skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article really doesn't say anything more than the headline already did (then gets into "high-entropy random character strings are hard to remember" --> solution: "read xkcd, use passphrases"). Also, the DARPA program is more involved than this implies.

They do link to the DARPA Active Authentication program:

http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/I2O/Programs/Active_Authentica...

The thrust of which is that they want a better way to establish that the expected user is in fact the one at the keyboard, including ongoing verification of whether they are still the person at the keyboard.

They'd also be extra happy if it works with existing hardware, so they'd like the answer to be things like analyzing the way the keyboard or mouse is used, or analyzing patterns in how you write (IMO probably more trouble than it's worth!). "Implant RFID chips in the hands of all DOD personnel" is off the menu for the moment.
Some of them do show the most popular subreddits (which currently happens to have a naughty subreddit in it), though, as this one does. I think the issue is that the Google person understood the list of popular subreddits to be a developer-specified thing, when in fact it's auto-generated.
This is the reason that CEO of Omgpop keeps saying in his interviews that he has never (extremely unlikely) played, seen or heard about Pictionary before making this game.
>Whoever takes the USA to Mars will be a popular person.

The president who takes the USA to Mars will be a popular person. The congressman who gives up a pet project in his constituency to pay for it will not.

I'd rather have Mars than Iraq any day, but Iraq is a far easier sell to Congress, especially when there's no requirement to pay for it.
Um, I have no idea if this is cool or not, because I'm sitting in a doctor's office on my iPhone.

Is it really too much to ask to implement swipe gestures in JavaScript? The world is mobile now. Whether this is actually cool or not I shall never know, it has disqualified itself from my web browsing time.
The Haiku window manager does exactly this, but it also resizes the viewport such that the scrollbars are always visible. I've always thought it would be a great feature in other stacking window managers.
This is a great solution for audio and video, I've used it on several projects. The docs are top-notch as well.
How can I be certain I've really won an auction on Madbid?
Using food for fuel is dumb, I concur. I'm a fan of algae.
On OS X, you get clang and llvm-gcc in XCode 4.1, which is a solid 1.4 GB download. You're absolutely right about clang being pretty lightweight, so it's getting a bad wrap by association. I'm honestly not sure why XCode is so large: perhaps the IDE and iOS simulator?
An app is allowed to "browse" to NSFW material, but cannot explicitly link (or come pre-loaded with favorites or bookmarks) to said material.

We sell a Reddit image-browsing client on the iOS App Store (http://steamclocksw.com/prism/) and hit this in v1.0. We assumed that our 18+ rating for being able to browse to NSFW material meant we'd get some leeway, but we were initially rejected for including the "prettygirls" Reddit, which consists of fully clothed photos of adult women.
> It's just that you repeatedly mention that your main aim
is to have a service that will last for ever; but there's
nothing different in your service (apart from your
intentions) that will guarantee that. Basically, your
asking people to trust you on that one.

You didn't answer this point; and honestly I don't mean to offend you or imply your intentions are suspect - I don't know you at all, so I can't judge. But that's exactly the problem - how do you persuade ppl like me to trust you?

Compare the situation to wordpress.com vs blogger/tumblr/closed-source-blog-platform. I always look to the former first because I know it's so easy for me to move my blog onto one of many wordpress-supporting hosts or my own server if I need to, and thus I feel the longeveity of my site is guaranteed much more.

You could be in the same situation, if you Open Source it and several people ran your software as a host. That would make it easy for users to switch - and then you have a much better and practical guarantee for users that it will stick around in some form.

Anyway, last comment I'll make as obviously it's your choice in the end; but that's what I think. And I do need to look at an Open Source bookmarking service soon :-)
Using computers and satellite images to search for early human settlements
The idea itself isn't meant for a mobile environment. The GUI moves when you drag the windows around. This sort of interaction doesn't really play nice with mobile usage.
I'd love to hear more about your criteria and metrics and how you operationalize them, especially for less-tangible things like good coworkers.
They have content filtering settings in the market.

[x] everyone

[x] low maturity

[x] medium maturity

[x] high maturity

[x] show all apps

With settings like that where the device owner can pick what they want to see why block anything.
I approve! One of the most annoying aspects of OS X (pre-Lion) was hunting for the lower right corner to resize windows. Thankfully, all sides of a window can now be used for resizing. This is a good vision for extending ease-of-resizing further.

It would also force the priority of responsive design. Now that we all work at so many different resolutions, apps and sites should adapt seamlessly to resizing.
James Cameron's entirely new submarine
Augmentative dicks always think they are A-players. That's very rarely the case, but they'll never rise far enough to find that out.
> Generic platitudes like "a culture that values code quality as well as shipping products" and "meaningful stake" are useless

This makes the assumption that you just stop there and cannot ask follow up. Follow up questions that can garner a more clear answer on how code quality and shipping happens in a practical sense:

* How do you ensure code quality?
* Do you perform code reviews? What's the procedure there?
* What's code rollup like?
* How often do you deploy?
* Can I watch a deployment?
* What SCM do you use?
* Do you use any CR tools like gerrit or Crucible?
* What's the process for a product from inception to launch?

