skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this is that different people are going to have different common sense ideas of where the cutoff is, so the numbers have to get written down. Then you to worry about how many things constitute an "item", like if I'm selling boxes of packs of raisins do you count the boxes, the packs, or the raisins? And is the count different for apples and hams? Pretty soon you're arguing in court about whether a Fig Newton is a cookie or not.

But then again, we're already arguing in court about whether or not a Fig Newton is a cookie for purposes of sales tax, so this isn't an infeasible solution, just one that imposes costs we should be aware of.
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I've been using this a lot in our projects. It would be really a killer for selects with thousands of items. But it really kills the performance at least with Firefox. For small country selects it's still fine.
No, John Carmack is developing software for the Oculus RIFT being developed by Palmer Luckey. http://oculusvr.com/?page_id=2

It is a pretty amazing piece of hardware though. Over 90 degree field of view for $500, rather than the $10000+ it still costs from anywhere else.
These Two Charts Prove A College Education Just Isn't Worth The Money Anymore
I do wonder just how much Airbnb income isn't declared for tax purposes.
I wonder what is the impact of AirBnB on rents. If landlords see that (despite their leases prohibiting them) their renters are making money through AirBnB, they would want to jack up rents to get a piece of the action.
True point and this is probably off topic, but out of curiosity, what is the recommended approach for his point about logging messages/requests?

On previous projects, we've gone through all sorts of machinations to detect a password in our SOAP logging. This usually involves XML parsing (slow, ineffective on malformed messages) and Regexes (ineffective on malformed or "unusual" messages).

I can't think of anything better, short of "you can't leak what you don't log" which is nice in theory but not always practical.
Their favicon is still the same.
Ironically, it would have been acceptable if she had used a normal VRBO service (like HomeAway), as those services usually take care of any licensing and taxes associated with renting out one's home.
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You might consider renaming it. I've been looking for several minutes and can't find it via that name.

Is it this: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man1/sha1pass.1.ht... I don't see how you would use this the same way you'd use the other tools mentioned here. I can imagine a way, but it's no where near as convenient and still has it's own major usability problems.
My belief is that the hackers might get the username password combos, but they grouped the hashes to only have unique (sort -u ?) passwords hashes and therefore ease the process of dictionary cracking them as they do not have salts.
The 00000 prefix might be an indication of this. I bet there is an automate script taking care of a dict attack and the file was released during execution.
Anyone looking for the file to run these tests yourself -> http://clck.ru/d/jE6Mg-5X1ARpN
It was the day of the SOPA blackout IIRC. Redditors were bored and looking for their hit of lolcats.
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automatic music, no stop or volume button immediatly in line of sight, closed. I am sorry from that glance i gave it looked good but the music totally killed it for me.
What a way to put it...

To me it all boils down to familiarity. That is, how familiar the user base is with the technology. I would predict that if both the original Android phone and the original iPhone were released at the same time, the android phone wouldn't stand a chance. Why? Because the user base wouldn't know how to use the android phone, whereas the iPhone is meant for the most basic of users.

Now that user base is familiar, they want more: more options, more configurations, more control and power. Apple motto is to refuse that. Android is to give it away. The same goes for Microsoft.

So the the author's timeline, it took apple's 80's dominance to get the user in the know of a computer. Then when they learned and knew enough, they wanted a PC which allowed them to configure how they want, add what they want, integrate third party applications. There goes the 90's. Then came mobile. Apple lays out the ground work. Users get smarter. Users dont want basic any more. They want to get crafty. Welcome back MS.
Steve Jobs has decreed that if you own a channel for digital goods distribution you can lease it out for 30% of gross.
This should not be a tax. The industries involved are already buying unjust laws from Congress, none of us needs Congress giving them more money to do so.
You criticized regulation in general so I criticized lack of regulation in general. It's not a hard leap.

If you want a more closely related set of laws, look at tenement housing. The Jungle was not the only example of an industry that badly needed reform.
"Hey look! My landlord just evicted me for leasing out my spare room in violation of my lease!"

There is nothing stopping you from putting an ad on Craiglist. However, if you violate the terms of your lease, you can get evicted. Moreover, these sorts of violations are usually not covered by tenant protection laws, so you would not be entitled to the normal eviction procedure protections.
Nokia already has something similar up (http://maps3d.svc.nokia.com/webgl/index.html).

Looking at NYC or the Bay Area is pretty impressive.
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RangeError: ArrayBufferView size is not a small enough positive integer (dancer.js:405) on Chrome. Idle visuals are nice though.
Right, and that's fine. But again, your argument really isn't part of the conversation then is it?

