skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best tip (which I hadn't heard before) - do your planning, then throw it away (or hide it from view). If you look at the plan while you are writing, you will try to correct the plan, and the context switching will slow you down.

If the plan is really high level, or embedded (i.e. topic intros), maybe that's different.
Every day I think to myself that I should drop what I am doing and dive into HTML5.
The problem for me, as someone who working on a side project, while also holding a full-time job is that I get so sleepy and tired while I'm at work, and when I return back home I get so energized and don't feel like sleeping. It's like even if I sleep 5 hours that previous night, I just stop being tired when I get home to work on my own stuff
Yes - thank you :)
Downvote this.
Bush owned the first > 1 trillion dollar deficit, that budget was passed while he was still president. If we're doing stupid technicalities.

But again, that's silly partisan point scoring and totally beside the point. Pulling one-sided stats with a total lack of intellectual honesty in order to try and claim my side's better.

You're actually arguing here, "but if we cherry pick from the peak of the housing bubble, my side looks great! Just don't look at the following year".

I don't blindly cheer for democrats like they're a football team, I try to objectively evaluate what's going on. If more republican football fans did the same, we might actually have a deficit reduction deal, or a plan to help the jobs situation.

As it is, this is the GOP plan: http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-gop-strategy-involves-r...
+1 (TM now I guess)

You could have four word phrases that are maybe only ~12 characters, which if there are only alphabetical characters in the password, are still very much crackable via GPU brute force (http://mytechencounters.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/gpu-passwor...)
Ah yes, it's the same. I guess the prices have dropped, it was bought almost two years ago.

By the way, gaming mouse usually requires a good mouse pad in order to have the effect. Razer has a good selection, maybe others as well.
I agree with this, and it's the same approach my partner and I have adopted. It's hard enough to build and focus on a product with internal problems and suggestions, much less adding customer/tester feedback to the mix.

We have a vision, so we build it and get feedback along the way. Sure, sometimes people have great ideas or new ways to do things, but if you start taking feedback too soon, it becomes the customer's product and not your own.
> You might be able to help others make/turn their work into money

Of course it's possible but it introduces a level of indirectness. Once you have indirectness, it becomes harder to measure your impact. Fields where one's impact is hard to measure tend to attract BS artists who use the ambiguity to their advantage, to claim that they are worth more than they really are.

The algorithm you are thinking of will fail unless it has some way to empirically measure impact, in which case the algorithm would be trivial.
See my comment - it's not that the quote is wrong, it's that they have misinterpreted it to make it a more interesting story.

He's talking about shutting out individuals who are planning crimes - I have no problem if he arrests those individuals, but I also wouldn't want to see an article quoting him saying "peeople planning violence, etc etc will go to prison" followed by a statement that it is unsure whether he means just those people, or the entire country is going to prison.
mhhmm reminds me to the AS400 Terminal running on a ~20 year old black/green Monitor, in the last company I worked at :)

Also I find this pretty cool:
http://mochasoft.dk/telnetbb.htm
There's a lot going on here. Facebook reports to be a social networking site. As such, one might expect to exchange contact info with someone they meet on the site. Of course, this means Facebook actually has to store it. That's fine.

The problem is that Facebook has insecure defaults. It is reasonable for a person to assume that contact information would only be visible to their "friends" (whether or not they are accepting random people as friends is another issue). Facebook should make it painfully clear that this isn't the case, and give its users more robust tools to control their data.

Of course, even if this does happen (which it won't, because it is in Facebook's every interest to keep as much of your info public as they can), some users will still leave their contact info public and wonder why they get calls from strangers...

Remember when you learned how to write checks in the third grade? I think it is time to prepare kids for controlling their online identity formally...
The article does not address the correlation between the amount of stress people endure and the amount of sleep they take.

People who pour their lives into work generally tend to have less sleep and be more stressed. So, is it the sleep, the stress, or both that kill people?
Yes, and those of us who look after children during the day, and write code from 10pm - 3am, then get up a few hours later to do it all again...
Rather than say avoiding customer feedback altogether, I'd say to use it appropriately.

Whether you're using "Lean Startup" or traditional product development, you're going to encounter people who say "I want feature X". Rather than simply taking this as a request for a feature, you should act as if they said "I am trying to do something with your software, but I can't, and I think that if I had feature X I could do it."

