skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know these from the site, and have looked at the Django benchmark that's listed there. I think it's a rather small benchmark that does exercise lots of Django internals (but that benchmark comes from Unladden Swallow). I don't know for the twisted ones, though.

What I actually wanted to know, what the biggest application is, i.e., a not benchmark.
Obligatory: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html

And don't miss Hacker's delight, either: http://www.hackersdelight.org/
yet another example of "responsive interface" meaning "designed for a phone or a tablet"
I've found Chrome (and all browsers in this day and age, for that matter) to be quite stable, and I haven't heard complaints from others. Before switching browsers (which can be pretty inconvenient) it may be worth debugging if this is an issue with your system in general rather than the browser.

Have you and your father tried the advice on this page?
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans...
Are you on NMCI? Because I have used approximately zero DoD computers since 1994 that had the SSL CA chain configured properly on delivery.

In my humble experience, installing DoD roots is a journey: there are at least a few dozen and they are constantly being retired and superseded. Meanwhile, to get the DoD root certs, one has to trust A) DNS B) whomever is in charge of access control to the cert servers. Clearly, access control is a major problem for the DoD, that's the whole problem to begin with.
I am impressed by how well this is handled. Much better than I've seen from other companies!
This is pretty grim.

On the one hand it is good that the White house had a hackathon. On the other hand they didn't. Nothing interesting really got built, the time limit was brutally restrictive and it might be childish to say but seeing everyone at a hackathon wear business clothes is really weird. You really don't need a suit to be serious.

In the end it seems like this was done so that at some point down the road they can say the Whitehouse had a hackathon.
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I never received this email.

I only found out about the hack because my evernote client kept on bugging me saying my password had changed.

Curious as to why I found out the cause via Twitter.

Email is way too slow for these sorts of things
Most jobs are not glamorous in and of themselves, but can be glamorous for what you do with them. Programming is no different: it's the project, not the job, that makes the glamour.
and don't forget the fact that there is new competition coming on the market everyday that is probably paid a tenth as much as you are.
Aren't most optimisations hardware dependant, and if so: wouldn't it make sense that the work put into these optimisations depends largely on how much the hardware is used? Is the PDP-11 still a useful target in that sense? Wouldn't the original x86 instruction set be more useful for example?
>I too was unsure what to call it, but if they listen to the feedback, I think "whatever it's called" is really awesome and could be a legitimate substitute to the ppt platform. At least I would be interested in making a few presentations with it.

Agreed, I like it. It looks like the stuff that goes on in futuristic movies, with a lot of things happening on the screen and no one is really looking at anything particular but it's impressive. This has a potential. Who's up to make this WIC software?
Does anybody know of other flat companies? I've heard Valve is somewhat like this. What about outside of the software industry?
What do you find problematic on the Mac version? My office has weekly TF2 games and a bunch of us use Steam on OSX. The only gripe I have is that it doesn't remember my password, but other than that it seems pretty much identical to the Windows counterpart.
I didn't get an email (yet) so I visited the Evernote Forum. I was a bit surprised to see that I had to sign in with the same username and password of my Evernote account. It's convenient, but I prefer seperate accounts, especially since they're using third-party forum software.
>In my mind, it clicked that that we're always inching closer to computing being "do what I really mean."

>And here we are, not even a full year after Gabe's talk, and the first post-touch products are already landing on Planet Earth: Glass, Myo, Leap Motion, Kinect, on and on.

I don't think these devices/interfaces are really any better than touch with respect to "do what I really mean". It's still hand eye coordination at the level of our limbs and motor senses.

I think real "do what I really mean" post-touch interfaces are the ones where our minds become the actuators, instead of our limbs. Things like translating neural signals to actions. We just got the first Telepathic Mice [1], you know?

[1] http://jezebel.com/5987583/brain-implant-allows-rats-to-comm...
How Marissa Mayer Figured Out Work-At-Home Yahoos Were Slacking Off
We work on hard stuff (http://vicarious.com/) and we're always looking for exceptional people
> we have found no evidence that any of the content you store in Evernote was accessed

This depends on how hard they looked - do people believe content wasn't accessed?

Is it fair to ask them for a technical post about why they don't think content was hacked? I'd love to know how they separate auth from content, and how they ensure that a hacked auth node can't view notes
>A lot of people seem to think that it is something inherently German that made the Holocaust so terrible

I'll quote a drunk Austrian friend: "All Germans are Nazis. Or rather, it would be more accurate to say, if there must be Nazis, Germans make the best ones"
But this is why we do one or both things: strip obvious things from hashed password and store them separately or add a trivial character reshuffling algorithm. The point is that hacker would not only have to steal your hashed passwords, but also steal and understand your code. Makes it more complicated.
I second wallflower's recommendation: "total immersion" is amazing.

