skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Yahoo! had just sent the researchers t-shirts directly with thank-you notes, perhaps they still would have been disappointed with the reward but I doubt they (or we) would be as offended.

Funny how actual cash evokes different reactions.
It depends on severity but I believe at google the minimum is $1337.

With that being said, $12.50 is $12.50 more than PayPal's. I don't know anyone who has reported a vulnerability to PayPal that has actually received a reward.
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Sonus silentii fallacy
I have a Lumia 920 too but my experience had been completely different.

I had before an Iphone 3G and an Android 2.3 and don't miss anything as those two. First the camera is hands down the best camera I had use in a mobile phone (I haven't check the new Iphone or the last Lumia though) and I appreciate the new camera app that came with the Amber update.

Xbox Music is also another big thing to me, it just works and I can download the music I want for a reasonable subscription price. Last time I checked Spotify didn't really compared to it and not to mention how painful it is to set it up in Canada.

I haven't had the notification problem yet, but I only really read notifications from 4 apps, all the other ones I don't care.

So I guess it depends on the user, for users like me it just way better.

(PS: Not to mention how good are SkyDrive, OneNote, Word, Excel)
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Still, if you restrict your search to companies that offer sponsorship then you're much more limited than an EU citizen. But I'll take a look at it. Thanks for the tips.
This is not the case. Examples: NYC vs SF and Madrid vs Berlin. Well, Madrid is bigger and more dense than most of the cities with more github users in this map.
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Ask HN: How much do you earn from Google Adsense?
So, I'm setting up Google adsense and planning on implementing it on a few websites in order to improve on reoccuring monthly income.

How much do you guys typically earn from websites with Adsense? What's the most you've ever got?
I've compiled a list of JS error logging services here: https://gist.github.com/cheeaun/5835757 . I've also tried tagging which one of them uses tracekit and supports source maps, etc.
You are the interface: Interacting with our new, connected environments
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Well, I was imagining a comparison to the scenario where you had to go get a hacksaw, so you could just carry your phone somewhere. But sure, if there is a hacksaw right there, charging doesn't compare.
He's not only less connected, but a loudmouth, too. You can't have people just piping off, saying whatever they want.. what kind of example does that set?
I wonder if not paying would be better than paying a small amount.
hm im doing similar thing but im storing raw data in S3 and glacier. no need for nosql for this. or am i missing something?
The most promising new protocol, in my opinion, is Pond: https://pond.imperialviolet.org/
I wonder, what if I wrote a script to keep generating trivial updates to my various feeds in case I die, maybe by sentence mixing and so on. How long would it take for people to notice.
I don't know what other people think.
But as someone who loves Sci-Fi, I loathe this man and his approach to what he calls "art". I can't stand the many series and movies he's made.

Did not like Lost, I tried to watch a couple episodes of Fringe, I just hated it. It was bland, boring and feels so calculated. And Star Trek was a great example on how Hollywood movies are made nowadays, piece together a buncha action scenes and hope the story makes sense(I'm looking at your Iron Man 3).

Now I say this because I am not that big of a fan of Star Trek, I really liked TNG, Voyager and Enterprise, but I barely know anything about Star Trek(haven't even watched TOS) like many people do. But this man claimed on TV that he didn't like Star Trek, how on Earth can you expect someone to even understand it well enough to make a half decent movie. Especially considering the level of quality Star Trek is suppose to have.
no blend mode except "normal" really works reliably across browsers yet

Compared to what? What alternative does reliably have blend?
I set it up on a website a long time ago, but my traffic was pathetic.

Made maybe about $0.10 a month?

The website is now long gone by the way, so not making anything currently.
Well I'm not a big believer of the layman's usage of "free will" to begin with (in fact I believe it to be self-contradictory), so I'm sure we could have a long discussion on the subject.

But from a different perspective, I always find it laughable when people like to claim that they or us in modern times are (or should be) so far above certain types of behavior, violent or otherwise. Human history is a trail of tragedy perpetrated by regular people no different from you and me. To think that you are somehow different than all those that came before is pure egoism.
The author writes in the book exactly how he managed to contol the colors: the shapes that scroll pixel by pixel never mix with anything of different color horizontally. The things that move freely move in 8 pixel jumps. Magic.
AngelList syndicates are changing seed investing, whether VCs like it or not
Yep, and I hate it when they use "PC" as a synonym for Microsoft Windows. I do have a PC!
You're the one that added that bit about the Raspberry Pi to the RNG comparison page on Wikipedia? Thanks for the tip! That helped me with a project I was working on at the time. I've since learned that there is also a HW RNG on the AM335x that comes on the BeagleBone Black.
Yahoo store credit is not "actual cash". b^)
From everything that I can see, there is pretty much negative unemployment for seriously good, uncertified, high-talent penetration testers. I directly know of a few places that are very seriously trying to staff up with non-goons. I expect some to show up on HN tomorrow, in fact.
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In the second World War, bombers returning from missions over Germany were carefully examined for battle damage and the locations of bullet holes mapped. Armour plating is heavy and cuts into the planes' useful range and load---where should it be placed? Abraham Wald suggested putting armour plate over places where no bullet hole had ever been observed, because those were the vulnerable spots. Planes shot in those locations never returned to be counted.

