skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But, somehow while supposedly trying to help the US bring peace to Afghanistan, Bin Laden lived in a relatively large and nice house for some years about a good golf shot from the Pakistan army college. And no one knew he was there?

again, very trivial story. there is an argument to be made that how plausible it is for OBL to live in hiding in Pak but lets for a second we assume that Pakistan were providing a lovely cushy place for him to hide. The reasons are not Islamic, cultural, brotherhood ..it's plain old foreign policy. The war in Afghanistan brings aid and modern technology to Pak Army. And they are suckers for that. Our Army did the same when you guys funded Afghanistan in Russia war (and guess what they build a whole Atomic bomb out of it) and they did the same this time. Nothing to do with your grand illusions of how Islam runs thing here. It's all money. The generals will spend there weekend drinking & dancing (again banned in Islam!) to celebrate there achievements.

---

and as for all your other points which is basically how Islam is hindering progress in Afghanistan: so at least you started with Islamic countries and then narrowed it down to the failed ones and now we are in Afghanistan only. So I'll say that's good progress. You can't compete me on Pakistan on details but you can't do that for Iran, Afghanistan or any other Islamic country. And these are not some hidden research which I did. You only need to visit the country once & meet with common people to understand how your nice little good (democracy) vs evil (religion) doesn't fit. It'll be an eye-opener.

Yes..Islam covers every aspect of life but the number of people who follow Islam like that are less than 0.1% of the world population. And I've given you gazillion examples of that (heck! we have a bigger red district area in Lahore than Amsterdam). Afghanistan was fairly happy with their system a few decades ago. They had universities, tourism, working-women ..all sweet. But then the Russia war happened & it's been downhill since then. Have you ever talked to an Afghani all your life? I can only assume no. Your total knowledge seems to come from watching OBL/Taliban released video speeches.

And I can't even fathom how you think Iraq learned the lessons. The only thing your ill-fated war brought to Iraq is more "love for religion" and more "Death to America". Maybe you have to make these sweet conclusions to make you sleep at night or something but it's hilariously unfounded and naive.
vertiginous - To be affected by Vertigo
Interesting. I was trying to talk about how we got to the point where we have been able to invade hackathons all across the country out of nowhere.

I'll look into revising the title to better reflect that. Any suggestions?
Profit simply means that an activity is worth it: that the result will be worth more than the costs to reach the result. Profit is the aim not just of corporations, but also of government.

For example, a government should not build a road unless the people using the road will collectively save more in transportation costs than the costs to build the road.

The problem is that for many projects, the net benefit is unknown at the start. In the road example, before a road is built, it may not be clear how much it will cost to build a road nor how much people will save from using the road. The best we can do is try to estimate.

But just because we have to estimate doesn't mean that we ignore profit. Before a project is undertaken, we should still try to figure out if its worth doing. We just can't be sure.

When we say that government funds "risky" projects, this can mean that the projects have a high probability of failure but are still worth funding because the probabilistic expected payout is positive, or that the projects are really not worth funding because we really expect that there will be no net benefit. If we're talking about the first, then the private sector will fund it without government. For example, YCombinator routinely funds companies that have a high probability of failure. But overall it expects a positive payout. So startups get funded.

But if we're talking talking about the second type of risky, as in no expected return, then really no one should be funding these projects. Why should the taxpayers take risks collectively that no one is willing to take individually?

It doesn't make sense for an individual to try to fund retirement by buying lottery tickets, no matter how much money they spend. Therefore, government should not be trying to fund government pensions by buying lottery tickets.

In practice, governments seldom openly advocate investing in projects with negative returns like a lottery. They propose funding projects that the private sector won't fund. But even if a project is expected to be profitable, it still should not be funded at the expense of projects with higher expected profit. And because we have limited resources, the funding of low-expected-profit projects means that other higher-profit projects can't be funded.

