skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "little guy" has information of "diffuse value." It's analogous to a not-rich person with goods that can be safely kept locked up with your average door lock or in a shed with a chintzy combination lock.

Your average door lock and a cheap padlock pose no challenge at all to a locksmith or a determined criminal with bolt cutters. However, they are still useful for individual security, in greater part because they are a part of social and legal conventions than they are as pieces of security technology.

There is also the matter of trust varying over time. 18 year old Suzy who's still in high school but wants to be president someday might think Bobby is a prince and be in love with him right now. A year later, she might think he's a selfish jerk. At that time, she might be glad of the ability to revoke the keys to her lingerie pics only viewable on that tablet app, just before she tells him they're breaking up.

Security savvy people will respond: Well, Bobby can always jailbreak his tablet, then all bets are off. True, but there is a big difference between malfeasance before the fact (someone setting up an ambush, or breaking trust and goodwill for possible future exploitation) and malfeasance after the fact. Right now, we can't protect against either and the bar is set at the "crime of opportunity" level -- which is to say, just above the level of someone picking up a dropped $20 bill on the sidewalk. Right now Bobby can concoct his revenge after the fact and strike a tremendous blow against Suzy without breaking any criminal statues.

Just like with consumer security devices, you don't need bulletproof security to make something of value which works well enough in practice. There is already a market for security just good enough to prevent crimes of opportunity.
On an iOS device with retina display it's awfully blurry, probably just not rendering to a big enough canvas.
worth noting that HE has tunnel endpoints all over the world. i'm using one right now in europe and it works really well.
Actually no, IP addresses are not a resource. They're not limited at all, except by convenience which was chosen at a time when they had to chose a limit and it was not practical to set it any higher. All that is needed is to make a new standard which allows for a higher practical limit -- and that's what we're doing with IPv6.

So I?v4 addresses only seem valuable in this moment, because so many of them have been distributed -- bvut something that can be added in unlimited quantities (like a number) is inherently not valuable.

Do you remember when DOS and Windows file names could only contain eight plus three letters? Was the solution to proclaim file names valuable and charge extra for adding new combinations? Or simply to develop a new platform which allowed for longer names?
"- learning slick stuff I'll never need"

You never forgave that algebra teacher, did you?
You could sell the custom sized mattress at cost, but then charge a premium for the sheets. That way you make money off of the sheets, which wear out more quickly than a mattress anyways.

Edit: I'm joking...
Hey cool! I didn't know I was so good at promotional work & SEO! I mean I knew I was writing good stuff (regardless of my lack of income) but now I know just how marketable my writing is! Thanks for giving me an anecdote to share when I apply for content strategy and SEO positions in the future! Your comments are just about resume worthy for me!

I am happy to promote via honest positive review an event that was literally life changing for both me and my partner. I does seem like I got a lot of freebees. I did. In that I was lucky. But I was also lucky to have the experience of MR as a place to confront some of my issues with tech. If you had actually focused at all on the content of my post you'd know that I identified elements of the conference that were problematic and difficult for me to access. I did this because I want to event to be better about these things in the future.

I understand where your skepticism comes from. I am skeptic too (you would also know this if you read more of my posts). But please don't assume that my articulated account of a positive experience is bought. It wasn't (at least not with anything more than valuable experiences and cheese).

My post was not an infomercial. I never want to use my personal blog for paid promotional work. I never titled the post anything other that "My Madison Ruby Story" (the other title was lifted from a 3rd party tweet) and NO edits have been made to the actual post since I published it yesterday at noon. The SEO-optimization was a coincidence. One I may now point to as an example of my acumen for content strategy. So thanks.
Here in the US oxygen is required for the primary crew at over 14k cabin altitude. At 12.5-14k it's required after 30 minutes. No requirement under 12.5k.

I have flown at 12k for 1 hour and could tell that the air was much thinner and that going much higher would have started to impair.

I think that most commercial aircraft run somewhere between a 6k and 8k cabin altitude and as such a whole different set of rules apply. I don't know for sure - I'm only a private pilot.
What many self taught software engineers lack is the shibboleths of the computer science community. The interview process at many large organization's like Google and some startup's seem to use many of these factors like obscure algorithim tricks to screen potential applicants. It is possible to pick these things up on one's own but it makes to it more difficult to transition between organizations.
Here's a PDF of the June ruling which discusses the legal issues: http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/owsharristwitterdec63012.pd...

It's a fairly easy read and is interesting. There are a number of issues at stake, primarily who has standing to quash the subpoena and should a warrant be required.