It's called the problem of non-ignorable non-response.
I lost count of how many times I had to open a Word generated HTML document (by a regular Word user that though copying from Word and posting it in the CMS was a good idea) and clean it up by hand so it wouldn't break the page for browsers other than IE (even in IE it would break sometimes... surprise, surprise).

So yes, Sir. Yes, really.

HTML generators like this (or MS Word, or Dreamweaver, you name it) unfortunately are not optimized to do just the job they are used for. A good example for that is the one gave by our fellow commenter above. It adds a lot of useless code because it is simpler to do it that way. In the times where every Kb/s used to count, load a HTML page with 3 times the size it should be was a real issue.

Also, MS Word to HTML was the worst thing I have ever seen in terms of compatibility for other browsers. That to me does not sound like making the world a better place, sorry.
But in this case the consumers are the sellers. These are ordinary people with shares that lost value. Cuban had information that the ordinary people didn't since he was an insider, and unfairly used that information to get to market faster than everyone else. If everyone else knew that information they would have sold at the same time, causing Cuban's shares to be worth less when he tried to sell.

Also, selling pumpkins at a high school football game? Far out analogy...
eh, I don't think that's the same. Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, they weren't top 1% programmers. They are simply people who knew programming (to some degree) and got rich from their business ideas. Whereas the athletes, like Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods, are incredibly talented.

The closest you can find in the programming world is probably John Carmack, who found a way to earn a large sum of money based directly on his programming talent.
Well, what an XSS is worth on the black market is not necessarily the same as what companies offer to researchers who report vulnerabilities. Many companies will offer nothing more than a "Thank you, so-and-so" somewhere on their site or in the release notes for the fix.

I think the problem with Yahoo's response is that it looks like they are actively being cheapskates. Almost universally, cheap is worse than no-money-involved. A "thank you" might be appreciated, a reasonable monetary reward will probably be appreciated, and even sending some free swag might read as a warm gesture, but offering a $12 store credit pretty explicitly says "I value this very little."
Oops, true. I forgot about that.
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Most of the new "options" they open up are still not ready for prime time.

I had an article in MSDN Magazine promoting SVG graphics 10 friggin' years ago, and it made use of inline SVG and JavaScript animations, to fantastic effect. Since then I've used SVG in countless places, with very little downside. The major problem are some laggard browsers, but if you have a supporting browser neither inlining and script are a problem whatsoever.

SVG is one of those technologies where many (such as myself) overestimated the short-term impact, and under-estimated the long term impact. As a technology it was usable and enormously powerful in some situations ten years ago, but it is really just starting to gain serious inertia.
Ok, then I will say your argument is a bit disingenuous, as I did not compare "open source X" to "closed source X": I am trying to show that "is it open source" is just one of many variables that you might consider while evaluating the security of a program, and I am further attempting to claim that it is not even the most important of these variables. In the real world, we are choosing between software that differ in many ways, not just one: all individual dichotomies are "false".

I mean, I could also say the argument "you can't trust closed source software for this stuff" is also "a bit disingenuous" via the analogous argument that that open vs. closed is a "false dichotomy": a single-threaded/type-safe/un-obfuscated X-source program "is always more easily auditable" than a multi-threaded/type-unsafe/obfuscated X-source program. Now, the question becomes "what variables are more important to you, and will your reactions be 'knee jerk' or rational"?
I can't speak for OP, but my feeling from his tone is frustration that the failings of government, and the subsequent privatization of key services is frequently treated by the Valley as some kind of disruptive innovation, rather than a pyrrhic victory.

Take Uber for example - Uber only exists due to the complete failure of SF's public transportation network, as well as its horrifyingly corrupt taxi industry. The fact that it exists may be necessary, but it is indicative of a malaise, not a leap forward.

I personally find it very annoying at how self-congratulatory our industry is on these matters. A private police force is nothing to celebrate, it's cause for sober reflection on just how badly we've completely fucked up to even make it necessary.
This is my 2nd year as a web developer, and I'm honestly very grateful. I feel fortunate to have this opportunity as my peers are working in much harsher environments for less compensation.

I've been working all day from a bar in downtown Austin, TX. My CEO is a developer and is very understanding. Deadlines have to be met, but how or when you work is at your discretion.

