skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in Connecticut. I can meet anywhere in the tri-state area.

Or skype / phone calls work perfectly fine.
> I might as well put my password on a post-it and stick it to my monitor.

Hey, guess what my mom does.
Elixir v0.3 released: Method dispatching and charming syntax for the Erlang VM
It's not even the fourth generation! So: iPhone, iPhone 3G (second generation) + 3GS, iPhone 4 (third generation). I really don't like when people say 4G because it's twice wrong but it's hard to blame those who do it.
In the US, consumer liability for fraudulent withdrawals from bank accounts is generally limited to $500 by federal law, provided that the consumer detects the fraud and notifies the bank within 60 days. The bank is responsible for the amount in excess of $500. Many banks even have a policy to refund the entire amount fraudulently deducted.
I was commenting on the article, which discusses apple products starting at "The reference example of this is Apple..."
TinEye and Google Goggles applied to the entire Internet? Yes please. I can't wait to play around with this.

What will be even more interesting is if they release an API for it in the future. Sites like imgur and reddit could then suggest if you're uploading or submitting a similar image to one that already exists.
Are there any webmail providers out there that support PGP? GMail never will since it needs the ability to read your email to show you ads.
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Hmm, guess what I just bought.....

By itself this data isn't much use though, I suspect. For years Concorde was statistically incredibly safe, then one crash made it statistically incredibly dangerous, simply because there were only 14 flying in the first place - small datasets are rather prone to wild swings. Without knowing at least incidents per car sold, let alone incidents per passenger mile, it's not very useful.

There's then the cause of incidents. Without wishing to cast undue aspersions on my fellow owners, I suspect it may be the sort of car more likely to be driven in a manner likely to put it at risk of serious accidents. It is, after all, about the fastest car for the money and almost certainly the fastest 2WD car for the money. I hope I drive relatively sensibly in it, I certainly try not to be an a##e just because I've got a fast car and am seriously considering advanced driver training. Do all owners though? Probably not, and I'm probably not being as good as I think I am either. Point is, none of that directly implies the car itself is dangerous, merely that it tends to be driven in a way that increases the risk of incidents. When did you last complain about some tearaway hooligan in a Toyota Yaris or Kia Rio?
It would be interesting to see what were the most common vehicles to be involved in crashes with these 'dangerous' cars.
A grid puzzle with lasers.
Each dot below represents the position of a laser gun.
Indicate the direction that the laser gun should fire by replacing the dot with ^, v, <, or >.

The laser shot by a gun goes through everything in its path including other guns (without destroying those guns).

Each number indicates the number of lasers hitting that number.

It is possible for a number to be hit by multiple lasers coming from the same direction.

2 2 3 . 1 . 2 2 3

1 . 2 1 1 . 1 . 2

2 3 . 1 . 2 . 4 .

. 3 . 2 2 . 2 3 4

1 . 2 . 2 3 2 . .

2 3 . 3 . 3 2 2 .

3 . 2 4 2 . 2 . 2

1 1 . . 1 3 . 2 .

. 2 1 . 2 . 1 . 3
Seriously +10000.

When my brother died, people would say that a lot to me. It's extremely common in my culture (Mormonism) and I even believe it, but that's something that you need to say to yourself, and not have others say to you. When other people say it to you, it's like someone punched you in the face with what you should believe, and it's not comforting, nor does it feel good in any respect.
Much like stories or novels published after the author's death are generally bad. More often than not there's a reason why they weren't published. There are rare exceptions where the novel/story was interrupted by author's death, but otherwise - beware.
Apple's retail Chief Quits to Lead JC Penny
I think blaming schools is the wrong thing to do. I have an MBA and I did not consider entrepreneurship when I graduated as I was up to my eyeballs in debt. So were most of my classmates. Finding a STABLE job was the uppermost concern in my mind because I wanted to be able to pay off that debt as soon as possible.

