skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook has tons of bright developers that other bright developers like to be around, and even if they're not all primarily motivated by the potential value of their options, it does create a self-sustaining black hole...
Oh not disagreeing with you one bit, there.
I once made a little list with many of the documentaries I've seen - browsing through that list; here are my recommendations:

God Grew Tired of Us - about three of the "Lost Boys of Sudan", a group of some 25,000 young men who have fled the wars in Sudan since the 1980s, and their experiences as they move to the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Grew_Tired_of_Us

Darwin's Nightmare - about the environmental and social effects of the fishing industry around Lake Victoria in Tanzania. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwins_Nightmare

Deliver Us From Evil - tells the true story of Catholic priest Oliver O'Grady, who admitted to having molested and raped approximately 25 children in Northern California between the late 1970s and early 1990s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliver_Us_from_Evil_(2006_film...

Shadow Company - an introduction to the mercenary and private military company industry, concentrating on the role the industry has been playing in recent conflicts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Company

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers - about the ongoing Iraq War and the behavior of companies with no-bid contracts working in Iraq. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_for_Sale:_The_War_Profitee...

'Meet the Stans' - a four-part BBC Four series on the stans (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan etc) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Stans

'Places That Don't Exist' - a five-part BBC Four series on breakaway states and unrecognised nations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_That_Dont_Exist

War Photographer - As well as telling the story of an iconic man in the field of war photography, the film addresses the broader scope of ideas common to all those involved in war journalism, as well as the issues that they cover. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Photographer

Pretty much all seasons/episodes of Vanguard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_(TV_series) of which ' The Oxycontin Express' is the most famous for winning a Peabody award.

Pretty much all episodes of Vice Guide to Travel - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_Guide_to_Travel

Many documantaries are available on youtube. Do note though that some of these documentaries discuss horrible topics, aren't fun to watch and will be stuck in your mind for a very long time, if not ever.
Marwencol. It's about an alcoholic guy who in his late 40s gets beaten up by a gang of teens, get's brain damage. Has to relearn everything, essentially forming a second life. He also creates this entire miniature WWII town that he vividly details/photographs and creates elaborate stories. It is superbly done: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1391092/
Podio and Rails – we bring you ActivePodio
Conrad Wolfram: What is wrong with our math education (and how to fix it)
Heck if I know, I'm not CS trained.

Point being, CoffeeScript and other compilers would get a big boost if someone came out with a way to convert existing JS codebases into these new, more readable, more maintainable (as the story goes) representations.
So this is not the complete set of passwords, only the ones that have been cracked so far, using a dictionary?

a dictionary + rules + time. yes (i assume - i have no inside knowledge).

[...] passwords which were randomly generated are, and are likely to remain, safe?

it depends on the length and range of characters. random passwords are still vulnerable if they are short and/or use a restricted range of characters. they can be found "by accident" when using rules and dictionaries. they can also be found by simply trying all combinations ("a", "b", ..., "aa", ..., "ab"...). length and character range protects against both of these.

it's likely that attackers will use all available approaches, including simple brute force. i focused on dictionaries + rules above because (1) that's generally more efficient and (2) some people don't seem to realize how powerful it is.
This would be a great theory, except there wasn't a jump in web traffic from the name change, only conversions/purchases.
ars obviously wasn't thinking critically in that comment. You're absolutely right: his proposed definition of "currency" isn't useful at all, because it would preclude talking about "the stability of a currency."

A currency is simply a medium of exchange that is widely recognized, where "widely" is subjective. Most modern currency also is notable because it has no intrinsic value (gold coins, for example, have intrinsic value). I think bitcoin certainly qualifies as a currency, albeit an unstable one.
The Fog of War is fantastic as mentioned, but the best part is you can watch it in full, for free on Google Video: http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=-8653788864462752...
The GRUB2 integration means you can pick the next boot target as you initiate a reboot.
Peter Thiel is largely regarded as a failure of a hedge fund manager. For a while he had a good record but he did the decoupling/long oil trade which blew up in 2008.

His fund had a bunch of redemptions and is now mostly his own money.
The real question is how to change the way the teachers teach.
Melvin the Magical Goldberg Machine
On top of that Geohot may have some past or future legal bills to pay ;-)
The getter/setter lines in PHP on slide 9 is the code of a ruby dev that doesn't know PHP. You can easily reduce all those lines to a three line _call() method.
crypt_blowfish (http://www.openwall.com/crypt/) is a 3rd party crypt() interface for non-openbsd systems that uses bcrypt. this problem doesn't affect openbsd.

according to another post (http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q2/653) postgresql and php-suhosin use the same crypt_blowfish code, but may or may not be affected.
Who are they going to sue? Themselves from 5 years ago for not reading the contract they signed? Skype doesn't seem to be an option as they explicitly wrote out in their contracts what they were going to do.

