skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they are referring to TI's OMAP processors, then they typically feature multiple ARM cores with various media accelerators (http://www.ti.com/lit/ml/swpt034b/swpt034b.pdf). These are like all-in-one chips designed for mobile platforms that are optimized for displaying media on a LCD-ish display at minimum power. The OMAP offerings are pretty similar to chips from Broadcom or Samsung, however, it makes sense for them to get integrated with their biggest customer. They already have NDAs in place and TI probably has field engineers that essentially work for Amazon, they would just be transferring financial stake different production processes.

Having said that, the reason that you probably don't want to run a EC2 instance on an OMAP, or any ARM for that matter, is because they are not 64bit compatible, they do not have good virtualization support, and you would not be taking advantage of various media/display capability.
I've got a pleasant clicky keyboard, a mouse, a linux host (slackware) available in terminal with X11 apps piped over ... and OS X.

A long time ago, OS2 was better at running Windows apps than Windows was. The same is true for OS X running Linux ..
Not meaning to start any kind of semantic flame war, but I'm still not convinced.

> Whether you're using a key that fits the lock, or know that 'Joshua' is the superuser's login, it's still a "secret" which only provides protection while it's actually secret.

But isn't the same true about passwords? Aren't passwords secrects providing protection only when they remain unknown?

The problem here lies, IMO, not with secrecy but with the password/key distribution and protection. I could imagine a situation similar to described in the article if an administrator gave server's root password to half of the company staff, hoping that no one leaks it.
That's actually something we haven't managed to figure out why that happens. I'm no expert in email optimization, but I can't figure out why Google insists on marking our welcome email as spam. Is it something in the wording? If anybody here knows more about getting email past spam filters, I'd love some advice!
The tilted "S" in most of those is dreadful. It's all I can look at when I look at them. Additionally, many of them require "work" to read (140, 130, 135). Nuber 89 is the only one that is even borderline useful. There is just too much going on in all of them. You want a logo that looks good small as well as large, so you need clean lines and not a lot of detail. The silohuette of the runner is a nice idea, but I'm not sure it holds up at different sizes. I'd go for a simpler image like a ball or a footprint or something.
I use caps lock, but I use 'ctrl' more often.
Does this rely on an external server (assuming so with the API key) and if so how taxing is it for you, is it just going to become too expensive one day and get shut down, or is operation trivial?

It's a really great idea, I had exactly this problem earlier with reddit (I saw a submission about the redbull stratos jump that had a comment I was interested in, but I couldn't relocate the submission...) and it's happened here before too.
Misogynistic communities are not at all the same thing as a community hostile to religious belief.
Corollory : One could produce a whole range of image0%d.png from vertical slices through the video, and stitch them together into a movie. Essentially rotating the movie abouts its y axis (in the x-t plane).

If we assume 50fps, then every 1000px wide video would become a 3-4 minute short. But movies would require a very wide screen...
I'm guessing that articles like this are what's he's talking about: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Globa...
nice catch, the longer you stay on the README tab the longer it warps
"What problem are they trying to solve?"

I wouldn't say it's a problem. It's more of an opportunity.

They make it easy (apparently) to create a set of links (that you possibly could do without them if you wanted to put in the effort but most people won't want to) to products and you get a cut if the product is purchased. The example which was "generators" I think might be done by an organization or a person, perhaps even as fund raising.

I've already done the same with an amazon account with a general search box as well as when I have to purchase something from amazon etc. myself and you get back 4 to 6% depending on the product. (Amazon tracks this btw so you have to clear the cookies out.)

If I wanted to recommend a product to a friend or a customer (and collect a commission) it takes more work to do it manually then (apparently I'm guessing) by using referly.

Personally I think it's a nice idea. They are removing friction from the process. What remains to be seen is if enough people will be able to earn enough money to make it worth their while to use this ($100 or $25 per month is probably worth the trouble, $1.23 probably isn't).
I had the same issues. It's gotten better.
> Well of course, pretty much any data looks linear on a log-log chart.

Hah! If you seriously believe that, I've got some stock options I'd like to sell you...
nice! All the best
If it works, then it's genius and next month everybody does it.

If it doesn't work, then there's still nothing pathetic about believing in yourself and trying to make yourself heard above the din. The worst that could happen is she doesn't get a job - not an unheard of situation to find oneself in.
Without the weight of the capsule it will rise up and burst, at the press conference there was a mention of recovering the balloon after it lands.
My point is that if you set up a master key in the fashion described, such that thousands of people have access to it and it's basically impossible to change, that key becomes part of the system, rather than being a separate key. It becomes part of "how the lock works".

