skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article you linked talks about HTTP session storage. The original article talks about SSL sessions. That's not the same thing:

HTTP sessions are used to keep user state across different requests whereas SSL sessions are a feature of the SSL protocol to decrease the amount of encryption work needed across multiple HTTP connections per session.
Kevin Kelly has an extensive collection of what he calls True Films [1]: "I define true films as documentaries, educational films, instructional how-to's, and what the British call factuals - a non-fiction visual account."

He has also released an ebook where he offers rave reviews of 150 great true films.
Each film gets a short review of why it is worth your time, and then features 4 or 5 screen grabs from the film to show you what the texture and style of the film is. It also includes a picture of the cover and indicate where you can rent it (say on Netflix) or purchase it (from Amazon).

What is he looking for in a great true film? "It must be factual. It must surprise me, but not preach to me. If it introduces me to a world or subculture that I never thought about before, even better. There's a plot - a transformation from beginning to the end."

[1] http://truefilms.com/
[2] http://www.kk.org/books/true-films.php
How Silver Lake Sees The Skype Situation
Yeah, it's pretty easy to change this in Devise, a popular auth library for rails that uses bcrypt by default, and to have a custom value to speed up unit tests: https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/Speed-up-your-u...

config.stretches = Rails.env.test? ? 1 : 10
I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to write software to parse legal documents and find crap like this.
I think it is time to divide SEO into two parts.
One part where you optimise your site, you change ugly long urls to prettier easier to understand. Decrease the loading time and think about how and what you write. And similar things that mostly increases the experience for the users.

And then the other part where you buy links and other crap.

SEO has started to become asociated with evil. It can be, and it is often easier to do it the evil way. But to some extent it can be done in a good way. You can give customers an awesome experience so they blog about it. Give away free stuff and so on. Its not only evil.
I've been using an svn for this purpose. I can sync my password dp (and config files, project files, etc.) between my computers and n900 pretty easily. It's not quite as easy as a dropbox-type of synchronizer but it has some added benefits too (history, pretty much all platforms support svn, so on).
From the article: "But the big difference between Skype and most Silicon Valley venture-backed companies--a difference that is inflaming this scandal--is that Skype is a private-equity deal, not a venture capital deal. And standard operating procedure (SOP) in private-equity deals is different than SOP in venture capital deals"
Yes, all these languages support that. My CL is rusty, and it's not clear from the article, but I think he's talking about providing a function to calculate the default value from some of the other args.
New Facebook App Tries to Stop Facebook Scams and Spams
Is shyness an evolutionary tactic?
Facebook snags Geohot
Parallel Programming: Example showing first-order failure of Amdahl's law
Correct me if I'm wrong: you mean that in the real world, salted passwords have only one advantage over plain text passwords, which is to buy you some time ? (albeit it's a strong advantage)
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of...
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Uh, no, they haven't "convinced the public" - it's not as if there's any other way to purchase the tickets to events without engaging TM and their extortionate fees. Trying to pretend like TM is a paragon of the free market winning again is just wrong.
Watch Bridesmaids Megavideo
Watch Bridesmaids Megavideo
The film written by Wiig and co-writer Annie Mumollo focuses primarily on the rivalry between Wiig is Annie and Helen Rose Byrne one of the other bridesmaids as Annie sees as a threat to his friendship with Lillian To add to the humor of the film is that the other three bridesmaids.
A number of the venues allow you to buy tickets directly from the ticket window without the extra fees. (The Fillmore allows this during restricted times, e.g.) I will usually try to do this as a way of not supporting the Master--but, come to think of it, I actually don't know how the money is divided when I purchase like this.
Which papers do you recommend about this subject, for reading after the Appel book?

Something that I found interesting is that polymorthic types on .NET are also implemented with monomorphisation.
"If the value of each bitcoin did not rise, no one at all would mine and the network would grind to a halt (no confirmed transactions)."

