skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not in OpenSSL, but Ruby uses it: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/1aa54bebaf274bc08e72f9ad38...
Noise can be filtered out by averaging many samples.
Since when was torture directly linked in religion?
There are a few problems with this. First, sarcasm is often used in an "amirite, guys?" kind of way, as a means of reinforcing the status quo in a community and shutting down dissent. For example, you'll see this in pretty much any thread on r/games that discusses sexism or violence in the videogame industry. Secondly, I've found that when an argument seems stupid to me, there's a good chance that I'm missing something. Whether we realize it or not, we all live in very insular bubbles, and often we lack the context and/or empathy to fully understand an issue from the other side. Third, you don't change hearts and minds by being an asshole. It's, like, chapter two of "How to Win Friends and Influence People". Sarcasm is kind of, well, masturbatory in that sense.
China is cracking down on exchanges by forcing the state-owned banks to close their accounts. That is the speculative force that is driving down the price.

It is good that the price is going down since more people will buy Bitcoin now.
time to buy right?
That is understood, Tom. The question remains why spec the same for two distinct transport layer protocols.

[edit: actually I was under the impression that the payload addressed response order concerns in UDP.]
They face it with the corporate veil, insurance, and a bunch of lawyers. My concern is, as an ordinary guy with a truck who just bid on a job to make a little extra cash over the weekend, "Its not mine" is going to work about as well as can usually be expected.
It gets worse, see http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/analysis-of-openssl-free...

Essentially the code mistakenly relies on the freelist being LIFO and not being scrubbed.
I came here to say just this. I wonder how long the cute distinction Comixology makes by splitting the digital and comic-shop sides of their website will last. There's also no reason Amazon doesn't just put Diamond out of business by putting one team on making a Previews-like ordering system.
I tried and tried to like Komodo but it feels laggy
Apparently this is all supposed to sort itself out by the 18th of this month -- that's the deadline they've given for account closures.
The Heartbleed Bug, explained
Why “me too” culture is bad for business
https://www.comixology.com/free-comics
It just goes to show, paying attention has a cost, energy. When energy is expended on a fiery commit message, the message can become a distraction. There is an energetic cost to all actions, and strategies.

That being said, I fully endorse this commit. There seem to be good intentions behind it, and it was fixed soon after.
By "cult" what I mean is a group of super high quality people who trust each other and have similar ways of thinking, learning, reacting, problem-solving and working together

That is... not what a cult is.

By "diaper", I mean the tool you use to pound nails in.

The best way to prove to yourself and to potential investors that you have a killer idea is to see if you can get a number of A level engineers to join you by only offering
them equity and no initial salary.

First of all, this "real men don't take salary" nonsense is blatant classism. It makes the classism of "Hiring is Obsolete" appear subtle.

Second, A-level engineers aren't going to take on personal financial risk for someone else's idea (unless they're rich, in which case, why aren't they angel investors?) It just does not happen. The sub-market salaries and low autonomy of typical startup jobs are going to attract B players, except in dogshit economic situations like November 2008 (which one hopes we'll never see again).

How to convince a superstar to join you: "Let me rent you for 6 months. You'll learn an insane amount about building a startup from me that will help you prepare to start up your
ﬁrst company. You'll have the pedigree of Powerset standing behind you; and you'll have some cash in your pocket."

I'm probably too old to be considered a "superstar" by the sorts of asshats that VCs fund, but I would see this as akin to unpaid internships (in, say, publishing) that tout the career benefits (to which, the proper response is: "fuck you, pay me"). "This is a career opportunity for you" is such condescending shit it makes me want to vomit. It's saying, "I have connections and you're a middle-class fuckup, so work for me for free."

I urge founders to offer people a one-month, auto-terminating, consulting contract that pays the person the exact amount of cash and equity (but in NSOs instead of ISOs) that the person would get if they were an employee.

Yeah, fuck that shit. If I'm getting zero job security past one month (I know how to get a severance in almost any corporate job; I'm paranoid and well-studied) I'm charging a consulting rate. That's at least $250 per hour for someone like me. A typical tech salary, on a one-month contract? Fuck off.

Start off by using relatively standard equity disbursals for each type of role - VCs can help, they have many, many stat sheets on this one.

Standard equity disbursals are fucking pathetic and not going to attract anyone skilled. (You might get a stray, talented 22-year-old who doesn't yet know how good he is. One of him per 5 losers.) This doesn't matter for most startups because most of them are marketing gambits involving technology (not technology itself) and can do just fine with a mediocre tech team.
Its a fixed point combinator in lambda calculus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator#Y_combin...
I'm still kicking myself for buying a bit at $17 after the $32 peak and selling as soon as it came back up to that again some months later. I feel like buying again.
... that's not my point at all
Sure. If one had conviction that it would rise. One could buy now and see it at 10 bucks by the end of the week. If one had that belief... One would not invest.

