skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about the <pre> tag?

You could also do a preprocessor that converts your angle brackets in certain divs to &lt; and &gt;. It should be pretty easy (<1 hour) to whip something up in Python that uses BeautifulSoup and string search/replace to do this.
Stock used to represent ownership of a fraction of the company's assets and the right to that fraction of its profits. The share price converged on the net present value of the expected dividends plus the market value of the assets.

Now that most companies refuse to wind down except in severe distress (you'll only get a sliver of the assets' market value) and don't pay dividends, the connection between profits and the investors is severed. The only reason share prices are vaguely correlated to profits is that investors are speculating on each others' faith in a mystical connection between profits and share prices. It's like a baseball card with the name of your favorite sales team on it.

The economy would function better if it rewarded buy-and-hold investors for good long-term governance of companies. Instead we tax dividends harder than selling out, make the share price all-important, and reward exponential over-expansion (that's largely where profits go, it's psychologically impressive even if it's less profitable) and market-timing speculators' games.
Tesla to stop selling electric sports car next year
There are many situations where the cost of using a more sophisticated data structure outweighs the advantages of avoiding an occasional excessively slow operation.
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Possible reason: They didn't want to deal with publishers insisting they're "unproven" with their first book; better to do it on your own if you're sure about your fan base etc. Now, they have proven success and can demand much better terms.
Huge win for the publishers. If Amazon accepts, then the publishers (And I disagree with Amazon, once they conceed with Macmillan, the rest will want the same deal) will be able to leverage this agreement to get the same from Barnes and Nobles and other eBook sellers - I'm sure Apple will, likewise, agree - if they haven't already.

This will restrict (prevent?) Amazon, B&N, Apple from discounting eBook prices to get people into their eStore. It hurts the reader, in that they can't get cheap eBooks until a year after they are released. I wonder if the publishers will try to extend this to the "Physical" book market, or whether that's a different ballgame altogether. (If Walmart is the Amazon in the physical book market, who is the Apple? I'm sure B&N likes being able to flexibly price books to get traffic in the store. As does Target. For that matter, so does Amazon. Is there an odd man out there with enough volume to make a difference?)

From a competitive landscape perspective - Steve Jobs knew that providing an agency model as a negotiating tool to Macmillan was valuable - I'm wondering what he got back in return?

All in all, a very exciting weekend of developments in the eBook economy. All started with the iBook store negotiating between Apple and Macmillan, I'm sure.
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=al...

Many of these are largely interpreter.
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So what does Perl do with "jfm" + 3 that's so enormously funny?
As Herzberg noticed, this scenario leads to employees viewing the job as little more than a paycheck, which is probably all right for companies like Countrywide and IndyMac.

Ha ha, probably not.
One way around the complexity: establish permanent residency in a more friendly tax home.
"Remotely disable your apps and media" — did that happen to anyone?

Users who downloaded applications which Apple later pulled from the store (e.g, NetShare) specifically reported that the app continued to work on their phone. If Apple does have the ability to remotely disable applications and/or media, they have made a point (so far) of not exercising it.
Every one of your listed false predictions held within it an inherently great value to prove wrong, a value so enormous and ungodly that anywhere from thousands to billions of spirited men and women pushed everything else in their lives aside for that one cause. They made that choice to give their lives singular purpose because the importance of the goals they pursued necessitated nothing less, and what they knew to be potentially massive benefit to all mankind outweighed everything else in their lives.

This goal of millions of speakers of Lojban would require that same monumental level of collective human effort and perseverance, but it does not necessitate anything of that kind to anyone, nor will it ever, because the potential benefit to mankind is just that marginal.
Whatever happened to the 320GB Intel SSDs that had, in January and July of 2009, been predicted "by the end of the year"?
The article is talking about the problem of storing passwords in a database in order to authenticate logins. This is for people writing web-apps, not users looking to secure their own passwords.
Their being closed dow not make them evil. Is every company that doesn't give you access to everything they've made, or at least all the information on everything they've done evil? I don't think so...

They're keeping it closed for the sake of their users (most of whom would actually be worse off by a very open environment). For example, a couple days ago I talked with a non-technically savvy owner of an android phone, and my god. A Verizon tech has her killing all the background apps every hour so that her battery life isn't atrocious. Might be good for you and I, but not real consumers.
If you are running a company, you should know when the price of your stock disconnects from the actual fundamentals of your business.
Which country has the most active social media users?
Try it:

>>> perl -e 'print "jfm" + 3'
3

My guess is that it coerces "jfm" to an int (0), and then adds that to 3 to get 3.
They also have their own conference in NYC http://the99percent.com/conference
of course, I've also done the opposite. I've gone into a shop then looked at the price on Amazon. Went with the cheaper one.
First, tens of thousands of connections per second boils down to orders of magnitude fewer logins. In a typical modern web app, plenty of entire sessions are completed off a stored session token and never touch the login code.

