skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much: Quantum Computers (QCs) can factor numbers (Shor's algorithm) and calculate discrete logarithms in polynomial time. I don't know whether there's an algorithm for hash-calculation that will let someone dominate the BitCoin hashing chain with a QC though.

On the other hand, no one actually knows whether it's possible to build a quantum computer with enough q-bits that will stay coherent for long enough to carry out the calculation: as you add q-bits, noise becomes more and more of a problem. You can add error correction, but that makes keeping all the q-bits coherent harder because now you've got even more of them! At the moment, no-one knows (unless the NSA has built one and isn't telling!) which effect is going to win out as the number of q-bits increases.

(You can't use a smaller QC to simulate a slower version of a larger one, unlike in the non-quantum computing world: if you need to factor a 1024 bit number and you only have a 1000 bit QC you can't do it, as I understand things.)

Note that Quantum Computers don't help as much with symmetric encryption, unless someone comes up with a much better algorithm. They let you effectively halve the key-space, which is a fairly big deal, but you can get back to the same level of difficulty by doubling up the size of your keyspace: a 256-bit AES key provides roughly the protection of a 128-bit key in a quantum computing world. This is different to public-key encryption, where you can double the key size, but if your opponent has a quantum computer with enough q-bits, they can still break your new key in reasonable time.
Um... right... because it wouldn't be easier to say... make myself a sandwich if I felt like it when watching the concert from the comfort of my home?

I'm not even sure if this was an attempt at wit or not...
They sell for $10 million. Is that what you mean?
You're the autistic retard who can't understand normal fucking language.
The translate concept got me thinking - I wouldn't be surprised at all if Google didn't buy Quest Visual/Word Lens: http://questvisual.com/us/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer
Nate Silver writes about this in his book.. highly recommended.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Silver#Book
I'll be there! Interesting concept. I must say, the last Designer News meetup was great. I'm always keen to meet other people who love doing the same kinda stuff I love doing.
Recent experience shows if you repeatedly try to log in and fail you will be offered the option to recover your password, provided you filled in the appropriate field in your profile.
The article ('Steve-Jobs-UW041993.pdf') on Next's move to software-only is really interesting.
There's some good examples, but also some awful examples that just play into the hands of the detractors of Glass.

"ok glass, how fast are we going?"

Really? You want to ask Google rather than the driver?

How far to the top of this escalator? Can't we just stand on one for 30 seconds without having to perform some micro-action? And anyway, the app would just be showing some "failed to connect" message here (plus 3 minutes for an escalator to move 197 feet (about 65 metres for those of us in the current century), really?)

I'd halve the number of shots in this pages, but make them the really good ones, the message is pretty diluted, otherwise.
I see! Well, since you had a really proper background, it doesn't bother me you used such a phrase.

For all I knew, you were a high school kid who had just read some books and thought he now knew all there is to know. ;)
Interview with Kelly Sutton, co-founder of LayerVault
even analysing say a small number of serp results for say 40k keywords per month quickly generates lots of data.

And If the proposal to analyse a 1/4 million terms for kelly search had gone live I woudl have been creating over a LOC (Libray of congress) for each run.
By "addiction" in this context I mean addictive personality disorder, in the psychopathological sense. i.e. people that become addicted to something to the extent that it becomes extremely physically or mentally damaging but they can't stop. That's quite different from most peoples pleasure seeking, which I agree can become somewhat habitual, but is much more harmless.
Well, what did you expect? GNOME's processes and communication with users exactly represents the general state of the project, it's an uninspired big pile of shit, it always has been, it always will be.

And of course, if you argue against GNOME's dogmas, you will be sidetracked because of some bullshit like your tone (which IMHO was totally fine, and you even argued your case with sources, examples and all) and then banned because you took part in the off-topic discussion (or even for talking back). That's how every sneaky bastard on the internet with a ban-hammer proceeds.
I used OSRM a while back for a longish car trip. Worked great.

Adding public transport, cycling etc. would be fantastic.
> Most data isn’t “big,” and businesses are wasting money pretending it is

Most business leaders are not rational, and we should stop pretending they are.
HN has the same problem (comment threads get reordered to put the "best" first, so it's very hard to tell what you have and haven't already read), but we seem to be ok with it.
So that you can store/retrieve data without knowing the schema.

Oh but you have to know the schema right? Yes, some other part of the application knows the schema, but this part doesn't have authority over the DB. Also, the schema may be data as well.

NoSQL reduces the work needed for that.
The little white box that helps cyclists recover
Do you know how our little white box helps Team Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda riders recover http://bit.ly/17WSNUl
See also the submission entitled simply "Unbelievable":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5697840

In that item the methods are described in more detail.
It is not allowed to use any part of Googles Services for Android on a non Android device.

Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#Lice...
https://source.android.com/compatibility/index.html
D-Wave has a history of 'exaggeration'. I'd take anything they say with a grain of salt.
> "decentralized network of trust"

That's the really interesting bit about Bitcoin - it's an attempt to create a system that will enable trust in Internet-scale groups.

Currency is obviously a prime candidate for "trust", but I also think Namecoin is tremendously interesting. Next up, PKI certs? Eliminating hard-to-scale single points of trust (whether the DNS roots, VeriSign or governments) is hardly "doing nothing".
The server only needs to stay up for a minute while you pick up the phone and accept the call, so a simple sigterm can be called from a bash script a few minutes later to shut everything down. You could also probably write this in Python, but I'm not sure exactly how.

The server will keep running if you don't kill it, but it shouldn't matter too much because the port will be occupied and when it runs the next time, the new instance will error out, and Twilio will contact the old server (if it's still running).

Does that sound reasonable?
Show HN: elasticsearch-memcache nodejs driver
WPVD v1.0 - Advanced Wordpress Version Detector
Fake photos like these are called "terja" in Sweden after the Swedish wildlife photografer of the year was busted in 2011.

Verb: Terja - to manipulate photos
Adj: Terjat,Terjade - fake photo,photos

http://terjadefoton.wordpress.com/english/international-medi...
and

http://petapixel.com/2011/09/05/swedish-wildlife-photographe...
How Big Data will mean the end of Job Interviews
Hanging off this great comment, please anyone wanting to learn about relational databases I strongly suggest reading Database in Depth by C J Date. It's around 200 pages, you will learn a lot about the relational model, database/query/index design in a short amount of time, with a little bit of logic thrown in there too.

Just need a good SQL reference? 'The Art of SQL' or 'SQL and Relational Theory'

Are you not entertained? Fine, choke on this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Manifesto
Inline Functions In C
Ok, leave alone the "apps" - let's talk about the functionality. Where are my maps, with turn by turn navigation? Where is that translation thing that my nephew has got? I think that most people who buy a smartphone, paying good money for it, want to do "things". Many of the most interesting things you can do with Android phones (for free, too) are Google powered. Even Apple has a difficult time replacing them on iOS, and my guess is that they're much better positioned than Samsung in that respect.
Very well said. In my not-so-democratic home country, in many businesses the norm of doing business is not strictly by the law and the government turns blind eye on this as long as you play the ball. Whenever somebody upsets somebody in power, the might of the legal system crushes them without touching their cooperating competitors. It is completely legal way to silence anybody who you don't like that much. The non-profits are even more exposed.

We even have a mayor who tried to demolish the campus of a prestigious university that issued reports about contamination in the drinking water, putting political pressure on the mayor. After some media circus(the mayor sent bogus samples to be analyzed but when university took the samples by itself, the results were much different), somehow he found an irregularity in the papers of the buildings and issued an order to for demolishing the 60 years old, architecture awards winning campus. Thankfully the court decided that destroying the university was not in benefit of the society and blocked the order.

I have to note that this happened in the capital of the country, the irregularity was that the drawings were not in the exact same scale that the town required and somehow the legal system proceeded so quickly when lagging for years to prosecute many scandalous building projects of some friendly businessmen.
But its not the same since Terry Wogan retired from hosting it here in the UK. He always did a very good job of joking about the entries while slowly getting a little tipsy all night.
If Apple decides to include a fingerprint sensor, it will surely not be gimmicky. Every sensor in the iPhone today (eg. magnetometer) has a real purpose for improving user experience (directional geolocation), but the implementation (apps) can be somewhat gimmicky (compass app). I believe it will be totally invisible to the user, improve security (more secure than PIN) while improving user experience (no need to enter pass lock PIN, itunes password, etc).

I've read speculation that the sensor itself would be placed under the home button, but I think it makes more sense to have it placed directly beneath (or inside) the screen. (Does it make more sense to push the home button to authenticate, or to just slide your finger to unlock?)

Apple has the possibility to add an passbook-style app which can store your passwords and be a front end authenticator for other apps/websites (kinda like OS X Keychain). A 1Password for the regular guy.
GNU Guix 0.2, GNU package manager
So humans who do that don't know their own minds? They're too stupid to know what a good UI for their style of thinking is?
Bitcoin is relatively safe; there's Glover's Algorithm [1] which would effectively turn computing sha-256 hashes into computing sha-128 hashes (so I read somewhere) which is a problem, but not an impossible one. The majority of the miners plus core devs can agree to upgrade the protocol to use a different hash algorithm, like scrypt (which Litecoin uses) or something specifically made that's not vulnerable to quantum algorithms. (I don't know if scrypt is.)

