skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related question: If a (non-weapon) device is shipped containing a GPL-derived program which includes a copy of the source, but destroys it on arrival, does that obey the license?
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Moderators got killed? Did I misread that or do we need a title change here?
Please read your references...

The bcrypt key derivation function requires a larger (but
still fixed) amount of RAM and is slightly stronger
against such attacks, while the more modern scrypt key
derivation function can use arbitrarily large amounts of
memory and is much stronger. (wikipedia)

Basically they recommend PBKDF2. This does not mean that
they deem bcrypt insecure; they say nothing at all about
bcrypt. It just means that NIST deems PBKDF2 "secure
enough" ... On the other hand, bcrypt comes from Blowfish
which has never received any kind of NIST blessing (or
curse). (stackexchange)

The general consensus here over the past few months/years is that bcrypt is good enough, scrypt is probably better, and PBKDF2 is pretty good. And that ALL of them are much better than hashing+salt.
> People need to grow far thicker skin when it comes to words.

I prefer this viewpoint: "a culture where the only people able to contribute to the national conversation are thick-skinned, insensitive, white, straight males who can repel or ignore this ugly trench of abuse is not a culture any thinking person should want to live in." http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/laurie-pen...

I also suspect that turning this into a conversation about spam and how this happens to everyone would be classed as "derailing"
The idea of marriage as a sacred rite and institution is far more universal and fundamental to Christianity than prohibitions on gambling. I don't think your model of Christianity is very good.
Nice website! Do you have any plans to add server hardware to the lists?
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That's what I've been thinking as well. This might be an unintended consequence if SpaceX is able to reliably deploy the reusable rockets they are drawing today. It might actually require less energy to launch a passenger vehicle above the atmosphere and let it glide/freefall all the way to the destination than it does to push the same vehicle through the atmosphere. I haven't actually done any calculations, though. It would be interesting to see how much energy it would require per passenger to get such a vehicle to a suitable altitude and speed for intercontinental flight. For instance an aircraft powered with combustion engines, with booster rockets attached.
I doubt it is a tunnel. I imagine it'd be more like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersed_tube

(San Francisco's rail connection across the bay uses this technique)
HN is changing...
Where can I find more of these questions?
django-twostepauth (https://bitbucket.org/cogni/django-twostepauth/src/79bbf0ce3...) is a Django app that works really well and has an exampleapp that makes it as easy as can be to try out. Setting up TFA with Google's authenticator is a breeze.

Unfortunately, the release of Django 1.4/django-registration 0.8 (https://bitbucket.org/ubernostrum/django-registration/src/27...) complicates matters a bit, and I'm torn between figuring out a way to keep my TFA or just roll it back altogether and implement d-r, and see if it has support for TFA.

If you're using Django 1.3 with something else than the default password-hashing, you should check out django-TSA.
No, that's another post. If you click through to the parents post you'll see it marked as dead.

This is the post you're talking about: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4101992

Edit: Why is this downvoted heavily? It appears pretty obvious to me that the parent is mistaking two posts.
Not that Newegg sells them, but I've had bad luck with Monoprice's analog cables (1/4" or XLR).
The Concorde made day-trips US/Europe possible, but had to face the fact that there simply is no satisfying market for such high prices. And submarine vacuum trains would be much more expensive than a plane on steroids.
It is a thing, and I have it.
You seem to be confusing political stance with GPL legal language. GPL legal language, due to the way copyright works, may not allow the author to control usage - even though Affero GPL comes close. But mere fact that the ASP scenario is called a "loophole" and mere fact that Affero GPL exists suggests that the use of improved software without distribution of the improvements is considered something that needs to be discouraged.

You missed the point of the analogy. The point was that if somebody gives away his work for charitable reasons without any strings attached, and somebody else demands that whoever uses that work behaves in certain way that is politically approved by the giver - the latter has little base for claims of moral high-ground over the former. It is an empirical fact that restrictive licenses like GPL lead to more friction in integrating various software projects, often making it impossible to use existing code and requiring to reimplement existing functionality from scratch. Again, this is fine if the goal is certain political action and not just improving the world of software available.

You of course are entitled for compensation for your work, and entitled to choose in which form it comes. However I do not see a base for claiming that your requirement of compensation somehow morally superior to both people that prefer monetary compensation and people that do not require any compensation at all and allow their work to be used freely by anybody.
This explains, when you look in your git repository for who created a bug...

When you find it and it's by someone else, it was obviously a stupid, idiotic error that you would never make.

When you find it and it's your own, it was obviously an understandable mistake that anybody could have made.

Particularly if you consider yourself a great coder.

