skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wireless data is getting faster and faster in terms of providing what would previously be considered massive bandwidth but generally the latency still sucks for things like fast-paced online gaming. I still want fiber.
Seems a lot of people are forgetting about http://hackpad.com
Short and sweet but lacking in examples.
There is a growing subreddit for discussion of cryptocurrencies:

http://www.reddit.com/r/cryptocurrency
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Anyone interested in putting something together so that we can start aggregating the worst violators? I know I'd use that list not just to filter out the time-wasters but also to apply pain-pricing.
getpersonas.com is currently read-only [0], "Personas" have been renamed to "Themes" on addons.mozilla.org [1], and the getpersonas.com domain should go away within two weeks [2].

[0]: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2013/03/27/getpersonas-com-i...

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/themes/

[2]: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2013/02/28/getpersonas-com-m...
I'm curious, as someone with a 512GB SSD, and only using about 20% of that, does anyone actually need this sort of capacity? The obvious answer is if you want to keep a lot of media on the drive but in that case the benefits over an HDD are insignificant, and in my opinion not worth the price premium. Maybe this is mainly for the enterprise space and servers?
>> type in email, login to yahoo...

Wait. So, my email provider (Yahoo) can now keep track of every website I login to, if he wants? How can I stop Yahoo being the middleman?

Second question, if an attacker knows my Yahoo password, can he potentially login to _all_ Persona-powered websites with my email then?
Those are all great questions, indeed. I'll see if I can get people to answer them!
I specified redacting the details, i.e. the irc nickname.

If the information within the headers is that sensitive, the headers should probably not be forwarded from efnet to hetzner.
At its most basic their servers are attacking efnets and so should be considered hostile.

By all means pass on contact information to resolve amicably - but don't leave sensitive information.

There's no reason to pass on irc nicks or sensitive email addresses - what use are they to hetzner?
I have the same expectation of efnet as you have for the ISP.

If the issue is that efnet is being identified as the reporter to the rogue attacker, then that is not what is stated in the efnet admin's text.
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Also, it's more private. With a native browser implementation, you don't communicate with persona.org every time you log in to a website, you only have to trust your browser to store your cached authentication credential.
First of all, the US advantage in agriculture was mostly due to resources such as the availability of large amounts of fertile land/person. Yes, the cotton gin was important. Yes a lot of improvements came from the USA. But this is no different than successful technology transfer anywhere else. People who have problems, find clever solutions to them. This becomes the foundation of long-term growth in innovations.

Secondly, you are massively underestimating Asian innovation. Almost all global manufacturing of key technologies, such as RAM, has almost entirely moved to Asia. Moore's Law has not slowed for those technology. There is lots of innovation going on in those fields, and it is all Asian at this point. Mostly covered by trade secrets rather than US patents, but it is still real and your computer wouldn't run without it.

Did you hear that Samsung recently got criticized for deciding to budget more on marketing than R&D? They did. When was the last time that you saw a US company criticized for valuing marketing above R&D? What does that say about the innovation culture in South Korea vs the USA? (Yes, innovation in China and India are behind South Korea - but 20 years ago nobody thought of South Korea as more than a bunch of copycats. How will they remember their history in 200 years?)

Thirdly you're not acknowledging the fact that the USA historically had a deserved reputation for not respecting intellectual property. For example Charles Dickens had more than a few choice words about how freely his works were pirated verbatim in the USA. Key technologies were taken lock, stock and barrel without compensation - exactly what Americans today complain about Asian countries doing.

In short there are good parallels between how the USA behaved and was seen 200 years ago, and what's going on today in Asia.
I don't like Persona, personally. Email is not an identity. When we connect with email and passwords, both fields are keys (in the open-the-door metaphor). To make the password a secret key, we can't check it for uniqueness so we need a less secret key that will be checked for uniqueness. I think it's important that users can easily modify both keys without loosing their identity.
Do you know of any JS OT framework that supports peer to peer?
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I'm in Austin and can't wait. Unfortunately I think I'm going to have to continue to pay TimeWarner for another 1-2 years at least.

