skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What we have here is a wonderful example of filter failure.

See this link: http://web2expo.blip.tv/file/1277460/

It's a video of Clay Shirky's web2expo keynote titled "It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure."

Here's what's happening: For every wonderful blog post there are several mediocre ones. And when you oversubscribe to RSS feeds, which many of us do, you start drowning in a flood of posts you don't feel like reading.

Links you get on Twitter, on the other hand, are already pre-filtered. Somebody must have already read the article and decided it's worth sharing. You also know from previous experience who is sharing good links and who is sharing crap, so you know whose links are worth clicking.

But this can only work as long as some people keep on reading lots of articles and only share the good ones. You're not gonna get any new links once everyone decides to abandon RSS and only read articles shared by people they follow on Twitter.
You wouldn't get a baby face. The shape of the face is determined by the bones under it, not by the skin on top. (Although the skin would be smooth, and not lined.) So a face donor recipient does not get the face of the donor.

Also, faces (i.e. skin) is actually the easiest organ to grow, and doesn't need stem cells. I read about a burn victim where they took some skin from under his belt buckle (The only non burned skin on him), and stretched, then split, then stretched some more till they were able to cover him (took months).
Have we learned nothing from the anti-ship missile drama?
This is pretty cool. Good job.
That all depends on the kind of code, of course.
Dupe:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=592043
Exactly my strategy, too. Anyone else do this?
Other interesting books, in addition to the excellent "Soul", are "Show Stopper!", which covers the development of Windows NT, "Microserfs" (fiction) by Douglas Coupland, and "Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters". These are centered on MS culture, but I think they are representative of the industry at large. NT in particular took a heavy toll, with apparently many divorces and strong burn out in the team.

I think it has to do with the culture in many of the firms doing this type of development. Take bright motivated kids out of school, move them close to a corporate campus where they don't know anyone outside of work, work them 70 hours a week, burn out, discard.

I'm not saying this is all by an evil design, it might just be the way things work out, but I have seen the bitter results as well.

As to the nature of the work itself, I think close-to-the-metal work is a lot of fun. Too bad the work conditions are often rocky. I doubt you'd see the same burn out effect on those in sane work conditions.
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Let's see how long it takes the hacker news team to fix!

(Or even some lisp hackers to beat pg with their own patch!)

Three main issues:
1) improper use of hashing. No salt used.
2) sha1 is not the best hash to be using.
3) passwords are not encrypted in the browser. So are sent clear text.

Fixes for issues one and two, are covered in the article...

For issue 3), you can do the hash+salt client side (with js) if SSL isn't feasible.

cu.
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I choose not to be a donor.

My cousin died a few years back. He had an untreated cavity that turned very infectious. Now, a few months later, he got out of the shower and just died. The doctor said that he seemed to have died before he even hit the ground..

In the same room as the doctor explaining that "We dont know what killed your son" were the body harvesters. All they could do was to pressure the parents, my uncle and aunt, to donate every part of his body, even though they had no idea WHAT killed him.

I do find these body parts people just plain disgusting. To these people, "No" means keep pestering more.

And yes, I also do worry that if a RN or doctor sees that donor card, they might not do as good of a job to save me. Not that they would do _bad_, but they would quit sooner than a non-donor.
The thing is, Android is a platform that many companies are currently developing hardware for.

In less than a year's time a ton of android handsets are planned to enter circulation. The iPhone is just Apple.

So I'm guessing we have yet to see Androids peak of popularity.
I hope everyone does this.
Perhaps Oracle indeed thinks that some very suitable confusion is worth some serious money?
It's already possible to do true multicore processing in Flash Player 10 using the Pixel Bender runtime. It's a bit cumbersome because you need to write your processing kernel in the data-parallel Pixel Bender language and call it from ActionScript using the ShaderJob object.

However it's definitely worth it for any parallelizable data-crunching tasks because you get both JIT compilation and multicore support. (Flash Player 10 compiles the processing kernel to native x86 code on the fly and splits the work across up to 8 native threads, IIRC.)
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Someone should license that container shuffling system for parking garages...
Yes, but I've basically only have one password that shrinks depending on how sensitive the information is.

Throw-away password: "ex@mpl3"

Email password: "ex@mpl3p@55"

Finance password: "ex@mpl3p@55w0rd!"
I think you mean "You should not trust _anyone_ with your password".
>> "celebrities started turning up on Twitter once they heard it was getting popular. They didn't make it popular in the first place. It got popular because it was useful."

