skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"So McKinsey's report limited its scope to the online economy in the G-8 countries plus five more: Brazil, China, India, South Korea and Brazil."

lol
Because that way, anyone sniffing or monitoring your traffic doesn't even need to crack the systems to steal the hash, and so you'll be saving everyone some time?

Edit:
I'm trying to illustrate the general principle, that you shouldn't take any action thats visible outside your secure perimeter, that depends on knowledge of your password.

What you define as 'outside the perimeter' depends. In the case of your corporate systems, its probably everything outside the corporate network. In the case of your gmail password, its everything outside of [your computer, the SSL connection to google's auth servers, and those servers].

You shouldn't ever leak any information outside that perimeter, that reveals knowledge of your password.

Its generally pretty hard to steal the password hash; if you start revealing what your password hash is to someone doing passive analysis, you compromise a lot.

If its worth thinking about poisoning hashes to protect, then don't try and poison the hashes!
The article appears to consider the version number issue symptomatic of a deeper mismanagement of expectations by MongoDB marketing.
I wonder if McKinsey is ever going to realize that they can't measure everything.
In most cases, you are right.

Because some of these notes are confidential. To give an example, suppose you know somebody has a rare disease. Or you know if they think bad about their boss. In case you leave your phone unlocked on the table, you don't want people to see this. The notes field is just a bit too accessible for those cases.

Re: photos, that's a good idea. I haven't felt the need myself to add photos, neither did any of the beta testers. It would be trivial to add, but any feature added is very hard to remove. I'll add it when it becomes painful not to have it ;)
excuse my ignorance with these questions, but this is something I've been wondering every time I see an article like this (specifically the batteries needed for solar).

1) shouldn't we be concentrating our efforts on reducing the requirements from the grid to near zero for new housing builds?

Newer builds will (hopefully) also incorporate the latest in conservation technologies (better performing insulation, etc) resulting in a lower energy requirement regardless of the source. One would also imagine that new home builders implementing solar solutions would see cost benefits from scale.

2) wouldn't the efforts of concentrating on new home builds have a two pronged benefit on everyone else?

Not only would technology advances become available for retrofit projects, but the reduced strain on the grid could potentially reduce the costs grid wide?

3) what would be the benefit of having a centralized solar installation?

Any solution that centers around having a mile square cube (from the linked article) seems a bit silly to me, wouldn't houses having their own battery solution make much more sense? Having individual batteries would allow for a market for these solutions and, one would hope, from the competition within this market, new and better solutions would emerge.
Why would you? That's not what it's made for.

No one's doing nuclear physics simulations using JavaScript, but that doesn't make it useless for client-side validation.
Consider the program in vimscript
For anything but simple apps like this PaaS fall apart, first the pricing scheme is no inline with even a basic VPS. As you need to add features, if they don't support them your fairly screwed. App Engine took a year to add cron jobs. They still have a proprietary engine that I have to custom code for, and if you ever want to switch vendors you basically have to rewrite everything. TLDR : If you can rewrite all the code for your service in a few weekends then its fine to be on a PaaS
Agreed. F.lux is a fantastic piece of software.
Working in Europe?
(I'm somewhat replying to the next message but HN didn't let me reply to it)

There's conkeror that use the same renderer engine of Firefox but with emacs mentality of keybindings and customisability.

Also, I've read that some people like to rebind their ctrl+W to something else so they don't have the habit to close their windows in other os/apps. IIRC, C-w is kill-region? Personally, as stated earlier, I use evil so I don't have that problem (I press d to delete the selected region).
I am all for a day per week dedicated to only focusing on one task. Shut off email, Shut off IM, etc.

Context switching killed me when I worked for a corporation. I Don't want it to kill my startup.
In my experience, it is accurate. Google doesn't know "nicetry99", but it does know "octopus99", "octopus98", "octopus97", "hacker99", "hacker98", "hacker97" etc.
get over it, 99 % this is not personal. An H1B will cost the company between 15 and 20k, in legal fees and fees to government. Only big companies do this.

Look around you, maybe return on visa waiver for 3 months and apply. Enough jobs, and yes probably you will wind up with a bigger company that a)has done this before and b)is willing to pony up the money

Good luck, Silicon Valley or NY are awesome places to be and you will learn a lot more about startups than in Europe
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If someone is sniffing his traffic he has much bigger things to worry about...
Reeder for Chrome is out.
Seems like languages which can't or don't want to target JVM or CLR might do well to at least take a cue from Sun and Microsoft, and pool resources. On both those platforms, there are scads of languages all sharing the same GC.

