skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some Best Practices for Web App Authentication
(Apologies in advance if this is a grumpy post, I don't have the energy right now for it not to be.)

Anyone who is working a minimum wage job and has the ability to develop a game has very much more serious problems than the Greenlight barrier to entry. That's a bullshit scenario. And if you lower the barrier significantly down to $20 or less then you erode the protections because then it becomes just low enough so that wasting that amount of money for a prank is not a big deal. It needs to be a non-trivial amount of money (to encourage seriousness) without being a significant amount of money, and I think $100 is in that range. Look, if you can't afford even $100 how the fuck are you going to manage to acquire the tools such as a computer or an internet connection to be able to support game dev?

Ultimately, this is not a perfect solution, it's just a noise filter. And the trick is making it light enough so that it doesn't squelch legitimate signal but heavy enough so that the remaining noise is easy to handle using other tools, and I think the $100 fee fits that pretty dang well.
Ubisoft scraps Always-On DRM.
And perhaps because of that, they are still using computers the DOS ways.
Hi, I'm one of the thoughtbot designers behind Neat. I have been using Semantic.gs for a while and it is one of my favorite grid frameworks out there. My gripe with Semantic.gs is that it is not responsive, i.e. it doesn't come with a straightforward way to change the grid for specific breakpoints.

I also don't see how span-columns() is any less semantic than .column().
The Travis Pro edition has been being used actively by customers for almost two months now, we're just not making a big fuss about it because we focus on ironing out kinks :)

If you're interested, you're more than welcome to get in touch with us (mathias@travis-ci.com).

Mathias/Travis CI
effectively the same, more like a system() call... impressively ugly I must say.
Do you mean value?
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Your insertion sort scans downwards from the highest populated index, bumping elements up as it goes. Given that you have space on both sides, I'm surprised that you didn't start in the middle and pick a scan direction based on the comparison result there.
> If you don't like the ads served, just don't freaking use the service/website in question.

I have zero responsibility in the website business model. I don't want to see ads either on TV or on the web, I use the available tools. I've used ad blockers proxies since 1998 or so.

When some websites (reddit, osnews) ask nicely to deactivate adblock to support them, I do. When they whine about how that's their business model (like ars technica), I don't.

Oh BTW software piracy isn't immoral. It's maybe wrong, but morality has nothing to do with it. After all Photoshop and MS Office success rely at least for a part on software piracy. Furthermore, from your point of view Gutenberg was wrong because of all those poor scribes he put out of jobs by going against their century-proven business model. Does not make much sense, doesn't it?
I wonder if they used the Lego Digital Designer (http://ldd.lego.com/) and ordered the blocks on Pick a Brick (http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Pick-A-Brick-ByTheme). The actual assembly would be relatively easy if they have building instructions and the blocks.
Good & Informative quiz....Especially the tutorials section.
I didn't either, see my other post.
What someone needs to do - ASAP - is do another one where people whose UDID's were on the list can list all the apps they've bought (it should be possible to get these out of itunes somehow) and we can use that to narrow down which ones most people have in common, and track down the organisation responsible for collecting this data in the first place. I would do it myself but I really don't have the free time at the moment.
Every day, I am more appreciative of the work the mrdoob is doing to further browser-based 3d work.
What would cause you to change your mind on this?
Thank you for your kind words, they're very humbling and flattering for us, and they are what keep us going. It's a great boost for us that people suggest GitHub should buy us. Thank you!

Thank you for your suggestions as well, it's something we've been thinking about ourselves as well, independently of whether it's a part of GitHub or an independent project/product.

We've been working hard on making Travis CI available for building private GitHub repositories, and we're coming along quite nicely. Stay tuned! :)

Mathias/Travis CI
I think the economics of pricing your labour are different from the economics of pricing something you manufacture. I mean, yeah, in this case, he's manufacturing something, but his whole value proposition is that something constitutes an enormous amount of labour.

Yeah, he can hire underlings, but managing people is a completely different skillset. (I mean, to manage skilled people, you need to have a pretty good knowledge of that skill... but you also need to know how to manage people.)

Under those conditions? eh, I think that raising prices when you are turning away business makes a lot of sense. I mean, right now, I'm doing the same thing with consulting type work. I apologize and usually hand out referrals when I quote a price, but eh, I don't need the work. If I scare off the customer, good.

I think people are also more understanding about you changing the price of your labour than about you changing the price of a mass-manufactured good. Most people understand that you have busy times and not so busy times.

also note, in most expensive things? customers pay different amounts based on their negotiation skill and perceived ability to pay. I mean, I'm trying to sell co-location, and, well, mostly failing using the 'here is the price on the website; everyone pays this price' model. I even lowered existing customer's prices when I lowered the price for new customers. Nope. Nobody cares. In co-location, if you want to sell, you give 10%- for the life of the customer, including upgrades to the salesguy. (mind you, for the small fish, my customers, this guy just throws you an email and you take it from there. He does no work ongoing) Obviously, as my margin on the larger co-lo packages isn't all that much more than 10% (which is completely reasonable; it's not that much work for me... most of it goes to the data centre owner. I mostly just handle the network.)