I just wanted to point out that "supplementing" swimming techniques may not be a good idea... once you get the basic habits wrong, it can be very hard to undo. (not to say YMCA is bad, I know nothing about it)
They aren't down (anymore), but in case you are still unable to read it:

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Evernote's Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access secure areas of the Evernote Service.

As a precaution to protect your data, we have decided to implement a password reset. Please read below for details and instructions.

In our security investigation, we have found no evidence that any of the content you store in Evernote was accessed, changed or lost. We also have no evidence that any payment information for Evernote Premium or Evernote Business customers was accessed.

The investigation has shown, however, that the individual(s) responsible were able to gain access to Evernote user information, which includes usernames, email addresses associated with Evernote accounts and encrypted passwords. Even though this information was accessed, the passwords stored by Evernote are protected by one-way encryption. (In technical terms, they are hashed and salted.)

While our password encryption measures are robust, we are taking additional steps to ensure that your personal data remains secure. This means that, in an abundance of caution, we are requiring all users to reset their Evernote account passwords. Please create a new password by signing into your account on evernote.com.

After signing in, you will be prompted to enter your new password. Once you have reset your password on evernote.com, you will need to enter this new password in other Evernote apps that you use. We are also releasing updates to several of our apps to make the password change process easier, so please check for updates over the next several hours.

As recent events with other large services have demonstrated, this type of activity is becoming more common. We take our responsibility to keep your data safe very seriously, and we're constantly enhancing the security of our service infrastructure to protect Evernote and your content.

There are also several important steps that you can take to ensure that your data on any site, including Evernote, is secure:

Avoid using simple passwords based on dictionary words
Never use the same password on multiple sites or services
Never click on 'reset password' requests in emails — instead go directly to the service
Thank you for taking the time to read this. We apologize for the annoyance of having to change your password, but, ultimately, we believe this simple step will result in a more secure Evernote experience. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Evernote Support.

The Evernote team
I agree that glamorizing programming is not particularly helpful, except that coder-entrepreneurs can get more attention from venture capital. Glamorizing programming, along with the app-stores, is pushing the independent programming business into a "blockbuster" mentality, a winner-take-all situation where a small number of practitioners do very well and most don't ever make their development money back. Thanks, Steve Jobs!
This is nothing new, like article states. What interests me is that why would tech group that most likely knew PayPal shameful history still trust them with payment solution? Why is it that every one and each enterprenour or new startup has to go with paypal?? Do you really want to learn on your own skin?? This is not 2006 anymore! There is so many other alternatives, some less expensive, that you just need to let PayPal go. Also most of them are very trustworthy so that customers don't really care whether you use PayPal, Dwolla, Stripe or Authorize.net.
Hey Orva. Sorry to hear about the CTS :(

Something I've seen from speaking with a lot of people with overuse injuries is that what activates a person's injury tends to vary a lot. I'd heard elsewhere that touchscreens were terrible and didn't try them for quite a while as a result. But for me they ended up being better for a lot of things. Additionally, game controllers are a large improvement in my case simply because I can hold it in my lap instead of extending my arms, and in my case there is only limited finger pain (more arms, elbows, wrists).

The ideal here, however: are motion sensors--like the Kinect, but better. In fact I started out working with the Kinect, but it's not precise enough imo to create a nicely ergonomic coding system. However, things like The Leap (https://www.leapmotion.com/) may be: it could take very subtle cues as inputs and track light hand motion.
I didn't even get an e-mail, not even as of now March 2 14:03 AST, I saw this on HN first.
If you want a stand-alone invoicing system with online credit card and ACH payments, WePay.com works pretty well. I have used it for a non-profit group I'm involved in.

They also have an API but I have not really looked into it.
Why is it necessary to specify the database backend to use? Django already abstracts it away, so why should I make the (same) choice twice?

(I know it's not for caching because a database cache backend is mentioned separately).
Outdoors: Top Gear For Great Adventures Outdoors
Many other professions allow you become rich. Too become rich as programmer you need to own some part of the company. You can do that in nearly every proffesion.
Periodically clearing the browsing data, AppData and %TEMP folders does the trick for me. In my experience, that's not Chrome specific; all web browsers get bogged down over time. In the same vein, it's good to do a clean install of your OS once a year.
For me it happened when I have it in a background tab. If I switch away for a while and then click back on the tab it will freeze.
I've observed that change has its own sort of Newtonian laws that regulate it, and the one where people do the same thing they always did before unless acted upon by a very force is perhaps one of the stronger ones.

