skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC one of the cameras can take 720P images at 10FPS which is adequate since it's not going to be a very action packed video. They'll get to it eventually though. The slow uplink is an issue but having local storage available in orbit around Mars really does help a lot when they can use it. It's also important though the camera works in that environment so they can't pickup a nice camera from Amazon and duct tape it on. Just about everything they use is either custom or hold-overs from previous missions.
so... "The Social Engineer", the sequel to "The Social network"?
Are people really going to keep working at Google until they're 75? I expect most of them would like to retire at some point.
"You say that a site allowing lenders to be matched to borrows would... what? You can only loan each book once."

Yes, but everyone with that ebook can lend it once. Matching sites like the one under discussion make it more likely that an ebook will be lent, than would be the case if the customer were just lending to friends (I know I have books that are of no interest to any of my friends, so without a matching service, I would never lend them to anyone.)
Manchester United Prices I.P.O. at $14 a Share, Below Expected Range
Just out of curiousity, have you considered using querySelector or querySelectorAll directly for your really hot cases? There's a good chance that it'll be faster than the jQuery version in the non-ID cases.
If they had used a $100 dollar camera, it would already be broken, much less last 2 more years.
I flipped out the first time I saw mplayer ascii rendering. I'm thinking of projecting Rashomon ASCII-version at an art show sometime. Or any classic film with deeply emotional topics, intricate facial expressions, reduced to 7-bit projections.
Much of the objection has been that those benefits have been tied to high degrees of risk taking, which has demonstrably harmed the system. People who royally screw up and do extremely questionable things getting millions and millions of dollars. The same isn't true of Google's benefits in any way.

Though I've answered it in earnest, your question really does strike me as trolling - it implies pretty heavily that the only reason anyone could ever complain about Wall Street's incentive structure is for irrational emotional reasons, like they are jealous communist types.
It looks to me as though the source is freely downloadable from github if you want to compile it yourself, but the Mac installer version is being sold at its usual price.

Since you can certainly sell a GPL'ed app, is this "well-planned open sourcing" going to continue to sell the installer version, start giving it away, or discontinue it? I don't see any mention of this issue on either site, but maybe I just missed it.
Should they have to acquire such burdening debt to come to this realization, though?
Isn't social engineering just conning? Why do we need a new name?

I remember a bit from The Art of The Steal which was written by Frank Abagnale, who is the real life inspiration for Catch Me if You Can. He talked about how to make free long distance calls in those days. Call a company via a payphone. Ask to be transferred to the switchboard. Make up some BS about being a part of the company and urgently needing to make an outside call. They dial the number and connect you, the end.

Sounds like "social engineering" to me as well. Or just good old fashioned conning, possibly re-discovered by hackers and given a new title. They're just using the same methods we've been using to get private information since the dawn of private information. Namely sweet-talking third parties that hold the information and don't really know any better.
Uhh, the same doublespeak as pointing out that if you're the only one to show up for a race, you're also the one that came in last?
Bizarrely, one Techcrunch commenter says "Sometimes comments on TechCrunch are only a half step above the comments on Hacker News."

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/09/working-at-zynga/?fb_commen...
Here's a couple dumb ideas
My high school latin course used these silly HTML/JS (probably at the time called DHTML) quizzes and exercises. They were a significant portion of the grade and truly pure JS hooked up to good ol' Matt's FormMail to submit scores.

I slowly developed little bookmarklets to make things ...easier. Reveal the hint without taking a score deduction. Decoded the answer obfuscation to just pop up the correct answer. Auto-select the correct answers for that page. Eventually I sat down and read the source of the quiz all the way through and realized all I needed to do was

> javascript: submitScore("name",100).
The policies you mention at WalMart are called "dead peasant insurance". There were even investment funds that engaged in betting on the deaths of nearly random people that had little to no connection to those taking out insurance, but about which the investors had more information about their health and longevity than insurance adjusters. These were good investments because the money you put into it in many cases was tax deductible, but life insurance benefits paid out are completely tax free. So the thing in essence was a legal money laundering operation that converted possible taxable corporate profits into completely untaxed death benefits.
I agree that emacs is losing its stigma of being/feeling bloated. Also, lisp is finding more practical applications through clojure. It seems like emacs should be on the upswing. So, charts like this (taken with a small grain of salt) are puzzling:
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=emacs&cmpt=q
"I didn't say that at all. I said it's easy to break into a bank but getting into a vault in this day and age is impossible."

Robbing bank vaults may be rare but it still happens.
I have no idea how kosher this is on Hacker News, but I have mirrored the 480p version of this video for your viewing pleasure:

http://nacr.us/help/mitRouter.mp4
While you work at Google, you get a personal benefit from this policy which tracks with your degree of anxiety about the financial impact of your death.
All iOS apps require a splash image (otherwise it's just a black screen while it spins up), but Apple strongly discourages using actual splash screens for this purpose: it's a very jarring experience, and also magnifies the apparent time between launch and ready states.

