skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My prescription for that is something I half-seriously call 'Matrix-style Knowledge Injection'.

I open a PDF of the textbook I have to read and start the speech synthesizer, with earphones, and force myself to read at the same pace than the speech synthesizer. While the speech synthesizer is not very fast, it is consistent in it's speed and you can get about 70-100 pages an hour.

It works in my case because the voice in the earphones block any other sound from the outside world, and my eyes are staring at the text as the voice reads it to me. It concentrates most of my sense on a single source of data, the textbook's content. I like to see it as brute-forcing the knowledge into my brain by overloading it's input sources with said knowledge.

You quickly get exhausted doing that, but it's effective when you can't get yourself to read a piece of text.
It scraped, slices.
It's about time then that few qualified cryptographers make an audit. Kickstarter project maybe.
Does that mean https://www.facebook.com/adblockplus is next?
Metrics like: % of users getting RSI per year adjusted for age and number of characters typed in a year on controlled hardware. Characters per minute of typists who've used both layouts for a year plus.

Words typeable from the home row is what I'd consider a theoretical metric. It should help with efficiency and health, but it is a leap of logic to say that it definitely will.

"It's more comfortable" is what I'd consider to be a valid anecdotal data point, but one that I fear has response bias as people who try dvorak and find it less comfortable silently switch back to qwerty.

Absent well designed tests, qwerty/dvorak/coleman is a religious argument.
The field has a serious problem with sexism, even if many (or even most) of its individual members are not themselves sexist.
Unsurprisingly, the guys who demoed "Titstare" are part of AngelHack - they are from the "Hate-You Cards" team which was accepted into AngelHack's "pre-accelerator" program.
> My main observation from such things as baking directions seems to be that functional (being a highly declarative style) is great for high level, but that you need a way to carefully logic about the lower level details as well.

Seems to me that its the other way around; programs tend to have, at the highest-level, an inherently ordered set of interactions with external stateful interfaces, but at a lower level have logically pure computations on values derived from those interactions which control later interactions.
I feel more excluded by people who attempt to communicate using meme images and animated gifs than by references to alcohol.
Completely unofficial. I started creating it a month ago.
The carriers are also in cahoots with the NSA.
The PHP lists its ingredients with completely inconsistent units, some of which haven't existed for hundreds of years. Most ingredients are listed at least twice, some times indicating name brands, sometimes with generic names, and occasionally referring to specific off-brand varieties. The instructions themselves are easy to follow, include appropriate metric conversions, and tell you to throw away about half of the initial ingredients.
It might have been foolish for Facebook if they had started out thinking that they were guaranteed to dethrone Myspace, but that's not how it happened.

The idea of having all of your stuff get automatically backed up and synced with all of your devices seemed like a billion dollar idea the first time someone mentioned it. It just didn't seem feasible until recently. That's not the same as it being a stupid idea.
dat full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYBPotROKC8

Replace, and I'll delete this one.
Businesspeople exaggerate and even outright lie all the time. You should always keep a grain of salt around.
Pax Dickinson is now creating and running a tech startup.

https://medium.com/glimpse-labs/4aa5b6a6a665
I hope one day we can stop relying on rent-seeking third-party platforms for important interactions.
Regex to parse HTMl is probably the single worst thing you can do.
Once we remove jokes from the workplace, then we can concentrate our focus on removing smiling. Work should be no fun zones, one day our dream of robotic toil will come to fruition.
Crossing the People Management Chasm: A Necessity of Startup Growth
I've encountered more women capable of avoiding the shower for days than I ever would have wanted. "Apathy towards basic hygiene" is not established at the genetic level.

Either way, that is something I'd like to see leave this industry too.
Show HN: Narrativ, create interactive games & stories
Beat me to it. This is exactly the problem - even people who believe they're helping are making generalizations or unjustified assumptions based on how women are perceived in society. This is so incredibly endemic in so many walks of life its virtually impossible to take a step back and realize.
I am willing to sacrifice my soul and everything that is holy.
Or... just a completely free SSL cert: http://www.startssl.com/
An encoder (obfuscator?) to create similar code (alphabet: "()[]{}+!") in JavaScript: http://patriciopalladino.com/files/hieroglyphy/
The state of location tracking & why it’s important
C++ - What is the name of this operator: --&gt;  ?
On the other getting abused when a nude pic is leaked can be seen as a defense from our societies, which are completely schizophrenic: sexual behavior is everywhere (like in this new ass dance) and the body is cleansed from any sign of naturality (e.g. removing pubic hair). It's like with death: a lot of blood in games and movies, but no more blood in real.
That's why at the bottom of the pricing page we encourage you to contact us if you have more than 1M calls per month.

