skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you mean that the government could offer him a million now to expose a client's network, sure, but they could offer that to anyone.
Since Hired is a marketplace, it's a lot easier for us to analyze data because:

1.) Data is stored in a central database, and not across dozens of email accounts, LinkedIn Recruiter accounts, etc.

2.) Working with over 1100 companies, and hundreds of candidates every week, we have a huge sample size to draw on

3.) We actually have a full time Business Intelligence Analyst on our team, and we subscribe to data analysis tools such as "Looker" to build internal dashboards, and metrics which help us drive marketplace efficiency... we also have a Data Scientist on staff, whom we found on Hired (naturally!)
It's possible to do this in a staged way -- basically, give me 100k phone numbers, I'll do automated attacks and catch 25-50k of them (old unpatched OSes for which if I had a $5-10mm budget I'd have 0-days ready, phishing, etc.).

Then, use the early victims to catch the rest -- hopefully they're admin assistants, HR people, etc. Targeted attacks on the rest.

Black bag jobs on the remainder, using legal or extralegal means, based on value of the target. It's not worth bothering to black bag someone who you only want to get the big boss if the big boss is otherwise exploitable.

The key is you don't need to have a single exploit which works on 100% of your targets; you can do multiple things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHyKDrGzn-I
Agent Smith: Why, Mr. Anderson? Why, why? Why do you do it? Why, why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting... for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although... only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?

Neo: Because I choose to.
T-shirts as a service - TSaaS? It's selling black V-neck t-shirts? What exactly am I looking at here?

Is this is a stealth project with a malfunctioning cloak?

I wouldn't get caught dead in a black t-shirt, not because I think there's anything wrong with them, but I'm a human being and choose my attire accordingly. I have odd colours, widdly bits and strings on my tops, frayed bottoms - from use, not from the factory - but I keep wearing them because they make me feel human in an ambient sea of machines and automation.
Yelp Gets This Much Favorability In Google And Still Complains?
I'd love to know what's going on. My website hosted on DO, michaelbreedlove.net, is unavailable. I also have a few services running on subdomains of the same DO VPS instance; they're all accessible. I also have SSH access. They seem to be having some serious HTTP routing issues.
If you examine those who have failed alongside those who have succeeded, and are unable to find an explanatory variable, related to personal contribution, that cleanly distinguishes the two groups, then you might conclude that external factors (i.e. "luck") have a role to play in success.

If you don't examine the failures then you can't determine if this is the case, and you might fall foul to the logical error of survivorship bias, as has already been mentioned.

edit: changed "an important role" to "a role", given that lack of a "clean" distinction could be of any magnitude.
No one hides from google
http://www.haaretz.com/business/economy-finance/1.574805
Here is a C# library and sample app to send photos to an Apple TV using AirPlay:

https://github.com/spouliot/airplay
Re: Bob Jones of the world

"Wiseman also found lucky people go out of there way to try new things and meet new people."

You need to factor in looks as well. No doubt a good looking man or woman has an easier time getting people to like them (both men and women). And that helps a great deal with luck. Not insurmountable by any means. But a big plus. I'm not talking about looks landing you a job (or an agent approaching you) but just looks being a way to make more people want to hang with you or help you or invite you to a party where you meet others (could say the same thing about being funny or any number of qualities that people differ on).

Example: I helped a woman with some business things that I met in a Starbucks. She was attractive. I didn't do it to "score" with her (she was married and much younger not saying I wouldn't have wanted to of course) but simply because she was pleasant to look at and seemed approachable. And it made me feel good to be around her. I can't say that I would have been so nice if she were not as attractive as she was. Or older.
NYC is one of the only places in the country where it's feasible to live without a car (without major hassle).

Edit: I guess my point was that from my experience visiting New York that's a city where public transit is so good that a car really seems unnecessary. Someone from NYC might be surprised to learn (or be reminded) that it's the exception, and that in most other places in the country it's a hassle not to own a car -- that's not a problem just in LA.

I'm in Seattle myself (Capitol Hill) and while I could get by day-to-day without a car, it would make my commute to the east side almost twice as long depending on traffic and bus timing, which isn't worth it for me. And while Uber / Lyft are a good alternative, a car is still the most convenient way to visit other parts of the city.
I think this phenomenon happens all over. Cities -- and regions within cities -- can have their own peculiar culture, while the culture of rural areas varies on much longer distance scales.

Because of this, I suggest that the idea that North American is best thought of in terms of regions might be an unhelpful one.

OTOH, the evidence from Facebook apparently suggests otherwise:

http://petewarden.com/2010/02/06/how-to-split-up-the-us/
I am not sure that the suburbs you are talking about are the same suburbs everyone else is talking about.
Although the naming of the two projects appears to be problematic at first, I'm guessing that many users will pick the Adblock PLUS over the Adblock, simply because 'Plus' feels like a superlative.
I despise EA's business practices as much as or more than the next gamer, but this seems great for any Xbone owner. What is the catch?!
I don't think Coinbase considers themselves a broker.

