skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was posted to HN two days ago. The submitter then used a sub-optimal title ("Bill Gates says putting worldwide Internet access before malaria is 'a joke'"), which created frustrating discussion. (Title since edited to FT title.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6658518

You have taken a title from the sub-head ("The internet is not going to save the world, says the Microsoft co-founder, whatever Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley’s tech billionaires believe. But eradicating disease just might.") and kludged it to fit the 80 char limit.

Your choice is much less link-baity than the other submission. But it's still more link-baity than the real FT title.

HN does have a problem with titles. Perhaps people just need to post the real title and then make another post with their response to the article. But that means that people reading /new need to make several clicks - read the article and read the first comment before upvoting, and /new has a problem with not enough people upvoting from it.

The dupe-checker missed this.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/dacd1f84-41bf-11e3-b064-00144feabd...

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/dacd1f84-41bf-11e3-b064-00144...
Well sir, I totally agree with you. Thanks for the good conversation. (Speaking as someone who also owes a large part of my education to the welfare system of my country).
As I understand it, Adobe used ECB mode, which means the blocks are encrypted independently. You can look at the encrypted blocks and see that two different passwords share character sequences. This is I assume what Randall is referring to with the 'crossword' bit - as well as having clues in the hints, solving one password may give you part of another. The suffix may also contain only one or two characters (plus padding) which makes it more plausible to mount a brute force attack.

ECB mode is just terrible. As well as these suffix problems, I've seen another example where a company used it to encrypt key-value pair cookies. Of course the keys are always the same...so prefixes were guessable too. And wikipedia has a fantastic example of why its stupid for images:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECB_mode#Electronic_codebook_.2...
Docopt: a language for description of command-line interfaces
Most laptops certainly do not have built in UMTS modems.
WHATWG Streams API
Offshore free encrypted email service Mail1Click
If rich people paid less tax they could spend more money, thereby paying more tax.
This predates the doge_js twitter account, the doge npm package, and dogescript. It's also pretty neat with the terminal art! Nicely done.
Amazing architecture; I remember reading about it and colorforth several years ago when I was researching parallel architectures. I almost want to buy a chip and mount it on a schmartboard, but I've got so much going on right now that I know it would probably sit there after that.

The real reason for my comment, however, is a question: is that idiomatic F#? If so, I like it! It's got a lot of Haskell's succinctness, power, and functional goodness without becoming a tangled mess of indecipherable symbols. Yes, you can write Haskell this way, but in my experience, almost no one does. If this is typical for F#, it deserves a (very close) look.

Add to that the fact that I was impressed with the readability and power of a bit of C# code the other day. I really got to give these MS languages another chance. It's too bad I can't stand the OS (and yes, I've tried Windows 8 -- even worse). How's Mono these days?
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What if one out of those thousand rockets fails?
That situation cannot be (or should not be) avoided if a product is significantly better that any other competitor on the market. You can choose between

- depending on the for-profit company

- having disadvantage on the marketplace because of inferior tools

I think the former is often preferable.
Does the post imply that we don't? If so I should edit it.

Please do reach out to us if you're interested. The answer is it depends on your situation and nationality, but we definitely help with this.
Incidentally, why is the scala version 100x slower than the Haskell one?
Thanks for pointing that out! Good to know I won't need that work around in the future. I need to get back into this, got a couple of graphics cards lying dormant in a server just begging to be passed through to guests!
Creating Web Applications in Prolog
Given that you were replying to a comment specifically about open source, that wasn't clear. Also if an app is closed source, you have to wonder how the cloner obtained the source in order to re-skin it? Is that sort of industrial espionage, or code decompilation of iOS apps common?

You also have to wonder how Apple would know? There are almost half a million apps on the App Store, detailed code analysis of the app binary and comparison with other compiled app binaries on the store is hard enough on an individual basis, and trivially defeated by code obscuration, let alone at app store scale.

What are you suggesting Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other store operators should be doing?
However, lots of people no longer have just the dad working. Mum needs to work as well just to get by.

Total hours worked/capita fluctuates and is down a little bit since 1970. There has been no upward trend. Mom works more but dad works less.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/USAAHWEP

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/EMRATIO

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=d5P

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2000/07/art3full.pdf

The poor specifically are huge beneficiaries of this trend, and work very little.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

In any case, I'm glad we are in agreement that adventured is wrong and standard of living has gone up.
Steve's right, this type of endeavor is the very essence of hacking.

As RMS once wrote, "Hacking included a wide range of activities, from writing software, to practical jokes, to exploring the roofs and tunnels of the MIT campus." (http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html).
Some information on Adobe 135M users leak
The main advantage is that it's exceptionally power-efficient. Take a look at the chart on these slides[1] for more details. It gets this efficiency despite being manufactured with relatively outdated methods--if I'm not mistaken, it has 150nm transitors!

