skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like the banks did fine on this one. They priced the risk appropriately. 10:1 for a 20-30 year loan? Maybe go even higher. Their real sin was saying that junk mortgages were good and not collecting enough interest.
I got the email and ignored it. I didn't feel that any real (read: positive) changes would be made so felt it wasn't worth my time. I know it's a poor attitude to have but it's just a reflection of how I feel about large scale voting for anything these days.

On top of that, I don't really use the site that much anyway. They can choose to do what ever they want, if I don't like it I will just use it less and less. Much as I have in recent years. There are plenty of other cool services out there that I'd be happy to give a go.
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Southwest let passenger make flight announcement
What I enjoy about dinosaurs is how simultaneously we know so much about them, and yet so very little.
How bout SSL?
There are lots and lots of smart people in local government, and plenty of dumb ones due to the lower bar to getting elected in a weak year.

What makes you think Congress is substantially different? Plenty of safe congressional districts out there, and from what I saw, the primary talent required for higher office was a willingness to dial for dollars for hours on end. If someone says things like the earth is 7,000 years old (significant number of congressmen), why should I assume that guy is smart and being disengenuous rather than taking him at his word?
Put your tin foil hats away. This doesn't "crack" NTLM, it brute forces at a very high rate. The NSA has more money to spend, but are similarly limited by the hardware available at any given point.
No "real map" would have this error because of the human element: you wouldn't plot a town where there isn't one, particularly if you were also responsible for plotting the roads of the town.

This is a data processing problem. Someone's algorithm screwed up and they didn't bother to have people sanity check the results.
The idea that a language should have a package manager has always seemed... confusing... to me.

Yes, it's seems less than ideal, but in practice it has proven to be a significant advantage (not only) in cross-platform deployments.

The C toolchain has the benefits of being a compiled language (dynamic linking) and ubiquity (autoconf is a mess but sort of works pretty much everywhere). No other language has that, you can not even rely on a recent version of your runtime being available on a given platform. And things get really hairy when you need multiple different versions on the same host.

The rubygems+rbenv approach just works really well, almost independently of the platform that you're dealing with. And once you become used to deployment being this easy your tolerance versus languages lacking this convenience declines rapidly.
If Google is serious they should start by discarding their patent rights to PageRank
For comparison, a couple weeks ago Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Titan computer topped the Top500 list for fastest supercomputer in the world (although that title is a bit misleading). Here's the specs on Titan:

18,688 AMD Opteron 6274 16-core CPUs

18,688 Nvidia Tesla K20 GPUs

17.59 petaflops

Titan displaced Sequoia (at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) from the top spot on Top500. Interestingly enough, Sequoia uses a very different architecture, based on 16-core PowerPC A2 nodes rather than GPUs. Sequoia also has about 1.6PB of memory, while Titan "only" has 1PB.

Both computers have reasonably different use cases. GPUs are great for embarrassingly parallel, non-memory intensive tasks like brute forcing passwords. But all of the rumors about the NSA's massive data analysis needs suggests that they may need a cluster that resembles Sequoia (with fewer cores, but larger caches and available memory) more than Titan.
I wonder if there's more to the story. Conway has pulled his funding, they're cutting everyone's funding because a minority have fights when they break up. Doesn't add up.
Heh, I remember learning about it and thinking, oh, I wonder when they figured this out.

I was pretty ticked off when I learned it was the 70's, and yet I still was taught about the brontosaurus in school a decade later. Makes me wonder if kids today still get taught about the ninth planet Pluto.
Correct. An io.Reader doesn't just look and sound like a Reader. It _is_ a reader.
This is not at all a new practice. Theres an entire field dedicated to stuff like this. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptovirology
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Ask HN: Anyone here ever write science fiction?
Just curious. If so, describe your creation and how you created it please.

I love quality sci-fi (movies, books, games) and am working on a series myself, just wanted to see how others on HN go about creating a sci-fi series.
occasionally during whiteout snowstorms I glance at my GPS more as moral support that I am indeed on a road

In which case you need to be aware that GPS is generally only accurate to within tens of meters (sometimes worse), and your satnav will pin you to to the road it thinks you should be on, even if your computed position disagrees (as you will have noticed if you've ever taken a different route to that which your satnav is recommending).
Have read that every community, be it foodies, or science fiction fans, or horror film buffs, has two components- the casual, who tend to have a very low depth of awareness about the content of the field and make up the majority of the people involved in it, and the hardcore- who've seen everything, can tell you all about it, and make a tiny minority of the community.

It's these hardcore users that form the gatekeepers to the mainstream- not only will they be the first to try products, but they will also be far more harsh and negative to mediocre products than a typical user would be. (It's kinda comforting that the people who know everything about something I get excited about aren't keeping the best stuff to themselves and leaving me with the dregs, but rather the reverse). What these gatekeepers look for isn't usually all that different from what casual users look for- quality is quality.