Which leads me to wonder - WTF ever happened to Parrot? I know the project is still alive, but why doesn't anyone seem to be using it?
Vendor – an iOS library management system
Vendor makes the process of using and managing libraries in iOS easy. Vendor is modeled after Bundler. Vendor streamlines the installation and update process for dependent libraries. It also tracks versions and manages dependencies between libraries.
Gem to debian package compability is already terrible. This will make it worse.
In Defense of Memorization (2004)
This is why I would never heavily use a computer without something like Little Snitch (http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html) installed.

Highly recommend.
It looks awesome.
I like it already, and am already working on the xcode badge. Curious: what's the business model?
Vendorforge
A place to publish your libraries made with vendor.
Red light, green light with shoutbox.io
The 'privacy guidelines' in question being the Data Protection Act, which is fundamentally a set of laws related to data processing. In this case, CCTV tapes could be stolen and the cameras themselves are not always signposted.

As the linked post demonstrates, privacy issues are covered by the Act - but as far as I'm concerned, you have no privacy whether half a dozen strangers are watching you in the street or whether you're being broadcast to the whole world.
Why not teach them rocket science, mister brain surgeon?

http://www.losethos.com/files/SimStrSetup.exe

A18-W50-U50

I aced nonlinear control systems -- trumps your highest class.

I had a 1440 SAT. What'd you have?

http://www.noob.us/humor/the-office-dwight-faces-nerd-tortur...

Shrinks.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\DARWIN.TXT

itute a distinct order from those descended from I, also
broken up into two families. Nor can the existing species descended from A
be ranked in the same genus with the parent A, or those from I with parent
I. But the existing genus F14 may be supposed to have been but slightly
modified, and it will then rank with the parent genus F; just as some few
still living organisms belong to Silurian genera. So that the comparative
value of the differences between these organic beings, which are all
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Do Businesses Really Need to Tap into Mobile? (Stats)
MongoDB is on its way to becoming the default datastore for web apps.

In my experience there is no way that this is possibly true.
Congrats guys. Way to represent Orlando!
An Ode to Node
Assange advocates something he calls "scientific journalism" whereby journalists publish the raw data and source material along with every story. So they differ from major media outlets in that Wikileaks releases both the editorialized "story" and the unedited source footage and documents.

Now, I'm still not sure how I feel about the "Collateral Murder" video but Assange claims that the original modus operandi of Wikileaks was to simply supply partner news organizations with the raw (possibly redacted) source material and let them publish it. He further claims that the major news organizations were not interested in doing anything with the information until Wikileaks forced them to by creating a story with legs.
Riak is definitely an option I'll consider, but experience has taught me one thing: most of the time it's better to stay with the most mainstream tools, such as MySQL, even if that means not using the absolute best tool. As long as it gets the job done and is "good enough".

There are better options than MySQL out there (such as Postgres and Riak probably), but when shit hits the fan in production and you need to quickly bring your servers back up, you'll be happy you chose a tool that has a lot of outstanding consultants and immense amounts of documentation. Finding help for MySQL is very easy. Help for Riak or even Postgres is much more scarse. Also, MySQL is very likely to still be around in a few years. We can't say the same for most of the new NoSQL stuff.

I tried to stay true to this as much as possible in the past and it served me well. I made this mistake with MongoDB, however.
> huge lookup databases

"Huge" being the key word here.

Try searching for the md5sums of arbitrary 8-character alphanumeric passwords. You won't find many results. 62^8 is a big number.
Feedback:

Have no idea what Treehouse is, clicked the site, took 300ms to look at the 3 giant buttons.

Clicked "web design" (the site looks very nice BTW)

... and started learning about web design.

Watched the first video, hit the only button "Let's Go" and found a collection of other videos to get me further down the path of web design, letting me skip directly to my problems areas instead of grinding through things I know.

Conclusion: Without ever knowing what you guys do, what the site is or how to use it "correctly" I was able to start learning in what was less than probably 3 seconds of thinking.

I still don't know what you guys do or what the plan here is (heading back to read more) but your flow is perfect.

