skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Passwords historically got weaker over time, but not in the sense that 'if he got your password hes not going to wait to use it'. They weaken in their hashed form. It used to be (still is, really) trivial to score the passwd file of a system, and get all the hashes of passwords, but no plaintext.

By changing passwords every N months, you eliminated the ability of someone to crack the hashes and obtain a cleartext password where they previously only had a hash.

That time window has gotten absurdly short, however...and with Pass the Hash and MITM, I don't even need your password anymore :(
I've never come across that distinction before.

In the UK, a CV is the catch-all term for what's called a resume in the US. Conventional wisdom is that it shouldn't be longer than 2 sides of A4 paper.
Thanks for this response, it's really thought provoking. I have a few questions:

'The ghetto of siloed client/server apps'? Would those be like ActiveX controls and Java applets? Isn't JavaScript fundamentally different?

Does the definition of 'browsable hypertext' preclude hypertext that's scripted to operate differently, e.g. 'ajax'? Are you not still 'browsing hypertext'?

The industry has yet to deliver a trustworthy js sandbox—should browsers not support JavaScript?
"The death of one is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic"

I was talking to a bloke today, nice guy, very capable. But he's out of work and his licence was suspended for excessive speeding. He says it is simply not worthwhile looking for work at the moment because without transport it is just too impractical.

Now, the Libertarian in me wants to say that the sequence of bad events that happened to him is simply the result of the consequences of his bad choices. Perhaps I would feel differently if he and his partner were in a truly desperate situation (they're not starving, they're not going to lose their home). Perhaps I'm less sympathetic because of his obvious bad choices that led him to this.

But what if the things that led him to this point weren't (or weren't so obviously) his fault? Bad things happen to good people too. The rain falls on the righteous and the wicked alike.

Of my circle of acquaintances, I think every single one of the blokes has been unemployed at some time in the last year except for this one guy who somehow hangs on despite having a really terrible boss.

On the other hand, of the working women that I know, none of them have been unemployed in that same time span (some have taken maternity leave and then come back to work at reduced hours).

This gives me pause. Because in the workplace, especially large corporations, I always see the women being given the shitty demeaning jobs. Go post some letters for me, go get the birthday cake etc. It is never a bloke that gets sent to buy the birthday cake.

Oh, no, wait, there is one girl who keeps losing her job, but she is a mentally handicapped.

Anyway, the moral of the story is; unless you're willing to tug forelock and suck up to the man start your own business (doesn't mean you are immune to being fired, but generally if you do a good job the golden parachute is a better option than the leather boot on the neck).
> But eDiscovery is the hottest thing right now in corporate legal departments. The software scans documents and looks for important keywords and phrases, displacing lawyers and paralegals who charge hundreds of dollars per hour to read the often millions of litigation documents. Lawyers, understandably, hate eDiscovery.

Sounds like a job for Watson & Watson, LLP.

And lawyers don't have much to fear. They will win in the end; they always do...
This would be more ominous if it played All Along The Watchtower.
Because these calculations are done on software, not GPU. GPU programming is hard. Using the GPU requires extra-integration and extra-work that most developers are not willing to do.
I doubt those figures are (meant to be?) accurate.

In the 90's CPAN would have only had a few thousand distributions and looking at some stats from circa 2002 there were 5000 distributions from 20,000 uploads so the 50% abandoned figure does not sound correct.

ref: http://stats.cpantesters.org/statscpan.html
How long does it take nic.io to update their DNS Servers? I just checked a bunch of the ones listed here and they are all unresolved...
Foreign hackers attack Canadian government
Nope -- you're not misunderstanding anything ... you probably wouldn't be writing plumbing like this if you were working on a real app, instead of a contrived example.

You're absolutely right that it's vastly overcomplicated for the task that needs to be accomplished here.
They have no copyright claim to anything you do in your free time. What possible legal precedent could there be for some company you happen to work for to own everything you produce in your personal time? Does that sound realistic to you? If you worked for a house building company and added on to your house would you have to pay them?

