skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And to give you another example, look at how many people bricked their computers because Linux decided EFI variables were files. You can blame the vendors all you want, but the reality is this would not have happened (and, mind you, it would have been INTUITIVE to every damn user) if the OS was sane and just let people use efibootmgr instead of treating every bit and its mother as files. Just because you have a gun doesn't mean you HAVE to try shooting youself, you know? That holds even if the manufacturer was supposed to have put a safety lock on the trigger, by the way. Sometimes some things just don't make sense, if that makes sense.
"I'm not saying there was no solution. There might have been, but the team and I could not find one. Think of it this way. You and a team decide to summit a mountain. It's a high-risk endeavor. After weeks of going over your maps and equipment you just can't see a plausible way up. Do you call it off or set out hoping you'll be able to figure it out. It doesn't mean no one can do it. I means I could not do it with that team and that equipment."

From what I've read (and I could be wrong), it just sounds like you burned out. From personal experience, it's super difficult to keep up the energy and morale when you're either solo or semi-solo (when your cofounders aren't full time like you are). Part time cofounders are better than no one, but they're nothing compared to a full time cofounder who's with you in the trenches.

Good job on lasting as long as you did on that death march.
RTFA.

Twitter didn't get hacked. Browser malware screen-scraped the passwords.
Something once strong, but now completely, utterly irrelevant? That would have to be the elephant.
Their business model benefits indirectly from the leaks. I’m not sure about the ethics of this. I found one of my email addresses in a couple of leaks, wanted to see the raw data, but the site asks for a paid subscription.
Wouldn't they stand to loose their patents if they declare bankruptcy?
Microsoft is becoming a corporation of goodness? (Windows Subsystem for Linux, now that)
That's another rate limiting that has nothing to do with the hash strength.

Good password hashing functions have internal rate limits that reduce the likelihood of anyone being able to break the hashes easily because they will be expensive even when fully implemented in hardware.

For how long are they resilient it's another question but bcrypt is pretty good, it's quite slow, and is expensive to implement in ASIC/FPGA.
Once you get over the hump though, it's so worth it. The best game I've ever played. In fact, I go back to it all the time.

This is my current project: https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/4n6yun/ochre...

The first stage was simply to dig out a big hollow cavern, with walkways and a central pillar of stairs. A chap has given me an idea about a bridge over the volcano and I think I will have a drawbridge block off the entrance once the invaders are quite close, and then marksdwarves can shoot down on them. We expect people to dodge off and into the magma.

I play MasterworkDF, which adds a number of things such as guilds and castes, but LNP is a good place to start.

For anyone who is a bit scared by it, just persevere. Start simple. Seven dwarves. Dig a hole in the ground. Start a mushroom farm. Brew some wine. Get a carpenters workshop. Make some beds. And barrels. And take it from there.

It'll be worth it.
Patreon is more popular, though, and used by a lot of artists. You'll need more arguments than "well it exists too" to convince users to sign up for both.
Right now ToroDB handles sharding at the backend (RDBMS) level, with those dbs that support that. There's currently a Greenplum-based backend on the works, that obviously handles sharding by itself. Also CitusDB is on the roadmap.

At a later release, we also plan to natively support MongoDB's sharding protocol.
It's still pretty expensive for very little added security benefit, which the added complexity might negate. How many bits of security does this add? 5 or 6? Maybe 32?

People deploy ad hoc obscurity hacks like port-knocking because we have doubts our standard access-control infrastructure (e.g. libssl, SSH). It would be less wasteful to take the resources being spent on these hacks, and pool them together into projects that would boost our confidence in the infrastructure, instead.

I can think of lots of security infrastructure projects that could probably use more resources:

- The various libssl projects could probably use more resources.

- There is at least one team working on formal proofs of implementation correctness for libssl.

- Sandstorm.io is developing ways to move web access control (including CSRF protection) to an intermediate layer, rather than relying on individual web applications to get it right.

- U2F is trying to bring cheap hardware tokens to web users, but it needs better support across the web.

- Let's Encrypt/ACME is working on making it feasible to deprecate plaintext HTTP. There's still a lot of distro integration work to be done.

- There's an IETF working group working on moving transport security into TCP itself (tcpinc). If it's done well (i.e. gets enough eyeballs), this could replace "libssl version hell" with straightforward socket file descriptors.

- Most developers have no idea how to develop formal proofs of implementation correctness alongside their code. Educational materials would be great, here!