There are plenty of shows out there that I can wait until it shows up in the 5$ bargain bin and I'll pick it up and watch it. There are some shows that because I loved it I'll buy the entire collection edition.

But this conversation is for television watchers that watch things as they air. If there is a show that must be seen the moment it airs, there status quo is not a win-win situation and is a constant struggle between overpriced cable and cheap consumers resorting to piracy.
How did you make that awesome demo? Is that just js + 100 hours of labor or what?
Pinterest in an Infographic
An inforgraphic summarizing pintrest

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Right. LIDAR data would correspond to the toy ninjas, IMO.
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Designing Schema for MongoDB
Uruguay, Argentina - search for "Cuevana.tv", it was shut down a few times I think, and other services.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuevana

My coworkers which aren't especially tech-savyy watch movies from Cuevana and similar sites, many of them get their children to configure it for them :) .

Edit: thenextweb went so far as to call it "the new Napster"

http://thenextweb.com/la/2011/11/25/is-the-argentine-online-...

and their owners have been in legal trouble several times

http://thenextweb.com/la/2012/03/13/the-noose-tightens-aroun...
Don't know if this adds anything, but both my old password (created eight years ago) and current password (changed six months ago) were on the list. Both were very unique - 20 characters mixed.

Need to get better at changing my PWs every three months. It's really not that hard, just a matter of discipline.
Here you go: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3481174
Re: pepper - The devise plugin for Rails uses it. The idea is that the attacker must now steal both the app code AND database, which are often on separate servers.

Just make their life harder.
Nevermind the fact that for certain situations the UX is improved 10 fold over native.
Thanks for the detailed response. At my current work place everyone rotates through support as well (dev, sales, ops), and I agree with you: the only way to make these kinds of things work is with an exceptionally strong culture, and not compromising.
Valid points. FWIW, you can click anywhere on the iPhone to pause the video (and music, for that matter). We should probably make this clearer.
Some people actually do call names to others when face to face.

Personally, while I don't, I do tend to get a little aggressive and then I'm often surprised with the backlash, because I get that way when I'm genuinely enjoying the conversation, not when I'm irritated.
I couldn't really find a good reason to use a .bash_history. I linked mine to /dev/null and never looked back. (heh)
I'd say at least a year. The outage what prompted my partner and I to build djangopeople.me.
"she found that there are writers on eLance who charge $10 for an entire blog post and $20 for a press release."

If you are selling something on a small scale (such as what your wife is doing) it's a wrong assumption to think that everyone knows the going rate for something in the marketplace. People overpay for products and services all the time because of convenience, FUD, or simply not knowing what a typical price in the marketplace is. Sometimes of course they also infer quality into pricing thinking that it is either inferior or that there must be some catch to low pricing as well. While at a certain point (large numbers) you can get hurt, at a smaller level it is not as much of an issue.

"based on the value they would generate for her consulting clients"

Agree. That is the key in many cases to the question of "what to charge" for something (once again it definitely depends on the scale of what you are doing obviously).
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Do you love working on hardware? Do you know how to hack micro-controllers? Arduino etc.. Do you want to work on an amazing innovative project?
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This is a part of France, French Polynesia.
6.5M LinkedIn passwords hacked. A good reminder to close your internal services' ports - passwords are just not enough.
Ask HN: How did you find collaborators for your projects?
I'm looking to start a rather large programming project, but not a full fledged start up. I'd like to hear how you found collaborators for projects that are non-open source and non-start up based when no technical folks were in your social circles.
The only weirdness I can see is the streets under the bridge look funny. I guess that would be a problem when using aerial photography to generate and texture the 3d models.
Terribly sorry to ask this - but where did you guys get the file ?
What I prefer to this is https://github.com/JamieAppleseed/selectToAutocomplete, because of the fuzzy matching. For example, I can type US or UAE, and it will select United States and United Arab Emirates respectively. But both of these are a great step in getting rid of unwieldy and uselessly long lists.
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Beat detection usually work by taking the Fourier transform of the signal, and by observing the changes around 100Hz (the frequency where the kicks are, usually, may need tuning). By observing the changes in frequency, one can 'detect beats'.

The 'hard' part here is to compute the Fourier transform (which can be both a hard maths and performance problem for a person who knows nothing about signal processing), but quite a few implementations exist in javascript already (plus, if the author uses the new typed arrays, it brings a nice speed boost).
It's just few images sliding. The iphone is a video.
Sorry for the lack of content. I hoped they would have updated it properly.

antr submitted[0] a better link[1] with video. Seekable press event[2] is also up with more information.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4074972

[1] http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/06/06/google-maps-launches...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMBJ2Hu0NLw#t=4105s
Right, what I really meant was a document. I was trying to relate it to SQL, but I may have made it more confusing than anything.

