skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that there is a reason to disable the session resume, see e.g. http://java.sun.com/javase/javaseforbusiness/docs/TLSReadme....
Does it matter if they're strong if all they're going to do is md5 them?
Fair point, I just submitted it :)
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The test was done with a warmed cache, so SSDs would make no difference, the files were read from RAM cache.
I found a very brief PDF here:
http://artis.imag.fr/Publications/2011/CNSGE11/

If anyone finds more detailed information, I would be very interested too.
I would prefer we only teach "grep -c" as a special case optimization to people who already understand how "grep | wc -l" works, because the latter is more generally useful.
I guess java is so slow because you have the initial over-head of starting the jvm. I'm guessing that subsequent prints of "Hello world" would be somewhat faster.

This article is basically trolling java, and it seems a number of people have taken the bait. Different languages have different strengths and weaknesses. You'll choose the one most appropriate to the task required. If that's printing "Hello World" to the console then fine, but I doubt many people would think "java" when presented with this requirement.
-delete was added to find because of the race condition with doing it using xargs.

See section 9.1.5 http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_node/find_...
If you like minimalistic languages, have you checked out Scheme? Because of its macros, the core language can stay small and the users can expand its syntax.
While it would be extremely difficult to detect or enforce, and generally the language around the law is very much designed with traditional working environments in mind, it is somewhat of a gray area legally in most countries.

I've received many different explanations over what's acceptable and, of course, many government documents will seem to contradict each other. However it is not beyond the possibility that one would run into a problem with this when dealing with some local authorities.

The other thing to keep in my is that residency is often tied to a minimum number of days spent within the country you are filing taxing in. They also can take into regard your "intent" of where you plan to be living next year. You can be judged to not actually fulfilling the residency requirements and be taxed on foreign earnings.

Most people who do this won't have issues but I've witnessed had one border agent mull over whether to deny entry or let them through, based on answers to questions about activities in other countries.

Disclaimer: this is not legal advice
I always wonder exactly what those types of sites are doing that restricts the valid character set.

I shudder at the thought that this is their way of preventing SQL injections or something like that.
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Does cognitive training work?
I'm not an expert by any means, so please provide correction/feedback if I'm wrong, but I've read that xargs is more efficient because it can send parameters to the cmd in batches. I've read this in contrast to `-exec {}` not `-delete`, however.

For example:

find . -name '*~' -exec 'rm {}'

The statement above executes `rm result` for every result. By contrast:

find . -name '*~' | xargs rm

The example above would group the results and pass them to rm like this:

rm result1 result2 result3 result4

Because I'm not an expert, I don't know how many parmeters it will pass, or if initiation of many new processes has a significant performance impact on newer systems. I would suspect that for anything involving the disk, I/O will be the bottle neck, not process turn-up time.

Anyone have an opinion/insight?
That is already the case on Android, where 99% of the times, even a "techie" would click yes, considering the permissions are so general.
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Actually, I should elaborate: if it were just two people I trusted reassuring me it was fine, I would probably have still been on the hook for contributory negligence. What got me off completely was the fact that the responses I got from the senior manager said that he'd passed all of my information on to the legal team, who'd been over it with a fine-toothed comb and decided it was all above-board. What got HIM in trouble was that he'd never passed it on to legal at all.
Value is ultimately determined by what people are willing to trade for - by supply and demand.

Obviously, Bitcoin is not worhtless to thousands of people. They are being traded at $14 at Mt Gox right now.

Why is gold valued at $50/gram today and was valued at $30 in 2007? Is it because we are creating more jewellery and need more for industrial applications and the supply cannot match the demand? It´s not - the value is increasing because people see gold as safe way to store money. To quote Wikipedia: "the price of gold is mainly affected by changes in sentiment"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_as_an_investment

You might also want to read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value
It helps that they are from Belgium. Healthcare isn't an issue, because I'm sure they arranged for repatriation insurance ahead of time for anything serious, and once back in belgium getting medical treatment is cheap. Career and experience weren't affected, because a gap year doesn't matter much to employers. Passports similarly aren't an issue. I've been to south-africa, thailand and the US, and I never needed a visum.

I used to be big on the idea of leaving belgium and going to "nice" places to live there. Over here the weather always seemed to be cold and rainy, the people inhospitable and narrow-minded, and the cities dull and lifeless. Travelling sort of brought me back home. The weather is cold and rainy at times, but it's also totally unpredictable, and appreciating that has made me realize it's not as rainy as I thought it was. The people may not be as warm and welcoming as they are in thailand, but they also respect your privacy and they are more honest with their emotions. As far as the cities go, I've really come to love Antwerp, where I live now. When I go on vacation to thailand now (went once a year for the past few years), it's amazing, and I get to do things that are impossible in belgium (I got married with nothing but green fields between us and mountains on all sides), but after a few weeks I always get homesick.

