skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First: thanks to ALL of you who answered. This was very informative. If I understand correctly:

1) I would define something as "not cracked" if it is as strong as its password--in other words, there's no way to circumvent it that isn't a general vulnerability (peek through my window, get a keylogger on my machine, etc.) I assume you're telling me that this is the case with WPA2.

2) It sounds as though you are saying that something like WPA2 doesn't just authenticate a login but remains in use as an encryption key for subsequent wireless data interchange between client and base station. If I'm understanding correctly, that's a powerful point.

3) I knew that MAC addresses could be spoofed, but I was thinking they wouldn't know WHICH MAC address to pretend to have. Of course, if I'd been a little smarter, I would have noticed that my own linux process was using the MAC address a client claimed to have to throw out unrecognized machines (before I had MAC address filtering as a built-in router feature). If they were sending their MAC address to me, then my own client machine would be sending its MAC address in clear text to them, telling them which MAC address to pretend to have. Duh.

Well, I feel a little dumber and a little smarter. Time to go change my network. Thanks again.
I am only saying that everyone goes through it, if you feel that you are some way special and that normal things as usual don't apply to you then something is wrong with you not everybody else. Because you are the exception to the rule.

Bad roads, garbage on the roads, crowds in buses/bus stops, big queues, bribe, traffic jams, corruption, bureaucracy etc applies to nearly every Indian.

If you feel something about it, do something about it. But saying that you won't come back because things are horrible and there are somewhat better in some promised land then you seriously being to question what they person actually wanted a better India or 'any' better country in general, which is ready built and tailored to their comfort where they can go back settle down 'now'.

I am not saying either is good or bad. But be straight about it.
WTF? The HuffPo thing is just a link to the TC article.

Previously posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4434580
Great hardware but we just upgraded to the z196. Maybe in a couple of years :)
On my MBP with gcc 4.2.1, it does work -- I tried it before posting. (Your interpretation of what it does is correct.)
See I am not saying staying in bad conditions makes you an Indian.

But if you complain that life as applied to any ordinary Indian is something you don't like living with, then legally whatever status you might have. You surely can't live in India anyway because you don't want to.
I tried out Vimp because of this very thread and it's almost identical. Even the docs look the same. Which makes sense since Penta is a fork of Vimp.

Worthwhile to spend the 30 seconds installing it, typing :mkv (to create the .vimperatorrc), and copying your .pentadactylrc into it.

FF15 is feeling great and I'm glad I didn't call it quits at the lack of Pentadactyl. I'm used to FF eating a gig on my 2012 Macbook Air. Now it's sitting at less than half that for the same set of tabs.
Because CL hates freedom, didn't you hear?
Judges can overrule juries, in extreme cases.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Can_a_judge_overturn_the_decision_...

Jury nullification is the only counter-example: a judge cannot overrule a nont-guilty criminal decision.
Jury decisions do not set precedent, only judges' decisions do.
I guess it really depends on your definition of irrelevant. Personally I have no problem with candidates who have a storied past, since I seriously doubt they have made as many ill-informed decisions as I have. For some reason though I have a hard time accepting Romney's refusal to release tax returns before 2010 as legit. Maybe I just relate better with the type of candidate that smokes pot than the type that abuses offshore accounts :P
AMD pioneered the integrated memory controller in the x86 space...
Nodester acquired by AppFog
Finally, someone who understands! Prettiness really is the most important feature of any browser.
Paul Carr makes a financial disclosure about Pando Daily
Paul Carr revealed to me(and briefly publicly) that PandoDaily got 2 Million more than it reported, then deleted the message so nobody would see it. Now you get to see it anyway. I found this while going through my back-log of email.
"If Goldman Sachs didn’t have more profitable market inefficencies to exploit, they might be out there arbitraging stolen bikes."

