skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gosh, you've figured it out. That choice is entirely arbitrary and random, and has absolutely nothing to do with history or morality.
I think you are making a very bad mistake. Just listening to a podcast... come on.. don't do this to your family. The podcast is selling their services and building audience for future products they will offer.

Think twice

Don't quit now, generate ideas while at job, start research and then plan accordingly.

There are so many incubators that could later help with your idea/prototype.

Just my 3c
Nilesh

I built infocaptor while consulting
Is there a significant time difference in computing the SHA1 hash of 40 bytes versus say, 128 bytes?
Wattpad Raises $17.3 Million in Series B Funding Led by Khosla Ventures
Yes, you can. On devices with 1366x768 resolution or higher, you can dock two Metro apps side-by-side. 1366x768 is the minimum "supported" or "logo requirement" resolution, though x86 devices like current tablets can have lower resolution but won't have that feature.
What do you recommend users do instead? Unfortunately there will probably always be websites storing passwords in unsecure ways. I mean I'd certainly rather not have to deal with the hassle (however small) of using LastPass, but as you said, that's the world we live in. Hoping for competence by the writers/maintainers of websites is also flawed computer security, is it not?
Speed is good, but how does it perform in terms of compression ratio against other algorithms?
They are already unique and sorted.

sort -u combo_not.txt | wc -l
6458020

wc -l combo_not.txt
6458020
Do you report All the items you bought online and that you didn't pay state sales tax on? You are supposed to.
I'm pretty sure your neighbours can already rent out their rooms to strangers on the Internet.
France’s Cloud Startups(series): Introducing Clever Cloud
At first I was excited as I thought you were based in Japan and you were going to give insight about payments in the Japanese market. Great post, nonetheless. Does anyone have any good info on payment options in Japan outside of PayPal. I'm aware of E-context, SBI, and Digital Check. I would greatly appreciate any anecdotes, horror stories, or recommendations of other payment options in Japan.
Kholsa Ventures Leads $17.3M Investment in WattPad
Exploiting Reality
One thing, that I find particularly interesting, is that the bittorrent numbers in the U.S. are decreasing. BitTorrent traffic is now responsible for 11.3% of all U.S. Internet traffic during peak hours, compared to 17.3% last year. While that number appears to be decreasing in the U.S. it is increasing most everywhere else. How do you rationalize such a phenomenon when the "aggregate of users" are just a bunch of thieves?

Personally, I think it is easier for an industry to paint its customers as a bunch of vicious thieves, rather than people expecting content delivery to change with the times. This seems indicative of industries that are a monopoly and are out of touch with their customers, but I fear I would be painting them with an equally broad stroke.

Source:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/94722096/Sandvine-Global-Internet-...
I use 1Password, rather than lastpass. On that system, your password file is stored locally by default, so their isn't a centralized password store to attack. If you do syncing of passwords between machines, you keep an encrypted password file in your dropbox account.
It would make it a lot easier for LinkedIn to identify whose hashes were leaked because with a salt, all passwords would be unique. It would also make rainbow tables useless.

But in this day and age, the bigger problem is how fast you can compute the hashes, salt or no. With GPUs you can calculate a few hundred million(depending on the hashing algorithm) per second, making the algorithm used the real vulnerability.

Best practice involves increasing the calculation time of you're algorithm. Theoretically, you could just rehash y few thousand times in a loop, throwing in a salt here and there, but practically, you should just use bcrypt or scrypt.
Also worth noting is PBRT: https://github.com/mmp/pbrt-v2 which is described in a book by Matt Pharr: http://www.pbrt.org/ It's basically a modern textbook on the subject. Or, if you prefer GPU, check out Arauna: http://igad.nhtv.nl/~bikker/
Social Proof Is Dangerous
Cross-cultural wedding planning. You'd be surprised how few flowers don't mean "I'm sorry your mother died" to somebody!

Sorry, just kidding. The center of gravity of my business is a moving target. As of present, it is consulting, largely on marketing topics for software companies. Not where I want to be for forever but, well, wedding to pay for.

Appointment Reminder is coming along decently well -- the enterprise pipeline is starting to bear fruit, finally, and the self-serve is quietly growing every month. BCC remains my fun little laboratory where lab accidents can't kill anybody. I will probably have some sort of productized version of consulting services available sometime after the wedding -- maybe August, who knows.
The responses to that stack overflow question makes me want to punch somebody in the face!

