skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BCrypt 19s are <40s to encrypt here, using Java and not even native code. Certainly not outside the realm of usability for something you don't authenticate against all the time. I wouldn't want that for my screenlock password, but I can still see it being workable.
What facts does the RT article have wrong? I've read similar accounts of this case from other sources as well.
C# via Mono sounds very interesting :) would make deployments much easier
Home Depot (Starbucks, Applebee's, whatever) set both a floor and a ceiling for expectation of quality. For every crappy mom and pop hardware store that is poorly run, there is also an independent hardware store with kind and helpful people.

When I am traveling, I will go to Starbucks, but in my city, I know where the exceptional coffee is.

edit: s/privacy/quality
I had to copy & paste the URL for the B&N press release. Why not make it a link?
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"But I can’t pay them $2000 a day and $672,000 a year for the exact same product that I was getting for free back in March!"

Another in a long, long list of customers whose plans fall apart when a free or one-price-for-life service realizes it cannot continue with business as usual. Today's pro tip: Do not build your livelihood around a third-party's free service. Eventually that service will either 1.) shut down, 2.) kick you out of their ecosystem, or 3.) start charging you.

I'm not sure what is more surprising: that people continue to build businesses with these Achilles heels or that they seem shocked when the third-party changes the game.
I think part of the problem is that EBS issues also cause ELB problems, from that I read here on HN. I wouldn't know because we only use us-east for Hadoop.

On the other hand, our Cassandra cluster runs on ephemeral drives and it's way better than EBS even with the guaranteed IOPS thing. Everyone should definitely give this option a try.
Future progress on this can be located at https://github.com/Dashron/Bifocals/issues/8 if you are interested.
Agreed, entirely. I realized that I've been using FB as a surrogate for an email newsletter for side web projects. I also realized that many people I know use the feed as a surrogate for RSS to the feeds of their friends' lives. In both cases, FB isn't the answer: it's neither MailChimp nor FeedBurner.

I don't begrudge FB trying to monetize their service. It's just that their service isn't what most people seem to be using it for. Thus their paid options will seem like bizarre value propositions to the average user.
This Berlin-Based Startup is Offering Nude Male Housekeepers
Colored honey actually seems pretty awesome if it can be a controlled process that is not harmful - rather than the result of the bees ingesting candy waste.
$ cat test.cpp
int main() {
return ([]() { return 5; })();
}
$ clang++ -std=c++11 -o test test.cpp
$

Xcode 4.4.1.
How about "The folly of writing c++11 code without checking the target compiler's c++11 features"?

This is cross-platform coding 101...
I haven't read the "additional sources" you speak of, but if true, your first, fourth and fifth amendment arguments don't hold up.

Edit: jstalin, I stand corrected. Looks like immunity is often forced upon people.
It is about half price to buy the book and DVD from Amazon compared to the webiste direct pricing.

I personally think they are great value(even a bargain) even at 125$ but is this fair pricing?
I'm not a designer, otherwise I would help.
In all fairness, interact involves fees for the consumer (depending on which bank you are with), and, outside of students who may not be eligible for the, almost everybody has credit cards.
Through this type of self selection (those who don't want all the posts will unlike, those who do will continue to subscribe), the blog may end up with a user base of the most engaged fans rather than a larger user base that causes higher "sponsored post" fees.

The most important metric for businesses using social media is engagement rather than raw reach, IMO.
Did you try infobright?
HTML5 Drag and Drop tutorial
"a _few_ other places"

I think you are being very diplomatic. :)

But seriously, this cleverness attribution error might be a big problem with large players like Google. Forum posters, blogs and the digital versions of mainstream media all seem convinced Google is somehow special. That they know what they are doing, at every turn. Assuming some silly mistakes is a "test". It's a potentially harmful meme: people assuming ideas like "genius" or "utmost comptetence" without requiring any proof.

