skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm I guess a little hesitant to follow up on these because the original post is getting strongly downvoted, but I tend to agree somewhat. This is the same as I was telling people at the company -- "just use the PHP API we've developed!"

It turns out that this is a bit complicated, as my colleagues readily pointed out to me. So for example you are basically saying "write a .PHP file and execute it locally," which is perfectly fine, as long as the problem comes from your boss or one of your testers -- it is risky when it occurs on a production server (because the script you're generating is insecure). On your production server you really do want to execute the action from within a MySQL prompt if it's possible, and so it's a sort of two-sided game of "I'm going to reset my password over here and then update their (salt, password) with the result of my local PHP queries," and that's a bit weird as a process.

The other tender point is that once you've made a choice, it's very hard to change it. So, "all of our existing passwords use the old system, we're not changing!" was a very strong argument and I did have to spend a bunch of time creating a fall-back for legacy passwords.

I would agree, however with this: in general there is a reasonable expectation of, "if we're doing this so much that it bogs us down, then the app is mature enough for a proper email-sending password-reset tool; and as long as it doesn't bog us down we'll do it the hard way." But convincing people to make the hard way even harder is a tricky proposal even on a good day. It's like telling people, "no, leave that code, I know it does 2^n operations but n is always small and it's not actually the part that slows down our system and it's more readable this way." The intangible -- security/readability -- is being negotiated for the tangible -- dev-ease/speed. I had trouble selling it to the other devs.
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Do you have the fashion at home is boring, what you feel, has lost the luster of his heart, he must first, if you feel you are moving it might be time for a change to a new location? Many people feel the same way, in fact, quite common. But rather than consider replacing some or all of the flooring in your home could. Replace floor can be supported with minor changes in the furniture occasionally this feeling of novelty laid down in his house.
I have lots of logins tied to email addresses no longer in use. As a real world example, people sign up for services with work emails. The day they get fired, they suddenly lose access to that email and all of the email login services tied to it. Not good.
You might find this paper interesting: A Derivation of Special Relativity
from Causal Sets--http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.4172

It doesn't answer why c is the value of c, but it's an interesting way to show that there must be an invariant bounding speed limit. It doesn't assume the "existence of space
or time, motion, constancy of the speed of light, or the principle of relativity."
So, don't trust reviews from sources you don't know. That's where social networks can help.
How are companies complying with the new cookie law?
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If you're going to implicate every major US telecom company in a massive conspiracy to commit a crime, you should probably have a source.

Or not be crazy.
Building successful consumer apps in The Age of the Humblebrag
Cutting a sweetheart, loss-leader deal with AOL to replace the browser with their own? Isn't that pretty similar to what Google is doing with Firefox to the tune of a couple hundred million a year? (And something that Microsoft has been banned from doing with their own proprietary browser?)

Oh come on. If you're going to argue here, at least have your facts straight. The Google deal with FF is only about the default search engine and homepage. Most people switch their homepage to something else anyways. And all the major search engine plugins ship with FF; it's just that Google is the default one. (Did MS ship Netscape with Windows?)

Also, it's not "loss leader" for Google, unless you have radically redefined the meaning of "loss". Google makes a ton of money from FF searches; it just chooses to share a portion of the proceeds with Mozilla. Microsoft has deeper pockets than Google, and there's nothing preventing MS from buying out FF's search bar, _given_ that they have lots of money.

> Apple refuses to even allow Flash, which is elsewise standard on something like 97% of computers.

.... and responsible for 97% of the malware out there. I, for one, am glad Apple took this stand. It allowed for HTML5 to blossom.
Ask HN: Is there an online iOS test I can use to interview someone?
well, that's not really a scam. That's just arbitrage.
Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
Very small form factor computers cost more than that. And good luck hitting the 17W target.
This. 5 years ago it may have been easier, but I don't remember the last time I was even able to connect to a free publicly available wifi signal, whether I did or not.
Ask HN: What to do with Clojure/FP?
I've got interested in clojure but I do node.js and rails pretty well. Why would I want to stick with clojure to solve real world problems? Which one does clojure fits best?

