skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're absolutely right. However, is it a crime that could be tracked, without an employee explicitly whistle-blowing to the feds? Even then, could the feds prove this? I'm no expert, and I'm probably wrong in saying this, but in my mind it'd be near impossible to prove that a provided hash had been tampered with, instead of a user just changing their password.

It's morally wrong, and obviously I'm not saying it's the way to go. It's just a theory that I had, and I wanted to know if it was feasible for a company to do this.
it depends on whether your password is "kittenz" (one minute) or "A39cBiwe&4j2fqVz1uQ" (years and years)
That's a fantastic post. VoiceOver seems to blow a few of the competitors away, too.
Not a 'challenge':

Are you or aren't you describing the whole of non-medical, non-moon landing human technological progress? (Yes, 'progress' is a loaded word, but depending on your perspective, that may be the point.)

Neolithic Rev. onward, it's been specialize, optimize, specialize, optimize. What's Excel do that you can't do with an abacus?
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Touché. I should have googled beforehand.

Of course, a $3.00 delivery fee hardly seems extravagant compared to Prim charging ~33x the average cost of completing a load of laundry in one's home.

Any reason they don't just buy organic milk?
This is a whole other thing, this is a single users password, I think in the article they are talking about every user's password, correct me if I'm wrong.

And even then, a password should be encrypted. If there is a court order to reveal information, then there has to be a way to get this information rather than sending unencrypted passwords to the government so they can snoop through your mail without even being proven that you are guilty.
They are working on it one piece at a time. For instance, they
refactored the way Calc store the cells in memory to avoid lots of pointer chasing.
Sheesh. The objections on this thread (SV bubble), expected objections (first world problems) and counterarguments to both (don't worry! time saved will go to raising kids, curing cancer & cooking quinoa!) make this discussion sound so puritan.

Curing cancer is great. So is raising children. Exercising. Reading. Etc. But are we saying that a laundry service is only valid if it can be justified with time spent on something wholesome or saintly? Prim sounds quirky in that it's startup-ish, but basically it's a service that does your laundry. Some people don't want to do their own laundry and will pay money to have someone else do it. Simple.

Do people that start a business doing other people's laundry really need to justify themselves?
Same here! Very good service and guess what, the documentation is awesome! Helps a lot to help you setup LAMP for example. They've got some really cool features.
Looks like you use nano for Haskell development and vim for the other stuff why's that? And a minor tip, you can close your tty using ^D (because I saw exit).
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Yeah, I was wondering. It might have a nice web frontend, but otherwise... I was using a service like this in London about five years ago, and I'm pretty sure it's been a available as a service for as long as there have been people wanting clothes cleaned.
over-hyped FreeBSD's jails?)
Too good to be true: Statistics may say that women wear red when they’re fertile
Did Scribd get 'better' in an empirical performance comparison with google's viewer?

For me to take such a comparison seriously, you need to present evidence to us transparently, with the understanding that every such comparison inevitably relies on making choices and is hence only meaningful insofar as those choices can be seen and understood by the reader
I think you have good points not far from what I was getting at in my longer comment elsewhere in the thread--that of shifting personal inconveniences from mundane chores onto other humans who are likely making far less than the user of this service, and don't get to benefit from the 'value'.

They still have to go home and do their laundry.

Funding and celebrating startups should evaluate the value that is offered to users and to the people who staff the companies. There's a lot of workers who are going to get the shit end of the value proposition here.
Absolutely not. This business is common all over the world and as old as houses.

I'm not objecting as such, but I do wonder what's novel about it. I suppose making national/international business out of it is quite novel as most operations of this type tend to stay small and local.
Sigh.. I am actually from University of British Columbia and graduated with psychology degree and know Jessica Tracy. I feel very disappointed by this..
Maybe this is all a clever government ruse. If DC wants more of Britain's youth interested in technology, what better way than to force them to find ingenious technological solutions to get hold of their porn?
Nobody understands Economics, and if they claim otherwise, they are lying.
>> Let's say I'm an entry-level freelancer who bills out at $100/hr.

Where is $100 an hour entry level? Wowsers...
It's a good conclusion I feel: this is always the issue with language benchmarks - who wrote the code, and how good were they with each of the languages.