[1]: http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/news/docs/GreenArrays-Fo...

My understanding is that it's power efficient because the stack-based design allows you to transfer very little data in and out of registers. Additionally, the chip is very simple, has very few transistors and no clock. All this helps save power. Also, the cores can power down very quickly when they're not used, meaning you only pay the energy cost of the ones you are using at the moment. Of course, you shouldn't take my word for it: I'm desperately not a hardware person.

I've heard several compelling ideas for using these chips. They're a good fit for small, simple devices that need a long battery life: things like sensors in everyday goods and such, think "internet of things". Another possibility is using them in phones so that the main, power-hungry chip could go to sleep leaving a chip like this to monitor inputs and awaken the phone if needed.
Great research. Now its not difficult to see why the traffic can't be monetized.. The traffic stats looks way off and not organic.
Why ngModel's $render function can't be overriden in AngularJS rc3?
Common Startup Flaws Leading To An Early Demise
Why would it be morally not ok to trick the activity graph and/or create fake git timestamps?
So what are we going to use as a nuclear waste dump?

Transmutation hasn't really become practical, so I'm out of ideas on this one. And while I really really like modern nuclear reactor design, I haven't seen anybody run a reactor who is competent at it. Looking at Chernobyl or Fukushima, the problem seems that people don't like to admit mistakes. It's a social problem more than anything else, and the fact that you can't have a neutral discussion around nuclear power doesn't help either.
explainxkcd hasn't worked out the passwords yet.
Well... why not? If slaughtering your way through a horde of zombies is fun, and we can differentiate healthily between fantasy and reality, between zombies and real people, why the hell not?
Of course, Vagrant is great. But does not make Windows a Unix...
I think you're over complicating the problem. Simply put all the recipes and all the movie plots ever published in a database and randomly generate combinations. This is effectively what most "new" food and movies are nowadays.
The url changes a bit too frequently for that. Static page served from s3 (through cloudfront) that POSTs to nodejs app that writes to s3. Can clearly be abused.
Oh, hey, it's the Anti-Fun Squad come to tell us that a good series of kids' books has no actual worth just because.
By which I mean: bookmark the versions you like!
Replying to original comment as well as this.

Ω is the capital of ω, exactly the same letters, though ancient Greeks only used capital letters.

The Ω was pronounced a bit more deep in the throat, kind of like "ho", but that difference was more accented when the letter was used by itself as an article "Ω human", for example.

Still though there is no absolute knowledge for the exact pronunciation of any of the ancient Greek. My belief is that the most close modern dialect is the Cypriot since it's the most melodic and rhythmic.
Let's put it another way: it shows very nicely that the activity graph is a very nice plaything, but not to be trusted in any way.
How about measuring in household income per hour worked?
so, almost enough data to support the enormous 'by default' internet consumption of iOS.

certainly little enough that everyone will pay for more internets.

clever marketing strategy. people like free stuff. :)
MIT Students develop wearable cooling device
I believe the big reason for the power-efficiency is that it's entirely clockless - the power consumption of an idle transistor is very low compared to one that's switching, and a central clock causes many, many transistors to switch every clock cycle. Being clockless is another way to only pay the power cost for silicon that's actually doing something.

Another thing I've been looking at it for is that the design makes it very easy to bit-bang protocols - if you can't get an off-the-shelf chip to speak a protocol for you, using one of these is far cheaper than sticking an FPGA in there, and is similarly cheaper (and easier to patch later) than getting a custom chip unless you're doing a truly massive run of devices.
Here’s why Paul Graham (probably) owes me an apology
One question: Is Tor now totally blocked in China?
Tor does not work here for me, even with bridges. Any words of wisdom?

Otherwise: A lot of useful comments here already.
- what is blocked today, maybe blocked or not blocked tomorrow. E.g. I could not make my CC payment yesterday. After some hours, the site worked. I doubt it was the banks fault.

- Different providers seem to block different sites

- Many VPN are blocked, https often does not work (e.g. with wikipedia)

The blockedinchina.net seems a little bit like snake oil with very little reliability.
The fun thing is that you can buy a 10 pack of chips off the GreenArrays website for $200.
true, but its good to hear the other side's perspective - it helps you assess how you can cater to them better.
"the rich get richer and the poor get poorer..."

unsurprising common sense. :/
Yes. For example, it disables graphs in Google Analytics. They do not work, if your useragent is empty or if it is Googlebot 2.1 ;-)
Staying in Touch with Business Contacts Back Home
Meh, if I was caught smoking pot I wouldn't want to be prosecuted by the USA either.
Why? Is it a secret number? What can somebody do with it?
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Add art to your GitHub profile page (May 2013) [1]

[1] https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti
Chernobyl happened in 1986. 25 year old Soviet technology is not a good advert for anything, especially not nuclear stuff.

