skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do seem to have great traction and customer engagement, both from the number of customers and the time they spent.
However, given its all free eBooks, seems more analogous to a blog community, so am curious what their revenue model could be in future? Perhaps selling eBooks and enabling independent publishers, subscription from readers? Is the market big enough.
Don't think that ads is going to cut it.
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Problem I have with this is that it is incredibly short-sighted. So we know, indefinitely, that our songs, movies and other media will exist on USB/CD/DVD discs, right? Wrong. What about when we all start using anonymous, p2p cloud storage? What about streaming pirated content to my iPhone from my Mac at home? Or any of the countless other innovations that may pop up in the future?
I feel the same way. Perhaps new users who didn't use the old versions don't feel this way. But its strange how windows "improvements" manage to be so painful for the faithful users.
I never realized Clippy was 'technical support'. I saw it as a feature to Word that was supposed to simply assist and automate certain new functions of Word.

If someone looks at Clippy and immediately thinks first line of support for an organization to the point of calling him 'technical support', they've missed the point entirely.

Overall I think this post could have said a LOT more about support practices and building a good support infrastructure but it just kind of dropped off after a couple of lines about speed and this line

Furthermore the "leaders" are seen by the members of the organization as "above" the task of answering support questions

I'm kind of curious what prompted this line of reasoning.
Slick website but not sure how this differs to current technology?

Can devices and programs already access the internet through existing wifi?
Steve Jobs building NeXT (rare documentary. personal interviews with team.)
Congrats to Allen, Ivan and the team at Wattpad!
Please refer to my comment above. You can precompute a rainbow table if you know the username (trivial) and the method of hashing[1]. Whilst usernames as salts would increase security over no salt, it results in a potential exploit / vulnerability that would not exist if the salt was truly random. Hence, suggesting the use of usernames as salts is not wise.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle
Never expected this...
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Google ID or dedicated account.
The site isn't letting me sign up. When I click "Sign Me Up" I just get back to the sign up page with no form errors displayed.
RIP, one of my favourite authors. Martian Chronicles and Illustrated Man were story collections on par with the likes of Hemingway IMO. The last collection I bought, One for the Road, wasn't more than ten years ago. I think he had a few more since then too.
FYI, rootkits can survive a HD format.
The homepage actually only show the most recent signups. Since we announced the site at Djangocon Europe we got lots of signups from there. The homepage will need some improvement, I'll look at changing that to some sort of density map.
Try explaining that to startups who want rockstar, ninja, sith lords in language X. Libraries, on the other hand, do take some time to learn.
There are a few TV shows I record and watch and I don't know anything about Idol, Snookey or Bieber either :)
There is something odd going on with the default map.

If I search for my name, it shows the map with a pin at my location, near Columbus, OH, USA. If I just start from the home page, no matter how much I zoom in, I don't show up.

So whether or not the site users are a good representation of the interest in the world, the default map seems a poor representation of their users.

Edit: Brutasse posted on the thread explaining this right as I posted.
Typically the vendor side of a publicized security exploit never releases details to this extent, ESPECIALLY in the financial sector. It's a very interesting perspective to get to read in detail.
Newvem calls in Dome9 to harden Amazon cloud workloads
I'm so glad I'm not the only one that does this.
Toronto City Council as Characters from Game of Thrones
What captures your attention controls your life
Actually, more likely they cannot. Most renters contracts I've seen explicitly forbid this.
Sure, but that really doesn't address the OP's assertion.
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The Martian Chronicles is my favorite book of all time. I saw him speak at UCLA in 2007 or 2008 and I'll never forget his emphasis on love and being creative. Sad day. Science fiction and literature has lost one of it's greats.
You can clearly see the positives and negatives of the infamous reality distortion field. Clearly becoming the zeitgeist for entrepreneurs nowadays.
"Cracking" in this sense is brute forcing. SHA1 is fast, and people use bad passwords. The combination means that you can run through lots and lots of bad passwords very quickly. I checked my linked in password I have stored in 1password, and it is 20+ chars with special characters and numbers. That won't be "cracked" in any meaningful sense, so I don't even worry about it.

You are correct that there's currently no way to go from a hash to a value that hashes to it in SHA1 (AFAIK, IANYNSA [I am not your NSA]).
Unfortunately writing it twice causes HN to italicize stuff: vegn vegn :/
You can also use the favorite feature on Dropbox to keep a fresh copy of the database on your phone and have KeePassDroid remember that location. Then your flow is 1) open KeePassDroid 2) enter password 3) select site 4) copy/paste
Yeah, a huge mall is probably a better analogy for the app store. The web is more like a network of high streets.
Linkedin Stolen Passwords Reported
Because you have more control over your hobbies. At the end of the day, the success of your career is (at least in part) dependant on luck and the decisions of others.
Ask HN: I write queries at a top 3 retailer and I want to help you
Hi All,

I am a Sr. Business Analyst at a top 3 retailer. I currently write queries mostly against IBM DB2.

