skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coconut Crisis Looms as Postwar Palm Trees Age
Omega: Flexible, scalable schedulers for large compute clusters [pdf]
Lavabit's encrypted storage was a paid feature that was used by less than 10% of users. From the wording, it sounds like he never stored passwords for those accounts. It's possible that Snowden was the first premium customer for which Lavabit was issued a warrant.
I am incredibly pleased at the save-page-now feature. Before there was a hack where using liveweb.archive.org might save a page on-demand, but you had no way of knowing. I'm adding this to my archive-bot immediately.
I've yet to hear of a lunatic trying to shoot up a police station, a gunshop, or a firing range - places where guns are prevalent. Also, Israel arms their teachers[1] and school shootings have 'magically' gone way down. I'd like to think that the deterrent effect would play a significant role in keeping our kids and ourselves safe, aka the "an armed society is a polite society" argument.

[1] - http://www.examiner.com/article/arming-teachers-worked-for-i...
Absolutely right. The materials cost isn't affected much by geography, just the labour cost.
My feeling is that the state of scientific knowledge is pretty weak on how to prevent a heart attack that's still 20 years away. Doctors should not overstate what is known scientifically, otherwise they are probably telling you things that are not true.
The design is very clean for a site designed in 1996. Apart from being tiny (was it designed for ants?)
We have a different system - but yes, we do help with that.

Instead of sending a box, we automatically purchase a shipping label for your item using the shipment method of your choice (USPS, UPS, FedEx). The shipping label already has the address of the buyer and everything filled out.

All you need to do is drop off the package (we'll show you the closest shipping locations).

From there we automatically track the package and show both the buyer & seller realtime updates of the package location & delivery.

We're calling this service "ShipSimple" and it's bundled into the overarching SellSimple platform.

The ShipSimple feature will be released in version 1.4 (coming very soon).
What are some of these good tools you are talking about that make it no longer necessary to write "cryptic" code?
Ask HN: What would you choose, why? Javascript Frameworks or core Javascript?
... and emoji, in particular, are actually very useful (and well-used) for average every-day communication amongst huge numbers of people.

Obviously some are going to be more useful than others, but it would be quite difficult to find a subset of them that are obviously so completely useless that they should be dropped.

The Unicode consortium's practice of just adopting complete scripts wholesale is vastly simpler and works out quite well in practice.
While it's true that games don't necessarily have the same impact on people's lives as other, more "important" work, for me, making a game or studying how a game works is such a fun process that it's worth doing anyway.

I spent some time trying to make games in my high school years (NeHe's tutorials helped me a lot)and trying to understand how other games work (I remember the sense of achievement when I managed to switch textures in some crappy FPS game).

Today I deeply regret that I didn't put enough effort to study this field properly... I like my current gig, but I will always look at real game developers with a sense of envy.
Thanks for the update. Good luck everyone!
I'm a non-profit applicant too. I wonder if the increased number of applicants has anything to do with the intentional invitation to social benefit ideas.
Get on a statin even if your LDL levels are within the normal range. They're very safe (safer than aspirin, arguably) and effective.
Don't forget the stress relief video games can give. Society managed to make even sheltered 1st world lives stressful thanks to unrealistic expectations imposed on a personal and professional level. We're all apes though, despite all that's expected of us. And these apes love to wonder about their world and explore its every corner. Video games satiate this desire somewhat - and that will do, on a fucking Monday night after a long, frustrating day at work.
I convert them into fiat soon after earning them. Not because I do not have faith in bitcoin but because fiat currency is so much more useful.
Are you saying that mobile devices aren't capable of playing games of the same graphical and technical complexity as a Windows 95 game? I assure you that isn't true.
This is not right. We show that, even with no positional advantage in the network (i.e. gamma=0), the attacker can make more than its fair share.
I have this too but didn't realize it was a risk-factor for anything?