Second, plenty of apps that are far bigger than yours have scaled bcrypt without event. 37signals is a public example. Other larger apps are using it without talking about it.

Third, in the spectacularly unlikely event that password hashing became a scalability obstacle, it's pure compute and scales horizontally without a problem. Note: I've never heard of someone having to do this.

Finally, the whole point of bcrypt is that it's tuneable. You dial it up to your pain threshold, and in the process cripple brute force attackers.
i agree that mahalo is not doing anything illegal, the simple point is their actions are unethical.

scraping content is allowed under fair use, but going the extra step of nofollowing is an intentional attempt to use someone else's content without passing pagerank.

it is a deliberate attempt to outrank the sources. this is pretty much akin to a mid-level manager taking credit for the work performed by one of the people that reports to him. illegal? no. lame and worthy of being called out for? yes.

i also agree with you that the real onus is on google to not rank sites that engage in this tactic.
Interesting. If it has the effect you postulate, I would expect to see reduced demand for ebooks, and more "piracy" (copyright infringement).
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Eben Moglen on privacy and the technology of memory
Umm it looks like that guy just made a fool of himself and got his ass handed to him by the first commenter?
Foiled again! Curse you, Ptacek!
I'm not even checking your math, because that's 4.8 months to crack one user's password. A spectacular win compared to "salted hashes".
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Playing gammon-fortune backgammon is not just about moving stones or checkers in any direction, in any step based on the dictates of the dice. Although this game is one-on-one game, the backgammon in many ways is favorable than the other table games. gammon-fortune Backgammon, online and offline is a good venue to socialize and interact with other players that share the same interest.
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PBS documentary questions tech and our future
Hmm, would anyone object to another 'who's hiring' thread right now? It's been about 2.5 months since the last one ...
Huh? share price is determined by one thing and one thing only, market demand.

As twitter has shown, valuation does not need to correlate to any traditional financial metric whatsoever. Twitter is worth 1 Bn becomes someone decided to pay for a stake at that valuation. No other reason.
Speaking as a small business owner, (3 people) I'd prefer a higher tax with less complexity over a lower tax rate with more complexity.

Yeah, I have an accountant who handles all that stuff for me. (Now, I should have a lawyer, but right now I honestly dont even know enough to know /when/ I should ask the lawyer, so I mostly rely on the fact that it's not worth suing a company with my revenue.)

The problem is that when I have a new business idea, there are a myriad ways that intersects with tax law. I run all new business ideas past my accountant right now, because I'm wholly unqualified to understand that intersection.

To give you an example, for most larger customers, it would make a lot of sense (well, they would pay less) if they bought hardware and I hosted it for them; the thing is, I can obtain high-ram hardware much cheaper than my customers can, and obviously, if it's exactly the same as all the other hardware I have I will be better equipped to manage it, as I have spare parts and experience with any problems the gear may have. So, the obvious idea is for me to sell the hardware to my customers, then charge them for manging said hardware. But apparently there are some complexities with sales tax (right now, I buy all my server parts retail... apparently there is some accounting complexity in then making sure that I keep track of drive with serial number X and how much I paid for it, then it went in server Y I sold for Z dollars.) Right now, I don't need to screw with sales tax; I just keep track of all the server parts I buy.

Just doing that accounting easily doubles the work required to assemble a server. (server assembly isn't exactly /rocket science/ keep your ground strap on and you'll be fine.) So, I continue to rent servers rather than selling them, providing less value than I would have to the larger customers.
No reply is better than no-reply
Transcript: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Freedom_Businesses_Protect_Pri...
Only experts should be allowed to innovate in the security domain. Passwords on lolcats are serious business!

We certainly don't want people in the software engineering industry to come up with new ideas, implement them, and see how they work in real life. That could lead to advancement in the field, and that would be bad, because I might have to learn something new. Shudder.
Am I understanding correctly that this is satire to Microsoft style interview questions? Pointing out they this style of question is less important that the ones he gave examples of?
If something won't be profitable to make, it won't be made. The best price for the consumer is the lowest price at which the item desired by the consumer can still be produced.
Good producers have a right to fix prices for their products. Stores have a right to refuse to stock items that it believes are too expensive. I don't see the problem here.

