skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Wikipedia entry for SecurId says they use a scheme where each physical device has a private key that is also stored on the server (and apparently in RSA severs as well).

I wonder why don't they use a public key scheme where the server only needs the public key of the specific user for authentication. This way the private key is stored only on the physical device.
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Its hard to accept the author dismissing the threat of bitcoin being banned and then admitting it is difficult to buy bitcoins. If it is difficult to buy bitcoins, its most likely hard to get useable currency from bitcoins. Until you can buy groceries or other real life things in bitcoins, I'd say it is a a very real threat.
Due to the volatility of the bitcoin market I'm betting we are going to see a next blog post by the author "How I lost all my savings using bitcoin"
I'm using smartTextBox for a project: http://wayofspark.com/projects/smarttextbox/

I can't see any immediate differences between the two, how does Tagedit differ?
Seeing comment scores is useful, because it lets me easily see the "best" comments.

This is actually why I think comment scores should remain off indefinitely. People (including myself) have become too reliant on scoring as a measurement for the merit of comments. That may have worked when the site first started and had a small close-knit group of users. However, any site which experiences growth as HN has will inevitably become diluted for both quality of comments, and scoring, I believe. Yet, people will not adjust for that as they continue using scoring to inform them what is "best".
An image of the LG Prada for reference:

http://dailymobile.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/lg-prada2-0...
Group icon like Mac on Windows with 7stacks.
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How about unschooling/homeschooling? Being stuck in a classroom all day was torture and do you really think students learn best when they're forced to be obedient?

And on the job, rather than the adversarial management vs. union mentality of a factory, teachers need to be given the responsibility and autonomy to improve teaching and student performance.

So what they're saying is that homeschoolers/unschoolers have had it right all along. However, they want to bring in only some of the ideas that make unschooling successful. Small reforms never really amount to anything.
You would have an overwhelming desire to become an Auctioneer.
An Asus Transformer with a keyboard can last about 15h, because it has a battery in both the tablet and the keyboard, while still remaining reasonably lightweight and thin.

If Apple keeps the same size of the Macbook Air you'll probably see ~100% improvement in battery life compared to the current Macbook Air. If they decide to make it even thinner and lighter, than it won't gain that much in battery life, but I'm sure it will still be a significant improvement (definitely more battery life than an iPad).
Well this tool is clearly not for you guys :) Actually guys who like the terminal try to abstract everything to use the terminal (taskwarrior is a perfect example of this). Of course all this is subjective and based on personal taste.
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I first encountered effective end-user tagging over a decade ago in a bookmarking program named PowerMarks (no longer developed).

It would ("instantaneously") generate an automatic set of tags based on page content and metadata. This could very rapidly edited in the form of a simple, comma-separated list of text.

Bookmark search consisted of typing in a simple, comma-separated list (IIRC). The current contents were continuously parsed and partial matching performed to produce a ranked list of matching entries. With thousands of bookmarks, the desired entry could usually be identified and followed within a second or three.

(There were also date fields and some other fields, that could help in clustering and could be used in ranking)

The combination of a tagging categorization, and the very efficient interface, made it a joy to use and extremely useful.

This thread's product appears, from the video, to be moving the interface portion of web-based tagging in what for me would be a "right" (correct) direction. Make the tagging rapid, and the interface painless, and perhaps tagging will really take off as an end-user interface.

Note: I followed vijaydev's link, as the ur-parent's link is currently unresponsive.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2596455
Previous submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2593671
anyone knows if there is a way to sync this with the cloud so it can be used between computers?
Srsly. One of the many, many problems with government debt is that there is no collateral.
All human-created phenomena are social phenomena. "It's just tech" is said only by those who fundamentally don't understand this or want you to ignore those social aspects for their own gains.

Contrary to what lots of the Bitcoin aficionados might like people to think, the social aspects of it are the only part that really matters outside of a crypto mailing list. And they're also the reasons it's insane to expect people to actually use it.
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Hmm. A couple days after the reports of Lockheed Martin becoming the first buyer of a commercial quantum computer:

http://blogs.forbes.com/alexknapp/2011/05/25/d-wave-sells-qu...

Perhaps coincidence. Still, interesting.
Your CS class will likely recommend a book for you, but my wife used Lewis and Loftus when she took an intro to CS course to get a better handle on what the hell I did with my life. She found it relatively easy to learn from.
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It didn't really drop in battery life, it was just that Apple's testing protocol was revised to more accurately describe real-life usage.
Are ISPs okay with organizations using P2P to offload their bandwidth requirements to clients?

