skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linear and geometric sequences are auto-detected, for anything else you'll need to provide a function to compute the next element:

2, 4 ... * # linear
2, 4, 8 ... * # exponential
1, 1 ... * # constant
1, 1, * + * ... * # Fibonacci

The last expression is equivalent to the more verbose variant

1, 1, -> $a, $b { $a + $b } ... *

that makes use of an 'pointy block' (ie lambda function) instead of the Whatever-*.
Delta 3 Garage Door Remotes
This post is beautiful -- it perfectly describes itself.
BuildZoom just updated their numbers to county vs county comparisons that get around the problem of inconsistent geographical boundaries in some cities.

The story remains.
Tcl is an awesome language for developing cross-platform desktop apps in, and Tk bindings are everywhere. I use Tk as the foundation for Mac (and soon Windows) apps written in Python and Perl as well as Tcl.
It'd have to be something that:

1.) Is not water-soluble

2.) Is not soluble in any of the other common household cleaning agents.

I'd bet on some synthetic material where the seams could be welded in some fashion.

edit: wth kind of markdown/markup does HN support?
The Windows 10 hardware certification permits the OEM to make Secure Boot not disablable. But the way the major distros work, they get a pre-bootloader signed with the Microsoft key through Microsoft's signing service, and that pre-bootloader contains a key permitting the chaining of the real bootloader, the kernel, signed with the distro key. So it's not a big problem.
Adblocking unleashes anxiety across the advertising industry
The New York Times Says It Has More Subscribers Than Ever
How to Prepare for Mars? NASA Consults Navy Sub Force
Here's the thing - this problem will only become more common. A side effect of scientific and technological progress is that individuals wield ever increasing amounts of destructive power.

Technological countermeasures will only lead to an arms race, in which the defender is always at a disadvantage.

In the very near future, how are we supposed to defend against a high-school kid who accidentally created a deadly pathogen? How about a deliberate bioattack? We really need to figure this out, and sooner rather than later.
If you don't know what the PRNG (DRBG more appropriately) is for, you didn't watch the tech video. An asymmetric key generation algorithm can't work from a fixed length seed. You need to stretch the seed to an arbitrary length, because the asymmetric key generator requires a random stream.

Your 30-second look at the code needs more than 30 seconds. If a client connects to malicious server A, the private key it would use for that connection is different from the private key it would use on server B. So malicious server A cannot replay an authentication session on a different server.
It has, in the docking station; which makes sense to me.
I'm guessing this is referring to "earnest money".
Are you really comparing the company that just put out the Macbook (oh wow a thinner than thin enough MBA with a higher res display, no ports, worse battery, worse CPU, worse GPU, for a much higher price) and the iPad Pro (wow a bigger iPad with a pen many other tablets and laptops already had covered, that you have to charge by sticking it into the iPad like an idiot [0], to Microsoft which just demo'd a pretty damn awesome laptop which is priced like a MBP, but has touch, a pen, can work as a tablet and outperforms the MBP, alongside the newest iteration of the tablet, a phone that can work as a PC and let's not forget the Hololens which is a genuine innovation unlike anything Apple is doing, and the latter is just playing catch up? Come on, talk about bias.

So when Apple is obviously working on a self-driving car, you'd say that Apple is aligning themselves intentionally with their biggest competitor and 'begging for a comparison' to Google? Or not? Or when they finally allow adblockers, finally allow split screen, finally have a low-battery mode, finally add (private) NFC, jumped on the smartwatch bandwagon, jumped on the bigger-phone bandwagon, they're also begging for comparisons and aligning themselves with the competition? When Apple copied the Surface Pro's, and finally shipped a pencil after Jobs bashed them for years, they're also begging for a comparison?

Innovation doesn't always have to be some grand scheme that is completely unprecedented and radically different from everything else. Microsoft is engineering real innovations that are valuable and share some similarities with competitors, just like Google or Apple do, alongside of which it has some big ideas that nobody is really pursuing like the Hololens. I think you're giving them too little credit here.

