skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People most definitely still use older phones. I use my iPhone 3G when I travel overseas because there's an easy unlock available for it (unlike the baseband on my current model). And password manager is one of the things I really want to work across all my devices. Actually, if I can't share 1password database between old and new phones, I'll probably be looking for a different password manager. Having said that, I obviously don't expect it to perform fast on older hardware.
I think this is the song (with vocals) that the article mentions: http://soundcloud.com/chrisjamesofficial/deadmau5-theveldt-v...
Exactly- When I wrote this, I couldn't believe Sarah Lacy sent a 19 year old to pass judgement on Chicago in a short visit. Personally, I admire Trevor's guts- it isn't easy to do what he did but yes, he is taking a beating and right ly so in some regards. Saying everyone in Chicago works 9 to 5 in startups is beyond ludicrous....lol.

All that said, if he can keep his head on straight, he'll likely develop into a great writer
Lessons learned building a multiplayer game in nodejs and webgl
I agree completely! I am a huge fan of Neil Degrasse Tyson and Lawrence Krause. There are far more wasteful spending that we are doing, and there are long term benefits that the R&D of space exploration will deliver to us.
cost of parts for the device != cost to manufacture/design device
i think it's interesting to see how the latest fad of successful public figures is it to take on pushing human exploration / travel. John Carmack has his Armadillo Aerospace...
very cool post, and very actuel...
Google defends Hotfile and Megaupload in court
Now that Chrome seems to be getting a bit more bloated and Firefox seems to be tightening it's belt, things will probably begin to even out.
500 Details: The Process of Mentoring Startups
Very cool. I particularly like technologists which don't 'buy' the party line when it comes to how things are done. The foam story is a good one.
The ... was meant to imply sarcasm. Sorry I wasn't more clear.
Actually, I think "hire them on a temporary basis" is more egomaniacal than obsessing over job interview questions. For someone to work for you as a temp, they have to leave their current full time job and put their benefits in jeopardy. When you hire someone, you should be ready to commit.

In my experience, when someone is hired on to a new company, they are on a trial basis for a certain number of days anyway. This may seem less risky than being explicitly labelled as a temporary-to-hire worker, but they could still find themselves and their benefits in jeopardy if within that trial period either decides this is not as good a fit as the recruitment process suggested it would be.

I think that underneath the intuitive reaction we have to "temporary worker" vs. "permanent worker on a trial basis", they're actually very alike from an individual risk perspective. Either way, in 30/60/90 days, you could find yourself unemployed and still in the same bind. There may be benefits consequences the direction of a temporary worker, especially if you are temped through an agency. On the other hand, that agency might find you another role if the one you are in doesn't work out.

There may be a different discussion about whether or not having this trial period is right, or ethical, or good business, or whatever, regardless of what whatever label gets put on it. My stance on this is that a good process will inevitably make very bad decisions from time to time, and it's not always the best idea to force those bad decisions to be irreversible.

Maybe my experience with the occasional mistakes of what I've seen as otherwise good processes in my past has made me a little less hard-lined about this.

EDIT: get my quoting italicized correctly.
Why I moved to Chicago to start my company
> They need to come up with a brilliant way to make the water pressure work against itself to keep the hull intact.

That's why they use a sphere.
In this context, work is computational strength so what we're mainly concerned about is an attacker finding a way to do the task significantly more efficiently than the defender. E.g., if the attacker can evaluate the function with half the cost on his power bill relative to the defender, then that can be thought of as knocking off 1 bit of security off the top.

The primary advantage of Scrypt over the others is that it enters a completely pathological memory locality access pattern and stays there for almost the whole function. This works to neutralize the advantage of an attacker who has a custom CPU because he probably can't also develop a custom RAM subsystem to feed it with (at least not one that's many times more efficient than what the defender has in his server).

But if you've done any performance tuning on multithreaded code, you know that cache effects caused by memory access patterns very quickly begin to dominate as multiple cores and threads are added. Things that look great in single-threaded benchmarks almost never scale linearly and there's probably nothing that will scale worse on our shared-memory multiprocessors than Scrypt. It's a feature.

So the defender (say, a busy website with commodity multicore servers) with Scrypt is likely not going to be able to take as good an advantage of his hardware. He won't be able to crank up the work factor quite as high as he could with Bcrypt or PBKDF2.

This may represent an advantage to the attacker, who doesn't have the additional constraint of keeping the response time up on a busy webserver. This attacker's advantage is probably not significant by cryptographic standards (maybe 2 or 3 bits of security lost), but pathological multithreading could represent a big issue operationally.

I'm honestly not trying to cast FUD on Scrypt here, I think it's the best function. I'm just saying like everything else multithreaded you really need to benchmark it under real-world conditions.
I guess the question is - who do you trust to make these calls?

