skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually they were a "dating" site in that they explicitly said that, but they seem to have pivoted (slightly, at least) as they describe themselves as "find people nearby" now.

I personally wouldn't make a dating site be explicit about that.
Authentication Primitives for Memory Authentication
Hash Functions. The first strategy (Figure 1.a) allowing to perform memory authentication
consists in storing on-chip a hash value for each memory block stored off-chip
(write operations). The integrity checking is done on read operations by re-computing
a hash over the loaded block and by then comparing the resulting hash with the on-chip
hash fingerprinting the off-chip memory location.
I has been a while since I stopped using a Linux desktop. The reasoned I stopped:

a. there were at least two of everything: GNOME, KDE, vi, emac, gedit, Firefox, Opera, kasablanca, ftpcube ...

b. crap device support: graphics cards, printers, cameras, thumb drives ...

c. highly variable levels of application quality and support
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Has anyone here found their own UDID in the list?
Coincidentally, I've also been using a GPG based password manager called 'pass' for about ten years or so. I publish its source code here, straight from my version control system called .bashrc:

alias pass='gpg -o - ~/Important/passwords.gpg'

The gpg command will automagically use the relevant askpass dialog of the desktop of my choice, which I've set to expire after fifteen minutes. The above command will print a sorted list of entries in this format:

site: username
site: password

also known as a text file and extracting specific passwords goes by eyeballing the printed output or alternatively applying grep to only extract the stored data for a specific site. The final copying to the web browser happens via manual operation of mouse selection and the clipboard. I get rid of the plaintext passwords by actuating an operation called closing the terminal window.

Works just fine! And I got to choose the format of the datastore myself, too!
A port of the OpenBSD userland to Linux
La Russie se lance également dans la course à la tablette multimédia
C’est désormais officiel, la Russie a fait part de son projet de fabriquer sa propre tablette multimédia. Le géant américain Google et son système Android n’ont qu’à bien se tenir.
Artificial scarcities
Referly (YC S12) is hiring a web developer
Interesting misuse of logical converse (or Bayes theorem) at the start:

> The better you write, the higher you go in Ogilvy & Mather. People who think well, write well.

Most of this advice applies to coding as well (with some liberties...):

1. Read Effective Java / Effective Go, etc

2. Use normal idioms of the language, not clever constructions.

3. Short variable names, short methods, short classes.

4. Don't force "Patterns" into your code unnaturally.

5. 1000 lines to a file, max.

6. Check the APIs you use (at least the docs), that they do what you want them do.

7. Don't submit code the day you write it in a fury of creation. Sleep on it and review it the next day, and clean it up.

8. Code Review.

9. Write clear understandable code, not just code that you fiddled until it compiled and ran.

10. Don't just send an email and expect the reader to act. Talk to the person to get their commitment.
If an advanced alien species someday finds this rover on Mars (or probably any other space probe launched by NASA) and examines it, what will this method of knotting tell them about the state of human mathematics?

For example, is it possible that there exists another, more optimal, type of knot that we should have chosen had only our knot theory had been more advanced?
Quora: Which code landing pages have the best design?
The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid
http://blog.instapaper.com/post/6830514157
I think he's referring to his original comment from this prior post about TextMate 2's purpose is to retire:

http://www.marco.org/2012/08/09/textmate-2-open-sourced
Instead of downvoting, why not explain why this is an appropriate link for HN? It's not even an article, and has no context. Therefore seeing it made me question my assumptions about HN.
What boggles my mind about Chrome is how terrible the location bar autocomplete is.

At least, that's how it seemed to me for ages when I switched from Firefox. I mean, I would have just visited a page with "foo" in the URL, and I would type "foo", and that recent page simply would not appear. But a page I visited two months ago with "foo" somewhere in the URL (or worse, somewhere in the page content) would appear.

I haven't noticed this so much recently -- maybe it's gotten better, or maybe I've just gotten used to it.

I've been shocked that I haven't heard many other people complaining about this. Maybe it's just me?
Facebook-referral tracking link in URL? Messing with their analytics.

That's the second "#.blahId.websiteName" tracker hash I've seen today. What product/pattern is that?
HTTPS Everywhere: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gcbommkclmclpchllf...

Dunno about Smooth Gestures.
>(NOTE: one way to hack it maybe is to encase the tablet in another box and cover the bottom bar, haven't tried that).

That works--it was the first thing I tried as quick fix, but I thought it was a bit ridiculous to have to do that, so I decided against it.
>So may be there isn't a proper solution, because the premise is that the idea of patents is flawed?

I don't think the idea of patents is flawed. They work well in certain industries (namely pharmaceuticals). The problem is that the patent system was never designed to cover intangible goods. The idea that one single device can simultaneously infringe tens of thousands of separate patents is an abomination.

