skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope they make ZSH the standard shell. It's similar enough to bash to not disrupt most workflows and Apple has been able to update it due to its permissive license.

I use ZSH as my main shell on OS X. I find it superior to bash in almost every way (especially with oh-my-zsh) except in ubiquity. Even so, I have no problem using bash if that's all that's available, the two shells are fairly compatible.
What Is Social Anxiety?
The cure to death even partially is probably more that 100 years away from us.
Thank you for this, I think it's great!
Your analogy isn't appropriate. The brain is not made of muscle tissue.
Visit /r/nootropics, although you probably already have heard of this community.
To my recollection, EBS has only suffered one such major failure, some time in 2011 (I was working for Engine Yard at the time). It hasn't factored strongly into my decision making since, other than that since AWS weathered it, they're likely now well prepared against it.

AWS is a known quantity to me, Joyent is unfortunately not. I have a lot of time for Bryan Cantrill though, so I'm sure they're doing good stuff - I just don't have the extra cognitive cycles to handle a whole new base layer on top of all the scheduler / container stuff right now.
Add second factor authorization for these, in any case. Google Authenticator app on the phone works reasonably well, or perhaps even get a physical token.
Hey that looks fantastic. It only seems to be supported by about half a dozen sites though. I wonder if there are some big costs to a site adopting it.
Agree with you Hugh. Per capita comparisons are silly given the vast population differential. I love San Fran and am no basher here but the geography+zoning of San Fran makes it an enclave for the high income with no place for anything else. Unfortunately unlike Lake Wobegon everyone can't be above average income. Not sure if San Fran has applicable lessons outside its little zone.
Probably a bit less than that depending on how over-provisioned the drive is. But it's not like you'll be able to write 700 times to the same cell deliberately and that value is only the worst case guarantee. If you followed Anandtech's destructive testing most drives last way longer than they're rated for under normal conditions.
Can you describe how a wordlist and combinator attack is risky for something like eg diceware?

Let's make it easier and assume the diceware list only includes the 26 lower case characters (nothing else), that all words are separated by a single space, that the passphrase contains 7 words. And we assume our attacker knows all of this, and has the same wordlist we used. Heck, we'll even give them our dice too.

How at risk is our 7 word passphrase?
One of Silicon Valley's most secretive startups is now valued at $20B
>YOU can increase the size of your muscles by pumping iron and improve your stamina with aerobic training.

How come? You increase the size of the muscles by lifting heavy.
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Yes, you must definitely enjoy it. When it becomes a chore or you don't look forward to working on something you're probably not one with "programming aptitude". That said, I have met people that could pick it up quickly and then stopped because it wasn't their thing.
My dad went from being an auto mechanic to learning to code when he was 63 and he's 77 now and argues with me about Drupal vs Joomla over dinner. It's only one sample but I'm convinced him switching careers extended his neural plasticity considerably.
The Automoton Table
Really? You don't lose (forget) virtual keys? It's a far worse problem. A physical key can always be found if you look hard enough. A virtual key can truly be lost forever.
That's what pumping iron means.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10443276
A VC's job is not to take every risk they can find, it's to find the risks worth taking. I see plenty of risks in the more recent years here:

http://www.bvp.com/portfolio
Are dolphins on the top of the food chain? I thought they were predated by whales and sharks?
No it won't. Full stop.

It will drive a further wedge between the producers and consumers in society, which plays right into the class warfare rhetoric that the politicians who would support UBI are always fomenting.

Who's going to pay for UBI? Everyone! I see the amount of $10,000 thrown about. There are 235 million adults in the U.S. That's $2.35 trillion per annum, more than 13% of the GDP. You don't think the taxation required to generate that kind of money won't reach far down into the middle class? Dream on.

And we are going sacrifice $2.35 trillion for what? It won't increase productivity. If anything it will reduce it somewhat. Yes, I'm ignoring the benefit it will be to the truly needy, and that's important, but for the majority of the country, the UBI will be way more offset by the much higher amount they have to pay in additional taxes.

