skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are all sorts of inventive ways the cops can seize money, especially if the amounts are both large and frequent.

In some places carrying huge amounts of cash is more than enough to get the cash temporarily impounded pending investigation, even with no other immediate suspicious circumstances.

Besides which, the point was that (in general) forcing users into these sorts of arrangements is much more onerous on them than just sorting it all out electronically.
The point is that what we generally consider as "power" or "potency" is more than just effect per unit mass. We don't generally consider capsaicin to be more powerful than alcohol even though, purely on the basis of how much you have to ingest, it's far easier to kill yourself with it.
Global job firm Adecco uses a travel blog’s name for its travel contest
I never heard of that man or the soap before, and this made my day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Bronner

The label in all its glory: http://all-one-typography.com/
The issue here is that Google's business, or a large part of it, is all about amassing data in a useful and usable way. Most of what you propose would undermine Google as much as it would undermine security organisations.
Very good thoughts. At least there should be a README. I think about creating a template for READMEs.
Three Things I Learned About Software WHILE Not in College
Trying to "post" a "link"?
Learn To Code: What's your motivation?
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I've seen the exact same problem on the newest iPads as well. It sucks for development, because every time the wifi connection drops I lose (auto-closes) the window for the remote web development console in Safari.
It would cost money, but I'd bet less than gasoline.

The station could use a mix of solar power, wind, power grid and charge the batteries for probably much less $/kWh than gasoline in a car.
Noted, and edited. Thanks for the suggestion.
In terms of energy delivery:

( 85 KWhr / 90 sec) * ( 3600 sec / hr ) = 3400 KW = 3.4 MW

3.4 megawatts, not bad.
Hilarious watching the live twitter feed on their (adecco's) homepage.
Most people make decisions in an emotional manner. Politics is an ugly beast, but it is what it is. I'm just glad that non-techies actually care.
Do you mind if I ask a few questions?

How do you find traveling with kids?

Do you keep the same soul sucking enterprise IT job, or save up, travel and then find a new one when you return?

What do you do about maintaining a permanent base at "home"? This one's the biggest struggle for me; how do you travel without having somewhere stable to come back to? I'd have to be bringing at least £1.7k/month just to cover rent/mortgage and fixed costs for a house in the UK on top of what it would cost for the traveling itself. I don't think finding a new place to live every time I come home would work.
I tend to agree. However -- 12 years later, I'm willing to look past the "GUBMINT OUT TA GITCHYA" angle if that's what it takes to sway public opinion/attention.

Calm and objective hasn't so much as slowed this down.
> what we generally consider as "power" or "potency" is more than just effect per unit mass

Um, OK, that may be true for you, and maybe even for society at large, but I've personally never heard such a thing before right now. It's certainly not how I would define the words.

To address the point I think you're trying to make (which still doesn't make much sense to me), in the forms they are commonly encountered in, GHB is unquestionably much more dangerous/"powerful" than alcohol. So I still don't see why my comment attracted this sort of argument.
The President doesn't need a security clearance. His or her election gives him/her the ultimate security clearance.
Closing that question was appropriate. Moderation is good, it keeps the signal to noise ratio in check. It is not being killed, it's being helped; the site would be far less useful without the moderation as would Wikipedia.
Its amazing, Tesla will control both the energy usage of their car and the production. As opposed to the private oil companies and car manufacturers. This would mean they could get profits never dreamed of.
Has anyone seen tptacek and Harriet Klausner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Klausner) at the same place at the same time? Does an upvote for one count for both?

Bot or person, I find his (their?) comments insightful though I don't follow explicitly.
Unfortunately thats what a large number of ad agencies spend their time doing. Selling ideas they see online off to brands without contacting or paying the original creator
I wonder if this is due to the age boundary between old farts and digital natives. A young YouTube-aware creative could easily filch ideas knowing there's a good chance that the senior suits who will sign off the campaign will likely never have come across the source.

(In fact, my teenage kids also do this to me all the time, but I read rather more of Reddit than they suspect)
For proof that Wikipedia is more accurate than other encyclopedias, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia

(Though seriously, Wikipedia is about as accurate as the Encyclopedia Brittanica, at least for science articles: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a...)
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Right now, non-US based cloud services are using the PATRIOT Act as a way of selling themselves (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/12/patriot-act-and-p...). As an example from that article:

BAE Systems had ditched Microsoft Office 365 over PATRIOT Act concerns, because Microsoft could not guarantee the company's data wouldn't leave Europe.