That issue is what I was referring to, and it would be a good step forward. However, it's a shame you have the overhead of field names in the first place. I understand why it is like it is, being schemaless, and I suppose in terms of scaling it isn't a huge issue, as the overhead scales linearly which is manageable. But, in most cases, it's still huge compared to the size of the data itself.

I'm not sure how they'll fix it..and I don't know much about other schemaless DBs, but perhaps some sort of pattern recognization would be appropriate. Now that MongoDB has lots of funding for research, it will be interesting to see what they come up with.
6.5 Million Linkedin password reportedly leaked
Really wanted to use this on a recent project, but found the appearance to be too inflexible. Would really like the ability to adjust the height of the element easily.
The map just presents the state border including the water.
Linkedin Hacked and 6.5 Million Passwords leaked
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My password isn't in the file, and yes I checked for a 0'd version as well. My password is 9 characters of lower case, upper case, numbers, and a symbol. I'm wondering if this is incomplete, or fake. Either way...if it is a vulnerability I suppose LinkedIn hasn't fixed it yet, or at least I haven't heard mention of this - thus even changing your password won't help much if they can just re-download the database. Thus making a long, complex password is the best course of action.
This could be very useful, but it doesn't install on a 3GS because it requires a gyroscope? Seems a curious requirement given the functionality.
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Looks great; downloaded it to give it a try.

This app is a great concept, but it's going to be interesting to see whether I'll let myself trust it enough to be useful. If I end up double-checking behind it anyway, then there's no point.
Dell X4240 with dual quad core opteron 2384 (2700Mhz), 64GB memory, 6TB disk space in RAID-5, I believe 10000RPM drives. Oracle partitions are set by week, then subpartitioned by hierarchical triangular mesh region (http://www.skyserver.org/htm/), and our data is inherently anisotropic. Block size is 4kb I believe.
enough savings to last a few months [IF] i sell my motorbike [emphasis mine]

This is a scary scenario. If you are starting out with no revenue, a few months can come and go very quickly. I like to set a runway of 1 year of income for myself. That being said, I peg my income to the bare minimum I need my family to survive on. Everything after that is just profit and is saved.

Anything can happen in 3 months that will cost you a lot of unplanned money. It's really only one season in a year, and things change so quickly nowadays that you can't possibly prepare for every bad event.

If you need to sell your motorbike in order to give yourself some extra savings to live on, that's even worse. Get yourself some more money so that you don't have to consider cutting into flesh just to trim fat.
Possibly, depending on the jurisdiction. Most VRBO's provide this service to the home owners.

Indeed, it seems that one of AirBNB's primary cost advantages over other VRBO's is that they don't cover tax withholding. This may not matter much if you know how to handle tax payments yourself, but it could become a significant issue when a lot of AirBnB users get audited for underreporting taxes (AirBnB reports payments to the IRS, which makes it easier to spot underreporting).

Note: income tax payments must be made at least quarterly, not annually. The annual payment is intended to cover shortfalls based on estimated taxes following short of actual taxes and yearly tax items (i.e., credits/deductions).
It's not an in-depth answer. It does not say, for example, why bcrypt is more secure than nested SHA1. (I believe it has to do with the possibility to efficiently implement SHA algorithms in GPUs.)

People are using unsalted SHA1, because someone told them in the past "just use sha1". Now someone else tells them "just use BCrypt". Without understanding why, it's nearly impossible to to decide which security policy is sensible. There are many different types of advice competing for attention, and not all of them are good.
The time bcrypt takes is configurable, so in the future you can adjust the amount of work per password -- this is literally a one-character change in your code -- and be alright again. Ditto for the rest of the decent password hashing schemes.
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I need a bot to post this.

If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer;
you're the product being sold. -- blue_beetle
> If I was a landlord I'd have no more problem with this

Until you are a landlord, you can't really say for sure what you'd do as a landlord. I just recently started renting out my house. Going into it I was all "as long as they pay the rent on time and don't trash the place, I don't really care who rents it". But then I started getting into the fine points of liability and eviction rights and all the icky stuff you never see as a renter. And then I started showing the place to prospective tenants and started to realize how critical it is for me to choose the right people to live in my house. After doing all that, I would really hate to see the tenant let someone I know nothing about rent the place. And so the lease states they can not. The wholesaler -> customer relationship is not the same as landlord -> renter.
We didn't support 3GS because creating 2X the artwork would have been a lot of work for a relatively small % of iPhone users that will soon be upgrading to retina. Consider your comment a +1 for 3GS.
There are a couple of enjoyable radio dramatizations of his some of his stories from the 50s available for download at the Internet Archive: http://archive.org/details/XMinus1_A

Stories include:

"And The Moon Be Still As Bright"

"Mars is Heaven"

"The Veldt"

"Dwellers in Silence"

"Zero Hour"

"To the Future"

"Marionettes, Inc."