Social cohesion, my ass.
Ha! I add '0' to the end of my password. Uncrackable!
Isn't your paper password list just a post-it note attached to your screen like mine is?
> Sounds so insane I guess it must have really happened.

I had it happen to me when changing a password on an Apple ID account 1-2 years ago. My password was accepted without an error and truncated to 32 characters.
> if I'm not connected with who they want. it means that the pleasantries of the social interaction was a total farce - the "personal connection"? 100% grade A bullshit. The acrimony and inhumanity of it disgusts me.

This made me laugh. I'm not sure about the tech scene specifically, but LA in general has this reputation for the entire city & cited as the main motivation by everyone I know that has moved away from it.
Industrial machinery didn't crazily shoot up in price because NIMBYs haven't made it illegal to produce more.

Housing prices in SF are entirely a self-inflicted ill - NIMBYs causing scarcity. Houston does it right: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/03/hou...
Typically, folks just change the '1' at the end to '2'. And so on. I agree this is another totally pointless password rule that helps nobody.
Sometimes it reveals things about the underlying system (e.g., that they are storing passwords on a mainframe, or in a database with a different character set).
Vim based modern C/C++ IDE
Powering Innovation with Inputs
If that. Many people say the reason cancer kills everyone eventually is that cells in our body wants to be free and it takes that this many generations to declare their independence and rebel against the perfectly tuned totalitarian system that is our body.
GB/Gb damn
7 Futuristic PC Peripherals and Gadgets EVERY Gamer NEEDS
Keep in mind that these 950 SSDs get very hot when continuously reading or writing since there is around 6W of heat dissipation on a tiny uncooled board. What happens then is that the thermal throttling will kick in and degrade the performance.
Valproate supposedly increases plasticity for some skills:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24831-learning-drugs-...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3848041/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valproate

Taking acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, also may increase plasticity:
http://dana.org/Cerebrum/2012/Re-opening_Windows__Manipulati...

Here is a list of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylcholinesterase_inhibitor...

There are a few other ways to potentially increase neuroplasticity:

Blood transfusions from young people or children to old people: http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v20/n6/full/nm.3569.html

Transplanting inhibitory neurons: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627315...
Maybe your body, certainly not mine. I'm not sure who is in control - not me.
An Attack and an Identity Crisis in Sweden
> A virtual key can truly be lost forever.

Sure, but it's super easy to make backups of virtual keys. It's a digital file - just copy it.

Worried one backup isn't enough? Make a million. Space is cheap.
I though he meant Fe
Better pick an obscure book, I've read about cracking programs with books in their dictionaries.
indeed. for some comparison just betwwen php 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7, and HHVM, view some benchmark results in recent PHP talks...

http://talks.php.net/singapore15#/drupalbench

php7 is sometimes faster than hhvm, and sometimes a bit slower, but both are generally faster to much faster than earlier versions.

(and 5.4 was faster than 5.2 which the GP referenced)
Mild warning about valproate: it's associated with PCOS (so only relevant to women).
Can't wait! Time for dotHill-like performance to trickle down to affordable range. Last two things then are affordable 10-bit monitors and gfx cards with 10-bit output and alternative to infiniband.
I never understood why they couldn't just drop it from 100ft?

Maybe into a body of water or put lots of padding to cushion the landing.
Straw man. Using 'taxation' as a boogeyman is where everybody goes, when first thinking about this topic.

Read more about it. Printing money is another way - I know, it has other effects, but that could be very useful in the current financial situation. There are other solutions as well.

'Money' is an imaginary concept managed by arbitrary rules, and if a BI is created then rules will have to be changed.
Oh not this again. First of all, Friedman advocated a negative income tax as a replacement to the ad-hoc mess of redistributive taxes, grants and welfare programs that exist now.