I don't know, myself, and I'm sure several others, only bothered with it to see @stephenfry tweets. And I'm pretty sure he's been on it for a long time now.
> turns out the author was ignorant of C++ templates

I believe you actually meant 'ignorant of C++ template metaprogramming techniques'. The author seems well aware of C++ templates and even says:

>> the thing I coded immediately before the Stellation experiments was a very hairy template analysis for a C++ compiler

>he was lumping C and C++ together in his "benchmarks".

I couldn't see where, could you point out which comment leads to that inference?
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No. I simply have a different password for every site. I use a tool called 1passwd to generate and remember all those passwords for me.

That tool backs up its (encrypted) password db to my Dropbox folder. It also backs up to an iPhone app. So I think the chances of losing all my passwords are pretty slim. And, now, I don't care whether one site loses my password, since all my passwords are unique.
Also some people create 650 accounts ;)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=592438
i wager dollars to donuts that this outfit never goes public. most jewish orthodox businesses are closely held private entities. this is primarily due to jewish laws prohibiting monetary exchanges on the sabbath. hence the store being closed on sabbath (and other jewish holidays) even extending to the website. if b&h were to go public the number of non observant owners would outnumber orthodox owners and they would eventually want to make money 24/7.

i actually recently introduced someone to b&h in person for the first time and it was like watching a kid in a toy store for the first time. b&h is everything most people in this thread make it out to be - an electronic equivalent of willy wonkas chocolate factory. and it is also true that the staff there really know their stuff. they have no problem telling you whats shit and whats not.
I like a good piss take, and this is one of those. We could argue about all the features he included/left out, but its a job well done :)

Looks like its done by an Apple fan : http://twitter.com/mantia

Not a bad designer / star trek fan : http://mantia.me/

Am sure some Microsoft retaliations are in the works already :)
"The passwords aren't encrypted, he cries about it, they are encrypted, he cries about it."

Hmm. No, I don't. I only 'cry about it' (in your words) if the passwords are not adequately secured.
Is there anyone here who hasn't read this?

Mind you, it's a fun two minute read to remind me of Asimov. Occasionally brilliant ideas, generally awful writing.

Sadly missed genius.
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but it's a mac site!
May I ask how long it roughly took you to get started and what was your prior experience with objective C?

(Thanks for the recommendation, just bought the apress iphone dev book)
"Twitter ... created a new and popular way for people to use the Internet to discover content and research products they want to buy."

Come on, seriously? How many people do that? How is it better than normal product reviews that are all over the internet? Just because people use Twitter's search doesn't mean they're searching for products, or that they're not just marketers monitoring their own brands. Who searches Twitter to discover content?

What is it about Twitter that makes people babble incoherently?
I also did something similar - moving to Vienna, Austria a bit more than four years ago (at the age of twenty-one).

In the first four-five months I just took German courses (I started learning it at home but not very intensely).

After that I started looking for a job, which wasn't too hard (programmers can find a job in any city above a certain minimum level of size and wealth). I simply did the same thing I'd do anywhere - searched in internet job boards and quickly enough I found one.

I'm currently in my fourth job here (yeah I know, four jobs in a bit more than four years is quite a lot) and it never took me very long to find a new job after I quit the first one.

I think that if you really want to do it and don't have anything holding you back (like a family that depends on you) you should just give it a try. The worst thing that can happen is that you'll be miserable and come back home after a couple of months.

The only thing you really need to do beforehand is to save enough money so that you aren't stressed out about finding a job right off the bat. I can move somewhere else right now, and other than in prohibitively expensive places like Manhattan or London, I can live for a year before my savings run out. And I don't really earn that much.
I share these concerns, and elect not to be a donor. Also, there is the completely irrational concern that by being a donor, I acknowledge the possibility of my untimely death. This is unpleasant, and I worry that if I'd ever get into a life-and-death situation, I'd have thoughts about what would happen to my body distract me from trying to stay alive.

In a perfect rational world, 100% of the population would be donors. But we are really just animals who make animal decisions. I acknowledge my humanity.
Haha, geezers indeed. Awesome though...when I went apartment hunting the team took me out for lunch. Great bunch of guys - I am going to have a good time. It's just a slight deviation from my norm of "tons of interns", so it will be an adjustment.

Actually I'll have a car, and I'm hoping the reverse commute plus my tendency to be a late riser (assuming the office is cool with it) will make travel ok.
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I use my bank account password for everything. They'll never predict that. These criminals are sneaky, you've got to use reverse psychology if you want to truly be safe.