This upgrade wouldn't need to happen overnight, either. I bet the first quantum computer that can compute sha-256 hashes at all will do so slower than the latest classical ASICs of the time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover%27s_algorithm
And how did Raskin, who I have never met and who is dead now anyway, know my mind well enough to know how I work best?
Ask HN: why Google glass is not 3D?
If google just add another display for left eye that's possible to have 3d images, Why didn't Google do this?
Well, you have access to a GPS, have a display and can produce sounds that only the wearer can hear. I can imagine a lot of things that can be done with that alone.

Think Google Now.

The camera just increases the number of (at this time) potential applications.
Don't these already exist? I'm sure I read about them on a blog years ago.

edit: after going looking for it, it was an older system that first had a large LED screen on the back wall of the cinema and viewers had small mirrors on positional stalks which they used to see the captions. A later tech had the mirror replaced with smaller LCD displays.
> Are we trying to create just a digital medium that promotes the same old selfinterest, or are we trying to create a new kind of system that transcends the individual?

So, currency is more than anything the medium that enables trade. Trade enables specialisation and cooperation on a massive scale. If the scope and benefit of global trade doesn't "transcend the individual", I struggle to think of anything that does.

The classic "I, Pencil" essay[1], while written even polemically in support of capitalism, also serves as a great example of the scale of human cooperation enabled by currency.

1: http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
You're right Paul. I pushed update on the http://cahella.com to using datetime from HN rather database record time.
For people who qualify for H1B and other immigration visas, the following are true.
1. Vast majority are from really rich families. Like million dollars in family assets. The education is either very expensive or they were top students in their schools, which usually happens because they went to private schools.
2. People working in India never take low pay after 2 years of experience. It's only during the first few years that we trade an opportunity to gain experience with low wages. Theres a very high attrition rate in all it companies in India and salaries are ever increasing.
3. Young Indians have the opposite problem of being hard working. Most spend extended hours in office to socialize than to actually get stuff done.
4. The part about growing smugness is true. Indians traditionally seldom call ourselves "experts" in any thing even if we know stuff.
5. Losing h1b is big deal. You are given notice to leave country with your family in no time. Technically u need to leave the country within a month if you don't want to be barred from reentry. So in that one month, you have to try and sell all your stuff, cars, house, furniture, discontinue schooling for your kids and collect transcripts, medical records,file taxes,payoff debt. Instead most people would jump into any job to hold onto the status.
Amazing Chinese DIY Inventions
Threaded comments are a bad thing.
I've gone through this thoroughly in a blog post (http://blog.iroquote.com/post/45908133231/5-reasons-why-thre...), but here is an overview of why:

1. Screen width limits the depth of threaded replies.

2. Indented replies look horrible on mobile screens, and make the depth of reason (1) even smaller.

3. We (typically) lose chronological order.

4. A complex comment tree makes it cumbersome to track who replied to what.

5. Non-techy users don't get it well, which eventually leads to a inconsistent tree.

I think the search for an ideal comment system is a problem worth solving. IMO it is best solved by:

1. A single thread in chronological order.

2. Quote feature, like in forums, to allow direct replies.

3. Some summarization technique to highlight relevant comments.

That's what I'm doing at my startup, and I would like to see other approaches too, because it's about time we figure out how to do an intuitive and powerful comment system.
The most striking thing about the Gaza photo is that it looks fake or staged. It's weird that this won a competition because it looks like someone set the whole thing up and positioned lighting to get the effect they wanted. This is particularly true of the guy on the left who looks artificially lit.
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It looks like a digital render to me, it does seem bizarre that it would win.
Targeting "lawful intercept" (LI) features made the tap harder to detect. The article says logs played a big role in unraveling the hack, but LI traffic is designed to be hard to detect. that is, system administrators should not be able to know when LI is in use, to guard against insiders tipping off the targets of LI use. This is why it took reverse engineering the code to determine what, exactly, it was doing and which numbers had been targeted.
Ask HN: Does versioning an encrypted file in a git repo make it less secure?
Hi HN. This has been bugging me a very long time, hopefully the brilliant minds of HN can enlighten me.

I use KeePassX as a password manager, and I store the kdb file in Sparkleshare folder as a way for backing up and syncing with multiple devices.

The kdb file in itself is encrypted, but if someone stole the git repo, they technically have many versions of the same file with minor variations. Would that in any way reduce the security of the file?

Would really love to hear with people think.
Six degrees of IMDb founder Col Needham
Under what license may I reuse those snippets -- or are they too short to provoke legal issues anyways?
I know little about image forensics, but am just old enough to have done some black and white film development. What would a skillful dodge-and-burn when making the "Eddie Murphy" print look like in an analysis like this? Or any other creative highlighting by the developer? It seems a bit of a stretch to go from "some regions of the photo are different than others" to "it's a fake". I'd be interested in seeing a similar analysis of some other photos known to be "authentic" for comparison.

