skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...or do they actually, in many circumstances, thrive because we've evolved to live under "thrifty" pre-industrial conditions? In the book I referenced (Born To Run), the author describes an extremely isolated Mexican tribe where 40-50 year old men regularly run 50-mile plus races in bare feet, in good part, many believe, because they've shunned shoes. I wouldn't be surprised if we come to the same conclusion about mattresses.

Again, I'm just throwing this in because I think it's best to think flexibly. I also often argue that it makes perfect sense to splurge on a $60 massage or a $75 per person meal every now and then because memorable experiences are surprisingly valuable and more permanent (in one's mind) than they might appear to the impulsively thrifty consumer.
This should be called GlobalWarming@Home because it's so inefficient; it's literally 200x slower than a GPU. The generated BTC are probably worth less than the electricity consumed.
I am thinking more of cheap consumer electronics, gadgets, etc, even clothes, that only last a year. In the case of the car, you've saved it from being disposed of by someone else, at least for a while.
well at least Sony was not security contractor at TEPCO nuke plants
Been talking with @handoffapp about this and they say they're working on the same problem. Nice to have something in the wild though.
Dang too late!

It's fast, by default everything is cached which I think helps with SEO. Also it generates meta + opengraph tags for each post, hyphens instead of underscores in URLs etc. Not sure what else to add, any suggestions?
I use it all the time to look at a candidates resume.

It's easy to put anything you want on a paper resume that you hand me.

It's much harder to put a bunch of lies on your resume when all your peers can see it.
This seems like it would be a bad thing for 1000memories. They need to show why they are a better platform for memories than Facebook. I can definitely see advantages to them- seems a bit classier to me at least. But why they are better than Facebook for this purpose should probably be the focal point of their marketing.
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Agreed. There's usually an optimum value somewhere along the least -> most expensive spectrum.
Wow, love the design and idea! I might have to use this in my next app!
Trophy unlocked: Unmitigated security disaster.
This post is a near identical rehash of the material contained in this NYTimes piece, titled How The Drudge Report Got Popular And Stayed on Top: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/business/media/16carr.html

I recommend the New York Times version - it's better written, and has great analysis.
You're basically saying "down with capitalism". There's no way to work within the current system because everything that goes through it is bent towards profit and power. Do you really think companies would adopt such a T&C? Which would take precedence, the T&C or local/state/federal law?
yeah, the company won an innovation award for it in 2006:
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/concrete-tent-gets-mixed-...
I guess it takes a while to productionize.
Please define "real justice".
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I can't speak of the psychological reasons, but I am not surprised at all. Recall the brouhaha when Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 would not come with dedicated servers in the PC version:

http://i.imgur.com/9wKiV.jpg
I think a lot of the inertia is due to the fear that deleting an account could invalidate your purchases with that account. I've bought a few games and DLC packs myself--there's a lot of content I own* that I'd suddenly lose out on. It may be chump change, but I'm not about to walk away from money I've spent in good faith.

I think at this point if Sony would give us a cut-and-run solution to let us kill our accounts but keep our purchases--they won't--we'd see a surge in account deletions, especially after today's news.

Probably worth mentioning that I don't play many online games, so most of the time when I sign on it's to buy single-player content.
Quote "Colm does not yet have any documentation".

Then I would hazard that it is not yet a language as without documentation it has no "grammar". At best it is a patois.
Brick-through-window, a new DRM scheme by DefectiveByDesign.
...or you could put a lightly padded mat on the floor. The cost is minimal and it makes my back feel healthier than a bed. As far as I can tell, beds are for comfort not health.
For exploring data sets, Google's fusion tables are useful. https://sites.google.com/site/fusiontablestalks/

some support for filtering and grouping

250MB data size limit

nice mapping capabilities
40 characters passwords everywhere.
They will reach maturity
this should be a reference used when writing commit bits. e.g.: fixed a bug caused by the Fromage pattern by applying the Brig pattern.:-)
You can eat your cake and have it, too. I have never spent more than $5000 on a vehicle, and I have only ended up with one lemon. Sometimes I do mechanical work myself, but only because I enjoy it. The rest of the time, I spend the money on a decent mechanic. I still come out ahead cost wise, even if you count my time, trouble, and other intangibles. Even better when you realize that my vehicles suffer virtually no depreciation.

A few hours of research and a $100 inspection prior to purchase will ensure you good odds of buying a reliable vehicle. There are no guarantees, but you can get pretty damn close. If you aren't comfortable with your own judgment, I'm sure you know someone who can advise you.