The #1 google response for info about Scrypt for php now points to an article arguing about the semantics of the question with no answer. Classic!
Ebook Community Wattpad Raises $17.3M, Claims Higher Engagement Than Pinterest
Yes, the notion of people using ChatRoulette while they're at the Louvre is scary as shit to me.
Unfortunately I can't try this right now, but do suggestions support something like taking only part of the suggestion? I.e. move left/right from cursor into the suggestion instead of writing. Shift+Arrow would work as expected, thus allowing quickly using part of the suggestion and writing the rest out if needed. It seems to be a better solution than deleting things from the end.
So, how do you know if you are a bad programmer? It seems that a programmer could be bad but think they are great....
"Microsoft, though, clearly expects the new interface to become the dominant way to use Windows, so I’ve tried to spend most of my time using it."

This is important. I've had a lot of "pro-Windows"-friends come up to me and say that Windows 8 is great, "the best Windows so far".

Yet, I only see them spending time in the "Windows 7"-mode, essentially using their computer just like they did with the previous versions of Windows. When they do that, they disregard a huge part of what Windows 8 is, and the direction Microsoft wants to take.
Europe is awake already and has had a chance to register?
I agree with you that the system does not fit with current times. It's fundamentally incapable of dealing with such basic things as the fact that copying is now digital and lossless, filesharing or the internet as a whole. But still, it's the system we currently have and since we all agreed to some rules we should stick to the rules while we try and find a consensus what the new rules should look like. And part of those rules is that there is a levy on empty media, as much as we both might hate it.
I am six months away from doing the same crazy thing.

But I have been preparing for this for the past 2 yrs.
I aready have few ios, android apps out. And i am in the process of finding co-founders.

Thanks to HN for helping me think it is possible to make a living, I have seen so many examples in the past two years here of positives and negatives of self employment.

Oh and i also have saved enough money to last a year without a paying job.
I can see the narrative being set up already, just like I could last time with Vista and Windows 7. The first one "sucks" and the one directly following is "great", except under the covers they are basically the same. And with the first one, the one that supposedly "sucks", you get a bunch of backlash blogposts talking about all the ways it is subtly better than its predecessor and how the people slagging it are bandwagon-riding idiots. Weak.
This site doesn't provide any evidence that Django is popular in Europe, only that a lot of European Django devs have registered with the site.
What freaks you out? He makes $100 - $150 a day from app sales, which gives him a comfortable financial cushion. App sales put aside, he reckons that he can keep going for several months on savings alone. And he reckons that, should everything go wrong, he'll have no problem picking up contract work, which I have no problem to believe if he's even just a half-decent developer.

No big or crazy risk-taking here. It's always scary of course to go off on your own when you've spent your entire life in the comfortable employee universe so best of luck to the OP!
I bought shows on blue-ray that Hulu has to watch once simply because of the advertising and bit-rate. So, IMO you can compete with free. It's just harder.
An aside, but it only occurred to me with this title that MS has set itself up for a "Windows Hate" nickname for this version. We'll see if it becomes a trend..
What I missed is a clear anser to the question wether AirBnB is illegal or not. And if yes, in which countries.

The only constraint I see in Germany come from your rental contract in case the room / appartment you rented out via AirBnB is not your own property. In this case technically you would need the OK from your land lord. If it's owned by yourself, you would have a legal contract with the person staying over. But I'm not a legal expert on that.

EDIT: What puzzles me are some of the comments here. I rather expected them to be along the line of "of course it is, WTF are you thinking it souldn't be???? And "how I like it, great product". But maybe it's just me, I really had a... weird day today! :-)
When you pay $40 to iTunes, where do you think a significant chunk of that money goes to? HBO produces the show. They aren't just the broadcaster.
Good luck on this man. You will find that it is far riskier staying at your day job. The reason I say that is because you will always have one foot in. A safety net. You will not have the same motivation to make things happen.

Having no safety net makes you well aware of all the opportunities that arise. Having that fail safe makes it so you have a built in excuse, "there is no rush to get this done I am already paying the bills from the day job.".

Just a reminder surround yourself with people who will uplift you and that are liked minded, not the ones that say "isn't that pretty risky" or "are you sure you want to do that? You have a baby on the way".
I'm on the site, but I can't log in or retrieve my password using my standard username. It would be nice to have a reset password by email instead of just username.
Apple's key insight was that touch interfaces are fundamentally different than WIMP interfaces. Microsoft's attempt to have its cake and eat it too by smushing Metro on top of Windows and then forcing it down everybody's throat is just going to piss people off.

The right thing to do would be to release Metro as a tablet-only OS and gradually cherry pick the best features for future versions of Windows but they've played the trick of piggybacking everything on Windows so many times now they don't know any other game.
Congrats to Jerry and the team!
One more KeePass user here (actually KeePassX). But I'm using it only for not my own passwords, provided by others and so on.

For my personal ones I'm keeping few algorithms in my brains. I'm using resource type (website/some server/device) and name (e.g. domain/model) as variables and after few steps in my head I always have different password for each kind of service.
Oddly, mine isn't in the leak despite the fact that I just logged in with it.
I confirmed mine is in the dump as well
But between the download and the buy there's just a "promise" to buy. Would this make it just as illegal (or illegal) as just downloading it?

