skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lowest hanging fruit for you will probably be improving the source. Get a better mic, make a pop shield out of an old pair of tights and a wire coathanger, fill the room with soft furnishings, make yourself a ghetto isolation booth by putting a duvet over your head and climbing into your wardrobe, etc.

That last one might sound silly but many international-pop-career-launching albums have been recorded like that.
Also the 8MB is really debatable

A SSL key can be smaller than 1k (ok, today more like 4k maybe more) and be very valuable

Not to mention older source code that was smaller but very valuable (think IBM PC bios, or the first Apple II ROM)
Paranoia can be a symptom of growing or oncoming depression. You should take that seriously: At least take a few days off and try to get a feel for your current mental state.
It's been posted. :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5805025
While the examples are completely accurate, I've just never run into an issue like that in practice. The majority of my codebase is CoffeeScript and it's just never been a problem.

It's pretty visually obvious when your indentation is out of whack. Even if it isn't, this kind of error would be picked up pretty quickly by your test suite.
Apple Ban Overturned By US Administration
While this is great, I was expecting something different from "systems coding". This is more like scripting.
Most of the cabs where I live are Mercedes. I had three different cars in the driving school: two BMW 318 (petrol and diesel) and a Merc E270.

I would hesitate calling those luxury vehicles, if only based on their ubiquitous use by working professionals.
PDF: http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/451.pdf
This guy has made two mistakes:
1. He used OS code without consulting first with legal departament of the company.
2. Transferred the source code outside the corporate network without consulting first with legal departament.
His boss may be not competent in this field, but the legal departament must be and, I beleive, they already have a policy for OS solutions. This developer made a measurable damage to the company, which should now take some efforts to clean up the OS code or face possibility of being required to release it's own code under OS license. I clearly see this as a good reason to sue him.

The main problem with this situation is educational: "brilliant scientists" and "smart developers" (especially from ex-USSR countries) are not paying enough attention to the legal issues related to their jobs. They do not try to secure their rights and do not consider the possibility that they violate the other's rights by their technical actions. It would be great if CS courses in universities will include a short talk about what's good and what's bad in legal field. For now, the more attention will be paid to such cases, the better for everyone.
Basecamp from 37signals have a "Basecamp: Personal" account, where you pay once for a single project

https://basecamp.com/personal
> Minimalistic Classical is also one of the few genres I can write code while listening to and not have it distract me as well.

Ever tried Ludovico Einaudi, for example: http://www.amazon.com/Islands-Essential-Einaudi-Ludovico/dp/... ? The album "Islands" is an great collection of calm classic-ish piano music that entertains but doesn't distract.
If this is anyone else's attitude, the place to sign up is here:

http://www.appcampus.fi/
So if you are an ISP and have a router in any way used for any kind of networking over internet, you are possibly or most probably facilitator for money laundering, child porn, piracy, terrorism or any kind of online crime that's possible. Or you should have implemented resource expensive deep packet inspection and filtering solutions.
Instamojo is one option; Flipkart have launched their own payment gateway as well - Payzippy ( https://www.payzippy.com )
Maybe I'm being naive (so please correct me if I'm wrong), but isn't this a dream-come-true for malware authors?
Galileo's Secret Telescope Technology Revealed
I've been thinking about it, but I don't really want to use 100€ on a new mic. I'll try to "fix" this one first. :P Thanks for the advice!
I always preferred the remote code execution search myself personally...

https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Aphp+exec+%24_GET&typ...
var newArray = _.map(_.filter(array, function(item) {
return item % 2;
}), function(item) {
return item + 1;
});

vs

newArray = (item + 1 for item in array when item % 2)

Uh huh.
It's been interesting seeing this story submitted repeatedly over the past week or so, each time getting no traction, no attention, no comments, and no love. Nice to see it finally hit the front page.

