skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty interesting. I was just looking for executive summaries and I just found this Box[1] example which beings with a pretty hard hitting opener.

> Would you use your personal email account to message important customers?
> Would you make lengthy personal phone calls from your work phone? If not, then
> why would you use your personal Dropbox account to store critical business
> information?

That being said, I've been using Dropbox since Drew dropped that hilariously amazing deadpan intro to the product and I been loving it every since. For a small team, I feel like the $795 price point might be a bit steep considering how many other alternatives offer you free collaborative space, but the integration of Dropbox is one of the best I've seen yet.

[1] - http://www.rochester.edu/it/box/assets/pdf/migratedropbox
It's an awfully sketchy business model. Like inverse insurance.

That's not the issue though. Most people are not StartCom customers and couldn't care less.

They still care about what that padlock icon signifies and that's why it's pertinent of large vendors to consider the CA status of StartCom in a situation like this.
> Technologies advance the fastest in societies that invest heavily in war/defense all throughout history

Really? The Soviet Union invested a much larger share of it GDP in military.
Mediafire has just announced yesterday 1 TB for $5 a month:

http://www.androidcentral.com/mediafires-new-cloud-storage-p...
Makes sense, after all temp sensors don't really belong to phones. What't the point of knowing it's 35C and the humidity of your pocket? They 'd make sense in cars, once (if ever) they get connected.
Mesos, HubSpot, and the Singularity
Java doesn't have to be written like that you know. Idiomatic code is overrated in my opinion. Make it readable and correct, fuck the rest.
Ants are really good at working as a team.

The famous short story "Leiningen versus the Ants" describes the scary power of a massive ant infestation.

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lvta.html
Of course, we all have some responsibility for our fate, some perhaps more than others, but this is a societal issue not just an individual issue. I suspect that we will be seeing more and more stories like this in the coming years, with increasing numbers of people hitting retirement age without pensions, after a severe recession, and with an increasingly mobile and dynamic workforce, which generally inhibits saving for retirement.
They were removed for being compromised and went bankrupt before trying again. I don't see how that invalidates what I said.

Meanwhile, CAs that have issued CA=yes certs remain, but you know, Mozilla wrote them a letter reminding them on security best practices.
Yes, and google apps for business continues to exist...
Triangulation requires an angle and only two observers. What you're proposing is trilateration, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateration

I suspect it'd be challenging to get reliable and precise enough measurements from multiple detectors as close to each other as they'd have to be on a single ship. Three ships, perhaps a different story.
Is the US headed toward a cyber Cold War with China?
> In both the comments on HN and the original thread pricing keeps coming up.

OTOH, the cost of a new MacBook Pro always comes up when looking to buy a new laptop, but that hasn't hurt Apple at all.
I think you're missing the point. I'm not arguing that passwords like "H$&v46S13^a" are actually better in practice than passwords like "TheCowSaysMoo". I'm providing one specific case where they are superior in terms of difficulty, i.e. the unlikely event of a directed dictionary attack, and a rough comparison of the level of security in that case as compared to a brute force attempt.

As far as "true randomness", it's irrelevant here since we are only counting permutations, meaning "Hello,2048" is just as difficult as "^6H9Ox#g`!" (i.e. their length and superset are both equivalent).
This is why we have coordination with vendors PRIOR to public release, such that when the vulnerability is publicly disclosed, updates are available through standard update pipelines

Are you talking about Responsible Disclosure? Cause I thought that existed because if security researchers tell vendors in private only, then the vendors sit on it and do nothing, but if you tell the public first, users are vulnerable before the vendor releases a fix.

Isn't the only reason there's a public release as a threat to keep the vendors honest?
I think the $5000/month example is likely a very rare event. Perhaps the management did compensate that particular employee separately without telling everyone else.

My point is, if a company sets a policy of pizza party and spin the wheel as a reward, that's the reward. Don't complain after the fact that it's not fair. You didn't have to submit the idea, you could have gone about your business and never said anything. Also, what if 99% of the idea's only save the company $20 or less? You really think they are going to start writing $2 cheques? Or is that even going to motivate people to submit ideas. Pizza parties not only reward the employee, they provide a morale booster.
Disclaimer: I am a huge lurker on Hacker News

I think a humblebrag tag on posts would be utterly hilarious and useful.
> For maximum usability, why shouldn't the app support both infinite scroll and paginated, and let the USER choose (by url slug or GET param)?

I've always thought we could do this as there is no technical reason why we couldn't offer both.

But honestly we receive very few complaints about it from users of the software. It seems here on HN that infinite scrolling is not super popular, but we are not getting the same feedback from our users.
Talking about marketing: Wouldn't this be a great time for one of the not so small IT companies to pull off a publicity stunt within the tech community and donate a few full time developers to improve the openssl codebase?

