skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about SSH-keygen? That is, the same with committing to GitHub and logging in to SSH via putty with pageant?

I'm sure there are quite a bit of downsides to this method and it will resort to even logging in with some sort of "password."
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Prometric is one of the largest certification testing companies there is. Microsoft is the one giving the test away: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/offers/html5.aspx.
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Yes it does work, it's why trade shows are in las vegas and other "fun" places. A dozen cupcake and bottle of scotch once saved me $5k in a deal.
Honestly, I still don't get why people find this 3D globe so "awesome". Without much more mapping information (country names, city names, road network, borders, neighborhood, points of interest), it's really just a gimmick, and is completely useless. The 3D data comes from C3 Technologies which was bought by Apple for their 3D fly-overs. Apart from this, it's still in the same exact state as when this was released about one year ago, I think (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3428427).
Interestingly, the part that crashed Firefox was one of the simpler tests--typing a bunch of text content in, then resizing and rotating the shapes that contain that text. Firefox didn't give any details as to why it crashed.

The only thing I could even measure that would lead to a crash is memory usage. I just re-ran the test and watched the process's memory usage. It hovered in the 300-400MB range during the first third of the test. Then, during the test I describe, memory usage rocketed to around 1GB, at which point the browser crashed hard.

I'm not sure why Firefox would exhibit this behavior when other browsers don't, but we know a few people at Mozilla (they're customers of ours) so we'll probably reach out.
So the branch predictors will be crap, but thanks to the hyperthreading, it probably won't be noticeable on most workloads...
IE 6, 7 and maybe 8 users are probably running XP so can't upgrade.

IE 9 users on Vista are similarly out of luck.

I won't be recommending IE 10 even to my clients on Windows 7 or 8 until they have an silent auto-updater and a frequent release cycle. It's the only way we'll stop IE's user base holding back the web.
Wait, did you make the other browsers your default before running the tests? I was under the impression that IE is the only first-class browser and the other browsers would work as third-party apps with limitations on things like the amount of processes it can open, etc. I ask because I supremely doubt that Mozilla Firefox couldn't pass your benchmark, although I don't use it myself.
Isn't that the big limitation in everything? :)

Think about every massive online success, past and present. MySpace, for example, was not fundamentally different than how you could upload an HTML page to a server...though designing and maintaining links is obviously work beyond the average dedicated developer. And Facebook was not fundamentally different than MySpace, but its news feed eliminated the work of visiting every friend's profile to figure what happened today, which made it much more likely that you'd be "rewarded" (in the psychological sense) for visiting facebook.com rather than myspace.com...

And so forth. The password encryption schemes used as an industry standard are quite secure against a brute-force, random intruder. So social-engineering is a much more viable way to break-in...and why does Bob read his password over the phone to someone claiming to be from IT rather than take the time to verify the integrity of the transaction?...Laziness.
I am kinda annoyed people here are complaining about something that is obviously sincere attempt to help people. And seriously - accusing them of trying to make money by the .1 cent charge is a little crazy. The lifetime cost of supporting these users plus hosting far outweighs this.

Also the argument that its a token effort that doesn't really practically help people can also be applied your downer comment. Complaining about this offer isn't helping the victims either.
That's a great question. I say yes based on a question Harjeet answered on Quora regarding what makes a good YC application:

"- PLEASE include a video. it makes such a difference and will significantly help your chances of making interview."

http://www.quora.com/Y-Combinator/What-should-be-included-in...
Well, GPL do prevent the production of an proprietary video player based on GPL code.

Sure, they can produce a video player full of spyware and then give the source of the spyware to their users, but then, that would render that spyware useless as soon a anti-virus got their hand on it. Not to mention, users would avoid the program as the spyware would then be known.
Page doesn't seem to be loading right for me. There is no content, just surrounding boilerplate (like links to other articles).
We've had someone in California view our team video on the 12th but I guess this is no indication of things cos they could watch the video and promptly put you in the no pile as easy as the yes. Fingers crossed and good luck to everyone.
Washlets do not substitute for toilet paper.

a)The toilet spray isn't sufficient to eradicate your fecal remains, unless it is adjusted to garden-hose spray levels. Painful.

b)Drying your sprayed behind with a heated fan is uncomfortable.
The real problem is that while there will be a new and better Chrome and in a month and a half, and similar for Firefox, we'll have this build of IE10 for 2 years or maybe more.

