skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a nice question about this over at Server Fault: http://serverfault.com/questions/119892/company-password-man...

I've looked at Thycotic Software's Secret Server product (http://www.thycotic.com/products_secretserver_overview.html) I was impressed, but none of my consulting customers have signed-up.

I recently spun up a copy of the open source WebPasswordSafe (http://code.google.com/p/webpasswordsafe/) and liked what I saw but haven't really had much of a chance to bang on it.

Wearing my security auditing / pentester hat I've run into CyberArk's Enterprise Vault product (http://www.cyber-ark.com/digital-vault-products/pim-suite/en...) and found it very reasonable. It was refreshing to do a pentest where we didn't find a shared Keepass database or something similar.
I was hoping to get a full side-on view, but couldn't find one. The best I could find was on the spec page http://www.apple.com/imac/specs/

I would have been VERY impressed if they got the thinness they are showing in the photos for the entire device. However it looks like it is just a bevel (is that the correct term) to the edge.

It's a bit of a shame. I'd like to see them put some of the components into the base in order to get a true flat thin computer.
The hot corners are as follows

* Start Screen(lower left or Windows key)

* Recent/Running Metro apps(upper left or Win & Tab)
http://i.minus.com/iD8rJOYWLWoHU.jpg

* Charms bar (upper or lower right or Win & C)
http://i.minus.com/iKqyzIcITSAfB.jpg
In effect, contract manufacturers can enable "push button production scaling." They'll source parts, do engineering, pack, and ship--basically whatever you pay them to do. A high tech copy machine. The interface could certainly use some work though...
The interesting question is in which industries will we see the first Twilios, Stripes and Clevers for hardware? Home automation? Cars? Health?
> As for drivers, that's a sad joke that just goes to show that you don't know what you're talking about. Go buy a Samsung Series 9.

You are restricted to hardware that works on your operating system of choice. You read forums and check to make sure everything will work the way you want to. Even then, you have to constantly worry that whatever solution you hacked together won't give you degraded performance.

I buy any hardware I want, with the full knowledge that it will work properly on Windows the way the manufacturer intended. Even Apple, the only major manufacturer out there that doesn't make hardware targeted at Windows, puts out drivers for Windows.

Oh, and I wasn't even talking about vanilla laptop/desktop hardware. I was talking about fingerprint readers, high-end or esoteric NICs, FM/AM radio receivers, brand-spankin-new motherboards, etc.

That doesn't apply to the majority of people, but it applies to me.

> I don't think you guys have anything to hold onto other than lofty words and what you're used to.

If we're used to something, then it must be consistent? Otherwise, how can you get used to it?

> Again, what are you talking about. Be specific. What is consistent?

The experience. Somebody who knows how to use 95, can use 98, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7 with ease.

That's why everybody's going nuts about 8. With 8, you have to click on a tile before you get that consistent experience.
Gree and Mobage aren't much better when it comes to not being sleazy. The whole kompu gacha ban was because they were essentially enticing children to gamble.
The collaboration and navigation tools of Beanstalk are not up to par, last I checked. The file browsers on GitHub and Bitbucket are very responsive. The "pull request" feature is extremely useful for managing large teams where features are being developed concurrently. Beanstalk's best feature is its automatic deployment, but you can duplicate this in a more powerful way with post-commit hooks or continuous integration processes.
I don't know what the Wi-Fi is like at your home or business, but packet loss is actually really common on my University's wireless network. I wouldn't call this scenario artificial at all.
Thanks, Jason! Much appreciated. We do have word clouds that show you your frequency of word use. It's basic now, but we plan on sprucing it up. Tagging is something that's in the plans.
Hit up Dribbble, Behance, find people whose style you admire. Reach out to them. Know that they are more in demand now than ever and unless they really believe in your project you will have to pay them like any other professional.
No matter how Pincus might try to spin it, announcing this the same day as the iPad Mini event just shows once again how much of a sleazeball he really is.
I liked Gitlab when I ran it for myself for a while. It was great; couldn't knock it in anyway except for (at the time) setup instructions that weren't detailed/accurate enough to rely upon, especially regarding the main dependency gitorious. The big sell for this is simple, or even trivial, setup.

I was just a single user so most of the functionality was a loss, so I transferred to bitbucket (free private repos) knowing full well the potential risks. It saved me the effort of keeping my own server up to date and secure (I'm not the pro, I can trust github or bitbucket to know and do better) at the cost of no longer being self sufficient.

That said, I'd recommend this for any organisation that wants its own github, doesn't want to pay enterprise money, and doesn't mind doing all the hard work itself. And that's not faint praise, because it was fucking good when I did use it (while it was mid-Twitter Bootstrap conversion).
It's also done here in the United States. The Public Broadcasting Service has a for-profit arm called "National Datacast" that serves up a nationwide bitstream over the blanking interval of local PBS stations.

