leaves a lot of sports as pretty poorly designed "games" -- any activity that you can assign a score to can turn into a competitive sport under the existing physical sport paradigm. I don't want to pick on any particular sport, but I think a lot of popular sports just ride on past passion, nationalistic/regional pride (rooting for your team), and sponsorship marketing rather than the game itself being intrinsically interesting to watch. Which could be an endless cycle, with schools giving scholarships for those who perform in those sports, and the next generation having the same feelings for them.

More importantly than having a wider viewership for eSports (as a game designer and developer by trade, this is obviously exciting), I'm more excited about how this will affect physical sports, and force them to evolve into becoming more entertaining and fun experiences than they already are, instead of stagnating as they have been for nearly a century.
1. You have a lot more confidence in our government's ability to accurately compile lists than I do, particularly in light of the failures of the no-fly list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#False_positives

2. Based on commentary from native Persian speakers on this thread, it would appear that no one is claiming that the drone was remotely piloted by Iranians into US Airspace, but rather the one that was shot down in Iran several months ago (confirmed by the US Government) had these photos on it.

3. See above, there are at least 2 Persian speakers on this thread. HN is a LOT more diverse than you realize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident‎
Challenge accepted.

https://gist.github.com/srikumarks/5992608
yeah, i mean, i know what i;m doing by following instinct... but really at this scale... all decisions seem wrong. we truly have no one in the company who has been here before, and that is a problem.
Nations Buying as Hackers Sell Computer Flaws
I learned a lot from the ads, it was a way to stay current with the latest video card or motherboard, or CPU release. I watched the ads change from cga to VGA to retina, from Athlon and Pentium to the current crop, which interestingly have broadened out to include more variety again, thanks to mobile. I liked ETI a lot too. I suppose these days the need to stay current on hardware has really gone away, we all run little client machines (chrome book/Air etc) and use server side services, even development is mainly on remote machines managed by people who specialize. We are today li tied not by the hardware, but by our creativity. With a few hundred dollars anyone can release software that can reach millions. We've come a lot way since PC world started.
sound advice, thanks a bunch. i just threw the executive titles out there since i think that's where they would ideally lead to, and i don't exactly know how to speak to the people we are looking for to help us. I will read the medium post you linked now! if you are ever in the bay area, hit me up, id love to meet for coffee.
That's a hefty slice of bias you've got right there. In what way do you think these facts undermined the prosecution case?
> Although I have no idea where to begin. Any ideas?

No one has figured it out. Gamification, prizes, group work, classes w/ deadlines, charge by use rather than subscription. It's really a problem of commitment, whether it's learning or dieting or anything. We have 90% completion rates for courses for our corporate clients because employees are required to finish it. Without some external pressure it's hard to get people to do anything.
A Book Is a Start-up
Globalization of Surveillance by David Murakami Wood
> "Pond seeks to prevent leaking traffic information against everyone except a global passive attacker."

My favorite line in the article. It's a nice nod to the fact that this Achilles heel is an issue that he is aware of / takes seriously.
Sugar vs. HFCS is a natural experiment. Americans are the experimental group, and the rest of the world is the control group. In non-OECD countries, HFCS has less than 1% market share.

Is there anything useful that can be derived from that experiment, though? The control group varies in significant ways, both amongst itself and w.r.t. Americans, and includes countries with both high and low levels of obesity. Has anyone attempted to back out any kind of useful estimate by treating this as a natural experiment and adjusting for confounds?

Examples: most sugar in both Germany and Mexico is from sugar rather than HFCS, but Germany is less obese than the US, while Mexico is more obese than the US. Mexico is poorer than either the US or Germany, so that could be the confound; but Germans walk and bike more than either the US or Mexico, so that could be a different confound. It's kind of a messy experiment.
Better line numbers for Vim
Currently I am working on a startup that is solving problem of flat rentals for college students in Mumbai, India.
http://flat.to

We are getting good traction and focusing on a niche market is helping us gain word-of-mouth publicity. And of course there are already a few big players already in the market.