How they compare at the start of the cycle is not typical, how they compare at the midpoint will be more average, how they compare at the end (where IE7 or IE8 is now) is the worst case.
it may be possible, but it will almost certainly not perform well.
Or you accidentally leave your iphone in the cab :(

Shanghai is special in china, it's closer to a modern city than anywhere else. iPhone's dominate the high end in Beijing also.
It isn't necessarily about being in "hard" industries. Frankly, sometimes it is about just about the proverbial right-place-right-time effect while having the drive (and the balls) to jump into a problem face-first after having identified it. That was the case for my friend and my own experiences. He saw a problem and dove right into it at the expense of everything else. He didn't know how big this thing could be when he launched into it. He developed a good solution and it turned out to be a hit.

In my case I've had weird things come across my table. Some have been total wastes of time. Some have been extremely lucrative. For example, I was asked to build a protocol translator that would receive commands over RS-232 and convert them to a different protocol out of a second RS-232 port and do this bidirectionally. I thought it was a one-off. I built it out of mostly existing hardware and sold it to the company that contracted me to do this for $3,000. Then they came back and ordered another 30 at the same price. My COGS was probably no more than $200. Imagine my surprise.

There are many areas of industry ripe for disruption. Some harder than others for various reasons. This is why I think it is important to be exposed to a lot of corners of the tech world. I'd like to say that I planned what I did, but that would not be true. I was fortunate enough to bounce around a number of areas and learned from all of it.

Take, for example, the CNC industry. After cobbling-up a number of DIY CNC machines I decided to spend my time on what I was actually trying to build rather than getting derailed making "amateur" manufacturing equipment. So, I leased my first Haas VF-6SS vertical machining center. I didn't know the first thing about running such a machine. I kind of knew G-code, but not really. Things are far more serious when you have a 20HP spindle and a table that can move so fast it's scary. Anyhow, after getting up to speed on the technology and being very comfortable writing G-code as well as developing models on Solidworks and programming the machine using CAM software it became very obvious that this industry is ripe for serious disruption. I won't go into all the details here. If you don't have the context of having run these kinds of systems it just won't make sense anyway. Let's just say that they are still in the stone age and it would be fantastic to see someone bring them out of the cave. Tough industry to crack. Lots of crusty non-tech people to sell to.
I like private keys instead of passwords in theory, but in practice, I'm scared that I'll misplace the private key file, rendering all of my data lost forever. Private keys can also be lost (stolen laptop?) or misplaced. Or what if you're traveling and your laptop gets busted, how do you safely and quickly transfer a private key from your home storage to where you are? I'm not a crypto-expert, maybe these questions all have easy answers--but they're not obvious, at least.

Memorable passwords are in your brain for the long-term, and can't be lost or stolen. (Well, aside from improbables like torture.)
> You can evidently afford to give out almost-free accounts, can you do anything better?

Difficult question to answer as a company. As a company we felt a free account was a good start. We are also a startup.

Personally supporting the cause is another story but they're separate.

> Then scan them and throw them on Dropbox. Your service actively costs the victims money, Dropbox does not, so which helps more?

In case you're unfamiliar with the project it's an open source photo platform. We support Dropbox (and Box.com, S3, DreamObjects, CX, etc) as the place your photos get stored.

Dropbox isn't really free, for photo backup anyway. You'll hit your limits pretty quickly.

> These are people who are already financially strained by the hurricane. They may not even have a penny anymore. Did you consider this?

I have not. But it's a valid point. The subsequent penny each year could be avoided but we're doing it to verify that the person does live in an affected area. I appreciate you bringing this up and we'll see what options we have.

Apparently our database of zip codes isn't big enough though and we're adding them as they arrive.
Look forward to reading the future articles. Right now I'm working on a side project that has a need for some asynchronous tasks. I was planning on using beanstalkd but the one thing that concerns me is that if the queue goes down the outstanding jobs are not persisted. Any recommendations on the best way around this?
That doesn't explain why Coke continued to cost a nickel after WWII, when we started having significant inflation. According to the economists interviewed on Planet Money, Coke has the longest known stuck price of a consumer good in modern history.

They attribute it to the original mistaken fixed-price bottling contract, Coke's response of pushing the price down with "predatory" marketing of a 5c price point, and the rise of vending machines and their inability to make change until the late 40's.

The best part of this story, and I'll just go ahead and spoil it for you: late in this drama, Coke decided they wanted to raise prices, but since vending machines couldn't reliably make change they were stuck with a nickel-denominated price and couldn't double it. So instead, they stocked vending machines with "official blanks"; one in every 8 times you went to a Coke machine for a drink, you got an empty bottle, and had to pay again, which raised the effective price of Coke across all consumers by less than a cent.
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don't know where the 50 core figure comes from, as a Phi has 60 cores (61 in the "better" model).
I'm amazed this still works. Like the author i would've thought everyone going for such a job would instantly know what fizzbuzz is and make sure they know it.