Disney tried a failed pay-per-view movie service over it. Some digital sign companies use it for loading new content. Microsoft tried a line of toys using the data stream. And I think TV Guide runs on here as well.

http://www.nationaldatacast.com
Great demo.

The last question, where I had to name and spell the part, caught me by surprise -- the difficultly level had, up until then, been increasing very slowly, and that felt like a huge jump.

Wishlist feature: Speech recognition, in the sense of having to name a part out loud.
I wonder what's so proprietary about their algorithm. I'd assume it's just Reed–Solomon coding on a UDP tunnel (or, alternatively, modifying TCP to accept partially mangled-packets if FEC is successful).
The SIA (snow sports) conference used to be in Vegas until they realized everyone spent too much time partying to actually get any deals put together. The conference is in Denver now and while there is still some good partying, they also get a little bit of work done.
What sort of company does the handbook say they are?
Ask HN:  When will the consumer electronic "fad" end?
It seems like all the innovation or should i say attention (thanks apple) is focused on developing/buying smartphones, tablets and apps right now.

Doesn't anyone else feel like hummanity (consumers) should be focusing more on things like healthcare technology, clean energy technology and space exploration...
> There is pretty much no other justification for this metro/desktop mashup possible.

There are many, but one compelling reason is having the best of both worlds. You may disagree on whether it's possible or not, but that is the goal: two usage modes in one device.

> Why else would they do away completely with the start menu for desktop use and force the start screen?

Because it's better [1].

(I am an employee but these are entirely my own opinions and experiences)

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/11/reflecting-on-...
That's our long-term goal for developers. Think of the projects we'll let developers work on as creating a diversified portfolio of equity. A developer can either work on one project and take more of a lead position, or work on multiple projects over time (from Late Labs and from other startups we partner with), for a specific equity base. We know how much time and effort building a site/app takes, so we understand. And I've seen so many "facebook clones" proposals over time so I know the feeling, where the team tells you that they potentially have a 1Billion user market. We're going to keep away from that and focus on smart business and marketing strategy :)
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Upgrading to one that is will generally be cheaper than paying for a second device.
Vegas at any time of year sucks. My least favorite of all cities.

Off-season down-market venues are often chosen for cost. Though I'd expect you could find something far more attractive at that time of year (or some other) for similar costs. Vegas has scale, but that's also attainable elsewhere. The other amenity is a concentration of entertainment venues.

Seems to me there are plenty of other alternatives in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, or even Utah which would be more attractive.
As long as you're throwing out numbers, what's the overall impact of capturing CC up front on the whole funnel vs. when trial ends? Obviously you'll get more trial -> customer conversions if you capture CC upfront, at the cost of people in the top of the funnel, but in general, which is better when you step back to overall lead -> customer rates?

I bought your lifecycle email course, btw, and I'm just getting started working through it. I'm especially interested in this question if you assume that the lifecycle email approach is being maximized during the trial (in either scenario).
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Hah! Fantastic stuff! And of course Your Sinclair is a prime nostalgia trigger all of its own. Do you remember Bamboozle (I think it was on C4 rather than Ceefax.)

What about this then? http://www.grangehill.net/bbc1_clock_offair.jpg

I remember being blown away when they changed to this: http://625.uk.com/tv_logos/logos/bbc1_85.jpg

Funny to think about how little media we had back then, when today I can pull a slab out of my pocket and access a significant fraction of the world's movies, songs and books instantly. Reckon I had more fun then though, but that might be because I didn't have a hellish job and a family to feed. Ah well.

Cheers for the memories. Better stop now or we'll end up talking about Bagpuss and the bloody Clangers like a pair of students.
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Yeah - I've been bitten by too many "discrepancies" between emulators and the real thing. Also with device testing, a big part of it for me is how the device is held. Are there awkward target areas for touch devices - is the type set incorrectly for how far away I'm going to hold it? How quickly do resources load? Answering questions like that is a big part of my process when I'm analyzing devices.
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Beta promo code is "hackernews" and limited to the first 500 sign-ups. Launching on Halloween, of course.
Any good company continually looks for new talent, even when they have to let go some of the existing talent. I had the weird experience of coming to work for NetApp the Monday after their first layoff in history the previous Friday. Youch!

