skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't call it pointless, I think it's better than not having it at all.
I don't think this is quite correct. The article says "The defense did receive the source file from the cellphone and used its own experts to extract data."

So it is very possible, even likely that the defense obtained the same data themselves.
So, a place for non technical people to make websites and call themselves as co-founders?
Corruption is misuse of bureaucratic power for personal financial gain. I don't know why Amnesty International would spend a lot of time on that rather than the atrocities you speak of, and if they publish a "corruption index" I can't find it.
Few points:

(1) Chaining rnd generators is fine as long as they are not correlated somehow. If there is any correlaton, the output may be weaker. (Consider chainig two exactly same generator as a corner case.)

(2) In this case we don't chain generators; you would loose the speed of the integrated one otherwise.
would not have been taken seriously

A specious argument. If someone raised concerns that were then ignored, or had had past experience of that kind, it would be entirely appropriate to consult an attorney. On the other hand, the notion that it would have been held against him as an employee of the state is (I think, IANAL) BS. Raising the issue with his supervisors would have made it their problem; it's attorneys who bear the responsibility for discovery compliance, not the lab staff who do the actual forensic work.
In NIST parlance (SP800-90{A,B,C}), RDRAND is a DRBG, while /dev/random should be a NRBG.

For what it's worth, the RDSEED instruction has been announced by Intel a while back (but not yet on current processors), which means to be an NRBG as well.
The problem in Brazil is more structural and political than it has to do with US corn subsidies. Through Petobras, the government kept gasoline prices artificially low for a long time and that severely hampered the ethanol producer because here in Brasil the ethanol prices are tied to the gasoline ones (an important part of the ethanol demand is the flex fuel cars that can choose between both fuels and if ethanol is above 70% of the cost of gasoline then gasoline becomes more cost effective).

So basically the ethanol infrastructure got all messed up to the point were it couldn't even keep up with the domestic supply. If it were not for that then brazilian ethanol would actually be able to compete with some of the american ethanol because sugar cane gives higher yields and nowadays you can charge a premium for being more environmentally friendly.
Correct, but its harder and you need work experience typically. Which can be hard to get with no GED equivalent.
Here's a link to my website. It should clear things up http://fast-reaches-9399.herokuapp.com/. I've still got some work to do before I launch.

I'm completely on board with "make things people want" rather than "make people want things". What I'm really getting at is the question of once you make something people want, how to promote it and spread the word. For my website, the two questions are

1) How do I get people to answer questions?
2) Once there are a bunch of answers, how do I spread the word?

And please fell very free to but in! Any help I can get is much appreciated! I made it an Ask PG question because I read a lot of his essays and I don't remember him really addressing the issue of how to promote products other than by saying to start off by making something people want.

note: I do have a bunch of ideas on how to answer these questions. Just looking for other ones. My biggest idea is to get "interns/representatives" at each school. The intern would be responsible for spreading the word at his college and getting people to answer questions, and then later on for spreading the word to high school students. I can't offer any money or equity, but I think it's a great opportunity for students to apply their skills to a real world company. That's hard to find. Most internships don't provide that sort of autonomy and freedom. So for this reason, I think there's sufficient demand to fill that internship position. Regarding effectiveness, a motivated college student shouldn't have too much trouble getting his friends and fellow students to answer questions.
Nice, def going to use this.
Ask HN: Does anybody need freelance front end developer? Hire me
Hello guys!

I am freelance web designer and front end developer seeking for work, since school is over. I have too much free time and I want to do something productive.

I love to work in Photoshop for creating designs and coding in Sublime Text. I enjoy using Twitter Bootstrap or just code from scratch.

See my latest work:

- Webdesign: http://i.imgur.com/7aVaPMd.png

- Web application: http://i.imgur.com/e8jsIH4.png

- Phone application: http://i.imgur.com/fCl5nnK.png

I have a lot more examples but for now I can't show them publicly.

If you have work or any qestions for me, just hit me up at miha@vidakvic.si

Thanks!
I've launched a few different businesses, two SaaS business and one software product.

In all three cases people bought it on day one or the first day after the trial expired. The first SaaS business I just posted on a few forums to come check us out. I was shocked when people purchased a yearly plan when we were still very much in beta.

However, it took two years before it started taking off, and then it suddenly did take off due to word of mouth. That was great, but also a double edged sword. Once better funded competitors arrived in the market, word of mouth went to them, and our sign-ups started to drop off.

To counter it, we did competitive upgrades. That was really our most successful campaign though it only worked online. We did advertise it in magazines but few people every signed up because of it.

With my latest SaaS, we had access to a huge opt-in email list. Lots of sign-ups on day one, and quite a few converted to paying customers once the trial ended. That said, having now done that for a year, we're still experimenting with different pricing and feature options.