- There are many, many legacy systems running still known-insecure software/protocols that need to be upgraded or worked around.
Amazing photos of the $5.25B Panama Canal expansion project
bcrypt and other modern hashing algorithms allow strengthening your hashes (by computing more iterations) at a later date should technological advances make your current number of rounds too weak. This allows you to 'upgrade' your password hashes from 20 rounds to 20,000 without needing the user to re-enter their password. If you publish your hashes at any point, you lose the benefits of this, if your hashes become weakened by technological progress you need to reset your users' passwords.
Google Now – The Missing Features Series
lol, after a quick glance at the IBM one it seems to be patenting software that manages patent portfolios (maybe). How utterly bizarre
I don't know man, $500k is a LOT of money to even pivot to the next Uber for X. I might be totally wrong, but I think you are just burned out.
Best of luck!
Well, this is awkward [Ludum Dare]
From the announcement (because I was confused):

You have been able to request Pages sites over HTTPS for some time, but we refrained from officially supporting it because the traffic from our CDN to our servers wasn't encrypted until now.
I would hardly say that deep learning has taken over - some of the best results in the last few years have come from 'classical' domains like nonlinear optimization.

For example, LSD-SLAM: http://vision.in.tum.de/research/vslam/lsdslam

Deep learning / ML approaches certainly have a place, and they're getting a lot of attention right now, but the computer vision domain is about a lot more than segmentation and classification.

Maybe in coming years we'll see some more breakthroughs from the ML side on encoding priors - for example, teaching a network about projective geometry is a lot worse than just structuring it in a way that it 'knows' what projective geometry is. This could result in a closer collaboration between the two fields.
Just out of curiousity, I did a search for "three white men" and the first two, and several of the first 40 or so results were mugshots as well. After about the first 30-40 there were a lot of mugshots.
You put both Rust and Nim at 'Medium complexity to learn' but given that by default Rust has the 'borrow/lifetime checker' and that Nim has the GC, I'd say that Nim is easier to learn/use.
Of course you pay the price in performance (GC latency), even if Nim's GC is described as 'soft real time' I doubt that it would work well for a >60fps game and now with VR if the framerate drop you can make the user dizzy..
Hardware/Software 2FA tokens are based on a PRNG with a shared seed. If the table with passwords was accessed it's likely the table with 2FA seeds is hacked.

Twitter uses a one-time code sent via sms so I don't think this would be an issue unless the hack is persistent.
FreeBSD is getting a lot of love recently. That's awesome.
Almost everyone here was talking about a leaked database of accounts, so I went with that if the database leaks, shared secret 2FA is useless.

The article says data may have come from user input, so yeah, 2FA would actually help there and wouldn't "leak".
lol nope. Azure is now another MS-made way of vendor locking software: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/07/microsoft_herds_user...

>(Windows Subsystem for Linux, now that)

That's also another monopolistic practice:
1. Not leader on a market
2. Make yourself compatible with the leader

Examples include linux-subsystem, addon compatibility of Chromium, Firefox in EDGE.
I use a LG Stylo mostly because of buttons on BACK of case.

Of all features I find the RECESSED relatively large rocker volume buttons with easy to discern middle selection button located just below the centered high-def camera BEST for continual use.

The case pops open for sim card and microSD card unlimited storage but 32GB is more than enough.

The Stylo has a stylus I don't use at all...the larger screen helps that much.

The 'phablet' size phone is shockingly portable and it has been my main computing device (% of time and # of accesses)

My notebook is indispensable for the keyboard and more productive sessions...BUT very surprising for me for vast majority of information based queries AND exercise-centric Spotify I use the 'phablet'which is light enough to forget in my front pants pocket with corded wrap-around headphones.

The price is so low (feels free really) I don't stress about theft or damage as current setup is cloud based.

My Nexus 7 ('13) tablet is rarely used, usually bedside for reviewing documents that don't resize on zoom and lap is not available.

I don't know why but I jones for the iPad Pro and Pencil stylus just to use it one time...post what you decided and why.

Good luck.

If not for those back of case buttons, I would LOVE go full Apple ecosystem if I could pretend it would add something significantly besides cost and inconvenience of side buttons.

It is peculiar your post drew me to add my perspective.
"learning maths will improve your problem solving skills"

I'm not sure about that - I think it helps with dealing with abstractions which can help with design of solutions but I'm not sure that the type of reasoning that maths itself promotes is especially applicable to working out solutions.
I keep thinking about these rapid changes in large countries like China, and how my own part of the world, Europe at some point might become the only place to actually experience history.

I love cities like Amsterdam, where you can look at painting from the 1600s and you recognize whole streets. The city isn't fundamentally different downtown. This sort of experience is becoming a rarity as countries modernize and tear down the downtowns of their old cities in the name of modernity.
They are moving in the the right direction, but sometimes it seems one step forward and then two steps back. They were a gold sponsor of OpenBSD in 2015 but no sponsorship in 2016 yet http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html.
Also on their own OS a recent experience of installing SQL Server Express shows are still very capable of inflicting pain and #clicknext arthritis.
Do your prior work investigation and try to take the good and avoid the bad.