Having been at Intel when they were both laying people off and hiring, it is sometimes a function of corporate strategy shift, where the people you have can't fill the jobs that you want to have and their jobs are becoming irrelevant. Intel decided to get out of the DRAM business in '84 and those folks who did DRAM weren't the same kind as the ones who do CPUs apparently.
Thoughts on the iPad mini
Except that it's not unsustainable and in fact doing pretty well in terms of revenue (http://adage.com/article/digital/twitter-ad-revenue-reach-13...). I know it's fashionable to hate on Twitter but it flies in the face of reality.
I think Shenzhen is more the hardware SV than the bay area. Or more "Designed in California, Made in China". Look at this article by bunnie huang illustrating this fact:

Akihabara, Eat Your Heart Out
http://www.bunniestudios.com/wordpress/?p=147
Wonder if you could just spam groupon deals with your affiliate link included?
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> Running a public company that's doing badly is extraordinarily painful. No one would bring that on himself.

I would openly run a company into the ground if I got hundreds of millions of dollars in the process like they Zynga or Groupon guys did.
In the context of the article, I think the justification was: assuming you're more productive in quality and not quantity, because you're working towards ambitious goals, then on most days you will not complete a recognized goal. The suggestion is to go out of your way to recognize your smaller day-to-day accomplishments which help you reach the big goal.
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I'm a developer looking for a job that wants to move to Austin. What's a good place to start?
It is indeed just the edge, The Verge show some better pictures here: http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/23/3544372/apples-new-imac-h...
Nice work! Very useful additions to Bootstrap.
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While there are many enterprises that have willingly adopted the iPhone and later iPad in their organizations. The lost productivity due to a different UI is a misconception. What is important is legacy application support which I think continues to be there in Windows 8.
Show HN: Inviteful Helps You Invite "Humans" To "Events"
Did Athlon and opteron really do well or did net burst do really bad?

I want AMD to continue to compete and push but one bad architecture takes a while to overcome. Bulldozer++ needs to deliver.
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Oy! Yes!

And if you're doing anything in the critical infrastructure space, certifications are ABSOLUTELY KEY. Things like ISO9001 are no joke in the hardware space. And those can take ages to get and sometimes get very political.
That brings back memories - I had so many three-digit numbers into muscle memory for checking news, TV listings and so on, and used to be able to flip around really fast because I had a feel for the page timing. I guess Ceefax was long past its use-by date, but I'm sad to see it go. every time I use the Cable TV guide here in the US I wish I could call up Ceefax instead.
Keepass is a decent option for a smaller company (http://keepass.info/). It's a bit limited in a sense that it doesn't support multiple users that can view different password tiers, but it does an ok job at syncing changes by multiple users. I am sure there are plenty of decent commercial options.

I've seen some companies hack a homemade solution based on Truecrypt as well, though it's probably not very efficient.
As I noted above, this isn't really an argument. Sanjay Kumar made hundreds of millions of dollars from CA and could have left long before he was indicted having already ensured that none of his grandchildren would ever have to work a day in their lives.
Your information is about a decade old!

Board fab is over an order of magnitude cheaper than that these days. Yes, I have old circuit boards that I designed 15+ years ago that cost me $400 for two bare PC board prototypes, but today I can get the same two for about $50 these days, shipped express from somewhere in China.

To go even more extreme, I just ordered a handful of an existing design from OSH park just to see what their quality is. Three tiny boards cost me $5. Five bucks!!!
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I constantly talk to "normals" that don't understand whether the iPad can run programs like their computer at home. I've seen a lot of iPhones with 5 or less downloaded apps: Facebook and a couple top casual games.
Ah, sorry about that, I meant beanstalkd, the work queue.
The way we got a CE certification for our product was by hacking the system. It turns out that the way it works is that some legal entity of your own choice puts a CE-approved sticker on the product and can then be held responsible if the product doesn't meet the regulations laid forth in the directive that deals with whatever your product was (In our case the machine directive).

Of course the way it's meant to work is that your company hires an approval company that knows a lot about certifications, tests the product and then approves it knowing that they're on the hook if it doesn't meet requirements and regulations.

Nowhere does it say that the approving company can't be the same company as the one making the product, so basically we bought a few CE stickers put them on the product and it was approved. By us.
> There are many, but one compelling reason is having the best of both worlds. You may disagree on whether it's possible or not, but that is the goal: two usage modes in one device.

With respect: I don't believe them when they say it and I don't believe your rehashing of it either. I find "we need to get people using this so they don't regard our mobile offerings as crap" to have much more of the ring of truth. I am of the mind that if your stated reason was actually the reason, there'd be a way to opt out of it. (Unless this is a fairly thoughtless attempt to mimic the Apple "this is what we're doing" mindset, which sort of hinges upon having a certain amount of taste. I don't believe this to be the case.)

> Because it's better [1].

I don't agree, and yes, I've used it. The conceit is junk. My desktop isn't a tablet. I can, as shocking as this may sound, multitask. I want to have nothing to do with something that decides it needs to take over my primary monitor (on which I may be doing other things while I call up Start search--ex. I may be watching something in a VLC stay-on-top window) against my wishes, and I refuse to be a party towards Microsoft's progression towards making their (poor, developer-hostile[1]) app store the Only Game In Town.