Fukushima seems to have been the result not of mismanagement, but of a coincidence of catastrophes.

NASA needs some nuclear fuels, so nuclear energy programmes could help them. http://news.discovery.com/space/as-nasas-plutonium-supply-dw...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6414717
In my (anecdotal) experience: A lot of tools (everything from editors to compilers, etc.) that are open source are from the Unix world. They're designed to work in a POSIX way and the ports to Windows (if they exist, or you're forced to use Cygwin) are a bit cludgy: You might just as well have used some kind of Unix in the first place. Windows dev tools are available, of course, but you often have to pay quite a lot for them. Good OSS exists for Windows, but it's a subset of what's readily available under nix, which doesn't encourage the hacker/hobbyist spirit.
Is there a website out there that will tell you how many times your password has been used based on this database of the 153millions accounts?
If this approach actually worked, then it would work for any patented technology, no? This seems less a method to protect against patent trolls, and more a method to protect against all patent infringement suits, no matter how substantial.

Perhaps the author is opposed to all patents, but this isn't clear from the text.
Thank you for the good conversation, insights and links. You show me "Mom works more but dad works less". It leads me to wonder if Mom works more because dad works less? Full time jobs and Obamacare insurance perhaps?

"Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that the ratio of part-time to full-time jobs has completely flipped this year from historical trends. Last year, six full-time jobs were created for every one part time job. This year, only one full-time job is being created for every four new part-time jobs."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gracemarieturner/2013/08/27/its-...

It's hard to make sense of all the data...
9% percent face the same problem. They need only 0.9% to feed them. So they leave 8.1% alone and make for themselves. But then only 0.09% is needed to produce all the stuff. Etc.
http://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_on_how_to_grow_your_o...

http://www.slideshare.net/jaymeattle/how-to-grow-your-own-fr...

TED presenter Kamal Meattle argues for:
- Areca Palm
- Mother-in-law's Tongue
- Money Plant
I was at Chuck Moore's talk at Strangeloop, it was... esoteric. From what I gather, it's not really something you'd want to write a full application in - Forth came across to me as a very low-level language, much like assembler. Which makes sense given how the chip executes it natively.

also the dude did not wear shoes.
Henry Ford Jr. asked Walter Reuther how he would get the robots to pay union dues. Reuther asked how Ford would get the robots to buy cars.
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Interesting. I've only every tried Cygwin a long time ago, and I remember it being a pain to use and setup, but it was the only thing available at the time. Is this an alternative to Cygwin? Why should I pick this over Cygwin? (might be a good FAQ entry?)
i see no mention of a C ABI interface - this is the one truly cross platform interface we have which has no prior dependency, and it is at the native level.

it utterly boggles my mind how this is not the first thing mentioned or used. maybe it is just in there anyway and i need to find out. will definitely take a look at this as a fan of prolog anyway. :)

SWI-Prolog provides C interface for instance...
Yes, it is. (Beijing)
As someone who is in "this space" and a product guy, @Dumbfounder, needs to refocus then rework the design. Its not much many to edit a decent psd designer then get it chopped off and ready for xhtml.I've done many Its a cheap way to get a slick new design in no time at all. Refine later. I have access to some who do high quality psd+css w/ good turn around time. You tell them what you want, toss around ideas and you get yourself a final product that needs little work. I

His pages have too much going on. Less is more. You should be able to clean things up and drip one 250x250 px ad for say 10-15 cents. Once the ui is reworked this will come to life. I like what he is going but right now he is doing too much. If you want to chat him me up. I am a front end dev and we could probably build some interesting things.

I am pretty sure I could bring its full potential out within 2 month of so while not spending much month at all.

@dumbfounder. If passionate. Reach out to me today.I have some free time this week to dicuss if you want.
"why do some passwords have a salt(?) and some don't?"

I'm not sure if this is the case, but sometimes this has to do with 'backwards compatibility'. I've seen databases where some passwords where MD5, some SHA1, some Bcrypt and so on.
The login page then will do something like:

if(checkBcrypt(password)) {
login();
} else if(checkSha1(password) || checkMd5(password)) {
updateDbPassword(password);
login();
} else {
loginError();
}
I think he might be more willing to turn himself in if the jury consisted of, say, 10 different nations, instead of one that consideres him anti-patriotic and a traitor (which is naturally heavily biased).
its about trusting the compiler... performance oriented code is a surprisingly small amount of stuff, as reading hacker news constantly reminds me.

(ps i work in games and vfx - similar restrictions)

although i guess there is no reason why you can't make declarative performance constraints ...
I think you site is the second best thing that happened to design challenged after bootstrap. Thanks for all the work.

