skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of UK ones have two layer, one password which I can only hope is a salted hash, one security key which asks for individual characters.

My business account also has a different two layer, one password, one authentication device.
ONE MILLION email addresses and clear-text passwords. Ouch.

That far surpasses the Gawker hack since all of Gawker's passwords were encrypted with a somewhat easily reversible hash (for simple passwords) and only a subset of those passwords were recovered.

Imagine what governments could do with all those email/password combinations. Cross reference email addresses with a target internal database and an agency could (is) within minutes begin to systematically download an enormous amount of emails and other private data.

And the spammers...

And nobody ever uses the same password across different systems, right?

Like I said, ouch.
For my own sanity i'm going to assume that you are joking and that you are not this elitist or rude usually.
That's sort of like saying that software piracy is theft.

Blaming victims for rape is dangerous because it discourages victims from coming forward, and adds to intense feelings of shame and guilt that come with sexual violation. It also tends to come with suggestions that women should restrict their behavior, not seeking to be attractive or acting in 'risky' stereotypically male ways.

Criticizing a cooperation for failing to follow security best practice, and speculating about the effect of outsourcing or technology is completely different. I'd say that as a lot of people here run websites, it's probably a good idea too.
That's like saying an idea won't work because the shark tank turned it down.
Reddit may be doing better than any of the other businesses that company owns.
It would be more difficult if the emitter were inside the bezel.
To be clear, it was a intended helpful comment with the point that the argument /exists/, an attempt to explain why one would do such a thing. Whether you or I support it or not is irrelevant.

Unless you are arguing that the idea should not even be discussed, downvotes are malicious. The mere mention of an idea should not be attacked.
Groupon isn't revolutionizing anything, it's DISCOUNTING the way we explore, discover, meet...
hm. Haven't looked at mt gox for awhile, (what is a gox, is it a mountain?)...their site seems rather crashy at the moment, but last month it looked to me like they were turning over a volume of around $1k per day. And who knows if anyone actually got paid out of that. It's one thing to solve anonymous payments between peers online...totally another to find a way to translate that into spendable cash, and that's actually the real, serious problem that any online payment solution seeking anonymity has to face. So they solved, in a sense, the easy part.
The first IBM PC was publicly released for sale on August 12, 1981.

The first "100% Compatible" was the Compaq Portable in 1982. It wasn't the first "compatible" to market, but it claimed to be the first that hit the "100%" mark and validated the clone market.
I've been working myself for over a year and a half and it was depressing. Honestly, if your project allows it- find a cofounder who you can maintain a good relationship with (preferably a friend even), and work together.

The biggest problem with at home startups is the amount of hours you spend working- you can easily go past 40 hours a week, and it drives you nuts.

I'd recommend checking out letslunch.com and ... i don't remember the name of the other one. I'll post back when I remember. But those services are great because you can find people who you have similar interests with and talk with them over lunch.
Do you think the "reasonable HN people" who can agree bitcoin is overrepresented are the same ones giving it all the attention?

I for one find bitcoin far more "intellectually gratifying" than the hiring thread, which, with great respect to our host, has no interest for me.
.. how about that it was written by an intelligent adult, intentionally using a childish voice for dramatic effect?

Cracking often has a playful tone to it.
Looks like a neat service, but browsing the public javascript 'snips' there is a large amount of quite terrible code that i wouldn't recommend anyone uses.

Not that this is in any way detriment to the service itself which looks good, merely a warning.
Thanks, that is a good read.

Edit: Typo.
Marc Andreessen Says There’s No Bubble. But He’s Happy if You Think There Is.
Ask HN: anyone stood up by start-up chile at stanford today?
So, apparently Nicolas Shea didn't show up at Stanford as expected[1]. Anyone else just hanging around the Y2E2 building?

