skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I believe it computes all possible combinations of characters and checks the MD5 hashes until it matches the one you're trying to crack.

This isn't the only or first GPU-aided cracker though. I used one to crack an MD5 hased string in about a day on a macbook pro about a year ago. Both CPU and the Nvidia 8600 GPU were used. I believe the string was 6-8 characters long. My computer's fan was running on max for the whole period and by the end the fan was broken and needed repair.
It's an imbalance. I've never really needed more than 5mbps down, but I NEED 20mbps up or greater for my daily interest in the internet, mainly video and photography. Broadband is just another case where status quo has been maintained by lobbying and corporate bulling at the cost of losing our competitive edge and restricting our ability to grow.

Cheaper isn't terribly exciting, it's just .. well, cheaper.
As to more storage, memory and processing power, so what? My desktop still feels as sluggish and kludgy as it did a decade ago. The use case changed. Browsers are still awful, maybe not in direct feature for feature comparison, but how we use them now (flash, ajax, multiple tabs) they're just as slow and unreliable.
To answer some points: In 2008, revenue grew 29% to $19.17 BN. You can go back over the past 5 or 10 years and nit pick, but the numbers are all solid and within the ranges mentioned. I used 15% in the article over 20 years to express my confidence in ecommerce overall and in Amazon's ability to capitalize. The thrust of my argument is changing consumer behavior, but also a strong long position on the value of computer science. Amazon will leverage CS and technology generally better than all competitors. I stand by my claims. The data backs it up. I am confident current trends will continue because the underlying phenomena is so powerful.
I, for one, am going to continue giving my money to Adafruit. Sparkfun certainly lost this prospective customer. I wonder what they were saying to themselves when the site began to time out before the sale even started. "But we streamlined everything!" My ass.
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Well, no; if they're using memcachedb presumably their data doesn't fit in memory on a single machine.

Cassandra would be a better choice.

/cassandra committer, but it would :)
So after griping that the page is a case of data overload, I though there should be another way to get this much information parceled out in more digestible portions.

In order to help myself (and others so interested) to improve my German vocabulary I set up a Twitter account that shoots off random German - English word definitions: @TeachMeGerman. Every hour you can learn a new word (modulo the data set size, though the repetition is actually handy).

I bet such a thing, if it does not already exist, would be good way to pick up new vim tips.

Thoughts?

Volunteers? :)
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Ask around, when I was living in Toronto I found out that a neighbouring company had pulled in fiber, they let me piggyback on to theirs for a relatively low fee.

If you need it then I assume it's work related so you probably have some budget available.

You'd be surprised how much fiber has been pulled in metropolitan areas.

If you're in the sticks or some small town then it's a different matter, but you could conceivably do something with channel bonding, or ask your ISP how many dineros they want for a symmetrical arrangement.
way too slow.. i'd rather just fire up irb
A hack I'm disturbingly proud of, and its connection to some real math
France's productivity per capita is, if not the highest in the world, in the top 3.
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Can you give us any reference to the "Condé Nast's IT department's fault" theory? From the best of my knowledge reddit infrastructure was always maintained by reddit stuff and Condé Nast had no influence on that.

The current reddit stuff did an "Ask me Anything" thread on reddit when the founders left and they said the reason for the move to AWS was purely because of price/scaling issues and some part of reddit was already using AWS even before Condé Nast bought them.
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this page is fantastic and the author responds in a very friendly way.
You don't have to read it in one shot. Its more like a cheat sheet, than an extensive manual.

I love it as it is.
The most ridiculous part of Avatar was that the humans would give up and go home. More like they'd unleash some nukes and just take the unobtanium home.
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He's not really saying anything new here. We get a too-long overview of the history of the Volstead Act, and then one paragraph cautioning Congress to remember the lessons of Prohibition. There isn't even a hint as to what issue he is referring to. Is it health care, finance, marijuana, carbon dioxide? If he meant all of them, he should have said all of them.
I read somewhere that the problem of "syntax design", that is choosing how a language requires you to write it, is regarded as "solved", that is we don't need any more constructs or abilities in languages. Whoever it was said that the real problems remaining are speed and size and the other stuff.

