skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're creating a false dichotomy. You seem to be suggesting that people either want no government whatsoever, or they want the government to run everything, and that there is no rational middle ground.

It's perfectly reasonable for someone to want a privately run transaction system like bitcoin, with rules governed by global consensus rather than national legislative action, and ALSO want local, federal, and international police forces whose job it is to investigate theft.

There is not logical inconsistency there.
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In my experience of these London kids a lot of them are smoking heroin during these types of violent events, so I would be unlikely to trust their rationality.
The majority of the clones are using "NES On a Chip" or "SNES On a Chip" - they have the same issues as the original minimal requirements based emulators and are generally quite quirky.

Though it looks like at least one person is attempting to create a better one using FPGA: http://cegt201.bradley.edu/projgrad/proj2006/fpganes/
Well, macports/homebrew seem to fill the package manager gap pretty well. I upgraded to Lion the other day - one "port selfupdate && port upgrade" command and an hour of downloads/compiles later I had my dev environment back to normal including fresh compiles of php, postgres, apache, memcache, redis, imagemagick and any number of their dependencies.
People shooting at birds ought to be using shotguns, and birdshot pellets have much lower terminal velocities than rifle rounds, since they're much smaller.
Unavailable in Norway for Android at least. What is the reasoning behind that I wonder...
I think the 'grip' is referring to the power of social proof. People are capable of both good and evil. You take a lot of cues from what you see around you.
Nitpick: much better to be _small_ video games. The big ones easily push into the same financial territory (for making them) as movies, and have way less avenues to monetize afterwards. (No "DVD sales", no money from the rental market, no TV deals...)
As Microsoft releases more details about Windows 8, can't we expect to see a slow-down in Windows 7 upgrades and new pc sales?

This is why I think the Macbook Air pricing is so brilliant. They've come into a place where for about 6 months (starting in November) they will have a very strong argument for trying out OSX on some nice hardware at a very competitive price, rather than waiting for Windows 8. Plus you can always get Windows 8 on that machine in a few months.

I like my Windows and hope to see some amazing hardware from Acer/Samsung/HP, but I think Apple has a bit of a free ride over the coming months.
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You are correct, it's "value" has increased as quickly as it seems.

Do people have faith in bitcoins as a currency? Sure, some people do. A larger number of people see it as a way to make a quick profit by speculating. Whether bitcoins are legitimate currency or not is irrelevant - as long as people are willing to pay "real" money for them (and there exists a way to get "real" money back out) there will be speculators manipulating the market and inflating prices.

If, or how long, this will last is really anyone's guess. It could all collapse tomorrow, or (unlikely) turn into a legit "real" currency.
Apple blocks sale of Samsung's Android fondleslab across EU
Simperium is another competitor (and a YC alum, as was AppJet).

As everyone else replying to you has noted, these guys have grander ambitions. So does Simperium — they aren’t just doing Simplenote (see http://simperium.com/). (Full disclosure: I contracted with them in the past)
thanks for that link - very interesting.

i think the question in my post has been misunderstood. i'm wondering, when will it be possible to simulate a SILICON device - such as the super nintendo.

instead of emulating the functional profile of the snes, we could run a physics simulator (at some level of abstraction) that contains all of the silicon circuitry and so forth which actually produces the functional profile.

that seems like a milestone towards simulating neural "devices" like the human brain.
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Standard procedure was the zoom faster than the SAMs, but it did have some features that reduced it's Radar footprint. Also it helped that it was black during night missions ;)
I'm a bit of a Linux nut, but I'm seriously considering getting a MacBook Air for my next machine as there doesn't seem to be any comparable non-Apple hardware out there. Does anybody know of any?
No.

If an attacker gets access to the database, chances are very very good they can get access to the key as well. Very few services correctly separate privileges well enough that an attacker can not gain more access once they have database access.

However ... for the sake of argument, just pretend there's only a 50% chance the attacker can get access to the key. Would you rather there be a 50% chance that you leak EVERY password in the database (regardless of strength) or would you rather lose the people who pick passwords in the 5% because you've used bcrypt?
FCC to consider AT&T's Qualcomm, T-Mobile deals together
This was my first notion too, but I think if you look more closely as Suster's arguments, he is really pointing out disparity between 2 forces:
1. The short-term economy (including stock markets, jobs, growth and politics)
2. The long-term (10-yr) tech investment opportunity

So, he is saying "we know the returns are there over 10 years, but we've got to survive in the meantime". Equity markets aside, the fundamentals of business are effected by the short-term economy.

I kept wondering too, is this true for private investment (ie, angels)? Are they susceptible to the same short-term concerns? Or will Angels keep pumping money into early stage independent of the economic conditions? Perhaps this post is doing nothing more than pointing out the obsolescence of the VC model through uncertain economic conditions..
Largely disagree.
The stock market indices have always been highly correlated with the tech sector.
http://chart.finance.yahoo.com/z?s=XLK&t=5y&q=l&...