[1] http://www.startupchile.org/start-up-chile-founder-to-host-event-stanford/
A lot of people will buy anything with "Nokia" written on it.
How many hours do you work? The problem is when I'm working- i work way past 8 hours sometimes and though you don't feel it, the stress drives you nuts.

I'd put in a cap of 50 hours a week MAX, and make sure I spend time relaxing (doesn't mean watching tv at home) with friends or meeting new people. You need to step away from the computer for a decent break. I switched over to this schedule and found out that my sleeps were MUCH better. Turns out the reason was overworking.
About Groupon in particular:
"Groupon's first quarter 2011 revenues reached $645 million."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/groupon-files-for-ipo-2011-6?...

About your comment on the way founders 'produce' with the only purpose of raising capital instead of building a lasting product, I agree.
Or add IR blocking film.
Jeebus, 11? I stand corrected.
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Swatting a fly with a bulldozer, hehe.
Revenge of Lisp in the Web: Clack (WSGI/Rack for Common Lisp)
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According to this NYTimes article, about 7.7% of the Class A shares and 40% of the Class B shares: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/groupon-c-e-o-to-make...
Original, in japanese: http://e-arrows.sakura.ne.jp/2011/02/revenge-of-lisp-in-web-...
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The rise of "logical punctuation"?
Some comments (IANAL):

You might want to retain copyright until the work is paid for in full.

You can't really "issue" a contract. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeting_of_the_minds. This messes up your definition of "Developer". Just state the two parties by name.

The copyright assignment makes no sense. It basically reads "the client has copyright, except when he doesn't".

Termination: so I give you 14 days notice within the 30 day payment window and then all your outstanding invoices are cancelled so I never have to pay? Great!

I don't think you should have to get a lawyer, but you do need a contract to be unambiguous. I don't think that yours is.
>All plausible messages of length N are equally valid solutions for a brute forcing algorithm.

Assuming there is no out-of-band information to use to attack the ciphertext then yes I agree is unlikely to find a unique solution.

Aside: I'd never considered that key length was dictated by the term "one-time pad".
learning another foreign language, going out of country for summer (i work too hard, I really need a break) and meeting new friends.
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Good points, This is why I put it on github, to get feedback and improve.
That is why you read news and engage in discussion here?
As Marc Andreesen wrote, you want a fast grower. If the company is growing, there will be plenty of opportunities for you to grow with it. If it isn't, you're fighting over a fixed-size pie with every other employer.

LinkedIn/Dropbox/Square are great choices today. But so are Google, FaceBook, or (if you get into one of their growth products like AWS) Amazon. I've been with Google a bit over two years and am already more senior than 60% of employees. And my job description is anything but set in stone; it seems to have changed roughly every month for the past year, and I have a lot of latitude to set it myself.
Tape is the cheapest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_tape_data_storage

Prices don't show here, but in general it's 15 times cheaper and 200 times less energy to use tape.
I haven't seen that at all on the sub-reddits I frequent. Maybe I just haven't been looking hard enough, but I still find /r/machinelearning, /r/semanticweb, /r/compscipapers, /r/csbooks, etc. to be very useful.
FTA - “That doesn’t mean that real time travel is possible,” he said. “But for this analog model, it is so.”

Way to get my hopes up with the headline crappy science journalism...
+1, best post this week ;)
You're paying your money to Groupon, then they send a portion of the dollars to the merchant. You can assume that basically all of the cost of revenue line item is representative of the portion they send to the merchants.
It's growth rate that matters, not size. I interned at a medium-sized (~150 employees) consulting firm in college. It was a pretty relaxed and functional atmosphere work-wise, but it would've been a career dead-end. It was far too easy to get pigeonholed into a single contract for a couple years and not learn anything.
Then why have the patent in the first place?
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Assuming that the deleted parent is about the difficulty of purchasing IDA, as you know, it's only somewhat incorrect. I have wanted to buy IDA for almost a year now, but Hex-Rays is very picky about how they receive their money; I could probably arrange for it somehow but it is an completely inordinate amount of hassle. (And no, bank transfers are not only required with a student discount; I was willing to pay twice as much to avoid the requirement but it wasn't possible.)
Is there any reason why these "guidelines" would be legally enforceable, seeing as how they directly contradict the first sale doctrine?
Ha, way to self-post, greg ;) but it seems like people are feelin' your article, so keep up the good work.