The actual paper is here: http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/451.pdf

Here are some of the submissions of alternate write-ups of this story, in case you want to see if some other source gives more details:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6125268 (phys.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6126234 (sciencedaily.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6129664 (rdmag.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6132772 (ucla.edu)

You can read other submissions on HN about homomorphic encryption by following this search:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3A%28hom...

There are lots of them, too.
Smartphone headphone to laptop adapter
Actually yes, I have several of his albums and love his work as well. Friend of mine introduced me to his music about a year ago. As you mentioned, it's also great programming music.
And he works for a SEO company! This is a sales pitch to use his tools.

Unfortunately, the above tips will not work if you are bootstrapped too.
Tracking down sources are not always as simple as spending a few clicks on a search engine. I particularly find talks to be problematic, as the content is not indexed, nor is it easy to remember which n'th talk the speaker said a particular fact. You basically have to re-watch them all, which for a few comments I have done.

Worse is legal case findings which for whatever reason, the media did not pick up. Take the statement that in Swedish law, people who produce or run a webservice can be made liable if the majority of users use the service for illegal purposes? That facts is basically impossible to find using a search, even through it is written plainly as a simple Q&A in the appeal court judgment of the TPB trial. If the case had been that I forgot where I read it, a search query would not have helped me in tracking it down.
I don't understand why all these users who love so much that app can't just pay $3-$5 monthly to help this app survive?
Manufacturing: I was stating that his assertion was wrong, nothing more than that.

Trade sanctions: I'm having difficulty following your train of thought, but my point was that the Castros are still in power, so the sanctions have not worked, contrary to his assertion that they were 'effective'.

> The current state of affairs seems to favour the few of the multitude.

The number of people creating stuff is likely to always be lower than the number of those who consume. The whole point of the system is to encourage that production by giving the creators a means to extract some money from the consumers - thus ensuring a supply of things to consume. I agree that the balance is currently too far in favor of producers.
I'm very happy with zoho https://www.zoho.com/mail/. If you want to use your own domain and you're not willing to pay for google apps, its a great alternative. Setup is extremely easy and the web interface is also pretty nice.
Well, this is my 10th day - we shall see. I have my fingers triple crossed (ouch) but I'm not holding my breath.
CGI Python? Happens...
https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Apy+os.system+%22impo...
Well, although that rule could be useful, it is not part of the technique.

For proof, read the official description on Pomodoro, e.g. on http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/download/pdf/ThePomodoroTec.... You'll see (page 6-7) that after a first 'Pomodoro' (unit of time) work on the same task can continue into a second or third pomodoro.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you're looking forward to this book reinforcing your worldview instead of challenging it?

That's fine, I'm just surprised if my interpretation is correct.
I quite like this - nothing is going to stop companies wanting to secure their code on customers' machines, and this is at least an elegant way to do it.

I do see problems though, e.g. people trying to make malware could use this very effectively: make a small pointless change, reencrypt, repeat, you then have a pseudo-unique malware signature across as many PCs as you can reach, so antivirus is useless.
Django...
https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Apy+os.system+%22requ...
Email me. I know someone who might be able to help you.
Medicare starts at 65. I don't know what's going on with this person. I suspect we are not being told everything in order to make a good story.

And that's something to keep in mind: The strange stories you read are in the news precisely because they are so unusual.

> $13,000, 'list price, no markup'. Crazy.

That's what he paid out of the US as well, I guess that's what it costs.

Please explain why you said $78k in your original post.
Ask HN: Mastermind/Accountability/Peer group
I’m Wes and I’m a wantpreneur. I have a full time job and I have been developing web/android apps for over a year. I started on the programming side and now I am starting to outsource some aspects of development. I struggled to make my first dollar and now I’m making $25-35 a month. However, I’m ready to take it to the next level and I am struggling again. I am looking to start something like a mastermind group for similar people. It is more of a peer accountability group that will assist each other.

