skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's rather a valuable asset. They will do whatever is necessary to keep you a customer. I've seen more than one situation where they reduced prices by huge factors in order to remain in a competition. Sometimes, the credible threat of a migration was enough to trigger the high-double-digit discount.
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Keeping stuff to do in your head is a terrible idea.

Writing stuff down is hard. This is common. The process of solidifying ones garbled thoughts that sound ok in their head onto paper/app into meaningful notes is hard and thus people avoid it. Not that lists are ineffective. Getting into a habit helps and is usually the start.

I like to think of to-do lists as an extension of my memory. Just like other tech and products I now rely on daily to get stuff done. Even this computer I write this on to communicate long distance.

Our brains are incapable of holding (depending on who you ask) a lot of stuff in short term memory. And naturally the stuff you try to hold in your brain over time fades away into nertherworld. Only to resurface later as a feeling that you forgot to do something. Panic sets in. You might remember it. And under stress while stressed you plow through it as though it is a priority pushing everything aside. Later realizing the stuff you pushed aside was just as important and you missed that too.. sounds all too familiar? yes an unorganized mind is constantly reactive vs proactive.

We know from GTD that all to-do list items need to be processed (filed) and then possibly pushed into a reminder system i.e. calendar. Then it has an urgency attached to it.

Furthermore, to-do lists are awesome for the moments you sit there wondering what to do next. Open your to-do list app and bingo. Work assigned to you immediately. Get stuff done! :-)

btw, if anyone wants to give my to-do list app with pomodoro technique a shot and provide feedback please do. iPhone only: http://www.gsdfaster.com/

Maybe this is the app some of u here needed to finally get into the habit of getting stuff done using to-do lists ;-)
There's one significant difference I think between what Akamai did and what we (CloudFlare) did.

Akamai thought their memory allocator meant they were safe and so didn't change their SSL keys; we weren't convinced by our own analysis (which I was involved in) launched the challenge, and simultaneously started the process of revoking keys.

In the challenge blog post we said: "We’ve begun the process of reissuing and revoking the keys CloudFlare manages on behalf of our customers. In order to ensure that we don’t overburden the certificate authority resources, we are staging this process. We expect that it will be complete by early next week."

That wasn't BS, we were doing that and we had a _ton_ of keys to deal with. Today's blog post is a result of further analysis and the announcement that we revoked everything.

BTW I'm not done with analysis of OpenSSL memory. There's still something weird going on (I think in the bignum library) where data isn't getting OPENSSL_cleanse'd from memory.
This is an exceptional deal. The hackpad team is awesome, the product makes sense, and I remember thinking after Box bought Crocodoc, that Hackpad would make sense as part of Dropbox, especially as it went enterprise and started competing with Word, Google Docs etc.

Congrats to the Hackpad team and to Dropbox here. Solid deal.
Yeah absolutely let's figure something out. I'll send an email later today
At least Wedding Crashers was entertaining. Your post, not so much.

According to your company's AngelList page, your startup has funding, you generated $500,000 in revenue last year on 80% margins, and you're profitable on $15,000/month in paid subscription revenue.

Notwithstanding the fact that the numbers don't add up (I don't see how you produce 80% margin on $500,000 in revenue while supporting an 8 person engineering team and paying yourself and co-founder a salary, or how a thriving photo sharing service that claims 270,000 users only has "over 8 million photos & videos uploaded"), if you're profitable and doing as well as claimed, why are you engaging in unethical and possibly illegal behavior to save a few hundred dollars here and there on conference tickets? Not only should you be able to afford the tickets, any highly-profitable company like the one you supposedly run usually welcomes business expenses like these.
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I agree with you that their core value is a better user experience. In my mind, offering their own apps is actually the natural continuation of this core value -- since the underlying storage is just a commodity, they can differentiate by having really well-designed apps that sit on top of it.
The ones Hackpad added :)

And, raw Etherpad has a lot of usability problems as well. Plus it's challenging to integrate it with an outside authentication mechanism.

I've looked at the code some and while on the one hand this could all be added, it's a clunky base. Node's come a long way since etherpad lite started.
I hope you realize comments cannot be deleted after a hour or so. So you either speak the truth or will hurt your public image so bad in a few months/years.

Speaking of your promise... What is "so easily"? Does it have 6 or 9 trailing zeros?
Really? I pay £1800 a month for a privately rented three bedroom house 20 minutes from central London. Friends of mine pay maybe £2000 for a similar sized place in zone 2 North London.
Every aspect of wet-lab biology is very expensive. Beyond the equipment and reagents, if you want to do in vivo aging research, you need a pathogen-free environment to house rats/mice for months or years and food to feed them.