Looking at this solely as a geek and not taking into account the legal issues, any information that has been publicly available on the net at any point should be considered permanently public. If you don't want something to be public don't post it publicly.
Also some early webcam/security-cam 'zero install' stream-via-web-pages used this technique, if I recall correctly.
Handy guide for those moving from San Francisco to New York
Cygwin or Mingw?
I made a 'buffer' app too: https://github.com/scumola/php-buffer It's not hard to do.
True but actually less significant than you think. With the caveat that the diamond should not be insignificantly expensive the reactions to engagement rings fall into one of two categories

a) the girl is a "nice girl" and is more than happy that the finacee got a ring that was even better valuable (I've one singaporian friend that actually had her fiancee take his ring back and buy another one from singapore - not because she wanted a bigger one but she wanted him to get a better deal (I think it ended up being a bigger diamond but that's not what she was angling for))

b) the girl wants to have a bigger ring than her friends in which case it's also a win.

The actual value of the ring is more of a "hygiene condition". Once it costs "enough" then to someone who actually cares (most girls are just happy with getting a hubby) what actually matters is what it's perceived to cost and a fiancee who can deliver bigger, delivers bigger!
After developing neck+back pain and doing many hours of research this is the solution I arrived at as well. I use an Ikea firm foam bed with a 2.5" memory foam on top. This ends up giving the support of a "medium-firm" many doctors advocate for. For back sleeping, this is by far the most comfortable bed I've owned.
Because it limits innovation. What if there was a law that was enacted in the 1970s that mandated every video interconnect must be a single RCA cable?
See: Riyadh Solar Time.
Chrome Experiment #500
"but there's even less time (and money) for me to go back and get a degree in CS."

It seems like many don't understand that not having pursued a CS degree is often a pragmatic one dealing with money, not because self-taught people are too lazy or unwilling to learn at a university level.

They have already obtained their degree and invested a lot of time and money. Or they're far enough along in life where they're giving up a lot more than a teenager or person in their early 20s if they take 4 years off to pursue a degree full-time.

I think these are articles are useful for people who are learning on their own, or who come from that direction. But if you're starting out at a self-taught person, from my experience, no one seems to care if you understand algorithms. You're better off building real things, and it doesn't seem close.
WhatsApp is broken, really broken
A measurement analysis of a large anonymous online marketplace
The old dock connector, and the new "lightning" connector do a lot more that is supported by a USB connector. The dock can carry audio, video, act as a USB slave, and connect other slave devices.

Arguably, Apple could have included both ports, but that increases cost and complexity and flies in the face of the Apple aesthetic.
This is a simple feature, seeing it alone. But is something very painfull and security flaw to have only one email to manage all your accounts and products. I feel this especially in Google Analytics.

And I have to say that stripe is a hell of a company. I would love that something like they existed in Brazil.
My wife and I almost got a Sleep Innovations mattress, but in the end we felt that we couldn't buy a mattress that we hadn't had a chance to try out. We both like a very firm mattress, which can be difficult to find.

While it's true that lying on a mattress for a few minutes won't tell you whether it's the best one or not, it sure did help us rule out many mattresses. We ended up getting an Ikea mattress, which turned out to be quite nice.
I'm seeing one.

http://nashape.com/favicon.png
http://nashape.com/favicon.ico
Excellent. I currently use a local ISP, because it's the only way I can get a decent speed where I live (there's a local FTTC network called Digital Region).

But I'm likely to be moving out of their coverage area at some point, so I'll add this to my list to consider when I do. Thanks!
Someone should do a Warby Parker for Wheelchairs.
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4746043/where-does-micros...

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754351.aspx
Looks like he definitely hit the nail on the head when he assumed he'd get people blaming him for not blindly following the "Just wipe your phone!" advice.
Macs and malware. Two things that guarantee I will never go hungry (at least not this decade).
Cars as a Service? Mercedes-Benz latest to use cloud to flog vehicles
http://www.fastcash.org/
Ok, that makes more sense. From reading your original post I thought all the login info had been lost.

I agree that their account system is poor and it isn't clear when you need to authenticate.
That was the answer that my question was leading to. Thanks.
I bought one from Costco, and didn't like it. They gave me a refund, and the choice to either donate it to charity or have them come pick it up and take it to the dump.
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Yes. Node.js supports only a single processor core. I don't know much about Meteor but it doesn't look like it offers concurrency features.

The concurrency in Go (and to a lesser extent in Node.js--probably) is amazingly performant. For example, when I poll & parse 100 RSS feeds and the slowest one takes 6 seconds to return from the remote site, the whole routine returns in < 7 seconds. A synchronous single-core app would take up to 6 seconds * 100 = 10 minutes for the same process. In Go, when I call out to the remote sites, each call returns immediately, so that all 100 remote calls finish immediately. Go puts my routine into a dormant state while waiting for the remote sites to return data. So during that 7 seconds my app may have ~5 seconds of dormancy to do other processing (in a completely independent code path), again using all the machine's cores.
From what I've seen around: Dreamweaver, Visual Studio/Expression Studio and Eclipse.
a /64 gives you a single subnet with effectively infinite size. A shorter prefix would allow you to have multiple subnets for isolating things like gaming devices, guest networks, VPNs, etc. For IPv4 the ability to do this was basically a pipe dream, for IPv6 the addresses are there, we just need to coordinate how ISPs hand them out and how consumer routers manage them.