For example I might not like Facebook, but if they'd actually make such a contribution to the public good I'd always have to include that counter argument in my criticism.

Maybe some one here on hackernews might be able to pull some strings?
Anyone would say you stand to benefit from security remaining some sort of priesthood activity or something.

Diversity of implementations is a good thing, for the simple reason the number of people an individual vulnerability could expose would be that much smaller.
I found it to be the IT Crowd taken to an absurd level.

One question, does the main character work at the social networking company? If so why does the found want to buy him out?
I skipped ahead and got right to the part where the woman was pushing/yelling during delivery. I had reread the title again just to make sure I was looking at the correct video.
I love that B-R5RB was started by something trivial and without deliberation. It seems so Archduke Ferdinand-esque to me.
As a non-Python 3 user, I just opened up the python 3 REPL to try something I always find myself wanting to do in tiny little python scripts:

map(print, some_list)

Unfortunately, it returned a map object, which I guess is also new in Python 3 (I assume it's a lazy application device).
Actually I never said racism didn't exist.
Thermometer for your mobile device
I agree that the killer feature with Dropbox is that it "just works". I jumped on the 50GB Mac mobile app special from Box.net a few months ago and upon trying to use their Box Sync desktop client I found that it just doesn't work. Bogged the machine down, was never able to properly sync files. I've got 50GB at Box.net that I don't know what to do with and I definitely wasn't moved to the category of a prospective consumer client.
Apuestas de baloncesto – Estrategias
I think Stack Overflow definitely can, but mostly because it has a very high value audience that can be monetized through ad sales and and its job posting biz.
As I already said, I am not arguing that "random" passwords are better in practice.

Also, a password that uses a very large character space does not have to be random at all.
True the some of the issues can be solved, the problem is that most of the sites are not solving it. Probably I could name it "Point to take into account when implementing.. " I'm sure hope to see better implementations to infinity scrolls on the web.
The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer

http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html
Right now this is a bit of a problem for me too. I just guestimate based on previous work and hope nothing goes wrong or nothing unexpected crops up. In the event where it's something I've never worked on before, I do a bit of research and try gauge the difficulty by seeing how hard the subject is, how many resources are available (tutorials, articles etc) and my estimate here is compared with how long it took me to learn something similar.

I have noticed that my estimates are becoming more accurate over time but I'd also like to know if people have some sort of a procedure/workflow that they follow.

Another approach I experimented with was using the scrum methodology. I tried breaking the tasks up into smaller chunks (user stories) and then valuing the effort/time required for the individual parts before adding the values up.
You've addressed the technical concerns well through a solid implementation combined with some workarounds (requiring specific configuration for searchable content and tradeoffs (ie9 bookmarkable content).

But this doesn't really address the usability concerns - you've mitigated them by introducing new interaction mechanisms... but these mechanisms don't solve the problems raised, they just provide a means to work around them. These workarounds are excellent in comparison to other infinite scroll mechanisms, yet not as friction-free as not having it in the first place.

Yes, this is all my unqualified opinion of course - though these opinions are what have stopped me from adopting Discourse.
And the question becomes: why is this IT department blocking the dropbox service?
> I questioned that a population can be categorized in only two sets.

Bald, Not Bald. Q.E.D.
I fail to grasp on Cloudflare and Akamai are "service providers" and Amazon Web Services is not.
I love how developers of this app allow themselves to collect numerous data about their users' phones, so much they even track their hardware, model numbers and available APIs. But the worst thing is probably that this has became so common that people don't react negatively anymore towards that kind of privacy violation.
for unlimited storage

In the real world you have netowrk congestion and security costs that scall with "unlimited" in this context.

so its more about practical needs.
If you have high salary now and do not save for retirement, I really hope you won't burden society when you are out of job at 65 by either dying young or living exclusively on social security. Spending all income is as selfish as it gets.
Definitely agree. Some of the stuff is just terribly confusing and very visually dense.
I don't see why they needed to make this law specifically against living in a vehicle. Most places already have some sort of limit on how long a vehicle can be parked on the street. Usually around 72 hours and you have to relocate to another street (it doesn't count to just move it a few feet). Let them sleep in their car... as long as they move it to another street every few days.
Debugging SSL Handshake Latency
Or you can just add ?share=1 to the end of a Quora link to remove overlay.

