skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slactivists feeling good about themselves, primarily.

I say this not to tease about the goals and causes, but just that sending individual, targeted letters to the parties involved or a dollar to the family for their legal fund would do so much more. Internet petitions do nothing and are easily ignored.
There are a bunch of languages that are about as expressive that are much faster, like Scala, Haskell or even Javascript.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis, http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/lab/forensic-science-communicati...

I would think anybody even remotely interested in encryption would know about this 'encryption' (I use the term loosely) method.

I also think such persons would have spotted that this might be a form of that method within a minute, but apparently, I am wrong about that.
tldr: I could try all repeating characters so fricking fast it would be worth it to build into a cracker.

In the context of this discussion, of course we'll all say that. Does any actual cracker program try for that, though? Not to my knowledge.
I'm much more impressed about the age than the gender. The title of the article makes it sound that by virtue of being female she overcame a handicap. Kind of silly to think like that nowadays don't you think?

But good on her for being young and accomplished.
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Why not? I want it to flip over to "YES!" as soon as the release is tagged.
Short sell bitcoin; then insert base-64 encoded child porn. (or perhaps salt multiple transaction and then leak decode process of higher res image) bling criminal mastermind or future jailhouse bitch...
Correction: yes, it is; it uses Android kernels.
Cashiers are not supposed to check that the signatures match, they are supposed to check that the card is signed. A credit card is not a valid form of payment unless it is signed on the back. "See ID" is not a valid signature BTW. Cashiers who see that are supposed to direct the cardholder to actually sign the card before charging it.
No, that's not the problem with Open Source games. Open Source developers are more than capable and willing to work on a game. The problem is: they can't agree on anything except most basic game concepts. That's why you get:

- Freeciv
- Wesnoth (Fire Emblem, Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics)
- Nexuiz, Cube, Warsow, Open Arena, Alien Arena, and the other 68 quake 1 clones

There are very few creative Open Source games. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is one example, it's an OS game with no commercial equivalent. Teeworlds is another. OS developers only reach consensus on widely liked game concepts, creativity is very unlikely to be accepted. Instead of working on something exciting, they work on something everyone hates the least. It's a management problem, not technical or motivation problem. Votes become vetoes.
http://blog.asmartbear.com/ignoring-the-wisdom-of-crowds.htm...
Actually, likes and shares may make people feel like they did their part and can move on. Donate, then share culture would help but if everybody thinks they are doing great job by "charity marketing" then we have a problem. Probably UNICEF has a problem so they are taking an action against it.

I would not say that sharing the word is volunteering because it's so trivial that people share and like things by mistake all the time. When was the last time you heard somebody accidentally helped somebody in need?
As usual with Google, they're still not handling multilingual situations too well. It has been a long time since I've seen any spam in English, but tens of mails in languages like Finnish and Georgian get through every day.

I wonder if the easiest solution would be a language blacklist. I have no legitimate reason to want to receive email in languages I don't understand.
"It's reprogramming our relationships, our emotions, and our sensitivity," said one of the rabbis at the rally. It destroys our patience. It turns kids into "click vegetables."
Sorry for the back of forth here, but I'll try to make this the last comment:

Some people are using all repeating characters if they can get away with it. ESPECIALLY because articles like this keep hinting that they are decent.

It doesn't matter how small this percentage of people is. The time it takes to check against it is infinitesimal and the reward is nonzero. If I were building a cracker, I would do it and not just because it's the topic of discussion.
In some cases all the intelligence is behind the RESTful interface, and, so, that's what you could call "the app." In other cases, like synthesizing traffic and bus location data to predict when the bus will arrive, the "app" can be in the device, especially when there is no Web interface presenting the same synthesis. Games can be entirely in an endpoint device, as can any complex application that cannot depend on pervasive connectivity.

Needs more thought.
Do you have an A/B test to back up your claims of fundraising effectiveness? Fundraising finances vaccinations.
dude, Shenzhen came a long way and is the future of China (I lived in 5 cities across the country in the past 12 years). Design is all over the map and is going to swallow HK in the next 10-20 years.
> If I were trying to brute force password

People tend not to bruteforce passwords. People tend to use dictionary attacks. I don't know if any current wordlists include 'jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj', but it'd be easy enough to create a wordlist that is just repeated characters.
Show HN: we built a better bank interface which works with any bank. Thoughts?
He mentions switching to Share Mouse, after struggling with Synergy. I've been using Synergy with Mac, Win, and Linux for years. It just stopped working for me and I've been struggling to make it work. Over the years, it's broken every around once per year, and clipboard support has often been flakey in some directions. Anyone have experience with Share Mouse?
Likes are used to place ads. Likes is like subscribing for mail.
> Take cloud for example - what does it really mean today?

