skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10 years is an eternity in this business. Even for Microsoft, who's a dinosaur, it's a full third of the time they've existed.

They have failed to excite me in the face of competition from Google, Apple and Linux, but it's not fair to write them off because of what they did in the 90s.
Lets say a new company called "Cranapple" comes along and releases a new locked down tablet CranPad into the market with their own custom locked down proprietary OS.

Does this act enhance the competition in the tablet market? Serious question.
It's unlikely that you have more users than the enumeration of the 128-bit key space (if MD5 was used). The slowness of bcrypt prevents the brute force attack through the key space for EACH user. That's N x 2^128 for N users, whereas to upgrade, you only have to do it N times.
It's certainly not a "fantasy". I work in the corporate world too, ducking PPTs daily. And I don't use windows, nor office, nor outlook. And it works fine, though I do have to do some impedance matching fairly often. In the consumer space, it's not even true: no one uses MS software beyond Windows and (increasingly less so) IE.

So yes, MS still "dominates" their own shrinking niche. But they are no longer able to leverage that to control other parts of the market. So they're not the threat they once were, even if they're still as evil.
Open Response to Anonymous from Government of India
Responsive Web Design - Lessions from the FOWD Conference
First of all, this is a very nice writeup and concept.

Alas, what works for a designer in San Francisco will not work for financial industry in Toronto.

Some have already mentioned the climate aspect. In the finance you just cannot come in every day in the same shirt, tie or suit and (to a lesser extent pants or shoes). If you do, you are sort of signalling that either you do not make a lot or cannot manage your money and either is a red flag. So you can say clothes are a part of professional reputation, just not the one you put on a resume.
DotCloud.js - Access Cloud Services from the Browser
Note to people that design pages like these: If you're putting a blinking cursor on your page, I'm trying to type things. The first key I will press is the backspace key, if this takes me to the previous page, I now left your webpage and it's unlikely that I'll return. Might be just me though :)
I have a windows workstation. Every single server I interact with is POSIX. POSIX isn't divine and infallible and PowerShell is nice, but it isn't as ubiquitous and I only have enough patience for one arcane shell language.
Raising 600K from the tribe in 16 days
Probably because they kidnap South Koreans or Japanese.
It could never have been kept in the bag. State-sponsored viruses and other Internet hacking are inevitable.
I thought Sortfolio was sold last year?
EC2 can be cost effective if your traffic throughout the day spikes A LOT.

As for the experimenting part, you could build yourself your own VM cluster. There are a lot of prepackaged solutions such as oVirt which come with the full administration suite and some even come with the preconfigured OS. It really isn't very complicated and you get predictable performance on modern hardware.
I experienced one really good example of application in high-school. We had one assignment that was coordinated between Science (in this case Biology) and English where we wrote a paper and the content was given a grade by the Biology teacher and the style/formatting, etc. was graded by the English teacher. It would have been nice if there were more things like this, as it directly addresses a concern pg expressed in one of his essays:

" Certainly schools should teach students how to write. But due to a series of historical accidents the teaching of writing has gotten mixed together with the study of literature. And so all over the country students are writing not about how a baseball team with a small budget might compete with the Yankees, or the role of color in fashion, or what constitutes a good dessert, but about symbolism in Dickens."
You should read the article instead of responding to the title, which is in fact a quote by a student about the current state of education in the US.
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Um, yeah? Blatant trademark infringement, commercially trading on the mark, etc.
I was surprised that it had real content. I was ready to dismiss it when I noticed that the "big" titles were couple of bytes each, implying that they couldn't have as much content as what the page implies.
You may have point there. However, I experience math (and programming) quite differently than learning a language or painting: Once I grasp a concept, I can use it. Before that, it's mostly useless to me. Execercising it more afterwards does improve my usage, but more in the sense, that I'm quicker to spot situations where I can (or can't!) use that particular feature/theorem. Sometimes I happen to see a new angle which enables new tricks. Learning to play piano on the other hand is a lot about muscle memory, which you train by repeating the same thing again and again. Yes, there is part of this in math too, but thats the handicraft-stuff. Arithmetics. Things a computer can do better.
The acronyms in the web-dev scene are going to become self aware soon and start running the world.
Cybersecurity: Washington DC is a World of Grey
While I agree with you that going the more formal route can actually make this easier (you can dress an outfit down by just ditching the tie), I am going to have to disagree that you can just grab any old socks and pants and have them not clash. :)