I previously worked in a very harsh environment with a hostile CEO, and I can understand that it can be oppressive. However, I think that the status quo is changing.

/2c
This sounds a lot like the old BBS game TradeWars. Thanks for sharing it!
He doesn't care, probably. You're just some kid who can't/won't program in anything besides javascript (of all languages). Nobody owes you an explanation of why that's limiting. I'm surprised he indulged you for as long as he did.
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That is what I meant by "dilute", yes. Not a perfect metaphor, I guess. In point of fact, only /dev/random would be affected by that. /dev/urandom does not stall when it runs out of entropy; it just reuses the entropy in the pool and hopes for the best.
Does this person think that programming will suddenly be a breeze if it is done as a hobby rather then as a job? Even if you are programming in your own free time you will still have to deal with the perversions of internet exploder and other fatally flawed programming platforms. At least if you are doing it as a job you are getting paid for it!
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I like the Abus Bordo Combo. No key required (but don't forget the combo). Don't know if it can resist the hydraulic cutters, but it looks like it can to my untrained eye.
Definitely. Paying such a small amount, especially in credit that can only be redeemed in a company store, is patronizing and gets you mentioned in a negative light on Hacker News. If you don't pay, you're just like one of the many companies that doesn't have a bounty program.

Edit: this reminds me of the "eBay goodies" offered to researcher Neal Poole in return for delaying disclosure of a vulnerability [https://nealpoole.com/blog/2013/03/bad-changes-to-ebays-resp...]. I would probably not have remembered that story if not for that "eBay goodies" line, just as I probably won't forget this story thanks to the screenshot of Yahoo-branded socks in the company store.
People forget most major Hollywood directors aren't just or most significantly 'creatives', people who are hired to produce original creative works. They are business men just as much as the executive producers. Want to succeed big time in Hollywood as a director? Make sure you put together a film that appeals to the masses by use of cliches and established successful film patterns. And don't take any risks trying to appeal to both the fans and non-fans, just target the largest demographic from the get go. JJ Abrams doesn't make high quality original films because that's not what sells, and he has no interest in working by any other metric than what sells.
The biggest thing you miss out on are:

1. In person networking, be it other attendees or other vendors

2. Hackathons

3. Knowledge not covered in the talks that would later be uploaded as videos

4. After parties and event

5. The ability to ask questions specific to speakers, etc

Not necessarily in that order or anything. If most of those don't matter to you, skip
Take a look at this:

http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/

Specifically:

http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/papers/sigmod...
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Hi,

The poster definitely meant free-as-in-speech software. Nevertheless, I'm unable to test it right now since it is not available for desktop Linux.

I take it from a few comments here that Google Web Designer uses Chromium Embedded Frame. I have ported Adobe Brackets, which uses Chromium Embedded Frame too, and it's not too difficult. Hardly a day's work. Is there a date when Google Web Designer will be available for desktop Linux?

Thanks, Pritam Baral
I know folding@home was taking big advantage of CUDA enabled nvidia GPUs
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If you're using Q, you get long stack traces [1] for debugging asynchronous behavior! That way you can follow the entire path of an exception, through multiple callbacks. Q also wraps every function with a try/catch statement, and will push caught exceptions into the error pipeline [2].

[1] https://github.com/kriskowal/q#long-stack-traces
[2] https://github.com/kriskowal/q#handling-errors
I agree. Early on I find it especially ironic when he verbally attacked Carter's X-Files for meaningless mysteries and a lack of satisfying conclusions, when now that pretty much defines JJ Abrams works.

Abrams TV shows are vapid mysteries that have no overriding theme and his movies are are plotless roller coaster rides.
Isn't Ambrosia the company behind the amazing turn-based RPG series, Exile; with Exile I, II, III, and Blades of Exile being some of the most critically-acclaimed independent RPGs of all-time?

edit: nope, that would be SpiderWeb, who has apparently renamed the series to "Avernum" (???): http://www.spidweb.com/
Esperanto: Simple, logical and doomed
Realtime WarGames-style visualization of Github updates
I really hope the StackOverlow team writes up a detailed blog post on the performance benefits of RyuJIT.

The StackExchange network must be one of the largest .NET web applications.

EDIT: typo
Most of that effort would be spent writing drivers. Writing a scheduler (how many has Linux had so far, 3?), process manager, virtual memory system, simple filesystem and networking (TCP/IP) stack is not that much work. Supporting most existing hardware, however, takes years.

EDIT: for an example, compare linux/drivers/ to linux/kernel/ (core kernel code, including process management and scheduling) and linux/mm/ (memory management) in Linux. The former is huge.
10% of invested funds for admin? Isn't that 5x the industry standard?
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PGStrom
As someone else mentioned, there's a 2D version as well (http://bl.ocks.org/syntagmatic/6769077).

