skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least it's an extra data point to show we're not in a startup bubble. If we were, these stocks would be skyrocketing no matter how bad the company was doing.
That's true. However, it's possible to do it with two co-created certificates (http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/12/forging_ssl_ce...), and depending on how the licensing process works, that could easily have been done. I would imagine that the creators of Flame have more than enough computing power to do that.

The articles though seem to be suggesting that the "real" certificates were being granted with too many powers. Microsoft's advisory seems to suggest that both were potentially used (MD5 collisions and overly-broad purposes on real certificates). It's hard to tell what really happened here...
I dig this. I've been using Ember + Rails and it still feels like client-side frameworks are reinventing a lot of server-side wheels because you still need a server-side layer for security, optimization, etc. I've been adding a lot of shims to "just work" in the Rails-world, and having a tightly integrated JS framework for Rails seems like a fantastic idea.

Models on the client are likely to be slightly different (I wouldn't do image resizing on the client, for example) and so the one-size-fits-all approach (Node.js Models running on server OR client, magically) doesn't work either.
"This may just mean that Java developers are poor at estimating LOC"

Surely he must have a FactoryOfFactoriesFactory class in there to make factories of his factory factories. That's at least 1k LOC right there!
AT&T is sharing your CPNI data; wants you to decide if creepy.
AT&T sent out notices to customer letting them know they need to opt out or they will be sharing CPNI data for marketing.
Well, there's always some genuine configuration that contains the actual differences between environments, like DB connection and API keys, and which isn't going to be part of the automated build.

But that's a tiny subset of what architecture astronauts try to label "configuration".
Maybe it's my limited understanding of finance, but I have trouble understanding why people thought it was a good idea to invest in a coupon company in the first place.
As a reporter! These are all VERY real considerations, and very very VERY common. i wrote stories that contributed to a few local elected officials getting the boot. I've had people threaten legal action on my stories too. There are lots of things most people never see/think about concerning journalism. (edit: while there are some reporters who are assholes and who relish getting people fired, most decent ones agonize over whether they are reporting accurately and fairly. Such was the case with Woodward and Bernstein).

Also, the local news thing Buffett talks about is so true. Why would you run national news in a local paper people are buying when folks can get it free from CNN ? or a blog?

I think there's a healthy mix that hasn't really been found yet. The NYT has a decent model of 10 articles a month that seems to have been working well so far. I also really like the thing that that foreign company "Piano" is doing (I had a very similar idea. It's like cable subscriptions but for newspapers).

I'm not ready to say newspapers are dead yet, but they're mighty close, especially if they don't come up with a new business model. =\
That seems extraordinarily unlikely, speech is var better at conveying abstraction than pictures (though pictures have a higher bandwidth).

http://catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/gui-programmer.html
I thought stackable switches provided HA with minimal fuss, and I fail to see what's kludgy in that. I don't see any reason for bonding gigabit connections at this age where 10G connections are readily available, although afaik stacking usually is done via proprietary high-speed links.
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I think arguments over whether this will be better than the Wii U completely miss the real issue: direction. Where things are going. Companion devices through smart phones and tablets will commoditize the proprietary Wii U hardware very quickly.

Nintendo will be pushed out of the hardware business with this generation and will pull a Sega and become a software only company. They don't have pockets deep enough to afford even a single big hardware miss, and the Wii U will be a miss.

Even stronger companies like Sony are finding it dangerous to stay in the gaming hardware business. If the PS4 doesn't sell well enough, it's questionable whether there will be a PS5 given the horrible condition Sony is in (for reference, their stock is roughly, inflation adjusted, where it was 25 to 28 years ago).

Just my opinion, but I believe Sony and Nintendo will fade in the hardware business, and Valve will replace one of them. The winners will have very large online communities, neither Sony nor Nintendo have that going for them, whereas Valve and Microsoft do.
Fair, my statement was overly broad. Sites that are read-only or store blob data in something like S3 can often avoid sharding for quite a while and rely on machines to just get bigger over time.

That said, if your site grows in some way you didn't originally anticipate and you get to a point where you need to shard, but can only do so by changing data stores, then it's sad.
If you want your Pry experience to be even more SLIME-like, try combining it with vim and tmux. You can write code in vim, and send arbitrary lines or blocks to the terminal for seamless execution. This has changed how I do a lot of things, not just Pry: it's really handy for putting together bash scripts, for example.