That leaves the problem of how to exclude software from patentability without causing problems for Pfizer and General Electric, but I think that's coming at it from the wrong end. Never mind what you can get a patent to cover or not, just make intangible goods incapable of patent infringement. Pass a law that says that if all you're doing is distributing bits or executing a program on a general purpose computer, you can't be liable for patent infringement whatsoever. That should have no effect on the makers of cholesterol medication and jet turbines while solving the problem for software developers.
I checked and didn't find my own iPhone, iPad or my wife's iPhone in the list.
The 14th release isn't the complete project but it plays all the way until lambda core chapter:

http://forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?p=480683#po...

>This will include our re-envisioning of Half-Life all the way up to Lambda Core. We believe this is a great way to provide a complete-feeling 8-10 hour experience with a solid ending, make our fans happy and help us make the best overall game possible.

>We are still working hard on Xen and BMDM, but instead of making you wait we are giving you Black Mesa as soon as it's ready!
Especially at $200m/plane, seems like unnecessary complexity.
Nah, Textmate 1.x is exactly as good as it was 5 years ago. Actually it's a bit better, the community has been releasing more bundles for it. TextMate 2 seems to have some better underlying architecture, but nothing better for productivity. Oh, except it's the new thing ;)
No, you're right, it's absolutely dreadful.

The crazy part? Bookmark something, and then type the keywords that are in the title of the bookmarked page. The last time I used Chrome I could barely find anything unless I opened up all my bookmarks and searched that way.

It makes sense once you realize that Google makes a profit from having a shitty search function...
If you like this, then Ian's Shoelace Site will bring tears of joy to your eyes.

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/

I think it is perhaps the single greatest website on the entire internet.
Putting a file of user data on a laptop is a fireable offense at at any reputable organization.

Correction, it's only a fireable offense if the employee of said reputable organization let's the file become compromised somehow, there's huge PR blow back, and the organization needs somebody's head on a platter in show of how serious they take the issue. Otherwise, m'eh.
Apple could probably figure out if this data came from an app developer because I'd bet there's only exactly one app which every single one of those 1,000,001 devices downloaded.

Even if they threw in a few fake rows to mess up the data, they could find the app that has the highest percentage of downloads from that entire data set.
Thanks, that's my instinct as well and I'm going for it, looking foward to unveiling it for critique when I have an mvp.
Einstein invented the atomic bomb? That's funny. Not very HN level of knowledge there buddy.

And yes.. that is almost exactly the reason (US vs Germany developed the first atomic bomb). 1000x the resources and scientists, applied to a know physical possibility, supported by: the government, and infrastructure via the army.
It really doesnt matter as long as you are working on hard problems.
"Of course, the cost of using 171 million metric tons of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer is paid in dead zones at the mouths of many of the world's rivers. These anoxic zones result from nitrogen-rich runoff promoting algal blooms that then die and, in decomposing, suck all the oxygen out of surrounding waters."

Right.
What's your address? I want to help myself to all of your stuff. So what if you've worked for it. I want it so I should have it. Private citizens ought not have the right to retain ownership of anything. Everything should be free right? So let's start at your house. It's cool though, you can have a kickstarter to buy new stuff. I might even chip in $5.
I went with a T430, mainly because it's built like tank, and it's cheap enough that I'm not afraid to haul it around everywhere. At first glance it looks like an older computer, so I'm not too worried about someone stealing it either.

I love the trackpoint (don't have to take my hands off the home keys to use the touchpad). I also love the docking bay, with my mac I had to unplug the power, speakers and usb, now I just push a button and it pops off the dock.
My problem is the opposite. I always benchmark myself against the best in the world and am then disappointed when I'm nowhere near them.
Yup, perhaps pwg (poster) wanted esr (OP author) to look bad? Reading it in hindsight shows the risks of weighing in early and publicly with an opinion but I doubt those risks slow folks down.
I think this is important, and the other important factor is that removing the stylus and reattaching it adds at least 3-4 seconds to an interaction with one's phone. My interactions with my phone today are often under 10 seconds which means that a stylus would add 30-40% friction to those interactions.
> refund any Backer whose reward they do not or cannot fulfill

Finishing the project is not one of the rewards unless the creators say it is. Many rewards can be fulfilled regardless of the success of the project (thank yous on web site, T-Shirts, posters, lunch with team, etc). So what it means is that when you create a Kickstarter project and it gives you money, your #1 priority is sending the rewards out.
There's a difference between writing a book about a gang and actually talking to them. Adelstein went and interviewed Yakuza members about their business, talked to sex workers, and talked to cops who explained how things work.
Uh, who the hell do you install that shit on?