Figuring out what that something that the customer is trying to do is invaluable. Then you need to figure out if you're going to help them do that something or not, and how to do it.
SENukeX v.2.0.1 Cracked - 10 August 2011
The same quote is on the offical Prime Minister's Office Website http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/pm-statement-on-disorder-in-...
It is even better with GNU/Linux! I have never witnessed a software crashing the whole system.
By this logic (musn't force anyone to learn anything) we should all still be using IRC and USENET instead of Skype and web forums. So you want to provide a nice layer of abstraction over file transfers, that's laudable. What doesn't make sense is predicating your abstraction on a shitty protocol with a multi-decade long history of security issues. Best of luck to you in any case.
I'm not modded down...

by "inflation" I mean "increase in prices",
= price inflation

as opposed "greater monetary availability"
= monetary inflation

You can't control price inflation/deflation, you can only control monetary inflation.

It doesn't matter why the banks don't want to lend, the point is, Bernanke's plan can't work until they do. (But let's be honest: it won't work in any case.)
> I guarantee that 90% of users have no idea about what's going on.

Maybe so, but I took the added step of sending a link to an article about this to every one of my connections. It's a step I often don't bother with, but somehow this one pushed me past my indifference and made me take action. I think it's that I so rarely use LinkedIn, yet still vaguely feel like I should have one, being in a so called "profession". At least with Facebook, I check in pretty much every day so I notice changes and I keep up to date with potential security issues and know I have to spend time maintaining my privacy settings. With LinkedIn, I just let my account sit in the background and do whatever it is that it does when I'm not around. Being notified that they're doing some shady things when I'm not looking bothers me more than average, so I took steps that were more than my average.
Such a password scheme provides much less than 44 "bits" of entropy. Considering the use of 4 randomly chosen words from the c.170000 english words in general use, means we can guess the paraphrase in around 2^22 tries - even less than "Tr0ub4d0r3&".

EDIT: I'm totally wrong, it's more like 2*10^22 ... oops!
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Two companies competing with each other are less valuable than one company, though.
Good reasons. Having a channel for customer feedback doesn't hurt, but ultimately it's up to you and what you feel is good for your product/business.

You may have a list of 10-15 projected features based on the direction you see the product going. However, once your customers begin using your product, their ideas may drastically change your product. For better or worse.

That's all part of the fun of running a business. There will be days where you'll be on top of your game and feel all your ideas will make your business a success. Other times you'll feel everything you know is wrong. The proof is in the pudding and you get to choose the ingredients.
> By now, with films like Iron Man, its sequel, and Avatar, Hollywood has made us thoroughly familiar with the idea of the robotic exoskeleton.

I'm sorry, what? If you don't know what you're talking about, just don't talk about it. It's that simple. You lose credibility all around for every mistake you make.
Not to be a total dick, but I hope that those phone numbers are disconnected because the smart ass who made the article failed on blurring out the numbers correctly...
It'd make more sense to me if it were compiling a very different kind of language, such as a Constraint/Logic programming language. I really like Lua for scripting, as-is.

Lua's portability & smooth C integration make it an interesting code generation target (not to mention LuaJIT's performance). And however you feel about working in Lua, its code is straightforward to generate - the syntax is refreshingly free of odd corner cases.
The OP and the discussions here keep referring to people or companies getting money, and then spending it, or perhaps saving it, as if that were the end of that money. That's not how the economy works.

Savings should be the most obvious. You're not going to save your money by hiding it under your mattress. You're going to at least put it into a bank, of not invest in equity or debt instruments. In all of these cases, the money is going right back into the economy to be used productively. If you put it into a bank, they'll loan it back out to someone in a mortgage or such. Equity investment directly fund businesses. And so on. So when you're saving, you're really redirecting the money to someone who believes he has a use for it -- and who believes strongly enough that they're willing to pay for the right to try it. And this is actually what the OP wanted in the first place, but the current system has better controls for ensuring that the money is used productively.

If I spend the money -- say, on a leaky roof, as you suggest -- then that money is going to the roofing contractor, and thence to his employees and the producers of the shingles and other materials. Again, it's being used productively.

Less obvious is if I spend the money on a TV, for example. Some of that money goes to the retailer. But much of it is going to, say, a Chinese company that makes it. This gets into more economic theory like "comparative advantage", which I'm not going to explain here, but simply state that in the bottom line it still makes us better off. People will protest that this contributes to the so-called "trade deficit". In the case of this discussion (at the very least), that trade deficit is a good thing. If we (collectively, somehow, for the sake of simplicity) owe a Chinese company some money, that is precisely the same thing as them pumping stimulus money into our economy! Perhaps you buy a Japanese car; that "trade deficit" is actually executed by, say, Toyota using the "owed" money to build a factory in America, and that again is exactly what we want.
So if a question gets asked & 20 women respond, they all get $1 each?