Also, if you are working on something using clojure, I would like to know.
Culture eats strategy
Also, seven other kinds.
Somewhere in a fashion forum, well-dressed people are reading a tech article and scoffing about how much time we spend on computers.
All a man needs is a pair of blue jeans, a plain white t-shirt, some boots, and, optionally, a Marlboro cigarette. :-)
IntelliJ updates Dart plugin, supports refactoring
Even the slackers?
I looked at the samples in your github project. All the samples there have jpegs as pages. Do you have something similar to the demo on the live site (html instead of image files)? Nice work.
It may be the way "almost every western man in a casual profession dresses", but it is not how many western women in a casual profession dress.
Plus: reinventing date/time without using (or even referencing) Joda? Ouch.
This seems like a cute stunt to pull, assuming it's, like, 1986. Talking about binary seems pretty darn dated now.
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The US has some very close allies for sharing intel, and it'd be a massive incident if it got out that such allied countries were spying on each other. It happens to some degree, but if stuff gets out, the White House & State can make heads roll, so you'd only see pretty routine spycraft occur between allies (counter-intel, rumor mill, feelers).
Not sure about the rest of it but this is something I hadn't heard of before: "JQuery in Java" (Jerry), looks nice.

http://jodd.org/doc/jerry/index.html

Interesting use of $ as a method name in Java as well.
Everyone believes they 'Get Shit Done'. Its just that everyone places value in different shit.
What are all the other performance discoveries you made?
Well they certainly don't know that Anonymous recently helped in suspending the twitter accounts of many pedophiles. We hate child porn but not all porn should be banned. Why not give education to people rather than blocking porn sites. They should be more worried about pedophiles.
Actually, other Middle Eastern nations are nearly as worried about a nuclear-armed Iran as Israel is. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/23/nuclear-iran-un-...
Why you didnt launch for Andriod?
Reduce it further and pair it with Google glass or similar device, minority report style interface that can sense your arm and head movements and it will truly be a "personal" computer you can bring anywhere.
As someone who does a pretty middling amount of shit in the grand scheme of things, articles like this make me sad.
Dang, I deleted a sentence. Thanks for point that out. Edited to amend.

Slackers are fun to hang out with, though...
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That's "Savile Row" -- one 'l' !
Try finding a review for any printer. or a car. or most cell phones. It's all link bait tar-pit SEO sites. This is what the article is talking about and he's absolutely right.

However, this does bring in an opportunity for someone to displace google. Not with better search but with better find-what-I'm-looking-for engines.
I couldn't help but notice that she does not write a full blog post every time she gets dressed.
Show HN: Script Excel with Python
I agree, except you must be intelligent enough to use the correct algorithm for the job.
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Micros are pretty fantastic for non-commercial use. If I'm testing some stuff out at home and need a couple different machines I can either fire up some VMs.. but I'm on a netbook.. or I can almost instantly just pull up a couple EC2 micro instances for the amount of money I find under the couch cushion next to me.

I would never dream of trying to build anything meant to stick around and make me money on one though of course.
Sometimes I wonder if HN posters like to be argumentative simply for the sake of being argumentative. My exact statement was, "It reminded me of people ...", which this article does in fact remind me of.

That is, there are people who spend much of their time doing "lifehacks" through these sorts of peep-hole optimizations [1], and this clothing strategy feels representative of such actions. I can easily see someone who is already a "lifehacker" adding this to their existing system.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4012852
I see there being two, somewhat distinct, categories of players: those with a realtime-first, focus (Meteor, Firebase and, now, dotCloud.js) and those that take more of a traditional REST-based approach (Parse, StackMob, Backlift, etc.).

The later have an easier time integrating into existing client-side frameworks (Backbone, Ember, Angular, etc), since those mostly seem to be built with a REST-based model in mind, but it will be interesting to see what patterns emerge to plug push-based updates into these pull-oriented systems. For starters, I suspect we'll need the client-side frameworks to clarify the distinction between the server and client state and the source of changes. Henrik Joreteg's talk at BackboneConf[1] was good overview of this and other problems they've run into.

[1]: https://speakerdeck.com/u/henrikjoreteg/p/real-world-realtim...
All my socks are black or at least dark so I don't have to rifle through them. I'm guessing you're American and by pants you mean trousers but it's a lot funnier to think you don't.

I bow my head in respect of your colour coordination. Myself I can hardly tell colours apart let alone match them. I make sure I don't have any vibrant colours so I don't have to make those choices and just make sure the tie has some common theme with the shirt. When in doubt I pick one of the black ones.
This looks cool. What's the use-case for it versus using something like Play! 2.0 + Akka for async HTTP?

As far as my limited knowledge of Play (learning it right now, so I could be far off), Play can do async HTTP and already makes use of internal Akka actors for handling requests.
This is great advice - I would like to add a bit of philosophy that someone once gave me:

Experience is more important than achievement.
Ask HN: Please review our self-service sharing platform (with HN promo code)
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So far the feedback from our partners has been great. Now we’re launching an open, self-service platform to the public. And that means the product has to speak for itself.