This is directly from coinbase's terms of service :

"3.1. Transactions with Coinbase. When buying or selling bitcoin through the Exchange Service, you are buying from, or selling to, Coinbase directly. Coinbase does not act as an intermediary or marketplace between other buyers and sellers of bitcoin. The Exchange Service is subject to the Coinbase "Conversion Rate." "Conversion Rate" means the liquidity adjusted price of a given bitcoin amount in terms of local currency as quoted on the Coinbase Site."
Any one of those games could have (and may yet) reached a critical mass that would lead to profitability, but the market is almost completely unpredictable.

Threes was well-designed, simple, and easy to learn, but the moment it hit the market there were a thousand clones (or more like 2048 clones, amirite?).

Flappy Bird was a weekend project with "borrowed" artwork and by all rights none of us should even know what it is.

There is next to no hope for anyone that doesn't have a massive enough advertising budget to convince people that "hey, all your friends are going to be playing this game, you don't want to miss out." Anything beyond that is blind luck or a truly brilliant/original idea.
Signal is better branding.
If you don't have a SAS phrase or some other way to aurally verify the other party, you can never be secure against a MITM. Signal does this, while I doubt it's available in FaceTime audio.
Knowing EA there is always a catch.

I'm pretty sure that they just want to push more downloadable content on to you, and start releasing less and less complete games. Just look at the Battlefield-series, you have to buy four individual extra packages in order to play it (more or less), or you're basically stuck with the single player or empty servers. They also offer a "premium" service, where you get all the packages at a better price, but you have to pay up front.
Might I suggest "Waltzing with bears" by Tom DeMarco. It's about, as he quotes, "Risk Management, or Project Management for Grown-ups".

Overly Bureaucratic cultures got that way for a reason, and it is rarely worth your time trying to beat them looking for the best task tracking software. Play for the next level - managing the risk from the projects.

But I have to suggest that if you are being allowed to choose your own task tracking tools, things are more flexible than might at first seem.

I suggest using fogbugz from Joel Spolsky. It gives simple task tracking, plays well with most other systems, has a decent API so you can script custom output. Atlassian works well too in those respects but fogbugz is just better thought out.

Keep the risk reports as an addendum to whatever reports you need to satisfy the external auditors - eventually you will be seen as first player in the fun new game
Precisely. My general theory is that you could significantly improve most suburbs by knocking down a block (or even just half a block) near the center of the suburb and building a mini "downtown" - a commercial area interspersed with a few modestly-sized apartment buildings.

That's far from the optimal design if you're starting from scratch, but it solves a lot of problems without massive changes.

I grew up in American suburbia and hated it. It wasn't even one of the worst examples, but you still literally could not walk to the local LIRR station or to the park, which were just 1-2 miles away. Absurd. Build commercial areas and some more sidewalks, and it would've been much less terrible.
Completely agree. If you're building a forecasting module for an ERP system, you're probably not going to be able to hire CS grads out of MIT or Stanford to staff on it. You're likely going to get some dudes from India with little experience outside the other Dilbert-esque ERP systems they've worked on. But these guys can still be productive if given the right structured environment, and that's what coding patterns give you.

Furthermore, "rockstar" developers are often a hinderance on these kinds of projects: they take workarounds that are technically sound, but harder to maintain. Use of consistent design patterns makes maintenance a hell of a lot easier (especially when using less-talented developers). Rockstar developers are great in a startup when you need your developer to be a systems architect as well, but they're less useful in rigid functional projects like big enterprise software projects where developer and architect roles are rigidly separated.

But the example OP listed still makes sense: wrapping the example trig in a function makes sense if you plan to modify that function later and it's used in several places across the project.
> Usability is not always the only thing a website should optimize for.

Perhaps not, but completely throwing it out the window is generally not a good idea.
This is clearly a problem for the reputation of dropbox.

On their website they market the service as:

"Even if your phone goes for a swim, your stuff is always safe in Dropbox and can be restored in a snap."

With this message in mind, and a valuation of roughly >>10$ BILLION<<.

I think, you can have very very high expectations regarding the data retention of their service.

Also, the whole point of using a service like dropbox is to remove friction/time investment regarding the standard backup/sync tasks.

If you suggests to handle multiple harddisk backups locally+offsite, that is fine except that not everyone wants this kind of time investment and cost associated with a do-it-yourself backup service and rather depend on a service provider that they can trust.
That's not exactly an accurate analysis. In all likelihood, new releases will not be immediately available on this service. Just like Netflix. I can't see the new Planet of the Apes on Netflix and I probably cannot play the latest "Call of Honor: Medal of Warefare" sequel.