This isn't true. The system has several modes of adjustment and it will always be worth it for someone to generate blocks. If the value of a coin didn't rise to match generation costs, people /should/ stop mining -- but those that remain will collect more coins or transaction fees as the difficulty drops to compensate. Overall the economy as a whole shrinks, but never grinds to a halt.
I have a tangentially related question. During this LulzSec situation, I stepped into 2009 and started using LastPass. I generated 16 character random passwords for every place that I've been visiting. As I understand it, these passwords are encrypted on my machine and then uploaded to LastPass servers. When I login with my master password, I have access to all of these passwords unencrypted.

My question: is there an intrinsic weakness in storing these passwords at a central location? E.g. would it be feasible that LastPass gets targeted by a complicated blackhat attack, and then instead of losing just one of my passwords I lost them all? Or is the manner in which they are encrypted and transmitted secure enough to prevent this?

Thanks.
Get some books, build some stuff, use that stuff as a reference to get a job, learn from the people there.

In reality, you are probably more prepared than you think.
Making a realistic vintage typewriter in Illustrator
Probably need something very close to strong AI.
What A Lazy Pot Smoker Can Teach You About Internet Marketing Success
Just because something works does not automatically means it's not a ponzi scheme. The original Ponzi was buying and selling real stamps. He didn't necessarily set out to defraud people. I personally don't think bitcoins are a ponzi scheme, but the fact that somebody once paid for lunch with them is not much evidence of that.
Ah, sorry, I, er, misunderestimated you then. I don't think it tells about the esteem I hold for those two groups - more about the assumptions I make about HN users.
If LastPass uses good cryptography your passwords should be safe for a very long time.
HTML 5 Canvas experiments
Leeches? Not the best choice for a comparison.

Leeches are free medicine, as opposed to today's as-closed-as-it-gets med/pharma industry. They are still in use in official medicine, not only in the form of synthetic blood anticoagulant hirudin.

There's quite little information on hirudotherapy on Wikipedia, no mention of the range of beneficial substances leches' saliva contains (other than hirudin) and no mention of e.g. benefits of iron depletion through bloodletting.

This might be considered controversial medicine, but dismissing medicinal use of leeches sounds a bit off to me.

But I might be totally wrong, I am part of the Wikipedia generation too after all :)
Taking a lesson from jQuery I see.
"One British company, Pace, sells such boxes to American providers, who do not take advantage of the reduced energy options because of worries that the lowest energy states could disrupt service. Cable companies say customers will not tolerate the time it takes to reboot the system once the system has been shut down or put to sleep."

LOL AMERICA
Silicon Valley's Secret Weapon
NB: nothing about anybody being a pot smoker in the post.
> not sure if CoffeeScript is Turing-complete

Wait, why wouldn't it be?
Windows 8 – As we first saw it
That must have been a typo; the course is CS61A.
The most important by far rule for currency is stability. With stability comes acceptance of the currency.
You don't have that - the owner first looked up the exchange rate to US dollars.

Maybe he looked up the exchange rate rate because he wants to be fair: he wants to charge the same price for a lunch regardless of whether people pay with Bitcoins or dollars.
I would recommend watching the parody http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg after "All Watched Over" :)
Ones i know of: coins, pottery (http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/article_inde...), gadgets for tourists.

I guess the Roman army mass-produced weaponry, too. Ships, forts, and bridges were semi-mass-produced (one design, adjusted to circumstances, small numbers)
How do you distinguish between currency and a medium of exchange?

From the sound of it, you defined currency as "a stable medium of exchange" which by definition prevents any unstable currency from being a currency.

Is there a definitive reason why a less stable medium of exchange cannot be a substitute for a stable one? Especially with today's technology when increasingly many things are being done in "real time".

I'm not an expert on currency and I'd appreciate further education. To me, it seems that knowing (and potentially being able to predict) the variable forces that are affecting the volatility of a medium of exchange is, in the long run, more valuable to its users than artificial relative stability provided by a governing body.
Become a saint to nerds after taking on a company that wont let you do what you want with products you've paid for

...

ends up at a company that in no human decipherable terms owns your social identity.