I would say that MBA gets in the way of launching a business for an aspiring entrepreneur as you are saddled . with debt. However, should that launch be successful, the skill set that you acquire at B-school will help you in the long run in managing the company.
I've thought about that as well. But I would imagine if you have the technical chops to do that (I'd be interested in seeing a distribution of Mac/Linux/Windows users for BitCoin as well), you'd have the technical chops to get more money from other ways than stealing a few bitcoins. That said if I were a botnet master I'd put in some code to search for a wallet as a 'bonus'.
The rural southern areas are conservative, not fascist — though their conservatism usually implies a bit of racism, that doesn't mean that they tend to support radical fascism. They're usually too scared to ruin their public or neighborhood image.

The "battle for the heads" (Kampf um die Köpfe in German; how the NPD's and similar right-wing institutions' propaganda battle is often referred to in German media,) targets mostly bored and disillusioned youth, and is more successful in the poorer East than it would be in the well-off South.
Google’s Amit Singhal: We Never Stop Searching From Our Mobile Devices
Replacing all that energy seems very unlikely...

It only seems politically unlikely. Even at the highest estimates of 6 billion USD per 1GW plant, building 500 of them would provide 4Twh per year [1], almost as much as the 4.4Twh that the US now generates, and for about the cost of the Iraq and Afganistan wars. We already know the US could have spent this much money: it did. The US could have spent that money on nuclear, or it could have spent it on lofting solar power satellites, or even massive solar installations, and any of those would have essentially erased our dependence on oil, at least.

But even though it wasn't spent on that, all is not lost! Current coal reserves are good, energy-wise (not necessarily environmentally) for at least a hundred years, which gives plenty of time to grow a space-based energy policy, or to make a policy about nuclear power that makes sense, or whatever.

Maybe Lomborg makes these points in the article; it seemed as though he was only saying things I agreed with, so I didn't finish.

[1] this assumes that each one is operational for 11 months of the year, and that they do something useful like providing energy for methane for gasoline replacement during trough times of day
Perhaps like looking at the number of driver deaths per million registered vehicles? ... oh. Wait. That's on the graph. And is the axis on which the "most dangerous car" is furthest out on.
This tool is interesting and the page has a nice design.

I also created recently a weekend project based on client-side encryption: https://whisperpassword.com , I need to learn about design though ;-)
I'm not sure it's necessarily the students, although it could be part of it.

To me the question has always been "Why do we assume MBA is a degree in entrepreneurship".

MBA's have a lot of different coursework, from strategy to finance, from accounting to human resources. I would gather than some schools have a few courses in entrepreneurship, but it is not a 2 year degree of back to back courses in entrepreneurship.

There are some courses that are general, take Strategy for example. And the strategies for optimizing and tuning a fortune 500 company are different then how startups attempt to prove a new business model. Don't get me wrong, in many cases the basic fundamentals are the same, but the overall goal is different.

Summary: MBA schools may be failing to teach entrepreneurship, but I don't think their #1 intent is to teach entrepreneurship anyway.

Note: I do have a certificate in general management from Kellogg. And while I enjoyed my time there, I can unequivocally say, the courses were not intended to teach entrepreneurship.
Ron Johnson (head of Apple retail) departs to lead JC Penny
Agreed. In Hong Kong & Singapore, phones are subsidized by telcos also. You are locked into telco's contract, and not by phone's hardware.
They're pointing out what many of us have observed for years in our work-a-day lives.

I used to try to point such problems out to responsible parties, when I'd come across them in my work or personal affairs. Most often, at best I received complete indifference. As often as not, I received hostility.

Mind you, I didn't hack anything. Just told a product owner or officer 'you have a problem here, with this (specifically this), that you might want to take look at'. For the sake of your customers. For the sake of the/your business's reputation, not to mention risk exposure.

I have very little sympathy for many of the people/agencies currently falling "victim". Especially not considering the budgets at their disposal. Where they are not outright incompetent, they've been practicing willful ignorance.