Also, you may not have heard of FATCA, but it's hurting business for Americans outside the US. I'm an American living in Paris and I was approached about an executive level position at a company that really wanted me because I'm an expert in my field. However, due to the nature of the position, I'd have signing authority over this company's accounts. This triggers FATCA laws which would compel this European company with no US business to spend a lot of money preparing financial statements to turn over to the IRS. The exposure and cost outweighed the benefits of hiring me. I'm not the only American abroad whose been screwed this way thanks to US laws. The laws are designed to catch rich tax dodgers, but they wind up punishing a bunch of innocent Americans like myself (I'm a very far cry from rich).

On top of that, many Americans abroad are now losing banking services due to FATCA (http://www.overseas-exile.com/2012/07/ing-france-turning-awa...), meaning that for many Americans abroad, it's getting very hard to do any sort of business at all. Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook cofounder who famously gave up his US citizenship strongly hinted that this was blocking his business opportunities, so like some Americans abroad, you're faced with giving up your US citizenship or giving up your business. Not a fun choice.

TL;DR: Americans abroad are getting squeezed out of business opportunities thanks to FATCA and American businesses abroad are losing customers due the PATRIOT Act. If you're in business, it's a rough time to be a US expat and all the business opportunities we lose are going to foreign companies. Thanks, Congress!
Sketch.
http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/
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I dislike when people say this. No Wikipedia in itself is not a source, but it's usually an aggregate of sources. If you scroll to the bottom of the article, if it's properly labelled up you can find the exact sources for everything said.
Numenta was founded in March 2005, more than 8 years ago. What has it accomplished?
Official: Water complaints could be 'act of terrorism'
A Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation deputy director warned a group of Maury County residents that unfounded complaints about water quality could be considered an "act of terrorism."
Another World by Eric Chahi, also reviewed by Sanglard [1] is a great example too. I love how he made all the game engine fits in only 20 KB, with the bulk of the game written in opcodes, interpreted by a VM. That made it very easy to port the game to any platform since there was only 20 KB to convert.

[1] http://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/index.php
"Obviously" and "clearly" are huge red flags that the writer is trying to bluff (esp. in student work). Just write: "Then"
Their employees.
I loved PoP, played it a LOT when I was in college. Great memories.
I wonder if anyone has considered buying a Tesla (free recharges for life), driving home every day and finding a way to discharge the battery back into the grid through their meter to negate their home electricity bill.
Apple's Sprite Kit framework targets games on iOS 7, OS X Mavericks & beyond
Cool, I'll look forward to reading it - the disparity between QoS with local councils is embarrassing, and as these are public services, the software exposing these services should be open source simply out of principle.
We most certainly can. I'm still supporting one app which maintains 3.1.3 compatibility.

Don't know where you got your misinformation.
What would Feynman do? - Fabulous Adventures In Coding - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
Look for NTUC Unity. There are many branches around the island.
If the OTP was used to encrypt the message, it's usefulness is already gone.
25,000 Dead Bees Found In Car Park Amid Probe
I completely disagree with your statement. Maybe there is a bigger question: 'Is crossing the chasm to widespread adoption always a good thing?' Maybe we should be trying to build platforms that are high-quality instead of high-quantity. We are caught in a world that is obsessed with inclusion rather than exclusion. Is that, by necessity, the default position? Should it be?

The internet contributed to building support for the Arab Spring throughout the world but it was tyrannical regimes that were the root cause. Wikileaks is not new. We used to have a little thing called 'investigative journalism', a profession in which people would put their live's on the line to reveal scandals and uncover secrets they felt the world should have known.

Technology does not motivate moral growth. People motivate moral growth. Nazi Germany was the most technologically advanced society in the world when they invaded Poland and set the course for World War II.

The reality is that we are segmenting ourselves from other internet users just by taking part in the HN community. Most people here would admit, the minute HN would spread to the point of being widely adopted, we would all leave. I don't come to HN to be inundated with cat pictures. I'm here because I learn things every time I visit a link posted on HN.
When I was in college, we always heard rumors of CIA doing this and NSA doing that... with the exception of the few NSA mathematicians who took sabbaticals in our math department, I generally assumed it was BS. (They were really nice guys, by the way. I learned elliptical factorization from one of them. Sure wish I remembered it!) This was the late 90s, not the heydey of LSD research and all that crazy stuff. I only wish...

Now, as for DoD funding institutional research, absolutely (they funded me last year for something completely benign and outside the scope for "info wars"). They fund research at a lot more places than GT. So, yes, plausible. But, unlikely IMO that NSA has an active presence on your campus doing intelligence work.

BTW, I challenge your claim that GT gets "mostly DoD". I'm sure your school is primarily funded by NSF (the preferred government tit to suck on). DoD is actually a pain in the ass to deal with because they don't go away after the money changes hands. Same is true for SBIR/STTR.

Finally, DoD classifies everything. Don't let that label fool you into thinking the work is sensitive (or even interesting). Within academia, this is less so because the objective of funding institutional research to produce publications. Contract R&D is not something that is popular with faculty (or the school, since depending on the IP ownership, it can put their tax exempt status at risk.)