I think it's a fancy word for "on the net".
I can give you feedback on the website becuase it is what stopped me from learning more about your product.

First off, your page loads quite slowly, and the colors are rather unappealing. There's a lot of empty space above the fold and nothing that really enticed me to keep looking. I would definitely advise you to find a designer to help with your webpage.

Also, there isn't a clear place to click above the fold. When you're selling something you need to make it as easy as possible for people to enter your sales funnel.
Learn them both ... otherwise you're either tasting electrons with C or you're a graphic designer.

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I think I get it but this is a weird analogy. Fine dining is an experience; great software provides value in that it enhances workflows, allows you to do your job better, etc.
You've stated my position (B) better than I've managed to. Thanks.
I hear you. The problem with spam is that the current infrastrucutre allows anyone to distribute spam on a massive level and forces online apps to use expensive third party services to deliver their newsletters to inbox. For a regular end user on Gmail the problem is hidden but not solved. When you have spam, you need spam filters. Spammers get better, you must catch up...

We want to solve that by replacing mail as you know it now. It's a long way ahead but we're on it.
RSA Animate: Smile or Die
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5um8QWWRvo
I was honestly expecting an extended Jeffrey Amherst/smallpox infected blankets metaphor here.
This is already available in some SMTP servers.

But it's not a cut and dried situation. It's hard to identify language in very short emails. It's quite possible to get false positives too, when you get mail from someone with an accented name. Language detection gives you a probability that it's in a particular language, not a yes/no.
As far as slacktivism goes, people shouldn't feel good about themselves unless they are actually making an impact. Trying, be it likes, shares, or giving money to an incompetent or corrupt organization, just doesn't count unless they have evidence of results. Just like any real world project. Otherwise, these actions are just video games for personal entertainment.
Saying that using random words is better than using a string of unrelated characters assumes that password crackers don't know how to combine words.

There are about 180000 words in English (but don't assume everybody knows 180000 words). That means that for three words, you have at most 5.810^15 options.

For a password with mixed case and numbers, you have 62 different characters. With, 9 characters, you have 1.310^16 options.

I can understand that people would prefer common words to remember them, but they are not that much stronger.

The best password is the password I don't need to remember: generate long random passwords, and store them in your browser, in Keepass, LastPass or whatever system of your choice.
Hiring Your Startup's First Salesperson: An Engineer's View
I agree. And I believe the author does and just doesn't realize it.

"Those who are attracted to true entrepreneurship are figuring out new ways to work around the traditional investor class."

Seems to me if the investors had won, this wouldn't even be possible. But as long as innovation (in any industry, not only tech) exists, people will find a way to work around any obstacle.
Why is there a "[sic]" in the title? After reading the post on Slashdot, I have the impression that we are talking about actual blankets. So the word is correctly spelled.
How is this different from Mint[0]?

[0] https://www.mint.com/
Another myth: 20% of root passwords are now exactly "CorrectHorseBatteryStaple"
I have the wired Microsoft keyboard and it is fabulous. I switched to the wireless Logitech keyboard and it is terrible for productivity. It's like those Dell/HP keyboards where the keys are smaller and crammed closer together. It also doesn't have much of a curve to it. I would not buy it again nor would I recommend it, but the Microsoft keyboard is a definite winner.
This would incentivise spammers to get people to send emails to them, they could probably do this by signing up lots of fake accounts to services that send registration emails.
I quite agree! I enjoyed this story along those lines a while back: "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." -- http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_17/b42250609...
But don't do what someone I know did and replace every single e with 3, every single a with 4, every single o with 0.

Identical entropy, extra theatre.
Going by definitions, if you get paid for something, then you are a professional.

You may not be a real engineer, but a professional you are.
Very nice. One feature request: add touch navigation (touch and drag like in RoyalSlider) for galleries. Add this and it will probably be my goto lightbox.
So I would have to trust not just my ISP, Debian and Opera with my banking details, but also another third party which even stores that details somewhere else?
Consultants absolutely do not get paid for every hour they work.

Time spent finding new clients, for example, is totally unpaid. And most consultants need to spend a fair amount of time doing this.

Ongoing training and education time are also totally unpaid. Clients hire you to solve problems and go away--they won't invest in you like they would an employee.
The FBI is interested in legal peaceful advocates for government change. Why did they leave that part out of their pitch? Propaganda, even if they didn't "mean" it, because they have alert convinced themselves of the lie.
I'm surprised this comment received a downvote. Did Google "steal" your "employee"? Of course not - it's a linkbait/lying title chosen by OP to get more attention. Period.
I completely disagree that Ruby's slowness is rarely the bottleneck. In this benchmark, we have reasonably simple requests on decent hardware in the realm of 1 second latency, where faster frameworks are 10+ times faster. We have Sinatra being far slower than similar frameworks like Scalatra, Unfiltered.