I put "authentic" in quotes mostly in homage to an excellent series of Errol Morris' essays on nature of documentary truth and history of photographic manipulation. Worth reading. If you like it, you probably should watch some of his films too.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/which-came-f...
In retrospect I suppose this seems like it would be obvious that they'd use client data this way. Bloomberg terminals are a weird beast. I don't have lots of experience with them, but from what I've seen they're an amazing example of the term "network effect".

They're basically leased windows computers with a dedicated application that displays realtime market data. They run about $20k/yr. They come with a funky keyboard, and the app has all sorts of messaging and searching functions into a wide variety of markets. Typically, the average user uses only a tiny fraction of the capability they have via these terminals (the pork belly futures trader doesn't ever bother with high tech semiconductor trades). Because everybody is on a Bloomberg terminal, and it has a dedicated messaging system, you need a Bloomberg terminal to chat with other traders to make deals - hence the network effect. It also marks you as a "serious" player, even small offices with a couple guys will have these terminals.

Since Bloomberg has total vertical integration, from data source to keyboard, it means they collect, or have the potential to collection incredible amounts of information about their user community. Every chat, every query, every trade, every login, logoff, every keypress.

So the unsurprising question is, why wouldn't other parts of Bloomberg have access to some/all of this data? And even if everybody was terribly offended by that, what are they going to do? They're pretty much locked in at this point.

edit relevant WP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Terminal
As someone who’s done a fair bit of translation on Twitter’s crowdsourced translation dealio (https://translate.twitter.com/), I can say that Twitter’s deliberately ambiguous use of language (for various reasons, e.g., as here, avoiding any explicit specification of tense, as well as of gender, number, &c.) can be very difficult to parse in a precise and accurate manner, especially without enough context.
I find that 4chan's comment system is surprisingly effective, especially being able to mouseover a link to a comment and have it pop up.
"The most striking thing about the Gaza photo is that it" is real, those are in fact dead children, digital editing notwithstanding.
I've worn these glasses a couple times now. They're unfortunately not great. They're quite heavy, so wearing it for two hours gives me pains and aches. The front of the glasses is bulky and presses down hard on the bridge of your nose. The sides don't open fully, so they're squeezing your head like a vise. Since I also wear normal glasses, I have to layer them under these captioning glasses. Friends and I joke about me being six-eyed.

As for watching through these glasses, they use a holographic display for the captions. Since they are projected directly onto the glasses, I learned very quickly to keep my head absolutely still so I could read the capions without getting motion sickness. The brightness and size are adjustable, which means you can choose from a bright green text and background or fainter levels of green. I'm not quite sure how the glasses receive the captions to be displayed, but it's via some sort of wireless technology. In the three theatres I've watched movies at with these glasses, they drop lines frequently, which is an exercise in frustration. I assume those two things are related. These glasses are hard to distribute -- each costs about $1,000, or so I hear. Not good if you run out and a deaf person needs to watch a movie, which has happened before.

Rear-view windows have similar problems, replacing wearing something uncomfortable on your face with wrestling against an adjustable mirror on a stalk. All in all, I'd say I enjoy open captioned movies in theatres the most -- where they display the captions directly in the movie.
The article's playing down of heroin withdrawal was very strange. I have sat outside the door of someone withdrawing from heroin and they might as well have been playing The Exorcist at full volume in there. This goes on for days and usually ends up with the 'gatekeepers' breaking down and letting them out.

Also, it has never killed anyone? Mindboggling. It is well-known that year-long users can die from withdrawal (brain aneurysm in the cases I know of).
Here is the list of all the apps he's selling: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Edward+Kim
I was at a talk which explained that twitter has recorded every user event since it was launched e.g. Follow, Tweet, Unfollow. They calculate their metrics by processing every event in bulk from start to present. So yeah - they never throw any information away.
It 503s for me and I can't find it in Google's cache. Any mirror?
fpm is not an apache module
This is an interesting piecemeal critique of Sandberg's book but doesn't seem to look for or address any overall theme or thrust of the book. If there is no such theme, this itself is worthy of comment.

Yes, the bolts of which the bridge is assembled are rusted, but where, if anywhere, does it lead?
Try refreshing/reopening a couple more times. Worked for me.
My favorites are the bicycle that runs on the water, and DIY prosthetic arms.
There are dead children all over the world, and plenty of pictures of them. A photograph is notable not because it shows dead children, but because it shows an emotionally poignant scene that reverberates with its audience.

If the photo's made up, it's no better than a poster. It can be drawn with skill and make the same point, but it is not a photograph and so does not deserve a photography award.
Love the workups, I've sent them round our department (TfL).
Context is everything. When presented on a webpage in the context of debunking fake photos, it's strikingly artificial. Whether we'd have the same impression for a printed photo submitted to a competition among many other photos is much harder to tell. One is likely to conclude it's just a very well taken photo that was aiming for a surreal feel.