In this case, the answer probably is OWASP which is a great and often overlooked resource, contributed to by a lot of experts in the area. They have a lot of pages in their wiki that address crypto concerns...

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Guide_to_Cryptography

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cryptographic_Storage_Cheat_...

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Password_Storage_Cheat_Sheet
Where is Chrome's bloat?
does anybody know how the cpu and gpu rates are derived in the summary table?

i'd like to know how parallelized the computation is assumed to be.
Having bought and upgraded Vegas & Cubase, and evaluated Reaper (which is $0 for cripple-free evaluation & $60 for a non-commercial license) I am fully aware of the cost. Winamp (made by one of the guys behind Reaper) was free, even before AOL bought Nullsoft, and still managed to look better than every other MP3 player out there.

There are people who have offered their services, presumably free of charge. I think Audacity would be a lot more inviting if more effort was put into the look and usability of the interface. Need money? Come up with a plan and a Kickstarter page.

I'm not saying it should be a DAW. I'm just saying it should look like something that was released in 2012, rather than something that was released in 1998.
Residents tend to be reasonably well clustered in terms of socioeconomic factors, and we know that at least one resident exists for whom this is a reasonable purchase.

If we assume the 3x10^6 sales are all US (false, but good to some order) and estimate the US population at 300x10^6, then the expectation is roughly 1:100 that a random person will order a unit. Conditioning that on socioeconomic factors should yield a reasonably high probability that if you ordered one, so did several of your neighbors.
I don't know if they can or not. They can certainly try.
While it's not a submarine, the FLIPresearch vessel is an interesting example of laying out a sea going vessel in a vertical manner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP_FLIP and http://worldphotocollections.blogspot.com/2009/06/flipping-s...). In the case of the FLIP, the idea is to provide an ultra stable platform by putting the majority of the ship underwater. It's quite the spectacle to see it look like it's capsizing and then just continue to sit there once it has gone vertical.
Noted. I didn't mean to come off as adversarial or manipulative. This is really a conversation starter, and I rarely just write down the answer and move on.

But I do feel like it helps me learn a whole lot about the candidate without compromising that trust or condescending to them with "what's your biggest weakness?" or some such.
At least Woz isn't talking about technical topics this time. Presumably he has plenty of experience being on the receiving end of the RDF.
If they don't need the money, they should pool it into a developer lottery. best app in each category wins the pot.

entice developers further while still keeping out the riff-raff. problem solved.
How much is that because they already have a PC and don't need to replace it as frequently as previously?

How many people do you personally know who's computer use is all on a tablet and don't use a PC anymore?
Angry Birds lends itself to a product, they have a very specific set of characters and goals/tasks, as well as a back story. DrawSomething is much more broad, there is no direction in it; the only goal is to essentially play pictionary; I can do that at home. Where they've changed the game is that you can now do it easily with your friends hundreds of miles away. That simplicity is what limits it, but also makes it so popular.
You can draw a parallel to something like pinterest; is it a hugely popular site, absolutely, but what can they do now to make money? license it? develop a product? sell you products that people pin? so far the answer is no for all 3 of these options (the last option is something they're working furiously on to monetize the site, but the volume and randomness of items that people pin make it so fragmented that it's difficult...)
In addition to being free as enneff points out, the implementation is small enough that a group of outsiders can reasonably pick up the language and carry it forward without the benefit of Google's institutional knowledge.
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Due to the popularity of external markets, like amazon, I don't think this kind of change is going to occur without a very huge shakeup.
i can make a bookmark to a NSFW site with the browser that's provided in android. how is that not direct linking?
Of course they don't necessarily have to be profitable. The Chinese continued their expeditions for 30 years without being "profitable". My point is that if you want a sustained program that will grow, being self sustaining would be necessary. Eventually it has to pay for itself. I don't think the Europeans would have continued their expeditions if all the returns they got were 100 years of financial losses.
A speed-up in Fast Fourier Transforms could change the modern world
Sweden wants to get rid of anonymous cash and move towards money digitalization
Why are you bringing up the creepy comments attached to the images? Those thumbnails seem to be of clothed children not engaged in explicitly sexual behavior. Cropping and making inappropriate lewd comments is exploitative but it's not pornographic.
your secret character injection is sneaky. props. i see a potential for URL spoofing.
A capacitor could internally short, releasing all of its energy at once. Imagine all of the gasoline in your car going off at once. Its a bomb. That's quit a different scenario from other car-crash situations.