Meanwhile you can decide to share your configuration data and get Wit for free (à la Github) :)
Hugo Barra Talks About His Future at Xiaomi and Why He Really Left Google
No, being told that the story would offend him was offensive. That's a very condescending view!
https://gist.github.com/donovanhide/6540272
> The reason why you get push-back from males from the industry when it comes to involving more women in tech isn't because they have some "jock, locker room, and frat" mentality that women are somehow mentally inferior to males and aren't capable of understanding tech.

> Its because they don't think women in general have the fortitude nor the willingness to not shower for days and be content with not going outside while living off cold pizza.

So what you're saying is that the tech industry is sexist because you need fortitude, not intelligence? Or you're saying that the tech industry prizes fortitude over intelligence?

I guess it's good to know where we stand.
It wasn't immediate, otherwise both Titstare and Circle Shake wouldn't have been able to present.

And it was clear- they reacted after they saw the reaction on Twitter. Not after they saw the presentations themselves. If you had those opinions all along how could you stand on a stage and say "up next, Titstare" without even blinking?
Pelican isn't exactly client-friendly and has far fewer features than WordPress. Pelican and the rest of the static-site generators might be great for developers or tech-savvy folks, but you'd be hard-pressed to sell the system to the average web client.
Why are we taking economists seriously again?
BANCStar is a VM. You could program the JVM or .net CIL or any real machine using only octal (0-7 and white space only!) and it would be just as bad. Most people have enough sense not to do that, though.
I buy that. How do you fix it?
Where I live a very out, flaming gay dev once presented an app as a joke to detect what he called gaydar and was pointing it at uncomfortable suit guys and saying stuff like "you're a faggot dude, math doesn't lie". I thought it was a hilarious small moment of anarchy in an otherwise very dull conference full of banking apps.

A Jewish programmer also had a lol app to determine holocaust survival and the outcomes ranged from 'Nazi comfort boy' to 'gassed immediately' after analyzing your picture. This was a tradeshow/conference for payment solutions. Lots of uncomfortable silence. Later found out the presenter was a comedian some casino had hired. If he had done that at a US tradeshow all of twitter would've exploded in faux outrage

I don't get the Business Insider troll tweets though. I think he forgot Twitter isn't 4chan
Except Snowden is a hero, so we're cool with any and all threads speculating on his current activities.
Thank you for your feedback Michael. I will definetely implement the improvements you've mentioned.
Op-ed: How patent trolls doomed themselves by targeting Main Street
I agree with you, many peoples acts are not in harmony with their values but I am not sure society can solve this in an effective way, without imposing limits. If your acts are not crossing the boundaries of another's rights then in my opinion as long as you have options to make a change then this battle is for everyone to win by themselves.
This is also how you create urea in prill form, which you'll find in a bag of fertilizer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prill
Blogs have been mixing the order of events around. the correct order is:

Circle Shake -> Titstare -> Pre-scheduled break -> Apology
The Business Insider Guide To Being A Man
Isn't that a thumbnail generation from dropbox? I remember a thumbnail entry in their API.
The meta text on any page can be this:

> 21 points by johns 15 minutes ago | discuss

or

> 152 points by ar7hur 3 hours ago | 58 comments

If the rgex matches (case 2), then I cast it to an int. Otherwise (case 1, 0 comments).
Agreed. I think we really need to look at where we're losing women, especially in the transition from high school to college.
"IT IS NOT FOR EVERYONE."

whenever i hear "it's not for everyone" i always hear that little bit of condescension.
All that doesn't make it any less wrong.
> "Take it to an extreme: Starting tomorrow everyone in the world uses ad blockers. The internet would collapse overnight."

The internet predates internet advertising. Many sites use different business models and are profitable without relying on ads. If everyone in the world used ad blockers, many websites would die, but if these websites actually provided a useful service, replacements would spring up using alternate business models because the internet is about as close to a free market as currently exists.
Let us, then, bring a quote from that article:

"[...] the remedy to someone saying or writing or showing something that offends you is not to read it, or to speak out against it." (ephasis original)

I have yet to see much (if any) advocacy for making disgusting, sexist, immature apps illegal (which would then make this a freedom of speech issue). I have, however, seen plenty of advocacy for keeping this crap out of our community. Which is, incidentally, exactly what the article you linked advocates (see the quote above).

We're all (supposed to be) adults, and we (should) know better than that.

(edit to indicate emphasis is not mine)
Silicon valley types are the devil to the unwashed San Francisco hippies. As an investment banker you also provide a service. When Google buys a startup for $50 million, that transaction doesn't make itself happen.
But you see why that's a really significant difference, right? One is a professional gathering for people who work in a certian field and the other is a basic cable comedy show.
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It's based on the concept of immutable servers http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ImmutableServer.html which helps eliminate errors due to drift. Containers also have lower overhead than VMs.
> Please define a mode and define mode switching.

