skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On (modern, i.e. 2.6.23 and later) Linux at least, you won't hit them quickly:

$ getconf ARG_MAX
2097152

and if you do hit them, they're very easy to raise:

$ ulimit -s 32768
$ getconf ARG_MAX
8388608

xargs is still useful for its other features, of course.
I spent a month in Argentina last year thinking I was going to work on a personal project and got absolutely nothing done, so I can definitely relate. The distractions of foreign places definitely add to the cognitive overhead.
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link the desktop version to the mobile version
You get achievement points there now? Crazy world oO
I've always felt Amsterdam would make a good startup hub. It has the right sort of atmosphere. Civilized without being pretentious.
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what if you simply add .qr to the short URL for the current page? You can post that link on the page if you want.
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"Just paste this snippet on any page and get a QR-code to it!" made fine sense to me. nice work
> Now that Sofa has been acquired by Facebook, the company’s team (ironically enough) will be moving to Palo Alto. But Lee said he doesn’t expect that to affect on Appsterdam’s future...

If the founders don't believe in their own product enough to use it, it's going to fail.
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Huh? Are you arguing that the italicized passage disproves what happened?

The actual practice associated with the CRA had nothing to do with safe/sound operation, and everything to do with a system of penalties and incentives intended to artificially juice minority homeownership. Mergers were denied and anti-redlining probes were launched if you didn't make a certain percentage of ultra high risk loans. This was a bipartisan thing, Bush pushed for this just as hard as Frank. Read Gretchen Morgenson's new book; what happened indicts Democrats and Republicans alike.

The textual literalist argument you offer is reminiscent of those who denied that the Soviet Union could be killing people by the million. After all, the Soviet Constitution spelled out all these great rights!
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I did a quick look online to see who has it. GNU, DragonFly BSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD all have a -delete option. OpenBSD seems to be the only one that doesn't (although its online manpage does give examples on how to do it with -exec and piping to xargs).
You usually have to pay income taxes on income earned while you're resident in a country. If you're on a tourist visa, you're not resident, but really the visa regimes aren't set up to understand this way of working.

In practice just pay taxes in your country of "residence" not the country you're in temporarily. Many countries have 60-90 day visas for visitors from first world countries.
I'm writing the follow-up on this for VentureBeat. Should be out tomorrow and will answer a lot of these questions. But there are several things I liked about Appsterdam. It's a bottom-up, developer-led movement rather than a top-down, government program. It's about creating a haven for indie developers who want to live in a place that is in line with hacker values and have a life as well as a job.
Not sure I follow... How would the QR code link the two?
This can only be considered as a good thing. Chrome is innovating, and pushing all the other main browsers to do the same and become more secure. If anything I think that Chrome is helping Google's Apps (Gmail, Calendar etc) to run smoother across the board on all browsers.
This looks like fun, but so many people have done this now, it's almost a cliche.

It almost seems more unique to hear about a hacker from NYC documenting a summer working in New Paltz, rather than another story about social media experts working from cafes in Buenos Aires and Thailand.
Quite an informative article. I considered building one of these rigs, but I'm only a hobbier, far from the hobbiest.
My company uses QR code demonstrations and giveaways to get clients, this might just come in handy for us. Thank you.

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Just so you know, there's an edit link in each of your posts, though it goes away after enough time.
Most doctors work for a big healthcare system these days. For better or worse, those systems are already using Epic, or something like it.
This may help answer your question about the inflection point: http://www.baekdal.com/tips/password-security-usability

It is a bit old, but not so old that you can't determine what a good length is. More importantly, it is not always about the length, where something like "alpine fun" (two common words) may take a couple months, but just adding in "this is fun" (three common words) gains you thousands of years in time.

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.

This article leads me to believe otherwise, and that something like "this#is#my#password" should be sufficiently uncompromisable for some time to come. It is also highly rememberable to me.

There was a youtube video linked, I believe from HN, apx. 3 weeks ago, that showed a demo of GPU password cracking that was a bit more illustrative than this article, and more current. Unfortunately, I can't seem to locate it.
1. You can import your data into Facebook. You can't export - all you get is Facebook UUIDs back.

