skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm leaning towards lite and full whack app. I find freemium games far more frustrating than fun. I want to build a game I would play myself.

Re: comments on Marketing. It's not something I know much about at this stage. I have read though that game is only half the battle for a successful release. My research was really only based on what I could find directly from the games.
My name is Retset Tnuocca and I'm looking for a Ruby on Rails job, I live in Morocco/France and I would like to work in any french speaking areas of the world (Morocco, France, Canada, Belgium) and Amsterdam :)
The data in this graph is flawed.

I only see one major box categorized as "engineer", and it says that 1/4 of all engineers are architecture or surveying. Try 1/20, perhaps. 1/4 is way too large. The only engineering majors that large are EECS and Mechanical, I bet.
Not if it's well-architected. Lua's sandboxes (using setf) allow pretty tight isolation of code.

http://lua-users.org/wiki/SandBoxes

There's a slide titled security in Marc Balmer's talk, but I didn't get where he was headed.
The audience vote was tallied here (it's closed now). Scratch table destroyed. http://voter.brooklynhacker.com/
I don't think there's any problem that doesn't benefit from being worked on by a small, focused, core team (what seed funding can cover) before scaling up. Step 1 in building an innovative business is never "hire 100 people".
Looking for co-op for summer 2012 in Toronto (with the possibility on staying on full time after). Develop primarily with PHP using MVC frameworks (along with typical front end stuff, jQuery, CSS, etc). Willing to learn Ruby. Dipped my feet in the water with mobile development (android/iOS).

Twitter: @mbrzuzy or email is in my profile
Hi, I'm Joshua M. Clulow. Always looking for exciting software dev and UNIX opportunities. I currently contribute to illumos, the opensource fork of Solaris, which I would love to do professionally! I'm also experimenting with node.js for systems programming tasks. Have been doing UNIX and software work for 7+ years at a University and in the private sector.

Reside in Newcastle, NSW, Australia. Keen to work remotely.
I agree with Joel.

I'd further argue that the key talking point should be something like:

This is a battle between old established interests who have long controlled congress's wallet versus the leading innovators in the United States.

Who do you want leading technology decisions in this country? Congress and cable providers or Google/Apple/Facebook/Microsoft?

Follow the money. It's as simple as that. There's a reason why every innovative tech company in this country is against it. This will stifle innovation. Follow the money and you'll see how old established industries who have fought innovation for years are the same ones pushing this bill down the throats of the American people.
Deliberately impossible to beat?
If you use Java at work and your company will pay for the certification and study materials, I would say take it. The exam itself is not very difficult nor does it require a tremendous amount of preparation. It's a checkbox item on a Java resume, but one that can be useful if you find yourself in a tight situation and need a job to pay the bills.
Regardless of who is right, this is a weak argument. Barefoot may be the natural way to run, but that doesn't mean it's the best. The natural way to handle an infection is your immune system, but you'll be thankful for antibiotics when you need them. In short, it's possible for us to improve on "natural".
What are the 256 keys the author cycled through? Does WPA only have 256 possible keys?
Rampant Entrepreneurism Spawns Glut of E-Shops (1997)
Here's the definition used by SOPA:

> (a) Definition- For purposes of this section, a foreign Internet site or portion thereof is a `foreign infringing site' if--

> (1) the Internet site or portion thereof is a U.S.-directed site and is used by users in the United States;

> (2) the owner or operator of such Internet site is committing or facilitating the commission of criminal violations punishable under section 2318, 2319, 2319A, 2319B, or 2320, or chapter 90, of title 18, United States Code; and

> (3) the Internet site would, by reason of acts described in paragraph (1), be subject to seizure in the United States in an action brought by the Attorney General if such site were a domestic Internet site.

Understanding this requires understanding criminal copyright infringement. 2319 references 506 (a)(1)(B).

> (a) Criminal Infringement.—

> (1) In general.— Any person who willfully infringes a copyright shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, if the infringement was committed—

> (A) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain;

It does not seem these requirements can be met casually or accidentally.
WPA does not only have 256 keys.

The author decided to show that if he knew all but one character of his network password, he could bruteforce the missing character. To that end, he took all 256 possibilities for that character, and computed the resulting keys. Then tried connecting with those keys.

This shows a connection rate of 30 attempts/2 minutes which is 0.25/second. That is not practical for most attacks.
"Basically no non-Apple first-party apps support iCloud in any meaningful way. 1Password, Chrome, ... Plenty of third-party apps support Dropbox API.".