Some prior work from top of my head:

- Bountysource
- Gratipay
- Patreon
- Flattr
Email without an address
I think this approach can resolve spam problem forever. But do you have spam problem? As for me, I have some spam letters per week and many unwanted letters after starting using new services. Maybe it is not a big deal and spam filters are good enough?

Email without an address.
No address, no spam.

Let’s call it XMail

How does XMail work?

XMail works like any other Email Server (Gmail, Yahoo, etc) with one difference: you don’t have a permanent email address. Instead of this XMail creates unique email address every time you send email to a new person.

How to send an email?

You can do it in a common way from any configured email client. Behind the scene XMail server creates new address for you and send email from it.

How to reply?

You can do it in a common way from any configured email client by pressing Reply button.

How to share my email address with friend or colleague?

Open XMail Assistant application on iPhone or Mac and press Share my email address. You will see new unique email address which you can send to your friend or colleague.

How to share my colleague’s email address with my friend?

Open XMail Assistant, type your colleague’s email address and press Share. You will see new unique email address. Send it to your friend.

What if somebody will grab my email address and start sending spam?

You will not receive it. Only people you give your unique address or their friends can send emails to you.

What if my colleague will share my address with someone I don’t want to receive emails from?

Every email you receive contains information about person who has share your email address with new sender. You can open XMail Assistant application and press Don’t receive emails from this sender. Moreover you can talk to your colleague about this incident in a real world.
These Airports Monitors Passengers Mobile Devices to Display Wait Times
What the f*ck is the point of LinkedIn?
That's what we're doing over at Baqqer.com (https://baqqer.com/) - come over and add your project!

If you're interested in helping out you should join us. :)
1 week only tests 1 password. It would have to run for years to get a decent set of results. I don't see how a company can afford all that hardware and power to do something that is illegal to begin with. How do they monetize it to get a return?
Building blocks for the VR Web
Nitpick: Everything but God. By definition God (for believers) is perfect.
ha, funnily just one day before code freeze of freebsd 11 :) nevertheless it's great that freebsd is getting more attention these days.
Small correction: dates are for June 5th and 6th, not July!
I did RTFA.

Do you think a typical end user is going to care the technicalities of how their password might have been leaked? I certainly don't.

The takeaway for me is that (yet) another website I entered personal information has leaked it - regardless of how this happened it further damages the trust I have for Twitter.

Had I never used Twitter all of this would be a non-event.

Please do tell me if you think I'm being illogical - I'm all ears.
Assuming that they are NOT evil, how would their actions be different? Or is this a damn if you do, damn if you don't?
Les Français et le bricolage, une affaire familiale et une question d’économie
But the 2 models are not mutually exclusive, are they? Probably some apps will offer both alternatives or the one that fits the purpose of the app. Not sure why, in essence, this is wrong.

Indeed I find subscriptions annoying too, hope the new AppStore comes with a friendly subscription management section along.
Wired was silly dumbed-down hype-catalog from the start.

It looks better in retrospect when we forget that we were dumb, young and inexperienced when it came out. They had few good articles now and then just like they have now, it depends on what kind of writers they have.
I found that learning how one aspect (mining, farming, food, booze, fortifications, military, trading, etc) at a time helped.

I'd figure out how to get one aspect working (starting with the farming -> food/booze aspect), then something Fun would happen. I'd start a new game, figure out how to avoid that type of Fun, then get clobbered by another sort :D
IoT Lets Airports Forecast Waiting Times for the Remaining Hours of the Day
There are restrictions on "time, manner, and place".

You can't use a bullhorn to make political speeches on a suburban street corner at 3am. You can't stand up in the middle of a concert to give a discourse on Hegelian philosophy. You can't use graffiti to express your dislike of the EMU.

And the "[falsely] yelling fire in a crowded theatre" was used in the decision of Schenck v. United States in 1919 to say that opposition to the draft during World War I was not covered under free speech. It was then used as cover to punish anti-government speech, and was overturned in Brandenburg v. Ohio in 1969. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio :

> Finally, Douglas dealt with the classic example of a man "falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic". In order to explain why someone could be legitimately prosecuted for this, Douglas called it an example in which "speech is brigaded with action". In the view of Douglas and Black, this was probably the only sort of case in which a person could be prosecuted for speech.
Haha, I think sound is not coming because soundcloud is overloaded due to this.

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 429 (Too Many Requests) - https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/240717213/stream?secret_to...
I can finally recover my account!
And then a mathematician who happened to read the blog started to think about it and created a new dithering algorithm just for him[0], which was pretty awesome.

[0] https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg121280...
AMA with COO of Stack Exchange
Why is it not empowering to give women more economic independence, in way that's sustainable in their societies?