You can not sign away your rights. If you sign a document that said your company can just kill you, they still wouldn't have any right to kill you.

I'd like to see a citation of anyone making something in their free time that a company was able to steal from them based on some work contract. And if someone can find citations that it does indeed work this way where you live, don't just quit. Move away from what ever insane place you live that allows this kind of literal slavery.
"What is the difference between a man and a parasite? A man builds; a parasite asks, 'Where is my share?'"
That's your assumption. Higher quantity in no way implies that the quality entries will be higher than they would be in a system with less quantity.
Thanks for the comments. Privacy is very important to me as well and I plan to get something up there soon, I just wanted to get it out the door in the meantime.
It's been (properly) folded into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarks_Law
Yeah, I think people may be overthinking this, although there's something to be said for "two great tastes that taste great together". It's kind of silly, but I actually wrote a "git dropbox" command to just stuff a bare repo of what I'm doing in my Dropbox so I don't have to think about it... and I kind of like it. Maybe it's overkill, but if I only have to type one command, it's easy enough I won't think about it :-) (https://github.com/agnoster/git-dropbox/ for what it's worth)

Agreed it's a dangerous idea for collaboration, unless you are the only one pushing to it and everyone else just pulls. That could work as a simple way to make your git repo pull-accessible to others without using a separate service or server (assuming you both have Dropbox already, of course).
It's a meme, and it circulated a lot in 4chan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_great_justice
Just got another 203 emails... This really sucks.
Apple tries to tax after sales usage of the device as if it's a leased device. They don't want to give up the upfront sales revenue of the device, and still want to get their cut for the usage.

This both can't happen. Give the device free and tax the usage, or sell it and live with the fact that the device is now belongs to the customer.

And iXYZ owners want to believe that they own the device. They can't hack it, they can't open it, they can't put software on it on their own. They can't even freely access the storage inside. And this kind of actions from Apple reminds them that they just don't own the device.

When it came to the question of who own the device, Apple customers always gave up their right to own the device in return of ahead of the time features, polish, being cool etc.
Joule on Pace to Produce Solar Fuels at Unprecedented Productivities
> I think it's probably within Apple's rights to use their own private APIs.

Only if it doesn't provide applications produced by other parts of their company (say, iBooks) an unfair advantage over other e-Readers on the platform (GoodReader, Kindle, etc.). Otherwise, how is this situation any different from Microsoft's exposure of internal APIs for the Office team that Novell was not aware of? I only ask this question in a structural sense, not legally, as IANAL and there's probably a monopoly position test or two that people could argue about for another 200 comments.

http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3435371/Nov...
It is interesting, but (at least to me) it does not seem to add any benefit. It basically is a list of stocks (I assume a watch list) sorted by % change which happens to be shown in colored bubbles. At first I thought that the size of the bubbles will play in help showing the data, allowing the trader to analyze the watch list or holdings, but it doesn't. Sorry man. It's interesting, but not beneficial to the average traders. Keep going at it though.
I'm still waiting for some nice L1nux dude to come setup all my free linux servers for testing...
>I do, however, believe that the single trait which is most fully described any given character is that of their race (as in 'hobbit/orc/human/elf'). It's usually the first thing you learn about them, often before their name. When an important character acts, the author nearly always takes care to point out their action as (a)typical of their racial tendencies. And so on.

Funny but I assume that the different character groups are species and not races of one species. Species tend to have specific traits that define them.
You know, just last night I just looked up "how to flip an egg" and ended up reading a Wikihow article. I can flip pancakes great sans spatula, you see, but doing a decent egg over easy continues to elude me.

