skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 10th most common password was far too interesting for me to ignore. While it is fairly easy to type, its not easy enough for it to be some sort of tap-password.

Having a closer look at the list, and assuming the dump is organised in some sort of chronological creation order, you can see that all the accounts which use that password are created in several tight groups, share a fairly common username theme (mostly female names), and use a fairly narrow selection of email providers. I would guess they were made by a bot.
What do you mean? Motivation comes from curiosity and a 10 year old has that more than most! Give him an internet connection and he can learn almost anything!
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Not all Ubuntu users are using a laptop. It is absurd to penalize desktop users with a UI that just isn't suited to desktop use.

OEMs often don't truly understand the needs and wants of their customers, as well. The recent backlash, even among laptop users, shows this quite well.
Who in the fuck downvoted this?!
I'm a co-founder at Training Mobs (http://trainingmobs.com), an online health and fitness community that makes it super easy for people to find an awesome workout near them. We believe that providing a strong social component keeps people motivated to work out and keeps them coming back - our members tell us that it feels less like a workout and more of a social outing, since everyone is sweating it out together and having a great time. Anybody can post a workout (which we call a 'mob', after the Flashmobs concept but for fitness), and anybody can join it.

Right from the start, our core vision was to improve the health and lives of people by making awesome workouts accessible. Its free to join, and about half of the workouts are totally free. We also work with small, independent studios and personal trainers to provide our members with a great selection of workouts at really reasonable prices, often below the drop-in rate.

Phew, okay, corporatey schpeel over. But yes, we do believe that we have made some progress towards our vision of fun, accessible workouts that actually make you want to keep doing them as opposed to burning out and giving up. Search for us on twitter and read some of the tweets :)

Oh, and unexpected side-effects? It turns out that working out with 30 other people bonds you into fast friends surprisingly quickly! Strong friendship groups within the community also makes it all but certain that a member will continue to come to the site and workout with their friends.
My latest project, LiberWriter is a lot of fun for precisely that reason. I mean, it's not a world-changer, but many of my customers are writers who want to publish their work on Kindle and are very frustrated by the process, and having a system to make everything better makes them very happy. So, yeah, in its own small way, it's something that improves people's lives by taking away a source of frustration and anger.
From my own experience, collage only teaches you to follow directions. You get punished if you actually think and use some other "direction" than that you've been told to follow.
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Yup, the article also says:

> My guess would have to be it’s some worm that resets the accounts it hacked into to it.
Hehe, fair point.
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I find it strange that the author says they should have gone back to FreeBSD.

What he meant was that he'd come to Linux from FreeBSD. He was charged with going "back" to Windows, but you don't go "back" to something if that's not where you came from in the first place.
Yes. As compared to the incumbent ($RATE) in our space, we allow consumers to get information faster in a transparent way. There are very few sites in our space that do this. We are the largest.

As for our new mobile personal finance community, we expect that people's lives will benefit, simply because we're a conduit for connecting consumers with a common goal. (financial success)
he could throw a maximized webkit and editor in ~/.xinitrc but he wouldnt have anything to complain about
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Ah thanks, I need to learn to read gooder. The password got me so curious I couldn't even finish reading the sentence.

Edit: Thinking about his explanation, it doesn't really make sense to me. If that were really the case, those accounts would be more evenly distributed through the list - yet they are tightly clustered, which leads me to think they were created in groups (guessing the list has some sort of chronological order).
Don't believe the title. It's more "a list of things you can buy now", rather than a historical piece. For the latter, I submit that PDP-1 Spacewar or Adventure or Rogue or even Hammurabi were a bit influential. Oh, and the 100's of Star Trek's in BASIC.
To me, the article comes across as a request to the linux community for solving the linux desktop problem. In other words, when given a viable chioce, the author wants linux on his desktop.

The author's complaints seems confirmed when looking at the trends [1] in market share for contemporary os's.

>Desktop Linux has to be made somehow profitable for companies to start investing more heavily in it...

I also believe that this is the major issue when trying to make linux successful on the desktop. So, what to do about it?

