skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I've heard it explained (and I only studied Mandarin for a year) is that a common language and writing can be simultaneously compatible and incompatible.

Consider these stereotypes - an urban youth from inner city America and a gruff old Yorkshireman. Both speak English and use the same alphabet and mostly the same words. Yet the syntax and slang differences each have could render the dialects meaningless to each other.

But, write down what they are saying and suddenly the meaning becomes a lot clearer. Yes, there are differences, but you can probably work your way around them.
I'm way too embarrassed to say.
Neither "lean" nor "agile" appear in this blog post. Someone should fix the link text on HN, which is currently "Is an obsession with Lean and Agile killing true innovation?"
> They see a future where you authenticate one device — your smartphone or something like a YubiKey — and then use that almost like a car key, to fire up your web mail and online accounts.

> That means that if someone steals your card or your smart-ring, you’d better report it stolen pretty quickly.

I won't be surprised if thieves devised a method to extract online credentials from a stolen device in a matter of minutes, if not seconds. Since any password you have on your mobile device is unlikely to be strong (the article specifically mentions that you won't need a strong password on your device), it will also be a piece of cake to brute-force it. Meanwhile, you're without a phone, desperately looking for a payphone or Internet cafe where you can contact Google. Too slow.
I suggest that author should write more about HTML5.
Most of that can be taken care by a password storage, such which is included in most browsers already. However, currently browsers do lack a mechanism for creating a random password, so users tend to write during registration what ever gives them the easiest way to click continue.
cPanel is one of the reasons why I became good at using a terminal to administer servers.
s/facetious/arrogant/
I read that (interesting piece, I did not know this bit of history) and could not find any references to his prosecutors behavior, could you please point out the reference for me?
Sinn Fein slam 'short term internment' of Eirigi Newry spokesman Stephen Murney
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> her office absolutely threw the book at a kid for downloading some PDFs.

And repeatedly going around network blocks in order to obtain those PDFs...
I believe -and people can correct me if I'm wrong- the way they do it is through all the sites with integrated Facebook items: "Share this", "Comment" etc. The cookies they use to track you are sitting on your drive regardless of your facebook status (logged in/out) and can simply be retrieved the next time you log in or link accounts.
TL;DR The article says nothing about what the OP titled it as. Read it then comment.
Looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the office floor this morning...
Palliative care is a part of mainstream medicine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palliative_care

Another example of real alternative medicine becoming mainstream.
Forget the Placebo Effect: It's the 'Care Effect' That Matters
I don't think innovation has a final closed-form definition, which might be related to the fact that there is no foolproof closed-form static method or algorithm that can reliably produce it.

Speaking more loosely I'll take a stab. Innovation is a shift in the way things are done that either permits more value to be created with less resources, increases human freedom of choice, or that opens an entirely new avenue of human endeavor.

Innovations can be small or large, but when I think of innovation I usually exclude routine, linear improvements to existing things. For example, I don't consider a car that gets 32mpg instead of 30mpg an "innovation" but a "refinement of an existing innovation." But fuel injection was an innovation, and boosting fuel economy was one result.

One of the characteristics of innovation, I think, is the "leap." An innovation isn't just a purely logical, linear next step derived in a formulaic way from previous steps. There is some new information there, and the fact that it's very hard to say how this new information came into being seems one of the circumstantial characteristics of an innovation.

That is not to say it emerges out of the blue. It does come from study and focus. But it is not plodding and purely logical. There is some "eureka" that's hard to back-trace. I've had innovations come in dreams, or out of the blue in the middle of the day while doing something else.

All that being said, I think it's probably true that overly rigid structures inhibit it. Overwork can also inhibit it, due to its serendipitous and apparently "right brain" nature. Agile and Lean are all about increasing efficiency, and they often work that way, but they also impose a lot of rigidity in certain places.

A lot of rambling and philosophizing I know... trying to say something about innovation does that.
The article has little to do with software development methodologies and does not mention "Lean" or "Agile".

Probably more interesting to investors than developers.
I don't think it's an error - and if it is, they still got the right message across. The text says it costs $826,000 to run arXiv's servers. What they meant was to operate arXiv itself, but the main purpose of arXiv is for those servers, so I think it's valid to say "run the servers" as a proxy for all of arXiv itself. That the physical hardware costs $41,700 is not the most important thing. The important figure here is the total operating costs, as that's what keeps the whole show going.