I can't wait for this to change (and I'm pretty confident it will). 1Password's Dropbox support really is terrible. My 1Password DB is not something I want to see, so I can hide it away in a folder in my Dropbox, but then a dot file is saved in my Dropbox root so 1Password can find it. The alternative would be for 1Password to force a hard coded path. Both are inelegant solutions to using a filesystem for app data syncing.
Airdrop is not a Dropbox competitor, it's a replacement for t he 'public folder/drop box' feature of OS X.
Pretty cool. Hopefully, the lawyers will leave you alone.
whether the colors mean anything or not, they add visual distinction to the chart and make it easier to read.
I did this for my last job, although I went into the office and they did pay me for the day.

When I apply for my next job, I'm hoping they do this too as it's a chance to demonstrate my skills. I wouldn't be bothered if they expected me to do this remotely and unpaid (of course, massive difference if it's a week's work).

A popular alternative is that they call you into the office and basically give you an exam on a certain language/technology which you have to pass in an interview situation without being able to refer to the Internet. I'd hate this and argue that it's a pretty false way to estimate productivity - there's gaps in everyone's knowledge, good coders are people bright enough to Google for solutions, determine which are actually 'good' and implement them quickly.
Quite right. Especially using Valve -- a company that refuses to disclose anything substantive, but could* play the reddit community, who worships it, like a fiddle -- as the prime example that it's a service problem isn't particularly convincing and should be challenged.

* I say 'could'...whether they do or not is unknown to me.
Even with perfect room-of-people-interrupting-each other text-to-speech, there would remain one important use case - writing down own thoughts. Maybe also descriptions of live events where a lot happens at once?
hey there,
it's Lele from Italy and I'm 28.

Looking for remote, continous cohoperation at first and full-time onwards.

I'm a 7+ yrs senior sysadmin really passionate about almost anything related to:
- linux sysadmin tasks (mail, DB, backup, networking and so on)
- NodeJS development .. still learning, but already have lots of "secret" active projects :)

My competencies are:
- senior linux sysadmin
- senior networking / security experience
- good to senior knowledge of Win* && Mac* sysadmin tasks
- noob to good knowledge of JS (nodeJS), Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, shellscripting

..as a side note I'm also passionate about CG (blender fan here), Arduino related projects, RPG and gaming industry.

drop me an e-mail at lele [at] amicofigo [dot] com
K&R isn't available as an E-Book, it is expensive and as someone who has no knowledge about how C is developed and has advanced the age of the book makes me doubt if it is suitable to learn how people develop C programs nowadays. I don't want to finish it and find out that a third of what I learned is outdated.
You don't need a separate magnet, the earth's field would be adequate.
How is this news? Connecting to a WPA protected AP to brute force a single character (256 times) isn't particularly impressive or useful. The speed at which the connects happen still make this impractical for large-scale attacks (or, attacks on an entire keyphrase).
Recursive Google image search wanders the web
I love the trailgloves too.

For regular walking/business shoes give Geox a try. The solid leather insole and lightweight build is amazing. The air transfer through the sole actually works too.
You were on your way to an interesting point until you made the implicit claim that war is always about profit. For pretty much every war, that isn't true for at least one side, and often for both.
The motivation for the geneva convention etc is not so much fairness but to prevent unnecessary suffering.
It costs about $1M / yr to maintain a US soldier overseas, so those costs aren't a huge deal.
Really depends on cost of living. I looked at a breakdown of this recently by locale. In the bay area or NY it doesn't get you anywhere close but in most other areas it puts you in or pretty close to the 1%.
Looking for: internship for summer 2012

I'm Tikhon Jelvis, a second-year EECS major at Berkeley.

In a perfect world, I'd love to do functional programming (preferably Haskell) for a small company either abroad or at least not in the Bay Area.

However, since we probably don't live in the best of all possible worlds, I'd love to talk to any company that fits even some of those requirements.

In my past internships, I have done both web-based work (primarily frontend but some backend stuff as well) and operations (monitoring servers and setting up continuous integration).

Email: tikhon@berkeley.edu

Github: http://github.com/TikhonJelvis

Website: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tikhon

StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/286871/tikhon-jelvis

StackOverflow Careers: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/cv/publish/42139

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tikhon-jelvis/24/237/750

Résumé: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tikhon/resume.pdf
(the résumé is a bit out of date, but I'll update it soon)

Hopefully that deluge of links isn't too overwhelming :) I'm just hoping to get everything anybody might be interested in.
Stop SOPA site template
Having to watch Twilight is a schlepp too far for me.
Person dependent (like above comments on barefoot killing peoples shins, etc.) and cultural, like the Mexican-Indian (native) folks who drink, and run for 100's of miles (Born to Run book inspiration).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarahumara_people
The word for themselves, Rarámuri, means "runners on foot" or "those who run fast" in their native tongue according to some early ethnographers like Norwegian Carl Lumholtz, though this interpretation has not been fully agreed upon. With widely dispersed settlements, these people developed a tradition of long-distance running up to 120 miles (190 km) in one session, over a period of two days through their homeland of rough canyon country, for intervillage communication and transportation as well as to hunt.