I'm interested to see where the first 'fiberhood' is going to be in Austin. South Austin, 78704 would be awesome. Any Austin people on here have any guesses?
South Holland is, and it has 4 million people living in it.
Really, I had him a couple years ago.
I'm in CompEng, what field are you in, we might know each other ;).
> but the more difficult and obscure the protocol is

It only looks difficult and obscure because I (stupidly) wrote it as a protocol.

I could/should have just said that users could shuffle what they have on a given service faster than takedown requests come in. They might do this naturally, as a consequence of overzealous takedowns against encrypted blobs on MEGA.

More to your point, Usenet and XDCC have maintained vibrant communities, despite being difficult to use, but on an even more popular level, Bittorrent has incredible popularity and surprising staying power. Sophistication of an underlying protocol isn't really strongly connected to ultimate ease of use.
Ask HN: A Bolivian TV station stole my web app. What should I do?
I just gave my lil' moustache app a bit of a facelift and then decided to see (via google) what was happening in the world of online moustache apps.
I then came across this site:
http://www.reduno.com.bo/bigote/

Pretty much a complete rip off of my facetache.com! (Their copy is based on an earlier version. http://20.facetache.appspot.com)

I'm somewhat miffed at the whole thing. Partially amused and partially a bit cranky at their audacity.

Anyways HN, what would your response be?
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Is the source for this STL Three.JS viewer available on GitHub?

It's be nice if, when you sign in, you could change which viewer was associated with which file type. Then I could fork their viewer, add my own features, and use that.
Believe me, I went to school here and got my masters from here. I see my bretheren who "worked" out of country who don't know difference between quicksort and mergesort. I am not even talking about stuff like time complexity, turing machines or functional programming.
What H-1B shouldn't be is for people who do SAP, business or someother stuff like that; which by the way is what most of H-1s are going for.
> I can see how some people would type in their gmail password in by mistake.

I can see how this could be a big problem once one ID provider decides he'd be interested in grabbing and abusing such credentials. The natural password related to the e-mail address for most people is that of the e-mail provieder.
>>>Generally, when people are socking money away their savings account, or reducing their spending in some way, it means they're trying to expose themselves to less risk because they're worried about the future.

No. That is totally against the American tradition of consumer banking (at least until 1970s stagflation) as well as the way banking has been practiced in Japan. "Save it for a rainy day" didn't come from nowhere. It's what most Americans used to practice. And in Japan they are exhorted to bank as a national good to fund loans to companies. A lack of confidence in the future -- incomes remaining the same -- would empty banks of deposits.
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The login string looks like an email, but it is only for convenience. Any thing that looks like an email address, and for which the domain will authenticate it using the persona protocol, can be used. Or even an address at mockmyid.com
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1. Privacy: the identity provider can't tell what site you are logging in to.

2. It's decentralized: any email provider can provide Persona authentication for the email addresses that it handles. You don't have to rely on Mozilla to do this except as a fallback for email providers who don't support Persona.
I'm not trying to be rude but, IMO, not being able to see some of the reasons implies to me that you haven't done much interviewing/hiring.

I don't think you are rude and you are right I haven't done a lot of hiring but I have done numerous interviews along the years and applied dozens of times. As a matter of fact I am currently applying right now.

I understand your point about the personalized response saying explicitely "you are not fit for our organization" or even more "you lack this and that". It could be opening a door to a "negociation" and lead to a lot of lost time. And when you have dozens or hundreds or applicants it really is not possible.

But this kind of response goes a long way from a simple "the position has been filled" when it has been filled, even if it is a month afterwards. This helps the candidate to understand that the company is not interested in his application anymore.

In my opinion it shows a lot from the company and does not cost "that" much of time it the process is automated (and I think it should be for the majority of cases).
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Wacko? There is nothing he said there that was wacko. If you mean his Tea Party affiliation, I didn't even learn of that until after reading. I think you're letting something other than his argument color your reaction.
"Those who matter?" Hopefully you meant "those who understand the way people here use the term," which would be both more correct and less disingenuous.

I agree, though, that the terminology argument is unhelpful and stale. Unfortunately, pedantic terminology attacks are often a lot easier than constructive debate or discussion.
Oh what's that shiny light... S*$# I'm on fire.
Here's a link to the AppStore Review guidelines: https://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guid...
That works once you have discovered your customers and market fit. Until then, you need to sell first, then build.

