skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do hope this is a joke. "some fancy acronym like AES"... I can't tell if this is a failed attempt to be funny through saying something so ridiculously stupid or if you're serious. There are lots of acronyms that are BS, but AES isn't one of them. It's mathematically backed and has been thoroughly tested to be strong.

Dropbox being a YC company means absolutely zero other than that YC liked their idea and supported them. That doesn't give me any assurance that they won't make a mistake or that an employee won't sell my data.

In fact, Dropbox, despite being a YC company, already slipped up majorly once to the point that every account was completely passwordless. You could just type in random emails at the web login and view some stranger's files. Story here: http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/dropbox-security-bug-made-p...

On the other hand, AES has yet to slip up. My AES encrypted data will take a significant fraction of the life of the universe to crack and, YC or no, a single programmer error won't break it.
How to Get Lucky - Max Gunther
Yes, by all means use his death for something useful like fighting this system. But you can do that in different ways, some more potentially harmful than others.

It'd be interesting to know how many people commit suicide on prosecution.
Unless you also standardize the representation of inertial reference frames.
Some writers are OK with being ghostwriters, or copywriters. They can apply their craft within the confines of other people's ideas.

Great writers work on their own ideas.
They also give you +1GB per referral which is quite big. It's a little unethical, but you could invite yourself a couple times to double the storage space. Or get actual referrals.
I'd suggest taking a few minutes (tops) to tweak the confirmation email. Either the sender, the subject, or the body (or all) should specify it's coming from Railyo.

In gmail, the sender is showing as "bots"--I came close to deleting it.
How did you miss the dripping sarcasm there?
This is built in as I understand it, there is a master key that is used to encrypt a key database that is stored on the server for each user.
You should link to your website in your blog's header.

[edit] Oh I see now that there is in fact a link that says "Go back to main site"... well what I meant is that the logo should link back to main site.
Arduino as HSM for Amazon Web Services
The author only advices to use UNIX time to precisely measure time intervals and store precise timestamps; your points are of course valid, but they are not a reason to degrade precise data into human-readable pandemonium.
Mega has launched
> Windows didn't come to dominate the desktop because consumers loved it.

PC users did not hate it. Most DOS users were not ready to move to Macs and Windows provided an easy migration path, with 3.1 being, finally, good enough and able to run multiple DOS applications simultaneously.
Attributing to other people false opinions is pretty rude.

This is what I in a separate comment referred to as "propertarian" libertarianism: it worships the almighty State as having full knowledge of what society should look like, and establishing it through a mass violence that's mischaracterized as "property."

I'd encourage you to look beyond pamphlets on the Internet and into actual work on how economics works. Start with Elinor Ostrom: you put up a very false dichotomy between state management from above and state regulation from above via property rights. In reality, societies base most of their economic activity on something entirely different: shared community norms. That's how households are run, that's how open source is run, that's how the commons is typically protected. And it outperforms state control in many or most cases.
"Like all CAPTCHAs, sliding CAPTCHA can be cracked . Still, it's more usable and mobile friendly"

https://twitter.com/EyeOnTheMark/status/291837470486704129
Number of Developers were low, so I left that out. I'll soon add search feature, possibly integrated with Google Map.
Thank You :)
It solves the problem of Microsoft not having a tablet. There was a big pie in ipads, they wanted some pie, make a tablet. While they were at it, they could make it one of the most closed platforms ever conceived to try to make that app store money. Because that is where the new revenue is at, after all. That was Microsoft's arguments, at least, I'd imagine.
For those that are keyboard challenged?
The danger with this is that it requires a lot of self-control to dedicate yourself to something else for three years. It becomes very easy to ignore your university work in favour for that which you're more passionate about. The risk is you end up in more or less the same position but with a lower GPA.
That is a book everybody should read.
It's hardly a conflict of interest to cheer for your preferred technology on an Internet bulletin board.
Last night I experienced 70% packet loss just trying to access the site. Hopefully it was just a launch hiccup.
I'm old enough to remember Apple II's (and personal computers in general) were the BYOD of the late 70's and early 80's.
The bar for "minimum" has been raised since the iPhone's release.
Well, of course they want money. They're a business, and last time I checked, businesses, uh, made money. I believe it's part of their job description.

