skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Business is a ruthless game. There is limited market saturation. A few are on the court, while a lot more are always on the bench.

I don't think it has to be this way, but it certainly shouldn't keep you out of the game completely.
Debian's popcon is an elegant solution to this problem.
If by size you mean price or hours delivered these are potentially very poor proxies for the risk associated with a project.
It would be pretty easy for Facebook to filter out inappropriate content.
"Long live the new flesh" applies here. His corpus of writing lives on, immortal.
Yes, and that's because it's opt-in, the way respectful software is.

Malware is opt-out for a reason. Don't be malware.
Home? Home is where my heart is. So among other thing, that means it's where facebook isn't.

Ugly on the outside, even more ugly on the inside -- what's not to ignore, until you burn it down?
Facebook Ticket express sport and music
Facebook's colonization of Android | Mobile - CNET News
His point is that while he's not intentionally on Facebook looking at questionable pictures, it's now on the lock screen of his phone, which he can't avoid if he needs to use it.
Wow, sad to hear that - ironic that cancer was what got Siskel too back when the two of them were doing reviews together - remember "two thumbs up"?
lol. I can be happy if I'm resting, but not if I don't feel I'm currently achieving much. Direction, purpose, identity, creation of meaning for the self, that kind of thing.
I can understand the utility of vim, but I've never understood the argument about being able to churn out code so much faster. Sure there are times when I'm head down hacking away like some movie, but so much of my time is spent thinking, reviewing, doing minor refactoring, and just plain looking at what I've written.

I've never had a time where I felt I didn't have enough time to write all the code, but I've had plenty of times where I've felt I didn't have enough time to fix all of it.
Results are not almost zero. Cancers that were once a death sentence before are now an inconvenience. Even though Roger Ebert ultimately died because of cancer, his life was extended at least a decade entirely because of treatments. This is progress.

The term "cancer survivor" didn't even exist prior to modern research.
Giving an inch doesn't mean you want to give a mile. Or perhaps more appropriately to facebook, giving a mile doesn't mean that any passerby who wants an inch is entitled to it.

Making privacy tradeoff decisions about facebook doesn't mean someone has given up on privacy all together, just that facebook has proven itself worth the cost of the information they give to facebook.

Not to mention the fact most people don't understand just how deeply facebook is datamining them in the firstplace.
People who want to play with OpenStack can check out DevStack [1], SAIO (Swift all in One) [2], TryStack [3], or whip out the credit card and try some of the public OpenStack clouds (DreamHost, HP, Rackspace, etc).

The documentation folks created an ebook named OpenStack Operations Guide and it's very well written. [4] For technical articles, check out Planet OpenStack. [5]

Also, if you're into OpenStack, the next summit is during the week of April 15th. Be ready for a slew of OpenStack news and announcements including Red Hat's commercial OpenStack product.

[1] - http://devstack.org/

[2] - http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/development_saio.h...

[3] - http://trystack.org/

[4] - http://docs.openstack.org/ops/

[5] - http://planet.openstack.org
Excuse me for my ignorance if incorrect, but if a unique salt is used for each user, and the salts were not compromised, would it then not be possible for the passwords to be cracked no matter what encryption is used?
His "Your Movie Sucks" book (http://www.amazon.com/Your-Movie-Sucks-Roger-Ebert/dp/074076...) has some pretty humurous, scathing reviews.
I've never seen it mentioned. Definitely email (package tracking, flight bookings etc) but never read SMS is tracked.
Am I the only one who doesn't mind going to get the content I want? I enjoy having it easily available, but I don't get the obsession with making it effortlessly consumable. Not only is my friend's social network activity low on my list of priorities, but I don't need it spoonfed to me when I do want it.
Just in case after reading this you want to start exercising, I strongly suggest the following two resources:

* http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/wiki/faq

* http://simplesciencefitness.com/

I have been doing strength training for a couple of years now and I can ensure you that it changed my life: better health, better quality of life, better code (I'm more focused).
This is also true for endurance running, wine, coffee, beer, olive oil, eating lots of meat, not eating lots of meat etc.
Isn't it weird that there are only girls in the video?
Have you tried state machines?

My JS programming often looks something like:
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5314313

I don't really care if the APIs I use have callbacks or promises, both fit in just fine.
Does anyone have experience in deploying Rails app to both Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine? How was your experience in terms of price, speed and easiness of deploying/maintaining?
I just read "The Emperor of All Maladies", an absolutely great book about cancer, the history of cancer discovery and history of cancer treatment. It goes into a lot of detail about exactly what progress is being made, why it is so hard, and what is on the horizon.