An acquaintance of mine built her company by selling her idea all over town. She got a few local businesses to sign on, and told them it would be a month of set up time. Over the course of a month she got the business setup, hired employees, bought computers, etc... 5 years of hard work later she sold the business and is currently vacationing at some random place in the world.
I think you have to be careful with the whole-company hire business.

It's important to note that not everyone will be able to do every job well, and some people will not be able to do some jobs at all. So while it is important that their ethics, personal drive to learn, and cooperation skills be top-notch, one has to be careful not to try to hire expert generalists, because one ends up with people who are neither true experts nor true generalists.

I think in Google's case, and I speak from an outsider's point of view, that Google tends to try to hire the experts at the expense of the generalists. Generalists, while less technically adept at any one task as experts (I was thinking of using the term specialist there), many times have more experience with communication, managing changes, and, hum, diplomacy.

Again, from the outside, Google looks like a regiment of special forces: each member individually highly competent, and together, when deployed appropriately, quite capable. But one would not expect them to be able to run an orphanage, or, to wrap up the analogy, have very good customer service.

Although, thinking of it, a regiment of special forces would be very effective at running orphanages, since the great majority of soldiers would feel very compassionate toward the children, and not many things would get in the way of them getting the resources needed to care for the kids properly. Not sure Googlers would do as well.
After speaking with a couple of people that have ADHD (I've never been diagnosed, though I probably would have been with my behavior and inattentiveness during my school years), I've worked up a pet theory that so-called "ADHD" or "ADD" is what allows people to hyper focus like this. Granted, of the people I've talked to, including myself, that hyper focus really only extends to things they are truly interested in, but it's real nonetheless. I found this out for myself when I got into programming (as stated above).

As for me, I've noticed the amount of time I can focus on something go down a little over the years as well, though I still occasionally get inspired and hyper focus like I used to.
Not the way to do it, Apple.

But this is an amazing way to deal with the situation. He's frank, honest and comes off looking like he's got the situation under control. Marketing types should bookmark this for future reference - great way to address a situation.
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California, once one of the friendliest states to do business in, has turned into a nightmare. The entrepreneurs I know are already looking for exits to Austin.
I was thinking more of Italy and its notorious construction fiascos.
I don't know, my Comcast offerings got substantially better over the last few years before I moved, going from 6/1Mbps to about 20/5, and I could have had well beyond 100Mbps down by the end if I felt like paying for it.
I was talking about the general case you were debating with Mr. Tacek, about complete amateurs vs those with a track record. Wasn't commenting on the author. I didn't finish the article because of the ALTERNATING bold FONTS, so I can't really comment on the substance.
This is curation in action.
Oh, please. I've been here for years. I'd rather stay anonymous.
My comment of "not buying it" was that there was no evidence (other than your opinion) to support your claim. Honestly, I would like to hear more about how you came to that conclusion.

I know the rankings are only one way to estimate (and would like to hear a better way :)

Is there a list that puts Waterloo or UBC better than Stanford or MIT? ANY LIST BY ANY MAGAZINE?

http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities-ran...

University of Toronto (15th) UBC(27) Vs MIT (1) and Stanford (2)
> After some incidents in my shool years, I've noticed that I unconciously tend to hit ctrl-s every few dozen keystrokes without even noticing it.

That is exactly how I learned too. Years later, ctrl-s is still a reflex action.
I've been thinking about this, and I have come to the conclusion that it's less of an issue than I thought it was. For a simple reason: the "email address" you provide is just an identifier. A string formatted as "user@domain", nothing more.

By convention it's a usable email address, but there is literally nothing preventing someone from starting up an email-less Persona identity provider. You'd still log in with your_username@noemailpersona.com, but that's just a formality that doesn't need to be hooked up to an actual mail server at any point.