On a more serious note, only one of the two websites compared in these articles is a multi-million dollar business. Also, I'd say HN users are far more likely to use throw away passwords. The "enterprise" clients of 37signals probably subscribe to the philosophy in my satire above.

One final note. I don't think you can log into this site over SSL, so a discussion about password security for HN accounts is just silly. What's the point in worrying about how secure the vault is if the front door is unlocked.
The two things that got me started were "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (3rd Edition)" by Aaron Hillegass: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/browse/book/isbn/97803215036... and iCodeBlog which has excellent tutorials for beginners: http://icodeblog.com/
No, I have one slightly-convoluted-but-simple-enough-to-keep-in-my-head method of generating a password for a given site based on information about myself and the site along with some transformations.

For important passwords that I might forget, I apply another easily rememberable transformation, and write them down.
> It is if you think that happy is the only relevant criteria, which you've written above

Overly simplistic. You ignored the rest of this paragraph, which explained my position. Please have the decency to debate fairly - this is HN, not Digg.

> Yes, you could attribute something to me that has no actual basis, again. It's unclear why you think that refraining from doing so is some sort of virtue.

My point being that you've attributed something to me with no actual basis. If you read my posts it's quite clear that I don't favour a society with zero advancement - merely that I think the balance we have struck between advancement and relative prosperity is out of whack, yet you insist that this is my position.

> There is a downside. They pay 90% of the NRE. If they're not 90% of the relevant population, they've paid much of the NRE for the rest of us. Yes, they get a benefit, early access, but denying them won't speed up our access.
> Yes, they clearly think that the benefit that they receive is greater than the cost that they pay, but that doesn't mean that there isn't a cost or that they're not subsidizing the rest of us.

The rich benefit vastly more from society than the rest of us - they benefit for every worker they have that society has educated, for every worker that can drive to work thanks to good roads, etc etc. Looking at taxation purely in terms of direct benefits like Medicare or social security is simplistic.

> Telling them that it's bad that that someone else has it better has consequences.

You don't think it's bad position to be in, to be in the poorest segments of society? To be unable to finance care for your chronic illness if you lose your job? Frankly, I think I'd loathe that situation.

> Smug much?

Not really. I live in the UK, where we have a pretty similar issue to the US, if slightly less pronounced. I simply admire the basic civility of the economic situation in these other countries.

> You're comparing different populations and the difference that you're fixated on isn't particularly relevant to that difference between the populations. If you look at comparable populations, the difference that you're fixated on disappears.

Care to elaborate?

Please don't mistake my distaste for severe income inequality as jealousy. I live comfortably, and I can honestly say that I have little use for a great deal more cash than I have now. Honestly, though, I think we're going round in circles here. If you have something new to say I'll be more than happy to continue the debate, but I don't think we're going anywhere.
Yeah I have not read this before. I wish there were a few more brilliant writers like this. I really enjoy his work.
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Not necessary downtown, but it's like a mile from Kendall Square. Guess I'll find out what's close once I'm there :).
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If you know C/C++ and want to get into Objective-C I recommend the "Objective-C Guide for C++ Programmers": http://ktd.club.fr/programmation/fichiers/cpp-objc-en.pdf

It goes through step by step and explains how the OO terms you know map from C++ to Objective-C, e.g., "If you want to declare a static class method, you use this syntax..." If you're familiar with OO in general it's pretty good, too.

It really lowers the Objective-C syntax hurdle, IMO.
If it wasn't for the mac smugness this would have been rather entertaining for a few seconds.
"So don’t try to do anything weird with your computer like upgrade your memory and hard disk. We’re watching."

This doesn't make any sense. Flagged.
Unfortunately, mentioning the First Amendment won't save them from cease & desist letters and potential lawsuits.
And the fact there is no SSL?... (Anyone can snoop your HN password in transit anyway)?
> I do believe that the "unread posts" model for RSS readers is counter-productive, and is taking RSS as a consumer technology with it

Can you elaborate on why you think that?
Salts are near worthless since someone who has access to a web app or the source will probably be able to read the salt. The bcrypt recommendation is somewhat good though, but you can never be perfect. Currently in my web apps we use sha1, but we run it through about 10 times, so it slows an attacker down a bit.
That's still a smaller subset than the skills required to steal a laptop. Apparently thats controversial though, judging by the downvotes. I'm not suggesting this is how security should be designed, just pointing out that its not totally useless.
This is the second time I have read this, and it is a brilliant short story pondering on the future of humanity and it's place in the universe.
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This is a good time to admit that Apple fanboyism knows no bounds.
OS upgrades on OS X aren't analogous with with service packs or similar though--Service Packs have very rarely, in my experience, offered the kinds of feature upgrades that OS X upgrades do. There's not really an equivalent in Windows XP.
I'll understand if you don't want to answer this question: do you manage to live off your game? i.e. make enough profit to not have to have a day job?