(self-link) http://www.alanmacdougall.com/blog/2012/03/27/using-vim-slim...
I actually never restart my iMac. Once every 3-4 months I'd say. And not because it crashed, because I need to for software updates.
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Improbable things happen pretty often in the universe :)
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The problem is it's hard to measure actual entropy. You can make a reasonable approximation (vs. a dictionary, and looking at the total character set) -- then, if you can, display the strength in some graphical way (ideally with a list of suggested rules which get checkmarked as the passphrase satisfies them). Still. "one TWO 3 +our" has less entropy than this would suggest.

I generally set an absolute minimum of 6-8 characters, not equal to username, site name, or a set of common passwords (including "password"). Sometimes require one (or two or three) of uppercase, number, or symbol for short passwords (i.e. stop requiring it if it is longer than 12 characters).

However, when a standard (or company policy) requires something like DIACAP, I'll enforce it in the pw creator. The absolute worst thing is when policy changes, and an allowed password becomes disallowed -- if it just expires and needs to be changed, that's one thing, but I've had sites where my long, special-case-laden passphrase worked in some login routines but didn't work in things like the password update routine (!!!).

For anything internal, I consider passwords basically unacceptable as an authentication mechanism alone; there must be PK or some kind of two factor auth.
Posted a few days ago with lots of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4047807
Mainly because you aren't appreciating how tech-savvy you are.
You can in fact bond for 2gbps if you are on two different switches, in two completely different ways.

One way involves the use of cisco stacking switches, allowing you to use 802.3ad between two independent 'stacked' switches. You can also use the external PSU to provide redundant power to each switch (giving each switch redundant PSU's and having each switch redundant).

The second involves the use of the linux bonding driver in balance-rr configuration. This has a slight bug with the bridge driver in that it sometimes won't forward ARP packets, but if you're just using it as a web head or whatever, you don't really care about those.

The 'big boys' do use ibgp/etc. internally, but that's for a different reason: At large scale you can't buy a switch with a large enough MAC table (they run out of CAM), so you have routers at the top of your rack that then interlink. You can still connect your routers with redundant switches easily enough with vlans and such (think router on a stick).
Or a bank loan.
simple and straight but i only find the last paragraph meaningful.

Just to add on , aim to create value, the money will eventually flow in.
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Who writes this crap? Facebook doesn't compete with online newspapers for mobile advertising and people don't check online newspapers for sporting news.

Maybe I'm thick, but this make no sense:
"Facebook, like so many other social media ventures, needs mobile marketing revenues to prosper. Buffett, who just bought 63 newspapers from Media General (NYSE: MEG) for the holdings of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A), will be maximizing the digital editions of the publications. That puts Warren Buffett right where Facebook is not only heading, but needs to be."
I agree. I was expecting more insights.
This is not a theory - it's exactly what happens.

Even a case where an innovation decreased market efficiency (of this does happen - all players would love to have a monopoly), the trend is for the market to work towards increased efficiency.

I'm no hard-core libertarian, but unless you have outside interference in a market - big tire 5 use government to mandate a tire-selling license that presents a barrier to entry - or one of those markets that lead itself to creating natural monopolies, this is the way things work.
Speech in conjunction with diagramming is more powerful than either alone. There's a reason most software companies' supply cupboards are stocked with dry-erase markers and notepads.

I'd be disappointed if our hypothetical AI was unable to grok simple diagrams or generate its own. If a conversation with this entity can still be called programming, I can definitely see it having a visual element.
Or de-normalize and keep your data serialized but also keep an additional index of data you want to query.
Not these days, unless you have a significant investment of your own to make. You're lucky if you can get an operating loc from the bank.
Shopping for coreboot devices is frustrating. Google returns products containing pictures of legs.
Nintendo has a large bag of cash and a huge fanbase that will buy any console with Mario and Zelda. Will it repeat the Wii? Probably not, but that's a tough act to follow. People predicted doom with the N64. Nintendo followed that up with the Gamecube, another failure. They still survived enough to make the biggest selling console by far. With them making money on every unit sold (something MS and Sony don't bother with), even if no one bought any games they still made piles of dough. Nintendo will sell at least enough to keep going. The casual market is huge.

Sega wasn't in good financial shape to begin with, at a time when games were difficult to sell. They lost their retail partnerships by launching console after console to compete with themselves. Sega had zero credit to ride on when they folded. Nintendo will survive.
Same here, he took a bit long so I became a pocket user.
To be fair to Pocket it would be better to say Instapaper is a simile of it, as Read-It-Later (Pocket's original name) was first.

edit: Read-It-Later was a web service initially. The idea behind it is the same as Instapaper. Instapaper released a mobile app before Read-It-Later (though Read-It-Later was around as early as 2007).
Wouldn't that kind of defeat the purpose of using a document database in the first place? Being able to throw unstructured data into the system, and then being able to query on that data once the space is better understood is where the document databases really shine.

