skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google faces two major obstacles in its social networking ambitions: an implementation problem, and a brand problem. On the implementation side, their previous offerings have not been compelling. On the brand side, people generally aren't eager to see Google's reach over their personal lives extended. That is, even if the implementation were compelling, the prospect of Big Google getting bigger, at least in the arena of gathering personal information, appeals to no one outside of Google. This parallels the growth of Microsoft's negative brand equity a decade and a half earlier. No one wanted to see a bigger Microsoft. The privacy guarantees alluded to in the original article make it clear that Google is intent on addressing both issues, yet I remain skeptical. Culturally, I don't see Google having individual privacy or freedom from tracking/slicing and dicing as core values. Eric Schmidt's indiscreet comments last year were more telling.
That is interesting, but most people I know type "facebook" in google to get a link to facebook, so I don't know if that's the case.
I think you're missing the point of something like SHA1_pass: A different passphrase for every site. In the case of SuperGenPass, it hashes the site with the passphrase, making a unique passphrase for every domain. In the case of SHA1_pass, I would do something like, "My wacky passphrase 123 facebook.com" and "My wacky passphrase 123 google.com", etc. if I were to use it.

The sentence is only a piece of the hashed value, while some unique thing about what you're logging into is the rest of it. So, using "My wacky passphrase 123 facebook.com" as my password directly on facebook.com would mean that anyone with malicious intent and access to facebook.com code could easily figure out that every website where I have an account is "My wacky passphrase 123 sitename.tld". Strong password failure. The one-way hashed version of that has no meaning to the sites I log in to.

So, original sentence has very low security value, while a hashed version of it (assuming a unique piece for every site or service) has very high security value, even if the actual password generated is less strong than the original sentence from a purely "number of possibilities" perspective.

Of course, if you always use the exact same passphrase, and thus the same resulting password, your math would make sense...but the likelihood of an exploit is far more likely to come from people behind one of the sites you use sniffing your password, than from a brute force attack, in either case.
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Help?  Flash crashing every time ...
Anyone help? For reasons I won't go into I have a Windows XP laptop. The latest update has just been applied, and now Flash won't run.

Any suggestions before I finally give up on Windows and just buy a Mac?

ADDED IN EDIT: Yes, I've tried all the forums I know of and no, they haven't helped. Yes, I've looked up all the sites I canthink of that might be useful and no, they haven't helped. Yes, I've tried Googling for the problem and no, nothing seemed to help. Yes, I have tried to solve this myself (for over 6 hours) and no, I don't seem to have managed. For reference, I'm not a system admin type person.
MSDN is probably a lot lower (rough guess) :)

No, it's a corporate intranet site with multiple companies.
If you are best friends, why should she have to tell you her principals? Shouldn't you be able to figure this out through her actions?

I pretty much know the principals of all of the people in my life that are good friends.
> Like dieting, more people will say they agree with this than will actually do it.

"It works! If it doesn't work for you, it's because you're doing it wrong!"

Now... where have I heard this before?

Oh right, Agile.
I guess it goes without saying that this very thoughtfully composed post also implies is that it's not only the media infrastructure that is failed. But the answer is written into the post as well: be involved. Apparently everyone in Japan has a duty in times of crisis, and it's not something opted into.

I am genuinely jealous, after reading this post. In that I would love for _my_ country to have its shit together to this degree. That, also, goes without saying.
The potential for "productivity" is what I envisioned it as being when it first came out (and was resoundingly downvoted for on various social news sites, including this one, I believe): One handed work.

If you ever see someone with their laptop open in one hand and (optionally) carrying their AC adapter with the other, heading off to a meeting room, that's what iPad is for.

If you see a doctor walking in to the office, greeting you, then turning their back to you to clack something into a desktop facing the wall, that's what an iPad is for.

If you see a delivery person or home-service person (plumber, contractor, arborist, lawn mower) or even a cop sit in their car for several minutes as you look at them wondering what the hell they are doing in there for so long, that's what an iPad is for.

When you see a realtor have their laptop setup and using some clunky interface to hook into as you gather around leaning over a kitchen island to see some number or other, that's what an iPad is for.

It's not for coding sessions or writing novels or anything crazy like that. It's for plugging into a projector to do a presentation; it's for handing to you to sign after it's been used to swipe your credit card for a purchase, or when you receive a delivery; it's for your doctor showing you a test result without you getting out of your chair or bed.

Give it a few years, then it'll look less like a toy and more like the Jetsons.
Glad we don't have to deal with another Google social media flop.
http://piratepad.net has, for better or for worse, also continued to do a large amount of development. They didn't go toward logins, more toward licensing content, tagging content (particularly by language), and showing how content links to other content. It is getting nearly wiki-like.
Google circles - many ways to do identity?
1. There isn't a shortage of companies including startups looking for programming talent. They are everywhere.