Like abnormally simple and wonderful... really nice job.
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The SEO Benefits of Running a Link Audit on the Competition
Good geographic search, by human language compability, visa compability, etc.
At least for rails apps Heroku has newrelic built in which gives you far better graphs then appengine.
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We are experiencing high demand for our services and we are growing. We need great people who are interested in playing pivotal roles in the growth of a small company. Our customer base is very dependable and we consider ourselves lucky to be doing well even in this soft economy.

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This is a full-time position, not a contract.

Our development staff is completely virtual (no office) and each developer works from home. We are not considering applicants outside the U.S.

You'll be working on all aspects of the TrackAbout offering including our ASP.NET website and web services, MS SQL Server and developing for various mobile devices. Your responsibilities will include designing and building new features, enhancing existing features, and fixing (gasp) bugs.

All members of our development team are dedicated to keeping up with the latest technologies, practices, patterns and tools related to software development. We take time out to share our knowledge with one another and improve both our skills and our distributed development environment. We often experiment with and integrate new tools into our environment. Some of the tools and technologies we're currently using include: ReSharper, Subversion, MassTransit, Jenkins CI, TDD with NUnit, VersionOne, MediaWiki, WCF, RESTful web services, RhinoMocks, Ninject, NHibernate and jQuery.

Required Technical Skills:

Building web-based applications and web services
Object-oriented programming fundamentals
C#
ASP.NET WebForms (MVC in the future)
HTML/CSS/javascript
MSSQL programming skills (sprocs, udfs, triggers, indexes, constraints, etc.)
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Experience with common OO design patterns
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Definitely. I'm just saying that I could recover the common passwords with a 486 instead of a GPU :)
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Seems really interesting. What differentiates Treehouse from Code Academy?
Houseplan
So, you guys just launched... are those testimonials made up?
Knight Foundation will run News Challenges 3 times a year
A further explanation of this project can be found on the flickr post: http://www.flickr.com/photos/everyplace/6321217040/
Come on now, the builtin Emacs tutorial is atrocious. It tries to teach you the most basic stuff, like what the CTRL key looks like or how to hit arrow keys. Do you really think anyone who does not know the CTRL key would pick up Emacs?

Honestly, at least one of my attempts to get into Emacs died because of disgust of tutorial. It could teach the very same content without being that condescending and outdated. I loathe it.

Funny enough, the gnu.org guided tour through Emacs is really good! Just rewrite the tutorial in a slightly more modern style. I am sure this would increase Emacs adoption quite significantly.
It's a basic economic principle that if supply decreases with the demand staying the same the price will go up, and a sudden, unexpected decrease in supply will lead to activity of buyers to look elsewhere to meet that supply. Basically, what's happening is exactly what would be expected, but the reporting has a breathless tone.

It will be interesting though to see what effect a >50% supply decrease has on prices and the market once things com e to equilibrium when the timeline of the supply coming back is known.
That post was written by someone with a vary superficial understanding of these issues. For example Hydro power already provides a lot of 'grid storage' and is totally missing from his analysis. Also, photovoltaics are far less impacted by clouds than you might assume with partially cloudy days offering similar power levels to sunny days. And even on days where it rains constantly you get some power and often see an increase in wind power output.

Smart grids enable many applications like large scale cooling to shift of demand without building new storage infrastructure on the supply side. Not to mention simply shifting maintenance cycles can shift a lot of 'supply' to different parts of the year without building any infrastructure at all.

Add it all up and Wind + Solar meet total energy demands and have near ideal capacity factors with ~2-4 new hours of total grid energy storage. VS. the 6 days which he assumes.

PS: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/04/it-looks-like-ti...
Ask HN: Ideas for iPhone Japanese Hiragana Memorization app
Hi guys,

So I created an iPhone app for memorizing the Japanese Hiragana. Essentially, at the moment, it's a very basic flashcard app. You look at the alphabet, double-tap and it flips to reveal the "English" pronunciation of it. I have some promo codes if anyone would be interested in helping me out.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hiragana-swipe/id450666339?ls=1&mt=8

I tried to keep the feature set simple. I think I will add voice to it eventually and maybe have some sort of quiz mode to test the user. I'm open to any ideas you guys may have.

Thanks!
looks nice, minor suggestion - some of the fonts look like hell on XP/Chrome and they're very hard to read. Congrats on launch
The more the merrier, but this puts you about 2 years behind Sauce Labs and even further behind Selenium as a whole. Also, since the whole app seems to be based on stackVM, a better explanation of what that is would be helpful.