I think the key to a successful SaaS business is to really understand your lifetime values, and how churn affects it. It can really help you define a successful marketing campaign.

Every model I've ever run on digital marketing shows that it will take approximately 5 to 12 months for it to start paying off. Add in your other overhead and it takes 2 years before you really start making money. But at that point, you will start making serious money.

To summarize, the most effective marketing tactics I've used are:

- competitive upgrades
- referrals credits
- e-mail marketing
- white label branding of the same service with a major player in your industry (yes, you'll cannibalize some of your other sales but can be worth it)
- google adwords

Once they are in, try to quickly onboard them. Once people start deriving value, churn decreases significantly.
Looks really interesting.

Just a quick note: You should really turn off the django DEBUG flag... http://ilter-ourbnb.appcubator.com/Listings_Page/?query=&fie...
I'm pretty blown away at how easy the build-a-twitter demo was. Awesome work!
Clickables:

- Webdesign: http://i.imgur.com/7aVaPMd.png

- Web application: http://i.imgur.com/e8jsIH4.png

- Phone application: http://i.imgur.com/fCl5nnK.png
are you guys open to remote work?
That's why Linux distros save the entrhopy pool when rebooted. /var/lib/urandom/random-seed in Debian
Exactly the challenge. I am pretty sure that I read they took http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law and applied it to the distrobution of words/letters and found that it does not match up with what people would call a language.
I really like how I can just drag the social login buttons, and it just works! I would definitely use this in the future because I don't have to worry about the individual social login API's anymore. Best of luck guys!
Josh Kaufman have recently released a new book called "The First 20 Hours -How to learn anything" -which is an awesome, operational description of rapid skill acquisition.

The better question is: "How do you decide what to learn?" -for which I strongly suggest taking a strategic portfolio approach: have a few skills that you know in depth, and maintain a consistent flow of learning new things on at least a surface / API level so that given the opportunity you can reach out for them.

Having a few of these under your bells will open your eyes to new opportunities both within your job, and in your life that you can pitch / take advantage of; at which point you can tie it into the "things people pay me for", and start the journey of mastering it in depth without any danger to your livelihood.
Kudos on having a "use cases" section on your site. More services need to include this type of info.
Be careful not to throw out the baby with the bathwater. You're probably doing a better job than you realize.

Try working with an executive coach - I work with Bryan Franklin. It's easier for you to develop leadership and management skills than it is for an outsider to really grok your business and share your vision.

Regarding the marketing role, be sure to get the right kind of marketer: https://medium.com/on-startups/1308a8f17137

Most of all: go slow on executive hires. There are a lot of "good talkers" out there. An empty seat is better than the wrong person.
Wow. Some really cool projects on here.

I just completed (today) git-sync-ec2, a set of utility scripts for deploying my website (http://flagrantsystemerror.com) to S3 via a dynamic EC2 instance.

I just restarted a stack based STL allocator. I'm writing unit tests for it and hope to have it finished by Monday.
Yeah you would, since your account was created 4 minutes ago for this purpose. :/
>In this case the government hasn't intimidated anyone...

I disagree, with the government having the 'you're with us or against us' polarizing attitude since 9/11 along with Gitmo and an official kill list I think the U.S. gov't is pretty intimidating for anyone who doesn't fall into line.

Just look at what happened in Boston. A whole city shut down, house to house searches, an unprecedented reaction in the west for a bombing. No where else has that kind of reaction been seen, even in the UK when the IRA was blowing shit up, at no time was a curfew imposed and houses illegally searched by a militarised police.

The US is an incredibly intimidating place at times.
Ryan Petrich integrated Cycript into PonyDebugger, and integrated PonyDebugger into a tweak that can be found here:

https://github.com/rpetrich/CaptainHammer
Craking the Google Code
It's very hard to judge this situation, given that the case it relates to is so divisive. For people who believe George Zimmerman, this guy's actions seem heroic. For people who think Trayvon Martin was murdered, this will seem like an effort to taint the prosecution case.
I think my chief interest in these kinds of ideas is in enabling designers/et cetera to flesh out their ideas for certain interfaces/functionality/tools. It's much easier to express why an idea is cool and worth pursuing (esp. when getting others to come on board and build with you) when you have a prototype that can implement parts of your vision.

There's definite value in giving designers agency in expressing ideas interactively and aesthetically. So I'm really curious if this tool will be used like that. I'm definitely more a designer than a developer, so I think this would make it easier to being implementing an idea without getting frustrated with trying to DIY my own backend.
This thread seems to be pretty chock full of some tinfoil hats.

1) You're not going to be added to "a list" because you clicked a link on hacker news. Remember that the NSA employs some of the smartest people in the world. Would it be meaningful to add a bunch of curious silicon valleyists to a list of "possible terrorists"? Probably not.

