skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really you need both kinds of spaces and the freedom to choose where you want to be at any moment. Either (A) in the private, quiet hyper-focused space where you're doing hard stuff that requires holding a fragile chain of thought in active memory or (B) you're in the dynamic, open environment enjoying the stimulation of different voices and points of view. If you can only afford to build one of those spaces either build A or find an alternative for A like allowing people to work from home.
Yeah, who's ever heard of those ARM things?
Concept does look interesting, waiting for the private beta.
I thought that hashing password with two types of salt (one of them is unique for every user) and two places to storage salts is secure enough.
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I don't know about the OP, but I have a chip on my shoulder about professionalism in the industry, of which the alcohol and brogrammer culture is just a part.

We're on a long, slow slide away from CS and towards hacking out yet-another poorly designed programming language/web framework/whatever, patting ourselves on the back for re-inventing the wheel, and then grabbing some beers.

I'm studiously unimpressed with the quality of candidates, technology, and culture that I've been seeing in recent years.
Ill look into the Java detection stuff. Beside that yes we will have a "see it" mode (mouse trails and clicks) along with the "try it" mode. We have export to ppt, doc, and pdf...this will be a $ feature. Most of the ideas you mentioned are on the drawing board...so its good to know someone else beside me needs it and Im not totally nuts.
I really like this idea. I don't have much time for gaming anymore, but something like this would be a selling point for me. I could write such a game off as an academic exercise.

There are a lot of AI/ML techniques you'd have to know or become familiar with. I imagine the competition to build the best bot at any given task, or best all-around bot, would be quite intense.

Someone please make this game.
Because America has few close neighbors (close as in geographically and as in relations) who speak a foreign language and also produce media Americans consume on a regular basis. Americans don't need to learn a foreign language, and when they do it's difficult to get real-world practice. Canadian French and Mexican Spanish are the only two an American would generally run into, and only infrequently. I speak German and Canadian French and struggle to find reasons to use those languages.

It irritates me when Europeans get upset about American lack of "worldliness" (for lack of a better term). The US is bigger than the entire European Union, has only one de facto language, and is removed from the rest of the world by 3,000 miles of water on each side. Of course Americans aren't constantly running into people from other countries/cultures, we have states that are bigger than many European sovereign nations. I can drive 3000 miles (~5000km) from New York to LA and encounter nothing but America and English.

In Europe, that would get you from Brugge to Burgas and back, going through Belgium, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, and Bulgaria. And back. Lisbon is closer to Helsinki than New York is to LA.
Yeah, seems like a more salient benefit to the visually impaired from a HUD would be for a patient with significant damage to regions of their visual field. Then the computations available with the wearable could be used to apply a real-time transformation to the video so as to push more of the video stream's information into the regions of their visual field which still work.
Kind of a false flag as NSA already has that power via Bush and Obama..

This bill is basically to make that illegal act legal for those companies that help them do it.

Thus, preventing passage would mean that we should still be able to sue the private companies empowering the NSA to do this..
Question: If it hardens when it is disturbed, does it mean that it hardens if the wearer runs, for example? This would mean you still can't properly armor joints...
Agreed. I don't really play games anymore, but this is something I'd do. Also, I'd imagine it's possible it'd help the companies with things like their bot detection schemes.. the checkbox gives them something of a control group.
Glasses focus the light into your eye, still relying on your eye to focus on distance. The HUD in my example would flatten the distance and show a 2D picture in front of your eye at a point where you can naturally focus.

Like I said, I don't know if this is possible.
I would not call "a hash that has no need whatsoever to be tamper-proof and cares only about speed" a checksum. You don't use checksums to create a hash table. Now some checksum would be suitable for that use, but not all. So let's continue to call a hash a hash.
I really hope we'd find a way to take this cyberspace out of any political jursdiction;

I don't think it can be done.

Because, getting right down to it, the internet lives on wires and computers that have a physical presence. You can't abstract those away and say 'Dear State: those computers, in that building ... none of your business.'
I have hash functions that work on less bytes than the length of the hash they produce.
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http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr3523

find the link that says "show cosponsors" and click it. click any individual name for more details.
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This might work. My vision is probably in the 20/600 or much worse range (Though correctable with lenses).. and without corrective lenses I have maybe a 2-3 inch maximum focal distance. Though, I do find that with my corrective lenses I lose that focal distance and end up with a 6inch-ish minmum focal distant.
I used Ruby activerecord and don't write manual queries.
Thanks for pointing that out, in fact a site assuring me that my information is secure because they "use SSL" makes me wonder if they really understand security at all.
Play with the PDF.js API directly from your browser
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Unlike RDBMS's, MongoDB has a single, shared database-wide write lock when you write to any collection.
Bots break games, period.