The big distinction comes in with the belt and shoes colors. A lot of colors of gray I wouldn't wear with non-black shoes and belts. The socks that I wear also depend on if I'm wearing black/dark gray pants or something more Earth tone.

Certain colors work a lot better together than others. While purple can go with black or dark gray, it really pops with brown.

What I have found is that you can never own too many white collared shirts. You can wear them several times a week and no one will notice. You can wear them with a suit, with dress slacks, with chinos, with jeans, etc. A white collared shirt is always a good decision, except when eating Italian.
There is money in gardening - I have friends that are very successful at it, and are still hands on, picking and planting the plants - while making more than enough to live a happy life.

My father loves drawing and making stuff, he is a pretty damn successful stage designer.

You have to love what you are doing AND be good at it AND good at selling yourself. But if you can crack that you really can love getting up each day. I know I do, and I know most of my friends and family do.

My richest friend works 60 hour weeks to have a great car parked outside his office and to support a stunning home he never 'lives' in - and he will tell anyone that no only does he hate his job, he isn't happy. But he really thinks having more (holidays, watches, suits, etc.) will make him happy, but they haven't yet...
Intel's 4-inch "Next Unit of Computing" to cost $400
If you share a computer, people log in several times a day. And I bet the distribution over time is lumpy. Even assuming that demand is completely flat, that's over 500 CPUs running 24/7 for three weeks just for the hashes to log people in.
This isn't really "the same thing" it's "some things that all fall into the same 3-5 categories."

I got into the habit of wearing the same thing everyday last year, when I was dealing with some pretty serious colorblindness (corrected now, thankfully). I settled on a dark grey shirt, a light blue shirt and black pants.

Not the fanciest of clothing, but I generally don't need it to be all too often.

I haven't diversified now that I can see colors again. This is easy, comfortable, and requires no tought.
"Liking" a nation does not preclude other nations from spying on them. I'm sure the US and Israel spy on each other.
AAAI - Artificial Intelligence Topics
But consider the alternative. Not shipping part of their software that fits on their platform just for the sake of making sure that the consumer's decision is purely unbiased? That'd be an awful business move, and they knew that.
Digital Catalyst Fund
Calculus was described by them using the concept of 'infinitesimals', not through Limits. Limits was a clever abstraction that was evolved later to better explain Calculus and keep it consistent.

It also isn't even necessary to use limits. Deriving calculus using the hyperreal number system (which has both infinites and infinitesimals) has been proved to be equivalent to calculus with limits (i.e., any theorem true in one is true in the other).

So if we want to, we could go back to using infinitesimals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number
Depends on your definition of slacker... The original article says "Getting air on a 10 foot tall ramp with a skateboard? Also cool." yet most people would describe a skateboarder as a slacker.

I think being around people that aren't necessarily "productive" is perfectly fine. It's being around people who do NOTHING that is bad but I find that if you are the kind of person who does things then you will find yourself around inactive people less and less over time.

Couch potatoes seem to attract one another and repel everyone else.
While this advice is sound, it borders on extreme. I'd tell my kids (I don't have any, and don't plan on it btw) to hang around good people. Some of those good people will 'get shit done', others won't but there is something to gain from being around good people. Valuing people on their amount of output seems to cheapen their existence. I know a lot of people who don't 'get shit done' but are great people who I value, and I am happy to have in my life. I don't blame my lack of productivity on those around me.
Veena Malik do not feel shy to support homosexuality.
Sure you can - If you are a dispensary.