So we’re seeking feedback from the HN community because, well, you’ll be honest with us. Access is free (no credit card required) to start playing with the tools.

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We’d really appreciate any opinions along the following lines, they would be extremely valued by the team as we try to improve market positioning and usability.

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3) Usability: can you set up a sharing campaign quickly, is the campaign creation path easy to follow?
4) Help section: Clear instructions for integration

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if you close the video using the (x) on the lightbox the video disappears but you still hear the audio - you have to navigate off the page to silence it.
I've cut out the white socks.
Honestly, I lost track a while ago of all the new web development tools. I am so glad I'm no longer writing web applications, or I would spend more time learning about the tools than actually using them.
Thanks for the tip. I'll be trying that out tonight.
VALE, a Virtual Local Ethernet
Does anyone know where I could buy the printed version? (http://www.flickr.com/photos/visualpunch/7166362645/)

I especially love the binary nameplate.
> what nation-state dislikes both Iran and Israel?

Saudi Arabia
My dad's a private pilot.

IFR doesn't mean no visibility, it means visibility below minimums. If you're driving in fog, you still look out the window. Same for aircraft. You may be in instrument flight rules while being able to see the runway.

You're right, though, on ILS. Part of being able to do IFR, but not IFR itself.
This is interesting...makes me feel out of touch. I wasn't aware that it was on the decline because the only place I really use it are at the coffeehouse and home. Are there stats on this? What's causing it? Years ago I remember there were many movements for MORE public wifi. What happened?
Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but here are two links I found:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1884724/what-is-node-js

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=954682
This is what a culture of pointing fingers leads to. The author should realize the customer does not care why the site is down.
Care to share your frustrations with play? We are considering it for an upcoming project.
What is node.js? [2009]
and you can use that position to reset your mirrors after the wife drives your car.

Wouldn't it be better just to teach her the better method?

Edit: Thought twice, I suppose not all couples are the same size anyways, so even if she does know they'll be different.
It does seem to be a fairly context-dependent term. A lot of people here are one kind: the kind of person who has enough time to accumulate thousands of posts on HN is, at least in some people's minds, a kind of slacker, the 2010s version of the 1990s posting-from-work Slashdotter. :)

It even takes a certain kind of slacking, in a sense, to read lots of random Wikipedia articles, keep up with current events, browse arXiv papers not directly on the topic of your current work, keep up with recent music, etc. Arguably reading a lot is not really slacking. But maybe keeping up with recent musical trends is? Seems all quite subjective, unless you literally are doing nothing.

I tend to see it more as different thought/work styles along several axes. For example, on a question of dabbling in side projects, for some people it'd be good advice to suggest laying off and concentrating more on one thing, while for others, encouraging a bunch of side projects is exactly the right advice. Some people need to do less random-walk reading, while maybe others need to do more...
My 2nd pair of jeans just got a hole in the knee.

My wardrobe has become suboptimal because of it. 1 pair of jeans = too few, 2 pair = just right, 3 pair = maybe a good idea, but c'mon, 2 is enough.
Ask HN: How frequently is the search index on hacker news updated?
I was searching for the hn discussion around Zipkin, a google search lead me to

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4077645

However searching for zipkin on hacker news was showing 0 results at least as of Jun 8 9.50am PST.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Zipkin
That's not obviously true.

That one worm was discovered does not mean that every state-designed worm will be (or has been).
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There's a link to DPReview in the footer of every single Amazon.com page. If that's not a good signal for a search engine then I don't know what is.
By this point, isn't HTTP a pretty standard acronym in the web-dev scene? :)
I read an article or comment somewhere that compared making a startup to making a band. There really are a lot of parallels.
Having the landing page be on a completely different domain seems like a bad idea for search engine ranking.
Overblog
Looks like it wasn't clear that my question was rhetorical. My point was that some secret mangling on top of a standard hashing algorithm doesn't offer more protection than salting.
Apple TV SDK for third-party apps tipped for WWDC 2012
What browser / OS are you using? I haven't been able to reproduce it yet.
It worked fine for me, what browser you using? I have chrome on a mac.
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My chromebook doesn't have an F1 key (although I read somewhere that the F* keys are the special function keys aross the top of the keyboard). I will see if I can reproduce that behaviour tonight.
What did you do to your blog to make it so slow to load, scroll, etc on an iPad 3? It is worse than OnSwipe even.
From the article: "...since we wanted users to be able to dial phone numbers rapidly."