"No offense, but this stuff is not a complicated moral dilemma by any means"

Well, I agree to some extend, but moral != law.
Newvem and Dome9 provide 360 degree AWS security
with normal 8 hour workdays and a short commute.

...or a long commute by train or other transportation that gives you the opportunity to work on your project with a notebook :)
Can anyone tell me where I can change my password on LinkedIn? I must be dense.
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How is it unrelated? Dish wants more money for carrying AMC. The same deal could happen here - cable companies could demand more money from HBO than they are willing to pay, exactly what cletus is referring to.
The future of medicine: Squeezing out the doctor
I am actually starting to wonder if Microsoft is intentionally making the PC-version of Metro/Windows 8 awkward to use, as a way to speed up the adoption of tablets.
Are these really companies? You could easily take one technology platform and re-skin it to fit all these ideas. They are all merely "find people who are X". Making these websites wouldn't be too challenging either. Maybe I'm just jaded though.
In which languages are Internet passwords easiest to crack?
Installing and updating apps, I'm guessing.
Ask HN: Is this a sustainable business idea? Buythese9things.com
Hey HN. Total newbie here- this is my first "legitimate" submission here.
http://buythese9things.com - I've posted this once before last night but got 0 attention, so I'm trying 1 more time.

It's called "Buy these 9 things". It's basically just a simple site that has 9 items that I get a referral fee from. I'm the seller and curator of the 9 items. Please check out the F.A.Q page to answer some more basic questions.

My (first) goal: make my money back for domain registration. If I can make this a simple business "model" to follow, then I hope to replicate it for someone else, and then eventually lots of people. Maybe it could lead to a whole new shopping experience for people, and a way to make money!

So, what I'm asking HN is this: What do you think of this as a simple idea to test the water? Do you love it? Hate it? Think I'm wasting my time? Please-- any feedback would be highly appreciated. My contact information is in my HN profile, if you would like to talk personally. Thanks for reading!

This went from idea to MVP in 2 days. I used Refer.ly's new service as the referral system.
Who doesn't package an RPM? >:|
Handling JSON like a Boss
I still don't understand how this was "first worthy rival" to iPad, at Feb 2012.
https://www.linkedin.com/uas/change-password

It's buried under "your name" (top right) > settings > password > change (just below your e-mail, left side)
Not just programming - editing configuration files or html or other large blocks of structured text. Which, granted, is more common in the life of a programmer than the average person, but there are certainly non-programmers who wind up doing a lot of it.
I didn't claim their grouping choices had nothing to do with history or morality, nor did I claim randomness. I specifically said that the NYT's choice of which groups deserve privilege is based on an "arbitrary moral choice".
Yes. For both development and design, I've yet to work with someone (or be someone) who did not get a significant portion of the total bill up front. If you work with good professionals, it's not an issue.
Netflix Open Connect Network: FreeBSD, Not Linux
I expect you're being downvoted for your derogatory and inaccurate use of "nerds"-- I know several theater nerds who are phenomenal actors.
You can't stop small-time, independent cottage industry, and traditionally many governments turn a blind eye to it--- people selling small amounts of baked goods and such is not a new thing, and prosecuted rarely enough that it actually makes the news when it happens. What's new, and is much easier to stop, is centralized brokers turning at-scale aggregation of such cottage industry into a business plan. It's hard to stop me from privately arranging to sublet my apartment for $30/day with someone I met online, but it's much easier to shut down AirBnB doing it with thousands of properties.

Basically I agree that the internet will change much of this, but I disagree that there are billion-dollar companies waiting to happen, unless they get the law to (at least tacitly) go along with them. Billion-dollar companies are juicy targets that can't sneak under the radar in the way that individuals can.
Israel steps up email border checks, Deports noncompliants
Windows 8 looks great for phones, tablets and hell the XBOX doesn't look too bad either.

However... PC's need productivity. The current way Windows 7 works provides that just fine. It is easy to find and launch programs. You can open up many programs at once and instantly jump from one to another.

You can see everything you are working on. Its nice.

Metro doesn't appear to allow this. I really don't see why you would use Metro in a desktop environment. Enterprise won't pick it up. They won't want to retrain their workforce to use something completely new.

There is no reason to buy Windows 8 if you are happy with Windows 7. Windows 7 was an upgrade for Vista. Vista was an upgrade for XP. Windows 8 is a completely new OS. Its a different product.