It's hard to feel bad for the folks getting their options canceled: this eventuality was right there in black and white. It like people with ARMs that adjust after 5 years suddenly not being able to pay they mortgage, and not being able to sell their house because it's underwater. It's clear from the day you sign the contact that this could happen, yet they only thought about the futures where everything went their way and they made millions on options / flipped their house for millions.

Contracts are easy: don't sign if you don't understand it, and if you don't understand it find someone who does and make them explain it to you until you understand it.
I think more people should write similar extensions or even new
window managers. In my opinion, “traditional” window management is
quirky, even if we've all grown used to it. Resizing and moving
windows, for example, are painful given how you need to click on
small specific areas to carry them out. Most window managers on
Linux have overcome with a combination of a key press and mouse
click allowing you to move/resize by clicking anywhere in the
window. With a tiling window manager you usually have some
keyboard shortcut to do it.

Still, none of those approaches solve the problem in all
situations. Managing windows can be “uncomfortable”. Sure you can
make use of workspaces, or tags (à la dwm, I think the tag
paradigm is beautiful) or whatnot, but you don't want to think
about the act of switching windows. Have you ever found yourself
alt-tabbing through a pile of windows and be annoyed by not
getting to the right window easily enough (“Oh, drat, I pressed
Tab one too many times”). Whenever I have to use OS X, I press the
Exposé shortcut for almost every context switch.

So yeah, this is kind of extension is more than welcome and others should continue to innovate. If nothing else good comes out of Gnome 3, at least it would have pushed people to think about their interaction with the interface.
In addition to the other comments (at the time of this writing: silentbicycle and dons), I would say:

- Regarding the importance of the book: it's discussion of the G-machine (probably also interesting is another paper by SPJ, "The spineless tagless G-machine") is very comprehensive and textbook style. I think this is very important to study/compare the other model of virtual machines used for implementing functional programming languages, viz. the SECD machine (named after the four stacks necessary, Stack, Environment, Code, Dump.) The book I first read about the SECD machine is Peter Kogge's "The Architecture of Symbolic Computers" and I recommend it dearly.

- Regarding the use of lambda calculus: It's not just the equivalent of a Turing machine, but much more fundamental in the theory of implementing programming languages: Aside of the eager/lazy evaluation of functional programming languages (corresponding to applicative and normal order evaluation of terms), the typed lambda calculus for instance is fundamental for studying type systems, one of the more important research areas of the last decade. Besides it is also the basis of LISP (eval and apply functions.)
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> * They are willing to use euros as a medium of exchange, but only because they know they can exchange them for (to them) real currency.*

Any person or business is only willing to use a currency as a medium of exchange because they know they can exchange them for other goods. "Currency" and "medium of exchange" aren't mutually exclusive, the former is a special form of the latter that is recognized widely (and in modern times, usually has no intrinsic value).

> * To be money you have to be willing to save it. If all you do is use it as an intermediate it's not money - yet.*

That's an insane definition for "money." You would claim that the fast food wages of a teenager who always spends it immediately is not money.
In my case, I enjoyed the former much more than the latter.
"Do you want to maintain a compiler? Does anyone on your team have the skills to do that? That ulcer is going to get pretty big while you prepare to explain to the CEO that you now need to rewrite the UI in JavaScript."

GWT could be really strong. But it's this single maintainer problem that I think prevents it's penetration into the market.

Sadly when I hear people talk about the "strengths" of GWT, debugging and IDE debuggers is what I hear most. If that is the core reason for using GWT it seems shortsighted.

And for me personally I find that using Java (static typed system) to compile down to JavaScript (dynamic function system) is too big a paradigm switch for developers to maintain. Other languages, specifically functional type languages are far better for maintaining language paradigms in compiler situations.
NICE summary.
Tutorial: Android Near Field Communication
Near Field Communication (NFC) is a set of short-range wireless technologies, typically requiring a distance of 4cm or less. In this tutorial you will learn how to process an NFC tag inside your Activity.
It includes full source code to play around with!!
Ah silly me thanks
Run From The Cure:The Rick Simpson Story
I usually can't stand pot documentaries, but I found this movie to be really good and not about getting high.

