skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing would be to try to measure entropy in a different way, e.g. run gzip on it. Right now FJFJFJFJ has the same entropy as FJGJFJGJ.
"Throughout history, Intel has occasionally tried to launch chips based on a non-x86 architecture, usually without success. In 1989 it released the i860 [...]"

The iAPX 432 was an earlier Intel miss. Much ballyhooed in the trade press for a couple of years. Supposed to run Ada programs efficiently, or something.

(Just noticed that lowercase 'i' there - in the 1980s, it meant an Intel chip, most famously the i8086.)

Also, the CDC 6600 probably deserves whatever press it gets. Though I think IBM sold a lot more 360s.
As a person who did a good bit of that professionally back in the day (I wrote interface layers between it and deeper C++ code), I'd have to say, it's probably not "the thing" you really need, but it does sound quite close to what you requested.
Why does Apple need to fix security bugs in Webkit? Are they being exploited somewhere by attackers I'm not familiar with? It doesn't seem like there is a problem to solve.

I'd venture to say that Apple is more proactive than most other vendors about security because they look at the forest and not just the individual trees.
Any idea why that's pegging the CPU? My naive analysis would be that once the database has sent/stored the data, the server is just doing some light filtering/serialization and sending it off to the client. But obviously there's more going on if these requests (en masse) can get you to 100 load.

Shot in the dark: Is there some kind of sorting going on?
If you are using jQuery, then why `var client = new XMLHttpRequest();` for the love of god, embrace `$.ajax()`
FF did for me.
My big pet peeve is when they ask you what type of credit card you're using, when that is easily determined by the first four digits of the CC number. Thankfully, more and more web sites are figuring this out.
> Both pairs get access to whatever user starts tmux

IIRC, if you 'host' a (gnu) screen session, then your pair will create new shells as your user. This is not a tmux-only issue.

> What we came up with is creating a new
> "pair user" and running tmux within that.

That's an idea that I had, but hadn't attempted to look into yet. This also gets around the screen suid root issue (though not necessarily the config issue), if you're both logged in as the same user. How has this been working, any caveats?

> The configuration wasn't a problem for us
> since one of us hadn't ever used tmux and
> had therefore had no opinion.

I use ` instead of C-a/C-b in both screen and tmux, so it could be a bit jarring to others.
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Whenever someone says "X is still Y", there's a growing chance that it, in fact, is not.

TechCrunch has most assuredly jumped the shark, and Siegler has almost single handedly ensured I will never again read another of their articles unless I am practically rick-rolled into doing so.
Growing up on the Norwegian country side. We walked or went by bike in the summer. In the winter we went by ski or "spark" [1]. I remember on Saturday's we were allowed to go to the closest grocery store for candy. This was 4 km away. The trip took me and my sister one hour each way. We were 6 and 8 years old by the time.

From the age of 9 I went by bike to school each day. I loved riding that bike — such a freedom. I never thought about those 14 km back and forth[2]. From and to school was just about getting there. After school involved more activities.

Currently I reside on one of the most bicycle friendly cities in the world. Approximately 40% use their bike to work in Copenhagen. I always use my bike when I can. During the summer we sometimes bike around the isle of Amager. It's 42 KM all the way around, but the trip takes you through so many different scenes of nature.

To me, getting around by foot or bike, is freedom. It's the only way I know. I can drive a traktor, but have never driven a car.

[1] http://g.api.no/obscura/pub/978x1200r/04135/1326712053000_Sp...
[2] http://g.co/maps/nck6s
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Porsche_Traktor_Diesel_Sup...
Yup, here the USPS response to 94062

https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupResultsAction!input.actio...
You're right, my error. I had a friend mention that she received two separate text messages, the first being about the post, the second being the context (i.e. they were added to a circle). I mistakenly assumed that they weren't sent together and sent in the opposite order. Might be nice to somehow communicate more explicitly that no one is notified until after you post something in a circle.
PHP Sucks But I Like It
Due diligence is called for. Has this business model been successful in other games? Do you have some advantage over the throngs who will gladly do it for free / recognition?
On permanent copyright; a solution.
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The ampersand (& symbol) might make sense due to the following fact: a form is usually submitted as urlencoded:

name=drostie&password=wining%20%26%20dining%20the%20suckas!&language=en-US

and they might be worried about some browsers not correctly URLencoding such a form field -- or else they're perhaps worried that their own URLecoding decoder will break.