They also have the tendency to eat when hungry, sleep when sleepy (as in, anytime / anywhere) which has threads to other "genius" discussions (lets call being able to run 100's of miles a type of "physical genius" for a thought experiment). I know when I do barefoot walking on a frequent basis my chronic lower back pain starts to dissipate.

Side note:
We also aren't naturally meant to sit all day in an office chair, yet...
But an infection your immune system can't handle is the exceptional case. Your body deals with most infections just fine on its own.
Could you describe where things went wrong with Airdrop? I haven't found much use of it either, but it did work between mine and two of my classmates computers without any issues.
An interesting take, though I thought most IDEs have most of those features already? (I personally dislike features that auto-jump me around apart from auto-indent.) It's funny she brought up vim since vim can be made to do those things as well; it's not limited to 26 characters since you can have multicharacter commands in any mode just fine.

I still don't really "get" the syllable perspective but it seems like it's just a mapping of one stroke (I think my confusion is what constitutes a "stroke") on specialized hardware to several on a qwerty board? So I guess you're limited to the number of keys on a qwerty board for single-point-of-entry commands with vim, but you could always use the specialty keyboard and map the output of those as multi-character vim commands... It seems the main benefit is having those mappings done for you and available system-wide.
Most of which, ironically, are smoothbores.
Nope, never look at the keyboard. And I don't make many mistakes ether. I can also touch-type-program (So use all punctuation/numbers etc.). it's just speed
I have high arches and really enjoy minimalist shoes.

When I run on a minimalist shoe for the first time (or wear hockey skates, or snowboard, etc) I get arch and shin pain.

Your feet will adjust very quickly, especially with some stretching. I also found a small weight loss (10 pounds) helped tremendously.
I think the point that it's more about the notions of the wealthy family than of the girl. Wealth allows families to transcend or disregard social norms. In this case it is clear that her family chose to raise her a particular way, and give her particular opportunities that, as you point out, would not be available to most Pakistani women.

This is precisely the point raised above, that this story is primarily about the opportunity provided by the family. But you are right, it's important to note that her family was evidently both wealthy and progressive.
Thanks for your comment, where would you recommend looking?
Somewhat related - is there any project for viewing the key/value pairs in a redis instance in a more friendly way than via the command-line?

I'd like to be able to enter a key-matching pattern 'users:*' and see the list of all the keys (and metadata like expiration time, number of accesses, update/created time).

EDIT: Found this - http://www.servicestack.net/RedisAdminUI/AjaxClient/# looks like what I was searching for, or at least 80% of it.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/ex-goldman-programmer...
How Capitalism Kills Companies
Well, he said wealthy suburban.
You got a link about these shoes?

I've recently begun walking to work (about 2 miles one way), and have been seriously considering plunking down $350 or so for a pair of the American-made leather-soled Wolverine 1000-mile boots.

I don't want to turn this into /r/malefashionadvice (which regularly debates good urban walking footwear), but I'm looking for such shoes and welcome a new brand to investigate.
Great demo of a new MacRuby API, not so great demo of cracking a wireless network.
What makes you think those words weren't carefully chosen?

And while we're on the topic of words and their meanings, what caused you to downplay Obama's actions by chalking them up to "incompetence"?

More to the point, now that you've been given a (ridiculously long) list of bad things that have gotten worse - not better - under his watch, do you think that, maybe, you had no idea what you're talking about, and that 'ignorant' was an entirely accurate description of your views?

Uncharitable, perhaps. But inaccurate? Hardly.
Could you be a bit more specific. Where would you send those marketing dollars? Ads where? Recently Flurry came out with data, I'll find the link if I need too, that suggests that discovery is not the issue in the App Store.

If that is the case, how would marketing help sales?
This is a very expensive operation if you have a large number of keys, and can easily block redis. keys is intended for debugging a relatively small number of keys.

Basically, if you're having to do this in prod, you may be fucked.
The email field on your profile is not visible to others.
Newton Running sells running shoes 2x the price of Nike or Adidas.
Thanks! I would be pissed too if I got harrased like that.
looking for an internship for summer 2012:

I'm Binny zunpick, I am in Jerusalem College of Technology, majoring in CS.

I've been programming since 14, building websites since 15, and havn't stopped working for a second.

