skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is awesome news. The single biggest reason that I initially moved to Chrome, from Firefox, was the memory consumption situation. But lately, Firefox has gotten a lot better, and I've basically switched back to FF now as my primary browser. Hopefully this will make the situation even better.

And that's good for everybody. Competition is a Good Thing and it would be a shame if Chrome become so dominant as to completely displace Firefox. A healthy ecosystem with a great Firefox and a great Chrome, along with IE, Opera, Safari, etc., should benefit everyone in the long run.
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I honestly believe that this is the beginning of the end for the patent system. If this was granted and enforced we would see something along the lines of the advertising mantra: "good advertising the the fastest way to kill a bad product"
Lonely? I agree. Impossible to explain your motivation to those closest to you? Hmmmmm. If you want customers or investors surely you need to learn how to explain your vision and be confident doing so.
Pirates Want To Go Legal But Convenience, Choice & Availability Come First
I don't even need to be drinking, but sometimes I'll fat finger it a few times and get frustrated. The only way I can get logged in is to type really really fast.
not true in the least, the healthiest of my friends from outward appearances eat no fruit or veggies what so ever. Observations on small samples sizes are useless.
Two days before Bill Gates's birthday! Will he be cutting a trapezoidal-window-shaped cake this year?
Our current Shop Setup.

All files are backed up to Time Machine (including DB shares) and Backblaze. Then all files are saved and shared via DB. This covers our asses all over the place, is relatively low cost and works.
>> For Apple, it isn't about the money, though. Stealing Apple tech is an assault on their prestige, so they are unlikely to negotiate licensing terms with Android handset makers, and those handset makers are doomed in this market.

Never saw such a low quality analysis on HN, lately. For Motorola too then maybe it isnt about money, really?
The fact that they did it to hinder competition does not invalidate the assertion that someone else likely would have patented it anyway.

I'd like to think that prior art would invalidate a lot of bad patents; but, prior art is not so clear cut as it seems on the surface.
Buyers of Latest iPad More Likely to Use It for Business
Ask: How to use memcached to handle a large multi-to-multi relationship?
Ask: How to use memcached to handle a large multi-to-multi relationship ?

We are using MySQL and memcached.
We are going to implement a feature "User subscription", which allow our users to subscribe our diff. category of news.

There are two main data query.
1) Get list of User subscribed / unsubscribed this Category. <<It mainly used in Cron Job
2) Get all subscribed Categories by a User

The problem is action 1), the data size will be very large for memcached,
say 10 millions of user x 500 of categories.
If we simply use CategoryId as cache key and the value possibly has millions items, it will caused performance issue to get large cache from memcached servers.

We come up a method, to
- group every X user into pages e.g. categoryA_page1=[user1, user2, ...] ; categoryA_page2=
- maintain a index in memcached e.g. user1_categoryA=page1 ; user1000_categoryA=page2

Please suggest if there is better solutions
The hardest part is getting started
While we can't easily confirm the truth of what happened, we should be able to confirm if the quote from the SkyDrive ToS is accurate. If it is accurate, then it is worth pointing out to people.

I don't think that private file storage services should be snooping in what I'm storing. Their limitations to what I store should be limited to what's legal (they can have stricter limitations to what I share if they want), and they shouldn't be checking every file (even automatically) to see if it looks legal.

I tried to look for the ToS, but it seems that to see them I have to first get a LiveID and agree to the LiveID ToS, so I gave up at that point.
"bad monopolies".. so which monopolies are good?
Experimental musicians use body as instrument
Taking the Weight of a Cluster Off the Graph
I would like to see an Olympic Games that make no assumption as to what the competitors are made of. A competition where robots are allowed to compete as much as humans. To avoid injuries to human athletes, you would probably have to limit it to sports where competitors don't interact with one another, but it would be interesting to see the evolution over the years as robots get better than humans.
They’ll have more of those with Windows 8.
Straight up awesome!
Terpstra Day: giving is for hackers.
Until reading this, and assuming true, I was always impressed with someone who was a "partner" at a VC firm. Thinking of it similar to being a partner at a better law firm vs. an associate. Associates leave if they don't make partner (used to be 7 years but that has changed obviously).