To quote Kerckhoffs's principle, which Wikipedia leads me to believe is the basis of the whole concept of security through obscurity:

"Its key must be communicable and retainable without the help of written notes, and changeable or modifiable at the will of the correspondents"

Despite the name, this master key is not a "key" in the cryptographic sense. Any system intended to provide security without a key is necessarily relying on security through obscurity.
Woo! Full recap of Internet2012 Bus Tour here: http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/reddit-hits-road-14444...

And this:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/why-is-this-man-running-fo...
Ummm...

the issue is facebook's controls.

If I add you to my group (without you even knowing), the system should not be sending out notices to all of your contacts that you 'joined' my group. You didn't join, you were added - there's a huge difference.
Holy hell this is ridiculous. We have multipart/x-mixed-replace you know.
I like the new Coderwall team pages, they showcase the team members, their stack and other cultural bits that fill in the gap that typical job posts create.

http://coderwall.com/teams
We see those "Hire me" websites every few weeks on HN, but I'm still wondering if they ever work out.
Maybe I'm an ignoramus, but what's wrong with storing your credit card number in a cookie, as long as it's encrypted? This is how session management is typically done, right? Your session information is stored encrypted in a cookie so that on subsequent page requests, the server still knows who you are, but the session information is encrypted and decrypted on the server, so that the client can't forge the session information.

If this technique is good enough to make sure that you still are who you said you were when you logged in, why is this not good enough for storing other sensitive information? And if it's not good enough for session management, then you're in deep trouble anyway, since someone else can now log in as you and funnel all your money into their Swiss bank account.

Edit: As it turns out, it seems that most cookie-based session data is only stored cryptographically signed, rather than encrypted. The reason for this seems to be that HMAC signing is up to 4X faster than encrypting with Blowfish.
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Planet with four suns discovered
All fine points. Whenever this topic is brought up, I personally take the time to straighten the overwhelming view based on lack of or misinformation about these three mathematicians.

In-fact, there is a positive to all of this - via discussion and constant correction of what isn't widely stated, we are promoting the actual facts. This in my point of view is and will be the eventual success contributing factor. I'm not involved in the matters of how official statements, literature and such should be amended to promote this more, but if there is an overwhelming misunderstanding of how and what exactly happened - it's worthwhile doing so.
You know I don't really get this sentiment. And I just think people hate on the Mac because they want to.

I never saw the appeal of Linux. Yes, it's free, and I can buy a cheap PC to run it on but why would I do that?
My Macbook Pro has the best keyboard I've ever used (the 2008 "pro keyboard", not the chicklet keys Apple uses these days) and the trackpad is better than ALL trackpads out there. Seriously, Apple knows how to make trackpads. And on top of that, OS X is as much Unix as Ubuntu or any other distribution of Linux and I can do whatever work I would have done on Linux on my mac. If I don't have a command line tool, I just use homebrew to install it or build it from source if homebrew doesn't have that formula. And you know what I get including those nice things? The wealth of awesome OS X apps, like Textmate, Keynote, iTerm, Kaleidoscope, QuickSilver/Alfred, XCode, Pixelmator, Time Machine etc that are available. So I ask you, why would I use a Linux machine when OS X is supremely better in almost every way?
Recently I've been fascinated with software architectures that shift the locus of control back to the client, instead of the server/cloud.

So seeing "serverless" in the title caught my attention, only to find that it too looked like just another buzzword..
A business that is not pursuing profit is not a business
PC aside, why not?
You're correct. Just because I've worked with someone it doesn't mean that I want to hear anything from them. Or talk to them.
"And if you buy a portion of the proceeds is donated to charity". This removes what would be seen as a biased ulterior motive..."

But not for example if you run a blog and have a page of products that you recommend with the clear understanding that (as always in the past) earning income from the purchase helps to support something else that is free. I think it's all in the way it's stated. Or in the case of a store to help the local pta.
Tell me your thoughts on this service, we want to improve it.
Our team is creating a new platform offering a service between the designer and the buyer. What would you improve? We're in the process of making changes, name included. Would you consider joining it and why? sillytrader.com
every time I see parts of human body like that, I have a flash backs from the very first time when I saw Aphex Twin's Rubber Johny. Worth watching, IMHO :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmH1vidnQ1g
Actually, I would normally agree with you if this were a service targeted to the HN crowd, who has probably seen this or other clever marketing techniques too many times to be amused. But keep in mind that our target market is college students, who spend less time looking at startup launch pages and are far less likely to have seen that. For that audience, our "don't click this" button has been very positively received, as it always seems to get a giggle from what we've seen so far.