I had an account with them, but removed it after they started showing others what questions I was reading. Does Quora still do this?
I believe that monitoring internal components is exactly why temperature sensors are useful: the device can shut itself off it it becomes too hot. This can happen if the it has been left on the dashboard of a car during the summer, for example. This can help to lengthen the lifetime of the device.
As a non-fan of OverloadedStrings, I'm not sure how I feel about this.
"Unfortunately, Apache remains the dominant web server today"

I prefer (note the I) much more nginx than Apache, but for stating Unfortunately in the article that way... it's pretty much a common sense opinion to favor the alternatives over the ol' Apache or that was just the author touch?
I love this! I'm a Sk-er..OneDrive user though...any chance that a) they have APIs that serve your needs and b) you have time to do the work to support OneDrive?
It would have more to do with the temperature of the CPU and/or battery than anything dealing with the outside temperature.
They'll care when they get very high accuracy weather forecasts! New models will result in more accurate, more personalized and relevant forecasts that I think customers will love. This is a very tough problem that nobody has cracked yet, but it looks promising in the near future. We'll see.
You need to read Crime and Punishment
Yeah, the map builtin is essentially itertools.imap in python 3.
What would happen if we valued forums the way we value tech sites? What would SomethingAwful's valuation be in today's tech world when it had the engagement and content creation power it held in the early 2000s ?

To me, Quora is really nothing more than a glorified forum.
Fanless x86 mini-PC runs Debian on 2.3W
When would be the optimal time to perform these password changes? I am assuming that not every affected site has been patched yet, and it would be pointless to change the password, and log in, before they have fixed the problem.
Best would be to contact the video source and ask exactly what the audio track is.

I don't think the video shows the pings from the blackbox. More likely they are the chirp pings from a sidescan sonar. They are looking for an shadow (image) of the blackbox in the data. Here is a nice diagram showing what they are looking for: http://www.southwestcoastalgroup.org.uk/cc_mon_sidescan.html
Well perhaps I have said "reasonably well-adjusted," but screwed up just enough to be entertaining. :-)
The actual Java implementation:
https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

A non-programmer’s solution to “Fizz Buzz”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4853509

FizzBuzz Still Works
http://www.globalnerdy.com/2012/11/15/fizzbuzz-still-works/

FizzBuzz with CSS
http://dabblet.com/gist/2628265
I second that. I sometimes wonder why FogBugz+Kiln combination has not 'caught on' as much as other offerings like github, atlassian products, etc.

My only (but major) gripe I have with FogBugz is that it is stupidly hard to insert inline images in cases (compared to how easy it is in a github issue)..and while at it, the entire editor could use a makeover for ease of use/markdown capability
>>>All roles help build the company.

This is true, but rightly or wrongly roles are compensated very differently. A successful tech company probably needs programmers, designers, testers, customer support, managers, ops, etc. It would be an odd company (though not necessarily a bad one) that paid all those employees the same. Remember that the wage paid to a person is somewhere between 'what I must pay to hire a decent candidate' and 'how much value they actually add', and usually skews towards the former.
Weather signal [0] has developed algorithms to correct the internal sensor measurements for things like this, particularly temperature. So it's not entirely useless.

[0] http://weathersignal.com/
I think that looks pretty cool, but I feel I should stress that 99% of users don't need _another_ way to organize and share photos - they need a _primary_ way to do that.

When folks sync their cameras and phones, they wind up with massive, disorganized mountains of images in the form of unwieldy iPhoto libraries. At a certain point (say, a year after the birth of a child) the task of going in and manually organizing photos, albums, sets or whatever is so daunting people just ignore it.

That was the promise of Loom - dump your photos here, and they appear automagically in a timeline you can edit and share. The execution leaves a lot to be desired, as I've suggested.
Indeed, if one posits a channel for transmitting secrets among a vendor cabal which never leaks to people not authorized to receive the secrets, we should abandon SSL and use that for our secure communication needs instead.
Cool, i'm going to look at that gist for this years "try to learn haskell... again" attempt. :)

I do it every year but hit io monads and my mind continually just has a core dump. Some year I hope to climb everest.
I've been playing with it for the last half hour and it seems the same as the iPhone version (this is a good thing). One thing I'd like that's missing is synchronisation of accounts. I use it on iPhone with 3 mail accounts. I installed on Android, signed in with Dropbox, and then had to sign in to each Gmail account again.
Requesting personal details over the phone
From personal experience, Quora started off really hot. Many influential tech people were answering very basic questions with highly impactful answers. It really was an honest look into how some great minds think. Peer voting really separated the noise and allowed smart contributors to rise up through the answers.

And then, the content got dry. It was the same questions with relatively similar answers. The newsfeed became more about showcasing content from months or even years ago to make it look more fresh. It really became a brand recognition and marketing tool to allow individuals to answer any industry-related question with their product/service/company in the context.

And then, posts came about. It made sense that authors would want to contribute their own insights without it being an answer to an already posed question. However, new sites like Medium, Svbtle, and Posthaven are much better tools for this although they each have their own content niche. Quora has become a redundant tool where people repost their blogs.