This is a good demonstration of the fact that people are generally more expensive than hardware, and paying people to do something as their fulltime job is expensive.
I fear this is blowing up just because of the incendiary title.
I'm not sure I understand how this stops a person from leaving Google's services in favor of another? I admit I'm a little ignorant of OAuth, so any light you can shed on this would be great..
or society becomes more and more self censoring if your thesis was true we should seen a decline in say drug testing for standard non sensitive jobs already.
We were just talking about this at work yesterday. My quote was "I bet there are a bunch of women on HN, but it's hard to tell by their username". This thread might help prove me right.
I presume it's also handy for tracking click-throughs.
I understand your point, but I do think Google may be a bad choice of examples. If I'm not mistaken (correct me if I am), they have or are implementing some data liberation functionality to download your data from their systems.

My work blocks Google Account access so I can't quite verify this for you, but I believe it's there. I'm not sure how far it spreads across their product offerings though at this point.
so why are you not posting with your real name on here then?
In one place I know, the company combined the door key and the computer key into the same device to practically force people to take the key with them when they leave. They reasoned that if users can't leave the building without unplugging the key from the computer, then that would be that.

Of course, people still leave the key at the computer when they go and eat, bathroom, or when they leave the building as a group.
A step in the right direction, but they are going to replace them with yet another scanner. I wouldn't mind them not shooting any waves at me at all just so that I can board a plane.
Your comment only highlights another downside: they are starting 6-8 years behind Android, and now there are 2 entrenched players in the market.
> You should read up on this too then. His lawyers did manage to extract a plea deal with no jail time, but then MIT wouldn't sign off on it.

and so they didn't..

I predict that this will be the main area of interest when Abelson's report comes out. Why did MIT insist on jailtime?

> Let's be specific, are you trying to claim that Aaron stood a small chance at actually be sentenced to 35 years,

No.

> or are you just talking about jail time at all?

Yes.
Many "middle-brow" dismissals here.

I think if a mammoth like Google pushes forward strongly enough, it might achieve some results. And it probably takes all its mass to push this particular piece - the almighty and alstupid password, away.

I'll bet that human beings in 20 years, looking back at our times, will point fingers and say "How we have been so silly! Passwords are the worst authentication mechanism, and so obviously flawed! How come did we not use x or y?"

I see another thing that they will point fingers at: the human driven cars: this is so frightening, when you think about it. You have this thousands kilogs wheeled machine, driven by almost anyone including drunkyards, grannies, people who just married and people who just divorced, and a sec of inattention and you send families to the grave.
> Even easier: just add _ before you import

How is that an improvement? That's just as much work as commenting the line out.
The other process might as well be ssh itself at this point. Anyway, we are just speculating, also the wall is another door if you smash through it. Just don't use it then.
For for low-volume products like that, I'd expect a high per-unit cost. The support overhead will vastly outweigh the money Google might make in purchases via the Play store.
FWIW, I've had one at work for a year now and I've had nearly none of the problems you've mentioned. It's fit into all USB ports I've tried, the contacts are still fine, it hasn't died, it doesn't seem fragile (or at least hasn't broken yet) and I haven't had to crawl anywhere to plug it in. The most annoying thing (apart from the general annoyance of a second authentication step) is that I can't use it via my phone; a screen on it would be handy for that.
17 things you need to do before your Heroku app is ready for production
I found the checkout process needlessly confusing. The split between the first and second page once I clicked was not clear to me, and the name of the button beside the price box was "Gift". With the arrow above it specifying a price, I didn't understand if I was entering the price of the book, or an additional sum. Could I have paid less and still received the book?

Finally, once I have paid for the book, it seems I can't get back to the page again, so I guess I'm not supposed to be able to buy another copy?

I would look over the usability of the checkout process, I almost didn't buy it because of the perceived ambiguity. And I would have preferred to use Paypal.
for example in the North of Spain they would be used to alert from Viking Invasions from sea, it will alert the "Castros". We are talking centuries before the Romans.

... except the Vikings were well after the end of the Roman empire.
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Well from my understanding the 4 months is not what he would get for sure, that is just what the prosecutor would tell the judge to do. He could still get anywhere between 4 months and 50 years (the maximum after the prosecutor added even more charges) but since he plead guilty as part of the deal he could no longer fight it in court.
One thing that confuses me about this. Why couldn't Aaron raise money?

A couple days ago I saw a repost of an old HN thread where people debated a notice Aaron had put on his website stating that he was accepting money for a legal defense. Did we just not help enough? Or was there some reason that making a more public plea, or giving details of the case would make the judge angry? I expect the answer these questions has already been covered in detail, so links are appreciated.
Donated genetic data 'privacy risk'
> that puberty kicks in at roughly the same age then as now,

The age of sexual maturity in women has been decreasing for a while. It seems to be related to a number of things including body mass. So it was probably later for these people.

I don't know anything about 30yr generations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menarche#Changes_in_time_of_ave...
> My point is that he was not going to serve 50 nor 35 years.