As for saying exactly what it is, that can and will be improved :) thanks for the feedback!
So do they distinguish between pirated copies and honestly-bought copies, and ban appropriately, or do they take the blanket approach of banning anyone playing the game regardless?
The Great Dropbox Space Race
This is now the 5th time you've posted the exact same link to HN. What's changed?
I see them as a competitor to Commission Junction, Linkshare, and ShareaSale. The big old affiliate networks with interfaces and customer service that make me gauge my eyes out. We're looking at using Refer.ly to handle our affiliate program because: #1. It's free for merchants right now (though I'm sure that will change) and #2. I like my eyes.
Boxee Welcomes FCC Rulemaking That Opens Door for Innovation
It's definitely gotten better. I've been running the iTerm 2 beta release and it never crashes. I've literally never had a crash after I began using it.
The worst that could happen is next month everybody does it.
But it is not even encrypted. And AFAIK most (sane) sites do not store you account information encrypted in the cookie, they store a session id. This session id is then used to find the relevant session information which is stored on the server.
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It's ok, it isn't meant for you.

I also didn't get it, and I worked very closely with Danielle for a long time at Twilio. Then one day my sister-in-law who writes a blog about her hobby farm and Etsy business IMed me and asked "how do I make money from my blog?" She's tech savvy, but the idea of an affiliate network is outside her realm of understanding. I sent her to refer.ly and she instantly got it. That's the sweet spot. It's not me or you.
That may have been exactly what the group owner thought they were doing. I'm not sure when Facebook switched over to "Add People to Group" instead of "Invite People to Group," but I vaguely recall that Facebook groups used to do the latter, which is a behavior that, at least to me, makes a lot more sense.
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Defining "Operations"
I'm not sure I agree that Θ is more useful than Ο; rather, I think Ο∘E, the expected (time) complexity, is most useful.

Take quicksort for example (see misconception 4). Few people care that it's Ο(n²), and even fewer bother to ask if the implementation is Ω(1). It's not even Θ anything. Yet it's one of the canonical examples of complexity analysis, with the understanding that most people are really concerned with average performance.
Health IT Startup Dream Team
Let's start a company that does to the healthcare IT industry what Apple did to the PC industry.

I am an emergency physician. I know how the software, specifically electronic health records, should be designed. Looking for partners with coding knowledge, specifically related to healthcare (i.e. HL7, etc).

Contact me if interested.

Jordan jlscal@yahoo.com
Essential Mac Setup
Oh come on, you don't have to be such a fan boy to help facebook make more money on you.
"There are a lot of people who are essentially forced to be on Facebook due to social obligations."

While I don't agree with John in this case (which is unusual), nobody is forced to be on Facebook. You have the option to choose between privacy and social pressure. Many of us have chosen to not create an account and haven't suffered in the least because of it.

All the examples in this thread of reasons you're "forced" to be on the site amount to missing parties and not seeing pictures -- and it's a really vapid argument. It might suck to not see those pictures, but there's nobody forcing you to do so. It's still entirely up to you.

To clarify, I am not victim blaming. This argument is addressing the claim that a Facebook account is a requirement of youth. It is not. Choosing privacy over pleasure might be an unattractive option for some but it's an option all the same.
Can you give a concrete example of a refactoring you had to do?
> But not the kind that go in your home. No, that'd be as nuts as the now-discontinued Windows Home Server product.

What's wrong with home servers? I've been wanting to build one for quite some time.
IANA security expert but I think session info is somewhat protected by the short TTL. The amount of time required to get at the session data should (hopefully) exceed its window of validity.
I think it's more a case of:

Let's recommend people don't use a site which does not recognise the concept of privacy, expands the realm of the public versus the private at every opportunity, and spams their friends about their activities without their permission. People (not just LGBT people) should avoid FB entirely unless they want to be exposed to embarrassing situations like this, as FB continually tries to erode their privacy.

Using a public site like Twitter or Blogger is far healthier, as then it is clear that all content is public all the time.
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Hubway Data Visualization Challenge
FYI this has absolutely nothing to do with TorrentFreak suddenly being anti-piracy. The only thing he's mad about is that the pirates are spoiling the game's story by publishing spoilers everywhere. It's not about the act of piracy itself, just the spoilers.

From Enigmax in the comments:

"The issue of the "copying and distributing" of information isn't what i'm complaining about, it's the idiots who want to ruin everyone else's enjoyment of what would otherwise be a first class experience."
While I don't disagree with you, this is a false dichotomy. A proper analysis of the findings should have reported -- and explained -- both absolute and relative differences.
Not in my experience. I think the compatibility problems you have read about may be for formats that have been recently added. markdown to supported formats works flawlessly in my opinion. Most of the problems arise when trying to import other formats to markdown.

Pandoc's extensions to markdown are a sufficient reason to be a pandoc fanboy in my opinion. JGM (fiddlosopher here on HN) is a great person to be in charge of a project. He is very responsive to questions/problems and seems to be interested in supporting pandoc behind his personal use cases.
* the system should not be sending out notices to all of your contacts that you 'joined' my group*

- that's up to Facebook, and the parent is quite correct, if you don't your private life out there for all to see, don't put it on a social networking site because you don't have any control, other that what Facebook feel is in their interest to have. You give up that control when you put it online.