The exclamation mark is weirder -- I can't think of a deep need to escape that symbol. The + symbol, maybe, since sometimes + in a URL is supposed to be used as a replacement for %20 as an encoding for a space, but not the ! symbol.
Not everyone does.

"In February 2005, 117 of the 190 member countries of the Universal Postal Union had postal code systems. Countries that do not have national systems include Ireland and Panama."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_code
I cringe every time I see this happen... and always with websites where you -want- stronger passwords.
I did read it, that's why I used that concept. I don't think calling me a "jerkhole" really adds to the dialogue. I just disagree. The author points it out because he doesn't want to hear it. That doesn't make it a less correct counter-argument. I think accomplishing the goal is most important.

Secondly, I don't think PHP is a bad tool. You can accomplish tasks very quickly in PHP. It is certainly not the fastest language, of course, it's not compiled, but it has a lot of great features. A lot of the points made in the article I consider features of PHP and are not detrimental.
It's not fanboyism, most like "stop showing me emulators it's not interesting anymore". The subject of the DPCU iself is still pretty interesting.

Also, thanks!
I love APIs. One recommendation though would be to change the server response slightly for the API call. In Chrome, it had me download a file instead of showing the response in the browser. I think it might be because the response has a Content-Type "text/json" instead of "application/json".

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/477816/the-right-json-con...
Huh, thanks! I suspected it was a security thing, but I've seen some sites where other non-alphaneumeric characters were disallowed as well. :/ At least this makes some sense.
I loved how the Crays looked. I have a picture of myself standing in the middle of a Cray 2, it is one of the coolest pictures I have.
A clever enough idea that I decided to sign up, but my question is not on the FAQ. How many have signed up so far?
> One in nine people had a password in this top 500 list. These passwords include some real stumpers: password1, compaq, 7777777, merlin, rosebud.

Looks unbelievable at first. How could people be so stupid?

But I use such passwords all the time. I use a variety of websites where I have no need or desire for security. Want to post burrito reviews on burritophile.com as me? I picked something simple and easy to guess, a couple hours and you'll be going to town! (Just promise not to badmouth the Cosmic Cantina.)

My bank accounts? Oops, didn't use the same password.
253.3 cm/s is the maximum men's walking gait, which probably looks something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2urNVmKnEaQ

For comfy gaits, the study reported 127.2 cm/s for women (2.8 mph) and 146.2 cm/s for men (3.2 mph). That matches my own experience walking and hiking.
>"without a convex lens between the eye and the display"

I hardly see that as even a problem :)

prescription displays? Sounds like a big profit winner.
Mann is a Media Lab alum. The Media Lab did extensive work on wearable computing a decade ago [1]. Rich DeVaul [2] is another alum who worked extensively on wearable computing there, and is possibly involved in Project Glass.

[1] http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables
[2] http://devaul.net/
Which means there were probably 100 million users attempting to use Skype simultaneously. Skype works maybe 50% of the time I try to use it at best.
It's actually a very beautiful forest aside from its more popular claim to fame. Every year there is a volunteer expedition to remove any human remains so that they may be buried and unknowing hikers don't find themselves tripping into a massive grave after their descent from Fujisan.

Also, the attributing any of this to the internet is a bit of a stretch as "loneliness" is hardly the only factor. The number of suicides has grown significantly over the past 30 years but then so has the population and stress of doing well in school, work, etc. "Prime time" in Jukai is at the end of the fiscal year (when people get laid off) and the end of the third trimester in Japanese schools (when people find out they've failed such and such an exam, class, or whatever).
I'm surprised to see that "correct horse battery staple" type pass-phrases really have to be quite long to score well, but that even comically short email addresses ("dlk3@mit.edu") score very highly. In fact, it looks like my ever-so-clever words-and-numbers web passwords ("Happy314Day") are all terrible, but all my email addresses all make maximum strength 4-point passwords.