I have been writing some pretty interesting reporting/analysis queries at work for the 2 years + and have gotten decently good at extracting complicated results from huge databases.

I'd like to help some start-ups get meaningful results from their datasets and flex my mind a bit outside of retail.

If anyone doesn't have a data guy and needs a query or two written, shoot me an e-mail gene dawt karshenboym at the huge mountainview company
It seems fairly obvious that Microsoft is anticipating single-device computing and getting out in front of it.

A cell phone that can drive HDMI still needs a nice UI for the little touch screen. Apps that run everywhere might not be perfect everywhere, but it is still a nice feature.

(Perhaps 'single-device' is the wrong description, but the barriers to running the same environment everywhere are shrinking, not growing)
DVR has been out how long now? I can't remember the last time I adjusted my schedule to something on TV. The few shows I do watch I'm not even sure when they air. No auto-commercial skipping is annoying, but DVR helps with that even if it's a manual process.
Could be that he shared a password with another account that hasn't? Wishful thinking most likely.
You know there's a KeePass app for Android right? I sync my KeePass db between Windows, Linux, and my Android phone using DropBox. Works great.
Maybe you already know this, but glibc and glib are two entirely different libraries. (The similarity in their names is unfortunate.) So be precise when asking for help.
OK, but most people use them for their cameras, I never even heard of anyone using them on car systems, but I'll accept it is true.

Given this, why should the 99% that are taking their own photos pay a tax to support a record label organization that one of the posts above from a German says doesn't even pay out to the musicians?
do you have better sources? it seems simple math to me. I have also seen a few articles from artists (not record companies) that say the same thing. if you have proof of the contrary it would make me feel better.
Given many people have confirmed that their uniquely generated password is in the list, is it wise to wait any longer before changing your password ?
you can still create new account when submitting new content (while being logged off)
Ahaha. I like the sense of humor.

I shall have to give it a try!
This could just be maintenance. I can't imagine its good for YC's business model to shut down sign ups.
I'm not an expert in the field but from what I know, SHA1 is a one way function. When an encrypted password is cracked, YES, the hackers know that specific password. They brute forced it by guessing the password, running it through SHA1, and comparing the output to the hash. If they are the same, then they guessed the right password.

They do not know any other passwords and if "salt" was used, they would have to brute force each password. I think salt wasn't used in this case so once they crack someone's password, they know every other user who used the same password. So if you and I used the same password, and they brute forced yours already, they will know that I have the same password.
Yeah, but if you try to comment on something, it will prompt you to create an account.

Go ahead an log out of your account and try to comment on this link.
"Every company needs a sales team, right?"

Let's call it what it is: it's a 1-person company that sells a $75 item. I understand how you might think you need a salesperson but I don't think that's feasible yet. Put yourself in a salesperson-who-is-looking-for-work's shoes:

* Here's a company that sells a $75 niche/boutique item

* They aren't offering a salary

* You will probably make $15 per board sold (20% of gross)

* You need $3000 per month to live and $6000 per month to thrive

* That means you need to sell between 200 and 400 boards per month

* They don't have any customer lists/base to offer you (which means you have to come up with your own customers)

* Founder has no history managing sales team or doing sales

* Founder isn't able to make a full-time living yet

Would you do it?

How about if you gave them a 50% commission? They still have a $3000 nut to contend with which means they'd have to sell 80 boards a month. Where are they going to sell 80 boards a month? Do you have any ideas for them? You have to sell them on being a salesperson for you - you need to have the vision first for the "How?" and then find people that buy into your vision.

I think that most founders in your position are going to be the salesperson, the designer, the builder, the stocker, the mail room guy, the IT guy, the programmer, the financial person, the biz dev guy, the marketing guy, etc. Build up sales, build up stock, and learn how to do it all. Nobody said it was easy.
Browserid is not a centralized authentication protocol. Although currently all implementations I know of rely on browserid.org, this is not required by its design.

There's also the fully decentralized openid, you know. I'd 100% rather be able to use openid for sites like Linkedin and this one than rely on every site implementing sane password management.
To be fair, it's "Finally, a command line shell for the 90s."

I couldn't agree more. We've been using shells from the 80's for far too long.
Hopefully it drops low enough that it is actually a good investment. I love it when people get emotional about stocks.
Are you https://people.djangoproject.com/jamesaddison/?

Get in touch via email and I'll tell you which email address is associated to your account. My contact info is on https://bruno.renie.fr/.
If your password was 'linkedinsucks' then it sucks because they found it already !
Also, OpenID has been removed. How do I login with my Google account?
Still too high.
Yes, but based on the GP's question I assume he was focusing his question on the subset that is opposed to killing animals – the other subsets would not seem at odds with their impetus for being veg%an by enjoying fake meat.
Will it matter in Windows 10? Its like saying "Whoa, I can't install Norton Commander on this Windows95! This sucks!"

