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I look to my daily life and those around me. I am fortunate enough to work in a co-working space (Affinity Lab in DC) that isn't only filled with technology companies. It's a diverse group of people covering all sorts of different fields from technology, to media, to accounting, marketing, pr, products, charities, etc. We talk, a lot. There are tons of problems everyone faces, some are common, some aren't. But you get inspiration. Maybe some are common among different areas, some might be common among the same niche. But having access to discuss your issues and other people's issues really helps me see the problems people encounter. Sometimes it's about sharing different solutions because they are solved (or there is an easier way, not perfect, but easier), sometimes you need to come up with something.

tl;dr: talk to people, it helps if you're part of a diverse community of people.
From the article:

"Even under the best microscope, optical images have an ultimate resolution limit, and this method hits it. When two objects are too close together, light reflecting off them will diffract, and the two objects blur together. This effect, called the diffraction limit, sets in when the distance between two objects is equal to half the wavelength of the light used for imaging. The wavelength in the middle of the colour spectrum is about 500 nanometres. That means the pixels in a printed image can’t be spaced any closer together than about 250 nanometres without looking smudged. Yang’s images pack the pixels at just this distance."
Yes! Thank you Guibog for an important point. I mentioned the quick and visible events, for the sake of story-telling, but the stuff you're talking about is deeper, more powerful, and harder to talk about.
>Since when is your salt suppose to be secret?

In the instance of this particular algorithm, the salt must be kept secret, because it is the only unknown in the process from an attackers point of view.
$50 a year is a lot to a student, or a parent with kids, or someone without a job, or a family with inky one source of income, or if you are one of the billions of people that survive on $1-2 a day.

That's why in places like india, Africa a $500 phone is still seen as laughable. Even ignoring developing countries and emerging economies, charging 50 bucks is going to be a stretch and seems a bit crazy if you want to appeal to people outside of the silicon communities....

But then again I thought twitter was a silly fad
I think it probably helps (for people like me) that the UK PhD system is rather lighter weight than that in NA - I spent about 3 years and 4 months on mine, which I considered a very acceptable tradeoff for the learning (and ability to work on a project I was really interested in). My lifetime earnings will probably be a little lower, but the flipside is I'm now equipped to take on much more interesting jobs than I was beforehand. If the timescale had been closer to 6 years I would be more inclined to think twice about it.

edit: I don't mean to imply that a PhD is for everyone - I have friends who dropped out who made absolutely the right decision: they didn't want to become academics and had lost interest in their subject. If anyone is in that position they absolutely should drop out. The uninformed supposition that skills gained during a PhD are useless is frustrating to me, though - I really honed skills like the ability (and motivation) to investigate a topic area, present my work clearly, and learned a whole load of new technologies along the way. These have all been invaluable to me - far more so than a little extra time in industry would have been. I was certainly at a disadvantage at 0 years in industry compared to someone else with 3 and a bit. A few years later, though, and I feel at an advantage.

I guess I'm also quite defensive about PhDs because mine holds a special place for me - it was during that time that I discovered how much I love to learn. As a result I'm far more motivated to improve my knowledge than I ever was before.
Quite interesting how the way British sport had it's turnaround is similar to building of the startup ecosystem worldwide: investment in institutions and infrastructure, various stages of money distribution, ruthless focus on what works ('no up-round for you babe') and doubling down on the winners. I wonder if you truly can manage the country like that.
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It was understood with the family that I was doing the conversion “in name only”. It made it possible for my wife's family to give her a proper Muslim wedding, which made the Indian relatives happy. No beliefs were changed that day. ☺
> If you're hell-bent on (shallow) perfectionism, you perceive the dichotomy as perfect vs imperfect. One step more healthy is simple vs. complex, because it means you've recognized that time is finite, and too much complexity can legitimately kill a project

What follows is the recognition of the difference between complex and complicated. One can lose time focusing on the complexities, and create a time-consuming complicated system. Or one can build a simple system which allows (or will allow) for complex possibilities (but is not complicated) and shrink down time consumption by a significant margin.
I have no idea what the rules were when you did it, but it definitely sounds like a bit of rule bending if they were anything close to what they are today. Either way, I am sure it was a memorable experience!
You can push your comfort zone without the risk of losing your life. I would exchange all the experiences in the post for not forcing my kid to go to the singaporean army, losing two years of his life.
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I've tried both, and while they have their good points, neither really seems to have the "magic" that all those nice little SLRs from that earlier era did (Pentax ME[-super], Oly OM-1/2, etc).

