skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd think you sign with private key and verify with pu lic key.
Why fingerprints make lousy authentication tokens
It's a shame that Voyager doesn't carry some tiny nuke bombs to mark its positions. The SNR at a billion-billionth of a watt level is terrible.
I should add: we will talk openly with people that we know and trust without a NDA but we are not going to walk around at a conference and spill the beans to strangers. They will be guarded conversations that remain in the realm of generalizations - and probably not even reveal our most exciting concepts.

Why don't stock traders tell other stock traders about positions they want to take before they've built their positions? Yes, I know the barriers are lower but unless you're enough down the road in building your product/position, why would you plant the seed of your idea in somebody else's mind?

I think the key qualifier is: have you done anything yet beyond come up with an idea? If you have not done anything but talk, then being secretive is pretty pointless. If your idea is in motion and will be to market sooner than later, talking about it openly is not a big deal.
I clicked like 50 times thinking surely this is broken. Then finally figured it out.

Also, I kind of wanted to play, but was annoyed that I had to type in a username and password. I am so tired of typing in another username and password. Just let me authenticate with something else if I'm too lazy, please!
I don't quite get your point here. They have so much money they wouldn't care about a bit more?

My experience with wealthy people/companies is exactly the opposite, they didn't get there by leaving a "measly" $2 million on the table.
Touring North Korea: What’s real, what’s fake?
Scala Persistence Frameworks (SOF)
> Provide a unique link to the user to be able to return to the result of their request at a later time?

Yes. Well, more like link to send along with "cite it like that" message but yes.
Markdown seems to be part of the retro/hipster trend, along with flat UIs, 8-bit video game music, fixie bikes, and Pabst beer. As someone who actually lived through the 1980s, it's amusing to watch you young cats reinvent my youth.

I'm not saying Markdown is a bad idea, but I'm perfectly happy using the rich UI provided by a word processor when I write. Next thing you know, someone will claim that 80 characters max per line was a great idea, and there will be a little iPhone app that rings a bell when you get to column 75 so you can hit the carriage return in time. Non-skeuomorphically, of course.
> The Pentagon probably didn't lose much, if any, money on the fuel sales. The agency says it recently charged H211 on a cost-plus basis, and before that charged a standard budgetary price that was infrequently reset but over time reflected the government's costs.

Oh, ok.
Yet, somehow all the WYSIWIG editors beat out nroff and WordPerfect.

Personally, the trick to writing with a word processor is to not waste too much time on the formatting, and just write. Also, learn to use the "sytles", just like you use CSS in an HTML file. I first learned to do significant writing in a WYSIWIG editor using Samna/Lotus Ami (accent on the i). Then Word, then Open/Libre Office. All of these have style lists. Use them! Don't waste time clicking on all the fonts, sizes, spacing, etc block after block.

The "Styles" menu seems to be one of the best kept secrets in Word and similar word processors.
I think this is it. I read a lot of Clark way back when.
I think the concern though is that the policy doesn't tie with the attitude you have experience of. The company I work with wouldn't have a problem with me going somewhere and finding video didn't work, so stepping down to audio, then IM. And if that wasn't sufficient, then not booking the hours. Having to Google Hangout with some random where you've booked a room is virtually saying don't bother asking to work remotely.

I'd rather pursue my own startup than have to do Google Hangout checks everywhere!
No, it just has to be modern enough to support LXC/Docker.
MS, isn't it a trade down - rather than trade in?
You're welcome.

I'm interested in your username. Does that indicate your name?

