skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any resource in which more cannot be elastically created by the application of more money is a zero-sum game, or close to it. Land is one obvious example.

edit: Political power might be considered another - at least up until the point when you cause people to riot.
Actually Zenbooks ship with two different touchpads, mine has the Elantech and works OK.
I guess it's more confusing because your page title is domainer and your domain is domiy :)
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Way before technology and internet came into our lives the idea of a background check was considered a task in futility due to the fact that the process was lengthy and time-consuming.
How else would your friends get in touch with you to start trading drawings? It's unobtrusive and slick. The only facebook related things I've seen from this app are terrible drawings that people are sharing.
If Freedman sees this, I'd like to get his opinion on what they are doing better than the two incumbents: Loopnet.com and CoStar.com

Personally I find both sites irritating, so I'm sure there is an opening here, but I'd love to hear what he thinks it is.
You don't have to look in the comments, it says so right in the article:

The proposal is to change the default to 'upstream'
My bad, fixed it, was supposed to be here:

$.fn.wTooltip = function(option, settings)
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I think he meant it hasn't undergone the same level of public scrutiny. You've certainly spent ample time researching it, and it's obviously been tested, but possibly not as much something like AES.
With a few very rare exceptions, those use cases are equivalent.

EDIT: The context was comparing 1. converting passwords into keys for cryptographic purposes and 2. hashing passwords to be used for logins.
You could argue that they have moved humanity forward in the sense of setting the bar higher for the sort of experience that people expect with everyday things.

Of course they are not primarily a science/research company so they rely on "standing on the shoulders of giants".
Stochastic Resonance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_resonance
It's meant to be the first argument passed to the plugin, e.g.

$("#bla").wTooltip({foo: "bar"})
No, and I didn't even do anything in my field of study. I feel like I've done well despite the lack of paper, but as the years have worn on, my reasons for dropping out sound less and less credible and more and more like excuses. It's definitely a hindrance in interviews.

You may also want to consider the possibility of transferring to another school rather than dropping out.
iOS only? Meh. It really is true: iOS is the new MSIE.

Somewhere down the road iOS-only code will not be accepted, and then we have tons of code already deployed which will never work on anything else, unless Apple's non-standard JS and webkit extensions are accounted for in other browsers.

This is hopeless and pathetic. And HN will love it.
OK, but PBKDF2 hasn't had very much scrutiny either. The entire field of key derivation functions has been very much neglected.
Regarding the Social bookmarking app, we want to take a recommendation system appoach, so we set the boards, and as new content gets posted, we fetch the content on the content recommendation engine we post it to a particular board. Users can then suscribe to boards and get content in realtime.
A user can either vote up/down the content and we coulde use it to train and get the user preference.
I can't find a quick source for the disposal of crops but the US does heavily subsidize farmers to the tune of tens of billions per year.
If you're settled on "Tesseract", perhaps a small tweak would suffice to clear up the potential confusion. Call it "Tesseract.js".
I don't understand how we can really expect to conceal our genetic data. Everyone leaves it everywhere all the time (lost hairs, skin cells, saliva on discarded beverage containers).
TLDR: Use PBKDF2 or scrypt instead.

PBKDF2 has had longer public exposure, and also features an adjustable CPU work factor (though with a lower theoretical safety-to-compute-time than bcrypt).

scrypt is newer, but features both a CPU and memory work factor (memory-hard algorithm), and is algorithmically superior to both.
This report shows us a terribly broken culture. It may have had foundations in religion, but that was so long ago that even if we could magically wipe away all trace of religion or God from the minds of every Mauritanian, the problem would continue. The only way to fix broken cultural aspects is through education, which is what the abolitionists in this report seem to be doing. Maybe it shows my ignorance, but if not for this report I would have never known about this problem, now that I do, I'd love to find ways to help.

Pinning the blame for Mauritania's slavery problem on "religion" takes the eye off the ball, which is fixing the problems there. It also seems like creating a convenient straw man for atheism, which if the constant preaching of is any indication, seems to be turning into quite the religion...
Wow, some of these are amazingly insecure. It's really incredible that at least one of the developers of a paid security app stores the master-password encrypted (not-hashed) using a hardcoded private key.
For certain things, thumbnails make sense: online, articles about photography, etc. But for regular articles, instead of figuring out how to extract thumbnails, we should realize that in most cases, the article would be highly improved by a lack of thumbnail.

There's a trend lately to illustrate low-quality content with low-quality stock pictures (most likely acquired from a Google Image search without a proper license.) For an example, just look at TechCrunch or Pando. We should strive to rid the internet of this plague.