So where does that leave Quora? They have always had an issue going past the iron curtain of Silicon Valley. It's been difficult for them to engage the average, non-techie consumer. Even if they don't care about this demographic, it will be hard for them to sustain growth among techies. They must be quickly approaching a ceiling for unique users so then they must capitalize on engagement and retention. I'm curious how they decide to go about this.
Kinda, but on a different level.

A browser displays the web, but it uses an optimization where instead of loading all of the web, it loads only the web page you're navigating to.

This approach displays a web page, but it uses an optimization where instead of loading the entire page, it loads only the visible sections you're actively looking at.
I cannot agree enough. Someone give me a call when a Haskell-like language with readable syntax appears. I really like the ideas behind Haskell, but the syntax is so unfriendly that I cannot be bothered to really start using it. Less special characters, please.
This is great news for all 5 haskell programmers!

Just kidding, Haskell is a great language, it's unfortunate that the tooling is still way behind (at least on Windows) and that it isn't used much.
IPhone interface creator Greg Christie departing
Remember that Google Drive doesn't have official Linux support nor a Linux cli only client. Dropbox has both. This is very handy if you have any servers, some developers etc.

Dropbox for Business also includes their unlimited backups (older versions of files).
That's just horrible. I don't know what more to say about it than that. How did anyone think this would be a good idea on balance?
You can use Amazon Elastic MapReduce to provision your own cluster. I'm guessing the value prop they bring is the ease of handling that part for you.
Is it just me or does the parallax effect on the landing page need a bit of tuning? I had to scroll much more than similar sites to get a visual response.
Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board
Who is suppose to pay for staff time require to manually maintain the revoke list?

BTW, revoking a cert doesn't stop it from being used in the wild as plenty of clients will still see it a valid cert. We are basically screwed until all current certs expire.
HeartBleed: Myth or Mayhem?
>We, socially, consider 'women's work' to be less valuable then men.

I definitely agree with this when we're talking about teachers, nurses, librarians, etc. but I don't think web/product/UX designer is a particularly gendered role. It just looks that way because there are so few working women programmers (in comparison to their solid majority of the population) and the sex ratio for designers is more even.

We consider designers to be less valuable than programmers because there are 5 times as many of them than there are programmers.

Of course designers do something that you can't, and if programmers were common, the designers would be calling the shots. Architects do something you can't, too, and they make a lot less than you do - because there's more of them than we need.
> It's the "actions not the words that matter"

Well then your whole case would fall down if you'd ever had one (rather than a gish gallop) since Obama had anti-equality words (retracted since) and pro-equality actions.
If their business is dependent on charging significantly more than the competition then I disagree that it is reliable.
> But this doesn't really address the usability concerns - you've mitigated them by introducing new interaction mechanisms

New mechanisms that the user now has to learn, as opposed to the scroll bar, which they already know and understand. And of course, every site that does this will implement its new mechanisms slightly differently, so you've traded a universally useful and understood UI convention for a range of site-specific ones.
This Week in Cloud Foundry – April 9th
The whole point of that API is crowd source collection of data so everyone can benefit.
I dont actually know, usually I just slide back to the top of the page and slide down to where I think I need to be.
I was dubious at first that the movement of the ship would be fast enough for a 4ms delta in the click timing but it comes out to just 6.24 m/s speed if they're moving directly away from the object (this assumes a 1560 m/s speed of sound in water which isn't constant but it's the best I had).
Google Services Updated to Address OpenSSL CVE-2014-0160 (the Heartbleed bug)
Diff of OpenSSL heartbleed fix (1.0.1f vs 1.0.1g)
I lost trust in Dropbox when it comes to the quality of their client and I would therefore not use it for business purposes.

* I've had two instances of near data loss where I could only recover data from the local hidden cache folder that gets deleted after a week. It had to do with a user error with moving out files from the Dropbox directory when the client was off - previous versions in the webapp can easily become corrupted this way.

* the Mac client is a total CPU hog since Mountain Lion.
Certificate revocation infrastructure (OSCP or CRL server) is something that needs to be maintained constantly (versus certificate requests, which are a one shot deal). In order to maintain that revocation, they have to keep serving it out for as long as someone might use your cert. It makes perfect sense to charge for it.
You didn't. I did. Because planes.
Being acqui-hired means the company managed to recruit a team that's probably decent, but failed to do anything substantially more valuable than that. If the product were inherently strong they'd continue it with different marketing staff.
Annotated heartbleed pcap trace
What are your objections to OverloadedStrings?
That kind of code could make sense when you're using a very opinionated API, that is designed (for better or worse) with patterns in mind, such as Android. But, when you start bringing that style of coding outside of that environment...

Yuck.
That's an investment made by physicians who rightfully should share in the profit sharing of their business.