A good deal of games start to get in the $20-$30 range after six months to a year. So long as EA isn't trying to pull any other BS tactics, this is probably going to feature lesser know/desired titles and old releases of their "blockbuster" titles once they reach that "Bargain Basket" price. This is pretty much the Netflix streaming model.
I see that it's published by "www.makegameswith.us," so I'm presuming that you participated in the course?

Do you share revenue with them? If so is the course discounted if you choose to do so?

Or do you assume some level of revenue share and general publicity?
>This product, Signal, seems to only be for iPhones. So it's even more limited.

It appears to interoperate with RedPhone, an Android app by the same authors.
There's no such thing as "unobtrusive ads". If they weren't obtrusive, they would be either decoration or information, not ads.
Great job guys! I'm a big fan of what whisper systems is doing. Why is this not called redphone though? Does it have different features?

Edit: Looks like the article says it is part of a plan to merge redphone and textsecure.
I just created a droplet today, and was trying for the life of me to figure out what I would have done so early on in setting it up to cause it to become unresponsive. Glad to see it's not just me. It's not really a great sign though, as I was hoping to use this fairly frequently. Is this a common occurrence, or do I just have bad luck? If so, I'll definitely have to find another solution.
> What I would like to see is a way to verify that you're connected to a legitimate cell tower and not an eavesdropper.

Is there a way for cell tower's to "sign" their announcements cryptographically with LTE?
Signal is a much more neutral brand than RedPhone. RedPhone sounds either like an adult network or spying app.

At one of the Shuttleworth Foundation gatherings (where all Shuttleworth fellows meet bi-annually) I remember having a conversation about the branding of RedPhone and everyone unanimously agreed that it would hinder wider spread adoption of the software.

I'm not sure what all the factors in re-branding were but I remember Moxie agreeing with the sentiment at the time.
in that case... congrats on shipping!
You don't know what you don't know - or in other words, have you seen the latest research on iOS surveillance mechanisms? There could be other "undocumented" stuff that makes the encryption of Facetime Audio irrelevant.
DigitalOcean NYC2 hit by another long outage
There is value in being able to call people who do not have iOS devices. This is more similar to SilentCircle, but without a monthly fee.
This person sounds super jaded. Like they didn't get a job because they didn't know about some pattern they were asked about.

The thing about the GOF book is that it gives you a great foundation for designing great software. No, they aren't the only patterns out there, but you are going to find at least some of them in any well designed system. You will also see a lot of code that is clearly based on a GOF pattern, but evolved from that to solve a specific problem.

For instance, you can't get a web job these days without being familiar with MVC. And really, you should know what component modern day web frameworks are missing (an observer). You will probably use some rendition of the chain of command at some point in your career. Then you have the proxy pattern, bridge pattern, adapter pattern which are all popular as well.

So sure, hate on GOF. But you're completely missing something if you do, and expressing such distaste for it makes you look bad (imo). GOF doesn't take away the creative aspect of programming, it actually facilitates it by giving you a solid foundation of which to work. So while some will perform a piece of sheet music, others will use the sheet music as inspiration to create something new and beautiful.
Did that NPR report account for the fact that his mother knew the head of IBM from the Red Cross? Had that not been the case it's really a stretch to think that Gates would have made it to where he is today. (He would have been successful no doubt but on a much smaller scale.).
I fully expect that this is correct if you hypothesize the availability of fully (or even largely) autonomous vehicles--however long they take to make it onto the roads. It's only logical. Make driving a "better" experience in the minds of many people in the sense of allowing them to do things in the car other than watch the road and you'll get more driving. To the degree that autonomous vehicles could perhaps ease urban parking, that would make using them more attractive as well.

I don't think anyone really knows how self-driving + electric cars are going to exactly play out in the coming decades, but I fully expect them to make individual car use more attractive, not less.
usually bandwidth, or unsightliness is not the main problem... they distract so much from the content that sometimes it can be almost impossible to differentiate the two.
A good example may be to look at the PS+ service offered for Playstation owners. Basically, you get access to games only while you subscribe. If you let the subscription lapse, then the contents becomes locked, even though it is still installed on your machine.

Part of the catch may be that they are bidding to cut out used game stores like Gamestop. Through this system, they get paid directly, diminish the supply of used (substitute) goods and can combat rental outlets like Redbox and Gamefly, by having less capital costs.
I also am not receiving the SMS validation code. I'll update when I get (or don't get) the promised phone call (which comes ~4m after they think they sent the SMS). I suspect they're just overloaded by the HN spike.