2. Just because the above fact is true does not mean they will hire just anyone, degree or not. Having a CS degree is great, but that doesn't make you or anyone else a great programmer. People have graduated from CS with a high GPA no less and still can't program worth squat.

3. Not talking about large companies, startups in particular, look for more than just raw programming skills. They look for culture fit, are you a passionate hacker, fast learner with great potential for more than just writing code, etc... At the end of the day, there are TOO MANY FACTORS to consider beyond just the simple fact that you have a CS degree to determine whether or not you fit the position in which these companies are hiring for.

My best advice here is find out what you may not be seeing and keep trying. You will eventually find that programming position but you first must understand what it is you may not be seeing that's preventing you from landing that job.

Where are you located and what type of position you are looking for?
There are few places on earth that are devoid of natural disasters.
There's a significant amount of conversion from hydrogen to deuterium. The likelihood of neutron absorption by deuterium is much smaller (by a about a factor of ten) than the likelihood of neutron absorption by plain hydrogen, but it still happens since there's a lot of neutron flux.

Canadian reactors (the CANDU design) use heavy water as moderator because it doesn't absorb neutrons as readily, and the improvements in neutron economy allow them to avoid enriching their fuel.

Radiation from tritium is definitely something that we worry about as far as worker safety near piping containing irradiated water, but it's not something that concerns us too much as far as being vented into the environment (we try to minimize that, but there's only so much you can do, especially with a BWR).
Steve Jobs does have kids. I'm sure they're groomed from birth (kidding). All jokes aside, only time will tell if someone else has the chops and vision Steve Jobs does will step up to lead Apple on the same path or if it'll become stagnant. Speculating at this point doesn't really do anything or change anything.
Facebook fatigue is growing at a rapid pace. Just because all my friends are on facebook doesn't mean facebook is a great app - I actually think it's pretty terrible (design, functionality, of course privacy settings, etc), it's just the first app to really implement an activity feed. The barrier to entry in this space may not be as large as it seems.
That's not how human brains work. If he wasn't writing about Etherpad, he shouldn't have used the name "Etherpad".
Dramatic video of tsunami wave spilling over seawall, smashing boats, cars
It has been my understanding that at least the fixed CPU instances on EC2 run on a custom Xen.
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I think they just need to fix the keyboard. Trying to have a straight keyboard of that size just does not fit with people's hands.

Split it up into two 30 degree rotated sections in horizontal mode and two thumbpads in vertical mode and it'll make typing a helluva lot easier.
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I don't think he said they don't count, I think he said they won't make you money, which is different. Many of the ideas you listed were invented by one person and then capitalized upon by another. This doesn't mean the idea wasn't important, just that the person who got rich was the one with the implementation.
Actually, the first character in typhoon is 「台」, which means something like "stand" or "platform". It's also the first character in "Taiwan".
I've read before that the word "typhoon" was of Arabic origin and came to Japan from Chinese, but the word spread to the West via Japan.
Just like how English "doesn't have a word" for 我慢 ("gaman")[0], except it does (several, in fact)[1].

0: http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/sympathy-for-jap...

1: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wiktionary/en/wiki/%E6%88%91%E6...
>There must be something between an iPad and neural interfaces

Probably something wearable: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/03/wearable-computing...

My guess:

a pair of glasses (in which you can see a screen--or transparency for augmented reality) with full voice control. Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad optional for productivity usage. Can also control via iPhone or iPad.
The interface is clearly a clone of iTunes, but boy is it done well! Nice work.
I'd consider an OpenID login; I already have one on myopenid.com for Stack Overflow. But I don't like the idea of logging in to a service with any kind of identifiable "persona" where I don't have strong control over the connection. I don't trust Facebook, my Google account is too important to pollute it with random site logins, while I'm afraid a Twitter login would somehow end up giving permission to Twitter DM me, which I don't want.
I recall seeing some posts about YC startups trending more in the direction of established companies. But what is more important is whether or not going through YC will help them achieve their goal. If YC helps move from $100k/month to $1m/month it is very much worth it.
Common misconception. Great programmers write clean code and document their work.

I loathe engineers who produce complex, unreadable code and have enough nerve to call that "cool". A great programmer knows when to refrain from saving two lines of code to spare the next person two hours of debugging.

Programmers needing wingmen that clean up after them are in my opinion simply jerks. It's a sign of disrespect towards their coworkers and a sign of a lack of an important skill.
I just used some of the 'classic' built in features. Nothing too fancy, just loop over whatever part of the song you choose however many times you choose.

Screenshot
http://cloudedbox.com/LoopTee.html
You are being fooled: The article was deliberately ambiguous.