Again, I refer you to Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson, chapter 6 this time: http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/chap06p1.html.
You're right about the border crossing. I didn't consider that. Canada wants documentation after $10K.

http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/publications/pub/bsf5052-eng.html
That's what I understood from the article, and why I suggested the salts and hashes should be handled separately.

If you give the attacker the salts, difficulty scales linearly. For two identical plaintexts, all that differs is the salt, but it is given to him.

If you store the hashes and salts separately (the technical details of which I know nothing about), then you augment the keyspace exponentially. For N byte salts, using P characters, you augment it by N^P. Furthermore, who forces you to append a salt? You could prepend. Or n-pend.

I'm just throwing ideas around.
Ever since word of regressions (performance and otherwise) in 3.2.13 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5409978 I've been waiting on news of 3.2.14 ... I wonder if anyone has word on when to expect that, because the vulnerabilities patched in 3.2.13 that we can't take advantage of, make me a little nervous.
Hootsuite, A thinking ape, indochino, unbounce, just to name a few doing well. There's only ONE bay area ... but Vancouver ain't doing bad.
I've run an internship program placing top 1% Canadian University students for 4~8 months in the bay area and SFU, UBC and Uvic are pumping out great engineers. Only Waterloo is better.
SF is a super short flight away, and Vancouver is the type of city you can actually recruit people to MOVE to. There's not many cities like it.
Show HN: iOS/Android Jigsaw game where you assemble animated pictures
Hello!<p>I made a jigsaw game, abusing UV Mapping, to instead make my pieces be variable sized (thus supporting several difficulty levels) and animated at the same time :)<p>iOS link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/live-puzzle!-forest-animals/id651415697?mt=8
Google Play link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kidoteca.livepuzzle.indianforest
You are correct that I was using prefetch where I meant prerender.

And... I believe I stand by my complaint regarding it.
Ask HN: Are crypto-stocks the next big thing for startup funding?
I found crypto-stocks amazingly interesting but I have seen only a few companies like ASIC Miner who successfully implemented so far:

https://btct.co/security

Would this become best innovation landscape for startup funding raising?
When I first decided to write a C compiler, a friend of mine thought it would be nice to introduce me to the community C guru for some advice.

The C guru looked at me and said "Who the fuck do you think you are thinking you can write a C compiler?", and not in a nice way, either.

So what's stopping you?
I can just about understand that some people don't have any decent food options at the workplace. They work somewhere small, and there are no local food providers, and any food available is terrible junk.

You have the options of remember to buy nice food that you can take into work, or taking a liquid food. The liquid food might not be tasty, but ensures you're not eating trash and are getting some nutrients.

And, from there, I get that there's a link between Soylent and YC, and so people are really keen to see them do well.

But I can't understand why people seem to ignore the very many brands of liquid feed already being made, which have undergone serious testing.
Ah, I thought they offered that for everywhere, not just australia (and they're cancelling it in australia). Sorry to get your hopes up.
rgb(#, #, #) shows up twice per box. For instance:

#c65e54
rgb(198, 94, 84) // RGB here
hsl(5, 50%, 55%)
hcl(32, 48%, 53%)
rgb(198, 94, 84) // and here again
Maybe we read different articles, but the one I read seemed intent on strongly downplaying the amount of extra security that salting provides. It actually uses the phrase "minimal amount of protection" to describe a salt's effect on cracking attempts.

That seems like a strange choice of words when salting would've completely changed the outcome of the cracking attempts described in the article.

Edit: To be clear, I'm aware that salting doesn't protect against targeted attacks, but the attacks discussed in the article weren't targeted. One of the major reasons[1] they were able to crack 16,000 passwords in a few hours was due to the lack of salting.

[1]: The other being the choice of MD5 rather than bcrypt/scrypt/PBKDF2/etc, naturally.
" The more they’re worth, the more you think you’ll be able to sell it off for in the future. The more you want" Seems to be precisely the some larger fool theory that denotes a bubble, regardless of supply, demand, or donuts.