The actual asset correlation between the tech sector ( say the XLF spider ) and the broad stock market ( say SPY ) over a decent timeline say 1 decade is upwards of 85%.

( You can run the exact numbers here, use XLF vs SPY on 10 year
http://www.assetcorrelation.com/user/enter_time_corr )

The rest of your narrative is wishful thinking. Yes, splosky & pg write great essays, bootstrapped slow organic growth may be nicer than fast VC-backed explosive growth etc. But such slow growing startups generally yield slow growing revenue streams. If that's what you want, you are better off parking your assets in a Vanguard etf. The Greater Fools theory may be derisive but it's what propels every twitter, facebook, groupon, yc backed startups, non-yc backed ones and all the ones in between, for the past 20 years and out into the next 20.
This looks like a pipe dream to me. Another fantasy building project for the middle east.
In the most likely implementation of reversably encrypted passwords, an attacker who gets read control of the database can trivially brute-force passwords. Encryption isn't magic.

But in the meantime, I'm curious about what web-based attacks relevant to password storage reversably encrypted passwords protect against. Were you thinking SQLI? Because I do not believe this to be the case.

Don't store reversably encrypted passwords.
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The ultimate intent of BizSpark is to get you locked into using the Microsoft stack, because chances are, by that time the free license expires in 3 years and your application is a success, you won't migrate to another platform as easily.

Not necessarily a good or bad plan, if you're set on using Microsoft technology anyway, you can save licensing costs for the first few years, and minimize some costs should your project not succeed. If you're just testing the waters as to which platform to use, BizSpark will tend to lead you towards incurring additional operational costs in form of Microsoft licensing fees.
It's not allergic; jokes are just off-topic here.

I like good jokes, but when I want some, I go to bash.org or the like ('Humour' folder in my GReader has more feeds than 'Technology'); but HN is not for jokes, it's for good discussion, so let's keep it like this.
Not sure if it's a direct competitor for the Air, but I've been eyeing the Thinkpad x220.
That's the idea, but when it interrupts the user's workflow, something went wrong in the execution. I care that the program that I am using is open! But Lion pretends to know which apps I am not using and closes them.
Those $28 billion are excluding long-term marketable securities, the $76 billion include them.
Exactly. It would be quite some job that would pay your salary and knowingly allow you to learn multiple non-business task required languages for 'personal development'.

patio11's comment was a LOT more on target, and much more in the spirit of grinding / levelling-up.

The key, perhaps in both World of Warcraft and in real life, is directed questing, where a reasonably well-defined set of tasks or quests are pursued along a quest-line towards a known goal.

In my case, the quests will be Mac App store releases, but for others it might be marketing materials, start-up exits, or web-site designs.
I'm reposting this old essay in light of the London riots, which have made me rethink where I want to live.

(OT: HN seems extremely slow.)
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I use homebrew "for quickly assembling or installing your machine with all software automatically updated" and really have nothing to complain about. Mac OS X ships things like Python and Ruby, not because Apple envisions you will use those things to build custom applications but because there are system tools that depend on them. That's why upgrading these system packages too aggressively is a bad idea, even on Linux (and that's why RHEL is still on Python 2.4). You always have cleaner way to get and use newer versions of almost all packages without breaking the system.
Yes, you are correct. I overlooked that important fact. It'd still be nice if they moved faster.
This app seems fairly unnecessary right now considering it's just opening up a Chrome browser for you.
One of many that might surprise you: http://plaintextoffenders.com
Apple to Lodsys: you'll have to go through us to sue iOS devs
Force, momentum, velocity. They all seem somewhat related. Maybe mass too?
Exactly. Don't give someone 24/7 access to your bitcoins unless you are gaining enough from the situation to offset the enormous risk that your trust will be violated.
We Live in Public is a great story of what happens when someone without any real interest in building a company, but with a massive ego, gets access to capital. Great, chilling film.
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Great review, though I'm not sure why the author is having problems with copy/paste from e-mails, which does work, I do it all the time (I'm on Mango too).
Apple machines use plastic. Plastic is derived from petrochemicals. Petrochemicals are created by ExxonMobil (and other oil companies).

We may not like oil companies because they are greedy, capitalistic assholes that manipulate the system to their benefit. But disregarding the impact plastics and polymers, most of which are derived from petrochemicals, would be extremely naive. Try to imagine modern life without plastic. Just look around whatever room you are in and notice how many objects use plastic. And that is just in the consumer space of an average room. Imagine all the industrial and manufacturing processes/parts that use plastic.
This is simply not realistic. I've got hundreds of accounts online. I cannot remember a truly unique password for each. It's not possible (not for me at least). I can't even remember all the sites I've got accounts.