If you have conviction BTC will be back then of course you'd get in now. But people thought getting in at 600 was a deal at one time... Look where we are. Those people aren't too pleased if they had conviction it was going to 1000 again.

If volatility has taught us anything, it is to be wary. Volatility means up-swings and down-swings. Perhaps the past year was just an up-swing and we're doing some mean-reversion. It's foolish to make blanket statements.
China, and perhaps selling to pay 2013 capital-gains taxes.
I think it will be a lot harder to cannibalize Marvel and DC's profit centers because of the value of the actual IP itself, as opposed to book publishers who don't have the kind of "brand" recognition and sway that a Batman or Spiderman has.
"local or national"

You really need to deal with both state and federal consumer-oriented laws relating to moving, and bills of lading and the like.

You should also learn about the laws relating to "agency". As the agent of truckers, connecting the trucker to the customer, you can find yourself to be on the hook for movers and truckers that fail to deal with state laws, which can be quite "interesting" to an entity in your position.

The reason for such state laws and federal regulation: low estimates on the job, and truckers that hold a person's goods hostage for the surprisingly high bill. Nationally: you need to know your providers are reputable and capable.
I doubt it would help your competitors much, it's not like they lack for opportunity with any of the other times you've talked about Matasano's hiring practices.

It might help a few young engineers who have only ever seen toxic hiring practices and assume that's how it ought to go.
Show me where she libeled Google and claimed it was sexism?
This would obviate amazon of paying unemployment & health insurance. So, at one level its a dollars and cents decision. So, if you have x% voluntary turnover and it cuts in half the number of people that they need to "let go" involuntarily, the ROI on the strategy is likely breakeven.

And it would seem that from a morale perspective, everyone is better off. The managers can probably still goove good word about the employees etc because the conflict is probably easied and both sides save face.
months? clearly you know nothing about bitcoin :)

(not saying it won't take months, but we've seen the price go up 5x in a couple of days..)

wish I had money at this moment.. would be buying :\
I don't know; this seems like a clear-cut case of "not enough eyes" to me.
Yep, I bought .1 when they were at $800.

If it takes me a few months to recoup my losses, that's okay. My biggest concern is that it'll level out around $95 and never rise up to $800 ever again.
This is really cool. Do you guys support apps that use multitouch?
SalesForce already acquired Desk.com and Service Cloud which are both direct competitors of ZenDesk.
Big improvement over the last one [1]. I learned some things. Looking forward to seeing the next one.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7496968
Security vulnerabilities are often found in clusters, whether because of heightened attention or simply because coincidence & cognitive bias.
I think we've always held that torture is worse than killing a in a war.
Reddit: "Today I f*cked up by showing my d*ck on Chatroulette"
It sounds like the emotions every single stock trader has ever experienced.
Sounds like a great book, congrats man! I'll for sure buy it when it comes out :)
France bans managers from contacting workers outside business hours
What are these "site operators" that you speak of? If facebook or google or twitter is publishing a native app, they can embed any credentials/certs/keys etc. they want into their app. It's not a great leap to think of a cert/key renewal mechanism via DNSSSEC or some other proprietary mechanism.
Essentially, it's the same as google pinning their certs in the chrome browsers. Except, since you control both end points (your app and your own servers), you don't have to participate in the broken (trust based) PKI system at all.
Those large enterprise customers are expensive to acquire. Zendesk spent 37M on sales and marketing, with 9M going towards commissions. As they push into the enterprise more, the cost of sales went up. They increased their sales and marketing expenditures by 65%.

Contrast this with Atlassian, which has offices here in Vietnam and the Philippines - which keeps engineering costs down - and who doesn't have an expensive sales force.

Ripe for disruption: changing the way companies sell to enterprises - or changing the way enterprises buy products. Possible?
"This is actually good news."
It really isn't that hard: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wthf8hdgk6knmjl/Screenshot%202014-...

Anyway, this seems like a really awesome concept! I, for one, would be much more interested in downloading an app if I could test it out first.
Publishing on Amazon is currently quite horrible, so I am sorry to say that if you use history as a guide, then you are in bad luck. For example, current publishers get less money if they use bigger data. The result is blurry pictures on hi-res screens. Awful policy.
Ask HN: Getting money for Graduation? Ideas?
I've heard of people sending Graduation flyers in hopes of getting money. (most do)

It would be nice, I do need money for grad school.

Here is my question/idea.

I am tempted to just spam my graduation flyer to every orthodontist, doctor, ect.. in our city.

I was also thinking about paying some neighbor kids to hang flyers on peoples doors.