[1] http://www.netmarketshare.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9
You can unflag! The 'flag' link turns into 'unflag' next time you view that comment/story.
> I have used linux on the desktop in some form or another
> since 1998. It works, trust me.

So have I, since 1998-1999. It never really "worked" as a desktop compared to windows. Never. Gnome 2 (the latest few versions) was the best they managed to get together. It was always borderline unusable, but it worked somehow. But the latest versions are literarily killing off all Desktop Linux achieved in the last 15 years.

Personally, I've had enough. The moment when no distro offers Gnome 2 any more, and when I'm forced to use Gnome3, Unity or Kde4, I'm going back to windows.
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Mind you, there have been people working on clearing up trapped charges. I doubt there's been much usable progress (IIRC, the methods involve some kind of irradiation of the dielectric, which is difficult to perform in situ.)
Can you give me at least two different examples of this type of listing please? If it's generic, we can prepare a connector for this.
KDE is awesome technology but overall a horrible interface.
>LinkedIn generated $3.4 million in profit last year. Using adjusted earnings, which accounts for items like stock-based compensation, it reported nearly $48 million.

I think this quote nails the difference between this bubble, and that of 2000: A decade ago, companies were going public with absolutely no profits (or even revenue). This time, some companies are actually making a bit of money, but it's over estimated and somehow being used to justify multi-billion dollar valuations.
I agree, but not everyone would; http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
Number theory relates because his question suggests that a transcendental length might be especially problematic. I don't think it is, because of the hard limits on our ability to measure physical phenomena.

So it doesn't matter if we're talking about lengths that are integer, rational, algebraic, transcendental, computable, or otherwise. The end of the string is fuzzy at many different scales, so even defining its length at high precision becomes a problem, and at very high precisions, you actually change the length when you measure it.

If that sounds like me ducking the question it's because nature itself ducks the question.
>Someone sent me a cape once, but it didn't fit.

How does a cape not fit??
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Bitcoin thefts at MTGOX (Bitcoin exchange) confirmed to be CSRF vulnerability
One of the main problems with the html5 audio tag isn't that it doesn't play audio, it is that it doesn't allow the control needed for things like gaming (playing different streams in different speakers, no latency guarantees, etc).
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We don't care. Just stop please.
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Installing os x on a non-Apple machine is a hack. Installing linux on simple hardware was never supposed to be a hack. As the author says, the drivers of even linux friendly companies like intel and nvidia don't support their latest developments which forces desktop linux user to get on with inferior hardware.
I agree. Logical follow-up questions would be:

- is this using the fast JavaScript JIT (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2666763)?

- what API is available to eBook JavaScript? Can one make Ajax calls? How much of the book's content can one replace? Make permanent changes to book content?

- Depending on e answers, what differences remain between eBook reader and web browser?
Nice tip:

^There's no need to install an entirely separate browser. Make a new profile, just for Mt. Gox, and run it from a shortcut like this:
firefox.exe -P "NewProfileNameHere" -no-remote

Then you can do the same for your other profile and run both at the same time, with no interaction.
Quick Tutorial: (MRC) an easy and efficient way to compress your pdf files
If you need to send PDF documents as email attachments but your files are very big, you probably tried to compress them. But classic compression methods are not efficient on PDF files.

In fact, there is a technique called Mixed raster content (that I will explain in detail at a later date) that proved to be very efficient in compressing PDF files.
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you can look at the password histogram here: http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/LulzSecPasswordBreak...

tableau public tends to be a little slow, tho.
The intersection of good journalism and articles about Lady Gaga is a very small set.
I'd also like to know if it's on OCW, would be very interesting.
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There's also the block chain. Bitcoin is currently secured by a rather large amount of computing power, which makes it hard to double-spend. Any competing system would have to match this, which might be difficult unless you could somehow tempt miners away from Bitcoin.
Agreed motivation comes from curiosity. But in case of 10 year old with all the distractions on the internet, can he/she or will he/she really spend enough time on Khan Academy to learn maths, science, language etc. on his own?
That's a fantastic quote.
> I feel like I've read over 20 of these articles lately.