[0] http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2015/09/ipad_pro...
Launchdate is still Christmas.

Accordingly, the official 6.0 release is also known as 6.Christmas. Right now, we're only at 6.Birthday.
If you use bcrypt (which we recommend), you're technically using a variant of BASE64 too.

The title is a reference to a meme ("You wouldn't download a car!") and also a reference to some absurdly bad cryptography, e.g. http://www.cryptofails.com/post/87697461507/46esab-high-qual...
Top notch as in they can't add HTTP/2 to IIS without upgrading the entire OS? Yeah...

Exchange/Outlook/Lync are amazing, sure. (Lync destroys other PBX software.) But Windows as a platform, outside of managing a large company's internal IT is really not so fantastic.
I've actually seen production code that BASE64 the password of a service account a script needed.
Spotted it because the password ended in "==" and, sure enough, the script only decoded the BASE64, no cypher needed.
Advised the client and chown + chmod the file. Client wanted the BASE64 encode still...
Stanley Remotes for Garage
I have Vagrant running on my Windows 10 machine fine. It's native.
Actually, the Fed typically runs at a profit and pays it into the US Treasury.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/other/2015010...
Try msys2 - it has pacman for installing extra packages, it's basically what cygwin should have been.
Yes, 33 (although HN ate your double asterisk, like it did the original comment's initially).

# perl6 -e 'say +(1, 2, 4 ... 2**32).elems;'
33
This is very true. I've been involved in building systems involving cryptography for about a decade now, and having transitioned from the weeds (side channels, physical security) to the forest (secure systems architectures), I think I could have spent the whole time in one fairly narrow field and still not know half of it. At best, I can say that I've gained an appreciation for where the demons lie. At worst, I can say that I'm educated enough to be dangerous ;)

It's a pity that very few customers are willing to pay for the effort to exorcising all (or at least most) of those demons in the systems I've seen deployed. The product differentiator (and hence the ROI) is almost always somewhere else. The science & engineering is vastly better than it was when I enterted the field, but it still has a long way to go.
The fatal problem with any universal basic income scheme is that people will always vote for whatever politicians promise to augment their basic income, irrespective of any other factors, leading to ever higher strain on the economy and eventually bankrupting the country.
Wouldn't that be detonating the bomb on the airport instead? This whole security theater only plays into terrorists' hands. Yes, it may be more difficult to board a plane with explosives nowadays, but on the other hand we have hundreds of people stuck in a line trying to pass through security one-by-one, dropping potential liquid explosives into a single bin!
I don't think it was true in 2007, but it appears to be true in 2015.
> markdown/markup does HN support?

Depends upon who you ask, but often the answer is 'as much as the market will bear' /s

see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Bonding agents are not the problem. The issue is working with cloth as it becomes a complex 3d shape. Picture adding pockets to a pant leg such that everything lines up to within 1cm. Now build it cheap enough to compete with someone making 250$ / month and working 80 hour weeks.

PS: Often a machine will cut the right shape and do the first seam, but after that it gets complex.
2007: Microsoft is dead because no one is afraid of them.
2015: Is anyone afraid of Google?
I edited my snark, but I was going to ask if this was "just a Perl thing?"

I guess it's just a Perl thing...
> While I hate the almost singular choice for OsX

I actually find that this is less true now, and I miss when it was more true. There are a lot of choices now, not just at price points, but at form factors. Do I get a 13" MacBook Air, a 13" MacBook Pro Retina, a 12" MacBook, or the upcoming 12.9" iPad Pro?
The article is about why so many people were able to customize their myspace pages but not their internet browsers. It's about the transition of a new user to that of a programmer. My response is in the context of the article. It has nothing to do with whether or not IDE's are good or bad for advanced users with large projects.
Sounds like an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is. ;)
Very much so, although I'd perhaps argue Twitter's worse in that regard, with endless "best photos about X" bots happily swiping photos (often scraped from Reddit, sometimes even other such bots), inserting advertising into their streams, and making quite significant money off photographers' work. With Reddit users, it's done without commercial gain.