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/02/cnn-p2p-video-stream...
The ammonia would be in a closed loop system.

By only freezing water to make ice and to keep an icebox cool (the icebox and where you freeze the water are two seperate physical locations), you reduce the risk of any ammonia related injury or contamination.

You would just have a bunch of 1 gallon jugs of water you freeze and swap out between the icebox and the freezer).

Like the olds days!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icebox
My wife is currently close enough to ride a bicycle to work. I commute to grad school ~30-45 minutes each way. When you're married you have to make certain sacrifices. I don't always enjoy it, but with a good audio book, I don't mind.
Can you elaborate on that? I am curious what the setup is?
Don't agree with article. Parameters that can be tuned are not mathematical abominations.

In a mathematical model there is often a single value for a parameter that can be shown to be optimal. In the complexity of the real world, tuning is often necessary and an optimal number can usually not be proven.
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The actual task information is stored in your home directory. I use it on a Linode and stay connected all day (cloud enough for me :) ) I've seen other people use it with Dropbox, which would fulfill the syncing requirement.

There's a guy on the forums that developed a RoR frontend for it too: https://github.com/theunraveler/taskwarrior-web
I guess you could argue that Python is a prototype language deep down because it performs property lookups at runtime by following a chain of objects. (Those objects just happen to be classes.) But by that definition, other dynamic OO languages like Perl or Ruby is also prototype languages.

If you think of classes in Python as a feature build on top of prototypal inheritance, then it has certainly proved a very useful feature.
The problem which I faced while trying to bootstrap a social product is that without some previous reputation/success, getting traction for your startup is very tough, and at times even demoralizing. It's better to focus on a single user product which is not dependent on a network effect for success...
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Cool. I'm surprised that this list isn't on http://instantwatcher.com. For those who don't know, Instant Watcher is a phenomenal resource for Netflix fans.
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Perhaps coincidence. Still, interesting.

Almost certainly a coincidence. RSA was under an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) a while back in March, which might have lead to compromising the security of the SecurID tokens.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/222522/rsa_war...

http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=3872
The only problem that I see with 'crashing' the system is the amount of time that would be devoted to the blame game. If that could be skipped so that we could jump directly to the debugging phase, then I'd say---let it crash. Also interesting to notice which kinds of problems get fixed before blame assignment versus blame before fix---I've no clue as to the pattern, just something I've noticed...
Showing scores made reading through comments feel more like a game, which was interesting but tended to take my attention away from the context of the original link. I was also less interested in interacting, largely because the context was deemphasized and it seemed too easy to devolve into a mentality of competing for upvotes.

That said, I do like the idea of using something like color coding (on username?) to highlight the top few comments.
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Alright, so where the f- was the NSA (et al.) in all this?

I would presume that, given sufficient background -- which, presumably, under these circumstances they could insist upon -- it should have taken them about 5 minutes (or seconds) to figure out this scenario.

We spend untold amounts sifting possibly every email crossing a domestic -- and probably many a foreign -- nexus. But when identification/authorization for a defense contractor -- and probably a lot more than one such agent of critical infrastructure -- is compromised, they aren't involved and ahead of the curve in mitigation?

Probably, certainly, there's a lot that the public isn't being told. But the silence is -- whether due to circumstances or to omission -- unsettling.

The silence may be purposeful, even productive. But it does not sit well against the caterwauling of those who insist we make our private, personal communications ever more transparent to government inspection.
This coming from a single person that owns a bar.

There are lots of other types in the world. Married, with children, etc.
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Perhaps. But if you know what you're doing, wide diversification may not be wise.

"How many insights do you need? Well, I'd argue: that you don't need many in a lifetime. If you look at Berkshire Hathaway and all of its accumulated billions, the top ten insights account for most of it. And that's with a very brilliant man—Warren's a lot more able than I am and very disciplined—devoting his lifetime to it. I don't mean to say that he's only had ten insights. I'm just saying, that most of the money came from ten insights.

So you can get very remarkable investment results if you think more like a winning pari-mutuel player. Just think of it as a heavy odds against game full of craziness with an occasional mispriced something or other. And you're probably not going to be smart enough to find thousands in a lifetime. And when you get a few, you really load up. It's just that simple."

-Charlie Munger

http://ycombinator.com/munger.html

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"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful."