I wonder if that's because email addresses are really hard to crack or if it's because the rules of this scoring system weren't designed to account for such a practice. Not a practice of using your real email address as a password, but the practice of using a fictional email address as a password.
Google wants to know what the power of the Internet is? This is it!
Same reason most infrastructure as a service companies exist.

Setting up, maintaining, and scaling web socket messaging servers isn't my core business. Accordingly I am happy to pay a reasonable fee to somebody like Pusher to have the problem go away.

If real-time messaging is core/fundamental to your business, then you probably should run your own servers. Otherwise let somebody else deal with that bit of complexity and focus on the parts of your business that matter most.
Flagged by Firefox as well.
Actually Screen is even worse; it sets the size to whoever joined last. So if someone with a big screen joins a session of someone with a small screen, portions of the window will be invisible to the person who started it.
HP Cloud offer's decent pricing...
So you want every client on your private network to have root access to your SMB server? Remote root is a problem if you have any networked clients.
They don't. They find a lot of "programmers" who can hammer out PHP.

The talented programmers who end up writing PHP don't do it because it was their first choice. It was probably their tenth. Or twentieth.

PHP is one of those tools that you can find a lot of people who know how to use it. Certainly not all of them are actually talented or even competent. But there's a lot of them.

I think the article's conclusion is misguided.
No don't, unless you're a real charitable organization. Would be better to offer a premium tier.
This may not be their reason, but I used to have a password with @ in it. Then I went to Germany and discovered the keyboards there didn't have @ on them. That was a fun time.
I've used tmux and screen on occasion, but I can't get past the fact that they don't fit well with GUI terminals. I love having "GUI" scroll-back, which I can go through with mouse scroll-wheel, or just dragging the scroll bar up and down.
XHP is orthogonal to HipHop, since XHP is available as a module for Zend PHP - https://github.com/facebook/xhp.
check out kkrieger /doom3 graphics in 64kb
I consider similar things to this every time I'm in a parking lot. If you think about it, all parking lots are poorly designed. It is obvious that people will need to walk to and from their cars when in a parking lot. However, you rarely see appropriate walking corridors (sidewalks, marked lanes, etc) specifically for pedestrians. This is especially noticeable, and dangerous, in the narrow confines of underground parking garages.

The bias to favor the car is clearly evident. Who is the customer? The car or the driver?
IIRC Mitch Altman (Noisebridge co-founder and all-around general awesome dude) is pretty into VR stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Altman

>"it's definitely not a new phenomenon"
Agreed 100%, but Google and Apple could push it into mainstream...and for most people, I'm guessing that it'd be their first encounter with AR / VR.
Any list which doesn't have Linux, Apache, and Asterisk near the top = automatic fail.
I feel like this is a stupid question, but what is wrong with having your password be something like "p4ssw0rd"? eg: a dictionary word where a few of the letters are switched for numbers, and maybe even a symbol at the end ("p4ssw0rd$") are these terrible passwords for some reason?
This doesn't seem terribly surprising. Both Facebook and Apple are very polarizing companies. They have huge fans and also huge detractors.

Google seems generally "useful" to everyone. They don't tend to have the same polarizing effect Facebook and Apple have.

And, of course, Twitter is just too unused by the general public.

Even the reasoning behind people's perceptions seems relatively easy to gauge:

Facebook's core product deals with personal and sensitive information that causes privacy concerns and seems to make the service more "personal".

Apple seems elitist to some. Probably because of their historically high priced items.