I agree that this is the case, but only because Ruby exists. If you haven't tried it then really, please do, I think you'll like it.
To me, "are you happy" seems more temporal. Whereas, "do you have the best possible life" seems more lasting. If someone calls me up in the middle of Jan on a cold week here in Toronto, say -25C, I'm not a happy man, but I still think I have the best life possible.
I'm sorry, but this is still going on in 2010 right now and to have no mention of it is completely ridiculous -

'Taking a drink became a sign of defiance against the arrogant minority who had deprived people of their "right" to enjoy themselves.'

Substitute E, K, Coke, Weed, LSD, 2CB or whatever and were bang up to date.
Instead of shorting FXI, you can buy FXP, which will have a similar effect.
He went out of his way because most reddit user keep blaming AWS for the recent issues, as jedberg (reddit IT guy) recently mentioned the problem is not with AWS scaling but with reddit software scaling.
Somethings imply (operative word here) causation. I type the little letter "a" on my keyboard and an "a" comes up in emacs, thats causation.
That was the single largest plot hole of many others.

"Nuke it from orbit."
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I'm in a group of classes where all the students take the same group, an "integrated core" if you will. For the same 5 books, my classmates who went to our school's bookstore spent $450 +- $100. On Amazon, I got older editions of the same books for $130...
> It isn't going to be easy to escape.

Which is why you sohuld support the Pirate Party.
Well, at least they didn't let George Lucas get his hands on it...
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There is something key that you are missing here. Being unfocused is a core corporate value for Google. That's why they deliberately give every engineer 20% of their time to do pretty much whatever they want to do. Many popular products, such as gmail, started this way. Crazy as it sounds, so far this has been working out quite well for them.

The side effect is that you see apparently crazy things like some engineer deciding that he wants to install solar panels in the parking lot, which after one thing lead to another lead the company as a whole deciding to be carbon neutral. However the culture sees this as a benefit. After all that was good for morale, good for the corporate image, and the resulting focus on efficiency has been saving money. What's not to like?
If everyone felt as Eliezer did- that it was better to spend at least some effort doing what the world needed most, rather than what happened to feel good- then maybe we would not have hundreds of millions of people in constant danger of starvation.

I sincerely doubt it. What has charity really done for starvation and poverty? There's only one thing that has ultimately had a big, lasting effect on those things: capitalism. I'm sure many will disagree, but I'd like to see the evidence that giving $1m to developing economies has more effect than investing $1m in businesses in those economies that can then grow and hire more workers.

I don't presently see the case for charity, but I'd like to see more data on the subject.
I got the feeling that was the subtext. But maybe I'm reading subtleties which aren't there. It's all a bit ambiguous - the last paragraph, the conclusion, doesn't really tie in.
Orson Scott Card has this idea of "edge" nations and "centre" nations. It's to do with whose culture wins, not to do with whose military wins. Basically, when an "edge" invades a "center" (or vice versa), the result looks like the centre nation. So, the Mongols invaded China... and adopted Chinese style government.

I think the Romans were amongst the strongest centre nations, as we're still copying them (pythons: "what have the Romans ever done for us?") e.g. democracy, bureaucracy, even details like a senate. Though fallen, the Empire survives.

heads beat arms
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According to my reading of the documentation I think the recommendation engine operates on the data set that you specify regardless of the content. It operates on link graphs and group recommendations not the data itself. Basically, the data that is represented is invariant. The operations it does is like a group based recommendation service.
I got through the mayhem, and am pretty excited; haven't done anything with Arduino before, but have a free Lilypad and Bluetooth Mate for it on the way.
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Thanks for the tip...there are some other display issues with Chrome. We'll be getting to those bugs post launch :).
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This is the answer to an old D.E. Shaw interview question, too.
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I beg to differ. If you can get past his bad-language-for-its-own-sake style, the Filthy Critic has a great review-- great in the sense that his review is both a thoughtful critique of the movie, and an entertainment in its own right:
http://www.bigempire.com/filthy/avatar.html

By framing his review as an argument between himself and his nephew, he acknowledges what he sees as good about the movie, but also brings to bear his trademark criticism of Hollywood storytelling. Even when I disagree with his assessment of a movie, I often find Matt's reviews thought-provoking as well as amusing to read.
doh, meant 60hz, mixed up the grid's voltage/freq.
For intimidation, try browsing all the help pages of vim! :-)

I've concluded that vim has every feature I can imagine - and then some. But I can't appreciate it until I've imagined it. The problem is that it is impossible to find that feature in the help, since I don't know its name. Google helps here, by searching for a description of it in my own words.