Hackerspaces are promising in that they are finding ways to do certain techniques inexpensively. But to do the kind of wet-lab research that results in a published paper requires a wide array of equipment that I don't see available to the layman anytime soon (unless they're independently wealthy).

On the other hand, there is nothing specifically preventing interested amateurs from doing bioinformatics or aging informatics themselves. Only a few things (e.g., sequence analysis) require big clusters; you can do quite a lot on your home PC. If you need data, tons of it is freely available: http://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ is a good place to start. http://rosalind.info/ provides good tutorials.

I wish we would see more open-source developers creating well-designed bioinformatics platforms under the auspices of e.g., Apache or GNU. In general the programming experience of bioinformaticians is quite low, and we are under tremendous pressure to publish often, so there is little incentive to maintain projects over the long-term.
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I just signed for Picturelife to take a look at the interface. I said to myself "I'd use this if I could host the images myself" and closed the tab... then I came back to HN and saw your comment that it does support S3. A "host your own" plan would have been an instant purchase for me if it was available.
This is a great question. I feel like this is something a lot of people who aren't full-time sysadmins just end up learning through the school of hard knocks. There are tons of great "learn to code" sites and classes, but the "learn to sysadmin" side of things seems to be kind of underserved.

FWIW, when I decided to try to learn this seriously, I started out by just setting up a Linode, opening up their tutorials† and setting myself some tasks. But I feel like there has to be a better way than that.

† I think these two:

https://library.linode.com/using-linux/administration-basics

https://library.linode.com/lamp-guides/debian-7-wheezy
I've never sharpened mine, but too much rain is not a problem we have in California.
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No one can answer this for you. you should get a decent amount of equity, first. second, the people shouldn't be idiots. after that I'm not sure. sounds like they're under funded. if your excited about the technology that could be a factor. your young now is the time to take such chances but it's probably going to fail.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7483729
Your assumption is not very realistic.
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Can anyone point the link to ubuntu gnome 14.04 ( final release ) ? All I can get is the trusty beta 2 on their official ubuntugnome.org.
Is there anyone seriously pursuing the space? There's ethercalc but they don't seem to have much steam ...
I would join, but it wants my email which I'm not sure why you need it since it gives you my other github information to insure I'm not a bot.
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This report has only made me want to try FreeBSD even more at some point.

Some highlights for me were:

- FreeBSD on Chromebook
- Chromium port
- Improved Wine port
"...but MSFT continued to extend it because... 2+ years of extended sales to sell more over-priced netbook trash."

FTFY

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/2008/apr08/04-...
For #1, I usually just do no replacements unless I definitely would want either the first choice or replacement. It also depends on who does deliveries. When I got Safeway delivery directly, it was messed up all the time by the shoppers (probably the biggest downside with some services), but Instacart was generally very good about following my preferences. Of course, with no replacements, you might end up without some important ingredients so that can definitely be a problem still.
Hmm, Amazon now charges $0.65 per hour for their g2.2xlarge GPU plan (in Linux). See http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
"I'm the CEO of Picturelife and I wouldn't dream of rolling over like this so easily."

I'm sorry, but I don't believe you. If someone waves $10M in front of you, you're going to take it. I think that's ok and I don't think it's (exactly) giving anyone a "bad name" (in the moral sense). It does mean that I'm going to be hesitant to put my photos into a startup again.

Are you willing to put out a guarantee? Are you willing to refund 100% of the money I paid in the last year if you sell and the service is shutdown? I'm betting there is some kind of legal instrument available to me, as a user, to soften the blow when this inevitably happens.
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Completely read this as QEMM and flashed back to DOS days. :)
This is not only way outside the bounds, it's an example of exactly what we don't want in an HN post: inflammatory material that is guaranteed not to produce reflection or a thoughtful discussion. Even if that weren't a problem, there is a narrower issue with the post: it falls in the scope of possible propaganda. I do not mean that it is false, but rather that to know whether it is would require careful analysis and sourcing that HN is not the place for.

In addition, the submission title is exactly the kind of editorializing the guidelines ask not to do.

The post was killed by user flags, and rightly so. That is what flagging is for.
Where remote work is a viable option, then it's obviously easy to tackle.