The winner-take-all distribution can be really daunting, but when you consider how long each of these apps on top have been in existence at all (maybe a few years for most), then you realize that it's not so much luck that makes these top apps so much more successful than average, but that their content is just that much better from a market perspective.

The lesson here is, make a good enough product (something the market REALLY wants even if no one realizes it yet), and the market will promote you naturally. Some sort of "ASEO", if it's even possible, won't make a fart app into #3 on the app store.
Shotgunning isn't the best approach either. Ideally, you should be in contact with reviewers BEFORE launch.
Nice gameplay and story.

I found your earnings online which I found interesting. I'm thinking your poker career might resemble that of many other professional poker players:
http://www.pokerpages.com/player-profile/kris-fields.htm

But data that isn't including the cost of buy ins to events.
The biggest problem with forums like this, is the tendency for people to answer questions that the OP didn't ask.
Fuck you asshole.

You know what you did.

You're a god damn lying con artist.

Rot in hell.
I think you're placing too much value on photos per se. A whole generation of photos was lost because Polaroids were used to take them. Then disposable cameras, etc.

Ultimately, your memories are the lasting medium. A few photos will make it to the end, and that's enough.
There's also Taurus: http://taurus.io.

Pretty slick, but I haven't actually played with the ZURB product.

Edit: Having looked at the ZURB solution, the Taurus solution is a LOT easier to use, but Joyride might be more comprehensive, for now. Taurus is moving ahead very quickly, but is also not free.
Exactly what I need right now. I can't find a service that matches roommates/housemates outside of Craigslist. I just registered and completed the form. Wrt your website, it was easy to understand what you did and how I engage. I'm glad I didn't have to register anywhere.
Dalton isn't incorrect or lying when he suggests that users are getting tired. However, the core question for his business is at what rate are users getting tired? And is the rate accelerating? So far, I don't see this nuanced conversation and yet, the entire App.net argument hinges upon it.
It is becoming increasingly obvious (to some people such as myself) that the law, government, and other social institutions are obsolescent and actually restricting progress, which is always made through technology.

It won't be too many decades before all human activity is irrelevant. (I make the distinction between humans and the ultra-intelligent life forms that we will shortly invent because I think that they are fundamentally different things.)
I did know about Chavez but did not realize it was to the level of Congo/Zimbabwe/Libya being more desirable.
Please can we switch back to Google maps now?
It wasn't really just naming conventions. Having a second name for something that already existed - not to mention having the 'brontosaurus' being made from some bogus parts, eg. a skull of another dinosaur - is more than a simple naming error.
you wouldn't plot a town where there isn't one

It happens. About 12-13 years ago, a colleague and I were driving around Ohio to document landuse near a freight railroad line. The maps we had (USGS, AAA maps and local street maps) indicated a small town in one location, but when we drove there, there was nothing, no remnants, no anything. When we got back to the office, we looked into it- turns out the town had been wiped out by a flood a few years earlier and the decision was made to disincorporate the town instead of rebuild. That town appeared on maps that were printed after it was abandoned.

Perhaps this doesn't happen anymore with more recent mapping techniques/technology, but it's not unheard of.
Stupid title. This guy could double his cluster and never hope to crack a single 9 digit password let alone anything longer than that.
The site is just text transmission, like torrents. Your connection to the news server would not have to be piped over Tor, just your access to the web interface where you download text files telling your news client what to download.
I very much agree with the comments by Shane at the end of the article. Instagram filter processing should be the only alterations applied to images which are posted to Instagram.
Impressive as the numbers are, it's worth remembering that this is an "offline crack", going against a stolen list of encrypted passwords. If they can steal your database of encrypted passwords, you've got a problem no matter how strong the passwords are.

How many guesses per second do you get in a typical online crack? E.g., a script kiddie trying to guess your cloud server's SSH password?
Australia doesn't have "city police", they are all State (or Territory) Police.
On a sidenote, do you have a writing schedule? Like, a strict timetable on when you would put everything aside and then sit down and write?
Organic metamaterial flows like a liquid, remembers its shape
Oh man I wish Apple would just get over themselves and allow it in the app store.

I've started carrying around my Nexus 7 in addition to my iphone just because of maps.

If iOS maps isn't seriously fixed by the time my contract is out, there's no way I'd by another iphone.
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But you might put an island where there isn't one .. Google has. The difference is that Google appear to have quickly acted to remove the island when it became public knowledge that it didn't exist.

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/6234/%E2%80%98missing%E2%...
WOW. WTF.

I'll contribute to the fund that supports teachers/admins getting an MBA for cheap. They must sign something saying they'll come back to the school district.