I am the lead developer and designer. We are trying to build the best UI in the market. Please share your thoughts on the current UI and give your suggestion on where we can improve it.
Your solution is to give your wealth class more money, and have it trickle down

No. Perhaps you didn't read what I wrote. Here's a quick refresher that might make it clear that you've completely misunderstood. I said:

One of the problems we seem to have is that there is still belief in the "trickle down" effect

problems; I clearly indicated that this is a BAD idea that DOESN'T work.

I said a number of other things along these lines. Essentially, what I said is the exact opposite of what you seem to think I said. I appreciate that English isn't your first language, but you've got completely, absolutely the reverse understanding of what I said. You could not have missed the point more.
Students will appreciate this.
Julia, c++
one of your challenges is that at this point, anyone who is interested in helping you, is also the kind of person who wants to get rich off of your hard work (aka ownership in your company). not to say that they won't work hard themselves, but incentives are incentives.

just be careful when you talk to private equity, investment banking and growth capital folks and do not give up ownership of your business easily, if at all.

if they haven't hit you up yet, they certainly will after your posting this. like moths to a flame, they will appear. or maybe wolves to a kill. or vultures.

be especially suspicious of companies that wish to incorporate your firm before you're ready.

also beware of competitors or "consulting firms" calling you up to find out more about your firm for the purposes of a "purchase or partnership" who really just want to squeeze out as much info about you as they can before never calling back.

either way make sure you have good legal representation.
"An empty seat is better than the wrong person."

This is great advice that can apply to much in life.
Oh Zed.
Excuse my French, but... if this hadn't been written by an internet celeb, nobody would have given two shits about it.
I think it is getting downvoted because it waves its hands in response to a specific, easily verifiable, claim. And worse yet, waves its hands with weak arguments.

I claimed that the price of agricultural goods is inelastic. That's easy to verify one way or another. In 2011 the world produced 5% less of basic staples than normal. Prices of basic food staples doubled worldwide. Many countries had riots as a result. There you go, price inelasticity in action. (In fact the inelasticity of demand to price for food is the standard textbook example of price inelasticity.)

See http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/soaring-food-pri... for verification of the 2011 food price claim.
>I have no idea if RdRand is the only source of entropy for /dev/urandom in the kernel these days but that does seem quite silly

If I understand correctly, the idea is to use RdRand to feed the entropy pool (which is also fed by other noise)[1] from which urandom pulls. So it doesn't seem RdRand would be the sole source of entropy if it were to be used in this context.

[1]http://linux.die.net/man/4/urandom
I have a need for something like this and had been planning to use Mailgun. Perhaps some additional information on your site explaining how you guys are different would help people decide.
It is my experience that the biggest reason for why things are slow is that they need to fetch content from outside it's environment.

I don't know if this affects JS ability to render it but it is at least my experience that JS based apps are simply not able to give me the same non-interupted feel as natively build ones, this includes even apps like RSS readers.
Here is a great place to start: https://www.google.com/search?q=jpeg+decoder+exploit&oq=jpeg...

Note there have been various fixes, and you can often tell when you see one because you get a 'broken image' icon rather than a picture and an new friend. The compressed Javascript exploits were primarily tied to pdfs apparently (you can search for 'compressed js exploit') and then look for "gif decoder exploit" and of course the whole cross site scripting thing which when you're building a web site to compromise people its not a 'bug' that it has a cross site exploit vulnerability per se :-)

Basically anything that 'decompresses' is effectively a data driven computation engine where the bad guys can feed an arbitrary stream of data into that engine to make it do unexpected things. Whether it was the font exploits in Stuxnet and elsewhere or pdf exploits or jpeg exploits. Sadly it has been a target rich environment in the past.
I want to add that we religiously use a format outlined here (also mentioned in the Constant Contact video):

http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics/
It is much easier for governments and banks invest in negative media like this poor and spiteful article. A massive negative media do some tickle, but Bitcoin always back stronger.
Ask HN: Any news/speculation on next-gen Chromebooks?
I want to buy a $250 Samsung Chromebook, but they were released last year. Does anyone know when we can expect updated versions of these, or any Chromebook in general? Do you guys think it would be worth waiting some time instead of buying now?
Bruce Schneier awarded fellowship at Harvard's Berkman Center
Cancer - A cure just got closer thanks to a tiny British company
One thing... Mobile Safari didn't use to cache anything over 15KB uncompressed. http://www.phpied.com/iphone-caching/