I have no sympathy for people that get found out because they put the information on Facebook and someone they didn't want to know saw it. People have to start taking responsibility for their own privacy and not crying to Facebook whenever this sort of thing happens. Also I tend not to believe most people because its an easy way to tell a burning secret without actually doing it, the confessors version of suicide by police.

tl;dr - don't put your secrets in the hands of facebook's whims because they aren't your best friend, they are a commercial business and your privacy isn't their concern, except when it suits them to be.
I know, I was also excited. We feel lonelier now.

Still by reading the article I still don't see how moving to another framework + platform made it better. Maybe our case is so very different.

I have considered the move for quite a while, every time I run the performance tests, .Net comes faster.

Maintainability wise, it is still easier to manage .Net applications than NodeJS. The tooling for testing (and not just Unit Testing) is abundant and mature.

Cost savings are also debatable. In our case, we measure Infrastructure Costs + Maintenance Costs, and windows is way cheaper putting the two together. Now, they are using a PaaS, so that might make it worth while. For us a PaaS is really not an option since we need a lot more control.

I do agree with the mongoDB choice. I love Mongodb. We us eMongoDB. But we have so many problems because it never reclaims deleted data. The size just grows. And that is maintenance hell. We are analyzing potential replacements.

For us, NodeJS still doesn't have that much to offer. :D So we are sticking with .Net.
This reminds me of something I saw a while back (it might have been on Boing Boing or something, and I'm sure it made its way across the web) of a guy who had a camera he'd made out of an old scanner. Basically, the scanner would move across the surface very slowly so it captured a slice of time. I wonder if that sort of technique is being used here.
Is Teamwork Dead? A Post-Agile Prognosis
Well for starters, it's common practice (e.g. in Rails' cookie store, but many others too) to leave the cookie contents as plaintext and just append a HMAC so that you know they haven't been tampered with.
Or create a vagrant VM that almost emulates your web deployment server and develop in it while using any OS you like for other purposes :).
It would be nice to know exactly what this campaign is supposed to accomplish. There seems to be a whole lot of advertising effort to get people to participate in putting stamps on bills, with not much effort dedicated to explaining why the heck they're doing it. I.e., exactly what do they want to amend the constitution with? Sure, "get money of out politics", but that's a pretty vague goal.

There is some specificity to be found at http://stampstampede.org/money-in-politics/
The one almost inexcusable omission from their online banking is any way to download your statements. You have to scrape the data from the pages themselves, and infuriatingly, they display the page of most recent items in a slightly different format to older pages, making it a pain to merge data scraped from different pages.

In lesser annoyances, they make you do a stupid amount of typing to log in, about the only bit of which is actually secure is two randomly selected digits from your 4-digit PIN. All other info is insecure: account number, sort code, first school attended, yada yada yada. All in all they make you enter something like 30 characters spread across 3-5 input boxes and two pages, all for about 6 bits of actual entropy. Unless, of course, you're the sort of person who when asked to tell your bank what your first school was, replies "8EOHzxdO6QnJ".
Come on.

Facebook isn't a human right or requirement. "Need" is too strong a word, you need food, water, oxygen, sleep... you "want" Facebook.

Facebook offers a service, use it or don't. It has settings, set them and if it still doesn't work for you then don't use it. Noone is "forced" to use Facebook, "forced to..." is not equivalent to "it would be really nice to...".
Can anyone help me transcribe the altitude, time, and velocity data from the bbc coverage of this jump? I'm planning on creating an animated JavaScript infographic using d3. I'm starting at the top of his jump and planning on trying to sample at 5 sec intervals by pausing the video and writing down the data. If anyone wants to start at the bottom of the freefall and work up, that would be great. My main goal is to get the freefall data -- after the chute deploys is not as important.

I'll post it here as csv once its transcribed.

EDIT: This is taking forever; I'm going to use Mechanical Turk. I'll post here when done.
Is C# a strongly-typed or a weakly-typed language?
Developing a Portfolio backtester in R
Hands down the best way to affect change in politics is to get involved locally. (e.g. School board, voluntary emergency response services, local PACs etc...)

The only thing more powerful than the lobby is true grass roots (not astroturf). And I don't mean voting in gerrymandered districts, I mean true political activism.
Please don't do this unless there isn't a link within the newsletter. I seem to get a couple of people that do this every month with my Hacker Newsletter. I don't think a couple hurts, but it can if it goes above some percentage of your subscriber size.
On an unrelated note, first time I've come across React (http://nodephp.org/). Awesome project. Would be sweet to have non-blocking MySQL bindings.
If you can find this, let me know. I have not been able to.
For Perl specific jobs I look at http://jobs.perl.org.