No, it doesn't exists as far as I know. Please go start it.
The O'Reilly Conference Code of Conduct seems to be reasonable. http://oreilly.com/conferences/code-of-conduct.html

The first sentence really sets the tone: "At O'Reilly, we assume that most people are intelligent and well-intended, and we're not inclined to tell people what to do"
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I know for practical purposes this doesn't seem like that big of a deal, but you have to understand that 8 chars of mixed case, numbers, and symbols is still a gigantic key space. That this can be done so quickly on commodity hardware is pretty impressive.
If you want to see some more, check out the world famous approach at Kai Tak (Hong Kong), now out of use.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtnL4KYVtDE
All patents, and in fact all forms of intellectual property protection, by definition apply only to abstract ideas. Legal protection of non-abstract things already exists: that's what normal property rights are.

All intellectual property laws forbid me from placing my physical property into certain arrangements. I am free to own ink and sell my products in my boxes, but if I apply that ink to the box in the form of an Apple logo I have violated trademark laws. I am free to own a hard drive and all the tiny magnetic particles therein, but if I cause those particles to take on an arrangement that represents a Beatles' MP3, then I have violated copyright laws. I am free to own a large building and a bunch of machines, but if I arrange these machines into a certain type of assembly line, I may have violated a patent on a manufacturing process.
Nice. But can it run Crysis?
Without this degenerating into an argument over semantics, by that line of reasoning any police officer would simply be a 'police officer in a small neighbourhood police station' no matter how large the police body is. The warning was issued by Victoria Police members and is on the Victoria Police website, I don't see there being any issue with its credibility.
This was discussed 3-4 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4875206

Upshot - it's impressive, but NTLM already known as an vulnerable target.
Thank you! You're probably right. My poker career is a bit of a bell curve with the center being of the curve being the year before the UIGEA.

That's a good link but it leaves out a lot of information, like how many tournaments I entered but didn't cash in as well as online earnings. And it doesn't include the tournaments in the Bahamas where I had a great run.
How we built a Super Nintendo out of a wireless keyboard Sifteo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQizYzw27FY

It's a very cute and well-known program.
Unless you really think the police were being precise to within a meter (Google says .001 mile =~ 1.6 meters), it's "about 115F" and "about 40 miles", respectively. (Got a bit unlucky on the miles, I'd also consider "about 45".)
Doesn't knowingly obligating taxpayers for $1 billion in interest amount to a felony? If not, why not?
after I clicked the airplane button http://i.imgur.com/Vn0hQ.png

after I clicked the 'click to interact' http://i.imgur.com/xlYGz.png

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I am not sure what this is supposed to be, some sort of joke or some sort of anti-immigration scare-mongering tactic.

Getting inside the U.S. is the easy part. Renting/buying property, setting up bank accounts, getting a driver's license, getting a job/gainful employment/a career, etc. etc. etc. These are the types of barriers that prevent overstays.

Only the most desperate are willing to put up with all the risks and limitations that come from being an illegal immigrant in the U.S., and the most desperate will always find a way to get into the country despite whatever crazy oppressive borders you establish.
It seems insane to cut the best investor out of the group - even if you want to reduce the total investment you still want the best people.
I've published a few flash fiction pieces on http://365tomorrows.com/ but nothing to get excited about. Those pieces are short enough that I can write one out in one sitting, then I let it sit for maybe a week and then I go back and edit it. After maybe half a dozen rounds of editing I can get something I'm willing to put up. I don't have any kind of regular schedule.

I'm working on a script for a sci-fi graphic novel, but I don't have anything to show for it yet. I regular timetable would probably help with that. :-)
You hit the nail on that head. Perfect.
Consumer GPS is somewhat notorious for giving nonsensical directions. See the Daily Mail's endless stream of "but I was just following the satnav!" stories, for example.
Counterpoints:

(1) on "Science Fiction versus Science Fantasy": Star Trek has a whole lot of fantasy elements.

- the Vulcan mind meld is a pure fantasy element.

- In their travels, Star Trek is constantly running into gods who have full godly powers with no particular explanation for how this could be. They also meet things like "beings of pure energy".

- Also: shapeshifters.

Star Wars aliens actually seem pretty sensible and down-to-earth compared to any of that stuff. Also: "The Force", silly as it is, seems to have some limitations - it doesn't quite reach to the level of godlike. Even the Emperor couldn't take on Q.

(2) Regarding "Anything on Star Trek versus the Death Star": The Borg Collective is at least as silly in its own ways. And if you're determined to make a planet-sized ship, a sphere seems like a more sensible shape for it than a cube, doesn't it?

(3) Regarding dumb names: Calling the robot "Mister Data" is at least as lazy as calling the space hero "Skywalker".

