skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also interesting that a password based on word-and-number games, an approach that has been criticized lately as vulnerable to new attacks using common password fragments, seems to have flummoxed the pros in this case anyway.

If you're talking about the Ars Technica article that showed that crackers are using common passages from books and movies, it's worth nothing that it's not some kind of issue with passphrases, just the construction of them.

It is not a bad thing to use a passphrase (the Ars article implied that by saying "your long password isn't safe either," or something to that effect.) It is a bad thing to use a passphrase that is not randomly constructed. It's just the same for passwords, and, indeed, cryptographic keys.

It's a numbers game. If it's not random, there's a pattern/bias. If there's a bias, an attacker can exploit that. If there's no bias--i.e. the words of a passphrase were truly randomly selected--then there is no method to crack it more effective than brute force.
White House Petition: Restore Net Neutrality
On January 14, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that struck down the Federal Communications Commission's open internet rules, commonly known as "Net Neutrality" because ISPs are not classified as "common carriers". This ruling allows ISPs to charge companies for access to its users and charge users for access to certain services. Fewer companies will be able to afford access for innovative ideas and products.

We urge the President to direct the FCC to classify ISPs as "common carriers" so that the words of the FCC chairman may be fulfilled: “I am committed to maintaining our networks as engines for economic growth, test beds for innovative services and products, and channels for all forms of speech protected by the First Amendment.”
It is indeed, and the book I mentioned is the prequel to his book "A Pattern Language."

But there is an enormous difference between his real idea of "design patterns" and the much more static idea that you see in, for example, the Gang of Four book. The easiest way to see this is to consider that the methods and goals of "A Pattern Language" are centered around making buildings that add to the quality of human life (and the first few patterns deal with the goal of world peace), and would be totally useless to someone building a gulag. Whereas the patterns in the GoF book are just about preventing code duplication, and would find themselves just as useful in a program for violating people's privacy as one designed with a more benign purpose.
Stratified.js
I am not arguing that everything that is unfair is unethical, so your Yankees analogy doesn't apply.

We have heavily subsidized these companies. It's a bit of a rouse to say that they never agreed to Net Neutrality so shouldn't be beholden to it. The need for Net Neutrality arose because they wanted to go beyond their purview and accrete more power unto themselves. They are supposed to be serving customers, not holding access to them for ransom. Yes, they have invested in their infrastructures, and their reward is that they get to charge customers to access it, which they do handsomely.

BTW, your question implying some unfairness to the ISPs goes beyond a question of ethics (on which we'll agree to disagree) to an argument against Net Neutrality. Maybe that's where your real disagreement lies and the question of whether it's an ethical issue really isn't "all you're arguing".
How about free trips if you order more than $100 worth of food at Chili's? Discounts if you let them plaster your car with advertising?
Yeah a polyglot who writes classical Greek, Arabic, French, English and can do advanced statistical modeling is clearly an idiot right?
Nope. I bought (fish) amoxicillin for my first-aid kit a couple of weeks ago. It says USP pharmaceutical grade, and the pills look exactly like Google image search says human amoxicillin looks. I suppose since it's unregulated they could be putting sugar or arsenic or something in the pills, but I'd imagine they'd be in hot water with some pissed off fish owners if that were the case.
Gusto Email App Coming Soon
I haven't a clue what this is. "Something to do with email", my friend told me. It's from a tech startup in Indianapolis. This could be great, or not .. one thing is for sure, they are so secret, they don't even want to tell you what they are before your sign up to get advanced notice. THAT's BALLS! http://gustoemail.com/?ref=sd
How Korea's Naver competes with Google
"They generate revenue very early on in their lives. Often as soon as they get their first user."