My last name is Grec, and I'm always on the lookout for more :)
Trustless Bitcoin bounty for SHA1, SHA256, etc. collisions
You can do that on their web site. Just enter the bit on the bottom such as 7661-12G and it'll give you a list per os.
Boat stabilizes with the help of internal waves
There's definitely hype behind Docker, but this is a ridiculous accusation.
reStructuredText is another option. It is quite powerful, but the syntax is little complex compared to Markdown.

http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
But, I like 80 column lines. Er, I guess that doesn't make sense with proportional fonts :-)

Still, fill the page width, but use snaked columns if the page is wide or the font is small. I guess that's kind of like an 80 column rule.
Mayer apparently has the gene that makes you not require (much) sleep. About 3% of the population carries a genetic mutation that means they only need about 3.5-4 hours of sleep a night. I had a friend back in college that was like this (her father was too), and apparently a number of famous achievers have "suffered" from this.
XKCD on image slideshows
You could certainly say that was about time.

On the flip side, I always thought they held back on IMAP-support for political reasons. If whatever political momentum which stalled this obviously missing feature is gone from Microsoft, that's probably a good thing which may have more positive effects down the road.
I am. At least partly. I was the first remote dev at Fog Creek, and I can see very much where some of these rules came from.

There are essentially two main themes here. The first is communication. When I started work, we hadn't been doing video chats, since everyone was on site. A lot of communication happened in HipChat and everything else was either at the weekly stand-up or impromptu meetings between two devs. However, once someone is offsite, all of the in-person communication is cut off. This removes context from the chat rooms, and filling in that context over chat is often more difficult than just explaining it. In our case, this was compounded by us being forced to abandon our chat software to find a new system and going through two inferior systems, which cut me off even more from the teams. If regular video calls had been policy, it would have been much easier to work out the chat situation.

The second is distraction-free work environments. Early in my remote work, I went to visit my significant other in another country for several weeks, working remotely while she was at work. Unfortunately, there was a problem getting her internet installed before I got there, so I spent the first week working from a McDonald's (it had the most reliable wifi). I know my productivity suffered for it during that week. Fortunately, we got internet working and I had a better environment to work from after that.

I left the company about 18 months ago, but from what I understand, none of these policies are due to any intentional abuse of the system, but more from experience with the difficulties of remote work in a company that is used to having everyone on site.
You... you use an iPad... in the shower?

(or am I missing some joke?)
Before markdown (for me), there was Perl's POD. [0]

Simple to pick up, does what it says on the tin, easy to hack in, "Do What I Want", for things missing.

The tools for it are a little all over the place, but, "Turn this into HTML" (pod2html) works, and works well for documentation.

Can you write whole books with it? People do - I believe many of the Perl books put out by O'Reilly are written in a POD dialect.

[0]http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpod.html
JBQ shares his opinion on 64-bit mobile devices
I'm kind of surprised that remote working issues haven't been completely solved at this point and it seems like there's still a big opportunity there to start a business in that space. There are a lot of cultural barriers there I think that still need to be overcome.

What if your company gave you 2 options: 1. Work in the office. 2. Work wherever you like, but let us install software on your computer that will monitor what you are doing at all times.

Would you be offended? Would you consider the work from home option?
They pretty explicitly call out "chat, commit messages, code reviews, cases, Trello boards" as ways of pinging the rest of the team.
I wanted to reply with an off handed comment but i checked myself because this is a good and thoughtful comment which doesn't take the discussion off topic.

Unfortunately your comment is not applicable to this scenario, as someone who has worked in marketing at Procter&Gamble i can tell that it is about the shift in attention from tv and radio to the internet. Search was the first big disruption and it's measurability was par to none. This caused a shakeup in brand management and companies now had to focus on the zero moment of truth, a step up from the first moment of truth and the internet owns the zero moment of truth for products. Startups/Entrpreneurs and VC's enticed by the windfall profits of google and yahoo started pushing for ideas that could attract more eyeballs and as a result the younger generation have grown into the facebook era and have not been trained in other forms of business.