2. Privacy options are made deliberately difficult as Facebook (as they've stated before) want you to share as much as you can. Setting anything to 'me only' is buried under a custom setting you have to repeat for everything you don't want shared.
TF2 is not anywhere as competitive as StarCraft 2. There's no ladder, no ranking, no matchmaking..
since i see people asking how this can be useful, think about putting this on a coupon page. people are at their computer looking at the coupons before they visit a business. they simply scan the code and it brings up a mobile version with which they can use to redeem the coupon when they go to the business.
Then the stock of any company ever made is a scam because it is run with the intention to profit shareholders, of which early adopters will profit the most.
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What is a large enough random sample? (relevant to A/B testing)
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Absolutely brilliant! Now that is user interface! so easy to use, already added to my blog and will be adding to my business card. Thanks a lot
+1 for Darwin's Nightmare...
What is the poing of having a QR-code of a page in the page itself?
Your use of the word serious to describe work sounds like a value judgement. Your description sounds more like a distinction between inter-connected vs. carved-out / standalone.

That said, If I were to take off 12 months, I too would prefer to save 10/20K and take off a whole year. I traveled for 6 months after college on ~$5000. Pro tip: if you're paying taxes before and after your trip, then spread it over two tax years (i.e. June - July in US). I calculated that doing this in the UK (where there is a big jump in tax rates) could net you several thousand pounds.
second this. this is an off-the-bell-curve human being who enviably fearless.
http://appsterdam.rs Give it a bit of time, its warming up and will become a relevant movement :-)
Link to the Caldera license doesn't seem to work. Otherwise, very cool!
If you understand spanish, you might enjoy "Comprar, Tirar, Comprar" (buy, throw away, buy): http://www.rtve.es/v/983391/

It's about the fact that most products now have a "programmed lifespan".
Everything is legal until it is made illegal. Bartering for goods and services is not illegal, at least in the US, and Bitcoin falls under that legal realm.

There is no law hindering any company's ability to accept Bitcoin as payment besides the requirement to pay taxes on the fair market value of the Bitcoins.
Well if their business was to sell more company stock, then yes. But generally the company actually produces something of value, not just itself.
Check the site http://appsterdam.rs It is going to be much more than an information hub, the aim is to turn it into a movement. Given the enthusiasm of the crowd there yesterday I'm pretty sure it will turn into something big.
One thing I'm certain of is that my expenses for a trip like this when I was 21 would have been much lower than for a trip like this now.

I've sadly grown accustomed to fancier meals (restaurants over ramen) and softer beds (hotels over hostels). It would be a lot of mental work to keep my expectations down and readjust them to what they were in my student days.

It would be a very good exercise though.
If you want to know how this may be perverse, it mirrors a pump and dump. Get in really cheap, hype it and dump for lots of profit on something without any basis for its value.
You should also check out Bronowski's Ascent of Man, it was made with many of the same people, before Connections. Later, they again worked on Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
If you're trading Bitcoins for a meal, I don't think it really matters if it fits the dictionary definition of a "currency."
But what of value was actually produced by that "computational effort"? What is the current total worth of the results for all of that computational effort? If effort produces nothing of lasting value, is it a valid basis for value?

The computation power secures the network from double-spending. Do security guards also produce nothing of lasting value?
The orthogonality ship has sailed with Unix, for better or (IMHO) for worse. The Unix Haters were right about this, among other things, and the sections of the handbook about the shell are still valid, even as time and Moore have rendered others quaint.
There's a lot to be said about super-node pattern analysis with TOR, as well as the flaws in the exit nodes with regard to unencrypted communications, but I couldn't get past the fact that Zed's entire post was a massive Godwin.
I thought Silicon Valley was a nickname for Sunnyvale, CA.
This is distinctive for the US from what I understand. People in most western countries don't have to report to them once they've left other than to renew passports.
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If the crypto method being used is strong enough, then there is no need to obscure the authentication algorithm or the salted value. That just provides a little bit of security through obscurity, it doesn't actually harden the passwords anymore. Thus, modern password hashing libraries just put the algorithm and salt information in the password string itself, so that the string of data you store in the database contains 3 pieces of data: The algorithm used to hash the password, the salt, and the password hash. The benefit of this is convenience: Different platforms/languages can all create/authenticate various password hash types with ease as long as everybody sticks to this format.