If he pleaded guilty, he was offered a high likelihood of serving only a short prison time.

I will set aside my contention that even a day of time in a federal prison is disproportionate for what amounts to a TOS violation, and instead focus on the fact that a short prison term would only come with a guilty plea.

The prosecutor used the threat of 35-50 years in prison to get Aaron to accept a guilty plea. If he chose to plead not guilty and attempt to defend himself, it would cost well over a million dollars in legal fees, and if he were found guilty anyway, the judge would be strongly predisposed to make an example of him by giving him a very long, punitive sentence.

A prosecutor forcing someone to admit guilt by threatening a life-destroying cruel and unusual punishment if they do not admit it - why, that is the very essence of using torture to extract a confession!
thats because every person doing AIDS research is claiming their research is the cure.... did you see what he called this protein.... "nullbasic".... cmoooooooooooon thats not a protein name. thats a mesh of NOTHING and Beginers All-Purpose Symbolic Instructional Code.
I might be wrong, but you could use a dedicate browser for facebook and nothing else.
Does anyone have details on how he was caught? Reading about it leads me to believe he acted covertly:

>He released the worm from MIT to conceal the fact that it actually originated from Cornell.
I saw the 404 yesterday and thought it was the coolest one I have ever seen.
> currently browsers do lack a mechanism for creating a random password

That can be easily solved by integrating a good password manager into the browser. There are plenty of plugins that automatically generate random passwords, insert them into appropriate form fields, and save them in a secure "vault" that is synched across devices. It shouldn't be too difficult for browser vendors to offer such functions by default, and gradually upgrade them to incorporate newer standards.

At least, it will be much easier than getting everyone to purchase a physical device, and it's even backwards compatible with existing sites that will probably stick around for another decade or two. I doubt that any solution to the "password problem" will be viable unless it were backwards compatible.
This is actually a really old tool, but I submitted it because it implements some solutions to the problems outlined in another recent submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5076858

DENIM isn't exactly a wireframing tool though. It's more of a site concept development tool. I always felt like many of the ideas were great though, and with the widespread adoption of tablets, it seems like DENIM's second coming would make a lot of sense. We just need a tablet version.
How does firing one person change the system - do we have a manifesto of change, a set of coherent demands ? A vision of the future that we have all agreed upon?

Yes the anger surrounding this will start some change - but do we want individual prosecuters to choose that change? - is not the more responsbile approach to start a locus for public debate and present our lawmakers with a consensus opinion - you know, lobbying.
A more accurate title is "why didn't the Romans invent the optical telegraph". The reason why the optical telegraph didn't become the Internet is very simple: bandwidth. You need lots of spare bandwidth before you can consider adding extra information to messages so as to create the various protocols that the Internet is built on (Ethernet, TCP, IP, HTML etc.). That's not something you're willing to do with a system that, even when perfected by the French in the 19th century, could only transmit about 1 symbol / minute [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph#France
The nice part about Midtown is that it's connected to everything - every subway line except the G and the L go through it, so if you live anywhere along a subway line (again, not the G or L), you can get to Midtown.

What you say is true though, the "nice" parts of Brooklyn are as expensive as, if not more expensive than Manhattan. Manhattan's cost of living, relative to NYC in general, is plateauing, while Brooklyn is shooting upwards. Rent on the Upper East Side is downright affordable now, and even not-super-cool neighborhoods like Chelsea have stabilized.

Compare with Park Slope, where the price ceiling is nowhere to be found, or Williamsburg which is definitely more expensive than all but the most desirable areas of Manhattan. Dumbo too.

But, good news is, there are lots of gentrifying-but-not-quite-done-yet neighborhoods in Brooklyn. Bushwick and Prospect Heights come to mind, though I'm sure there are others I'm not remembering.
There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written
Forget the app dude, I'm lovin the Irish music on your video :)

The video looks half decent. I'll keep an eye out for when you've added responsive support, then I'll try it out and give you some feedback.

Having a link to a HTML version is completely useless in my eye though. There's no way a wireframing tool could export semantic markup, so I would never expect it. I'm happy to take my wireframes and start coding from scratch. For those UX designers that can't code, they might feel like they are helping the developers by handing over HTML instead of JPGs, but they're not. The HTML is useless.
>"isn't as noble as it looks at first glance"

I wrote to entertain. Myself first, HN second. My post works because it's honest. And because I edited it. I've been trying to improve my writing.

I've been consciously picking subjects I'm interested in. The subject of my post is very interesting, from a personal standpoint - what with it being me. I've been trying to improve my writing.

What I wrote was consciously tailored to the post and the emotional state of HN in the wake of Aaron Swartz's suicide. Right now, the community is taking calls for help more seriously. I've been trying to improve my writing.