And Vista/Longhorn wasn't a "scam" like you say. It was a crappy OS, but it certainly wasn't a scam -- scam = fraud. Fraud = litigation. Nobody sued Microsoft over Vista. Sure, it was a battery and resource hogging, slow, buggy, unintuitive, annoying, unstable operating system, but to say it was a scam is going a bit too far.

And there's a reason why many people still run Windows. I'm running Xubuntu 12.10 on my box right now, and it's the best OS I've used so far -- except for the software library. GNU/Linux has a very limited software library, whereas Windows has the largest. And before you shout "WINE!", many applications do not run properly on Wine, and many recent apps aren't even supported, i.e. Adobe Creative Suite 6.

GNU/Linux still has a long way to go in terms of software, so it cannot be considered a viable replacement for Windows. Until somebody develops a native, modern, full-featured office suite and Adobe ports CS to GNU/Linux, many pro and business users are left with two options: to buy an expensive OS X machine, or to buy an expensive OS upgrade for their PC. Either way, the customer loses.

I still dual boot 7 for this very reason, even though it's not even close to Xubuntu in terms of stability. And it's not that 7 is a bad operating system, it's just that Xubuntu is so good it makes 7 look lopsided in comparison. Don't get me wrong -- Windows 7 is a very good OS, apart from the security problems, which aren't even that bad compared to previous versions of Windows. Don't run as root and you'll be O.K.

Microsoft has gotten a lot of flak lately, some of it deserved, some of it not-so-well-deserved. But they're a company. Companies make mistakes, and I don't think it's fair to label them as scammers just because they rushed an OS to market.
Yup - no coincidence there

from the first paragraph on the page:
"Legit is a complementary command-line interface for Git, optimized for workflow simplicity. It is heavily inspired by GitHub for Mac."
It's OK, you don't have to be excited about things others are excited about. You also don't have to rain on their parade.
It wasn't a startup, but my general consulting setup for several clients. Also, in those 12 weeks christmas, bank holidays and all that stuff were included.

I think I worked more than 200 days in the end, but I like to calculate pessimistic and be positively surprised at the end of the year.
Personally, if I wanted an interpreted language with bytecode, I much prefer C#. Much nicer language than Java. But the windows tools suck in my book (VS is slow as hell, their compilers are arcane, etc) and I much prefer Mono. The nice thing about Mono is that you can target every platform ever with it, including mobile.

So if I were contracted to write something business class in something interpreted, I'd definitely put C# with Mono at the top of the list. It is much nicer than Java to develop in, and has platform parity.
I'm not sure why I'd have to give up on HN. Not every posting here relates to entrepreneurship. I've found countless posts which have turned my attentions to new technologies. Those technologies ended up helping me find new contracts.

I have met some talented developers who are keen to build a business of their dreams. I'm glad they're doing it as (1) they are trying to reach their goals in life and (2) they aren't competing with me for work :)
Oh!! probably that's the reason why most of my manual invitation - received no replies / signups. Thank you :) I'll fix that soon.
I guess some of this knowledge is helpful or necessary for people who want to know JS inside-out. Nevertheless, none of that code looked like anything a programmer would write if they respected readability and conveyance of code. Maybe I'm just taking things too seriously here...