Google's core product is simply giving you access to information on the web that isn't particularly personal and provides a lot of real world value to people.
Looking at figure 1, page 17, that 2.5 m/s is mean maximum speed, not comfortable speed. That's about 1.5 m/s. I think 2.5 m/s is high, even for mean top speed.
OpenCL for FPGAs
StarCraft II and the Rise of American Pro Gaming
Someone is doing this. I think it was on here yesterday. http://www.rover.com
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Maybe the fix is to have two bars: "difficulty for you to remember" and "difficulty for a computer to guess"
For what its worth: if you want to have your own pusher, you can use Slanger.

https://github.com/stevegraham/slanger

It works with most (if not all) pusher libs and is rather convenient (except the "run on your own infrastructure" part).
Hm. I think my choice of words weren't adequate to describe my situation.

It's not that I don't know how to do other things. It's that the things that I'm capable of doing put me in a narrow niche. With a long-standing back injury and medical problems resulting from exposure to chemical allergens, there's very little work I can do in the light industrial sector.

I have training as a carpenter (and I can do everything from foundation and framing to roofing and finishing - I have the training), but I'm no longer physically able to do it.

The list of programming environments I'm comfortable in is quite long, too. It's just that my choices are PHP, C#, and Ruby. And the PHP guys are the only ones hiring. I really should move to Seattle or something, but the cost of just getting there is a little over what I can do.
There's a neat interactive version of the same thing here (Java required): http://benfry.com/zipdecode/
I went ahead and setup http://ZiptasticAPI.com/ instead of using GET you just add the Zip code to the url ex: http://ZiptasticAPI.com/40504 all the code is on github https://github.com/joshstrange/Ziptastic I just wanted something a little cleaner and without using GET.
I'm surprised to see the complaints about call quality. In recent years I've found the call quality to be really good. It helps if you have a dedicated headset.

I'd much rather criticize their UI design. The latest OSX client is an abomination.
kkrieger is actually 96kb.
It was damn impressive in 2004, and it still is!
Yes, I agree! That is something we are working on. We are in a difficult place because we are extraordinarily cautionary about what messages we send through email/text but we don't to clutter the UI with alerts and confirm dialogs.
No, that's why he hired me in the first place. He knows I can do all this fancy stuff.

He just won't let me.
I'm about 50/50 sure you're correct.
The stuff on our site (see profile) is pretty well documented in the .h files... our next release (hopefully in a week or two) will offer something like MSDN-style overview pages along with detailed function docs.

Really wish there was something like rdoc for C code--and no, Doxygen is fugly and fail.
There is nothing free about managing and supporting a complex infrastructure component.

When you're building out an already sophisticated application, and your core user value proposition has nothing to do with providing subscribed socket connections then it is suddenly a real joy to pay real money to a competent vendor that takes responsibility for something that is hard to get right.

Tech startups are 10% software and 90% running a business. Pusher helps me run my business.
This drives me insane. It especially bites everyone using a a manager to generate long random passwords.

Password fields that are too short cause a similar problem, where you ask "am i still typing? did it cut me off?"

We purposely made the fields huge to help with this on:
https://www.dropbox.com/register
Yes, that's why they fixed the bug.
Any password strength estimator worthy of the name ought to hardcode a list of those 10,000 passwords and disallow any of them. Add in standard algorithms and you're probably doing pretty well.
Facebook as an invisible elephant, and particularly horrible programming
Thanks! Change made. https://github.com/daspecster/ziptastic/commit/de2cf83274b81...
Even less than that -- if the card # starts with "4", it's Visa; 36|37 is Amex; 5[1-5] is MC and so forth.

Totally with you, why do I have to choose from a dropdown -- you already have my number!
Coffeescript is quickly becoming my favorite language for one little reason: it gets out of my way and I just get things done. What more can you ask for?

My hats off to Jeremy and all the contributors. Thanks guys.
I think you probably don't have a good sense of just how much energy walking and other continuous small movements burn. There have several studies that showed that even different amounts of fidgeting can result in significant differences in energy usage, which correlated closely with levels of obesity.

"Overweight people have a tendency to sit, while lean ones have trouble holding still and spend two hours more a day on their feet, pacing around and fidgeting, researchers are reporting in findings published today.

