skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nicely done. The very very frightening for me is the clunky move to wireless. There are about 20 Macs in the office, and when half the keyboard batteries go flat after a long weekend and you need to quickly check something, scrounging the building for a USB keyboard is tiring. This combined with airplays momentary drop outs and refusal to start (infrequent but annoying) make me sad. It's like we're so close to the cableless world, but just far enough away that its awful.
I can't help but roll my eyes at the idea that "mouse and keyboard" are dead.

Yes, lots of touch devices are now being sold, but a lot of them are being sold into a channel in which nobody used a physical keyboard or mouse before (phones) and the rest are being sold into a device category that didn't quite exist before (tablets).

A lot of people seem to be misreading the decline of PC/laptop sales and the rise of tablets and smartphones as being totally interrelated when I don't believe they are. Certainly some percentage of tablets are purchases that otherwise would be have been netbooks, but IMO the bigger issue with PC/laptop sales dropping is people (granted, I'm only discussing First World people) generally already have one AND just don't need new ones as often anymore. Anything with a Core 2 Duo and 4+ gigabytes of RAM "ought to be enough for anyone" (and in my experience, for non-power-users it certainly is).

I'm a hardcore developer/gamer/"power-user" and even my system buying and major upgrade lifecycle has extended to about 3-4 years when it used to be 6 months to a year, combine that lifecycle extension with the fact that most people can get by with just a laptop (because the practical power difference between even a low-end laptop and a desktop are insignificant) and it isn't any wonder that PC/laptop sales have suffered for everyone but Apple who is one of the few smart enough to be selling systems with actual new-system differentiation ("Retina" screens).

tl; dr - I know lots of people (including myself) who have bought new smartphones and tablets over the past few years. I don't know a single one of them who doesn't use a "real" computer with mouse/keyboard daily and on average much more than their tablet/smartphone (if you exclude phone talking from the smartphone use). But their smartphones are probably like <1 year old (because significant practical hardware progress is still being made in this space) while their laptops might be years old and plenty fine for what they use them for.
The "Keep calm and…" is not exactly something someone needs to design: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Calm_and_Carry_On
according to bbc "It said user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords were accessed"

so i guess since passwords were encrypted they weren't fully compromised and a simple change should be enough.. at least that's what Evernote appears to think.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21644317
Can anyone tell me why they're using RC2 and not AES? Does the export restriction even disallow that? Seems a bit disingenuous if that is the case.
But, isn't it still there? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-...
Elon is the Chairman of SolarCity, "the leading residential solar provider in the U.S." http://www.solarcity.com/media-center/elon-musk.aspx
Even worse, the report says 37% of householders under 35 have zero or negative net worth.

The report is a bit opaque though with the wide <35 category - you'd expect a big difference between 21 and 34 year olds so lumping them together makes it hard to tell what's going on. The full report is at: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/11/07/the-rising-age-gap...
Just curious, are you $200K in debt from going to both public undergrad and public med schools?

In general, many people complain of high med school debt, but if one looks closely the reason is that they choose private over public and not with their choice to go into medicine per se.
Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us | TIME.com
I'm not going to dive into the rape statistic minefield, but the last time I did, the assumptions where that a more on-male rape numbers were in the dark because of still prevalent gender stereotypes (as in: Men don't get raped and they should be able to defend themselves).
My advice runs like this: find a trade. Find something that pays. If your parents and your personal net worth is not sufficient to not have to work at all, you really are not doing favors to your future self by getting a degree in something that won't give you a net bonus.

Doing what you love is nice. But let's talk about the reality, which is often, "Doing what you love as you sink into bankruptcy and having to take multiple jobs that exploit you so you can eke out some hours per week doing that hypothetical loved job". I heard a joke lately: a successful musician is one that only has to have a part-time job. (I have known multiple people in this situation).

Let's say you want to marry and have kids, or own a house, or travel to Africa/Asia/etc. How do you accomplish this by paying the student loans every month which eat up your savings? (They aren't wiped out via bankruptcy in the US). Do you defer your life? That's no good. Do you subject your family to poverty to fulfil your dreams? Do you just hope that your family doesn't wind up with a chronic medical condition(s)? In my opinion - and I admit, I'm a STEM person - it's irresponsible to not examine your desires and determine if you can pay the bills with this career at 35-40 years of age, with the usual responsibilities.

I'd rather see more people being plumbers, electricians, etc, and doing their dance, music, etc in the evenings than see yet another art/humanities major working three jobs and wishing their career would get started. I am all for education in the humanities, but it needs to be pushed back into high school more so that everyone gets a liberal (free person) arts education and has the freedom to pursue some 'higher' eduction or not without feeling as if they lost out on learning the 'soft & creative side' of things. At least that's my opinion!