My oversimplified view of the world is that there's a 2x2 matrix: {need to work hard, don't need to work hard} x {doing what you love, doing what you don't love}. you're obviously in (1,1). i think the goal is to avoid (1,2) at all costs. i imagine that most people's jobs are in (2,2), which is fine and better than (1,2).
Break Google's +1 Interwebs... Social Experiement, how many +1's are too many?
He's going to have a hell of a time thinking of what to sell to buy apps.
Roll your own JBOD setup?
Looking back from my first job after college, I feel I was relatively clueless right out of college.

But looking back from my startup after my first job, I was relatively clueless in my first job.

And looking back from my big-company job after my startup, I was relatively clueless in my startup.

I don't think this ever ends. Rather, you just become relatively less clueless compared to all the other nincompoops founding startups. Repeat often enough and maybe you can convince someone to give you lots of money.
> the unattributed copies are the surviving copies, because
> it's not easy for a simple algorithm to find them.

Pie in the sky idea: Someone

like google, who indexes everything, would conceivably be able to work out 'original' content vs 'copies', and do something: Offer original link in search results, or notify author of copies, etc.
Ironically, geohotz was a very prolific jailbreaker as well.
Groupon wants to be THE site for deals and coupons. If they acquire enough end users, the cost of acquiring new partners will go down. The benefits will be common knowledge, businesses will approach them, and lots of salespeople will get laid off or at least growth there will slow dramatically.

But end users won't use groupon without a good selection of partners. There are a variety of strategies for building up a solid base of partners, and it appears groupon's tactic is a large sales staff. It's a gamble and I have no idea whether they will pull it off. If they don't eventually lower the marginal cost of acquiring partners they will certainly fail, but there is possibility for success and aggressive growth is an understandable (if risky) approach.
Are people really that sensitive to it?

I mean bitcoin stories are not like constantly seeing the latest bimbo in the regular news right?

Personally I upvote (some) bitcoin stories because I think it's something new and innovative and shows hackers being creative in engineering their own world.

Then again, adding tags to HN would be a wonderful way to allow everyone to personalize their filtering if desired and an easy way to search too. For those that do not want tags at all, a simple checkbox in profile could hide all tag interfaces, or just use a CSS class that is easily hidden.
That's why the spectator sport hindsight-investing is so popular.

It's funny how many people are so sure of the soundness/lack of soundness of a business model, yet surprisingly few put their money where their mouth is.
You need better advisors.
I don't think going consumer is the ideal outcome, certainly not in the short term. Does the Blue Man group have a successful line of facepaint products or wacky musical instruments? HELL NO. They have an entertainment franchise. They perform shows that reliably draw an audience, and pair up with people who operate theaters, bars and restaurants. There are multiple BM groups; in fact, I see they were holding auditions in San Francisco just yesterday, and they also have a large backing staff of musicians, creative developers, marketers and admin people.

Right now, your show is the product. If you gave me the gear I could probably figure it out in an evening, and it happens that I quite like dancing, but I don't have a darkened stage to work with or loads of time to spend on it. People who go to raves and nightclubs for pleasure want to have fun and/or meet attractive strangers, so the market there is likely fairly small. Additionally, they're just as likely to throw something together on their own with an Arduino if their tastes run that way - otherwise you could just load up a truck and sell to everyone at Burning Man. Kids are a more likely target market, and more likely to spend on an affordable social toy, but to reach them you're going to have to develop manufacturing and retail pipelines, defend your IP from ripoff artists (who may well have better marketing and retail pipelines already in place, especially for a moderately simple technology like this), and pretty soon you find yourself spending 3 months of the year travelling between toy sales conventions and sweating over the consumer confidence index as you enter Q3. I think you would be way better off licensing it to an established toy company, especially considering that any product like this is more Amazon than etsy, if you see what I mean. As far as licensing goes, your negotiating power is obviously going to be proportional to the strength of your brand, and I'm inclined to think that right now your job is to burnish the hell out of that.