So what we have is a vicious cycle where entrepreneurs create attention grabbing startups, where the measure of success is x amount of users and then sell this advertising demand to google,yahoo, etc since they have the ad inventory to make use of that demand. This is why yahoo bought tumblr. This is also why most(not all) VC's don't really care about actual businesses that generate revenue by selling goods or services, it's too hard and it is too hard to get aquired. Basically you reduce their probability of a win, since two of their three exits are taking off the table, being exit to bigger ad comapny or aqui-hire leaving creating a profitable business on the table.

The bottom line is this, you are the spaghetti that the VC throws to the ceiling to see what sticks, thier appearance at tech conferences and startup competitions are to align you with their vision of what they want you to build. You have the illusion of choice, they say wearables or food tech and startups lineup to be the spaghetti.

This is a winners take all game, where VC's are chasing black swans like facebook, instagram, tumblr and the more of you that lineup to be spaghetti, the better their chances unless the "price" of spaghetti goes up. Pls read this book or the comments at least to understand the effects of this, http://www.amazon.com/The-Winner-Take-All-Society-Much-More/... .

At this point we are all trampling over each other to be the one that takes all and this has tipped the balance in the VC's favor until we have a shakeout, the hype dies down and entrepreneurs move on to other industries like banking. I would argue that this is the time to get into finance mabe use all the data science tools and start a Hedge Fund because those guys that left the HF industry before 2008 for tech probably had it easier. Bottom line, ask yourselve how many photo startups have been started vs sold for a $billion dollars, instagram will be the only one "winner takes all".

If not then pls watch this guy from startup school 2008, it is the highest probability for you to succeed in this overcrowded goldrush. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2UXPfz_Kgk
Yes. That's why he opened his initial response with "perhaps your idea of what a conference is [...]"
I was a big supporter of the "MS buys Blackberry" theory, but I think that after the Nokia acquisition it's probably off the table for awhile. There already will be a transition period for absorbing one handset company, merging another into the mix right away would be difficult.

I'm actually quite surprised that BBRY stock didn't tank after the Nokia acquisition because of this.
Dell servers are shit. Currently trying to source a disk for a 3 year old poweredge which is stupid. Pay £700 for a Dell one or £122 fir a generic one but the array won't build with the generic one as the PERC doesn't like it (even though its the same model disk). Dell modify the firmware.

+1 for supermicro and they're fun to build as well as bomb proof
Yes you can do that, but it only supports 64bit operating systems at the moment and you need a kernel that supports linux containers & union file systems.

I doubt there are packages for 10.04 so you'd be on your own getting it working
This is clearly targeted at more permanent remote work. Shorter stints are much easier to work around.
Many people aren't aware of it but the backend Bitcoin system has no concept of "addresses". Instead when you make a transaction it specifies small bits of forth-like program code (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script) that provides rules that redeemer of the coins must satisfy to spend the coins.

The normal 1xxx addresses are just template for a ECDSA checking script. There are also 3xxx addresses where the address is a hash of an arbitrary script, and the redeemer provides the script and satisfies it.

This can enable powerful applications like "trustless escrows" with no mediator trusted to hold the coins, or bindings to external zero knoweldge proof systems (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/User:Gmaxwell/why_hash_locked).

In the posting linked here the author has paid funds to be redeemed by someone who can provide collisions for a non-linear (SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, RIPEMD160(SHA256()), SHA256(SHA256()), and ABS() are the respective bounties)

Anyone who has Bitcoin can add to these bounties by simply sending funds to the respective 3xxx address which is a hash of the rules that check for a collision for the given function. The Bitcoin system itself arbitrates the rules, so there is no other party that must be trusted to pay or whom could withdraw the bounty after you begin your effort.

The SHA1 bounty has address 37k7toV1Nv4DfmQbmZ8KuZDQCYK9x5KpzP (https://blockchain.info/address/37k7toV1Nv4DfmQbmZ8KuZDQCYK9...)