Harborside rejects 80% of the weed submitted for sale, the market is that competitive.
Just to reply to one thing in isolation (because frankly you can get a better treatment of all this point-by-point stuff by doing a Google groups search from 1997):

> You mean like Google's loss leader Android which they put on the market for free by using money from their search dominance resulting in killing WebOS, RIM, Nokia and almost everyone else except Apple?

Android is open source. I can build it, run it, change it and ship it all by myself for whatever I want. So yes: I make a moral exception here. (edit: cooldeal, stop flaming. I'm running CM9 built from source, with my own modifications, on my very own phone. That passes the test. Trying to equate not-as-open-as-I'd-like-it-to-be behavior on Google's part with Microsoft's anticompetitive behavior in the 90's is just plain insane. Stop it.)

I wept for Netscape because its fall broke web browsing on all platforms other than windows (that's the "damage to the market" part -- I didn't and still don't give a crap about Netscape, Inc.)

I shed no tears for RIM or Nokia, sorry. WebOS was open and good (but the market has spoken and prefers Android), so maybe HP gets a misty eye or two.
It becomes difficult to tell it's a duck when reading code, which was the original complaint. Duck type works when you actually try calling it.
I bought about 30 pairs of the same gray socks and 30 pairs of the same black boxer briefs. It's so nice never having to match socks, or worry about running out of them or clean underwear to wear. They're small items, so they don't take up much space.

In regard to pants/shirts, I'm still on a mission to find basic t-shirts that don't get messed up after many washings. I think pima cotton is the way to go for this (currently, I'm buying my shirts from aether. not cheap, but the quality is great). I have about 10 of the same black shirt (and one red, one blue and one white... just to mix it up a bit when I'm feeling "crazy").

Shoes... I have 3 pairs of black high-tops from Tom's. They are comfortable, can pass in dress-up situations, and cover my heels.

Long story short, I don't really think about what I wear anymore or spend anytime going through that mental process in the morning/evening. Some of my friends think I'm a bit weird, but I'm glad I did it!
This has the advantage that you don’t have to care how you look, but you still look like you care how you look.
Sure but remember most static languages are 20+ times faster than Ruby so even with compile times you might still come out way ahead.
Yes, a very tragic example that happened quite close to where I live was a mid air collision between a freighter and a regular airliner ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_co... ), with 71 fatalities.
This makes sense for mobile templates where zooming isn't necessary. On sites that retain a desktop style on mobile devices (nytimes), double tapping is extremely valuable to zoom in on particular columns. Hopefully developers don't overuse/misuse this, as it would effectively break that behavior.
> You mean like Google's loss leader Android which they put on the market for free by using money from their search dominance resulting in killing WebOS, RIM, Nokia and almost everyone else except Apple?

Not quite the same thing, when Android is Open Source and available for use by anyone. Now, granted, Google don't do as good a job as they could at doing real community oriented, participatory development of Android... but nonetheless, the source is available and it could be forked and developed by a Google competitor...
Mongoose - easy to use web server (for Windows)
What should we do for a living?
Well, for example she states that she came up with this system to not lose time getting dressed in the morning.

Writing that blog post in itself probably took more than a few hours — to write, review, edit, do the graphics for it, etc. If the initial goal was to spend time not thinking about clothes, that doesn't really feel like an optimal way to reach it.
Next month? Where did you hear that?
Eclipse survey shows Git adoption doubled
As a Microsoft employee, I'm a bit confused about the C99 reference. You can get C99-compatible compilers from other sources that run under Windows, and if C99-compatibility is important, Microsoft will lose market share to them. My guess is that -- for the line-of-business developers that makes up the bulk of Microsofts dev market, C99 compatibility is simply not important.

