skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our governor actively encourages founders and young companies to launch or relocate here, and is a very public champion of the MassChallenge accelerator. He makes a lot of appearances at local events related to innovation and entrepreneurship.

It doesn't hurt that his office staff use Uber, either:

http://www.universalhub.com/2012/governor-were-going-find-wa...
Apps that require Live services require a Live account I imagine, but nothing else seems to have.
USD$31.99 for me in Australia.
It's really encouraging to hear you saying so! Also, we will launch age detection and FB training API soon.
Your feedback is always welcome.
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Anyone have suggestions on where to study up?
I know. But yes I was thinking that the password still has to go through UIs (Web & Native), be sent over the network and read by the server and only than can it be hashed and compared to the stored hash.

I agree it sounds weird especially since I guess everything is done on top of .NET and JS. Neither of which is likely to suffer from buffer overflows nor would whatever protocols they use have problems transporting large strings with non-ASCII chars. And I don't any other technical problems that might cause.

But there has to be a reason. I guess it's possible someone was overzealous or screwed up. Maybe it was because it would be too hard to type it on an Xbox? Doesn't sound very plausible though.

I doubt that MS is doing password hashing wrong - it's not hard to begin with and they probably learned their lesson from the NT days when they implemented p.hashing poorly and it led to the NT passwords being easy to brute force.
Like others have said it is pretty central. With that said, it isn't very difficult to create a local account. I believe there is a button which takes you to a non-live account set up page, though there is an "are you sure? live accounts will really make your experience better blablabla etc." screen which you need to also click a button on.

So it's a 2 step flow.
Evidently, they have to formally question Assange before filing charges. They'd rather have him in custody in Sweden before they do that. Isn't it pretty well established by Assange's own actions that Assange would be a massive flight risk? The Swedish aren't the ones acting irrationally.
What base does Opera use for specificity?
When asked to say the letters of the English alphabet, I have never heard someone include space.
I think what he meant is that design guidelines, libraries, and UI frameworks provided by OS resonate perfectly well with majority of the userbase. Yet every app that comes out of Valley seems to need to redefine basic navigation patterns and color themes.
Total Annihilation is probably my favorite RTS. I love the resource model and unit/structure construction model.

I was really stoked about Supreme Commander but it really just wasn't as good. I've played countless hours of TA: Spring and this looks pretty awesome.
Had his name been Joe Smith or something, would've they bothered?
Confused me for a second, but yeah your right.
This... Mike and Greg are definitely game developers first and businessman second (or 3rd, or 4th or whatever).

"amateur hobbyist artistes (who have "that vision thing" and are willing to starve to deliver it for free)" - I'd say that Mike and Greg are already in this category. If you check out their site (http://mikengreg.com/), you'll see that they release most of their stuff as free. They live in Iowa because it's cheap. They want to be able to make their own games and not starve or be homeless while doing it.

Software isn't necessarily the best way to make money period, if all I cared about was money I'd rather be managing a hedge fund or something.
Japan's electronics industry has many issues holding it back, but the biggest one in my mind is how they perceive and implement user interfaces.

I recall buying a Sony MZ-N10 minidisc player [1] around 2002 and it was a technological breakthrough for its time - impossibly thin, light, robust and could record audio to disc with incredible clarity. The electronic disk ejection mechanism was very cool. The battery life was unheard of. The was a button for every function, and every function could be messed with. I remember keeping the language in Japanese and the eerie blue backlight on the remote permanently turned on so that it looked cool.

But at the time it was released Apple had released the iPod. Basically a tiny HDD and audio decoder hidden under a simple user interface and simple human-machine-interface. All it did was play music, and it could store a lot of it for a little over half the price of the MZ-N10. Instead of being encrusted with a myriad of buttons, it relegated the functionality to the user interface. Simplicity through clever software.