I am truly blessed in that I can do something I moderately enjoy (programming) and get paid relatively well for it. That's a rare position to be in.
Startup promises to provide visibility into healthcare bit data
Out of the half-dozen or so Svbtle network articles I end up reading in a week, this is the only one I've noticed with a referral link to Amazon, let alone the repeated history of them like this author has. I think if anything it's this one author, not Svbtle as a whole.
Website is offline, here is the google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&safe=...
4800 per annum is not even legal minimum wage for full-time work in the UK, unless you're talking about a very long time ago and not adjusting for inflation. So if that is what you were really paid, you should not only have quit, but reported your employer to the authorities.

My first IT job in the 1990s was 15K per annum, and that was considered low at the time (living in Edinburgh, not as expensive as London but still higher cost of living than average). My more experienced colleagues were earning at least 30K, and that was in 1997.
Indeed, the assumption is that attacker has limited window of opportunity to grab the data. Taking that as a base assumption, it would make sense two store parts of the hashed password in two separate databases on two separate machines. Hacker would have to gain access to both.
My initial alternative was to add some trick inside of the code, like a simple shuffling of characters. Assuming that code is not stored on the same machine as DB that should increase security considerably. But either concept would work. Of course it does not remove the need for higher degree of difficulty for hashing itself.
Is The Apple Store Down?
I genuinely do not understand US securities law. One needs to be a "qualified" investor to invest in startups; these investors trade shares among themselves (no primary share issuance) at indefensible and unrealistic valuations, and they are later allowed to sell their shares (secondary issue) in the open market to "unqualified" investors.

Shouldn't the SEC and a bunch of attorneys be investigating this?

Congresses is having all kinds of hearings with banks for misselling mortgages and a dozen other shenanigans. Who is going to call on investors who (literary) pumped-and-dumped Groupon?

I still vividly remember watching Jeff Clavier defending the Groupon IPO valuation on TC TV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKrWtMmsl7I), and I couldn't feel more ashamed for all the unsubstantiated arguments he made back then. He wasn't the only one to do this.
I've suggested something like this before - I think it's brilliant (obviously) - although I truly would not bother with tracking the expenses (#) - at this level it's just noise.

I would suggest that this is the next evolutionary step for VCs - not managing 5m dollar investments but 100x as many 50k investments. But I doubt anyone in the VC industry wants to move from selling at Tiffany's to the KMart in Tucson, Arizona.

Luckily the VCs of Pune/Mumbai will have no such qualms.
SV may find itself out-evolved quite quickly.

(#) well you may have to to avoid seed money for drug deals but you get my point
Interesting what parenthood does to your thinking isn't it?

There is a high probability that at some point you wife will have to choose whether she wants a relationship with her daughter or she wants a daughter physician. I don't know how to characterize it but its especially hard on mothers and daughters in my observations. Of course your daughter could fall in love with the idea of being a doctor and poof, problem solved. Not to worry there is a lot of runway between now and then. Just keep your eyes open.

That said, there has always been an amazing amount of externalization (not sure if that is a thing) with kids who seem to go through the process of picking a future that would translate them into the person they want to be, for reasons that they may or may not accurately perceive. I did a Big Brothers thing in the early 80's with young men trying to find their way. They often aspired to being professional athletes. Some truly loved the game, they thought up strategies, they figured out shots they missed or things they could do better, some were focused on how many hot chicks really would just sleep with you because you were like, famous or something. Clearly, young men in the latter category weren't going to succeed against the guys in the first group.

To summarize my point, passion in a highly contested field, gives you the strength to reach your potential in spite of the setbacks. And when your kids start talking about what they want to be when they grow up, its always good to double check how they arrived at that answer.

Your daughter will have dreams, and passions, and misconceptions. As her parent your goal should be to let her find her passions, see through the misconceptions and realize her dreams. Doing that in the teen years is especially tough.
Interesting that Manning tried to contact the Washington Post, but got blown off... Tried the NYTimes, and they didn't return his call. That may say something about the media, but I'm more curious if the reaction by the US government and other officials to the leaks would have been the same if those papers had published the material, instead of Wikileaks?
I don't see Tesla as counting on it directly. They would like to see it happen, but all they need to fuel their cars is a source of electricity. If for some reason utility-scale solar power is never practical, that doesn't really impede anything they are trying to do with their vehicles.
"What the DMCA says is that you can't strip and redistribute the content, not that you can't strip and watch it."

I don't think that's right. The DMCA forbids circumventing access controls, which would include decrypting a DVD; you have to decrypt a DVD to watch it as well as to copy it, so both potentially infringe the DMCA. At least, that seems to be confirmed by the FAQ at Chilling Effects[1], which is an advocacy site, but one run by lawyers. What's the source for your understanding of the DMCA?