In a way, I think this sort of on-the-move lifestyle is meant for people that haven't found a home yet. Once you do find a genuine home, not just a place where your bed is, and come to appreciate it, you simply don't need to do this. I still like to travel, but only to satisfy curiosity, not because I think other places are nicer.
It actually appears that their tracking can be used free in development mode without their server; it could probably be adapted to be used on a live site without their service as well.

https://github.com/newrelic/rpm
To be fair to Android, I haven't personally found that to be the case. I went to connect to my workplace's Exchange server and got hit with a host of overkill permissions that I need to give to the Exchange admin. As a result, I went and read about what control Exchange administrators have over connected devices, and decided that getting my work email wasn't worth the risk. So the Android permissions system worked for me.
I guess so you can easily jump to that page from a mobile device if it's in its camera's range.
Could you give more detail on your health insurance--what you have now, and some other ones you're considering?
You save one pipe, but at expense of every grep will spawn its own process.

So maybe a 1000 grep processes instead of one. But I've saved a pipe.
> In other words, programming a math solution is better for teaching math understanding than hand solving it.

I completely agree. But couldn't this be said about education in general? Public schools seem to be stagnated in archaic methods of teaching.
The worst example that I've seen has to be the site that could only handle password per {6,12}[A-Za-z0-9] - incredible.

Oh, I remember another one that's just as annoying. This site simply chopped of your password after n characters and it never gave you any kind of warning. Took a lot of troubleshooting to find out the exact position of n.
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Holy moly, that's really really hard to read agains that background.
Is this level of micro-benchmarking actually useful for the given use-case?

When "writing shell scripts / cron jobs / random commandline utilities" I believe my priorities are

1) Does it work?
2) How easy is this to write?
3) How easy is this to read?

In that order.
# echo "2097152/$(echo "/my/still/quite/reasonable/path/to/a/file"|wc -c)"|bc
49932

linux-2.6 # git ls-files|wc -l
36747

Getting close! :)

And I would guesstimate (Linux, kernel >= 2.6.23) to still be a fairly small amount of the machines people interact with professionally through a command line.

And if in a script/snippet, you often want to cover a vast majority of the systems you _could_ end up with. Won't be System III, at least for me, but there has to be a RHEL5 system in a closet right? :)
http://viewtext.org/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kaurkuut.co...
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Think about all-numeric PIN style passwords. I have seen banking websites that enforce [0-9]{4,6}
Fantastic idea!!! I would be all over it in a heartbeat... BUT, what kind of javascript are you running on it? For me it crashed Chrome, Firefox and Opera. That's quite a feat! So, from where I'm sitting, it's basically unusable. Which is a great shame.
No he doesn't. That's a completely stupid compared to xargs as soon as you have more than a few files. You're starting one grep process per file.

Thanks for the laugh though.
I hate this submission, but only because it lead my to use a proxy to bypass "reddit.com" in my hosts file. Now that I've experienced how easy it is, I'm sure I'll be going back.

So much for productivity.
I always hear people talk about all the things they'll do after they retire, but somehow I never see them actually do it. Sometimes you just need to do things instead of putting them off to some uncertain future.
Can recommend a site that explores both sides of the argument very well http://coldfusionnow.wordpress.com
Bang.
Nudity detection is a hard problem, so hard that even the biggest companies tend to rely on crowd sourced systems, not
computational ones. Is that what this is? Either way I definitely think you more information about how the system works, examples of what it can and can-not do and information about how long processing takes. I need a solution to this problem but have wasted so much time with other underperforming systems that I won't venture past the front page without some more details.
The only problem is that someone can MITM your connection to the http page and send you back javascript that steals your password.
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The poor teacher film 2011 - The problem with bad teachers, and the script itself, with so many players that there is no downside. After explaining the true teaching of the opening montage of the global predicament we are fighting, raw courage, drinking
How do you go about finding new work remotely? Is it primarily return business from previous clients?
Funny, the only time I've had luck with VRBO/HomeAway is peak season, grabbing last-minute deals on things that would otherwise stand empty. :)
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He mentioned that they don't spend any more money than they would have in the US. It shouldn't make a difference for the retirement plans then, I assume.
Windows Live also has a 16 character, restricted-character limit.
Interesting. Of course I based my statements on my travelling through those places for a few days - I guess that's significantly more different to actually living somewhere in cost terms than I had considered.
You can actually calculate password bit strength/safety (assuming the chars are indeed random... and that's a big assumption). A randomly selected character from all printable ASCII characters (roughly 95 chars) has about 6.5 bits of entropy. So an eight character password is about 52-bits strong.