What I said is fully appropriate: "plentiful, easy, worthless, and don't 'count'" as a statement of one of the claims of the article. That is, the article flatly stated that:

"It is the manner in which ideas are
executed that counts."

So, the execution "counts". So, he is saying that the ideas don't "count". That is, what he was saying is usually interpreted as 'execution is ALL that counts'.

The quote you extracted is even self-contradictory: In his first sentence he says that ideas are not "enough" so admits that they are necessary but in his second sentence is back to saying that it is the 'execution' that "counts" essentially saying that the ideas are not even necessary.

He's just spinning nasty stuff, and trying to write in ways that are slightly difficult to debunk.

But his point is quite clear: He believes that ideas are worthless, that execution is everything, that is, all that "counts".

Worst of all, he omits any concept that there can be bad ideas and good ideas.

Basically he wants to run down ideas.

As I explain, and as in the link I gave, this running down ideas is common in business.

My point about "equivalent" is a reasonable implication to draw since to him execution "counts" and, thus, ideas don't and, thus, are equivalent.
Yeah, 30 years.

There was a lot of background radiation from Cs-137 from all the old nuclear testing that's disappearing now.
I'm a good programmer. Many people I know professionally may call me more than that.

I have a friend who, when he does stuff, I can look at and say that there is no-way I would ever come up with that. Once I've seen it, I can say that I could repeat that, given some time, but that isn't the same as coming up with the original idea and implementing it really well

That is a great programmer.
I got to co-author a book last year and it hasn't come close to even minimum wage yet.
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One way its a disaster is, if it warps public policy for decades to come, armtwists power providers into dirty, ecologically disastrous choices and impoverishes a nation thru expensive energy.
Can't read German. My source is Physics for Future Presidents by Richard Muller, a physics professor at Berkeley. He says that's the United Nations estimate.

Wikipedia also says the estimate is 4000, and references a report by the United Nations Scientific Committee of the Effects of Atomic Radiation. It goes on to say that UNSCEAR later decided that was an over-estimate, and that IAEA data corroborates that. It has citations for everything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#cite_note-Ch...

Even if the death toll was 17,000, that's still less than the number of U.S. deaths from coal each year.
Meanwhile, hundreds of coal-fired plants were built in their stead, and those are currently spewing radioactive waste into the air in normal operation.
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> Load World of Warcraft and play something that reflects real development efforts rather than cute marketing tricks.

I love that line.

The achievement of WoW is to inflate the importance mouse clicks to an insane level by a more complex mechanism.

That is all.
This article is akin to being impressed if the LA Lakers got accepted to the NCAA tourney and ended up winning the whole thing. They're the Lakers, they're supposed to dominate a bunch of college teams.

I fail to see how its considered all that surprising when a company like Apple has a dominating performance at SXSW when they have access to more money and resources than any other companies present, arguably by far. Someone please help me understand. Thanks...
> The Xoom was superior in terms of all hardware, but it failed to make a dent against Apple simply because Apple executes the tablet exquisitely.

Do you have any hard numbers to back up this assertion?
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I like this! I think the glasses are great because everybody wants to look important and busy while they waste their time on facebook and hacker news, and the glasses are right in line with that. Voice control I think won't catch on in public though, the blind have had access to it for years and despite the obvious benefits to them they just don't seem to enjoy it, it is too public. Once again, you want to look important while you waste your time. I could buy into the idea of a keyboard showing up on the glasses and then a camera catching your typing against a table though.
Wow! Hacker News is a PC support forum now! I didn't know...
Hardly, but without some background or sources I'd say a majority of people wouldn't know where you're coming from.
I think they may be scared of the Amiga effect. The Amiga was a fabulous productivity and general purpose computer, but died the slow death it did because it was generally seen by consumers as a fancy video game console.

Competitors swept in, played down the "kiddy" game aspect of their systems and played up the productivity aspect and demolished the Amiga in the market place.

Extending a system perceived as a "gaming system" into other tasks has been extremely hard. Despite being decent TV-top web browsers for a while, dedicated gaming consoles have never really found a role outside of gaming for example. At one time, the PS2 had enough peripherals and such for it to turn it into a fully fledged general computing device, but it never took off as such since it's just a game console.

In Japan, theres a similar problem with pre-PC computers like the MSX, PC-88 or the X68000, all great general purpose computer, all viewed as game consoles, all dead dead dead.

(yes there are plenty of other reasons for the death of the Amiga, but the general consumer's view that it was a gaming device definitely played part in that)
Why is it necessary that the product demand "hours and hours"? I don't have a Facebook account because I simply see no need to be bombarded with invitations, connections, "friends", etc.