The goal is to get 5-10 people to join a google+ private group and have weekly posts about what has happened so far, what your next week plans are and any issues you are facing. A place where throughout the week you can post anything you want and people will respond and help out. I am trying to find the right balance of being beneficial without being too time consuming.

I am looking for anyone who is just starting out or has already started and is trying to take it to the next level. They must be dedicated to the group and be willing to be open about many aspects of what they are doing. Technical and non-technical are wanted.

This is not a place to sell things, if you make any offers it must be at no cost to group members. People will be asked to leave for lack of participation, being scammy, or just plain rude.

So what do you think? drop me a line at WesleyThurner@gmail.com
Which CSS preprocessor language should I choose? LESS or SASS?
I like CoffeeScript but I agree with this.

Also, yes, plenty of people outside of the Rails community use CoffeeScript (I'm one of them)
Useful tip: with

HISTCONTROL=ignorespace

in your .bashrc, if you start a line with a space, it won't be entered into your history.
Roger Penrose has theorized the brain relies on quantum effects, but it seems to have been as discredited as something currently unfalsifiable can be discredited.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind
How to Cheat at Everything: an encyclopedia of cons
Who is to say they prefer it? I strongly doubt many of today's teenagers have ever seen a BBS or Geocities site.
Where?

I can't think of anywhere that I can read a discussion on technology politics that's actually dominated by informed, educated technologists. With the best will in the world, the Guardian Comment Is Free section or /r/news doesn't have the quality of commentary.
I don't think anybody could make the choice for you, but it might help to read the following for a comparison that might help you make up your mind.

https://gist.github.com/chriseppstein/674726
The current valuation would be very good if they sold around 60000 Model S/year:

They have a Market Cap of $16B.

Estimated longer term profit per Model S sold is around $15000 (as far as I remember); I think they are aiming for around 15% profit margin for Model S.

So at 60000 cars/year they would profit around $0.9B or trading at around 17x profit. Which wouldn't be terrible for a growth-company.

Problem is that they are currently only on target for around 20-25000 model S/2013 and they didn't have that big a profit margin last quarter.

As always, the next quarterly reports will likely tell if they are on track or not. Last quarter was just the first profitable quarter for Tesla ever, so it is hard to say anything. Nobody even knows if demand for the Model S is sustainable, as Tesla received around 20000 preorders.

It isn't an outrageous valuation compared to e.g. Amazon, but it is definitely based on the company achieving massive growth, so if the next quarterly results do not reflect that, the stock will likely take a 10-15% dive over night.

On the other hand, if the Model S is the new Prius (as some people believe), they might sell 200000 cars/year within a few years. Musk is definitely aiming for this, and the factory they have has a capacity for something in that ballpark.

They also haven't tapped into the European market yet. E.g. Scandinavia has high taxes on petrol based cars, so the Tesla S is significantly cheaper than other "luxury" cars in Scandinavia. I suspect Europeans in general have shorter commutes, so perhaps electric cars are doing better here. Then there is Asia...

It is a high-risk investment at this point, but it could go either way. The stock price currently reflects optimism.
The difference is that in the US, neither BMW nor M-B market stripper versions of their cars. In order to buy a 5 series or E Class you will end up with at least a 528 (with significant number of interior luxury features) or an E350. Both of them start at about US$50k, and to me that is squarely luxury. Interestingly, well over half of all of them are leased, not purchased.
Japanese Talking Robot 'Kirobo' Launched On Rocket Toward ISS
Speed typing on the move, with one hand
Why big data matters - video
yes, I'm looking frameworks which have a more SPA approach and don't have the look and feel of a website. Two examples: https://gomockingbird.com is built with cappuccino, http://pixlr.com/ is built with flash. What for example is very hard to do are tables, which are important for enterprise apps. Only ExtJS and YUI approach real desktop quality (scrolling, sorting, filtering) IMO.
> Has LLVM grown an assembly frontend? Emscripten is more or less an LLVM backend.

