skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that you can still do all of that stuff even on staticly allocated memory.

The other limitation in a lot of these systems is the underlying virtual memory system and some times there isn't one. Memory fragmentation issues are a huge problem when you have a couple kB to a few MB of physical RAM and a limited VM subsystem.
Here is the list; You tell me.

Keep in mind though; you can answer anything you want. Use a 1password generated string for each and store the answers redundantly. That's what I did.

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What was the first car you owned?

Who was your first teacher?

What was the first album you owned?

Where was your first job?

In which city were you first kissed?

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Which of the cars you’ve owned has been your favorite?

Who was your favourite teacher?

What was the first concert you attended?

Where was your favourite job?

Who was your best childhood friend?

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Which of the cars you’ve owned has been your least favorite?

Who was your least favourite teacher?

Where was your least favourite job?

In which city did your mother and father meet?

Where were you on January 1, 2000?
Entrepreneurs Better Enjoy Getting Their Hands Dirty
Http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=xa-4ab35cdb368044b2
I'll confess, I honestly didn't even consider the possibility that the hacker just social-engineered Apple support. I mean, Mitnick wrote an entire book about that kind of stuff, and the whole HBGary thing went down in sort of the same way, but ... still, to be able to call up the support department of a major technology (!) company, in 2012, pretending to be someone else and get access to their account that way? Apple didn't send a text message to his number-on-file? They didn't try a callback? Were there any challenge-response questions at all?

That's absurd.

This should make every iCloud user reeeeeaally nervous.
There are very successful Japanese and other Asian gaming companies on other networks and for mobile which could have been noted as alternative examples in the article. They seem to provide a better gaming experience for their users, though its not much removed from the Zynga model, there does often seem to be a higher quality to those games.

For myself, I'd much rather play games on Brettspielwelt* than supposedly social games on FB. The level of play is much higher, its MP with chat, and the strategy games are amongst the hardest boardgames available. Many games can be played in 15-60 minutes and there is no sunk cost or dying crops to force you to continue playing or returning every six hours.

* www.brettspielwelt.de (available with English interface)
Here you can rate if those "fasting" methods/lifehacks works or not: https://didthis-actionwiki.appspot.com/tag/fasting

To create new ones: https://didthis-actionwiki.appspot.com/create, or fork those already in eg. https://didthis-actionwiki.appspot.com/intermittent%20fastin... (just add "/copy" at the end of the action link).
I'm not going to sign up now, but please post it again when we can see it without creating an account.
firefox + the download sort addon is super awesome. no popup window at all, the thing just saves (customizable based on extension)
NASA's Curiosity Zeroes in on the Red Planet
Interestingly, in my experiance the chances that a random CS undergrad is comfortable with git is much higher than the chances of a random dev who has been in industry for a while being so.
Fast too much and your body goes into famine mode, where your fat storage management system is convinced that this month's food catch is low, and it is likely this will be a lean year. Therefore store everything you can to fat and keep energy outputs low. Causing obesity.

When I was 26 ish, i fasted for 3 days. I'm 30 now. Dumbest thing i ever did. I gained weight from that DAY I started eating again forward, and it's been a battle of the buldge ever since.
The East Side needs another subway badly - this will be a great benefit to a great city. Thanks for this link!

New York Magazine has an article that fills in some more of the historical and political context: http://nymag.com/print/?/nymetro/news/features/n_10109/

Slightly related:
As a transport geek, I'm a fan of subways everywhere. I recommend London's excellent Transport Museum in Covent Garden for a great historical perspective on how tunnels and public transportation gets built.

http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/
There are hundreds of millions of people all over the world dying of diseases and starvation. And you are complaining about people complaining about the "download bar"? Are you kidding me?
I live and work in Manhattan. The blasting on the second avenue subway project is so regular that I recently caught myself unconsciously timing my work day by the shaking of the building.
Depending on how you look at it, I believe Amazon is either a single-founder company or a couple-led company.

Either way it makes all stigmas look retarded.
If you look at the source, you shouldn't be surprised. It uses a very small subset of what is present now in html.

It also made me discover that view source was removed from Safari 6 (Without enabling the Developer menu) :(
I'm not sure how to solve this problem

It's easily solved, banks and other institutions have been doing it for years.

The solution is trivial, too: Require physical ID.

In order to open a bank account you have to either show up in person, or provide equivalent proof (e.g. PostIdent).

Why should it be different with cloud-services whose stated goal is to silo all your life's data? Why are they excused on lax security?
I would probably have read this page for the first time in January/February 1993 when I was writing my first html page.

Too bad there are so many broken links now.
Google isnt susceptible to this kind of social engineering attack.

It requires the existence of a customer service in the first place. Good luck trying to call Google.

There is no "magic" solution, there are just solutions. But to suggests its all the same... Thats just lazy.