I don't see why you have any problem calling Amazon a store for Kindle ebooks when you're willing to see publishers as "goods producers". They're both essentially middle-men.
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Yes it is. After open the text file in browser, manually select "Unicode" encoding, it will show the Simplified Chinese translation, and the translation is actually pretty good.
Interesting analysis. Yet I think over the next several years authors (who, after all, produce new content) and readers will be thinking about these trade-offs from their own perspectives, and it's not necessarily so that all publishers will agree with Macmillan. High prices produce business opportunities for sellers who offer lower prices.
Calacanis is obviously a smart guy and a master of controlling the perception.

He may get away with the ignorance alibi just yet because the SEO aspect is technically nuanced enough that most people won't understand it.
Is Python really pulling a syntactic trick?

I think < is simply left associative: True < 4 is True.

Similarly, I think > is right associative. (50 > 30) > 10 does not hold, but 50 > (30 > 10) holds.
Certainly with any generality, there's exceptions. But if you are a guy with an idea and don't have the ability to build it, you're unlikely to be satisfied with the outcome of hiring a freelancer.

Freelancers are not employees. They're not attached to the business on a full time basis, and while they may get excited by the business and be happy to be working with the entrepreneur, in the end they are mercenaries.

Further, when the project is over and they walk away, the knowledge behind your product and technology walks away with them. This is true of employees as well to some extent, but at least with employees there's an expectation that they will be involved for a long term. For them it's not just another contract.

Contractors can be used to augment your development staff, but should never be your entire development staff.

Sure, you CAN have a success with a product built by freelancers (Digg is an example of this) but it is very, very rare.
last i checked, adobe's "free" flash compiler isn't all that hot. it won't allow you to create applets that use gui controls, for example.
Seriously? Did Adobe beat you guys up and take away your computer? Did they say "no no no mine?"

Where is the "not open" you guys claim? Flex SDK + Eclipse == free Flash development.

I swear HTML5 fanatics just make stuff up these days. You'll use Windows, Flickr, Google, and Hacker News - all privately owned systems. But god forbid Flash is bad because... why?
Yes it is really pulling a syntactic trick and not comparing against bools. From the docs:

Comparisons can be chained arbitrarily, e.g., x < y <= z is equivalent to x < y and y <= z, except that y is evaluated only once.

http://docs.python.org/reference/expressions.html#notin
Comes with its own scratch & sniff axe body spray cover.
Apple is encouraging cartels.
For a significant portion of users, the lolcats password is equivalent to the gmail password, which is game over. But don't let that get in the way of your learning experience, which is simply going to converge on bcrypt anyways.
Ever hear of Flex? It's whole purpose is GUI components. And it's free, as in free beer.

Where exactly did you check? Really. Show us this "free" flash compiler that isn't so hot.
Amazon to Macmillan: You Win (for Now)
The amazing thing is Micron has yet to really make a profit from flash. They've been chasing after profitability for the better part of a decade and have invested literally billions.

Micron is a great company, and I hope this is the year they see their ROI. However, given that stiff competition in commodity markets, I'm not holding my breath.
Java throws exceptions on overflow (and underflow), which presumably interferes with that, e.g.:

int A = 3000000000;
int B = 3000000000;
int C = -3000000000;
int D;
D = A + B + C;

Depending on order of evaluation, this either throws an overflow exception or assigns the number 3 billion to D. There is a hard rule in the spec that defines what must happen here. In C or C++ there are no such exceptions, so the compiler can (and does) transform arithmetic expressions where it's advantageous. (this is obviously a trivial example which will compile down to a constant anyway)
I can also confirm that it is correct.
I'm curious to know why you think innovation in the security domain will come from web developers working on lolcat apps and not, say, cryptographers.
Jason is going to do a live audience interview about it on Mixergy soon. Hit me up if you have idea for how I can make the program more useful for you.
the thing about lowering taxes is that other than through increased consumer spending, it does not free up more money for me (the business owner) to hire people. I pay people out of pre-tax money; I'm going to have the same amount of pre-tax money no matter if the tax rate on the money I pay myself is 20% or 70%

Complexity, on the other hand, is paid for out of pre-tax money. If you go from me spending 10% of my pre tax money on accounting overhead to 20% of my pre-tax money on accounting overhead, that money comes out of my budget for employees and equipment. I mean, that money still goes to jobs, but those are /defensive/ jobs- I pay for an accountant, not because it gives me an advantage over the competition, because it does not. If anything, it slows me down. However, if I don't pay for the accountant, then I am at risk of being destroyed by the IRS. That is money I don't get to spend on beating my competition.

Just looking, it appears that my accounting overhead is a noticeable fraction of my personnel costs. my personnel costs are dwarfed by equipment and power costs. So yeah, it isn't that bad. But still, if you ask me how the government could help my company, the first thing I would ask for, before tax cuts or subsidies or anything is for a reduction of the complexity of tax, employment, and other laws I need to deal with.
They said wanted to write a best-seller, so they literally sold out. :-)

More here:
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1441-announcing-our-new-book-...
Amazon would have done a lot better out of this if they hadn't pulled the dick move of removing all of Macmillan's irrelevant-to-the-argument print titles.