(I mean I was probably 10 when I found out that at a bank everyone is a Vice President.)
I find it interesting that Apple/RIM/Microsoft are backing a company like Rockstar. They couldn't buy the patents themselves because they'd be less valuable, as using them exposes the company to counter-action, so instead they all set up a shell company to act as a patent troll on their behalf. Doesn't this have any traceability? Surely they are business regulations in place to stop this kind of crazy behaviour? If not then there certainly should be.
Perhaps I'm just nieve but if someone has access to the DOM via XSS; isn't CSRF nonces like Django uses pointless?
Ahh, wow. Thanks. This was totally glossed over in the article copy:

We only use 30-character sequences
that correspond to an Euler cycle in the graph shown in
Figure 2 (i.e. a cycle where every edge appears exactly
once). These sequences have the property that every non-
repeating bigram over S (such as ‘sd’, ‘dj’, ’fk’) appears
exactly once. In order to anticipate the next item (e.g., to
show a performance advantage), it is necessary to learn
associations among groups of three or more items. This
eliminates learning of letter frequencies or common pairs
of letters, which reduces conscious recognition of the
embedded repeating sequence [5].
Isn't the point that the released version is expected to behave the same way?
To add to that, the article doesn't make it clear why torture wouldn't work...

One can torture you until you start attempting to input the password and recover it from your neurological pathways. A password is a password, it doesn't matter how you're storing it because it can be retrieved.
>he’s just pioneered a new, improved test for diagnosing pancreatic cancer that is 90% accurate

Without more context, that claim is meaningless. Surely it cannot mean "this test gets the right answer 90% of the time when used on the general population". Nearly 99.99% of people do not have pancreatic cancer, so if I make a program that prints out the sentence "You don't have pancreatic cancer.", then my "test" would have a 99.99% accuracy rate against the general population.
Hopefully you're taking steps to prevent both. But yes, closing the CSRF window and leaving the XSS door open would largely defeat the purpose of CSRF protections.
"Why not acknowledge self-ownership, and just accept that you can do anything you want to yourself."

Not the worst idea... but should someone who has done this have an absolute right to compete in a league with people who agreed not to do this, at least in certain ways?

There's a difference between saying it's illegal to take steroids and saying that if you take steroids, you aren't allowed to compete in the olympics or other sports leagues.
Workers Compensation Claims Boon or Bane?
Reduction of costs in Workers’ compensation claims incurred during the process of medical billing and coding and improving the revenue cycle management process of physicians.
*Correction: and those who didn't assume it to be bollocks generally had not made up their mind one way or the other, and wanted the weapons inspectors to be given time to find out. When they were given the bum's rush out of Iraq by the Coalition, that persuaded many of the fence-sitters the skeptics were right.
It might be a good idea for large companies like Dropbox--or frankly, anyone storing email addresses--to include a handful of (long, random, unguessable) canary addresses in their user DB which sound a high alarm if they ever receive email.
>> can’t be obtained via coercion or torture
"Hi, yes that is a gun to your back, please log in to your system for me"....."atta boy"
There are a couple of things you're not considering. First, the patent-holder could easily (and almost certainly will within the next few years) be Google/Samsung/HTC/... in which case they're not going to let Apple "simply license the tech". Second, if a patent holder gets traction in an attack on Apple, what is their most lucrative option? Hint: It isn't letting Apple negotiate a license.
I guess there is no moral difference, but a practical one of being able to _check it_.

Autoemotransfusion (or however you say in english "inject your own blood") is not the same as taking artifical drugs, but can be checked and it's not allowed.
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Developer looking for a job? Send this HTTP request for more details: PUT thetalented.me/at/work
I'd guess it's the video. You've got about 3.5 minutes to knock it out of the park. Have a dynamite video. If all you bring is a text blurb and some sketchup drawings, you may as well stay home.
How else do you propose they get the word out without Facebook/Twitter etc. buttons?
Apple Turns To A Lottery System For The New iPad's Launch In China
Top Books on Entrepreneurship?
I'd like to learn how to be an entrepreneur. What are some great books on entrepreneurship? These two look promising: amzn.to/OcqNBG and amzn.to/MudHQc.

Any thoughts?
This is a little bit off the subject, but it relates to the topic title at hand, so I thought I would ask it.

I noticed that the web address is gist.io. After searching 4 letter .io domain names, I realized most of them are taken. However, I did stumble upon one common word that has not been taken, and in fact, it matches the same word used in a little start-up project I've been working on (workout and fitness tracking).

Now the question is this: I'm a grad student with relatively little money, and $90 is a lot for a domain name. But if I actually finish my little project, is the value of a 4-letter domain name that is a common word worth the $90?

.io names seem to be getting very popular lately, so I need to make my decision quickly. Thanks for the help!

EDIT: And by the way, I also discovered that nap.io is available. I think HN would have better use for the domain than a name-squatter, so if someone wants to create a sleep app or something, there ya' go.
Man made algae blooms to curb global warming?
As you can see from the number of comments on this subject there is a lot of confusion subject. We make things difficult by talking about bad foods, partitioning, healthy food, etc. People get fat from eating more calories than they burn.
> Bizarre - I submitted this 4 hours ago:
> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4265126
-----

@urbanjunkie: I can't respond to you directly for some reason, but that item is marked as "[dead]" for me.
There's a difference between saying it's illegal to take steroids and saying that if you take steroids, you aren't allowed to compete in the olympics or other sports leagues.