I am proficient in php/mysql, but I am learning Ruby on Rails.
email: http://bzupnick@gmail.com

github: http://github.com/bzupnick

portfolio site: http://bzupnick.com

linkedin: http://il.linkedin.com/pub/binny-zupnick/23/598/297
Charles, Python-lover, knows Django, jQuery, AppEngine, Linux; looking for a full-time position in Europe or in the US. I'm French and am living in San Francisco (and really enjoying it). I love learning and can do it extremely rapidly.

Contact: ca@d3in.org http://www.d3in.org/ https://github.com/charlax
Not necessarily SF only. Zed blocked me from twitter because of some comment I made that I don't even recall. I actually like him, mostly.
Identi.ca blackout 18 Jan 2012 8AM-8PM EST to protest SOPA/PIPA
So is it not possible to catch that and display a helpful page?

But that basically confirms my contention that the user experience is miserable.
21,600,000 reasons why you should see this video
The Internet, what has it become? Where are we now?
Ask HN: What does it mean to be passionate about an idea?
(In context of a starting to work on an startup idea)
How do you know if you are "really" passionate about doing something? Is it possible to grow passion for anything? Was every successful entrepreneur passionate about what they did? Is passion overrated? Are we mixing passion with interest and/or abilities?
Spot-on. This entire thread is a good example of people stopping thinking rationally and trying to censor people who disagree with them just because once they got into irrational empathic state they think they have higher moral ground.

Feeling empathy and being sad for whatever reason is ok, but trying to project to other and decline them the right to ask the question or to make a statement in a respectful manner is not.
I could have sworn that way way way back when MS-SQLServer just started out it was a "fork" of Sybase Unix code??? I kinda remember that happening in like the 90's and then like usual Microsloth screwed it's partner (Then Sybase that did a lot of the work on the initial windows port)

Of course I maybe having some sort of strange drug induced flashback but kinda remember this?

RB
Ok... with correlation vs. causation out of the way, and a ridiculously small sample size to boot, it appears the average age of Forbes 400 tech company founders was almost 32 at the time of the founding their companies (http://goo.gl/iHAEe).

I have a feeling that's not what you meant when you said "young"...? Maybe you meant to restrict that to only founders that wrote the code their companies are based on? In which case, yeah, the founders of facebook, google, and Microsoft were all young when they started... I'd be careful drawing too many conclusions on that sample size, however.
To me this Economics 101. If your IAP removes ads, and people like the game, they'll spend the 99 cents for that purchase. If they feel they are being hampered because they have not bought an item and therefore can't compete in a game, they'll avoid the purchase.

Give people what they WANT and they'll buy it. Force people to buy something and they'll find a cheaper route, as in playing a different game.

I agree with the frequent updates. The goal is simple:

1) Avoid the spike. Game sales the weekend after release is big, and then dies.

2) Keep the game on the phone. With 1500 new game submissions A DAY, you need to keep the attention of the player. You do that by giving them short term goals and keep'm coming.
Another option kn0thing: SOPA poses a serious threat to freedom on the internet.

When an internet company like Reddit, HN or Facebook gives its users the freedom to post content, it gives its users the freedom to post anything they like. SOPA introduces the fear that a user might post something illegally. If SOPA passes, web companies could be forced to disallow user freedom altogether.

Invaluable resources like Wikipedia have been created by allowing user freedom. Who knows what incredible resources user freedom could lead to in the future?

By persecuting companies when its users post copyrighted content, SOPA threatens freedom on the internet.
Not a programmer here, but would you say your productivity is impaired by boilerplate?

I always got the impression the thing that ate up time was compiling, debugging and thinking. Not typing.
See:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Barefoot_running

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Biological_determinism (logical fallacy)
Joor - A nice fluent Reflection API wrapper for Java
Agreed. I tried wearing them for a while, and while they were fine for running, I couldn't just wear them around casually and they always felt sooo good to take off. They're sized by length, so I had the right size but they were just too narrow for my foot.
Nitpicking: To schlep comes from the German verb "schleppen" - to drag. In yiddish it refers generally to a commute or journey that is in some way quite aggravating - for example, I consider my daily commute in which I'm stuck in traffic a "schlep". Or, "I had to schlep my buby around town all afternoon as she kvetched about her bad back".

In short, to schlep does not mean a tedious or unpleasant task, it means a tedious or unpleasant journey.
Really? Most teachers I had would put WW (wrong word) or WC (word choice) to imply that the word is incorrect, which is considered grammatical.
Yes this is quite normal. By normal I don't mean that every company or even every second company uses this practice. I just mean that it is nothing to be skeptical of.

I have completed a few of these for companies over here in London (UK). Sometimes they organise a set time to send you the instructions and expect you to send the working solution by a certain time. I have done this twice and I was given 2 hours to complete the task. The other ones I have completed were not timed, they just advised that I send the working solution within the next few days.