In short, one /64 is sufficient for duplicating an IPv4 like situation. A /60 or /56 gives us more room to innovate in new types of home networks.
Sufficient to have more than one subnet. In IPv6 you can't easily have a subnet that's smaller than /64, so even though /64 = 2^64 addresses, it's still just a single subnet. In IPv6, we need to start thinking in terms of number of subnets rather than number of IP addresses.

Why is having one subnet insufficient? I use multiple subnets (I have a guest network), and I don't want to have to use NAT with IPv6 when my ISP has effectively infinite address space. Of course, I'm not an average user, but remember that 10 years ago only power users had home routers, and for everyone else 1 IP address was enough. Now everyone has a router. There are already some consumer access points that tout a "guest network" as a selling point, and there may be other consumer uses for multiple subnets in the future.
I don't think Facebook will die, for two good reasons:

1) there are many more people on facebook than networks like myspace ever had. This makes a transition much, much harder.

2) facebook is not only used for facebook, but for many third-party apps as well. People will keep their facebook accounts so that they can log in to external services.
> allow your business to trade over SMS means to me that the functionality counts

Sure, if functionality were everything, Palm would still be ruling the world with Treo phones. Functionality is not everything. People are status and style conscious, even in the 3rd world.
yep, mine is keetsa as well. keetsa = warby parker without the hype or e-commerce focus (but maybe there's opportunity there). the salesman actually suggested i should get a lower end mattress than the one i thought i was going to buy. great company.
When you sign up as a hiring person, they only have a few major cities you can sign up in. I don't reside in any of those cities, so despite having work for people, I have no use for the service, at least not yet.
Very nice looking setup. Easy to use (as advertised) and attractive by default. I love the simple look of it.

[edit]Since advice is not forthcoming, I'll add a suggestion instead. A forgot password link would be great on the login page.[/edit]

Oddly, though, I can't log back in. I created an account, made some pages, and signed out. When I try to log in with the email address I used, it correctly changes to my username, but then it says that the username is invalid. Any thoughts? http://d-rock.authpad.com.
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How long was that meeting?
Mountain Lion without skeuomorphism
Match according to spring count and type. The profit margin at a place like Mattress Firm is ~50%. They are hungry for a sale and will bid for your purchase.
The saboteurs wouldn't care - they likely are not exposing any identifiable features to the cameras either way.
Yes that is part of the whole scam which I learned a lot about during my last mattress purchase. SleepCountry has a catalog cross referencing the types of mattresses from other companies that are very similar if not exact matches to what they carry. I ended up price matching a Bay One Day Sale mattress that was $799 (normally $2000, of course that is inflated too) and they gave me a similar mattress in the showroom that was on sale for $1399. Very happy with it. I gave my friend my receipt a month later and he got the same deal. You know SleepCountry is not making much from this sale but I was really happy with their service so I'm a customer for life... or until they get disrupted!
The downside to using anything from places like wrapbootstrap are that the majority of what's available doesn't use LESS. It significantly reduces the value of these themes/snippets to me.
I didn't mean to imply that it's just PR, but they do undoubtedly have the best PR out of all those companies.
I love Lyft. Sidecar feels sketchy every time I use it and Uber just seems ridiculously expensive in comparison. John, Logan and the guys have done a great job to make it feel like a friend is picking you up rather than some guy with a car to drive you from point A to point B.

Lyft has a very bright future.
How to easily get started with TDD in python
Well, to an extent it has: there's archeological evidence that human intelligence has risen from ~40,000 AD to ~10,000 (see "Before The Dawn"). It's just that additional intelligence (beyond what we have now) doesn't seem to confer any further evolutionary advantage.
Exactly, and how many web apps deal with millions of data points? Not many, as far as the view layer is concerned. Perhaps you'll have millions of rows in your DB, but you typically won't process all of those, at once, within PHP or JS. At least in my experience, most data processing on that scale happens in your OLAP layer (and thus is fully removed from the jurisdiction of PHP and JS).

Especially given single-page apps, you should never be dealing with millions of objects; with pagination and such, it's usually under a 1000 at a time, more typically 100 or so.
Even if that is true, why do you think skin bruising is lethal?