Microsoft doesn't ship a Fortran 2008 compiler either; should they?
A lot of your examples could be used against current darling companies.

True, but that still doesn't let Microsoft off the hook. "Everybody else is doing it," is about as good of a defense as "I was just following orders".
I'd guess the best way to summarise the type of people you mean are "positive" people. Positive in their outlook, attitude and output.
You really have to wonder what our national security policy is.

Wait until they attack and then they will feel the full might of our army of media studies graduates.
FWIW this is broken on Opera Mobile Android. Tapping Layer B once results in it switching to green and then back to white, like it was tapped twice. Layer A works as expected, with a slight delay.

On the stock Gingerbread browser though, both Layers do not respond to taps at all.
I'd imagine the folks doing this have a windowless van parked outside a Starbucks. I'm fairly certain you'd never be able to trace it back to a .gov computer without physically finding the computers themselves.
This definitely isn't some kind of holistic approach to math. It's basically just here memorize this probability forumla, and the algorithm for multiplying two brackets together, because that's what you're getting tested on at the end of the year.

I could understand if it was something like showing how bracket multplication works by adding in an example from geometry like this http://math1sfun.wordpress.com/category/algebra/expanding-br...

But it's nothing like that at all.
Marketting. The answer to that question is almost always a ill corporation that allows marketting to run free.
I'm still trying to learn this stuff, but I do not understand fundamentally how bcrypt(salt + MD5(text)) could be worse than bcrypt(salt + text). What if everyone's plaintext password was already a string of characters identical to some MD5(text)? If bcrypt(salt + MD5(text)) could be bad, then doesn't that mean bcrypt(salt + text) could be bad too?
Yes, 'positive' is a better way to describe the people I am referring to.
I don't have first hand experience, but from what I've read I think it changes with each deal. For example, Rovio just did a deal where they took almost all of the cash out. They are very profitable so they don't need the money, but they wanted to cash out some. I think most deals are the opposite of this, with not very much being taken out.
"query deserves freshness" is part of Google's algorithm so it knows to rank the newest articles at the top. It works great for news driven sites, works bad for e-commerce type sites that restock older items but they get outranked by a news site.
> (1) if the key is captured by the attacker the system is just as strong as SHA256

This is the part that I think is subtly invalid. Coincidentally, I was having this mailing list discussion the other day: http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2012-May/0...

It has to do with the fact that the defender is obligated to pay the cost of the AES every time (because he follows the rules of the algorithm by definition). But the attacker is free to bend the rules however he can and one thing he can do is perform the AES once on the entire data file, a negligible amount of computation.

So even though AES is an identity transformation, it makes the function more costly for the defender than for the attacker. Wncrypting one's database may be an acceptable tradeoff for other reasons, but when we're considering the work factor for cracking passwords this is worse.

Think about if instead of just one iteration of AES it were iterated a zillion times in order to make it expensive. That would be a complete failure.
I am curious to know if more companies have seen success with "the Sunday test" type of hiring philosophy that Greg talks about
Ask HN: how do you know if you have a secret, just wrong?  (from Thiel lectures)
there was a previous HN discussion on the secrets lecture http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3962129<p>from the next lecture Reid Hoffman says -
A side note on invention and innovation: when you have an idea for a startup„ consult your network. Ask people what they think. Don’t look for flattery. If most people get it right away and call you a genius, you’re probably screwed; it likely means your idea is obvious and won’t work. What you’re looking for is a genuinely thoughtful response. Fully two thirds of people in my network thought LinkedIn was stupid idea. These are very smart people. They understood that there is zero value in a social network until you have a million users on it. But they didn’t know the secret plans that led us to believe we could pull it off. And getting to the first million users took us about 460 days. Now we grow at over 2 users per second.<p>so if the nature of having a secret is that people disagree with you, how do you know if they disagree with you because its a good secret, or if they disagree with you because you have a shitty idea?
<i>Currently, they are looking to quash competition on the x86 platform by locking down the UEFI bootloader</i>