These are just a few questions you can use to determine help you find out if the company values code quality and shipping products.

People often forget that an interview isn't one way. Just as it's important for the company to be prepared with questions for an interview, it's equally important for the interviewee to be prepared as well. However, this is often the case. People are so focused on providing good answers to questions, they forget to prepare good questions themselves. Often times good questions can help provide answers to questions not yet asked, and make the entire affair much more enjoyable.
If he was still able he'd probably be working for them.
Reddit links to hardcore pornography (and mirrors it in thumbnail form)

I guess that's true, because Reddit accepts and mirrors thumbnails from any image link posted. But that doesn't make it a "porn site" either. Lots of folks like me go there to read stuff like /r/askscience, which is about as good a pop science hub as any in print or web form anywhere in the world. You're saying you'd want to be censoring that forum because of stuff people do elsewhere on the site? You're not alone, but I suspect you'll find very few supporters for that opinion here.

And I think your information might be a little spun. When on earth did Reddit carry child pornography? Doing so is a crime pretty much anywhere, and I don't remember any FBI raids.
Interns at SpaceX have a REAL impact since the day they walk in. I've have never come across a project where someone said "that's not an intern task."
Also don't forget that all parts of the system all heavily tested at SpaceX (this is the aerospace industry). It's all tested and developed alongside individuals with experience and talent.
The day ended. Apple closed on +2.6% over $600 for the first time.
I have heard about the high school thing from others from St. Louis (or people who have lived there.) I believe that is unique to St. Louis. In Chicago, we do ask what high school somebody went to, but more often than not it results in a good nature ribbing than anything else (kind of like the South side vs North side, all in good fun.)
Top 5 business benefits of social enterprise tools
I agree. Maybe this would be harder than I'd expect, but it seems that if an attacker knows what criteria are used for identification, they could simulate a a given user's typing patterns. And to collect data on how you type, they could collect it when you're typing into your text editor, IDE, website forms, or anywhere else.

It seems there would also be a problem when the same person is signing in on a computer with a keyboard vs on their phone/tablet.
Ok. What IS Red Bull, anyway? It tastes terrible to me. Do some people like it?
Are there any deployments showing how to use flask and heroku with a database backend like mysql or postgresql?
I would expect that the answers to this question are highly susceptible to the availability heuristic, and would change massively based on priming. Talk about office environment for 30 seconds, then ask this question; talk about motivation for 30 seconds, then ask this question; for the same person, I'd be willing to bet you'd get completely different answers, the first on your "external" things, the second on your "internal" things.

So I don't think it is as useful for placing someone within a coordinate system as you think. It's too easily led astray, and won't have a lot of consistency over time. Your interpretation of the answer will have much of the qualities of a Rorschach test - but on yourself, not the candidate. You can read into it whatever you like.

I'd find it somewhat offensive for a simple reason: because it presumes to psychoanalyze me, to try and figure out what makes me tick. Being a person with an ego, I like to think I'm slightly more subtle than that. So the thought of this question coming up in an interview makes me curl my lip in contempt. I doubt I'd consider an offer from someone who tried this technique.
It all sounds interesting, though wouldn't it be incredibly hard to identify the same person typing in a keyboard with a different layout or a different device?
Wish all these posts would GO away.
The manipulation is that the questioner is asking a question to get an answer which will be used to answer an unasked question, when asking the actual question would be easier and open. (Hope that makes sense)

Its like asking what your favourite colour is and implying life style from it. Fine if you are doing a medical psychological test, because the patient doctor trust exists, but, IMHO, not fine for a mere job interview. OK, the CIA or MI5 can play at that, but not a bog standard IT job.

(Just so you understand where I am coming from; this sort of psychological manipulation is an interest of mine, from advertising to political speech to NLP parlour tricks. So I will happily accept accusations of over sensitivity to this and an exaggerated position. I accept my argument is extreme)
No, it's not. That budget is zero, there are no longer US military forces in Iraq, they left at the end of 2011.
I ran through this one last week... the install steps in the README push a premade Django app's database to Postgres on Heroku but it doesn't really go into the details: https://github.com/joshfinnie/OSQA-Heroku
One thing about SpaceX is that there is no bureaucracy. If Elon Musk wasn't busy talking to someone, I could have just walked into his office and chatted with him.
Re #2, I heard ~November that Python was deprecated in production at Google. No idea what the details/caveats on that are (I presume it applies mainly to new code?).
I took his question to mean, "what happens at 12:00 EST?"
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There are no details given in that link about the broadcast.