So to my mind you have to have some notion of what is 'forcing' the change before you can really say that things will change.

To use a current example, 'touch'. The force here is that two fold, one the amount of keyboard interaction you need to consume content is much less than the amount you need to create it, and two, keyboards take up space that could be filled with other features. Touch became credible when you could use it exclusively to operate the device in an acceptable way. Its why it failed to displace keyboards on the original Tablet PCs (you needed the keyboard too often) and its why the iPad without a keyboard is a lot less productive to process email on [1].

So 'post touch' needs, by my reasoning, some force behind it if it is going to displace touch. And we can look at those forces and see where they are coming from.

Clearly people talking to their devices is cool, but annoying to others on the train and potentially embarrassing. That being an example of a force which doesn't allow voice to display touch. But the Myo device seems to be operable reasonably privately if it is sensitive enough. The Leap lets you do gestures locally for action at a distance, I could see that as having some pull if people continue with large displays at a distance, but being less effective if the trend becomes many touchable displays close to you. I would say Kinect is a sort of mixed bag here, great for games, a huge win for Robotic vision, but less durable as new general purpose interaction method.

It will be fun to watch. Just hope my toy budget can keep up!

[1] This are clearly pretty arguable statements, but they are hear to serve as illustration of the force pushing change on people rather than a quantitative measure of that force.
Anybody considered the zendesk link http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/01/08/zendesk-evernote-25k/

Twitter, tumblr, Pinterest hacks are all having zendesk connection

People on Dropbox have issues too
While pair programming: "There!! It compiles!"..... SHIP IT!
Once, Chuck Norris tried to code. The world went into a loop.
Grab data first, structure it later
And in that case, what made that software product illegal was that the court found that it was for breaking the DVD, not for playing it back.

It's important to actually understand the case.
1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc30UVB3oMs

2) http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/08/john-carmack-linux-is-sti...

3) http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/60550

4) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4339949
"Please create a new password by signing into your account on evernote.com(https://www.evernote.com/Login.action).
After signing in, you will be prompted to enter your new password."

Why couldn't an attacker do that at this point?
As a general rule of thumb. If you have a pretty predictable business then go with an all in one payment gateway and merchant accounts. By predictable I mean your growth is steady but not spectacular and not prone to any seasonal or suddenly dramatic spikes. Your price points don't move around dramatically. You're not something that will have a lot of chargebacks.

If your business DOES look like the above then engage a merchant account and explain to them what you are up to. It reduces the chances you'll get frozen.

If you can't qualify for a merchant account initially then use an all in one and build up a history that you can then take to a merchant account a little further down the road. (shameless plug for core.spreedly.com if you want the flexibility to shift and change easily)
It doesn't really matter what they used, as hashing speeds improve so quickly. You have to assume that the password you were using on evernote will be cracked, so to be safe you have to change it everywhere you were using it. Given that most people reuse passwords i expect a lot of follow-on exploiting of other systems with the passwords retrieved from evernote.
I'm on my iPhone and its totally unviewable. It looks like I can see maybe 20% of a slide, with parts if that covered up by black bars. I can't resize or re-zoom.

Total disaster.
Notational Velocity :)
Maybe there's a business idea in payment processing for events.
I'm sorry, what was wrong with mouse and keyboard again?

If in any way possible, I much prefer mouse and keyboard over touch, touchscreen, or air (eyetoy, wii, kinect, etc.). It wouldn't be the first time I use my computer keyboard on my phone to be able to type decently. (USB keyboard, female usb -> male microusb converter.)

> you could easily type something different from what you actually want

Lol, talk about touchscreen, or accidentally dragging something with a mouse. GUIs aren't much better than typing commands.

> it'll be "move it where I'm thinking."

I agree with you on that. The problem is that I don't have the hardware to experiment with this (and I don't expect that I could develop anything better than other researchers are doing), so it's not possible yet. In the meantime, I prefer keyboard over everything, including mouse. The problem is that websites are optimized for mice, so many aren't very usable without. Touchscreen with a stylus is good for drawing, but that's the only application I can think of, and you might as well just use pen and paper for that.
HIB definitely demonstrates that Linux users are willing to pay for software (which is awesome!), but I'm not sure that there's enough data to use that to conclude there's a viable market there.