Since then every Japanese gadget I've purchased has suffered from the same problem - excellent engineering but poor user-interface. The one exception being my Canon image stabilised binoculars which have exactly one button and a focus ring. Japan still reigns supreme for optics.

[1] http://www.minidisc.org/brian_youn/mzn10/
Yes, absolutely.

The main drawback is that all of them (at least the main ones - Scala, JRuby, Groovy, Clojure) all have their own runtime libraries, which bloats the size of the app considerably. I believe most people who go down this route use ProGuard to mitigate this problem.
How many people have the UK publicly acknowledged to have participated in the illegal rendition of?

Sweden have acknowledge to have violated Swedish law and international treaties in US instigated renditions of at least two people.

Get him to Sweden, and whispering the right words into the right ear might circumvent that whole pesky extradition hearing thing.
As a european, I trust neither. Trust? I mean really, one of them is only caring about monetizing everything possible, the other has its own (sometimes mysterious) motives, why should I trust anyone but my friends and family? I think the question itself is just a play on emotions, people with bad experiences with either is going to say they trust the other more, but all in all I don't think any sensible person trusts the government or companies in the true meaning of the word.
There was a lot to love about Total Annihilation, and I'm happy to support any attempt to follow in its footsteps. That isn't to say Myth wasn't great too, but even if you missed out on TA, this looks like it may be worth a contribution.
Patrick gave a handful of ways they could have tweaked their business model to improve the bottom line. Not developing iPhone games was just one of them.

They wanted to live their passion and they wanted to support themselves off the app. ("We wanted the game to be free but also we want to make a living off of it since we’ve spent 2 years on it.") But they only fought to service one of those goals.

Thankfully, most of us here on HN do things where our passion is something that has enough monetary value to support a family. But nonetheless, "live your passion" is just bad job advice. "Find a way to make your passion work" is much better.
I don't know. I'm not running Windows 8, so all I can tell you is I read the web page and repeated what it said. Maybe they simply omitted the "create new project" button.
How could you even suggest that rot13 is similar to one time pad encryption?

That's a really good question, and I'm glad I never did it. My code used rot13 for demo purposes (as explained in my post); actual usage involved a proper crypto JS lib (as explained in my post).

Some assembly required, though. I left it up to users to decide what crypto lib they wanted to use.
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This is a partial outline of an ebook I've been writing: https://gist.github.com/3366052

The things under Web Security are the relevant bits. You can read up on a lot of them at https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page and I'd recommend just googling them as well. More importantly, grab Burp proxy, install old (vulnerable) versions of web apps, and start playing around. You'll find XSS, SQLi, and plenty of other fun things in no time.

Also, my contact info is in my profile if you have other questions.
I think you've misread me. I'm not saying that it's ridiculous, so there's no reason to fear it happening; I'm saying it's ridiculous, and I would be entirely unsurprised if it happened anyway.
PostgreSQL is amazing, that is all.
Game Steering Wheel With Speaker
If Britain does this, then from now on every Chinese dissident that seeks refuge in a Western embassy will somehow magically find themselves charged with rape, and Chinese police will stand ready to enter to arrest him for said rape.

(Substitute China for any other dictatorship as you please)

It is an incredibly bad precedent to set, and I very much doubt they will go there.

Leaving police posted outside until people get bored of the whole thing, sure. Sending stern letters, sure. Calling the Ecuadorian embassy in to explain himself, sure. Maybe a few more things. Maybe even expelling some low level staff if things get really nasty.

But if they enter the embassy, then either someone is a complete idiot and haven't thought through consequences, or Assanges suspicions about US involvement suddenly becomes a lot more credible.
Perhaps they treat cases at the center of an international media spotlight a bit differently.
You cannot argue that “it’s tough being a guy” and then say you weren’t comparing it to being a woman.

Actually, I just did.

What the hell else were you comparing it to, being a Tyrannosaurus?

I wasn't comparing it to anything.

However tough you may think your position in life is, chances are pretty high you’re living it on The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is.

