skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realize this story is off the front page by now, but I have some immediately recent observations to add that indicate this duplicating activity is probably a bug.

tl;dr - This duplication activity is a bug. Chrome also likes to remember incorrect passwords in these duplicate entries, thwarting attempts at usability on many of the AD-credentialed sites I visit. I have not tested this stuff with non-HTTP, non-AD authentication, but I would expect similar behavior. I've provided Google with details.

I'm a Mac developer for my company. I use a Mac running OS X. I use Chrome as my default browser. The company network has Windows servers and our network credentials are handled by Active Directory. For this test, I closed Chrome and deleted the passwords (there were three listed) and reopened Chrome.

I open TFS in a new tab, I'm prompted for my AD credentials. I enter them, log in successfully, and Chrome asks if I it should save this password for my. I answer 'Yes.' I look back at the keychain and bam there are two entries.

When I changed my AD password on Monday, Chrome needed the new password. I enter it in the prompt, but Chrome changes the password in only one of these keychain entries. Deleting the incorrect password entry while Chrome is running did no good - it was recreated by Chrome with the wrong password. Then on subsequent starts, I don't know which password Chrome is trying to use, I click 'login' without typing a password[1] and it fails. So I continually have to type my password anyway, unless I visit the keychain and remove the offending password.

[1] The prompts for AD credentials annoy me; I'm presented with the login prompt every time I open this page; can't the browser just submit the password and only prompt me if it fails?
As much as I like this project (or pipe dream, depending on your point of view), I think $695 is a much more realistic price for this device. I sincerely hope they succeed.
What are these magical "x86 bytecode instructions"? That phrasing itself means nothing. Are you sure you know what you are talking about?

I personally object by principle anything which is non-optimal by design because it means that everything built atop has to carry the penalties of the non-optimal design. Everyone suffers from the tradeoffs.
> (...) catching a 30 year old hacker (...)

That is a hilariously disingenuous summary of the story.
I honestly can't believe people on this board are arguing to have Chrome remove the button to show these passwords, the passwords you knowingly saved into your computer and are obviously available to anybody you "lend" your signed-in computer to. Have your own sense of security and take some responsibility. You make your own decisions for sake of convenience, now you need to accept the ramifications.
Isn't this the whole point behind Internet and IP?
What's the advantage of going with Fixed Funding as opposed to Flexible? Wouldn't receiving the $8 million (or whatever it ends up at) be better than nothing?
On a lighter note relating Grammar & Startups. Agree?
Noun - Product

Pronoun - Team

Adjective - Marketing

Verb - Sales

Preposition - Branding

Adverb - Metrics

Conjunction - Pivot

Interjection - PR

Let me know, if I am wrong? ;)
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As much as I think it's futile to respond to details when it's the big picture that is far more relevant ...

> Here I was thinking it was "World War II" not "America saves the world II".

America had a huge role in this, not as significant as Americans like to think, but huge nonetheless.

> Yeah Russia had NOTHING to do with that one

Russia declared war on Japan one week before the war was over.

> Because communist are evil and all that other crap US propaganda teaches us.

No need to build a strawman. Just ask yourself whether you would have preferred to live in Western Europe or a Soviet satellite.

> Well yeah, it played a huge role in destroying them as well...

Err .. what?
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The whole thing was ill-advised. Even if they reached $32M it would be the equivalent of a pre-order for a few tens of thousands of phones. That's not enough to launch a viable handset business.

They should have gone to an ODM or lower-tier OEM and piggybacked on an the unit volume for some other customer. They could have launched with 20k units pre-sold.. They also could have had a far shorter lead time, so the risk in pledging would be much lower.

If they think they can change the world with hardware, they've got that wrong. The interesting thing about an Ubuntu phone is Ubuntu.
Well, you could certainly do it when you start with "Maths 101" or something like that.
Social, social, social, social, social, social.

I was expecting to see some "non-social" startups in the city...
Large and complex systems can coordinate in a decentralised way to form a monolithic entity. Local interactions can lead to global convergence. Swallows in flight is a good example - each swallow only pays attention to the others nearby, yet the whole flock is coordinated. I'm not saying that is how it is in the US government. However, the closer the agencies work together, the more monolithic the government is likely to be (otherwise they wouldn't be able to cooperate).
Looking at those projects doesn't really seem encouraging for the Edge:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/scanadu-scout-the-first-me...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-...

- They all add significant rewards (i.e., not shirts) at lower tiers (you got an ouya for $100, pebble for $110 and scanadu for $270).

- They add much lower targets (the ouya had the highest at $950 000)

- Even the pebble, most successful of the three, "only" raised $10 millions.