A code snippet like the following wouldn't make me ask how it works, but it would make me want to find the person responsible for putting this snippet in production code:

var num1 = 5,
num2 = 10,
result = num1+++num2;

(I'm probably thinking in this manner these days because I'm currently in a situation where I'm maintaining someone else's code instead of building something.)
Ah, my mistake. I'll rephrase my original comment.
"the Prime Meridian was (arbitrarily) chosen to pass through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich"

At the International Meridian Conference in 1884 41 delegates from 25 nations met in Washington, D.C., USA and selected the meridian passing through Greenwich as the official prime meridian due to its popularity - not an arbitrary decision ;)

However, the French abstained from the vote and French maps continued to use the Paris meridian for several decades.
A Twitter spam case study
Make Community College Course Enrollment - Get $100,000
The biggest cost for a startup is to try to act like a company to look good in front of others.
Take down of fifth most widespread 'Virut Botnet' - Hacking News
The title references "geeks" while the actual post references "programmers" - I wish he had stuck with "geeks" as the challenges he describes are limited just to programmer or tech types, but are faced by folks in a number of scientific and engineering professions. Just think of what the EE's who worked on the Boeing 787 are going through right now.
Just go to http://scripting.com/ if the threads2.scripting.com subdomain isn't working.
Is Railyo open source?
EV is different, but optimal course of action at each branching point is identical
Out of curiosity were you recruiting developers directly or going via a headhunter or agency? £350 that I see a lot is what's offered from headhunter emails filling my inbox everyday. They take a large margin for themselves as a finders fee.
Very few people in the enterprise are going to stop using their Windows desktop/laptop, they are just going to supplement it with their phone/tablet - at least in 2013 anyway. People have been doing that for over a decade with Blackberrys.
The link demanded a "sign up" so no way.

Probably the most elegant (and eloquent?) line would be in BASIC:

END

says it all.
Just signed up; was quick, smooth and has a nice interface.. was expecting it to get tonnes of visitors and be down for the next few hours but either noone is there yet or they've been very prepared

EDIT: Spoke too soon
Hmm. Perhaps if we expected more, then geeks wouldn't post up broken links for fear of under-delivering.

Just go to http://scripting.com/ if you want to see the article.
"Crime" often relies on "pre-crime." The legal definition of "burglary" is breaking into a building with an intent to steal or commit another serious crime. Prosecutors have to decide whether they think they can prove "burglary" or can only prove "trespass." The jury decides whether the prosecutor has done so beyond a reasonable doubt.

Aaron never published anything in the Stanford Law Review. The student article in the Stanford Law Review that seems to form the basis of your claim doesn't even credit Aaron.
Desktop Fabrication to Consumer Phones(and Beyond)
The best documentation is the code itself. Check out the book Clean Code for great details.
So far I'm impressed with how easy it is to sign up. This interface seems clean and polished.
not until now, but if it will be useful for other people (may be in setting up a job board quickly on anything) then I would love to open source it.
I'm pretty sure prosecuting the hell out of someone is more effective at killing a cause than effectively turning them into a martyr.
I think I prefer typing a few extra characters to have control of each step.
They're not necessarily stupid, they just don't have any understanding of goes into creating software.
Get your SaaS or Cloud App to Sell Itself
I expected the URL to work...so therefore, I must be one of the ones that expect too much from geeks.
There is certainly no argument against the fact that humans are no longer in the same league as chess bots but what is also true is that the combination of bots and humans can beat top specialist chess computers. Bots + Humans > Bots > Human for these games. See what Kasparov has to say about it here: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-che...

My friend? No he does not know about stochastic game trees or regret minimization or any of that fancy stuff. But that knowledge is not needed for top poker play any more than a Basketball player needs to know about differential equations to put a ball in the net.

And perfect play? I do not believe that perfect play is required to beat the best players, that is not even computationally tractable. Now, while it is true that computers may some day beat top players (in n-player NL), it is also true that we are very far away from that. I am confident that we will reach that point but it is hard to say when. Probably after Go. But already the top players, using computational aides, are not fully human. With those kind of tools they are able to regularly play the game at a level that is far higher than the old unaided standards, raising the stakes even higher for bots.

Little idea? I keep apace with current machine learning though not fully up to speed on poker specific stuff. Would need to spend a month or so to catch up.

