skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was curious about KeePass as well, so I downloaded the source. I haven't done anything resembling a source audit, so I can't speak to implementation flaws, but the design seems solid (to my admittedly amateur eyes).

KeePass databases are AES-encrypted with a 256-bit key. The key is generated from your passphrase with a user-configurable number of bcrypt rounds, followed by a single SHA-256 round, to reduce it to the 256 bits needed by AES.
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Everything does have tabs. All your windows are just tabs on the task bar!
Not prior art, but public disclosure.
I think in 'Retraction' the This American Life[1] episode that aired this weekend does a good job of pointing this line of reasoning.

Specifically the second act.

[1]http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/460/r...
> That's quit a different scenario from other car-crash situations.

Only if it happens frequently. If it happens in one of ten thousand fatality accidents, you won't even be able to see it in the statistics.
its not that firefox is complicated (its much better than it used to be). its that its more complicated / confusing than chrome.

http://imgur.com/a/w1Gtq
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If your only reason for using gcc is speed and you're on a Linux platform, you should really try out icc. The loop unrolling and vector op generation are much better than gcc's (at least for code we've tested on, YMMV) and can result in some really big speedups.

Though, admittedly, if speed is an issue you probably have already manually loop-unrolled and used the gcc compiler intrinsics.
I'm not entirely familiar with what omnibox does, but there're a few search bar addons, and quickly testing on 11, typing "whuh" in the navigation bar goes to a Google search too.

Personally, I just use vimperator (the clones of which on Chrome are…abysmal?) so I can o[pen]/t[abopen] and then type a search term (w/ customizable engine) or a URL.

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Memorywise, the recent FFs are much better. Usually problems are caused by extensions.
I do realise that as a bioinformatician, but we need more genetic data from multiple people to see if there are any trends with certain genes that do predict illnesses. I really would like in the future to see blood tests test for everything rather than something specific. While it will be argued that this would create a lot of false positives I think that utilising machine learning and datasets from a whole population we will start finding the probabilities of certain illnesses and will hopefully lower the chance of a false positive.

Recently a University in the UK was doing some brain scans for psychological research using volunteers. Two of these volunteers were found to have brain tumors that they would not have found out about until probably too late which is why I wish testing was more streamlined..
...which would grant visas to Israelis willing to invest around $50,000 in a US business:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-2_visa
There is a €400 billion project planned to put solar panels in the Sahara desert to generate power for the EU and surrounding areas called Desertec.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec
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Good question. I hope they keep innovating and serving all clients rather than it being a competitive advantage move for Amazon itself as an in-house robotics developer.
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and reality.

In reality, there almost always is."
This is definitely an interesting space. I keep a Parallels Windows 7 VM on my machine, and I use it for the amazing features in the Windows version of Microsoft Office (former MS Office UI PM here). If I could replace that with an always up-to-date cloud-based copy (I'm always installing security patches since I rarely boot it) I'd do so in a heartbeat.
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Cute animals are always ready to make every person smile.. Their eyes are full of happiness. That's why we just like cats, dogs, etc.
Just another part of the Apple Product Cycle (http://www.misterbg.org/AppleProductCycle/):

"The haters offer their assessment. The forums are ablaze with vitriolic rage. Haters pan the device for being less powerful than a Cray X1 while zealots counter that it is both smaller and lighter than a Buick Regal. The virtual slap-fight goes on and on, until obscure technical nuances like, “Will it play multiplexed Ogg Vorbis streams?” become matters of life and death."
I've had a look at Google's docs[1], and it's really not clear to me what Chrome's omnibox offers that Firefox's address bar (or whatever they call it) doesn't.

http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans...
Do we need standards if eveybody is using Microsof Office? ;-)

Indeed, open source helps a lot. It is amazing how far KHTML has gotten. But still, no standards would mean no Opera, no Mozilla, no any other entrants to the game.

Anyway, this article prompted me to switch from Chrome to Aurora on my Android tablet. Feels good so far...
Steve Wozniak comes out in support of Mike Daisey, says 'his method succeeded'
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Wow! Google just rejustified its "Do no evil" motto.

On an unrelated note, I'm really surprised that after all the words written on this subject, especially after the MegaUpload fiasco, this is the first article that states that removing not only the infringing links, but the actual files, is plain wrong.