And because of this, if you choose a weak crypto method to hash your passwords (which is what MtGox did), then an attacker conveniently has the 3 things they need to attempt to crack the password: The algorithm, the salt and the hashed value all in the same place.

However, if a strong crypto is used (IE a computationally intensive and slow hash), then the fact that the algorithm, salt and hashed value are in the same place doesn't really weaken the passwords. With an expensive enough hash, even if the attacker has all the information about how to crack the password right in front of them, actually performing the necessary computation would be so expensive that a brute force attack is effectively protected against.

You can see more details about the format of the password strings and where the 3 parts of data are stored here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.crypt.php
(the PHP page had the best explanation of my quick search, though this isn't just PHP specific)
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Any chance you could add an option to create a QR code based on a link entered? e.g. would like to create one for my Linked in page
I consider myself very lucky that 1) I've always been big and athletic since elementary school and 2) that I went to a high school with other really smart people where people were known and respected for being smart. Hence, I don't really remember being picked on, except for a couple of minor instances in elementary and middle school. I'm glad I could never relate to the stereotypical midwestern US high school culture that's always on TV and in the movies.
He's referring to how the most popular Bitcoin exchange site, mtgox.com was formerly a trading site for Magic The Gathering cards, "Magic The Gathering Online eXchange"

This site was hacked a few days ago causing much chaos in the Bitcoin community.
My MtGox password was only 8 reasonably random characters and is also not on the list.

I always use unique passwords so I don't care that much if it gets broken.
At a largely Windows-based shop I installed Linux on my system and had Gnome set up with some fancy 3d-box transitions. I got some startled wows from my coworkers when they were helping me with something over my shoulder and I switched desktops.

However, I always found myself reducing the transition time bit by bit, until I eventually got rid of the transition. When I'm in the zone and coding I might be checking docs or some output on one workspace, and I want to switch workspaces and begin typing without the feedback delay. I already have the next 20 keystrokes planned out, and I'd rather be rate limited by my fingers than my WM.
Pretty cool. One downside I see of the easy way of integration (as opposed to having to use a site-specific URL) is that the browser cache cannot be used (and as expected, the image comes back with a "no-cache" header), since the browser might end up using the same image for multiple sites using the feature. Is there any caching on the server to avoid having to generate the image every time?
Wild China is pretty amazing, and it's on Neflix Instant.
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I'm looking to deploy a Rack based app on Heroku and I have been checking out different database solutions. Amongst MongoHQ, MongoLab, Heroku DB hosting, Amazon RDS, and Xeround, the MongoDB solutions are significantly cheaper than the SQL solutions. I know price should not determine which DB you use for your app but the price differential is significant.

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I don't hold the microphone to my mouth, but simply put it on my desk. That's to prevent it from picking up my "pops". I need to start using a pop filter.
>> 1. JavaScript's speed is actually not far from Mono's now. And constantly getting closer.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... <- That still looks sort of far to me.

>> 3. Running dynamic languages on Mono is slow. Look at the speed of all the dynamic languages on Mono (or the JVM for that matter), and compare them to native implementations of dynamic languages, in particular JavaScript and Lua. The native implementations beat dynamic languages on Mono by a large margin, simply because .NET is a bytecode made for static languages.

It's not fair to compare JavaScript, which is already approaching a limit of how fast it can go, with the speed it gets running in Mono. Why? The two implementations have a vast difference of amount of energy and resources thrown at them; had Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft wanted JS to run fast on Mono, it would run fast on Mono.

Also saying that .NET is a bytecode made for static languages is kind of iffy now that the "Dynamic Language Runtime" is a part of .NET
I was a bit confused at first. When he said tiling windows with the gnome terminal I thought, "is this just a GNU screen tutorial with a buzz-words title?" When I saw the browser windows in there I started to wonder how you embedded a browser into a gnome-terminal tab.

