skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but that's where the analogy breaks down. If you screw up in a game, you can always start from scratch and choose better next time. Not really possible in real life.
A few times in my life I've had these between state experiences. I'm not sure what triggered them or why they happened. And I can't recall fully the details of what I saw. However, I can remember the effect it had on my mind.

Once it was morning, but I was not awake. I saw a tablet with writing on it, infinite detail like a fractal going deeper and deeper. But I knew I wasn't awake, my eyes were closed. But the clarity was amazing. My eyes were closed and yet I saw like as if my eyes were open. I told myself this is what having photographic memory must be like.

Another time it was morning again and I thought I was awake. But I saw things floating in the air, like holograms of objects. And somehow I knew, I was still sleeping, but not sleeping. What I saw was a perfect memory recall of my room, a place I had seen thousands of times. But it was all in my mind and my mind could insert impossible objects at will.

Yet another time I heard the most beautiful music. I'm not a musician, and I can't remember anything about the music. I just remember it was amazing, like something bach would create.

These weren't like normal dreams which are forgotten soon after waking. They left a lasting impression, and even though I can't recall the images or the music, somehow I can remember the awe and wonder of the experience.
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That's Adobes biggest problem, for so many people "Flash" means "browser plugin." They need to kill that notion, the Flash Player is just a part of the Flash platform.
You make some great points. My original assertion about hiding behind usernames has been thoroughly blown out of the water, given the success of eBay and Etsy. I had always assumed that they handled the payments themselves, but clearly they've found ways to protect buys and sellers without sacrificing privacy.

I prefer when everyone knows who everyone else is, personally, but I understand that many people don't want to broadcast their personal information.
As someone who troubleshoots networks for living, it can't be overstated what value easily understood information has. Normal factors such as lack of understanding of a system, miscommunication, false assumptions, false information, all types of bugs, and operator error already plague troubleshooting. Anything you can do to simplify is extremely important. Little things like being able to read debugs directly out of wireshark can make the difference between solving something between minutes and hours, days and weeks.

Unfortunately serviceability is not normally high in the initial product requirements, but I've seen a direct correlation between customer satisfaction in support and products/protocols/designs with good serviceability.
Yeah hikers in Japan are mostly seniors and they are way more experienced than youngsters. Everytime I go for a hike there are the usual grandparents who hike in groups, and who overtake you on a climb with the blink of an eye. They are way fitter than most 20s years old.
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I'm really glad this has been resolved. Now I just wish there was an easier way to use the database. Have you ever had to code something with timezone awareness..? It's kinda nuts.
First, it's a some American women thing. The fact that this is common with women in this culture tells you something about this culture more than something about women. Similarly, something in this culture tells men that it is acceptable to talk about feelings while drunk, but not sober, until those conversations have happened enough times to have cemented an emotional intimacy between a group (2+) of friends.

I can point you to masculine evangelical USian culture where it is considered a mark of friendship to share spiritual struggles and aspirations, carefully negotiated within the intimacy of the group. (In some ways, it's a very healthy masculine culture, and I miss that part.) In this culture, it wouldn't seem out of place for a man to keep a clipping board of spiritual aspirations. (I think I've seen it, in fact, IIRC.)
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Very intellectually after comparing their services, and going through customer-reviews, terms and conditions and support plans you have to zero in for the right computer support provider.
This bugs me endlessly when browsing HN.

I like to open and read interesting links in new tabs, and invariably the continuations have expired when I return to HN after reading another tab. I see the expiry error many times everyday. It is a terrible user experience, even if it's a interesting technical 'solution' to paging.
Yeah, I think embarrassment is about the right level for DRM.
Strange... i clicked it and it works (and i do consider that an improvement).
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Interesting, Y2K must have hit pretty bad for them.
It's no more a "bad thing" than gravity being "bad" because I tripped and fell down instead of floating. It is what it is, and the sooner you accept the current realities the better off you are.

You also ignore the obvious results of death, one of which is reproduction and birth of new life and the resultant new thought patterns that emerge from a divorce from the constraints of past experience.

No one in good health looks forward to death but the lack of it means that we aren't commenting on HN, we're all at best simple eukaryotes swimming in the paradise of primordial ooze until we consume all non-organic resources and then suffer an eternity of starvation.
A lot of small businesses doesn't necessarily mean there's a lot of independent subcontractors, as we know it in the west. In South Korea there's a lot of independent "software consultants", however, these are employed by a single firm. It makes it easier for the firm to pay them less and be able to fire them at will.
The API was developed jointly by Adobe and Chrome, so its not Chrome or the API causing it, it's both parties wanting a better solution. It makes it cheaper for Adobe to support more platforms with less development hours.

