skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the emails are not encrypted, anyone in the middle who's capable of scanning this traffic can basically see all the transactions passing by?
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How'd you install it? The extension link gives me an .xpi Firefox extension download.
EIG's business model is to buy up smaller hosting companies pretty much just for the customer base and then migrate them all onto the same shared infrastructure. They keep the front end sites operating the same but it's all the same on the back end. They've done it so many times that they've gotten quite good at the migrations, and then whatever random hardware the original company was using is discarded. Usually noone from the company being taken over ends up working for them, support is sent to their offshore call centres (who actually do a decent job). Most web hosting companies are fairly small operations and usually have a single owner or maybe a few partners who are just bought out and the employees are all let go.

They're able to maintain the appearance of having a bunch of competing companies and you can shop around for the best deal, which they will change around periodically, but it's always the same thing underneath.

Source: Worked for two webhosts acquired by EIG.
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What new features does Dash offer? The only one OP mentions is viewing your code on a simulated mobile device. While that's useful, it's not particularly relevant to the target audience of beginning web developers.

Note: Learned the basics of web programming from Codecademy - extremely helpful service.
Will Apple merge the Mac and iPhone in the near future?
It's safe in NZ because even with access to your internet banking, a thief can only transfer money to another NZ account and they're fairly reliable at verifying the identities of account holders.
Great points. I agree with some of them, but disagree with others.

> The structure of the API encourages passing the entire context around everywhere, which basically turns all of these objects into global variables.

I don't see it that way. In many cases, you don't need to pass around a context, you can directly pass the objects that you need to work on. And even when you do pass the context, its not as if you go through its -registeredObjects. You would usually get your objects using a fetch request -- how is it different from fetching your objects directly using SELECT over a db connection?

> For example, ObjectiveRecord[1] adds class methods for looking up objects using a predicate. Modularity? Separation of concerns? Perish the thought.

I really don't see how this is bad for modularity or separation of concerns? Can you please elaborate?

> At the large scale, you don't want to load everything into memory so you need a better scheme, but then you need something like SQLite so you can avoid the slowness and gain more control.

But Core Data does support SQLite as a backend, and it allows you to easily load only a subset of your data. Just create a fetch request with the appropriate predicate and you can work with just the objects you need.

One of the things that is definitely slow though is if you want to mass update or delete a significant number of your objects. In that case you would have to load all the objects in memory and update or delete them one by one, which can be a pain if you need to do this a lot (whereas with SQLite a simple UPDATE or DELETE statement would have sufficed).

Another reason for slowness historically has been that if you use two different contexts (say for multi-threading reasons), then in order to transfer updated information from one context to another you had to first save the information to disk, and only then could you fetch the updated info on the other context. The alternative to this is to lock the context and objects explicitly which has its own problems. However, with the introduction of parent contexts and new concurrency types in iOS 5, it is not a problem anymore. If a context has its parent context set, then when it saves its changes, they won't got to disk -- the changes are only registered in the parent context.

Core Data is not perfect at all, but I don't think it is completely unusable either.
Registered sex offenders sending pictures of their dicks to teenagers who are foolish enough in their youth to share their Snapchat name publicly in hopes of making a social connection.

Not national security, but an arguably reasonable law enforcement target.
Really? I've been impressed with Kiwibank's balancing security and usability. Rabobank NZ have two factor authentication too.

Of course if you're with one of the four majors, well... they're owned by Australians, what did you expect?
Read about "parallel construction" to get an idea, it was on news few months ago..
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE...
Hands down one of the best interfaces / UX I have ever used. It's about time someone made sending money really simple and free. Can't wait to see how this service matures.
I'm really curious about your answer, but I literally don't know what that means, and Google is not helping.

Perhaps you give some examples of fields that are competitive analysis fields? Or define "competitive analysis"?
See also, an Italian analogue: sprezzatura. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprezzatura
> you would almost certainly have to reveal the exploit publicly in a court.

That's definitely not true. Often police and prosecutors will go to great lengths to hide a wiretap from the courts, especially if direct evidence didn't come from it. There have also been many cases where wiretaps haven't been disclosed in court because there may be on-going related operations that require the same surveillance. You don't want to tip people off. I don't see why any potential exploit wouldn't be the same.

Here's an example: say you're investigating some organised crime. You learn from a wiretap that the next day one of your informants is going to be killed. You clearly want to prevent the latter without disclosing you've got an active wiretap.
None of the links off the main page seem to work.