Right, a given sports league should certainly be able to say "we don't allow PEDs" (or cybernetic augmentation or exoskeletons or whatever), while a different league might say "run whatcha brung."

Likewise, the world doesn't owe the PED taking athlete a venue to compete with his PED taking peers. If such a league forms, it forms... if it doesn't, then so be it.
I think the fault is not just the add-on devs. If anything, the add-on SDK should prevent this by default. I'm not sure when Firefox got so memory-hungry and leaky, but it's the single reason I keep jumping around to Chromium and Opera. Really, really hoping that this time is for real. It's not the first time a blog post like this has been posted by Mozilla.
Backbone.js: Hacker's Guide
But is moderate drugs + moderate training worse than extreme training + no drugs?

I guess my point is, that it's ultimately up to each competitor as to how hard they push their body.
> "Don't hate the player, hate the game."

I do hate the game. The game needs to be reformed.

But some players appear too keen to play the game. Not pointing fingers at Apple here; most of them are as bad as each other.

I actually support the idea of software patents and hardware patents and "look and feel" patents; just not how they're implemented now. Something like a 2 year protection would give companies significant advantage, yet still allow smaller players to use the stuff in time.

See the lack of single-handed (software and hardware) keyboards; many of these were attacked by a patent troll. This has harmed accessibility, and has benefited no-one. A two year patent would have given a good faith actor an advantage when producing and marketing their device, and yet allowed other people to compete in time.
"Maybe".
This is unreadable on mobile.
Monopolies are not inherently bad. A monopoly on some good or service might be that way because it provides the best product at a fair price and there's no way somebody else could beat them. It's only when a monopoly starts using its position of power to either unfairly gain advantage in a similar market, start screwing over customers that they become "bad," or some other tactic that ruins competition or hurts consumers.
Just a friendly reminder about the title of the submission from the HN guidelines:
If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
Greenpeace (and cohorts) did...

Photochopped some ads, hosted them, put up a website, made a fake twitter account. Made fun of a company's brand by pointing out the downplayed environmental cost.

Yes, very different.
I updated the post to point this out.
> Translated from patent-speak, this just means that the little position indicator along the side of the display indicates where you are in a document. Further claims indicate that the position indicator disappears when you don't do anything for a minute. Anyone who has seen iOS (or Mac OS X Lion) has seen it.

Or, anyone who has used the default Nokia S60 browser (such as on the E7x series devices).
You can also change the request method with -X.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Hacker News use HTTPS exclusively?
I'm sitting in SF Superior Courthouse, waiting to see if I'll be selected for jury duty, using a public, open wifi network. I can proxy the connection through a VPN for security of course, but I'm wondering why Hacker News, which already supports SSL/TLS (I'm hitting the HTTPS endpoint right now), doesn't use it exclusively. Even some popular sites that operate at large scale (such as Google) are increasingly accepting SSL connections only for many of their products these days.

Would the admins of Hacker News consider making such a switch?
We Are Obsessed With Startups Because of Death
Yeah, I find speed is important too. The quicker you can type it, the easier it is to recall. Another thing, if I slow down I notice i'm sort of humming parts of the pattern in my head, as if each character held a sort of audible weight that indicates where my fingers should go next... again, kind of like playing an instrument. Yet I can't play anything. Weird.
My guess is that the targeting here is aimed more at internet users than at Senators, i.e. it's an attempt to get more people who vaguely care about these issues actively involved in them and feeling that EFF et al represent their interests.
Well, he got me to click over to his startup.
But it would be much lower if these companies were held accountable for the massive environmental impacts that they have (beyond the direct impacts of a spill). Excluding things that are even "debatable" like climate change, pollution and the effects thereof are not. These socialized costs would make oil companies unprofitable.
a) If a tree falls in a forest?
b) Congressional hearings, a revitalization of public interest in conservation, and Shell would be dealing with the fallout for decades.
Just so it's clear, these were individual labs at universities that rejected his request. There are a lot of legitimate reasons they may not have wanted to take him on, including:

-Not enough physical space in lab - most wet labs are crowded with 2-3 people per bench

-No one with enough time to supervise a high school student bumbling around the lab. You basically need a grad student or post-doc babysitting new people (HS student or new grad, doesn't matter) since they don't know where anything is or how to do anything

-Not enough money. Funding has to come from somewhere, and if they don't have money to throw at this particular project they won't.

-Not the focus of the lab. I would hazard a guess that the HS student emailed anyone that was remotely involved in pancreatic cancer or material science. Realistically, there are probably a handful of labs that do this sort of research and the kid just didn't know which ones to email...so he emailed everyone.

-Other. Maybe the professor is teaching? On sabbatical? Already has ten undergrads?
Can we say "congrats MS"!?