I specifically WANT something people just use to stay connected in a way they find palatable. Almost by definition anything that people obsess over will never have me as a member.

I can't be the only one.
Although they're obviously doing something around social search, as in their own system:

http://www.google.com/s2/u/0/search/social#socialcircle
I think it's good in terms of employment. I'm currently looking for work and some companies advertising positions / the recruitment firms advertising positions for some companies are now asking for github accounts along with cover letters and resumes.

(I've only seen this for Ruby jobs though... Java is tending towards 'Are you using these libraries in your current position? No? Thanks for your application but...'.)
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"I seen some of the emails… I can tell you Grade A Fraud in its purest form…" read one tweet. "He Just told me he have GMAC emails showing BoA order to mix loan numbers to not match it's Documents.. to foreclose on Americans.. Shame."

This is about as persuasive as a 419 letter. Someone who is only semi-literate is unlikely to have a firm grasp of legal issues.
I wonder if Robert Scoble will answer this Quora question personally?
I don't agree with everything in your assessment, but I applaud you for thinking/knowing beyond "4chan did it".
Thank you very much. I'm curious about the engineering process slowing development down, if you're able to comment on that. I've heard before that Google's need to build for scale from the start can occasionally be an impediment to rapid development, but this is the first I can recall hearing that their process slows things down.
I'm waiting for a MacBoor Air with an ARM processor and iPad-like battery life. Other than that aspect, the 11" laptop is the best computer I've ever had.

(and yes, I run Ubuntu on it instead of OS X)
Disagreements are fine. What is not fine is the tit-for-tat he-said-she-said bickering. It is not professional and is counter productive.
There's a difference between a nitpick and a paper that basically defines a new programming paradigm (or delineates the need for it compared to another paradigm).
Same with my wife who is a home health speech therapist. I got her an iPad for xmas and she hasn't opened her laptop since. It is convenient to take with her in the car, she can keep a large calendar of appointments and jot notes on her patients, logs all of her hours and does invoicing, can use it as a big map to find her patients' houses, has large visual references of medications and anatomy, and patients can easily do activities on it.

Then she gets home and kicks back on the couch or in bed and reads some message boards, watches some YouTube or Netflix videos, or plays some casual games.
In my experience https://www.gandi.net/ has fantastic service.

I've tried 1and1 in the past, but we had a falling out regarding an automatic charge I cancelled that they still billed me for.
Got a reference? I think it could have been made by a fan. It doesn't have any information that isn't available publicly. With the same phone number appearing in four places, it doesn't seem particularly like Jobs.
Dvorak has a seriously warped view of Facebook and life-in-general IMO. Facebook's main competitor is Second Life? Who on earth thinks that?

There's nothing "fake" about the community on Facebook. Ask Hosni Mubarak.
Oh no oh no oh no Anon pissed off Assange!! Whatever will he do..
I'm just about to go on a hike, but let me respond quickly. I do appreciate tough criticism, but I think there are some rash judgments and misconceptions here.

1) just because the recommendations aren't suited to you doesn't mean they're bad in general. Hacker news is very special, sophisticated demographic. The recs are currently optimized for a more main stream audience. We get lots of feedback from users attesting to this. Certainly there is lots of room for improvement tho and that's why I want to hire so badly. We care a great deal about the product.

2) There's no bait and switch or anything underhanded going on with the gift cards. We get a certain amount when a user downloads an app, and we credit the user a certain percentage to work their way toward a reward. We need to expire point of inactive users to prevent an accounting nightmare. Many users are getting the cards every day.

Hope that clears things up. I certainly understand the skepticism, and again I welcome tough criticism.
This is not the place for your partisan religious/political bickering.
4chan founder: Mark Zuckerberg is “totally wrong” about online identity
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They don't have to use them till it's over.

The water is being boiled away, not circulated with pumps.
solar and wind are too expensive for wide scale deployments.

No, they aren't. And the only reason nuclear is considered "cheap" is that the costs of accidents and waste disposal are methodically underestimated.

Oh, and another thing: Uranium fuel is a quite limited resource as well...
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Is there a reason why you didn't quote the other part of the article?

Yes. The claim was definitive that nothing bad happened. I was referencing information that states the opposite of that claim. If the claim had been definitive that everything bad happened I would have referenced information that states the opposite of that. The fact is, the health of the populace post-TMI is heavily debated. If I were attempting to hide the subset of information that supported the claim I would not have included the links.
> I'm waiting for a Macbook Air with a full touch screen

You're in for a long wait then. Jobs said laptops with touch screens is total bullshit when talking at the new air launch.
What chance do you have if Google can just clone your business?
The title of this article is very misleading.
OpenERP's business model seems to work well. They have been growing 100% per year for the last 4 years.

http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/71059.html