skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some but I find them super hard to use well and remain funny (funny to me at least). Lame example of hashtag use:

> #baseball combines the two things Americans love most: Perfect lawns and arguments in hindsight about the decisions that professionals make.

I wrote this, but think it's funnier without the hashtag.

With many more I can think of things that I considered really funny, but had no conceivable way of adding hashtags without taking away from the brevity:

> I propose we start calling snow plow guys "Storm Troopers"

> The first stage of grief is learning to pronounce the disease.

Where could I hashtag those up without making them considerably less funny? I think the brevity is required for maximum "impact", and I don't wanna detract by putting a hashtag in the middle, because its the sentence equivalent of stressing a syllable awkwardly.

Some people on Twitter have turned this awkward word-stressing into an art. Comedian Rob Delaney comes to mind as an expert in maximizing the awkwardness of it.
Temperature coefficient perhaps?
I really enjoy Techzing. Fun, long, unstructured discussions on technology and startups with a lot of personal insight. Excellent hosts!
It's a great working space. I spent some time working there as a Seedcamp startup. There's no OTT Microsoft influence, and the ground floor is really just a cafe (tad pricey) with lots of MS products on display.
Great! I love serendipity. As the other comment said - can you share early progress? Maybe HN can help! Or email me and I'll take a look :) Always happy to help out (also I used to live in London so might be able to connect you with folks)
Why women menstruate
So to be "safe" and "secure" we can only have strings 256 characters long, or we need to waste a few bytes repeatedly for short strings. Sounds like the UTF-8 vs UTF-16/32 debate..
The smartest among us don't ascribe to partisan policy choices. I attempt to evaluate every position in which I have an interest based on its merits. This means that I disagree with the left on approximately half the issues, and disagree with the right on approximately the other half (that's a rough estimate, in reality, I think I disagree with either party far more than half).

That said, it's hard to be informed and not develop some loyalty to any particular politician. In all likelihood, you'll develop an affinity towards whichever politician you find agrees with you the most, and it's hard to say that "In general, I like so and so, but for his opinions on x and y."

Jonathan Haidt has done some fantastic research on the subject, specifically in the area of political psychology, and I would encourage you to read "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion".

In practice though, most people are happy to swallow whatever their party tells them is true, even when it provably isn't.
I'm assuming they're going to just let this die, now, and release weev, and not try again against him.

I'd be astonished if they did.
While I know plenty of companies do not respond how I feel they should to vulnerabilities, reading that story I don't see any cited anger from United Airlines.

Am I missing part of the story?
I've never heard of Hearts of Space, so I don't know if it's reach etc. But if 1,000 people listened to that particular show, it's about the same price-per-listen as Spotify, so it's not really a valid point.

Of course, this is assuming the scope of Hearts of Space is in and around the figure I said.

I'm under the impression that most musicians (even the more popular ones), don't make their fortunes from radio, but rather merchandise, CD sales, live performances etc.

Although, this is all probably irrelevant and mentioned in his post, but I can't see it at the moment as I'm getting a 403 forbidden error
How much do you pay per line of code?
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/04/10/severe-openssl-...
>in February, [Apple] complained that it has had to go to court with trolls 92 times in the last three years.

Yet Apple holds a $1Billion+ judgment on Samsung for violation of Apple's design patent for rectangular device with rounded corners in addition to "pinch and zoom" and "bounce back".
The article mentions that

> While Apple invested in earlier IV funds, its reluctance to do so again may stem from the fact that it is being swamped by trolls itself

It is the wrong reason if you accept that patent trolling is wrong. Analogy: murder is wrong, so if someone only stops murdering people because their own family members were murdered, it would be the wrong reason.
Is there an overview of what the per-country caps are, and how long someone from a given country might expect to wait until they get a green card?
Afraid that your question is based upon the faulty premise that Amazon is profitable, FedEx is more expensive, and the USPS is less reliable. As for employees who want to quit, they can always move on and delivery pizzas.

1)Amazon Stock May Be Up, but the Company Still Doesn’t Make Any Money -
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/25/amazon-stoc...

2) Study Shows USPS Beats UPS, FedEx on Delivery Times and Cost
http://blog.stamps.com/2014/03/19/study-shows-usps-beats-ups...
You are on your way to reinventing grammar/model/spec based fuzzing. It works pretty well. Eg. it was used to find the Heartbleed bug (Codenomicon's tools at least, don't know how Google fuzzed it).
> On the other hand, C++ has more flexibility. Since C++ allows you to specify your allocation scheme, you can guarantee a piece of code will never trigger an allocation, allocate in a special way to ensure cache coherence, etc.