Similarly as the article points out, the compiler matters a lot: ICC can in certain cases be more than 200% faster than GCC with similar flags, and is generally 15-20% faster anyway, mainly due to more intelligent inlining and much faster (and more accurate with fpmath=fast) math libs.
I kinda think college kids been doing this type of thing in dorm cafeterias since the dawn of time.
For that price you might as well go with Linode (in their London DC) and get 8 cores, 48GB disk space and 1TB bandwidth. Works out to be ~£13.
What makes you think that the financial pressure is artificial? Postal services in general are having problems because there's not much reason to spend money sending a letter that will take days to arrive, when you can write an email for free and it will arrive in seconds.
SmartSignin (https://smartsignin.com)is a young startup and has been focusing on Privacy and security since its inception. Most of the security conscious people won't trust any Single Sign-On application as they have single point of failures but with SmartSignin there is no single point of failure. We are so sure about our technology that we even guarantee you 100% privacy and security (literally!!).

How we do it? Firstly, we follow client side encryption. Secondly, we don't store anything in plain text on our server, everything is encrypted (actually we hardly store anything). Thirdly, with the help of our patent pending SmartKey technology we are able to manage encryption keys so effectively that even if a hacker gets into our server he will only find junk and useless data which he won't be able to use.

We have something apart from password called cryptphrase which is required to login and it helps in generating the private key of the user to decrypt his data. As only user knows the cryptphrase no one apart from the user can see his data thus giving him complete privacy. Nobody not even NSA or people at SmartSignin can see the critical information of users. And if you think we are bluffing check the following post:
http://blog.smartsignin.com/how-to-troll-nsa-and-take-comple...

It might look cocky if we say we are hackproof but theoretically we are.

Check us out. :)
If you look at the release notes for various versions you'll see that they've been doing this already.

Note that e.g. new volunteers working on build infrastructure things are not going to be happy that they aren't allowed to work on what they're good at. They're not going to switch to coding, they're not suddenly going to care about MS Office. Any company/project can do multiple things at once.

Anyway, just file bugs! In the release notes it said they fixed 3000 in this version.
:)

a start-up that instead of shifting my inconvenience to other people, removes my feeling of inconvenience itself

I don't think getting a stoic to do your laundry will have the desired effect. I get what you're saying. But this is a matter of right tool for the right job. Marcus Aurelius for figuring out if you should do your own laundry or use Prim. Laundry services for doing the laundry if Marcus says it needs doing.
When co-founding a laundry related service and promoting it in a photo while wearing a branded t-shirt, wouldn't it be a good idea if that t-shirt wasn't full of wrinkles? ;-)
Yeah, just like people replaced their pc with a tablet that can only do 1percent of what a pc does but still live with it. That does not mean there is no need for PCs anymore.
Right, but the excess was all people with the same problem. I added a note to the homepage ("debian users: you need to install libblah-devel, configure will not warn you about this because of how debian packages KDE") but it didn't seem to make any difference.
I really, really don't understand where this comment is coming from. Why would this turn into a "racist rage thread"? Does HN have a history of these? I don't think so. And seriously, why would it even have to do anything with race? To be honest, I don't get why the article claims this is about "Chinese ingenuity" either, it's a few assholes ruining it for the rest of us, as it happens eventually with every abusable service on the planet. Why would anyone assume all Chinese in all the Pizza Huts are doing this? Before you made that comment this insane possibility didn't even cross my mind.
The standard pattern is never use external dependencies directly, but to keep copies and host them on your CDN.

For dependencies you can control, it's obviously best to keep a local or CDN copy. However this trend of embedding js from all over the web is encouraged by the pattern that most of the big sites allowing you to embed content use:

e.g.
https://developers.google.com/+/web/badge/

Google, Twitter, FaceBook all want you to embed js hosted on their servers in your page in order to interact with their site, even if all that script does is then insert an iframe into the page. By including a button or widget like the one above you're trusting them not to take over your site in a manner similar to this example, track your users surreptitiously, or be compromised now or in the future.
I created a game in Actionscript 2.0 back in 2009.

I started to program in around November of 2011.

Being able to cobble together an app or what-have-you is very different from programming, I think. I would not call what I did back then programming.

I even wrote a couple of follow-up games which used a tile-based map system and pathfinding but didn't store nodes on the map as variables - the game calculated the location of the nodes each time they were to be used. That's hideous.

I'd also point out that the vastness of the internet's resources should not be underestimated. I could create something awesome in 10 hours using Codecademy as a reference and generic tutorials I found using Google.

The problem for me would be finding 10 hours to do this in.