And then, we get yet more draconian laws as a lame, but destructive, attempt at a compensation mechanism.

Do your fucking jobs. Don't legislate (or "black ops") a "three monkeys" burden for the rest of us. The responsible parties (and not just "the techs") should be fired for nonfeasance, if not misfeasance or malfeasance.
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I assume you know that the reason you add a salt is to prevent rainbow table attacks. Without a salt, if someone obtains the hash then they need to just run it through a single rainbow table and with very high probability, obtain the password.

A SHA{1,2,3,128,256,512} hash is very VERY VERY fast. So fast, in fact, that an attacker who has the hash could easily run through all 8 character passwords given a few GPU machine clusters.

PBKDF2 is very much like a SHA hash, but it is repeated over and over. Instead of just salt||SHA1(password||salt) you compute salt||SHA1(SHA1(SHA1(SHA1(SHA1(password||salt))))). This makes it so an attacker with the hash has to do much more work in order to brute force the password.

Now, that's not exactly how it works, but just read the wikipedia article for that.
Why should such a student be admitted to college?
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>By itself this data isn't much use though

Yes! Data means nothing until it is explained. It cannot speak for itself; its only use lies in helping us select from competing explanations.
It would be interesting to see a program like Y Combinator reserve 2 or 3 spots annually for graduating MBAs. After a few years, we could have a debate rooted in real, comparative results.

There are plenty of MBAs who have started financially successful businesses. Most would not be websites, however. I think selection bias is the big culprit here. The majority of MBA students don't actually intend on starting a company, so you end up with a population in which 95% don't give a damn about SV or Hacker News - so the broader startup community groups the 5% that do care in with the others.

Other thing to consider: The majority of people entering an MBA program worked for several years out of college in XYZ big bank, consulting firm, or fortune 500 co. A good number have likely never been faced with "get shit done. on your own. NOW!" - they've been socialized to push papers, write reports, and trust that somewhere down the line some factory worker actually puts a widget in a box and ships it to some paying customer in Phoenix.

It does seem, anecdotally, anyway, that there is a shift happening in B-schools with more students taking seriously the thought of doing something on their own. Keep in mind, it is insanely tough to get into a top-tier b-school, so there is quite a bit of raw intelligence there that could be put to good use. I think you start with a group project that actually designs, builds, and launches a product, no matter how small or trivial.
Thanks Mike. I'm sorry I wasn't more specific. The feedback you've provided is actually very useful since we redesigned the page just last week with the things you mentioned in mind.

Overall, we're working on properly communicating to our particular audience/demographic... old school guys. We don't want to make our product look cheap but we also don't want it to look too expensive.
[2010] http://articles.cnn.com/2010-01-23/opinion/schneier.google.h...
How to build a Popularity Algorithm you can be proud of
Twitter is Unix. Facebook is Windows.
Google announces Search by Image, Search by Voice for desktop
Two points:

1. "Das Lied der Deutschen," which starts with the phrase, "Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles," happens to have been penned by one of my ancestors, August Heinrich Hoffman von Fallersleben. Interestingly, it is not about Germany conquering foreign nations, but how the German-speaking peoples should unite in a republic instead of a rabble of principalities and kingdoms. Hoffman von Fallersleben wrote it in 1841 in support of the liberal revolutionary ideals of pan-German unity (as opposed to the reactionary aristocratic positions).

2. Granted Nazis and the Holocaust are bad things, but what is wrong with having pride in your country? Nations, in both the sense of geography and the sense of culturally related groups, are literally and figuratively large families. Telling someone that he should not have pride in his country because it infringes your sensibilities is telling him that he should not have pride in himself - and that is very offensive. It says that he has nothing worth preserving or cultivating and that all he may be is repulsive. Remember, no nation's history is blemishless.