I believe it is within the scope of fair use for me to upload files (copyrighted) to any Upload/Download service (like Hotfile, Rapidshare, Megaupload, Dropbox). It could be simply to keep backups / not have to carry USB disks to remote locations. Only when the file is shared (by sharing its link) could that be considered an infringement, and even in that case, the link might simply be stolen from me, so the burden of proof would still lie with the copyright holders.
It's working with ICS, in the default browser.
This is good but IMHO he would be much safer in a spherical sub. I suppose the problem may be with having large enough viewports in a spherical vehicle.
You're thinking from a techie point of view:

1) Most people don't give a crap that its 'Apple' that even makes the iPhone, or the iPad. Were the iPhone 4 reviews bad? I don't remember there being bad reviews anyway.

2) People dont care about what version number the OS is.. but they know 'new' is better than 'old'.
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Obviously I don't really care if people think it's pedantic. But thanks for your validation...
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Yep, your last paragraph is what I've been feeling.

I've anecdotally seen much different results from Google since Google + Your World... searching for technical documentation has become gross -- the same queries for myself and coworkers will return different results.

But where is there to go? Duck Duck Go seems OK but I don't feel as comfortable using their UI as I do Google's. Probably just an issue of familiarity.
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What rralian said -- it redirects, and I see the game, and my poor ship gets blown to bits because I can't move it.
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> And your followup assumes that you're talking to a programmer and not a recruiter?

Assume? I'd know if I was talking to a programmer rather than a recruiter. Doesn't change what questions I would ask or expect answers to.

Let me ask you this: do you feel it's important that someone in HR be able to answer your technical questions? Do you feel you should be able to ask whatever programmer you interview with about compensation and moving expenses? Interviewing isn't just a one and done thing.

> I guess it depends on where you're interviewing but I've had more than one interview with HR/management only

And?

Still doesn't change anything I said.

> it's perfectly possible that they are using something that I think is bad but makes sense for them,

That's why you ask: so you can discuss this.

I don't understand: it seems like you talk about these things, but are disagreeing with me... just to disagree?

Whatever point your trying to make, you aren't making it.

> unless you consider them courteous prelude to detailed questions.

I felt that was obvious from the OP's comment. It's not uncommon. In fact, it's quite common.

Coming out and saying "What CSM do you use?" gives no real background no what you really want to know.

However, saying that "code quality is important to me. So, I'm curious about your methods of CR and SC? Also, I'd be interested in discussing your deployment methods."

And, frankly, that's what I got from the OP. Certain things were important to him. He merely didn't bother with the details, because, let's be honest, what's the point (the point is, as we both know, to avoid having people pick over that one meaningless word he used or missed).

Which leads me back to this:

> And your followup assumes that you're talking to a programmer and not a recruiter.

Yes. I thought that was obvious given the context.
I've got Aurora installed for Tor and flash-based apps that don't play nicely with Chrome, but I still use Chrome for my daily surfing and so have not really noticed any of the changes Mozilla has made. If the address bar really is reproducing the functionality of the omnibox, why not kill the search box all together? It seems like duplicated functionality and a waste of screen real estate.
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I use both. (Especially since Google started only allowing you to login to one gmail session at once, but I used both before that.) Currently there are about three things that keep me from using Chrome entirely, because I do think it's a better overall browser but not better for my particular use case.

The first is lack of the Tree Style Tabs extension (in general lack of extensions was my biggest problem with Chrome until recently; now they have NoScript and AdBlock and ctrl+shift+j is about as good as FireBug which were the deal-breakers for me before), the second is not eating up huge amounts of memory if I have 593 tabs loaded into it (which is currently what I have on this Firefox), the third is I don't like their URL box. Firefox's AwesomeBar is almost perfect, I just wish it had better coverage of my history+favorites (I'm sure there's an about:config option somewhere that tunes it).
3000 iPads * $800 per iPad = $240k

cost of plane itself + cost of all the human lives on it = many millions, or "priceless", right?

seems cheap in comparison. plus they don't need to perform this test on every plane before every single flight. only once or a few times, per model permutation. If you spread the testing cost across all the operational instances where they'd be de-risked, I bet it would be pennies per flight, at most.
I'm thrilled to see this. Michael Blake is an amazing talent, and this case was total BS. It did have a cool side-effect, though: partially as a result of these legal pi problems, Michael made an even more awesome composition based on the digits of tau = 6.283185..., which you can see here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3174T-3-59Q

As the author of The Tau Manifesto, that warms the cockles of my heart.
I had no idea there was one.
Not that I don't admire the guy's bravado, but there is no obligation for Microsoft to sue everyone equally.

IANAL so correct as necessary, but he seems like he's tilting at windmills.
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I think they will be getting the same service from Kiva.

Netflix is one of the biggest user of EWS, yet, Amazon is pushing hard on their streaming service too.
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> Hopefully you'll dive into more detail as to why you feel differently?