Ouch! LOL
>>To accomplish such a thing, you have to be connected

By any chance, did you happen to mean "connected via Photoshop"?
A crow and a gull talk to each other
Paul Carr revealed to me(and briefly publicly) that PandoDaily got 2 Million more than it reported, then deleted the message so nobody would see it. Now you get to see it anyway. I found this while going through my back-log of email.
Especially impressive to say "calculus", which shows actual awareness of mathematics, and suggests that the speaker really has tried something like that. Usually people say "algebra" when they want a word that just sounds mathy.
Esri and Open Source Software: More Please
Shouldn't you have checked the car's plate and registration at the DMV before buying? That's standard procedure here.
> Does this tell us people will do anything to save a bit of cash? No. It’s telling us that people will do almost anything to get same-day releases – and that they’re willing to both pay wads of cash and break the law at the same time to get them.

I'm not sure that that's the correct lesson to learn here. If anything same-day delivery only applies to the most popular shows. And even then it's not a guarantee. And even if it does show up you still have to wait for it to finish downloading, which may take more than a day if you have a slower internet connection.

So, what's the real takeaway?

I think it's that users will do almost anything to have physical control over content. Having your favorite movies and TV shows and music on a hard-drive that you own is well worth the cost and the time-investment for a huge number of people.
Can anyone who works with big iron regale us with tales of modern mainframes? These days it seems the term "mainframe" is associated with the 70s and 80s (and COBOL!), but I'm pretty sure the contemporary mainframe market has a bunch of cool stuff that we mere mortals hardly get to hear about.
Use it? You spend 30 minutes integrating it and then move on with your life =)
I don't why you are being down voted because you have some good points.

Coming to Indian heritage its all mixed up. Even though people have religious beliefs you will see common culture throughout. I can speak for South India. Its practically impossible to point out who is of what language, color, origin, religion or whatever in a crowd of thousand people. Because everybody looks and acts the very same.

In fact these days I hardly remember my religious identity unless someone explicitly forces me to.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4153276

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=iProject
Did you ever see that movie where that guy suddenly wakes up in a pool of sweat gasping for air because of that nightmare sequence?

That's me when I remind myself of Flex development.
How about super glue on the seats ans handle bars?
Will Paid Reviews Bite Amazon Back?
I agree with the comments here on this being an obvious travesty. I sincerely look forward to the appeal, and am confident in an all-out rejection of the verdict. The proud foreman's interview will certainly be useful fodder for the defense in its appeal.
I am not sure it is TechCrunch worthy.

It is very much TC worthy. TC is no holy land. They themselves have used the medium to wash their dirty laundry in public, more than once.
First wave of Americans settle into Australian mining jobs
Its not the legal system that worries me, but instead, its how the tech community seems to misunderstand how the patent system works. I am not a lawyer, but through this whole affair, I have listened to tech pundits and others opining about the case, and I have become more and more frustrated as these people provide lazy opinion based mostly on irrelevant information. Its not the patent abstract, or common belief of what a specific patent entails, that matter. Its the very specific patent claims. The same goes for "prior art". People really need to read the patent claims, and consider all the claims in the patent as a whole, before expressing frustration about how these cases are developing.
If you trust wikipedia it was 1999 that the first tivo came out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiVo
Anybody know the numbers involved?
I switched to Pentadactyl because of passkeys, but now Vimperator has ignorekeys which I think might actually be even better.
US sanctions lock Iranian gamers out of World of Warcraft
jm2c.
Guess you laughed at the article first and then felt disgusted about it (the laugh I mean).
A month is not a long time. Even if you had Net-15 terms, clients can be expected to take longer than a month to pay them.

Large companies, in particular, routinely manage to get invoices held up in accounting. Invoices can get silently dropped for, for instance, not using the right P.O. number, or having the P.O. miskeyed into their backend.
AppFog acquires Nodester
https://github.com/theironcook/Backbone.ModelBinder really helps with this problem.
Personally, I hate being required to watch a video to feel like I'm digesting the main content. A lot of times I'm browsing this stuff at work and don't want to put on headphones or I'm enjoying tranquil silence.

So in that respect it's scammy.