Finally, don't be in such a rush to put it in the hands of the public. If you do then you diminish your own achievement, because you'll just be classified as a bunch of nerds with a clever marketing campaign for a cheap gimmick. People don't value what comes to them too easily. The reaction of the host (whose name I always forget) to the mention of software engineering was that it was so clever as to be intimidating. Well, that's just fine for now. Get used to the idea of being/doing something so special that people ought to pay money to watch it. Work on getting famous. When devices like 'e-luminate' with oddly-similar looking models on the packaging start to appear, then you can launch the Official iLuminate Kitz and charge a premium for them, and devote 20% of the profits to STEM scholarships for high schools or so. For now, you want to be thinking about developing and franchising the act, whether you want to performing on New Year's Eve in NY or go on tour with Daft Punk etc. etc..
Hey, I saw you mention this in #startups today... I'm in downtown NYC some days, and would definitely be up for a semi-regular lunch club..

Hmm.. Shake Shack in Battery Park just opened this week.
The actual quote from Mossberg is much more polite than the submission title would suggest: "I have yet to test a single [Android phone] where Flash works really well. I’m sorry. They struggle on those Android devices."
6 reasons not to buy Groupon stock
I noticed that they are willing to give away passwords, but not willing to point out the SQL injection.
If only the bitcoin stories had petered out after a week or two.
Misleading headline. Misleading article.

It's like saying: Hey! Time Travel is possible. All you really need is a capsule that travels at the speed of light going around an infinitely long cylinder. See? Possible.
You know what doesn't suck? Having the option to run it when I want. I don't use it often but there have been several instances where I was able to access web content that iOS users could not.
no, this is bad news for android micro-isv's.. 80% of paid android apps downloaded 100x's to date? Yeah, that's going to pay the bills:(

And what superior technology makes android vs iphone a car vs horse?
Of course, your ability to continue to own that land is also dependent on the continued existence of a government that remains able and willing to enforce the laws of property ownership and does not decide to raise property tax rates to confiscatory levels.
They are agreeing on a protocol, they aren't saying that they're going to share their mined and ranked data. No way in Hell is Google going to agree to that.

My bet is that Google is worried about its relevance in a world where an increasing amount of the data is not accessible to its crawlers. This is not just FB and Twitter, but Yelp and GroupOn traffic as well.

That's where Yahoo and MSFT come in. By agreeing to standardize search APIs, they can hope to net more of the developer mindshare. Now, instead of this just being "lets program for Twitter or FB's or Google", this becomes "lets program for one of the social networks, or for search". Google doesn't lose the monetarily valuable human-driven search results, and YHOO and MSFT get to take a risk that they will be able to monetize potentially valuable developer-driven search along with Google.

The thing that's funny about this is that no one seems to have figured out how to monetize APIs yet. If anyone is going to figure it out, it may well be Twitter because it is life or death for them. But Buzz goes to show how much Twitter envy there is going on at Google. They're concerned that if there is a way to monetize that traffic, then they will be shut out. Better to take a larger share of the pie with YHOO and MSFT than for traditionally-crawled to get shut out of the party.
I've said this before and I'll say it again: Sony is facing a highly skilled group of hackers that have made it their mission to ruin the company. If you have sensitive data with any of Sonys products, I'd advise you to delete it ASAP. This is not going away. Sony will be fighting attacks like this for years to come and they have only themselves to blame.
I stole it from someone else.