I do not think that this is a deliberate attempt to deceive as much as it is a sense the person feels that the person is 'not a proper programmer'. Hell, if I created a similar project now, after completing coursera/proglang and coursera/algorithm-design-and-analysis and working with web design for about a year and a half, I would still call it "teaching myself to code", because there is so much to learn I'm barely dipping my toe in the water.
Do people that start a business doing other people's laundry usually find themselves celebrated as a 'startup' and receive venture capital funding?

This is a news story because it has YC's name attached.

The objections and counterarguments, to me, provide valuable insight into what kinds of startups ought to be both celebrated and funded, as well as to gauging wider public reception for a service that is going to have to rely heavily on some significant pickup and economies of scale to not be a wasted investment.

That, and there are plenty of other social, economic, and environmental impacts a service like Prim poses that many, including myself, consider to be of significant concern and worthwhile evaluation in funding and celebrating such a service.

Also, that's really not what puritan means.
> We don't really have much ideas about why the CE happened

Look at the graph here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_catastrophe

It took 1 Ga from the invention of photosynthesis to grow enough biomass so that photosynthesis started to be a notable process in geological scale.

Then it took 0.5 Ga of photosynthesis, when the produced oxygen would dissolve into the oceans, until the oceans were saturated. Atmospheric oxygen remained at 2–4%.

Then it tool 1.5 Ga of hard work, when the land surface minerals would be oxidized, until they were all oxidized and finally oxygen started to accumulate in the atmosphere.

Then around 600 Ma ago the atmosphere hit above 10% oxygen, and this pretty much coincides with the Cambrian evolutionary explosion.
And then they slightly change the software to actually track <insert random military item here> instead of mosquitos and they would have a perfect defence weapon.
Do we still need the telephone?
OLAP is not like SQL or ODBC. It shows things in a cube. OP is talking about OLAP, not just SQL/some database (which is of course works perfectly fine). Note: Aside from knowing that OLAP is different, not much practical knowledge.
Having said that, this site is always good for a bit of a giggle: http://www.zerohedge.com/
There was a post on reddit to a site that had hotlinked an image for it's background who suddenly found itself with a pornographic background.
Because it's a regional (read: non-US) tradition, and it wouldn't make sense for most users?
I agree it shouldn't be here but there's no need to insult the person who wrote it - it's not there fault it made it to the front page of HN. Flag it.
No because competent companies don't just have peoples' passwords. They would have to give the encrypted password, encryption method and salt which would greatly weaken the companies own internal security because now a bunch of people know a lot about the encryption system of the company and those people can't be trusted to keep the information secure.
I'm not sure why you were down voted. I thought what you said was very witty, but I suppose it only works if you read the paper.
This is a nicely done benchmark, and an impressive demonstration of HRC. Thanks for posting!
How to future-proof your data model
I find two things incredibly ironic:

1) The UK willingly submits all of its net traffic to monitoring, snooping and supervision by a Chinese firm. This is mindboggling. Why worry about NSA's ECHELON or PRISM now, when the government has just passed a law requiring every packet to be inspected by a Chinese system.

2) Let's learn from those who are best at censorship. Obviously China has significant experience in that area. UK has a lot to catch up, but they're working on it.

Think about it -- if somebody told you 10 years ago that the United Kingdom will outsource country-wide Internet traffic monitoring, policing and censoring to Chinese companies, you'd call them a nutjob.
If this surprises you well then, you are as dumb as they come
Valuable friction or why easy is not always valuable
I'm going to wait and see if it uses client-side encryption. If it does, it's probably safe to use.
It seems the most likely would be that most planets are inhabited by life forms that aren't intelligent.
Out of 13Bn years, humans in any form have been around 1M years. Civilized societies only a few thousand.
We'd find many more planets with Dinosaurs on them (they lasted 200M years)....

The thought that 1 out of 7 suns has earth-like planets is still amazing though. Wouldn't it be rather likely that an advanced intelligence is watching us at that point?
Warren Ellis at Cognitive Cities Conference
Isn't Google's viewer really the default PDF viewer in Chrome? The one which doesn't add a toolbar or any tooltips that are popping up despite my mouse not hovering over them.

Scribd is for people who want to share a PDF but don't know how to do it in any other way. It's pretty much never been welcome on HN because that's the only problem it solves and everything else it does is inferior to just having a native PDF you can view with no problems and save with no problems. We are not the target market so I never understood why it was pushed on HN at all.
The Chinese list would lead to instant political death, because that'll block Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and some Google+ services. A large number of businesses in the UK that rely on those services will soon follow Mr Cameron to the grave.