So I'd suggest making a big text or graphical blurb with a thumbnail of the video.
I also met Shirley at the Zaarly crawl when they stopped at our startup. Had pretty much the exact same experience, tons of name dropping, ridiculously overenthusiastic and yeah, valley fangirlism is a great term for it. I knew exactly who they were talking about when I read the title. The valley is a weird place.
How I Cracked Over 122 Million SHA1 and MD5 Hashed Passwords
You got it wrong.

I don't why you left India. But most people I know leave because of one straight thing- 'money'. Although a more soft term used is 'better life'. But two to three counter questions and it becomes clear that it was always about money.

I am not saying that is wrong. Hell we Indians have a wrong notion about money. We think rich people are evil, I understand that we have a cultural back drop behind this.

I am not saying going to another country to make money is wrong. But it must be stated that way.

'Hey, I am going away because I need to make cash'

is a lot better than.

'Hey, I am going away because this place is crap'.

The latter is a statement designed to hide your intentions and convenient point to a another reason which people feel makes them look good compared to the former.

>>apparently a term that means that I cannot criticize anything about India ever

Aha, that happens when a person contributes nothing back and still expects things to fall in place like magic.
In fact, I think Core 2 came from the Pentium M line.
Common advices from corporate lawyers is that the "e" in "email" stands for "evidence". As in: anything you write in a company email could one day show up as evidence in court...and from there in the newspaper. Here's a famous example:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-6142843-7.html
When I met her, she told me that her role was some sort of community manager/office manager hybrid fwiw.
A friend of mine worked for several years as a dinosaur herder and still does on-call work for his employer's data centre.

Basically it's a different universe. Everything that might be familiar to someone with a unix or windows background is ... different. More eldritch. More powerful and yet more obtuse.

Oh and JCL. JCL is the devil's work.

One thing they did that I thought was cool was to consolidate a bunch of Linux servers onto their mainframes. They replaced a few racks with z/VM instances. If they needed another server, they could spin it up in literally seconds if the template was already loaded. This was back in 2004, 2005.

You don't buy (actually: rent) a mainframe (actually: CPU cycles and RAM capacity) because it's cost-effective. You do so because the system absolutely must work and you have a mind-numbing number of transactions to process in a hurry.
I use things I remember from movies/books. Stuff that has always stuck in my head to the point that there is no way for me to forget it.
I just saw this e-mail. Oh, days of free hosting, I knew you were numbered! ;) These guys are super cool, and I'm not just saying that because they currently host my side project (http://muxamp.com/). Nodester's software is super easy to use, works great, and makes nice use of Git. Chris Matthieu and co. deserve recognition for their work.
For Facebook, Frank Gehry designs a paradise for 2,800 engineers
Hey Startups, Maybe It’s Time For You To Get Corporate Help
We do exist. I'm an ideas guy, I specifically build my portfolio to showcase my diverse creative thinking. http://www.chrisnorstrom.com Unfortunately my best ideas, the projects (NOT startups) I'm working on, I can't share, because then I give myself a deadline of 1 year until they become unpatentable by law. So it sucks I can't share 87% of the ideas I come up with. I love prototyping my inventions and products and as they fail, post them online. Which I'm gearing up to do in the following days actually. I've got 5 failed products that didn't pass the prototyping stage. Since I'm not interested in patenting & building a business around things that don't work I'll throw them up on my blog.

My advice to "ideas people" is that you need to prove you're creative and useful. Otherwise people think you're bull-shiting them.
AppFog Acquires Nodester
Yes, if it is in the right price range. I think there are some people offering it but it is somewhat hard to find and maybe a small part of their business.
The funny thing is that IBM and other major DP firms have had cloud servers for years. Decades, even. You just can't get to it with a credit card.

I've sometimes thought that a cloud provider backed onto z/VMs could be a nifty business model. Sure, you'd be priced above even the "expensive" providers like AWS; but then ... it's a mainframe. At the very least your customers would get hipster cred, which tends to attract a massive markup.
This is a disturbing farce. I realize that it is extremely difficult to appeal jury decisions, but this is getting ridiculous.