A disassembly of its script is:

OP_2DUP OP_EQUAL OP_NOT OP_VERIFY OP_SHA1 OP_SWAP OP_SHA1 OP_EQUAL

Or, in English: Duplicate the last two elements on the stack ([A] [B] -> [A] [B] [A] [B]), then compare if the top two elements are equal and push the result, if they're not equal remove the result and continue processing, then compute the SHA1 of the top element on the stack ([A] [B] -> [A] [sha1(B)]), then swap the top two elements ([sha1(B)] [A]), then compute the SHA1 of the top element ([sha1(B)] [sha1(A)]), and compare the result. If the final state is true the script passes and the spend is permitted.
Exactly, the same thing i am wondering. AES is symmetric. So same key is used for encryption and decryption against RSA which is asymmetric. So putting key on website is effectively the same as not encrypting at all. Did i miss any thing here?
Be sure to check out the Reddit AMA yesterday; http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1m9wke/were_scientists...
OS updates (updates to files inside containers) would be on a per-container basis.

Kernel upgrades would affect all of the containers running under that kernel (machine or VM) at the same time. Though, if you wanted to be super cautious, you could upgrade kernel on an empty container host (quite easy if virtualized) and migrate containers to it and test them on an individual basis.
I was Fog Creek's first full time remote dev. I left the company about 18 months ago to pursue my own company.

There seems to be some confusion and questions in this thread, so let's do this:

AMA (Ask Me Anything)
How does that have anything to do with being non-profit?
N Silicon Valley start-up world, pedigree counts
I second that. Working for a publisher, I know, that it is most valuable for us, if any big brand covers our front page with a big eye-ball-grabbing-wallpaper.

That is, where the money is.
Those studies have been performed several times [1][2][3][4]; most of them indicate that moderate sleep deprivation (<6 hours) produces the same amount of cognitive impairment as being legally drunk. Many of them also show that people are unaware that their cognitive function is impaired when sleep-deprived: they may feel like they're productive, but their actual performance is riddled with errors that then need to be corrected.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1739867/pdf/v057...

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071308/

[3] http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1997-07865-006

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation#Effects_on_th...
> There are some use cases for which MongoDB will be 5x faster than any other system.

This is a really bold claim that I very much doubt is true. For one, there are numerous other document stores that target the same sort of use cases as MongoDB. Second, there are benchmarks floating around that PostgreSQL used as a key value store is faster than MongoDB as is. I wouldn't be surprised if you saw similar things with other SQL databases.
How to write a complete Interpreter use Racket?
It is surprising that no one here mentioned org-mode yet. I am picking it up now and wonder why no one mentioned, as the whole plugin, as I have been told and what interested, is like the CLI version of Trello.
Fog Creek had a long standing no-remote policy. The first experiments to change that started about two years ago, when I moved away from New York and started working remote. They are still getting the hang of it, these policies seem to be another step in that process.
The upcoming Ghost[1] blogging platform/tool has side by side post editor that supports Markdown on left and visual formatting on right. This should make it easier to learn Markdown syntax.

Also, I believe, Markdown is the best option for generating formatted content on touch based devices.

[1]http://tryghost.org/features.html
It's also important to remember, in most industries, trust like this is totally unheard of. We are very fortunate to work in an industry where it is a more common practice.

You should probably work in more industries. There are plenty of industries where workers have to roam (like high end sales or service) and have to be able to manage their own time effectively.
To be honest I've never worked out why Docker gets so much press. If you use the Ezjail utility to configure and manage FreeBSD jails you have been able to do most of the things Docker does for years (stacked fs using unionfs, templates/flavours, snapshots, export/import etc) and this seems like a much simpler and more stable solution. The networking stuff is also easy using pf.
Good grief. Then unplug your damned devices and go live in a cabin somewhere. Many of us speak as if our lives were so profound that governments everywhere are just dying to violate us. Even with everyone's data shared everywhere it becomes meaningless after awhile due to the sheer volume.
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After Glasses and Watches, it's time to techify the Belt.
"Mou" (an osx app) have got support for tables within its markdown.
Why would more storage make a difference?
Poem: The Nitty-Gritty
Markdown has tables:
https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Here-C...
"Just do it" is an unactionable platitude, but many athletes still find it inspiring.

