skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting that reading /dev/urandom isn't exactly cheap.

Probably fine for generating session IDs in most circumstances, but if you're using it in another situation (e.g. shuffling something), you might find the performance is terrible.
Err hang on. Are you using Mechanical Turks? That can't possibly be a true representative of the online population, much as some superficial demographics might match.
Now you can find any kind of lists in one place, with any columns you want. For example, add a column for length. Much easier than navigating to each album's Wikipedia page.
Curious: Why would people use this instead of the W3 validator?

And for your fix list:

it's entirety -> its entirety.
$600 sounds plausible to me -- after all, the $100 laptop cost more like $200 when it was done. If a netbook with aluminium case, VIA Nano processor and 12" touchscreen was profitable to manufacture at $300, one of the Asian companies would already be selling them, I suppose.
I think someone is, I hope unconsciously, trying to improve his self esteem by stomping on the patronage of certain websites, expecting the commenters here to eloquently support him.

Either that or he he is consciously being arrogant.

Anyone reading Joel Spolsky or Jeff Atwood is already above the norm, because they are actually trying to learn and improve themselves. This can be proven by simply comparing the number of visitors to blogs and sites like theirs with the total number of people that could benefit from readin those sites.
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Security guys know how things are made thus how to break them. Thinking as a security guy can help developers to make things that are difficult to break.
High on conclusions, low on data. She bandies about this thought a lot that pre-tech bubble startups were heads above the today's in VC success. Certainly a number of really high profile companies came out of that, but there were a lot of fairly significant failures too. It may even be true that todays VC companies aren't as booming as the pre-burst companies but I'd really like to see some kind of data to that effect. Not everything is quantifiable, but there are some things about VCs that should be.
Reminds me of this, which I dug out of a closet in my Aunt's house a few years ago:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17948
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http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/customerservice.html

See point 7.
I think it is just dumb to claim that Microsoft doesn't innovate. Comparing them to Apple is also a bit like comparing Apples and Oranges (pun intended).
You're right in that politicians look to advisers for recommendations. However the problem of numerical illiteracy is still there. What happens if say for the problem of climate change there are two conflicting recommendations -- one from a scientist working for a lobby group, and the other from academia. Certainly the politician isn't expected to have enough knowledge to fully compare the two different reports, but a solid understanding of fundamental mathematics, statistics, and just basic physics could result in a good or bad decision.

I remember as an exercise one of my physics professors asked us whether it would be possible to make up the energy deficit in British Columbia through wind turbines. Using back of the envelope calculations, basic physics, and some generous estimates we proved that it would be unlikely -- if a politician were able to do this it could very likely affect his decisions on whether other energy sources are needed.
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That's an interesting point you're making and it's no doubt true in general. And there are other reasons as well why companies stay in high cost locations (like central London or NYC).

But what's all the more important is how much of the taxes a company pays actually buys something they would otherwise have to buy themselves. The same goes for personal income tax.

The problem with paying for things via taxes is that everybody is paying the same regardless of how much of it they actually consume. For instance, software companies benefit a lot from free public education but very little from good roads and bridges. For a postal service it's the other way around. Of course there are always indirect benefits that mitigate this effect.

Some things are just much more efficient when paid for by everyone collectively. But at the same time individual choices become less important. Individuals and companies benefit less from good choices and suffer less from bad ones. There's less incentive for a postal service to avoid unnecessary trips if roads are free and fuel is subsidised. There's less incentive for individuals to get a useful degree rather than studying ancient persian cults.

So it's a balance. But I'm concerned that here in europe there is a tendency of making so many choices for everyone collectively that being different becomes very expensive. I don't want to save for my pension because I don't want to retire. Ever. Making that decision for myself is near impossible in europe. I hate that.
I liked the question but I had to downvote you for trying to turn this into reddit.
Obligatory xkcd reference on why this is dangerous: http://xkcd.com/419/
Too me this is extremely creepy. It reminds of the Resident Evil security system, or the male equivalent.

I do doubt how well it would work, for example; telling the difference between laughing and crying, telling the difference between sadness and anger.