Every tutorial I've ever seen on vim is mind-bogglingly boring. I've learnt the most by just hearing one tip at a time - and searching for one when I need it.

Some people can absorb massive quantities of raw information, but I need to integrate new information into my other knowledge in order to be able to use it. Then there's practicing the habit of using it, and learning in what situations it is appropriate. For a tool, it's not knowledge per se, but the application of knowledge that is useful.
I completely agree. In fact, this is why physician specialists are required to perform basic clinical duty in many different specialties before diving deeper into their primary specialty (I hope a physician will correct me if I am wrong).

The manner of specialization also depends on the field. In programming we have the luxury of time and a search engine, so knowing basic concepts are more important than API details. A surgeon has no such luxury--your heart transplant specialist had better know everything down cold.
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I live in SOMA. Downtown San Francisco. Twitter is across the street from me, literally. My best option is 6-30mbps down, and 1mbps up, or comcast which gives 10mbps up. I'd gladly pay $250/month to get 20mbps up. Unfortunately Comcast is allowed to force apartment building to sign exclusive contracts. Nobody is allowed to put fiber or coaxial into the building but comcast, and DSL just doesn't cut the mustard. After Microsoft made a mockery of the anti-trust system in the US, the fed has seemingly lost all interest in protecting the rights of the American people against monopolies.

Innovation loses. Comcast wins.
A logical extension here would be some kind of app where you could specify certain events happening in say a certain radius of you depending on the event or just events in general and get a real time window open if something that you have specified has happened and starts updating.

Wouldn't even have to know about an even initially then to search, even though this isn't an issue with an earthquake you feel yourself.
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The tech industry is designed to profit off of young, single, impressionable white boys who are more than willing to drink the kool-aid. As you get older, say 30-35, all of a sudden the world changes on you. Relationships happen, families emerge, and the same industry you gave your youth too all of a sudden just doesn't fit you anymore because you are no longer it's ideal employee demographic.
I reckon that the best way to become a generalist is a two-step process:

1. Become a specialist

2. Become a generalist

This has two advantages. Firstly, you'll be useful and employable in your youth, since a specialist with a few years' experience is a valuable asset, but a half-baked generalist is pretty useless. Secondly, and more importantly, you'll know what it's like to really understand a subject, which should help you in your quest to partially understand all the others.
Hm, "protégé, émigré, née, and élan" all bother me, too. The diacritic means "pronounce this", imo, but English is as she is spoke.

Yeah, it's the web, it's probably safest to stick to ascii ;P
Can someone explain why the visualizations are triangles, if the two axis are meant to represent similarity and time?
Everything you've cited here just says "marginally better and cheaper crap to buy". Education has not improved in the past 20 years. Neither has public transit. Manufacturing has gotten cheaper, but it also puts out cheaper products in terms of quality. Oh, and we have better video games. Yippee!
If that's the "front door", you'll need to somehow get in the "back door".

This is the single most important piece of jobseeking advice I can give anyone. Joel Spolsky had an article some years ago on how the best candidates are never on the public job market, because they get snapped up on the private offers. He wrote from the perspective of "As a business owner, it sure sucks looking in the slush pile of resumes, because none of the good people are in it.", but the applicant's side of the coin is similar: You're a good candidate, right? So don't go to the slush pile!

I suppose having your resume on the front page of HN could be a good start to that.

As fun as waiting by the phone and hoping to get a job offer is, I'd suggest you instead either talk to a Googler you know or get someone you know who owes you a favor to introduce you to a Googler. (Networking: not just for ethernet packets.) All you need to do is convince someone to convince someone to visit a URL, preferably with an endorsement. ("Hey Bob, got a second? My buddy $NAME is dying to get into Google. Know anybody who could use a brilliant engineer who did good work for me? $URL")
No, its workable in late model Firefox too. I do map charts with it.
Wow! Many comments, much of them valuable; learned a lot, truly. Not that I'm making a summary, but one point is clearly missing...