They break game play, economies, immersion, etc. If you want to sand box them in a special server fine, but don't even think of unleashing them on the general population.
OP here. Fire off any questions to @arturadib, happy to help.
Nonsense.

Getting a programming job at a company that uses the technologies you want to work with will seriously help you move into another role in the near future. Even if the company is crap.

It's nice that some people will care about your personal projects but A LOT of good companies won't see these in the same light as real professional experience dealing with real production, team and stake holder issues.

Also, how can anyone support themselves for months whilst they wait for the perfect job which may never come because it gets harder to find a job the longer you are unemployed?

As for contracting; to land a good contracting role (I'm talking stuff outside of rent-a-coder) is very difficult. Most companies wouldn't even consider you as a contractor unless you have several years of solid experience. I can only assume you mean the kind of 'contracting' that happens at places like rentacoder.com. If you think anyone will care about this then you are mistaken, plus, it's a waste of your time as you'll get paid peanuts and end up providing free support to the idiots that gave you the work in the first place.

If you're fresh out of education and will not be landing a role with Google (or the likes of) and you're struggling to get work at a good company then you should take the first job that comes along that works with the technology you want to specialise in.
If they're featured a lot in social media, aren't they most likely not to be spam sites? I don't know a lot of spammy insurance sites that can get lots of retweets, facebook likes, or reddit votes...

On the other hand, if a site gets 99% of their visitors from search engines, it makes you wonder about the quality of the site
Physical memory does not have anything to do with it, the virtual address space is all that matters.

It might be useful to consider that 2^64 is 2^32 * 2^32. This means the problem becomes important on 64 bit only if an application will use 10 orders of magnitude more memory. By considering the historic growth in memory capacity and usage, this will only happen around 2060.
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Why not just create a personal bot trainer? There are lots more ways to accomplish what you need without developers allowing you to use bots.

The idea is silly really, it's like asking Infinity Ward and DICE to make Aimbot/wallhack servers for people to practice their AI skills. This would ruin gaming experience for those who don't participate in botting or AI programming. For what? A couple thousand sales? It's not worth the headache.
Agreed; in general you should avoid passive voice.
Probably Golang developers/implementers should change their compiler to insert "magic" constant before each 32-bit pointer in the GC memory, so all such pointers could be quickly discovered during full linear scan of the heap during GC, regardless of target address.

This "magic" constant should be non-valid value in 32-bit single precision float point format, far away from usual mmap()'ped address ranges, and far away from small integers.

Maybe this "magic" value should be randomized to prevent DoS attacks on Go runtime library.
It's the new buzzword. Everything new and cool is apparently "HTML5"...
SSO is good for free apps. If I built a premium app, I would be reluctant to rely on Facebook or Twitter to protect my customers' paid accounts or the access to their credit card numbers.
Good point. Isn't the only PBKDF requirement artificial and technically unnecessary computational delays? I mean far beyond what is necessary to actually produce a strongly collision free function.
How fitting is it that the white house official response contains an incorrectly rendered HTML entity?

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/investigate...
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aimbots and wallhacks aren't AI though - they're cheats.
It does not allow infinite string compression, because you obviously have to store the original data. For hashes of good length and quality, the theory stands. I would even use MD5 and say the theory stands for non-critical every day uses given there is no attacker.
My little bullshit friday issues don't seem so important now.
I think it's neat that people can create languages that compile to JavaScript so they can work in an environment that's more their style, but it really irks me when they try to say those languages ARE JavaScript.

This isn't a debate as to whether or not CoffeeScript is better, easier, cleaner, etc. It's a simple A does not equal B statement, and it's starting to remind me of the way my boss says I'm "good at Java".
IMHO co-meeting is the best GWave alternative available today. Basically it's an user-friendly version of Apache WiaB. For now it only lacks OpenSocial gadgets but according to a co-meeting developer, they could be added in the near future.
In the case of TCP/IP, everyone calls the checksum a checksum, and nobody calls it a hash.
The bill is only 11 pages and is a fairly easy (for legislation) read. My initial pass through the bill I'm having trouble seeing what is wrong with it. This bill seems to simply allow federal intelligence agencies who are already collecting information on cyber-security threats to share that information with other governmental agencies and non-governmental entities. If the gov't has information that crackers are trying to hack the power grid I want them to be able to share that information with the power company, duh.

