skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some hilights:

- Cargo ship http://www.ndoherty.com/books/cargo/

- Iran http://www.ndoherty.com/iran/

- AmA http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/22k9f3/
I've wondered along these lines too. There is clearly something else going on in the VC business beyond strictly evaluating company value based on ability to generate it directly. One factor I'll project (since I can't tell where you're based) is that companies with proven engineering staff in the Bay Area get a boost in inherent value just from acquihire potential. Bonus points for famous and connected founders, as Quora has.

Bay Area VC activity looks a lot like Wall Street to me, with the same disconnect between price and value happening.
Russia Masters the Art of Clandestine Warfare Against Ukraine
I don't have a problem with making fanfare around the bug, but I cannot help but feel that the Linux and BSD distro maintainers should have been notified before it went public so that the patches would be available at the same time as the site goes up. Instead, Codenomicon caused them to have roughly 16-24 hour delay in releasing patched versions, while doing a poor job of communicating which versions of libssl are vulnerable (1.0.1 a-f were vulnerable, yet most distros use 1.0.1e and they patched that version instead of upgrading to 1.0.1g, making things very confusing).

So while all the marketing has been great for Codenomicon, it caused most sysadmins and distro maintainers more headache than it should have.
No.

Here is a workflow:

1) Download keypass.

2) generate random password (however you do that...)

3) copy password into web form.

4) copy passwords into keypass and save.

for logging in:

1) open keypass

2) copy password

3) paste into webform.

Typing the passwords leaves room for errors. Truly random passwords are copied and pasted. Words are typed.
+1 for namecheap. You don't even have to pay for anything. I started using DDNS at Dyn and then ended up registering a bunch of domain names. Now I'm going to move them to Namecheap which already does my DNS (for free) and now DDNS.
Sure they are! If you're an in-patient then drugs are paid for via the DRG payment (all costs associated with treating the patient). If you're an out-patient, they are reimbursed through ASP.

The physician fee is separate from these payments.
India does/did a lot of ground work on all its own.

The fact is this concept called 'frugal engineering' or commonly called in Hindi as 'Jugaad'. Its a little unfair to call is 'frugal engineering', this is more on the lines of 'Do what it takes, with whatever little you have, to go where ever you want to go'.

Its really more like a cultural thing here. After centuries of invasions, foreign rule and desperation the idea is to see some success at any cost. You try to beat the odds any way you can.
Is coworking a popular thing in big japanese cities? Being a salaryman since arriving in the country I haven't had any exposure to it.

However I noticed the place where the Tokyo iOS developer meeting happens every month would be perfect for co-working: many rooms of different sizes, enabling people to set up some group meetings whenever is needed.
Hey there super sleuth... not sure what you're trying to imply but I'm not affiliated with Amazon nor do I use their AWS service. I do not speak for them. I am not making an apology on their behalf. I suggest you stop levying false accusations and avoid using words that you simply don't understand ie. ad hominum (not only did you spell it wrong, but you've misapplied it).

To clarify: I'm a long time HN reader that finally got around to making an account (and certainly not for the express purpose of defending Amazon). However, I did want to call the author out on writing a terribly unfair knee-jerk, heat-of-the-moment indictment of AWS (this type of thing is unfortunately all-too-common in the tech community: actual amateurs writing as if they are a central authority about subjects that they have something approaching 0 understanding of. For example: the multitude of complex engineering and PR challenges a service provider like AWS faces during something like the Great OpenSSL Exploit of 2014). What I'm trying to say is: cut them some slack. Their response seemed perfectly reasonable to me.

Hope this helps.
Heh. Ironic, a thread about consultant salaries and someone posts a link to the company I'm currently consulting.
I had a hard time just getting over 22h per week. Its one of the reasons I switched to weekly billing.

On average a lot of the legit consultancies (not including recruiter shops) ask their employees to bill 32h per week.
This makes me sad in my public school district job.
I make about 1/2 of industry standard.
BlackBerry’s Chen: “This Is Not Science Fiction”
Region restricted. Yet they wonder why people pirate content.
consult an attorney on legality. Only an attorney is allowed to give legal advice.
It's definitely the best attempt yet. Remember that other show called something like "The Valley"? =/
MITM attacks require far more sophistication and many more moving parts than just stealing data from a web server's memory. Just because you have the SSL cert's key doesn't mean you have the ability to use it to MITM a site.

I'm not saying what you propose is impossible; I'm just saying it's quite unlikely. Security is all about layers. You don't throw away a layer that could be effective at increasing security in the majority of cases just because there are some cases where it wouldn't work.
> That's what an average consultant likely makes as a salary.