Anyhow, I guess my point is that most customers, when buying expensive things, are absolutely used to the situation where you spend two weeks fucking around on the price, where everyone pays a different price and nobody knows what the renewal price will be. Sometimes, in fact, it seems to me like they prefer that model.
very few designers are the majority shareholders of the powerful and profitable companies.
I just use Amazon S3 using a utility to transfer files called s3cmd (http://s3tools.org/s3cmd). I have a small 4 line bash script that does all the compression and transfer. (I do not use encoding for security yet).

It is easy, fast, reliable and cheap.

I like the setup even more now, because I plan to move my archives to Amazon Glacier. There is an s3 import/export feature that will be launched quickly to do this from the console.

I am sure it is already possible to do this completely automated using cron (actually I use upstart jobs that are scheduled with cron for other tasks).
When I'm sitting in my chair and reading about bakeries throwing out day-old bread, it sounds wasteful; when I actually go to buy bread, I'm looking for the freshest, warmest loaf I can get. And thanks to privileged, illogical, fresh-bread-seeking bourgeois like me, the bakery's inclined to toss perfectly good bread.

Thinking about this, I'm convinced it's all just because we have enough resources to allow this waste. Nobody weeps over the trillions of dollars that mutely vanish under a "Obsolete Inventory" accounting line item every year; when plentiful, food is just a particularly charismatic inventory item.

Morality aside, food in San Francisco physically cannot feed people anywhere else! Personally I try to clean my plate when I eat. But your values may vary, and as we live in an affluent area, there's no objective reason why you shouldn't toss half your food, if you felt like it. So the thinly-veiled finger wagging in this article is a little silly... Americans wasting/not wasting some of their surplus food (in America!) is not going to affect starving people elsewhere, aside from making us look bad.
I'd hazard a guess that they whitelist any clicks from within Google networks so that nobody gets charged for them. That's fairly standard practice.
Is there a Samsung smear campaign in progress?
How is 1.5 USD per day "a small amount of waste"? In a month, that's about 90 USD for a two person household, which buys you a shopping cart full of food. Please mind that your number is an average, not a median. I would assume that poorer households, for whom food is a much larger percentage of their spending, cannot afford to waste much, and thus more affluent people actually waste much more, giving them a bigger potential of cutting waste.
I'm a little bit dumbfounded at this, that's $1.45 per day, per person in a family. Do you really consider this an insignificant sum? I'm pretty comfortable these days but there have been times in my life where that represented half my food budget for the week(student days in England).

It makes me curious about food habbits. In America, if you have food remaining at the end of the meal do you automatically throw it straight in the bin or would you keep the leftovers to use for lunch or whatever the next day?
Doesn't IndexTank still run on that Pentium with 128MB of memory? I kid. :)
Hackers Release 1 Million iOS Device UDIDs Obtained from FBI Laptop
Relevant: http://england.lovefoodhatewaste.com/
Meal planning, shopping lists and eating leftovers can make a difference.
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It's mostly subjective and entirely contextual:

If the software company is large enough to afford a marketing team to fill Google up with ads then there's a good chance the software will also have big dollars spent on it.

Contrariwise, if the software you're looking for is already large and complex (driven by the nature of what it needs to do), then ads will mean nothing because they will be expected.

While on the other end of the scale with small purpose-built apps you will deliberately ignore ads since you won't want any bulky bloatware that can afford adspace.
It is a very good idea. However, I feel that there is something off. Maybe the excess clicking. Maybe that it's not clear whether a paragraph is expanded or collapsed.

Don't want to discourage you, quite the opposite. Give it some more thought and try to refine these points, I'd really like to see a new iteration
I would imagine, like everywhere else in the world, it varies between people and houses.
I do the same thing (sans the wife part) - it's a great way to always have fresh ingredients! Plus you never get stuck cooking something because it's about to go bad.

Only downside is shopping on an empty stomach...
rdiff over a secondary non-mounted hard disk and cron
Armenian meal in a vegetable: Dolma
All the Armenian dishes are worth trying. You are sure to remember the smell and taste of each dish. However, Dolma is one of the must-try dishes, if you haven’t tried Dolma yet, you don’t know the true spirit of Armenian dishes.
The iPhone 5 compared to Android/WP7/BB devices and the iPad Mini
Interactive & Graphic Designers Needed to Help Change Healthcare
It's possible to eat out cheaply and healthy in SF but it requires years of practice (in my experience.) You'll eventually figure out where to go and what to get where based on the day of the week (specials), time of day (portion sizes) and time of the year (seasonal items.)