Decision making is a matter of binary logic, either you go for it, or you don't. From the theory of systems, for that kind of decision you must have one universal "efficiency" criterion, which is, inexorably, money.

(1) Write down all the comments in this thread; number them;
(2) Write down all your own thoughts, along the above comments;
(3) Assign weight factor to each of the above; bring them to a single dimension (e.g. money);
(4) Count -- an you get your decision.
(5) If still unsure, go to #2 (perhaps you failed to materialize an idea of yours in a formal way);

V.
I will definitely buy this. Stem cell research might be the one "world-changing" innovation that's happened since the dawn of the internet, but I don't know if we'll have a clear view of that for another decade.

Arthroscopic surgery is also pretty awesome. So maybe it isn't all bleak. Maybe it's just the tech industry that has failed to do anything but sell us more crap, invade our privacy, and advertise us into submission.
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I used a short haul directional rig for high speed wifi (short haul being anything up to a mile or so) in another location, it cost me some money but it worked like a charm.

I got it from these guys: http://www.star-os.com/

They really seem to know their stuff. Using that trick you could likely jump from your balcony or window sill to any location in the neighbourhood that is in line-of-sight, to get you significantly more bandwidth than you have today.

They also sell a transmitter that isn't entirely legal in all parts of the world that will do significantly longer distances.
I won't be impressed until humans no longer fgeel the need to point out that a leader is of a specific color. That's just proof that racism is very real. And Mr. Obama himself is filled with religious hatred, as seen by his turncoat stance on the "Defense Of Marriage Act" that he originally promised to repeal. A black man denying others equality is pretty messed up.
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The horizontal axis represents musical time, from the beginning to the end of the piece, while the vertical axis shows how far the similarities persist into the higher-level structure of the piece.

If I understand this correctly, this means that the vertical axis goes from "similarity in large-scale structure" at the top to "similarity at the momentary scale" at the bottom, so the triangle is a sensible way to look at it.
Why you should do OpenGL and not DirectX
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I wonder how anyone got an order through? Nothing would load for me.
And then he discovered the LOOP statement!
You can make a lot of money if you can correctly predict (50% + delta) of the time (on a return weighted basis). That means this guy can be both successful in a repeatable way and wrong.
Thanks -- I've updated it.
Great message on changing mindsets. Refers to this article ~ http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_42/b41510320...
I am pretty sure he is the first black man elected head of state in any country that is not majority black, and I know of no precedent of a leader being elected from any racial minority that makes up only 13% of a nation.

Outside of cutting into people's brains and taking out in-group preferences that have existed since before the Cambrian explosion, I don't know what else you want us to do. Barack's election does say something about how far the power of racism has declined as a force in American society.

Now the rest of the world, they are still racist as hell. Try pulling the same stunt in Japan, or France.
In any case, I've implemented your suggestions -- thanks.
I was under the impression that DirectX was a more extensive API, and included support for more complex high level operations- is this untrue?
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Wow, I hope Juniper can fix that soon.
Why is that at all true?

Seems equally as likely the growth of surrounding economies could be the result of Chinese regional spending and an indicator of financial mismanagement as it is an indicator of some underlying health.
Then substitute "invested" for "donated". Or, hell, "invested in figuring out how best to help developing countries" (like http://www.givewell.net/). The stereotypical ways to help people do tend to suck (lending the original quote much of its plausibility), but there are other options.
Health care.

He points out that prohibition destroyed the seventh largest industry in the country at the time it was passed, and did nothing but breed criminality and disrespect for law. He then implies that the coming massive government intervention in health care will wreak cataclysmic and unexpected levels of havoc with the 15% of our economy that the health care industry represents.

His argument is best when cast as a pointed reminder that the government is made of fallible human beings who can't be trusted to understand all the implications of the incredibly complicated system they are attempting to administer, and less when cast as some sort of direct analogy.
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