Adobe has stated (not in any press releases, but from the mouth of employees) that they will work with any other browser wanting to implement the same API.
If things haven't changed in the past year you are right about not being able to do replicated multiple DC support.
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I think someone decided to forkbomb it. I'm still logged on and every external command I type gets me "bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable".

This is why we can't have nice things.
Not to detract from your main point, but I don't think Siesta is very common in Mexico and most other Latin American countries. I was born in Cuba, lived there for five years and lived in Mexico for about three or four. I don't know of a single person who regularly slept after noon.

In fact, I had an opportunity to live in Barcelona for three months and while a lot of businesses do close down from noon to three, I got the impression that people were not using that time to sleep, and that the idea of siesta in Catalunya is on the decline.
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On the one hand I'm not thrilled about Amazon having so much power. But on the other, I'm tired of being raped by the publishers when I buy ebooks. Those things should cost less than physical books, dammit.
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Here's the descriptions for all the levels from /usr/local/bin/ctfsh...

https://gist.github.com/1890401
I think because it's sort of factually incorrect (the GPS-based theories hadn't been substantiated), which makes its sarcasm hard to take.

PS: Meant to upvote, but hit the wrong button. Sorry.
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Yeah, I'm stuck on level 3 as well. I see the printf() bug in capitalize(), but I don't think it's any help. I don't see anything obviously wrong in truncate_and_copy() (the strncpy() call and friends look right). run() is the juicy target, and I know where it's at in memory. There's the obvious comparison bug in main(), and I can use that to call a function pointer other than in the array, but I can't seem to locate a pointer to run(). I thought there might be a way to overflow atoi(), but that doesn't seem useful either.

Several posters have hinted at buffer overflow, but I'm not yet seeing a buffer that I can overflow.

[edit: Nevermind, I got it. Whew.]
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If you really cared (about the artist), you'd buy music in CD form and rip it, wouldn't you? Does not buying in iTunes mean that pirating is the only other option?
It was originally published in 1993, and you make it seem like if you didn't know about it it didn't exist.

Although in your defense, it's not widely known. (Most people never even think to ask, although once they do the evidence is compelling.)
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Heres a list I have so far any other recommendations?

http://www.codepo.st/2012/02/23/10-twitter-accounts-for-developers.html
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So the network protocol must be in text so that a network admin could debug it? This is absurd.
having done a decent number of mp3/vorbis listening tests, the curve of diminishing returns in audio quality is very steep...as well as the price of the equipment and hearing ability needed to detect it. 85% of users will be unable to discern a well-encoded 192kbps VBR from 320kbps CBR from the original (no matter how high the quality).

a lot of difference which CAN be noticed results from bad encoders and the generic settings used - not strictly related to compression but to other aspects of the psychoacoustic model. classical music encodes better with one set of params, heavy metal with another. there were times when 160kbps has been transparent for me from the original using hi-fi, DACs and headphones. on recording, 24 bit makes a difference vs 16 bit, on output not so much in today's nil-dynamic range records.

telling the difference often requires constantly comparing to the original master where certain aspects sound just slightly different (not necessarily worse), and do not justify a 3x increase in compressed size to get perfect.

the biggest disappointment with a lot of lossy music is bad encoders, encoder settings, poorly (re)mastered originals and non-existent dynamic range at the source rather than a limited quality distribution format.
Oh, "scary" is the right word, notwithstanding everything you just said, which is all true.

It takes courage to stand in front of every camera on earth and claim to have measured something impossible, no matter how cautious you are, and no matter how gracious everyone else is. It takes courage to knowingly and deliberately turn yourself into the butt of jokes in foreign languages whose names you don't even know, all on the very slim chance that this thing you can't explain is something breathtakingly awesome, Isaac Newton-awesome, Albert Einstein's 1905-awesome. It was bound to be embarrassing in the end, and lo and behold it is shaping up to be exactly as embarrassing as every one of my fellow experimentalists knew it would be, and I can't decide whether to laugh, cry, or salute, because when you've spent months or years of your life in utter despair, trying to get your experiment to produce something halfway believable, or redoing six months of work because a broken fridge probably contaminated the first batch, or trembling as you cross-check the simulation code the week before your thesis is due, you've learned how it feels: Awful.