I don't know, probably, but LLVM's IF is essentially machine independent assembly anyway.

But again, missing the point.
Hmmm, thank you.
One Wish for Iran, from Israel
Recently shot this short documentary piece that asks strangers in Israel and Palestine to offer a wish to Iran, and the newly elected Iranian President. If you like it can you please pass it along to friends? We're also trying to get into mainstream Iranian press and blogs. Look forward to what you think about the video.
It's difficult to tease out the effects of a failed economic system from the sanctions. The sanctions, politically, are probably one of the things that help prop up the Castros, as they can place all the blame for their problems on the sanctions, rather than a political and economic system that does not work.
Notice no traffic lights, stop signs! Also note the conspicuous absence of women in this video and also car steering wheels on the right! In fact, I'm surprised there are so many cars on the road in 1905!
Both Sass and LESS are CSS preprocessors, which allow writing clean CSS in a programming construct instead of static rules.

LESS is inspired by Sass. Sass was designed to both simplify and extend CSS, so things like curly braces were removed from the syntax. LESS was designed to be as close to CSS as possible, so the syntax is identical to existing CSS code. As a result, existing CSS can be used as valid LESS code.

The newer versions of Sass also introduced a CSS-like syntax called SCSS (Sassy CSS).
Anyone looked at combining something like ansible and docker for building images?

It's pretty straightforward to use ansible to build the host. This is one step forward but I wonder if anyone's used it to create images and if so how?

Would you build on top a base that includes the ansible libraries, or somehow run the ansible commands against a docker instance?
I find it incredible that there are 86,453 results for this, and 58,123 results for execution of a parameter as a command!

Github should set up a little warning for people when they log in to their account if their repos match any of a set of obvious security anti-patterns, because this would be fertile ground for exploits. They could expand it later to some kind of code-review bot which does automatic code reviews looking for common antipatterns, off-by-one errors, and anything else that is easy to detect automatically. There are quite a few tools like this for analysis of desktop apps, but code for web apps are not checked as much in a systematic way.

Are there any external services which do this already for public github repos?
Testing through the lens of a 12 year old
Bear with me on this one -

All the code is already public on Github, so everyone can see these gaping security holes, right?

What if some honest, global actor could mass-commit a fix for all these repos in one fell swoop? For example, replace all references to:

$_GET

with:

some_safe_sanitizer($_GET)

All affected repos win a free fix, and the world becomes a better place due to having less security bugs. Essentially, what would the next abstraction layer, over all Github repository objects, look like? Ponder that.
Zero to GLSL Spectrum Analyser in One Hour
(Or just run the .coffee with "coffee" instead of "node")
For Ruby.. this is probably not as bad, and some of them are probably harmless, but still.

* Apartment.destroy(params[:id])

https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Arb+path%3A%2Fapp%2Fc...

I've found stuff like this on startups who charges people money - scary.

Some of them require authentication but not authorization In other words, they require login, but not WHO you're logged in as.
"We horizontally centered the content with a .col.lg-6 .col-offset-3."

It could do with explanation of or links to what that means. As it is, ".col.lg-6 .col-offset-3" meaning "horizontally centered" is completely opaque to newcomers.
We developed a product specifically for Google Drive using their JavaScript client. We were hoping to make it commercial but had to abandon those plans due to 3 bugs that have been present since around the beginning of 2013.

Also, there's no open bug tracker. The developer relations people are very friendly, but when I ask where to report bugs I'm told "just tell me". So every 2 months I've reported the same 3 bugs in person and they get swallowed up and that's the last I hear about it until my next report.

The silly thing is that we were one of the showcased applications in Google I/O this year, for the Drive section. A number of Googlers came past and said "Wow, cool. Please, please commercialise this". The truth is, we can't and it's because of the bugs in Google's code (well, partly, the other problem is Drive has just been too unstable over the past 4 months, until there's 99.9% uptime for a year, we can't consider it).