The push off the cliff is as valuable as the plan for learning how to fly on the way down.
You should try meeting these particular people sometime, before making mean-spirited assumptions about them?
I suspect they like the way it is now.

Having worked in a large IT department I can assure you that anything that alleviates the drudgery of basic computer maintenance is very very welcome by everybody I've known who works there.
Don't let the sugar-coating fool you: the Google guys got a sweet deal from NASA, all in the guise of "research". The stats from the article prove it: of their massive fleet of aircraft, only 1 was used for any 'research', and that too sparingly. No other private individual is allowed to use Moffett Field, regardless of how much they're willing to pay.

It's a shame, really, that the Google founders feel the need to misuse the system like this. "Don't be evil", my ass.
Silly question: shouldn't be piss-simple to write with whatever syntax you like and parse it to markdown, with tools like Python?
No, don't forget Data.

Twitter sells its tweet data exclusively via Gnip, DataSift, and perhaps one or two other authorized data providers (i.e. they alone have access to 100% of Twitter's data pipeline, both historical and real-time).

Using Twitter's public search API you can get a max of 1% access to their data pipeline.

It's a racket, one that is making the authorized providers (and Twitter) heaps of cash.

So, yes, advertising, but also data; those are the revenue streams that social media are creating IPO-able companies out of.
> since two of their three exits are taking off the table, being exit to bigger ad comapny or aqui-hire leaving creating a profitable business on the table.

VC's don't generally see an aqui-hire as an 'exit', rather as a soft landing to ward off impending failure or as an early abort where it might still have worked.

Aqui-hire's are sometimes good for founders, rarely good for VC's unless the business was about to go bust and they recoup their original investment. That's definitely not a win.
two-column layout is so last decade. Why hasn't anyone invented inline markdown editor yet?

Your current cursor line should be markdown source in plain text, other lines rendered HTML.
Except Supermicro's remote management stuff locks up and requires a unit reset to get going again. That's hosed us more than once (across different servers, different timeframes, different datacenters, different providers).

Dell's done some dumb stuff, and the newer gen models are a nightmare to figure out (limiting number of disks for no reason, requiring 2.5" on some models but not others). Plus they gouge you to get a functional KVM ($300+?) But they've been far more reliable than Supermicro, in my limited experience.
twitter presents a unique opportunity to choose the 'people' you want to follow & tailor your own feed. It's like handmade versus machine made feed. The former worth much more than the latter nowadays. I imagine if they could establish a business where people build/manage personalized feeds for others & in turn get paid - that would be fun!
You do not sign with a public key; you sign with a private key and verify with a public key.

The presence of a public key within the update itself indicates that that public key must somehow be authenticated by the CPU. Two possible options are that the public key itself is signed by a master key, and the "master" public key is embedded within the CPU; or that the cryptographic hashes of all valid public keys are directly embedded within the CPU. The point of the second option would be to save area on the CPU die (a 256 bit hash can be saved in place of a 2048 bit public key).
first sentence there:
"Tables aren't part of the core Markdown spec, ...."
Anyway somehow, padding the columns with spaces to align the pipes isn't workable. If I change the width on 1 line, the whole table has to be modified.

Face it: in the current millennium, for serious writing, there's still nothing better than Latex. (which is a bit sad)
Yes, it exists in many different incarnations--even more than one from Microsoft, and others from third parties.

WSUS is Windows Update for small/medium-sized MIS to run.
I'm sure that if he did not eat wild potato seeds he would not have died of complications from paralysis. I'm absolutely certain. I know it. I can think of nothing else in his environment that would have poisoned him and made him permanently paralyzed and unable to move or hunt. The other source of calories that he needed was on its way and would have arrived 18 days later. He would have been fine subsisting until then.