* The Fuji X-pro 1 is big (though light), and seemed to me to have rather clunky handling, with poor viewfinder integration (although the X-pro 1 can display an electronic overlay in the VF, it seemed more confusing that useful; this, at least, might be solvable with software changes). It is also very expensive.

* The Olympus OM-D has a nice small body and classic shape, but it feels kind of cheaply built, and it has one of the worst electronic viewfinders I've ever used: very low res, and very flickery. [I find the horrible viewfinder on the OM-D particularly depressing because the market has recently seen a number of cameras released with vastly better electronic VFs, e.g. the Sony NEX-7 and Alpha A77, and the Nikon V1. Clearly there's no technical problem with making a good EVF these days.]

The appeal of those classic little SLRs was that they were small, light, and quite simple/straightforward to use, but also highly capable and very high quality (and ... beautiful). They omitted gee-gaws without skimping on essential features. In particular, their viewfinders were an absolute joy, huge and bright, with minimal, but useful, information displayed.

Current trends, at least, suggest that camera makers are finally realizing that viewfinder-less models aren't enough...
Flagging is supposed to be for spam and other submissions that don't belong on HN. It is not supposed to be used for downvoting things you personally are not interested in.

So it sounds like you abused your flag ability and it got revoked. Which I didn't know could happen.
The test is questionable. I've never been to Paris, haven't seen many pictures of it, except for Eiffel tower. I only looked at text found on the pictures (i.e. "Public transportation of Barcelona" ;) and some other clues. With this simple logic reasoning, I got 81%. If you compare this with guys living in Paris who report 90% here, it does not make much sense.
Genius LuxeMate i200 is a viable substitute. Very sturdy and reliable -- survives heavy bashing of intense programming and heavy-handed gaming. Navigational keys (arrows, PageUp/PageDown and friends) are conveniently placed. Complete with long cord :-)

http://www.geniusnet.com/wSite/ct?xItem=16580&ctNode=132
I kinda agree with your point, however I don't think you picked a good example. The iPhone and iFriends were not sold as gaming devices (at least in the beginning, and even now it's not their main function).

The other "open source" consoles I know of were handheld (gp2x, pandora, etc...). It was a niche market, mostly for emulation with some homebrews. None of them really "disrupted" anything.

Of course, the ouya's main gambit is the android market, we'll see if it'll give them enough momentum to make it.
Well, if that's true one should change the algorithm :)
Why use proprietary adware when there are FOSS alternatives available?
> Do we know if all password managers are written in such a way that they generate independent salts per password?

Because password managers must store __the password__ itself (in order to be able to submit it into login forms and the like) the use of a salt for each stored password would work against the aim of storing __the passwords__ themselves.

Instead, password managers store everything in encrypted form using a master key (password) for decrypting the encrypted data file. That master password should be passed through a key stretching function ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_stretching ) prior to use as the encryption key for the master encryption.
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I'm friends with several lecturers, and while they don't work 80 hours a week, it's fair to say they work substantially longer hours than I do. That's fine, they generally enjoy their jobs and get to do interesting things (as well as deal with a lot more bullshit than I do). You're utterly crazy if you think they spend only 10 hours a week on non-research activities.

As an outsider, your estimates are finger in the air at best. How can you possibly know you've covered all their activies?
The thing with namespaces is that they also introduce a problem through the various using clauses programming languages provide and how that interacts with common tools like grep. An API that uses a naming-convention that emulates namespaces (e.g. as in Emacs Lisp) removes that problem. This also makes good harder to follow when reading, especially when C++ things like SFINAE are around and suddenly everybody is calling everything fully qualified again to make code look and be unambiguous.

Of course, that can be solved with proper tooling, but some people are just averse to using something more heavyweight than necessary.
I dare to interpret grandparent's spirit: the difference is not between "mundane" and "extraordinary" in the action per se, but in the context.

So, if you actually _live_ in a country where they speak $NOT_YOUR_LANGUAGE, trying to order food is a daily thing that would(?) expand your comfort zone.