Instead the official recommendation is to make the splash image a stripped down version of your app's home screen - for an address book, this would be the main screen without any data, for example. This gives the app a more immediate feel, and also effectively hides a lot of the load time, since there is also no visible transition between the loading and ready states.

Of course, this is far from the reality of things - a lot of apps use splash screens for a variety of reasons, and most do not gracefully transition between splash and ready states (e.g., that empty address book splash screenshot will just magically pop into a ready view, instead of animating into said state).
But doesn't that depend on how many users you add? Would you rather pay $10 for up to 10k users, regardless if you have that many or a few cents as you work your way there?

I like the pay as you go pricing model over flat rate. Reminds me of amazon.
>This seems like prosecutorial abuse.

Goldman gives a lot of money to political campaigns (#1 donor to Obama[1], #2 to Romney[2] in last election). NY mayor Michael Bloomberg seems to fawn over Goldman[3], offering $1.65B in tax breaks for them to set up an office at Ground Zero[4]. My guess is Goldman's gold, regardless of the means in which they've acquired it, is a significant factor to Manhattnan DA's sudden interest in prosecuting white collar crime.

[1] http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cid=N00009638

[2] http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?id=N00000286

[3] http://www.salon.com/2012/03/16/mayor_bloomberg_personally_c...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg#Economic_issu...
Computers may give new life to old medicines
Life insurance premium payments on employees are tax deductible expenses.

Life insurance payouts are not considered income and are tax free.

It used to make more sense to do this when corporate income taxes were higher since you converted potentially taxable income into a non-taxable expense, that was later collected as an untaxable redemption, minus the insurance company's overheads.
Drinking at work: the boredom of boozeless business
Let's do a simple thought experiment. You have two selectors A and B. A takes 100x more time to evaluate than B (which is about how id and class selectors compare). You evaluate them equally often, say N times each. If the time B takes to evaluate is t, your total execution time is 101t.

Now someone comes along and makes B 10x faster while making A 2% slower (which is what the numbers above seem to show for the class selector). Now your execution time is 102.1t, which happens to be larger than 101t.

The upshot of all this is that if use frequencies are equal, performance improvements for slow things (even small ones) are worth a lot more than performance improvements for things that are already fast. Now obviously you have to weight by frequency of use, which may differ for different API consumers.

There's only one case in which speeding up already-fast stuff at the cost of slow stuff getting even slower is an obvious win regardless of use frequency: benchmarks averaged using geometric means. Which is the most popular averaging method, of course: see Dromaeo, V8 benchmark, PeaceKeeper, etc.
Are you really going to keep paying into the insurance policy until you're 75? The sooner you stop paying in (or die), the more you'd have to have paid in order to count on getting 5 years' salary paid out.

The incentive structure of your deal with the insurance agent is that he is trying to get more money out of you than you will get paid out.

The incentive structure of your deal with Google is that you have a benefit for staying.

Retirement is really another issue.
Vmware detects it, but doesn't stop it dumping you to the lock screen. The result is you hit control Ctrl-alt-del, lock screen pops upp, you get out of the lock screen, and there is a vmware popup saying "hey! You probably meant to use Ctrl-Alt-Insert instead!"
Ask PG: When will YC W13 applications be open?
Based on some HNSearching I found that "soon" is a good guess but just wondering if you had a more concrete date.
A benefit that never decreases, premiums that never increase, no questions asked for less than a million bucks, and a configurable end date picked in advance? The industry has a word for this. It is called term life insurance. It is a very inexpensive commodity trivially available from hundreds of providers, which is why they spend hundreds of millions so you remember the talking duck.
Twitter has limits, though they aren't as stringent. For starters, you're only allowed to follow up to 2,000 people until you reach 2,000 followers. After that, you can only follow ~300 more than are following you at all times. This is done to prevent massive amounts of spamming, though it still occurs.

My only beef with your "limit" is that it would prevent the well-connected people from truly reaching their entire network. If you feel like Twitter & Facebook are too spammy for you, then reduce your followers and friends, but this choice should be up to the individual.
Yeah, that's one of the first steps if a selection benchmarks slowly. I just dislike adding complexity in any form. It adds up so quickly in complex software.
While I'm not a target customer I'm sure you'll find early adopters thanks to YC&TC. Launching is hard, so congrats on that. That being said, I am still trying to wrap my head around the whole 'limited sharing' trend. Path got the ball rolling and has gotten pretty popular. Then came the sharing between couples - Pair, cupple etc. (seriously?) And now no sharing but just journaling for yourself ? How do you guys make money ?
"Best viewed in IE6!!" was some great times, wasn't it.
Manufacturing is taking off in India. But not in the way many hoped
It seems like you either didn't actually read the RFC or read but didn't understand, then made a fuss out of your ignorance.