If I'm entering text, I cannot move the cursor. Mode one.

If I'm moving the cursor, I cannot enter text. Mode two.

If I'm using a modern editor, these modes are not present -- if I want to move the cursor, I press the appropriate keyboard keys. Instead of pressing a letter key to insert a letter, I press the up-arrow key to move the editing cursor, without any preliminary mode-switching keys. This means an absolute minimum of keystrokes, and because there are no modes, the letter keys always insert letters, and the arrow keys always move the cursor.

All before beginning to discuss the mouse or other pointing devices, methods that have existed since 1963 and have been in wide use since 1980.

Any questions?
I think Internet makes an interesting system, as hardcore porn is easily available (really easily), while talking about sex (specially with teenagers/kids) is a huge taboo, and no one knows how to deal properly with sex education (understood as a broad subject)

I think most of the people understands that Rambo is not a good example of a real life soldier, or High School is not similar to Howarts. Equally, I think most of the people understands that porn is not a good representation of real life (nor romantic comedies a good representation of real life relationships, which is also another interesting example of arts influencing life, but I digress). Of course, if we don't discuss those issues with a more realistic approach, I guess there are some people that can miss the point and get bad assumptions and expectations.
LibreOffice has a pretty powerful document conversion, which you can run headless. I'm guessing they are converting to HTML and perhaps other formats -- do they offer anything like that?

Edit: You can invoke it something like this:

soffice --headless --convert_to html file.doc

I'm just speculating, but it seems reasonable that it would open the document just like the regular LibreOffice, fetch external resources and so on.
Whose side would Freud be on? See: 'Partial Object', particularly its canonical example.

(My point here is the term, not the man.)
Thanks for the suggestions Vukmir. I'll see how I can incorporate some of the mentioned ideas on the website.
I wondered the same thing, especially after Phil Schiller's comment: "a few of you probably saw some shots on the Web...and that's cool!"
On the one hand, it seems unlikely that an automated process would trigger external resource retrieval. In the same way, most processes that scan webpages for content or similarities don't run JavaScript, unless they are very sophisticated (this used to be a good way to protect against spam bots, for instance).

On the other hand, given how many files are uploaded to dropbox every hour, it's inconceivable that a human, whether through deliberate management direction or mischief, is opening all these documents. I would more concerned about human intervention if occasionally, a document triggered a buzz some days after it had been uploaded.

If all documents are showing as opened within 10 minutes, then surely it is just an anti-duplication automated agent at work.
Hex on the beach.

Sorry.
LibreOffice is commonly used as part of a system to convert and generate previews for MS Office files. I would assume it has something to do with thumbnail generation or preview generation. However I don't seem to see thumbnails or previews of .Doc files (I do for images - for example) on the dropbox webapp - so maybe it's something their testing?
Could be this (thumbnails): https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#thumbnails
Was considering quitting my job (in nyc) just this morning and finally getting my health care idea off the ground. And now this! :)

Definitely interested.
you might want to add this as an edit to your original comment. Its getting lost over here.
> It's a fascinating cultural shift, and the religious right is fighting hard to stay in the 50s

To the extent this is true, its not the actual 1950s, but a mythical image of the 1950s created later, that's mostly associated with that particular time because its a distorted image of what the world was like prior to the supposed liberal reengineering of society in the 1960s and beyond. (And probably because at the time it started to coalesce, "the 1950s" was an easily-romanticized childhood time of the audience the image was meant to appeal to.)
LibreOffice is not necessarily a sign of a human involment in the process, as it comes with a commandline interface to convert documents between various formats. So it could be thumbnail generation as Guillaume86 suggested.
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Requiring an invite seems like such a high barrier to entry if you actually want people to sign up. I usually skip any such thing, because instant gratification is great, and who knows when the invite will come in and whether I'll still care once it does.

Seeing this message, I bit the bullet and requested an invite anyway, and have seen no action in the couple of hours since... thus validating my initial reluctance.
Cool research. I like how you "connect-the-dots" from the benign-looking MySQL's behaviour to the bad code in Wordpress. This reminds me of http://www.suspekt.org/2008/08/18/mysql-and-sql-column-trunc....

I'm surprised that the fix in Wordpress wasn't explicitly marking fields that need to be serialized/unserialized, instead of second-guessing based on the broken promise by MySQL.

> MySQL replaces characters it doesn’t recognize (for the given character set), with a placeholder. MySQL will sometimes replace byte sequences with “?” or “�” (U+FFFD). Such replacements would not be harmful.

This is so wrong. A database must never change any data that it's asked to stored. Wordpress, and other applications, always make that assumption, and when it isn't true anymore all hell breaks loose.

PS: it blows my mind that it looks like strpos in PHP could return either boolean or integer [1].