That aside, one can readily check if people mining bitcoins were actually selling them in that time period. Given the frenzy, I doubt it. But it's probably worth checking
The server must have access to both the salt and the hash to verify a password. Therefore, upon compromise of the server, the attacker automatically has access to both the salt and the hash. There is no way around this problem that isn't simply obfuscation.
University of Michigan grad here. Keep up the good work gentlemen. Go Blue!
I hope there will be a day when what one visible minority does doesn't reflect badly on his entire race. Not just thinking about what this Chinese kid did, but also about those two guys who killed that British serviceman. Muslims living in England must be on edge right now.
My Xcode Plugins
Two notes: factoring polynomials over finite fields isn't hard (look up the Berlekamp algorithm or Cantor-Zassenhaus for starters). Second, I believe the system you've described doesn't satisfy your property (b). Quantities such as M[1]C[0] - C[1]M[0] + M[0]^2 and C[1]M[2] - C[2]M[1] + M[1]^2 - M[0]M[2] are congruent to 0 mod p; compute them over the integers and then take the gcd. By computing enough of these you should recover the prime p. Once you have p, recovering z is very easy (e.g., take the gcd of C and C'-M, where C' is the derivative of C).
Yes, Foxtel is moving to block the itunes episodes from getting a speedy release. Not until next season though so we'll see if they succeed.
> Why shouldn't there be very simple options below "some preparation required", if someone wants them?

That's not my problem with Soylent. My problem is that many people talking about this don't appear to have heard about other liquid feeds, and Soylent claim this is safe for everyone, with plenty of evidence of safety. There is no evidence of safety.
I don't know too much about crypto. Would using something like salsa20 stop this?
But it's already in!
> that's the classic traintoilet design across the world.

I can confirm it's the same in the ex-USSR countries.
That's why the lock the lavatory 10 minutes before arriving at a station and don't unlock it until the train is well clear of the town.
What do you think about me changing the title to "How hackathons took Michigan by storm?"
And, hate to say it, but Talent likes to live where it is desirable, fun, and interesting to live. Because Talent can afford it, and Talent wants a life full of desirable characteristics. The Bay Area isn't expensive because of magic. It's expensive because people want to live there, and people want to live there because it really is a great place to live, all things considered. You can play the value game all you want and try to make the argument that upstate New York is somehow unfairly treated by an economic imbalance, but the truth is, people want to live there less than they want to live in NYC or SF or nearly anywhere else.
> In fact, shipping the types to the client is harmful, because it increases the download size

To be fair, it's probably negligible compared to the download size impact of representing bytecode in a subset of JavaScript.
>I wonder how one teaches people who don't know better.

Considering first world nations still continue to pollute why do you expect people in abject poverty to be any different?

Open defecation is a serious problem, but I don't see it's relevance to "India people cannot take care of their own land" or graffiting other peoples property.

This is a issue about hygiene and how can one implement it in very poor countries.
I never stated that I thought they were equivalent, either in magnitude or severity. You are putting words in my mouth.
Accept Payments with Stripe's Java Library, Available through Maven Central
There is no reason to do that in my opinion. Most of the games were done since someone loved original, but were unable to play it on modern systems. In case of FIFA or others new games are out every year and they are often arguably better than previous incarnations, so there is just no motivation, it's much easier to buy a game and play it.
Inbox Queuing to End Email Overload?
Nice article. I am a miner, and I made this observation, the dollar value that I mine any given day has been almost constant since a year (except the brief $200 spurt, which the author explains by accounting for the difficulty upgrade delay). When the value goes up the number of BTC mined goes down (because more people are mining). Its quite a beautiful correlation actually.
Unfortunately amateurs have a lousy track record with nutrition.
http://www.testplant.com/products/eggplant/mobile/ was the testing platform for mobile. (I think it had a different name a few years ago, but could just be my fuzzy recollection)
SuperTux is loosely based on Mario and there are tons of scrollers out there, so I don't think it's worth to add it. SuperTuxKart is similar in that it doesn't even mention Mario Kart anywhere, which I take for being a bit more separate/independent from franchise than most games in this list are.
Kind of obvious, but worth explicating: If this model for Bitcoin price is accurate, then there are going to be a lot of very interesting market-timing-related implications.
Should we stop sweeping streets or picking up trash too? Might as well shut down the sewer system, who needs it.
:-) That would be fun, but it wouldn't be very descriptive. That's sad, as I like it. :)
When I was a/b testing UI designs for a stable of eCommerce sites, quite often the blatantly fugly design would convert much better. Especially for low-price-driven sites. My personal theory was that people figure the unpolished, crappy looking site is more bargain-driven (kinda like a dingy dollar store in real life).