But I don't know too much about this, or what's currently going on in the field so perhaps somebody made a breakthrough. Or this may be the breakthrough.
My biggest problem is availability. I think opening it to Australia, and other countries would prompt growth.
They do : take a look http://images.google.com.au/images?q=black+box+flight+record...
Now all the keys and downloads are greyed out.
The paper regarding the 2^52 attack on SHA-1 is now on eprint [pdf]
Your examples do not offer >2Gb of RAM. Some of them are not based on Xen. Their pricing is not much better too.

Slicehost is not the cheapest, but it is known for the great attitude to the customers. And it is not expensive too.
What are machine tags?
At my previous employer, we used a Mediawiki instance for approximately everything in projects: documentation, design sketches, work packages, internal tool FAQs and Howtos, project meeting minutes. Bug tracking, however, happened in Bugzilla. We had a sophisticated naming convention for different types of pages.

In retrospect, I wouldn't track work packages and progress in a Wiki any more (instead use something that can actually add up the "time spent" column...), but the rest was fun to work with.
It took me a while to figure out what I wasn't seeing on these results pages.

SEO spam.

So I searched for "SEO spam" and it asked me to build a Square for it. No thanks >:(
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Very neat hack! I am surprised Java did as well as it did.
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See in particular the articles about Eve, who co-developed this to produce a non-sharded world (in other words, one that isn't split into virtualized incidences walling players in different 'dungeons' away from each other).

Eve can get away with fudging some of these problems to an extent because it takes place in space and so travel is achieved by use of things like warp gates and hyperspace jumps - you can just fly off into space with normal engines but given the astronomical distances being simulated this isn't practical for actual travel, only for tactical combat advantage (scouting or sniping at enemy ships).

As with a most other online games, players tend to congregate around a central point because of navigational and trade benefits. In Eve's case this is a system called Jita which regularly had 500 ships in one local volume, leading to horrendous lag. Load balancing can become a particular problem and so does client bandwidth since you're suddenly trying to feed everyone 1000 vectors per second.
What's the 'c' target? That's C code emitted by Clue. That is, we're compiling C into C. Clue's output code uses double precision floats for all numbers, but even then it's impressively fast.

To me that sounds like they're changing the program semantics. Switching to different types of floats will change your program.
Ok, so there is some terminology mismatch here, sorry but this is my fault I think since when in the article I speak of RDBMS I think to Oracle, MySQL, ..., relational SQL databases.

Btw in Wikipedia I read: "A short definition of an RDBMS may be a DBMS in which data is stored in the form of tables and the relationship among the data is also stored in the form of tables."

Basically once you have the idea of tables, a lot of things about SQL databases are automagically needed: queries and indexes for instance.

Also MongoDB supports _id fields specifically. And tables, so you can build tables that have as unique goal to describe relations among other tables. So MongoDB is an RDBMS following the definition of Wikipedia, that may be wrong of course (and if so should be fixed).

With Redis Sets probably it is possible to build the storage system of an RDBMS just with software on the client library side, but it can't be considered an RDBMS AFAIK because of the lack of tables, and Sets can't be considered tables since they don't have the field:value idea at all, but are just collection of elements.

Btw in the future I'll try to use the term RDBMS better, and will refer to Oracle, MySQL, Firebird, DB2, and so forth, as SQL databases.
Needs some work: http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=famous+hackers
Good docs with good practical examples of how to call the API. Many docs I've seen talk about the philosophy or background and then just dump the API functions without any real explanation.

In a nutshell: Give real world examples.
I'm just doing the same.

Questions on one account, and Answers on the other.

I have no idea how to delete the questions I've asked already though, the system doesn't seem to allow for account and question deletion.

But this is the way I'm going... nuke everything, start again with 2 two accounts.

Reputation is starting to become a bitch online, no-one is always impeccable and because of the power of search we stand to be judged on the few dumb things we do.

The only way to counter it seems to be to act as if online there is a Stasi watching and to only put against our identity that which we wish to be judged by at any future point in our lives... which certainly doesn't include the dumb questions we might ask when it's 11pm and we're tired of fixing some annoying issue or defect.

