skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there clients which support evernote but would not support SSL?
Paypal is a long-time client of my consulting firm, and several of their trust and security people are good friends. They are not stupid or malicious. Unlike the author, they are cognizant of a basic truth about the Internet:

In any situation involving money, every loophole or mechanism for scamming people will eventually be discovered and then exploited to an extent you never believed possible. Just as the Internet has massively changed the basic economics of almost every industry, it has greatly reduced the risk and costs of widespread fraud to a level that would make Charles Ponzi cry with joy into his spaghetti.

There are teams of extremely intelligent and motivated people who spend their entire working careers figuring out ways to rip off Paypal (and Amazon, eBay, Google, Baidu, Bitcoin merchants, etc...) If a top tier company that deals with money on the Internet is problematic for a certain transaction, then you can be sure that is due to a real problem in the past that resembles that transaction.

Pydanny believes that Paypal's actions are without basis, so he has clearly identified a market inefficiency that is ripe for "disruption".

I think pydanny should take this opportunity to pitch his payments startup, PyPal, to pg and several other top-tier angels/VCs. Make sure to include a slide on fraud and loss prevention, and clearly outline the policy that will differentiate you from Paypal:

"The developer community is critical for the success of PyPal. In a situation where a PyPal account identified only by a Yahoo email address and with limited transaction history receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in deposits for a service that will not be delivered for months, we will not freeze that account under any circumstances. Especially if they self-identify as a Python developer."

Let me know how the pitch meetings go.
I make my own cola based on the OpenCola recipe [1]. The end product tastes better -- fresher, richer, more interesting -- than ordinary Coca-Cola. I use cane sugar, but then that's nothing novel to me since I'm in Europe where most sodas are made with cane sugar.

I investigated kola nut as part of the process, and kola nut is simply not what I have been assuming all these years. The powdered form of the kola nut has an awful, bitter taste that is nothing like the "cola" taste. Rather, the main source of Coca-Cola's "bite" comes from the acid component. Some of it may perhaps also come from the caffeine and/or processed cocoa leaves.

Also, I have not seen any recipe (including the purported original recipe by Pemberton) that uses kola nut.

[1] http://www.colawp.com/colas/400/cola467_recipe.html
I find it unfortunate that an otherwise interesting story is used to convey some silly neo-liberal ideas. Try that getting-stuff-over-the-ocean-cheaply trick without harbors.
Lots of developers who read "Learn PHP in 24 Hours" and similar texts use md5 (32 chars) or sha1 (40 chars). If you're an attacker and see a hex string that's 40 chars long, that gives you a great place to start since you know it's likely to be a naïve SHA1 hash.
"Just curious, are you $200K in debt "

My wife (is younger than I am) graduated within the last 8 years from PUBLIC medical school and has roughly 200k in debt when we got married although I'm not certain what that debt is from or how much was already paid off etc.
Acura, Lexus, and Infiniti were attempts by perceived-downscale brands to brand "up". It doesn't make sense for a brand like Tesla to brand "down".
>> and they're all big boys and girls.

Thank you, not a phrase heard often enough I think.
a great example of capitalism. think about
that the next time you have a knee
jerk reaction towards business.
Meh. No. People who use the word that way are wrong, stupid and nasty. Cultural relativism doesn't get a look in.

I award your argument zero points.
Read the article. You are making an incorrect assumption that anybody has purchased these shirts, or that they even exist.
...no, you wouldn't. It is untested in plenty of environments right now, and being able to drive around Palo Alto guided without killing anyone is nice but not nearly enough.

One day, of course, it'll be amazing and safe. But AI has a history of its promising advances being perpetually pushed to the future.
> I can't believe there are people who haven't learned this elementary lesson now, over 30 years later

Why would you let something like this bother you? There are many popular text editors and IDEs in the world, and of all these myriad, there is only one popular editor that is modeful: vi. Why would you begrudge the people who prefer to do their editing modefully, a single editor that does things this way?

It's not like vi is going to corrupt the yout's of today, as the yout's are fully exposed to IDEs such as Eclipse, IDEA, Xcode, and Visual Studio, all of which are modeless, not to mention Word, Pages, Google Docs, etc.
Junglr – Q&A with Gamification
What is it, precisely, that you think justifies the use of bitcoin?

Here, let's make this simple. Just list, explicitly, the top 3 reasons for using bitcoin. Then explain how these reasons are unique to bitcoin and also how they fully justify dealing with the problems of dealing with bitcoin (variable exchange rates, difficulty of converting into local denomination funds, etc.).
What did they do with your mini when you left?
I understand that this is HN and people are optimistic about the potential of technology, but betting against technology changing everything tends to be a winning bet more often than the otherwise.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an aerospace engineer. I read books in the 80's talking about how we'd have manned Mars missions in 25 years. I actually went to engineering school for aerospace, but by then I had realized humans wouldn't go into space in a real way within my career.