If you are able to start with rigid structure, you, in many cases, could have just used a relational database to begin with.
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That certainly seems to be the case, but I'm not sure that it was the intention.
One quick thing I noticed playing around creating a demo app - the generator seems to have generated some incorrect haml in the layout that it creates. First, it has "javascript:" instead of ":javascript" for the filter, and once that was fixed I noticed that I had to change 'window.preload' to 'window.joosy' to get things to work.

Other than that I'm liking what I see so far.
The DOD had two "better-than-Hubble" space telescopes just sitting around.
It does more than Instapaper though I think. As far as I can tell Instapaper doesn't handle video like Pocket does?

(I've been using Pocket since before it was Read-It-Later on my iPhone and paid for it on iOS and again after switching to Android, maybe Instapaper does more now).
That's just an assertion based on idealized economic theory; not evidence that things work that way in particular situations. In particular, you haven't explained why there are either a priori or strong empirical reasons to believe that greater market participation never produces adverse effects. Evidence from nearly every other complex-systems discipline, ranging from hydraulics to meteorology to ecology, points in the direction that such "well-behaved" systems characterized by general relationships, valid in all regimes, are quite uncommon; and instead "phase-change" type thresholds at which behavioral regimes change are the norm.
FWIW, my team has both written large-scale and high-performance distributed applications using Perl. In fact, we've even done it mostly IN Perl with just tiny bits of C sprinkled here and there. Runs on millions worth of relatively commodity hardware in several data centers across the globe. The only threading going on is at the C level, though.

Your point about these comparisons being dubious (paraphrasing) is perfectly valid, by the way.
There was a very interesting panel on that subject at the last WorldCon. Disclaimer: I have done no serious study of the actual Amish people and everything I think I know beyond what's current in popular culture comes from one visit to an Amish community 9 years ago and the contents of that one WorldCon panel. But according to that background, they don't enforce a single unchanging limit on their technical level. Rather, they exercise extreme caution in adopting new technologies- new technologies can be adopted, but only after consideration of all of the possible social side-effects of doing so and general consensus that it results in a net positive. Thus, different communities have different technological restrictions (or perhaps it would be better framed as "different technological allowances"). Other communities operating under the same kind of social system could have wildly different distributions of technology depending on the details of the founding culture.
I think your start-up is going to be huge, and I'm willing to help in whatever way possible. to help you out even more, I'll just take a little equity as compensation. but let's not hassle with it now, lets just wait until I can stop your financing or sale with the threat of litigation to figure out how much. it will work out great, promise :)
Can someone explain how two telescopes meant to focus on relatively close targets, without any cameras inside, are "better" than a Hubble? What metric are they using?
I didn't have the time to study the project in depth, but it looks very promising, well documented, and it also looks like an approach that I was looking for in other frameworks. Thanks!

Seeing the care you put into your website, I would suggest an addition. If you could create a video like the classic "a blog in 10 minutes" - or "a TODO list in 10 minutes", considering that that is the reference for js frameworks - and feature it in the home page I think it would really help. In my opinion you should give the demonstration of your benefits first, and the theory later ;)
As a user of both (though it's been awhile since I've used Instapaper) I think Pocket does more than Instapaper (handles videos), I'm also curious to hear what Instapaper does better, if anything.
The transfer of wealth is in fact the creation of wealth in 99% of cases, otherwise you are talking about charity.

There is no "good" wealth creation, nor is there "bad" wealth creation. It just simply is. A tornado is a horrible event, but it creates wealth.

You are conflating simple wealth creation - the idea of providing value that wasn't previously there - with innovation and/or human progress. That's simply a misunderstanding of the term when used in the context of economics.
I didn't mean to say it's the most revolutionary idea in guitar manufacturing history, just that it was a massive positive step ecologically, and the RnD budget for it was $0.
"We have already seen that a TTY device may be configured to give certain data bytes a special treatment. In the default configuration, for instance, a received ^C byte won't be handed off to the application through read(2), but will instead cause a SIGINT to be delivered to the foreground job. In a similar way, it is possible to configure the TTY to react on a stop flow byte and a start flow byte. These are typically ^S (ASCII code 19) and ^Q (ASCII code 17) respectively. Old hardware terminals transmit these bytes automatically, and expect the operating system to regulate its flow of data accordingly. This is called flow control, and it's the reason why your xterm sometimes appears to lock up when you accidentally press ^S."