After reading it, I came away with the impression that the scientific fight against cancer is 50-60 years, but only the last 20 years has been very fruitful. Prior to that the treatments that worked were found largely through trial and error.
This is great -- what's people's experience with Travis CI vs Jenkins? I use Jenkins right now for iOS, and it definitely has its warts.
Strangely perhaps I first used FINE (FINE is not EMACS) but there was this cool game called rogue [1] and rogue used the hjlk (and HJLK) keys to move around the maze. Playing for hours trained my fingers, and when I opened up vi for the first time someone said "Oh, just move around like you do in rogue" and literally I just needed to think where I wanted the cursor to be and my fingers made that happen. Strange way to learn those keys but it worked quite well.

[1] Which you may know as 'hack' or 'nethack'
Unique salts have to be stored somewhere. A common practice is to just use another piece of information associated with their account. The purpose of a salt is to make various bruteforcing attacks difficult. It doesn't do much if someone has full access to a system.
A variant of this idea was implemented by Motorola on some of their phones (which I used for a few weeks before returning it). I forget what it was called ...motoblur? The concept was pretty neat but it drained battery like nothing else. I wonder what the battery implications of Home are.
did you actually take a look at any of the studies? Not a single study where n > 100, in fact average is around 30. This is not youtube, its HN so please save the dudebro commentary and insult tone to your normal domain.
The message is exaclty that.

If they actualy can or can not read the messages is left as an excercize to the reader.

What I can say with certainty is that the communications are not as secure as the article make them look like. Apple can still get you, and they can still get Apple...
You seem to be right. Meteor seems to give more tech talks and host more events than Derby too.
I think Facebook home won't be disruptive. There is so much more that goes into marketing and selling consumer products.

Home is a good win-win deal for facebook and HTC. Facebook can collect valuable social data from mobile devices and optimize ad delivery for users of that phone. HTC has the ability to use Home as a way to differentiate its phone in a very crowded market where the average consumer sees little differentiation between different smart phones outside of the iphone.
Go and read the Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, then read Security Analysis by the same author.
When you ask a question like this, you'll get a few types of reactions:

1) "What? That's absurd. You're an idiot for even thinking it. I'm an attorney and let me tell you - this is tough stuff and guys like me love guys like you."

2) "What? That's absurb. You're an idiot for even thinking it. My attorney is constantly telling me about how he loves to meet up with guys like you."

3) "Yeah, I do it and I've done it for x+ years without problems."

4) "I copy/paste off the internet. It works for me."

5) "I bought one of those kits and it worked fine for me."

Right or wrong, there's a certain stigma associated with the question.
As part of their pricing switch a few years ago, Google committed to a 3 year depcreation period for App Engine: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/05/year-ahead-for-g...

"For App Engine, leaving Preview will include providing all paid users a 99.95% uptime service level agreement, operational and developer support, billing via invoice, a new Terms of Service agreement geared towards businesses, and a new, easier to understand usage-based pricing structure for App Engine that is in line with the value App Engine provides. It will also reaffirm our deprecation policy whereby we will support deprecated versions of product APIs for 3 years, allowing applications written to prior API specifications to continue to function."

A quick comparison of the TOS shows that Compute Engine doesn't have the same policy, but IANAL, so I could be missing something.
I noticed that when my real life was more exciting, I used facebook less frequently because I had less time and less need for social validation. When my real life was less exciting, I was on facebook more often. And I noticed that the most active people on facebook were not the same people that I loved and respected most offline.

So I quit. I have been happier without it.

I call, text and email my friends more often. I meditate far more often. I keep a diary. Friends know that I quit and tell me when something is posted that I should know about.

Last night I went to an Eric Clapton concert. My friend repeatedly used her camera, zoomed in and out, took lots of pictures, even curated her photos during the show itself. For much of the evening, it felt like I was there by myself. So I did what any reasonable person would have done: I gave myself over to the music and danced.
»What hashing scheme do you use?« does not matter for most users.

Most users use weak passwords and a substantial part of this passwords is easy to recover using a dictionary attack. It does not really matter if you use MD5, SHA1, SHA2, HMAC, PBKDF2, bcrypt, scrypt or whatever, nor does it matter if you use no salt, the same salt for all users or a unique salt per user. Even for PBKDF2, bcrypt and scypt the cost factor will - for practical reasons - usually not be large enough to mitigate dictionary attacks using a few thousand of the most common passwords. Therefore weak passwords are compromised regardless of the used hashing scheme. And because especially users with weak passwords tend to reuse the password for different accounts many other accounts are compromised, too.

A user caring about security will not reuse passwords for different accounts and this alone reduces the impact of the event by a huge amount. Further a strong password alone makes it very unlikely that attackers will recover the password even if only unsalted MD5 is used for hashing. Therefore - unless the password is stored in plain text - it is highly unlikely that an attacker will be able to access an account protected by a strong password.