The Edge wants more than three times that for something that's arguably less innovative (yet another smartphone) and wants us to bet no less than $700 on it (the lower tiers are basically charity).
How negative app reviews from iOS beta users could be prevented
I agree, an economic incentive would certainly add value to the ecosystem and allow it to grow faster.
> We can't even get half of the country to make informed decisions. Americans are definitely the problem. They vote every couple of years to elect rich politicians that don't give a fuck about them. And they vote based off of arbitrary reasons.

Why would it be any different? The chance of their vote changing anything is one in several million. It would be irrational for them to spend much time, if any, learning about the consequences of their vote, because most likely there will be none.
very nice app!
> ps: There's a lack of a good verb tense for something that could happen but it is unlikely, there's no good pessimistic subjunctive future.

"Were it to happen ...." ?
I can't speak on behalf of the author, but I have been "stuck" in similar limbo projects myself (an iOS game).

Admitting to yourself that the project has failed, and "just one more push" can't rescue it, and shutting it down is emotionally difficult enough. Handing it over involves finding a suitable recipient, instructing them, transferring domains and accounts, and making sure the clients understand the ownership has changed. And refusing to answer requests for help or documentation over email can be impossible, especially if you cared about the project or its users. Without this documentation and knowledge, a code repository is of almost no use to anyone.

If someone is capable of walking away with zero documentation or help, they would have shut down a limbo project much earlier.
Out of couriosity, is this true for other majors, too? Because if it is, it sounds like a great "backdoor" to an Ivy League degree.

Kudos for being accepted by all the big names!
You are welcome to create a issue or a pull request.

Rediscala needs an akka actor System and sometime replies are of type ByteString.
My email's in my profile. I have some contacts in the Carolinas (N. and S. Mostly around Columbia, SC.) that I may be able to use to help you out. Let's chat and see if we can find something for you.
Getting your first job from connections is indeed much easier. But as the other commenters mentioned, the ability to sell is crucial for a small business owner like yourself (someone else suggested not calling yourself the f-word :).

Here's my suggestion. Pick a local small business that you like, but that could use a better website or web app (something simple, like an appointment scheduler, etc.). More specifically, pick a business that you feel would grow tremendously if only they were more visible online. Pitch a new website for cheap, or even in exchange for goods or services. If they turn you down, don't take it personally, just brush it off and find another potential client.

Now for the good part: measure everything about the current state of their business, from visitors to revenue to ROI on advertising, etc. Build their website, then measure how much your solution improved their numbers.

Make a portfolio with this business as your case study and brag about those numbers. Rinse, repeat.

Don't forget the part about not taking it personally and brushing it off if you get turned down. Good luck.
Students Release Program To 3D-Print High Security Keys
> But match exceptions do.

I'd call that non-sense.
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Wow, even with what it can do now I can imagine using it for AR/VR games of laser tag or paint ball. The only thing missing would be feedback on your body for hits you've taking.

At the right price, this might even turn out to be cheaper than proper paintball arena's. You can charge more, and there's no cleanup involved. You could even host these 'games' in real-world environments (with permission or otherwise). Imagine hosting counter-strike style games in empty buildings!
Any plans to add any license to that code?
Next step: an "Amber alert"-like notification system?
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Think of it like an EC2 instance with ephemeral storage. You need an external storage service provided by the host (like EBS and S3 are for EC2), that the instances either talk to over the network (like S3), or which the host mounts into the container (like EBS.) Both are possible options with the current Docker runtime.
I'm not an expert on 3D printing, can you explain how it may be disruptive to their business?
Arguably the whole attraction of these things is that there's a model where you pledge an amount and only have to pay up if there's enough money to get it off the ground.

No one wants to be the guy who stuck $700 down for something that will never exist because they were the only ones to pledge.

If it weren't for the fixed model, they would struggle to get even a fraction of the money they've raised so far.
It is true to convince people self driving cars are viable - yes, you need sales and marketing.

To this crowd mostly engineers I'd assume, proclaiming the importance of sales and marketing is valueable. How often do you encounter or do you remember feeling like - "if I build just one more feature it will sell itself". Don't get me wrong engineering is what we do its a given - so recognizing that what you can't survive without is marketing and sales will help a lot is what I take away from the others point...
The Edge is going to be the most successful unsuccessful crowdfunding project ever
So what is the difference if the results are the same?
So what? Changing laws all the time also inconveniences people every time government does that. People can adapt.
Sounds that it is a lot about credentials. Sadly enough it is. My experience with my education in industrial engineering at "university of applied sciences" in germany (whatever that would be in the US...) was rather good even when compared to the big names around here as far as knowldge is concerned. Yet, the fact remained that it wasn't a big name.
And also historically speaking, nations with the kind of relative power that the United States has have behaved far, far worse towards other countries. There are things the US could improve upon, but the bar has been set impressively low by those who have held power before (including the United States of years past).
tl;dr

> [Google] has sent an [unnamed] engineer to the MariaDB
> Foundation... Asked [what they get], Google declined to
> comment.
While I can't speak of traction in enterprises in Germany, I wonder what the notion of "Scala with its everything and the kitchen sink feature set" is about.