No, that is what a highly productive (100% utilized) consultant at $42/h makes as revenue. If you were to convert it into something comparable to a salary and account for realistic work schedule it would probably end up being in the 60-70k range.
Bugs should be named after shitty politicians. Especially those which oppose or act against net neutrality.
The digest seems to be custom created based on topics that you follow. If you decided to follow the generic "Relationships" topic, you'll end up with things like that in your digest. I'd guess questions like those attract a lot of controversy, so they will have a lot of voting and answers, which their algorithms may decide indicate that it is a topic people would be interested in.
I saw no snark.
I agree with you, but what about the people that knew about this before hand? The article references cloud flair, on their blog it says that they knew about this before the rest of us, who is to say those individuals are not bad guys??
I totally agree with your sentiment. But I have to say a 'non-paying customer' isn't a customer at all, by definition. ;)
Jenkins+iOS Management
I just scanned some updates in my inbox and none had anything like this. What's going on is that these updates are custom for each user, so either you haven't used the site and are getting the least common denominator, or for some reason you've lead Quora to believe that you're interested in such questions.
It's a readily-available collection of complicated things (ciphers, digests, cryptographic protocols, etc) that everyone needs. Implementing 'yourself' (your company, whomever) takes lots of time and thus money. It seems the world made the assumption that this open source project was the end-all be-all of cryptographic implementations.
I wonder if they're including people who have a full-time salaried position with the job title of "Consultant" in this mix. It would make the numbers make more sense.
How Your Mobile Phone Leaks Your Sensitive Information
Land Rover's new concept can make a car transparent
Yes, it's reasonable: you should not waste your life in a place with silly pizza parties. Aim for something better.

Edit: BTW, he links to his resume in his profile if anyone wants to do a good deed: http://helpknow.com/resume.pdf
Business French tech sector enacts law that prohibits work emails after 6pm
I've found that the City-specific projects are the ones that usually end up being successful.

Cities are complicated, and while there are things that every city does (collect taxes, handle zoning, have a police department, etc) every city does it slightly differently. By deploying in one city and treating it like a prototype, you can quickly find out what works and what doesn't and THEN scale up. You need to solve one person's problem before you can solve everyone's.
Wall St consultants (let alone HFT 'experts') should make somewhere close to double that. The same is true for London/Frankfurt/Singapore/Hong Kong financial industry consultants.
> to buy brand-new x86_64 Windows laptops that don't support VT-x or AMD-V

That is true. At my old job they wanted me to do some VM work with the brand new laptop they bought me, didn't have the virtualization extensions and that was that.

Way back when I was in school, Mac laptops were very much not the norm, and when we started working with gcc, the teacher knew to tell everybody to either install linux or cygwin. Everybody installed cygwin. It worked fine enough for what we needed it for.
Erlang/OTP 17.0 has been released
IANAL, but unfortunately there is probably not much you can do in this case. Many states are right to work states meaning that the employer can terminate your employment without reason as long as it is not discriminatory based on age, sex, race, etc... I am also going to assume that this was a temp position that was fulfilled through Kelly services in which case the employer has even more leeway presumably in their contract with Kelly. There is probably a clause in there somewhere that says that since it is a "temp" fulfillment they can terminate their relationship with you at any time without cause.
>hopefully they wouldn't be keeping it in a place where they could simply copy/paste it.

???

Passwords can be simple copy/pasted from.

Encrypted files can be simply copy/pasted from.
> Freedom isn’t freedom from all consequence: it’s freedom from state mandated consequence. It’s the ability to say what you want and not lose any of your rights as a result.

A classic libertarian error. To me, freedom is freedom from social coercion whoever it is from. People are free to a greater or lesser extent within relationships, within families, within communities, within economies and within non-state organizations.

There is nothing special about the state in this regard.
The nail in the coffin was some comment at the end about moving off of AWS to something else over blog posts lacking timestamps.
How do you keep from dropping your cellphone?
There's nothing particularly technically focused about Quora's content. I think of it as a sort of directed mini-blogging site, where instead of being oriented around following everything that a person said (though you can do that to an extent), it is oriented around following particular topics you are interested in. It is a good source for little entertaining essays pontificating about various topics.
Ask HN: Heartbleed, what is behind the 64KB figure?
The Heartbleed disclosure says that up to 64KB can be returned by a vulnerable server (or client).

But the RFC states that the payload length can't be greater than 2^14 bytes (16KB).

The few PoC clients I've seen floating around are requesting 16KB of data from the server.

Even if you modify the message to request 64KB (technically, 65,535 bytes), you will still only get back 16KB of data.

What am I missing?
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I do my job for the money and because I like it. What does that make me?
Are Tech Competitions Setting Up Young Entrepreneurs To Fail?
Heartbleed is serious
SEO-Friendly Infinite Scroll
My guess is that Yahoo will buy it in a broad "upgrade" to Yahoo Answers.
Starbucks serving Monsanto: no more GMOs in our lattes
The idea of lossless compression in a smaller file size than anything else on the market spoiled the entire show for me.