A 12-year-old mystery to me is finally solved.
Groupon now worth less than the $6 billion Google offered.
What you have here might be valuable information, but you've presented it in possibly the worst format imaginable for the Internet.
That semi-animated green card advertisement is annoying and caused me to close the website tab before I really had a chance to look around.
There will still be a need for hydrocarbon extraction. We use oil and gas as feedstock for all sorts of chemical production from fertilizer to plastics. Plus we'll still be using oil for things like air travel and military operations.
I would never have done that, from either side of the table. But it brings up a good question: when is a "pivot" a new company altogether?
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> Demanding stronger sexual harassment laws is a legitimate request,

There are some things that can be dealt with more appropriately at a different level than the legal level. In the US, we have a fairly strong concept of freedom of speech. There are certain hurtful, hateful things that you are legally allowed to say. But that doesn't make them welcome at a private event. And that doesn't mean that people who say them to other people at a bar meetup related to an event should continue to be welcome at that event. We can put higher standards on what is acceptable behavior than merely that which is legal.

> but trying to paint the tech community as misogynist because of some random bar encounter is in my opinion unacceptable.

I am very unclear where you saw anyone painting the tech community as misogynist. One person complained about one event, and the fact that the organizers didn't have an effective policy in place for how to deal with that situation. She is recommending certain changes that could avoid this problem in the future, and her employer is supporting her by lending some weight to her complaint. This isn't painting the tech community as misogynist, and if we want to solve these kinds of problems, we need to avoid making those kinds of sweeping generalization and brushing off real problems just because someone misperceives a fairly narrow complaint as painting an entire wide group of people as misogynist.
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No, but now it's in "I really gotta think about it" territory.
Agreed. It's planned already in fact. Just need some more hours in a day :)
I know i'm not really adding anything to this discussion by posting this, but I just want to say this thread here is an excellent analysis. If I could sum up the plight of newspapers in a few paragraphs, i would pick this and its few parent comments.
From the website I couldn't find if Proxmox VE 2.0 is also available for free. If not free then that step would add a minimum of €119.90/year.
That is really a fantastic example of proper execution of full transparency. Privacy concerns are increasing and the best way to combat that is for the company to be fully transparent. But executing full transparency in a way that is meaningful to users is really difficult when it is hidden in a policy dense with legalese.

These guys are doing an excellent job of explaining what can be pretty confusing to an average user in plain and simple language.
Anything will do - the N type is large enough that you can fix the bulkhead to the can wall securely.
BNC tend to be a through hole and nut which is hard to fix square to the side of a can.

You can even make a bigger hole and put an entire USB wifi dingle in the can at the correct position but it takes a bit of trial and error because you don't know where the antennea is inside the plastic
But the same is true for MongoDB. If you're querying an attribute of a document that isn't indexed, Mongo has to scan all of the Documents in the collection for it. The solution to this is to have additional indexes on any attributes you want to be able to query by. This holds true both in Mongo and this Postgres implementation.
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Honestly, it has little to do with finance, and much to do with hype. It's not about fundamentals. It's about what the stock will be trading at in a month. If there was a track record of dog crap selling for twice its value every week, you would be stupid not to buy, right?! Sometimes there's just a bubble of one.
"forget server code" comes at a price: tying yourself to a 3d-party proprietary user database for security. That will be an acceptable tradeoff only for some developers... but not the kind with a lot of money to spend. As they start worrying about revenue I predict that the Parse and Firebase of the world will have no choice but to allow execution of arbitrary server-side validation... so much for "forget server code".
The enthusiast market + the small business market for Linux is so small that no significant manufacturer builds Linux laptops for the consumer segment. The enthusiast Linux tablet market will probably be rather smaller.
A true cable box killer? Maybe, but this poorly written article fails to supply any supporting details to the stated argument in the title. How are "a whole lot of new media apps" for the Xbox going to kill cable? I'd like to believe this is true, but the article lacks all of the details.
Sexual harassment does happen, but very few people talk about it in public. In fact, most people don't even talk about it in private. It's very much possible that it is common, but noone ever told you about it (except for bloggers who are not ashamed of speaking up).
Perfect. Keep up with the great work!
That's not even a response to what randomdata said. S/he observed, correctly, that switching strategies until you succeed does not imply that you were not lucky. On the other hand, we can demonstrate extremely strong correlations between very specific applications of effort/skill and success at getting PHDs and marathons.
I haven't tried it, but I think you would be able to use a PostgreSQL functional index (i.e. indexing the result of a function call to extract a particular bit of data from the JSON.)

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/indexes-expre...
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Variations on this line of commentary have been passed around for over a decade. 'Commoditization' of Nintendo hardware is almost irrelevant; no hardware innovation has gone uncopied for long. The core selling point for Nintendo hardware has always been Nintendo software.
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