On the plus side, the message that the Internet is not a toy to be taken away at will would swiftly and surely be delivered, via the medium of being dragged out into the streets by an angry mob.
One idea that fascinates me is the possibility of two planets in the same solar system evolving intelligent/technological life. How amazing would it have been to have been one of the first astronomers on such a planet, and see macro-structures like large cities on another planet.
I had this exact same thing happen last week in one of my wordpress site, I had just inserted that script when developing to try it out and forgot to change it for a local file or a CDN afterwards.

As someone affected by this, I learned my lesson, but I was very happy about how the hotlinking was handled, I was a clear impossible to miss warning, with a clear and easy solution, I though it was only fair.
"Customers who do not want filtering still have their traffic routed through the system, but matches to Huawei's database are dismissed rather than acted upon."

In other words, when they screw up the implementation and it breaks something about your network connection (e.g. IPv6, TCP options, or dozens of other subtle things), there's nothing you'll be able to do to just get raw packets routed over the Internet.

This is going to break the network.
One thing that will happen is that domains that get abandoned that used to host benign js will get taken over by the jerks. That's very hard to protect against, and with the rate at which start-ups encourage people to embed their tags I'm kind of surprised there hasn't been a significant incident like that.
Growth Hacking Notes
It's incredible how much people are willfully ignoring Linode's gross incompetence in this matter.
What figures were you using? I'd like to put the current New South Wales, Australia electricity price into the equation.
Sure, I don't mind if bits don't work, if I miss out on some WebGL stuff or similar.

But to just put up a big fuck you, to what is the second most popular or most popular browser as a whole isn't helpful. It reminds me of people using Java Applets for navigation in their frames webpage.... Actually I did that once, I was however 11, and this thing had a spinny thing.

Sure, do cool stuff that requires features which some browsers miss, use feature detection to flag that.
AVX-512 Instructions
Having studied at the same university (though not with either of the professors), I can confirm that both teachers are respected professors and experts in their fields (logic and the philosophy of science). I'm sure it'll be an interesting course.
Good encryption systems assume that the algorithm is known and still are secure in face of that requirement. So if publishing the method makes your system insecure then it's already insecure by design. Security through obscurity is not a viable approach.
At least where I live no.
I have never used it and none of my friends neither
This Summer of Surveillance get's better and better :-)
This sounds far too analogous, but not exactly homologous, to suggesting that Feds ought to be able to get a court order to request a safe manufacturer supply them a workable combination to get into a safe, which only the rightful and legal owner of the safe possesses but does not wish to divulge. Or a locksmith make a key to fit a particular lock for which there is only one possible key that is held by the rightful and legal owner who has invoked her right not to do so for fear of incrimination.

Going to the companies who have to validate user passwords to get a password a user is unwilling or unable to divulge is wrong. Going beyond that in asking for details on how passwords are salted, hashed, what the salts are, etc. ... more wrong still.

That the practice has been revealed should be all any internet startup/company/organization should need to never, ever store a user's password again. Ever.
I'm not sure how beneficial it is to ask for salted password hashes, when a simple change in the wording of the request to a judge (or the FISA court rubber stamp factory) would yield an order for the provider to capture and turn over the plaintext password the next time the user logs in. US judges will do almost anything they are asked, especially if the requesting agency uses the "T" word. Either these agencies don't know what to ask for, or they are already doing this and no one has written a story about it.
This book also serves as excellent guide to ipython/matplotlib visualisation so I would recommend it for this even if you are not interested in primary subject matter.Very well done on all counts.
Or some bizarre way to strengthen trading links with China perhaps. Cameron is not popular is Beijing since he met the Dalai Lama
"Summer of Surveillance"

This should be on a T-shirt. Maybe borrowing the backdrop to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album and cross it with the digital rain form The Matrix. ;)
The problem is the matrix of versions to test against gets huge. And your code gets littered with workarounds. Its difficult.
UK -> China 2.0
I sit here in Canada on my moose, watching with my binoculars at the craziness unfolding below me (USA) and across from me (UK).

I whisper to the other 5 people that live in Canada, "Do you think they see us?"

One person responds, "No... not yet..."

DUH DUH DUH - to be continued.
My calculations are here[1].

Basically, $2/1000 gallons of water & $0.10/kWh for electricity (I did not bother calculating for gas dryers) were the most recent US averages I could find, and that was rounding up (e.g., electricity was actually > $0.09 but < $0.10).

I used this calculator[2], and plugged in appropriate values where I could find most current data.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6107020
[2] http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/laundry.html