skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read your comment several times, but each time I am unable to attribute any meaning to your words.
For Startups Pitching VCs, Three Is a Magic Number
Judge dismisses Koch suit over parody stunt, quashes subpoenas
Ugh. And what is even more distressing is that California voters rejected Prop. 21 in November that would have saved all these parks, and much more.

For the uninitiated: Prop. 21 was a $18 fee added to your vehicle registration, intended for state parks. A benefit would have been free admission to all day-use state parks, some of which cost $15/day right now.
ShoeDazzle Walks Away With $40 Million from Andreessen Horowitz
I agree the distributed group-think is a huge problem on the internet. However, if you do some analysis, I think you'll find that twitter-fueled public lynchings are an order of magnitude less frequent than twitter-fueled viral awesomeness.

Something this article glazes over is that, while we have the infrastructure for mass information virality, actually making something go viral is still very difficult. This is just as true for videos of assholes doing stupid things as it is for releasing web-apps.
Well the old Governor's Mansion is the one on that list should definitely be sold. It's not useful, and it's not all that historically significant. It's a largish house on a smallish block in Sacramento, probably wouldn't even raise a million bucks if sold, but I'm sure that it'd save more than that in maintenance pretty quickly.
I'm not contesting that entities which receive government money shouldn't charge also if the economics implies it, rather focusing on the fact that they take a vast amount of taxpayer money which then helps fund greedy companies who deliver giant bags of fail and on top of it all charge for information which, let's face it, is something of a paltry cost to provide, really, certainly as a proportion of the funding they receive.

We might not all use the services, but we are all certainly entitled to investigate and examine how our money is being spent - standing in the way of providing data for what appear to be money-grabbing reasons certainly does not help redistribute the cost to rail users I don't think, and actively gets in the way of highlighting less effective rail operators.
Don't you understand that this is a political maneuver? They cut whatever seems most outrageous first, so that they can get voter support to raise taxes (and thus avoid having to make actual cuts anywhere).

If they were collecting that money on your vehicle registration they'd be doing the same maneuver somewhere else. Or possibly in the same damn place, because folks have short memories.
Charles Stross does that in his novel Glasshouse: durations are described in kiloseconds, megaseconds, and gigaseconds. (100Ksec is just under 28 hours -- a reasonable proxy for a day -- and 1 Gsec is about 31 years.) In a space-faring society, with no standard astronomical day or year, it made sense.
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Wooden boat building is a lot of fun, and doesn't have to take a lot of space. There are kits available for beautiful kayaks and such that people have built in their apartments. Be sure to plan how to get it out of the house if you build something bigger inside :) Also, beware of potentially toxic chemicals. Some wood dust (cedar) is dangerous.
Surely they're going to have to keep a whole lot of staff just to keep people out of the state parks anyway? Apart from anything else, hidden marijuana growing operations are a big problem in state and national parks.
Gabe Newell on Valve's business model
> The Governor is trying to cut visible things so people will accept the Tax extensions.

Good! I've been publicly arguing for a while now that the only way to stop the Tea Party in its stupid tracks is to start cutting all the things that people actually see. We keep getting all these atrocious cuts to education and public services, and they keep managing to muddle along anyway, which keeps reinforcing the idea that there's still more left to cut from education and other public services.

It's time to start cutting things that people care about.
At this point, particularly after creating their own app store, it would be more of a surprise if Amazon didn't have at least one Android gizmo in the works, if not a whole series.

What's not clear is whether it's going to be the full Android experience, including Google's closed-source apps (Maps, Gmail, and most important, the Market), or whether it will be more like the Nook Color --- core android without the closed Google apps, plus Amazon's own app store only. (In which case, you'd need to publish to Amazon's app store, and let Amazon arbitrarily cut the price and your royalty, in order to get anything on these devices.)