Apple is more vulnerable, because they do do customer support. Sony was more vulnerable, because they just dint give a shit, and didnt bother anything to secure it.

Microsoft and Google still have a zero incident record. After all this time. They even went beyond their own responsibility many times, getting police involved because they suspected targetted (political) malware.

And no, in the world of formal discrete systems (computers) there are provable correct, and provably incorrect solutions. For example: DRM can always be hacked, but we can secure ourselves from the middlemen.

Any analog with a "door" deserves only ridicule.
very true - but one is not asking you not to eat after a boxing session. One is asking you not to eat anything for the other 16 hours (assuming eating and boxing fall in the 8 hour block) - which is when your body, conditioned by Kellogs, starts sending panic signals.
joke's on me then :)

But back to my point social engineering doesn't require voice. you can do it via email just as easily.
As I've said elsewhere:
"Keep in mind though; you can answer anything you want. Use a 1password generated string for each and store the answers redundantly. That's what I did."
My point wasn't that this particular incident was some great case of industrial espionage. But it's a rather easy slippery slope to that outcome.

But what if your website is secured behind an Amazon EC2 or Linode CSR? Isn't Instagram and Netflix run at least in part on EC2? I have no clue what the security schemes are for either of those service providers, but if they allow CSRs to change passwords, then it's the same thing. If the CSRs can be paid off, or fooled over a phone call, then it might be cheaper to just do that if they want to inflict potentially millions of dollars worth of damage to a rival.

Having the security of your entire business behind a single CSR or a cell phone is the equivalent of millions of dollars worth of Cisco firewalls being outdone by a $20 wifi-router plugged into the internal network.
From what I can tell, Go seems to have about the same concurrency primitives as Erlang, but is much more approachable. Could someone start a new project in Go that would have required Erland a couple years ago?
There have been many, many papers that show that starvation mode does not kick in until after about 36-48 hours of fasting. Intermittent fasting is usually a 16-24 hour fast.
That's Fraser Cain's Hangout. There's also the official SETI Hangout going on earlier than that. Then they'll join Fraser Cain later on.

https://plus.google.com/events/c5otcpguo0im3qmgblsf1fadeqs/1...
No. They just need to implement one of the common protocols. For example, they could just require ID.
Actually, I was talking to a few facebook guys a couple weeks ago and they rewrote the chat app in c++ a few years ago. The primary motivator was that nobody knows Erlang, while most of their engineers already know c++. I found that really surprising coming a from a company that prides itself as having the smartest people around, and, as awesome as Erlang seems, after hearing that I might think twice about using it for a project if there's a possibility that I'd be hiring other engineers to work on it with me.
How Search Engines work?
Do you attribute your three day fast as the only, or main, factor to your 'battle of the bulge'?
Most of the comments here talk about additional advantages of Erlang without commenting on the point of the original article -- which is that servers would move towards multi-core systems where Erlang excels. Of course, this hasn't really happened, because we've moved to cloud services instead, which typically offer a single virtual CPU.

I'm not arguing against Erlang. It's a great language and folks could certainly choose to run it on their own multi-core system or scale across multiple virtual servers. But startups often pick the technology they can get running with minimal investment, then scale from there: a VPS or two with a single CPU and constrained RAM. So although Erlang might be a great long term investment, it requires a lot of RAM up front and hyped features like multi-core support don't matter as much to young startups choosing technology at the early stages.

It would be great to see more discussion about how well Erlang scales across multiple VPS systems -- and not just theoretically, but how many systems you can practically scale across, how it impacts performance, RAM usage, etc. Plus how this would compare to just using an independent messaging queue/bus to accomplish the same thing in another language.
it's not the oldest website... symbolics.com is

this i guess maybe be a replication of the first page published .. or something like that.

could anyone please confirm?
Also relevant, http://farmeron.com from Croatia.
As someone who grew up in a rural part of the UK, I can empathise with how annoying it is to be limited to a 56k connection with daily timed limits (usually around 3 hours or so) to be connected when all of your city dwelling friends have 1mbps broadband.

I wonder if this is as much to do with property values as anything? It must be very difficult to sell a house with no option of fast internet and the modern internet must be basically unusable on 56k.
Based on my experience, that's not how it works at all in practice. They will ask these info about your real identity as recorded in their CRM systems. I doubt you can list your name as BLAH BLAH BLAH there and still receive your package delivered correctly.
It's just the mindset that companies have given them - to rely on advertisers to fund free services.

There's so many ad based websites out there, we often think that paid websites have an ad-supported alternative. Though, the ones which don't and are exceptionally compelling will gain genuine customers.

But how many companies are that?
Following the rest of the discussion, at those points you do what you do with any other tool you use: pop into the manpages for two minutes and figure it out.
I have been waiting for this for quite a while. Very excited about the potential for new discoveries.

