skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really A lot more?

Lets say you wrote a cool android app, but there is a little bug in it that is triggered by a phone you don't own or weren't able to test, I have that phone. I go to contact you, which of the following reports do you trust more -

From: mhurron [at] saminds.com
From: Google+ Roman Fox

Now be honest, even though this exact setup probably smells off. Given receiving a email from the above or from the above Google+ account, are you going to trust one or dismiss one simply on the name of the account?
A while back I trained myself into the habit of sleeping in two cycles each night. I’m a night owl, and thought it would be a good way to get a full night’s sleep and still have the night owl lifestyle. After several months, I found myself feeling detached from the world.

The hour or two you get is literally between sleep cycles. During that nighttime, my mind would race and worry about the most useless things. The dreamlike state wouldn’t shut off cleanly and I could not concentrate, so that hour was never productive like I usually am during the night hours. It was impossible to learn anything, nothing would be retained. The second sleep cycle was always turbulent and I found myself waking up several times throughout. During the day, it felt like my emotions were muddled, like I was an automaton. That hour or two morphed into my only personal time, and the day became mindless, numb.

I considered this a failed experiment and re-trained myself back to a single sleep cycle. It was harder going back than it had been to split in the first place. After several months of ‘normal’ sleep I was back to having deep peaceful sleep. I was myself again during the day. I could learn and keep knowledge. The world was interesting again and I was engaging with it.

These were my experiences and expect it would be different for each individual.
Pandora is the best of a bad lot. They have an interesting approach, but any lengthy listen will reveal a lot of repetition; not because there's a tiny universe of music to recommend, but rather because they can't afford to troll the long tail (downloading stuff from Bandcamp, for instance). What works for Pandora is their curation, and the marginal cost of increasing inputs is more than they are willing to spend.

The last record I bought (a single by The Greys) I listened to on recommendation of a coworker, who's in a band that I like, who had played with some people who are playing a show with The Greys. I also like going to a local record store (Soundscapes) and just buying what the people who work there recommend. Nobody is currently capturing these signals; Facebook is obviously the one company that has access to perhaps a sufficiency of this data, but music recommendations are seemingly pretty small beer in the Zuckerbergian scheme of things.

The lack of a decent music (or film/TV) recommendation system looks a lot like a business opportunity, but I think that it's fundamentally not a business. Recommendations can drive business to a retail operation, but how do you sell recommendations qua recommendations?
Your comment isn't condescending at all; re-reading mine it might actually have across as such. I think we're actually talking about different degrees of transgressions.

I guess I wanted to say that if you feel the behaviour is too far out of line, say systemic overt discrimination or such, to also not be afraid to make a stand, speak up and accept that it might cost you your job.

If anybody ever wants to go that route I'd suggest getting a lawyer / interest group on your side from the get-go though.
Just get the Login Lockdown plugin and install it.
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I think it's most likely that large institutions (who are most able to pay) are willing to pay a premium to avoid the hassle of adding and removing seats from their license with every change in staff.

It was probably also starting to be incur noticeable administrative overhead for fog creek
One immediate usecase I thought of: StarTwitter.

http://fotcorn.github.io/StarRSS/#http://api.twitter.com/1/s...

Isn't it great when technologies play well with each other!
Don't Panic.

When you start a new job, you'll always have a 2-6 month period of getting to know your colleagues, platform and library stack. Use that time to learn. At the end of it, you'll be back to where you were.

Remember you're in software. An industry that where everything changes every 5 years. After you have a baseline affinity for software & technology, what matters is how fast you can learn and adapt.

Me? I've taught myself everything I know. I moved from UK to Holland at 26 so had to start again (I didn't speak the language, and don't live in Amsterdam - so that was a problem).

Now I'm 32, married, speak fluent Dutch, and have an awesome job working at a start-up in the enterprise space (think Meteor for grown-ups).

Where are you based?
This is probably an older site, given that they list Google Reader as one of the options for consuming their RSS.
You don't tell us, what kind of backpacking, where etc..for how long?
Updated Facebook for Android requires "Retrieve Running Apps" permission
Get in touch at twitter.com/gr2m if you don't find anyone by end of April. I'll do it for ya. You can donate the money
> Meanwhile the moderators of this site hellban people for the "crime" of linking to a scientific paper that disagrees with global warming

Hellbans are not always moderator implemented. Usually hellbans are the result of people downvoting. Since climate change denialism is usually bullshit I can understand why that kind of link gets many down votes.