Anyways to wrap this up, what I am saying is Human + Bots > Bots and I'm predicting right now that when Poker Bots surpass humans, they still will not be able to beat that combination.
You're forgetting to factor in accuracy/resolution. TAI is completely perfect down to the picosecond level and further. That means you do have the number of actual seconds, milliseconds, microseconds, nanoseconds...

You only encounter issues with TAI once you get down to femtosecond or smaller levels.
You amortize expenses, not cash flows.

There are roughly two ways to do accounting. One: you count when cash enters your bank account and when cash leaves your bank account. This is cash accounting and it measures cashflow. This is important to track because if you run out of cash, you're pretty boned.

The other way is more sophisticated. I think this is called accrual accounting. With accrual accounting, if I sell you a widget, I count the expense of the widget and the revenue from selling the widget at the same time and trust that the cash flow will work out in the long run. So it doesn't matter if you pay me first and then next year I ship you the widget, or if I ship you the widget today and then you pay me, or if I buy the parts for the widget on credit and pay my supplier after I sell the widget, because as soon as I account for the revenue from the widget, I simultaneously have to account for the expenses as well. This is more honest than cash accounting in the sense that it's harder to game, but it's less honest in the sense that I have to keep track of more accounting fictions. Amortization is one of these accounting fictions.

You need to do both types of accounting at the same time. They just solve different problems. Accrual accounting makes sure things will work out profitably in the long run and cash accounting makes sure you won't run out of money before then. What you don't do is mix and match approaches. If you take in a bunch of cash now and then spend it on a manufacturing plant, you can't say, "well, we're amortizing that" because amortization or not, you don't have the cash anymore.

(Disclaimer: I am not an accountant. In college, I took two classes in accounting, in the summer of 2004. I got a B and an A. The one I got a B in was a 7 AM class and I usually slept in instead of bothering to go when there wasn't a test. I did have the textbook for the class, so I was able to read it at my leisure, though I focused a lot more on my infinitely more interesting class on "Science Fiction and Philosophy". It was a summer class, and there were six tests, one per week, and my grade was based on those six tests. Before test #6, I calculated that I would get a B if I scored anywhere between 50% and 95%, so I didn't study very hard. Fortunately, the tests mostly covered various extremely tedious details, not the general principles outlined above. I believe I got an A in "Science Fiction and Philosophy".)
Python: benchmarking pickle vs. JSON
Not really sure about the quick part. I'm still trying to get to the website. The loading animation on start up was incredibly slow and now the site isn't responding at all.

Edit: I'm trying to access it from EU if that makes any difference. Seems like http 500 error is returned for assets hosted on eu.static.mega.co.nz.
> If I am digitising an old text of unknown origin, and on a page it says "January 12", and on the page after that it says "January 15", can I represent those with a reference to an implicit but unknown year? I don't know the year, but I do know that the January 12 instance comes before the January 15 instance on the next page. And at some future point, we might deduce from circumstantial evidence what year it was and the sequential ordering will still make sense. Relative dates would be useful here.

Of course, if the year is unknown, and could be before ~1918, and your dates are, say, the dates of two letters, you can't even be certain about the ordering of "January 12" and "January 15".
> EDIT: I just remembered I ported Microsoft Word to Linux by running it inside a Windows VM.

That analogy is not correct. He isn't running existing binaries in an emulator. He cross-compiled code to a new platform, using a new compiler and toolchain, and made sure everything worked in the entirely new environment. And as he mentions in a comment, he found, reported and fixed some bugs in the compiler and toolchain while doing so.

And remember that the web platform is different than a normal desktop environment. You can't just compile code and expect it to run perfectly (it often does for small apps, but larger ones generally no), for example, the main loop has special requirements, threading as well, etc. It's the same as porting a Windows game to the iPhone, for example - there are different APIs, different expectations of how the OS works and what it allows you to do, etc. Such ports take work.