Is this true?
If "super successful" can be understood as "the biggest tech IPOs of the last 15 years", then I think that Google, Facebook, LinkedIn & Twitter would be at the very top of that list. I guess it depends on how we define "very early".
Taleb has a textbook draft up which is more technical than his popular writings:

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/FatTails.html

There might be something there for the more rabid critics. At least it will keep them off the internet for a few days...
Yes, current giants are going to continue consolidating and buying up businesses and amassing power. In America we used to have ways of dealing with monopolies but that is now passé -- we don't like the government "punishing" successful businesses (in the same way that taxes "punish" the rich). A lot of times I feel like something very bad will have to happen for things to change. Until then, hey.
Show HN: Houdini – A new way to test web apps
Create concave hulls in javascript using turf with lots of pictures
Luck (up to a certain extent) is a function of hard work.

You will not find opportunity if you're not searching. You will not profit from opportunity if you're not seizing it.
What To Do With Your United Miles Before the Devaluation
'In his well-crafted pitch to get me to consider using Gumroad he ended with, “and the UX is exponentially better than other marketplaces.”'

If someone tells me their thing is 'exponentially' better than something else, I tend to put them in my 'hype merchants who use words without worrying what they mean' box. Whic isn't a good box.
I haven't a clue what this is. "Something to do with email", my friend told me. It's from a tech startup in Indianapolis. This could be great, or not .. one thing is for sure, they are so secret, they don't even want to tell you what they are before your sign up to get advanced notice. THAT's BALLS! http://gustoemail.com/?ref=sd
Your reading comprehension is questionable if you consider that a citation.
Unfortunately Kaggle doesn't seem to have as many entry-level competitions as it once did. Some learning ones, sure, but you need something to let you move up to 'Masters Level'. Also, it looks like the whole process would take a couple of years.
There's always exceptions to rules, although citations would be nice. Most of it seems like sound advice; ie. Quality over quantity, keep expenses low, offer great customer service etc...
Statistically there is probably not a single founder that does every one of these things.
Further examples of anti-competitive behaviour:

- http://blog.naver.com/robots.txt

- http://cafe.naver.com/robots.txt (Forums)

- http://comic.naver.com/robots.txt

The posted link, kin.naver.com is the equivalent to Yahoo Answers.

To give a perspective, Naver processes over 70% of Korea's search queries and is the 5th largest search engine in the world despite most results originating from its own networks.
DST and timezones in general are an abomination anyways.
> We have an apart­ment near our San Mateo office that any­one can use when they’re in town. Peo­ple tend to travel to San Mateo about once every 6 weeks on average.

This is one of the most important parts of the post IMHO. You have to see people at some point even if they work remotely or work occasionally from home. It's particularly helpful to coordinate travel schedules to get as many people in the office at one time no matter how small or large the company is.
What Happens After You Fail
There are several signs that distinguish MRSA from a normal staph infection.

1. Intense pain that extends beyond the boundaries of the visible irritation. Pain that is much more intense than a normal pimple or ingrown hair.

2. Distinct rash (as far as I understand the rash is caused by the specific toxins MRSA generates)

3. Necrosis of the skin. MRSA will produce blackened dead skin which many people mistake for a scab.

That, and I had MRSA years ago and had it diagnosed by a doctor, so I was already familiar with the condition.
These Snowflakes Look Like Computer Chips From the Future
As someone who dabbles heavily in acoustics with javascript, THANK YOU! Let's talk.
"Charging customers early" is actually the opposite. Few of the big internet successes charged early (google, eBay, PayPal, Facebook, yahoo, etc.).

And, frugality is good in the beginning but after you prove yourself, you have to step on the gas.
A wants to raise billions from small investors to finance more systems
Better than the racist/overtly-sarcastically ominous comments I usually get concerning my name.
To be fair, in your kid example, the kid IS feeling a pain NOW: low confidence, and muscles will help him build that.

Well, yeah, to some degree you can usually (always?) fiddle with definitions and find a way to position a "vitamin" as "painkiller". That's actually an important point in it's own right. If nothing else, it illustrates that the vitamin/painkiller dichotomy might not be intrinsic, and may be mostly about messaging / positioning.