Having said that, it still looks like the craziest Rube Goldberg set of hacked together systems I've ever seen for landing on a planet. Here's hoping it all comes off without a hitch. I have a feeling it'll become an object lesson in engineering whether it works or not.
I think the services can be improved without becoming too annoying. Someone in this thread suggested a 24 hour delay, which seems reasonable. You could also send a "last call" email and text message to make sure the right user is the one that has requested the password change. Apple could easily separate Find my Mac from "wiping", or add a second password for that.

None of these will be 100% effective, but it will make things more difficult for attackers and not too uncomfortable for users.
For those interesting in the papers [Leangains][0] has a long informative narrative connecting the papers together.

[0]: http://www.leangains.com/2010/10/top-ten-fasting-myths-debun...
Great article. Did anyone go to google finance and notice that Zynga took out a 100 million dollar loan? http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-07-30/zynga-gets-100-m...

Have they blown through a ton of cash and are worried about dipping into their reserves?
I really like Erlang and have been using it on and off for about a year. Recently I starting playing around with Golang and much to my surprise goroutines are a very good homage to Erlangs concurrently model.
Brettspielwelt seems cool, but I don't think chat alone quite brings us to being "social". For all the "hardness" of German-style games (and they're actually not that "hard") they're also quite social. That, I think, is the brilliance of the best Eurogames. They're complex enough to deliver interesting play for the high-NFC crowd, but they're simple enough to still be credible social games. They're non-trivial and involve some teaching time, but they're designed to be played by families.

Google+ Hangout integration with the German games, and with the well-designed social games like Apples to Apples and Great Dalmuti, and with typical card games (Hearts, Spades, Ambition) would have been totally badass. Not only would it have made online gaming actually social, but it would have given people a reason to use Hangouts (which are cool, but never caught on because they didn't have a draw, and games could have been the draw).

What I really wanted was to engage and empower the developer community. Right now, developing a new board game is very hard. You have to print a scrappy prototype and find people willing to play it (play testers). It takes several hundred hours of testing to balance a non-trivial game. This is a major barrier to entry for game development, and in the age of cloud computing and analytics and video chat, there's no excuse for it to be that way. No reason to limit this to German-style board games either; we could have also engaged 2D "retro" gamers and eventually supported MMORPGs. We'd probably want to stay away from the forefront of graphics, but no reason we couldn't have delivered excellent game play.

But... upper management wanted to give preferential treatment to mainstream publishers, and the result is that Google+ Games flopped.
The "starvation mode" idea comes from the Minnesota Starvation Experiment.

Wherein the subjects were starved. And are you ready for the punchline?

For months.

There is such a thing as a starvation response. A slight drop in basal metabolic rate, an increase in cortisol and a bunch of other changes. Psychologically, subjects were obsessed with food.

But it takes time to kick in. Weeks. Months even.

One or two days is not going to do it.
Unless the atmosphere is so thin that the added weight of the parachute and it's support hurts more than it helps. 0.6 kPa is really that bad.

The effectiveness of a parachute grows at a square of your airspeed. This means that every planet has a minimum speed you can successfully slow down to using parachutes with a given system. For realistic loads and conventional materials, on Mars that is about 50m/s. Which is just too fast.
Right, but even after the dust has blown away your rocket downdraft has basically dug a pit that your rover is now at the bottom of.
Show HN: Weekend project with unique domain
The Idiots Have Taken Over the Store
The techrep shouldnt be allowed to reset your password.
For all you know, that guy is your wife's ex.

This reminds me of facebook and how all its employees were stalking people using the god password.

They can and should follow bank protocol. Require an ID, make every action reversable ( like being able to undo a wipe ) and have both employee and requester on tape, with id's.
You're confusing "website" and "domain name".
I wasn't there at this time (I'm only 23) but I believe symbolics.com was the first dot-com domain name, not the first website.
Yes, this is not a particularly scientific study here.
Agreed. Maybe I'm just too used to the download window, but I tried the recent Firefox nightly I instantly cringed when I downloaded a file. I prefer Chrome solution to both.
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>..you can fork and make your version which pleases you.

Which is completely unrealistic for 99% of people out there. Nobody's going to fork Chromium based on a single UI facet. And then even if you do, you're in the unenviable position of maintaining a branch for a single UI fix.

Not happening in this universe, guys.

I just wish project leads/managers would listen a bit more to the community rather than arrogantly dictating "It will be done this way, deal with it".