So your dismissal of his work is very unfair.
Yeah, even as a .Net developer who generally has high praise for C# and VS, I agree that the WinRT Surface was DOA. Its exactly like those Android tablets that came out in 2011 with Android 3.x-really nice devices, definitely not garbage, but aren't worth the price they are being sold at. The difference is that was two years ago and Android tablets are finally moving ahead, after dropping in price (Fire, Nook, N7) and improving massively in terms of the OS on parity with iOS (JB and up). MSFT can't afford to enter the market like this two years late.

I'd say that the tablet should'e been priced at 299, with the keyboard cover thrown in. Maybe that'd have increased its popularity. On the plus side it also has file system access, command line, and powershell (for the 1% of the market who are geeky Windows sysadmin types). It also should've been sold at a lot of different stores right out of the gate.
Strongly disagree that Mercurial has a better interface. I've worked on projects in cvs, svn, git, and hg, and I have to say I found hg's interface nearly as confounding as cvs.

Not wanting to argue which perspective is right, just that you can't make a broad sweeping statement that Mercurial has a better interface
Hmmm. The place where you get caned for graffiti? Let's institute caning as the punishment for illegal hacking. Problem solved.
What's up with the repeated use of the term "fondleslab" here? Is that actual UK slang, or is the author just a weirdo?

I could not concentrate on any points made in this article because the repeated use of that term was wildly offputting.
I'm not sure if MegaConz is meant to be ironic or not.
Yeah, it was a recruiter. They probably did inflate the prices a lot, although I think they took some days' wages as a fee or something. I can't be sure.
I'll never understand this subset of the development community who is obsessed with saving a few keystrokes. It almost invariably comes at the cost of flexibility, and creates a set of developers who only know the abstraction.

I'm looking at you, jQuery.
Microsoft is and wants to be a B2C company. Half their initiatives, from Xbox, WinPhone, to Zune to Media Centers, and yes even Windows OS is squarely directed at consumers.
I think the one who solves this problem ( at least for humanity ) would get a Nobel.

After the humans will wander thru space ( at some time - very probable), there will no time reference, but only time intervals ( like, day on a spaceship has 24h , etc ). So in this case, you would measure 86400 seconds and call it a new day. No more leap seconds, etc.

Now the UNIX makes sense: count seconds since a certain event in time and meajure from there on, internally. Want to display it? Then use special computation to render it in the format ( read timezone, add relativistic skew, etc ).
Dropbox offers encrypted storage of files.

(https://www.dropbox.com/help/27/en)

> Dropbox uses modern encryption methods to both transfer and store your data.

Sure, you're right that the difference is that dropbox holds the keys and mega doesn't. But you're also ignoring the fact that Dotcom has had considerable interest from law enforcement in the past, and that some companies have cooperated with law enforcement by pushing malformed client software to some customers.

(http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/)
No, for those who are using an iPad which is on wheels. It might roll away before you can finish typing the URL ;)
You have no way of knowing this. If the EV is different, how can you say with any certainty that the action at each branching point is identical? What if there is an ace or a king on the board? These hands are very similar and likely have similar strategies, but they are absolutely not the same and any strategy that treats them that way is not optimal.
I would also suggest reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. With people talking about not being able to take the goggles off this could be where we are headed.
I know it works on Ubuntu 64-bit. :-) Just that it appears to be hanging on MacOS 64-bit. The algorithms like this one should hardly have such a catastrophic failure - that's why I am curious if someone else can replicate it hanging on MacOS.

BTW, on 8-core Ubuntu box with 32Gb RAM, my silly half-an-hour hack from yesterday - http://stdio.be/revseq.c - still outperforms this one and completes in 60% of time. So I am getting more and more convinced that either I did not get the spec right while writing it.. Or that I should submit it :-)

EDIT: If you have a chance to give it a whirl alongside, could be fun to compare your results with mine...
Dangers of Turbolinks
Someone really needs to hit their unit sales target before January ends... ;-)

Now, seriously, this has been known since before the launch.