[1] http://chillingeffects.org/anticircumvention/faq.cgi
Of course I'd be offended. Racist slurs cause actual harm (by supporting a longstanding environment of racist thought and action, and by causing distress in those who are targeted). To paraphrase a blog post I've recently read, impact is what defines harm, not intent. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-harvey/its-not-about-...)

If you write a bot and let it participate on IRC, you are ultimately responsible for what it does there. If there's a bug that makes it spew random ASCII text twenty times per second that clogs the channel and makes it unusable, that's your fault. If it spews racist hatred and makes minorities unwilling to participate (or makes bigots feel emboldened and at home), that's your fault too.

When your nanobots go haywire and start converting the entire planet into grey goo, I will blame you. (For all the good it'll do me.)
She has proven to the haters that she can actually sing
Thanks for your reply, Niten! Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that "900gage!@#" was random, but many people would (wrongly) consider it complex. Users who are not generating and storing random passwords (with KeePass or the like) may make safer password decisions when thinking in terms of a phrase rather than a "complex" word. Of course, they'd be far safer still by using a good password manager and long, truly random passwords.
Did they seriously sell a Gem 'New Relic' as a diagnostic tool that flat-out makes up queuing and response latency numbers on requests to their platform? If this is true then hell yes they need to refund all their customers!
How many people have been shouting about groupon being a BS company from day one? Sometimes I boggle at how dysfunctional this entire industry is.
How much does the DEA pay?
I'm running the Steam client on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.10, and didn't do anything special to get it installed. Why do you say that it's tied to the 32-bit version of Ubuntu?
Obama to Create U.S. Department of Cities
Are you saying being from New York implies "dickishness"?
Most implementations store the salt with the hash itself. Take Django's storage of "password" for example:

pbkdf2_sha256$10000$rdfyoPhMNhnC$3QEJ9hp0Qe68/p8+b1tVsYmNqVHiFrhmpWizXq+xQoo=

Which of course stores it as:

algo $ iterations $ salt $ hash

Salts simply protect against rainbow tables and force CPU cycles to be re-spent on each password individually.

But to answer your question: I'm not sure, but probably.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic with that last paragraph, but if you're going to forcefully mold your child like that it will either have the opposite effect or they will go along with your plan and grow up with no ambition and no self-determination. There is a balance between doing what will put food on the table and what their desires are, and if either of the two are out of balance, they will not lead a self-fulfilling life. Your method is essentially telling kids to think inside the box and do what will get you the most money.

And what's the deal with the weird Asian stereotype obsession.
At IBM, there was a project to figure out what made great programmers. They were going to give a psychological profile test to a group of their programmers. Unfortunately, they didn't have enough copies of the test. Luckily, the test came in two halves, so they just gave one half of the group the first half of the test, and the other half of the group the second half. After finishing the first section, and switching sections, the psychologist read the same directions as the first half, and then (expecting no response) asked "Any questions?", and was somewhat surprised when one of the best programmers in the group raised his hand. "Yes?"

"Are we supposed to use the same personality on this as we used on the first half?"

(From Gerald Weinberg's The Psychology of Computer Programming)
Scientists find that cursing is actually healthy
A more famous, and perhaps more interesting version of this observation can be found here: http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
It's a great book, well-written. Anyone touching JS should get it.
People are offended because an Amazon user is selling "rape t-shirt" on Amazon's website. People are so offended they will boycott Amazon?

Would it be hypocritical for the offended to not also boycott: Twitter because they permit their users to Tweet rape jokes (I have seen them); YouTube because their users can upload videos that recorded people telling rape jokes; for a long period of time Facebook allowed "pro-rape" pages; and finally do not forget to boycott Google because they have indexed every rape joke on the web, they even indexed the "rape t-shirt" permitting such things to be searched in an instant, plus Google makes money when you search for rape jokes.
Well you prompted me to check whether I understand what "absurd" and "ism" mean because it seemed pretty apt to me. Still does after checking, at least for the standards of a comment on an article, as opposed to say a language semantics journal.

Being popular gives us the "ism" part, by definition 3 at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ism :

"a tendency of behaviour, action or opinion belonging to a class or group of persons; the result of a doctrine, ideology, principle, or lack thereof"

The "absurd" part also fits pretty well:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/absurd
"stupid or unreasonable; silly in a humorous way"
We just seem to have different definitions of "fix". Fix, to me, implies the issue goes away. Are 1, 2, and 3 important? Yes. 4 should never have been an issue to begin with. And 5 is a non-solution given that simply adding more lines of execution does not address the root problem.