For those curious, I am a flag-waving American and proud of it.
For its part, Amazon supports the Streamlined Sales Tax project, which aims to harmonize and clarify states sales tax laws across the country.

I'm glad they're doing this. Given that the company sells a lot of different things, and given that different states, counties, and municipalities can all have different rules for how to categorize goods, which matter in terms of how much sales tax you pay for them. I sure wouldn't want to be the person who has to figure out whether Fig Newtons are cookies or are actually "Fruit and Cake" in every jurisdiction in the US where it matters.
In the US it was historically "no" for the iPhone.
Games don't seem to stick around long enough for modders so much nowadays :\
Give datamapper a try, might be better for your case.
I must agree with you; but the list itself got so much exposure in the German media already, that it'd be pointless debating this collection in GoogleMaps.

In general, it's kind of a difficult topic. I agree, that votes cast should always be private. But I'm partial on donations. A scenario in which supporters of an illegal party would be prosecuted by an oppressive state is quite different from simply making it known exactly who supports a legal party in any kind of state. As long as there is no consequence whatsoever for the donors themselves, I believe that open donations can make the political game more public, and less secretive.

Wasn't there a similar discussion in America about concealing names of donors in presidential elections? I can't remember anymore, must've been around the time Obama came to power.
I dropped out of Facebook about a year ago.Too many privacy intrusions with "oh, I'm sorry, we'll never do that again" retractions.

What is notable that when I broadcast my quit on FB, only a few % of my 'friends' cared to inquire regarding keeping up contacts. So I felt really good about quitting: it let me know who cared to keep in contact for real, and who was linked to me via social obligation.

I miss the content that some people only provide via the FB walled garden (the notes-posts, not the Wall feed).
I don't want to risk wasting 45 minutes listening to a crackpot, and honestly, there are quite a few indicators for lunacy in the first few minutes. Can you give a few bullet points to help me decide if it's worth to watch?
Most Common iPhone Passcodes
I can't imagine actually waking up and realizing I left the worlds most valuable tech company for a dying clothing store. However, I am sure the price was right. :)
That's not true. There are plenty of countries where you receive the phone unlocked, and you're free to use it on any network you chose. You will however still be contractually obligated to your 24 months of payments.
Most judgements of humor are humorless. You don't say something isn't funny to get a laugh.
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/13/iphone-5-in-final-testin...

"Right on schedule, we are now hearing from 9to5Mac that the iPhone 5 has reached the final testing stage and should be ready in time for a September launch."
> Once you have the users ... then you should start to think about something more secure. Until then, do all you can, within reason, to get users.

Worked well for Sony!

Seriously, that is an egregious abuse of both ethics and morality, the latter because you are implicitly abusing your users' trust (unless your welcome screen says "NOT YET SECURE" in huge font). If implementing reasonable security before you enter beta testing is such a resource burden that your product will go under before it can get its footing, then your product goes under. Ethics do not go away when your profitability and success are on the line -- that is the specific moment when ethics come into play.

I realize you have already thought through this and have a different POV. Newbies are liable to see this kind of talk however, and think it is an accepted industry-wide practice to treat security as an afterthought until you have scaled, when that is in fact a profitable but unacceptable antipattern.

P.S.- This is like a new small-town restaurant saying "Refrigerators are expensive, so we can't afford to refrigerate our eggs and milk until we get more customers. Otherwise we might go under from the increased operating cost, and then our customers wouldn't get to enjoy our restaurant!" Draw your own conclusion.
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Hi guys!

I am a SCEA certified and have been developing enterprise system over the last 8 years,
I have a very good job here in Brazil but I would like to join to a new startup working
remotely and part time. This way, I can work without bring more costs and without cost of living (at least for now...). But it seems very hard to find this type
of startups, all that I have found were mid startups hiring full time employees, is there any
list or site where can I find this type of opportunities?

