skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, they can absolutely make it non-trivial, but for this to be effective, it needs to be a guarantee. All it takes is one of these keyboards being cracked. Add to that the fact that the keyboards would have to be ubiquitous, and you're virtually guaranteeing that an attacker has direct access to the hardware. You then have one of the most challenging scenarios to defend against.
Pricing paintings with red in them
Robots make for great expedition R&D. They can gather a lot of information very cheaply compared to manned spaceflight.

I'm not sure space travel has to be profitable. Certainly Christopher Columbus's voyage was not considered (by most people at the time) to be profitable. Yet economies of scale could definitely be taken into account. It is often said that the computing power of the Apollo missions to the moon were less than that of a TI calculator. It seems we should be able to have unmanned missions to the moon by private sector or even partially public funded. After all were sending DIY cameras into near space.
I guess I'll trott this out again:

The problem is that the newspaper used to be a communications conduit and newspapers grew to identify with that role. A proper newspaper reprints national and international news, and the weather, and sports, and it has a classified section and a comics page and a crossword and a jumble and an oped page. And the fantastic thing about reprinting wire reports and cathy cartoons and classifieds was that it was so very, very profitable compared to the effort required.

But a lot of that is obsolete today. That wire report is less accessible and less timely than it is to read the original online. Same goes for the weather. Etc. Today newspapermen are like hoarders. The amount of strictly original material in a paper has always been shockingly small, but today that is the only leg that they have to stand on. But papers don't have the guts to cut off the rest of their body and run lean and mean in the rough and tumble online world. Partly because in some cases they can't due to labor agreements, and partly because they are afraid that their original reporting alone isn't enough to be successful. But mostly because they can't stomach the idea of being something else, something that in their eyes is diminished.

Pay no mind that not serving as a broadcast medium for marmaduke strips, crosswords, and omnipresent wire reports hardly counts as a diminishment. It's their conception of their world and their role and they will live or die by it (spoilers: it's the second one).
> Its a disservice to keep telling people that they are too stupid to understand something

That's not the point. Specialization - developing a deep understanding requires time and effort. As a developer choosing a way to store passwords securely is one task out of 1,000 I'm responsible for. So I acquire a general understanding of cryptography to make a decision - but that decision relies heavily on experts and consensus. The worst thing I can do as a developer is to go down the rabbit hole of cryptography and spend 10 hours researching an optimal password hashing scheme for my app. Sure, I've begun the journey of having a deep understanding of crypto - but I still have 999 things to do!

Which reminds me I need to get off HN and get some work done .....
We're still getting lots of "not-space" but still beneficial science data out of NASA. I'm working with a team that's tracking pollution dispersion through earth's upper atmosphere right now, and my friend is off at a conference discussing her work on the origin of life. I think those are pretty compelling research topics.

(Electrical Engineer at NASA)
Show HN: Learn how to navigate the 4th dimension 
My coworker Drew (http://traipse.com/) wrote a beautiful iPad app to teach about the fourth dimension (coordinate spaces and such.)

http://fourthdimensionapp.com/
I think in this case, it does.
I think the author undervalues the power of Google in advertising. Seriously, every time I see the Google homepage, or a google property, there's an ad for Chrome. And, even better, the ad focuses on speed. That's what drove Chrome use up primarily (IMO, of course), though I can't doubt that word of mouth also had a large impact.
Ron Paul would defund all of NASA. Just saying.
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Who's wishing death on anyone? It's just a colorful way of saying that people will soon enough take the web heritage of apps for granted.
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Assuming an average price of 600 - that is 1.8B in revenue, in ~3 days.

Or, $25 MILLION PER HOUR.

EDIT: assuming that is in 48 hours, that equals 37.5 MM per hour in revenue.

What company has produced such revenue in some other space. Any?

I am sure the revenue for the Oil Industry is higher, globally, but for one company? That is insane.

I sold my apple stock at $200 :(
Amazon Drops $775 Million For Kiva's Robots
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Microsoft gives photo-matching tech to cops to fight child pornography
From people I've talked to in my family and others (non-technical folks) the idea of purchasing an iPad when it first launched wasn't incredibly alluring for anyone who's not an early adopter. Regular buyers like to wait until 1) reviews are available, 2) updates are out to fix bugs, and 3) the vague "quirks" are worked out in a device before pulling the trigger. $500-800 is a big investment for people buying a device to use on their couch, casually.

But now that the third generation is out, and it has an amazing new screen, great battery and extremely fast wireless (and, presumably, no "quirks" that people might think had been present in the earlier models) it's thought to be a safer buy. It's not the first model, it's been out a few years, Apple knows what they're doing by now, they've seen commercials and know people that have one, etc. So what were they waiting for? The new one to come out. And it has.