You didn't ask for why I felt different (to be honest, I don't necessarily), you asked for why you were getting down voted. While sometimes you get down voted for an unpopular view (which I don't think is fair as long as your view makes sense), I felt that you might've been down voted for the lack of clarity in your post.

Then I get down voted for an honest response. Lovely. Sometimes I don't know why I even bother with HN because the karma system is quite a bit of fail. It appears that the early adopters can down vote to their hearts content but those of us who haven't been around as long can only up vote. I would love to know the karma level needed to up vote but that is not anywhere that I have looked (faq, guidelines, etc.).

>> It's just easier to dismiss you by the third paragraph and down vote.

> Nope. Guess not.

I wouldn't be so smug, what you said still might not be good, it just could be the best comment out of a really poor batch. :)
You think "space" and "everything you listed" are mutually exclusive? Not so. Products and technologies from space development end up benefiting us right here on Earth.

Medicine? The software that was developed to do image-sharpening on the Hubble pictures turned out to make MRI machines significantly more useful without requiring a change to the hardware.

Social net? NASA has produced a crazy amount of research that would be useful to disaster victims, people in shelters , and assisted living. A couple of examples from the top of my head: safe, stable, long-term storage for high-nutrition meals; long-term emotional impact of environmental factors (colors, scents, etc).

Police: Most forms of wireless communication (including police radios) use SOMETHING that was developed by NASA -- extended-life batteries, transmission protocols, etc.

Even leaving aside the benefits to be head, "$10 billion for NASA" is NOT real money. It's an unnoticeable fraction of the waste in our budgets.
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Remember the awesome instrument video done in CGI (as shown at the beginning of the video)? Well, Intel made a real one!
I don't get it...

If I provide a virtualized hardware desktop hosting platform that can enable the client to load an ISO of Windows and enter his own serial key, am I violating any Windows hosted desktop restrictions?

Or am I only violating it if I supply the serial keys (from legit separate/per-customer/never re-asigned OEM copies)?

I think it's the latter, because in the former there is absolutly no contract between myself and Microsoft. What the client does with my platform is his business and doing. If he activates Windows there, that's between him and Microsoft.

So what is the problem that these articles are trying to point out? How is it difficult for customers to buy their own OEM copy and supply a serial key?...

Cusomter goes to your panel, clicks to load some already predefined or prehosted VHD or ISO, then supplies serial key him/herself. Problem solved? Or is this all about the cost of OEM copies?
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Apple Sells 3 Million Units Of The New 3rd Generation iPad In 3 Days Flat
Well it is digital so a copy of it is only like savoring the scent.
Of course, Windows bans the use of both / and \ (along with : and other useful things) in filenames anyway so you still can't enter dates in that format. I guess back when they made the decision on the path separator the max path length in DOS was so short it may not have seemed relevant.
* Indeed, open source helps a lot. It is amazing how far KHTML has gotten. But still, no standards would mean no Opera, no Mozilla, no any other entrants to the game.*

Not necessarily, it would still be possible for them to embed webkit or even to re-implement it.

Webkit would simply become the reference implementation.
nknight points this out very well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3726555
Mediocre is always good enough for employer.
But mediocre employee will put additional burden on your top employees, so they will wear off quickly and jump off the board.
Also, imagine how many more non-developers would download the iOS betas only to bitch about how things don't work - meanwhile not reporting the bugs to Apple through the proper channels.
Shouldn't better search or discovery algorithms or UI, be a more elegant solution than just brute-forcing a paywall into it?

Think of the children. I mean, seriously, how many of us were young highschool hackers who would have just loved the opportunity to build something awesome for smartphones. But would be halted by Apple's fine?
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I'm looking for something that will give me daily granularity on volume of code changes, by developer. Anything else is a bonus. I use github and their analytics are weekly with very little beyond how many lines changed. Any advice appreciated.
Not directly related to this post, but since when is getting funded the goal, or even a milestone? Businesses have always required some startup capital, which they would find from family, friends, loans, what have you, but people never talk about their loans so fondly as they do about their startup investros.
Just to add, I have a sizable chunk of money waiting to vest. For the right opportunity I would be willing to jump ship before then, but if you need some sort of trial period to make up your mind how about no. Also, like most talented developers I have a decent job, if you can't make up your mind quickly I am not interested. This includes a Google style interview process, if you need to schedule more than 3 hours of interviews sorry I have better things to do with my time than talk with you.
Obligatory link to The Oatmeal's angler fish comic:

"How the male angler fish gets completely screwed"

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/angler
Not really. The amount of time and money for DOJ to prosecute microsoft the first time was huge, and there are competing virtual desktops, so good luck getting them on this point.
I got a preview of this project from Square's CTO 3 weeks ago at Stanford. The fast-filtering is MIND-BLOWING.
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If that's the intent, they could just as easily (and more sensibly) charge the fee when you submit your first app into the store.