I would say that these recent changes now reduce the value of these sites for me. I'll use it as a resource but I'm now less likely to contribute.
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Nice picture there. Has it got velcro on the back or something? Because I can see it slipping down her leg and falling on the floor pretty quickly.
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I have mixed feelings, in that I'm Irish and I'm not so in favor of high corporation taxes, but rather higher capital gains taxes on profits realized through share ownership (trying to balance fiscal &social responsibility with enabling business).

but taxes are ultimately a philosophical issue to which there is no correct answer. Although This will likely not make a big difference to anything in the long run, it shows Ballmer to have a political tin ear. This is not a good time for a rich CEO of a rich company which accounts for a lot of H1-Bs to be complaining about the pain of paying taxes. Average joe and Jane have little interest in the niceties of economics or technology, and will read this as 'Evil megacorp blackmails government and hires only cheap foreigners, also Vista sux'.

MS is the 800lb gorilla of the software world, but the US government is the 800lb gorilla of the, er, world. Playing standard Ballmer hardball at a time of skyrocketing unemployment is a bit like the car bosses a few months ago taking private jets to ask DC for more money to build cars nobody wants to or can afford buy. Good reason or not, it's wildly insensitive to the political mood.
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The problem is the weight of the cable. You can reduce the effective weight of the cable in water by, for example, combining polypropylene and steel strands (they experimented with this for some anchor cables in the late 70s early 80s) but the cable has larger diameter with greater drag on the moving robot. Maybe even enough drag to snap the cable anyway. Also, I am not sure how well the experiments turned out, I can see several other possible problems with the combined cable.
Yeah, except that some guys still rely on their mothers instead, regardless of their age!
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And I have to say that I agree with them.
Whenever I am confronted with, say, a "window" in a web app (i.e. a popup that I can move around in the browser), it just feels weird.
I moved to Seattle (well, Redmond) two weeks ago. What resources should I be hitting up to get involved in the startup scene?
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The Unity engine supports MMOs, Cartoon Networks' Fusion Fall MMO was built using it.. http://unity3d.com
awesome, it's so put-together, i'll definitively use it. together with the jquery ui library.
wooooow:D

what a job, what a feedback, what a community!!!!
no awesomenes but more warm warm warm!
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Would it be difficult to actually clone it in cardboard? Someone should put up an instructable for it.
I find this to be the case more and more. For very specific queries, Google has gotten to be rather annoying with overly aggressive term expansion and ignorance of particularly uncommon words. Bing actually pleased me this week due to the fact it respects searches in quotation marks without offering me partial matches.
I don't think that makes sense.

Dell are bought by "The general public", who often don't know how to clean the crap off. So some of it sticks, and they make money.

The crunchpad however, is going to be bought by techie geeks. If it comes loaded with adverts, everyone will just remove them, and they won't make any money.

This is a technically amazing achievement, but IMHO the market does not exist. They'll sell a few, but nothing major.
Depends on the protocol the security flaw is with, but RFC 2142 would indicate that if it's a Web issue, then webmaster@example.com - sadly people don't pay attention to many standards like this anymore, though, because they'd rather the Internet be broken.
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Fascinating read. Employing Cell GPUs to implement the technique in the paper could have interesting ramifications.
Poor Steve.
a sad story, comparing to the recent arc/hn security hacking: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976

reading that post was delighting me: a serious bug, a fix added, a community supporting & being thankful.

here at rails, a framework i would like to love it, a serious bug, no fix, a community throwing the shit over the fence and each other.

this immediately reminds me of the recent pr0n story in rails, where some members of the community were offended, by whatever reasons, by other community members.

the only good, non-technical advancement in rails in the last period i saw was the documentation project supported by the community and backed by rails eminents.

i'm expecting a firm and strong support here from rails, either would it come from dhh, or anybody else.

otherwise even if i would like to work with rails and build my life on it i can't afford a serious security hole being treated like this.

ruby and almost in the same way rails are close to my heart. i'm always defending them in such cases, even making myself being too subjective.

i can accept rails edginess, mac-alike metrosexualism (no ofense to anyone!), handsomeness and awesomeness, funky geekness BUT in some cases, like this, we should act normally, promptly, professionaly as any other community does.