...

Who woulda thunk

edit: I think it's worth mentioning, I'm not decrying either he or facebook for their acquisition of talent, it's just an unexpected maneuver. Kind of like a physicist suddenly leaving his craft for the pulpit. Perfectly fine if he wants to do that...just sort of an "oh, that was unexpected".
This depends entirely on what bcrypt implementation you use. The ruby gem for instance uses a version that's not affected (bcrypt.c from openbsd).
But I said 'better enough'. There are of course investors that can legally get above the index.
The Red Flag Act of 1865
Most any overlap between your "secret" identity and your "normal" identity can provide an opening.

This might involve (erroneously) shared contacts. Shared VoIP numbers. Shared MAC addresses, or shared IP addresses. Shared passwords. IRC channels or web sites.

Even what times you are active, what words and what phrases you use, and your browser strings can provide clues.

A group within (IIRC) Lebanon was reportedly identified a while back because of an opsec error; one of the folks involved in the group used a "restricted" cellular phone to call his girlfriend, and that broke open the identities.

The German Ultra encryption system was targeted and was sometimes vulnerable due to opsec errors. Opening such as key reuse, or sending duplicate messages, can provide openings that allowed decryption.

This area is related to the classic "covert channels" discussions within information security; on the expected information leakage, and around how a "defender" wants to keep leakage at a minimum, and how an "attacker" is looking for clues and errors.

This is also a corollary to the classic difficulties with maintaining server security; leave one sufficiently egregious opening in your security, and you can be toast.
True Films, as suggested by BioGeek, has an extensive list of documentaries and offers thorough reviews.

Personally I use Movielens.org to keep track of movies - and based on your ratings it'll predict which other movies, including documentaries, you might enjoy.

Some of the documentaries I enjoyed are:
- Armadillo (2010). Armadillo centers on a group of soldiers, as do Restrepo, and in particular a mission where Taliban soldiers allegedly are liquidated. The documentary does a good job depicting the chaos of war situations with helmet-mounted cameras.
- Sharkwater (2006). To me, much more moving and worrying than The Cove.
- Surfwise (2007). A surf movie that isn't about surfing, but instead tells the story of being brought up in an alternative lifestyle.
Numerical Methods by Pavel Holoborodko
sqlite is single user and locks a bit too frequently to be very scalable, so while quite useful, I mean sqlite not capable of fully replacing a typical engine such as postgres or mysql.
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16:00 when he is talking about cloud storage is what drove this home for me. Really amazing for me to see him forecasting "The Cloud" and thin clients.

Still waiting for better SSO in OS X though...
Enron - The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron:_The_Smartest_Guys_in_the...

March of the Penguins (2005)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_the_Penguins

Code Rush (2000)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Rush

Losers and Winners (2006)
http://www.losers-and-winners.net/index_en.htm
Documentary about the dismantling of a German coking plant, the most modern in the world, by Chinese workers in 2003, who shipped the plant to China and built several clones of it there. The plant was sold to China for a minor sum when the steel price was at an all time low and politicians believed the price would stay there. The steel price has since skyrocketed.

Weltmarktführer (2004)
http://www.weltmarktfuehrer-derfilm.de/
Excellent documentary about the rise and fall of IT-startup Biodata and its founder Tan Siekmann during the dotcom boom and bust, alas only available in German.
My question was badly phrased. I'm not that surprised that there are books/documents produced by NATO. I'm surprised they sell them. I think everything (public) produced by NATO should be freely accessible to everyone. This was so obvious to me that I'm surprised it's not the case, another little reminder of the world we live in.
Hasn't Theil's Clarium Capital beat the market simply by making large calculated bets against the grain which turned out right? Why would that be considered insider trading? In cases where large traded just before a big move occurs, there's significant possibility for insider trading. But I don't think you can blanket statement all such wins against the market as insider trading. Maybe over a longer period of time, this would appear suspicious.
Fantastic, an anonymously-sourced hit-piece on Lee. I think this ham-handed pushback illustrates one thing for sure: Skype is weak in the PR department and thus the brand is likely fragile and dependent on public perception. Perhaps with MS behind them that might change, but if Skype-related hinkiness continues I'll predict Microsoft just kills the Skype name/brand and folds it into Live or whatever.
“Generally, it is clear that things that make life less boring are a priority for the poor,” they write in their new book.