A lot of people implement their own hash ("I use a base password plus the second letter of the url and the number of letters in the domain: dumbe18"), but this is not unique per site, and these hashing schemes don't tend to be as unique or as hard to figure out as one might imagine.

There are utilities now that try to help, but I've not found one that's even remotely convenient when it comes to accessing sites on multiple computers, my phone, and my tablet. Not to mention I'm putting my trust in a 3rd party to handle all of my passwords when I do this.
At heart, I'm a hacker, and I want an environment that I can hack on when I need to.

Also: focus follows mouse is not an optional or an extra.

I've been using a Linux desktop since 1996, and as far as I'm concerned, it's about 100 times easier than it used to be, so whining about things not being 'just right' fall on deaf ears, especially when for me 'just right' means focus follows mouse and other things like that that I have dialed in just how I want them.
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Also, the double underscore prefix is reserved for magic methods:

PHP reserves all function names starting with __ as magical. It is
recommended that you do not use function names with __ in PHP unless you
want some documented magic functionality.

It's only explicitly reserved for functions, so you're technically ok here, but it still may cause confusion.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.magic.php
No - If someone steals your Word document from your computer, then that is data theft - it doesn't matter if it contained your grocery list or a business plan that was sure to net you millions. It is just data but the value is there to you, even if someone else thinks that business plan is worthless, so someone taking that away from you is still some form of theft.
Samba 3.6.0 released
I was lost without apt for a while too until I discovered homebrew.

The list of packages available in homebrew is growing at a pretty crazy rate as well. It's currently the most forked project on github (https://github.com/popular/forked).
That was fun to read the article AND the comments over last 14 years.
As mentioned in other comments, some SNES cartridges themselves contain coprocessors and other hardware. A clone console doesn't need to do deal with this since you're still playing physical cartridges (versus pure software ROMs).

But clone systems do have issues with many games anyway...
The Internet is my religion (motivational)
As an aside - what do you do to keep track of your IP? I have a consumer-grade router (running Tomato firmware) between "the world" and myself, so the router actually gets the IP.

Is there some automated solution to keep track of this?

Thanks.
I understand why you may be confused, because this was pretty poorly reported recently and I was not completely specific in my post.

Some Miscellaneous References:

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL&fstype=ii

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=AAPL+Key+Statistics

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/07/19Apple-Reports-Thir...

Apple does not have 76 billion in cash. It has 76 billion in cash, cash-equivalents, and long-term marketable securities. There is a significant difference.

For clarification, please see here:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/258268-debunking-the-myths-o...

This post does not constitute investment advice.
The parts of this story that are more interesting that the 'shitfaced' line are:

• the progress of participants in a #bitcoin-police IRC channel in tracing some of the possibilities and connections behind MyBitcoin and the compromise

• the risk of vigilantism as people act on hints and theories that might be casting suspicion on only tangentially-related people – someone who denies any direct involvement reports receiving threats

Those two points show both the potential and risks of a distributed, community-based enforcement system.
A few things happen with an "open" program, like the ability to command-tab through them, appearing in the dock, expecting a window to be in a certain place, showing up in the "Force quit" dialog, etc.

If the user expects to to find an app in the dock, and it's not there, then the user does care if the application is open.

A feature like this doesn't matter as much on an iOS device because of the way applications are launched & managed. Applications are launched and managed differently on the desktop though...
This is on the front page right now ...
The Samsung Series 9 is pretty similar. I've got a MacBook Air and I've played around with the Samsung. Build-quality and hardware-wise the Samsung is, in my opinion, at least as nice as the air, but I've heard that it's currently a bit of a pain to get everything working under Linux.
> Then you don't really need to care how a single site handles your password.

Sure, but if I'm choosing between two sites that offer a similar service, knowing that one is insecure is going to strongly influence me to use the other. It's information that's worth having.

Although, this brings up a point - if the list is crowdsourced, companies may have incentives to report their competitors are insecure. There would have to be some way of erasing "insecure!" votes - but then you end up relying on a (hopefully benevolent) dictator.

What's a good solution? pg can't be everywhere at once!
Lessons in communication: how I failed as a product manager
I own a lenovo X1, which I don't think it's a direct competitor of the Mac Air, but it's light enough, the keyboard is really really good, and Linux works out of the box.
Not right now, but soon (in a few weeks - months) there will be a whole avalanche of laptops coming out based on Intel's Ultrabook platform; very much 'inspired' by the MacBook Air.
I think this article stops just short of making a leap and saying that game elements are now used as marketing tool to create 'stickiness'. When I ask most entrepreneurs the question- what will make people come back to their website, majority of them tell me that they are thinking of adding a gamification angle to keep getting people back.