I definitely don't want to argue that using unsalted MD5 is okay - it is not - but for the average user the difference between a weak and a strong hashing scheme is not as large as one would naively expect. Strong hashing schemes will especially protect users using infrequent dictionary words or medium length hard passwords because the additional computation power required to perform a dictionary or brute force attack will force the attackers to use smaller dictionaries and shorter passwords.

Finally storing passwords may benefit from security through obscurity. If the attacker is unable to figure out the used hashing scheme he will be unable to perform a dictionary or brute force attack. This does not mean everyone should come up with there own hashing scheme - this would do MUCH more harm than good - but, for example, using a unknown random - 294,897 instead of 300,000 - cost factor and keeping it secret or adding a second secret salt buried deep in the code to the salt stored together with the username and hash will make it quite a bit harder for the attacker to perform an attack unless they got the information from an insider or were able to steal your code or binaries.
Mark Zuckerberg Introduces 'Facebook Home' for Android
Most think it should not be this way. Then why can't we change it? How will participating in the game help? I can't convince myself.
My post was meant as a reply to the comment by psycr and I just moved it there.

My - and a very often valid - assumption is, that unique per user salts a stored together with the username and hash. Distributing this information across different systems will make it harder for attackers but such schemes are not very common. There is also the risk that the weakness that enables an attacker to compromise one part of the information will also enable them to compromise the other part(s). Therefore it is probably a good idea to use systems as different as possible to store the different parts, for example two different database systems from different vendors.
Just looked at all the videos. I wanted to like this but I'm really unimpressed. I don't understand why anyone would install this.

All my friends seem to be using Facebook less and less and this seems to be another way to lock me into Facebook's ecosystem. While they could easily allow you to contact your friends in all the ways which you normally communicate with them - SMS, Email, Phone, the only thing they integrated in was Facebook messages.

By making this, they are basically saying that people want something in their hand which provides them random information they can swipe to. People want this random info soo sooo much, they we've made it the home screen + doing anything in apps is the exception.
9flats, The European Airbnb Competitor, Now Accepting Bitcoin Payments
As a long time Java programmer who's other favourite languages are Lisp (and C!) I'm really excited about this. I understand Java programmers who say that this will not change anything in the sense that these operations were functionally possible previously and are no more so now. However J8 does this with way less code and for those who like the idiom, this is a real step forward.

Even just making anonymous classes less wordy is a huge win IMO.
Seems like a good idea to add outside of meteor projects too. Maybe an extension for Chrome dev tools that lists global variables loaded per page?
Your vim needs to be compiled with python support.
Can you, if you have a mo, outline the pros and cons from your perspective? You seem to have a practical knowledge of this, a most useful thing. It might be enlightening for those of us who don't yet know either very well, and raise some questions which then get pondered...
Your not using media queries correctly if your having these issues. If you want widgets to be responsive to a parent element then make them fluid. The fluid technique has been around since the beginning and doesn't require media queries. I keep seeing people talking about crazy new units and grid systems, etc, etc. Just learn how to use media queries correctly... Sounds like you are using too many breakpoints. General breakpoints with percentage widths can do anything.
Yep.

What's the Holiday Inn statement?
Wow. The Fitzgerald quote is amazing. Thanks for sharing.

As a kid growing up in a poor, rural community, I wasn't exposed to much intellectual writing. The exception was the reprint in the local paper of Ebert's movie reviews, and of course seeing him on one of the two channels that came in on the antenna.

When so many around me thought that being dissatisfied with the intellectual equivalent of McDonald's was elitist, Ebert reminded me that it wasn't cynical to look down on thoughtless garbage; rather, it was hopeful to demand that movie studios realize that we weren't as dumb as they think we are.
Leaked memo: Apple's iMessage crypto has DEA outfoxed
this kind of thing is a good resource for people who already know how to code, but need a fast and elegant syntax guide. its not useful for teaching beginners because, as you've said, it doesn't deal with the tool chain or project organization, etc. but if you know Ruby and want to learn Python, this is a great resource.
Blink Q&A Video
canceled my services with comcast because of this, plus FIOS has an excellent offer around my area! :)
Define "pretty easy". How is FB supposed to know if something is inappropriate for you?
His name is synomymous with film reviews. A legend passed away, his reviews will remain in the ether, ready to be read by the generations to come.
Why Does Tucows Send Important Emails Which Look Like Phishing?
Is anyone actually using compute engine here? Would be interested in your experiences. The scalr reference point sounds like payola to me.
The default view of the feed is actually highly filtered. One of the strongest signals it uses is the posts you like and comment on. So if you don't want to see baby pictures, food, etc. then make sure not to comment on those posts. :) It's pretty easy to go to a party, get a few new facebook friends, and comment on their pages regularly so facebook thinks they are your close circle to show you posts from.
Their tools are bundled with very limiting terms of usage, you must only use them to develop for their games.
Have you ever tried to automatically prune content? It's nearly if not completely impossible.