SRP uses SHA1, but not just that. Here is the relevant part of the RFC [1]:

The host stores user passwords as triplets of the form

{ <username>, <password verifier>, <salt> }

Password entries are generated as follows:

<salt> = random()
x = SHA(<salt> | SHA(<username> | ":" | <raw password>))
<password verifier> = v = g^x % N*

[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2945.txt
Some time after we get done with Demo Day (Aug 21).
Another example: Michael Vick was prosecuted in the state of Virginia for dogfighting. The primary evidence against him: his plea bargain with the federal prosecution.
Technology and globalisation boost trade in fake identity cards
For a long time I tried to build a lifelogging app, something pretty similar to this, hell, we even went to the YC interview with that idea. I love this space & I love seeing someone tackle the problem with such a simple & clean app. This is actually something I would use myself: no numbers, no social bullshit. Just a simple app to keep track of my day. Great job! Good luck & godspeed!
It's exactly as you say.

Let's say you have $1 million in profit this year. You can pay 35% corporate income tax on it, $350,000.

Or you could buy $1 million in insurance which is a deductible business expense, pay no taxes at all and have "no profit". Then, as employees die, you collect $950,000 in completely tax free insurance payouts (the $50,000 is the insurance overhead).

You just saved $300,000 in taxes and have a $950,000 a year untaxable profit. For tax purposes, your company is unprofitable, but for profit purposes you are doing great.
definitely could see this being very big in the future! i've been looking for a program like this for a while. keep up the good work and i'm sure this will go far.
Large companies aren't the same as individuals when it comes to insurance. If you have enough employees, and you're covering an relatively small risk, you don't need to /buy/ anything at all. You just self-insure and you save a ton of money relative to what an insurance company would charge for the same coverage.

I've worked at several large companies where almost all of the insurance (health, life, etc) was done on a self-insured basis, with an insurance company providing providing administrative oversight (validating claims) for a flat fee. (But not actually providing insurance coverage.) If necessary, a company can buy reinsurance to cover claims above some (very, very high) deductible, the same way that your insurance company does.

And the reason why large companies do this is that, in fact, they do get a lot more bang for the buck than any of their employees could as individual consumers.
I suspect neither you nor the original author have worn many women's clothing or shoes. Sometimes things look uncomfortable that are not. And why does it matter anyway if my clothing accurately reflects some abstract startup ethos? Startups talk about attracting women, but what happens when women get criticized for doing things a lot of us legitimately enjoy like wearing pretty clothes?

Either way, nothing is less business-like than judging a tech event by the attire of the participants. In tech, it's a lose-lose situation. Dress in a baggy Defcon t-shirt and don't brush your hair...you are too ugly and you must not be a "people person." Dress nicely...oh you must have just chosen those clothes to impress people, so you must be superficial.
I suspect that's so you don't type it wrong, copy it, then lock yourself out. I have typoed passwords before, very annoying when you know the password and just need to figure out which permutation it is.
In this instance you don't have to beat the insurance company, you only have to beat taxes.
I think DARPA money started pouring in to fund his lab after that paper.

I don't know how to feel about that. If you find some time, would you mind evaluating my write-up at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=97299 ?

I'm wrestling with the moral implications of a scientist riding a wave of unfounded hype to raise public money for his own lab. Also, I don't know if that's an accurate description of what happened; it seems that way to me, but I'm worried I'm wrong. I'd be grateful to get your thoughts (and anyone else's).
thank you for copying and pasting this insightful comment everywhere.
> pedanticism of the moderators.

pedantry.
I read "Ghost in the Wires" (a book about Kevin Mitnick's life) a month or two ago, and it's astonishing how well he knew the system. He was doing stuff like the above, but also getting around the callback as well (I don't recall exactly what he did, but it was something along the lines of conning the line workers to divert an exec's phone number for testing purposes just long enough to get the callback). That was just one of many times he pulled these sorts of stunts for curiousity's sake.
Actually, he never encouraged anyone else not to go to college. I think the part about college being a waste of his time was really just to emphasize how he persevered and was able to create his own success.

My friend just linked me his own blog post after reading Steve's. http://www.jayhuang.org/blog/success-is-very-far-away-but-pe...
I'm sorry but I completely disagree with that. I got a distinct feeling that the author of this blog is in deep passionate love with himself and his writing, and the topic he is writing about is remote secondary to the flourish of his expression. I personally don't care too much about this flourish, when I get craving for it, I can read classic authors that tell real stories about fascinating things in great language and not a bit of snobbery about some geeks naming their companies wrong. When I read technical or around-technical article, I expect a decent command of English, but I expect the author to worry about delivering his point and not about loving his own voice so much that he can't stop embellishing and loses he sight of why he's doing it. Reporting and opera aria are different genres.