The book Mastering The Complex Sale by Jeff Thull has an interesting little tidbit there about some processing room anti-corrosion stuff made by, IIRC, Shell. There was some sample dialogue about the stuff to illustrate this point:

Person A: What's the business value of the anti-corrosion stuff?

Salesman: Business value? Well, it doesn't generate revenue or cut costs. I don't know how you'd talk about it's business value.

Person A: What happens if a refinery doesn't use this stuff?

Salesman: Well, corrosion builds up and will eventually cause a leak that could result in a fire or an explosion.

Point-of-view counts for a lot.
1) I would never trust my data to something that degrades as easily as a plastic disc

2) I would never trust my data to a medium that can get destroyed if touched with your finger the wrong way and you're required to handle it manually to read the data on it
Bootstrap is still semi-colon free. I really don't like the style personally, but I'm not about to start a flame war.

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/js/dropdown.js
Cambodia? It's well-known that if you want something without having to see a doctor, you can just drive over the border to Mexico and pick it up from a pharmacy. Obviously you can't get serious narcotics but you can certainly get antibiotics, prescription-strength toothpaste, etc.
App Developers: Tune Up Your App In 2014
That's one of things that works best about open source stuff is that they get reviewed by more people. If os isn't possible, than it's better from this perspective to try and write in a higher level language that does these kinds of checks for the dev automatically such as Scala / Java etc.. Where the runtime does boundary checks. But if that's not possible as well than this article does suggest some good courses of actions. Good comments on it as well.
I don't understand calling him a "vile idiot" is so terrible. Vile is a subjective assessment in the eye of the beholder. Bluecalm began with a few paragraphs making the case that Taleb has pretensions of being an expert where he doesn't know what he is talking about, and that his statements are unsupported.

Calling him a crank is a more objective statement, and to me seems to impute an unknowable motive to what Taleb is doing in these types of articles. Is it an egotistical attempt to feel important, a strategy to sell books, or does he believe all the stuff he says?

What I personally find so unpleasant and objectionable about Taleb is probably unfair, but he seems to fit the archetype of an entire group of people who make loud statements that are wrong or unsupported, but take a long and nuanced discussion to explain why.

For example he seems to be terrible at economic analysis, but portrays himself as an excellent trader so he asserts that scientific study of the economy is bunk. Let's say that he really is an outlier in finance, operating with localized phenomena is different than having a comprehensive view of the economy and refining models.

I think his idea of Black Swans is incredibly useful, and it is interesting to explore the psychology of underestimating the likelihood of rare events. His contributions are less useful when he sounds like the people who say "economics is not a science", before making a bold assertion about the economy that has no rigorous models to support it. Such situations are analogous to saying meteorology is not a science when it comes to forecasting whether or not it will rain in ten days. "A science" is a field where everything is known? "A science" is not a field where models are refined through research and experimentation? The science part of meteorology is the process of understanding the mechanisms behind how air masses interact and improving models, not predicting weather at a future date when a good deal of what will determine whether or not it rains has not yet occurred.
Vinod Khosla open letter to CBS re: cleantech sector
What's are the points of comparison? It's not really fair to compare average speeds in the U.S. with those in South Korea or Japan, where residents are heavily concentrate in a handful of major urban areas. I don't think internet access in the U.S. is slow compared to say Australia or Canada, which are similarly suburbanized and spread-out countries. According to this report, we're 11th in the OECD for average download speeds: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/sites/cyber.law.harvard.edu/fil... (page 30), ahead of Canada, Australia, and the U.K.
Sure. One would be coming up with a design for a site that has 100,000 users. Then starting to code some of the screens and planning the infrastucture. So I will need a private cloud on Amazon with horizontal web nodes and a massive Postgres database master-master. Now how much is that going to cost... Okay, well that's well over my budget of $0. But I have a $50 Linode credit so maybe I can just use that to start out. What's this OpenResty that's doing so well on the web frameworks benchmark? Maybe I should use that. So setup an Arch box and get that setup. Find Lapis and MoonScript and so I'll use that. Now back to the coding. Strip everything I have done in Grails, using Lapis now. Except I have to spend a day reading the Lapis documentation and then it's been 5 days and I need a rest. During said rest I decide the whole idea is stupid because how am I going to get an audience on TechCrunch or whatever to promote this site? Come up with another idea on Monday... Except I'm totally drained and don't know what I should be doing.
Thanks so much for this; its exactly what I've been looking for since OM was released in an attempt to get a handle on reading ClojureScript before I dive in.
First of all, I'm very interested in this.