I have no idea what the future holds, but change happens. I'm not a fan of metro but as long as I can get to a classic desktop I don't care. As an IT admin I am a fan of the ribbon because its enables our clueless users to find things and not bother IT.

At the end of the day all these interfaces are designed for the lowest common denominator, not power users or develops. That's how mass software production works. We make dumb interfaces for dumb people and they keep getting dumber and dumber. The market has spoken and even Microsoft needs to cater to the app obsessed teenager and middle aged dad who thinks computers are "too hard." Well, maybe they are. Look at the malware and support mess that is the Windows status quo. Fummy how the HN crowds lambasts Windows but refuses to accept any reformation as well.

Its not all bad. I don't think anyone wants to go back to the DOS days. I suspect this is the usual tempest in a teapot that precedes all Windows releases. End users won't care and power users will get around whatever new limitation or UI they don't like.
Yes, it's technically easy, but it shows everyone how much Google cares.
I use KeePass right now synced with Dropbox - what keeps me up at night is the fact that if the bad guys got my password file today, there could turn out to be a vulnerability in it discovered years from now that could allow them to get my password.
Why not just get rid of the state owned propaganda channels? Why is that never an option. It's absurd to have to be subjected to state propaganda and be made to pay for it. Brainwashing should be free, no?
In case you're looking for info on the WiFi card itself (couldn't find it on the site itself), go here:

http://edn.com/electronics-news/4373185/Former-Apple-Google-...

"The cards will be on sale to developers by the end of June for $25 each"

"When the $25 card is installed in a slot and powered up, it will find the ID number and automatically transmit the information to Electric Imp’s servers."

I don't like the idea of a central server as default. Although that's a very good functionality (together with SSL and auto-update) one of the first things serious developers will look for is how to switch it off or mod it - I'm assuming I won't have the choice to switch this off. It will also spark development of open-hardware alternatives that don't dial home. The price is very low and the design is very compact, which makes me believe that the income will be generated by an online subscription to push/process data at the central server. That is not a bad model, but it also means that I won't be using it to control anything in my house because some day the connection will be lost for an amount of time. This scenario is normally caught by a local gateway, but I don't see them in this setup.
One of my family members in Charleston, SC was making $30k+ annually with Airbnb, until the city threatened her (and everyone else in town offering space on Airbnb) with steep fines and even jail.

She chose to pull her listing, and most others in town did as well.
I just integrated it into the programming language I am developing, thanks for such a small and handy library!
Correct!

527688fa9f32bb8dab32d30807ca5c57a0b203b8 is not present
000008fa9f32bb8dab32d30807ca5c57a0b203b8 is present
You can do this if you, like LinkedIn, store SHA1 unsalted passwords. You just look for matches.
He had a short piece in last week's New Yorker on how "The Fire Balloons" was inspired by the fire balloons he, as a small boy, lit with his grandfather. It was a beautiful testament to his craft and his inspiration.

Sadly, behind the paywall: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/06/04/120604fa_fact_...

RIP
Amazon AWS is the Cloud (for now anyway)
Free advice: should there ever be a gap between the present revenues of your apps and your family's immediate financial needs, a week or six of freelancing iOS development will plug it very quickly indeed. It isn't my market, but I-heard-it-on-the-grapevine hourly rates are in the US$150~$200+ region.
Seems to be some buying going on, it's climbing up past $26. Remember as Buffett said though, daily price movements are just noise.

What's more interesting to me, is how ZNGA seems to be correlated with FB:

http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&...
IPv6 is here (and how it screwed me)
"If you disagree on the notion that a public broadcasting organization is required, you're free to lobby for it. "

Read my other posts and you see that I don't disagree.
This is about how the internet presence is used as a handle to collect money from everyone, not only the users. The fact that public broadcast is transmitted through the internet is everything BUT a reason to collect money from everyone.

Please note, that currently only the users are charged.
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Anyone managed to make it run in cygwin? Bash completion in cygwin makes the shell very slooooow to start.
It's true that that would be an improvement, however we try to avoid discussing things like that seriously because of the risk that someone new to the game will actually try to do it. The easy answer is to use an out-of-the-box secure password strategy, anything else is adolescent.
Can we come to a consensus about at which point it is fair game to flag "Facebook stock is at $X". I rarely flag anything that isn't clearly spam but I do want to make sure that Hacker News doesn't turn into the world's worst stock ticker...
Sure, you can get it on iTunes that way.
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Noticed this today and assumed it was my local settings. Not that HN need to consult or communicate to users but was this announced?