This seems to be a popular meme, right until someone asks for details – crickets chirp.
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On this note - does anyone know the reasons Canonical went with Indiegogo rather than Kickstarter for this? Given that it's fixed funding anyway.
The problems weren't with the Java Applet executor. They were with the JVM. Java WebStart and the JVM security model are the two places where most of the 0-day exploits came. Neither of these have anything to do with applets.
There's a very complicated history of mutual love and disappointment between France and the US, stretching all the way from before the American Revolution.
In the job market, reputation of your undergrad generally doesn't much doesn't matter after the first 5 years. Multiple studies show that students from different schooling backgrounds reach employment parity in most every situation.

Anecdotally, in my own case, I hit employment parity with my Ivy League/Top-10 school peers at 6 years, and have long since surpassed most of them in the job market and standard of living (due to an unbelievably smaller debt load).

The only people I know from my starting peer group who I could comfortably say have a higher standard of living than I do also went to regular 'ol state schools but just worked harder/smarter than I did.

I get fairly regular recruitment pitches from the Google's, Amazon's and Facebook's, and have worked for some of the biggest and best companies in their industries. (I've noticed an uptick in Google courtships over the last couple years as they finally brought their data crunching prowress to analyze hiring success and found that their traditional hiring pools did not necessarily provide the best employees)

All that being said, if I were so inclined, there are positions (high end consulting, finance, high-level politics) that I'm less likely to ever end up in due to fierce protectionism by "old guard". But I'm finding those hard kernels of school fashionistas are rapidly disappearing now as well.
That's an argument that could fit any set of facts. Just say "most people don't know that, and it's the optics that matter" and you can shoot down any policy.
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Meaning how much you should save under the assumption that the biotech research community will fail to create any means for you to buy additional healthy years between now and your death by aging.

That is a very shaky assumption if you are in your 40s now, and outright laughable if you are significantly younger.

Forms of rejuvenation of function in specific tissues have been demonstrated in the lab in recent years, and the SENS Research Foundation continues to gather support and funding. Other research groups have their own SENS-alternatives in terms of plans to treat aging by addressing what they believe to be the primary causes. Biotechnology in general is showing no signs of slowing down.
That's why you write a test suite and check that your test suite covers all code, using Devel::Cover.
Really? I assumed the proxy war in Syria was a much bigger concern.
Here are some of the products this company sells (they own the products, they are not just affiliates--- they create or license personalities such as "Burt Goldman" and it LOOKS like that this person/character is behind the site, not the company Mindvalley):

http://www.quantumjumping.com "Interdimensional quest for a better you"

http://www.silvalifesystem.com "Silva Method of Mind Control"

http://www.chakrahealing.com/products "Is a weakness in your 7 Chakras sabotaging your reality?"

http://www.loveorabove.com "ARE YOUR VIBRATIONS HELPING
OR HURTING YOU?"

http://www.modernqigong.com/ "“HOW A DISASTROUS FALL PUT ME
ON THE PATH TO A MIRACULOUS HEALING
THAT SCIENCE COULD NOT EXPLAIN… ”"

These products cost hundreds of dollars. Essentially, they are a serious bastardization of Eastern concepts (I wonder what kind of karma that is creating for you, Vishen?), which in all reality, are available for free, and certainly not dressed up in this way... this is spiritual fraud at worst, misleading useless bullshit at best.

I find it insulting they think they are moving the "human race forward", when it's obvious the exact opposite is happening here. You are exploiting gullible "New Age" people who think anything out of the ordinary can fix their problems, especially when it's Eastern™ AND backed by Science™!

Seriously, this is an abuse of the "mysteriousness" of the East, and the "authority" of Western Science.
Dragon Innovation Adds Crowdfunding for Hardware, Raises $2.3M
Criticising people's language is a dangerous game, because you open your own writing to the exact same criticism. Taking the first paragraph of this blog post;

"Building culture is twofold in that it encompasses tightly embracing the principles that you hold dear as well as karate-chopping those you despise. For us, that means a lot more doing, less pumping."

Twofold? Karate-chopping? Why use flowery language like that when you can get your message across more clearly by writing something more straightforward. Don't be unnecessarily wordy.

"To build culture you need to embrace principles important to you while removing the things you hate. We do that by working hard."

The same message without the fluff. If you're in favour of plain English, write in plain English.