Another question i feel works really well in interviews is asking them to show you something they've created, personally or professionally. Its a nice open ended question, gets them talking about something they know and lets you ask many follow up questions about specific parts of the thing they've done which gives you a good feel of what they're capable of.
Spotify to begin rolling out browser-based music app in beta today
We should update these posts with the results to see if there is a strong relationship between the number of views > 0 sec and a invitation to interview. I'm sure future applicants would appreciate it (or re-applicants...)

GL everyone, try not to stress too much
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cheap it is certainly not. additionally, all the tests i've seen indicate that kepler/tahiti have got little to worry about.
We can tell the shanzhai phones from the real ones. I concur with parent, iPhones are ubiquitous in Beijing. Keep in mind that most people there are middle class/rich. You have to travel outside the core...maybe 5th ring road before you get to poorer sections. But ya, the migrant worker on the street probably has a xiaomi, if that.
Disclaimer: I'm from an affected area (but all good now except for cable/internet).

Why should they do more? They already open source a lot of their software (https://github.com/photo) and they are giving free lifetime accounts. Should they also send blankets? Or is that not enough, pillows too (Emmanuel Levinas would take your side).

The penny is their verification method (this has issues I will be emailing them about).

Yes they are seeking some publicity for it, but I'd say that's a fair trade (their site has links to a Scoble video and a Techcrunch writeup so this isn't exactly how they are launching).

I'm not a user of their product yet, but since I am in an affected area (and evaluating options for storing baby photos) I might give it a whirl.
Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game
> All the candidates came to us pre-screened by a recruiting company.

Immediately end business relationships with that recruiting firm and start doing phone interviews yourself. Someone failing FizzBuzz during an in-person interview is also a red-flag on your hiring process.
There are no limitations on desktop applications in Windows 8 whatsoever.
You should make sure the clause protects your right to work on side projects on your own time, using your own equipment, without having to assign it to the employer. Most clauses will have this built-in; if yours doesn't, you should contact a lawyer to get the correct language for your state / jurisdiction. Most employers would consider this reasonable, and this is / was the default language in my current employment contract.
>XBMC 11.0 Beta 1 released

Error in title, it is the release of XBMC 12.0 Frodo Beta 1.
I believe china passed the urbanization halfway point this year, so more people live in cities than in the countryside, and the trend is pointing up.
Note that this will revoke your security approval for Google Apps (if you are using Device Approvals). It also didn't work for me.
This is EXACTLY what I had in mind when reading 'passwords should die a horrible death. They are a mere fallacy. An illusion of security.'

I did not make the irony clear, my fault.
Multi-tasking could be bad for your health, study says [video]
You'll see lots of iPhones in second tier cities, kunming, chengdu, Changsha....not to mention anywhere in jiangsu/zhejiang. Only in the third tier cities or countryside do iPhones become rare.
From the title I thought they were hosting VMs that you could RPC into to test your site. That would be quite cool (not that I need it at the moment though).
I find this discussion very interesting. I have been working on a series of educational apps (game-ish) for children, mostly for iOS now. I can't bring myself to place ads on these apps or otherwise monetize other than simply selling them for a fixed price. One approach I have taken is to have some of the apps available for free while the others are not. The theory being that the free apps might drive customers towards the paid apps. Too early to tell if this is a good strategy.

In reading this my concern is almost exactly that of the author. I am interested in creating reasonable long-term revenue sources. They don't have to be hits, all they need to do is trickle in a reasonable level of income per month at a reasonably consistent rate. I'd be interested in hearing from others who have done this and their opinions on the best approaches to making this happen.
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An overview of the biology & nature of rules in creative endeavors.
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A bit of feigned altruism while driving traffic and subscriptions. Cheap: yes ... effective: ?. Please post back and let us know how well this works.

(Note that I'm not doubting your sincerity, just your motivation.)
At least they provide a link to the paper. I don't mind distilled optimistic fluff as long as I can see the source.
I agree that some inflation occurred (my original comment noted the inflation that was ultimately experienced near the end of the 70 year period), and I agree that the article contains some interesting information about contracts and vending machines (I did read the article). I just think it's disingenuous to say basically "the price was the same in 1886, 1915 and 1930!" and that they don't remind the reader that the price of many things was essentially the same over that same time period.

A less informed reader may be unaware of this and be reading the article from the context of modern inflation, for which a 70 year history of no price change would be much more remarkable.
Were all of these tests done on a Windows8 machine? I only ask because the latest version of Safari isnt available for Windows (you may be able to install WebKit nightly as a Windows user though).

Id like to see how nightly build of browsers stack up as well.
Love this! With so many options, the "is there anything worth watching?" question is more difficult than ever - an unbiased curated guide is huge!
The real solution here is a delegated authentication protocol like OpenID, BrowserID/Persona, OAuth, or Facebook Connect. Asking users to maintain 100+ strong passwords is ridiculous. Password agents like 1Password or LastPass work OK for now, but those agents become high value targets themselves and the core design is not very secure.