(No idea about more current versions of iOS or browser-caching on other mobiles OSs.)
Show HN: Manage your digital photos in Social Networks by Drag & Drop
Yes! Thank you.

tl;dr for lazy HN readers: "using Google's CDN to load jQuery isn't likely to benefit the majority of your first-time visitors." As of 2011, jQuery 1.4.2 was by far the most common version and even that was only loaded via googleapis.com on 2.7% of websites.
My fault. I was looking for the javascript compression vulnerabilities. I'm sorry I did not mention that.
If this is anything, it's probably a redux of the Taliban accessing the unencrypted video feed of Predator drones. For a long time, most video (not control) feeds were sent in the open. The Taliban realized this and were able to grab those feeds using a $30 antenna and a laptop. A compromise in operational security? Sure. A method of "hijacking" UAVs? No way.

I'm not convinced this shows anything at all. But even if it did, remember, the Iranian government has a history of photoshopping images for propaganda purposes. See e.g. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/in-an-iranian-im...

Agree with OP. Very little here. Keep calm and carry on.

EDIT: Turns out they're claiming these were pulled off the RQ-170 Sentinel that crash landed in Iran. If that's true, it would mean the drive was salvaged and decrypted, which is a potentially big deal.
Ask HN: What position was your first hire?
Say your one-man startup has taken off the ground, you have enough money to support yourself and hire someone. And you're currently doing programming, design, server administration and support.

I'm looking for real-life experience. What was your first hire and how did that turn out?
looks alot like https://ezcrypt.it/
though I do like options..
I'm sorry but it's patently not a leak if the defense attorney should have already had the information. Leaks involve information that is non-public/non-shared. The legal requirement was that this information was shared with the defense.

This is the same reason the NSA is not able to hide behind the state secrets clause for programs that are already public.

I hope this guys wins a lot of money in a wrongful termination suit. I would hope that this also results in the termination of the person abusing their position to terminate this guy.

People should absolutely never be punished when they are aiding justice, after all that is the responsibility of the prosecutor. A prosecutor should only be seeking a conviction for people they have every reason to believe is actually guilty. Padding your prosecutorial résumé by getting a win at the cost of justice should be a career ending move for a prosecutor. It's no different than a doctor breaking the hippocratic oath.
The evidence that the state allegedly failed to turn over in discovery included text messages describing Treyvon Martin's fighting, discussions about buying and selling firearms, and a picture of a hand (presumably Martin's) holding a pistol. 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.

There is some debate about whether or not the state in fact turned over this evidence. As I understand it, the state turned over an image of Treyvon Martin's cell phone in a format that the defense experts were unable to read. According to the state, this fulfilled their discovery obligations in this matter.
Start-up spring, Tech entrepreneurs in the Middle East
Pretty much.

Oh, except, there's actually an interesting idea in there if you look really closely.
https://github.com/zedshaw/fuqit/blob/master/app/files/index...

return "I Am KING!"

https://github.com/zedshaw/fuqit/blob/master/app/files/test....

I am a test Jinja!

So, which one is it?
I'm creating a distributed network project based on a combination of recent AI and fractal findings. Can you share some sentences from your book? And where to get it when it's done?
wow, you totally called it! already got on the phone with someone wanting to take things over and do crazy things. shady people ;-) Thanks, i'll be careful. appreciate the advice. I've kept close control thus far and have not wanted to raise money. Hope the right person might come into the picture. Already happy to get a couple genuine emails. cheers!
with these type of tools, hackatons will raise the bar
Maybe I'm King of The Jinjas!
I think you missed the point of the "Find PI to the Nth Digit" exercise. You aren't generating pi, you're just using a pre-computed value.
ASUS PQ321Q 4k 32" Monitor first look
Sorry to hear that man. I hope you kept up with it. I find it to be so enjoyable and productive to work with.
I can't stress this enough: burying an extant report while providing the underlying data does not fulfill a prosecutor's obligation. It's been tried in DNA cases, and when uncovered almost always results in ethics charges.