(Speaking as one who's had their work lifted thusly, particularly this one, "Momentary": https://500px.com/photo/43052792/momentary-by-porsupah-ree. It hurts, especially when there's not even any attribution, let alone any attempt to offer or agree on some modest fee)
Since Rakudo also targets the JVM, not just MoarVM (the dedicated VM), I imagine it's not terribly too much work to get to the point where the app, included modules, and Rakudo/Perl 6 itself can be bundled together for delivery.
What makes you think this isn't made in China? It's going to be a similar group of OEMs making the parts.
The frequent flyer number seems to be the piece that gives away the keys to the kingdom.
I completely agree with you. This problem with IDEs is not in the concept but in the way in which it is most often executed.
One of the first (and largest) SaaS companies!
Actually, that does raise the question of what are you typing this post on right now?
There is very little value in you just dumping this here. So you think this wasn't valid in 2007, but is now. Why? I would be interested in why you feel that way. This would be a much stronger submission if you added value.
Have you actually tried to use Powershell remoting? When you try to do remote automation on Windows machines you land in this Bizarro world where some things work with psexec, some with remoting, and some not at all.

A working, secure protocol where things actually execute on the remote machine will be very welcome, and when we think SSH that's what we're excited about.

(The hit-and-miss nonsense I'm talking about was a script that reached out to a collection of machines, shut down a Win service, set it to "manual", deleted its log file, then set it back to auto, then started the service. It was a hodge-podge of psexec, remotable commandlets, and Powershell remoting. There may have been whiffs of WinRM in there too, but I'm trying to forget it.)
I bought a Sony Vaio 15 Flip ($1200)[1] new vs. a MBP, Surface Pro 3 or Wacom Cintiq (needs a computer) for drawing. Artists are still looking to buy them at $1400 to $1800. It has a large drawings surface vs Surface Pro 3, a dedicated GPU, lots of ports, and a great screen. It runs my CAD programs (Rhino, MOI and AutoCAD Fusion) sufficiently for an i5-based notebook. It has some other great screen positions for just browsing. It a very sleek and well-designed unit. I can see how Jobs would admire them or be inspired by their innovative designs. Just look at the PSP vs. the Nintendo Gameboy physical design. I did consider an Apple Modbook [2], but it was too blocky, expensive, and going to a third-party for a modded Macbook didn't feel right, although they are Apple-endorsed and sponsored now.

[1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2425731,00.asp
[2] http://www.modbook.com/
Can a mod update the title to say "(2007)"?
Then you have to learn how to write makefiles, which means you need to learn at least a little bit about gcc.

Oh, you're on Windows (like 90+% of normal computer users), well there's this thing called Mingw, or you can use Cygwin, which you use in this thing called a command-prompt, which you've probably never used before. Oh, and make sure you have your PATH environmental variables setup correctly. What's an environmental variable?

It's all turtles. Much easier to open Visual Studio, add a project, type out a main method, and hit compile & run. It's a shame QBasic isn't around by default anymore, limited as it was. Which, come to think of it, was a stripped-down, basic IDE.
133ms latency (in the best case) is insanely bad for a database connection!

Even just adding 100ms latency to Google's page load time had a clear measurably effect on # of searches, and having 100+ms latency for each database request during a pageview would absolutely kill performance of most sites...
First off, don't quote me out of context. I reference their contribution as helping in the war effort at home, and not because they were abstained from fighting. Maybe that's not what you were trying to write, but you seems to imply that considering how you wrote it.

Second off, "any less a contribution" does not mean I'm saying they are equal contributions. It means that even though they weren't fighting, they were doing some part in helping people on the front lines.