The other stuff sounds horrible, and surprising, and I'm sad if your account of it is accurate. For what it's worth I've seen personal attacks heavily downvoted, and I've seen homosexual-positive comments upvoted.
If it is installed software, you also have to do license audits, which usually require going on-site. Much easier just to slap an unlimited license on a product.
Related to the new Facebook Home app-launche feature?
Best Quotes about Bitcoin
One of the successful 7drl entrants this year was made in excel. If I remember correctly, one of the devs was an accountant: http://7drl.org/2013/03/16/7drl-completed-excelent-rogue/
Tried your shurcool link and the results are interesting and useful, so thanks for that. I picked up links I had missed.

However, it only shows about a hundred results (guess) and I have over 20,000 followers. Also, some entries are just the name, with no actual tweet.
ACLU: CISPA Far From "Fixed"
"It's like I'm superman, and lexicon Luther has a big chunk of vocabulary confounding kryptonite and he's jabbing it right in my thesaural gland..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du_RTMmofWM
Can someone post a picture of the final product?

I have disabled Java in my browser and do not wish to enable it.
If new bitcoins were worth billions, billions in energy would be wasted mining them.

(the denomination of newly-created bitcoin is adjusted to keep the growth rate at the prescribed amount regardless of how much CPU power is dedicated to mining. So regardless of the bitcoin price, the energy needed to mine new bitcoin is close to the value of bitcoin created. Otherwise mining would be a free lunch.)
Revision control aside, MS Access is not that bad for what it does.

However... I've seen management people write a couple of VB functions, think they magically turned into "Developers" (with a Capital D), and start barking random orders to people doing totally unrelated things with totally unrelated tools.

The actual danger is psychological, much like when the new iPhone user on the block magically turns into a "Design Expert" (Caps!) and starts hunting innocent bystanders...
I don't understand the quote. Economies of scale always give price breaks to the big buyers. I don't understand why that's nutty?
This is basically what I was doing except with redis instead of netcat. I was happy to see copy-pipe in v1.8.
This actually misses the worst problem. Brain wallets are essentially unsalted. You can build a gigantic rainbow table once and then watch those addresses forever after.

And you aren't attacking a single address at a time. You're attacking them all in parallel. Even if the expected time to crack one password is very long, the expected time to crack some password can be much, much smaller.
Better Netflix Instant Catalog Search
looks handy. what kind of animations is this using?
Google vs. Bing: Search Engines Deliver Infected Websites as Top Results [pdf]
I'd much rather run the native code, if my other option is firing up an interpreter. Shrug.
So, you're wrong about the entropy in the pass phrase. XKCD goes into the math, and for a sufficiently long phrase, there's plenty of entropy. And yes he takes into consideration there's only so many English words.
Which would be fine. RSS usually has a limited number of entries
We can never 'fall' again as thoroughly as we did in the past. Too many artifacts; too many documents/cds/books/computers containing the technology to restart a civilization.
Thanks.

Just to clarify, it shows your followees, as in the people you follow.

It currently shows up to 100 followees because I use a single twitter API call. Some of the tweets being empty is probably because that call is deprecated (and would have to be replaced by two calls). Given their whole API version 1 is now deprecated, replaced with auth-requiring 1.1 that would break the simplicity of the current app, I didn't spend too much effort on polishing it.

However, feel free to open an issue, if enough people +1 it, I'll try to fix it sometime. :)
Uses CSS3 animations with a (pure) JS fallback when not supported. Guess I should mention that on the site...thx :)
I try to educate using [XKCD style password](http://xkcd.com/936/) to mainstream people. So far, they seemed to get it.
Original source code for Prince of Persia posted to Github
Github repo: https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II
I go through the same exact cycle. I think it's necessary to have a burnout phase to recharge your batteries and get you excited again. For example, sometimes I will go camping for a few days and have no internet around. When I get back to the computer everything is so colorful and exciting. HN is thrilling.
Data Science: the end of Statistics?
So is there any safe way to store bitcoins? It's getting kind of frustrating to not have a best practice.
Thanks a lot. Disabled here too.
Maybe butterfly wings? Maybe tree bark? Who knows, who studies the cooling properties of materials in nature.
This article misses the real flaw with the pass phrase; pass phrases aren't really 2^B (where B = bits obviously) entropy. They're D^N entropy where N = number of words and D = size of the dictionary. The OED has 171K words in it, so say you're using a 7 word phrase that's ~4.3 * 10^36 possibilities. In reality most people's vocabulary is no more than 60K words whch gives us 2.8 * 10^33.

If instead you use only 16 character password with no dictionary words (i.e. completely random or sufficiently randomized memorable words) you have 3.4 * 10^38 possibilities.

