skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aha, thanks for pointing this out–I was curious if there was such a thing too.

On the about page (http://teamtreehouse.com/about), why are the boxes so big for each person? I see picture, name, title, Twitter handle, and then a fair amount of whitespace that makes me think there'd be a short bio for each person.
Nevermind, found it:

<script type="text/javascript">
if ( window.addEventListener ) {
var state = 0, konami = [38,38,40,40,37,39,37,39,66,65];
window.addEventListener("keydown", function(e) {
if ( e.keyCode == konami[state] ) state++;
else state = 0;
if ( state == 10 )
window.location = "http://www.url.tld;
}, true);
}
</script>
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As a non-native speaker I wonder what is the relationship between "treehouse" and learning? Except that treehouses are typically being built by kids and kids usually go to school?
The salt does not matter. Neither does the specific hash; you'd be just as boned using SHA256. All cryptographic hash functions are designed to be fast.

The vulnerability is "not using a password hash construction", of which the best known are bcrypt and PBKDF2.
Maybe not on scale with Groupon, but they don't seem to be making up new accounting terms to hide losses and they're actually profitable.
I'm seeing more of these intergenerational conflict articles coming to the surface now. I'm not surprised it took so log for it to happen. I'm surprised that baby boomers are allowing it to happen at all.

I can't imagine baby boomers wanting to watch network news or read mainstream websites that bring light to these inequalities. It's eyeballs and wallets that dictate content, and it's the boomers who have both.
I think there's a bit of rose-tinted glasses going on here, and you're really painting a straw man.

Not all of us buy expensive smartphones, have $500 car loans, thousand-dollar coffee shop bills, etc etc.

Similarly, not all of your beloved, vaunted Boomers were penny-pinching misers who saved all they got and avoided the drive-in, movies, and bars.

My impression (never having lived it 60s and 70s, of course) is that people then we just as excessive as we are now, or at least the marginal difference can't explain away the giant gap in wealth.
I agree, knowing it can be huge. I'd even go so far as to say that at work, colleagues who know functional programming generally write code that is noticeably more efficient and maintainable. And on some platforms (.NET since 2006 comes to mind), you simply have to be comfortable with FP to be able to work effectively.

But on the other hand, the days where one could get away with treating 'LISP' as a proxy for 'Functional Programming' are long gone. Aside from the hoary old beasts from the 20th century such as Java, pretty much all the major languages have first-class procedures and suchlike nowadays. LISP is no longer distinguished by having good support for functional programming; it's distinguished by lacking good support for procedural programming.
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For convenience:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-Asciio/lib/App/Asciio.pm

http://perlbuzz.com/2008/04/asciio-lets-you-create-ascii-cha...
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Xubuntu, so close, but not quite there
In my experience, in most countries HSBC offers great high end services for large companies.

Note: The horrors of Paypal, credit cards and ACH are all sticking plasters (to take an American turn of phrase) on a financial infrastructure that is widely considered the laughing stock of the first world.
Likely just some confusion on semantics. The price is indeed 150% of what it was, though it has not increased 150%
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I don't see any real science behind this "bias lighting" vs any kind of lighting. What problem is it supposed to solve? The eyestrain is caused by our eyes focusing and fixating for too long on the same distances. Look outside the window if you want to relax your ciliary muscle. You also want your center of vision to receive ample light and contrast so you can read easier. Ambient light should just be enough so you don't see glare around the screen.
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You provide a link from 2009 (!) which states that the "levelized" capital cost of nuclear is higher than that of solar PV. Fail and fail. Current solar PV prices are much lower than they were expected to be in 2009 -- that's part of why Solyndra went bust. And if nuclear is cheaper, why does no one build it? Answer: it's not, as soon as you include the costs of waste disposal and disaster insurance, both of which are effectively infinite because no one has a solution. See http://www.ncwarn.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/NCW-SolarRe... among many others.
Thanks! Appreciate the link.

I'm totally open to suggestions for other kinds of cards too, my programming skills are weak and I know you all have great ideas.
Hey guys! Great website design. I was wondering if there was a student pricing option. $49 a month is really really steep for a poor grad student and I would really like the project videos as well as the standard videos.
can they be used to do similar things? yes. are there overlapping use cases? indeed. Are they going to overlap more and more as time goes by and they try to expand out of their niches? absolutely.

But they fall squarely in different categories: Riak KV, MongoDB document (and HBase Column, Neo4J Graph for example)
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For a readable introduction, I don't know of any better than Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics or David Friedman's Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life (David Friedman's textbook Price Theory: An Intermediate Text is almost as readable and is here: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Price_Theory/PThy_ToC... )
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This conversation seems to be entirely missing the point of the original article. The programmer to be in question is working at a .Net shop and needs to be able to get up to speed in a timely manner. It addresses a particular person in a specific instance.