Blind faith followers take note, because here we have _proof_ that Google makes mistakes too. Silly ones at that.
For the first time since I've had credit cards, I've had my cards cloned and used to make purcahses twice over the past couple of months. It's a major hassle because I have auto pay for reoccurring bills (phone, internet, electric, etc...).

It seems to me that this type of activity is on the uptick.
Using python and k-means to find dominant colors in images
And here I thought the future was social global device-agnostic...
yeah, but what always puzzled me, what exists there as jquery plugins is often available as dijit, dojox - provided directly by framework itself.
Mad props for your work...
Have the two most important questions to you changed over time?
Infobright made waves as a column store analytics database. It's performance was awesome when dealing with billions of rows. Having druid use distributed machines with the data in memory is a different approach though.
No. The first paragraph of that site states "the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book is available for free online."
I’ve added 1080p to Android. The currently announced phone has a 5" diagonal. I'd like to include screen size too, but I'm not sure how to include it in the table. Having a row for each resolution/size combo would end up a bit much. Especially on Android. I may be able to do some nested table design somehow.
Because the PIN is not meant to be shared, it is a lot easier for banks to deny all responsibility for any card fraud when using chip-and-pin in court, which is why they are so gung-ho in convincing people to use them.
> When someone swears to 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,' they're agreeing to express themselves to an organ of the government. The constitution doesn't forbid lying, but that doesn't grant you the freedom to engage in perjury.

These three activists didn't lie or take an oath - they simply refused to testify. You could argue that the courts' power to try cases allows the govt to imprison people to coerce testimony, but that's a different argument.

> I wouldn't rely on Russia Today for my legal analysis if I were you. The Validimir Putin Press Agency is not really in a position to report objectively on the theory or practice of fair trials, given the lamentable state of the Russian legal system.

And yet that logic never stops US papers from reporting on other countries' legal systems...

There are sources besides RT for this news - you can google them.
Company A changes Company A's product to support Company A is not a conflict of interest. I know people feel very strongly about Facebook and how it should act, but they are a company and a good one at that imo. People begrudging them for the individuals promoted posts is one thing that I can understand, but begrudging them charging brands for whom they've provided a platform FULL of amazing, free services?
This is a really good point. If I had spent money on advertising in the past to get more likes I would feel pretty cheated. I wonder what impact these changes are having on sales for that type of advertising?
This should be the sorry state of Microsoft tools for actual portability between platforms.

Obviously Microsoft(or any other platform maker) does not want you to easily port your Application between platforms, but this does not mean the language is in bad shape.

Also, "The sorry state of WebGL" because Microsoft has decided not to support OpenGL.

You don't need to use Microsoft products. They are plenty of alternatives today.
Doesn't OpenVMS have POSIX?
Bing Liu is one of the researchers working on this. I've discussed Amazon review fraud detection with him. http://www.cs.uic.edu/~liub/
I don't see how the other guy getting lucky hurts the OP. He was able to improve his team at Sun by getting rid of the guy, and that guy ultimately got rich anyway.
I am refering to the screencasts - buying them from a publisher company as DVD's for half price or directly from the author for full price
The First Low Cost Recruiting Service for Developers by Developers
I read through the entire first page without the slightest clue as to what the article is actually about

The last paragraph on the front page tells you exactly what the article is about. Opening with an human anecdote is a common trope in long-form journalism, because that's what a majority of people want before they will put in the time to read several thousand words about mortality statistics.
This I did not Know:

"In July 1777 delegates from 28 towns met and declared independence from jurisdictions and land claims of British colonies in New Hampshire and New York. They also abolished slavery within their boundaries."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Republic
Stable Linux kernel hit by ext4 data corruption bug
Would be much more useful to say why it took that long...
Ah yes, I see. That is a good point.
>I object to Facebook making this decision for me.