I suspect you can still sign up but via another screen?
Why downvoting?? I am speaking from experience, name it and I have done that.
With such compression ratio for text, and compression speed, this algorithm fits well to the Google Snappy / LZO / FastLZ group. Every database engine should use one of these, they are operating at disk I/O speed.
I disagree with #5, I had a few of my coworkers check their sha1 against the DB and most of them were not in the dump. I also checked for truncated hashed, none of which were found. I have the feeling this is a subset of the full database
I do. I don't keep a list, but I make what I believe to be a fair ballpark estimate.
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I would actually expect something much more like a certification process that sites and participants would volunteer to participate in.

e.g. If there's a large scale discontentment with Airbnb following a growing pile of wronged-users, I would expect the site and users would be willing and eager to participate in a hypothetically reasonable/affordable certification process, as users would logically be expected to gravitate to 'certified' spaces and renters given a choice.
Let's stop pretending that the terms "Israeli" and "Jew" are interchangable, because they're not. While it may have at the beginning, I don't think Jewishness or lack thereof has anything to do with the West Bank. At this point it's a dispute over citizenship, property, and human rights.

I say this as an American with no connection to either side.
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The big problem with Microsoft's Flash whitelis
Hmm. My truncated password (for my now-deleted account) is not in the list of hashes -- so it's not just a uniq'd full DB. Also, the original forum thread where the file was first posted only managed to break around 600,491 passwords before it went offline ... so 3,521,180 broken passwords could mean that the original hacker has had access to some LinkedIn accounts for more than just a few minutes today.
HBO charges per-subscriber, not a flat rate. But the cable company deals with billing, customer support, equipment costs, etc.
Tiles look awesome on WP7 and on the tablets I've seen. But this desktop looks awful: http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/06/05/windows-8s-proble...
I could see a huge number of people sitting at the Windows 8 login screen with no clue how to click and drag to login. A simple floating tool tip ala 'slide to unlock' would help a lot.
When Reality Takes Hold Of TV
Issues that can also severely degrade a systems performance and may not come into play until your data is growing over extended periods of time (not represented in the benchmark here):

1) Table statistics can grow stale and degrade the engines ability to select the correct access path. This can be corrected by running CREATE STATISTICS, depending on your DB version.

2) Page fragmentation, not to be confused with disk fragmentation, when the engine is selecting non-contiguous space. A rebuild of the db will be necessary if your pages are extremely fragmented and/or using a non-optimized allocation size.
My favorite Bradbury book is Dandelion Wine. It's not sci-fi, but great authors are not limited to a single genre.
Often people say "Don't roll your own security" but the reality is that developers aren't trying to roll their own. They are trying to solve a problem, and if a quick google doesn't turn up a good library then they'll try and figure it out. Googling for password security implementations is likely to be fraught with horrible horrible advice.

I guess what I'm saying is that it's not enough to say don't do it, instead the defaults need to be there (and very visible).
What's a bit gray-area about it is that unlike someone like Craigslist, AirBnB isn't just a matchmaker, but has inserted themselves directly into the commercial transaction as the point of sale: they, not the property owner, are the ones who not only advertise the property, but complete the booking and charge the credit card. Whether that means they're responsible for filing the taxes is murky, and probably depends on which taxes and which jurisdiction.
Resources that have been distributed among people in small quantities now can be aggregated and it's a big opportunity. The special case when the resource is people's skills is particularly interesting.
Another comment makes a great point re: insurance. If a tenant burns your house down, or floods your basement, or invites someone over who falls and breaks their leg in your home, you may be in for a world of hurt.
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It seems we will never get rid of bad programming like this. I hit the 'forgot my password' link on the T-Mobile website yesterday and the pop-up requested my T-Mobile phone number. Ten seconds later I received an SMS with my actual password in it.
E3 2012: The end of hardware
Sparrow is coming to the iPad
Congratulations!!! Big steep indeed. Give a favor to yourself and don´t work at home, work somewhere else like coworking or shared spaces. Work at home is a focus-killer IMHO.
The good thing is: every time this happens to a high-profile site, storing sensitive data, more people get more acquainted with the concepts of "you really should not use a simple password" and "you really should not use the same password across all sites". I know it works for me: this was the last straw that forced me to abandon a good ol' password I've been using since 1998. From now on I'll just rely on password managers (currently DataVault, but I know people who swear by LastPass).
Wow! TWO whole apps?

Reminds me of when I went on a bit of retrocomputing geekery and discovered the Synergy Window Manager for the DEC Professional, which boasted of its ability to run "up to four applications at the same time".
Alleged Romanian Subway Hackers Were Lured to U.S.
Definitely much of my identity is linked to my family (especially since my children have been born).
I've seen Kungen's[0] hardcore inferno monk die to a DC. That would be so disheartening :-\

[0]: http://www.twitch.tv/kungentv