I think the buyers this weekend weren't merely Apple fans with iPad 1s and 2s who wanted to upgrade, but lots and lots of new owners who have been waiting patiently for a good reason to whip out their credit cards. For this reason I think overall sales of the new iPad are going to be totally insane.
CEO dares Microsoft to sue him over virtual desktops that flout licensing
That would be like Obama having a debate with Sarah Palin. Why should Tyson waste his time?
Good point. I would support that. The US government was designed to be a federation of state governments, but power hunger interests have twisted the definition of "federal" government so as to consolidate power. :\
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Does anybody besides me think this indicates consumers are replacing their old "real" computers with iPads?

While such conjecture is hardly novel, I think it's fairer to say that iPads are replacing a lot of things, and that's what feeds the justification. Your PVR, TV, newspaper and magazine subscriptions, kids toys, educational products, and on and on -- iPad (or tablet in general, though obviously the iPad is the front-runner).
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> * As long as you maintain more than 50% ownership, you're still the owner*

Maybe pedantic, but here goes: If you have given away so much as a single share, the usual phraseology is that you are "part-owner", because you own only a part. Saying "The owner" implies there is only one, which is false.

If you declare to the other shareholder that you are the owner, you might find an interesting reaction.
Love this thing, I've used it on a bunch of projects. The javacript API is great.
Your first stament is wrong. Theater requires you lie to your audience. For example, there are two movies coming out about Abraham Lincoln this year:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443272/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611224/

Clearly one of these is an outright fabrication of the events of Lincoln's life.

In the other Steven Spielberg is going to produce a film that is 100% fabricated and yet people are going to gush about the truth of Abe Lincoln that it captures. The sets will be fake. Most of the dialogue will be made up and dramaticized. No one will question this. No one will care.

Mike's issue was that he wanted to do more and he shouldn't have. He should have stayed off of NPR, out of print, and off the talk shows.

I still think that his show is closer to "Lincoln: The sixteenth President of the United States guides the North to victory during the Civil War" than "Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter: Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, discovers vampires are planning to take over the United States. He makes it his mission to eliminate them."
>Yeah, that's pretty spun. //

So you're saying that Dost isn't a test used in US law to determine whether images are child pornography or not.

My point in referring to my report to IWF was that under their summary recapitulation of the Sentencing Guidelines Council's Definitive Guidelines of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 WRT such images I was convinced that this material was child pornography.

Are you saying that crotch shots of pre-teen girls entitled "juicy" or making reference to them as sexual objects is not child pornography or are you defending child pornography as something that should be allowed?

Were there actual children exploited on/through reddit. Yes.

>Most sane people I know are more liberally tolerant if the relative benefit is higher. //

Ah gotcha: So I'm insane because you feel that a few sexually exploited children should be perfectly fine as long as you get your fix of askscience in a ready Android app?

Wow. I hope you're trolling.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=neil+degrasse+ty...

See them. See them all!
I appreciate the flexibility you've used with publishing through leanpub, I'm also not a fan of paypal so an amazon gift card has been sent. I look forward to any future ebooks you publish in this manner as well.
Or, what if the attacker set up a website (say, a forum) and enticed someone to visit it and type something, and the site used javascript to log their typing patterns?

Perhaps if it relied on strength of hitting the keys, this would be harder, though some of this data might be retrievable from an accelerometre.
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That's not as important as you make it seem. They can crack the two independently, so it is at most a factor of 2 increase in security over just the stronger method.
Anecdote: I got the new iPad, my wife liked it and I asked her if she preferred it to her computer (White Macbook) she said that she did so I placed an order for another iPad and her computer is going up on ebay.
Or Squaresseract :)
Yes I mostly read it to keep up with some of the Mesa developments, I'd agree that a lot of times they jump the gun and report something as more than it is, or even don't give enough information about some reporting (mostly the benchmarking, but they have gotten a bit better about that lately).
No, I'm not making any mistake. Religion is anti-mind, anti-life, and it is evil. There is no excuse for it. Saying "not all Muslims are are bad, violent people" is precisely like saying "Not all slave owners mistreated their slaves." In other words, completely true, but doesn't excuse supporting an outmoded, false, anti-life way of thinking.