Honestly, the page looks pretty decent. It seems less of a clone of HN, than just a page where you can comment and vote on links, which frankly, wasn't a concept created by Hacker News.
That's kind of expected. And 12 since May? Of the many snaps that's a tiny, tiny number.

I'm glad they don't actually store for longer than is necessary tbh.
Surely it's the other end that is insecure. If this starts growing then sniffing unencrypted emails from Square offering "sign-up to receive your money" sounds profitable enough to be interesting to some actors.
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Agreed. An Acer Chromebook would be a good choice if your're using it to web dev. But I would suggest you try Koding (http://koding.com) Mainly because it has a few notable features that are perfect for a Chromebook.

A Chrome app https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/terminal/kogcfmeen...

Free virtual machine (VM) with Ubuntu, root access, apt-get, and many commonly used tools

Built-in Terminal with 256-color support

All languages, databases, and command-line tools are supported

Various file upload options such as Drag & Drop, Dropbox, Clone from Github, FTP and the ability to access them using SSH

Real-time code and terminal collaboration with integrated chat abilities

Subdomains serve PHP, Perl, Python via Apache, and additional ports are available for other web apps

So in my opinion that's your best choice. :)
Will this be useful for mosques, synagogues, temples, etc?
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Interesting, I currently use Venmo, which ties into Facebook accounts so it's super easy to find people. But Venmo is only free is you tie your checking account.

With this I can tie my debit card (which I guess is the same thing). So, I don't seen any real positive benefit over Venmo IMO. Can anyone else point anything out?
I just kind of struck me as strange. I grew up with it meaning something like "lucky", "fortunate", could be things like kid is doing well in school, found the person of their dreams to marry, it wasn't a direct euphemism for got a pile of money. But now it kind of is.

Do I personally agree or disagree? Well don't certainly use the word that way, and unless I am felling snarky I won't bother dissecting its meaning or messing with it.
Completely disagree because he has provided reasoning based on personal observation of real-life situations.

That makes it amenable to understanding, evaluation, and practical application by himself and by other people, like me.

The same can't be said for very complex models like MBTI or the so-called "big five" which are difficult to understand and require complex scientific methods to study. Such models may be correct and may be useful, but it would be hard to evaluate their correctness and it would take a vast amount of effort to use them.
I just registered using Twitter and submitted a post of my own content. Seems to work, although I'm curious if it will get deleted since I'm not cool enough to associate up-and-center with the venture crowd.

Unlike HN, you must submit text in the body of a submission. Which is somewhat redundant.
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The best thing someone could do for TrueCrypt security is to very publicly release a version with a backdoor, easily exploited, and difficult to detect, for anyone else to distribute. By making that a real threat, users will end up checking their source/compilation/results, protecting them against the same threat from real attackers.
Would you feel the same if they make "insect butter" instead of selling fried roaches ? I guess most of the psychological repulsion comes from the appearance...
Can you explain this? Is it the pursuit of wealth that's reprehensible to you? Violating the taboo against talking too openly about it? Or just the ridiculous award?

I don't find it reprehensible at all. It's not like the cockroach farmer is saying he wants to be a party leader so he get lucrative contracts for his friends. He seems to be just selling a product.
I didn't even bother trying. I knew it wouldn't do what it said because I'm not in America. I've sent cash to other countries before but this isn't cash so it can't possibly work. IT would be nice if they clearly listed who can't use it to save people's time.
short answer, yes. Although, I'm assuming early adopters will be Christianity based.
Reminds me of one of my favorite bits of rock criticism from the early oughts, Farm Report Wabi Sabi:

http://nypress.com/farm-report-wabi-sabi/

'Then my favorite fellow Bubba, Jesse Gutierrez, came by to swallow some beers. He told me that he’s been studying Japanese esthetics, and that what I was talking about was "wabi-sabi," the beauty of the humble and the imperfect. Wabi-sabi, declaimed Jesse, his thumbs hooked into the straps of his overalls, was developed to its height by 15th-century tea masters who found that the finish of Chinese Ming porcelain began to cloy. They started buying and exalting absolutely plain Korean peasant ware, stuff that was cracked, distressed, flawed. It reminded them of the beauty of nature, autumn leaves on a stone path.'
Can you speak more about the newsletters? How did you attract more users? Just through the site alone?
I was responding specifically to the comment that if v8 team continues optimizing in response to asm.js as they have been, perhaps there is no need for NaCL (or asm.js). I don't think that will ever be true.
Not all countries/people feel bad about getting rich. :)
In China on every new Year you wish each other "prosperity" and this partly linked to making it big, too.
You're oversimplifying.