Is it possible that some derivative of Watson is going to replace doctors? Maybe. Or maybe it'll just change what doctors do for a living in the same way auto-pilot changed what pilots do for a living.

My bet is that 20 years from now isn't going to look that dramatically different from 20 years ago, in a fundamental way. I remember 1993 (a year before President Clinton's first term and a year before Amazon was founded) and it wasn't all that different. We made phone calls and sent faxes instead of using e-mails, there was no Twitter, Facebook, or smart phones, but life was pretty similar.
Deferreds are cool although they have their own set of issues. Mainly, that when you start chaining them there are situations where it can be a bit counterintuitive what is going on. My background is the Deferred from Twisted and Reimplemented in MochiKit.

You really need to read the Deferred implementation if you are going to use it. Otherwise you are asking for trouble long term. Of course, the other issue is that you may run into challenges explaining deferred's to your co-workers. :)

Twisted explored some cool ideas where you basically would write asynchronous code in an interative style using a blend of iterators and generators. Sadly until Javascript has those capabilities in every browser (and not just Firefox) I don't think it is possible.
http://videolectures.net/Top/Computer_Science/ has a ton of lectures and conference talks from the top researchers in ML and AI
No. The insistence on "innovative private companies" is not the solution. The solution is that the level of airport security needs to be made through public, transparent decision making. This may be the TSA. This may be boring private companies. This may be something else. But this petition is useless.
Penal labor is extremely prevalent in the US, and if anything, is growing (over 1 million US prisoners today are engaged in penal labor).

It might not be "punative" penal labor, which takes it out of the category of "forced labor." But US prisoners do labor in private prisons for private companies, with the sole remuneration of reducing time from their sentences.
AFAIK the use of high-fructose corn syrup is illegal in the EU and a number of other regions (thankfully), hence why Coke is made with actual sugar in most areas outside the US.
You should consider making your own cola. It's easy, and very rewarding. Recipe mentioned in my other comment [1].

Incidentally, there are some very good "alternative" colas. My favourite is Fentimans' Curiosity Cola [2], which NY Times once described as "the world's best cola", and which is made with a small amount of fermented ginger (fermented juices is their thing). I also really like Boylan's Cane Cola [3].

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5311790

[2] http://www.fentimans.com/

[3] http://www.boylanbottling.com/products/cane-sugar-sodas/boyl...
That's pretty subjective. Why would that be the "best" link?
"AI are going to take away some of these jobs"

Population aging and people will always abuse their body and create a need for medical care delivered by a human. And as people live to older ages the base individual becomes more likely to need medical care (wish I had a better way to put this) whereas in years past that person would have died at an earlier age and not required any medical care at all.
> As a side node gamification drives me mad. IMHO only an idiot would care about made up "achievements".

Idiots make an overwhelming majority of population.
Why programmers keep confusing Halloween with Christmas? Because Oct 31 == Dec 25.
The carriers claim it is illegal, and there is no longer a DMCA exemption stating that it is not a violation of the DMCA.

That does not make it illegal to unlock a phone. Is there any case law supporting the notion that unlocking a phone actually is a DMCA violation, or just the carriers claiming that it is (possibly in settled lawsuits)?
Primarily, package managers solve the problem of dependencies. [1] For example, if you want to install a piece of software X -- which depends on A and B, and A in turn depends on C -- then the package manager will install all of these for you. A package manager will also keep your software up to date automatically. There are other advantages, but basically a package manager saves you time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_management_system#Chall...
Couldn't you have the keys on a device (USB stick, smart phone, dick tracy/apple watch ...) that went with you everywhere? Seems like some version of user verification that relies on something like this is likely in the fairly near future. Google is looking at the idea of using hardware rather than username/password http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/google-password...
Timestamps are a helpful thing to put on blog posts.
Using CSS for multilingual responsive web design
LastPass offers everything that you're mentioning, plus 2-factor auth that integrates with the Google Authenticator app if you want. It's free if you use it on desktop with browser extensions, but costs $1/month for mobile. I would highly recommend checking it out.

www.lastpass.com
It looks like dozens, maybe hundreds, of people all had problem figuring out how to see the next slide.

Do the math, that's, cumulatively, probably an hour or two of life wasted perhaps more.

I expect webpages to have a mouse based interface, not a keyboard based interface and I'm not alone. It's not churlish of us to complain about our wasted time.

Interesting! And, as a postgresql lover, thanks for posting.
Actually, this is a good point, but only as a measure for increased cookie security. Today, HTTP cookies are very vulnerable, and this method can actually solve session hijacking if public/private cryptography will be applied on every request.
Not the individual inventor, but this company[1] invented the twisty in 1939.

Also twistys are color coated on bread, denoting the day of the week it was put out[2].