Noble? I don't care. I'm trying to improve my writing. That means being honest and writing for myself.
No, his option was to see what he'd get at trial, where the sentencing would be dependent on which crimes he was convicted for, which elements of other crimes the jury felt he infringed (without being enough to be guilty overall of the charge).

Had the prosecutors gotten convictions on each group of charges they filed they would have pushed for 6-7 years (they have to, otherwise why take the plea?). The Federal sentencing guidelines would have recommended a sentence in the range of 1-2 years (according to Jennifer Granick of all people, who is decidedly not a fan of what happened to Aaron Swartz).

The final sentence would have been up to the judge but given the circumstances (rich; white; well-respected; first-time offense; relatively innocuous as far as effect) it's extraordinarily unlikely he would have received more than the FSG (and if he did, it would help out his case immensely on appeal).

> for pleading guilty to liberating information.

If liberating information is his goal, why wouldn't he be proud and honored to wear that particular Scarlet Letter? Do you think those branded by the Nazis for guarding Jews would be anything other than proud to show to their children and grandchildren the living proof of their taking a righteous stand when others were afraid?
If the security is to authenticate a user, how do you do it without the user's participation?

You could go for biometrics. But that creates a new problem - unless you're deeply paranoid, you'll leave plenty of DNA, fingerprints and pictures of your irises, without thinking of them as security holes.

You could tie it to the device. But that's no good when you want to check your email on a friend's computer. And if your phone gets stolen with full access credentials... The device is not the same as the user. So I don't see how you can avoid some combination of 'something you know' and 'something you have'.
Another problem with rainbow tables is that their size depends on the password length, and with current technology they become impractical almost as soon as brute forcing, and much sooner than smart dictionary attacks (e.g. hybrids where you take a dictionary and for each entry try every possible way to add 3 random characters).
Comet ISON shaping up to be a spectacular display
Why the lithium-ion batteries in Boeing's 787 Dreamliner are burning
From the article, "Animal trials of the protein are due to start this year, with any treatment using it likely to be some years away." Well, I'm glad that got mentioned. Most of the article looks like a minimal rewrite of a press release. It is way too early for this to be on the front page of HN as "news," as there is nothing but speculation here so far. Over the years, I have seen a lot of press releases about this or that "cure" appear on the front page of HN, but a few years later, it is discovered that there is neither safety nor effectiveness in actual human clinical use of the proposed cure. Let's check in on this again after there have been human clinical trials that have progressed to actual pre-marketing studies of the treatment.
The difficulty in escaping Springer/Elsevier is not that researchers are too dumb to organize their own journals/peer review. Quite the opposite, we already do that FOR Springer/Elsevier.

The difficulty is that existing publishers own journals which have gathered significant prestige over decades and sometimes centuries. And hiring boards, swamped and unable to take a closer look, often just look at which journals a prospect has published in. That means if you're not submitting to these prestigious journals, you're crippling yourself. And by submitting to them, you're adding to their prestige, making it a vicious self-feedback loop.
Why is this passive-aggressive? Many of us do work that often requires some period of concentration, yet most office cultures are built around constant interruption. And, many of us don't have office doors we can close that indicate to others that we are busy and would prefer not be interrupted.

Is it unreasonable to make yourself unavailable to your co-workers all day, every day? Yeah, probably. Is it reasonable to have some period of uninterrupted work time? Most definitely.
Alternatively, I'd never want to work for someone who judged me entirely on some off color humor or silly photos on Facebook.
All these bullshit methodologies are about taking total control over everything and leaving no space for creativity to flourish.

All creativity is about giving space and giving trust to people to express their creativity and create something amazing.
>> What do you think this will possibly achieve? <<

I'll put myself in Ortiz's shoes.

I've just pursued a federal case in which the invested parties no longer are interested in continuing. I do it with a fervor that is unwarranted compared to the severity violation. The accused kills himself out of what appears to be fear.

Then a shit-storm happens. My information is everywhere. I'm having to change everything online because it's under constant attack. Forget about the phone, it's only really good for outgoing calls now. I can't do my job as effectively anymore because I'm harried by an online wolf-pack.

I'm not saying that's bad or that's good, I'm saying, that's what it's intended to achieve and that's a possibly what Ortiz is experiencing now.

My personal opinion is maybe that's not so bad. I would hope that it could serve as a warning to the people who decide to become part of the federal government that should they approach they're duties with a large large dose of humanity. They're people, we're people, and careless anti-social behavior should be met with vehement condemnation by the populace.
This is really surprising to hear. I think Django has some of the best documentation out there. I rarely have to go to blogs or Stack Overflow because that answer usually exists right in the docs.

Could you give an example or two of issues you had that you couldn't find the answer to in the docs?