I have a feeling that if you set up an online course which teaches how to design using bootstrap, it could sell pretty well.
>accuracy and speed //
So by accuracy you mean reliability and not promptitude? Or are we speaking of people who do the math with an Abacus (etc)?
> I Can't think of a single founder who blogged high quality original content consistently for more than two years that didn't turn his audience and readership into a successful company.

This is statistical nonsense. You are unlikely to be able to think of those founders who don't have successful companies, whether they blogged or not.

In general, we are more aware of founders who blog precisely because they do that. Making a list of blogging founders is pointless unless you have a fair way of listing the non-bloggers.
While this is somewhat true, it becomes less relevant over time. As transistor size shrinks, leakage and static power loss becomes more and more of an issue.

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~mobile/elec518/readings/DevicesAndC...

AMULET was an attempt to make a commercial async chip and it flopped pretty early, one of the reasons being interfacing with anything else in the entire world kinda requires a clock.

http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/projects/processors/amulet/
If you are interested in any of the above jobs, but only can work remotely, don't hesitate to talk to us anyway. You may be right for us.
He forgot users of The Gimp ;-).
ET3 vs. Hyperloop
Not being able to use CMYK is a terrible perspective if you ever get a chance of printing something.
OS X Mavericks forces iOS calendar, contact syncing into iCloud
New Stripe Design
> working hard, but not hard enough to retire early

instead of thinking of work, think of it as creating value. If you are employed by somebody, you are creating value for them, which you take a % as salary/wage. If you work for yourself, all the value you create, you get to keep.

This means, that to get financial freedom, you must work for yourself. This is difficult, and often impossible if you don't already have any capital. I feel this is the true problem with society - that the poor cannot retain 100% of the value they generate because they lack the capital to do so, and therefore, forced to work for somebody else, and get back less than 100% of the value they generate.
That's the question. Suppose you are part of 10%. You are a person with money. You spend 10% of your income to satisfy all your needs. How are you going to spend remaining 90%? Keep in mind that your needs are already satisfied -- you have to spend on something that you won't consume.
EAS Myoplex? There are a myriad of other Meal Replacement Powders on the market that has been around for decades, some of them designed to completely replace meals with specific ratios such as 40/40/20 (protein, carbs, fat) or more commonly, low-carb versions. Seriously, go to bodybuilding.com and look under the meal replacement category and you'll find a bunch of products that has figured this shit out decades before soylent.
just curious but are you saying you founded a startup at 46, of which the original idea was conceived when you were 28?
Its a dangerous question to ask anyway, not because its against the law, but because it is somewhat ethically grey - the candidate would feel they've been discriminated if they had answered that question "poorly".
I am always suprised that people are not concerned about this:

Linus @ https://lwn.net/Articles/572706/

"But the fact that I'm going to be (effectively) off-line next week
means that I'm not opening the merge window for 3.13 yet - since I
won't have the bandwidth to really do merges anyway.
That doesn't mean that you can't send me pull request for the merge
window early, of course - maintainers can always send their pull
requests early rather than late, if they have everything lined up and
ready. But if you have some feature that still wants polishing, you
basically get a free week to do that.
So the two-week merge window for 3.13 will start a week from now. You
have an extra week. But that also means that I will be doubly
disappointed in anybody who then leaves their merge request until the
end of that two-week merge window."

Linus is in absolute control of the kernel development -- this works quite well, but if he gets sick or whatever then how quickly and well will the community find a substitute?
The first time I heard it was Gail Goodman's eponymous talk at BoS 2012. It refers to the unlikelihood that you'll have a hockey stick revenue curve. Most SaaS businesses add recurring revenue fairly slowly and steadily, over time, and take a long while until they get to the "totally milk it!" part of the model.
From the article:

In his talk, Chuck Moore was wearing his FiveFinger shoes on stage. That cracked me up. Absolutely no convention is followed blindly by this guy.

You call it esoteric; I call it thinking in revolutionary terms rather than evolutionary terms. I think it's brilliant. Also, that "dude" is Chuck Moore.
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In fear people come together to unite. In Love people come together to form amazing communities. In brink of war people unite to protect.

You can apply anything with anything.

War is just another expression of art.
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Relations as First-Class Citizen - A Paradigm Shift?
I remember that report (one of the earlier ones) that said that Google hosts hardware provided by the NSA.

So his outrage is even more hypocritical than the EU's leaders'.

Also, if he was really "outraged", he'd band together with the other tech giants and actively and visibly fight the NSA:

If somebody has the power and reach to get the public behind a cause, it's the tech giants. As long as they don't fight the NSA and do it in a manner that's transparent for the public and honest, I call:

Pure PR bullshit as usual.
I don't think they look smart at all ;) /s