I find it a bit shocking that it took 44 minutes from the 911 call to the detonation and yet apparently TV crews got there in time to broadcast it (not just record it presumably; so outside broadcast van and patching through to live TV). USA is truly a media marvel.
I think that book is going to need an update soon as the SHA-3 competition has directed a significant amount of research behind hash function security.

The good news is that SHA-2 and HMAC remain in pretty decent shape (known limitations notwithstanding).
The best interview question I ever got asked was, "What's your favorite algorithm?" I was completely and utterly taken aback: I'd never been asked such a thing before, and had no answer whatsoever.

So I reached back into my past hobby work, and pulled out "lottery scheduling". A 30-40 minute conversation on the description, performance, trade-offs, implementation trade-offs, features and misfeatures of lottery scheduling ensued.

This worked more brilliantly as a way to interview than anything else I'd ever been through, because it gave me and my experience a place to shine. Most interviews really don't. They are idiot-test after idiot-test, designed to wash out bad hackers, but in the process producing a crop of Most Assuredly Not Idiots who may not actually be good, while accidentally washing out some really good hackers who, for example (first-hand experience), wrote a recursive function instead of a while-loop and a Stack<T>.

If you want good, give good a chance to shine. If you want not-bad, keep stacking on the idiot tests.
From what I've seen, classic game makers get obsessed on silliness enabled by the platform. Annoying, repetitive cut-scene animations, for example. Monopoly on the DS was like the website of a retailer (or Homer Simpson) in 1996.

I think independent developers do a better job understanding the platform and how to cut to the fundamentals of the game with the best presentation.
This is a re-post of an earlier comment but I think it's very applicable to this article:

The Chinese explored the Middle East and Africa almost 100 years before the Europeans. Every expedition consisted of 300 ships, some as long as 400 feet with 9 mast and an armada crew totaling 28,000 men. After 30 years of doing it they realized that they were spending too much money on these grand expeditions. The succeeding emperor ended the program. The Europeans on the other hand would send out just a few ships and try to find ways for the expeditions to be profitable (Slaves, gold, land, colonies) in ways the Chinese never thought. These smaller European expeditions could not be stopped by one emperor because Europe was not a unified empire like China. The smaller European kingdoms also competed against each other. This not only made the expeditions sustainable but thrive for the next 500 years. Right now I think we are in China's situation 600 years ago. We stopped the moon landings for the same reason the Chinese stopped landing Eunuchs in Africa. Unless we find a way for these space programs to be profitable I don't see humans colonizing space anytime soon.
True dat. We require a Controller app to be downloaded. But then we have auto-pairing tech. We have more than just HTML5 game support. But Flash and Unity Webplayer games as well.
Yes - the class is being taught by wesm, and I'll be in the audience as well.
Elon Musk is amazing. That was a great piece on what SpaceX is doing.

Here's an episode of Risk Takers on Bloomberg for Elon Musk:
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/73460184/

Great episode as well.
>What you really want to ask is "how do you keep up with technology" and see if they say HN.

I actually disagree. HN is about 1/3 new technology but 2/3 business news.
In addition to the other reasons listed here,

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There seems to be a small minority on the git mailing list who are split between questioning the workflow of anyone who needs this, and the obligatory and inane "it's documented, it's not a problem!" attitude
I have referred to Texas as the Midwest.

I tend to think West of the Mississippi and East of the Rockies as the Midwest with a little bit of latitude to the East (Illinois).

Not saying I'm correct on that just that I have done it.
C++11 Concurrency, Part 7
I just wen't through this exact exercise for a project I'm working on where I want to figure out the best image to display from a given craigslist listing.

I used an approach most similar to Goose where I download the image to get the meta data, then get rid of odd aspect ratio images (I think I have it set to anything with bigger than a 3.0 aspect ratio, but it needs to be tweaked). I also get rid of things like 1px wide images (or anything smaller than the thumbnail I want to display).

So far it works "okay". It's far from perfect, but its WAY better than nothing.
If you're a student and the cost is prohibitive, shoot me a message - I have a few free passes for HN'ers.
As a beneficial side effect, it also helps ensure that the person at the keyboard is the expected user at their expected level of sobriety.
I think we are getting very little for our 10 billion and I don't think giving them more money will get us more space. As for the military budget, I do believe we spend too much there, but taking that money and having NASA waste it instead doesn't feel like that much of an improvement.

As for the 1997 figure, I guess the .5% argument would be useful for the people so horribly uninformed, and you are right that this probably explains why I keep hearing this argument. Fair point.
The problem with the author of this is that there seems to be a smug arrogance in that he thinks he has invented a super special unique question which no one will have considered in advance, or have something in their answer kit that can be quickly and easily altered to fit the question. Which is exactly what you and some others have quite rightly done.
Apple's entire toolchain is now built on LLVM, AFAIK. Hobby and research languages/efforts by the dozen build on LLVM.

