skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My idea is beyond this, but the basic gist is to create several stages. 'Alpha' 'Beta' 'Live' '10' '#'. So if a person is very interested or wants the finished product, etc, then there's a variety of matching options.

However it'd really depends on what the offer is. This is an indirect suggestion to do some marketing 101 ;)
The original java infinite mario was used in the fascinating Mario AI competition.

Details and papers here: http://www.marioai.org

Video of last years winning entry at work here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlkMs4ZHHr8

It's pretty interesting, a lot of people wrote/are writing high falutin' machine learning algorithms, but they are consistently trounced by good old A* techniques.
Remote Timing Attacks Are Practical
Then so could the replacement hard drive, any USB sticks you buy, any USB connecting peripheral, etc.
This would be "certainly" only if the system worked perfectly. I think there will way more false positives than actual preventions (at least in the near term).
Actually, I believe a recent update stopped the water regeneration, so now it acts like lava.
That's exactly the sort of service I was looking for - I can't believe I haven't come across it before! Thanks.
Excellent post. This seriously needs to be reiterated to everyone who needs to choose a database.

Sharded MySQL means you're tying your architecture together with boogers and spit. But the problem isn't the relational model itself, and there's no good reason that model shouldn't be able to scale.
Wow. Read 'datacenter' for 'machine in the local network'.
Short haircuts for fine hair | short haircuts | medium hairstyles 
Fine and thin hair looks better when cut in a short bob with side swept bangs of interest. This type of hairstyle is also excellent for camouflaging a wrinkled or high forehead...
So here's one theory I believe: Facebook and other large social media companies today will evolve into universal login systems eventually. We've already seen it with "Connect with Facebook" or "Connect with Twitter" buttons, but I believe this will become more and more prominent as the year progresses.

Why? Like the article states, people don't like giving out their email address. Why reinvent the login interface millions of times when you can just use one. Google, Facebook, Twitter (etc etc) already provide those interfaces, so use them!! Hell, I've turned away from betas just because their sign up form is too annoying.
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EdgeRank: The Secret Sauce That Makes Facebook's News Feed Tick
Also, here: http://hildr.luminance.org/Platformer/Platformer.html

Where I believe they are actually cross compiling cil into js.
"Google+ making it nearly impossible to import Facebook friends"

Uhh... no. Try "Facebook making it nearly impossible to export your friends". How could it possibly benefit Google for them to make it hard to import your friends?

Did the author even think before writing this?
How many people are visiting the page? I am curious to hear how much a well-targeted Amazon ad can extract from a visitor.
It may not be common everywhere in the country, but it's a fact of life in the poorer and less affluent states. Especially in Appalachia, where many state governments are basically run by industry groups.

Case in point: [1] Caperton v A.T. Massey Coal Co: A recent case from my former home state where a coal operator effectively bought a judge, who then ruled in favour of said coal operator. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually made sense of it [and unfortunately the case was later dismissed on a technicality], but there are many, many other examples of this type of "corruption" that never make it to a higher review.

So in that sense, no, we don't really have a free market. We have a Corporate Republic that protects the interests of its largest citizens.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caperton_v._A.T._Massey_Coal_Co.
I wonder what the government should do to generate revenue from entrepreneurial sources? Maybe have a Value Added Tax to Angel Investor funds of a small percent, say 30%, to help stabilize the market.
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Latest PHP Release adds “traits”
Nice article.

Reminds me a little of the two lead characters of "Makers", the Cory Doctorow book. But this is real, and mildly depressing. You want guys like this to be successful, and to have the choice to live the spartan lifestyle if they choose, or one with a better choice of food, beverage, sleeping, etc. options.

Sad to read that relationships are not important though :-(
And you can read about the traits behavior here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/horizontalreuse#traits_-_reuse_of_b...
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> If there's a long line of people waiting to get in already. A long visible line coming out of the door, makes more people want to know about it and in some cases stand in line for it.

I think this is the main point, if you have a way to let people know how long the queue is and where is your position in the queue, it might actually work.
Take the deposit.
There are a lot of releases, and fairly often; I've had versions go "out of date" on me within a week of its release. The forums are very active, and when they say something is unbalanced or broken, it tends to get fixed. Some things are not serious game-breakers, even if they are mildly broken (see: elephants in the versions that Boatmurdered used), and those tend to stay in until it becomes a pain to deal with.

Basically, it's just trial-and-error. But it makes for an interesting game, because you're never quite sure if everything will work as expected.
Facebook as a product to monetize is not innovative. It's a website serving targeted ads.