9 = 58.5-bits

10 = 65.0-bits

11 = 71.5-bits

Edit: Spelling & Grammar
Well interest in documentaries could be varied by your personal domain of interest. Since you've not mentioned any particular domain, I'll give you a list of the ones I think were great.

1. Century of Self
2. BBC Horizon Infinity and Beyond
3. BBC Horizon Is Seeing Believing
4. BBC Dangerous Knowledge
5. The Shadow Factory
6. Get Lamp
7. Human Experience

Hope that helps.
Yep, agreed.

Here's a little more information, including criticism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer ( Follow the references )

I also cannot see why the site would host a forum and the flamewars about its credibility.
I used to work at EA (now doing a YC company), you can change your password here:

http://profile.ea.com

Though it doesn't fix any of the encryption limitations that they are using.
I didn't say "correct". I said "the way I would have wished". I expressed a personal preference, you're making me sound like more of a jerk than I already am.

That being said, yes, I believe they're plain wrong on this one. They shouldn't cater to me, but to their users. Thank God they have stats.

http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=ack-grep

http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=ack

I count in both because I installed the ack package mistakingly. I'm probably not the only one.

Still a very large WIN for ack, the one I care about.
No, Paul Carr is obviously correct, because the current level of personal surveillance and state secrecy is totally normal and has always been this way, and nothing and nobody should be challenging it, and anybody complaining about it must be a total lunatic.

What a hack.
> Before reading, I was under the impression that without a password manager, it has become impossible to secure passwords by memory as GPU's became more powerful. My impression was that "random", alpha-numeric, plus non-alpha-numeric characters, and, of great length would be needed.

Remember that the article is about today's state-of-the-art. Next year, cracking algorithms might be better, GPUs will certainly be better, EC2 spot instances might be cheaper, and dictionary guessing algorithms will be smarter. A 50-character random password loaded with symbols, digits, and letters is good in the face of that.
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Even worse, if I remember correctly they silently truncate passwords longer than 16 characters. I wasted nearly an hour trying to log in when they started doing that.
We've been using New Relic (also supports PHP) for a couple months and are extremely impressed. Definitely check it out.

They also have a partnership with a lot of the cloud providers for their middle tiered package to be free.
They also don't accept email addresses in tons of places that end in anything other than .com (or maybe, if you're lucky, .net)
Once the Mt. Gox password database leaked, there was a little bit of commentary about how the community had a lot of password-cracking power on tap.
Someone heard "must validate all input", scratched his head for a while going about how to validate the password field, and thus came up with some artificial limitations? If so, it's a huge misconception about what it means to "validate" data. If not, someone's just really stupid.

This goes into the same category as validating email addresses (just go ahead and send the confirmation email and watch me not replying in case I entered a bad address, instead of complaining I can't use plus or some other allowed character in it) or my phone number (if you're picky about formatting I can already give you 01234567890 if I want so just let me, in the first place, type in a nicely formatted "+44-123 4567890" or something that I like) or asking me to provide something twice (I'll just copypaste from the first field, thanks; would be more useful if you just printed a confirmation of what I wrote onto the next page).
Just saw it. Glorious. A two hour guide on how to hack the art market, and a fine piece of film. Do recommend.
Long, random strings with weird characters are unlikely to be in any md5 dictionary, so you'd have to bruteforce it. MD5 is a fast algo so that shouldn't take long for short passwords, but it does provide some security. If you've chosen a strong password then bruteforcing isn't a concern, so the fact they 
hashed instead of encrypting
 (edit: used a weak hashing algo) won't matter.

It's better than nothing, but not much. The fact that they md5'd it at all suggests they were thinking about security, just not very hard or well.
We know why they did it. They're greedy jerks

The PE firm, for sure. What about the VCs? Why didn't they say anything? Ignorance, or complicity?
Sure, but halfway decent web sites aren't the ones hosting malware.
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EU in origin but Netherlands have added to it by requiring companies to be able to retain proof that every user had been asked for their permission. My understanding is that the base version, the EU-wide model, would require companies to show that yes, here's the code, before sending a cookie we request permission; but there's a higher level of proof required in NL.
The purpose of my comment was to establish that 'enriches early adopters' is not enough to classify something as a scam.

And I don't think anyone is really trying to convince people to do all their buying and selling using Bitcoin. However it may be useful to do some of your buying and selling with Bitcoin.