For instance, I just happened upon a place in Mission Bay that makes a custom salad (literally, they make it in front of you) with meat, cheese and two other items for $7.50. This salad must weigh 1lb. It's huge, healthy, a great deal and could be split into two meals.

Don't give up!
No, he doesn't. There's plenty of room in landfills. No one wants them near them, but we are not wanting for room.

The waste involved is a different story, but worrying about space in landfills is laughable.
If your UDID script returns a positve, could you display a link to
http://fredericjacobs.com/identifying-the-traitor
and his "identifying the traitor" survey?
For years, I've been a stop at the grocery store every day person, and it is a disaster for me! I spend way more money, and waste more, because I buy for that meal in small quantities, and don't necessarily re-use the tail-end of the ingredients.

Back when I was poor, I used to plan 3 meals a day for 7 days plus snacks, optimising re-use of ingredients that I would purchase for that week.

This is likely just a case of penny wise, pound foolish.
I always forget that Google does ads on search page, after I installed the amazing AdBlock extension on Chrome.

I don't see Google, Facebook Ads and many more, AdBlock knows what.
P.S. The polipo task is a representative example of the work you'd be doing after you had passed the interview and been hired -- not part of the interview process! :-)
I suspect a HUGE amount of the waste is industrial - events, parties, weddings, restaurants, things like that.

It's the same with virtually all resource usage in this country (water, energy, etc) industry uses so much compared to the average house that it's pointless to even try to conserve at home.

On a positive note it means if you actually want to conserve it's easier: There are far fewer targets to work with, and they are strongly motivated once you get them past short term thinking.
I love it. Reminds me of the Hotswap feature in Eclipse which Notch seems to use a lot for building his games. I wish there was something like that for UILayer, UIView and OpenGL in Objective-C. I know about the REPL in RubyMotion, but it's Ruby and a REPL is still not the same as having a live preview of editor changes. I really hate the fix-compile-test workflow, and especially for layers and layer animations and so on, I keep myself compiling and restarting an app multiple times until the speed, delay, looks parameters feel right.

I guess it's really difficult to implement something like that in Objective-C though. While it's possible to replace methods through method swizzling with new methods (say from a category), and while Objective-C allows to add categories to a NSBundle and dynamically add that NSBundle to a running app, this doesn't work on iOS as far as I know due to security limitations.
Does it always mean that something went wrong if you passed on an eventually successful startup? That seems like an assumption baked into the question and your answer.

At the end of the day you are taking a calculated risk. The interesting question isn't whether you wished you had funded them, because that is asking you to make a risk-free (in hindsight) decision. The real questions is how you decide whether a missed opportunity indicates a lapse in the way you calculated risk/reward, or simply a bet you ended up on the wrong side of despite it being the right bet at the time.

That's the question I'd really be interested in hearing the answer to. How do you decide whether a missed opportunity represents an error in your process?
Hi Andrew, sorry to hijack the thread. Just wanted to say you guys are doing an amazing job at full-text email searching. Do you have any paper on that? I know Google publishes research papers and technical reports but couldn't find one about that.

Any pointer would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Isn' t that one of the funniest cloud videos ever?
If you read CloudyWords, this video is for you [humor]
In the end, you can either turn the information into a program or you cannot.
I doubt that would work.

How many legitimate and good game developers are there that both cannot afford 100USD and can afford to burn hours doing non-work?

Now how many trolls are there out there willing to burn hours of their time?
Reminds me of the film Scanner Darkly
Number aside...18% or 21.47% the trend is obvious to everyone.

(I know you don't believe what you wrote but you had to say it anyway. Google's attitude changed in 2004 when you added ads on top, so attitude shifts to justify whatever you do. See Google's attitude on the original Pagerank paper)

Ads are as helpful as content? First there's a major conflict of interest since you control both ads and content. One update and content shifts, making ads by default better or worst. A tiny shifts not noticed by 99% of people can increase your profits by a wide margin. A tiny shift here and a Panda shift there and your revenue reaches $50 Billion a year, or a huge cut of the total e-comm trade.

If I search for Adidas 2012 VX Shoe (made it up) and I see 3-4 ads on top, why are they more helpful? Because they have it, because they have most reviews, cheapest price or what? In every case I have tried advertising it's the ad price difference, especially among top merchants. Of course that ad price is added to the consumer one way or another so nice try, portraying this as a helpful thing. Equally as important, the sites that lost traffic due to more ads are forced to go out of business or advertise /increase bids. A vicious cycle, induced by Google, to benefit Google.

>> And of course there are tons of searches where we don't show ads.

There is no money in many searches, that's known, nothing altruistic about it. You show ads where you have ads and where it is profitable, in key markets.