Twitter is a new kind of messaging service. How to monetize that is not so clear.
The best thing with the introduction of ClojureScript, at least for web applications, is that we can now write the whole application in Clojure without context switches. Gaka for CSS, ClojureScript for JavaScript, Hiccup for HTML and Clojure for everything else. Possibly someone could design a form validation library that validates both server side and client side with the same code. Love the possibility being presented here.
There's no serial port on the iOS device connector.

http://pinouts.ru/PortableDevices/ipod_pinout.shtml

More than likely, this device is NOT emulating a serial port via USB.
"On anything about $1000/month in sales, we take a 10% cut."

about -> above
Actually, with reCAPTCHA you can now get a prefab solution that can't be cracked.
I'd take cramped over dead any day.
It is often used as an offense, but at least in my case, it's simply an insult backfire (thanks for the compliment). I assume it's the same way for quite a lot of other people.
NoSQL is a premature optimization for relational data

I don't know about that either. Graph DBs have been around a while and are ideal for relational data (you don't have to mess with tables and joins because everything is explicitly joined), but Web developers are just starting to realize their power.

If I am developing a website that uses the Facebook Graph API (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/) or the Twitter API to store my users' friends and followers (and many modern auth systems are doing this), a graph database is ideal because you can use a graph query language like Gremlin (https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki) to do all sorts of cool stuff, like find a user's friends of friends:

g.v(user_id).outE('friend').inV.outE('friend').inV

This says for the graph database "g":

1. Start at the vertex for the user_id

2. Follow the outgoing edges labeled "friend" to the incoming vertices (these incoming vertices are the user's friends)

3. From the user's friends, follow the outgoing edges to the incoming vertices one more time to get their friends.

This is so much simpler than messing with joins in a relational database, and it's much more performant on large data sets.
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Consider that the original super mario brothers ROM is 30.79kb.
Hacker News API. Waiting for mobile apps.
That "auditor" is an idiot as some of the posters have mentioned already. I was like "No" and then I got to the "both private and public keys" and I was like "Hell no!".
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No, clownery like this should be exposed.
My friend designed this one: http://ignitiondeck.com

If interested, I can pass along his details.
The New Yorker is owned by Conde Nast, which is most decidedly in favor of making money. Because it's part of a large portfolio of Magazines (Wired, Vogue, Glamour, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, on and on), there's little data about its individual profitability.
I recently blogged an interesting approach by an app (called livepath) which let people buy into a beta account. Whenever the beta was a bit further developped he dropped the pricing a bit. Here's the link: http://blog.thegodfounder.com/post/5894377639/lifepaths-sign...
Pakcyberarmy database hacked and Leaked by Indian Hacker - Lucky
IBM Software Development Platform, what development tool they use?
I found this article fairly uninformative.

His first point is 'all NoSQL is less mature'.
Second point is 'there is no advantage to NoSQL except scale'
Third point is 'you'll have time to scale later, which includes moving to NoSQL'

None of these arguments is novel. Developers pick NoSQL for other reasons as well.

I didn't find a pioneer tax to setting it up.
It worked extremely well for non-uniform data.
I found its design easier to handle for failover.

This entire debate is old. NoSQL is a tool. His arguments add nothing to the debate.
Someone must have caught wind. No need for right click with Firebug. :)
What is it about sign up forms that are too annoying? Just the email to put in?
A lot of the confusion and furor over NoSQL vs relational vs NewSQL is caused by the idea that these technologies demand any sort of mutual exclusion. At my shop we use Redis and MySQL and SQLite extensively and - to the best of my knowledge - they have never gotten into scuffles with each other, holy wars of relationality. In fact, this seems to be a proclivity unique to their users.

That being said, I think it is - wait for it - premature to call NoSQL an unwarranted early "optimization." For our real-time analytics app, we use Redis because we are just storing key (page name) value (hits). With millions of writes a day for relatively simple data, it is nice - and in no way premature - to run Redis on a medium-sized instance. Data retrieval is fast and after a year and a half we haven't had any problems.

Other apps, use MySQL exclusively. For our many-many forests of tag, entry, source, author, etc etc relational data, we rely on the easy oversight of MySQL and the rich ORMs that have gracefully evolved to cut through the jungle.

What's more, there are many applications that use both Redis and MySQL. My Silver gem https://github.com/tpm/silver wraps MySQL requests in a Redis caching layer to speed up queries. This is not terribly novel or that different than, say, memcached but it does what we need it to.

The point is that just like apps are as multiform as the imagination is competent, so should be the tools and strategies we use to create them and solve their problems. Yes, people will use NoSQL incorrectly. People use MySQL incorrectly and inefficiently more than not. Hell, you can use YAML in a bad way. Those aren't the cases we should focus on. We should focus on all the systems that do work.