[1] http://www.twistems.com/pages/profile.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twist_tie#Color_coding_for_brea...
Would you mind linking to your friend's implementation in Golang? I'm learning the language and want to see how he did it.
I left the company, I assume they returned it.
See http://www.fortressofdoors.com/2013/02/steam-linux-sale-resu...

They may just got lucky, but ~7% of their total sales comes from users running Linux.
While it's not an huge number, it's still significant, and it's likely to grow in the future.
(replying to my own post because post depth limit reached)

etfb: Oh, don't get me wrong. I'm not a cultural relativist and believe people who use the term are in fact crude and insensitive. All my observations suggestions still stand, though. These people are not retarded and many may in fact be highly intelligent. (And it's not nice to call people retarded anyway.) They may or many not outnumber you, but are a significant cultural force one way or another, so the peer pressure argument is ineffective. And describing the matter as "nobody uses this metaphor" with exceptions is a poor way to describe the matter at best.
Disclosure: I graduated from Princeton in 2007

This article (which I skimmed) seems to use Princeton as a counterpoint to Harvard's supposed cheating culture and lax attitude towards academics. I have no idea whether students actually treat academics with more respect than their Crimson counterparts "on average".

However, I can definitely say that the kind of collaboration/copying/cheating that is described for Harvard's Econ10 course happens throughout Princeton. Whomever is being quoted from Princeton, casting it as this supposed utopia of higher learning, is either bubbling PR nonsense or is just completely out of touch with what goes on in the field.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Paxton
A programmer's wife gave her husband instructions for the grocery store: "Get a margarine, and if they have eggs get ten." He returns a while later, bringing ten margarines and saying: "They had eggs."
His August 2012 post is a little less than positive -- http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/2012/08/

edit: I'm an idiot; brain fart on a Saturday at the office
At http://objective-cloud.com we are also using Mac Minis with SSDs and 16 GB of RAM. A single Mac Mini can do so much - computing wise. The only bad thing about Mac Minis is their GPU which may make some use cases less efficient to realize.
> caveat: WITH expressions are optimization boundaries

This is a pretty big caveat and one of the rare areas in which postgres does worse than other database systems. In SQL Server a non-recursive common table expression is treated by the optimizer similar to a macro - You can break up a complicated query with unions and group bys into easier to read cte:s and be confident that the optimizer will piece them all together into a query whose execution plan is equal to the original one.

But with postgres you can't because of the optimization boundaries. Its optimizer will attempt to make each cte as individually efficient as possible which can lead to a much worse execution plan overall. You can use views instead which, in contrast to cte:s, postgres optimizer can see through.
How many of these alternatives work outside US?
Because it describes what a stack overflow is, rather than being a site named after the thing?

That would be my thinking. Ok so maybe wikipedia doesn't have to be the top result, but I'd rather have results relating to the thing I'm searching for come above sites just named after it.
Exactly what I was thinking about. Milton Friedman mentioned that story as well in his talk here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ERbC7JyCfU
So are you saying people searching for "stack overflow" want the definition more often than the web site stackoverflow.com?

Because that doesn't make sense to me. Perhaps an upcoming engineer once or twice needs the definition in their life. And they will mostly go on to use the site as well.

Lazy people like me often type the approximate of a web site into Google rather than trying to guess the exact url / bookmarking it. And we do this continuously.

I can't see the definition being more popular than the site.
Of course, every password should have a large individual salt to prevent rainbow tables.

A hidden salt that is used across all passwords is useless on a public service, because that becomes the password to hack.

The attacker takes an account that has a known password and brute forces the salt from that.

Salt and hash are good for protecting well chosen passwords, but because the speed they can be processed mean the hacker can try billions of different passwords a second. These days choosing a cryptographically hard (memory hard) is the best bet to extend the time from a breach to password discovery so the majority of the users can change their password.
This video will get you pumped
Particularly Twisted's inlineCallbacks (http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.inter...) are really nice. They are so nice, they actually completely offset all the other unpleasantness I experiance from Twisted.
Ask HN: Mar. 2 - Craigslist ads no longer indexed by Google?
It looks like for the past day or so, google has no longer been indexing craigslist postings. See these two searches for example:

All postings in the Cars by Owner category over the past week:
https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:cto+-intitle:classifieds+site:craigslist.org&num=20&hl=en&safe=off&tbs=qdr:w,sbd:1

And over the past day:
https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:cto+-intitle:classifieds+site:craigslist.org&num=20&hl=en&safe=off&tbs=qdr:d,sbd:1

Actually, since I first noticed it, it may have been fixed. Note that both searches return results from the past 31 minutes (as of now, 4:18pm PST), but nothing else for the rest of today.