The rumor-level info that Google's involved in the project could be taken as a hint that Amazon's not planning to go so completely their own way... but only that.
Using Flash CS5 as a layout editor for EaselJs
Your recommendation in a previous blog post made me sign up for their service and I have been a happy customer for a few months.
OS X has that; it's referred to as the "Keychain". Not sure if there's anything similar in any of the Linux DEs.
You lie for PR. This blog post seems to be great PR, going for an honest approach to the realities and approaches of heading up a company. What potential deals is he scaring off? Instead a group of intelligent individuals are now exposed to not only him, his integrity, and his product. I had never heard of svpply before today.

I call that a PR win.
It shouldn't - I'm sure they qualify for Safe Harbor as long as they respond reasonably to DMCA notices.
This is key. Dropbox needs to work as a backup solution, not just as a file sharing convenience solution, because that's how users will actually use it. This potential conversation doesn't sound good:

Grandma: My computer crashed, I got a new one, but I've forgotten my dropbox password.
Dropbox: Okay, can you go get the printout when you registered saying "print this out and never lose it"?
Grandma: I didn't print that out / I lost it / the house burned down.
Dropbox: Sorry, then you're screwed because we designed our service to be usable only by those who have a deep understanding of computer security.
Are you an investor?
It is already happening in Boston. Taxpayers moving out and takers moving in. It already cost the state a Representative due to not growing as fast as the rest of the states.

The powers that be can't figure out why so many young people go to college here and then move out when they graduate.
>"Plus, we can give you a completely separated, dedicated setup where your reputation won't be affected by other senders (something SES can't promise you)."

Ahh, so you're using a different IP / subnet for each customer, then? With the internet running out of IPv4 space, I think that companies that do this kind of thing should just have all their addresses revoked. Same goes for "SEO web hosting"
Nemerle 1.0
Tell HN: Guess how thick would a piece of paper be if it was folded 50 times
When I heard the answer, it was completely mind-blowing. It makes logical sense if you sit down and think about it, but it is by no means intuitive.

I went around my school asking people how thick they thought it would be. Answers ranged from a few centimeters to a meter to a mile. One person was a lot more in the ball range after doing a quick calculation estimate in his head. However, it is still quite obvious that none of us can understand or truly comprehend exponential growth.

Anyways, after you've made a guess about what you think the answer is, find out the actual thickness here: http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-most-mind-blowing-facts/all_comments/Jeremy-Richardson
If it had passed, this particular bit of maneuvering would not have been necessary. It's more work and more drama for essentially the same result. Even then, there is no guarantee those funds will be reinstated and those parks reopened...
In all three systems, it is both written and spoken year-month-day, which was the point.

Kōki is not used by anyone with a straight face in this day and age.

"Mikado Heisei" is an extremely uncommon way to refer to the emperor. "帝平成" gets 724 hits on Google, and "Mikado Heisei" gets 6, in 5 different languages---the first of which is your post above. Even the Japanese-language wikipedia page on him doesn't use the word "帝" anywhere.
The real kicker is that he tries to justify it by saying a sql injection attack would prevent the attacker from getting passwords. If you're seriously worried about sql injection, inventing a retarded password scheme seems like a secondary worry to revising your coding standards to require prepared statements.

Treating any part of a user password scheme as secret is doing it wrong. This is why bcrypt exists.
I wish tarsnap was in the same game as Dropbox, I'd pay for it. But as it stands Dropbox is an extremely convenient, general-purpose "network folder". And tarsnap is a backup-tool for unix admins.
As, apparently, do most psychiatric drugs in the long run.

I have to disagree with this statement and ask you to provide better sources than just the result of some Google search. The evidence gathered with citations to peer-reviewed literature in one of the definitive medical textbooks on the issue,

http://www.amazon.com/Manic-Depressive-Illness-Disorders-Rec...

strongly suggests that lithium for bipolar mood disorders has long term benefit. (That's based both on the decades of human use of lithium in some countries and on the basis of animal studies followed up by necropsies of brain tissue.)