There are wide differences in consumer protections between credit and debit cards.

The list of reasons for a valid chargeback on a debit card is much more narrow than a credit card. For example, suppose you purchase a tablet online and when you get the package, you sign for it, open it, and it's a paperweight. If you charged that on your debit card you're out of luck and will have to go to small claims court. On a credit card -- especially a good credit card -- the charge would be reversed. The issue there is that you signed for the package. If you don't believe that, give your bank's fraud dept a call, and then your credit card companies.

American Express obviously is great for consumer protections but truthfully any Visa Signature card offers a competent level of service.

Personally, I would never use a debit card online (or anywhere else for that matter) and would advise anybody against it. Not to mention, you can earn some fantastic cashback/mileage benefits. My wife and I are flying next spring to Europe, first class from San Francisco, over $20k in airfare, for only $2500 out of pocket for taxes and surcharges. To earn this we've spent $40k between 2 British Air cards in 15 months.
This hackerspace is awesome. 1 block from BART, lots of smart members (including many EFF folks) from a unique intersection of communities, attempting ambitiously to be horizontal, do-o-cratic and inclusive. Support this if you can!
Home ownership is seen as a remarkable mechanism of social pacification; the political theory is that people owning homes are less prone to take actions ( protest, crime or giving up work ) that threaten their means of retaining their home.
I notice they're placing the thumbnails to the right of the headline. Most arguments I've seen strongly advocate for placing thumbnails to the left of the headline or just above the headline, because the eye will be quickly drawn to the image and you want it to flow top to down or left to right, into the headline, as a natural habit for western languages (jumping right to left in the process of viewing / reading, is unnatural, that is).
Well I'm not sure what you should be scared of really. The FDA-approved medicines where some so-called reputable companies have lied to the authorities about the fruits of their research (and hidden the potential side effects), of the chinese medicine stuff.

There's not so much you can trust anymore out there when it comes to drugs.
Pretty sure it's a digg/reddit/hn/whatever clone.
It's a known maxim, that's probably included in many sentence dictionaries.
I loved their 404 page - http://www.usv.com/404
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I was kind of arguing against including both, on the basis that it is unlikely(?) that a client that enable 256bit aes suites disables 128bit -- and so if indeed 128bit might be more secure (see the note on timing attacks) -- why leave 256 bits enabled?

Has anyone seen clients in the wild that disable 128bit and enable 256? Especially end-user clients, and/or "permanent" deployments/appliances, where the new cipher-suite isn't a result of power-user tinkering, but a decision that's taken out of the end-users hands?
And be charged with a crime for it. That's the other part. Not just trust.
That's true, they're now worse.
They are now a patent troll both directly (with the money they are demanding, and getting, from Android manufacturers) and indirectly (see link to bloomberg below) and engage heavily in astroturfing (which this article smells of... also see the readwrite link below) and attack ads (scroogle, droid rage, everything Mark Penn). On top of that it looks enough like they are closing their platform that Valve has jumped ship to hedge against MS forcing them through the MS app store where they can take a cut.

Who wouldn't want to be a part of all that?

http://readwrite.com/2013/01/03/googles-ftc-settlement-is-an...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-11/patent-privateers-s...
Actually this makes the most sense. When users type their passwords online in order to recover the data, NSA gets those passwords the same moment. I'm pretty sure Lavabit was forced to try to trick its users into giving their passwords one more time.
I'm so tired of the billion dollar bullshit. No one believes it. No one can predict it. But everyone seems to have to say it.

Spare me.

YC is investing $18k. If you build a $10 or $25 million business off that springboard, even with an angel round, that's awesome for all.

As software fills out the niches of the world, that's where the real wins are going to be.

So in short, saying your company will be worth a billion dollars isn't cool. It's just douchey.
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Saw that yesterday, and I find it weird.

Twitter login and author info, standalone posts (submitted links/stories), and Disqus comments.

It feels broken already, using a strange mix of identity from one communication tool and the interface from another ✝.

What I like is that by connecting to Twitter and using the USV team's accounts as the source you get a great idea of the character and interests of the VC team and fund.

What I dislike is that by opening that up to anyone, the front-page just becomes a mini-HN and the insight into the character of the team is immediately diluted.

I also dislike that they use Twitter identity as the author for a conversation/debate, but then use Disqus as the medium for the debate. This has two effects:

1) It breaks the feel of the audience, people present themselves slightly differently to different groups, for example how many HN profile pages carry identical info on the individual's Twitter page?