-Mae West
Wow ! This is exactly something I was looking for : adding tags the way you add recipients to a facebook inbox message.
Sometimes, Ideas really are in the Air...
Office/Lunch Hours

Have everyone make a profile with their "open hours" where they're free to have lunch or meet up with someone who wants to discuss things of interest with. Don't make it formal, just make it so that people can see what times you're free that week, and shoot an email if they want to talk about stuff. Leave it vague and general because you never know what utility this could serve - hell people might just want some companionship, not startup advice.
In as much as you're trying to predict which startup will succeed, the data from the genome project is perfectly acceptable. The problem comes when you decide "I will do X because that's what successful startups do." If you don't understand why they do it, then it's a cargo-cult. But maybe... Maybe imitating successful people is the best you can do when you don't know what you're doing?

You have a point, and I softened up the language in my post.
"Given that over twenty drugs, all with different actions on different neurotransmitters, have shown efficacy in depressed patients over the last 60 years, I think it would be rather shortsighted to dismiss the significant body of literature dedicated to the role of neurotransmitters in depression."

Virtually every form of sensory stimulation has been shown to ease depression, from aromatherapy to acupuncture to exercise. What makes you think that neurotransmitters are the root cause of the problem? To me the fact that no matter how you mess with the neurotransmitters it eases depression shows that this is a function of sensory novelty, as opposed to some neurotransmitter imbalance being the root cause.

"There are certainly many theories, and depression is a complicated disease."

What makes you think it's a single disease?
There is no solution to the problem that currencies can become worthless. It is a fundamental aspect they have, because any commodity, artificial or otherwise, can become worthless. If change stopped, this might cease to be true, but in a world where in 100 years we may be seriously talking about the needs of our uploaded consciousnesses in the war against the bad AIs, or we may be a hunter-gatherer society again (and I'm using a 100-year-horizon just to highlight the problem but it's true on shorter timescales too), there simply isn't any safe, reliable value store.

woodall didn't say dollars won't hyperinflate. (S)He said the US "will be forced to deal with the consequences". Not the same.
The purpose of diversification is in case your insight is wrong. In case bitcoin crashes faster than he's able to pull his money out, or in case demand slackens and prevents him from pulling his money out (being able to transform money from bitcoins to dollars is necessary until all the places he would spend money accept bitcoins too), being diversified would prevent him from losing everything.
You're right. While bitcoin has certain similarities to Ponzi schemes (i.e. the fact that the people who start the scheme get rich while the folks who come later lose their money) I think it's really more accurately described simply as an asset bubble.

Except, y'know, without any actual underlying asset. I don't think I've ever seen an asset bubble in something that was literally worthless before. Even the tulip bulbs of the Dutch tulip mania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania) could be planted in your garden and would look quite pretty, even if not ten years' salary worth of pretty.
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There some thinking that this whole finding about a glass of red wine a day being associated with longer survival is probably due to profile of people who drink like that: they have a moderately active social life and have not-to-much stress in their lives. Which is probably far better for you than any amount of alcohol.
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Doesn't work for me as well
There's another risk, actually: government legislation/intervention.
Another idea would be to switch from the positive incentives of karma, to a harsher negative incentive system. So if your karma is good, it is always 0. If you make bad comments and get down voted, it begins to go negative. You can reach zero again by making better comments later, but you can't stock pile points. Zero is as high as you can go.

I still think the perceived reward of having high ranking comments has to be removed somehow.

What do you think bruce?
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In the novel "Shogun," Toranaga has Blackthorne build a ship, secretly burns it down and has him build another. The ships are meant as bargaining tools for Toranaga's negotiation with the Portuguese, who control sea trade with Japan.

A working Macbook-anything running an A5 chip would be extremely useful for Steve Jobs when negotiating terms with Intel, even if in the end he "burns" it.
Second parent, I don't agree with the article either. Real world engineering is not pure theory. It is a subtle difference. A perfectly valid reason for this type of problems is "it works well in practice", or "it is good enough".
Does investing in foreign stocks hedge against this?
It means precisely that A causes B, B causes A, C causes both A and B, or the correlation is a statistical fluke.
It is intellectually important to be aware of all the options. But "correlation does not imply causation" can be too much of a reflex reaction.

In this particular case, it's easy to imagine how a long commute could cause obesity, divorce, and neck pain; it's very hard to imagine how the causality could run the other way, or what a common cause might be.

The rule could stand to be taken with a grain of common sense.
I know nothing about Bitcoin.

And I agree that you probably shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket.

But that doesn't mean that wide diversification is the right strategy.