Call me picky, but...
There's a few different "just trust us" mentalities, but I've become more comfortable with the "don't roll your own if you missed the first 10 minutes of the lecture" worldview.

Separating algorithm from implementation seems like it shouldn't be so difficult, but retrospect is a great teacher. So now we have approaches like NaCl, where the algorithms are designed to be hard to implement badly. And we have projects like LibTom, which aims to implement existing algorithms clearly. Both seem to be enjoying varying degrees of success.
It took me about 42 minutes to realize it wasn't a documentary.
How Twitter is Selling Out
We are very upfront with clients that they cannot book us 40h a week, because everything else means that I cannot shift the work of synchronizing with my colleagues, organizational stuff and the whole thing of "being a company" to one day in the week. My pitch is: "either, you get us 4 focused days a week or I have to do my company stuff from your office". Exceptions are short stretches of full on-site work. Works very well, I must say.

On the other hand, I once had a agency billing: "Assembling Desk". The employee in question was a very honest book-keeper, that was his first day in the company and management didn't check and billed. We replied by asking whether the employee is sitting well and healthy ;).
Because the article insists on using metric when using other units would have made for a much better explanation since it would show the evolution and not be confusing like 14.4m.

rdl and other explain the reason for a nautical mile above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7559252
There can be a useful communication of "passwords older than X should be changed" to the user. Blocking that doesn't make the user any worse off than simply not having it.

(That leaves the question of how useful it is to users; I guess it is nice for a service like lastpass, but the truly paranoid probably aren't relying on cues from services)
Mark Cuban's HFT idiocy
It's very hard for me to take the info in this article seriously with a statement like this:

And given how that’s an average, it’s certain that many consultants are working far longer in order to keep their clients happy.

Well, yeah, and if my understanding of averages is correct, it's also true that many consultants are working far fewer hours. Compared to most jobs, certainly in the field of consulting, an average of 38.8 is pretty low.
2048? Strike that, how about 4096?
My friend was so addicted to the game, he kept going after he beat it
With respect to the deep learning networks ( as well as more traditional with just a weight matrix and bias), we can look to matrices for this. I will offer a compressed representation, not so much a way of pruning, but I explain why below.

Each single layer neural network is made up of 3 matrices, a weight matrix (connections), visible bias, and a hidden bias.

In theory, this can be represented as a flattened array.

This is what I do in deeplearning4j[1] for optimization (note: I'm the author)

The problem with pruning neural nets so to speak is this isn't really a search problem we're solving like A*. Both are graphs in a sense, but each neuron in a neural net when we have backpropagation gets updated to correct for error that it caused, rather than pruning like in Alpha Beta Pruning for Game playing AI.

I will offer one last thing and say that the way neural nets learn (especially if you stream data in to it for training rather than training all at once via online/mini batch learning) each neuron also tends to learn different components of an overall solution and some will activate more on certain feature vectors when you train them on an overall data set.

A solution to this is to set the neurons relative to the input size[2].

[1] https://deeplearning4j.org/

[2] http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/guideTR.pdf
LivechatInc IPO valuation over $150M
History will judge Eich just fine. He's a great technologist, and the Open Web owes a huge debt to him. He's probably done more for equality and inclusiveness than anyone who protested his appointment.

That's the real tradgedy here: the world, and Mozilla, lost a great ally (for now.)
Erlang 17.0 has been released
Startups don't last long so it'd be pretty fitting for a show about them to only last a season or two.
yet they often do.
1) Meet with business people, 2) sell them on a solution that will save them time/money or increase sales/revenue, 3) very often implement the solution, 4) and maintain/add enhancements to said solution.
Thanks for the suggestions.

- airbackup (minimum $79), too high

- Arq - not a mac (windows 8.1u1 + ubuntu for banking)

- crashplan, backblaze, carbonite - looking into this, more specifically the client side crypto parts

- spideroak - UI is really really unfriendly to "newbies"

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I think almost the opposite relationship can be explored. What is the normal world's relationship to a bunch of people trying so hard to "Think Different"?
I'm assuming in this scenario that they would be keeping passwords in a plaintext file. If they kept passwords in an encrypted file, wouldn't they need to decrypt it? Wouldn't you presumably have a strong password to decrypt it? Where is that kept? How strong must one's password be when that password is keeping other passwords secure? If they can remember that password, why can they not remember others?
I agree. I was trying to find the "more information" button to no avail. Is this vaporware? How does this stuff end up on the front page.
sod it - cant find PM on HN. www.englishforums.com (that's the old version, we're updating in a couple of months)
Public service announcement: Tech Consultants don't make $40/hr.

If you're a skilled, experienced developer and you find somebody trying to pay you less than $75/hour to program computers on a contract basis, regardless of where in the world you live, say no.