I'll go with "salute": Let's all raise a glass to these folks and be grateful that they are on the road to finding their problem, rather than being haunted by uncertainty forever. May their next result be twice as exciting and only half as wrong!
As someone actively involved in valuing and trading structured products, since their first (below the radar) crisis in 2001-3, I really don't understand where this idea about the roots of the problem being the government came from : Except that it was manufactured by politicians for their own ends.

The housing bubble (IMHO) had much more to do with the rating agencies getting overconfident in the validity of historical default data, and being lead by the nose (by investment banks) into areas where the models were bound to fail. One of the core modelling assumptions was that house prices could never decline across the USA as a whole. Everyone in the food chain was happy to let the rating agencies use this idea as a foundational assumption in the modelling of RMBS - because everyone creating new structures (and providing enormous numbers of mortgages) made money as long as the game didn't stop.

Also at fault were the regulators, who entrusted the Rating Agencies with determining the leverage in the financial system, by using their ratings ('AAA', 'AA', 'BBB', etc) as the basis on which bank's capital was used. Simply achieving a AAA rating (which was always possible : the Rating Agencies published their models, leading quants at investment banks to optimize against them) meant that banks could buy enormous quantities of the assets (since they were basically risk-free for capital purposes). Oh - I could go on and on, but most people will only read my first paragraph anyway...

Long story short : I'm frustrated that the financial crisis story is being told and retold by politicians with an agenda, most of whom should have said something at the time... And didn't.
Looking at the word cloud linked from the article (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3077/youporn_passwords.jpg) I am brought to puzzlement over just why 'melinda' is such a popular password.
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For CTF on shared servers, there need to be some explicit rules about DOSing shared resources; otherwise things get really dull really fast.

If people are going to be using brute-force tactics, they're probably each going to need separate virtual machines.
The udacity class will prob be too basic for you.
It does not seem to be relevant, as it seems to track along with the general use of the word 'sleep'

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I saw this as well - there are a lot of strange passwords that occur frequently. I suspect that people make bots all with the same password, though I don't know what they're used for.
They are using them for that business. Intel's fabs are at capacity, and they're building a new giant one in Oregon right now.
Of course, the US government magically controlled the housing markets in Britain, Spain, Ireland, and a number of other countries which experiencec similar housing bubbles and crashes. How'd that work?
Err, if you can issue me a pardon here, that was meant to be a footnote but I got the markdown wrong. The footnote should read: "By conventionally folded I mean folded first horizontally and then vertically such that each folded unit is rectangular."
Not as absurd as you'd think. You don't want to debug the protocol itself, but you want to be able to easily read what messages were exchanged.

I get the rationale. But I think it's weak, and this entire post is lots of fluff around that core rationale. (I've been writing extensible binary protocols back in 1988 - and it never struck me as particularly difficult even back then.)
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Yet he himself says he considered and rejected a binary protocol for the reason I gave: "I considered using a binary format, but the immediate problem was having extendable fields.", going on to point out that he rejected Thrift because it was too new and ASN.DER because it was too big.

That said, I think he didn't want a binary format in any case -- his "doing it again today" remarks point to JSON.
Salvador Dali:

http://www.arthurmag.com/2010/06/25/diy-magic-dropping-the-s...

The comments on that mention Thomas Edison also doing something similar.
Tell HN: NH House Votes Tomorrow to Repeal Money Transmission Law
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/housebillsincommitteebillstatus.aspx?lsr=2266&code=H43#nl

Inspired by FaceCash's plight (http://www.quora.com/Aaron-Greenspan/In-Fifty-Days-Payments-Innovation-Will-Stop-In-Silicon-Valley), a New Hampshire resident told her state representative about what was happening in California. Now, the New Hampshire House of Representatives is voting tomorrow (February 23, 2012) on H.B. 1700, which would repeal money transmission laws in New Hampshire. If you or someone you know works for a payments-related startup, this is something you should definitely support.

From our friends in New Hampshire:

"The Republicans (except for Sullivan, who is owned by large banking interests) are more likely to be favorable to this. Our best allies are Hunt (the committee chairman) and McGuinness. They could use some encouragement. Other people who should be contacted are Flanders, Headd, Nevins and Sullivan, who needs to hear from our side more.

Some talking points:

1. Merchants are getting killed by high credit card processing rates, and piecemeal state regulation and licensing prohibits real competition in the payments market.

2. Consumers pay more for goods and services because of the lack of competition in the payments market.

3. Licensing in New Hampshire is keeping computer firms out that would otherwise consider locating here. The "New Hampshire advantage" is meaningless to the up-and-coming internet payments companies can start up and grow in nearby Massachusetts, which does not license money transmitters.