(4) Robot tech: C3PO is a "protocol droid" - being subservient and inoffensive and clumsy and overly polite and generally less powerful than a human seems like a very sensible set of default characteristics for a droid expected to act as a go-between in negotiations. Yes, it's odd that Artoo can't talk - it seems like a false economy to leave that feature out - but the robots generally are a LOT more scientifically plausible than Data is. There's no particular reason to think star travel would enable robots to be that much better. In fact, Data himself is basically another fantasy element.
yeah right....xml files with mysteriously generated id attribute fields which may or may not be relevant and in a non documented format...
I for one would love it if you'd have the chance to dig a little bit and share what you find.

I've only got a sample size of two recently purchased (2012) Mini's, and they've both had memory issues.
Ask HN: Link for SmartPhone Hardware/Software School?
I've tried searching but can't find it.

It was a link to an "Online School" where their were tutorials all about phone hardware and I think software aswell.

Best estimate of the date is around November 19 th.

Sorry if this is against HN etiquette. Lost the link but really wanted to read through this.

Thanks
You generally shouldn't increase the number of significant digits by more than one anyway, even if you are after a precise measurement.
I guess that explains why I get notifications that mail has arrived, but when I launch the gMail app from that banner the app...takes...forever to load and display the mail.
Thanks Taurus looks good, pricing is pretty reasonable though I'd like to see at least some sort of analytics or A/B split testing features.
IMHO, expecting voters to understand the consequences of these highly-deferred bonds is too much. We elect representatives for a reason, and most people aren't going to put in the research necessary to fully understand a "small" (it's only 2.5 million, of course) local bond issue at the bottom of a 10 page ballot.
Interestingly enough, today I was having a conversation about whether or not Maps had made any real improvements. You know, the kind that might compel one to finally upgrade to iOS6 or even consider upgrading to an iPhone 5. I asked a few people and nearly all of them expressed concern about being able to trust Maps. News like this doesn't make one feel better at all.

Frankly, I don't understand Apple's decision in the context of the idea of being customer-focused. In other words, if you, as an organization, make decisions for the benefit of your customers --or, at the very least not to their detriment-- how can you justify pushing out Maps and not keeping Google Maps on there?

OK, I get it. It would have cost more. A lot more. Fine. That's your problem. Pay Google for another five years exactly because you care about your customers. At the same time, put out your own Maps app and --funny enough-- compete on the merits of the app, not the hype.

If in five years you can't turn Maps into an app that people will choose over Google Maps, then, well, why are you in the mapping business in the first place?
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Individual char variance is less significant compared to additional chars.

Look at the xkcd password entropy comic
> Because the entire world believes people with CF do not get well.

It really depends on what you mean. If you mean that the genetic defect(s) causing CF resolved, then that basically cannot be true.

If you mean that you have genetically confirmed CF but the progressive nature of the disease was halted due to some novel therapy, then that would be a case report worthy of publication in a high impact factor journal.
The difference is that the treasury market never has to crash because the feds can print money. A municipal government, on the other hand, has to live under the law of "what goes up must come down".
Instagram completely removes photos from inside of Twitter
There's a site called scripted.com, but I'm not sure if the profiles are public and shared - it seems like a direct hiring clearinghouse.
It took me a long time to figure out what it actually is. Similar to what other commenters have mentioned, the three things I'd recommend focusing on are:

1) Stupidly simple messaging. To do this, talk to the people that are already using it and ask them how they'd describe it to someone who's not that tech-savvy. Try and phrase what they say as close to word-for-word as you can. "Supercharge your database development" meant nothing to me.

2) A very clear list of use cases/examples. I didn't actually get what it was until I saw the expense report example at the bottom of the page. These examples need to be called out very quickly.

3) A stupidly simple demo before requiring any input. I'd have the call to action say "Try a simple demo" and definitely don't require registration before seeing it. Trying to get me to start a 30-day free trial right away makes me leave the page before I even try a demo.
I'm sure someone has, but I think this may be an example of either: 1) setting the ask for a negotiation high then bargaining down; or 2) the engineers calling the shots.
Ask HN: Review my startup, reasons2.com
http://www.reasons2.com

We'd appreciate your feedback on the concept and on it's ease of adoption.
Thanks a ton.
>the times when automation is not necessary greatly outnumber the times when it is

That is only because most things that need automization have already been automatic. The advantage of cli is that when you need to automate something, the tools are already there, as apposed to needing to find a completly different set of tools, or manually do the same simple procedure a hundred times.
I know complaining about comments on newspaper article forums is never super productive. But still:

"What this article did not mention was the thousands of people who prayed and gathered together for a candle lit prayer vigil for Emily and her family when things were so critical."

Rage. I guess God just didn't value the life of my 10 year old cousin enough to save her despite all those candlelit vigils we put on for her.

More on topic: great article and great science.
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Better than JSON

Design your own general purpose textual data format and write an encoder and/or decoder for it.
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