Great, that's not something I can control, now is it? Of course I have empathy for people on all the other difficulty levels, and want to help make things better for them. But I still have my own problems regardless of how easy anyone else thinks my life is.

Of course, none of this is really relevant to the conversation that started all this, and I'll probably regret replying to this comment later.

Again, to reiterate what I said before... what we need is more shared understanding, that goes both ways, and less antagonism.
Yeah, I clearly remember being taught about him in science class, certainly more than they taught us about Edison.
That's what replication is for. :) Really, mysql makes a fine key value store. "Mostly ACID" is good enough for lots of purposes, but what people complain about is its "serious business" sql failures.

Look, I used to have to support mysql. Every couple months we had to increment our minimum required version because we found yet another query that didn't work right.
Any idea when this is going to hit Dreamspark Premium (used to be MSDN Academic Alliance)?
Alphabet != characters
Agreed. I've read a few different programming books, and this was the one that did the most to improve my programming.

The material isn't incredibly advanced, so some expert programmers will get less out of it. But I think it's very worthwhile for 90% of programmers.

I would highly recommend this book to most people considering it.
Fab Sues Flash Sales Site TouchOfModern For Alleged Trademark Infringement
There's a Tesla museum in Colorado Springs, CO.
How do you shave seconds off tasks you do dozens of times a day?
How to Solve World-Changing Problems
5 Android Apps for Your Straight-A Student
I never used 2008, so I see why you might say that. I went from 6 -> 2005 -> 2010. 2010 is slow as a dog. 2005 is slower than 6.
This was alluded to in the article, and is obligatory for Gentoo discussions, just for the humor:

http://funroll-loops.info/
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There are a whole lot of hamsters that fit that description though. If an innovation can get people, any people, out of cars and onto bikes somewhat safely, it's a good thing.
I can recommend you Andrew Joyce who worked on my web app (http://weekplan.net) redesign this week: http://forrst.com/posts/Redesign_WeekPlan_net-2GR
Sounds like the Peter Thiel / Palantir thesis.
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I've never heard anyone mention all lower case and upper case "letters", either, but I assume both versions are acceptable characters in a password. And I bet numbers are valid too. So... what is your point? (besides being funny, in which you succeeded)
> The only way to compete is to sell used stuff or make your own products (or provide a marketplace for those things). The fat head (large incumbents) and the long tail (artisanal shops) will thrive, but the middle of the distribution will suffer.

This is so far from being true. Scale isn't always a winner.

You can pick a product category that is sold by Amazon, Walmart, Home Depot, etc, that makes up a minuscule fraction of their total business and turn it into a business that does $10-50 million in sales.

You can buy things cheaper than they can, you can sell things for more money. You can focus on being the best darn seller of widgets that's out there.

The problem is that this kind of e-commerce isn't really that sexy. It also relies on a lot more skills than your normal technical person possesses. If you can manage customer service, distribution, 3rd party fulfillment, global sourcing, vendor relations, etc., etc., you might just be able to put a kick-ass website in front of this and sell a lot of products.
Groupon's problem is not its business model
I sincerely disagree. Supreme Commander is a perfect example of awesome ideas and terrible marketing. The tutorials and intuitiveness of everything is just a joke, but if you make the effort, that game is crazy. It innovated on:

1). Strategic zoom, something which so far I've only seen recreated in 4x space games
2). Advanced economy that allowed for incremental spending, i.e. build yourself a monkeylord, and that thing will cause your mass to go down by 4 for 2 minutes, not an instant 400 mass
3). Intuitive queueing. It's super easy to setup crazy tactics with shift-clicking, and when you are zoomed out and hit shift you see all queues you have setup
4). You can fucking schedule your shit! Have your bombers fly in a delayed manner to attack the base at the same time as your ground units.