Really he needs to understand what object oriented is, variables, arrays, loops, conditionals, debugging and the actual .NET syntax. Understanding these thing the person will be able to do their job. That seems to be the most important thing. Certainly you may not consider the person a "real" programmer but, it is up to him to fill out the rest of his knowledge and grow as a programmer.

The "top" answer sounds suspiciously like today's XKCD
> The UK does have a problem with speed cameras though. It's a way to generate extra revenue from the population.

Slipping off-topic, I can't stand that line. You break the law, you get fined. Keep within the law, you don't get fined. Quite frankly if you want to hand revenue to the government via speeding go ahead. But you don't like the law campaign to have it changed, don't just ignore it then moan about being fined for ignoring it.

My issue with speed cameras is their location. They are predominantly on high-speed roads which with a few exceptions are not overly dangerous. I think we should be concentrating on residential areas particularly near schools and parks (the road past the school I used to live near is officially a 20mph zone, but I don't think many people took it at less than 30 and there was no camera or other such equipment there except on the few occasions when a motorcycle-mounted cop sat near the blind-ish corner with his radar gun).
Have you ever heard of Gartners hype cycle? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

Hype, fud, fact and misinformation are all part of determining which technologies succeed and which fail.

Many of HN readers have been through 2 or 3 of those cycles and have well developed instincts for spotting BS and verifying technologies.

In other world all you've really demonstrated here is you're a bit of a dick.
It is better to do it during downtime. You can basically provide scheduling rules such as 'compact when fragmentation % > X AND time-of-day window is Y'.
Realistically, it doesn't matter, since even if it did run 4.0, all of the shiny new interface of 4.0 will be nowhere to be seen. Android is the base, but nearly the whole GUI is custom. And I believe the Nook Tablet is based on 2.3. The Kindle Fire is based on 2.2.
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The Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, iPad all came about because of Steve Jobs, and have changed the technology that we use every day. Love him, or Hate him, you can't take that away from him.

My argument is that they did not happen because of Steve Jobs but in spite of him. Schiller, Ive, and others were behind those devices, and the image Steve intentionally put out there was that he was some perfectionist design savant. In reality, he was an image-obsessed control freak who was infamous for taking credit for other people's ideas.

You can have design accountability without being a rigid, meddling asshole. Apple will not only successfully continue on without him but may have greater opportunities to be more flexible and open-minded.
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"Though I guess they could've been helping the fire department locate the fire or something; I'm sure it'd take quite a while to check for fires before giving an all clear."

As a firefighter, I can -guarantee- that would never be the case. Depending on the severity of the alarm, we have our own tools for a) finding the fire - thermal cameras, etc, and b) getting to them - there's a reason forcible entry is taught in Fire Academy. :)

No, they were just putting themselves above their employees.
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Clayton Christensen had a much more interesting take on solar power at the Business of Software conference: it won't compete with fossil fuels in the US anytime soon (except as a recipient of huge amounts of government largess), because for the most part our energy infrastructure works really, really well. It's ubiquitous, cheap, and mostly doesn't kill you. In much of the world, energy is 0 for 3! This makes e.g. small solar cells just good enough to run a cell phone charging station into revolutionary, disruptive devices in parts of Africa, because they're not competing against a well-developed multi-billion dollar infrastructure, they're competing against "no electricity at all." If they're expensive and fail to work in poor weather and available only spottily and... who cares, some electricity still beats no electricity.

His thesis was that if solar ever becomes a big thing in the US it will be because it grew like wildfire on the global periphery until the tech gets mature enough to start peeling off bits around the edges of US consumption (and then implied it might go further than that, using the same disruption mechanic).
Let us note that, from the article, this translates into only 3 percent of total electricity generated nationwide. This is in large part due to the inability for wind power to generate a constant power load. From what I recall the nuclear power plants can produce a load of about 100 x 1400 MW = 140,000 MW and this is estimated to be about 20 percent of the elctricity produced nationwide.

Roughly speaking it looks like the nuclear power plants have three times as much installed capacity than solar and produce 6 times as much power to the grid. Since the nuclear power plants are near 100 percent capacity, I wonder what is the reason why wind has roughly a 50 percent production capability: is it maintenance or wind availability ?
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I would propose rejecting employers who want to dispatch tedious questionnaires and toy problems to potential employees. In my book and in some others' (judging from comment sentiments) if an employer can't respect a potential employee's time enough to have a real person to person conversation, they're overly bureaucratic (already) and not worth working for.
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In my parents generation, you made an investment and chances are it would go well. Since I left college, you made an investment and chances are it wouldn't go well.