If you do choose to buy new (or relatively new), an 8-10 year ownership should be your goal. It usually takes that long to get real value for your money.
Just agreeing with the other comments here. This is not a 'hack'.. this is just an unfortunate consequence of the original breach. All the information was taken so Sony has nothing else to verify your identity with that can't be 'spoofed' by those with the original data. I restored my info via my PS3.
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The latest PSN update required a password change. They could have also added a required security question and then used that when resetting passwords.
4 million.
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:D DotCloud FTW, the point is it takes so long to get approved for an account.
Big thread on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/hdqi8/bitcoin_is_...
Apple has had FileVault for a while, and Lion will have whole disk encryption when it's released. Corporations of the world demand these things and you'll start seeing them once they can start dictating feature demands more and more. Apple does add encryption here and there, but only in small bits unfortunately.
it isn't surprising that Nintendo would try to aggressively control their device when you considering the amount of pirating that took place with the DS with the help of products like R4, acekard, CycloDS, etc.

downloading GBs of games and putting them on a single SD type card was trivially easy and didn't require hardware modification of the device.
They're not lendable (yet)

Pirate them. Then they are lendable.
Ask your members how much they are willing to pay for your service. Send them a form for feedback about pricing. If you build something valuable, people are willing to pay for it.
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It's not dependent on the first breach. If I understand correctly that it only requires an email address and birth date to change someone's password, then it would be pretty easy to grab all of that data from somewhere like Facebook and run it through.
What is Frugal is subjective to your income. What makes a person feel good or bad is consequential of his social circle and what his friends/acquaintances have.

For eg: a person making $1 million a year, could buy a $40K car and feel like he was not compromising if all his friends had $30K cars.

However, a guy who is making a similar amount of money might not be too happy if he had to buy a Jag and all his friends had Ferraris.

Ignoring the whole loser argument that the author is making, the one good thing to consider here in the article is, its a good idea to spend proportional to the time you will be spending with the product.

For eg: If you are spending a lot of time on computer, you probably want to get something that is "good" quality and which is good for your eyes and has other benefits.
Thanks for posting this article. I was curious as to the cost for each of these as well as the mechanics of the delivery. It seems like a lot of people are asking the same questions. It's not an exorbitant cost, but ideally it would be a price where you or I could donate one in the event of a disaster. Still an awesome idea, though. I hope the team behind it gets the right support.
How big of a company are you building?
I think I can do that too.
I think he never really implied that the highest price meant better quality. If you try, you can read that from the article, but there is something else you can read from it.

I think what he was saying was more like: if the difference in costs is smaller than the appreciated gaining in life comfort, then do it, spend the money in the expensive one.

The point being, don't be cheap if not being cheap can make your life better.
Not at all. Capitalism is still the best we've come up with so far to align individual goals, desires and morals with those of the society as a whole (at least on average).

However, I don't see how this is different than a EULA. Not all the companies would adopt this. In fact most won't; but imagine a company, say a cell phone manufacturer, or a car maker (think Tesla) that says "We are adopting the XYZ T&C and privacy policy because we respect our users. We are committed to making the best products in our industry and do not need to rely on a bunch of legal traps to sell them." Would you buy from a company that does that? I would.

And of course the law takes precedence, just like it does with current T&C. The only thing is that the users are the ones who are originating the T&C, not the companies. That may be a very radical shift for corporate lawyers, but I don't see how this is science fiction otherwise. Just like the GPL, it could operate perfectly within the current system.
Dealers make far more profit on used cars than they do new. Because of that, they are often much more willing to negotiate down if it's a tough-to-sell car that has been on their lot for an extended period of time.
It might not be perfect, but if they have phone numbers for their customers, why not set up an automated phone call system where a PIN is provided in the call? Email accounts can be compromised by hackers but I would think it would be much more difficult to co-opt customer's phone lines.
it's a one time payment (often in stock, which tends to be accounted for differently) and not a recurring $500k a year
Yes I think it was these two.
There is very little depth to this. And what is there is ostly opinion and conjecture.
Prsonally, I think that Google has had some of the best android apps available (though having their api access would make most competant devs improve their apps). It's also the only time vie heard anyone suggest that chromes would take over android. Nooooo way this is happening for at least a number of years. They are two very different platforms attempting two very different goals.
How much back in time do you store data? 30 days?
I must say I'm baffled. I logged back into my PSN account via my PS3 yesterday, it directly asked me to change my password when I tried to use my previous credentials. No confirmation needed, it just sends you an email afterwards to notify you that your password has been changed.