"The difference translates into about 350 calories a day, enough to produce a weight loss of 30 to 40 pounds in one year without trips to the gym - if only heavy people could act more restless, like thin ones."

....

"The director of the study, Dr. James Levine, an endocrinologist and nutritionist at the Mayo Clinic, said the findings offered hope to overweight people, suggesting that relatively simple and painless changes in their daily behavior, like making an effort to walk more and ride less, could help control weight."

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/28/health/28weight.html

I picked this one because it's the NY Times and Science, but there are numerous other sources available via Google.
There are a number of call recorders on Android. I used vRecorder for quite a while. Sometimes (often?) they only record what the microphone hears, so the caller on the line's voice can be pretty low.
Big Startups vs Little Startups
Pretty friggin awesome man!
Hi, my team and I have been working on this for months. Our objective is to reduce the pain of using QuickBooks for Windows. Let us know what you think.
As an addendum, my investors and board appreciate this thinking. "I can do all of this myself" is a common ego trap that precedes cowboy mentality. Running a socket stack sounds like fun until something goes wrong at 3am.
Note that it says "the actual city in 94062 is REDWOOD CITY." The others are merely "acceptable." For mailing purposes, at least, I understand this to mean that the USPS would prefer you to address mail items to Redwood City, regardless of what administrative entity the recipient is in (e.g. Woodside).

Of course, if you're using the information from this API for purposes other than mailing, such as providing an address for verification along with credit card processing, I suppose your processor won't like seeing Redwood City if the cardholder has Woodside on file.
>...my daily commute is a 6 km (3.7 mile) round trip by foot...I'm a male in my late 30s and I generally walk at a relatively brisk 7-8 km/h (4.3-5 mph)...My walk to work takes about 20 minutes...

Does not compute. A trip of 3.7 miles at a speed of 5 miles per hour would take ~45 minutes. If you can actually walk your 6 km commute in 20 minutes, you should quit your job and start competing in Olympic race walking, since you are apparently outpacing the reigning world champion [1].

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racewalking#20_km
That is totally incorrect. Market cap is the value of the equity, not the business.
It certainly needs a rule for putting spaces between the words. "correct horse battery staple" and "correcthorsebatterystable" should be treated as being approximately equal in strength.
While Compete doesn’t directly track mobile usage, we can use the web as a proxy for the two apps.

Yes, Instagram beat picplz. However, this is not the right way to measure it. This is a desperate attempt by Compete to stay relevant.
Economist and Physicist talk about growth.
Possibly similar: I accidentally had flashblock disabled, and a malicious flash ad on wired.com performed many MB of requests and then redirected me to another site after 5-10 seconds.
But only if you have the only water on sale in the desert.

Deserts tend to be deserted. "The only water seller" is redundant.
Has this remote root really been around for ten years?

http://lwn.net/Articles/491523/

edit:

Samba 3.0.x - 3.6.3

http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.0.0.html

So... yeah... 9 years. Wow.
...the implication seems to be that Americans walking less somehow has a causative effect in skyrocketing obesity rates. This seems entirely wimpy and facile.

The fact that exercise causes weight loss has been borne out by numerous controlled experiments. Something I found via a quick search: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.duke.car...

Also, Taubes' insulin nonsense has been debunked. Lets move on.

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/08/carbohydrate-h...

As for your hypothetical environmental cause, it must be extremely selective. For example, consider mixed income American neighborhoods (e.g., Harlem, Jersey City). This alleged environmental cause seems to primarily affect the lower income people. How does that happen? Are the yuppies with gym memberships and hipsters with their organic vegan raw paleo diets somehow immune?
4096 18-bit words are known to host a Lisp interpreter (http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/maclisp_fa... ), so 64K 16-bit words should be more than enough :)
That's a great idea. More generally, whatever the approach, I agree zxcvbn would be better with a more conservative rating for non-pattern-matched regions.
The problem is that those substitutions are all fairly common, and so any good cracker will make those substitutions as part of its check. https://xkcd.com/936/ is a good reference point.
Google beats Apple, Facebook, and Twitter in consumer favorability poll