3.4 * 10^38 > 4.3 * 10^36 > 2.8 * 10^33

I think everybody should use what works for them, and pass phrases are easy to remember but they have the exact same trade off that using pure dictionary words does at shorter lengths; it's easier to crack.
meanwhile, google also urges everyone to use google glass.
much easier than flying in ur friends bedroom!

id also point out that commercial uavs: (as in stuff citizens can buy)

- dont carry weapons

- dont fly more than 15min for stationary uavs (multi-rotors) due to current battery technology

- "nobody " cares about what their neighbors are doing.. and when they do, they dont need an uav to film their garden.

i believe most of the scare is commercial, such as aerial street mapping, much cheaper via uavs than with google cars, for example - thus accessible to everyone
Yes. Just to finish off the argument for you (I think you already get this, just forgot to explicitly state it), not only would the programmer have to assume the risk in choosing postgres over Oracle, but she would typically also not get any share of the thousands of dollars she saved the company by so doing. It's all downside and no upside, so it's no surprise that many people opt for the vendor solution.
What Bitcoin teaches us about the Internet’s energy use
I'd argue Excel _is_ a reactive programming environment: just not a conventional one.
I can write code, but can’t design well. Any help?
But if the attacker knew with good probability that your passphrase is a valid sentence, they'd have ways to eliminate incorrect sentences, and so reduce the search space a bit (or a bit more, depending on how clever they are).
Very opinionated, but very good opinions. Thanks for sharing.
Scientific research would certainly be interesting; but I'm not sure what difference it would make. Beneficial outcomes are always going to be a matter of personal preference and convenience. This is worth trying for a few days, even without good evidence.
I love this. To me it's coming full circle. As someone who felt like they graduated to programming from Excel, I often get peeved by people who use Excel like Paint with numbers. How many times have you seen someone doing calculations by hand and entering them into rows, making pretty spreadsheet pictures with colored cells, or completely ignoring the most simple functions like SUM (much less SUMIF).

Now here they have ratcheted up the complexity several degrees... and why? to paint a picture. Cue the Lion King.
I already use this all the time for the past few years with the exact same command "j": https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump
I think what the OP is trying to say with the quote with traditional volume discounts, you're always getting some additional money per additional unit. With an "unlimited" license, you don't add any additional revenue while the customer adds people. After a certain point with a site license, everything is "free" and that could be bad for the person selling (no additional revenue, increased support costs, etc)
I went on a PostScript kick a few years back. It's amazing what you can tell printers to do: http://fstutoring.com/~chris/postscript/
i love this little app. So useful.
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RA has few "fun" causes. Sorry you had/have one of them. Many of them are very recoverable, so hopefully that ends up being your path.

My personal greatest fear is have cancer, have the executive function portion of my brain destroyed by chemo, then survive. I empathize strongly with your situation here

If your former employer had LTD insurance, you may still be able to qualify for it. Look into that for financial support.

Look up your old professors directly, explain what happened. Explain why you can't recognize them, then just ask them to audit the course again. They'll remember you, and will likely offer something.

Additionally, bring yourself up on exceedingly new technologies (ember, helios, etc), that NO one has experience in. Then when you're someone who knows all the latest stuff, rather than someone who forgot some slightly stale stuff.
I think that the main issue that you're having is that 'active window' is an attribute of a session, and not of the client. If 'active window' were specific to a client, then two clients could switch windows independently while connected to the same session.

You could petition for an option to the `attach-session` command that automatically creates a new session grouped to the session that you're 'attaching' to. IIRC, you can't attach two 'clients' to the same (GNU) screen session unless you use the -x option, so it's not like it's the 'default' behaviour for screen either.

Edit:

I wasn't thinking, but `new-session` will automatically connect to the new session you created, so there is no need for an option to `attach-session`. So when you want to connect a second client, just:

# find the session you want
$ tmux list-sessions

# create a grouped session
$ tmux new-session -t SESSION_ID

Edit 2:

| This is so much more complicated!

Depends. If you're using byobu, then you're already attempting to abstract away a bunch of the complexity of GNU screen, so it's not like you would find less complexity if you dove into the screen internals. It's also this design that makes it easier to do complex things that screen can't do with its windows.

| When using byobu I use F3 and F4 to cycle to
| previous and next window.

Maybe you're misunderstanding. You still use the same tmux bindings to switch windows, it's just the setting up of the session that requires slightly more work when connecting a second client.
Tags would work well here. A comment could be tagged as "snarky" or "funny" or "humor", and you could easily filter on that.

The ability to tag comments and stories has been repeatedly suggested on HN and, unfortunately, always rejected.
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I hate to judge a book by its cover, but shouldn't this ebook have been a single page app itself?
Larger companies tend to be in a position to 'roll-their-own' so you sometimes have to discount.

They may not be able to execute their plans well, but it gives them negotiation power.
The question is which exchange to use. They differ a lot. Using MtGox will just further promote MtGox as 'the' exchange, which is bad.