:)
That's a pretty interesting way to look at it. It also makes sense given that it'll take longer than that to exploit our own solar system, given that it's got millions of times the accessible resources of Earth.
That's ridiculous!

Obviously, use a micro SD card, it's much smaller and easier to stick somewhere.

Come to think of it, would that actually be heat resistant enough to allow the receiver to be able to read it? Hmm, perhaps some more research is necessary after all.
Meta submission with 472 points marked as 'dead'. This is bad.
"Moderators of HN: please stop changing post titles" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102013)
Kayak could copy this UX in a day if they wanted. I don't think even $15mm (even if it was all spent on marketing) is going to see much of an uptick for hipmunk. I bet priceline, kayak, etc. spend close to that a month.
Meta threads have traditionally not fared that well. They don't all get axed, but many do.
I've had this problem too. They are way too overzealous about this.
Yes, it may work but this is yet to be implemented or standardized.
The dichotomy is not "nice to have" vs. "must have" -- it is whether the threat is "visible" vs. "invisible" when it concerns privacy and security for consumers.

Phone calls being massively scanned by a national security organization are an invisible threat. Consumers don't worry about it.

But consumers will pay for anti-virus software because it's in their face.

Another great example is personal shredders. I remember a skit, perhaps it was on Saturday Night Live, where the kids had to throw dad's incriminating papers into the "family shredder", portrayed as a ridiculous appliance for a family to own.

In the years since we started to hear a lot about identity theft, and then Fellowes created a billion dollar market for personal shredders. Is a personal shredder a "must have"? No way. The risk is very low, and there are so many better ways for thieves to get ID info in bulk. But ID theft is highly visible; you hear about constantly.

While I agree that it is hard sell for the consumer market, if it should somehow became highly visible (like a wikileaks dump of millions of recorded calls as another person suggested here), then sales could fly out the door.
Quite a few Erlang gotchas in those notes. Fault tolerant systems are really hard to design even when you know what you're doing and are using the best language for it (Erlang). Erlang aside, it seems the higher level architecture may need a rethink if one bad record can bring down the whole thing.
> Such a game made today could be brilliant.

It has been done: Balance of Power 21st century
http://indiegames.com/2009/03/freeware_game_pick_balance_of....

Found via the wikipedia page of Chris Crawford:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Crawford_(game_designer)
Irony abound!
Converting a NY railway into an elevated park
Great idea and above all great execution.

One suggestion to improve the UX: rename "contact" to "email me", it's not obvious this tab will act differently than others and a lot of people don't use the email client installed on their computer.
do we all think about the same thing at the same time or does Jonah Lehrer read HN religiously?

i _just_ watched that talk a couple of days ago because it was posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4082308
It violated the policy of "no criticism of Hacker News". :P
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R.I.P. Moderators.
That was fascinating. "Reading the sequences" also gives off this vibe that feels like ordering Scientology texts.
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472 points in less than 2 hours, 37 comments mostly expressing civil agreement ... clearly this is a topic HN shouldn't be discussing.

I hope it was just a software glitch of some kind.
I thought we were discussing 1984 in another thread... it seems applicable here too. sigh
As a side, I thought the blue line gives it an awkward imbalance.
>> they are a profitable company

Citation? SEC filings say they are losing money at a rapid clip.
First off, I agree that the SAT is not a good indicator of intelligence. That being said, this argument is missing the point:

> Beethoven would not have gotten a perfect score on his SAT's. However, we all can attest to his innovation, creativity and musical genius. How can a multiple choice test measure the creative abilities of people like Sir Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, or Pablo Picasso?

These tests are not meant to measure creative abilities. They are meant to measure the ability to solve math, reading comprehension, and writing problems. The SAT is used as one of several criteria in the college admissions process, NOT to try to predict who will be on a short list of history's most innovative people.
This is ridiculous. It had 472 upvotes. Moderators, please do not respond to criticism this way.
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This is classical geek owning up. My first thought was, this is written with two purposes:

1) to prevent the average, non-technical person from understanding it ("Phew, I'm glad these guys are figuring out this stuff and not me - that's why I host with them. I don't even know what a 'dyno manifold' is!")

2) to show management how smart we are and that you still need us ("because who else is going to figure this 'routing mesh' stuff out if you fire those responsible for the outage")

A simple "we're sorry and we've given 10 lashes to the engineer performing the manual garbage collection" may have been a better approach.

Having said that, I still think Heroku is awesome.
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It's the Music Publisher's Association (MPA) that cares about tabs and copyright infringement. The relevant wiki link for some case studies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablature#Legal_issues
Fun fact: The original Civilization actually had it hardcoded into the AI that if the player was in the lead when the year 1900 was reached, all the AI would declare war on her.