Don't get me wrong, I love what Google are doing with their API stuff and the dev relations really go out of their way to help (specifically the Drive SDK team). But, as it stands, this isn't a platform I'm confident in building a critical business product on, currently.

EDIT : That last sentence is wrong. I'm confident to build a critical business product on it, I think it'll get there, I'm just not confident to charge money and have to support it, at this point in time.
I seriously don't understand why people are doing this. It's sick.
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I don't think the target market (or at least the people actually buying them) are necessarily the same people who would have bought 7 series, S class, and A8s. At least for the BMW & M-B, the demographics skew toward older, more conservative buyers (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732423510457824...). Tesla, I suspect, is getting the folks who previously bought Priuses to make a statement, or who would otherwise be looking at M3/5 BMWs or AMG M-Bs.
You should beware that converting bitcoins into INR is going to prove difficult in India. I have not yet heard of a single bitcoin exchange for Indian (INR) users.

Correct me if I am wrong.
Lua Coroutines In Go(lang)
Ask HN: How to begin safely investing my money (UK)?
I'm well aware that there are several other forums for this, but as the HN community is filled with experts on venture capital and other forms of investment it seemed like an untapped resource to crowdsource your collective knowledge on the subject.

I'm a 20 year old who works full time and has been looking in to investing a small amount of money monthly to give me some financial stability in the future. Rather than go for a pension, I want to manage it myself over time and move the money around to wherever I will get the best deal, but as this is my first time I could use some advice:

I am looking at a Barclays monthly savings account [1] which pays out 3.20 gross rate pa, now to me, pa means per annum but he Barclays site makes it seems as though it is monthly, so I could use a question answering:

If I invest £20, after one month will I receive 3.2% in interest (meaning I would then have £20.64 or would I receive 3.2% interest over the year and actually only get say £20.06 after the first month?

This being said, would anyone in the UK recommend a different savings account / method of savings, I'm only really willing to go for extremely low risk methods which are government backed against collapse up to the level I'm investing such as banks.

(for the record i'm looking to invest £20 every month and leave the money in, so I will have £240 + compound interest after the first year, then I will reevaluate the amount I am putting in and hopefully increase it based on results so far)

[1] - http://www.barclays.co.uk/Savings/MonthlySavingsaccount/P1242558345488
Or by 2020 they make an asic chip that emulates a brain cell and it computes 10x faster than realtime.

Massive array at 8nm and there's your positronic brain.
> Will extend it to everyone when we have a way to fund it.

Is it really that expensive for them to run? Last time I heard it was a a minuscule amount per request, and peanuts for the certificate itself.
Its a good point about jit time. It is however also true that even if you do it in the background (as for example Azul does, I think) you are not completly free of its problems. It is often hard to firgure out if it is worth the coordination of the background work. Im not complety sure but I think V8 does advanced optimisation on thread.

Also I am sure that Lua Jit does everything on a single thread. LuaJit is a special case most of the time since it works so fundamentally diffrent almost all other high performace jits in the wild. It only has one compiler and still works with a interpreter.
> until there's 99.9% uptime for a year

And three nines is still 45mn of downtime per month.
Flame (malware)
SSL probably doesn't do squat against the NSA.
Studies have shown that depressed people sometimes have a more adequate world view.
You're probably better off creating a product for a more professionally managed marketplace - like the Office365 marketplace - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp179924.aspx.

This lets you develop apps on Exchange (similar to your tasks app). See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj220499(EXCHG.80).a... and http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/office/Exchange-2013-Create-t...

Office365 customers (all of them are paying customers) who find it useful can install the app on their accounts. You don't have to stuggle with PayPal issues as Microsoft will pay you through the marketplace account after charging the customers.

Office365 support is excellent as well (they even do phone support). No need to chase anyone on Google+.

(I'm not shilling for Microsoft. I have no financial interests here).