Where it isn't, set up shop in a smaller market that isn't the valley and have a separate office. Execs can split-time between the locations if necessary, but standing up an office in Houston, Austin, Atlanta, or wherever, and hiring another manager for that location can pay for itself quickly, considering wage-market discrepancy.

My office is in Mountain View, but I live in Annapolis, MD. We have an office in Georgetown, DC, that's about an hour away from me. I work from home, but have the convenience of the DC office in the event that I need to physically sign papers, get stationery, or whatever, and I fly out to MV for a week every couple of months, or every quarter.

Our company has a services division as well, that is mostly remote (though, remote in that scenario is generally on customer premises), and while sure, we have a need for office in some spots, we most of the time don't, so we oversubscribe desks and such. I think we have 6 desks in the Georgetown office for 20-something employees, and it's extremely rare that they're ever full.
>We all make mistakes (some of mine are easy to find). I'd just say that a lesson to learn from this is, "err on the side of greater severity, not lesser."

10000% agree. And honestly, that was one reason the challenge annoyed me too (thank you for putting words to what I was feeling/thinking).

That said, I do think the results we got were worthwhile. Even if that never should have been a starting point.
The debate over the nation’s budget deficit aside, government’s contribution to innovation is not financially rewarded. The benefits to government, it has always been argued, would be increases in tax revenues as companies grow based on its research. The fact that Apple avoids almost all taxes by international avoidance strategies, as do many other high-technology companies, shows such hypotheses to be largely bogus.

This sounds to me like a non sequitur. The government has collected massive tax revenue from a growing Apple, let alone the larger, more productive economy spurred by the internet as a whole. Income taxes on Apple's employees, capital gains taxes on AAPL stock transactions, sales taxes on Apple products...

If spending on basic research leads to even a tenth of a percent of higher annual GDP growth, it will almost certainly pay for itself as that compounds over time into a much larger tax base.
Not really techcrunch style, but here are some resources that at least give a pulse of the microISV/lifestyle scene:

http://www.tropicalmba.com/

http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/
Smiled when I saw your username. Looks like great work you guys are doing, hope you're able to help them out.
Apparently we will see more real world cities in the future games, voila!
How did you get the 1st 50 or 100 users? What Marketing strategies were most useful for you. I've been building products but needs traction to get to 5K level for some of my side projects.
My favorite parts of Hackpad were the features that weren't intended to have mass-market appeal (ex: code syntax highlighting, markdown-inspired keybindings, ability to easily create/delete accounts). These will likely be gone in whatever notes product that Dropbox makes with the help of the (wonderful) Hackpad team.

So for me, this acquisition seems like a loss. I realize that Hackpad has said that they'll keep the site alive, but I expect it to be less functional if everyone maintaining it is a full-time Dropbox employee now. Fingers crossed that there will someday exist a good collaborative doc editor for hackers that doesn't fall over when >10 people connect or require a Google account!

Full disclosure: I have written code and done security auditing for Hackpad. I tried to get them to add vim mode. :)
Could anyone tell me what it is? Even the test drive link on their home page offers no clues without signing up, and the blog isn't responding.
I don't get much out of simply reading code. I have to get my hands in there and see how it works.

I load it into a repl and play around. See how changing little things effects tests. I add print statements to give a narrative. I draw diagrams of the code flow, especially startup, shutdown and sometimes error/exception handling.
That's a really good point. I had read the original post as "we're reissuing and revoking some keys" but didn't understand you would be doing all keys, regardless of the challenge results, therefore I thought the process was expanded to everyone AFTER the challenge was won. Glad to hear you were already in the process of doing the staggered reissue/revoke cycle.

And also props for reissuing and revoking everything. That's hugely important.
The best reason, IMO, is that the tools around KVM (using QEMU) and virt-manager are becoming much more pleasant to use than their VirtualBox counterparts. The GUI could still use some cleaning up, IMO, but overall I have found the experience much more pleasant in recent virt-manager releases than the VirtualBox way of doing things.
Very impressive collection indeed. Now lets wait another 40 years for modern 1977-1990 collection ^_^
I am "a little bit" not a fan of waiting to rekey. A lot of people did that.

I am "a lot" not a fan of setting up a challenge game to have people try to pull the key with one hand figuratively tied behind their back, when a debugger or memory dump would have decisively answered the question --- and, presumably, did exactly that for at least some of the winners.

I am "severely" not a fan of marketing skepticism about the severity of a flaw. This is almost vulnerability response 101: it's the reason Cisco and Microsoft tag memory corruption flaws "possible remote code execution" even when they're obviously not exploitable. Err on the side of severity.

