skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for putting it into words, and for the term “Cosmic Sadness”. A similar feeling hits me periodically, never expected. Happens for as long as I remember myself, from early years, but is consistently rare.

Has a bit different effect on me. Somewhat like going ‘one level up’ per your literary example. The troubled character is myself—but Cosmic Sadness elevates me (other part of me? complicated!), giving an odd feeling of unreality and remoteness.

The Sadness, indeed, comes from the inability to move up completely. Continuing the analogy, you remember that the novel is not real, but you're trapped in its reality.

Myself, I treasure these moments, they are calming and meditative, and happen very rarely to me. I wish I could trigger them voluntarily.
> Paying $20-1000 to buy a packaged product that lets us test some of our hypotheses immediately is a nice option to have.

Have you seen how much people want to sell their sites/projects for though? I've seen todo-lists being offered in the past for $1000+. Which is just scary.
Hard drives can't saturate SATA. And many millions of people already have gigabit service. That's roughly as fast as most hard drives.
My curiosity is piqued but I'm at a loss. Where's the code? I read the page a couple of times but I don't see any links to code or anything.
Heading fonts not so pretty on Windows + Chrome.
In any case, commentators above have done the exact same thing by pointing out the askakorean blog author's post in defense of fan death.
Here's a video series I made a couple of years ago on text mining with RapidMiner:

http://vancouverdata.blogspot.ca/2010/11/text-analytics-with...

It's pretty easy to compare document similarity with n-grams of various lengths.

Did some work with a law firm to do something similar.
Sure: You can try a few billion passwords per second on modern hardware. The salt gets prepended on every try, so it doesn't count towards the complexity, it only helps with not precomputimg lists of hashed passwords and just comparing. Therefore, no matter how long the salt is, you still can try the same billion passwords a second, and a seven-character password will still only take 26^7 to be brute-forced.

Also, the salts are stored unencrypted in the database, right next to the hashes.
I googled Dabrowski and Positive Disintegration Experience and was led to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Disintegration

I found the following especially interesting:

Dąbrowski also described a group of people who display a different course: an individualized developmental pathway. These people break away from an automatic, rote, socialized view of life (which Dąbrowski called negative adjustment) and move into and through a series of personal disintegrations. Dąbrowski saw these disintegrations as a key element in the overall developmental process. Crises challenge our status quo and cause us to review our self, ideas, values, thoughts, ideals, etc. If development continues, one goes on to develop an individualized, conscious and critically evaluated hierarchical value structure (called positive adjustment). This hierarchy of values acts as a benchmark by which all things are now seen, and the higher values in our internal hierarchy come to direct our behavior (no longer based on external social mores). These higher, individual values characterize an eventual second integration reflecting individual autonomy and for Dąbrowski, mark the arrival of true human personality. At this level, each person develops his or her own vision of how life ought to be and lives it. This higher level is associated with strong individual approaches to problem solving and creativity. One's talents and creativity are applied in the service of these higher individual values and visions of how life could be - how the world ought to be. The person expresses his or her "new" autonomous personality energetically through action, art, social change and so on.
Banks/big capitals are evil, I prefer them dead (well the financial instance not the person. The persons however deserve a good old fashion whipping, at the least.)
I am an interface designer, and the constraints imposed by those mean ol' developers are because they are forced to think through logical flows to implement them.

The perfect ui would be a device that you wear in a small ring that reads your mind to find out exactly what you want, and using superhuman ai, strategizes the perfect way to get it for you.

There. I did it.
What a pros-and-cons evaluation of a culture misses is that cultures are "self-modifying code", with the weakest attributes constantly being revised. Few cultures are modernising as quickly as Korean. After all, Korean Air decided that Korean Air had a problem.

Where this process of introspection and change falls down is with expats and their children, who have detailed knowledge of and an exaggerated respect for the culture they left behind but are unable to play a role in changing it. Culture becomes a museum exhibit to these people. (I would be surprised if 'The Korean' lives in Korea.) As someone who knows lots of Koreans but few Korean Americans, I can say that after a few bottles of soju and speaking their native language, nobody is more aware of and passionate about resolving the problems in their own culture than a Korean.
I guess I should have just said 'gigabit', which is standard Ethernet speed and is roughly on par with hard drives. The point is that the network is plenty fast. Backbone and edge both. The only problem is a few isps.
Check out Daemon by Daniel Suarez, it's a great thrilling read but the tech he mentions actually exists in some form
It's relevant to the comments.
A first look at Tweetbot Neue
Sure. The purpose of a salt in password storage is to prevent the pre-computation of a gigantic rainbow table, which essentially acts as a lookup table. (Rainbow tables use less disk space in exchange for more time per lookup.)