I could see someone trying to look up tricks to pouring water without spilling it, maybe. Never thought I'd say that, though.
I can believe it's sanctioned officially since we have more than a few Chinese dissidents living here. Surprised it hasn't happened before actually.
The average plumber, electrician or carpenter (after their relatively short but brutal apprenticeships) easily make more money than 9 out of 10 programmers I know.

Which was why I was surprised to see a recent article about how IT was near the top of the best paying jobs list. I think though that list must have only been taking into account salaried employees.

To be fair though as a programmer, unlike say a carpenter, if one of the logs overflows the risk of being crushed to death by it is considerably less.
Installing And Using OpenVZ On Debian Squeeze (AMD64)
John Dvorak: Jeopardy match was rigged. Watson can buzz in faster.
Seriously - four sections is not enough.
In short, no. It means using the subset of C++ that the author considers good. Obviously that varies a lot. At one extreme you have what is usually referred to as "C with classes": swearing off the use of templates, STL, etc.

Having said that, there is some stuff that is almost universally rejected. IIRC Stroustrup himself said the way checked exceptions were introduced to the language was a mistake, for example.
Create a button that says 'track now' or some other call to action.

How about 5 or so entry fields for tracking numbers and a button to "Create Dashboard" to track all of the at once? You'd get back a page with a long universally unique random URL that you can bookmark.

Once on the Dashboard, give the user the option to password-protect the page by registering.
That's why John Galt uses Vim :)
The End of a 1,400-Year-Old Business - What we can learn from Temple builders
a market dont require the intention of buying and selling, just the exchange of something in return for something else.
The searches aren't really necessary in that situation, though. Planting guns and explosives and tipping the cops off anonymously would do the job just fine without a search history. Hell, the cops might consider the lack of search history an indication that the person covered their tracks by using a library computer or something.
iTunes competes with the Pirate Bay with 30% margins and does reasonably well from a revenue perspective.
Well as a Belgium I can agree the movie gives a very good view on our country.

The beer makes up for everything else flawed in our country ;)
So I'm wondering: how can we hack this system? Because it's going to take something beyond "vote for brand A/brand B"...
Mark Cuban's statement is only true if the VC financings are simply a buyout of previous investors. Many of Facebook's recent financings were capital injections + buyouts of founder and early VC shares. I don't believe this is the norm. Simply, VCs at round t-1 typically participate in round s > t and if they don't, future investors will not buy them out. If they did, it would simply mean that none of the money going to firms like Twitter and Zynga is used for investment.
Cool. How will you monetize?
There should be gmail apps that allow you to plugin directly... the main problem is setting this thing up.
Note that this isn't even all their private APIs: Just the private classes.

They also use tons of undocumented, private APIs on public classes -- some of which are very useful.
Sending alerts for other events is definitely something I've thought about as well and plan to add in some way. I haven't quite figured out the best way to enable optional features like this -- perhaps a separate email address or something in the body?

As you hinted, I'd like to keep things as simple as possible and avoid signups if I can (criminal, I know), at the very least for the basic feature of being notified on delivery.
Do Ecuadorian dwarves hold the key to life-long health?
I keep receiving this error when trying to use Taskforce "No response from server, Reload?":

screenshot http://cl.ly/1h3U3e0u2i012j1v081G
This reminds me of a recent Charlie Brooker article in The Guardian regarding the Kindle and eBooks. His articles are always worth a read, and his comments on the Kindle being a "safe" way to read a book in front others definitely hit home for me, as I read most of my books on public transport too.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/15/charlie-...
Thoughts:

Really like the 'mail to track' interface. Great way to get tracking numbers into the sytem.

I use Delivery Status by Junecloud to track packages. I have to copypasta to get them in; but then it sends me a Growl every time my package's status changes, and I can hit the Dashboard to see where my stuff is and when the estimated delivery date is.