As evidence for my concern, I'll again observe that Bruce Schneier's read of the Crowdflare Challenge blog post was that your team believed it to be "next to impossible" to extract RSA keys.

As you know, very few people in your audience have the technical background to evaluate that claim, especially when it's accompanied by heap metadata diagrams.

I don't think any of this is earth-shattering or even all that controversial. I would just hate to see a standard response to complicated vulnerabilities become "set up a challenge site". Challenges are great! You guys should do more of them! Just don't do them to answer critical security questions. :)

Edited to sound less petulant.
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For me personally, not having to use my car often is the single biggest appeal of city life. I love walking to dinner, coffee, a friend's place, and bars.
This is an impressive spike relatively speaking but I'm assuming the number of servers affected by Heartbleed is several orders of magnitude higher. Is this just an inaccuracy in the data or is this prove of TLS having effectively turned into plaintext?
Agreed.

Here is a link to cpython 2.7 libraries: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/70274d53c1dd/Lib

Those that are implemented in C are in the "Modules" folder from the top level.

I think you [OP] will get the most benefit from reading libraries that you use often because it will give you some direction.

If there are 3rd party libraries you use heavily those will be interesting too.

It is very very difficult to just pick up megabytes of code and start reading them and find it useful. You will be able to pick up style and conventions but not really high-level engineering decisions.

My suggestion is to take software that you use regularly and run it through a debugger. Since you use it you know the problem domain. And with the debugger the code you're reading gets real context. I've done this with Git for example.

And also look at the design documents for big OSS projects.
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This rings true to me. If you're going to be actively dating all the way into your 30s, living in the suburbs is going to make things much harder.
We are working on something that's somehow close to your suggestion.
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It is by design!

Upgrades between LTS releases are not enabled by default until the first point release, 14.04.1, scheduled for July. It is recommended that most LTS users wait until then before upgrading to 14.04. You could add a '-d' flag if you're in a hurry!
The British Library doesn't rent its collections - it isn't a profit making body.
Note that the previous announcement was a bit premature: three weeks ago, on the date of that discussion, Servo was passing Acid2 only on a feature branch. As of two weeks ago the master branch should be passing as well.
DO does the same thing, does it not?
I think the author pretty clearly explained the connection:

the arrow of time does not seem to follow from the underlying
laws of physics, which work the same going forward in time as in
reverse. By those laws, it seemed that if someone knew the paths
of all the particles in the universe and flipped them around,
energy would accumulate rather than disperse: Tepid coffee would
spontaneously heat up

What he's saying is a bit unclear: we know the how, which is even a kind of plausible explanation as to why. What the author says we couldn't explain before is the converse: why does the opposite never happen? So I interpret that quote more like "Finally, we can understand why a cup of coffee only equilibriates..."
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Mates,
I know this is sort of topic not talked much on HN given the seriousness of discussion. However, I have to ask how is your social life ? Are you dating someone ? Do you find time for them? Are you single and feel lost for dating ?

I am 28 , programmer and single. I kinda want to date girl but I think whatever I talk seem out of world to them. I am trying to see is this case with me or there is large pool like this.
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Oh darn, Rackspace has the same problem. I hoped it would be like AWS, where you pay for storage on S3 when not using, and hourly running costs when it is.
Of course it's the point but in precisely in this context it has a nazi overtones because this is how the nazis used it see "Übermensch" or "Deutschland über alles".
If I travelled there, it would be surely for the experience, indeed.

I liked the startup idea, but I am aware that most of startups fail. Even more, I did not participate with them right from the beginning, so I tend to naturally feel less excited about the idea itself. On the other hand, the people I would work with are really good; although not much experienced, just like me.

I and trying to weight such experience versus letting go of my job for the uncertainty of such experience.

Ah, yeah. An important part of my dilemma is that, although traveling within two months, I should give an answer in something like at most 4 days.
So what? The monthly payment is only a small piece of the puzzle
> my sources (taxi driver blogs)

So you trust the taxi drivers to tell you if their industry is "competitive enough"? Brb, I have to go ask comcast if the cable industry is competitive enough.

There is no such thing as too much competition. Increased competition always has a net positive effect. Comcast and the taxi industry may suffer, but society will benefit.
so, what does that mean? is isc going to develop it further, or not? i cannot really see through the marketing speak.

will it supersede bind9 or not?
You are assuming that we crashed those events when we were profitable. Incorrect.
> Love the irony of a YC exit as an acquisition by a YC company :-)

Honest question, why is that irony?