Here, the salt only needs to be sufficiently long to make the rainbow table huge enough that it can't be computed in a timely or efficient fashion. So, a salt that's only a single printable ASCII character in length is rather short and probably insufficient; an attacker could build a rainbow table of the top X most common passwords (taken from previous leaked password lists) with every possible character as a salt and then use this against a leaked DB.

On the other hand, a massive salt doesn't help much in this phase either. A salt of fifteen characters is more than sufficient to prevent a rainbow table from including all possible salts, so there's not much of a point in using something ridiculous like a 100-char salt.

But once the DB is leaked, assuming a rainbow table is not feasible, an attacker instead will swap over to brute-force attacks (usually trying dictionary lookups first to find the very weakest passwords, then doing other techniques like trying common words with letters replaced with 1337 digits, and so on). Here, the attacker knows the salt (by virtue of the DB being leaked) and so the most important factor is how fast the attacker can try potential passwords. This is where MD5 breaks, of course; it's far too fast. An attacker with virtually no funding can test billions of passwords per seconds (on a GPU), and so a large Bitcoin GPU farm could be repurposed to crack salted MD5'd passwords at an extremely scary rate.

In fact, the block size of MD5 is 512 bits (64 bytes), so all strings with less than 64 bytes should take about the same time to hash. Thus, even a 40-byte salt with MD5 won't affect password cracking rates until the passwords hit 20 characters long, and a password that long is rarely cracked anyway. Even a 64-byte salt would only make the hashing take about twice as long, and when you're testing billions of passwords per second anyways, twice as long doesn't sound like much. (Actually, if you prepend the salt to the password, I can think of an attack where only the partial blocks at the end of the salt affect the brute-force attempt, which would make the salt's length not affect the cracking rate at all.)

So in sum, before the DB is leaked, the salt needs to have enough entropy to prevent pre-computing all possible salt values. Once the DB is leaked, the attacker doesn't much care about the salt length anymore because they know now all the salts used.
PCA is a pretty neat technique. It's quite old too, invented by Pearson in the early 1900's.

Basically, you find a "vector" that travels along the part of the data with the highest variance. Then you find an orthogonal vector that travels along the part with the next highest variance.

You then have a set of vectors that explain all of the variance, that aren't correlated (because they're orthogonal), and are ranked by how much they explain.

This can be useful in regression to get rid of correlated variables, or you can get rid of some of the low variance components if there are more columns than rows, which breaks OLS regression.

Consider a new town that you want to get to know as quickly as possible. What is the best method? You start with the longest street, then take a left and travel the next longest street, and so on. You can get a pretty good idea about the town without seeing it all.
There's a very small scene, yes. It's growing.
卜居 in Chinese
They talk about the money made storing aluminium in the warehouse, who's paying that? It sounds like Goldman owns both the aluminium and the warehouses, so all they're doing is buying aluminium and refusing to sell it.
Very illuminating, albeit unnecessary information. But, thank you.
Second this. The translation is very good.
its late, its saturday, i read the title as: existential depression in grilled chicken. IMO... it's a real problem
Was it that "something something Best Browser something something" the message for your chrome as well?
Yes. Ive had them previously many times and went to the ER the first time - I had a collection of terrifying symptoms that made me think I was having a stroke.

You'll likely need to genuinely stop fearing the symptoms of having a panic attack to get rid of them. When you feel anything like that coming on work on knowing you really are ok and its simply your adrenaline / panic response out of control - do not try to stop it, you will just cause yourself more panic. Nothing bad will happen to you despite how awful and unbelievable they feel - go with the flow but yes they feel like death. Try to learn to enjoy them as crazy as that sounds - focus on how amazing it is that your body can do all that stuff just from an adrenaline response. I know that sounds odd but its a perverse backwards way of getting them to stop. Its the only path out that I know of.

(Also as a side note from talking to docs - despite absolutely feeling like you will pass out panic attacks do not actually cause one to pass out or lose their mind. I know it feels like that but let those concerns go when you have an attack.)
You should have traveled and couch surfed a lot to say this
Extra points for not needing "world's best browser".
I've often thought that in a warped, twisted way totalitarianism gives meaning to life for certain people. If it opression is so intense to make life worthless, then one has a cause dearer than life itself - to fight this opression. This struggle itself is meaningful. Many 'hero' movies are structured in this way, the 'good guys' have a cause, usually around defeating some kind of evil, that gives them ultimate purpose.