Secondly, that was a very well-designed capture. You got me to give up my email, log in with GitHub, tell you how much I would pay, and then you gave me nothing. Houdini indeed!

Kudos. Now I'm waiting for my beta access email.
Why this attitude? Simply because it's 'insulting'? Is it true? Should you not be far more concerned if it's true? That lots of scientists are misusing statistical tools? What does it say about you that you are posting angry vitriolic comments online because someone called out scientists misusing statistical tools but that you are not as alarmed that such a thing could be happening?
Nowadays you can get ECC with intel for quite cheap: http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced/?s=t&MarketSegment=DT&E...
Having recently been to an international Epidemiology conference, I can say that there's intense interest/concern from researchers in the UK and Europe about both MRSA and carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae.

For that matter, the current strain of C. difficile which is causing so many problems was first observed in the UK and Canada.
Box is giving away 50GB of free storage
At PrivateCore, we keep key material (and the entire Linux stack) pinned in the CPU cache, then encrypt main memory. This would thwart physical memory extraction attacks, like cold booting, Fireware, Thunderbolt, NV-DIMMs, bus analyzers, malicious RAM, etc.

Note, that doesn't help if someone compromises the software stack and extracts memory contents logically. A compromised kernel running in cache can just decrypt memory contents.
How Lady Gaga's former manager changed the tech game
> There are a lot of reasons for people to attack him, especially anonymously on the internet.

On the positive side, if you're going to judge the guy by the insights of his critics, his supporters have included the likes of Benoit Mandelbrot and Jack Bogle.
Three new freebies- Chapman Ice-cream, Robax and Finish Power
"Pre-neutrality"? You mean like 2009?
If you are ruthless in cutting unnecessary spending, you're probably going to end up cutting salaries, firing people, or going cheap on other things that actually affect staff, which is likely to be your largest expense.

The quote was either phrased worded or the author doesn't understand the word. Ruthless people are not nice.
I was able to recognize the symptoms based on my previous experience and some reading. I had it previously and the doctor was able to diagnose it on sight. No testing was required.
Switzerland (.ch)
If you expect long term storage, you better be using M-Discs, not cheap Blurays. They've been tested to last 1000 years, which is far longer than other optical media.

http://www.mdisc.com/
Anything by William James. A Rorty and Dewey book are on my shelf. A few authors mentioned by James that I liked: JS Mill, is one. Interestingly, Jack London treats themes in pragmatism (in the Sea Wolf, for example)
Great article ... Some of the points might seem obvious in hindsight, but are rarely followed in practice. Perhaps it is because they are so obvious as to be somewhat invisible, or they are repeated so often as to be ignored.

I thought one of the less obvious, and especially interesting, insights was the following:

Another way this trait shows itself is "right-sized" first projects. You can't go from zero to huge; you have to find something not too big and not too small to build first. They seem to have an innate talent for figuring out right-sized projects.

I wonder how much of this talent (which I'd call a "knack") can be acquired from experience.

I noticed in myself an instinct for categorizing projects as "right time"/"right place". By "instinct" I don't mean I'm particularly good at this, I may be really bad. I mean that I have a feeling, which I can imagine as some sort of neural pattern recognition algorithm. I'd guess everyone has this same feeling .. to what extent can it be tuned into a "knack"?
There is a lot of really great info in this post, well done Gumroad.

My question to Barry would be: Given that multiple packages increased revenue 3x, how much extra work and time did it take to produce the extra materials?