As is, they seem to want you to pay up even to deploy an app you wrote onto your own phone. That's just obnoxious. (Googling around, I can find workarounds, but most seem to require jailbreaks or other strange mummery; see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/246422/how-can-i-deploy-a... for a procedure that's alleged to work without requiring that, but which does require other undocumented mummery with certificates.)

Also, it keeps a lot of people from learning to tinker in ways that could develop into job skills later. While $100 is probably a nuisance fee to most of the people posting here, there are a lot of people in the US (to say nothing of the rest of the world) for whom it blows their hobby budget for the month, if not for the year.
Messing around with updates every few weeks is the single biggest thing pushing me away from Firefox as my default browser. (I do a lot of web development, so I routinely have four or five different ones installed. It's just a question of where I keep my serious bookmarks etc.)

As a web developer, I'm fed up of the moving targets and unreliability. When Firefox pushes an update to everyone and breaks something fundamental, it's not the Firefox support desk that gets complained at when the web apps stop working.

As a user, I see little real advantage from the breakneck pace of development anyway. Inevitably only a few sites use bleeding edge features within weeks of their appearance, and most of them seem to be web design/web development blogs showing off about bleeding edge features that might one day be useful to real web sites.

Moving to silent updates, as done by Chrome, might reduce the hassle, but then we'll also see endless minor UI tweaks happening at apparently random times like Chrome, which is really annoying in itself. And of course if a major bug gets pushed out and breaks a site I care about as a visitor, it's just as annoying whether I manually updated (not that there's much choice if security patches stop for anything more than five minutes old) or it happened silently in the background.

I never recommend Chrome or Firefox with the auto-updates. In fact, we explicitly don't provide customer support for them any more on several projects I work with, that conclusion being reached independently by several different development teams after experiencing all-too-similar problems. If anyone asks, I think the official recommendation in most cases is currently IE9.
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Sean Ellis's blog has a lot of good material on how to go about this, especially for freemium products - http://startup-marketing.com/
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LibreOffice's codebase is enormous and complicated. It's being cleaned up, but it may still be hard to maintain. It's doable, of course, but if you implement too much Office compatibility, you risk Microsoft suing you for some frivolous patent they keep just for the purpose of crushing LibreOffice when it becomes a threat.
I would have gone for this Norwegian system: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iyVDMp2bL9c
I like your idea but you'd have to do some hard marketing work to get customers to use it in my opinion. That might not be cheaper than this lawsuit ;p
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You can build all you want; the tools are available with a free developer account. The fee only applies if you want to distribute your apps through the app store. But the tools are way better -- and way cheaper, even after the $99 -- than they were when I was a young highschool hacker.
I wonder if preventing their competitors from using Kiva is part of the goal for this acquisition.
Link to spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlD_6iEb8Ed9dGs...
Please make your book available via Google Books if possible! I'd really love to purchase it, but I like to read in between devices and Google Books is the only platform that supports this well right now. Also, I like to keep it attached to a single account instead of having to spread my credit card details everywhere.
I think that funding opens up doors to a next-phase of development for a lot of tech people who have previously been bootstrapping. In this light, it is a very logical "milestone" to be funded. The additional resources let us take development to the next level, from a product born out of passion to one which has the capacity to effect wider change. In traditional brick & mortar businesses, funding was a sort of "of-course" step... but now, in the software startup world, there are a lot of shades of gray. Being able to say that you're funded demonstrates a layer of "we're seriously striving for (and can reach) the next level of development."
That writeup is certainly interesting, mostly with regard to escape analysis, but it's entirely untrustworthy with regard to the comparison to malloc. First, it appears to base its assumptions about malloc implementations on a paper dating to 1993 (WTF?!), second is that it thinks "instructions" is a meaningful metric for judging performance.
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Yes, Use Bcrypt. And Scrypt:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3725284
Facebook sued over "automatic webpage generator" [pdf]
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Christopher Uminga is one of the artist, the hero onto paper or onto the canvas brings, what course others like more proof of my posts
Agreed. It probably had more to do with the fact that their store, game details, etc. views were pretty complex. They seem to have solved a lot of that crossplatform pain by implementing most of that stuff using Webkit.
Apple are switching to a Chrome-style unified address/search bar in Safari 5.2 (now in beta).