That said, keep snooping and let us know what you find in that room labeled "no personnel permitted without super-duper top secret clearance".
You should have removed the salt entirely, after all the article is supposed to be "The easy way".

Edit: also the default cost is already 10, you should offer the $options as an aside and not suggest using them as standard practice.
After all, it's needed to stop terrorists.
Was one of your problems concerned with a social method for getting inebriated? And did the other concern itself with a relaxing full body cleaning method?
Russian physics papers from a certain era are notorious for skipping vast and none-too-obvious swaths of derivation, making do with a terse "it follows that" or some such. Some of my colleagues assumed that this was some sort of machismo; I thought maybe they were just smarter than me. Later I had the chance to mention this to an emigre physicist from the former USSR, and he said that it was just to reduce the number of pages to save on the costs of publication.
Adding that salt is optional. I'm pretty sure the author just added it to the post so people know it exists.

I don't think it's dumb and pointless at all, really. Generally you wouldn't generate a salt yourself if you're using bcrypt however I'm sure there would be cases where it would be needed or even preferred for some reason. I would advocate for flexibility and education rather than rigidity and simplicity. That is to say, rather than make the function useless to those who'd need their own salt I think it's a better idea to allow these options while making sure developers know that they should only be used in certain situations. A function like this isn't bad because it can be misused.
Thanks Ovid - that is interesting about FATCA - I had never heard of that.
Maybe you could take the lead on such a protest?
I scrolled to the bottom. The page had no sources. Then I went to the main English wikipedia page to get some sources, but apparently it completely disagrees with the simple English page.

The real megabyte page says that it has multiple meanings, and the mebibyte page says that "it was designed to replace the megabyte" and that "it is not commonly used". And I'll assume the sources listed are suitable for the moment.
If you use PHPass, remember to check your hashes to make sure they're actually hashed with bcrypt. PHPass falls back to a less secure algorithm if bcrypt is not available in your PHP version. Most of the CMS's that claim to use PHPass actually use the "portable" option, which is based on MD5, because they want to remain compatible with PHP versions lower than 5.3 (the first version that is guaranteed to support bcrypt).
I remember using BCrypt in PHP a few years ago. It was the first time I'd ever used BCrypt but it wasn't easy to find any resources on using it with PHP. Well at least not in the correct way.
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I have a sense of humor and high tolerance for sarcasm, and didn't downvote. But look at the long thread of sibling & niece/nephew comments to yours. Do you really think that the parent's comment led to any further useful discussion?
I do not have the time to read this article, nor do I have the time to peruse the (no doubt) enlightening HN commentary on said article.
That's what Netflix do: http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/03/ami-creation-with-aminat...
"website is still being worked on. Stay tuned."

https://twitter.com/80worldjobs/status/348094066929590272
That applies well to en.wikipedia.org, not as much to simple.wikipedia.org. See my reply to
andyhmltn about how the properly researched page disagrees with the grandparent's link.

Don't trust a wikipedia page that has zero citations.
Microsoft Sued Over ‘Mafia-Like’ Anti-Piracy Raid
>There do exist experienced PHP devs who would do password storage the right way but PHP up until now neither made it easy nor encourage these practices as they relate to passwords.

I'm happy to be one of them! The app I'm currently building uses this bcrypt library, and I can only highly recommend it:

http://www.openwall.com/phpass/
Rule 1 - Never air your dirty laundry in public.
Related fun fact: Here in Austria there is a party that gets translated to "Freedom Party". It is a right-wing party, who is known for their anti-foreigner stance and having members that are close to Nazi views. Every now and then they are in the media for it, even though they are (usually) not as extreme as for example the NPD in Germany or similar parties. However, still far from what most people would consider "Freedom".

So really, I think picking something more neutral as you name would probably help showing that you aren't just a marketing institution.

However, I still think that the name is bad, because of what it stands for, historically. I can understand the reason behind it, but that's something really internal. You can tell that to people that already are interested into the pirate party, but even if there were people that would share your views the word "Pirate" simply does not make them sound like a serious alternative.

Of course, names are bad and for the sake of neutrality maybe they should be called after numbers. Not even colors are really neutral anymore.
How to know when someone is in trouble in the water
Having written a VT100 terminal emulator in 6502 assembly back in those days I remember it well. But games had to be more clever as the memory was so tight. At least in my case the only fun part was showing 80 columns of data on a 40 column screen (if the user had no 80 column video card). Today we can focus much more on just writing code instead of engaging in daily hackery.
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In that particular case it gets a lot easier of course. One of the challenges of "general" search is that you're trying to satisfy a wide variety of queries, for domain specific search you can be much more selective of what you pick. Also one of the 'knobs' if you will is change in the corpus, so if you index Wikipedia for example it doesn't change all that much and that is a pretty stable index, versus if you index say a few tens of thousands of blogs then they will get new articles to index once every .5 to maybe 3 days. Versus keeping an eye on the "news" sites which get perhaps a dozen articles a day added to them.