> I have used linux on the desktop in some form or another since 1998. It works, trust me.

Same here. My solution: just stop reading the articles. Linux has and continues to work for me. Let them bitch about Linux, it's their loss.
It's just an hypothesis. It hasn't been downgraded yet.
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That would make a great simulation to watch.
wow, it took them only 2 years to do this...
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Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is using an interesting strategy to get people to sign up for their mailing list.
Sadly, you are wrong. Democracy relies on good journalism to inform the people. Good journalism cannot be done as a hobby.
> But you cannot teach village kids in English - especially, if in a few years they have to go and read the land records, inheritance documents, local newspapers which are in regional vernacular.

As the person you quoted, I felt obligated to respond ;)

Why not educate them in English, if the resources (i.e., teachers) and demand exist? As for reading legal documents, bilinguality isn't exactly that difficult to achieve, especially when the language of concern is your native one.
This looks awesome, could be so good in education. Need to make a software to quickly put CM7/something 2.3.4 based on it, mind.

Anyone got a link to the specs?
Android seems to be an example of a Linux-based operating system becoming successful partially because of its importance to hardware vendors. Could Linux distributions in general benefit from a hardware vendor becoming the goto vendor for Linux-running laptops and/or desktops?
My aim with Ping Brigade certainly is to improve lives. Servers go up and down all the time. It is actually quite shocking what you find when you start monitoring one 24/7. Ping Brigade is affordable (or free), and dead simple to set up server monitoring. I believe that helping more websites stay up for the price of two lattes a month is a good thing.

Link: https://www.pingbrigade.com/

EDIT: Before I added the monitoring piece, Ping Brigade just had the latency measuring component. One of the users contacted me reporting a bug: sometimes Ping Brigade would tell him that his site was down when he could see that it was not. It turned out he had set up round robin DNS with four web servers and on one of them, apache was misconfigured. I know that this was tiny and anekdotal, but it was nice getting an email from the user saying thanks for helping him figure it out.
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Right, and I'm sure you're aware of the Planck constant for energy quanta as well. That's the kind of thing that made me say that a base unit of length is "plausible".

So although it's a fun thought experiment to think about strings that that are precisely 4998997308233 base units long, actually measuring such a thing is too expensive or even impossible due to Heisenberg.

Nevertheless, mathematics has demonstrated that it's useful to think of "real numbers" as infinitely precise things, because that way your number system doesn't impose any preordained limits on your measurements -- even though nature itself does.

By far most real numbers are actually non-computable, meaning that there is no finitely expressible procedure for listing their digits to any desired length.

Now it's always seemed clear to me that if a thing is fundamentally unobservable and unidentifiable in any way, you might as well say that thing does not exist at all. Nevertheless, the theory of real numbers implies that the uncomputable numbers "exist" in some sense.

That actually simplifies the theory. Otherwise you'd have to confine yourself to the computable numbers, namely all strings of binary digits that can be produced by some Fexl function (see http://fexl.com/). For example, the number .1010... could be expressed as:

\number == (1; 0; number)

(I use Fexl because it's based on combinatorics, which behave according to very simple rules. Ultimately any Fexl function can be expressed as a binary tree with only "S" and "C" at the leaves.)

That might make the strict constructivists happy, but it might also hamper the free reigning thought processes of mathematicians.
Ah, thanks. My childhood was spent on MUDs and learning photoshop and programming. Now all these darn whippersnappers do is get on /b/. Now if I can just perfect my "get off my lawn" yell...
I think it's important to not seem like you're looking down on people who DO chose to go to college. Because surely you wouldn't like it if they looked down upon you?

Truth is you do get a lot more from college for your debt load than just job training.

(And just so you know, I went, but didn't finish, largely because I found myself making a very good living developing software and also because my personality has never accommodated being part of the student-underclass.)
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You should add SMS and phone support. I have custom scripts that do this for me through Twilio.

The first two failed tests go to SMS, the next ones will call me directly on my mobile and tell me the issue using Twilio's text to voice API.