Sticking a giant firetruck-red "CONVERT" button surrounded by flames and rainbows really does sell better. But boy does it look awful.
My initial instinct was to criticize this. I think that's some combination of feeling like hackathons are often a coarse method of exploitation and the feeling that this kind of boosterism may be overstated or unnecessary.

But the truth of the matter IMO is that this deserved to be recognized and celebrated. It's really exciting to see environments that expose people to the joy of making things and the realities of making things happen. This kind of culture was foreign at the major liberal arts universities I saw when I was an undergrad 5-10 years ago, and I think it's a positive change. Congrats!
I am glad you pointed this out, your premise is a quintessential example of "UX is not UI."

It's not the visual or web designers primary job to A/B test or step into the users shoes on every detail, that's what a responsible and valuable UX person should be doing (note I didn't say UX designer).
Point is you always have the option of sending the old fashioned way if you want. You don't have to use a 3rd party unless there's a specific function they provide for certain specific cases that you want. You don't have that option with regular money. You have to use some service to transfer money for you.
I've spent about a minute on comparing both pictures to see "how much more crowded the text is in the unfixed version"©
Given most of the post is about the quantity of Michigan students at hackathons or other events, I think it's worthwhile to mention how the school is also unique because it has the advantage of size: there are just so many students there.

I find Penn's breakout achievements far more impressive given their much smaller student body, as well as what Columbia/NYU have done with hackNY.
Looks promising, could we 3d print houses now? The last part of engineering which have now been automated.

I want something like cement-metal protection on my car paint coating, ceramic coating and or sapphire based coating. Ie something super hard and non-sticky to dirt and non corrosive.
Use limitations to your advantage and you will get great results.
I hope you are very careful, your commentary is really interesting but I worry for you writing things like what you said about Shah and Assad from there.
Fixing the strained Police-Youth relationship with trading cards
I'll note I actually have a slight preference for prepended continuation operators like you have, but I stick to the style used at work for the sake of my sanity in trying to write consistent code.
So how about that python? </trololololo>
If my daughter answered that she was using drugs on a survey, with her name on it, which was then publicly released, it could have serious ramifications. That information could do serious harm to her future prospects if anyone grabbed the data and started making hiring decisions. Or grabbed the data and started blackmailing. If I had a daughter, anyway.

Frankly, the schools shouldn't have that information, it's dangerous. While it can save lives, it can end them just as easily.
Yes, but they still are great and unmodified originals are often hard to run. :P
this is very nice, impressive at first glance, and very useful when studied some more.
here a few more useful sources for designers, front-end developers, illustrators and learners

http://colorschemedesigner.com/#

http://labs.tineye.com/multicolr
I don't host them on my server, but as they are open source, I think it's ok.
Hsfdgs
234234
Early bird rates for PyCon Singapore 2013 will be available until May 31.
Are you a Python developer or aspiring to be one? Come to Pycon SG! Also get to meet and listen to Wes Mckinney, creator of Python Data Analysis Library, Pandas

http://e27.co/2013/05/20/pycon-sg-is-here-for-the-first-time-ever/
You're missing the ab output now which also hurts the quality of the analysis.
> is he really serious about the nutrition thing? His team might as well have been hand-picked for a social-networking startup