Suffragettes in Europe had to fight for more economic rights for fifty years after getting the right to vote, and it was messy, protracted battle. (Until the 1970s, German husbands could dictate whether their wife were allowed to work or not, and kept control over their earnings for even longer.)
With pandas, this is no longer true.
I like the idea of using Patreon for Open Source, but I dislike the idea of tying it to the number of commits, because it creates the wrong incentives.

I've also got the impression that most patrons rather prefer a predictable, monthly amount over a varied amount, even if it comes with a cap.
I had a very similar experience to yours (with the exception of partners and investors). I was building a staff scheduling system, launch with beta testers who tried it out and then suggested they'd start using it when it had feature x or y. I'd implement feature x and then they'd say they'd use it when they had feature z.

I came to realize that the challenge is in the changing costs. They already had a product that could do more than what they could do with the systems they had at the time (mostly excel). It did a bunch of reporting and shift swapping etc. etc. but there was no way it wasn't getting momentum.

Thing is, I just wasn't passionate enough about it to make it a product I would love working on for the next 10 years.

A few people here say you're burned out, maybe you are, but maybe there are other projects you're more passionate about.

The project I'm currently on I'm not madly passionate about as a product, but other people love it, and it is fun to move the levers and see the affect on traffic and the (potential) business.

You're definitely not alone in your thoughts on this one, I can appreciate where you're coming from. Hopefully you look back at this as a great decision.

Better things ahead!

(great writing style btw)
The "salient point" as you put it suffers from a huge acute case of selection bias and survivorship bias, two deadly diseases that kill the argument immediately after it's born.
Actually this comment contains useful information such as validity domain (should not be called on samplers or void types) and justification for this domain (there are not values to init with).

Much better than the crap comments I see on a lot of projects such as "# does this even work ? lol"
I second Oolite. And in terms of adding networking, a game following the original Elite model should be fairly "MMO friendly" in that each system is basically closed - players can jump in and out, but there's no continuous flight between systems (unless they've added that to Oolite since I last checked it out), so e.g. scaling it to multiple servers can be done on the star-system level up until there's quite a lot of players.

I haven't looked at the extensions mechanism - it'd be interesting if players could "claim" systems and dynamically control gameplay capabilities in their system. Would create challenges with e.g. the economy/trading etc. (preventing users from setting up a server that gives them infinite credits to bring back to other systems) - perhaps that'd actually be a suitable use for a blockchain...

(Not that I have time to spend on something like this, but I'll back it in spirit if someone hacks Oolite or similar into a MMO... I might back it with money too if someone where to want to crowdfund something like it)
Still fascinated! Couple ideas using Crossing the Chasm (CtC):

1. Your vision is crucial to your determination. Your vision is disrupting SMB CLM with "huge gains in accuracy and efficiency". You can only start the fire with those also inflamed with your vision - those who care. It seems only CIO's (anyone else?). The CtC idea is to target those few adventurous CIO's ("visionaries") who want to leapfrog the competition with this new, unproven approach. Reach them through those very, very few CIO's who are excited by the idea itself ("enthusiasts") - just because it's a clever, efficient, elegant approach to a broken process. They exist, just not many.

So: if you try to appeal to users, it must be those users who are excited by what causes the "huge gains in accuracy and efficiency". Otherwise they'll carry the wrong torch to the CIO.

2. The other CtC idea is "niches": pick out the types of customer who would really benefit from your solution. e.g.
inaccuracy causes chronic problems for them/losing customers/bad publicity; CLM is a dangerously high cost center; they can't keep up with sudden demand and are losing sales; they can't adjust to changing contracts, and lose opportunities; (new) regulations/legislation makes inaccuracy very expensive. Plus, it would open up a new market; overtake a competitor; resist a competitor. These also excite upper management.

Applying it gratifying users: are some businesses constantly approving contracts, and importing templates (or should be)? Maybe during M&A; law/consultancy firms?

Choose your customers to suit you.
I think it relates to risk, growth and capital.

You only need $10-20 to get started with chickens, and from there you can grow quickly to $500-1000 in a matter of few months.

To get started with a cow, you'll need a huge capital (thousands) and take a big risk (cow dies).
Paying per commit seems as sensible as paying per LOC (related story: [1]). Simple recurrent monthly donations as one can easily set up (eg. on Flattr) make more sense, in my opinion.

[1] http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lin...
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I always thought the external table functionality was a terrible idea, but if the use case is just for import that's more reasonable. Don't you like SQL*Loader or something ;)
DNS of biggest .NL registar (TransIP) down
By that logic, it is also also broken because if you don't have access to your phone or the Google Authtenticator app or phone OS is malfunctioning, you can't access your account.
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I'm using Patreon for Cachet[0] and it works well enough that people can donate, but discovery lacks for projects which aren't media based. Also, I can't setup another Patreon page under the same account, so what about filling in the voids there?

The idea works, the implementation could be improved.

[0] https://patreon.com/jbrooksuk