2) It splits the debate across Twitter (where some will reply directly to the author) and Disqus.

I also find the blog post placement weird. All of the design hints on the blog posts (the grey squares to the right) make me think that they are stories, just "Hot" stories that are being featured. Not the case though, grey squares are blog posts that are masquerading as submitted stories (the design consistency of the block).

It's a weird experience overall. I liked the effect that was achieved early-on of gaining insight into what the team are following and debating, but it feels confusing. Ultimately I think the best thing to do is just to follow interesting people on Twitter to gain this insight, follow trends and interests.

✝ Should probably be pointed out that Twitter and Disqus are both portfolio companies of USV, and perhaps that's why they chose to do this weird mashup. Makes me wonder about the comedy gold or real opportunities that might be achieved from mashups of other portfolio company offerings. Code academy lessons that start where you left off, every time you get a cab using Hailo?
Interesting. About anonymity, there is always the case where you don't want people knocking at your door to ask for backdoors, hidden vulnerabilities or any other requests about the software that you don't want to deal with.
Precisely the circumstances you're trying to imagine is being done by the DEA using information from NSA intercepts:

"(Reuters) - A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funnelling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans. Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin - not only from defence lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges. The undated documents show that federal agents are trained to recreate the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated."

I recommend the whole article here:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/uk-dea-sod-idUKBRE9...
I hope people don't read this and get a sense that this is acceptable behavior from someone working for a startup. Huge Kudos for stripe for putting up with you.
I'm honestly surprised Twitter never came up with their own blog commenting system, a la Facebook and Google+. Although, Facebook neglected theirs, so I assume there might not be a demand.
In short, the strategy was to develop a brand instead of code. It is nothing wrong to have a brand when you already have a superior design or innovative technology, not the other way around.

One of such manipulations were so-called benchmarks when in a mode in which the control returns to a caller function before an I/O operation is finished, successfully or not, without any error checking, which has to be done by calling a separate function explicitly. Basically, what did they measured was the performance of writing into a memory buffers.

There was later some nonsense about default mode of operation, and when you really need your data consistent
you should turn on a synchronous mode.

The story of table-level write locks is less dramatic.) But the stories of "customer satisfaction", "increased productivity" (never to see an error) "features to jump-start the development" (by ignoring how your data is stored) were all over the site and paid content mills like techcrunch.

In case there are questions about design here is the link:
http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/01/29/mongo-ft/

Keep in mind that this very crap is now "valued" at a sum compared to a budget of small country.

In case you don't get it, the design of a fault-tolerant storage engine is a much harder problem. Serious systems, such as Informix at its time, resorted to write data in a chunks they call "pages" on so-called raw-devices (without any buffering by OS or hardware). They had page-level instead of row-level locking, and in case of failure they knew which pages were written and which not, so they could rollback the unfinished transactions. btw, they used the same pages for shared memory operations.

This was a technology IBM brought for a billion dollars back in 2000. Compared to that MongoDB is just a Herbalife or any other scam.
Kinda agree with that.
Still, it is a sign that creating another CS platform can be difficult, because of the fact that people have to move to a new service.

The big problem of CS currently is that they have done a lot to increase the number of CSers in the community (for $$ reasons). This means that a lot of people subscribers that do not (IMHO) share the same spirit as older members.
This is even the reason why bewelcome was created, as far as I know.
VirtualBox has a quality problem: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/6/317

This has gotten a lot better, but for quite a while `vbox` was the thing that made my computer lock up most of the time, especially the USB drivers.
That is one of my least favorite xkcd comics. It is very misleading.

If the attackers knows that your password is constructed in this fashion, then it is trivial to track the password, as we've restricted the search space to a multiple of the number of common English words. The entropy argument only makes sense if the human readable strings are just as likely to be chosen as passwords as other random strings, which is not at all the case.
Or just fold the whole operation. It's not like the industry would collapse in their absence, and may just improve.
The metric is important in the sense that you can't iterate quickly and figure out what does and doesn't work if you spend 2 years per version. Successful companies tend to be ones that iterate on new ideas quickly and double down on the ones that stick.
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I usually work for DAX companies. Yes.

My point was that your personal sample is most probably irrelevant.
Here is a ton of information and advice about email newsletters: http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/email-list-strategies/
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I challenge you to find a website that will let you charge $10k into an online gambling account from a credit card. And any that do exist will charge fees higher than credit card rewards in most scenarios.

But yes, you also will not earn points on balance transfer transactions. But they typically are processed via ach.