What creative ideas do you guys have to improve my idea?

or

Is this worth doing?

Thanks in advance, please leave your input.

PS: Costs for this project are around $260.

I figure worst case scenario, loose some cash and have a good laugh, and help some neighbor kids earn some money.
I don't think anyone should drop Drop box because they hired Ms. Rice. I do think people should drop drop box if they think that will increase the odds of their dropbix account being hoovered up by government affiliated agencies unknown.
Is anyone tracking how much money miners are pulling out of bitcoin on a daily basis? I assume they have to sell some fraction of their earnings in order to pay for hardware and power. This should create a constant downward pressure on the price, since there always has to be new money flowing into the system, but very few people "need" to buy bitcoin in the way that miners "need" to sell (most buying is for speculative purposes).

This is almost the opposite of public companies, which rarely issue new shares, and have a constant buy pressure coming from 401k plans and other automatic investment vehicles.
I was reading comics during the 90s collectable craze. It was all speculation and ultimately hurt the comic industry. So I think devaluing the physical comic is a good thing.

I agree with getting huge chunks of a series though. But that doesn't always work since Marvel and DC are still big on story arcs that cross over several titles. Following a single title often leads to incomplete stories.
Why aren't we doing exactly that? While its best not to attribute to malice what could easily be explained by human stupidity, shouldn't we try to rule out malice?
Ask HN: Is 1Mobile Market as sketchy as I think it is?
This is something I've seen suggested a lot while looking for ways to get Android apps on to my Kindle Fire. It looks very sketchy, and the only reviews I can find look as sketchy as the app.

Has anyone on HN had experience with it?
Interviewing for a new job? How to ace project-based job interview questions
>>> If bitcoin's volatility has taught us anything.

Not sure if this has been touched on before, but is there manipulation going on with BTC? With traders who have a bigger stake making the price go up and down, or is this pretty natural for the cycle?

I'm actually interested in this. If there's another thread on HN talking about this, feel free to point me in that direction.
I believe that at this point the amount of bitcoin being mined is so small in comparison to the amount that is out there, that this should be a negligible effect.
The rest of the quote is "...but don't rule out malice."
> It should be the user who has the final decision over which certificates to trust. Users are the real "Certificate Authorities". They should have full control over encryption and decryption should they want to exercise it.

And they do.

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. You and I and my mother all have the ability to edit the root CA certificates on our computers and add our own, if we wish.
It is impossible to time this the sale of any security at its actual peak. Just be happy you made money :)
The beginner's guide to SEO by SEOMoz is also a good one.
http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo
Nopes. Bitcoin's yearly inflation is about 1 million BTC for this year and next few years. So to keep the current price stable, almost 350 million (as of this writing) of new money has to move in BTC.
Misogyny and the Cult of Internet Openness
thevault.bz :-P
Hey! Are you in the Atlanta office?
You advertised a 3x conversion rate, so I presume you guys are live in the wild—are there any publishers where I can see these ads in action?
I am not explaining how, I am merely pointing out that there is a "how to compute" question, and that lambda calculus and type theory help address that question formally. That point tries to address the following question by OP:

> What is the equivalent computer science problem that lambda calculus can help you solve?

That may sound very obvious in retrospect - surely OP knew already what I was saying, and he actually wanted explanations on the how itself. Perhaps that's why it seems useless: I admit that I tend to stick to strict semantics on technical questions, and often completely miss the actual intent. Sorry about that.
That some sorts of discussions are not consistent with HN's implicit standards is a statement about facts on the ground - right now, today...erh, for better or worse.

Why? Well I suspect it's because people will preface their comments with something like "It's hard to believe that you say this with a straight face" in response to a person who pretty much shares their opinion about the relevance of a story and the appropriateness of a particular submission - i.e. I suspect its because people come in with guns blazing and the belief that god will know his own.[1]

I described how I believe decisions are made in response to an honest question. I don't make the decisions and I accept that they are made with good intent even when I might not agree with them. Sure you can disagree that I believe that. It's your right as a user of the internet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_at_B%C3%A9ziers#.22Ki...
Or it could be forever... You just spoke the exact words that were spoken about WorldCom, Enron, etc. etc. Just sit tight, buy low, hold. Dollar cost average on the way down, blah blah blah.
I actually wanted to post the story beneath the title URL:

"Open Systems and Glass Ceilings"

but was not sure how to do it.....
Not every API is that consistent. JavaScript's `XMLHttpRequest`, for example...
For Android, I like Habit Streak Pro [1]. You give a list of things you want to maintain a daily streak on, and then it asks you at the same time every day how you did.

My longest recent streak was a 5+ month one on sticking to a restricted diet. The power of that was amazing; any time I considered straying I'd feel like I would be throwing away months of work. (I finally broke the chain on day 3 of the flu; I was miserable and wanted comfort food.)