What exactly do you feel and where?
I used to work in Brazoria county, Texas where a few large manufacturing facilities never paid a penny in local and state taxes. One company employed about 10,000 people and there were another 40,000 employed as contractors and in supporting companies. Despite the major employers not paying taxes, Brazoria county was considered one of the wealthier counties.

The benefit to local economy comes from sales and property taxes on employees, the relocation of supporting industry nearby who didn't get tax break. The key is to offer tax incentives to right kind of business. The key is to attract business with tax incentives that will attract anciliary and supporting industry.
Can you edit this to include Ask HN: in the beginning?
So, who is building up your startups while you're waiting for an interview? Back to work, YC candidates! ;)
The in-between part is here:

https://github.com/arpith/constellational
this seemed shoehorned, with teeth
Jonathan Blow (Braid and Indie Fund) recently gave an amazing presentation on the evolution of Television, and he made an interesting parallel to the evolution of games: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AxFzf...
NSA chief likely to lose cyber war powers
The iPad 2 and Education
Thanks for the update. I was wondering what's happening to the results. It's 10:15am on 5th Nov already in India.
"We need every man on deck for the future."
I really like that.. I may say it myself.. do you require attribution? Lol
http://youtu.be/5t7guVvq8L8
Crowdsourced list of fashion startups / HackPad
Glad to hear that you have taken up the cause outside of this context as well.

As to what harm it does, the answer is none at all. In fact, it is an awesome opportunity for that person and I would have loved to have been in that position myself.

However, the rub for me is not so much what harm does it do, but what good does it do to have one more rich kid at the dinner? Obviously, Bing gets a big ol' donation, so that is most certainly a huge benefit. I don't know, it just feels weird to me.

How about sponsoring a programming puzzle (or series of puzzles) or something like that next time and the first person to solve it gets to go to the dinner? I would put $1,000 into that (as the Bing donation). Bing gets the money, the person who solved the problem is obviously interested in going, it takes care of the "rich parents" debate, and the overhead for managing such a contest is limited to the upfront creation of the question and parsing of the results.

Truthfully, my personal feelings here are primarily rooted in envy. I did not have parents who had the ability to pay for such an opportunity, so had this auction applied to me, I would have been looking for a way to work my way in somehow.
Remind me, what year is this again?
Dropbox Snatches Up Sold
As U.S. Weighs Spying Changes, Officials Say Data Sweeps Must Continue
A personal flying craft! A 1 or 2-person hovercraft/helicopter with AI detecting and avoiding proximity to surface and other objects for a smooth and safe flying experience (a self-piloting safe airborne people-carrier is the goal).
The leaked passwords were different lengths, of course they weren't hashed.
Hepatitis C Conquered
Mars Mission [pdf]
Airbnb has sought to bake in accountability both at a large and small scale.

1) Airbnb has a crazy insurance policy [1]

2) Both the host & guest get reviewed. A single bad review can impede your ability to rent on either side.

This is purely based on my experience, but it seems like guests really don't misbehave.

Maybe there is the occasional party or guest who trashes the place. Good hosts tend to hire cleaning services to deal with messes. Generally, guest are tired from traveling and doing activities and are low impact.

[1] https://www.airbnb.com/guarantee
I don't think it's ever too late to start. I've dabbled in some XNA, but next on my list is to make an old school "scene-style" 2D scrolling demo.
Also http://www.childsplaycharity.org/
What would be wrong with that?

The whole point of HTML/CSS is that you don't get to design pixel-perfect layouts (use something like PDF for that). The device is free to reflow pages and layouts as it sees fit. If OSX users prefer to see web pages as smaller than windows users, why not just let them?
Why would you think this? You seem to imagine that people only sell one thing ever. I buy and sell a fair bit of specialist equipement each year (pro audio stuff) and there's a lot more stuff that I'd like to sell but don't seriously try to because it's a bit of a hassle to research prices etc.
To be honest, I don't know. An eclim discussion[1] implies that eclim is using Vim's NetBeans protocol, and the eclim code that I have read is well-organized and the project is mature, so when you said you were having issues with the NetBeans protocol I thought eclim might be a useful reference for you.