Yeah, and? He thought it was the best solution to the problem. See above about the difference between political theory and political reality.

Second, this doomsday scenario of 50 million people waking up one day to discover..

Don't give yourself a hernia setting up those straw men. No one said anything about people "waking up one day" to find themselves unemployable. The discussion is quite clearly about a problem that develops in the long term.
...or a parachute when you arrive.
Why would being a servant be considered ugly or unappatizing?

Would you do it by choice?
Every day, at my desk job. What are you getting at?
There have been a couple of recent changes to the latest GNU version of that related to flexible array members:

https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib/blame/master/lib/fts.c#L...

https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib/commit/49078a78
...and Japanese dog food companies.
Maybe Mozilla Persona should apply.
For what it's worth, I think your website headlines need a lot of work. In the first few seconds of visiting your site I should know exactly what quasardb is and why I should care (i.e., whether or not the solution/service/product/whatever relates to me and my problems). Your current headlines tell me nothing.

I have some suggestions for a better marketing message, so shoot me an email (address in profile) if you want to discuss further.
Ok, but that makes is harder, not easier, to manage virtual keys. And the more copies, the weaker the key (the easier to find). A million is a terrible, terrible idea.

No, I despise passwords. The whole scheme is backwards. I don't want to authenticate myself to the server; I want to authenticate the server to me. Why doesn't it provide the password, and my computer verify it? Why is a fallible human being in this game at all?
I think this twist was ably addressed in the last paragraph of the stealing is not corruption submission. No?
> To me, an orchestration system should control the entire provisioning process, turning a plan defined in code into a production system. As a result I (perhaps unhelpfully) don’t believe anyone has built an orchestration system

Stackbuilder!

https://github.com/tim-group/stackbuilder

The docs for Stackbuilder are still horrible, but here's an example stack:

https://github.com/tim-group/stackbuilder-config-example/blo...

Assuming you have a compute fabric in place, running a script like that through the tool will provision and configure VMs for all the parts of a production system: it knows about Java applications (started with java -jar), Apache proxy servers, Linux NAT, IPVS load balancing, MySQL databases, Puppetmasters, and possibly other things. The fabric provides KVM for VMs, and BIND for DNS, controlled via some custom MCollective plugins. Configuration is done via Puppet, but Stackbuilder creates the Puppetmaster as part of the build. Application firewalls and Nagios checks get configured as part of the build, but i can't remember if it's Stackbuilder itself that does that, or some of the Puppet code.

BOSH is the same space:

https://bosh.io/

Again, it requires an existing fabric, but that can be plain AWS or OpenStack (or VMware). It can then build anything you can write a manifest for; it operates at a lower level of abstraction than Stackbuilder.
Your figure was correct per my reading of the specs.
[I am not dang]

I would not be surprised if the absence of collapsible threads were a conscious design decision. To put it another way if returning to the same thread again and again was considered a user behavior to be slightly discouraged, then your anecdote indicates why no collapsible threads could be a feature rather than a deficit.

Thinking about why a designer would wish to raise the cost of returning to the same thread again and again: the cost is still rounding error when the reason is a compelling and collegial exchange of ideas and relatively high in relation to other places on the internet where people type into boxes when the motivation is pouring gasoline on the embers of insults, bullying or trolling. Or just ordinary XKCD386.

Another habit it discourages is a clique of people who hang out in a few threads for prolonged periods (say a week or more) engaging in 'insider' tribalism. Instead it may encourage people back to the front page and the content. On Hacker News, interesting topics recur when people make new submissions of additional information instead of prolonged based on the same information and position defending.

None of which is to say that this is in fact fact or to in any way imply that these habits or motivations or behaviors apply to you individually. I think it's more of design to avoid tragedies of commons.