Good articles and real journalism have standards when it comes to illustration. Open up nytimes.com and look at what's illustrated with photos versus illustrations versus nothing.
Worth pointing out I was talking about managers, not management consultants, which are a whole different kettle of fish.
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If the glove doesn't fit...
No, ad hominem is "You're wrong 'cause you're a jerk." DanBC pointed out that their opinion might not be as above reproach as is often assumed because of past lapses in good judgment.
* (though I don't know if that's an official Microsoft language)*

It is. When you launch Visual Studio >= 2010 it's there alongside C# in the Project Creation wizard.
What a sensible change. Kudos to the git team. Most other teams would be wary of a non-backwards compatible change on such a critical path for a widely used tool.
Bug filed on their github issues page:

https://github.com/square/tesseract/issues/1
What about micro-fuel cell + hydrocarbons?

The energy density of gas/petrol is fantastic. Recharge time is quick ("pour some in").

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/12/a-gallon-of-petrol-can-pow...

http://www.mtimicrofuelcells.com/

Sure, we have limited supplies of hydrocarbons in the ground, but to me the key energy technology would be "synthesise hydrocarbons from water + CO2 + energy in". i.e. stop focusing on hydrocarbons as a source of energy and start thinking of them as a 'transport' of energy.

That would also mean we can move to clean, renewable power generation without retooling the globe's transport fleet.
So the author says to use PBKDF2 because it's researched and tested better than bcrypt, and then suggests scrypt as another alternative despite having, from what I can tell, less research done on it than bcrypt.

The crypto space can be intimidating to your average dev, but almost every app needs some sort of protection (at least for user information). I think the author is fair in wanting to push for the "default" to be PBKDF2 instead of bcrypt, but should he really be advocating a less-tested function in the same article?
If everybody had their own little plane to fly, the overweight person would end up paying more for the same trip because of the higher fuel cost. That person is simply more expensive to transport.

Now, you can claim that we shouldn't expose people to the humiliation of being weighed at the airport and I agree with that and thus, it might just be best to divide the added cost among the passengers like we do today.

But apart from that, the fairness argument seems deeply flawed to me. I guess that I am quite the capitalist (even though I'm from Scandinavia) but it doesn't seem fair to me to force the other passengers to share that persons extra cost.
If you don't want to give ad money to the disgusting pile of slop that is phoronix, here are the relevant upstream mailing list links:

"GCC 5?" http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2012-03/msg00256.html
"GCC 5 & modularity": http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2012-03/msg00263.html
You could say the same things about fingerprints but it's uncommon for a company to collect your fingerprints without you knowing.
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Argh, declaring Pi day as 3-14 is straight up cargo cult numerology. I will ask, what then is "pi time" ? Is it 1:59:26... AM? But the range of hours is greater than 10 and daytime wouldn't be bad, so maybe we want to put it 15:92:65... . Oops, now our fundamental problem is revealed - we're taking a base 10 decimal and cramming it into a base 12/30.?/24/60/60/10 format digit by digit.

Pi is a ratio, and we'd do much better service to its meaning by declaring 'pi time' as when 1/pi of the year is over. In leap years, this happens on April 26 at 12:02:01... PM. At this point, the Earth will have moved twice the distance that it is from the sun (tau day might be cooler in this regard, but would happen in dreary February)

(I swear I'm more fun at parties, just not necessarily "pi day" parties)
I'm pleased to see that designers and architects show awareness of privacy.

> “You have spaces where you go and seek refuge,” says Eric LeVine, an NBBJ architect. “Or you hunker down at your desk, maybe you put your headphones on, and people will know to leave you alone.”

> Brent Rogers, another architect at the company, adds: “If someone’s wanting privacy, they’re sending out signals that tell you. You become more sensitive to body language in an open office environment.”

Open environments can be hard for some people.

I've recently seen two products that attempt to give little bit of noise insulation and privacy. In my opinion they'd fail pretty hard in a real office, not least because you couldn't get big monitors in them.

(http://www.studio-kg.com/deskshell/)

(https://shop.ligne-roset.co.uk/store/540-p-rewrite-desk.html)

(That last one, at £1771.00 or $2813.05 U.S. is too expensive.)
PBKDF2 is worse than bcrypt.

scrypt is better than bcrypt.

bcrypt has the advantage of being both very good, and also broadly available on web platforms. scrypt does not yet have that advantage; when it does, I will start saying "just use scrypt".

But the simple fact is: all three of these functions are fine. ANY of them is a huge step forward from what people do without them.

"Just use bcrypt" is 1000x more effective as a meme than "just use adaptive hashing" (which is what all these constructions are).

So, while I have few specific technical qualms with this article (e.g. why do I care whether something is a PKCS standard or not?), the overall message is a bit hyperbolic.
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Even with the dividend and share buyback plan, Apple is expected to continue to add significant amounts of money to its cash balance, which stood at $97.6 billion at the end of 2011.