We've all seen the laptop-going-nuclear videos when Li-Ion batteries short. This could be worse, given the high discharge potential mentioned in the article.
Stay with Firefox everyone. We need an independent, community-governed browser.
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How usable is it if you don't own any computer running either Mac OS X or Windows? Doesn't it still need iTunes to upgrade itself etc, or can you buy it as a stand-alone computer for casual browsing and games?
There is a problem, of course. Going to the new url fails to render the site, so view source won't work but neither will bookmarks. And you DON'T want to prevent bookmarking. But good to know this works.
Right Click -> Inspect Element -> Resources . It was easy that way!
Are startup incubators hatching many startups doomed to fail?
Hopeless and pathetic? They make good products. Get over it and make something yourself.
I did research in this area last decade, and I'm one of the authors of a survey paper that you might find useful if this subject is interesting to you: http://utopia.csis.pace.edu/dps/2007/jkile/content/2005-fall...

There is research stretching back 30 years in this area. Some of the results are very promising, but the field is severely encumbered with patents. I was even threatened with a cease-and-desist while doing a research project in this area for a graduate class.
I think the "Go is great!" post was two days ago. It was a bit fluffy, but written by an enthusiastic 14 year old learning a new technology, and came from a well-meaning place. All good things.

So naturally there was an enormous overreaction and an article entirely devoted to telling everyone that someone didn't want to learn something shot to the top of HN yesterday. Because people who did want to learn it had to be told that other people weren't just going to stand around and let them engage in learning without telling everyone that they wouldn't be learning that if they were you.

And so, finally, today, we get the counter-counter-reaction, in which your perfectly reasonable "Go is fine and other things are fine too" post gets voted to the top as HN once again reaches an equilibrium with the idea that different people can like different things.
I wonder if Amazon is going to try to do in fulfillment / logistics / etc. what they've done in web services.

Perfect a highly efficient system, then charge others for access to the same technology.

Or if this is just a play to keep the KIVA system to themselves and provide a competitive advantage. They obviously didn't need to buy KIVA to get access to the system, so it strikes me that it's one of those two possible reasons.
I use Chrome as my main browser. I see no bloat at all?

In my experience, IE is losing bloat, Chrome started with a bit of bloat but quickly lost it, whilst Firefox has had bloat for a while.
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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.

Really now?

1. Apple has love/hate relationship. Most people don't care about review, as long as its a new Apple product. iPhone4 initial sales prove that, even after major websites couldnt recommend it, sales were through the roof anyways.

2) Updates are being pushed automatically. You can decline, but why would you wait to buy a device because update iOS 5.6.1.2 didnt come out yet? Hardware issues are very rare - of course the antnae/grip case, but apple offered free of charge help anyways - and you could always "hold it different way" :)
Most people are skeptical of new devices but the good ones spread organically. You take your ipad home, next thing you know your whole family wants one. Your kids take it to school, their friends want one. You take it to work, your boss wants one... then his boss wants one, then the whole executive staff gets ipads (which they take home...).
Why is it that every time this 'violence vs. sex' shtick is brought out, the people who are upset about violence often react to it in the same way the people they are criticizing act about sex (i.e., ban this sick filth!) ?

Death is just as natural as sex. Arguably more so - everything dies, and nature seems to have no aversions to violent death. Why would fictional death bother you?
Kiva is a great company. They have been innovating since day 1, tapping into various industries. Last year, they put their robots on the floors of Boston Scientific's fulfillment center - a first for them in the highly-sensitive, highly-regulated medical arena. And, to be bought in CASH... I hope employees and the founding team made out well.
Isn't that exactly the problem which VC funding claims to address?
Upgrades can all happen over the air now, and you don't need a PC to sync with for start up either. I haven't plugged my iPad 2 into my mac since iOS 5 came out, you should be fine.
Need to sign a message? Using S/MIME or PGP.
Need to checksum a file? Use SHA256.
Need to hash a password? Use bcrypt, scrypt, or PBKDF2.
Need to transmit data over a network? Use HTTPS/TLS
Need to secure HTTP? Use HTTPS/TLS, preferring AES in CTR and then CBC.
Need to secure home WiFi? Use WPA2PSK.
Need to encrypt files? Use any implementation of PGP.
Need to do (this type) of encryption? Use PGP. Never use AES directly. Never use ECB for anything.
Need to create a TrueCrypt volume? Can't help you; we use PGP.
This post is a great response to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3723323

I think personally that learning more than one language is very helpful, but like anything else, the more you learn, the more you can get mixed up, especially in tech interviews. :)
OWASP is a great resource with a terrible track record for application cryptography.
what works for some doesn't work for others. I quit my job without stream of work lined up and am not thinking of going back to a regular job.

IMO, It depends on whether you have enough savings or not (6+ months seems a minimum, I had more like 2 years) and whether you have a solid network already, and a few other parameters (your risk aversion for example).