I don't enjoy making these arguments, but people have to start speaking up about this kind of thing if it's ever going to change - again, analogous to the slavery case.
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Thank you for an release. I've been heavily promoting the web stack for over a decade and a half, yet still I'm surprised by what it is capable of. This also provides a clear demonstration of the power of algorithms even on an imperfect implementation. Excellent, clean API as well.
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Yes, this is the standard for commercial real estate. $3,000 a month really means a lot less then $15/sqft for someone who has looked much into commercial real estate.
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Articles every day? It's almost like this is a news site and Go hitting release candidate 1 is news.
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Since the year has $\pi \times 10^7$ seconds, the real pi day is actually new years eve.
If you are looking for couchsurfing for startups, there are already quite a few people on it... http://www.quora.com/Is-there-an-Airbnb-for-office-space
You're off the deep end man. Sure, things could be immeasurably better if you could get everyone to swim in the same direction to solve the big problems. That's not how things work though, we're all in the same boat you are, trying to do the best we can in an imperfect world. This is not a failure of the profession, it's a universal human failing, maybe even more universal than that.
I always feel a little embarrassed when the media quotes Woz. Is that wrong of me?
> Maybe the big companies like Google and Facebook are approaching a new meaning of a “large codebase”.

If codebase is that large, language alone can't solve all the problems. Be it compiling time, testing time, or whatever problems large codebase may have. I guess that's exactly what Steve Yegge tried to say in his famous Platform Rant blog post.
That's a good point, I suppose. Though, a convertible note structure prevents any dilution at all until subsequent funding happens... but that's getting even more pedantic of me ;)
James Cameron is going to personally descend 6.8 miles under water?

I sure hope he comes back, I'd like to see Avatar 2.

They need to come up with a brilliant way to make the water pressure work against itself to keep the hull intact.

Otherwise gravity always wins.
FWIW that link seems particularly lacking in objectivity.
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It costs them around $300 (Can't say exactly, however the LTE version was pegged at $330, could be less depending on volume deals) they are making a sizable portion of that 1.8bil in net profit.
Proggit, OSNews, and Lambda the Ultimate mostly.
I wonder how much revenue AT&T/Verizon are booking because of data plans for the iPhone and iPad. The total combined revenue from iOS hardware, data plans, and apps from the App Store must be frighteningly large.
You are exactly right. Non-ipad PC sales have been flat to declining basically since the ipad was released. People are not buying as many PCs as you'd expect, they are buying ipads instead.
I'm a new owner myself. I've been following Apple since I bought the first generation iPod (paid way too much for it) when it first came out. I noticed how fast and often Apple releases their upgrades, and I taught myself to wait (hard to do) whenever I decide to buy a new Apple product.

I didn't get an iTouch till it's 3rd generation, didn't own a smartphone till iPhone 4, and didn't get a MB till the Unibody design came out.

And now I will own my first iPad in an hour once I get home from work. The delay due to getting the engrave option.

So yeah, count me as one of those that's finally getting an iPad :D
You could have said the same thing about C and AT&T Bell Labs.
In general you are much better off just asking what you want to know. "What kinds of things have you enjoyed about your previous jobs? What kinds of things have annoyed you about them?"

One important take-away from his question, as he mentioned in the article, is how influenced the person is by events that are difficult for him/her, or anybody else, to control. In general, the more you tie your satisfaction to things within your control the happier you are likely to be.

But the problem with trying to ascertain such things by making up "fake" scenario questions is you can't control how your question is being interpreted. And when you don't know what question is being answered, you are randomly interpreting the response. And that means the question is, literally, a waste of time. Again, you are better off asking a direct question.

His question would probably work, however, if the candidate actually does have such a list for determining which offer to take. If this is the case, the candidate should hopefully recognize that s/he is (or could be) in a negotiation and treat his/her answers appropriately.
IIRC the Go authors have explicitly said that there's probably a lot of low-hanging fruit for improving their GC implementation -- they were focused on getting something working and out the door.
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It's fine we have articles, but I do think there's a tendency (here, as elsewhere) towards the less-subtle ones that take strong, easy to understand positions, of the "Go is great!" or "Go is crap!" variety.

I think I first noticed that tendency in general, though there are doubtless lots of earlier examples, when Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus and Nicholas Carr's The Shallows were simultaneous best-sellers. On the question of how modern technology/networking impacts cognition, it seems the two positions that sell a lot are: "it's awesome for cognition!" and "it's horrible for cognition!"
I didn't mean a hardware problem. I'm thinking of the "typing style signature" like a hash. Even if it's stolen, it shouldn't be easy to create a stream of keys that 'hash to' that signature.
This is a very cool idea and I definitely see the problem that it solves, but it also has the downside of not being a metaphor for something physical.

It's a little strange to see these controls which are currently very anchored in the corner of the window to be moving and sliding around, especially when the view inside the window is scrolling off the screen.