In no way have they solved the actual issue (a poor queuing strategy). And so even if you now know that you're getting awful performance due to queuing and you even try to get a multi-threaded strategy going per their suggestion, you will see the exact same issue at scale. That is not a fix.

Their stance on actually implementing a strategy that removes the root issue has been one of silence. Suggesting that "this probably won't be the end of it" isn't useful if you're running a business that relies on Heroku. If that isn't the end of it, then they should be far more communicative about the steps they're taking. Given their blog posts, we have no evidence that further solutions to this problem are being worked on or that they even acknowledge it's something they should fix.

So no, I do not agree with you that that is a lot of "fixing".
I believe NetMarketShare data is 'sponsored'..
http://gs.statcounter.com/faq#net-apps
Can anyone point me toward Musk's reasoning about why solar will beat out wind power in the long term? I know he owns a solar company, but why did he choose that over wind?

(I'm aware of the basic pros and cons of both. I'm really just looking for Musk's thinking.)
Did you read my comment?

Several of them include the #NotBuyingIt hashtag, a hashtag specifically related to sexism against women.

I really hesitated to respond to you again, at this point it seems you are doing nothing more than post hoc rationalization of your original inaccurate assertion.
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An interesting derivative of "I, Pencil":

http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
You were the one who claimed all the multi-keystroke shortcuts were possible in one keystroke, not falcolas.

Plenty of us switched to vim after using mouse-oriented editors for years or decades. Why are you so offended that we have different preferences than you?
MS always screws something up...

Maybe your browser uses it. Or misconfigured/buggy something else. Anyway, this font appears to render correctly for most people.
Read the whole thing, I'll bet you'll be satisfied with his answers regarding that. The way he's discussing it, EVs are an immediate win for efficiency with the option (not requirement) of being solar-sustainable.
You have to feel comfortable that those people will generally give you good value for your money (since you can’t literally observe everything they do) and that they will tell you when something’s wrong as soon as they know, rather than covering it up.

I used to feel this way about Heroku, and I might again in the future, but I don’t right now.

I have a hard time understanding why, for all the money Rap Genius pays Heroku, they don't simply set up their own instances on EC2 and run the app there themselves. It seems like for a few days work with Puppet or Chef you could automate getting your code onto dozens of EC2 instances and installing the necessary tools/server processes, plus you don't have to complain anymore about how you can't run Unicorn.

Yes I get that there is a certain amount of value in being able to pay someone else to do all these things for you and saving time - but if you aren't happy with the result and the value given the money you are paying (and RG is not), then at a certain point it's time to just bite the bullet and fix things yourselves instead of continuing to be hamstrung by problems that the hosting provider won't/can't fix. There comes a point where you get large enough, and you are paying enough to Heroku, that it would be worth it to do things yourself and eliminate the problems.
My parents had a plan for me and my brother growing up: I'd be an engineer and he'd be a doctor. At some point when we were old enough, we asserted yourselves, and I went into law and he went into banking. But in retrospect I'm glad my parents didn't just tell me "follow your dreams!" If it were up to me as a teenager, I'd just sit around all day masturbating and eating Cheetos. Kids need more direction than that.

Here is the thing about kids: they're not very smart. And they don't know it. My infant is convinced that if she sucks hard enough on my arm milk will come out. At 17 I was no less misguided just about different things.

You can always quit your professional job that puts food on the table to follow a more capricious path. But when your teenage dreams collapse against the hard ground of reality, you can't usually do the opposite.
I agree it presents quite a few challenges, and with the tech today it's hard to see solar as viable. However, from what I understand of Mr. Musk's plan, I agree with his idea that almost all energy on Earth came from the sun (and in the case of hydrocarbons all of it), and so the most efficient way to capture that energy should be directly. Nuclear and geothermal aside, nearly every other form of energy capture we do is indirect and represents a huge waste.
The 2011 MBP could drive two 2560x1600 displays (chained) through a single port, which requires about the same bandwidth as a single 3840x2160. So I don't think that would be an issue, though obviously the GPU is still a limitation.

I appear to be hellbanned from posting links, but I gather this from page 8 of AnandTech's review of the Thunderbolt display and the Wikipedia article for DisplayPort.
Evernote hacked, forces password reset
How about facebook? That was one of the most artful manipulations of the IPO system ever conceived. They didn't even make a majority of the company public, and yet managed to rake in a preposterous amount of money and cash out all of the early investors to an absolutely ridiculous degree. The stock is still down nearly 30% from the IPO level.
Not sure if you're trolling, but just in case you're not: because any key that has semantic meaning to the data sooner or later is proven to be neither unique, always present nor constant.