I've never done anything like that, but I'm imagining it being a lot more time, effort, and money to put together useful supplement material and create video tutorials.
Well I don't think we're going to agree but I upvoted you nonetheless because I like the style of your comeback :)
don't scale in the beginning. If you have linode credit use that. Also reaching 100,000 users is a huge assumption, you may not even get there.

Openresty and Lua is interesting but it takes time to learn those. Use what you already know.

Take a rest, re-evaluate the tools you are familiar with and use it. Then when you have a prototype to show, you can email people at TC or anywhere else, you may not even get a reply but try it.
USB is packet based, but USB Audio still recovers the clock signal from the timing of bits on the wire. This recovered clock is used to drive the DAC, which produces the final analog waveform.
Nir Eyal behavior design work includes an interesting thought on this: apps that are vitamins can become painkillers.

If you haven't gone through his slide deck, I'd highly recommend it. He goes through the vitamin/painkiller part pretty early in the slide deck.

http://www.slideshare.net/nireyal/hooked-model
Good thing Ryan knew his audience: great UX is something I really care about. So I gave it a try and he wasn't exaggerating. The UX really is that much better than any other platform I had tried.
How waffle.io sends automagic pull requests
I wonder if you're confusing revenue with profitability? Maybe Twitter is the only one here that didnt' have an add to click very early on.
Not to mention treatment for the side effects. Our last ditch antibiotics are not gentle drugs.
No, I meant in the course of the game. In tennis, every point Roger Federer wins, his opponent loses. Every game winning jumpshot Michael Jordan made, the other team lost.

I can't imagine you'd get very far in any competitive enterprise if you spent all your time feeling bad about that.

Lance Armstrong isn't a great athlete .. he's a cheater.
Hi. L3 caches are indeed huge these days. For example, the latest Mac Pros are shipping with 30MB L3 caches.

You can do a lot with that space. My company PrivateCore runs an entire Linux/KVM stack within the L3 cache, then fully encrypts main memory. Someone physically acquiring memory would only obtain plaintext.

Note that a software compromise could still read memory. That's one reason why it's necessary to fully attest a system before provisioning it with any keys or passwords.

Here's a CanSecWest talk with more details:
http://cansecwest.com/slides/2013/PrivateCore%20CSW%202013.p...
Hm. What do you get when your product is both a painkiller and vitamin?
@blahah Thanks for going through the flow! Working really hard to get this to you soon. Would love any feedback you have as well!
Hey Lancaster county, Berks county here. I'd love to hear about how much tech you use on your farm, and if you're active in moving to use more. Are you a generally tech minded person? A developer?
TRESOR only helps against passive attacks since since the code is still exposed in memory. Active attacks that modify memory can easily circumvent it.
This is intriguing. If those guys get it to work on complex, real-world web sites I think they can build a serious business around this. I'm gonna give this a try. Best of luck!
What practical applications would this have?
Marc Andreessen Defends the NSA for Spying
Good stuff. Only nitpick is the "partnership" comment. I actually think too many startups are too insular and not comfortable working with other companies early on. However perhaps here he meant the "hit it out of the ballpark" partnership type.

Please add to "They don't get excited about pretending to run a startup" - they're not on Twitter tweeting cliche's around vision/team/culture/design/customer love all day. That's a big red flag to me.
If it SOUNDS too good to be true, it probably is?
Fun topic which inspires me to mention two goodies that help fuel in-depth conversations about measurement and conversion:

1) The Measure of All Things - http://www.kenalder.com/measure/ (science history goodness)

2) Frink - http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/ (one of my first discoveries on HN and still one of the most fun to return to)
I'm not saying that the cable can change timing. My post really wasn't about the cable. It was about the more general misconception that people have that digital audio/video interconnects (the whole system, cable + transceivers) are somehow "bit perfect."
Do lawyers need to be involved? The rules are here: http://www.sfmta.com/services/permits-citations/contest-cita...

All it takes is to submit a letter. Doesn't say who has to submit the letter.
What's wrong with creating genetically modified beings?
Some of my genes blow and I don't want to pass those on children.