This is true but the way C++ standard containers work with allocators is rather clumsy. So clumsy that often when custom allocation logic is required, standard containers are not used at all and custom containers are built instead. For example, EA has used a custom STL-esque container library to avoid memory allocation pressure in console and PC games.

> For example, you could have written equivalent logic that allocates odd_numbers on the stack or from a special memory pool.

But this example does not require any allocation space at all. But there's no way of doing this with standard C++ algorithms without allocating additional space.
Here is the link to the original proposal:
http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=20121...
Blah, blah, blah. That's not patent trolling.
Do you hold the trademark? I've found they're unwilling to listen unless you can back it up with a registered trademark.
you say that and yet I have had to teach people coming from several fairly top institutions that "no your lecturer was wrong, it is inappropriate to directly memcpy() from the network into a struct"
Ask HN: How fast do PCI scanners scan your site(s)?
We're in the middle of hour #11 right now and they are submitting > 1,500 page requests per minute steady throughout that entire time. I had originally scheduled it for 11PM to run using the "Slow" setting for their crawler. Their FAQ said it should complete in "about 1 to 6 hours". It's now hour 11 and they've logged more than 3,000,000 page hits. This seems over the top excessive to me.

Can anyone else comment on how fast/much they scan your sites?
Hi,

If they did file a H1B for you this year, then you should be able to extend your OPT period till October. It's something called a 'cap gap' fix that was introduced around a couple of years ago.

http://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers...
It sounds like this could have bearing on the Tidbit / Jeremy Rubin case. He was from MIT attending a hackathon and NJ decided to go after him along the same lines using the CFAA -- his hack could be used to defraud residents of NJ -- even though he had no connection to NJ.

http://tech.mit.edu/V134/N5/charan.html
> As a a team, economists failed to preview every single financial crisis.

That's a bit of a fallacy, because economists are not just passive observers of the economy. If there is broad agreement that something is wrong, they can recommend policies to fix or mitigate it.

It's like saying your system administrators failed to warn about every single unscheduled service outage. It's probably true, but that says nothing about how many outages they anticipated and prevented.
To paraphrase the Lorax: "I am the GPL enforcer, I speak for the users". While you're correct that the copyleft is based on copyright, and thus the primary cause of action for a violation must be done by the copyright holder, I've done a tremendous amount of work to build a large coalition of projects and copyright holders so we can pursue GPL violations.

I bet I'm aware of every GPL violation you've seen, but please do email compliance@sfconservancy.org about any GPL violations on Linux, BusyBox, Mercurial, Samba or Wine that you know about, and we'll do what we can to resolve them.

The biggest issue I face in doing GPL enforcement is lack of resources. I know it's a broken record of a not-for-profit organization, but if you want to help with enforcement, please donate: https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/
Partly unrelated but i have read strong evidence[1] suggesting that the ExpressJS author (TJ) does not even exist as a real person and is an entirely constructed online identity who is portrayed by different people. Not that it matters too much though, still interesting ;)

[1] http://www.quora.com/TJ-Holowaychuk-1/How-is-TJ-Holowaychuk-...
Nope. The organization retains the rights, as long as it stays within the organization. Having multiple users doesn't count as distribution as long as they're all GS employees. In addition, if you pay someone to modify it for you exclusively on your behalf, you also retain the rights and don't have to release the source.
Still in the works! Hope to have a prototype in a week or two, though.

I'm working at the moment, but I'm putting in 5 hours on most nights trying to get it done. Would love to meet people in a weeks time when the first prototype is done and I can get feedback though. :)
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As Jahansafd said, Sails.js is probably the most popular right now. It's a full MVC framework built on top of Express. It's constantly being improved, there's commits nearly every day.
perhaps to push the memory allocation for url out a bit wider, to get a segment of memory in a different place?
The monthly visa bulletin:

http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/law-and-policy...
What if your error was running someone over with your car?
I would love to read this article but look: https://www.dropbox.com/s/82c9bxlrmsmj3bt/Photo%20Apr%2011%2...

Are you serious?
I'm honestly not sure what point you are trying to make. That US CS programs aren't as rigorous as foreign programs? That US CS programs aren't also filled with foreign students, further displacing and out pricing citizens?

My point is, we have 1.7 Million college educated grads currently unemployed[0].

We have an estimated 650,000 H1B workers[1].

I'd say we have plenty of educated, hard working, and able citizens to fill these positions.