“They don’t just need nutrition that will keep them alive longer—they also need a reason to want to live longer. Being healthier by denying yourself the little pleasures you can afford, a cup of tea or a bowl of steaming rice, makes little sense if you have nothing else to look forward to,” says Banerjee. “I think they make exactly the choices I would make in their place as regards food.”

...isn't that fucking obvious? You can extrapolate from our own rich society where people would rather spends thousands on electronics than on non-fast-food. Paying double for healthier food? Fuck no. Paying hundreds for an iPhone? Fuck yes.
In the first 10 minutes of forensics class, they start stressing that you never work on original equipment -- always from copies.

So a "bug" in a HDD would just hear all of the fascinating conversation that takes place in an evidence locker.
Professor Marcus du Sautoy has made documentaries with the BBC about famous mathematicians; they're pretty good.

Also, I'm not sure if they qualify as documentaries in the strict sense of the word, but you can't go wrong with BBC natural history programmes.
I am not sure we are talking about the same problem domain.
You might want to add a little more information on your page explaining what it is. I.e. What is the difference with Bluetile? With tmux?

Also, if I start gnome-terminal, run tmux, and put it full-screen.. isn't it a "gnome tiling manager" ?
Man on Wire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_on_Wire
If you find things like graphic design, typesetting or industrial design interesting, you will definitely enjoy "Helvetica" and "Objectified" from Gary Hustwit.
The overall best general history documentation I've seen is Simon Schama's "A History of Britain":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_Britain_%28TV_seri...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273359/
King of Kong. Donkey Kong was a little before my time, but the characters are so amazing that it's almost hard to believe it's a documentary.

Cosmos. Because it's Carl Sagan.
I think you'll find it extremely difficult to get a loan for a startup without putting up an equal amount of cash as collateral.
He was pretty specifically talking about the Newton, which produced either decently captured raster handwriting or questionably recognized plain text. You don't want to be the one telling people to use a device in a way which is best described as questionable. The iPhone produces reasonably keyed plain text, or questionably smudged handwriting. Since adding cellular modems to handheld devices was straightforward engineering at the time, that inversion of input is probably what made the iPhone take another five years of work when they returned to the idea after stabilizing OS X.
doesn't mean whoever wrote it isn't. I just copied the title they gave it. Besides, I pretty sure it's a euphemism / over-exaggeration.
Here are some nerdy ones:

"BBS: The Documentary" and "Get Lamp" by Jason Scott are a couple great hacker docs, about BBSs and Interactive Fiction Games (though I would have to say they have a more Apple/wintel PC bent over other computers, but still historically interesting). Both have many great interviews with BBS and interactive fiction luminaries.

Tilt - The Battle to Save Pinball, this one covers the trials and tribualtions of Pinball 2000 the development of a digital/analog pinball hybrid. There's also The History of Pinball, its not as fancy but it's interesting.

The King of Kong is slightly entertaining about the world of Donkey Kong high scores and a peek into competitive arcade game competitions.

Revolution OS - About Linux/GNU kinda dry but interesting interviews.