It took watching the video to see that it was more integrated than I first expected.
And you see real currencies being used in many of them as black market currencies instead of the national currency. You can also see countries trying to stop inflation by indexing to other, stable, currencies.
This has been the same way in Xcode 3. It isn't new in Xcode 4.
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It is does not obviate any moral dilemma, I simply believe in geohot's right to his own moral choice. He is a human being with his own self-interests and free will; he should not be imbued with heroic obligations to the geek community.
I think there are a few grumpy types that downvote for little reason, or perhaps completely arbitrarily. They're often the first votes in, as this action requires little consideration, and presumably such people have few other distractions.

Also, some downvotes are cast in error. This is very easy on touch-screens, and occasionally a problem elsewhere. Since totals are no longer displayed, a person may not even realize their intended upvote registered as a downvote.

So assume it was a mistake. Or a hopelessly grumpy person whose bad attitude is best ignored, rather than amplified with curses and complaints. Brush off the first downvote or two, and well-considered upvotes follow soon enough.
Impossible to find housing is not my experience.

I moved here one year ago from Italy. Got an apartment from my first company for 2 months, then rented a shared apartment with other two people.

After a few months I got a mortgage with no money down and moved in my own house not far away from the center, and the government reimburses me part of that every month.

If we speak about renting prices, I can agree they are high, but from what I heard they are still less expensive than in the valley. Places to rent also go really quickly, but impossible is another thing.
As long as there is a wariness of a bubble, there will be no bubble. When everyone throws caution to the wind because they feel like they'd miss out, that's when it happens.
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Is there really a coherence between giving children to daycare and improper socialization in the US?

I am sure there is none here in Germany.
I wonder why -print0 / -0 isn't the default, as it seems that not using those options is the wrong way to do it.

(Either that or why filenames can have spaces or LFs in them.)
In a reply, he adds Haskell (compiled with ghc)

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2011-03/m...
1. Sure you can, go to Account Settings > Download Your Information (second from bottom).
2. I'm very much with you on this one. The privacy settings should be easier.
So lets see an option in 10.8, aka Ocelot, where there is a fairly hidden button called Allow non-app store app installs, with a readable (unlike itunes eula), in Security.
How about a credit card? It's simple. Those fees aren't just there to screw you (albeit, some places do, doesn't mean fees are inherently bad). They also help support the infrastructure required to create a stable and easy way to use money. People expect protection against fraud, bank runs, etc. That doesn't just happen magically, it happens with organization and processes. Look at some of the other comments coming from supporters of bitcoin here, creating a bank running on transaction fees (or a nation was the example). It's the same thing, except it's trying to poorly mimic something that already exists and quite frankly, works fairly well.
What about PHP? Will it have same results as C?
Opera beta does this too. It's nice, but the start of the box moves around a bit (left to right).
1 - the article linked here on hn gives 9 characters as the current practical limit for brute force hacking with a 100 values per character (upper + lower + symbol). the link you gave calls 6 characters "safe for life" when using alphanumeric + symbols. while exactly what symbols are included is significant, there's clearly a major discrepancy (i guess that the problem is two-fold: your link is woefully out of date and the link here is over-estimating rates on gpus).

2 - also, using more words is, in the context of the article you linked to, related to dictionary attacks. and again your article is pretty poor since it's giving an example with very common words which implies that a very small dictionary would be needed. i would not call "this is fun" a safe password.

3 - the article you link to is again misleading in that it completely ignores password helpers and puts too much emphasis on local restrictions like reducing login rates. it seems like it was written before both the web (we are seeing lists of passwords being stolen - that makes "restricting retries" completely irrelevant) and gpus were common. i would not use it as a reliable source of advice.
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Thank you 1000x for stating this. I've never heard of anyone doing anything significant and living this way. Before he made money selling books on how to design lifestyles, what did Chris Guillebeau do for money? Be a grad student, I think. (As in, live off his stipend.)
You may be correct but no one starts out programming in assembly then working their way up to higher order languages.

However this is exactly how math is practiced.

Wouldn't it be better to start with higher order logic first, so students can see a value proposition then work our way down to the nitty gritty computation that no one needs to do unless they're advancing the field?