Not only did he take it upon himself to ignore the court's instructions by dishing out punitive damages, but the entire reasoning behind these so-called deliberations now appear to have been completely devoid of rationality.

The poster who compared the logic employed here to Vicini's "battle of wits" in the Princess Bride had it spot on.
AppFog is actually free for 2GB of RAM....
Not every time. Maybe on Apple-only hardware (although I think audio from games wasn't synced perfectly when I tried with AirPort Express).

But if you use audio equipment with licensed AirPlay made by companies who don't get these computers thingies, such as Philips or Marantz, it's worse. My Marantz AV receiver introduces 6-or-so seconds(!) of delay into music playback and that's one of the better ones.
That is in fact the origin of the term. Check out the book Hackers, by Steven Levy (http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Steven-Lev...) and read up on how the Tech Model Railroad Club appreciated 'clever tricks' on how someone solved something, and it didn't necessarily have to be a 'technical hack' to warrant the phrase.

Another great text on the topic was written by Stallman: http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html

"It didn't become easy—for practical purposes, using two chopsticks is completely superior. But precisely because using three in one hand is hard and ordinarily never thought of, it has 'hack value', as my lunch companions immediately recognized. Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking."
'Facts' are that our country still has a lot to progress. And people need to do something about it.

Those 'Facts' don't give you a free pass to endlessly badmouth your country to justify your immigration needs. While the actual 'Facts' you did it for are totally something else.
Samsung sends Facebook fan a one-of-a-kind Galaxy S III with epic dragon
I wrote a simple python script to download all the content. Hope to do some analysis on it offline. Please don't mind the newbie coding skills :). I put the script on github at https://github.com/kudithipudi/Misc-Scripts/blob/master/pars...
"What impressed my most was their ability to think on their feet and their integrity. Why, I'm pretty sure they'd almost never work for a liar, or someone who cares much about gossip one way or the other. Though it surprises me you met them at a dinner party; X usually doesn't have much time or love for sniffing butts. Anyway, why do you ask?"
Groonga CloudSearch (open source Amazon CloudSearch implementation) 1.2.0 is out
Connoisseur of chaos
I guess the logic is that these people then go 'hey, my bank clearly isn't secure' and switch to a different bank.
my friends bike being stolen: caught on tape in NYC. Lets find this guy!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1E1ck8LDlE&feature=plcp
Congratulations Chris.
Thanks for letting me know! I got the impression hosting would become a paid service from this paragraph in the announcement email:

"As part of the AppFog family, Nodester users will now be able to use the same PaaS for their Ruby and Java apps that they use for their Node apps. It brings the serious support and operational excellence of AppFog to our users, enabling them to run production and enterprise workloads on their developer PaaS. Perhaps most significant of all - it allows Nodester users to deploy apps to a wide range of different IaaS providers - at a highly competitive price" (emphasis is mine).
> Wow! throughout the interview the guy looked extremely confident.

I'd attribute this to Dunning-Krueger. The guy thinks he was the smartest shit in the room - "I had an aha moment, I explained it to them, I laid it out, I this, I that."
AppFog buys Nodester to bolster Node.js support
Ex-IBMer here. I worked with WebSphere (IBM's Java App Server) on zOS, and am by no means a Z-series expert.

My understanding is that these machines are amazing at IO, and handle virtualized environments incredibly well (and have so for decades) (e.g. thousands of Linux machines running).

If you need raw CPU performance then a mainframe is not for you. If you need competitive pricing then a mainframe is not for you. If you have a mainframe and need a have an expiring agreement then this machine may be for you. If you have legacy mainframe code then this machine may be for you.