That game was epic and awesome, and if you disagree with me I can say with certainty that you never spent the time to learn it.
I'm not sure that helps. So an English character is any character that can appear in an English sentence? Are the Chinese words mixed in the Firefly English characters, too then? What makes a Chinese loan word different from a French loan word?

This seems a remarkably, stupidly pedantic point. Would Microsoft have created less overall user confusion by using the term non-ASCII and making all the nontechnical users look up what that means?
Est delivery Jul 2013? Seems a bit optimistic for a game of such scope.
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The problem is, once you start that on HN you'll have yet another reason for overposters to post every vaguely relevant special they see. I didn't mind that the poster did it (so bought via the referral) but it'd be sad if this caught on, and I wouldn't post a link with a referral myself. The benefits around here are karma, mutual respect and increased collective wisdom. Let's not find ways to dilute those further.
PG could you please change the title to reflect its only $2.99 in the US?

Im in OZ and it's $31.99
Postgresql is nowhere, NOWHERE near as powerful or as fast, but it'll work for the cases where you're doing simple search-interface bolt-ons to an existing product already using PGSQL.

Postgresql fulltext and ElasticSearch are ultimately solving two very different sorts of problems.

The only case I can think of where you would prefer to use PGSQL is if you some weird blending of normal relational data with the documents, but I think realistically you can sidestep that. We've been able to do pretty complicated queries against our ElasticSearch instances.
No, he has good points, but doesn't really rely on logic so much as vitriolic humor. For example:

http://forum.gwan.com/index.php?p=/discussion/587/its-bs-bec...

Basically, his entire argument is the slippery slope fallacy based on assumptions that may never occur. Plenty of great software is written in C++, even using STL, that doesn't lead to software that is any more difficult to maintain than the equivalent C program. For one thing, refactoring due to design change is a pain in the ass with or without objects. He also doesn't address the fact that polymorphism is very unwieldy in C. While it's very defensible to NOT use C++, I don't think that saying that "C is the only sane language" is fair. That, or Apple, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and Facebook are full of people who are barking mad.

However, in an environment like Linux and git where code practices may be less restrictive than a corporate or authoritarian environment, the natural restrictions of C (i.e. lack of easy-to-abuse features) may seem like a feature in itself.
Because as close an ally as the UK is, the UK government likes to think of themselves as a partner and don't like to be bossed around or involved in too shady stuff, and UK courts certainly don't like to be meddled with.

Meanwhile, Sweden has a history of cooperating with the US on illegal renditions in violation of Swedish law and international treaties, to the point where Sweden has actually paid damages to at least one person - Muhammad al-Zery - who was tortured after Swedish police had handed him over to masked CIA officers at a Swedish airport and witnessed as he was stripped, drugged, chained and handcuffed and loaded on a plane to be flown to Egypt where he was tortured.

Said person was in Sweden applying for political asylum.

It caused diplomatic incidents when it was first revealed to the public and Swedish authorities "put a stop to it". Then shortly afterwards, Swedish military intelligence uncovered that it was still ongoing with the knowledge of airport personnel. At least officially without the knowledge of the Swedish government.

Maybe they've stopped now. Or maybe the units that participated in it are just better at hiding it, or maybe the US government is just better at making sure said Swedish government units have better reasons to deny knowledge.

But the fact remains that for sveral years, the US extracted prisoners from and/or transported prisoners through Sweden illegally to hand them over to regimes that would carry out torture in violation of both US and Swedish law and international treaties, with the complicit knowledge of the Swedish government.

It's quite possible the UK did too. But which government do you think the US cares the least about jerking around?
Programming Computer Vision with Python
For some reason, based on the w3 documentation, I was under the impression that an id had an order of magnitude more specificity than a class.