Now we've seen Amazon's true colors. They're not bothered about destroying their entire relationship with you if you want to negotiate on one element of it.
"Ruby, in an adorable little attempt to wear big-boy pants, is turning this expression into the following pseudo-code"

Is the condescending tone necessary?

An alternative:

"Ruby turns this expression into the following pseudo-code"
(And I disagree with Amazon, once they conceed with Macmillan, the rest will want the same deal)

But who cares? The big publishers aren't the only publishers out there, and it leaves a lot of scope for smaller, more agile publishers to steal business from the bigger ones selling the overpriced e-books.

If Amazon had "won" this one and the big publishers' e-books were all under $10, it'd have done more to hurt entrepreneurs and small publishers since they'd find it a lot harder to compete. Macmillan winning means that, ultimately, they lose.

The longer "established" publishers keep high prices on their e-books, the more opportunities there are for top writers to self publish to these new e-book stores. Wouldn't that be great? More money for the authors and a steadily reducing influence by the publishers. It's started to happen in the music industry..
...Preexisting games which still cost $99 to deliver, and which means ultimately a cost passed on to the consumer.
I really don't want to use this word, but this is retarded. Something like RFC 2898 would be a good starting point for explaining why. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2898.txt
"Macmillan ... are committed to switching to an agency model and charging $12.99 to $14.99

"We have expressed our strong disagreement and the seriousness of our disagreement by temporarily ceasing the sale of all Macmillan titles. We want you to know that ultimately, however, we will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan's terms because Macmillan has a monopoly over their own titles, and we will want to offer them to you even at prices we believe are needlessly high for e-books. Amazon customers will at that point decide for themselves whether they believe it's reasonable to pay $14.99 for a bestselling e-book. We don't believe that all of the major publishers will take the same route as Macmillan. And we know for sure that many independent presses and self-published authors will see this as an opportunity to provide attractively priced e-books as an alternative.

"Kindle is a business for Amazon, and it is also a mission. We never expected it to be easy!"

Wow. What a masterfully passive aggressive mash. They made us do it. But they'll see. They will. Will.

Also, even if Amazon's posts on that forum are normally signed by "the team," this was a decision by somebody or a small group of somebodies, and it should have been signed by a name. Especially something as masterful as this.
I disagree wholeheartedly. The article is based around the fallacy we've seen time and time again, of throwing more cryptography at a problem that cryptography alone cannot solve. In the end, a crappy password is a crappy password. Successfully discouraging your users from using a crappy password has much better repercussions (for the user, for you, and for the web in general) than switching from a hash-based authentication system to bcrypt. Use bcrypt for additional security, but do not use it in an attempt to solve the problem of crappy passwords that the article falsely claims bcrypt solves.

To be more technical, bcrypt, like PBKDF2 and other schemes of that nature, add a significant amount of additional computation by iteratively applying a primitive, but still maintain a relatively small circuit size (in comparison to the primitive itself, which is usually designed to fit onto smart cards and the like). Creating and using algorithms which are "memory-hard" or require larger circuits reduces the number of circuits one can place on some area of silicon and drives up the cost of an attack. In other words, mounting an attack on bcrypt or PBKDF2 is still cheaper and potentially much faster than we'd like it to be (which is the reason those algorithms are "tunable"--you scale the number of iterations up as computers become faster). This, along with some example memory-hard functions was the topic of Percival's paper, "Stronger Key Derivation via Sequential Memory-Hard Functions," which correctly cites Bernstein as the source of emphasis on practicality in measuring an attack not by computational complexity, but the cost of launching the attack. See http://www.bsdcan.org/2009/schedule/attachments/87_scrypt.pd... if you're interested in reading further.
Considering the immaturity of the ebooks market, price variability seems like a good thing. Increased margins (whether the result of higher or lower prices) will let publishers experiment with better typography, lesser known authors and more interactive works.

The last thing most of us would like to see would be the ebook market turned into a numbers game such that only mass market paperbacks, poorly converted public domain material, and amateur self-publishers ever get access to the market.

How would we have reacted if Apple had announced a $0.99 ceiling for the AppStore?
it is a deliberate attempt to outrank the sources.

Of course it is. That's like saying Obama's presidential campaign was a deliberate attempt to win the election.

The issue, though, is that Mahalo could not rank higher than original sources unless Google is doing a shoddy job of indexing the Web. Just because Mahalo has a few good pages doesn't mean the rest should automatically be trusted. Google need to figure that out - and fast.