In this article, what is the point of it? That all startup ideas suck because they think too small? And the author instead thinks they should be doing... well, he doesn't. He just thinks they are named wrong, think wrong, dress wrong, speak wrong, live wrong and their future is wrong. Everything is wrong except for the one shining light that is the author of the article and his perfect whimsical metaphor-filled style. Bleh.
When startups offer higher salaries or better working conditions or other benefits than other startups, they are engaging in "a calculated way to widen the gap" as well.

Is the problem that Google is too big to do grossly unfair things like trying to retain employees by treating them well?
g^x is slow, therefore better than linkedin hashes for the purpose of dictionary attacking the database.
Whatever logic you are using to prove that performing g^x is the same as computing plain sha1 would also prove that bcrypt and pbkdf2 are no better than sha1.
That is incredibly clever.
TextMate 2 has gone Open Source Source code now available at GitHub
There is no "installer version" of TextMate. It's just an ordinary application bundle. See for yourself — here's the 2.0 alpha posted on the Macromates blog; it will auto-update to the latest alpha:

http://updates.textmate.org/Application/TextMate_r8930.tbz
cryptbe - I quoted the exact same text from the RFC in a post below. Sheesh...

From this it should be obvious to you that what SRP is doing is no better than SHA1 for protecting against dictionary attacks.

'g' and 'N' are well known numbers (also posted below). Username, and salt are known.

It's the perfect setup for high speed dictionary attacks. Please edit or delete your post. You can read my more lengthy post on this here: http://www.opine.me/blizzards-battle-net-hack/
Yes. I don't know what your target demographic is, but your fabrics seem to target a younger, less stylistically-aware group that doesn't align with your price points and level of detail.

For instance, half of your fabrics are horizontally-striped, which I would consider both an immature look and stylistically unsound (with vertical stripes considered 'slimming'). I associate Lacoste with consumers who try to compensate for style sense with money - like the 'Rock and Republic' of polos. The Lacoste shirts cost $90 apiece, but even their "!" slim-fit line still are cut like squares. I don't think this is your crowd who cares about fit.

Consumers in the $100-200 polo range are used to higher quality items rather than striped/branded items - e.g. the Ralph Lauren Black line is in that range, and the whole line focuses on Italian cuts and fabrics with no visible branding.

If I were in your position, I would offer less fabrics and of higher quality with marketing to target more of the Tom Ford-wannabes. Something along the lines of "Fit Frames Quality." You could offer almost a luxury fabric menu in basic colors that really tells a story of the piece of cloth, helping people to become more viscerally attached with what they wear. With a current slogan of "Be Unique," I think you are skirting the fact that people willing to go through the rigmarole of customization, test shirts, then the custom manufacturing process are pursuing a display of flawlessness. The advertising fails to capture this desire for perfection - you are selling choice, when I think that you need to highlight the intersection of fit and quality.

Furthermore, monogramming is a must-have feature.
This sort of thing kind of bothers me. Is Blizzard in the business of verifying state-issued identification? What prevents me from photoshopping my target's name on top of my own ID?
previous discuss http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4336977
Oddly enough, your resume's source code is probably a more effective resume than any output it could possibly generate.
How a high school student makes $500 a day on Twitter
I'm not surprised - Blizzard don't understand the meaning of security in the first place! For instance: the passwords that a user chooses are case-insensitive. Feel free to try this one out on your battlenet account!
(3) you type your intended password wrong, copy it, paste it, and lock yourself out. The sites make you type the password twice is to make sure you did it right. People who can't be bothered to type a password twice are probably heavily intersecting with people who didn't type it right the first time.
Mac OS X: Avadis Tevanian - B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Rochester, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University

Python: Guido van Rossum - masters degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Amsterdam

Ruby on Rails: David Heinemeier Hansson - bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Ruby: Yukihiro Matsumoto - He graduated with an information science degree from University of Tsukuba

Linux: Linus Torvalds - master's degree in computer science from NODES research group

SpaceX: Elon Musk - From the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he received an undergraduate degree in Economics, and stayed on another year to finish a second bachelor's degree in physics.

...I could go on
That could be fun - "We'll send you two molds - please step in each one, then we'll build a shoe around it"
Names don't matter. Google is a terrible name. Yahoo is a terrible name. Do you think Facebook became what it is because of their name? Do you think MicroSoft got where it is because of the name? Do you think Linux and Apache took sizable chunk of their market afterward because their names were better?

Names are insignificant. You can pay millions for most awesome name on the planet and flop, and you can choose name like "git" and create awesome software that everybody uses. People would use anything under any name if they like it.
You'd have to shoehorn the obj-c runtime in there somehow. Almost definitely not worth the effort. What would you want to run in this way?
Painless Web Handlers in Go