skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting... there's a historical passage of the Bible in which David (who'd later be king) pretends to be insane in order to convince people that he's not a threat. So apparently that works. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%2021&... (at the bottom)
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I think using XBMC will be huge. Cheap, low power, and simply point it at a computer/external HDD with a media collection to play all available media.

Also, using it as a gaming machine (see the Quake III video on Raspberry Pi's site) and game emulators for older console games.

I would love to see different sensors being attached for cheap, open-source home automation projects (home heating, turning off lights when no-one is present, monitoring home energy consumption, talking to mobile devices etc.)

Edit: Project Ideas from Raspberry Pi's forum:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/projects-and-collaboration-...
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Welp, this does it for me. As soon as i can get a completely carrier unlocked iPad in the bay area, I'm going to switch from my laptop (x61t) to this new iPad plus a dock and a BT keyboard and mouse. All I really need is an ssh/X-window server app, and I can run all my programs on my server or desktop.
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"Respect" is a social construct that relies highly on social interaction. Since programming is a lonely activity it's hard to earn respect beyond peers. Not that one should really care about that much. I have found that i earned more respect when i started introducing myself as "entrepreneur" than i got when i was "programmer", even though i actually work less in general now.

As for working in other fields, from my experience in a biology lab, yes, you may earn "God-like" status sometimes, that is, become the last resort for everyone, but truth-be-told, sometimes you find yourself doing boilerplate work by just implementing some algorithm and nothing too exciting.
That has nothing to do with the site being responsive. This is what is responsible for not allowing you to zoom:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
It doesn't provide much scalability either?

Redis is in a class of its own; there are lots of niche technologies.
Just to give people a flavor, here is a script I wrote in Python to generate various random passwords: http://www.bpaste.net/show/24775/

What it looks like in practice:

drostie@signy:~$ words -c 5 4
(Line entropy: 64.7055497954 bits.)
rebelliousness subpoenas garrulous coach
mono peroxide underused fathers
entreat entwined meatier umbilicuses
relay torrential husband Jenkins
Kristine sluggers feverishly Lessie

So each of those lines has a little over 64 bits of entropy. You might also consider the following one-liner in the shell:

drostie@signy:~$ head -c 9 /dev/urandom | base64
ST2QpSb0eKHk

If you're not paranoid, consider typing "password" into DuckDuckGo and it will give you a random password. If you're slightly more paranoid, consider using mouse-movements to generate your own random password with a random tool I coded for making random API keys: http://code.drostie.org/api.html . Just truncate to the first 10-12 characters or so.
I worked for a company where they had a student (internship) set up the LAN, among other things. He got the job done, they liked to boss him around and pretty much everyone agreed the guy was lazy and there was no way they were going to hire him, blah blah.
Truth be told, you could see he didn't like it there.
But they couldn't have been more wrong about that guy.
And I've seen this over and over again: it has nothing to do with technology.
It has everything to do with the people you work for and how big of an influence your job has on whatever it is a company is trying to sell.
It's very discouraging to a lot of people when they're in a situation like that guy was.
Fortunately, he only stayed there for like 6 - 9 months (too long, imo, but he had no choice), so when his time was up I asked him where he was going.
He was going to work for a company that offered network solutions, he figured that was a better choice than to go work for a company similar to the one he just interned for.
And he was right.
I happened to know the company and the owner, so I assured him he made the right choice.
I checked up on him a few months in and all I can say is: time to move on when you're in a situation like he was.
Submitter / Creator here. I built Faraday to live on my desk while I work throughout the day. I'm a freelancer, so my days often involve jumping between projects and irregular schedules. Faraday lets me block out sections of my day quickly and easily, and helps keep me on track while I work.

I'm considering this a MVP, simply because it doesn't do all the things I want it to yet. Its feature set is limited, but it's definitely functional enough to use on a daily basis. It is for me, at least.

I'd love to hear what you all think about it.
Fastwords are unsafe.
The alphabet has a size of 64.000 symbols (= words), and people will use 3-4 of them.
For 3 words there are just 262.144.000.000.000 different combinations to try. Renting a cluster of 30.000 machines for one hour costs less than 2k dollars. With such an attack you can try 5 trillion combinations per minute, which makes just max 52 minutes to crack such a password.

Mobile security can be achieved with LastPass for example, a password manager.
This can generate a password for you that is 20 chars long, with an alphabet of more than 70 symbols.
If we assume 70 symbols and just 10 of those in a password, then we already have 2.824.752.490.000.000.000 combinations, which is 10.775 times more secure than the fastwords example. So instead of cracking one hour, with a good 10 char password that includes symbols, uppercase and lowercase and digits, it would take around 416 days to crack a short mobile password, and it would cost millions.
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MSN and Hotmail used, and maybe still do this, after 14 characters.
Unreadable page on a iPad. Fail.