Likewise, I've found friends with far worse actual problems in the developing world to be existentially happier. They derive great pleasure in being able to go to a rock concert, etc. The game dynamics still work for the majority. Lots of intermediary issues to overcome, bosses to beat. Threat of destruction (socially or economically) seems to be wonderfully stimulating. Game dynamics still work.

What I find far worse is the banality of the first world. That seems to evoke and ferment existential concerns. Kind of along the lines of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98LeLZ2crZE

In a way, it is the problem one faces once more basic things are taken care of. Hard to focus on existential angst when hungry.

At the end of the day, even though the universe itself may be arbitrary and doomed, I found that the only things that infuse durable meaning into us as humans is our love for each other, our desire to understand this universe, and our appreciation of beauty in all its forms.
Ok. So can you give me a few pointers on topics to read up on how they might scale up? Everything I have read in this field is all about - more machines, split data into several machines aka sharing for nice map reduce queries etc.

Genuine question not snarky. I have even read yahoo's fast website tricks - it's all really hacks and tricks, nothing mind blowing.

What I mean is given some extra time most people can figure things out by some googling and trial and error. This is unlike wolf 3d. Unless you spend considerable time understaning math and graphics you cannot do it.
Mutation/reassignment should be a rare thing that takes conscious effort, since it makes the code much harder to understand and reason about.
our API is quite new and we understand it doesn't give an outstanding value for everybody as it target easy of use for the moment but next release is going to add more advanced things.

About us using your data, our privacy policy will clarify that.
It's not an especially extraordinary claim. There are multiple ways to formulate a lot of supplements (e.g. α-tocopherol vs. γ-tocopherol, or any of the zillion ways to put a mineral like calcium or iron into edible form). Some of these are more effective than others. Some of these are cheaper to manufacture than others. All he's claiming is that in cases where the cheapest formulation is not the most effective one, you'll often not find the more effective form unless you know what to look for and go out of your way to find it.
Wow, $30 a year for 90 GB, that's amazing, thank you. You've been using them and you're satisfied? Basically, all I care about at the moment is that they don't silently corrupt my data, as it's backups.
Really? I read it nodding, thinking of how many of my friends/family/cow-orkers, and if I'm being honest with myself - me a lot of the time, could be described perfectly as "simply focusing on superficial day-to-day aspects of life."
Install Docker on linode
For certain types of games latency shouldn't be a problem since you can map the future interaction point between hand and target. If you miss then, well you missed. Boxing games would work well, FPS not so much. In a POV game you can't predict the view angle so also not the interaction point.
The only two real issues I've got with this article are that it limits itself in scope to the "gifted" and that it limits itself to children.

I think that can be entirely attributed to where it is published -- the website of a 501(c)3 that solely focuses on "gifted children".
He is claiming that the vitamins at Costco, Target, and Walmart are "crappy". That is indeed an extraordinary claim.
That's not really proof of anything since your headache could be purely psychological especially since you already suspect that the multivitamins are causing your headaches which means you are not an independent observer, but a biased (if well meaning) participant.

The correct way to prove it would be a double blind test using placebos. ie not something you could prove on your own.
Yes, but it was a big deal 10 years ago, and still is today.

And it may still be relevant because of face-to-face interactions. No, Hangouts won't cut it

And Github has probably done a lot for remote work, but there's still a gap
The Joy of Sleeping Alone
This whole Papua New Guinea thing
I was diagnosed as "gifted" in third grade, but switched back into "regular" school in sixth grade in response to bullying, a short temper, and a diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome with Seasonal Affective Disorder.

I think the only reason I got through high school was because of the immense amount of support I got when I was placed in a partially self-contained class with roughly ten other students with Asperger Syndrome and Autism.

The thing that always bothered me (and my "gifted" classmates) is that lumping all such children together is a Bad Idea(TM). We had unique strengths and weaknesses, and having us march in lock-step in a traditional Prussian-style school at double speed just made our weaknesses that much more apparent.
After finding Backupsy (and RamNode, which a commenter suggested), I've found the holy grail of backup solutions. I will write a simple backup script that mounts a remote directory (through SSH or whatever), mounts an EncFS directory on that and rdiff-backups files onto it.

This will give you encrypted, snapshotted backups using open-source systems, that are better than Duplicity because you don't have to be creating full backups every so often. If you'd be interested, you can subscribe to my mailing list at http://bit.ly/stavroslist or follow me on Twitter or something, but please post comments below so I know what functionality to include.
Product Design != Science Fiction
The article focus on gifted children because it is a particular problem since they can't share their thoughts and questions about it with friends. These questions are somehow comming up "too early" in life wrt to their capacity to cope with them. As adults we have collected enough data to be able to readjust our understanding of life in a sound way. The depression is the phase that follows the anger from not being able to cope with it. Helping these kids to go through this phase is important because risk of suicide is also higher.