There do exist people who work for rates less than that. They're either called "employees" and receive benefits, or they're called "people being taken advantage of."
Hi 7Figures2Commas,

It is true that the conclusion that higher interest has not led to more lending is not based on rigorous data. It is rather based on the general observation that during the past year or so, loan funding volume has not noticeably increased at times when the highest interest rates offered at Zidisha increased.

The generalization that Zidisha lenders are not primarily attracted by financial returns is likewise not based on data, but rather a subjective assessment resulting from many years of survey responses, comments posted on our website and conversations with lenders.

(An important caveat is that many of our lenders do care about preserving the value of their lending funds over time, and often try to lend at interest rates that they believe will help them achieve this goal. But this is a very different motivation than profit maximization.)

I agree with you that offering dramatically higher interest may well attract more capital, from lenders who are motivated by profit rather than philanthropy. This would not necessarily be a bad thing, but it is not our mission or core area of expertise.

It will be interesting to see if a profit-based variation of Zidisha emerges, and whether it ultimately has a greater impact on the opportunities available to entrepreneurs in developing countries than our philanthropic platform.
Most of the bits made me grin, but Kumail was the only one who made me laugh. He's great on Portlandia too.
Consider that Quora basically forces mobile users to access the site via their app.
Any intelligence agency will prioritize source protection. Recall the efforts of the Ultra program in WWII: they sent out dummy reconnaissance planes to prevent the Germans from suspecting that Enigma had been broken. It's possible that the government already had the communications that Lavabit was trying to protect, but were putting on a public show so as not to reveal the brokenness of OpenSSL. See also "parallel construction".
3-4 seasons ending with an IPO where they dump the shares on an unknowing public and make it rich!
If you do use page numbering and next-links, please make the link to the next page amply big. Really big please, you don't have much to lose.
Journey From Founding Engineer to Founder: Investing in Infrastructure
I'm nowhere near the 'bay area' or any US state, nor even in Europe. I'm British, but living abroad, have never known anyone else in the IT industry. HN is my only contact :)

When I hear and see the things people in SV say and do - I honestly wonder what the hell is going on out there. It seems people who can put a bit of html + css together are getting paid 10 million these days.

-- good luck to them and everything - but it's a bit mental (imho).
> From my perspective, pushing out a new SSL build to a bunch of load balancers in a highly automated network like AWS is probably, by this point, a trivial task.

These responses I always see on HN when there is an AWS issue always show me how disconnected many of the commenters are from reality, or from ever being involved in a huge infrastructure.

Sure the AWS status page doesn't have a hip web 2.0 AJAX backed d3.js powered cool looking status page. Yes they don't update it every 3 minutes with new info, but many (most) of the problems that one off customers see do not reach a threshold that would ever effect enough customers to make it into a dashboard post. I do think they need to speed up their status updates, but these posts need to get OK'd by a decent number of people before they get thrown up.

There are usually multiple ELB instances living on every rack of every datacenter in every AZ in every region of AWS. Relaunching / patching hundreds of thousands of instances in 48 hours with minimial disruption to customers, is a lot harder than you think.
I know, but can we prove there's no heuristic on that algorithm? Because if the answer is "yes", this should be general enough to find other optimizations. It's fun to think about.
The metre was originally defined as 1/10,000 of the distance from the equator to the north pole through Paris. There's a corresponding measure of angle (gradian -- 1/400 of a circle) which has never become widely adopted (although my old casio calculator supported it)
You don't know how long they have been sitting there, or whether they are taking regular stand-up walk-around breaks.

It's fine to sit on a bench or a chair for a short period of time. You might as well say they shouldn't all be looking at tiny laptop screens that are not at eye level.

In the back of the photo it looks like there are some chairs designed more with ergonomics in mind -- the black ones with mesh backs.
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> actually has roots

Heh, very good!
They should add a Signup for Private Beta on the website http://www.piedpiper.com/ :)
When you have billionaires in Silicon Valley comparing the 1 percent to Jews during the Holocaust, and all that shit…

So I haven't seen it yet, and I do plan to watch the first episode. But quotes like this — from one of the producers — make me not want to bother. Yes, this quote is justified, because SV is full of billionaires like Tom Perkins, and not struggling, creative people just trying to get by.

The reason I'm hesitant about this show is that it seems to be mocking something that isn't worthy of mockery: people genuinely trying to make the world a better place. You can laugh all you want at the What's App buyout, but assuming that the ridiculous events that make the news are the reality of life in the Bay Area tech industry is ignorant, isn't it?

Maybe the show isn't as caustic as I'm assuming it is. Maybe I'll love it. I really liked the Amazon series Betas. But the premise of this show — which seems to amount to "SV is full of assholes" — doesn't sound promising.
I think that history will judge these views very badly. But it will cut Eich the same slack that I cut my grandparents when they talk about politics.