[mtgox] Bid: $114.82000, Ask: $115.00000

[btflr] Bid: $115.07000000, Ask: $118.77000000

[btc-e] Bid: $107.909, Ask: $107.3
I sort of think StaRSS or StarSS would sound better. But I do like this little mash-up.
Also see fasd: Its the best one out there.

https://github.com/clvv/fasd

+ Fasd (pronounced similar to "fast") is a command-line productivity booster.

+ Fasd offers quick access to files and directories for POSIX shells. It is inspired by tools like autojump, z and v.

+ Fasd keeps track of files and directories you have accessed, so that you can quickly reference them in the command line.

I've been using this tool, nothing comes close this one. Trust me on this. :)
I have to give a big kudos to Ted Krum on page 3 - going back to school 20+ years after you graduated to re-learn computer science with kids half your age is really a beautiful story. I wish him the best of luck and I really hope he finds a good job in his old/new profession.
Fasd: a command-line productivity booster.
Have you ever used SwiftKey or Swype on Android? Vaguely the same principles apply here. It actually wouldn't be hard to generate passphrases where you try the most "predictable" phrases first. E.g. if you start your brute-forcing at "my cat" you would try "my cat likes" a long time before you tried "my cat algorithmically".

Also, 100,000 common words is a bit more than you would need. If people are plucking words from their heads, rather than rolling dice and picking from a list, you can assume a more limited corpus and still crack a lot of passwords.
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They will block you for using "twitter" in the url. They own the trademark, so the name needs to be changed.... and yes, they will most definitely cancel your keys! But I like your idea! It's very cool.
Books fall apart (especially those made in recent times). Computers, cds etc all require electricity, which would probably be one of the first things to go, taking with it reams of digital information. Then account for lack of maintenance (except in isolated environments) and within a century or two, it would be very difficult to recover from.
The BBC's "In Our Time" [1], a weekly discussion of history, science, literature, culture -- brilliantly moderated by Sir Melvyn Bragg. Effortlessly intelligent and always entertaining.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl
Simply allowing more than one way to do something does not mean that you have a "need to show how knowledgeable or insecure [you] are".
The author seems trapped in a sort of cognitive dissonance: For years he's stated that he wants financial independence, yet for years he's failed to reach that goal, for the same reason. I'm reminded of a quote:

> The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over
> and over again and expecting different results.

Perhaps he'd be happier if he did a reality check on his goals.
I played d&d and R d&d, the latter is the one where you actually dress up and fight other people with rubber swords. When I tell people at the office they still laugh at me about that. But frankly, I don't really care - those were the best times ever!
Am I alone in thinking that the obsession with this guy is a little on the creepy side?
I've used WordPress in the past because it was easy to setup and use. However, given the consistently bad security record I'd love to try something different. Anyone have recommendations for other open source CMS's? Similar functionality to WP is enough - I don't need anything fancy.
The Ekirch book referred to is At Day's Close: Night in Times Past [1]. It covers much more than sleep patterns. We think of night as merely the absence of daylight, but in the past it was seen as a different world.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/At-Days-Close-Night-Times/dp/039332901...
Google in peace deal with Brussels
Off topic: Cancer survivor here. Just wanted to let you know that chemo fog is a very real thing but temporary thing. I had it pretty bad but I'm two months out and everything is back to normal.
I do that now, only the fire has been replaced by the warm[1] glow of my laptop and the people next to me are scattered worldwide.

1. Warm thanks to f.lux.
Original HN thread from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3851605
This is relevant: http://www.digitallydownloaded.net/2013/04/interview-cary-wa...

It's a turn-based RPG in Excel.
I like to watch movies and tv comedies and adventures and ignore any stuff I don't like.

I visit websites I like, VS anything else I just don't care about is vague and bland and ignorable.

Simplest most powerful solution to your seeming dillemma:
If a random thought feels bad, it's bad - stop it.
If a random thought feels good, it's good - do it more.

And I go out adventuring, with an open mind seeking out more feel good stuff.
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Moreover, BTC isn't the only hot new digital currency out there.

It's quite possible a currency with better technical support by vendors/exchanges could overtake BTC as the premiere ecurrency.
There's a patent our there for just about any conceivable thing in computing. I'm pretty sure commenting on HN articles is patented and we're in violation right now. It's so ridiculous. No can ever really do anything with most of them (except maybe troll companies with deep pockets or if you're building a phone). I remember that 5 years ago when building a company people would still ask whether you had patents. I don't think they still do, but those are just my impressions.
You could import it in http://www.dotdotdot.me and start annotating it.
Why Dell is Failing in 2013; Countdown to the PC Apocalypse
Joel has no obligation to be consistent over 9 years or to keep to the same pricing philosophy as his company has grown and evolved significantly.

Bear in mind that "Unlimited" usually is not so. Even if his customer has 100k employees, the likelihood is that only a few thousand at most will use it. Why nickel-and-dime them - make the sales process as simple as possible and make everyone happier.