Apparently we are all in agreement that "self-medication" with alcohol is a very bad idea. But prescribed medication under supervision by a medical doctor can be a very good idea indeed.

After edit: Thanks for the mention of the interesting book in your reply. I read some of the reviews, and found this useful interview

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/04/27/interview_whit...

with the author, who has a balanced point of view:

"Q: So do you think psychiatric drugs should be used at all?

A: I think they should be used in a selective, cautious manner. . . . I think we should look at programs that are getting very good results. This is what I love about Keropudas Hospital’s program in Finland. They have 20 years of great results treating newly psychotic patients. They see if patients can get better without the use of meds, and if they can’t, then they try them. It’s a best-use model, not a no-use or anti-med model."

After one more edit, an interesting review of the book mentioned in the reply to first version of this post:

http://carlatpsychiatry.blogspot.com/2011/01/anatomy-of-epid...
I got sent to field training, that cured my depression.
Both Gnome and KDE have similar applications/services:

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring

http://utils.kde.org/projects/kwalletmanager/
To quote Atmosphere:

"Now, when you come to apply for a job
Don't tell 'em you're homeless
'Cause I promise they won't hire you
And if they like your songs
Just nod your head and play along
Never tell 'em what inspires you
I bet my fans know me better than my friends do
Because my friends don't pay that much attention
The fans memorize every single sentence
Which makes them far too smart to ever start a friendship
I need to start writing pieces about other people's problems
'Cause strangers are starting to get worried
I'm in a hurry to try to slow the system down a bit
And find happiness before I hit thirty"
purely for competition.

to some degree, customers make up their own minds about what's "better" when comparing two products/services that may be identical in functionality and pricing.

Someone may prefer the colors/logos on one site vs another, some may prefer where one is located (located in my city/state/country vs the competitor). Some may care about the technology, wanting to support one supplier vs another.
tzs's scheme proposes encrypting files with the hash of their contents (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2461713).

That's not semantically secure. Anyone can distinguish whether a particular plaintext produced a given ciphertext.
Good luck getting responses. Good PR places have relationships, which is the only thing that matters.
Yes. Hopefully this won't affect the corporate image of Mailgun in any way :)
If you hire a PR firm, you're having people you don't know contact journalists, no?

The way it works is that PR professionals submit proposals and then you select only one of them to work on your behalf. No one will reach out to journalists without your consent.

What makes you say the game theory is all wrong?
It doesn't seem totally necessary to do this anyway, especially given the above:

> Also, for the record, California has a corporate sponsorship program for parks: http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=25426.

If these companies really felt that they weren't doing enough for their state, they could step up and have the parks "advertise" for them for 33 million... How much did the Facebookers just spend?
What this really means, I assume, is that it costs almost as much to keep a state park closed as it does to keep it open.
its as long as the distance from earth to moon (afair)
His entire argument hinges on this one sentence:
"Once the salt is known, it would be pretty trivial to dictionary a bunch of hashes in little or no time and get a pretty significant hit rate."

The author does not understand that salts primarily protect against rainbow tables (pre-computation attacks). He assumes the purpose is to increase brute force search complexity or somehow add additional secrecy, and is correct that it fails at both.

If you are already using user specific salts and a strong SHA hash, the next place you should be looking to add security is increasing the number of rounds (i.e. sha(sha(sha(hash+pass)))) or switching to bcrypt (which takes advantage of an expensive key setup phase in blowfish to make brute force searches very painful).
in boston, an annual influx of so many students, an amount staying due to bio and healthcare jobs or with no reason to leave their circle of friends from college and move back to Peoria, coupled with this group renting rather than buying at such an age, has priced me out of the market. the entire planet wants to send their kids to school in boston still, and whether a studio apt costs 500 or 1500 a month is almost inconsequential compared to tuition.

i'm looking at astoria queens which looks to be about 40% less, or providence
Also, two people can have the same file but only one permission.
I just went and folded a piece of paper fifty times. It's about 5mm thick.