At this point I assumed that it had used my PS3 hardware ID + my (static) IP + whatever to correlate that in all likelihood it must have been a legitimate login, which was already a bit weird but I guess they wanted to make it as simple as possible for everybody.

But this is just outstanding. It's really security 101 failure. As others have pointed out, using a regular password reset email with a unique token would have been much more safe, albeit not foolproof (some people would have lost their emails accounts they used to register by now).

Sony deserves everything that's happening (and will probably continue to happen) to them. The sad part is that I'm sure a majority of the gamers sony really targets must still be chanting "xbox sucks go sony lol" and still think geohot or anonymous or santa is to blame.

-- A very unhappy PS3 (and its ancestors) owner.
Grammar: http://svn.complang.org/colm/trunk/colm/lmparse.kl
Kasparov is a surprisingly eloquent writer
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Is the "reasonable" thing here "hacking the sony site"? If it is, you are wrong. That isn't reasonable.
So we have two sides of capitalism here: consumers who want to buy at a cheaper price, and consumers who want to spend more on quality/brand/etc.

I should change my nickname to "socialist_commentary" or something. Why not argue about why you need all these things and what you're doing by supporting particular companies (some of which may treat their workers like shit)? You're smart enough to talk about the price of the product, but not smart enough to talk about the companies and our consumerist culture in general? I don't buy that.
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I should probably bring up a few issues.

> Laptops

It's hard to find a buyer for an expensive laptop. Furthermore, you can find people who buy Pentium 4 laptops for more than 50$ if the battery is working properly. Point being, a one-year old 400$ laptop selling for 200-300$ is not utterly unheard of, especially if you have kept good care of it. I understand that it may be different in other parts of the world. The additional liquidity of a cheaper asset shouldn't be underestimated.

I do think that we "computer people" are far more mobile than someone in more traditional fields; it's part and parcel of online / startup life. I used to shuttle between Montreal, Tokyo and Singapore all the time, and for a time I expected I would wind up in Singapore. Instead, I ended up in Tokyo. Who could have known? Thank God I didn't drop 2gs on a bed. (I wound up buying one on Craigslist for about $450)

I do agree with you for the most part about the disgusting low quality crap that people buy to save a dollar. However, I do feel the need to express why some people may come to different value propositions.
No, GP is not saying 'down with capitalism.' They're saying 'down with restrictive terms of service similar in scope to the prevention of the Hush-A-Phone from being used on the Bell System in the 1950s.' Which, well, is pretty much the opposite of 'down with capitalism:'

The restriction from connecting your own devices to the Bell System forestalled the production, sale, and invention of devices such as the answering machine (Bell invented one in 1930, along with magnetic storage - but scrapped the project because they thought it would cause people to use the phone less), fax machine, and so on and so forth. The 1956 ruling against Bell in favor of Hush-A-Phone effectively allowed the invention, sale, and use of foreign attachments to the Bell System.

The restriction of doing what you want with your own console/computer is essentially the same damn thing. We've already fought this war against monopolists in technology; it's sad that we have to do it all over again.

Further reading:

Hush-A-Phone vs. United States (Hush-A-Phone appeal to an FCC ruling): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush-A-Phone_v._United_States

The Master Switch (Tim Wu): http://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Information-Empires-Borz...
Curious to hear peoples' thoughts on this one.
AJ is saying don't cut spending on things that affect your production. That's absolutely a no-brainer. Buy yourself good tools, ensure you get good sleep, keep your health up, keep your ability to walk.

Always spend more to increase your production by a bigger amount. It pays for itself in the end.

Now, how much should you cut on pure consumption? That's a tricky one. I tend to cut my consumption as low as I can without hurting my production. But do always spend well on tools, on getting your production up, on your health, and on taking good care of people who do right by you. Absolutely don't go cheap on that stuff, you wind up with less in the long run if you do.
Yes. He did share his notebooks with E. H. Neville (Hardy's man sent to Madras to get Ramanujan to come to Cambridge).
The interesting question would be (to come back to what the original article is about): Do I feel better because I wear expensive shoes?

The answer is: no!

I feel good, because I want to wear nice shoes (sometimes, for reasons I have to discuss with Mr. Freud sometimes) and what makes me feel good is that I can fulfill my wish. Definitely not the fact that some of my shows are expensive.
Dubai is morally bankrupt. Do not go there.
Saving money = oppressing yourself. Making more money = oppressing others.
There's many European tool makers that offer _real_ lifetime warranty on their tools. Gedore in Germany is an example.
I'm going to say that this is a little tough to believe. At some point wouldn't this guy realize that typing these things into twitter isn't searching for them on google? After doing something 42 times and not getting the desired result, even an 81 year old would give up, right?
My GPU stably does 30 Mhash/s (when I underclock it a little bit), or 55 Mhash/s on stock speeds (about 65 is the max I can get overclocking) but then the GPU temperature increases quite quickly and if left for too long I've seen it do one of two things: automatically underclock to 30 Mhash/s or just crash.