They were a traditional tech startup. They pivoted when that market collapsed.

http://blog.soylent.me/

> YC accepted our original idea, to build affordable wireless networks for developing countries, for the summer 2012 batch. We spent the entire summer prototyping our technology and looking for a customer. By demo day, we had a white space radio with a Bill of Materials (BOM) of $70 operating around Silicon Valley. We didn’t have customers and were facing an intimidating set of regulatory hurdles. We spoke with some of the valley’s top VC’s but failed to raise. Instead of pushing for investment that wasn’t there, we went back to focusing on acquiring customers and finishing our product as soon as possible. We never found a customer.

It is irresponsible for them to launch a product, with massive publicity, and claim the product is safe for everyone (diabetics? pregnant women? People with Crohn's? Anorexics?) and to claim there is much evidence to support safety.
Idea Analysis: Building a Great Crowdfunding Campaign – Part 3: The Launch
Old friend of mine, Chelsea, would meet the criteria. Contact info at http://mashable.com/people/chelsea_stark/
In Miranda vs. Arizona, the Supreme Court said that the admission of an elicited incriminating statement by a suspect not informed of these rights violates the Fifth and the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.
I 100% agree. Bringing someone who has never built something to their first hackathon completely introduces them to a whole new world of possibilities.

One of the most rewarding things I've ever done.
There are probably more than a few, huh-- it's the sort of thing that you know happens a lot more than you hear about.

(To be honest I'd be down for a nudist hackathon, if it could be handled maturely... hah!)
Not yet anyways ;)
That's actually incorrect. In fact, vWorkers in aggregate are now earning 50% more than prior, and if you check the directory, many are top of the reputation list now.
New Quartz broken for me on iOS 4.3 (1st gen iPad never updated), can't see past header, used http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/lynx/lynx_viewer.php to read.

Interesting hiring practice idea, key point is the nice vs. good. The rest is just sorting out how he figures it out.

I actually do not agree with hiring a brilliant jerk unless you know what you are doing when you agree to work together. You can often select for both good and nice, they do not have to be mutually exclusive.
I imagine the reason most people use WordPress isn't because of the authoring or editing — most of which can be replicated easily using things like TinyMCE — but the ecosystem of themes and plugins. Your technologically-inept client has access to a vast number of free, cheap, and easily installable themes to style their website whatever gaudy way they want.

There are plenty of better publishing solutions in terms of codebase, and there are plenty of solutions that offer equal or better user interfaces, but none that bring the ability to choose from hundreds of thousands of themes to style a website, which is the main focus of your average blog publisher.
I guess you could say that this is the first copy of PGP that an American could legally use outside the country, or give to somebody outside the country?

Otherwise yeah, I agree that what they are saying is strange. The fact that prior to this any German using a copy of PGP was using a copy that an American broke the law to give him doesn't mean that the German was himself breaking the law.
It's in.
Hi Dove, I agree there were some nice features there. We're going to implement the best ones.
A password-derivation function has two requirements:

1. Obscure the password in a one-way fashion.

2. Be fast enough for humans, but very slow in computer time.

Hash functions can be used to produce an obscured copy of data, but they are also by design very fast.

If you wish to protect passwords, don't use a naked hash algorithm. Choosing a different hash algorithm doesn't fix the problem.

Instead, use a password-derivation function. These are designed both to obscure and to take significant time. Bcrypt, Scrypt and PBKDF2 are the standards.
With respect, this is yet another library that should be a small piece of open source software rather than a hosted service which I'll probably eventually have to pay for and which is likely to eventually go defunct, requiring me to rewrite my code to use another library. It's useful, but not big and important enough to be its own service. Grump.