Oh, did you mean fold in half fifty times so that its thickness becomes 2^50 * (thickness of one sheet)? Well, that's clearly physically impossible, so I just concertina-ed it.
Re-branding of my photo gallery to make it more personal.
Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker sums up the academic research well.
Because of the unevenness of the folds, somewhat MORE than 2^50 times the thickness of the paper, which gets to be an astounding thickness.

After edit: suggestion for a title rewrite: "Thickness of piece of paper after 50 folds in half?
More importantly, for how many years has the selection process not been "truly random"? if it was really fucked up it could even mean some people could never be selected given their name and DoB.
Celebrating 150 years of MIT
And ironically, they're currently down because they forgot to renew their domain.
Don't forget to maintain your physical fitness level. Doing something till total physical exhaustion (like weight-lifting) combined with tranquil sauna sessions always help me through these down moments.
They were complaining more. Ever read The Great Gatsby?
I've heard some have mirasol screens. E-ink like reading experience, but full color and video capable.
All men (and women) are created equal, of course. What rubashov is talking about is what they do with their lives after they're created.
Eh, psychology and psychiatry are still fairly young sciences. I'd say it's worth a shot, but people put too much faith in it. I've had family members in professional help forever with no noticeable improvements. They'll even admit to it.

My personal opinion is that, while sometimes useful, we just don't know enough about how humans work to really fix a large number of issues. People tend to go to psychiatrists persistently even after no track record of improvement out of the fear that they'll get worse. No one will ever recommend that anyone 'give up' on professional help out of the fear that saying so will make them responsible for the negative consequences.
This is actually an article about x86 and ARM processors, rather than Intel against ARM. If you're talking about companies, AMD is really the one playing catch-up. But I don't see x86 going away until Windows is gone, or until Windows becomes widely used on ARM processors (the next version of Windows will support ARM according to Microsoft).

Intel could start serious production of ARM processors if it wanted to (and Intel's XScale processors were/are ARM-based). It would be significant change, but Intel has the money and engineers to make it work. I'm sure Intel could incorporate its Tri-Gate transistors into an ARM design as well.
I wasn't saying you agreed, my comment was rhetorical.
Here's a summary of the answer: http://textsave.de/?p=61802
Complaining About Airport Security Could Tag You As A Possible Threat
The electrical trade splits the same way. I don't know that there's a specific name, but there is a de facto split between residential/light commercial and industrial wiring.

The codes are quite different (more complex, more exacting) for one thing, in the industrial setting.
"I mean, most of my experience is working on fuel-injected stuff... but have you ever tried to rebuild a carb? it's damn difficult to get right, and there's no computer telling you when it's correct; you have to essentially guess."

I tell mechanics around me this all the time (North Idaho)...I personally can rebuild and troubleshoot fuel injection with no issues, I have no idea how to tune a carb. Why? Simply because I haven't had to do that yet. People seem to be scared of anything with a computer, its always the ECU they replace first for some reason...usually the problem is a sensor or vacuum leak (from my experience with things).

Older cars are easier to work on because you typically have more room and fewer custom tools, plus you need very little electronics knowledge. I was an electronics tech before I started working on my own cars so I guess that helps.
I would very much like to see ARM gain traction in the desktop market: the whole way the x86 works is quite inelegant (longer instructions decoded into a RISC-like 'microops').

Considering how small ARM is compared with Intel, they've done a fairly fantastic job.
Without disclosing personal details I would like to say this post spoke to me as it very much fits with what I've been through. Dropping out, the highs, the lows. I'm now 26, have worked at a startup for just over 4 years and we just sold to google. I found the freedom of a startup to be exactly what I needed.
Given that they still need to employ maintenance services, for reduced but not non-existent needs, park rangers, etc., you're probably right.
Well, yes, that's the point of the deduplication. If you already have the same exact file, in its entirety, you can check if it's in the system or not.
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True, but I don't think that's a concern for most people.