[1] https://github.com/ervandew/eclim/issues/100
Adobe says that they've followed best practices for password storage and protection for more than a year now...

13 generations of photoshop

...and they're just getting around to this after CS6?
I agree. It's clear that (1) hotels aren't worth the cost; (2) people would rather 'live like locals'; and (3) distributing hotel management & maintenance is more effective that concentrating it in giant hotels.

Not to mention that the booking experience on Airbnb is way better than using the counterparts of hotels and hotel booking sites.
heybuddy.wav
All my passwords are different and this still pisses me off.
...

I'm sorry, this list lost me when it said the first sign of a doomed team were that its members had a natural interest in technology, and a desire to explore that interest in their work.

Sorry, I'll make sure to not enjoy my job from now on.

edit: To be clear, I recognize what this author is saying is that these aspects arn't bad, they should be applied correctly. You should moderate your exploration, but convicted when you change technologies. Reasonable in defence, and humble in error.

None of this says how to do those things. Nor could it.
So a middle finger gets fewer downvotes than a technical commentary. awesome.
You're absolutely right. Billion-dollar fighter jets may be a gravy train for the Pentagon and defense contractors, but they may not be all that useful in most war arenas the US is likely to encounter today.

Arguably the best illustration of this was the infamous "Millennium Challenge 2002", a massive war game involving 13,000 troops and $250M. Embarrassingly, the US army got "defeated" within just the first few days by a ragtag bunch of fighters, propeller plans, recreational boats and low-tech communication.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/sep/06/usa.iraq

"At the height of the summer, as talk of invading Iraq built in Washington like a dark, billowing storm, the US armed forces staged a rehearsal using over 13,000 troops, countless computers and $250m. Officially, America won and a rogue state was liberated from an evil dictator.

What really happened is quite another story, one that has set alarm bells ringing throughout America's defence establishment and raised questions over the US military's readiness for an Iraqi invasion. In fact, this war game was won by Saddam Hussein, or at least by the retired marine playing the Iraqi dictator's part, Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper.

In the first few days of the exercise, using surprise and unorthodox tactics, the wily 64-year-old Vietnam veteran sank most of the US expeditionary fleet in the Persian Gulf, bringing the US assault to a halt.

What happened next will be familiar to anyone who ever played soldiers in the playground. Faced with an abrupt and embarrassing end to the most expensive and sophisticated military exercise in US history, the Pentagon top brass simply pretended the whole thing had not happened. They ordered their dead troops back to life and "refloated" the sunken fleet. Then they instructed the enemy forces to look the other way as their marines performed amphibious landings. Eventually, Van Riper got so fed up with all this cheating that he refused to play any more. Instead, he sat on the sidelines making abrasive remarks until the three-week war game - grandiosely entitled Millennium Challenge - staggered to a star-spangled conclusion on August 15, with a US "victory"."
> For example, what if other miners, instead of joining the selfish pool, decide to create their own competing selfish pools?

I think the authors demonstrate why this would not be a preferable strategy:

"above a certain threshold size, the revenue of a selfish pool rises superlinearly with pool size above its revenue with the honest strategy."

So why create a new selfish pool when you could benefit more from joining the largest existing?
I investigated the "why make games" question recently:

http://ludamix.com/essays/the_answer/index.html
Screen resolutions were smaller then.
This is great marketing; its targeted, opportune, and easily-welcomed.
I wouldn't call Photoshop an achievement, it's a hodgepodge of old libraries and bugs at the best of times.

Adobe refused to patch a vulnerability in CS5 at one point, telling people to purchase and upgrade to CS6 (US$199) if they wanted to not be vulnerable to malicious code execution. In response to the uproar they eventually backported the patch.

[0]: http://www.macworld.com/article/1166779/adobe_will_issue_fre...
Your landlord was running a hotel.