[0]http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t04.htm

[1]https://cis.org/estimating-h1b-population-2-11
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Can someone tell me why they decided to try him in New Jersey in the first place? I understand some of the addresses were in NJ, but that seems like a weak reason. Is there something about NJ computer crime statute that they thought would help the case over other states?
Komanoff doesn't know it but he is helping make the Thorium MSR case. Proponents of the MSR are also critical of LWR economics.
Didn't their most important charge rely on the "in the commission of a felony" accelerator? Didn't that felony rely on NJ state law? Didn't this case just limit their ability to pull the laws of arbitrary states out of their asses for making similar claims in the future?
However the offer is for warehouse workers, not for engineers.
Except the largest barrier to entry in the cab market is politics protecting the status quo in the regulated cab business. By tearing this down, Uber is effectively paving the way for competitors such as Sidecar and Lyft to disrupt them.

Also, I personally am sick of people complaining about Surge pricing. It's supply and demand. The tradeoff is ability to get a ride. When it rains, the supply of cabs stays the same but demand sky rockets. This surplus is passed to the consumers who are lucky enough to get a cab but many are literally caught in the rain. Uber raising the price is simply allowing the person who wants the ride the most to benefit from it.
Yes, that seems to be the real reason they picked NJ.
Thanks for your honesty! We are really interested in understanding how-to create better documentation for users like you. Bear with us :-)

Maybe an updated version of the book (and its examples) [1] would help? Or do you have some other concrete examples

[1] https://www.varnish-software.com/static/book/
Alright then let's see how this goes :)

Email: dan [at] danhough.com

## Help me out

1. I want to open up a co-working space in London, or possibly elsewhere in the UK. Idea is pretty fully-formed but I'm missing a few pieces to the puzzle. Anybody experienced in this?

2. I'm releasing my first non-free iPhone app pretty soon, marketing advice would be super useful. It's meant for London Pub Crawls.

## Let me know if I can help

1. JavaScript & iOS dev advice for newbies

2. Help with honing ideas esp. when it comes to maps & collaboration

3. I can play the guitar & sing pretty well [0]

Currently in Chamonix, back in London in May.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmDXpLbi2w0
Yes, that's true, but in some regions of the USA those fringe churches dominate the culture.
Is that pretty close to the VW Group showroom?

Only place I've actually seen a Bugatti Veyron (not to mention loads of VW/Bentley/Skoda/Seat models) - no Audis/ Lamborghinis/Porsches/Ducatis though!
I don’t believe we hold any registered trademark. We’d been branding ourselves as simply Kyan for over 5 years before gaining the Twitter handle, although our registered company name is Kyanmedia (which was our previous handle). The account had a few followers and a profile picture uploaded, but either had never tweeted or was private.
Yeah. I wrote the password-hash generator that SuperGenPass and most others credit as their inspiration, and I moved mine http://angel.net/~nic/passwd.current.html on to SHA-1 years ago.
Ada with all the runtime features left on is slower than comparable quality C. It's faster than most languages though.

With all the runtime turned GNAT can/should produce code with in a percent or two as fast as GCC (they share the same backend).

And Ada has a thing called SPARK which is a set of compiler checks to formally verify your code so you can provably turn off those runtime features safely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RavenSPARK
I don't know where you live, but I think it's pretty well accepted that the iPod was a revolution. It swiftly and thoroughly dominated and expanded the MP3 player market, and set the bar for others to copy. Much like the iPhone did later. And the iPod came at the front end of the Apple renaissance, before they had the consumer mindshare and perception that they do now (in fact the iPod deserves most of the credit for vaulting Apple into that position).

I'm actually traditionally a Windows guy and scoff/roll my eyes at a lot of Apple stuff, but it's pretty undeniable that they've created some amazing, bar-raising products. They've done this by enforcing an uncompromising UX-first philosophy that covers all aspects of product design.
The DATA Act just passed the Senate. Here’s why that matters.
A lot of people are focused on the company’s use of surge
pricing, [...] Kalanick notes “we are not setting the price, the
market is setting the price.” But then, non-ironically,
immediately adds “we have algorithms to determine what that
market is.” In other words, the prices his company sets in the
markets that his company controls are somehow, well, natural.

I assume what he really means is "we set prices to make us as much money as possible but it's not fashionable for CEOs to admit that, so here's some stuff about algorithms and markets in the hopes you will not attribute our actions to us."