I agree that gamification brings out the human values of competitiveness, trust, credibility. But I don't think gamification by itself creates a long lasting business advantage. After all, people will get tired of playing these games some day.

Great post and makes me think about the 'herd mentality'!
> Playing devil's advocate, but this still prevents lots of web-based attacks. Provided you store the encryption key on the filesystem, or in memory and the encrypted passwords in the database usually you'll get access to only one part.

Why would you assume this? It's entirely possible that a compromise will allow file system access, which will give the DB and the key. As for memory storage, you've got to have the key somewhere so that the machine can restore itself after a reboot. An in-memory-only key isn't a very practical solution. It's also entirely possible that you memory-only key will find its way to the swap file, again vulnerable if FS access is gained.

> But it gets better! If you have access to the encrypted passwords, but not the key, then they're safer than hashes, since the attacker cannot try to bruteforce them (he could try bruteforcing a very very long encryption key of course...)

This isn't necessarily true. Hashes are not intrinsically easier to break than encryption. Some hashes (such as bcrypt) are based on an encryption anyway.
That rings a bell, thanks! I do wonder why the (relatively) extreme measures exist if there isn't a problem, though. Straight PR could explain, but I find it a bit unlikely.
When the biggest/most lawyers prevents who moves technology forward and prevents price competition, we all lose.

http://i.imgur.com/aLGOQ.jpg
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After, or in addition to my Thinkpad Edge which I am moderately pleased with, I consider getting an Asus Eee. They seem pretty solid and appear to have good Linux compatibility. They also appear to be one of the most popular notebooks for FreeBSD with extensive guides online.
Yes and No. I like my Air for developing and you would have to pry it from my cold dead fingers, buuuuut: I tried to install python PIL just yesterday and thought easy as pie, not! easy_install complains that gcc is getting the ARCH_FLAGS as ppc not x84_64, plus a couple of other nitpicks. So I used ports, but that means I had to install a new Python interpreter ... and well I have better things to do that replace apt.

Apt > (ports,mac,brew) anyday, but rarely is it an issue.
Maybe the localization wasn't ready in time for launch?
I run Linux ... virtualized in OSX. Because OSX and MacBooks has wireless that just works. It has networking that just works. And it has suspend/wakeup that just works. But its bundled UNIX toolchain sucks, and Macports, et. al. don't just work.

I run the VM headless, sized similarly to a typical Rackspace Cloud server. This setup lets me use the GNU toolchain while being highly mobile.
> If you lose the database, you lose the box.

Hardly. The SQL injection may have occurred with a limited-access SQL user. The encryption algorithm might be strong enough to give you years or decades of protection against brute forcing. etc. etc. etc.

> Don't store reversably encrypted passwords: full stop.

Absolutely. I'm just pointing out that "there's no difference between plaintext and reversibly encrypted passwords" is a blatant lie.
On of the comments on the aluminum bat: "This bat is perfectly weighted and will suit any UK shop-owner looking to protect their property."
Abusing contract law is a very old business model for the movie and music industries. There just wasn't the opportunity to scale like this before the internet.
I will be. Wal-Mart's revenues are $421 billion a year. Amazon.com is $34 billion. They also have fundamentally different core businesses: Amazon's core is easily delivered items which are often difficult to find in stores, Wal-Mart's core is easy-to-find items for which delivery service poses problems.

If Amazon gets bigger than Wal-Mart, it will be because the market in easy deliverables becomes very large but the capabilities of general search companies fail to keep pace. Otherwise, Amazon continues its conversion to a data center and payment processing company.
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I linked to the release notes, here's their announcement:

http://www.samba.org/samba/news/releases/3.6.0.html
yes, but I'd imagine part of the reason people would want to fight against such claims is to help set precedent and prevent others from having to pay ridiculous amounts. If nobody fights, everyone loses.
Believe it or not I think this is a bad thing for Apple — competition leads to innovation, and I think we're still in the early days of this technology. My bet is that Apple fears Android turning into Windows, but since mobile is so consumer centric I think that really gives them a leg up.
Government's security regulations that banks must follow make banks less agile. That in turn make banks security system weaker.

These are unfortunate unintended consequences.
Does anyone else sympathize more with the landowner than anyone else for #10? I know it seems silly to let one person impede progress, but the least the state could do is pay a reasonable fee for the privilege.
You already responded to the comment where I said it's possible to rig up a database so that your app server might survive SQLI, so let me just wrap this unproductive little thread up by saying: I don't believe you. If I see you mailing user passwords back to users, I will bet on SQLI losing all those passwords every time, at any odds.

Nerds like us are always going to come up with some twister counterfactual scenario where someone somewhere could do something unexpected. I don't care. None of this is relevant to the issue at hand. This company probably isn't even encrypting passwords, but whether they do or they don't: if they get owned up, they're losing all of them.