EDIT: fair enough that testingly isn't based on stackVM, I didn't think that was very clear on your site. And you still don't explain what stackVM is. And to whoever downvoted me - I have done enough evaluations of automated test tools to know those should be among first questions that any serious user would ask. Aside from being based on Node, your product should differentiate itself better from the free, more mature tool and it would help to know more about the infrastructure it's based upon.

EDIT 2: Okay, 2 downvotes later, I'm cranky about this. I'm a professional in this field (who would be involved in purchasing decisions with the software you sell) trying to give you free advice. I'm sorry if it's not glowing praise, but you should differentiate yourself from Selenium because it seems very similar at first glance, explain what stackVM is, and put together a more professional looking website for all of them.
+1 - Very curious how they plan on turning this around, with a good amount of employees, hired teachers, and 6 investors.

Either way, a great idea looking forward to seeing more material soon!
Why did you move from couch? I'm considering couch for a project, and am not especially knowledgeable in the space. Couch has worked fine for a low-load, minimal-functioning prototype store (no replication needs, etc.). Its scary feature to me is dealing with compacting-- how and when to schedule it so a large db won't get bogged-down.
Seriously? Who is still using md5? There are strong hashing libraries for like every language. Anyone reading this uses md5?

Can we find these people and just let them know?
The Cloud Lock-In (Part 3): SaaS is Really Nice
This is the third and last post in regarding the cloud lock-in. In the first and the second parts I covered the vendor lock-in of IaaS and PaaS. The appealing registration and the low cost overwhelm the new SaaS consumers that often makes them forget that eventually the service will become something they just can’t live without. What will happen if one day your SaaS vendor goes out of business ? In this post I will try to cover the threats and the actions the enterprise should take in order to lower the level of the SaaS lock-in risk.
Very sad to see Mathematics and Computer Engineering near the top in median income, while Mathematics and Teacher Education sits near the bottom.
To the other posts saying how MD5 is not bad and/or it's stupid to use MD5 without salt (or whatever):

See this script more as a fun little hack rather than a "Formal proof". Thanks aparadja for sharing. That being said, using MD5 without salt is asking for trouble. I mean, I know security is usually just a time vs $ vs quality problem, but it costs almost nothing more to add a salt in front of the password. Why not do it?
Intercourse Investing Part 1
This looks amazing, and I'll be signing up immediately when I arrive home from work today. Really great job, and congrats on launching.

My only question thus far: Is there an easy way for me to be informed when new badges/topics/videos are available? Either a digest email or some sort of RSS feed that I could customize based on personal interests would be fantastic.
Earnings and Unemployment by College Major
A hoax or a double-hoax?

Original post was this by nomoremongo:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3201772

Post actually discussed was:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3202081

Very clever.

The way I understand, apparently nomoremongo wrote it but it was reposted quickly by nmongo (http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nmongo) in hopes that they could then become the top post, so later on they can yell in all caps how it was a hoax and thus discredit the original post.

You know nmongo, if you are trying to help MongoDB you just did the opposite. I've said this many times here before, but the best marketing is your competitors stupid marketing. You are providing stupid marketing for MongoDB and you are hurting it.

> People should note that yesterday's anonymous pastebin "Don't use MongoDB" article was apparently a hoax,

Now another question isb do you know that it wasn't a hoax but continue in the same vein in hopes to still save the day, or you actually believe it was a hoax?
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The more I read, the more I think that any attempt to seperate Jobs' "shortcomings" from his "genius" are wrong from the start. I look at Gladwell's anecdotes and I see that Jobs' greatest talent was making relatively modest (often borrowed) visions into well-executed reality via his unique combination of aesthetic sensitivity and barely controlled personality power (which, as Isaacson gets at, also seems a function of his deep sensitivity).

Gladwell's theory falls apart if you really consider the competitors. If you look at the history of Microsoft's tablets and the Xerox Star, their biggest barrier wasn't a lack of "tweaking", it was the ability to get the products out of labs without getting killed or tweaked into mediocrity by a hundred conniving VPs.

Here I think we need to acknowledge that Jobs' personality was part of his genius. Perhaps typical 20th century corporate culture/governance has been so inherently larded with politics, so easily driven into misaligned incentives, that it's been almost inimical to creating excellent products of high technical sophistication (especially involving both hardware and software). Perhaps recognizing and rapidly correcting these inherent sicknesses (from removing "B players" to forcing dramatic but necessary strategy shifts)and actually shipping great products requires a certain craziness, a rudeness.