Being surprised when a company tries to increase revenues and reduce costs while avoiding PR blowback is like being surprised when a dog humps your leg. That's just naturally what they do. If they could charge a million dollars for a ride, not pay their drivers, and get all their competitors banned they would do that too.
Well, I thought it'd be more appropriate for you to do it, but someone got there first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7573172
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I do not understand what you are trying to convey in your message. I never mentioned Cloudflare and neither did the comment I was responding to. What part of my comment led you to believe I was presenting/responding-to a claim made by cloudflare?
Gold's actual value as a metal is a small fraction of its current price. The vast majority of the value of gold is speculatory in nature.
So if your key was at an address less than x the bug would never read it, was my point. So I guess that means you'd have to force the UDP datagram payload to be stored high as that dictates what x is?
I've been working on some web programming with a coworking space in Nashville, TN that has a focus on artists and creatives. I think they would be interested in your service.

I can't provide feedback on their behalf, really, but I'd be happy to introduce you to them.

Also, I really love the idea of the HMO meme. The rate problems can be solved when pushed to a distributed, diverse audience such as HN is amazing.
On top of your $250 contribution, your employer will be paying a lot more - average total premiums are $5,615 for a single person or $15,745 for family coverage [1]. And that figure excludes co-pays, which unlike the EU can be huge. Healthcare in the states is just horrifically expensive - 18% of GDP compared to 9% in the EU (or about 11% in the richer countries.) [1,2]

[1] http://www.statisticbrain.com/health-insurance-cost-statisti...
[2] http://www.oecd.org/newsroom/healthspendingineuropefallsfort...
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this is something i wonder. are tests to see the approach to problem solving? of the few tests i've had one was simply testing my knowledge of the C++ and STL specifications - there was no programming skill involved at all - I could have cheated if I had a physical copy of the spec handy even.

this kind of test is not valuable. the other tests i've done though - even though incredibly easy i think would be more useful for seeing how i approach problem solving in general...
Their test system knows about valgrind and ASan and runs it if available.
There's also a frama-c annotated version. not open source, but still this is exceptional.

I'm just missing CPU specific optimizations (SSE, Altivec, ...)
Maybe its the best we can expect of a corporation.

It is also a bit of a guess to be honest, maybe they aren't getting a good return on investment or who knows maybe they just don't feel like investing in them any longer.
A password manager is the exception. I used to discount the idea of a password manager, but now carrying a smartphone all of the time, and a tablet most of the time a password manager makes more sense.
The comment is more targeted at people who are conscious of the issue of password reuse, but continue to use the same password, or slight variations on different services.
Similarly I don't think now is a good time to update passwords from password1! to passworkd3$.
Is the new Jeet.gs the most flexible grid system ever?
You would think the tech industry wouldn't have lifted the poison chalice of DRM, either. And yet, the nerds get played again.
I have three base passwords that were randomly generated, one has lots of funky symbols, capitalization variety, numbers, etc. the other two are more simple. I've used these so long that I couldn't write them down, it's all muscle memory at this point.
For example: "h*0A$23d!W", "Eg4mRk4", "PdurMca"

Based on the site and their password requirements I pick one of the three base passwords. I then algorithmically modify the password based on the site's url. For example, the first and last letter of the main portion of the url. Thus, using the medium password for hackernews and gmail I end up with "yEg4mRk4r" and "gEg4mRk4l", respectively.
Oh cool...thanks jmmcd.
True. (although they can probably find other felonies to invoke, and maybe there will be an effort to get more state to adopt whacko versions of CFAA...)
Does double jeopardy not apply here?
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Sorry dan, I stepped away from my computer for a few mins (crucial mistake!) glad there's another thread going on. I'll up-bump!
I actually filled in the trademark form ( https://support.twitter.com/groups/56-policies-violations/to... ) even though we were just branded as Kyan and not officially trademarked as such. I seem to recall from the help documentation somewhere that an account that hasn’t tweeted in the last six months is more likely to be up for grabs in this way, although I can’t find that reference now. Either way a couple of confirmations were all it took to move from @kyanmedia to @kyan.
It is not really a fork: all the necessary bugfixes to make the chosen PolarSSL version free of undefined behavior have been contributed back and either have been released or are pending release.

It is more a choice of version, choice of compilation platform (some bugs only occur with 64-bit pointers or unsigned chars —the verification in question has been done with 32-bit pointers and signed chars, no guarantee is given for other parameters) and description of a library configuration.

The PolarSSL Verification Kit takes the form of a 8-page description of the above parameters and a 100-page technical annex with all the formal specifications and justifications. You only need to read the second part if you don't trust the kit's authors. Like similar documents are, the technical annex is intended to be audited by picking a piece at random and checking the reasoning locally and how it relates to the other pieces.
Vacation != acquittal.
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