It's slightly less obvious in the later games, but there are definitely still diplomatic penalties for the human player such that the AI are less likely to make deals with them and more likely to declare war.

Anyone interested should read Soren Johnson's blog (http://www.designer-notes.com/). Soren was lead game designer and AI programmer on Civilization IV, and he actually designed the ruleset and the AI hand-in-hand, so that they would have a game the AI could actually play well.
How do you professionally say no?

This is one of the harder things for me when starting on a contract. I dont want to appear pushy and turn them away nor interested in going back to negotiating.

Ps. I am from south asia so I also think there is a expectation of a need for haggling.
Seriously. CHECK IT OUT! WE SAY SWEAR WORDS. U CAN RELATE 2 US.
It appears pretty obvious to me that the parent is joking.
A well-developed AI is not without merit. Many players enjoy higher difficulty settings despite the added time/effort needed to complete a task due to a greater feeling of accomplishment. A good AI can offer the same inflated sense of reward.

Playing Diablo III recently was a poignant reminder to me of how badly RPG developers need to consider fleshing out their AI. In the endgame kiting again predictably emerged as the dominant strategy; developers are apparently oblivious to as to how to prevent the epidemic. Is it not worth it to program some basic responses to being kited by a player?
5 times the speed = 25 times the kinetic energy (per kg). And that is for the 'slow' one. At 4000mph, it is more like 64 times. And yes, this only talks of a 6-person capsule, but I think you would need to send quite a few of them through that tube to make it economically feasible. You wouldn't need to bring explosives to destroy the tunnel. Just have enough to have a 10 kg or so part drop from one of those capsules.
Who the fuck are the mods? Surely the most qualified people to be mods who use HN are far to busy and productive to change post titles.
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It's silly that you got downvoted, but I think the parent was tongue in cheek.
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Calvin Harris (producer of the song) is hands down the worst DJ I have ever seen in action. No feeling for the audience and horrible noise.
I think you may want to check out how Maneesh Sethi wrote his programming books when he was a teenager. www.hackthesystem.com
He was joking. You missed it. I am trying to behave, so I deleted my reply saying "and all the comments were also edited as part of the cover up..."
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>Too: proprietary solutions cannot (at a sustainable price point) compete with the quality of free.

That depends entirely on the community behind the free solution, and what class of software it is. For instnance, I'm not aware of a FOS document management system which would compete with, say, Paperport or DevonThink (Windows and Mac systems, very proprietary).
It looks like HN moderators behave very similarly to politicians. Better hide the evidence, ban all the posts that try to expose the evidence.

Even small power corrupts.
This paper appears to assume that no revolutionary changes in energy production make it vastly more available. Am I misreading it? With projects like polywell fusion reactors[1] showing great promise, I'm not sure if the conclusions drawn on that assumption are very predictive.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell
I'm quite saddened that certain people in HN have lost their sense of humor.
Some of these aren't entirely a bad idea, unlike .museum and .aero that were surely peyote inspired.

Does anyone know about the parent company's behavior in a general sense? Can't be worse than Verisign, right?
Even if it does, it would be impossible for that effect to completely obscure the correlation between test scores and intelligence.
Actually, since it's 2D, they have to quadruple it.
Signed up (even if the iPad layout is quite horrible :/) As a jack of all trades freelancer (data analysis, web development, advertising, SEO, reporting...) I'm very interested :)
I would phrase this as "bill based on your natural work increment".

If you're working at the thrift store putting price tags on shirts, your timeclock is probably in 5 minute increments. If you're a defense contractor bidding on a major combat platform, your minimum increment is probably ten engineers worth of salary. Anything smaller than "the increment" is probably a rounding error, which is a headache for both parties to track.

For independent software engineers and consultants, I can see reason to bill hourly, half-days, days, or weeks -- based on what's "standard" in terms of project size and work flow for you.
Really? Because it seemed pretty obvious to me that the parent was making a joke... you know... about titles getting changed. (However, I did not down vote you.)
I'd like to hear an actual statement from one of the mods before jumping to that conclusion. You never know. heh.
For every warranty repair I've ever done with a manufacturer they have asked for the HDD to be removed before sending the unit in. As a retailer, or maybe even just a drop shipper in some cases, I just don't see NewEgg doing anything other than replacements.