Yes, you can write Ruby in C, but it would be almost as slow as writing Ruby in Ruby. I don't really see the point of saying, you can do anything you can do in Ruby in C, it would be much more verbose and about as slow. The point is that true optimization may force you to do things that you can only do in C and there's no guarantee that this optimized version can be easily utilized from the rest of your Ruby code. This has nothing to do with tight-coupling - it's simply taking advantage of the language's abstraction facilities.

And no, having to write hand-tuned Ruby, as opposed to idiomatic Ruby, to get performance that can be had by writing, say, idiomatic Scala or Haskell is an indictment of slow implementations and prevents you from taking full advantage of the expressiveness provided by the language.

And that's before you get into things like your team may have to get bigger because you need a C/Ruby-extension expert, half the team not being able to understand a critical part of the code base (very few Ruby developers are reasonably competent in C), etc.

Again, the whole point is that Ruby's performance problems pose a real pain point. Yes, you can rewrite parts of it in C, yes you can mitigate by using gems written in C, yes, you can spend more time optimizing, yes you can throw more hardware. But all of those are costly and it's disingenuous to pretend that a problem doesn't exist simply because a workaround does.
Parenting done right.
It very much depends on your account visibility. I have the email address helpme@gmail and it gets about 20 spams a day into my inbox (and thousands to my spam folder, so I'm not arguing that it's a bad filter). So it's far from solved.

However I used to work in anti-spam and so know full well that it's not a solvable problem - no matter what some new startup claims.
There is nothing collective about this. One (or a few) individuals knew the answer, and everyone else contributed nothing.
Not bonds, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/999-year_lease shows leases of land that run for 999 years.
That is called upvoting.
My approach (which generally isn't popular with anyone) is to start with "No" and work towards a measured "Yes" after the gory details have been thrashed out.

I've worked with too many nerdy-geeky-type people who love to demonstrate their cleverness to the obviously inferior sales/marketrdroids by immediately say "Yes, of COURSE we can, DUH" to whatever harebrained nonsense they've thought up over their long lunch at the local stripper pub.

Then spending the next 6 months bitching endlessly about what a ridiculously stupid and impossible project the sales/marketdroids have foisted upon them and life is just NOT FAIR and I'M GOING TO MY ROOM.

Start with "No" - everyone will hate you but at least you'll get shit done.
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If people do things, they're by definition not "slacktivists".
So Chrome thinks I need help (F1) in Turkish today
If you're running Chrome, try pressing F1 and see what language the help comes up for you?
For me and many others it's coming up as Turkish!
Ask HN: Why can't I login to HN via Firefox?
I can login via Chrome or IE, just not Firefox. This behaviour started very recently - a matter of a few hours ago.

Also, for future reference, what is the best way to ask about this sort of problem?
Glad I'm not alone. Maybe there's a technical misuse of grammar in there somewhere and the poster is being pedantic? Whatever the issue, I don't see it either.
Show HN: App like Domino's but only for local pizza
Not necessarily, because some ciphers retain statistical information about the plaintext . any prior knowledge about the shape of the plaintext can give you better than flat random chance of recognizing he decrypt.
Solar Impulse plane starts bid to cross US
Oh thank you very much! Your advice is very helpful! But right now, site design does not affect the number of visitors and their returns, we have decided to concentrate all efforts on the product - templates themselves, and it is about them wants to get feedback from those people who have already received a link to download and try it. Thanks for your advice on the design!
Only you have to pay for fine dining (either literally or reciprocally) whereas much great software is free.
> Being good at the first two is a completely separate skill from being able to write and design software in a programming language like JS.

If find to write good JS view code, you need to be able to write html/css yourself. If you are implementing something like auto-suggest, a designer's html isn't likely to be much help. To write the view properly, you need to know how to position the suggest box relative to the input or cursor without interference from the rest of the DOM.

I don't think you can claim to be a good front end JS developer, and suck at HTML/CSS. I constantly find situations like: "how am I going to make this design work if the user name is 20 characters long?... Okay I'll float this, right text align this, overflow hide this, then a long-title plus a long username will automatically push the content down a bit". It is clearly a programming puzzle that needs to get solved by someone other than a designer.
Cool stuff. You'd need to jailbreak your Glass to install the app though. Glassware only works as web services over the Mirror API for the time being, not as installable software.
The [sic] is in the original title on the /. submission, it was the author to use it. I think he meant "you read right, blankets".
They're just different I guess.
Writing is easier to skim, I can scan a 1000 word article in a few seconds to tell if it's likely worth my time to read. I can't do that easily with a 10 minute video. It's also easier to edit.