I can't believe I had to actually explain that...
I wouldn't wish employment in the garment industry on anyone, besides; we've already destroyed the local garment/craft economies in many impoverished countries by sending our old clothes to them for free.

http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2009/03/donating_cl...

http://www.djiboutijones.com/2014/02/dont-send-your-used-sho...
Great eye and I have to say, it really makes me think twice now that I look at the logo every time. However, it's still a subjective matter. Now the question is how long did it take the Google design team to decide on the Kerning? Must have been a vote imo.
IIRC, the apple thunderbolt ethernet adapter violates thunderbolt spec and relies on the adapter specific driver for hot-plug when it's supposed to be a generic interface... this is a problem in other OSes running on mac hardware even.
Paul may have been on to something during this time frame. It is nice to know that Microsoft turned itself around if they were indeed headed the wrong way.

Microsoft has been around a long time. Any company that can continue to adapt will also continue to stay in business. Microsoft has shown a capacity to do this. Today's news and products reflects this well.
What I find frustrating, personally, about cryptography (or security in general) is that a lot of knowledge seems to be concentrated in a very specialized area, but it doesn't diffuse very far outside of there.

For example: https://twitter.com/voodooKobra/status/651554578719227904

To try to combat this, I've been trying to help make basic security and cryptography knowledge accessible to web and mobile app developers, to hopefully result in an overall net gain for the security of many companies the world over.

Obviously I can't teach everyone everything there is to know about these areas. (For starters, I myself probably don't even know half of it. Lattice-based timing attacks? Not a clue!) But realistically if I can make a dent in the propensity for bad habits and worse design choices, it's something.
Oddly enough, posted right after a Microsoft press conference where they announced a plethora of really nice devices that has many people on HN saying "wow" and proclaiming how they have reinvented themselves as a hardware company on par with Apple.

But no, totally true, especially after today.
How I’d redesign piano sheet music
Perhaps it was better veiled :)
In Brazil we banned guns 12 years ago.

Today we got more than 60k murders every year, being number 1 in absolute numbers in the world.

Violence just got worse and worse after that.
Composite propellers aren't assured of surviving a drone strike. If any propeller were to crack essentially anywhere along its length, you're talking about tens of thousands of pounds of shearing force in operation. If the propeller separates, the imbalance very easily could cause the engine to dismount. If the engine departs the plane, the plane is no longer properly weight & balanced and will not be glidable, it will tail spin into the ground uncontrollable. So I completely reject the "is going to destroy the drone" comment.

Read FAR 33 and 35, and then also do a simple Google search about engine containment failures. They can be catastrophic despite the design and testing done. So I reject the "will contain" comment.

The difference with drones and hobby model aircraft is a moron can get and keep a drone airborne, model airplanes have analog input by a human and if you don't know how to fly "by the stick" with such airplanes, it's an expensive mistake very quickly.

In theory I have little problem with the idea of property owners being able to destroy overflying drones, but in practice this is covering vigilantism and is not compatible with civil society.

Inevitably there will have to be some regulation requiring drones to identify themselves (there's a color coded flashing LED proposal, that's like a license plate); from which police can look up the owner and operator and current flight plan; and then issue directly to the operator in real time either an order to cease current operation (return to home) or reveal operator location/ID.

We just can't have people shooting things out of the sky, and having them drop on someone's dog or kid in the back yard. It'll start neighborhood feuds that will not end well at all.
I would like Amazon to keep introducing third-gen cloud services like Lambda and API Gateway.

Polishing up stuff like EC2 to make DevOps easier is great. Creating things like Lambda to make NoOps possible is better, and the two activities should not be mutually exclusive.
Is the US ipso facto a police state at this point?
Well, maybe not. Because "police state" implies a level of involvement by the government/politicization in an organized way.

When I think about what interactions I'm worried about having, those with cops make me more anxious than walking along a dark alley.

Are cops just the new mob?

Of course, you might say .. "No! Look at China etcs", but I don't live in China. I'm not worried about Chinese cops.