I think some of the greatest successes have occurred because of an obsessive focus (e.g. Apple, Pixar, 37signals, Trader Joes, Chipotle, Berkshire Hathaway, top professional athletes).
What shall we call those? Micro-cents?
The basket many people are holding all their eggs in, is the USD

Not many people, or at least not many people with nontrivial amounts of money, have all their assets in US dollars. Most folks own shares and/or property. As you say, US-dollar cash assets are a poor investment right now since interest rates are lower than inflation.

Still, keeping all your money in US dollars (in a big brown bag inside a zoo, perhaps) is a lot less nutty than keeping all your money in bitcoins. Even if nothing else, the US dollar has a history of relatively low volatility over the past couple of hundred years, whereas bitcoins have a history of insanely high volatility and dates back to (uhh, goes and checks) 2009.
"The secondary uptake wave after enthusiasts is not going to come from those who use legacy banking daily and are comfortable with it. It is going to be people who don’t want or are not allowed to use the legacy banking system for their everyday transactions."

This is also the point when governments will start aggressively working to shut it down.
I commute by foot 35 minutes each way. On those days where I have to drive (very, very rare), my level of stress when I arrive home is far greater than on those days when I walk. It's really dramatic. And, if I have to drive for several days in a row (like to a conference), I really start to feel physically crappy.

I know I'm lucky, but if you have the opportunity, even for less money, I could not recommend it more.
Hah. I had read an article previously maybe a day or two earlier, maybe even from HN, and was just looking at the comments on this one since I already knew the gist of the story :) That's what I get for silly and not frequenting the comments enough I guess. :)
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The RSA hack was used to clone the Lockheed VPN tokens (which means SecurID was junk crypto to begin with).

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/28/usa-defense-hacker...
I just signed up a few days ago. Worked as advertised.

And it does show up on the Domino's order page, but I ended up getting carryout anyway.
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Moodlogger is an iPhone app that lets you log your mood at any given time. The idea is to be able to share it with others and to generate statistics for users, showing how often they are [happy,angry,sad,etc.]. It was a fun exercise for me to build so I thought I'd share my (dev) experiences with you.

Link to project: http://www.moodlogger.net

Dev blog entry: http://www.colorfulwolf.com/blog/2011/05/29/introducing-moodlogger/

Appreciate the feedback!
The USPS is most likely charging a reasonable price to sustain current junk mail delivery rates. A price increase may cause more businesses to simply advertise online. Without any data, I would assume that the demand for the postal service by junk mailers is extremely elastic these days.
Investing in any stocks hedges against this. For instance, I have shares in General Electric. That means I indirectly own part of all GE's assets. Some of their assets are in US dollars, but the vast majority of their assets are tangible things -- factories that make jet engines and diesel locomotives and dishwashers and... whatever the hell else we make. If the US dollar drops in value, the US dollar value of these real assets goes up correspondingly.
Again, the new law does not specifically mention "analytics" - the analytics issue is something that you yourself have come up with. If you read the guidelines, you'll notice that it states that consent does not need to be sought "where such storage or access is strictly necessary for the provision of [a service]". As I mentioned above, the provision of a service may have a usability component, for which cookies are necessary; however the service may work with degraded usability without such cookies. Would a degradation in usability make the cookies "strictly necessary", and if so, to what extent? This is something the new law does not address, and causes worry for web developers like me.
Maybe imitating successful people still leads to success, even though you have no idea why it does. Hell, maybe they're imitating their mentors too.
Real world economy is a kind of a ponzi scheme, in my opinion. With the central bank being at the top, and other banks below it, followed by the financial sector, and all the people who become rich by "speculating" on money instead of actually producing something useful

EDIT:

Please read this in context before you downvote. We're talking about bitcoin. If bitcoin is a kind of a Ponzi scheme, then it's no different from the "scheme" present in the current monetary system.
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This article is crazy, and actually fills me with a little bit of schadenfreude.

Asset bubbles run on the bigger fool principle, and they end when you run out of bigger fools to sell to. If folks have really started cleaning out their bank accounts and borrowing money to buy bitcoins (an amount of bitcoins which, incidentally, you probably could have picked up for twenty bucks just six months ago) then it seems to me that the world is about to run out of bigger fools.
I'm using Dropbox. And then,

$ task config data.location /home/dir/Dropbox/tasks
Surprise, surprise... The largest of traditional newspapers has a problem with one of the biggest drivers behind online media: that you can finally choose what you read.
> In the past three months, the value has hundredfolded

If this trend continues, my $8 invested for 1 bitcoin will be worth $800 million in a year!

Seriously?
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