[1] - Apple's is both of these things, too. I don't use it and I'm not funneled towards a UI that doesn't let me go outside of it, though.
I'm not sure I remember how each successive advancement in signaling from 802.3-coax through 10gbE through gigabit wireless was driven by public RFCs.
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His blog is syndicated to planet.mozilla.org. It's hardly a high quality blog.
Nice! Thanks for pointing that out.
That explains it. I'd like to think I'm pretty good at recognizing software icons but those threw me off there.

The icons in the icon pack are like a breathe of fresh air and I may use some myself. Thanks for sharing.
Or fasd, a derivative
There's a company in Ottawa implementing a similar idea, but based on carving up packets and then inserting one or more redundant XOR packets (RAID-style). Their name for it is IPQ: http://liveqos.com/products/ipq/

They have a patent on this: http://www.google.com/patents/US20120201147

(Disclosure: I was an intern there in 2009, when it was IPeak Networks.)
There's over 40 games.

Source: I (still) work here.
I think if that's the only point in all that which you find fault with, then my point is pretty well proven.

Oh, and you can point at the board of directors and all of their past successes as if that somehow proves that the company is well run. I can point at the balance sheet and stock price. Facts are stubborn things.
wutdo: http://sprunge.us/OhOS
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Two little scripts I just whipped up that'll help you record the things you do throughout the day. I'm definitely going to try to use these as much as possible, it's kind of like a personal micro-blog.
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it being technically sound does not means it's correct.
There are lots of other great places to work in Boston. Email me (see profile) if you're looking.
We can walk and chew gum at the same time. Smartphones and tablets are popular because they deliver value, from realtime mapping to field sensing to communications. Entertainment and consumption are only one use among many.

The consumer demand for these is causing the hardware to become commoditized, and thus standardized and cheaper. That has huge benefits for the other fields you mention, since the hardware is cheaper, more familiar to decision-makers, and has a larger base of potential developers, testers, and collaborators. For example, here's a story from a couple months ago about NASA experimenting with Android phones for computing duties in mini-satellites: http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-in-space-nasa-powers-mini-sa...
This is a story parallel to Lance Armstrong's own rise and fall. About how if you were to drill down, really drill down, to find the next ethical, justifiable company that used Facebook to great benefit for humanity you're going to be looking for the 27th, 28th, 29th place organizations.

-- Interesting.

If you look at the data, from 1996-2005 (10 Years)

> source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/lancear...

TDF: Of those that placed top 3x: 15% clean, ~85% were not. You know you have a problem when you are on the wrong side of the 80 /20 rule, as an entire field.

Lets hope the ills that plague Zynga are not like the TDF:

Top 3 x 10 years = 30 places
Only 5 of these "places" were awarded to "clean riders", of which there were only 3.

First - None
Second - Joseba Beloki (1)
Thrid - Beloki(2), Bobby Ulrich, Fernano Escartin.
You can lay a lot of sleaziness at Pincus's feet, but announcing your bad news on a Friday, when it gets mixed with other bad and important news, is just good strategy. If the news will get the least play on that day, he even owes it to the shareholders to do it that way.

What exactly is the ethical way to announce layoffs?
Ask HN: Demo to our Competitor?
Short version : Should we allow our Competitor, who has more resources than we do but an inferior product (of course!!;) to try our app in closed beta or is it too risky since they lost customers to us recently?
It may actually turn out to be controllable via group policy. I swear you can control just about anything with GP. So, enterprise may have that option.
Three steps to much higher conversion (info)
Done! http://taurus.io
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Isn't Devise older than OmniAuth?
What is the benefit in doing so? (Or, asked from another angle, why are you contemplating this move?)
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No, that's PR business. What would be sleazy is if he undercut so that remaining employees still have swords hanging over their heads. "Cut once, cut deep."
Well, AMD will be making the chips in the next XBox, the next Playstation, and the graphics for the next Wii so that's something at least.
Google, don't speculate. The primary source appears to be http://www.mit.edu/~medard/papers2011/Network%20CodingMeets%... and similar papers from the same authors.
Except that, at least in my case, no such change was made. I took the definition I used directly from a dictionary. It looks like in this case someone is trying really hard to shout down an argument as fallacy when no such error is being made.
Awesome but useless? It either is good at something or it isn't. An iPad is very good for reading, browsing, email, twitter, etc., often better than a laptop, and most apps make good use of the screen space. The android tablets running 4.1 I've played with are not that terrible either, certainly good enough for web browsing, email and games.
Anti-Todo List... otherwise known as "Lab Notebook"? This process is commonplace (and often required!) in academic settings. I love looking through mine and reliving the discovery process!