Delegated authentication designed from the beginning to be secure is the solution. And we've had technical implementations of that going back at least 10 years (Microsoft Password, client-side SSL, OpenID). The reason they haven't succeeded is a combination of product design and political problems.

Mozilla's BrowserID / Persona project is looking promising. Tim Bray at Google has also been talking about identity a lot lately, maybe Google will offer a solution too.
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1) The article claims that queues is a replacement for a database thus it solves all the problems with DB solution. In reality, if you have to have reliability and data integrity guarantees, then a messaging queue system will be using a DB under the hood (in the best case, it will be off-the-shelf DB, in the worst, something homegrown). All the same problems and considerations apply. You run into the same DB problems with the need to manually optimize queue tables, etc. because message queues rarely do a good job there. Of course, all the commit issues discussed above apply to.

2) The issue with polling is easily solved by using modern DBs (e.g. Postress with listen/notify) or just plain old triggers/stored procedures. Yes, it will be a custom solution but it will be simpler from operational perspective than a "generic" do-it-all solution.

3) Lastly, it all depends on the task. At WePay we use gearmand backed by a DB. We have seen it working really well and helping us handle 1000x spikes from normal load w/o a single problem. However, we did quite a few modifications to get there from the "stock" code to customize it to our use-case and have 200% data integrity and reliability guarantees.
> Not that I have ammounts worth cutting my thumb off

Neither do I, but attackers don't know that.

On the other hand, cutting off someone's thumb is probably more effort than leading them up to an ATM at gun-point. I'd be more worried about spoofing the scanner itself.
Spotify Confirms Beta Launch of Browser-based Music App
I like how the div that contains the whole thing is called enchilada.
Yes, MS gives the exam for free, Prometric is just the testing center. I got my Server 2008 Active Directory configuring cert free through a similar offer.
At first, that sounds more fair, but in practice it means a lot fewer people would start doing useful things.
This article is pretty sad when you realize that what he's teaching pales in comparison to what search engines in the nineties were offering. Google has actually /stripped away/ advanced search functionality and dumbed down the search engine.

Still the bible on web searching: http://www.searchlores.org/indexo.htm
I remember the ads being easy to tune out.. they were never animated and didn't take up much space. The speed and way better UI of Opera made it more than worthwhile. Same goes for Eudora... yeah, I miss the days of ads that weren't totally shameless and dumb and mixed into everything all the time.

Though it's kinda hard to talk about this with a straight face on a "hacker" "news" website where one out of three links is a blog post by some over-excited, under-developed yuppie kid (not talking about age here; consider Bill Gates, who never grew pubes and is getting grey already) about something that happened in, before or after their startup.
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This should calm your nerves:

http://askolo.com/ycalumni#4f851fc828e186c372000201

Good luck to everyone!
Pannable version, that file was too big for me & I remembered this tool from another HN post:

http://hugepic.io/7c2aaf4a6
Because the federal reserve wasn't printing money like crazy and devaluing the currency. When comparing the price of a Coke with real money - gold or silver the price hasn't changed
I was curious about this, since the point is that you can run "Xeon" code on the Xeon Phi, but the Phi doesn't support SSE, MMX, or AVX so wouldn't you need to recompile to take advantage of the vector hardware?
Much like any self-respecting mob boss makes money protecting every store in their neighborhood. "It's a nice OS you have there. It would be a shame if someone sued you out of existence..."
I am a little skeptical of the platform portability. A high quality application has a lot of UI code. Then, if you're Doing It Right, on iOS, you're probably going to use Core Data and/or iCloud for backend storage. For networking, you need to manage the activity indicator, etc.

So it seems like there are two choices:

1. There's a wrapper library on top of UIKit instead of straight bindings. Not good, more levels of junk, and can't really provide access to the entirety of the API since it doesn't 100% match with Android.

2. It's platform portable... as long as you don't actually use any system frameworks. In that case, it could be nice for games, I guess, but would it be fast enough?
Should I be using Square or Passbook for my Business?
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I've wanted to cook up an outlandish solution like this one[0]; but I haven't been confronted with FizzBuzz enough to know I'd ever be able to use it.

[0] http://experthuman.com/programming-with-nothing
I also think this may be an example of increases in production and distribution efficiency being roughly on par with inflation. I think a similar thing happened with coin operated video games.
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Their definition of "worldwide" only includes 40 countries.
"i would've thought everyone going for such a job would instantly know what fizzbuzz is and make sure they know it."

The point of FizzBuzz is that it's not something you "know" or need to study. It's such a trivial problem that any developer should be able to write it off the cuff.
How to balance breadth and depth in marketing?