LLVM is where the innovative ecosystem lives now, even if GCC is more reliable for just churning out fast C code.
Since its been discovered, then consistently reinforced that people are the indicators of success, I wonder if you can go one step further and train someone to be a good founder. I do believe these characteristics can be taught.

It would be interesting to see some kind of startup bootcamp emerge. For those who want more in life, but don't quite know how to get there, or don't yet have the confidence to do it themselves. Even better, you'd come out of it pretty well connected with others in such a program. Even more so if YC was involved.

Though perhaps the best way to get involved is still to work for an early-stage startup, if you can take the risk.
When commenting earlier I forgot to mention that I have a personal use-case for QR codes - an easy way to put a page I'm looking at on the PC onto my phone, easier than typing in the URL or mailing the link.

http://code.google.com/p/qrbookmarklet/ (not made by me, just used by me)
This bug claims that it does: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=25221

The current direction does seem to be towards end-of-lifing the Android browser (and ChromeOS) and moving Chrome in as the default.
It's mainly sour grapes. California has ascended while the Midwest has declined.

On the farm front, there was a bit of a migration of second sons from the Midwest to California in the 50's, I believe. Some of those who left (abandoning their Midwest roots, traitors) became rich; some of those who stayed became poor. The poor cousins on the family homestead in Minnesota or Indiana look at the rich cousins on new farms in California and say, we wouldn't want to live there anyway.

Economically, in the last thirty years the Midwest has turned into the Rust Belt, while California has become Silicon Valley. More resentment builds.

On the wine front, the Ohio River Valley was once wine country, centered around Cincinnati, perched to rival the Rhine. Now it's all Napa, Napa, Napa.

But hey, at least in the Midwest you don't have to put up with _Californians_.
But all of those answers can be followed up by more detailed questions with specifics. If you are a company that values code quality, how do you back up that value? Do you have coding standards, do you do code reviews and so on. Either way, this provides a jumping off point for further discussion. If the interviewer cannot provide information about why working for them would satisfy those wants, then that company might not be a fit for you.
tldr; stereotypes are stereotypes.
>the goal [of copyright] is to protect creativity

Except that's not true. It never was, ever since its inception in the 16th century. Copyright has always been about protecting publishers and middlemen (or in other words, a business model), and not creativity or creators. That's a historical fact, and one that hasn't changed to the present day. Copyright might be a nice idea on paper (I beg to differ), but in reality its just legal fiction that's been nothing but abused to hell and back for imposing artificial scarcity on a non-scarce good and locking up information, art and culture - to the detriment of society as a whole.

People need to stop believing this myth about the historical origins and purpose of copyright, which is spread and propagated by the very same people who invented and depend on copyright to protect their business model.
So lack of censorship isn't the reason that you love Android it is instead categorisation of censored material??

>why block anything //

Presumably to retain users and keep inside the relevant laws.
I don't generally wait for GHC more than a few seconds at a time, except when I'm bootstrapping a new installation. Then I wait some minutes for "cabal install".

Compilation times are not bad enough to be a problem.
NetZero Launches Free 4G Service (200 MB)
God, no. Any investigative report involving a political figure would receive a 2.5/5 star rating as the right and left wing trolls on the comments section battle it out.

View and rating based journalism is what's turned CNN et. al. into the "look at our hologram! water could cause cancer in your children!" channels.
> .. offering half of the content for free ..

This is kind of a pain on a book by book basis. Each one is at a different publisher, has yet another username and password etc.

The good news is that they will be doing a Humble Bundle for ebooks in the future. Humble Bundle also allows coming back later and increasing your contribution even after the promotion has ended.

Source: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blog...
Thank you for being forthright and responsive.

I think the better thing to do for older devices would have been to make it a user-settable option, with a note on first install. I would have preferred to have a 5 or even 10 second delay in opening my 1password keychain, rather than have it less secure. But it's a moot point now--as others noted, the older devices are quickly falling out of favor (at least among those savvy enough to use something like 1password).
Data Mining and Analysis on Twitter
>This makes the assumption that you just stop there and cannot ask follow up.

And your followup assumes that you're talking to a programmer and not a recruiter. I guess it depends on where you're interviewing but I've had more than one interview with HR/management only (needless to say that even tough it was the "first round" I didn't stick around). Anyway I would just ask them what for a technical description of my role in the company, things like SCM and CR assume that I know what tools are good/bad, it's perfectly possible that they are using something that I think is bad but makes sense for them, so I guess it goes both ways, I expect the interviewer to be competent, and I trust my instinct on evaluating that, and then just do the trial period.

Also if you're going to ask the details, then skip the platitude entirely and focus on what you're interested, unless you consider them courteous prelude to detailed questions.