I remember watching a financial update from Sam Palmisano (IBM's previous CEO). I swear he started to drool when referring to IBM's mainframe margins. From my experience mainframes are for legacy companies with legacy systems, as they are not price competitive with other markets that experience real market competition. But, it is interesting and incredibly reliable hardware.
Finally. I've been waiting ages for Wordpress to come to their senses and remove the header images because nobody used them anyway. Easily one of the nicest and best Twenty-something Wordpress themes by far, really aesthetically pleasing.
So, iOS can't be run on Samsung's tablets. Does this then invalidate Apple's claims?
when it's available for download? I search it in my wordpress blog dashboard but not found.
Twitter hashtag chat with Paul Irish(https://twitter.com/paul_irish) #jsfoo
Probably that the guy has a very high opinion of himself. Dunning-Krueger.
Same here, ditto for records and CDs. Some of the books (especially art books) are still on shelves, but the fiction has really taken a beating.
I think if will also be imortend what other databases come out of this. There is space for other prioritys in terms of CAP in a world were perseption and process are seperated. Or just other implmentations of the same ideas, opensource maybe.
AppFog Buys Nodester for Node Bench
> My understanding is that these machines are amazing at IO

What makes them amazing at IO?

Isn't IO more a result of what type of disks a computer has? An SAS 15k disk can only do 300 iops whether it's a mainframe or a commodity server, no?
I'll bet it shows up pretty high in Google search results given that it's been linked from HN.
Seriously! Good to see the good guys win one!
That's some awesome PR there.
>Then Intel a couple of years later rolled out Nehalem, with an integrated memory controller and hyperthreading, cementing their advantage in the server market. AMD has been playing catch up ever since.

Before intel essentially copied HT from AMD with their QPI, (I believe that Nehalems were the first QPI xeons) AMD servers nearly always came in dramatically lower power than the FBDIMM using Xeon-based servers.

Also note, in the early days of hyperthreading, it was a great way to run your two active processes on one core, while your second was idle. My understanding is that even now, in the best case, it's not a particularly huge boost.

I mean,yeah; between the release of the QPI xeons and now, for most things, intel has had the superior chip. But before QPI? man, if you paid for your own power, AMD was dramatically superior for high-ram applications.
Anatomy of a Crushing [2011]
Chris and Nodester launched a few months before us (NodeSocket) and always respected that Nodester was open source and free.
Activations are closures, in AS3 compiler parlance.
Lawyers widely view trials as a crapshoot anyway. There's all sorts of risk taking and gambling involved. They probably rolled the dice that this guy is anti-patent. When a lot of engineers see the final patent (they "wrote"... with the help of lawyers) they don't even understand it themselves. I saw it done with my own patent. You send off a very nice, clear, concise technical explanation and it comes back in Greek. Plus, I have found that most software people are anti-patent because we're always failing stuff on the obviousness test.
Fixing the "Repos loading..." message in Octopress
if(!window.banana) banana = "banana";
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Think throughput...

Lots of cache memory and very fast buses to very large external disk arrays. An old mainframe trick was to use the previous generation hardware as the IO controller for the current generation...
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fxchrome/

In addition to making the UI resemble Chrome (just don't look too closely), it also replicates Chrome's tab-squeezing behavior. This addon is a godsend on Linux, where Firefox is ugly as sin.
Someone really needs to make a service that will spread an app out across compatible platforms automatically based on price and availability.

Kind of like a multi-PAAS HireFireApp that also handles deployment.
Putting these in place this weekend :)
> Was it to secure further funding?

Lulz.

IIRC she planned a few events for us around SF. As soon as we figured out she was a fraud, she was gone. As far as I could tell, her role at Zaarly served her more than it served us.
The thing is, your entire line of argument is predicated on the quote approach being vulnerable to a dictionary-style attack. In order for that to be the case, both the SSID and the exact quotation used have to match, otherwise the attacker is forced back into expensive brute force attacks. Any unique element, whether intentional or not, renders that vulnerability null.

The xkcd approach certainly works, but the arbitrary, random nature of it is going to make it difficult for some people to remember. The quotation approach is just leveraging the fact that people spend their entire lives using language as a logical framework to simplify remembering things.

Either is going to be vastly more secure than a random string of characters.
I want a Samsung Galaxy S III with the unicycle kangaroo.
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