Not sure how to best do it in a (non-obtrusive) applet, but would certainly be interesting to get it working!
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Also recall the difference in tone between these forums and the PSN forums when Geohot was under attack by Sony. Some people simply do not understand the consequences of what has happened and only care about playing their games again.
IIRC there was already a security question when you first registered (at least, I made an entry for it in my keepass DB, so I must have been asked one somewhere). It was however not asked to reset the password, which makes me wonder what it was good for in the first place.
Right now, just the live stream. No historic data.

I want to add historic data in the future.
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It is extremely close to my grandfather's (Indian). I suspect that that Indian generation really nailed cursive.
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I agree, the term "hack" is even more abused than the term "hacker" these days. I guess it makes for a good headline.
Hacking the site? They found an obvious security vulnerability, tested it, and alerted the company. What should they have done? Sit back and wait for a bad actor to exploit it?
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Nice! I like that they've included visor like functionality and that that it's now possible to split windows like a tiling window manager.

﻿﻿I tend to switch back and forth between using iTerm full screen and using xterm in x11 for raw performance.
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There seems to be a PhD thesis behind, so you should check it for the grammar.
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The JVM (and with lesser adoption, the CLR) is what allows us to have new languages while at the same time seamlessly using tons of libraries. Calling it "a silly idea" seems excessive. The JVM has 15 years so far, and seems to be gaining traction for new languages. If anything, this is an argument for making somewhat more extensible VMs, or VMs that aim to provide a more comprehensive feature set.

FWIW, unlike the JVM (afaik), the CLR does have checked instructions for overflow/underflow. Although I think the point was to nicely detect overflow to efficiently switch datatypes.
The utility and scale of the idea in the future could be enormous. Imagine a giant, distributed battery grid. The only difference is that these batteries also power cars.
Come on, every time I Don't get a piece of candy, I don't think "I must be a bad person". That logic is flawed. It is definitely NOT a zero-sum game. We're talking emotional logic here. Having something nice, for once, can make you feel good. And Not having nice things most of the time, for emotionally well-adjusted people, does not destroy our selfimage. Maybe just the opposite for some.

There's even the spite angle - I buy a crappy screwdriver, it breaks, I swear at it, I feel better. That's a payoff too. So its complicated.
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Exactly right. If you delete your account, all your purchases disappear. For some of us, that's hundreds of dollars.

I won't ever hand Sony a credit card again, and I'm limiting my purchases to exclusives... And even then, I'll think long and hard before I give them the money for those.
Addressing the theory that Fischer was afraid to play again after becoming world champion Kasparov writes:

"Brady’s dismissal of this theory misses the point: 'What everyone seemed to overlook was that at the board Bobby feared no one.' Yes, once at the board he was fine! Where Fischer had his greatest crisis of confidence was always before getting to the board, before getting on the plane. Fischer’s perfectionism, his absolute belief that he could not fail, did not allow him to put that perfection at risk."

That applies to much more than just chess. In fact I found the whole article not just very well written but poignant on many levels.
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I have pdf's of all three notebook , if anyone want I can send them. You can get my email from google.

P.S. : I always have been huge fan of Ramanujan , despite condition he faced , he become to great mathematician on his own.
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Maybe it is time for a standardized process or a dedicated NGO (or GO) that can handle the rights issues surrounding archival, a place to send & process harddrives, etc. ?
Thing is, it's not about the tools being sacred. My problem with this is that he's not just solving problems I don't have -- he's solving them in a way that would make my problems worse!

For instance, I very rarely want more informations about the files from an "ls" command; and if I did, I'd probably use Finder instead. On the other hand, not having enough terminal real estate to display the entire directory at once is a very frequent problem. From that perspective, adding icons is a step in the wrong direction.

Thinking about it, if I were playing with making a better terminal, one of my first lines of thought would be things that made it quick and easy to break information out into other windows, because scrolling back and forth in the terminal's buffer is a PITA.

Of course, this new terminal might be exactly what the author needs, and more power to him if it is. There's no need for us all to use the same tools. (Thanks heavens -- I want nothing to do with Emacs or vi!)