Thanks a Lot.
Study: Kids are the Royal Road to Tech Innovation
The LodeSys saga: NY Times is sticking up for itself
you can still find quite a bit discrete electronics in audio recording gear, and some PA gear.
HushMail and Countermail do. I think it never really caught on because if you really care about end-to-end security, you wouldn't be using a webmail provider.
I may be remembering the wrong context, but I recall the question of when somebody/company can be (legally) determined to be acting as an "agent" of another. If you are an agent, the rules continue to apply to the party to whom you are an agent.

One reason shell companies are instantiated abroad.
It may be that you have your starting point wrong. As I understand it, all speech is protected, except for "certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech." Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire. Obscenity is one such class; speech creating a clear and present danger is another.

The point is, speech is presumed protected. By what virtue would high resolution pictures of Israel not be protected free speech? It's not libelous, obscene, seditious, or any other exception I can think of.
U.S. Senator Calls Robot Projects Wasteful. Robots Call Senator Wasteful
Not in and of itself. Google runs SPDY over SSL, just as they also run HTTP over SSL (HTTPS). It's the SSL that makes it secure. Once you're running one protocol over SSL, you might as well run all of them over SSL.

The basic problem here is that JS is too dynamic to ensure this type of security. Any script running on the page can rebind any value, monitor or trigger any event, or a number of other things. Without SSL or similar, an attacker can inject any script they want into the page.

The simplest variant of such an attack would be a script that replaces your AES function with a ROT13 or other useless cipher. There are variations on this theme, and in the end it's impossible to defend against all of them.
Dublin Web Summit highlights the under-reported successes of Irish tech
Anecdote is the trump card of the unsceptical. It's a good way of learning not to eat that poison berry, but it's much less useful in the modern world.
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I wonder how it'll compare with TinEye.
From QAs: submitted images will be treated like any other query and they'll stay private
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I just tried TinEye (hadn't heard of it before) and it appears to only look for images that are modifications of the image being searched for.

I wonder if Google's will work the same, or if it will be possible to find other images that are similar, but not based on the same image? That's what I really want.
The Wired title is highly biased and misleading. Amazon is not the one that passed a special windfall "amazon tax". The states are the ones that created the situation. A better title would be "States ruin innovation climate with targeted anti-business taxes".
When even the guy making the "against" case opens by saying

I am not arguing that Netflix, Salesforce.com and LinkedIn are not overvalued; I am simply arguing that their valuations have not become completely divorced from any rational thought. If they have not, we have not taken a major step towards a bubble.

that's starting to sound kinda bubbly. "Not completely divorced from rational thought" is kinda on the faint-praise side.
Why you should stay away from Appcelerator's Titanium
They're just exchanges though -- they don't offer incentives (e.g. interest) for depositing.
What you described is essentially PBKDF1, which is similar to PBKDF2, but only supports a fixed output key length. It's also a decent option; just not as flexible as PBKDF2.
test cases run in parallel? neat.
Actually the presentation showed a query for an old picture returning images taken from the same place.
It's being said that they're doing it by matching images' basic lines and shapes.
I'd gripe about the lameness of the SEC, except that I can mention that back in... 2005, 2007, or so, the SEC was taking in approximately $600 million a year in fees, of which Congress gave them back approximately $100 million for operating budget.

Congress was milking the SEC as a profit center.

The SEC couldn't staff up to take on more workload, because Congress held the purse strings and (mis)appropriated the fees meant to pay for same.

Another example of our "pay to play" business culture.
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The Wikipedia article on ulcerative colitis mentions diet as both a possible cause and treatment, which might add to their confusion. Maybe you could clean up and clarify that section with the studies you know about. Maybe distinguish treatments from cures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatment_of_ulcerative_colitis...
You know, I really hope it is obvious to most people. Somehow, it was a lesson I missed for the past six years. If anyone else figures this out earlier than I did from reading this, I'll be quite happy. Life is too short to be working on things that aren't any fun.