Working a day job + having another salary worth of client work before you can leave seems like a recipe for burnout to me - but again, everyone's different.
Stop versioning Firefox so rapidly and people will come back. Firefox 5 - Firefox 11 in 1 year. Come on Mozilla... switch back to minor version numbers. I don't think they realize how this perception negatively effects the regular consumer.
Chrome's memory usage is[1] (and always has been[2]) very high and has been steadily getting worse where Firefox has been getting better and better thanks to the memshrink project[3]

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!...

[2] http://techpp.com/2011/09/28/chrome-14-vs-firefox-7-memory-f...

[3] https://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/ talks about it frequently
It still needs to be activated on a computer, but I believe the Apple Store will do that for you.

Otherwise, it's very usable without a computer, now with over the air updates.

edit: oops, I guess I'm wrong.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, this is similar to what is currently recommended for storing passwords. Don't store the plaintext, store a hash instead (everyone's hash is salted, using a secure algorithm, right?), perform the same calculation on the input and compare (everyone's doing constant time comparisons, right?).

The problem is, someone out there isn't doing at least one of the above suggestions (or others that I've forgotten), or someone will intercept the original input while it's in flight (no one uses unencrypted connections on open public wifi, right?) or make use of some other arbitrary way that passwords can currently get stolen. And once they get that original digital representation of your typing style, you're done. That method will never be secure for you again for any service, unless you spend the time to change your typing style (and remember your new style should not be at all predictable to someone who knows your old style).
It still disgusts me that Internet Explorer has users at all. Even IE9 is still unbearably bad, especially from the web developer point of view. I wish the rest of the world would have realized this and ousted Microsoft from a business it has no place in.
Current Lisps are so dissimilar to the first Lisps that they're hardly the same language anymore. Really, the Lisps form a family of languages. If you can argue that Clojure is just a "better" Lisp, you could just as easily argue that Go (or C#, or Java, or whathaveyou) is just a "better" Algol.
Einstein on Kindness, Our Shared Existence, and Life's Highest Ideals
Look at this graph: http://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/index.cfm

More than one third of US households have more than one PC. It’s probably a good assumption that most US households with iPads will keep at least one PC, but it’s very possible that many households are replacing their second or third PCs with iPads. After getting an iPad many households might not replace their kitchen or living room PC once it breaks. Maybe kids will get an iPad instead of a cheap laptop.

It would actually be very interesting to look at that question more closely. I’m not sure whether there is already data out there.

I think it’s important to emphasize that for the iPad to supplant PCs, people don’t have to ditch every PC they own. Many own more than one.
samstave didn't turn down the job-he told the interviewer his start date. That was the end of the interview. Afterwards, samstave never heard back from twitter.
This is more real for me. I so much prefer reading magazines on this iPad than in 'real' life form.

Its interesting that successful digital magazines are like 'print' and not like 'web'. I enjoy the Economist and WSJ and NYT etc when they just have print, pictures, and perhaps a short video snippet.

Unsuccessful magazines to date either try to animate / annoy with ads and/or charge more (or extra) for digital content.

The learning process is painful but I recently checked out the Endgadget's 'distro' magazine and its actually quite readable and useful so there are 'new media' folks arriving, 'old media' folks figuring it out, and people who aren't adapting I expect will die.

Now if we could bring back BYTE magazine in this form it would totally rock.
So does this mean that for Woz the ends justify the means? Lying through one's teeth is a valid strategy to create a "message"?

What next, Woz being a spokesperson for Google?

If he thinks that the issue of Chinese workers and Apple is important, he's sinking his own ship by lending credence to a bald-faced liar.
I agree with everything you've said in this thread, except this: "type safety" should mean that the system has some belief about the type of values that cannot be compromised.

(sometimes type safety can be proven absolutely by static checking, but you have otherwise only run-time type checking, e.g. dynamic JVM languages, introspection).

Unlimited memory corruption does seem to imply that run-time type guarantees are gone, but it's still better to use the most appropriate terms.
I solved this problem by not having window decorations and not allowing windows to be partially off-screen.
Also a great exit for Bain Capital.
I don't understand. Why do you care what the version number is?
I would say you waited the right amount of time for all 4 of those choices.
friend sold for $450, I bought for $480, he said: it needs to go down, and now hes angry at me :)
Actually, the "regular consumer" has no idea that Firefox even had version numbers to begin with. Iterating quickly with nearly automatic updates was a huge step in the right direction.
The problem with FireFox is that it wasn't fast enough to catch with the innovation in the browsers market. Google Chrome was getting fast and pretty good at rendering. Its minimalistic interface has also helped a lot.

By the time FireFox figured that out, it was already a little late. But the problem is that they approached it the wrong way. Instead of focusing on what made Google Chrome successful (simple interface, auto-updates, speed...) they even made it worse (I still find the interface not easy and friendly as chrome, multiple confusing versions, and not that fast)
Only if he wins.
I have only a few that I got at $21 before the split.