Failure to do that leads to crap like Gnome 3's infamous shutdown option.
I started working on something like that, a text editor based on Ace (the text editing component from Cloud 9) but with Dropbox sync (actual sync, so it works offline) a few weeks ago (mostly for my Chromebook, and Cloud 9 sort of requires you to install Node which poses some difficulties on a chromebook). https://github.com/antimatter15/cloudfall
The domainers group on Facebook will yield much better responses to this question.
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Breaking all the line-endings in a file should never get as far as a merge conflict though. It should get to a failed code-review and no further.
The thing to remember here is that where the liability lies matters. The banks effectively take on all the liability for financial losses due to credit card fraud & they're free to setup their systems to constrain losses to a level that they're happy with. Yes, arguably not all the losses fall on the banks, particularly the hassle and time of recovering from a particular instance of fraud but the majority of them probably do and that's what matters because the interests of those who bear the losses and those who run the system are aligned.

The trouble with cloud systems is that all the losses fall on the end user who has no influence over the security systems put in place to protect their data. (Except with Google where you can at least choose to use 2-factor authentication.)
They are both based on CSP, but Go channels are a little bit different:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6kdp27TYZs&t=4m57s
Lots of possibilities, but the simplest way to modify our existing sysyem is probably to process requests in random order within a turn.
That's why I always give a ten character random string as answers to those questions.
The tag on the Wired rebuttal to the rebuttal: Crazy Ivans.

That's just bad. I really thought Wired were above that. I guess I was wrong.
Feel free to fork and make it better. Not sure what you want improved though.
I live in rural Yorkshire, and there's a village about five miles from me where broadband is not available - at all. There's no FTTC/H, no ADSL, no 3G coverage from any network, nothing. Residents still use either dial-up, or expensive, high-latency satellite connections from an outfit called Tooway.

It's a beautiful little village, not bad for commuting into the nearby city of Sheffield, but last time I looked, there were several houses to rent, that had been up for rent for over three months each, in a rental market that's generally red-hot. The lack of broadband is surely an issue. I'd move there if broadband was available, and I'm sure a lot of other people are in the same boat.

The issue here is that the rest of South Yorkshire has now been wired into a publicly-funded FTTC operation called Digital Region (http://www.digitalregion.co.uk/) which I'm using right now. The connection quality is good, I get a full 40Mbps with the option of raising it to around 110Mbps for more money - but the network is failing financially, because they've wired up places that are already connected to BT "Infinity" FTTC, instead of those areas which don't get broadband/fast broadband. My small town is one of the few places which has Digital Region and not Infinity, and I don't know anyone else with a DR connection.
One of the things the author failed to mention, when he asks if Erlang is difficult, is it's verbosity for anything non-trivial. Just try building something using WebMachine for example. You will end up repeating the same tedious boiler plate code for each and every resource.

Very, very, fortunately the Elixir project seems to be making some headway and may just bring some decent language usability to Erlang. Erlang, is great architecturally, but in a lot of ways it's a toy language. It is going to need to evolve a bit to become palatable to the mass web development market.
But in the long run you end up creating the perception that the ONLY way to buy tickets is camping the website at availability time. Which I suspect would likely result in people just not bothering in the end.
Hmm. I can't really comment on that since I've never used SVN. I was kind of lucky to jump directly into DVCS. The reason why I'm comfortable with Hg is because at the initial/first step the only commands I was told to remember (by hginit.com) were `hg commit` and `hg init`. Slowly, from there I took on a steady pace and grew comfortable with it. Currently on Windows I use tortoiseHg and bitbucket (I'm strictly a hobbyist coder only).

When I tried to learn Git (before Hg), I looked for tutorials but everything was all over the place and maybe they introduced too much too soon. Anyway, at the end of the day I find Hg good enough for my usage - init, commit, push, pull so far.
Check out Martin Berkhan's http://leangains.com for more about making muscle gains while fasting. There's a subtle difference between using fasting as a tool for weight loss and one for body fat loss, but it's a difference nonetheless—it largely boils down to better management of your macro-nutrients (proteins, fats, carbohydrates) versus "eating like normal" after a fasting period.

The most basic explanation is that you can fast whichever periods you would like (most do 16 hour fasts + 8 hour "feeding windows"), but you must:

A) Lift weights no more than 3 days a week
B) Lift heavy weights to stimulate muscle growth
C) Eat more carbs / less fats on workout days (more calories)
D) Eat more fats / less carbs on "rest" days (less calories)

Compared to most lifestyles (this isn't a diet) this takes a lot of mental preparation and calculation, so it is more daunting initially and less mentally draining as you go on and see results (as compared to a fad diet which is simple to implement but impossible to maintain). It's not easy but, once a routine is established and the learning curve is overcome, many people make the decision to keep the 'LeanGains' lifestyle for the remainder of their lives.
There are already games integrated with hangouts as hangout apps. Why exactly do you say that was a missed opportunity? It seems to me it's more like a work in progress. There's nothing stopping a game developer from integrating it's games with hangouts today.
From the article:

The backup email address on my Gmail account is that same .mac email address. At 4:52 PM, they sent a Gmail password recovery email to the .mac account.

Here Gmail was only as strong as the weakest password recovery email service it was linked to. I consider this a failure on Google's part.