I think there are specific cases where eliminating the delay is appropriate. The very real concern is that developers will use this with abandon. There are many sites where it's easy to mistap, and the delay behavior serves its purpose well. Developers should think twice before breaking whole-platform conventions. Whatever they might personally think is "the right way," breaking with conventions almost always surprises and frustrates users.
> "Looking cool" is the last and least thing they've got to do to atone.

Maybe to us, the 1% on HN.

But most people don't know or care much about Microsoft's tarnished past. Some have already forgotten.

I wholeheartedly agree with everything you're saying, but to me you seem to imply that this is a bad move or that it won't work. Unfortunately, I think for Joe consumer "Looking cool" might actually be enough to continue to buy in to the Microsoft jails.
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I think the biggest thing here is, "What you’re looking for is a genuinely thoughtful response." If you are holding back a secret on how you'll solve the problem, and do get such responses; you'll hopefully know which it is.

If you are given that genuinely thoughtful response, it will come with the problems with your idea and the reasons that they think there are problems. You can then compare this information to your secret information. If the problems they present match up, and you have plans to solve them, that's great; if they come up with something you had missed, either a different reason or a widely different problem, you may need to rethink the idea.

Of course, this process isn't going to be 100%, and you're still going to have to some faith in that what you believe is correct, but it's a decent process to go through.

I also don't believe you always have to take the non-obvious route, it is just likely to have less direct competition and a higher risk/reward vs an obvious problem.
Do you really mean personality types? These seem like traits that aren't mutually exclusive...
A lot of "chron" jobs? err...
Thanks for the answer. I can safely say that I'm far from an expert on the subject. If you'd be willing to educate me a tiny bit more though :

Is the first case (judging normal passwords) factoring in that a password varies in length? I mean, stupid thought again: You need to test all one character passwords, all two character password, a hash is fixed in its length?

And I wouldn't want to find the original input, I'd want to get in. For that my totally fallible gut says that I'd need to create a 'word list' of hexadecimal character permutations of length x. Is this really an impossible task?
but they review products that are loved by hobbyists and professionals. I'm not sure this would work for something like washer and drier reviews.
I certainly agree with this outlook. I've been wearing nothing but blue jeans and plain white t-shirts lately, and it definitely has taken a lot off my mind.
I just buy my clothes in outfits. For each pair of pants there is at least one sweater and at most two that will go with it. I don't try to mix and match to make new combinations on the fly. When I wake up, I think briefly of which sweater I'd like to wear and get the designated matching pants, or I think of which pants I'd like to wear and pick an appropriate sweater from the pre-defined matches. This usually takes less than 30 seconds.

I have to admit though that this scheme has arisen largely from shopping at thrift stores (not that I probably couldn't afford new clothing, but it remains a thrifty habit from a tight-budgeted youth). I enjoy the hunt for an outfit, but when I find one, I don't have the option of just buying 10 because generally the items are one of a kind in the store.
Overall it works for me: interesting clothes, fun finding them, uncomplicated mornings, low budget.
Being aggressive is hardly a crime. Slamming them for past misdeeds will hardly encourage positive behavior in the future.

I think Microsoft is taking small steps in the right direction. Offering Linux on their Azure platform being the latest example.

Let's try encouraging that sort of thing, for a less "aggressive" future.
Thanks, that almost works for me.

I like the notion of 'unobligated' in that it stresses that, for this instance, in school one's readers are obligated. With 'volunteer' I don't feel that condition is evoked; in fact, I can imagine people volunteering to read one's as yet unpublished work, but still feeling obligated to volunteer as a friend. But 'unobligated' is a mouth full of tongue to say, and if it should express freedom and willingness then it should lyrically sound that way. 'Volunteer' accomplishes that part, but leaves me wanting to tack on another qualifier.

Oh Friday morning.
Show HN: Eventifier-Smarter way to archive all your event data.
I'm a fan of low leather boots. Good looking low leather boots can be worn in just about every situation except weddings, and last a hell of a long time. It's rather liberating not having to worry about your shoes before deciding to walk through a soggy looking field or climb up a hill.
"Only 1.1M" Why do I care? Is this framework designed for embedded systems or mobile apps? Smaller is better, but one MB vs 10 MB makes no difference for me as a guy writing server-side Java.
Might just be me, but I feel like you're really over-analyzing things here.
Yeah, I was running into that as well. I have quite a few machines hooked up to it so it becomes a real pain.

I just started using a private github repo.