I would need a similar level of functionality; getting an email when the package is actually delivered won't cut it. Something that had a Dashboard/Growl client and an iOS notification client, though: that I'd switch to in a heartbeat.
Not allowing to charge more anywhere else is a win for me.
Authors who don't like this are free to skip iOS entirely, no?
Do you have any better examples? I'd like to learn more about where this would fit in a real app.
How feasible is it to have support from 2.4 to 3.x? Either with or without 3to2/2to3 as part of the packaging process?

EDIT: I'd have thought upgrading the codebase to 3.x and making sure that 3to2 produces a working 2.4 version would be better than using 2to3. Thoughts?
Glenn Beck Urges Google Boycott
While superficially this seems like a useful tool, assigning layer after layer of "priority" never seems to work out as intended.

Every layer of priority added increases the chance of your actual inbox effectively becoming an ignored "spam" folder. Any mail that isn't correctly classified as "super priority" will be missed. How much time do you really spend deciding if you need to respond to this person immediately or read later?

I prefer to use classification for context. I want to see all mail associated with client X even if it's from/to multiple addresses. Or all mail associated with system Y. If an email is Ultra-Hyper-Priority that will change the second I respond to it. But a year from now I might like to know how I responded to a similar question/context in the past.
Heroku no longer using a global request queue
And that's why its called an "eco-system" )) Big fish. Jungle rules. Enjoy little fishies.
As for the first two I am not a customer for them and will never be.
Losing kindle would suck a bit though.
Crazy hack done by someone with a lot of free time and discipline :D
YOU PEOPLE!? What's that supposed to mean?
Where can one find chaotic toy algorithms that don't involve Turing machines or cellular automata? (I need one for a project, and I keep running into image processing and biology applications. I actually need a toy one.)

EDIT: Found it: (pseudocode, not Python)

while x > 1
case ((x mod 2) == 0):
x = x / 2
case ((x mod 3) == 0):
x = x + 1
default:
x = x * 3

The number of iterations it takes to leave the loop is chaotic.
I've already upvoted you, but it didn't feel like it's enough... because the same I did with the person that, a couple weeks ago, predicted that Apple would require prices inside and outside of App Store to be the same.

IOW: good job.
Most?
Ok, those who don't like it are free to setup worldwide payment processing, and get customers to submit their CC details.
Just that trading occurs anywhere people get together doesn't mean everything is a market. I'd have liked to +10 you. It's so hip these days to see everything in the context of economics, as a market.
In my opinion that's actually hurting our understanding of human behaviour, by trivializing every interaction.
If you're getting into tracking multiple packages, Delivery Status does a very good job of this: http://junecloud.com/software/iphone/delivery-status-touch.h... -- although it's not a webapp.
Not too focused on monetizing at the moment. It's something I built cause I needed it for myself.

re: gmail - you can very easily setup a filter to automatically forward shipment confirmation emails from the places you most frequently shop (e.g, Amazon).
MS has managed to recover a lot of good will in the last half decade. That probably accounts for quite a bit of it. I know I've dropped a large part of my criticisms. I'm even using Office and looking forward to my next laptop and Win 7.

And 99% of what I do is simple tools that can be done in .NET with a few libraries from Codeplex and a little UI work.
In Apple's mind, iTunes and iBooks are competing services to Neflix, Hulu, Rhapsody, B&N eReader, Kindle eReader, except that iTunes and iBooks have less features or less content or worse experience or no streaming. They are all ways of providing access to view/read/listen to digital media from content producers. Right now, you may not view iTunes and iBooks as competing services because both are available on the same platform and provide different ways of accessing digital media.

Apple currently has to allow these competing services to be made available through their platform, either to make the platform more appealing to end consumers or because of worries of anti-monopolistic concerns or because Apple isn't comfortable with denying these.
a market dont require the intention of buying and selling, just the exchange of something in return for something else.

Exchange of what? Goods and services for other goods and services of comparable value, or cash, or notes of debt?

Is that not the definition of a market?