If someone can explain why this bill is actually bad I'll be happy to contact my rep, but right now I don't think it is.
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I could imagine the security risks with this though, much more than with a phone. Already software can track your location without GPS (by picking out landmarks, I think Google does this, I know Microsoft does, and I know Facebook does). Malicious apps on this would be killer to privacy. Recording video, sound, and location on a device that is primed at all times to be recording that (unlike a phone).

Right now it's too early to tell exactly what this project will amount to, but I really hope Google makes some serious security considerations when/if they open access to an app store.
It really depends on the market. I'm just comparing to Captivate and similar screen simulation software, really. If they can make a buck selling a $500 piece of software, you can do it on a smaller monthly fee as a SaaS for sure. I'm happy to see you were already planning these things, can't wait to see them! Perhaps you should start a newsletter, or a notification system so we're advised of your progress. I, for one, am very interested in seeing you evolve!

* Edit *: little feedback on useability: After grabbing a share link, I visited the URL and was very confused on which ones of the "Tutorial" or "Quick Guide" option was selected. You're going against the grain with these buttons, the "pressed" version should be the active one, and not vice versa.
Currently working on a concept similar to this, but around classifieds and private sellers rather than companies.

The basic premise is along the lines of "Tell us what your looking for or interested in and we will tell you when a good deal turns up somewhere"

The point being it may not be available now, but when it is we will let you know.

Still in early prototype at the moment and focused on a specific niche but we aim to expand rapidly.
My personal site, for various reasons including this one, is entirely HTTPS. If you try to access any part of my site by HTTP, you're just redirected to HTTPS.

(this is mostly because I'm too lazy to maintain separate site configurations for HTTPS and HTTP)
Won't that be fairly common? Java's hashCode and the .Net GetHashCode both return 4 byte ints and there are presumably a lot of HashMap and Dictionary objects out there using short strings as keys.
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It is. I'm not sure, since I'm not the creator. It's just what the description said where I saw it.
After the bots are perfected, what will stop users from using them in game along side unsuspecting players?

No one. The developer has not put much effort into fighting bots anymore. And now that the AI is so real, there would be no way they would catch bots gaming the system.
I think it would be possible to read the content if it was just inserted into a <div> in the DOM or something. But the priv.ly link that is pointing to the content could be replaced by an iframe, and then it wouldn't be accessible to outsiders code, because of same-origin policy, I think. Not sure how it's actually done, though, I didn't dig any deeper.
My personal take on this is that if your game is going to suffer because of bots (assuming that they're not cheating bots, and are bound by the same rules as the players) then your game is broken and/or stupid, and the choices that your players are making are too simple.

Remember the Sid Meier quote about games being about making interesting choices?

EDIT: Since I'm getting up and downvoted willy-nilly, here's my blog entry where I go into more detail (using Farmville as the example): http://blog.oarsum.com/post/255516489/cheating-and-game-desi...
I guess what I don't fully understand is just how computationally intensive (slow) a hash needs to be to produce a reliable fingerprint, that is, one that is as collision free as possible and extremely sensitive to any tiny change in the source data.

I do understand that password related hashes may have arbitrary computational delays added just to make them tougher to brute force, which would be bad in many other (all other?) situations?
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Why would you use MD5 as a checksum if different documents with identical hashes can be produced?
"but there’s no real difference between advertising for a Ninja and throwing half your resumés away because you don’t like unlucky people"

This assumes getting hired by you was a lucky event in their life. In fact, it could very well be unlucky.

Perhaps if they hadn't been hired by you, they would have gotten a much better job elsewhere. Or any number of other things in their life might have turned out better had they not landed this particular job. Or maybe they'll wind up hating the job, and wish they'd have gone to work somewhere else.

Considering someone to be lucky to work for you is very self-centered. Perhaps it is you who are the lucky one to have someone like them working for you, and they the unlucky one.
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namecoin does exactly this (decentralized p2p DNS), arguably the bitcoin model is a much better fit for domains than it ever was for currency.
Run your site on https. Can't inject into that.
Bots break games that consist of doing the same thing over and over , are easily scriptable, and depends on false achievement to addict players (you've just wasted an hour clicking here and there repeatedly - have a cookie).

So no big loss there.