Edit: The app called, offered me a code which was rejected, and refuses to Re-call me because "rate limit exceeded."
Rebranding, plus they want to combine RedPhone and TextSecure into a single app: Signal. Since they're just now starting on iOS, no point naming it RedPhone now, just to rename it to Signal 3 months from now.
GDC Europe- Going to be intense
BrowserStack infographic of their growth to 23,000 paying customers
Interesting internet habits you have there Senator.

I assume you'll be voting against this new bill Senator?
Right, the price is steep. The thing is that the coconut water expires much quicker because it is raw, so I'm sure that is factored into the price. Compare the price of fresh fruit to canned fruit, I'm guessing the markup will be similar. Maybe not as high since coconut water can be marked to yuppy types. Still, buy one and have a taste when you can; it's a flavor experience.
http://tildehash.com/

https://github.com/sdqali/commentary

https://github.com/phusion/juvia

https://github.com/posativ/isso

http://www.discourse.org/
I think historically had google played nice with existing startups and not competed against and crushed them, I would be really into this.

There's just more bad than good potential with this company and possible competitors.
Steam Greenlight sort of fits this. You can gauge desirability by how many people specify they would buy your game if it were available. But I'm not sure if you get any actual insight into the numbers.
Show HN: Does Facebook know your friends better than you do?
> I think that making a consistent experience absolutely destroys the unique culture and history of places

To be fair, the unique culture of the place used to be "industrial farming corn field" is most cases. It's not like anyone is tearing down 100 year old neighborhoods to build big boxes to serve suburbs (actually, the suburbs are far more likely to save those places than destroy them).
Perhaps this is my "Midwestern privilege" rearing its ugly head, but I suspect that most of the USA has a different sort of bar scene.

"Oh yeah we got lots of stuff on tap. We got Bud, Bud Light, Miller, Miller Lite, Busch, Busch Light, Michelob, Michelob Light... oh I forgot: Coors Light, too!"

Frankly I'm always ready for an IPA the recipe for which is "sewer water + hops".
Next round of Edward Snowden leaks: "NSA created and funded 'open whisper systems' as a way to get people to think their calls were encrypted when in reality calls went straight to the NSA..."
This does not mean that it's secure. See for example http://www.zdnet.com/apples-imessage-encryption-claims-refut... and http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/06/can-apple-re...
Open source. Donations.

https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/bundle/encryption-tools-j...
Subtle marketing.
Sub-licensing is different from transferring copyright ownership. They are both clear and well understood things, what do you mean by re-licence?
This is .yandex
That isn't true.

Suburbs frequently have wide roads that make bike riding quite easy. They are also usually flat.

I don't know what you are doing to annoy car drivers, but I've biked a lot and have never been yelled at. (Or heard others yelling.)
You are right in such a deep sense that I wish I had more than one upvote to give.

This is what people mean when they say a design pattern represents a deficiency in a language: the very fact that it's a design pattern and not, say, a library function is precisely because that language provides no way to abstract it away. Hence, rather than being something that we can turn into a reusable code artifact, the pattern instead becomes a piece of programmer lore, existing only in comments, in design documents or in people's heads.
I'm struggling to ssh into droplets, but it seemed like when I was ssh'd in, I didn't have an issue at all.
Is that true? I live in Ballard, a pretty damn residential neighborhood of Seattle, which is only a medium-density city. I live perfectly comfortably without a car. I have heard of people living comfortably without a car in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, and I'm sure others that I'm forgetting.

I even did so myself in Tucson for a year, though I'll grant that that was pretty annoying.
<rant>

Blocking ads is such a dick move. This should be made illegal. You are not entitled to change a website to your contempt and cut their main revenue source. If you want to use a website/app and it was made available with the Ad, then just suck it in or use a different one.

To my eyes this is not very different than piracy. Where you use a software without paying for it's price.

Advertising is the price you pay to use a service. Targeting is a technology to make that Ad as much relevant to you as possible. And yet there's a lot of negativity in here towards both. It's supposed to be a win-win-win solution for advertisers, publishers and users and yet are met with negativity and FUD.

If you are here in HN you should think the same, because advertisement is what funds the industry you are in.

</rant>
Except that productivity apps can and do run afoul of Apple and won't always get approved.

Exactly why do I need a zillion apps to mount an SMB share on iOS and do something with <insert specific file type>?

Answer: so iOS doesn't grow a decent music program to compete with iTunes. Apple won't approve things that might compete with their own cash cows.
> I suppose I should look for a way to identify if a user is using Adblock

Some sites I visit detect that I am running Adblock and ask me nicely to disable it because they rely on advertising for revenue. I'll try to post which sites do that and maybe you can work from there.

Maybe there should be an Internet Ads Protocol RFC or some HTTP header or I don't know, something anyway...
BitHub: Get paid bitcoin for repo commits
What did you find in their source code?
4 simple memoization patterns in Ruby (and one gem)