On the other hand, if it actually is easy for you, then you could make a LOT of money as a contractor. :)
Ok so now they can log every interaction you do on your phone. Look out for new permissions that you need to change the defaults to, or else your friends will see updates such as "Mongol just dialed his friend John". "Mongol is playing Wordfeud". "Mongol has an appointment with his dentist".
What new privacy holes will this introduce? I wonder if the facebook home will be constantly monitoring your location, recording app usage, grabbing your text messages, etc. Basically, are you surrendering the rest of your phone data to facebook?
What he means is, a big problem with browser toolbars is that they are installed automatically.

With different home apps, the user is always in control. (Although resetting a default once you've chosen it could be made a lot easier)

So comparing it to browser toolbars doesn't really work.
Savings would be invested significantly less with a fixed money supply, because every possible alternative investment is statistically guaranteed to have a lower expected value than simply holding onto your money. Obviously, there are still going to be people who attempt to beat the market. But it will happen significantly less often since the "default" of holding onto your money is both the safest possible investment and the most optimal.

This is clearly the case when nominal prices are falling. But when prices are rising, the reason they are rising is a contraction of the economy… and again, your money is still best left alone. Because while your investments might pay off when the economy rebounds, you'd still be statistically better off with your money sitting under the digital equivalent of your mattress; when the economy rebounds, prices will fall again, and your untouched money will be worth more in direct proportion to how much the economy has rebounded.
The outrageous way many Americans rewrite mobile phone history
Your Blink Questions Answered [video]
It’s not so much about the phone and new, amazing technology, it’s more about making an international push, to get more people to use their phones (and of course facebook, that will jump out of your phone :) ). The more people they will get to use it on their phones, the more ads they can deliver ;)
To get started with home weightlifting, you want an Olympic barbell, rubber "bumper plate" type weights, and a squat stand. If you have the room a squat cage and a bench are also useful.
So, does this mean meteorite (http://oortcloud.github.com/meteorite/) is now obsolete?
Competing is not only about killing or destroying someone (a business in your context). It is also about encouraging the players to continuously improve and challenge themselves. Yes it is true that whenever someone wins, someone else loses. But instead of looking only at the loss, look at what new gains are coming in ? You say you ate Amazon etc. because they destroyed many local shops. How about the thousands of jobs they also created ? How about the value they brought to consumers all over the world which the local shops wouldn't have. Also it is not a zero sum game. There still are local shops in cities around you. They still exist.

Look at the positives of anything. Stop worrying about negatives. I am sure those local shops would have found something else to do and who knows, they might even be doing better now.
Could someone who is really excited about this talk about their enthusiasm?
You can always buy the two books Ebert published that are nothing but collections of reviews he wrote for movies he gave 2 stars or less: I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie and its follow-up, Your Movie Sucks.

There's enough skewering between their covers to keep you occupied for quite some time :-D
Ebert wrote an article in 1997 about 2001: A Space Odyssey which changed the way I watch movies. He made me start thinking about why the director and his characters do things rather than caring specifically about what they were doing. His work will stick with me for the rest of my life.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19...
android homescreens behave very differently than browser toolbars do. You can not set a homescreen secretly or in the background, and you can only have a single home screen set at any given time.

If the user decides to install a homescreen, and he does not like it, He will simply uninstall the app.
Roger Ebert, Film Critic, Dies at 70
Are they a slow player? I can't think of many examples of them doing something that seemed like they were playing the long game (this is no doubt in part due to the fact that they're relatively young as a company).
> Think of how much time you spent arguing with a profesor that your score deserved an 8 instead of a 6, enough points to bring you from a B to a B+ for the semester.

I spent zero time doing this, and I never even realized how widespread it was to try to negotiate grades until I helped TA a few classes. Now I see how much professors hate the students who do.

Seriously, what job is going to care that you got a B vs B+ in a class? If that subject is really so important to their mission, they are probably looking for A+ candidates anyway.
Regardless about how you feel about the actual functionality here, as an entrepreneur you have to be impressed with Facebook's ability to continually ratchet up engagement year after year after year.
Do train at an indoor gym or mostly outdoors?
What you need to know about design
Each device does have it's own key. When you add a new device that key is shipped to all the other devices that can receive the messages. Basically you have a ring of keys, and each time you add a new key every single device on that ring gets an updated copy of the key ring.
How do you know they do?

That said, you should have seen my face when my ISP emailed me my very password for online access, in plain text. It was something like 123456. Unforgivable double offense.
"Keep receiving our ads, even when you're using other apps." ;)
Twitter changes access_token flow to be more compliant to OAuth1.0A spec