If you are just passing by in a random country it's just a funny story ("remember that time we had to ask for food in $NOT_YOUR_LANGUAGE?!").

Of course, passing by a random country may be the norm for you :)

In a way, it's like saying: you need to be confident to pick up, and it's something you can learn by trying over and over again.
On the other hand, you can also try a lot of approaches while drunk (= not normal/daily state), and the next morning you'll not feel much more confident.
Depends which version you're talking about. The 'regular', non-pro HHKB is not a quality item and uses very cheap keyswitches. The HHKB Pro / Pro 2 uses the highly-regarded Topre keyswitches but this is reflected in the price. The layout differs slightly, too.

I own two HHKB Pro 2's and absolutely love them. The quality of the keyswitches is pretty much legendary by now, the build of the keyboard itself is decent enough but nothing to write home about. It's really all about the layout and the Topre switches.
> I think this is catastrophically broken because of a known issue of how SHA-2 breaks its input into blocks: when A is aligned to a block boundary, sha(A || B) = f(sha(A), g(B)).

If that's the case, wouldn't it suffice to mix A and B, for example with byte-wise XOR?

password ::= sha(A XOR B)
But then you couldn't put the words ten things in the title.
Here's his homepage: http://member.wide.ad.jp/%7Ewada/index-j.html

Google Translate version of an interview about the board's design: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&...
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AFAIK Vimeo calculates only fully watched videos, so it's 30000 viewers who watched the video to the end.
> In our formulation, the salt was simply (a function of) your username.

For password hashing, the input salt needs to be a cryptographically secure random number. This is because it needs to be unique, and unrelated, to each password.

In your "formulation", what you have is simply a unique identifier for a user derived from the three, but it is in no way a "salt" as that term is used in regards to "salted passwords".

> But yeah, we couldn't find a way to crack it, either.

Just because you couldn't find a way to crack it, does not mean it is secure:

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18197/why-should...
I think it's slightly different because droplet is an actual word in itself. If it was drop-pay (bad example), then I might agree.
Interesting that she notes that it seems harder for her as a woman to participate in rejection therapy -- indeed, gender roles are still so ingrained for many people. You could probably experience success as a male by simply asking women for their phone numbers every day until one refused you, but this approach would likely be more difficult for a woman to pull off.
Good stuff, it's certainly useful. Consider adding the Hacker News HTTPS version to the included URLs? I've done it manually and it seems to work fine. (Yes, I'm one of those weirdos ;)

As an aside, I really like the click-to-play GIFs too.
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I whipped this up last week and I'm not sure where to take it from here. The idea is to provide an attractive way of sharing plain text, such as articles, prose, poetry etc.

At the moment it just shows random writings from authors older than 2 days on the homepage, and I don't think the UI is quite there yet. I'd be really interested in any feedback or suggestions.
They can request whatever they like. Doesn't mean they'll get it.
You should post it on Reddit, as it will get lots and lots of usage there.
I think it's more an apology for adding more GIFs to the Internet :)
Wow, your hours on preparing lectures, grant proposal writing, dealing with students, etc. are all way underestimated. A solid grant proposal that is likely to get funded (often in a super competitive field with maybe 8% acceptance rate) can take well over 2 months of solid preparation. Of course we don't actually get 2 months of solid preparation time, what with all the other stuff we have to do. My workload as an early career academic is roughly 10% on a funded project, 20% "research", i.e. grant/paper writing, 5% on a couple of committees I am on, and the rest teaching, with roughly half of that supervisions of PhD/Masters students.

For my masters students that equates to about 6 hours of meetings and reviewing their stuff over 3 months of their project. Most of my colleagues and I burn through that in the first month. So what do we do for the other 2 months? Well it's not like we can shut up shop and say "welp, sorry, but you've used all your allotted time" because that'd be terrible. So we continue to give whatever amount of time we feel is necessary (within reason).

Anyway it's not as simple as you've broken it down to be. Things ebb and flow over the year too, students need more mentoring at certain times of the year than others. Grant proposals, conferences, special issues journals all have deadlines and calls. My week is extremely varied and I'm still working on juggling all the different hats and priorities I have. I have a full load right now over summer even without teaching; when teaching starts up again I'll have to do all the stuff I'm doing now (bar masters student supervision) while doing roughly 25% of my allotted time teaching undergraduates.