Good luck.
A lot of banks already give them away to their customers because the hardware costs are less than the fraud costs associated with compromised accounts. And in an ideal world, said keys would be general use, not just for logging into the bank's site.
This part is also suspicious:

p->fts_statp = (struct stat )ALIGN(p->fts_name + namelen + 2);*

Unless ALIGN aligns the pointer towards the lower address( which would be weird ), that +2 might get out of bounds depending on how many bytes is ALIGNBYTES.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Edit:

This is the header that defines the struct FTSENT:

https://opensource.apple.com/source/Libc/Libc-1044.40.1/incl...
Rolling again, is no weakness at all. The next roll is also random and exactly as unguessable as the first. If the game was done 'without replacement' then the field would be reduced, but it isn't, and the field is unimaginably huge anyway. There is no effect whatsoever by 'rolling again' until you are happy with the result.

My buddy Tom always generates UUIDs by hitting the button several times. It gives him pleasure to 'waste' all those random numbers.
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They also did that at one of my previous workplace. We couldn't reuse any of the passwords we used in the past (no limit apparently), but in the form to change our password, they checked if the current and new passwords were different w/ some Js.

With the help of firebug we could keep the same password as long as we wanted.
Well maybe not inevitable. But likely no result of their effort. It could be normal seasonal change, or lagging result of the previous administrations' changes, or products in the pipeline gaining maturity. So yeah, this 'CEO Hero Worship' thing is deplorable. It's not new; been going on since I first noticed in the 80's.
The purpose of the analogy (as I understood it) was that there are important, extremely large effects that are caused by behavior X (in this case, exercise). But if we put exercise to the same test, we would fail to notice those important and extremely large effects. So by using so little training, we learn little about what effects it _could_ have -- it could work, but we wouldn't know unless it worked 10-100x faster than other important systems we rely on.
True, but but the great white shark is also hunted by killer whales, but I think you would probably consider the great white shark to be at the to of the food chain. Humans don't fair too well against a number of large predators either all things being equal.

Let's rephrase it to be "pretty much the pinnacle of the food chain".
Or instead, just get a business manager trained at the local Community College, and call that good. Really, one of my CEOs just instituted reports for inventory and accounts receivable, and we turned around in 6 months. Just good business practice. Not a genius. But he got called that, in Silicon Valley magazines etc.
In the western world it's a quite common situation for retirees to own valuable property that they cannot afford to keep up and pay taxes on. They typically take out a "reverse mortgage" to handle these expenses. The bank pays them $X per month as a loan secured against the property that comes due only when the property changes owners.
The forceful integration was the product. G+ was adding a unified social network to all of Google; hence, Google+.
The developed world is in a crisis of beliefs
AngularJS is maintained by Google.
With diceware there's a list of 7776 words.

When someone rolls 1,1,1,1,1 and rejects that word they've cut down the word list to 7775 words. That's tiny, but it is a change.
> A million is a terrible, terrible idea.

Well, yeah. That was a hyperbole. I didn't actually mean that you should go out and make a million copies of your key.

It simply meant to show that it's easier to prevent the loss of a virtual key than it is to prevent the loss of the physical key.

> The whole scheme is backwards. I don't want to authenticate myself to the server; I want to authenticate the server to me.

That's... interesting. My first thought when I read that is that the server is the one with your data and multiple users - so it needs to authenticate you to make sure that you only access your data and don't gain access to other users' data.

A server authenticating itself with you would tell you that you're actually talking to XYZ and not an imposter, but once that authentication took place you'd have access to everything on that server. Including other users' data.

How do you imagine this working?
But that system impoverishes the elderly, and drains any legacy they might have left to their children. I see 'reverse mortgages' as a scam played on vulnerable retirees.

Far more effective for them, would be to sell the valuable property and buy something they CAN afford the taxes on. Better than bleeding them dry by a large margin.
Anyone that says moving to the
cloud saves you money is likely
wrong.

Evidently you've never worked at a place where database disk space costs $31,000 for a terabyte. :)
> And the new one isn't?