I'd like to see, for every mind-thinky post about whether or not MySQL is a death trap or NoSQL is a nu-wave panacea, a post about how some company is making the technologies that they have chosen work for them. At the end of the day, there is no uniform march toward optimal global technology efficiency. Just the small victories of a startup that needs to record cat GPS movements, a newspaper that needs to analyze a million pages of leaks, a broker who needs to pour through SEC dumps. NoSQL, NewSQL, SQL, HithertoUnknownUnPostSQL: I say let em all in. Someone will find them useful.
Android Passwords are stored in plain text on Disk
You can listen to the whole show here:
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I remember when you first posted this :) Good to hear it's still going!
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Minecraft creator took the inverse, charge more as software entered alpha to beta to gold. I suppose the high initial cost until normal cost makes sense in a reverse dutch auction if you got the hype.
A currency would be useful.
How to migrate Flat Text File into MySQL?
I am running a VB.NET loop that imports a flat text file of 122677 towns/cities of Japan into an online MySQL table. MySQL Workbench crashes when you upload table this big, so export/import won't work. It took less than 2 hours when I first run it for local migration, now it's only at 55600 after 3 hours.

Is there a better way to do this?
That's because the problem was, essentially, "get from point A to point B", but few people could see it.
I was figuring I'd just determine the currency based on location but I've added a note into the form to include AUD, USD, GBP etc. in the yearly salary figure. Also I'm sure people will include the currency figure (eg. a euro symbol, dollar sign) if nothing else so I should be able to tell.
This is suspicious:

*The "new security policies" were introduced two weeks
before our audit, and the six months historical logging
was not required before the policy changes.

These "policies" were introduced by whom? His payment processor or by his company on the advice of this "auditor"?
Or did the OP make this up?

In short, I need;

A way to 'fake' six months worth of password changes
and make it look valid

A way to 'fake' six months of inbound file transfers

Why is the poster requesting help generating plausible fake data? Is he naive? Afraid of losing his job? Unaware of the legal implications?
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Is there anything like this for lua? It might be just the thing to help me finally learn the language (I have an inexplicable dearth of problems to work on in lua)...
Do it on the server.
Interesting, I assumed the delay would be more like a few seconds or half a minute at most.

Still, why not do it on the side of the finger? It has to be as updated as the tip, but it has a lot less nerve endings.
In other words, don't use versions of OpenSSL that are almost a decade old.
are you doing bulk inserts or one-per-transaction?
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Gmail only lets you download so many messages at once. It takes a very long time.
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Interesting idea but how can you assure that your service will stay in business in 100 years (for instance), so that my story will be published at that time ? Am I missing something ?

Also, be careful, your design is messed up on Mac / Chrome (see the screenshot : http://cl.ly/8ixo)
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IBM speeds storage with flash: 10B files in 43 minutes
Not using transaction, auto-commit.
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MLPPP - What is MLPPP
MLPP is the short of complete term, i.e. MultiLink PPP. It the extension to the PPP which enables the B-Channels of ISDN lines being used in combination as a sole transmission line, doubling throughpu
It's funny because this captcha probably required more work (disable right clicks, render tables, etc.) in contrast to a proper one, i.e. assuming they were allowed to use an image generation library.
I don't have a shell access to my client's shared server, so I can't do it using perl/bash. Yes, I'll try this with PHP instead.
I'm confused. All I see is a copy of Mario in HTML5. Can someone enlighten me?
There are two objectives for captchas:

1. Prevent prefab'd spam bots from being able to spam your site. Almost anything, including trivial questions and Sony's "captcha", works for this. Some bots will randomly try values for unknown fields, and note if a value apparently succeeds where others failed; against such bots, questions like "2 + 2 = " or "type 'orange':" are bad. A decade ago, people were writing irc bots that could answer most trivial captcha questions. A question like "Who was the U.S. President in 1993-2001" has a better chance of going uncracked.

2. Prevent a targetted spam bot from being able to submit arbitrarily many forms on your site. "orange", "3 + 5 =", 31337e^(-pii), and sony's captcha will not work for this. If there's a question pool, someone will solve most or all of them and program the bot to respond correctly, most of the time / all the time.

The idea that someone would only ever want to do (1) is flawed. If someone's bot is flexible enough, and your question pool is shallow enough, it may be worth their time to code in responses to your custom questions even if your site caters to a relatively small audience.
I started Stormpulse purely as a fun hobby project in late 2004. Incorporated in 2007. Can't share revenue numbers, but this year we should be profitable with a team of 5.
Oh yeah, did not know that. Thanks for the info.
I don't really need it (which is why I made it not required anymore).