Never using that account to actually communicate would put it on par with any other auth system you can come up with. Disposable when you want to dispose of it, and no need to ever dispose of it unless you want to. The whole issue with some people changing their email addresses for spam-fighting / inbox-cleaning purposes is a non-issue with this kind of an account.
Sorry crawled up from under a stone here. Asked myself how is this different from OpenID, then I found this (fyi).

http://identity.mozilla.com/post/7669886219/how-browserid-di...
I've been looking for an answer to this question for a while -- why not build a digital commodity currency, where useful computation is a commodity? (I've yet to find a satisfying response to this).

Several problems come to mind:

* There's not enough computation. With BTC-type currencies, the value of the money is far higher than the cost of the backing computation (look up bitcoin mining calculations). If you have a computational commodity currency, they should be closely linked (by definition!). And a home PC can support a trivial amount of computation ($100's at most) -- not enough to be useful.

* Not enough demand for (pure, parallelizable) computation.

* No intrinsic way to "store" computation. You can record the existence of computation, but if this done by a distributed P2P system like bitcoin, the commodity-backing property is lost. A file verifying that a computation was performed is not itself computation: it doesn't solve any problems, it has no intrinsic value. Of course a legal private currency, backed by banks and courts, could keep track of such debts and make them enforceable.

* Security problem: you would need to run arbitrary machine code on a home PC, if this were to have any useful value. This is dangerous and unsolved. Is there any way to run, e.g., untrusted CUDA code in a sandbox? (I believe no)

* Accounting. There's no pure "unit" of computation: you would have many types of computational problems, being assigned to many different types of hardware. In the real world, I think you wouldn't end up with a single currency so much as a market, with many currencies and many fluctuating exchange rates. If you could extract a currency from this, it would be as a currency basket (5% protein folding, 5% linear algebra...)

So I suspect this wouldn't work well today. Maybe in the future.
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They said the roll-out was focusing on Austin City Limits, and more specifically they stated the desire to release Fiber in public buildings (offices, hospitals, schools, etc.).

This paired with the UT Austin teacher video they released leads me to believe it'll be available to the campus area, probably downtown as well (St. Davids main and Brackenridge Medical Center) and probably the surrounding neighborhoods.

Personally, I would be surprised if it went east of I-35, south of Capitol of Texas highway, west of Mopac, or North of 183 in its initial release.
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So where's the proof that they lied? Quote the text.
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Thank you! I hear this all the time and it drives me nuts! "Omg, I'm sooooOoOooO busy.... I've been working (on my facebook profile) for 10 hours today :sadpandaface:"

I have no problem with posting cat videos to facebook, more power to you, but don't claim that you're busy when your not.
My fav is the "I didn't have the time (enter any task here)" forgetting that the two of your are friends on facebook and you can see the 189321983729 icanhascheezburger photos that were shared during the "busy" time.
We do know each other. Very well :0
The popup has to explain WHY it is asking for an email address. Else, Average Joe is just going to assume you are a spam site asking for his email.
This is a little confusing to me; if the issue is the push notification why don't they simple stop doing the push notification? Or is it already too late for that?

EDIT: The All Things D article sheds more light on what might really be going on here: http://allthingsd.com/20130408/confirmed-apple-kicks-appgrat...
If you're not doing anything crazy with them, you probably won't be able to kill your average MLC/TLC SSD.

Let's say you write 20 GB to your SSD every day. The SSDs mentioned in the article have a lifetime of 72 TB, which means you can write 20 GB daily for more than 10 years. Also, 72 TB is probably a pretty pessimistic estimate.

That being said, if you do anything I/O-intensive (write-heavy databases, anything with lots of small write operations, ...), YMMV. That's why "enterprise" SSDs are still unbelievably expensive - quite often they use SLC technology (though there are more and more server MLCs) and they usually have way more "spare" cells which are used to replace other cells killed by too many writes.
Over in SF, I have Webpass, which uses wireless data to deliver Internet to the building. I consistently get around 100/100 with <5ms ping (and that's for $50 a month!)

So yea, wireless data has gotten really really good.

Mind you, that's not LTE. It's microwave wireless... so a different type of wireless tech.
Jon Bentley has a chapter on this topic in the performance section of Programming Pearls. This is a very useful skill for reasoning about problem boundaries. All too often, our performance estimates are on the order of "fast" and "crazy fast". Worse yet, we build systems without understanding how they will scale under load.