2) If you think that an aircraft that is anything bigger than a small pigeon could get anywhere near a major airport without getting itself a nice escort, then you're nuts.

Here is a map of the airspace near JFK: http://www.aeroplanner.com/notams/airspace.cfm?apt=jfk

This is all "Class b" or "bravo" airspace. It's all heavily controlled, heavily monitored with radar, and you have to ask permission to enter it.

It's incredibly unlikely that there was a "drone" in bravo airspace. Possibly a UAV, definitely not the boogey man Iranians.

3) This website doesn't even say anything. It's some pictures that could have easily been photoshopped together. Google translate isn't giving me anything interesting, and unless HN is a LOT more diverse than I realized, you're all going nuts over a couple of grainy photos.

Finally, here is what the drone that Iran supposedly "captured" last year looks like: http://i.imgur.com/ALveZWi.jpg

It isn't a toy. It's huge. There is no way that is getting anywhere near a RADAR without everybody knowing about it. Yes, it is [possibly...meant to be, rumored to be] stealth. That doesn't mean it's going to go undetected into a major airport like that.

Relax. Go have a beer.
Cornell Scientist’s Quest: Perfect Broccoli
Yeah "link" is probably too strong because it seems to be in one direction. They apply the informational contexts of physics to a game-theoretic model. Then they show that some stuff is implied in the latter.

They also show that a payoff strategy space has the same form as a test for a Bell inequality. That's the hyped 'link' but IMO it's really weak and not newsworthy in itself.

Care about this paper if you care about thinking about games in the context of assumptions about quantum information. They've arguably come up with a reasonably clean model for that and contradicted a prior result in the process.

If you don't care about that research space then you probably don't want to spend too much time pondering the philosophy of this.
Unfortunately I am not aware about concrete plans.

I also doubt anything large will happen to the language until after 1.0

Right now there are two separate issues in the Dart's bugtracker:

one for Futures https://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=104
one for Streams
https://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=7002

but none contain any details of how the syntax will look like at the end.
It's tangential to the original discussion, but that attitude nearly turned me off of Python entirely when I was first starting. I'd pop onto IRC or a discussion community and ask a question about something, explaining that I was new and the most common responses were:

1. Read the docs and figure it out yourself.

2. Why are you doing X? Only an intellectually feeble person would do X -- normal people do Y.

3. That's a waste of time and I'm not going to tell you how to do it because X, Y, and Z.
My Arabic is pretty terrible, so the third part didn't make much sense at all, but I copied it as:
بكم فتح الله و بكم يختم و بكم ينزل الغيث و بكم يمسك السماء ان تقع على الارض الا باذنه و بكم ينفس الهم و يكشف الضر

Maybe someone else who speaks the language or someone who wants to try with Google Translate could help out.
Working on CRM / ERP for SMBs. http://www.bizsol.co
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6039028
If only someone had saved these for future generations :) https://archive.org/details/computer_shopper
Hackers Conference Wants 'Time Apart' From Feds
I love video games. The problem I have with recognizing video gaming as a sport is mainly that the rules and playing fields change too often, and with no regulatory bodies to provide checks and balances to these changes. The developer of the game being played can change and patch whatever they want, whenever they want, with no oversight.

Not to mention, the sport being played is essentially whatever the "cool" game is at the time, which changes year after year. It would be difficult to maintain interest in a game for even 2 Olympic cycles, let alone hundreds. Can Starcraft 1 still generate massive world-wide interest in 2013? How will LoL be doing in 2023?

Meanwhile traditional gaming and sports haven't changed a whole lot over the hundreds or even thousands of years we have played them, they have stood the test of time and are still capable of generating massive world-wide interest. Video games cannot claim to have done this.

With that said Im not against awarding visas to pro gamers.
Cool service! How can I secure the result dispatcher though? It seems to generate random character combinations at the end of the base URL. But someone might 'randomly' get my mailparser emails
I spent about 5 minutes looking, I have better things to do on my downtime, but it seems you have forgotten what my original claim was (or what your original question was).

High barrier to entry. Maybe you think the barrier to entry for Zabbix is low enough, and maybe you think it is a better project once you get over that bar, but what is undeniable is that Graphite very clearly has a lower barrier to entry.

If you want to know why so many people use Graphite instead of Zabbix, that is the reason. If you want to tell all of those people that they are wrong for going that route, be my guest, but that isn't what the discussion is about.

I've answered your question, I feel, entirely accurately.
Why would lowering the technical barrier to access be a bad thing when it helps people flesh out their ideas?
Because there is a viable attack on the whole keystream, not just the first 256 bytes.
No. In fact it's a matter of trust.

You can trust Skype that calls are encrypted and cannot be eavesdropped, you can trust Verizon that your cellphone metadata are not passed to government automatically, and you can trust Intel that their rnd is not backdoored.