No, the new one isn't motivated to get you to click the link, and therefore is not "clickbait". It is editorialized, but that's a good thing.
Bangladesh's Surging Consumer Market
Last sentence makes no sense. Not discount prices; you called them 'skyrocket' prices. So the rich folks would get the properties by paying market rate for them.

I would call it, an undeserved prize for the working class. Undeserved, because they had nothing (directly) to do with the rise in prices.
Suggests to me that form-input is being used unescaped at some point in their software. I wonder what the password "foo'; drop table users;" would do.
I don't think the soviet union is comparable to a UBI state. For one a UBI state will still have a free market. Though the examples from the article aren't touching on the subject of productivity, the free market will clearly still be hiring those with valuable skill for good wages - way above UBI. This will be motivating for those that have anything to contribute.
Do you look at everyone around you who is 55 and think of them as slowly becoming brain dead? Do you look at people in their 70s and think none of them is enjoying life? 32 is way too early to be terrified of aging.
Cloud Foundry has done quite a lot of this. Cloud Foundry is built on BOSH:

https://bosh.io/

So you can write a BOSH 'release' which is a script for setting up a database cluster with all the necessary, like this:

https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-mysql-release

However, you have to buy into BOSH and CF to make use of this

Also, most of the interesting and high-quality services are part of Pivotal's paid version of CF. Which might well be worth the money - many of the services are built by colleagues of mine, and i can assure you that they are of the finest quality! If not, there are a bunch of open-source contributed services. For example, a metrics service with InfluxDB and Grafana:

https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/metrics-boshreleas...

A logging service with Logstash and Elasticsearch:

https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/logstash-docker-bo...

PostgreSQL:

https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/postgresql-docker-...

I have no idea how highly-available and resilient these are, though. It's much harder to write an HA service release than a normal one.
In the first step, where can I go or whom to speak to to challenge my idea and find feedback?

The standard "sound" advice echoing around HN would be to make something [analogous to a rough sketch] and put it in front of users. Obviously, it probably won't be the finished product produced by a giant business...or even something which can be reproduced efficiently. But it will be enough that people who 'get it' will 'get it' if there's an 'it' there to 'get'.

For a non-technical person this means understanding enough at a high level to make a reasonable judgement about feasibility...enough physics to know the difference between sending a satellite into LEO versus shooting nuclear waste into the sun. In other words, there's some level of technical due diligence that cannot be outsourced and still be considered due diligence...just ass-covering, and that's only useful in bureaucracy and useless for a startup.

Good luck.
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"I'm just an unpleasant person, therefore you must overlook my unpleasantness" isn't actually a thing, y'know.
Any authentication is one-to-one. The server authenticates to me, by first knowing who I am (my 'username' not a password), then using a scheme we agreed upon (our shared pair of private/public keys would be fine) to verify electronically that my machine belongs to me i.e. has the right keys.

So we are both authenticated to one another. Except now, we're using sophisticated passwords and Digital Computer Logic to work them out. Instead of my fallible wetware.
Ask HN: TalkTalk leaked private client data. What's the best I can do now?
Context: http://uk.businessinsider.com/talktalk-hacked-credit-card-details-users-2015-10

Seems like it's the 3rd time TalkTalk leaks their customer details.

* Can I ask all information they have on me under Data Act?

* Why only year of credit protection? Why not until cards expire?

* Is there anything that we, as a group and as their clients, can do legally in this situation?

* How can we make sure TalkTalk learns from this and makes sure this will not happen again?
Ask HN: Suggestions for my master's degree dissertation
Hi guys, I am attending the last year of my master's degree in Management, Finance and International Business (curriculum: Management, Leadership and Marketing) at the University of Bergamo (Italy).
I'm looking for the argument of my dissertation; I'd like it to be something concerning IT from a business point of view. Any suggestions?
Thank you!
The protocol is open, the libraries for implementing it are too. You just have to look into how it works and differ from what you have, and integrate it correctly into your auth system.
Google for 'minimum viable product' for more info.