I've stayed with people who had a few properties that they rented on Airbnb. Renting 1-5 seems okay. More or less, you're running a B&B.

When it gets to whole floors or buildings, you've got a hotel on your hands. That is and should be illegal and Airbnb should work with authorities to shut that down.
With each new URL you could store the previous ID and use that to build out a chain. It might be fairly expensive to do that dynamically, but there's no reason you couldn't serialize all of the previous IDs in a single column.

IMHO POSTing is fine, but you definitely want to wait a couple seconds each time.
What does Photoshop have to do with their poor security?
I feel you, but you're conflating "angry, principled nerds" with "most people". If you really think people outside your filter bubble are "outraged", look further.
I'm impressed you worked that out.
Build popular service, attract loyal user base, sell popular service to bigger company so they can gut it and screw your users; business as usual in the startup world, judging by 5 years of HN and Slashdot.

Every time I suggest this might not be a cool thing, people tell me I just don't understand the business model, or something. Same thing yesterday when Microsoft announced they were ripping out Skype's API. It's weird.
you said it... guess these are the ups and downs of the game
It is in Microsoft's interest to spread fear. Tiny software companies suffer and big companies with known names benefit. Fucken bastards.

Don't worry -- God is perfectly just.

If anger is breaking murder and lust is adultery; You bear false witness and are fucked in God's courts.

God says...
honestly climate dude_such_a_scoffer chaos you_better_not
merry_christmas ba_ha laziness high_five application church
you_never_know laziness absolutely employer over_the_top
let's_see I_love_this ordinarily you_should_be_so_lucky
run_away You_can_count_on_that FBI peace repent enough_said
I_love_you car I'll_be_back choose_one do_you_have_a_problem
Mom
Wait.. shouldn't there be six MSDN/windows forum redirects ending in a page that says this page doesn't exist anymore?
I don't think any one person can create a piece of engineering as complex as a modern day hard drive. There are just too many disciplines involved: Physical, electrical and embedded software engineering, applied physics, information theory for encoding the data and recovering from errors. But certainly a single person or group in those fields can be responsible for specific breakthroughs.
Why I left the U.S. to accelerate in Europe
Contractor fee + 12.5% = Client fee

So, CodeDoor ends up taking 1/9 of transactions.

I've commented out the payment stuff I have right now. Obviously, I'd like to get that out soon...
Thanks for your helpful comment.

I asked if I could redact anything and received the response: A scan of the entire ID would suffice. It's for verification, we do not store it in anyway. Hardly a response that creates confidence. Pardon me if in this day and age I don't exactly trust the public facing data retention policies of private companies.

I agree that brick and mortar vendors ask for ID all the time (in the US, at least), but as you said I'm comfortable having a human peruse it, not so much having them store it in a digital format.
Not a constructive comment, sorry, but I couldn't help chuckle reading this. It's beyond ridiculous.
The Art of Thinking Clearly: 99 most common thinking errors
I think the point is that they've had plenty of time to get their shit together. Being proud of following best practices for a year when your company has been around for three decades is pathetic.
Gasmask keyboard keys
A Key to Quantum Computing, Close to Home
Does it still work on IE?
That's what you get when everything has to be implemented in JavaScript or else it's not hip enough to put on the internet.
Thank you for the summary!

>"new elliptic curve cryptography we [Silent Circle] developed."

???

is... this a good idea? I would of thought libraries for this technique abound.
> Services like this are by their very nature used mostly as a once-off thing - someone wants to sell something they don't want anymore. Once it is sold then the "user" has no relationship with the Sold service.

There's people who make their entire living selling things online, and have been for at least 10-15 years (how long has eBay been around, again?)
You're going to be getting a lot of spam in the near future, the list of emails isn't exactly a secret anymore.
the top options being bcrypt, scrypt, PBKDF2, or SHA-2

Thanks, CSO Magazine!
Love to tell you, pal ... but us dishwashers are skeptical of outsiders.
This is a relatively recent development for Rails. Lots of major Rails-backed products were developed during the 2.x era and still have salted SHA1 passwords.
One particular tweet from Victor explains his point of view quite poignantly, in what he calls the dichotomy between industry and research:

"An 'Industry vs Research' dichotomy that I sketched at a conference. I probably should elaborate on it sometime. https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/392335781374619648/pho...