Out of curiosity, what advantage does your paid service offer over the likes of r/TwoXChromosomes on Reddit where I can ask my question and have it answered for free?
I think the point is central planning in general doesn't work. It doesn't work when socialists try it, or when fascists try it, or communists either. You just end up starving lots of people and blaming it on external factors.
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Singleton ain't bad at all
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Yes.[1]

One of the biggest obstacles for marketing a web app is breaking the notion that you must be online to use it. If people on HN think that web sites can't be used offline, what must the common end user think?

[1]http://diveintohtml5.org/offline.html
If only there was some constitutional amendment that promised people the right "to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches".

This means: if you have some circumvention device whose presence cannot be detected from outside your home: too bad for the government. They can't do anything about it.
Many B2B sites have peak traffic Tuesday or Wednesday.
Wouldn't you first have to know that the passphrase consists of four randomly chosen words (eg not three, five, or eight)? To me, that's the underlying strength of the approach that the comic (!) is trying to highlight.
If you have excellent academic credentials math or computer science you can get a good job out of college - having a double major might give you a slight edge in some settings if you have excellent credentials in both - but good credentials in both is not as good as excellent credentials in one or the other.

I will add that other than for personal interest a minor in the dismal science probably won't make your resume stand pop out of the stack in the way in which a minor in something like art, english or philosophy will - those are the one's which make people think, "at least the interview might be interesting."

Finally, the stronger your math skills the more options your education will provide over the course of a technical career.

Good luck.
... random combinations of bike bits plus a greater London post code. Give me enough monkeys and typewriters and I could take you ;)
So when the money supply doubles are we're twice as efficient and innovative?
There is a really interesting discussion on using passphrases from stackexchange that is probably worth linking: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/6095/xkcd-936-sh...
What's wrong with mentioning Iron Man and Avatar?
I'm mad as hell. How about you?
He buddy !!! if you think $700 can get you a build house...you are probably living in lala land (US). I cannot get a handbag for my girlfriend for $700 !
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Feel as righteous as you want, but bitching that you got downvoted and nobody explained and then accusing random downvotes of being young amateurs is indeed boring fucking reading.
Lots of people contend people who pay through means other than credit cards actually pay it through higher prices, where you get part of it back.
It's a requirement of US law, in fact.
Not a good idea, sadly. In fact I'd go so far to say this is a really bad suggestion; because it gives a false sense of security.

There is potentially a lot less entropy in this password than "Tr0ub4d0r&3", assuming the hacker is smart enough to realise he can trivially test combinations of dictionary words in very short amount of time.

(EDIT: I'm way out of touch with this; it's not as trivial as perhaps I figured. See lower in the thread)

However; it is in the right direction - introducing some sort of extra entropy can invalidate that form of attack and make this as secure as XKCD suggests.

What do I currently do? I take a reasonable length common word, do a string/number replacement as so:

H4ck3r N3ws

And then repeat it 3 or 4 times:

H4ck3r N3ws H4ck3r N3ws H4ck3r N3ws H4ck3r N3ws

For extra entropy mix it up:

H4ck3r N3ws H4ck3r News H4cker News Hacker News

That's a simple example - so long as you have a reasonably random scheme then it is not easy to test against, but is fairly simple to remember.

Bingo :)

(EDIT: for the down voter(s) note: XKCD specifically says random common words - obscure words are another matter)
this article is good but i'm not 100% sure marathoning is healthy as it implies...
This reminds me of one of my favourites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Terrors_(Star_Trek:_The_N...
(spoiler there)

But seriously, TNG writers managed to capture so many important ideas in sf-fashioned stories... Nice hack.
Assuming that this method for generating passwords gets popular enough, brute force tools will begin to create an optimized attack for these passwords.

As there are so little words available, if I were to write a brute-forcing tool, I would try combinations of four words in my wordlist once I failed with my one-word-dictionary attack before I start trying out all characters.

But all is not lost: Either use more words or vary the amount of spaces you put between words. This way the dumb optimization "try four words delimited by space" wouldn't work on your password and they would have to go over to plain old brute forcing at which point, I agree, the longer, the better.
That's really fascinating. The fact that they've found a neutron star to match the theory with observation is even better. I look forward to seeing the results.
Also we have VAT ;)
I always thought using two password fields with simple words would be much harder to break than one field only (which can be used to really strange passwords but also for simples ones as we all know). Someone care to calculate how much it would take to break it?
He mentioned that he did a bunch of work object-system work on Caml that was published, but the INRIA guys didn't put it into the main version when they developed OCaml. It's possible it got transmitted into F# that way. Next time I see him I'll ask about it.
We need a better vision than "everyone must be employed."