Having said that about pot documentaries, I have to add Super High Me to the list, because I enjoyed that film as well.
I don't think it's fair to discuss any perceived moral problem around this. Facebook pays well and you get to work with some very smart people on a far-reaching product. That's a good job.
Some Kind of Monster was one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.
I take it straight up dic attack, i see no gen password with 32 chars in it. Guess this teaches you a lesson, 32 character generated password (or max pass size) as a requirement for 99% of sites. Now if only windows had a standard password storage API which programs can access using special rules and special admin programs can manage this way just like the web browser we can have password stores for windows + sync to cloud.
Guess he gotta pay legal bills. But wasn't he an intern at Google doing maps? Dude's super talented.
What Middle Class White Kids Giveth, They Also Taketh Away
A superior edge detection gradient operator
right. :-)
>>"Specifically, in order for Bob to qualify as a rational actor, he must act in such a way as to maximize his benefit, where his benefit is defined in objective terms of monetary value. i.e., "I like having flowers in my yard" does not qualify as a benefit"

> If that truly is the definition of rational, then sorry, economics is sorely mistaken.

You're too kind - if that's the definition of "rational" that economics uses, economics is fundamentally useless.

> That said, I have problems following the "envy driven vs greed driven" argument.

My apologies.

"Greed" is concern with what you have. "Envy" is concern with what other people have.

A greedy person will do something that benefits himself regardless of whether it benefits others. An envious person will not do something that benefits himself if he thinks that other people get too much benefit from that thing.
Oh, oh, oh, how you exaggerate! Maybe he paid himself $2 billion one year, but, gee, that's little enough for the Chern-Simons result, right!

I don't know what Simons does, but he sure did it!
Cooperation, Competition, Spontaneous Order
larsberg has already given several suggestions, however, since nobody else mentioned it yet, you might want to complete your view of functional programming language implementation by taking a look at "Lisp in Small Pieces" by Christian Queinnec (http://www.amazon.com/Lisp-Small-Pieces-Christian-Queinnec/d...).
You have to give Facebook credit for actively recruiting talent. Probably overpaying and distorting the labor market in SV even more than usual. Surprised Apple wouldn't try to hire him.
js2cs - https://github.com/mindynamics/js2cs

Though I've found doing the conversion manually is a better way to learn CoffeeScript. Plus, it is a point for optimization and refactoring since CoffeeScript allows for doing certain things more easily or in better ways. The automated conversion only does so much.
Spark: Cluster computing framework for analytics
more precisely how do we change the curriculum? and how do we ensure that all schools have enough access to computers to use them as a teaching and learning tool
"middle class white kids" - first of all, a 'kid' is a baby Goat.

Also, you're being far too generic with this. What about all the other different people who use Facebook? Subsets of other people from different countries that don't fit into your 'middle class white kid' stereotype?
I came here to say startup.com, I'd add "Pseudo" as a very good one for a bust of the video streaming space. Silicon Valley pirates, although not entirely factual, is very good for the few who have yet to watch it.
Using Simple Arithmetic for Faster, More Secure Websites
Converseen a Front End to ImageMagick
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>"The vast majority of stock options granted to startups have a vesting period, typically four years, with chunks of those options becoming vested during that four year (or whatever) period."

This is irrelevant because Skype is not a startup. It is an established company. In addition it is a private company not a publicly traded one and a company with no intention of becoming a public company (indeed it never was a public company - though it has been part during eBay's ownership).

The techpress keeps spinning this as a story about startups while ignoring the difference between Private Equity firms which invest in mature companies which are distressed and Venture Capital firms which invest in small companies with a high potential for growth.

The techpress would do well to get outside the Silicon Valley echo chamber once in a while.

As is the case with Skype and Silverlake, private equity firms tend to be focused on flipping companies. Like people flipping houses on cable network reality shows, they don't establish the sort of personal attachment which investors in a startup need because at the point private equity becomes involved founders don't have much power and the owners (i.e. shareholders) are looking to liquidate their investment not dilute it on the expectation of future company growth.

In the vast majority of privately held companies, the practical effect of stock ownership is the receipt of dividends because most closely held companies are not focused on growth in the manner that startups are. Buy-sell such as those at Skype are typical - share price escalation is typically undesirable because of potential tax implications and liquidity issues. Therefore, buy-sell agreements usually require selling shares back upon the end of employment. The greater flexibility private companies enjoy when compared to public companies in negotiating the terms of employment often are used to mitigate the effect when employees with large numbers of shares leave. When a low level employee leaves, however, the break is clean and complete in a way which keeps disgruntled ex-employees out of shareholder meetings.

Sure the former shareholders can sue Skype, anyone can sue anyone in the US. But it's hard to see how they will substantial precedent given that a huge amount of employee owned stock in the US is subject to provisions similar to those in the Skype agreement.
Reasons Why Your Startup Needs A Fully Built Out Blog
It's unclear whether the employees were given the Management Partnership Agreement for review. If not, they were induced to enter the stock option grant agreement with material terms not being "explicitly [written] out" and disclosed to them.
You can skip the pipe by using find's '-exec' option. It will save you the pipe.