Actually - bots make such games interesting and demanding again.
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Another nitpick: its "any time" not "anytime". Drives me nuts.
Try taking the ziplibs(env.deploy_path) call out. It's not strictly necessary.
Most of those posts are almost 4 years old, get over it. I've been publishing to AppStore since 2007 and it was rough at the start. Apple wasn't anticipating the volume of submissions. It's a much different story now.
Bots that farm, hunt, gain xp ect. while your are away are cheats. Automated actions with no effort from the player is cheating.
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deSSLify the connection on the fly

How is this possible?
Yeah, it's quite violent. But I loved it.
If we get strong AI thanks to that, I wouldn't worry about breaking some games. Bigger problem for humanity would be where to hide Sarrah Connor :)
Some of the more successful indie games tend to market well before release in order to stir up interest in the game. Would Minecraft have been as successful if Notch just kept quiet and released a paid copy instead of releasing an alpha after a few days of development so everyone could talk about this new cool new sandbox game being developed? Probably not.

Given the ease at which you can post information on the internet these days, this should be a no-brainer for any modern developer.
Then the game is too simple. Rather than hunt down bots, they should make a more interesting game. The bots are a symptom, not a problem in themselves.
Ugh, I got downvoted for my sarcasm. It also seems like the original message to which I replied was changed so I guess my message was received, but my reply does seem out of place.

Anyway, if you're bind, your lenses will be opaque and you'll be using audio, and maybe ... just Google Jordy on Star. This type of device will change your life if you're blind. You could "read" HN, for example.
someone could make a Game specifically for bots.
Honestly, when do we get to call it a bubble? Why do I keep seeing start-up companies who on the one hand, need investment capital to build their runways, but on the other hand offer the finest salary and benefits packages on God's green Earth?

I'm sorry, but where are you people getting the money for free gymnasia and catered meals, particularly when firms like YC don't even invest enough to pay the founders a living wage for the duration of the program?
But the article's not talking about conversion rates, it's talking about user experience. It's taking the site user's perspective, not the site owner's.

Asking for credit card details before starting your free trial inevitably seems scummy from the user's point of view. It's awfully reminiscent of those services with a "free trial" that start charging you automatically the moment the trial ends, and make it difficult & laborious to cancel -- those AOL discs being an infamous example.

I'd also consider it a violation of points 4, 5, and 6, to varying degrees. Why should I go to the trouble of digging out my card, copying in & double-checking the numbers (point 5), just so you can hold onto it in a way I can't know is secure (point 4), when you shouldn't even need it (point 6)?
Unfortunately, there's no real answer to this. If you're good, you won't have trouble finding a job, but that's a question only you can answer. I plan on writing a longer post about this later, but the best way to answer this for yourself is to ask "do I really love programming?" People who love programming and have gone through Hacker School have had no trouble getting a job afterwards.

If you do love programming, you should apply!
The same can then be said for using an ad-blocker - are you denying NYTimes.com revenue by blocking their ads?
The key requirement for a password-based key derivation function is that performing a brute force search is expensive. The PBKDF2 and bcrypt functions approximate this by scaling the amount of computation required; but this is imperfect since they can both be implemented on small circuits, making highly parallel attacks using GPUs/FPGAs/ASICs feasible. The scrypt function scales the amount of RAM required -- and thus the circuit size -- as well, making it far more expensive to attack since you can't use the same sort of cheap highly-parallel crunching.

The best reference for this analysis is the scrypt paper: http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf
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You can also check my script over here: https://github.com/fvieira/coursera_resources_downloader
It has the advantage of not requiring a cookies file, it can authenticate with your user and password.
Otherwise, it does pretty much the same as jplehmann's script, although with some minor changes which you might or might not like.

By the way, congratulations on your script, jplehmann! Wish I had found yours before losing time doing mine...
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Funny when I stay at higher-end hotels like Marriott they want $10/day for internet. When I stay at a Super-8 it's generally free.
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I reckon Notch's games[1] would be the perfect fit, for zones like the OP mentions. A place for the "little Coder" to learn ML/AI etc

[1]: Minecraft or 0x10c etc.
>It might explain why the Windows 8 Beta store is basically empty.

What? There are better quality apps for Windows 8 beta than Android tablet apps for my ICS tablet.
DARPA's next Grand Challenge to focus on humanoid robots
If by "majoring in business" we mean majoring in "business" rather than any particular actual line of work, YES! And bloody obviously so!
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Interesting bug. For those who don't have time to sift through the video: they wrote a kernel that was formally proven to be deadlock free. The application layer, however, contained a workaround - which caused a deadlock. Big takeaway is that just because your core is proven sound, that proof doesn't translate to dependents.
You were maybe joking with the China bit, but MPAA Grand Poobah Chris Dodd has seriously made the that exact argument http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111208/14521817014/mpaa-b...
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