Specifically, do people install this sort of stuff on a 'normal' person? Do they accept volunteers?
I took a nutrition class in college and had to read a few studies about the relationship between exercise and weight loss. The studies found that in the short term, there was little difference in both rate of weight loss and amount of weight loss in groups that used diet and exercise vs. diet alone. However they did find that those that exercised had a significantly higher success rate at maintaining their weight loss in the long term.
> If you've got a single webserver then we're speaking a different language. That's not an insult or anything, it's just that I'm talking about techniques we use to support millions of pageviews a day.

And where did I talk about single webserver? You said "Once you move from storing session data in-memory on the webserver, and add a network call,", to which I said I never do in-memory session, even for a single webserver. Get over yourself - you aren't a special snowflake who deals with more than one more webserver.

> Though even at your scale you should consider redis as a drop-in replacement for memcache. It benchmarks faster in many cases, and has support for data structures (lists, sorted sets, etc) that make your life easier.

"Though even at your scale "

As I said, get over yourself. All you have offered is somehow storing session in Redis makes you scale.

How on earth would you know what scale I
am talking about? I don't remember mentioning it.

And I know what redis does. Cargo cult mentality viz. "redis is really better than memcached" are the main reason behind fucked up systems.

> And see my comment below clarifying what you said about cookies.

Yes, I saw your comment. Local storage is not the solution for coming year or so. I am paid to design systems that work, not systems that might work.

> For sessions, session id in cookie and memcache/redis as session store works for all scale.

>> Kind of a bold statement? GL with that.

I don't know where you are getting your numbers from, but million pageviews/day as you mention again and again is a very nominal number for a generic webapp(unless you are very cache unfriendly viz. reddit). That isn't something you even have to think about. A standard rails app sitting behind nginx with 4-5 webservers will do it just fine.

And for the last time, "session id in cookies and then load the session before request" fucking works for every one including facebook and google. The only thing that differs is choice of session store, and no, redis isn't the catchall solution. For most of the cases, memcache is faster.
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Internally, there's no such thing as the browser war. It's just something the media hypes up and something nerds argue about. Google used to contribute to Firefox before they went into their caves to give birth to Chrome, and the relationship is still symbiotic. Vendors are happy with the fact that the web is actually progressing now with competition spurring it unlike when Microsoft stopped working on IE in the olden days. Most browsers today are modern and well-kept, even IE10. You'll be fine with whatever modern browser you choose, everyone likes their own little idiosyncrasies found in their browser of choice.
Maybe we should expect a follow up post: 'Reddit DOESN'T use DOESN'T'
thank you for posting code!

the problem with this solution is you had to include a blocking js script first to use it... a better solution is to inject your script and for callbacks use an array. Look at how GA.js works, this is all it does, push functions onto an Array (builtin) and once the code loads start pop'ing functions to invoke off the array see: https://gist.github.com/3616965

to make it even better replace the push method on the Array with the invoke method meaning once the code's are loaded - you have immediate invoke of functions... someone should spell this out clearer but it makes me sad to not see this technique used more... it's tiny. see: https://gist.github.com/3616991

updated with two version and formated.
Although he may have developed much of the physics and saw that it was possible, Einstien didn't invent the atomic bomb and he developed the physics before he got to the US.

I think that he is arguing that there are certain things you need to have organised in society to give the space for more advanced development, irrespective of individual brilliance.
This is pretty spot on ( and I would not discount Vinod trolling ). We know healthcare can be done for less because folks like Doctors without Borders provide health care on a much smaller budget. But it is very hard to reconcile health care providers, health care insurers, and health care outfitters which have such a cozy relationship. Breaking all of those bonds at once is political suicide and thus not often embraced.
My guess is that they have cables on the outside _and_ inside, and putting yet another cover over the outside cables would mean more mass. As-is, they only have to worry about wind and sand, so extra metal shielding is probably not necessary.
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Thing is, the nice snug fit of this device (its entire appeal) goes against frequently taking it out to store elsewhere.

I guess you could use it with two MicroSD cards to alternate back-ups, storing one at home, one at the office. But then the sole advantage would be that during the day, you're not bumping into it sticking out of your computer. I don't move my laptop around during the day often enough for that to be an issue.
I guess the sane way of viewing a kickstarter that way.

Personally though, the way kickstarter and (many) projects describe rewards as preorders, then I think they should be liable to fulfill the or return the proceeds. If the money is invested in this bast case scenario you describe, than kickstarter and the projects should clearly state that.

If they don't than kickstarter or some of the projects facing some kind of legal action when the money just disappears would be a good thing, so that the descriptions start reflecting reality again.