Something more specific than "Win the future", and ideally something most people can believe in.

It seems like an implicit goal is world peace. The US spends a ton of money on defense, but the problem is our current methods involve lots of killing. It's hard to feel good about mass murder. I think we should still spend tons of money on defense, but just explicitly give more money to non-lethal technology.

We should be very clear that our goal is world peace and come up with very specific subgoals we want to see.
Yes, it was an amazing time. I started with the Yggdrasil distribution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X

which ran (I think) pretty happily on a Dell Dimension 486DX2 with a fairly small drive, 300 MB or so.

Even then, with getting X running being kinda tricky, Linux was a big step up from Windows 3.1 and all the contortions you had to do to free up base RAM whilst stuck in the crappy memory model.
The thing I don't get about aliens is that they seem to have the technology to pass through lightyears to our galaxy, but somehow don't have the technology to hide themselves? Yeesh.
My first thought was the site did not look girly (not to be sexist but no pastels)

Are you competing with http://www.girlsaskguys.com/ ?
Nice Article. Is there research between social networking(fb) and empathy ? Fb and wealth ? I tend to find that social media sites are a trove of people concentrated on the 'self' or is it just my opinion.
It was a poor choice of words on my end.

I take your point that America will always be technically able to print money in order to pay back the debt.

But wouldn't printing that amount of money destroy the value of the US dollar? Causing all sorts of other issues?
That's because they're using Javascript to render a lot of stuff. iOS doesn't support position:fixed, doesn't support div scrolling (although I think this is being fixed in iOS5) so the common thing to do is to hack together a javascript shim.

I think that's the wrong approach. Let the browser do the things it does well. Use javascript to enhance the browsing experience, not to fill holes.

We're undergoing a shift in web design where the purpose is to make web applications look like native applications. I think in a couple of years we'll see a rejection of this and instead have web applications which look like websites but have the capabilities of native applications.

Let scrolling work the way it's worked since the web was created. Instead of hacking a page flip animation, precache the next page. Instead of capturing every click event, use cache.manifest and smart pre-caching to let your app look like a single page app even though it's not.
nah, my typos will laways protect me
It's not an acronym, it's an ordinary noun: Lua.

My main grudge against Lua purely as a language is that it has implicit global variables. I can live with the rest of the idiosyncracies.

My main grudge in day-to-day programming is the ecosystem, it's very small. It's a chicken-and-egg thing.
This is all possible with open source Arduino hardware, and software. GPS, autopilot all possible with commercially available components. Why would it require heavy equipment? GPS modules are small.

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/ardupilot-main-page
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Neat idea for an interface, but as others have pointed out the demo needs some work.
In the US it makes sense to use a credit card for everything you can. Federal laws grant you a lot of protections from fraud and bad transactions when using a credit card. Plus many cards come with side benefits such as cash back, airline miles, extended warranties, travel accident insurance, etc etc. The trick is to pay off your balance every month in order to not start accruing interest. Unfortunately, many people don't do that and end up in financial distress
Can we believe our eyes? Misleading people with Unicode.
So it wasn't really a RC plane :-) Very cool stuff.
We're getting far afield, but the problem with American education isn't a lack of funding. Look at the slope of a graph of education funding over time, and you'll see that it would be difficult to pump cash in any more quickly than we already have -- and to no avail.
The Chrome extension is not working for me on Mac. When I click "options" nothing happens, and there's no confirmation that it's working.
Guy Kawasaki has a great story here. As he tells it, customers surveyed about the Apple II said they wanted more memory, more color, and more expandability. What Apple delivered with the Mac was less memory, no color, and no expandability. The point is that customer feedback is great for gathering ideas to evolve a product, but you'll never get customer surveys to suggest an outright revolution.
It should be interesting to see the potential metamorphosis of the desktop as well. Does anybody not see Apple eventually releasing an iPad with a 30 inch screen?
Well it depends how it's stored, but assuming a fairly standard setup it wouldn't particularly help.

The main issue with website security isn't people brute forcing the website login box, it's people cracking the hashes after stealing them. So if you had two easy to crack hashes stored in the database, you crack them both and off you go.
This article is a bit sensationalist; Amazon demoed their Kindle web app back in December when the Chrome Web Store was launching; before Apple announced the policy in question. It's not an "iPad web app", it's a WebKit web app.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Diceware

Properly executed, this will protect you against brute force attacks. No need to do nonsense like adding more spaces.

Of course XKCD botched it and said an inadequate minimum length...

Notable quote from the article: "This level of unpredictability assumes that a potential attacker knows both that Diceware has been used to generate the passphrase, the particular word list used, and exactly how many words make up the passphrase."