Here is a human gathering for you: a funeral. What goods & services are changing hands? And please don't say "the family's savings going to the funeral home".
I would imagine the license costs for dev tools for a startup are neglible. If you run Azure you would setup test/staging instances and tear them down when not in use, again because of scale, I would imagine that cost is negligible.

As for usage costs, doesn't Azure use the same model as all the others, e.g. EC2, in that cost = compute hours (i.e. instance running) + data transfer + storage? So if by usage you mean ultra accurate per CPU millisecond billing, then I don't anyone does that? Would be great though. Happy to be proved wrong though, I'm no expert on this...
Prior discussion - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1955387
What's a floppy disk?
Google Penalizes Forbes For Selling Links, Again
I haven't. Just signed up for a beta account. Looks very cool though.
That movie was totally unrealistic! When they got the red ring of death, the robots should have shut down.
I'm sure IBM would rather sell Watson-sized devices to businesses than a single server.
Ask HN: Where can I find a summer internship?
Hey everyone,
My name is Dan Shipper and I'm a freshman in college. I would consider myself a fairly competent programmer - I started in fifth grade - and I've worked in a variety of languages on a lot of different projects.

The biggest hole that I would say I have in my experience is that I've never worked in a professional coding environment with other programmers. I've hacked together projects with my friends and alone, but I really want to hone my skills by experiencing a production environment at a startup.

My problem is that I don't really know where to start looking. Is there a website that lists internships for students at startups? I'm based in the New York area but it probably wouldn't be a problem to relocate to the West Coast for the summer.

I'm not looking to work for Facebook or anything. Just a place that has talented, motivated people that can show me how a real startup works and give me more real world experience building something that people really use. Where do I start looking?
Zach said it best yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2224469

Of course Rhapsody [insert Last.fm] can't sell their stuff for a 30% margin. It's not their own stuff!

They're trying to be the last link in a chain of 90/10 (or more) splits. They repackage record labels' repackaging of artists' content. Do you think the artists would find 30% economically untenable?

The App Store is 70/30 because Apple can take things straight from content producer to customer. When the Apple takes the place of publishing, distribution, inventory, sales, payments and shipping, there's real value for that 30%.

When all someone wants out of Apple is merely to process the payment and send things down the pipe, gee, who do they think they are? But that's not what Apple is actually holding themselves out as. Apple doesn't want to be in that kind of commodity market anyway. Seems reasonable to me.
I wish some of the people that have submitted CVs to me knew that "conventional wisdom". There's nothing quite like trawling through someone's entire detailed job history, including an exhaustive list of their responsibilities at Big Fat Burger when they were at college.

I once applied for a job that stipulated "all CVs longer than one side will be ignored". I got through to the interview and commented on what a good idea that was. He said, "you wouldn't believe how many we get that are still 5 sides long......".
Google plans to seek summary judgment on Oracle copyright claim
For some reason, I still have a stack of floppies in my closet. Looks like I found a potential weekend project :)
The amount of time you have been 'registered' with a website has nothing to do with whether or not what you wrote was appropriate. Moreover, if you want people to understand what you are saying, I recommend that you learn to communicate coherent ideas, rather than posting snarky comments. This has nothing to do with 'reading comprehension' and everything to do with the fact that I called you out for making a disrespectful and short-sighted comment. As far as karma goes, I was talking about the karma of life. In that regard you are a loser - "grasshopper".
That should be "Chinese" hackers, which they were. roreign is how THEY refer to the rest of the wold.
More anti-Apple whining and double standards. Funny how when people commit theft by avoiding paying for recorded content like music and films the claim is that the world has changed and the studios and record companies should adapt their business models.

Apple's marketplace, Apple's T&Cs. If you can't do business using Apple's marketplace change your business model or change your marketplace. If enough people do the latter then Apple will have fewer quality suppliers.
Thanks, fixed! I tested it in FF3.6/Mac and it looked ok. What version are you on?
But whose money is in those funds managed by the fund manager?