Looks like this: http://db.tt/Mezob1s1
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Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances (using short-wavelength radio transmissions in the ISM band from 2400-2480 MHz) from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks (PANs) with high levels of security.http://codersky.com/how-to-develop-android-applications-212
I think in the short term there will be a lot of work done very quickly to make Pi & Arduino talk to each other - the Pi's power and the Arduino compatibility are a great combination.

I agree that in the longer term the Arduino processor board isn't necessary. It shouldn't be too hard to make a cheap dongle to connect Arduino shields to the GPIO pins on the Pi, with some attendant software to drive them.

There's some good stuff here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/projects-and-collaboration-...

Fun times!
> 20% of legitimate Email never reaches the inbox

This is either bogus or they are redefining words in an unusual manner.

Most organizations depend on email to such an extent that a 20% drop rate would be the number one topic of conversation among sysadmins every single day.

I'm guessing that the terms they are using include things that normal people consider unwanted mail bordering on spam. But that's just a guess.
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Passwords are also much easier to memorize when you have to use them every few days, and extremely hard to remember when you only use them once every several months when your login cookie expires.

I also would like to know whether there is a simple way to strongly encrypt a password that one keeps in one's wallet. The goal should be that if I am pickpocketed in a Dutch train (which seemingly never happens but the Dutch always warn me about it), my wallet does not contain some piece of paper saying "my.address@gmail.com h6tHVtcj3DsY".
"Programming as an intellectual activity is the only art form that allows you to create interactive art"

Well, except for architecture. And industrial design. And pretty much most art that requires someone to interpret it (it depends on who you think you are making your art for - the person interpreting it, or the person watching the interpretation...)
It's not "if you don't like it, don't use it." It's, "how do we, the presumably more savvy, help prevent abusive ToS where naive 'click through' users are taken by surprise when Pinterest begins selling the users' things?" How do we keep our collective marketplace safe so visitors will feel good about strolling by?

It's easy to let the user own their own things. Even free site Tumblr does this:

First, "Subscriber shall own all Subscriber Content that Subscriber contributes to the Site," which clarifies the user, not Tumblr, owns it.

Second, the user "grants ... license ... to use, copy, cache, publish, display, distribute," which lets Tumblr host it on their web and caching servers, "modify, create derivative works and store such Subscriber Content", which lets them make thumbnails and posts out of it, "and to allow others to do so ('Content License')", which lets them use a CDN, "in order to provide the Services."

The key is "in order to provide the Services." Outside of providing Tumblr, you own your stuff, and they can't do anything else with it.

Tumblr's in New York and has great lawyers. Pinterest should be publicly shamed for burying their non-standard claim of the right to sell your creative works in the middle of a ToS.
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The point is to catch the unexpected, just as this scenario was unexpected.

I can't think of a realistic situation right now that will catch you out, but with full disk encryption I don't have to.
Then you have looked at the wrong registrars. Loopia[1], Binero[2] and Crystone[3] all sell .se domains for around $15. (I'm not affiliated with any of these companies),

[1]https://www.loopia.com/domainnames/#prices
[2]http://www.binero.se/doman
[3]http://www.crystone.com/domainname.aspx
Pay isn't that well correlated with respect.

Exhibit: The "starving artist" vs the "slimeball lawyer".
That is sadly true. I've been developing software for the past 6 years and have helped organizing several developer oriented events.
Now I have worked in entrepreneurship for 8 months and am currently organizing the first entrepreneurial event(Startup Weekend).

Yesterday i received an official invitation from the city council to a banquet for entrepreneurs in our city...
Many of us ham radio operators can hear morse at pretty high speeds but I remember being on a bus with a friend who was well known for being the best of the best. He was staring at an ad for the longest time before I interrupted him to ask why.

There was some morse printed on the ad, just one line, but because we are so used to listening to morse, interpreting it visually took far longer.
Well good for you for trying an experiment about it.

You might like the book The Design of Everyday Things which is about issues like confusing elevator buttons.