4. Consumer protection is almost non-existent because the licensing fees are collected by the State Banking Commission, an agency which is required to be self-financing. The $52,475 collected in fees each year cover little more than the cost of licensing and records keeping. There have been almost no enforcement actions against money transmitters in recent years, except to collect the licensing fee.

5. Money laundering by money transmitters is already covered -- and prosecuted -- under Federal Law, specifically 31 USC 5321 (the Bank Secrecy Act) and its associated regulations 31 CFR 103.57, as well as 18 USC 1956 (Laundering of Monetary Instruments).

Here's the list of representatives on the committee:

Ronald Belanger <ron.belanger@leg.state.nh.us> (R-Salem)

Jerry Bergevin <jbergevin@myfairpoint.net> (R-Manchester)

Jennifer Coffey <jenn.coffey@leg.state.nh.us> (R-Andover)

Donald Flanders <dflanders@metrocast.net> (R-Laconia)

James Headd <jimheadd@comcast.net> (R-Auburn)

John Hunt <jbhunt@prodigy.net> (R-Rindge)

Donna Mauro <donnamauro@donnamauro.com> (R-Windham)

Sean McGuinness <sean.mcguinness@leg.state.nh.us> (R-Nashua)

Chris Nevins <vnav46@comcast.net> (R-Hampton)

David Palfrey <weblakes@metrocast.net> (R-Franklin)

Frederick Rice <fred.rice@leg.state.nh.us> (R-Hampton)

James Sullivan <james.sullivan@leg.state.nh.us> (R-Deerfield)"
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Ah, that explains that particular mystery.
Actually, the same professor (Miura) who invented the fold I talked about in that note came up with another way of folding (that also involves binding part of the map) that does "reference a portion" much better than the traditional way manages. You can find it if you google for "Design of portable maps enabling longitudinal access" Miura, 2006
Continuations were all the rage a few years ago, after yet another doomed resurgence in web lisp. I agree, it is completely awful, and I'd rather have semi disoraganized link order.
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I didn't even know there was an hnsearch. Thank you!
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There's a Zen saying relevant to the article (and to much of the discussion here). Rather than wringing your hands over "optimal sleep", I suggest trying it out. If your schedule allows, it can work wonders:

When hungry, eat. When tired, sleep.
I'd be interested in seeing that. Someone did make it in Wolfram: http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/MiuraMapFoldingAndUnfoldin...
That line is in response to the question, 'Is Pinterest fundamentally feminine in some way?' The answer of no in that context is that Pinterest is a derivative behavior associated with 'women's magazines' which is also not fundamentally feminine.
I'm "level 41" as well - a big thrill for me now is that when I was growing up in the early 80s I thought the best thing in the world would be to work with computers for a living - and that's what I do, on devices that I couldn't even have imagined in 1983 or so. Since I clearly remember Apple IIs and TRS-80s, I still get a bit of a "wow I'm in the future!" thrill whenever I fire up a modern computer or mobile device.

Being a bit older helps me recall the amazingness of the modern world.

Several commenters have pointed out that levelling up means cutting off choices - but I managed to mostly follow what I enjoyed when I was younger, and I would much rather be a capable developer than an olympic athlete or a rock star. I MAKE THINGS. THAT CHANGE PEOPLE'S LIVES. EVERY DAY. Most 'successful' people my age can't say that, if they ever could. Middle management doesn't MAKE anything, unless you count meetings and memos - but I do.

Random advice for younger folks: making at least some kind of a living doing what you love and making a difference is way better than making big money doing something pointless that you hate.

Part of me still thinks that I'm 25, but another part of me is now old enough to reflect on the clueless jerk I occasionally was when I was 25. Growing up is a balance between who you were and who you are now, and especially in technology it's important to not forget your 25-year-old self while still keeping the 40-year-old as well. If you can be both 20-something and 40-something at the same time, it makes for a great combination of enthusiasm and perspective.
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Not particularly fair. You also had XDR (ubiquitous on Unix systems), IIOP, TLV, ICE... not to mention what ever protocol designer for the past 20 years has used: network byte order integers and ASCII/UTF8 strings.

Some people just like ASCII, human readable protocols. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's a little silly to suggest that the options for a packed binary encoding in 2007 were limited because Thrift and Protocol Buffers were too new.
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Also found a large PDF about testing with suggestions for tools
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More tools listed
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I'll keep an open mind - who should have said what, when?