That's a funny way to characterize a SaaS service. They make service decisions for you all the time. Don't like Timeline? Too bad. Want the 2007 version instead of the current one? Too bad.
64-bit ARMs are around the corner; I wouldn't be surprised if Apple has a cooperation agreement with ARM that gives them access to the not-yet-finalized but good-enough-to-work-with 64-bit ARM architecture.

Apple has the expertise to be such a client. They're a very significant customer of ARM, and also (unless things changed when I wasn't looking) a major shareholder.

Emulating intel code on the ARM is feasible, though going to be 5x-10x slower for high performance compute code. However: most apps are not high performance compute code; and given that native ARM for most apps is not a lot more than a recompile away, that might not be a problem.

(With notable exceptions like Adobe - I'm sure Apple can solve these individual problems well enough to make that into a non-deal-breaker)
Floqq: Learn what you need
It's cheaper at equivalent level of best practice:

* For a clean architecture you want to isolate each Mongo and node process in its own system. So you need 6 instances, not 3.

* You'll need load-balancers in front of these node instances. That costs extra on AWS, and is included on dotCloud.

* Did you include the cost of bandwidth and disk IO in your estimate? Those are extra on AWS, but included on dotCloud.

* Monitoring is extra on AWS. It's included on dotCloud.

* I love to have a sandbox version of my entire stack, with the exact same setup but separate from production. That's an extra 2 instances on AWS (+io +bandwidth +load-balancing +monitoring). It's free on dotCloud, and I can create unlimited numbers of sandboxes which is killer for team development: 1 sandbox per developer!

* We only charge for ram usable by your application and database. AWS charges for server memory - including the overhead of the system and the various daemons you'll need to run.

* For small apps specifically, you can allocate memory in much smaller increments on dotCloud, which means you can start at a lower price-point: the smallest increment is 32MB.

I didn't even get into the real value-add of dotCloud: all the work you won't have to do, including security upgrades, centralized log collection, waking up at 4am to check on broken EBS volumes, dealing with AWS support (which is truly the most horrible support in the World, and we pay them a lot of money).

+ Our support team is awesome and might even fix a bug in your own code if you're lucky :)
> I was actually considering writing a post entitled "4th Grade Writing Level: Why I Should Have Had an Engineering Major Write My YC Application". I still think that would be a good joke.

Yes, suggesting that engineers have the writing skill of 4th graders is sure to go over well on a site called Hacker News.
In 2007/2008, almost everyone I knew who had a Mac would run at least 50% of the time in Windows. But recently, they stay in OSX all the time, and most don't even have Parallels/VMWare/VirtualBox installed.

The times, they are a-changing.
Probably he just meant that it is in effect 'automated' for him for a cost.
Yes, C++ is too complex. I know it well, and these days I would recommend against learning it; but for those who already know it, it’s hard to beat. The language is basically designed to be powerful at the expense of usability—a strange tradeoff, certainly, but one that’s worked remarkably well in practice.

Also, it’s my understanding that new additions to C++ are very carefully considered. Far more proposals are made than make it into the standard. And just because you don’t see the use doesn’t mean that no one else does: the language is applied to a remarkably wide variety of problems.

Anyway, it is possible to write reusable, readable, secure, performant code in C++. Whether it’s worth it to try is another question entirely.
Google Chrome implements a similar thing for picking colors to go with the thumbnails of your most visited websites: http://www.quora.com/Google-Chrome/How-does-Chrome-pick-the-...
I used to love C++, until I found D. The latter is pretty much how C++ should have been in the first place.
There were comments during the failure that AWS wasn't properly switching to use the available zones during the outage. That's what I find troubling. You are paying extra for some guaranteed availability and everyone keeps saying thats how you prevent downtime during outages. Then when the times comes it doesnt work?
I'm torn between enthusiasm for these awesome additions to to Google Maps, and the longterm effect on one's sense of wonder at the vastness of the world.