What are the practical implications? The only one I can think of is if someone were trying to prove in court that you had a particular file.

A related question I've been wondering about is whether a hash or key+ciphertext are considered proof of possession of the original file. In theory an infinite number of files have the same hash, and the ciphertext could have been produced using a different key (or it could just be random data). In practice it's extremely unlikely (for sufficiently secure hash and encryption functions). What are the laws'/courts' views on cryptography?
As another poster stated, the drawing pulled 90% of the applicants from the first two days of the application period.

Perhaps the bug was something like "bool choose_this_applicant = random() < 1/total_applicants_received_so_far". It would have similar behavior, might appear correct at first glance (at least to the sort of programmer who settles for a government job) and would be utterly, completely wrong.
"The way it works is that PR professionals submit proposals and then you select only one of them to work on your behalf. No one will reach out to journalists without your consent."

That seems better than what I was envisioning. It still seems like a transitional technology, but I can see it possibly working.
I suspect that 36% of people under 30 living anywhere plan to leave wherever they're living within the next five years.
Why Buzzient moved to the Innovation District
It says that in the video message posted: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1857622883?b...
One too many question marks, imho. Shouldn't it be: "Brian said, "[l]et's go."."?
Tried adding the in half part, but the title length exceeded the limit.
I don't buy that Dirty Jobs and their like help to reform the image of skilled labor. For everyone I know that watches those shows its more like Intervention where the show just makes you feel better about your life.
Are you seriously saying that Google and Amazon aren't web application companies?
A lesson in basic genetics for dog-owners
Dropbox should just make a "Lockbox" folder feature that is fully encrypted. Many people happy (nice new feature), maybe fewer complaints.
COBOL was the earliest effort I know of to allow non-programmers to create applications. Its English-like syntax allowed managers and business analysts to describe what they wanted the computer to do without programmers' help. Or such was the belief/hope circa 1960.

I think the desire to program without programming is somewhat misguided. It's great to avoid churning out boilerplate code, and it's great not to need to remember lots of arcane interfaces, but programming, even in the most WYSIWYG DWIM system, still requires the ability to mentally model how the machine interprets its instructions and to write (click, draw, gesture, vocalize) instructions that solve the right problem.
And history would set a new speed record for repeating itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_v._MP3.com
You just need a diagram...I replaced all the wiring on a 1993 Mazda 626 from the front bumper to the dash. 4 big looms. If you have the "real" shop manual tracing problems is easy...not the Haynes or Chiltons (I have the original shop manuals for 2 of my 4 cars, including the electrical supplements, all wire color codings and methods to test every sensor are in the books.

I will not argue that fixing the main relay on my father's 1962 Thunderbird was way easier (I won't even get into the difference between dropping the fuel tank vs. a newer car) I believe for the most part newer cars are not much harder to work on. I really like what Volkswagen did with their VAG-Com stuff, really makes troubleshooting easy...like stupid easy, plus it interfaces with the laptop for datalogging.
Ask HN: Do you still go through all the extra work to support IE6?
Sometimes I don't know whether I should make web apps support IE6 or not. Do you guys tend to support it?
That's basically what he's saying in the very next sentence, isn't it?

That said, if I can write code, I find that work is sometimes one of the most effective ways to stop the depression from worsening
Ideas Wanted for DARPA 100-Year Starship Project
The welding program has all but completely shut down at my local community college. They auctioned off all of their machining equipment for fractions of pennies on the dollar about two years ago. If I want to complete any AWS certifications, I will have to drive a ~40mi round trip to Moraine Valley to complete the necessary training. There is literally no place closer, and I live a big city.

So, for my own selfish reasons, I would also like to see a push to increase the numbers of skilled laborers. :-)