I just flipped through my copy, actually, because I wanted to quote a passage at you, but I couldn't find it so I guess I was wrong: I had thought one principle of good design was a one-to-one mapping of interface features to functionality. Two buttons doing the same thing would break this concept, but maybe it's not a principle after all.
This strikes me as being similar to extracting bits of a model out into modules that then get included back into that model. It looks like you're reducing the complexity of the model, but in fact you're just hiding it elsewhere, without making it any easier to stub things out.
"I live in a would where people are battling digitally"

The fact that a guy actually named "Dotcom" is public enemy #1 to the old elites, prehaps we are in the midst of some 90s Neal Stephenson whimsy :)
I wonder how long it will be be before this type of Mass Hysteria situation can occur with geographically diverse groups who are linked via online social networking.
Obviously once people start hanging out in shared video conferencing situations you have the possibility of people copying one another's visual cues and perhaps that leads to this disorder.
Has anybody heard about this happening over facebook yet?
This. I was reading someone's blog the other day about how they were rewriting their app in node.js... whereas a few years before that, I remember that they had rewritten the app in rails... Their product could've been so much further along had they just stuck with php/.net (whatever is was originally).
Also a part of this problem is that many programmers are assholes. Going out to the world while thinking "im to smart for the rest of the world, tha hell with them" is just a big social failure in general. One need to be able to see things out of different perspectives, a bit more open minded. Just because a person like to do other things in life then CS-stuff, does not mean they are automatically stupid.

Programming is not everything in life as many would like to think. Handling different kinds of people in different kinds environments for example is much, much harder then learning how to code.

Connecting this all together has made up a history of non sympathetic people doing "the coding stuff" at the office where everyone else just stop caring about these guys cause you can't really talk to them. Now im just talking about the stereotype thats has been biting us in the ass for ages. Portrayed in media etc etc

This has been covered well in the beginning of the social network where Mark get lectured up by his girlfriend at the bar....

So really from experience, a good way out of this is not going to management, but just to "listen" to other people and open up your mind a bit...

/coder since age of 13, 29 years now, startup, the whole 9 yards
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Thought I'd try out the service with the free plan, went through the sign-up process but the activation email got caught by our spam filter (IronPort), kinda weird.

Edit: Fine when using my GMail
I could see it. Personal e-mail is very unlikely to hit a spam filter, but I've noticed it's very easy for legitimate notification e-mails that I expect and want to get to hit the spam filter.

Just taking a look at my junk mail folder in Outlook now, here's a list of things I wouldn't consider spam that still hit my spam folder:

- (ironically) A summary of mail that has been marked as spam by my server side spam filter.

- Error notifications from Airbrake

- A notification e-mail from a cloud CI provider that we use

- A personal e-mail from a friend who wanted to meet for lunch

- (even more ironically) A newsletter from an e-mail marketing provider we use on e-mail deliverability

- Facebook notification e-mails

- Twitter notification e-mails

I guess it all depends on your conception of "bordering on spam". We send a small amount of notification e-mails (and a weekly digest e-mail if people want it) from our application, and it's incredible the amount of things you need to think about just to send relatively benign e-mails these days.
Whoever solves the 'password problem' and has their solution adopted is going to make a lot of money, I think. I'm always working on this in the back of my head, but haven't come up with something that will really work, but I'm sure someday, someone will come up with a solution that is a secure, reliable and easy to use way of personal identification.
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You're telling people to settle. Settling can make you happy, or at least satisfied; but it's bad signaling to settle too early.
"A video is making its way around the interwebs this morning from some guy claiming he figured out a way to beat our body scanners (imaging technology)."

I couldn't read any further.
Ideally you use a localization framework which manages date formated and your back end just deals with date objects.
Damn I envy the GitHub guys. They can send a mail to their users about SSH Keys and nearly all users simply understand it and get it over with.

In any other business, the result of a similar mail would be an overloaded helpdesk, a significant reputation hit and a massive bucketload of competitor FUD.
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I've added it to Lanyrd's list of Hacker News meetups: http://lanyrd.com/guides/hacker-news-meetups/
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Definitely like some of the features in this picker.

If anyone's ever looking for a lightweight simple date picker (~4k) you can always check out mine:

https://github.com/glad/glDatePicker

:)
"If you're worried about getting respect, you're worried about the wrong thing".

I don't agree with this. I agree that if you're worried about getting popularity, then you're worried about the wrong thing. Respect is important, but only from the right people.
I like that answer, because it is clear and doesn't seem like a sneaky over-reach.
Confirmed (but no mention of stealing):

http://blog.osmfoundation.org/

though there is this:

"It’s also missing the necessary credit to OpenStreetMap’s
contributors; we look forward to working with Apple to get
that on there."