What's scary are the number of everyday cases that don't attract major media attention where this has almost certainly happened without anyone ever knowing.
Isn't the interesting idea basically CGI?
it's more for the technical people to not waste time in re-doing what they know how to do to make prototypes.. I don't think a non-technical will be a regular user since they don't understand the architecture and what to do next
Positive exchange of flight controls between autopilot and human crew
If you can abstract everything to be anything then nothing has meaning.
More than one, probably?

base, ext = os.path.splitext(name[1:])
... as well he should be for not sharing information that should be shared with the defense.

Making someone look bad when it is deserved and when it is not deserved are two very different circumstances.

I would hope that any attorney that acts without ethics should be investigated and removed. If the system is not good enough to self-police itself, then we have a problem.

Could he have instead gone to the state bar to raise his concerns? Is there an equivalent of a Dept of Internal Affairs that investigates prosecutorial misconduct?
whew! Can you tell me more? I work in a very related field.
If that code is an idea, then the idea is "HACK AWAY!"
Idea: PInterest for Nerds
"2. Based on commentary from native Persian speakers on this thread, it would appear that no one is claiming that the drone was remotely piloted by Iranians into US Airspace, but rather the one that was shot down in Iran several months ago (confirmed by the US Government) had these photos on it."

If this is true it means the Iranians compromised the encryption on the UAV's drive, which would be seriously not good.
I didn't say it was. The author of the submitted article used this term to describe her name though.
What We Learned About Technology From the 1999 Tom Clancy Film NetForce
Interestingly, a lot of those techniques are extrinsic motivators, which studies have found to actually reduce self-motivation.

(A classic book on the subject is Alfie Kohn's "Punished by Rewards."[1] Dan Pink's TED talk[2] is a entertaining overview of the same concepts.)

That's not to say that I have any answers. But when I tackle the problem, I'll probably focus on intrinsic motivators (love of the material, sense of challenge, joy of solving problems, sense of mastery, etc.) rather than extrinsic motivators (badges, prizes, employer threats).

[1] http://www.alfiekohn.org/books/pbr.htm

[2] http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
ESLint - Identify and report on patterns in JavaScript
Nice try, EllisLab.
Should there not be some mandate that state ethics boards be made up of approximately 50% prosecutorial and 50% defense attorneys? Ethics boards should exhibit the same adversarial process as the courts.
"safety/danger per-mile" is not a very reasonable metric in many cases though.

E.g., for airplanes, most of the danger is in takeoff/landing, and whether you fly 300 miles or 10000 miles in between is much less significant. For cars, long distances often involve highway driving, which is safer, and driving to the airport probably(!) doesn't involve alcohol, which is a much bigger factor in overall accident rates... etc etc.

What would be more interesting to know is the risk per flight, and compare that with a risk estimate for a given airport drive...

[In my case I just take the train to the airport from my house, and the lines I use have fatality rates which are essentially negligible (1-2 per century). I suppose I'm mostly likely to get hit by a car on the walk to the station... or just slip on the steps. >< ]
I wouldn't link to the Google CDN anyway, personally. If your whole site is hosted on your servers and then you add this because maybe some people won't have to reload JQuery, it just means google knows everybody who visits your site. Free analytics you don't get to benefit from.
I've spent a lot of time learning and experimenting in the are of performance and scalability. I am curious about your book, willing to share 2-3 paragraphs?
Another version of the story posted on CNN [1] has a slightly different version of events.

> Concerned that attorneys did not have all the information they needed to prepare the case, he said, he reported his concerns to a State Attorney's Office investigator and later to prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda.

Ie, before contacting the defense through a lawyer, he talked to the prosecutor in charge of the case as well as an investigator with oversight of the attorney's office. Maybe he should have discussed the matter with the attorney general directly after these first two attempts, but his disclosure seems a little more reasonable knowing that he seemed to make an early effort at following the "chain of command."

As a side note, this article was fairly confusing for me. I had to read key passages several times and I'm still uncertain of the basic sequence of events. Many useful hn comments on this post seem to be just clarifying what the article should have reported in plain language. Ugh.

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/13/justice/zimmerman-it-firing/in...