Edit: I've not donated on kickstarter, so I don't know if they clearly state this somewhere later in the process. But from what I've seen kickstarters "preorders" seem irresponsible to me.
Aside from the top news sites, I browse and read 6 or so scientific journals at the local university library.
I have a feeling few people on HN have this problem.

I bet a much more pernicious problem for people on HN is the opposite; comparing yourself to the most successful 0.1% of your field and wondering why you're not as successful yet.

So, for HN, I'd suggest the opposite. Take a step back once in a while and do compare yourself to normal. Not to gloat, but to put all of your "successful in the first world problems" in perspective.
See also another nice book, which can be downloaded as PDF:
http://www.miek.nl/projects/learninggo/index.html
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Can you buy a Sputnik laptop? No, it's not for sale. Until you can, it's just another Linux laptop that gets press and mysteriously never gets released; see every smartbook (aside from the recent Chromebooks, which corps. still have to pay to suppress patent litigation) http://www.techradar.com/us/news/phone-and-communications/mo....
> Surely this is illegal.

So? Pretty sure torture and car bombing innocent women and children is also illegal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Beirut_car_bombing
Most of the folks on Kickstarter don't have the necessary business entities set up to take advantage of that.
The irony is that you wouldn't have the Hugo awards with no IP protection. The publishers wouldn't publish any of the books because there'd be no profit and the writers wouldn't write because they'd have to get jobs doing something else because the writing wouldn't pay the bills.

Why the hell should someone's creation not be protected from theft? If I write an amazing novel, why should it be ok for someone else to put their name on it and distribute it everywhere? Why shouldn't I be allowed to sell products using someone else's logo? Without IP protection, you don't have IP and you won't have any incentive for people to try and create something better. I wouldn't work years on a project only to have some jackass steal it.
Sad thing: I bet this will be abused in a "Please login or signup to view this content!"-way.

Good thing: Instant bypass using 'developer tools' or firebug...
To paraphrase a police chief fro The Wire: "You can't turn your ship on a dime". Sames goes for any large endeavor.

When Chrome came out it's focus on speed/usability was new to the browser landscape. It took some times but FF is catching up in almost all aspects of it (speed is up, memory usage has been reduced).

For me FF always was unbeatable for its slew of plugins. The plugins and their intergration can't be matched by Chrome.
It's less about the money and ALL about creating and building and changing. In other words, I don't want to build someone else's Lego set - I want to create my own.
I'd like to know how they compare to goldcaps.
While yes, it was generally poor, I got a kick out of the following:

"a monthly fee, forever until you die. That's the
future; nothing is really yours. LAAS - Life As A Service."
Here's a recent anecdote:

A few months back I got a stomach ulcer and before going to the doctor, I decided to do some research. I came to realize that the primary cause is not stress or excess spicy food, but a particular stomach bacteria, H. Pylori, going rogue and attacking the mucus lining of the stomach that protects underlying tissue from the strong acid [1]. For this discovery, Drs. Marshall and Warren were awarded the 2005 Nobel prize in medicine [2], as it meant that ulcers were curable with the use of suitable antibiotics.

However, my doctor (and good friend) insisted that there was no permanent cure for stomach ulcers and they could only be managed by taking acid reducing medication (Prilosec) everyday for as long as I lived. I couldn't help wondering if his information was corrupted by big pharma, who always want to keep you hooked onto some drug or the other. So, I had to use extra persuasion and tact to get him to prescribe antibiotics for H. Pylori elimination (and thus permanently curing the ulcer).

I'm a bit skeptical that big pharma's tentacles will NOT reach Watson's doctor successors [3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptic_ulcer#History

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Phys...

[3] http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/watson_in_healthc...
A board game called "Zombicide" published by a company called CoolMiniOrNot.com - They've run three successful KS campaigns so far and seem on track to deliver all of them on time. It also helps they've been in business for a decade or more giving them a comfort level with design, sourcing, shipping, etc.
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Which is silly, because nobody is signing up to pay $50 for a tshirt for a failed project. Serious priority inversion.
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I would agree with that for the most part, however, if you're receiving a large sum of money (e.g. the $8 million dollars Ouya received as mentioned in the article received) I think you owe it to your investors to take the time to set up those business entities.
Yeah, that pesky cartel, trying to protect their stuff. How dare they! This case isn't a case of the copyright cartel -- the content producers gave permission for usage. It's a case of inferior software being used. Copyright law isn't the problem, shitty software is. UStream ought to have a way to pre-authorize content to prevent this stuff from happening in the first place. They should have been more aware of the quirks of their system and planned accordingly. This is just an example of bad technical leadership on the Ustream team.
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They also reject apps that are apps only for push notifications.