Deathbed Vigil...and other tales of digital angst. Documents the last days of Commodore when it went bankrupt in 1994. I think mainly interesting to Commodore fans or folks who enjoyed seeing commodore fail...
The Century of the Self by Adam Curtis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcYBSXgtmKQ - Episode 1 of 4, the rest are also on youtube

It's a bit tendentious but overall insightful and interesting IMO.
Is Bioware Losing It’s Edge?
Waiting For Superman --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_%22Superman%22

Man on Wire is a must http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_on_Wire
Poverty-friendly.

Good policy.

Let us transcend our great poverty of understanding.
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A salted, hashed (with a slow hash function) strong (long, random, large character set) password, will take hundreds, thousands, or millions of years (average case) to crack with brute force.

It's only technically "buying some time." In reality it's keeping it completely secure.

And what use would a hacker have attacking a whole database full of them? It would take too long to do it, even with less secure passwords. It takes your fruit out of the "low hanging" category, which is a bit of security in itself.
Only the NVidia binary driver appears to be stable enough to run WebGL on Linux. I believe Firefox and Chrome disable all other ones by default, and even older versions of NVidia's.

You can force-enable it, but it might be crashy.
Only useful if you do not mind your objects being mutable.

otherwise:

string name1 = "Andrew Ducker";
string name2 = name1;
name1.toUpper();

means that name2 is now also "ANDREW DUCKER" when we quite possibly didn't want it to be.
Using multiple salts makes it more expensive, but it doesn't defeat an attack unless it makes the attack impossibly expensive. My contention is is that multiple salts by themselves will not make the attack impossibly expensive.

Better encryption, e.g. bcrypt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt attempts to make it impossibly expensive to crack passwords. Part of their technique is to use per-password salts to increase the time for all passwords, but the key is to have an encryption algorithm that takes an "impossibly" long time per password as well. Key is that it is "an adaptive hash: over time it can be made slower and slower so it remains resistant to specific brute-force search attacks against the hash and the salt."

Rainbow tables are O(1). Salts are O(n). Bcrypt is O(big), where "big" can be increased to keep it bigger than a "practical" attack will be willing to attempt.
CoffeeScript allows loops no? Therefore it is turing complete (practically).
If you change the good to be "five guys stop screaming" or "ten guys ..." then then MU may be once again diminishing.

A common example of this is given with eggs. You may only like omelets, which take three eggs apiece. So, a third egg is worth more to you than the first two. But if the good is considered as "three eggs", a different good entirely, the LoDMU holds.
Seems like saying one day mathematicians will prove any poker player who won the World Series of Poker must have been cheating.

I'm sure people like Warren Buffett, and John Paulson and the numerous others who predicted the financial crisis, are not too worried about that.

In any case the Chicago efficient market mafia proved it years ago, based on their assumptions about how the market works. Proving something with a model doesn't make it true in the real world. Even in physics you have to do the experiment to show the model matches reality. Of course, in finance and economics, it's usually quite difficult to do a repeatable experiment.
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I'd be interested in any lawyer's take on this.

IANAL but I know that it is possible in some instances to challenge a contract which is written to seem to give you X but really gives you nothing.

My non-lawyer-y understanding of the situation would be that a lawsuit would turn on the fact that the employees weren't made aware that "vested" didn't mean vested in the contract.
For the sake of comparison, per capita energy consumption in the US (for 2003, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_con...) is 10,381.2W, or around 91,000kWh/yr, so the example of 446kWh/yr in the article corresponds to about 0.5% of average energy consumption.

Maryland has a population of 5,773,552, c.f. 308,745,538 for the whole US, i.e. about 1.9% - my guess is they're actually talking about electricity consumption here, not overall energy consumption.
I doubt it. First of all, it also works for me. Second, they've been targeting governments and similar sites. Third, there's a million things that could cause a 500 Internal Server Error before we should start jumping to conclusions about world-class organized computer hackers.
It tiles windows, not terminal sessions.
Yes. In such a case you would need to clone the object. Having toUpper() clone by default is wasteful if you don't need a clone. Hence using "return this".
I doubt that you could be an employee of a startup with that approach. But you could still be right about this...