I could see people running into trouble when they've somehow moved the window partially obscuring controls. But if the controls are off the screen, I think it reinforces the idea that this "box" is a window into an application. It doesn't resize unless you grab an edge. (1) I don't mind making the tradeoff towards beginners understanding the computer when there are keyboard shortcuts for advanced users.

(1) This is now worse in OS X from a metaphor perspective. Before you could only resize from the bottom-right where there was a gripper. Now you can resize from any outside edge and there are no grippers/indicators. http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.a...
> Are you suggesting I should make things up instead of basing them on experience?

No. I am saying, now explicitly, that the shortcomings of the article are directly related to 1 & 2 in my original comment.
I'll agree -- the $100 cost to developers is also a psychological one. You're more likely to carefully consider the development of your app if you've invested financially in it.

Also, imagine the hordes of crappy apps that would come through if the barrier of entry were just OS X and an internet connection. The App Store review process simply wouldn't be able to keep up. Apple's primary focus has always been on quality and always will be.

I'm not saying I condone locking developers into paying fees for platform-specific development, but as an iPhone user, I don't want to wade through a bloated app store to find something useful.

If Apple could both increase the effectiveness and iterative speed of the App review process, I think they could afford to lower the iOS developer fee a little, and perhaps even make it free.
Right -- the design theme was originally created for short, featured items on my homepage, and I agree that it's not very good for longer form pieces. I'm going to update it soon...
Don't feel bad, I sold mine at $38 :)
Another anecdotal point, we got iPad 2's at Christmas for my mother (in her 60's) and father in law (in his 80's) both have picked up using them really easily and it makes my life as family IT support person quite a bit easier!
Man, this poor kid is both causing and taking a reputation beating.

Still, have to agree it's ridiculous that we're supposed to take the lifestyle opinions of a 19 year old seriously.
Touchy subject, from a start-up guy with a foot in both camps. But wholeheartedly support the needs for more of this tough dialogue.
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The third generation iPad is officially here, and fans all over the world braved the early morning today to wait in line and get their hands on the new tablet.
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Regardless of what one may think of his movies; this is bad ass.

I am surprised that there is not a fleet of autonomous subs roving the ocean floor and mapping it which belong to Google.

Or any other body for that matter.

Seems like it would be a good idea to make small, unmanned subs that "roomba" the ocean floor collecting data, mapping and taking video and pics.

They should surface whenever their batteries run low, solar re-charge and upload their data.

His website is pretty cool too.

http://deepseachallenge.com/
I fit mostly into those descriptions, and I definitely consider myself a tech person. An iPad has never been something I really needed, so I waited. Now that they are on v3 with the amazing new retina display (which is one of the features I really really wanted), I found myself preordering one on opening day.
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I apologize if you feel my post was "Go is great!" I wrote seven double-spaced pages, and six of them were about the strengths of non-Go languages. I expected my TL;DR that I added at the top of the post would have made that point.
> But times are tight. We're massively overspending as is - borrowing tons of money our grandchildren will still be paying back. So increased spending is far from free.

FYI, if you remove all NASA spending from the budget, the total deficit remains the same out to something like 3 or 4 significant figures.
But the processor isn't quad-core! But it weighs more than the iPad 2! But it's thicker than the iPad 2! But they didn't say how much RAM it has!
It will be hard to find a press release that has more feature-related buzz words than this:

CUPERTINO, California―March 19, 2012―Apple® today announced it has sold three million of its incredible new iPad®, since its launch on Friday, March 16. The new iPad features a stunning new Retina™ display, Apple’s new A5X chip with quad-core graphics, a 5 megapixel iSight® camera with advanced optics for capturing amazing photos and 1080p HD video, and still delivers the same all-day 10 hour battery life while remaining amazingly thin and light. iPad Wi-Fi + 4G supports ultrafast 4G LTE networks in the US and Canada, and fast networks around the world including those based on HSPA+ and DC-HSDPA.

Then again, it's Apple so it doesn't matter :)
"He said "Great thanks, when are you available to start?"
I told him, the interview was over, and I never heard back."

Is there something I'm missing? I don't quite get how him asking that question led to you turning down the job so abruptly
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They may have bought the technology but they definitely improved on it across the board while integrating it into iOS.
I've yet to see a website that get bogged down with authentication request in normal operation, even if those request measure in the multiples of 10ms. The basic idea with all those "slow" password hashes is that authentication is a pretty rare request compared to all other request. Usually authentication requires a single request, at most a handfull. If you run into trouble with bcrypt/scrypt on your webservers, you're doing things wrong. If you have that many authentication requests, direct them to a dedicated server - you'll be in the league that has a large farm running anyways.

Granted, an attacker could use your slow hash for a DOS-attack, but most websites I've seen so far always had some sort of slow operation that was easily exploitable without authentication.