The example:
"find . -name '* .py' | xargs grep 'import'"
would become
"find . -name '* .py' -exec grep -H 'import' {} \;".

You need to include the -H in grep to get the filename in which the match occurs.
Rest assured that no "robotic kittens" are involved in the production of the tutorials. That promo video was my form of working on a limited monetary, manpower and time budget. When you're still a student and the only one working on a project (and more interested in creating the videos than promoting them), you get something of this kind.

That said, the interface and video seem to have been appealing enough for people to sign up en-mass (and for you to call us "you guyS" where in reality it should have been merely "you" ;) )
I think it's really just as simple as "startup" is something hip to be. It's like bands signed to major record labels pretending that they're "indie".
The design process of my iPhone application – SimpleCards
GameSalad Raises $6.1 Million For iPhone And iPad Game Creation Tool
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busybox
The History Of The 'Free Public WiFi' (that you always see at Airports)
Really? I thought "The Smartest Guys in the Room" was very boring -- I learned literally nothing about the Enron scandal other than "some guys were pretty greedy." Most of the documentary was segments of people describing how unethical management was, while barely elucidating on what actually happened.
If you're interested in education policy, "Waiting for Superman" and "The Lottery" are both excellent.
3 Great Social Media Uses for Evernote
Triumph of the Nerds is inspirational and makes you feel like geeks can make something out of nothing.

Ken Burns' documentary on Frank Lloyd Wright makes you feel like you identify with a singular drive for vision above all else (The SC Johnson headquarters in Racine, WI are heavenly but the roof leaks buckets)

Not truly a documentary but "My Architect" is a moving journey by Louis Kahn's son to try to understand his father he never really knew through the works he left behind

http://www.pbs.org/flw/

http://www.myarchitectfilm.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely
I've recently enjoyed several episodes of the Vanguard series. There are full episodes of the first 3 seasons available on YouTube:

http://current.com/shows/vanguard/

http://www.youtube.com/show?p=8NtSYAZY9Y8&s=3

On a similar note, The Vice Guide to Travel:

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel

Adam Curtis is the creator of various interesting pieces. Some of his documentaries are mentioned in this thread:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis

I've also enjoyed many of Werner Herzog's films.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Herzog#Filmography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounters_at_the_End_of_the_Wo...

The Yes Men are quite entertaining.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men_Fix_the_World

http://theyesmenfixtheworld.com/

Man on Wire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_on_Wire

Cocaine Cowboys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_cowboys
The idea of the repurchase being at the current fair value (perhaps via the most recent 409a analysis) strikes me as being fair:

- the employee was in it to win it and would be able to walk away with the amount of win that accrued while they worked at the firm

- the company retrieves the wayward stock to keep the cap table clean

The tricky issue is which valuation to use in lieu of a secondary market.
He sits in front of me. I'm surprised the news didn't leak out sooner. He's a cool dude. I don't see any of the perceived threats hinted in the comments.
I wonder if the new name listed better in the AppStore/Market for some reason?

Maybe it was closer to some other popular app and picked up traffic from that?

Without the real names it's kind of difficult to imagine trying to replicate this.
TeaMp0isoN hackers hit former British PM Tony Blair, leak address book
either way, i'm finding this thread highly entertaining and victorian. here is a gem -

No matter what I said to him, he just disregarded offhandedly. I am so upset that I want to punch him in the face, but I would rather get the proofs and show him that he is completely wrong. To me this would be the equivalent of slapping him on the face with a gauntlet
Bitcoin miner raided by police, suspected of growing cannabis
Riding Giants: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389326/ Pretty light fare, but the film footage is beautiful.

Driver 23: http://fenrisfilms.com/films.html Awkward, almost painful to watch, but hard to look away.

Bigger, Stronger, Faster: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1151309/ Unfortunately, this is the only one of these three available on Netflix Instant.
Watching Code Rush now - thanks for the recommendation!
Conan O'Brien rips Apple's Final Cut Pro X on show
Gene Amdahl also said when asked why the IBM 360 did not have a stack, said "it would have been too expensive" without clarifying details. Not too long after that, the 8085, with a stack, was in widespread use and shortly could have been bought for $5 retail quantity one. The science was missing from his statement there as well.
Using xargs with a pipe is easier. I don't know any reason why I'd want to "save a pipe" when working at the command line.

Also note that text surrounded by asterisks in your comment become italics. Indent text by two or more spaces to reproduce text verbatim, like for code.
If you only ever watch one film, watch American Movie http://bit.ly/lXSB8X

It's a film about art, entrepreneurialism, and delusion. Also friends and family.
+1 Adam Curtis. Even his old works are interesting, even if they seem dated politically.