BOOM! :)
Sadly, it is still too expensive for me.
> but it will win in the next 15 years in a major way,
> because it is already one of the most interesting

the most interesting ... what?

Anyway, I think they have already won in a major way: The managed to build a community which is supportive and friendly. This is a huge deal when you have a look at the poisonous behaviours of individuals and the wide-spread arrogance typical in most Lisp communities.

Before I learned about Clojure, I certainly wouldn't have believed it if someone told me that there was a Lisp-like language without the pretentious assholes.

> An enterprise Scala project, for example, is typically
> going to present the frustrations that come with
> components that live outside the language. Learning Scala
> isn’t that bad, but Maven and Spring and Hibernate? Ouch.
> In Clojure, most of the typically “external” needs are
> provided with idiomatic libraries that can be reasoned
> about within the language.

That doesn't make much sense. One can do exactly the same in Scala. The big improvement on Clojure is that it is completely pain-free and seamless to keep the old components around and migrate gradually to better solutions (or just keep the legacy parts which work – why bother changing it?).

> while every static language worth its salt has an
> interactive mode (“REPL”) it doesn’t have the same
> first-class-citizen feel

Maybe this has changed, but the last time I used Clojure's REPL, it was completely unusable, with basic things like auto-completion, history and navigation being completely non-functional.

I think the opinion voiced in the article is interesting, but past experience tells us that the chances of a Lisp to get even slightly popular is low to non-existing.
The USSR/Warsaw Pact was evil. I don't think you can even debate that, unless you want to claim Hitler and Pol Pot were misunderstood as well.
Nice discussion, at least for me. So don't worry. Because you're right, having a big name like MIT on your CV opens doors that otherwise keep closed. That doesn't necessarily mean the education is really better, but the fact remains.

On the other hand, if you don't have the money there are not a lot of opportunities left. And I for my part prefer some who showed that kind of ambition over everyone else who hand it "the easy way" (not meaning an MIT degree is easy at all, just saying there are roads with more rocks than others).
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Doesn't that mean they'll actually make a significant loss due to Paypal fees?
Your going to have to bite the bullet and take a private loan if you want to finish school. It sucks, but that is the reality. I'm still paying my private loans off after 10 years, so it may not be worth it.
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Nice idea. But I'm either being stupid or it's barfing - have completed all fields but getting an 'all fields required' error.
Tragedy of the commons – I know my individual purchases are a drop in the ocean to Amazon, and hence any boycott I make would be worthless, so why should I pass up some good deals even if (hypothetically speaking) I did disapprove of the company?
The company sells products created by other authors. They have a few small ones (like apps), but they are not the core of the business. Take a look at other stuff, like quantumjumping.com - that's pretty... serious? They have things like astral projection too - and other weird stuff.

Employees are not paid much - most of these 100 people earn within 12-18k USD per year MAX. They opened and renovated two big offices in the last 3 years too, so I think they are quite saddled with debt if you ask me.

The overall profit margin for the whole business is about 5-10%, so really not much, considering renovation, hiring and equipment costs.
Since when UI ( =User Interface) is only visual? To me it seems as UI got too narrow understanding of just visual in the wild (i.e. general population) and then people who really understand what they are doing decided to rebrand themselves as too many people saying they are related to UI where just visual design related...
- The argument that the government be 'monolithic' requires it to be both efficient and non-adversarial, neither is true.

I don't think this is what everyone is worried about. It's not that the entire US government is conspiring against us. It's more that each agency has evolved ideologies and practises that, when taken as a whole, form an oppressive machine. No-one designed that machine, and no-one group controls it. It simply is a function of the increased cooperation of individual agencies who each have their own set of norms and values that fail to align with the true interests of the populous. The US government is becoming more monolithic because of a systemic problem - that is, increased incentives for agencies to cooperate and share information.

- It also requires almost everyone to be amoral sociopaths, perfectly willing to go along with even the darkest and most depraved violations of civil liberties.

This argument assumes that the people who work in the US government have the same social norms and values as the rest of the population. It seems more likely to me that each agency forms its own little closed society, that has drifted away from mainstream society due to the unique freedoms and pressures that agency experiences. The "Blue Code of Silence" is an example of this within the police. Few people are amoral sociopaths, but the vast majority of people will accept the values and norms of their peers without question.
The equal protection clause is of no use to nineteen year-olds whose assets measure in the hundreds of dollars. What's your suggestion to the student who is wronged by the Fin Aid office? Hire a lawyer and sue? Ridiculous.

>Secondly, ... Thirdly, ... Fourthly, ...

What are you even responding to? None of your retorts are responsive to hga's or any of the other parent comments.
I've just added my hosting company - we're a little outside London though (York).
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this is 100 pages into MacKay's text, which is well paced

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.html