If Apple consumes about $15 billion a year in cash for its stock buybacks and dividends, it is generating so much new cash from its business that its total cash balance at the end of fiscal 2013 could be around $180 billion, estimated Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/technology/apple-to-use-ca...
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Then I will posit this:

There is a maximum amount of US dollars in the world at any one time we measure it. We shall call this A. The wealthy 1% own .1A . That leaves, by simple averages that 99% can only have .9A .

US Dollars are being made at X per hour. This 'wealth generation' devalues the preexisting currency forcing money to follow this formula

A => A+X

The value that A was before is now what A+X has to be. Anybody who owned A before wealth 'generation' now owns less.

Yes, I would call our system zero-sum for increasingly small amounts of capital. It is only when you can bypass the marginilization of X is it not zero sum.
Hope this helps. It's nothing fancy. No, no probs with 'top'.

# use ^K instead of default ^B.
set-option -g prefix C-k
unbind-key C-b
bind-key C-k send-prefix

# F1, F2 to cycle between windows within a "workspace".
# what tmux calls "windows" are like workspaces in WindowMaker.
# and what it calls "panes" are like individual xterm windows in a workspace.
bind-key -n F2 select-pane -t:.+
bind-key -n F1 select-pane -t:.-

# F3, F4 to cycle between workspaces.
bind-key -n F3 previous-window
bind-key -n F4 next-window

# F5 split a workspace horizontally and F6 to split vertically.
bind-key -n F5 split-window
bind-key -n F6 split-window -h

# F9 new workspace
bind-key -n F9 new-window

# to disconnect from tmux do: ^K+d
# or exit all the windows you created.
bind-key -n F7 resize-pane -L
bind-key -n F8 resize-pane -R
Hypercube?
That would lead me to believe that it's 'Tesseract OCR, but in Javascript!'. I think a more substantial name change will be required because of how prominent Tesseract is.
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> Currying isn't something that one should do all the time or think about, so basing a language on it is dumb.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? As it stands I don't understand what this means.

> (And that's true even if we ignore the complications that it adds to polymorphism.)

Please elaborate on this as well.
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bcrypt is better tested than PBKDF2: far more publicly "testable" systems use it (bcrypt was the password file format for OpenBSD).
Was your background not management consulting?
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If you want to go IDE qua IDE, with the shell linking everything up, tmux is much easier to control from the command line than screen is. The multiple sessions business is actually quite cool with a utility like tmuxinator; you can switch to and from them and retain clipboard status, etc. The way the window splitting works reminds me a lot of xmonad (which I also run) and I'm not sure yet which mode of use I like better. Screen doesn't handle multiple clients with different window sizes especially gracefully; because I run tmux and xmonad I tend to have weird shaped windows, which behave exactly as you might hope with multiple clients.

I'm not sold sold on tmux over screen, but I do like what I'm seeing.
Looks like Android users are going to start losing one of their "talking points" if this is going to become a trend in the Google Marketplace.

Instead of making the choice to crack down on sexual content I wish they would instead focus on getting ICS onto more handsets, cracking down on carriers / manufactures modifying device OS, and bouncing malware apps.
Thanks for the feedback.

Your first idea is is a great suggestion actually. I'm not too clear on how exactly I would implement a sharing url while still keeping privacy levels high but I'll definitely look into it.

My assumption is that any monetisation will come from the small number of "power users" who create lots of searches and invite people into them. Therefore, the less friction there is for non-power users the better I guess.

Twitter, Facebook checking etc. is the next feature I will implement. I just wanted to release as early as possible to get some feedback.

I spent quite a while thinking of various ways that the UI would work without arriving at any concrete conclusions.

The drawback of presetting domains is that sometimes you want to make a suggestion which is tied to a particular domain. For example, a user might suggest "easi.ly". In that case, the tld is part of the name and would only apply for that specific suggestion.

I'm not a designer and I'm not sure how to retain flexibility of suggestion while gaining ease of use.

Haha. That's not really a bug (assuming we're talking about the same thing). I made it filter the list of suggestions as you type in the box to try and make it easier to see if a suggestion has already been made. I guess perhaps I should remove it since it seem to be confusing people?

Thanks for checking out the product.
Is there a reason other than branding that you think it's fair to push for PBKDF2 to be the "default" instead of bcrypt?
Using the same phrases you consider "terrible", the writer was able to make this piece accessible to a wider audience. I would suggest that articles like this, which describe technological breakthroughs in language the lay public would understand, are good for the science and engineering communities.

By the way, the article isn't about "math and programming saving lives", it is about an advancement in technology that reduces the amount of radiation patients are exposed to (in CT scans) so that there's a lower risk of radiation poisoning.
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Doesn't it provide more protection against possible flaws in Salsa?