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" Might just be one of the most important questions that will decide the future of the US. Guards watching themselves isn't working anymore, if it ever actually did.
Honestly, the post-privatization Dells have been my go-to now (I just got work to get me a Latitude E7250, although the new XPS 13s also are tempting).

That said, it seems like the next laptop I'm getting just might be this Surface Book, or the next iteration of it.
Sure, those 5K monitors are really nice. But to tell the truth, when I really need to be productive, I use an old laptop with a 14-inch 1024x768 screen and a full-screen xterm with a nice bitmap font that embraces its pixelated nature. I find it hard to get "in the zone" with a huge monitor in front of me.
Where? I'm getting it from http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-band/en-us/support/hardwa... and it says
Maximum operating altitude: +1200 m (3937 feet)
This is simply awesome. ZFS is a killer file system.

I so wish Oracle would change the license on ZFS.
Take a closer look. The server has a copy of the client's public key on record before the authentication session begins. The server needs to authenticate the client. The server generates an ephemeral ECDH keypair. Now if an attacker manipulates the challenge or key sent to the client, the attacker has neither the server's private ephemeral key, nor the client's private key. So the attacker cannot provide a valid challenge response to the server. The worst the attacker might do is to generate a new ephemeral ECDH keypair and send that to the client instead of the keypair that the server generated - in which case the challenge response would be useless.
Micro.

Microsoft, Rebirth.

Microsoft, Part 2.

Microsoft, the Comeback.
Believe me, I want you to be right (I'm currently writing a settlement system for Visa/MC txns for a SF-based hotel chain) but I just don't see a world where those economics work long-term.

Stripe is an expensive acquirer. I'm working with Heartland and we're getting a hair over 2.1%. I suspect this is going to fall even farther as EMV gains wide acceptance and skimming/other forms of fraud become a thing of the past.

I'll admit, that's a tighter market than I thought (CB exchange) but I'm still having a hard time seeing how those economics work long-term without tons of VC. You'd have to get below 2% on an ongoing basis and with all the fraud/rewards/other stuff cards provide, 2% still seems cheap.
People can easily route air traffic from their smartphones like the air traffic controller game. You have a bunch of people directing traffic in the game, and you find the most commonly agreed upon flight path and use that to direct the pilots! It's like how Duolingo crowd sources language translations. It's so obvious!
It's spelled out in the article. Backlashes shifted voting patterns, possibly enough to affect electoral outcomes away from a President favorable to the cause of the protesters. The result was, at the very least, a significant delay in civil rights.

Is that enough for you?

I suspect that if you asked a historian, you could find many examples of movements that were utterly discredited after a turn to violence. Such as anarchism in the US.
Startup Career Fair, Andreessen Horowitz and Long Lines
We the People: Publicly affirm your support for strong encryption
STEM Education Da Vinci Style
What if garment workers were able to buy their own robotic sewing machines? Then we could have distributed labor and manufacturing and nobody would be out of a job.

Services like Uber will likely work this way when automation hits; invest in a car and put it to work.

In any case, I'll take one!
I'm agreeing. Not taking haircuts encourages moral hazard.
It's interesting how the article mentions this: "The last nail in the coffin came, of all places, from Apple." Funny how much the industry has changed in 8 years.
Proposed new tag: IMG
Anyone actively using this?

Seems pretty interesting and looking for any suggestions for what may be the best wow factor.
Outsourcing really just is the last step before automation.

The major trend to look for is always cost of production where labour being the number one cost.

In order for products to keep getting cheaper the cost has to come down. This trend doesn't stop just because we outsource it to China or Brazil or India and so even they become too expensive.

Unless economist start factoring in technology as one of the key economic factors rather than treating it as they do now as an externality we will still fight about whether too much government or too little government is going to save us all. And the politicians wont do anything because they don't see it projected in the forecasts their advisors give them.

In the meantime robots are going to slowly but surely put most of us out of a job in almost all the industries we know of right now.

Or put another way – it's the technology stupid.