Something of the wonder of hiking into the Grand Canyon is lost when you can walk it in Google Maps. Some of the mystery is gone. Oddly enough, that's part of the reason satellite maps are so engaging, and have far less of this effect: you're getting a perspective that you would never otherwise have, and thus nothing's particularly lost. If anything, browsing around Google Earth is an invitation to explore. Walking the Grand Canyon on Streetview...that's an invitation to second guess making the effort. Or worse, spend countless hours comparing streetviews of different trails to see which is better.

That last point might be the worst: previewing trails and outdoor experiences just accelerates the paradox of choice problem, as you are constantly comparing what you see beforehand to what you see in real life to what you also saw elsewhere digitally.
Cloudera Launches Impala, Real-Time Query Engine for Hadoop
Context.IO Joins Return Path and Launches $1M Startup Program
When I worked at 3M, we had 15% time. What this boiled down to was basically every Friday afternoon, we would work on something that we wanted to work on.

It's a refreshing way to end the week, and if everyone is doing it, it doesn't seem like a 'burden' or a lack of productivity.

It would be hard to just implement this if managers aren't on board with the idea, but try it out one Friday a month. If it starts working well, bump it up to two, and hopefully you'll get to every Friday.

Here's link about 3M's 15% time - http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663137/how-3m-gave-everyone-day...
I'm not sure what the internal thinking at Facebook is, but I suspect the hierarchy is something like:

1. Advertisers
2. Real users
3. Social media marketing scum

If they think most users would prefer not to see 10 posts per day after accidentally clicking a like button, then they're probably going to do that.
According to Matz last year,

"The version number goes up to 2.0 but the changes are rather small. Smaller than the ones we made in 1.9."

http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-2-0-implementation-work-begin...

Here's a Quora thread with links to a presentation by Matz and a summary by Yehuda Katz:
http://www.quora.com/Ruby-programming-language/What-are-the-...

"Language improvements:

- Named arguments.. 1.step(by: 2, to: 10) { ... }

- Selector namespaces (unclear to me whether this differs from refinements as described by Katz)

- Multiple inheritance

Interpreter Improvements:

- Incremental performance improvements over 1.9's VM

- Better compatibility with non-unix environments and small/constrained devices (embeddable)

- Sandboxed VM's (VM per thread)"

Matz's presentation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=t...

Yehuda's summary of "refinements":
http://yehudakatz.com/2010/11/30/ruby-2-0-refinements-in-pra...
If we edit our application now and re-submit, doesn't that create a problem where different people at YC have read different versions of the application?

One solution would be to only add to our answers, not subtract, by adding "EDIT: I wanted to clarify this point by saying x,y,z" at the bottom of a question.

Of course, the problem is that adds to the verbosity, making your lives more difficult with more to read, not less.
Seems utterly improbable. That was my first reaction to: Apple would never do this. Per my comment elsewhere, I'm not sure that's a terrible thing by itself.
I was asking a question, and "Canada" is a big place. That is not the answer to the question. Also, just because the article is about Canada, doesn't mean we can't discuss payment processing around the world. There are people in this thread asking for support in Europe and Australia, there is no reason for me to expect every comment is pertaining to Canada.

Edit: also, while I'm not from Canada, I was there this summer and I had no problems getting my card swiped. Everywhere I needed to buy something took my card and swiped it. Hence my surprise.
Thanks.

"things useful in a startup" does seem like misleading advice. Because people applying don't yet know what's useful. So it's obvious to me that having won an Olympic medal is super useful, but it's probably not obvious to the applicant. Hmm, and "useful" is probably not quite the right word here ... I'll try to cover this more in emails.

You comment above rates 6.5. Your writing style is very unusual though. It remains easy to understand despite being somewhat complex linguistically. 6 is about the maximum I can usually understand in a single pass. And after reading a bunch of applications my abilities degenerate. Best direct response copywriters consistently rate at 4.
I don't get the fetish about 3D printing when CNC milling machine are cheaper and better in most aspects. Between a Makerbot and a Roland iModela I know what I want, and it's not the Makerbot...
Good job - impressive discipline. My wife is working on her first work of narrative non-fiction (she's a journalist), and every few weeks I have to help her reset her commitment to write 1k words a day.