I certainly wouldn't expect, nor trust, Amazon to do this.
Yeah! She's still tweeting some hilarious stuff on that account.
I would suspect it's more likely that PG etc. have no interest in the politics of HN and just want a community for hackers so the submission was killed because it's never going to be addressed, not because they're "hiding" this problem.
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But it's not like we don't know what happens when you give a public forum accessible to anybody. And the Swedish tourist board must have known it too. The appearance of trolls is inevitable, the question is only when. I'm sure right now thousands of people over the world are thinking "this is trolling? If only somebody would get an access to this to me, I'd troll the hell out of it! People would talk about it for years after!". That's just how it is, you can't expect 100% of people to be mature, civilized and well-behaved.
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This was my first thought as well. Especially since most standardized tests do not include "trick questions" of these sorts (or if they do, they are often painfully obvious), the more "intelligent" are just answering questions quickly thinking they are all straightforward.

The test itself aside, I feel as if often in real life people correlate speed with intelligence, and the "smart" people that we know are the ones that are able to come up with (usually) correct answers quickly. Therefore it makes sense that these smart people would have a lot of heuristics that allow them to do so. To be clear though, the causation here is more complex than what is implied in the article. People who have heuristic strategies are characterized as smart, as opposed to the other way around.
A careful reading will tell you that the article you refer to is normative not descriptive.
Read up on the heroku architecture. These are the terms used.

The manual garbage collection wasn't the problem. An unexpected data structure created by garbage collection wasn't handled in a fault tolerant manner.
Personally, I don't care to read meta posts about HN itself. I would rather read "news for hackers" and not "news about Hacker News." So I am glad that thread got killed, and I would like all these threads complaining about the moderation policy to also get killed. I suspect this view is the "silent majority", because most people who think that way just won't read these meta posts, and will just silently note that there are a lot of boring self-referential stories on HN.
Some meta^2 discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102907
For me (from Germany), the price on Steam is 7,99€.

I'm still probably buying it from the official website because I want to be able to use any custom video player (and as far as I understand, I can't do that with the Steam version).
A large chunk of the costs of projects like this is building the long flat tunnel/level ground over significant distances. The actual costs of building a moderate vacuum is not that significant. Where this project falls down is in the maintenance and safety side of things not the infrastructure to send the first train down the line.

Don't forget every 10m adds 1atm water pressure. Building a glass enclosed under sea walkway 30m down is not that much harder than building one 20m down and these projects are going to be using glass.
Wow, I just read through a couple of those and they look fantastic. I'll bookmark that and read it sometime later.
I'll second the request for good books/articles on the tactical/strategic portion of basketball (also gridiron and soccer)
As long as the songs are not distributed and the database owner owns the songs, then what's the issue? Generic analysis of chord progressions are not copyrightable, altho tabs for specific songs in print probably are, but I don't think these are specific song tabs. (but if chord progressions were software, they'd probably be patentable... sigh).
Speaking as someone who hates flying, it's not the general concept of death that scares me, but everything leading up to it.
For traditional media, it's horrendous. For what comes out of the internet on a daily basis, it's banal.
Clonezilla was the first word that popped into my head when I read the original post. Also helps resale value to put the 'factory' OS back on with the recovery partitions &c.
Rule 1 : You don't talk about the HN moderators

Rule 2 ...
My response is something like this.

"
I feel that my standard rate is justified due to my knowledge, the quality of the code I produce, my flexibility and my ability to learn and pick up new skills and technologies quickly. I have other clients who are paying my full daily rate and they very satisfied with the work I produce.

I completely understand if this is non negotiable. And I realise asking for an increase on the rate you offered may mean I may miss this opportunity to work with some exciting new projects, technologies and people which would be a great shame.
"

Any feedback on the above would be greatly appreciated.
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You're more likely to go back and notice the stupid broken code you wrote, because it disproportionately comes back to bite you later. The good code just works, so you don't notice it as much. Classic selection bias.
The book title A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! has stuck to my memory. It's a 1972 SF (alternate history branch) novel by Harry Harrison, featuring a vacuum/maglev system.

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_tunnel, including reference to Goddard patents on the subject.
My interpretation is that she says jews are normal people. Is that really offensive? Why? Because she mentions that a fraction of jews have a penis?
Agreed - I'm in the same boat. A 500 dollar premium for a a larger SSD is steep, when I'm not particularly interested in the faster proc. Yes, I could use an external HD, but I really don't like having to carry around more than I absolutely have to.
Thanks for the feedback. We're focusing more on the product rather than the website. We'll probably throw it away totally..

Tagline, oh boy that is one hell of a job.
I don't think that's accurate. PG is very much concerned about the social health of HN (and sure politics to some extent), but I'm not clear that either PG or other mods think that threads such as the one under discussion are constructive.
Visualizing the ratio points from the line vs the rest of the floor could be interesting, but it doesn't say much about how they run their offense.

As others noted, free throws occur at the same place every time and would seriously skew the chart - especially for lowpost/longrange players like James Harden.

Maybe a step closer would be showing where a player was fouled that led to shots from the line.