One can understand why, given the options as viewed by Victor, one would choose "research" if given the choice.
Lockheed SR-72
Anyone got a link to where one might check for the presence of their own email in this list?
Anyone have experience with gettechforce.com (or similar)?
If only they'd have such concerns about a US company acquiring them . . .

Blocking any potential Chinese purchase out of hand is a fantastic way to devalue the company given the way the hardware industry has been moving. There must be smarter ways to handle this.
I think that it is more the fact that the prize is specifically for the children of the people who have, at this point, $20k+ to contribute to a perfectly valid cause. It would be another matter entirely if it were some adult buying access to a YC dinner. It is not. The gut reaction is that some rich kid gets to build his/her Rolodex because he/she hit the sperm lottery. In my opinion, it just seems like the antithesis of what YC is all about, which is (as far as I can tell), "who are you, what have you built, and why are you so good at what you do."
First shut down Lavabit (for whatever reasons). Then ask for donations to do something else.
Consider photoshopping, not to falsify, but the claim of not storing is dubious....plus, they aren't a police organization, not like its perjury.

I think it's excessive myself. I'd flip them the bird and try amazon, dreamhost, or rackspace (although they are hardly inexpensive).
Anatomy of a password disaster – Adobe’s giant-sized cryptographic blunder
http://adobe.cynic.al/
A few years ago, I took a tour of this underground cavern in Northern California. About 50 stories (this may be incorrect) underground with absolutely no natural light coming in.

The tour guide took us to the deepest part, turned of all the lights and told us that this was what being in absolute darkness was like. The tour guide also told us to wave our hands in front of our faces. I thought I saw my own hand in front of me and before I had a chance to comment about that, the tour guide mentioned how if you think you see your hand, you're not.

Glad I came across this. Really helps shine some light (I'm sorry) on what I saw.
Mammoth corporations have fuck-all to do with common sense. They're run by apathetic shills that couldn't care less about technology, progress, or people (not to knock the talent that works in the trenches).
No, what I'm saying is that you will never see an iPad displaying the same complex scene a 500W-PC with a double-SLI card has no problem of taking care of. There is and there will always be a large gap between what you can do in fixed based devices and mobile systems, because of their inherent design goals.
You can submit the error, with the option of declaring what language the page is really in.

Unfortunately, "JavaScript" isn't in the list.
Not a typo, but the usual metaphor here is "fiefdom":

"Excessive specialization and compartmentalization creates thiefdoms."
Fascinating.

Next question: Would it improve your success rate to have multiple versions of your site that echo the designs of the sites that drive most of your traffic, and automatically direct users to the version that matches their referrer?

There's probably more overhead involved than could ever be worthwhile, but now I'm curious.
I've seen this doing the rounds, and I'm a bit surprised by the publicity it's getting. The interpretation of the results is fanciful. The results merely show that a person's report of an event will be biased by their expectations. This can be done with anything. There are more rigorous studies of "efference copy" which are actual signals that are sent out to different parts of the brain indicating that a movement is about to be made. Such efference copies are important for actions involving timing where the proprioceptive feedback from the limbs would arrive too late to be useful (so some brain regions get a predictive signal that allows them to plan further action in time).
3DES in ECB mode... great job guys. Really really well done.
Japanese Researchers Build Rock-paper-scissors Robot That Wins 100% of the Time
I think "computationally very hard" means exactly what you say NP-complete problems are ("very hard to solve efficiently"). Typically when one talks about the computational difficulty of an algorithm, they are talking about the computational resources it takes, not the amount a human has to think to come up with the algorithm.
Be Fruitful, Go forth and Multiply...The Willow Way