If people want to be notified once the rankings are calculated they can add it, otherwise I'll just post all the findings and they can re-enter their info to see where they sit.
Fair enough, I guess I forgot about that. It's still a leap of faith to press a bit.ly link by paranoids like me. I should probably use an addon and forget about these.
If it's supposed to stop bots why did they make it harder to read for humans than bots?
Thank you for a constructive disagreement. Perhaps car theft and bicycle theft would have been a better analogy, when talking about the offence (but I could not find a good analogy for the underlying problem).

"In practice, there were apparently edge cases (students with ambiguous evidence..."

These where exactly the cases that I focused on. I honestly thought I was playing in a "Numb3rs" episode. Constructing models for detecting the probability that an individual student would structure an Excel spreadsheet in a specific way, measuring likelihood of sentences using Google N-grams, and other things that are not the obvious things that the honor council would immediately understand. At the end, the students were admitting guilt but at a great personal cost for me.

When nobody else is fighting like that what is the incentive for me to continue? Not all students go through my classes, so that all have equal chance of being caught. In a (very) perverse way, it is a matter of fairness to the students for me to be as vigilant as everyone else.
What did you expect? The title is "Infinite Mario in HTML5".
I don't think there is any point in asking users to connect their FB/Twitter accounts at the pre-launch stage because it will make users uncomfortable in sharing their social media details with a site that they have not tested and know little about.
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How about a version that asks users to enter highlighted text out of a short paragraph?

The portion of text that would be perceived as highlighted would be subjective enough to avoid non-specific, casual attacks, but wouldn't sacrifice readability or ctrl-c-ctrl-v.

e.g. red adjacent magenta vs. magenta adjacent blue
What is fire at the subatomic level?
Richard Feynman explains why fire happens in layman's terms of Quantum Electrodynamics.
Yea, but what's infinite about it?
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that's actually more expensive than the 10 Gbps thunderbolt cable. ridiculous.
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To be clear, I’m not running benchmarks of any sort on the two operating systems. I have no doubt that they will perform consistently enough to make that exercise un-interesting. What I’m looking for is what makes these distributions different, and anything that would make me particularly like or dislike one of these distributions.
I'm interested to know the plug-in and if you have any plug-in ideas. Thanks you.
raw materials aren't a major bottleneck for human development yet.
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JQuery UI Datepicker with ASP.NET
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Randall does actually speak like this in person(to an extent).

Regardless of that, he's right on the substance of the post, and probably on the level of frustration.
very hard to credibly signal that you are effectively working on certain classes of problems.
It's a HTML 5 version of older (Java/Flash?) game called "Infinite Mario".

edit: I'm not sure about this, but I got the idea that it randomly generates the map/levels.
No I don't think that's right. Randall's complaint is that there are people fetishizing big data, as well as cargo culting.
Thats nice. Are the groups are based on the content's location or the person's original location? That might be an interesting way to group too. Irrespective of where I am from, can my content automatically get grouped based on context, which in this case is tied to location?
That is absolutely incredible - makes me want to dive into learning HTML 5.
Ask HN: What things would you like Google+ to change/do better?
Do you mind elaborating? I've ridden in the civilian Hummer, and the passengers in the back seat were so far apart they could barely touch each other if they stuck out their arms. What makes it cramped? Equipment?
It's very common in the US, at all levels of government, from the smallest towns, to big cities, county governments, state governments, and the federal government. If you look up the "Institute of Justice," the law firm representing the monks, you'll find some pithy prose on their site describing such favoritism as the "favorite pastime" of said governments.

As a Louisiana resident, I've been following this case for a while, and I'm delighted by the results. But there are many more such ridiculous laws that should be overturned. Here's hoping that the monks prevail all the way to the Supreme Court.
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"The purpose of a corporation by definition is to maximize the bottom line for the shareholder. It has nothing to do with being good to people."

So in your opinion being good to people have NOTHING to do with maximizing the bottom line from the shareholder.

I beg to differ, IMHO the most profitable business are those that provide a very good product or service to their customers(people).

I remember the pre-google days, Altavista that forced you to click 5 buttons to do the same thing you could do with google on "Advanced search", That push pop ups that will flick on the screen with vivid colors and force you to visit their stupid "portals", that sold the three first web results page to the best bidders(so they were crap).

I recall that days every single day I have to visit my old hotmail account because they are not dead. If there were not some company that gave a better service that they do(google) they will come back.
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I added a note to be delivered on February 31. Recall there is only 28 days in February. Cool project though.
Hacking Spikes and the Real Time Media
Mike Rothman doesn't see the hacking "spike" as a spike at all, that the attackers are not more sophisticated, just given more exposure and notoriety opportunities through social media and wrong-minded reporters. The piece is spot on.
Does anyone know what javascript engine this game is using. It appears to be 'Enjine' but I can't seem to find any information about it.
Yeah Lame... now I get why that guy alone could hack the PS3 unhackable lock.