How do you do it?

I'll forward this to her ;)
This is nobody's fault but his own.

He didn't have to use a bleeding edge version of C++. The standard is less than a year old and it's a very well known fact that it's not fully supported by any compilers, and that all of the compilers have different levels of support.

If building with multiple compilers was important to him, then this is his own screw up, not Microsoft's.
> In particular, the best restaurants in the world are small.

So are the worst.
You don't need to use Microsoft products.

Unless you want to sell native software to the ~400 million Windows users worldwide. Regardless of how you feel about the platform, it seems foolish to fault someone for trying to sell software on it.
Sounds reasonable, very cool. I suspected it was something along those lines - a demographic that had money (and real problems) that I wasn't personally connected to.
I wouldn't be surprised if it were 5x or even 10x that. You've got one-click purchase, and it's only $0.99 - much easier upgrade route than on PC.
Let me know if you have any questions or want to chat about trade-offs :)
The Electronics Store of the Future and Grand St.
Neat! I was not aware of it.
Salesforce trims staff at Radian6, calling it a "rebalancing of resources"
>So I pay Facebook to gain exposure to build a following of 10,000 fans and now I have to pay again if I want to reach them all??

There's a disconnect between what you think "Like" should be, what Facebook thinks "Like" should be and what the user thinks "Like" should be.

I never saw "Like" as being akin to signing up for a mailing list. Certainly not to the extent that I would be spammed with however many posts per day each "Liked" service serves up. It seems like Facebook agrees with me. I think they made a reasonable decision here for the good of the end-user.
> It's a great way to get fat

Haha, agreed :-D
Are the days numbered for 'broad' accelerators like Y Comb, TechStars?
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I think delegating is a little different than automating. Granted it's out of your hands either way though.
Some of the comments criticising stripe-only and lack of Interac support, seem a tad hyperbolic.

While these are valid concerns, Stripe transactions are still accepted and I'm sure there's a decent chunk of places using stripe. By the time chip is universal, I'm sure Square will have addressed this shortcoming. As for Interac, I'm presumig that the expansion to Canada will also include the Starbucks partnership, so I imagine it can't be far behind.

The regulatory environment is much different in Canada. The biggest thing I see here is the fact that a startup with significant attention and traction is entering our market. When they partnered with Starbucks, I was curious if that would mean they would provide coverage across North America and it definitely looks like they are. In the short term, I think Square Wallet is the key takeaway here. Mobile payments are gaining some serious steam and Square has a big chance to establish an early lead.
A little off-topic, but I read the "The Launch Pad" and one thing that stuck out to me was how you teach the YC companies that during Demo Day the investors will only remember a couple of words about the individual startups - in the best case scenario. Sometimes only a single word will be remembered.

I assume that these applications are very similar (although different in that you can take your time and reread parts as you see fit). But the shear amount of applications and the time frame allotted to go through them, I imagine it can be difficult to remember large parts of applications.
Interview with Robert Kern - James Brooks
Because the grand jury was likely not impanelled to consider a specific set of crimes; it's just the one that happened to be in session at the time these people came before it. That it was convened in March is probably completely irrelevant.
The standard may be less than a year old, but it's been in development for a long time. Heck, the proposal for variadic templates dates back to 2007, and GCC has had it since version 4.3.

It seems to me that your assertion is basically equivalent to, a few years ago, telling people to stop using newer HTML features that most browsers support because IE didn't support them. Sure, maybe stay away from bleeding edge features, but there comes a point in time where you have to stop blaming the user because Microsoft can't get their act together.
I wonder if it's something like a keylogger... maybe something as simple as pulling the plug out and putting something inline.
From the context, that seems to be a reaction to "variadic templates are too hard for us to implement" (paraphrased).