>> Not to mention that our ads aren't just a straight auction; we try to take into account things like the quality of the destination page in deciding whether and where to show ads, just like we do with web search results.

The difference between Geico, Progressive, All State et al is just the ad price and CTR, in sum how much money you make from them. The best site for the user would be a comparison site or maybe a CNN Fortune article that compared them.

The real questions:
Should Google be trusted to rank organic search in an unbiased manner when they have a huge incentive to manipulate them, quarter by quarter? The only sure thing, unless Google is lying to SEC, is that Google's profits are increasing by an extraordinary amount after all these changes were made.

Is it good for the economy and for the web to have one company that controls both ranking and ads? Google control as much as 95% in some EU countries and roughly 70% in USA. You are talking about monopoly territory.
Insuring bitcoins is actually pretty easy. As a sidenote, there are already people doing it. The ideal way to do it would be to audit the exchange, and possibly also use an escrow, populated with money from the exchange, that pays you (the insurer) if the exchange loses money. It would be in the interest of the exchange to cooperate in these areas, in order to promote the availability of cheaper insurance, and therefore more customers.

A digression: Bitcoin would be the government regulator's wet dream if you could assign people addresses (and they could only use the assigned address), because you can trivially track all transactions. Actually, I have in mind a way to implement such a system in a (likely) cryptographically sound and enforceable way. But in theory, the government could outlaw cash and track all transactions anyway.
I've been using gmvault for months without even a warning message. It's great.
Jokes aside, there are a number of people doing this "for real" (or at least, "not obviously a ponzi"). They can be found on bitcointalk.org.
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There are reasons to dislike (and be unimpressed by) Atlas Shrugged other than not subscribing to its core thesis.
I seriously doubt they stole the money, because they've exhibited an extremely high level of professionalism in the past.

(Even when not comparing them to other bitcoin ventures, which tend to set a very low bar.)

Another reason I doubt they would steal it is because "cashing out" now would be like Zuckerburg cashing out a year after starting Facebook. At least, from the perspective of someone who believes in bitcoin.
see the official haproxy blog about it: [1] and [2]. i think it's a valid comparison. but as i said in my submission of the first of these articles, there are some (minor) mistakes.

[1] http://blog.exceliance.fr/2012/07/04/haproxy-and-varnish-com...

[2] http://blog.exceliance.fr/2012/08/25/haproxy-varnish-and-the...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4198339
Would love to hear if Jason responds to this...
+1 for lighttpd. We use it extensively here at Nextpeer and it's been super so far.
And all of the Chicago people start to come out!
you are part of a vocal minority. there is a reason though for the unixy model of operation with more (well-defined as proxys usually are) smaller components.
Very interesting. I look forward to reading a summary of your month of eating in, but one thing to be careful of is that because you won't have any staples/basics, you should be planning/ready to spend more than you hope your 'average' costs will be. For instance, olive oil, salt, pepper, other seasonings to taste, can all add up fairly quickly but you'll only need to purchase them every few months, if that. Especially if you find some good bulk food stores, you could stock up on non-perishables for a couple of months: while it looks bad on a one-month budget, it'll look good on a three month view.
Your scheme reminds me of CGA colour palettes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter
What has impressed me most, is that a pretty crap script has received so much praise.

EDIT: Re-reading, that sounds a little bitchy.. I didn't mean it that way. Sorry
Google blocks Extensions/UserScripts from origins other than Chrome WebStore
The point of a dedupe-based service like Tarsnap is that while logically you upload the whole disk, physically only the changed blocks are sent to Tarsnap.

It is extremely convenient.
I've seen this used in a PHP git class to call git and capture the results. (Obviously) Just make sure you're not including any user input data in any variables you put in there.
How is this a property of "non-traceable"/anonymity?

If someone physically robs the bank and gets away with a large amount of cash that is arguably even more anonymous and non-traceable than bitcoins.

The only problem ought to be that bitcoin exchanges are not being insured, by who or that the currency happened to be bitcoin doesn't matter (as long as the insurance covers it).
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Quick note: Steam does not discount your game. They ask and confirm before they do any such thing. So if the game is discounted, it's because the person managing that game opted in.

Regarding the sales I have to say: The increase in traffic is absolutely astounding. We made more at $3.50 in one day than we made at $20 over many, many, months. It was essentially four months of income in a night. If it wasn't super-profitable for everyone else, why in the world would they keep doing it sale after sale?

We're a tiny little niche game, so there's that as well.
I don't know what you mean about it not being profitable. If your game is unappealing and you don't market it at all, sure, I can see that. We spent $10 total on our marketing for the game and that mainly went to registering a SA account.

If they're really hard pressed for money and they've got a great idea, how hard could it possibly be to get a $100 kickstarter done in a month?

$100 may be a lot to someone who is homeless but if they've got a solid idea, then I'm sure there's enough people out there to punch you up to $100 and beyond.