maybe "a stupid thief once said [...]"
Looks like it's time to buy farmland in Iowa.
I don't think it's that common for equity to be massively cashed out (to the tune of nearly $1b) before the IPO. Shows a pretty strong lack of confidence in not only the long-term viability of the business, but even its medium-term viability, or else the principals would be content with the normal practice of slowly cashing out with steady monthly post-IPO stock sales. As far as I can find, Google principals didn't significantly cash out before their IPO.
Does anyone understand what the fuck losethos was talking about?
Yeah, what is itemscope and itemprop? That's a kick in the butt for us Microformats users.
Fuck the Accolades. Seek the Criticism.
1 Bitcoin can be divided into .00000001-sized pieces and traded separately. You couldn't run out if you wanted.
Mossberg missed a chance to ask him about the other ugly side of Flash: its security vulnerabilities.
People pull money out constantly -- I know many people who have. Whether that'll keep going, who knows, but at the moment there's nothing scammy going on.
Also a problem with GitHub hosted blogs.
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I'm really excited about the new Shake Shack. I went there when it opened and there was at least a 45 minute line. If it winds up being anything like the one in Madison Square Park, it might only be a place worth visiting if you've got a lot of time to kill (or absolutely need a Shackburger).
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I think on average it depends on how good the bigcorp itself is.
http://droplo.com/ - drag&drop subversion on the cloud.
> Has Keynesianism ever been shown to have failed? I've not seen evidence of this.

What evidence would you accept? How does one falsify Keynesianism? High inflation? A bearish currency? High unemployment?
I keep looking for excuses to do stuff in Lisp. Maybe this time...
Try this:

Follow HN (http://archfinch.com/tag/hn), block startups, (http://archfinch.com/tag/startups), windows8 (http://archfinch.com/tag/windows8), then subscribe to your personal RSS feed.

Perhaps I could make it into an extension.
I was an early Compaq employee. The documentation produced by the research team was vetted for anything not descriptive of behavior, then forwarded through lawyers, who logged each document, to the engineering team designing Compaq's compatible BIOS from the functional specs. A weird side effect: the process reproduced BIOS-level bugs for complete compatibility.
Do the 10% of applicants you want somehow not fall under sales or development?
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You can make notes public, and although you can't do syntax highlighting directly, you can copy already highlighted text into a note.
Just launched Vloggo! Feedback?
Hey guys,

I'm looking for feedback on Vloggo, the startup I just launched. Vloggo allows you to share your life through 60 second videos.

URL: http://vloggo.com

iPhone App: http://bit.ly/jq6Zft

Let me know what you think! Many thanks!
I signed up on Google, wrote 3 or 4 paragraphs about how I would use it and provide worthwhile feedback, got one (to my great surprise), and have been running it in dev mode ever since. I submit an average 10 reports a week, from 'this page breaks xxxx' to 1000 word UX narratives. I don't hack on it as much as I should, partly because I'm not too certain about what parts of the hardware are meant to be exposed.
This argument has been played to death, and Adobe never seem to let it go. The fact is, Apple owes Adobe nothing, and not including Flash was never a dig at Adobe as a company, but a choice that Apple made about Flash as a software package. Adobe seem to have taken it super personally, but the truth is that Flash on mobile devices just doesn't work in it's current form (speed and usability issues). Steve has said multiple times that the door isn't closed on Flash, they just need Adobe to prove it will perform like Apple expects.
Not really HN material, eh?
But, there are two Ls and no spaces in "allot"[1].

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/allot
The value of bitcoin is that it can be traded, easily, and can't be easily faked. Gold can't be easily faked, but it can't be traded so easily.

For a bitcoin to be completely worthless rather stretches the imagination. At a minimum they are a sort of geeky collector's item and inherently limited in supply. They also cost next to nothing to store.
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Looks like github gists without the versioning.
What the hell did they do that got people so pissed off?