I'm asking because I run a webgame myself, of much smaller scale and niche purpose, and I'm wondering if I should invest the effort it takes to scale it up.
Even large corporations do this, when developing a large project for a "lead customer".
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Which may go some of the way to explaining the high churn rate.

I think you're making an interesting point there. According to Nielson the churn-rate at twitter is 60-70%. People hear about it in the media, sign up, try it out... and move on.

A large part of the media hype is based on the high registration rate and on anecdotical evidence like "Ashton Kutcher has 1 million followers".

I have yet to see someone make a headline about the fact that circa 700.000 of these followers are dead accounts and that the registration-rate is a meaningless metric for a free service.

[1] http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/twitter-qu...
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I think this is fantastic! I use Windows (for now).. i need to. But i think macs are kool too.
And its funny.. even the "First Amendment" stuff.

+10

And Star Trek is awesome.. so, another +10.
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you might want to give a try at http://odesk.com one can work there on projects which pay per hour, the rates are not great, but much better then $200 for ebay :)
Being able to read the salt doesn't make it worthless, because salts are meant to complicate dictionary attacks.
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I concur with all of your particulars (everyone has read this, fun two minute read, occasionally brilliant ideas, generally awful writing, sadly missed) and was completely in agreement up until your very last word.

If Isaac Asimov's a genius, what was Isaac Newton?

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MySQL was always dual-licensed.

But yeah, Monty has come out of this laughing. Sun effectively gave him a billion dollars for a few months work, during which time all he did was whine about them in his blog. Sun buying MySQL was a strategic blunder on the order of eBay buying Skype.
Then you'll be glad to know that he's written an astounding number of short stories - you have good times ahead finding them all :-)
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That's not for production use, tho'.
It isn't even the most popular, that honour belongs to SQLite by a considerable margin.
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That's stored in my iPhone backup.

Also, my dropbox is set up on my mac mini too.

In order to lose my passwords, I need to lose, at the same time:

1) my mac mini

2) my macbook pro

3) my iphone

Even then I would be able to recover things somehow, because my email goes through a third-party gateway, and I know the guy who runs it, so if I really do lose everything, I can contact him and ask him to reset my password on that gateway, and then log in to my email via that gateway.

I think the chances of losing my passwords are fairly slim.
It generates secure passwords. It syncs passwords for all browsers. It creates backups. Autofill for credit-card data. Multiple logins per site.
I love this story.

The BSG finale reminded me somewhat of this.
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Yeah the only books of his I have read are the Foundation series...kept meaning to dig more into his works. I think I will now :)
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Games. All sorts of games. Boardgames, RPGs, Sports, Theater and so on. There are always game groups searching for new members and you always have the possibility to just walk away.
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Back in the middle of the decade, Chinese policymakers were struggling to contain inflation. They managed not only to do so, but they saved up quite a pile of cash as well. All of that took a lot of hard work and due diligence. They reap what they sow.

That having been said, inflation is still a reality for them. Right now their growth rate is around 6%, but their inflation is probably around 4%. That means they're only getting 2% growth, which is paltry. How much will inflation go up with the government stimulus being applied?

Still, it is better than how we're doing, but the point is that the truth is --as usual-- a little more complicated than the news would suggest. It also seems doubtful that they can have meaningful growth when so much of their economy is dependent on exports, unless the current bout of reforms manages to build up the middle class so that they have self-sustaining growth. This is at least as difficult as the feat they just accomplished in reining in inflation.
Actually, Safari + Keychain does most of that:

1. The password generator is a little difficult to get at, but can be accessed in the Keychain Access application.

2. I don't think it works across multiple browsers. This seems to be the main advantage of 1Passwd.

3. Syncs with MobileMe, or you can just backup your keychains.

4. Safari can autofill nearly any form.

5. Multiple logins are stored. If you start typing the first few letters of the username it will autofill the correct data.
That website hurts my eyes. Red on yellow, come on.
The US propaganda has been particularly obnoxious here in Canada. There have been several attempts to enact a DMCA-style intellectual property law, but all of them have failed to pass before the end of parliamentary sessions. Nevertheless, US-based pressure groups ratchet up the complaints every year like clockwork.
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Agreed, thats why mines different :)