Unsurprisingly, there is little data on this, but what there is seems to indicate that vacuum is survivable.see e.g. http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.h..., http://www.newscientist.com/blog/space/2008/06/how-long-can-...
It's really weird that there is that restriction because all of the other 4G phones on Verizon can do simultaneous voice+data. Must be something weird about this new all-in-one qualcomm chip they are using.
Bluenile.com does this, and is successful. Of course they only solve the unpleasant distribution, and misleading product naming issues. They saw the problem of slimy sales tactics and gouging in the diamond business and fixed it.
I'd love to have textexpander snippet live converter(instead of copy paste for them). I've never used TextExpander. can you get in touch with me ? @msurguy on twitter.
Elon Musk: "I would like to die on Mars"
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I think the theory you're referring to is called the Tragedy of the Commons.
My love-hate relationship with development on Macs
If you utilize Google Analytics, Flurry, Mixpanel, etc... this is a straight forward addition as a free service to measure location down to real-world places.
AC becomes less efficient (financially and electrically) at more than 1 Megavolt. The big big transmission lines in the United States actually use DC because the AC transformers would have to be so large, and the losses at that high of a voltage are huge (and that 1 MV generators get to be fairly expensive).

NPR made a really awesome visualization of the United States grid (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1109973...) that shows the lines used to transmit power from generating sources.
I guess that's kind of my point - there's no motivation to grok pydocs, because you don't realize there's a better way.
who can help me build a live converter for the snippets? reach me at @msurguy on twitter.
Keetsa has done a great job of helping this issue. They are foam mattresses and they suck the air out of them and stuff them into a surprisingly small box. It actually takes about a month for them to fully reinflate once unpacked.
What you've done here is generalized the concept out so far that we can't discuss it. We're not talking about a fuzzy concept of "addresses"; we're talking specifically about IPv4 RIB entries.
Could someone explain for the… ahh… more financially naïve among us why private equity is the important signifier here? It seems like what rscale is talking about are markets which are opaque due to companies that have enough clout to force that inefficiency (e.g., by restricting information or making product comparisons impossible.) Why or how is that coordinated with private equity?
Why would the phone companies go for this?
...but this whole thread was prefaced on room temperature superconductors. Hypothetically at least, this high voltage advantage wouldn't matter if you could have 0 transmission losses with DC at low voltages.
The opposite is true. The current situation incentivizes entities with billion dollar budgets to hold address space forever, because there is no cost to them for doing so.
Apple clarifies new Advertising Identifier
Maybe instead of focussing on selling mattresses you should focus on some sort of price comparison machine where you can enter what characteristica you want to (must have memory foam, must be this size, must be x, y and z) and then have the machine find close matches and display the variours prices? That way it won't matter if they fix the name, since you don't compare the mattresses on names, but on features.
It would if you auctioned off small prefixes, but the answer to that is just not to do that.
Earth–Sun distance (AU) changed from an equation to a number
People forget the saying "school if what you make of." School is just a place for facilitating the self-study of people by providing a guide devised by people who have already gone through the joy and pain of learning.
How do you get behind something like this? The author of the paper is my new hero.
Realistically, anyone with an /8 to sell would probably break it up. There is some speculation that legacy holders are selling off their unused addresses slowly because a glut would reduce prices.
If you attempt this, I suggest you make a deal with a motel chain: When a customer checks into a room, they discover a little sign on the bed. The sign says, "Like this mattress? Get a brand-new copy delivered to your home for $X00 by visiting mattressr.com and entering bed code MEDIUMSOFT-23."
Information about the new Advertiser Id came out around the time of WWDC, but this is the first I've heard that they are allowing us to limit access to that identifier.
Your PC may come with malware pre-installed
It seems to me that Twitter has upheld the user's privacy as best they could. There is only so far they can go in fighting a court order.

Disregard for privacy would have the company turning the data in question over to authorities whenever they asked, without so much as a subpoena or court order. That doesn't sound like what has happened here.

There is a legal process and like it or not, companies have to abide by it.
How exactly is this a better approach than multipart/x-mixed-replace, which is designed to push new messages from the server to the client in a stream until the server decides to stop?
Those Australia plans all have stiff data caps. Will that be the same in the US as well? Hopefully we can still get the unlimited plan for $35/month.
I wish that people would double check with someone higher up when they hear a quote that's too good to be true.

Why would they put "no linux" in quotes? I didn't see anybody in the source or source's parent that mentions "no linux".
"There are all sorts of outlets for reasonably priced, what you see is what you get mattresses: Sam's Club. Costco. Ikea. You can get a decent name brand mainstream mattress for ~$500."

I hear you, but who says that $500 is a reasonable price for a mattress? I'm sorry, but looking at the raw materials involved (don't even get me started on the frickin foam ones that don't even have springs: I'm looking at you Tempurpedic) it's clearly still a racket at the Sam's Club prices.

If it is the raw materials, and not a rip off, then why do solid foam rubber mattresses cost more than mattresses containing moving parts and metal springs?