If FooCorp's stock was stable and easily transferrable enough to use as a currency, why would it be a scam to advocate its use as currency? If your answer is only 'because holders profit' then I guess I'll agree to disagree.
One site I used (I think it was T-Mobile) simply removed characters from your password without even telling you. That took me a while to figure out.
This api offer's both computational and crowd sourced detection.
Your right, some proxies simply ignore the Cache-Control directive. In some cases even Google Chrome handles this directive poorly, as it will serve a cached version when you use the back/forward-buttons between pages no matter what cache directive you give the image. IE and FF are flawless in this regard.

Feel free to suffix the URL with a random get-varaible, as this wont affect the service more then ensuring that proxies and cache hungry browser are less likely to cache the image.
We don't have the product ready for testing yet, but we have heard from people who expect to use it once it's available.
I see. So you're saying if he did really only have 5k to his name, that family member wouldn't have gotten any help from him and could have died. But hey, he'd have been in the right though, wouldn't he have? That's what's important after all. The family member's concerns are only secondary.
Maybe he is just an opportunist.

And he is young, Ive seen people in their late 20s with more opportunistic and naive behaviour. Especially those "I have a startup" and acting like they are the pope. Just like the majority of people geohotz likes flair and tail, he can get both now that he is under zuckerbergs command. Morality or freedom be damned falir and tail he is gonna get.
A sensible tiling window manager doesn't tile popup windows (and I believe xmonad is sensible). If it doesn't float popups, then you just haven't configured it to do so. Can't blame you, though. Writing Haskell to configure a window manager isn't exactly a one-step process. I think parts of the following resource will prove useful if you ever decide to give xmonad another try: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/General_xmonad.hs_...
Yes, I was just going to mention banks as well. I have dealt with multiple online banking systems for major banks that enforced ridiculously low maximum password lengths and alphanumeric-only restrictions. It's one thing for Electronic Arts to have not thought through this stuff, but another entirely when you're talking about a banking system.
How does this work with respect to visas and the like? I don't imagine that countries like you coming in to work and earn money without paying any taxes.
Werner Herzog has made a number of excellent documentaries. Here are a few of them with brief summaries.

Lessons of Darkness: the aftermath of the first Gulf War in Kuwait.

Little Dieter Wants to Fly: A young German emigrates to the USA, become a Navy pilot, and is shot down in Vietnam. He escapes and lives to tell the tale. Herzog later re-made this as Rescue Dawn, but the original version is better.

Encounters at the End of the World: Herzog travels to Antarctica.

My Best Fiend: Herzog recounts his movie-making with Klaus Kinski. (For the counterpoint, read Kinski's autobiography, "Kinski Uncut.)

The White Diamond: an experimental zeppelin flies over Guyana.

Grizzly Man: Bear aficionado gets too close and is eaten. Herzog assembled this one from the aficonado's footage and narrates.

Out of all of these, I'd rate "Dieter" as the best.
Google? Two, three years ago google was the place where all the great hackers worked at. Suddenly they are like, meh, you know...

Samsung?
Awesome, I think this could really be a fantastic way to help more companies to get into the blogging habit with ease, will look forward to promote you once it is ready! :)
They're not the only site to silently truncate passwords, unfortunately.

(I hope you're joking about spending an hour trying to log in, though.)
The rent is very high in Amsterdam, and it is really difficult to find good housing in Amsterdam in a decent neighborhood. The rent might be lower than the valley, but don't forget that Dutch salaries can easily be half of what you can get in the valley too.
Following the details link on youtube yields what wtracy found. Looking around the site, I managed to dig this [0] up, which, judging by the filename, will be used in their Siggraph talk. Unfortunately, it is still very brief and doesn't expand much on the preview. Here's [1] the paper that it references, which does give more detail about voxel rendering.

Though I haven't looked very much into the techniques in voxel rendering, it seems animation, to this point, has been only a theoretical possibility and a huge setback. That Crassin et al. can achieve a reasonable framerate on such complex scenes struck me as a very big achievement. We'll probably have to wait a few more months for more details, though.

[0] : http://artis.imag.fr/Publications/2011/CNSGE11a/GIVoxels_Sig...

[1] : http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.158...
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The startup scene _is_ growing into a hub actually, although some elements (e.g. capital) are hard, others easier (hiring, advice).

That feels like an honor coming from you, thanks. Have you been in Amsterdam often?
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Uh, if you think gcj is going to beat sun's javac/java, you're mistaken.

Again, with the rapid unexplained downvotes... seriously, did you see the article about speeding up Eclipse? The suggestion was to make sure you're not using gcj and others commented that they agree'd. It's well known the gcj is just flat slow compared to Oracle's/OpenJDK.

lol, whatever guys, pile on, I must be missing the joke!
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