Then if you don't keep the original extractions around, just holding the index can be done on a relatively small number of machines (say 5 or 10) and for a small user population that is pretty doable.

Google sold its "Google Appliance" which did this for businesses and often that was less than 1 cabinet or rack worth of machines.

Given some of the silly things people try to scrape Blekko for (clearly domain specific things) I'm surprised there aren't more folks building such engines. It isn't hard to write a basic crawler, it takes a lot of coaching to get it through the initial crawl since if you just blindly follow links around you can end up in endless loops on some sites or in a quasi form submission loop (we call those Crawler traps, for the most part unintentional on the part of web sites [1])

And of course we have been supporting the Common Crawl efforts to make this more generally available. We gave them a bunch of indexing data that made the Crawl they had a lot more useful as an example. So at some point we may reach critical mass and get that going.

[1] Sometimes though folks use an intentional crawler trap to find 'stealth' scrapers, which are folks making their own crawlers and not respecting robots.txt.
You're welcome.

Most Americans back home (we expats often call them "homelanders") have never heard of FATCA. It was a law recently passed which stated that every foreign financial institution (FFI) had to turn over information to the IRS about American customers. Never mind that this was often in violation of their country's privacy laws and expensive as hell to implement. It also had a wide variety of other consequences which have eventually led to many FFIs referring to Americans as "toxic assets" and refusing to do business with us.

I have more background in a variety of articles I've written about it: http://www.overseas-exile.com/search/label/fatca

It's still wonderful to be an expat and see the world, but if you get caught up in the IRS mess, life can become hell.
Manpages used to be the defacto best source of information, but sometime in the last 15 years they went from great to a hit and miss shambles.

I write this up to GNU's "info" being preferred by some programs, but then that not being installed properly or at all on many system, and people hating manpage syntax, often with good reason.

That said, some systems pay a lot of attention to this. OpenBSD's mandoc is a great example of a modernization of the manpage system, and their manpages are second to none: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan11-mandoc-openbsd.html
Sorry, but the EPA isn't nearly as formidable or effective as you make it out to mb. As recently noted in the NYT:

"The Environmental Protection Agency is obliged under the Clean Water Act to monitor America’s waterways and shield them from the toxic runoff from factory farms. But the growth of that industry, and its courtroom tenacity, has far outstripped the E.P.A.’s efforts to restrict runoff from manure lagoons and feedlots.

Last year, the agency meekly withdrew two proposed rules. One would have gathered basic information from all factory farms. The other proposed rule would have expanded the number of such farms required to have a national pollution discharge permit. Fewer than 60 percent do now.

Then, last week, in yet another retreat, the agency announced that promised new regulations governing feedlot discharges nationally would not be forthcoming."

This is an op-ed, and leads to advocacy for a particular response. But the facts it's based on are not in question, and they seriously undermine any assertions that the EPA is as effective as it needs to be.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/15/opinion/the-epa-backs-off-...
How the Hum of a Coffee Shop Can Boost Creativity
Ask HN: Is there a new breed of moving companies?
I am dealing with a NY -> Bay Area move and it feels icky dealing with the antiquated moving solutions that come up first in a google search. Is there a new wave of sophisticated moving solutions in the spirit of HN?
That would be a good open source project!
Yep, it looks like it requires a 128KB Apple //e and up. In the comments of the blog, Mechner mentions he couldn't get anyone interested in porting it to the C64 at the time as the system was considered too old. I guess by '89, 128 KB Commodores weren't considered that interesting of a market.

The original must have needed all the memory it could get its hands on - looks like it doesn't use the Apple //'s 'double high res' modes, for instance.

Forum thread of Sanglard trying to sort the thing out, with the help of some 6502-heads is also entertaining:

http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2223

Almost makes you want to combine the two actually hacker-ish posts of the last two days - the lightweight block ciphers and this and burn a weekend implementing SIMON in 6502 assembly. Almost.
I don’t know - I use zencoder and zendesk. Just because your product has a wide and diverse user base, like zendesk’s, doesn’t mean it’s easily confused with every other product who’s name is related.

I don’t assume there is an affiliation between the zencoder and zendesk. Personally I wouldn’t think there was much overlap between Billing and Customer Support, either - and I would not be confused in the least. (From the names - branding could clearly connect the 2)

Plus the number of startups with Zen in their name is huge: http://www.crunchbase.com/search?query=zen (which is a bad query as it excludes zen embedded in the name like we are discussing - but good as the number of relevant results is still ~30. And it’s the best I could find on short notice.)