By the time my parents were my age, they were married and had bought their first house in connecticut thanks to a loan from my dad's employer.

My parents bought property in connecticut, singapore, london, indonesia and did pretty well with that over the years. They rented out places and built a pretty decent nest egg. Property prices didn't go down between the times they bought and sold property.

It's a different world now. The best way to build wealth is to play both sides of the fence so you make money in both creation and destruction. For me, I'm betting that I can create software of value to enough people that I can build wealth. I've hedged my bets by getting some % of the current company I work for, but if I stay at this salary for the long haul, I will never have financial security.

It's a little bleak. I pity the people who swallowed the blue pill and work for some large corp. Some will get into the top tier and be phenomenally wealthy. The rest, I'm not so sure.
Some job boards have a geographic search, but they "stretch the radius" so as to return more listings.

So, I'd say that "good geographic search" == an honest one (that is, give me the results that are actually within the radius or area that I specified).
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Actually if the light is behind the screen, your iris will adapt to different levels every time you look towards any other direction than the screen. The best solution is to have constant level of ambient light all around you.
I think the goal of a darknet is more to prevent censorship than to ensure privacy. As you said, any untrusted nodes could easily reveal a user's location and intent.

I would much prefer a network that piggybacks on the existing infrastructure and poses as innocuous traffic through stenography or encryption.
The compiler thing is actually the major problem. There are lots of choices and it's easy to become lost in those woods. LPTHW has the benefit of "download this", which removes an entire realm of choosing that's much less important than stoking some fires while the spark burns.
If they're doing this then they should merge bundler into rubygems.
One minor issue:
On windows XP/FF 3.6 the font is a little hard to read:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/543/201111041105.png/

I'm not sure exactly what firefox is trying to do (since both IE 8 and chrome are better), but I thought I'd let you guys know.
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I had a lot of fun playing with these sets last Christmas, and it has been my lighting of choice over the last year. Quite a fun and rewarding hack, and I'm sure the parallelism of more and more sets of these RGB LED strips will lead to greater things in the hobby world. I've seen music and entertainment productions use these strips quite effectively over the last couple of years.
"Everybody" disagrees with you:

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#...
Can you name the largest VC firm in the world?  (you're probably wrong)
disclaimer: I have a bias as we could be seen as a "competitor".

If I understand correctly, their SQL engine can scale through the use of a proprietary peer to peer technology. This would be new and would indeed make it possible to solve bottlenecks and scale the SQL database to a very large number of nodes.

However, I think it misses the point where SQL is simply not always needed. They will always be slower than a NoSQL engine that scales well.

Your example of ORMs is on spot: do you really need SQL as the back end of an ORM? If not, why pay the relational tax?

No silver bullet.
I think the Nook is B&N's last attempt at salvaging their company, but ultimately I don't think they can win. Amazon can destroy them in pricing and make up for it with the follow-on purchases that people will make of books, media, etc. B&N simply cannot afford (financially) to take a loss on the hardware. If they wanted to -- Amazon could start giving away Kindle's for free (or dirt cheap) to Prime subscribers and it would probably destroy B&N.
Steve may have just gotten lucky to find him, but Ali Ozer ended up shaping the NeXTStep libraries that became Cocoa (when naming infrastructures after hot drinks became the rage ;-), and has maintained his control of shaping ever since.

So Jobs got "lucky" (luck favors the prepared, of course) in his finding Ali to obsess about the NS and Cocoa libraries in all dimensions, with the same kind of taste-making abilities as Jobs had at the larger whole ecosystem level.
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You ommited this:

> MD5 is a really fast hash to compute, salting or not.

Just spend some time thinking about this.
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People in 2011 lose weeks to tuning allocators and collectors in real high level languages. C programmers take a memory profile, deploy the appropriate pool/arena allocator, and get on with their job, comfortable with the fact that their former allocation bottleneck is now in the average case register-fast.

ARC fits better with the C world of quickly tuning bottlenecks to register speed. Have you ever debugged C code with custom object lifetimes under a garbage collector? It's a nightmare.
Was Pixar really a "tweak"?

Remember that Jobs bought Pixar because he thought the hardware that Pixar designed and sold had potential.