You misspelled ARM.
No. Not ever. Doesn't even matter what they do. Cool is many things, but a huge bureaucratic apparatus is not ever part of it. It's stuff that makes food taste better, and sex hotter. So, you can easily see that there is not much actually cool stuff in the tech world to begin with, but Microsoft?! HAHAHAHA. That's like some fucked mixture between Milhouse and Mr. Burns. Thanks for the laughs though.
Although even in the software industry it would probably be considered normal to change the T-shirt daily.
The Catastrophic Consequences of 9/11
Let's start with crap
"6. What do you mean by file-sharing? Did you not know that people in India have to pay anywhere from Rs 100 to get their files moved in offices? Is not this action hitting the Babu’s stomachs? You do not have any right to take away their rightful incomes." says Armchair Outrage

If you don't know what file-sharing means then don't comment, don't post your stupid "Open Letter", and what the hell is "babu" doing here? You retard.

"5. Now, with a country whose population is a vast majority of youth, porn is detrimental to their moral fabric. We do not want them to grow into sex-maniacs and rapists. Do you want every Indian city to become a Delhi?"

Hey man, if you're against pornographic stuff then first go and block the Child-pornographic websites funded by your Ministers, and No torrent is not a method to share "pornographic material", And Delhi is the capital, people there are mature (not cunt like you). Lack of sex-ed in India (No your govt. schools don't provide sex-ed) has led to population rise.
I'm sure the US spies on pretty much everyone, friend or foe... and it's probably the same the other way round too!
I believe it is to re-inforce the idea of the book as the product. A book page flipper is not meant for you to consume the content (must be annoying reading and having to see the animation on each page flip!), but for you to consult the material all the time being reminded of the physical object.
This is a very cool visualiser that was posted on HN before if anyone feels like playing: http://visualsort.appspot.com/
Can't speak for OP, but I started learning algebra at 5. It happened that I really liked playing with calculators at age 2-3, and that helped give me an extremely solid mental arithmetic foundation.

Essentially, the special thing about me probably wasn't some super-human neural circuitry for understanding math. It was the fact that I was wired, somehow, to enjoy playing with a calculator. I had more arithmetic practice by age 4 than most kids have by age 11.
I run a kinda related service that does instant dns records: http://ipq.co/

And I wrote a Ruby DSL to easily integrate with a real dns server (powerdns). Makes it trivially easy to write things like xip.io

https://github.com/johnl/powerdns_pipe
Font Awesome v2 icons now available for jQuery mobile
I understand her desire for simplicity and energy conservation but as a male I enjoy seeing women in a variety of outfits :)
Right. If someone is able to infect the browser with malware, MitM your HTTPS connection, or even just load mixed HTTP/HTTPS content, then they are able to run Javascript in the login page. If they are able to run Javascript in the login page, then they are able to monitor the keystrokes as it is typed in.

This is not theoretical. This is what Tunisia did to Facebook and it's what online banking trojans (e.g. Zeus) do every day.
I bought about 30 pairs of the same gray socks and 30 pairs of the same black boxer briefs.

My kind of man, I know exactly where you're coming from with this. My sock wardrobe is black socks, white socks and that's it. Never understate the importance of taking care to how you are presented, but at the same time I'm not going to drive myself batty just trying to put together a wardrobe that requires maintenance just finding something.
Martin Varsavsky: The startup ecosystem in Spain
Heh, I pioneered this space - http://blog.yafla.com/Interesting_Facts_About_Domain_Names

I accidentally discovered that any chimp could sign up to receive the database, did that basic analysis, and have watched as it rinses and repeats every six months or so.
Price tag for Microsoft piece of Flame malware $1M, researcher says
Mitt Romney goes to Scamworld: Prosper, Inc. and its powerful friends
"Obama's Secret Wars" against America's Threats [Audio]