OTOH speech conveys emotion better and feels like it has less mental overhead to consume and produce. I know a few people who are excellent speakers but very poor writers for example.
I agree, mail has to change at a very basic level to not allow anyone to send spam.
In an office at the HR department at Google.

The director: Someone tell me what we are going to do with the 3 thousand extra blankets we acquired for our 2012 employee bonus program?

The smart guy: Why not give them to those developers who write open source software and give them for free? Those poor people must need blankets!

People start to stand up and clap, slowly and firm.
Not cool. I heard about this program of awarding bonuses to devs. Turns out is was actually just marketing schwag store credit? Evil.
Here's the discussion from reddit's r/startups from yesterday: http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/1djwow/hey_rstartu...
Try using "Private Browsing" - it sounds like you have the same problem I have, reported here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5649704

No one seems to be taking it seriously.
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Because they average person would assume "blankets" is a typo, because it is such a stupid gift.
I'm not on facebook, but from what I've seen there doesn't seem to be an easy way to broadcast your donation. I wonder if people would be more inclined to donate if it also broadcasted "columbo gave $2" over "columbo likes this".

If it sorted the highest donations to the top it'd even encourage large companies to donate for the free advertising - "Nissan gave $2,500"
Someone else reports the same problem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5650171
Suspect it's a joke, intended to be read as "(yes, really, blankets)"
The Realm Game is on Kickstarter
Maybe there should be a "Like+" button or something. You can fund your facebook account and every time you "Like+" an image the person or entity who posted the image receives a dollar which is deducted from your account. Maybe only certain types of accounts, like UNICEF, should be eligible to receive funds.
... in Germany.
We used to have an area like Akihabara in NYC, from the 1920s until the '60s. It was called "Radio Row". It was displaced by eminent domain to build the World Trade center.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Row
Defense Distributed claims to have created the world's first 3D-printed gun
As an aside about CRUD apps. I've been kicking around the idea of building and selling a universal CRUD app. Do you think there would be a market for that? How would I sell it?
Show HN: Encipher.it – Encrypt the text messages, e-mails or files
For your consideration: the new cryptography tool.

https://encipher.it/v2

Basically, this is cross-platform GUI for manage PGP encrypted messages and files (GnuPG with symmetrical encryption is used).
It includes ability to backup crypto-containers on the cloud (aws s3, without deduplication).

This app is argument for the javascript (but not "host-based") cryptography: sources is included.

We very interested in receiving feedback from the community and welcome to critics: crypto is hard, help us make it better.
10 things that changed my life, after I quit my fulltime job to make iPhone apps
Oh, on average, I'm sure the mailers have a net positive, or at least I hope so. I'm saying the particular mailer they send me is costing money and they aren't getting a donation from me because I already have my charities, so it's actually worse than me Liking one of their posts on Facebook.
How could Google e so callous as to reward people for their contributions. I realize polyester is a fabric of the devil, but I don't think a google is trying to convert anybody to the church of satan.

Is it so hard to say "thanks" for an unexpected gift?

(And to the mods, please remove the [sic]. Yes, it's in the original, but it's wrong and will certainly lead to clicks from people trying to figure out what was really written.)
I feel like Gmail went from being Photoshop to Draw Something
[sic] isn't used exclusively for spelling mistakes -- it means "thus was it written", aka. "this looks wrong, but it really isn't".

In this case, I think the intention is to make explicit that yes, they really are sending blankets.
Collective intelligence is the slow homing in on a fact or figure you get when a group of knowledgable people bounce the result of their experience off one another.

Your example has little to do with that - it's more a case of getting the right answer if you ask enough people.
can you elaborate ?
longest word appears to be 9 letters which has a lot of matches.
This has been trademarked in Germany so it shouldn't be a problem for people in other places, I presume (correct me if I'm wrong); but, this will be a problem for Germans. A quick google search shows that there are Hackathons happening in Germany and I'd like to know if the holder will take legal action.
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Point is well taken, UNICEF. But are the people who Like the pages the same people who are likely to donate? I suspect that many of the people who Like the sites are either unable to donate or are too young to donate. So the Likes are a good idea because they encourage involvement and influence future behaviour when such people are able to do more. Might not help in the short term, but it will likely have great benefits in the future.
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Have you heard of flattr? It operates pretty much in the way you've described:

http://flattr.com/
Some people seem to dislike the blankets.

Google (or anyone, I guess) could set up a donation system so these blankets end up somewhere useful, rather than just sitting in a cupboard.

I don't know why people don't like blankets. I freakin' love blankets.
Why?

The trademark has been filed in Germany by a German events directory. Their main focus appears to be club events, not nerd events and indeed there is only one listing from mid last year for a hackathon.

Are they getting into the trademark troll business on the side?