Anyway, just another perspective.
It's funny you would say that. I got a distinct 'uh oh' feeling when Gitmo wasn't promptly closed. However New Zealand perspectives on these things tend to differ from
US views. I assume you are American
Somebody already did, it didn't get a lot of buzz though. Gotta try that later today!
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You don't have to apologize, you're of course entitled to post anything you wish in your blog. I just really didn't understand it because I was looking for some "deep message". It's comforting to know that you did not, if fact, mean it it contain a lesson.
The article is not about the MLOC. And anyway, that 2.5 MLOC of Erlang includes all kind of libraries, like Mnesia, an entire database application.
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Same with the iPhone 4s, though it tried to download the .js file first and didn't start working until I hit back. Load time was also much longer on the iPhone 4 over the same connection. Low framerate is hard to play through :/
I used to be really into mechanical keyboards, but have since developed a preference for low profile scissor switch keyboards after using them at work.

I think the perfect keyboard for me would be a low profile, high quality scissor-switch keyboard with a slight split angle and the numpad on the left side.
Gmvault uses mainly OAuth to authenticate you so there is no need to store any passwords. The token will only allow you to access your Gmail account via IMAP.

As an alternative there is a mode where you can use your Gmail passowrd and it can be saved but this is not recommended.
Miaow, bitchy. You are right, however, about it being a bit depressing competing with 25 year olds that have 3 years experience. My first post-doc job started as borderline data-entry (but then in three months I became chief developer on the entire system :)).
Yes, sorry, it's not the right report.
Hate Java? Maybe you should hate the industries stuck in the 50's.
Naive question, but how do we know they deserve every penny?
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I think you misunderstand vibrunazo's point about some games being "Ouya ready". You can already plug an Android into a TV and connect it to a controller, so some games already offer proper, non-touch gamepad support, designed to work on a big screen.

Here's a video of Sonic 4 Episode 2 that demonstrates this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fUP6mh3aOg

Plus, touchscreen games don't all require you to tap specific points on the screen (as in your Reversi example). Look at Temple Run: you duck and jump by swiping down or up, from anywhere on the screen, rather than tapping on-screen Duck and Jump buttons.
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If you're looking to stretch a budget I'd look to companies like Hetzner rather than looking to the cloud.

I'd try to increase the revenue my server generates rather than decrease the cost of servers, but I'm the kind of guy who thinks it's possible to pull more than 5 cents an hour in revenue from a server, but if you only get 5 cents per hour then it would be important to use linux so you maintain your 2 cent per hour profit margin.
I did an interview with a C++ exam. They left me in a room for an hour, without the internet. Damn, that was embarrassing. I need to log into facebook to tell you my name and birthday. Who the codes without google?
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It's amusing, but actually really useful. People in the field "know" what Lenna is supposed to look like, so can rapidly assess the qualities of a print/technique/filter.
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Ha. I saw the headline and quickly clicked through to post essentially what you have just said.

How many people do a thing should never be a measure, unless you don't care about inefficiency.
Well, pixar is now a part of Disney, and Disney has open source program http://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/index.html namely ptex. Also, advantage pixar holds is not really technological, it is about their content creators. I would even argue that PDI/Dreamworks has tech advantage, even Imageworks. Also, it has become a fashion of sorts to release stuff into the wild by animation companies:

http://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/index.html

http://www.openexr.com/ (ILM)

http://opensource.imageworks.com/

http://www.openvdb.org/ (dreamworks)

there are other examples, but I don't have links on this laptop now.
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Both of those are much more skilled jobs, though.
so, I need to have twitter to share text? I think I'll stick with pastie or something similar
Obviously that approach is fine enough for many things. Before node.js, people have written those kinds of servers in Twisted or Netty, with great results. Netty based framework powers, for example, much of Twitter. I was just explaining how the scheduling works :)
Well the instant someone invents the fusion reactor, all that HE3 on the moon is going to be worth mining...
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Nowhere on Earth has a higher opinion of academic degrees and higher education than the German speaking world. And if anyplace equals it I don't know where it is.
It looks like he's recently tried to change his image from mega villian to "freedom fighter." At least that's what he calls himself on his Twitter account. Although it does seem like a troll towards the people who have been after him.

Does this qualify as a heel face turn? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeelFaceTurn