skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies. Perhaps I'm being a master of the obvious here, so I'll restate more simply:

When people try to implement security without actually thinking about what the system is doing, it creates weaknesses in the security, not due to algorithmic weaknesses, but because the organization and the engineering discipline for the future is compromised. Thus, while "just use bcrypt" or "just use HMAC-MD5" might work today, the organization doesn't have the mind to update it when it finally does break.

This is exactly what happened (and is still happening) today after MD5 was broken.
Do I have to be the token crazy gun nut here?
The 10.4-10.8 is in reference to OS X, and ~7 years is the amount of time between 10.4 (April 29, 2005) and 10.8 (July 25, 2012).
Some languages also have useful functions in their standard libraries for this. I know Python has email.utils.parseaddr().
France uses nuclear plants for load following. It more or less has to; its only other significant source of power is hydro. It works, but it not as economical as it might be.
The only mode that is enabled is Web-mode. I'm using http://emacsformacosx.com/ with an empty .emacs file to test this.
An Open Letter from a Phone Phreak
HVDC transmission is reasonably efficient.
> Why do you consider "support everyone" to be obviously better than "build a better product for a subset of users"?

Blogs are my newspapers, thats why. For me accessibility and downwards compatability outweigh the "product" a lot. I have a low-end smart phone for which most "products" are ununsable. Why do people throw away expensive hardware that woks perfectly fine? Because the modern software doesn't run on it.

Take for example the opposite: http://blog.fefe.de

That is a product that meets my demands: I can read on any device, using multiple clients. I could read this page with a dual-core as well as with a gameboy. Serve TTF font's, maybe I rather use bitmap fonts? Doesn't matter.

I could read that blog using Mosaic, lynx, w3m... kindle displays...
It also works fine for braille terminals.

I guess I am more interested in powerful systems than the pityful products of the App-bubble. After all I am a programmer.
From the abstract: "A pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) is a deterministic algorithm that produces numbers whose distribution is indistinguishable from uniform."

I think this is incorrect, since it would imply that a program that produces the sequence 1,2,1,2,1,2,1.... is a PRNG.
Your pollution is my tidy-ness: http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.html.
It should require "sudo" privileges now.
I think this was one of the points of the article - that this isn't a SF specific problem. The entire region needs to get together to start to plan better for growth. Lack of housing isn't a SF problem, it's a problem for the entire Peninsula. (I'm not as familiar with the Easy Bay).

With decent urban planning, the region could maximize its growth potential. Without it, we'll have major issues in the near future.
You need understand what ggplot is all about, i.e a structured/formulaic way to think about and build graphs. Explaining it cannot possibly do it justice. You have dive into it, even a little bit and the way you see graphs and plots totally changes, you immediately buy into it and would never wish to go back.

I haven't really said anything to give you a sense of comparison. It's kind of like PGs essay (http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html) about how the merits of higher level programming (specifically in lisp) can hardly
be explained to those who have not been exposed to it.
This is the same comment with fewer words, and while I appreciate the concision, it doesn't make any more sense to me.

Bcrypt isn't broken or even weakened.

HMAC-MD5 isn't broken.

HMAC-MD5 and bcrypt are unrelated.

Nobody is ignoring the problem of MD5; in fact, suspicion about MD5 animates the very first secure SSL specification we have, from almost 20 years ago. Nobody is saying "just use HMAC-MD5".
3 square miles is 7.77 square km. Just over 1 kW of sunlight falls per square meter, so I will round up and say that there are 8 GW falling on the plant total.

So 280 MW of production is 3.5% efficient of peak irradiance.

BUT average irradiance is smaller than peak:

http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsrdb/1961-1990/redbook...

It looks like 5 kWh/m2 for Arizona, so that's 38.85 GW per day irradiance on 7.77 sq km. Assuming the plant can put out its maximum capacity for the 18 hours it runs each day, that's 280 times 18 = 5 GW per day.

So it's operating at almost 13% efficiency of average irradiance.

That is very good, considering that they are able to store heat much more cheaply and environmentally friendly than storing electricity in batteries.

The most important thing of all is that it doesn't have to wait for innovations in photovoltaics. Anyone can buy land, set up parabolic mirrors, and tinker with forgotten heat engines like Stirling cycle engines or Tesla turbine engines that easily achieve 30, 40, 50% efficiency and approach the Carnot limit. Conversion of motion to electricity is a solved problem at 95% efficiency.

Oh and these plants can be supplemented by biomass, say biodiesel from algae or fuel pellets made of hemp. If that's too granola for the fossil fuel industry, they can also use natural gas.

In fact if you study this long enough, you find that there are only two real hurdles: energy storage and connection to the grid (made difficult because of resistance from established utilities). Generation turns out to be relatively inexpensive because there's a sea of free energy all around us. To put it in perspective, Grand Coulee dam puts out less power than the irradiance falling on the solar plant. It's just more efficient at converting the motion of falling water to electricity:

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

It puts out 6.8 times 24 = 163 GW/day. That's 33 of these solar plants. So every 100 sq miles (260 sq km) of desert is equal to the 324 sq km of area flooded by Grand Coulee.

Solar thermal is the hydroelectric of the future and uses less land, which will only improve going forward. IMHO this will someday dwarf wind and nearly eliminate intermittency issues.
the good take-a-way is that more people created than inherited
They've been trying to grow the stuff in Colorado since the 80's. Apparently it's not so easy.

http://www.quinoa.net/127/136.html
Something like 70% of R users are on windows.
Certainly with the wealth of the Bay Area, it be a shame if we didn't at least try to create such a system for convenience.
Units in SF built after 1979 are not subject to rent control.
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I'm guessing that a system is just a repeatable goal. So perhaps in your case, the repeatable goal wouldn't be to lose weight as that would invariably lead you to dying, but rather to do something that makes you healthier every day. That could be something like eating healthier everyday or exercising for 15 minutes. This way you shifting from the goal of being X pounds lighter, to a system of being healthy.
As if they're not already logging all emails.
Looks like your post was flagged:

http://hnrankings.info/6548646/

(Notice sudden drop off front-page)
Blue, retail; orange, real estate; yellow,finance; green, energy; purple, tech. I only count five lines.
I'd check the TLD as well.

Going through the error logs on our mail server, there are a lot of people out there that get their email address wrong even if you have them type it last. .cmo instead of .com, transposing letters in their name, spelling their company name wrong...
Ronkonkoma out in Suffolk County is around 50 miles from Penn Station in Manhattan.

Peak LIRR trains take less than 90 minutes, with at least one express train in each direction less than 70. There are 13 peak (arrive 6-10AM) week day westbound trains and 14 eastbound (arrive 5-9PM). The longest gap between trains during the week is westbound between 1:46AM and 4:06AM, eastbound it's 1:21AM to 3:14AM. Otherwise rarely is the gap more than an hour.

Ref: http://mta.info/lirr/Timetable/Branch/RonkonkomaBranch.pdf
Purchasing a £30,000 numberplate for the price of a bus ticket
Here's a trivial example disproving your entire argument:

$4 for a piece of wood from a forest where the company harvesting the wood does not replant any trees. They ravage the forest, leaving the land barren and unusable, before moving on to the next forest.

$6 for the same sized piece of wood from a forest where the company harvesting the wood replants trees, thereby increasing costs. They sustainably manage the same area of forest and the land remains fertile.

According to your logic, the $6 wood is 50% more environmentally damaging? Clearly we should all buy the $4 clearcut, ravaged forest wood because that manufacturer has less money to damage the environment with?
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Thanks a lot. Good edit.
Ok awesome. Thanks for the honesty and the great tip.
As time goes by the finisher’s value goes up while the starter’s value goes down
For a Bachelors degree if you cant speak the language you can pretty much forget it since as far as I know the UK,Ireland,Scotland all have high US-like tuition costs.

If you can speak the language pretty well, i.e. conversations are no problem and you can read books without difficulty then you can take your pick: Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France or Spain are all basically free (some minor costs but nothing compared to us schools).

What id recommend if you need to learn the language, is go to the country for 3-6 months, take language courses so you can learn the language, and then start studying there.

EDIT:
At least in Germany (im guessing its like this in other countries), you have to pass a C1 level language course to be able to study (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Re...)
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Yep - that JS library will take care of that as well: https://github.com/Kicksend/mailcheck/blob/master/src/mailch...

"hotnail.con" -> "hotmail.com"
Needs a lot more granularity - in particular, the "Finance" bar needs its own bar graph ie. what exactly does making money in Finance entail - working for a retail/commercial bank ? IB ? Prime Brokerage ? Wealth Management ? Equities ? Derivatives ? FX ? Algorithmic Trading ? Mutual funds ? StatArb ? LBO ? ...
This applies to any city that seeks some form of income and social diversity and it only applies to you if you choose to live in that city.

If you lived in SF and this happened, your options would be pretty simple, contribute to the subsidies via your tax dollars or move out of the city.
The Oatmeal on celebrating Columbus Day
I find it hard believing that stupidity explains a deliberate change by Google engineers.
This topic comes up again and again on here.

Like others have said most popular web app languages have some email validation built in (like php has the FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL filter).
I might well be very wrong here, but the main difference is that the other type of wealth-creation process actually creates more wealth (more products for everyone). While finance seems more like wealth-accumulation without the creation process - I'm aware that redistribution of resource in an efficient way is supposedly the part finance does in the wealth creation process, I'm just unconvinced of how much does that help, in relation with the return the finance sector on average get.
Whoops, yes. I was replying to someone off of my phone.
Its 2013 - Microsoft needs to bite the bullet and start shipping a C/C++ compiler as part of windows :)
I think on paper you can get close with derivatives although you'll never be able to liquidate them.
It could be argued that VC involves the building of technology businesses, rather than simply investing in a hands off manner. It's a fine line, but the famous VCs that come to my mind (Doerr, Andreessen) help mentor and grow a company, and similar financiers (Buffett, Soros) are more industry analysts and money managers. It's a gross simplification, but it may be what they were thinking.
I agree with you. Care to list the attempts you know of?

The ones i can think of of the top of my head:

- https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/

- https://www.gnu.org/software/social/

- https://diasporafoundation.org/

- https://owncloud.org/
Machine Learning predicted stock market correct 6 days in row
You must not own any Apple products. I have friends with the first Macbook Pro who can't use OSX 10.7+.
D3 visualization of San Francisco BART employees' salaries and union membership
More and more scientific confirmation of "mense sane in corpore sano"
I wouldn't be surprised if the textbook was more of a proof of concept or maybe a stunt.

Australia is a big place, and it may cost less for a "pony express" to run predator drones across the country instead of trucks.
There are a couple of ways to alleviate this:

1) Build higher. A lot higher.

2) Massively increase supply.

Put in place a regulation that says all new buildings must be X stories high (20,40,60, whatever.) Along with that, include a regulation that force said buildings to fit in with the neighbhorhood look. UWS and the West Village here in NYC have great examples of extremely tall buildings that are not Jetson's-style eyesores.

Also put in place a regulation that says existing building that can be built higher (while keeping the existing external facade) should be. Where this isn't possible, knock it down and replace it with a building that keeps the old facade.

Change the zoning restrictions and regulations to allow the above, and supply will go up, prices will (eventually) come down, and the neighbhorhood looks will remain similar. Everyone gets some of what they want, and the place stays diverse, vibrant, and does not force local workers to deal with punishing commutes just so they can do their jobs.

The above applies just as much to NYC or any other large city that is holding back this kind of development. As per the UN:

"In 1950, one-third of the world’s people lived in cities. Just 50 years later, this proportion has risen to one-half and will continue to grow to two-thirds, or 6 billion people, by 2050. Cities are now home to half of humankind." Policies need to change to deal with this new reality.
I never really felt much motion sickness from it, even in TF2. I didn't really enjoy playing that way, as I felt like I lost some of the control mouse+kb gives, but it's certainly immersive.

petercooper hit on the big problems: the lenses fog up quickly and the low resolution in the dev kit is distracting.

Also, in some games like surgeon simulator 2013, there is drift which means you're spinning slowly in a circle to keep looking at the same spot. It's horribly frustrating, and ruined the (already frustrating) experience for me.

Unreal works very well with it, however. I think any game which doesn't rely on fast transformations to the perspective will benefit greatly from the immersion the retail Rift brings.
Sounds right. Just as a point of reference, power plants that turn on and off are known as "dispatchable:"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatchable_generation

There might be one reason they let this spin up and down.

We mostly power the grid through a bunch of constantly humming systems, but our usage has all kinds of peaks (diurnal, seasonal... the British grid has a massive peak right around the time Eastenders ends and everyone puts on a kettle[1]).

If you are adding some power to the baseline, that's helpful. If you're promising the grid you can add some power during one of the daily or seasonal peaks, that's almost as valuable as adding a new source of always-on power. By providing energy for even just six hours a day, you might save the grid from requiring a new always-on plant. So in terms of opportunity costs, even by being twice as expensive moment to moment, you're still cutting costs in half (unless everyone followed your strategy).

So there's probably some number of hours of shutdown where it's worth the coal, some number where it's not, all contingent on what plants are nearby, and how close your customers typically are.

Related but tangential, one of the unintended benefits of electric cars would be adding a bunch of consumption at night, smoothing the diurnal cycle, letting us pursue more lower-cost always-on generation. (This is before you even consider distributed storage proposals that let the grid draw from parked cars in emergencies.)

Predictability is almost as good as a natural resource.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/stories/people/teatime...
The author still doesn't understand how "fprintf(stderr, "\n");" could have changed the behavior, so I doubt he understands the real cause of the bug. A test for floating point equality may not give you the result you expect, but it is most certainly deterministic: if you compare the same two floating point numbers (i.e., the same sequences of bits that represent two floating point numbers), the hardware will give you exactly the same result each time. So there was something in the program that caused a different floating point result to be computed under some circumstances.
I think though you're an exception. What a luxury. It sounds like you've weighed up the environmental pros and cons for your locale, which is more than most do.

I still think there's better use for that land than raising cattle on it. I can't help but think that good meat is reserved for the luxury of a few, that includes well raised organic meats. It's only the wealthy people that I know that can afford such.
Did you contact HTC to help them?
That's a little disingenuous, the fastest train from SJ->SF is under an hour at peak times. If you are in Downtown SJ, you can be in Downtown SF in way under two hours, with nothing but your feet and the train ride. San Jose, however, is huge, so its surely possible that a slow bus ride from south San Jose could add 45 minutes to the trip.

It would be nice to have a train leave SF later than midnite, but having taken that train many times, the ridership level is probably break even in terms of costs, at best.
A lot of enterprise system integrators (eg: integrating big software products together or into an enterprise's existing infrastructure) require travelling programming consultants. Also, consultants focused on improving an enterprises development process, and team.
Unauthorized Access Backdoor found in D-Link router Firmware Code
Really great post. Cool to see what was going behind the scenes. I attended this event as a sponsor/judge and was really impressed by all of the hackers and organizers.

Except for that Ishaan kid, he sounds like a bitch.
Off the rest of us.
> This applies to any city that seeks some form of income and social diversity

This seems like a tautology. "A city that seeks income diversity should seek income diversity"... the point is that I and crazygringo do not think that the city needs to seek that; it is a-okay in my book if a city becomes gentrified.

> and it only applies to you if you choose to live in that city.

Okay, I choose to live in Malibu. Sadly I cannot afford it. Who is going to think of poor jlgreco, unable to afford living in the beach community of his choice? Is my desire to live in Malibu less valid than anyone else's desire to live in San Francisco?
You're right, it had escaped my attention. I have quoted them directly in the blog now. Thanks!
> The popular view of America's upper class is that of an ossified aristocracy. But research from the National Bureau of Economic Research shakes up this view, at least among America's richest individuals.

> The individuals of the Forbes 400 List are the wealthiest people in America - the top .0001%

Am I the only one who sees the contradiction? On one hand, they say things are not that bad. But then they turn around and start talking about the 0.0001%.

In other words, it's not too bad - if you're one of those 1 in 1 million.
New builds involve dozens of units coming to market at once. Thus, sales and marketing teams can be employed to market the property overseas to these wealthy individuals. It's also far more predictable and doesn't require inspection and such. In some markets, such as Australia (possibly UK, I'm not sure), you don't pay property tax but you do have an upfront stamp duty. This duty is waived for purchases of new developments (another way foreign investors get to pilfer commonwealth countries and take advantage of so many of the benefits of living there without paying much tax at all).
Yeah and medicine does not help final outcome, which is death.
I just hope for a Retina Cinema Display... but will settle for a Cinema Display with MagSafe 2, USB3... maybe a small res bump?
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I can't reproduce this on stock Android. I'd also like to see what happens shortly afterwards. The video cuts off a bit abruptly and I'm curious to see if you can maintain access or whether it kicks you back out to the the lock screen after initialization is complete.

The text was also changed just a minute ago to remove a plug for HyperCube. The original text included something along the lines of "Clearly there are big problems with Android, which is why we started HyperCube..."
That's exactly it. I'm in not-so-much-one-of-the-villages-around-Cambridge.
Confessions of a Windows Phone User
Could a mod amend the title so it mentions the vulnerability is in HTC's android distro and not AOSP?
> One can already organize resistance against a regime one considers harmful enough to merit violent resistance, via militant groups.

Because successful states (i.e., not Greece) have vast amounts of institutional knowledge and training on how to infiltrate and destroy radical groups in the embryonic stage. There will never be anything remotely like the Red Army Faction in the USA or Europe as long as the FBI still has any amount of funding. Or even local police, for that matter. In the US, virtually every dissident group is guaranteed to be monitored by police, if not actively infiltrated. It's hard enough to organize unpermitted protests, let alone jailbreaks or breakfast programs.

Assassination markets work around this by reducing the need for organized groups.
Make "going for a walk every day" the rule, not the exception.

Just go out and walk, don't think "I have to walk because I need to lose weight", do it as an habit.

You don't think "I need to wash my teeth because I don't want them to rot", or shower every day because "I don't want to smell".

We probably could avoid washing and brushing our teeth for a day, without ill effects. But we do it every day because it's so ingrained in our daily routine that our day does not feel complete if we skip it.

It's much harder to break a rule than to break an exception, and routine is much more powerful than willpower.
They're talking about these people's origins, not their current wealth.
Isn't this pointless with the wholesale of TLDs?
> Meanwhile the systems developed by crypto researchers more than twenty years ago solve the same problem

The difference is that those systems did not solve the "double-spend" problem. Every single prior ecash system required some sort of centralized trusted entity (or a pool of them) in order to ensure double-spends didn't occur.

Bitcoin is the first ecash system that is truly decentralized. This is what makes it technically superior to prior systems, and this is why it is succeeding.
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If it were me, I would not try out FP except in a language designed for it. "Having functional aspects" isn't enough if you're first starting out. I learned this when I started trying to apply FP concepts to Ruby. I'm not saying you can't do FP in Ruby, just that you really need to know what you're doing. Because a lot of things in Ruby aren't FP-friendly and you need to know what they are before you step in them and find yourself grappling with weird bugs.
No, no. "Finance"
The Proof is Trivial