I have a half written Rails app that I was going to release as a webservice, but I can't be bothered. I'd gladly pay you instead.
The DNS system is cached, but ultimately only has 13 roots. Additionally, governments can decide to cut off organisations they consider to be undesirable, and legislation like PROTECT IP would give similar power to private corporations as well.

Some might therefore consider it desirable to have a DNS system outside of this control to compliment the existing system.
I think you misunderstand me. I absolutely agree that the audience should have a say and be more proactive in this whole thing. My point is PR firms have no obligation whatsoever to serve the readers, or to make bloggers' life easier. They are not representatives of the mass after all. MG's moral high ground and his holy crusade seems rather odd.
Do you find Gnome 2 more usable than KDE 3.5? It seems that each major version of both major DEs added new layers of abstraction that slowed things down, but I think the usability+features to performance ratio peaked with the last revision of KDE 3.5.

Still, I think it's a bit drastic to say you'll go back to Windows. I've been trying Unity on my (1080p) laptop just to give it a fair chance, and I agree it's not that great, but I can disable it and switch to Gnome 2 or a customized KDE4 and still be more productive than in Windows.
> You could almost devote a website to it.

Like these ones? https://www.eff.org/ http://lqdn.fr
Do you mean 6.004[1]? I took that a few years ago and we virtually "built" a computer from scratch - laying down the wires with a hardware description language, writing a simple OS, etc. Unfortunately, it was all inside a simulator, so connecting the wires wasn't as tangible and satisfying as I would have liked. In the class, we heard that in the past students actually worked with physical components. Was still really fun and rewarding, though.

[1] http://6004.csail.mit.edu/
An Open Letter to LulzSec

1. Dear Boys and Girls,

2. Do you remember what it was like when the bullies picked on you and your friends during lunch in the canteen? Broke your spectacles, stuck their filthy fingers in your food?

3. Do you remember what it was like before you really discovered the internets? The lonely empty darkness inside you that matched the lonely darkness that surrounded you?

4. Do you remember how you felt when the cool kids had fun stuff to do of an evening and all you had was a night of MMOs and online chat?

5. Do you remember thinking that you and your brain were capable of big things. Great things. Terrible things and the world would be sorry for underestimating you?

6. Do you remember a life before Lulz?

7. I'm guessing you do. I'm guessing it wasn't that long ago. I'm guessing that you are still stinging.

8. Then the lulz began.

9. We have to admit that when you were picking on the internets's big kids we had a moment of guilty lulz. When it looked like you were teaching them an important lesson we lulled along. But you changed.

10. Just because you have a pain inside doesn't mean that you you should inflict pain. Just because the big kids shit on you doesn't mean you should shit on the little kids.

11. The power has infected your young head, Child. You've gone to the Dark Side.

12. But. Wait. Shhh! Baby. It's OK. I promise.

13. The big, real world it full of lulz. Real lulz. The kind of amazing lulz that you can touch. Lulz you can taste and smell. Warm lulz, soft lulz. Hard lulz.

14. You have a big brain in your young head. A brain capable of good things, clever things, important things. Once you discover the power of real lulz you will soon put this behind you.

15. But do it fast before the bullies return and your life returns to being nothing more than a high-school cafeteria on repeat loop for 2-4 years with good behaviour.

16. The lulz aren't worth it.

17. Yours, Concerned.
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Nvidia's binary drivers nearly always support their latest cards, sometimes even before release. It helps that people use Nvidia cards in Linux for doing Serious Work like rendering movies and analyzing stock trends.
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I didn't really find the article that interesting, however looking at this http://xamarin.com/ company I'm extremely intrigued by the product.
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Thank you. I've been using Linux for more than 12 years now and it works. Every user got to make its own choice. I tried OS X, Windows and Linux and I will stick with the latter.
People keep saying "it works for me, go away", as if other people who care about a DECENT desktop experience are just morons.

"Ah! Another stupid windows/osx user!"

I don't care about your fvwm desktop with 99 xterms and emacs everywhere, or your fully customized arch linux that "works for you"; I, like many other people, have different needs. And yet the general response from the community is "fuck off".

First rule of desktop linux: you do not complain about desktop linux.

Greetings from the year 2011.