Packaging Metro with Windows 8 desktop editions is fine. However the classic desktop view should be the default. You can then switch to Metro if you want and sync that up between devices or whatever. I get the unified interface across devices. I just don't get why Microsoft thought it was a good idea.
Really enjoyed the first edition (it was the first thing that got Rails to 'stick' after years of not-really-getting-it and it's my go-to resource for friends who ask about learning Rails); how different is the second edition? Will probably end up buying it anyway but is it a complete rewrite or just some updates?
True Colors and Motivations
Nothing, really. However, I trust the LastPass guys to keep their shit secure as much as I trust myself to keep my own system secure.

After all, if my own system is compromised, I just get a lot of hassle. If LastPass ever gets hacked and leaks their passwords, they lose their business overnight. That's pretty good motivation for them to keep on top of their stuff.

I used to use 1Passwd, which stored the passwords in a local file, and that could be said to be marginally more secure, except that it generally uses something like iCloud or Dropbox to sync the passwords, so there's still a single point of failure... The main reason I moved away from 1Password was that they gave me a shitty response when I asked them if they were going to support Chrome. I decided at that point that I didn't want to give them my money anymore, and so I didn't upgrade to 1Password 3.
Going through CCATS is pretty painless; can't imagine that a public company with a good legal team like LinkedIn would have any issue getting through it if mom & pop shops can DIY without issue.

There are even handy tutorials that other devs have compiled to help the rest of us through it, like http://blog.theanimail.com/iphone-encryption-export-complian... and http://zetetic.net/blog/2009/8/3/mass-market-encryption-ccat....

To this day, LinkedIn's web site still doesn't appear to use SSL by default (I haven't used the mobile app in years after not only snooping my own proxy to see that everything was in clear-text but also finding that it recommended bunches of contacts it shouldn't have; Support was not cooperative in helping me determine why/how they acquired that contact info or how to stop it--I assume the culprit was a surreptitious Address Book siphon). Clear-text access to the Web site is a fantastic feature for employers who want to know what their employees are up to on LinkedIn all day, among other things...I would love to know why they still haven't implemented site-wide SSL by default.
why a la carte cable will never happen (given the current power structure and regulatory environment)

Yep, regulation. There was a tiny movement years ago to get the government to force a la carte cable, but lobbying ended that.

Want a la carte cable? Call your senators and representative.
If you want to check if your password is in there:

read -s a
zgrep $(echo -n "$a" | sha1sum | cut -d' ' -f1 | \
sed -e 's/^...../00000/') combo_not.zip
unset a
I haven't used airbnb but after reading some of the comments here, I looked up the airbnb site to check if they have tools/features which try to address the "I am renting to a total stranger/I am renting a strange place" issue - http://www.airbnb.com/safety#reputation - I guess these tools could be improved/enhanced.

But, just because something doesn't follow an established pattern, doesn't mean its illegal. It would make sense if a community decided to add a "no airbnb" clause to their bylaws/rules - but the govt picking and deciding what is abuse of resources and what is not doesn't sound practical - esp when the resource usage of an airbnb unit is no different when it is rented out versus the owner(s) occupying it themselves.

If there can be things like credit-default-swaps, I don't see why the insurance industry should not come up with instruments for this kind of a market - where there is a market, there must be a way.
How often do I see shortened URLs printed? All the time.

If I'm going to read a URL, it should be readable.
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Hotels are regulated at the state and municipality levels, so the answer is different in many thousands of different jurisdictions.

In most cases it isn't that "AirBNB is illegal" it's that people using AirBNB aren't complying with all local regulations.
Unless they're in a dogfight, airplanes do not require constant attention to the outside world. That's why autopilots and drones are technologies that have been available in the aerospace industry for years, but are just now getting good enough to consider in cars.

Also consider the amount of training that goes into becoming a fighter pilot, vs. learning to drive a car. Powerful interfaces are complex and require a lot of training to manage properly under stress--which is when it is most important to do it right.

That said, modern cars do have a lot of controls on the steering wheel: all the typical blinkers, brights, horn, etc. and now often radio controls, cruise control, telephone Bluetooth controls, even gear shifting paddles.

HUD has been tried in cars before, but never caught on. Drivers tended to find it more distracting than helpful. Most of the information for driving does not need to be so..."contextual", the way that, say, a missile targeting system does. Anything that intercedes itself directly between the driver's eyes and the outside world could be dangerous.

I do agree with you that the touchscreens in the dash are frickin awful UI design. I think they are like the "store" setting on LCD TVs--their main job is to look cool in the showroom.
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Thank you. Very good talk by Zizek.
Its a couple month long project. I have seed funding and am fairly well known in the programming community so I have good 'credit'. I'm not against paying upfront I just thought it was weird because I always bill for my time, how can someone charge up front if they haven't done any work?
The day in tech: June 6, 1944
Be careful using Referly. In their words, "During the beta period we are not yet able to redeem your rewards, but we are saving them for you."