"There Will Come Soft Rains"
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I think that the answer is 'No' although the author doesn't put it out there expressly. I find it hugely amusing that Microsoft threatened people [1] trying to hack the Kinect and now treat it as some gift to the world [2].

And one of the things that people don't seem to point out is how much money Microsoft has invested in things like Xbox that has never been recouped.

In my definition for company A to leapfrog company B they have to both create a new industry leading product and two they have to successfully exploit that market for business gain. Microsoft 'leapfrogged' Xerox PARC because they made a successful product out of a windows + mouse based environment. But they haven't 'leapfrogged' Apple or Nintendo or Sony with respect to telephony or video games.

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20021836-52.html

[2] http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2011/06/16/official-...
Note that he's rebranding it as a lottery. Something of a half lottery & half game of chicken. If you withdraw too early, you earn some, but not much, if you withdraw too late, you risk losing all your investment.
I'm worried in a few years LastPass could become a target, and now instead of someone having a password that 'could' be shared among your multiple accounts, you have now given the complete keys to the city by listing all of your logons great and small in a central repository.

This central repository then becomes a very appealing target.

I say this as a LastPass user, as I think it is the best of the current offerings, but I'm uncertain how to shield this huge central list. I wish it had multiple logon PW so that you could at least segment the risk and reduce the time the high PW is used to when you really need it.
The first one ramps up memory use like crazy (which I was trying to avoid) and the second one is much better with memory, but you need to move the sha1_hex into the BEGIN block or you're recomputing the hash for every line parsed, thrashing your CPU. Interesting use of 'shift' though, I didn't know you could modify the file argument to -n like that.
A password I used many months ago (maybe almost a year now?) was in the list, but the password I use currently for many months was not on the list interestingly enough. This list is possibly pretty old, which means it happened quite a while ago.
I think this applies here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
Single Source and 360 Degrees
Seems like Google announced this event out of pure fear, then only later scrounged up some content for it.
HBO Says No, for Now, to Fans Who Want a Web-Only Option
We use this in our admin section. It's definitely a time saver and a sweet tool, although appearance and behavior customizations are a bit of a pain.
That would be pure awesomeness.
Ah, so it's like an authorized version of Mobile Atlas Creator and TrekBuddy.
Nice, I was just checking out the post about "Select Boxes with Chosen" thinking to myself, I need a way to find awesome new plugins like this because I tend to build everything myself and feel I am just wasting time re-inventing the wheel.

I'm checking out the site here, and it definitely is useful to me. I don't know if you are just a user of the site or the developer, but I do have suggestions. I would like to see a rating system. If I download a plugin and don't agree that it's good enough to be considered "best of" I would down-vote it perhaps, or on a star-based system rate it a low number of stars. Then showing the ratings to other users so people can weed out those that may not help them.

Even a way to add comments would probably be interesting, so I could quickly see if someone down-voted but had a specific reason that doesn't apply to my situation, that would be easy to figure out.
If you honestly wonder and question if you're bad programmer, you probably aren't one. Just turn around "if bad" to "how better".

If someone is trying to improve themselves they are at least "not bad". And probably will be good/great some day.
Windows 8 is fucking disaster. So no.

Also: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/06/05/a-de...

This headline makes more sense if the Apple they're leap-frogging over is the Apple of 20 years ago, and they're leap-frogging over them right into a pit of bullshit products.
>Why would the landlord want a middleman in this case?

for the reason I stated, someone to look after the place while multiple Airbnb guests come and go. Otherwise you'll need to pay for a cleaner and check the place every time someone stays. That middleman is taking a lot of the pain of managing a property away from the landlord.
I think what's really interesting here is not what makes a good or great programmer but rather how everybody has different criteria for "greatness". I found this thread more enlightening about the commenters than about greatness.

This isn't that surprising: different people do different things, and their ideal programmer is relative to what they do. Somebody more business oriented would value more maintainable software and good team-working; a hacker type would value "getting things done" and "worse is better"; a more academic type would value novel and nontrivial work. Of course, in reality, what different people value is more nuanced, but the core point remains: there is no single definition of greatness.
One of my clauses is that I can't run a business from my apartment. I know this is meant to prevent me from warehousing or having some kind of showroom type traffic going on - and I am fine doing programming on my own stuff or other projects in my place.