Personally I loved the 3D version. I found it interesting and fun.
I think "mechanic" is a bad metaphor. We're talking about engineering here. I don't think I could doubt that a lot of programming jobs (webapps, etc) are not as interesting as a lot of electrical and mechanical engineering jobs. But I could be wrong.
>So would you seriously consider doing robbery or not?

You seem to think our behavior is entirely rational. Even aside from the free will debate, this is completely untrue. Our behavior is motivated by a combination of unconscious impulses and consciously directed goals. If the unconscious impulses to steal became great enough it would override any rational ideals about property rights and such.

Of course you'll retort that there are millions of poor folks that don't steal so I couldn't possibly be right. Well that's true, but how many of them are kept in line by external factors such as potential jail time, shame, embarrassment, fear, etc? This is the point of society after all--create external motivations for behaviors that are beneficial to the group. All those that don't steal is not an indication that they do it for purely rational reasons.

The point is that asking "would you seriously consider robbery" to someone who is relatively well off is not a meaningful question, just like you saying (from your place of privilege) that you would never consider violating someone else's property rights no matter how destitute you became is a meaningless declaration.
Put on your best Scottish accent and say the name out loud. Think the Sean Connery character on SNL Celebrity Jeopardy.
His sale didn't change the price. What it changed was how much the company could raise. Which is why it is civil not criminal. By selling he limited how much of the company was available to the public, and sold to all those who would want to buy before the company had a chance.

Limited market with a time constraint. The analogy was meant to show that the price, was the same, but with a limited number of buyers and those buyers only having limited need/desire for the offering that you could make it so their was no one to sell to in a week.

I didn't know of another way to constrain market and time on something that people would only need so much of. A hotdog they would buy next week. And it had to be a market you could saturate.
original poster: exactly! that's the main point. This is designed to enable for small scaled bike share systems. you can share the location and access of bikes with a (close or open) group of people. As the owner of the lock, you set the terms. you can also assign people as admins so they can also manage permissions.
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Problem is that he'll be numb to those prompts after a week (been there, etc.).

Try meditation. It works.
Sure, it's only one variable. I disagree that it's not the most important one.

You can audit a multithreaded open source program much more easily than you can audit a single-threaded closed source program. Merely compiling it adds more obfuscation than making it needlessly, complicated will, and making it needlessly complicated will immediately raise red flags.

You don't need to analyze an open-source program to see that it's been obfuscated, and, if it claims to do anything that requires security, that would probably be enough to make you suspicious.

My ultimate point is that compiling is a form of obfuscation that has extreme plausible deniability. There's no form of obfuscation that will complicate the code of an open source program as much as compiling it will, while still looking as innocuous as compiling does.
Just don't forget to charge your phone or you'll be walking home..
Atmel has an MC you can get for about 4 bucks that does AES encryption onboard, and if you pushed the data through that, the harmonics wouldn't matter.
I'm guessing the bubble called Silicon Valley. They tend to have a fairly skewed view of the world there.
More idiomatic Python, and quite clear IMHO

print sum(x if x % 3 == 0 or x % 5 == 0 else 0 for x in range(1, 1000))
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This video seems to wallow in fanboy nostalgia and its conclusion boils down to "Can you just please remake Star Wars again but more HD-y-er"

The prequels were horribly acted, but the attempt to make a classical backstory to illustrate the fall to a romantic frontier was, to me, admirable. The Prequels were set in high society (city) to show the great classical culture which valued learning (libraries) and articulated methodologies to master the world around them (real understanding of the force).
It's like evolution. The bad designs just disappear. But it's hard to figure out all of the other failures just by looking at the one that made it.
The problem is if you're standing next to your bike and a thief presses a button on the lock.
Sometimes I temporarily install windows 7 on a VM, beyond that I haven't used windows even close to seriously for years.

I'm full blown RHEL/fedora.
Have you used Google Music? It sounds like it offers roughly the same experience as Xbox Music.
The Heilmeier Questions
i honestly don't care any more - abrams clearly wants to make action movies, and is doing his best to shoehorn star trek into that mould despite the fact that action is not what trek is all about.
Waiting on my email yet as well.
And of course, the grand-daddy of this genre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TradeWars_2002
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It's okay to be a huge fan of some property and revolt against new entries or "reimaginings" of that property, but here's what it sounds like to people who aren't huge fans of the original property:

http://www.theonion.com/video/trekkies-bash-new-star-trek-fi...
This video is is in the 'uncanny valley'[1] of webcontent for me. It is not organic but instead is really an advertisement/marketing for 'Sincerely Truman' a marketing firm, just like so many 'infographics' are just blogspam. I think they did a good job on the presentation, and I somewhat agree with the message, but it just has this layer of artifice on it, that makes me reject it.
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
Bring back Firefly.