EDIT: the official rails core answer: http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_t...
posted 10hrs ago this comment was made. it contains a bugfix, instructions and a disclosure i'm copying here:

Disclosure Notes
====

Due to communication difficulties and a mis-understanding between the
reporter and the security team. This vulnerability has been publicly
disclosed on several websites, users are advised to update their
applications immediately. Steps are being taken to ensure that the
security email is more reliable in the future. We regret the nature of
this disclosure and will endeavor to update processes and
documentation to ensure it doesn’t happen again in the future.
A succinct summary of a vague sense of "wrongness" that I have experienced for a while now...

With computing progressing more-or-less along moore's law, responsiveness and speed seem to stay steady or get worse - and this can't all be explained by the "extra" functionality provided... Vista anyone?

While the paper gives hope that it is up on the radar, I suspect it may be some time before we see any widespread adoption of the ideas - we're talking a paradigm shift in an ego-centric industry...

However, a great find! Definitely something to chew over...
I'd say the problem isn't with asking quirky questions, but with idiotic employers who expect their staff to be unrealistic, dishonest automatons.

No-one's perfect. We all ask stupid questions, many of us have crazy things in our online profiles, and we've all gone off the rails at some level or another. Employers who want to see people who are 100% "proper" all the time at their interviews are idiots.

And, no, I have no problem with employers like these pulling up this very message and reading it back to me in the future because I'll know they're not worth working for. Smart employers use smart criteria.
Perhaps people who aren't mediocre, by the poster's yardstick, would be getting jobs through networking, contacts, and direct approach, rather than "job sites."
Would you trust a single input for immediate future use?

If so, Google Square has some Viagra to sell you...

In other words: A single user can never be trusted when they know nothing else about you - if they did, the spammers would be out in force as soon as it got any traction at all.
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I'm not sure, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
Imagine we had very low taxes, but the state did not build roads

No need to imagine. Businesses existed a long time before the state ever got around to building roads. Businesses seem to exist just fine without much government intervention at all -- so well, in fact, that one of government's roles is to prevent monopolies.

This whole "government provides infrastructure so businesses should be happy to have it" presumes that the infrastructure the government is providing is the best and most efficient use of the dollars in question for that particular business. That's a really big assumption.
Unfortunately, you can't use GPL or even LGPL licensed code on consoles, and try getting (L)GPL code past your publisher's/investors' lawyers. I had to go through an arduous approval process to be allowed to use zLib in a game.
Way to miss the point. Ballmer's point is that Obama's tax plan is a bad idea.
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therefore, we need more IPOs.

Google has created tons of great companies since its IPO. Loads of its engineers now run awesome startups.
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Oh sorry, I re-read the article. It says Alan Turing was conceived, and not born, in Orissa, India. Apparently, Google is better than humans at interpreting text :)

PS: I am not sure if place where Alan Turing was conceived is an apt information. Why would anyone want to know that?
No, that's exactly my point; perhaps independent journalism, which doesn't seem viable given current economic patterns, can become self-sustainable through internet publishing and voluntary contributions by appreciative readers. There's plenty of good journalism to be done with just an internet connection, a phone and an inquiring mind, as long as you know you will be reimbursed.
At least I'd like to think so :-)
This is simply awesome. Fantastic idea, implemented well.
No doubt. TV is a monopoly power structure influencing people's life. We can say 99% of manipulation was coming from the classic media structures like TV, newspapers, Hollywood movies.

And yes, it is already descending due to internet.
Of course chimps seem smarter than usual, the research is being done in Portsmouth - compared to the locals, the chimps are geniuses.
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I know domain names are hard BUT

.

your domain looks like :: PickFuck :: to a casual glance.

.

Similar to how the FCUK brand (intentionally) looks like FUCK.

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I think your site is good, although it seems the demographics are exclusively American. Hopefully you could add some multinational demographic later.

Good luck and well done!
Aha, thanks for the recollection about Google Sets. Your guess looks plausible.

I agree with vidarh's point about spam potential, re: reusing previous samples.