Also, somewhat related question -- what if Salsa core in scrypt is replaced with BLAKE core (with fewer rounds than in hash), and SHA-2 in PBKDF2 with BLAKE, thus making it possibly smaller (hardware and lines of code). Will this work well?
Looks like there's no way to change your password once you've signed up. This is unfortunate, and there's also no verification to ensure that you typed the password that you thought you typed when signing you up.
or maybe it's a gallicism and he means "coins on the ground"?
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Right, and likewise if this change is made default you can change it back in your config. I'm in support of this change as most of the arguments against it are, "it's not good for experienced users" - which is true, but the experienced users are more likely to configure git anyway.
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Ah yes, I answer this question in my coverage for VentureBeat here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3724343

Click through to the link, ctrl/cmd+F "loopnet" / "costar" ... see what he thinks.

The article also mentions: this is not for commercial property, just leasable spaces, which is another differentiator between those giants.
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This is a good thing though since this encourages more people to use the ISO date formats. They are unambiguous, easy to parse and sort correctly
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PBKDF2 is worse than bcrypt.

By roughly a factor of 5.

scrypt is better than bcrypt.

By roughly a factor of 4000.

why do I care whether something is a PKCS standard or not?

You don't care, and I don't care, but I'm sure you know lots of companies which do care (especially since PBKDF2 is a NIST standard too).
It's difficult to make the comparison, Angry bird had a product that you could build a brand around (albeit a fairly one dimensional brand); where this game is inherently much less "brand-able" However, this does reset the clock and put some revenue into the system. I wonder which of the games/portfolio of games OMGPOP pitched to VCs to get to $17million... It must have been a really good one; just goes to show you that even the best "ideas" don't always pan out. There will always be an element of luck associated with a new venture. Maybe this is where OMGPOP turns the corner...
Is this the last iPad that really matters?
My understanding is that hydrocarbon using fuel cells run hot, really, really HOT. Which is why they are regularly used in race cars, but not in many other places.
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Spent three weeks on this. Uses HTML5 canvas, fabric.js and GAE. Learned a lot of interesting tech along the way. Any feedback?
> Honestly, I think it's pretty obvious that Islam is religious, genocidal, and anti-life (i.e., flourishing human life on this earth).

Religious yes, the other parts you are wrong.
You are mistaking what some people do in the name of religion to rally support. Islam's goal isn't to kill people, in fact the basic tenants of the religion are to live a life of peace & spirituality and live in harmony with one's neighbours. Of course this doesn't apply if your neighbours are attacking you, but you should note that what you see is the actions of a few form a religious base of well over 1 billion people.

You also have to understand that the terrorism that you see didn't just arise from a vacuum, people don't just decide to kill other people for no reason, a major part of it has to do with revenge and retribution for past acts committed against them. Not that I am condoning their actions, I just think that you should understand there is more to the media portrayal that goes on, almost every action committed is put in the spotlight of religion even if many of the people involved (such as governments) are not religious, yet no one would think the same of the United States.

Note, I am not going to pursue this further since I don't feel the need to start a religious war in HN. On the other hand if you have something interesting to say about SpaceX, I am all ears.
I wonder if there's a business model there -- in joining up with a larger paper and producing a regional section. Way back when, town newspapers would receive preprinted interiors, showing national news from AP or similar, and print their own local news on the front and back. I'd rather have two reporters local to my town putting stories in the online edition of the major city paper, than to completely lose the local news when the paper shuts down, as seems inevitable in a year or two.
Who made it your neighbor's pie? Income inequality is driven by public policy (tax rates, mostly). High income tax brackets used to be higher, now they're lower. And they've produced easily detectable changes in income inequality. That's not a fundamental issue of property rights, it's just the way democracy works. That some people favor the policy and results that held from 1950-1970 doesn't make them communists. You agree, right?

Your last sentence is just a Randian fantasy strawman. No one is talking about going into your bank account and taking money out. But certainly people are talking about tax policy, which changes every few years anyway.

Are you interested in having a mature discussion about tax policy?
Oops. Totally screwed up reading that one. Didn't see that the market cap was local currency denominated. Thanks for the correction.
meh, only webdev hippsters there ...
I don't think swapping batteries is a good analog for fast recharge. For one, the cost of a kilowatt hour in AA batteries well exceeds $100, even buying in 20-count lots. From the wall, it costs less than a dollar. Swapping batteries is also significantly more effort than plugging in a microUSB or whatever.
PBKDF2 is worse than bcrypt.

Can you elaborate a little bit on this? Or point to a reference. Wikipedia mentions that PBKDF2 is easier to implement with ASICs or GPUs. Is that the primary reason?
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Yes, physical access is game-over.

However, what if the malicious device is actually a compromised but popular vendor who ships malicious firmware? That wouldn't be a stretch.

Resetting devices and fixing drivers isn't a huge win, but it's still an improvement. Like ASLR doesn't actively prevent buffer overflows - it just makes attacks more difficult.