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/cascade.html#specificity
Yes, the last one had some extremely hard problems. Can't wait for this one - I work on an ecommerce framework and this sorta stuff is way more applicable to what I do day to day
Working From Home: Eighteen Months
I wonder if this is yet another example of Australian readers being shafted by parallel importation laws, so that Tim Winton can make a few extra bucks.
Shareholder: how does Internet affect long-term value, CEO we're not sure
The URL you posted has an ellipsis in the middle of it. Found the real URL through the site: http://code.jonwagner.com/2012/08/16/bowtie-for-knockout-unt...
> 1) There is an extraordinarily lucrative market opportunity in iDevice contracting right now, which they allude to but mentioned that they avoided doing to keep momentum.

This.

The money in the App Store for the vast majority of developers is not from the App Store directly but from building apps for organizations who want to be in the App Store . Sometimes it's just all about influential/powerful people and their ego [1]. Yes, the apps have to look good (but Apple makes it easier than Android to make apps look good - remember the bar keeps going up and up).

As a sub-contractor, we would handle everything from the initial Apple developer account (for the company) to TestFlight betas to code/content updates. Complete outsourcing. The customers never know (or care) that XYZ company/national non-profit or Fortune 500 brand isn't writing their own apps - they just see "XYZ Brand, updated 08-Mar-2012' in iTunes.

[1] I recall a conversation once with a museum marketing person. They were basically like 'Well, did you look at the MoMa's app?'. I tried to remind them that MoMa has a basically unlimited marketing budget to spend on slick, polished apps - but they all want to bragging rights - for the museum president to be able to show his/her peers (other museum presidents, board members) the app. Really.
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From what I know its better than MySQL's full text and all its warts, but still not comparable to a lucene based search solution.
I was hoping someone would pick up on the reference!
* No one is baiting anyone here except the people who feel the need to poke holes in a call for decency.*

Am I supposed to sit back and just let ends I happen to agree with justify means that I don't? Why?
I had a library of around 1000+ books; any book I couldn't get as a Kindle book, I had 1dollarscan.com scan. They did a phenomenal job.

No relation, just very satisfied with their results.
I agree that this is a potential problem but it is easily solved by the voting system. Low-quality submissions don't get much karma.
I think you'd have to have some pretty cutting edge code generation genetic algorithms to have anything like this outperform a human, unless I am mistaken about the state of genetic code generation.
It's not only in the US. I was able to buy it from Brazil.
This is similar to the features Opera launched in 2009

http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2009/06/16/
Don't you think it's a little bit strange that the Ecuadorian offer to have Assange interviewed by the Swedish prosecutors was refused?

What's the priority? Question him to find out what happened or bring him to Sweden?
Google warns of using Adobe Reader - particularly on Linux
Well, the password guidelines specifically say " The password can contain uppercase letters and lowercase letters. The password can contain numbers." So no ambiguity there.

They are quite clear about what characters are permitted in the password. The not permitted list is redundant, but sometimes repetition is helpful. The argument that Microsoft has somehow incorrectly identified é as "non-English" is bullshit.
From what I've seen, a Master's degree is not much more than finishing school for people who went to unremarkable undergraduate programs.
Interesting game.

Reminds me of TA/Sup Com: Good!
Reminds me of Spore: hmmm

I just hope they haven't been too ambitious with this. RTS games are very difficult to get right.

I will pledge anyway :)
You seem to bringing up a lot of new information about this case that I didn't know, so I have to ask: citations?
I was thinking that in the scenario where there is a roving fleet of non-chauffeured cars for hire, one would auth (or identify oneself) so that it was known who to charge back in a non-repudiable way.

As a side-effect, it could be enhanced to check to see if the person did't have any outstanding warrants, leans, etc. against them. The system could, if allowed be programmed in such way, to take the person in, if it was certain/verifiable the person was "wanted" by the authorities. It sounds very dystopian, but it could happen, if the circumstances are right.
This... Mike and Greg are definitely game developers first and businessman second (or 3rd, or 4th or whatever).

Well, then they succeeded and we should be happy for them. They don't have a business, but they've got a great game.

If and when their priorities change, they'll move business skills up the priority list. I guess they could get a publisher, or something?