We know that the HIB has drawn in significant revenue from Linux customers, but that doesn't give us the faintest clue how profitable they are (remember, that average $11 Linux sale has to be shared with multiple developers and charities). You might take the fact that they keep offering more HIBs as a sign that Humble Bundle (the company) considers its humble bundles (the promotions) to be successes, but it's not a guarantee that the metric they're using to define success is profitability. They've raised nearly $4.5 million in funding, so they're not strapped for cash; it's very possible they're more focused on using the bundles as a marketing channel than as an actual revenue stream, convincing consumers to trust the Humble Bundle brand name and developers/publishers that they're a meaningful distribution platform.

tl;dr: the fact that a successful venture-funded startup is selling software to Linux users, when we don't know if they're profitable or what their long-term strategy is, doesn't necessarily imply that there's a viable market for selling software to Linux users.
Where did the 3D (VR) glove go? We've always had such alternative input devices, their existence doesn't mean that keyboard and touch are suddenly doomed. Keyboard and mouse are probably the main reason why PC gaming still thrives next to consoles.

The author also (mostly) missed the most promising post-touch/keyboard input device we've had lately: speech input in the form of Siri & clones, which has finally reached the masses after decades of development and use in some fields where the required extensive training of the speech recognition was feasible. It could be used more for games, in the age of MMOs, everyone is already used to shouting into their headset microphone.
The only citation you gave regards unlocking phones.

There is no jailbreaking exemption under DMCA. There doesn't need to be; it was never illegal in the first place, thanks to the first sale doctrine (in some states reinforced under the name "doctrine of first ownership.")
From the Evernote support pages:

What type of encryption does Evernote Use?

If you encrypt text within a note, we derive a 64-bit RC2 key from your passphrase and use this to encrypt the text. This is the longest symmetric key length permitted by US Export restrictions without going through a complex process to gain export approval.

We do not receive any copy of the key or your passphrase, or any escrow mechanism to recover your encrypted data. I.e., if you forget your passphrase, we can't recover your data.

User authentication (i.e. username + password) is always performed over SSL when you communicate with Evernote. This uses 1024-2048 bit RSA keys and a symmetric session key that's negotiated between your client/browser and our server.

The data in user notes is also transferred via SSL.

Several of the company's founders come from a strong encryption background (founders of CoreStreet, recently acquired by ActiveIdentity). For Evernote's consumer product, the current encryption algorithms are chosen more for exportability under the Commerce Department rather than strength, since our software permits the encryption of arbitrary user data with no escrow.

We'd be interested in offering something stronger in the future when we have the staffing to fight the lengthy export battle, but Premium users can currently use an external encryption solution to encrypt important files and then add these encrypted into Evernote.
I'm curious as to whether Apple without Jobs will continue to be the company that redefines* computing (PC, GUI, touch, tablet). Or will change come from another giant like Google or from an upstart like LeapMotion?

*Yes, I know they didn't "invent" these things. But they were instrumental in refining them and positioning them so as to catalyze the industry toward sea changes.
The reason people are forced to use PayPal for events is that for many people credit cards are impossible to get. PayPal is often much easier for more people to use.
Perhaps : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5264405
Working on a coding project, one programmer asks the other who wrote up these project specifications?

Other programmer says: I can't tell you where the specs were designed, but be careful, the paper is still hot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking#United_States
How do you encrypt a complete note? AFAIK the official Evernote client only allows encrypting text content within a note.
Totally agree. Just because a movie came out and there is a show about startups doesn't mean its gone mainstream. Far from it. To top it off, what is represented in the media is such a small slice (ie. the startup scene) of what real world software developers do that its almost meaningless.
How do I move through the slides? Zooming out suggests there are more slides, but there's nothing to advance through them.

Chrome console:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error) http://postgres-bits.herokuapp.com/js/sh_lang/sh_bash.min.js

Uncaught HTTP error: status 500 sh_main.min.js:4
When Chuck Norris throws an exception, it’s across the room.
Trashing Sheryl Sandberg
I'm wondering how they perform the password reset.

Surely, you must know more than the username. But they cannot rely on the old password either, because the whole thing was set off by assuming that the old password is hacked. And they advise their user to ignore instructions per email.

So how do / could they do it?
You should be able to progress through the slides by using the arrow keys.
The major benefits would come from mitigating the (generally) higher latencies and lower bandwidth of mobile. What gains you'd get on desktop would be countered by the extra hop traffic would require. Overall I doubt desktop users would get much benefit from this feature.
we have found no evidence == "we really don't know"

Sorry, I'm sure the Evernote tech team is competent, but clearly some marketing spin has been put on this announcement.
But password resets would quite literally be impossible.
Default to duplex. After 10 years of service my old Brother laser printer died last month. Got the Brother HL-2270DW: duplex, laser, airprint, ethernet. PPD files available for CUPS, fits on shelf.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00450DVDY
My program won't compile, I think I've lost one of my bits, can you help me find it? I think I dropped it on the carpet over there, it may have rolled under the desk.