[1] http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.6.1/wp-include...
That would make sense to me. Especially since he only sees it on .doc files. Probably a thumbnail generator utility that uses LibreOffice plugin. Very interested to find out...

There's a saying that likely applies here:

"When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses not zebras"
The problem lies not in the rules, but in their enforcement.

I can't speak for the UK but in France it is not allowed for an intern to work more than 40 hours a week under any circumstances, yet in many industries you still see 60+h workweeks as a standard for interns...

Because by any means, an intern subject to this kind of unacceptable working conditions will not speak up since that would annihilate his chances to get a job at the end of his internship (and might even discredit him at other companies in the same industry)
HackFwd was one of the rare accelerators that was actually pushing the envelope instead of being copycats. Besides they had another rare trait in this space - integrity and deep commitment to companies they fund (disclaimer - I'm the founder of one of those companies).
What would you say the NBA prizes, fortitude or height? One to a point - the other immeasurably.
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You provided a single example and then skipped the alternatives.
You said: "You can't have your health back and you wasted years of your life chasing a dream."

Your health is unlikely to suffer in any appreciable long-term way working banking hours for a few years in your 20's. And at the end it's not like you're some factory worker that has sacrificed your body and is spit out with nothing to show for it. You've got a credential that is tremendously valuable in corporate America and ideally a bunch of money saved up.

For the majority of people who aren't looking to be career bankers, it wasn't "chasing a dream" but rather using a job as a stepping stone.
Hahaha, that's the thing, companies expect employees to do whatever they have to for results. In many ways I feel like professional athletes that do the same by doping should get a pass. It's not an even playing field but at the end of the day everyone wants results.
Did you bother asking Dropbox what's going on?

This kinda reads like an ad for HoneyDocs...
It can be put into other terms: The refuge gets a lot of money because of the NASA station there.
really?

you've already determined that it's running on an ec2 instance, but it's somehow "suspicious" that the user-agent is libreoffice? and you're a "security researcher" but "curious if this is an automated process"? please.

sure, dropbox might owe an explanation (even though you certainly gave them permission to do this in their TOS), and you can call me cynical and jaded, but this seems like pretty shameless FUD that appears to be tied to an effort to shill a new product.

EDIT: first i thought this was written by the HoneyDocs founder. now i'm actually unsure who the author is.
Yeah, same with chrome. looks like every skill you clicked on created an entry in the browser's history. Not sure why they did the UX like that; it's very annoying.
I would wager that they're opening it in order to generate a thumb or preview, or maybe for search indexing, and libreoffice is a good way to achieve this on linux - particularly if they're only opening it once, as they probably use the hash of the file.

We do exactly this on our eCommerce platform, before wanging stuff into s3 or glacier and just keeping a reference kicking around.

On the other hand, you have just discovered an information disclosure (host IPs) vulnerability in dropbox.
The bartender hands you the bottles and the shaker, do it yourself.
How would you know who delivered the beating? Was there supposed to be a reward for that person?

On a related note, has anyone actually tried building a cypherpunk-style assassination market?
Same here :\
Yes, and before it will perform the decryption, it needs the correct "SmcDeviceKey", so I think my point still stands :)
See other reply for order-of-events.

Apparently per their Facebook apology, Titstare entered under a different name, with the Titstare name first being seen in the slide deck.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/09/how-avoid-...
Ask HN: Give a novice dev a dose of reality?
Hey all, posting under an alias since my normal nick is linked to me IRL. I'm a pretty novice developer (1-2 years professionally, 3-4 since I first learned Python), and as my previous questions might demonstrate, I have very concrete career goals.

At my current job, I'm working on things that I believe have little or no impact on where I want to be in a few years. I need quantitative/statistical experience to do what I want to do, and I'm not getting it at work. At the same time they're very accommodating when it comes to my part-time education (walking in late after morning class, taking time to study, helping me with math theory questions), and I'm also building some general dev experience, which is always good.

So HN, I need a dose of reality here. Am I expecting too much for someone with my experience? Should I swallow my pride a bit, take advantage of my job's accommodations and work on this boring, semi-relevant work? Or do I need to leave as of yesterday?

EDIT: In the past I've "aimed high" for gigs, and I'm worried about getting rejected based on my (potentially inflated) view of my skills. Should that complicate this question at all?
If someone from honeydocs is reading this ...

The tracking behavior depends on a tracking pixel which may not always be processed by the client.

For example, with the credit_cards sample, the xls file is actually an HTML file with an img at the end (url linking to https://honeydocs.herokuapp.com/img/xls/...) and a client that only reads the plaintext (there are a boatload of command line utilities that fit the bill) won't fetch the image.
Or maybe even some Sazerac Rye in its namesake cocktail :)

http://www.buffalotracedistillery.com/brands/sazerac-rye