I don't want to diminish the problem of existential depression in adults. I just want to point out that the problem is probably more accute and troublesome in gifted children as I think the author tried to explain.
Whoops. Lecture 5's link is incorrect. It points to lecture 4. Here's the correct one:

Lecture 5: The Distinction of Past and Future http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozjb6kQvBpc

And thanks to fjarlk for pointing out that I accidentally omitted Part 7!

Lecture 7: Seeking New Laws http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIN_-Flswy0
http://rxrb.codeplex.com/documentation has a more detailed description. It also has code examples, though they are misformatted.
Wall St.
Okay, who are you and why all of a sudden are you popping up in news aggregators like Techmeme?

Sorry if I missed out on some new (or old...I have no idea) thing here, but I've never heard of you nor your site. Is this suppose to be some alternate blog/identity for some other semi-famous tech writer or something?

Again, I apologize for not being hip or "with it" in regards to who you are. But you tend to obscure who you are on both your site and twitter feed. Why?
It was directed at the comments.
>the designer proceeds to create something not terribly original or interesting.

Yes, god forbit he also being somewhat pragmatic...
The sharing economy is great.

However, what seems to be broken is the legal system in the place you live.
Just don't get too used to thinking being gifted is particularly rare and requires a different system to thrive. Many acquaintances of mine at a certain crimson ivy university grew up with similar notions, and got into a different kind of depression once being surrounded by other 'gifted' individuals - due to having the 'world view' they've internalized so far, around the notion of them being special, getting totally crushed. Many also got used to explaining away their flaws as somehow being related to them being brilliant. This notion of specialness being crushed, they also saw those thing for what they are - failings, i.e. that they fail to connect with young people their age due to poor social skills, and not due to them gifts; and this becomes obvious now that others around them are also smart, etc. They realized that even if you're 1/1000 this means Facebook could staff the entire company with even more gifted Americans, and you'd still not make it, and so on.

These people are also crushed to learn upon graduation that people don't automatically revel in their obvious greatness, and that they need to earn their place by actually delivering / 'executing' on some of that potential.

TL;DR: Smart teenagers tend to not realize they are still 99% teenager, 1% smart. That itself is a teenager like habit.

Humans have roughly similar meta-emotional makeups and thrive in environments that cater to this. Gifted or not, children and teenagers thrive where they can expand their social, intellectual, emotional, spiritual boundaries and capabilities in a trusting, safe, encouraging environment. Thus the 'system' is the same, the gifted merely require a different mix of 'content'. They may be advanced in certain ways but normal or behind in others.
If you're knowledgeable of something, you may not know what it's like to be ignorant about it, but you do recognize the ignorance itself. But this doesn't go both ways, it's rather like a big circle contains the area of a smaller one, but not the other way around. You can see "blind" people, but they can't really see you. They hear and feel some things, and think that's all there is to it, but you know there is more. That is, after you found out about their blindness by them walking over paintings you made, maybe even made as a gift for them. Or even worse, you see them falling into manholes every day, and each time you tell them about it, especially in the blunt way of kids, they attack you for "thinking you see something they don't, thinking you're better". This is even more true for adults being showed up by kids; the people who can deal with that are rare, most use their position or power to shut the kid up, or eave it at a stupid, patronizing, insulting response.

Needless to say, this can be very confusing and painful. It's not like anyone ever tells you "I'm acting this way because I feel threatened by you", it's always some stupid mind fuck and always your fault. I still would never say it hurts more than being stupid, and let's not forget the perks that come with being gifted, either... I don't disagree with what you said, but still: "just as dire" does not mean "exactly the same".

There are, by definition, more people who can understand the most stupid, than those who who can understand the most gifted, and the sadness of seeing how the world could be, and how it is, and how third-hand many of the excuses many people make are, that is not a feature of the other extreme. Ignorance is bliss, as they say. And just consider the likely very different reactions to "I'm sad because I'm more stupid than the people around me" and "I'm sad because the people around me are more stupid than me". Both are perfectly valid reasons to be sad, but only one of them tends to get a hissy-scratchy response, especially when it's true.
...But why do I care?

Like, why would I use this? Yes, it takes an hour or so to understand simple DNS and it can certainly take weeks or even years to really understand complex DNS...but it's not the zone file format that makes this hard, it's that DNS is hard.

"More efficient" doesn't make me care because it's already efficient enough that the bottleneck in DNS is elsewhere. Being more useful, doing things I can't already do, makes me care. So why should I care?