A mix of desperation, and having no idea of what you're doing. Hats off for Steve Ballmer

Goog payed 2B for DoubleClick right? Funny thing is that "everybody knew" who DoubleClick was, but I'd say it was hard to find someone to have hear about aQ before the acQuisition.
It is of course a much more refined approach; critically, there never is a stage at which you retain explicit knowledge of the password. With pseudo-implicit passwords (knowing how to type but not quite remembering what), recall is still possible -- either via explicit recall after sufficient deliberation, or via presentation of the input device.

(Neat trick, but reversible password encryption still seems like a massive flaw here...)
Debian/Ubuntu are not competing in the same space. The only reason you would've been running CentOS in the first place would be if you needed redhat compatibility, most likely so you could run a commercial application that was only supported on redhat, most likely an application from oracle themselves.
Crittercism Built First Ever Android NDK Crash Reporter
The news is somewhat less disastrous in that it's because Microsoft had to write down a purchase they made a while ago. So they didn't lose money this quarter so much as acknowledge that they had previously lost a lot of money and put that on their books this quarter.

What's really disastrous, though, is Steve Ballmer's recent comments about how they are determined to compete with Apple on every single front, regardless of whether they have any other reason to be in that portion of the market. This aQuantive debacle is a result of Microsoft trying to do exactly the same thing with Google. With that statement, Ballmer indicated in no uncertain terms that he has learned absolutely nothing from that mistake.
Probably. I approach patents with the default position that any given patent is either invalid or irrelevant. 99.5% of the time I am right.
It sounds ridiculous for a reason. The weakest link in that chain is still the low-entropy password.
The A/B test or phased rollout test works if you have great telemetry (NewRelic, etc) and sufficient traffic that results are statistically sound.

A low traffic site working on MVP releases can synthesize both the OP article and the comment above by "unit testing" the essential functions of the web site from users' browsers point of view. Think Selenium, Watir, PhantomJS, and the like.

http://jquery.bassistance.de/webtesting/presentation.html
> Mrs Ebastian's

more likely Mr Sebastian ... or was that intentional?
He applied techniques that had been used on breast cancer (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21836232) and prostate cancer (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19481922) to pancreatic cancer. The implementation is more impressive than what the vast majority of teenagers or even undergraduates are capable of, but the idea certainly isn't novel.
All other companies typically recognize that nobody ever invented anything on their own and the industry would be dead if products were banned because of infringements. So they settle either for royalties or a cross-licensing deal.

Not so with Apple. They want Android smartphones banned from the market.
It wouldn't necessarily 'just happen'. From what I can glean, the idea is that if you are trying to play the game as well as possible, then the portion that you originally learned would be played better. You could certainly intentionally play the entire game poorly, thereby masking which portion is the password.
It will probably be invalidated anyway since there is prior art. I had a document reader on my old Zaurus that did exactly this.
Updating Sublime Text 2 on Linux Distro
When you are the first to produce something, you have a monopoly over the production until someone else can copy you.
Are you familiar with https://www.apptopia.com/? The site helps facilitate small scale mobile app acquisitions through our marketplace. Full disclosure- I just joined them team at Apptopia, but our company can provide you with legal protection, security, escrow services, and a transfer specialist if you do decide to go through with the process.

As a side note, we also specialize in app valuation, so no matter what you decide to do I can help you understand how much your app is really worth if you shoot me a quick email with any stats.

In response to your last question, my advice would be to ask yourself how serious you are about integrating the app with your shopping experience. You should assess your future goals relative to mobile and reevaluate once you have an accurate valuation of your app.
Microsoft also does (and makes $8 per android phone sold due to patents). You better be swapping to Linux to develop then.
In addition, keep in mind that MD (software raid) does not support discards. In contrast, the logical volume manager (LVM) and the device-mapper (DM) targets that LVM uses do support discards. The only DM targets that do not support discards are dm-snapshot, dm-crypt, and dm-raid45. Discard support for the dm-mirror was added in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1.

Red Hat also warns that software RAID levels 1, 4, 5, and 6 are not recommended for use on SSDs. During the initialization stage of these RAID levels, some RAID management utilities (such as mdadm) write to all of the blocks on the storage device to ensure that checksums operate properly. This will cause the performance of the SSD to degrade quickly.

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6...
It seems a little strange that they want their users to put hosted JavaScript on their sites. Just doesn't feel like "freedom" to me. Couldn't they control a lot of sites or steal information by changing that script to something malicious?
That's more of a bug than a feature when you're the one under duress.
Is mobile photo sharing still broken? Kicksend (YC S11) thinks so.
That's true. I think another way the video distinguishes good projects from bad ones it that it takes planning to make a good video. It's not something that just happens overnight, and the projects that take the time to plan out a great video also tend to be projects that planned out a great product/marketing plan.
Thank you. That works!