My tips: Have it ask you the daily questions first thing in the morning, so you start your day with a reminder of your streak. And try to keep the number of goals very low, 1-3. More than that and I find it too hard to build good habits.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.amimetic.ha...
Rice did more than just have an opinion and participated in candid discussions. She acted on her opinion.

I can have a candid discussion with people who think that any immigrant should be shot at the border. I will disagree with the person, but everyone is allowed to have what ever political belief they want. However, once they start shooting people, a line is crossed and candid discussions is no longer an option. Those action would also cause repercussions, which has nothing to do with political, religious or other form of believes.
On the other hand, if the aerospace industry was like the programming industry, we'd now be flying 10000000000 faster planes with warp drives, that take us to A-Centauri in an hour or so. And everybody would have one such plane, folded in his pocket.

If you're going to carry the analogy to that ridiculous corner then a black-hat hacker with a heartbleed equivalent blows up Earth in an antimatter explosion.
grellas makes two basic arguments in the post I replied to, which I will attempt to summarize:

1) Refusing employment based on beliefs has been historically bad, e.g. Christians refusing to hire or do business with Jews, and blacklists for suspected Communists. Such things are in fact SO bad that they outweigh any/all good that might be done by applying such filters in cases where we feel they're justified.

2) Startup culture specifically is about joining together diverse people to build great things. Even if we stipulate that filtering out business leaders with "bad" political beliefs had some benefit, there's disproportionate harm done by the startups that will not succeed because they handicapped themselves in this way.

I'm not sold on either of those arguments, though I think they both have merit.
Seems like going IPO with losses is the new trend

My concern is how a company can compete in this scenario without VCs? I am not talking about the technical side of competition but about deploying an army of salesmen.

At some point can this be seen as a new kind of dumping?
To be clear, you don't have to wait 10 minutes- we've just had issues with the websocket stuff. Refreshing the page works if that doesn't. Unless something broke, you can pay and get a card in under 3 minutes.
CVS is still in use by anyone?
Definitely. We're still figuring out how to address the smaller shops, since they have a variety of payment systems.
As a former comic reader, owning a physical comic is like owning a book. It's satisfying but convenience will win for most of the market.
As I commented yesterday on HN, if this ever came to light, it would be the Internet's version of a "Lehman Brothers" style collapse.

Thinking about it more, it would actually be awesome. The cabal of CAs would fall and hopefully a bulletproof distributed system model would eventually replace this snakeoil industry.
MiTLS – A verified reference TLS implementation
As someone has used Firefox on desktop since it was called Pheonix, the Android Firefox app is just bad. It consistently renders pages worse than Chrome, will show desktop pages when it should be showing mobile, has frustrating address bar behavior, and just generally makes me want to throw my phone at the wall. I want to love it - and I try it every couple of months - but it's just no good.
Free Is A Lie
Beware of NoSQL standards in Oracle's clothing
The Mini Mobile Robotic Printer
Well... on the plus side, there is some good stuff here, and a few "good things" that are Open Source.

But I have to say, I'm largely underwhelmed. Not mind you, by the software itself. But by the fact that the vast majority of this stuff appears under the category of "Government Purpose Release", which, if I'm interpreting this correctly, means you can only use it in service of the US government. And another chunk is "US release only" which pretty much sucks, because it's still not open source, and a restriction like that makes the software fairly useless.

For those of us in the US (and erg, whose tax dollars funded this stuff) it's pretty disappointing to me, to see how much of their software is still locked down and inaccessible. I mean, putting it in a nice pretty catalog is nice and all, but why tease me with something I can't get my hands on, hack on, use, and redistribute?

I also don't understand doing an actual catalog as a PDF, as opposed to a web-based, searchable catalog where you can search by keyword, license, etc.

Oh well, Growler looks kinda cool, and I wouldn't have known about that otherwise. http://people.nas.nasa.gov/~bgreen/growler/
You can compromise on turing-completeness, too. Idris, for example, lets the programmer decide whether a given definition should be required to provably terminate or not.
> This should create a constant downward pressure on the price

You need also to take demand into account.
Personally I think its more a reversal of the "hype" valuation of bitcoin. For a while it was in the mainstream media all the time.

Also, probably more importantly, Mt. Gox was constantly pushing the prices higher because nobody could withdraw USD, so the only way to get out of Mt Gox was to use all your USD to buy bitcoins and then transfer them to another exchange.
Free to Be Mean: Does This Student Satire Cross the Line?
The job to be done here is quite different from traditional longboarding. While you could skate 6km to work, you are likely to get sweaty and need a shower. I see this as somewhere between a bike and a moped in the travel capabilities it gives you.