Or you don't.
Patrick, thank you for the Gail Goodman link. That was priceless.
Great idea. Now going to test it.
But the reality is, everyone that visits your site already has jQuery in their cache, because the common cdn sources are so ubiquitous, this making this 4k library actually add to your page load footprint. Using the most common, most likely to be a cache hit library is more efficient than using the smallest.
This is an example of Peter Norvig's spellchecker written with core.async by Stuart Sierra (@stuartsierra):
https://gist.github.com/stuartsierra/5954022

This is an example of Rock Paper Scissors by Alex Miller (@puredanger):
http://tech.puredanger.com/2013/07/10/rps-core-async/
Would appreciate some sort of a summary. Reading some mile long email exchange just to figure out what the headline is really about makes it kinda tricky.
He did not act properly. He should have informed the prosecutor of his concerns before starting to leak. Of course this may be more the fault of his lawyer that acted really inappropriately. It seems the lawyer had an axe to grind against the Attorney General so she might have decided to kind of sacrifice her client in order to embarrass her enemy.

Regarding the data, it is possible that the prosecutor decided the data is not relevant for the case and that there is no need to embarrass the victim who cannot defend himself.

There is no dispute that the victim was not armed at the time of the attack. Having died as the result of the attack he did not really have an opportunity to hide his gun afterwards. It being established that he was unarmed at the time of the attack, his relationship with guns before the attack is not really relevant. The fact that he had a picture of a gun on his cell is really irrelevant.
A personal favourite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976
If you look at OP's submissions you can see that well, this person posts iranian hacking stuff, and thats it. Makes you wonder about OP's motives.

I'm also okay if the NSA targets OP looking at his submission list.
People need to stop saying this.
'I speculate that Rijndael is easier to brute force'
On what basis?
Plain old cultural inertia might play a big role here: businesses copied their Modus Operandi from older large corporations (who, in turn, copied a lot from the military) where a "job" could potentially last 10-30 years; so the criteria might stem from selecting whom you're going to spend this time.

(Originally from Hungary where it's required; moved to the UK where it's highly discouraged )
reinventing the wheel, because http://i.imgur.com/WACN2ST.jpg
I have been working on a service that provides build automation for mobile apps. I welcome any feedback.

https://appramp.io/

Right now working on ironing out some kinks in the build system and making some UI changes. I should be ready to do an official Show HN very soon.

PS this is the second time I'm posting this in as many days [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6027434
It wasn't MY assessment, I just posted the assessment of other s to start the conversation. I don't think you should never use a CDN, there are quite valid reasons to do so. But people shouldn't go around saying that is the only way to go either. It should depend on your site, and the testing you do on that site.
i'm sorry, this is just incoherent to me. i have no idea what you're trying to say, or how it fits with my comment.

i was trying to explain why an untrusted hardware rng cannot be improved in some cases (because of limited entropy from elsewhere). and i don't see how what you are saying addresses that.
This is mostly false. I'll try to explain.

I don't believe it is false. Instead of explaining again, can you provide specific verifiable assertions and citations? I'll make it easy, I'll give you specifics to refute.

If subsidization of farmers to produce more than the market is predicted to demand in order to smooth out volatility and prevent famine is necessary (and it seems to me like a laudable goal), government can simply fund overseas farmers to overproduce, rather than its own. It would be less expensive than the current process in those cases where overseas farmers produce more cheaply. In many cases they'd still be subsidizing their own farmers.

Is your argument truly based on the assumption that government generally solve problems in efficient ways??

The truth is that it is easier for most governments to justify giving subsidies to their own citizens rather than foreign countries. Also self-sufficiency on food is seen by many as a security issue, and therefore there is a resistance to relying on others.

That said, different countries use different solutions. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/may/10/chi... for a news article indicating that China is taking exactly the efficient approach that you suggest.

Pretty much the only thing that would be untenable would be the current practice of paying "farmers" who own land to not produce. As far as I can tell everyone who doesn't receive that money hates the practice, so maybe we should just stop doing it. Which brings me to...

The USA pays people to keep land ready but unused so that production can rapidly improve. The European Union instead accumulates surpluses - aka the famous "butter mountains" and "milk lakes". Those are just different means to the same end - ensuring that there won't be a major famine.

> After repeated bad experiences, every country with the capability has decided that they want farmers to grow extra in normal years.

They haven't really. It's not like we ever had a vote on it. The current process is just a powerful lobby exercising their considerable power.

No, YOU never got to vote on it. It was before your time. That doesn't mean that I am wrong.

The European Union's policies were explicitly adopted as a reaction to famines after WW II. (Which in turn were significantly lessened thanks to major US intervention.) See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Agricultural_Policy for confirmation.

The US policies started earlier, and were motivated by the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. http://stateimpact.npr.org/oklahoma/2012/11/16/ken-burns-dus... is one of the first links that I came to which can verify that.