It wasn't until Lasseter's work in doing shorts (to show off the software) and commercials (to pay the bills) started taking off that the possibility of a feature movie came about. That's more like a "pivot".
Besides being faster, what else is new in Bundler 1.1?
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> Jobs produced "copies" of things that transcended the things he copied

Er, that's precisely what Gladwell is arguing.
Some of the other articles mention that the Nook Tablet runs Gingerbread.
OK, you're rational. Unfortunately you're in the minority.
I'm sure a 4.0 will be around eventually for it. I've had a lot of fun with Cyanogenmod on an NC. The only con possibly being that they didn't hook up the BT antenna in the thing or something, but you can get an earpiece bound to it from like 6 inches away (now that's some near-field communication!)
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Thanks for the heads up. We're aware of it now and are working on a fix. Cheers.
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Now with Cloudbursting!

Looks like they are doing a pure enterprise push: NuoDB, Inc., the thought leader in cloud database technology, ...
I have, hwo does it work? Do you need to install something on the client's website?
> To the unobservant eye it may appear to be just any other day, but the engineers notice the difference. There will be significantly less interruptions by someone walking over to your desk, you won’t be pulled into meetings that distract you from features, and you know it’s an opportunity to accomplish a bulk of work laid out from your weekly planning meeting.

For these reasons, we have our own "Maker's Day" too, except we have them every day instead of every seven days.
It's a shame they both still have terrible displays. It's hard on the eyes to read a long text on a screen with < 200ppi. Guess I'll have to wait for the next generation.

Probably fine for casual web browsing and children's books with large type, though.
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Consider using a payment gateway like Authorize.Net. Their ACH capability is pretty straight forward and works well. http://www.authorize.net/solutions/merchantsolutions/merchan...
Looks totally awesome. Not related to the product: I think different testimonials would sell this better. You guys aren't (or shouldn't be) competing with universities, which have a completely different mission.
Given that the CEO worked with the author of the 1986 paper about shared-nothing clusters, you're probably right.
I just finished reading the biography as well, and Gladwell's article gave me the same impression it gave you. Repeat a bunch of things from Isaacson, describe a false dichotomy between creators (the pious ones) and tweakers (the fallen ones), then position Jobs as a "false prophet" on the basis of the above false dichotomy. Next, set up yourself (Malcolm Gladwell) as being the only one enlightened enough to tell true prophets from false ones (a claim which would neatly place Gladwell's image next to the former ones). Oh and pick an opportune moment to say all this to generate enough publicity around yourself. Thinking goes: people have been talking too much about Jobs,; time for them to talk a bit more about Gladwell.

Isaacson is, in places, brutal on Jobs, but he doesn't resort to cheap tricks like this.
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Edit: I really don't understand up/down voters here sometimes. How can a message asking somebody to add me to Skype get voted up to 4 points??
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I always thought it's quite nice that the whole content is available for free, but I can see that there is room for disappointment even in this scenario :-(
I don't really see this as a niche app. A niche app to me is an app that a particular segment of the population would be actively searching for. For example, runners would be searching for a "run timing" app. I think your app falls into the mainstream simply because people (I don't think) are going to be actively searching for it. And when they do find it on the new releases list or some other method, there is no instant recognition as to what it does, so your price will drastically affect your conversion rate. That said, 3.99 I think is way too high. I think 99c may even be too high. I would start off free with ads with in-app-purchase option to remove them.
Agree with everything above!

I was worried I was going to have to pay for the iOS videos but boy was I wrong - and I'm glad, I'm just a college student ><.

I really like the iOS intro video, y'all really put some time into making them, with the white backdrops and all.

And yeah the website has a really simple, amazing UX!
> I don't think Steve appreciated competition and tried to kill it with a shotgun instead of a better product

In fairness, I think he did both.
Having never worked for one, I have no idea what SOX BS is. Can you elaborate?
I don't understand what you are arguing. If Twitter also break UK law, they are still both breaking UK law. Only Klout also actively creates an account for you and attempts to collect information on every move you make.
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Valgrind adds Android and (preliminary) XCode 4 support
Our own cperciva wrote an interesting take on wealth inequality:

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-01-10-inequality-in-equ...

The elderly should have significantly more accumulated wealth than the young, because they've had longer to save. How much more, I couldn't say. But I'm always skeptical of attempts to tug at my heartstrings by pointing out that "those people" have more wealth than "these people" without some sort of systemic model to back up the complaint and explain what the proper level of inequality should be.
If the Treehouse folks are reading this, can they please add closed captions/subtitles to their videos? Lynda.com has captions and it has made the difference for me.
Display bug that's on the (long) list :)
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It's in the pipeline. Thanks for the kind words :)
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Is there an estimate as to when the iOS development videos will be expanded to include iOS 5?
Annoying mistake. Basic math is lost on so many people I guess.