Question is, anyone know what caused this, and more generally, whether these sorts of 'gaps' are common? Given my understanding of how Google works, I can't see how a gap would persist once whatever was preventing scraping was removed. There should still be links from the CL index pages to most of the missing ads from that period, so even if Google was temporarily unable to access them, why wouldn't they be filled in after the fact? Or has it just not happened yet?
If you read it you'll see he's being tongue in cheek.
I don't think 3. Should be getting the ribbing it is as an idea. I think that SEC required "Amicus Briefs" would go a long way to tempering some irrational exuberance.

However the Prospectus document for the IPO at Groupon made sobering reading and covered pretty much all the points being raised here. Prospectuses are horrifying things to read carefully - everything that could go wrong is detailed.

So I would suggest turning 3. Into a requirement for a standard modelling simulation framework - which the SEC supports and mandates that the IPOing company provides whatever functions within that framework are representative of the various scenarios in the prospectus

Something similar is proposed for monitoring bank risk but I cannot remember the link - it's an SEC experiment from a few years back iirr.
Glad you enjoyed the slides. I put a comment about navigation on the first slide. Hopefully that will help.
And force (either from a press or the bottom of someone's foot) :)
Not only does the cheapest Model S have half the range of the more expensive versions, apparently you won't be able to charge it at Superchargers either, and of course it's also not available yet. (Oh, and none of the prices include the home charger required to charge it in a reasonable amount of time.)
5 Lessons Learned from the Event Recommendation Challenge
Viral Video Shows the Extent of U.S. Wealth Inequality
Given that the next contender, the Prius, has three times the CO2 emissions of the Roadster, I think theres plenty wiggle room for the energy source here.
So help me reach 500 karma so I can downvote the heck out of it. :)
What're the alternatives to Evernote? e.g. decent document tagging, excellent search and preferably OCR.
Poorly written article. No idea what exactly it's trying to say or what the criteria for not "remaining". It looks like it means that only 71 of the 500 in 1955 are still on the Fortune 500.

Some dubious data doesn't even support the claims they are supposed to support. Apparently failing during a recession is now "digital darwinism" as opposed to "how business has worked since agriculture began".

It was posted here with a misleading title of "71 of 1955 Fortune 500 remain". I would have skipped this article if it was posted with the curent (correct, from article) title, and would have been better off for it.
V-2 is progenitor of all modern rockets, but it's difficult to call it "minimal modifications":
compare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fus%C3%A9e_V2.jpg ,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:V-2_rocket_diagram_%28with...
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:R-7_%287A%29_misil.svg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sputnik_8K71PS_grey.svg
The top needs to be thicker because of its geometry. The curved sides and domed base can resist pressure better than the flat top.

Another interesting fact is the can is narrower at the top to reduce the size of the lid, saving cost and mass.

Lots of details and photos on aluminum cans at http://www.chymist.com/Aluminum%20can.pdf so check it out.
awesome, would you generate a PDF of my slides then?
Watson is a great example of the graduation evolution of weak AI. It succeeds beautifully in its narrowly defined goals, but is still just a glorified statistical search engine. It will not revolutionize AI anymore than Deep Blue did with Chess or the speech recognition software of the 90s did.

To quote Jeff Halwkings "As Searle showed with the Chinese Room, behavioral equivalence is not enough. Since intelligence is an internal property of a brain, we have to look inside the brain to understand what intelligence is. As we'll soon see, there is an underlying elegance of great power, one that surpasses our best computers, waiting to be extracted from these neural circuits. ...
For half a century we've been bringing the full force of our species' considerable cleverness to trying to program intelligence into computers. In the process we've come up with word processors, databases, video games, the Internet, mobile phones, and convincing computer-animated dinosaurs. But intelligent machines still aren't anywhere in the picture. To succeed, we will need to crib heavily from nature's engine of intelligence, the neocortex. We have to extract intelligence from within the brain. No other road will get us there. "

I'd put my money on Deep Neural Networks or Hawkings' Hierarchical Temporal Memory approach to "revolutionize AI".
The Aluminum Beverage Can (1994)
I understand there has been a sharp rise in natural gas (and a corresponding drop in coal and nuclear) in the past two years, since fracking took off. (I wouldn't be surprised if coal is still at the top though.)
Most countries still do, except the US, where we have corn subsidies and sugar tariffs to artificially lower the price of corn and artificially raise the price of sugar (to protect a few growers in the south US).

The other year when sugar prices were near equal to corn, Pepsi and Dr. Pepper distributed soda with sugar only throughout much of the United States. I haven't followed the prices of sugar since, but I would gather the price went back up either naturally or through congressional means.
Well, frankly, it looks like you're jumping from one sheep to another. Using deferreds does NOT make more sense, and is actually even more difficult to perceive as it's quite counter-intuitive. MVVM is the way to go for web apps. Actually, anything else would be better than this.

The methods and approaches jQuery provides should not be used as a mainframe to achieve your goal, they should only be used as helpers here and there if ever.