I guess there is an outside possibility that both teams are using the same Ordinance Survey Data (although this seems unlikely now that the OSM Foundation has chimed in, I suspect they would have checked this before announcing Apple's welcome).
Or you could just install wordpress? Unless your aim is to jump through the hoops, or satisfy the nerdy carving of coding we all have.
Just astounding. As soon as I read "interwebs" I had to check to make sure this was an official communications channel of a Federal agency. Mind is blown. Is this the same level of people running the CIA/FBI? What is going on?
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Programming in a commercial sense really means solving other people's problems under a set of constraints over which you have little or no control. I always get a little annoyed when people say, in an interview, that they have 10 years experience, because they started at 12. That's great and I encourage it, but it's not transferable to a commercial setting any more than playing Chess for 10 years is. In fact I would take the Chess player give the choice.
Is it not time for a GitHub for publications?

The problem is keeping the quality high, which can only be done with editors, which cost money.
It would appear that Wired came to the same conclusion as the blogger - http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/qn0su/wiredcom_con...
Wasn't aware of that one. Great, thx!
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An app that can be rewritten on a whim is not a significant app. Harsh but true.
> Or you could just install wordpress? Unless your aim is to jump through the hoops, or satisfy the nerdy carving of coding we all have.

I think a reason Jekyll is popular is because it's relatively simple to update & use once it's running. Since it's also just static HTML via your web-server, it's also significantly more secure (no app code to exploit).

That, and it's fast. Serve it with nginx and you'll endure traffic magnitudes larger than even a tweaked WP install can on a small VPS.
In my experience it's the programmers who can ONLY program that get little respect. The ones that can also understand other problem domains (business/people/processes) tend to get respect no matter what their job title, even in technology companies. So Zed is right - programming is most powerful as a tool to be applied to more interesting problems.
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Do you know any such marketeers?
Stand alone network backup device. I plan on hooking a low power external USB drive, and using something like rsync over the network so that backups are isolated from the computer I'm backing up. There's already several techniques documented for using rsync combined with "cp -al" to create daily/weekly/monthly snapshots using incremental space; combine this with an appropriate "command=" parameter in ssh's authorized_keys file, and you can have a backup that can run automatically, and that can't be destroyed by malware on the host you are backing up.
Nearly every point in this post is easily refuted. As I read, at points I thought it was going to be satire. The author obviously has no idea how `switch` actually works, doesn't understand the difference between IDE tooling and the actual language, and isn't aware of C# features that he claims it doesn't have.

How is this taken seriously?
Snap ;)

Oh, and a pocket voip p2p wifi mesh phone would be nice.

Though the latency might be crap over too many hops and I am not entirely sure how well it would fare in really huge city-wide networks of the things. :)
How you can confirm that there is no pauses in time? To confirm that, we need to watch something outside of our space-time continuum.
Good for the OP to have made money doing something he loved, however time spent gaming (or writing useless SAAS apps or mobile applications for that matter) is a waste of good brain cells. Unless something helps our future generations either by providing an example for how to love and care for each other or by furthering humanity's development, it is waste of time.
I'm really keen to get at least one for using as XBMC. but I still have no idea when I might get to even order one.
My bank does it after 6! It even reminds you that it is 6 chars max on the login page.
Whatever people say about "lawyers", people tend to have a lot of respect for their lawyers. It's lawyers as an aggregate that people tend to stereotype.
> You can code. They cannot. That is pretty damn cool.

If it weren't for the last 3 paragraphs, I'd agree completely. But seriously- who makes fun of developers anymore?
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http://www.cronmaker.com/ ?

I believe it's "Quartz" specific (a scheduling framework) so your mileage might vary
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I'm using Jekyll bootstrap too, mostly as a way to get acquainted with Jekyll....however, for any new blogger, I think they'd do better to just do Wordpress at first
Wordpress requires a database, Jekyll does not.

Jekyll is also much easier to maintain, with it's built in web server for testing, and static page generation, using a github repo is so simple it's stupid.

Jekyll is the way to go.
$12.50 revenue per email sent?

Am I being overly cynical, or is that a little unrealistic?
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Being respected in that sense is extremely important. First of all, people need to pay the bills, which you can't do if your work is viewed as a commodity and you're therefore in wage competition with 22-year-olds and outsourcing shops. Second and more importantly, for the types of people who learn programming to enjoy their jobs requires a certain amount of autonomy that isn't usually granted to non-managerial workers.
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"It’s also missing the necessary credit to OpenStreetMap’s
contributors; we look forward to working with Apple to get
that on there."
"Dark force" is an absolute necessity if anyone is going to take you seriously (unfortunately). MLK and Gandhi (don't know so much about Mandela) both advocated for peace but had powerful contemporaries who did not.
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