skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember Japan running rings around US products from a quality standpoint, not just being "acceptable." This is quite unlike China where the default quality is crap (though you CAN get good quality from Chinese manufacturing, you have to demand it and do your own QA to be sure you're getting it).
Ask HN: What were the old Adobe password requirements
My information seems to have been in the leaked adobe password file.

I use a password manager for anything important, but I still have some legacy accounts using a password that might have been the one I used for adobe.

But I don't now what my adobe password was (had an account ages ago). Adobe required me to reset it without testing if I had the right password.

The only way I can think of reverse engineering it is: Did adobe have any requirement? e.g. Caps and lowercase, numbers and letters, more than X characters, special symbols

I'll know what I would have chosen if it had any.
The Open Knowledge Foundation has been around for 10 years already, working in the same field and trying to achieve the same thing.

The trouble with unifying many different data sources like that is that you're trying to solve the problem of too many disparate sources for data by creating more sources for data. The entire field has xkcd.com/927 problems.
This is awesome, and I wish more projects would do it.

Unfortunately I can't work on firefox at this point, but this is still awesome.
Maybe I'm just not used to it. :D

It feels to me like these american show masters, who get on stage and greet the people with a "hello, how are you doing" but since he's asking the whole audience, no one answers.
When needing a quick console to mobile I have previously used jsconsole[1] with great success. Weinre can be a bit overkill to set up just for logging some simple statements.

[1] http://jsconsole.com/remote-debugging.html
I am not sure decline is the correct word.

Google's choice of direction really bugs me.

Scrapping the 20% developer time is fine. Cutting down projects to focus the company on a handful of products is cool. I never used Reader anyway.

What is worrying is the way Google is becoming more and more creepy. They have so much information about you and with the increasing rollout of Google+ I feel more and more like I am being stalked.

Even when I am not on Google sites their ad's follow me around. It used to be relevant ad's. That was ok. Now I visit the Alienware website and all I see are Alienware banners everywhere I go for the next week. Its freaky.

Now Google+ wants to do away with your alias and force you to use your real identity. Why would you ever want to do that? For a while there was a warning "be careful what you put on Facebook, it could get you fired." Google are trying to make that "be careful what you put on the Internet."

Perhaps some people will improve the quality of their comments.. I think a far better chance is that someone looking for me will find a 4 year old opinion or me playing devils advocate in an arguement and think I am a bigot, ill-imformed, stupid, whatever as a result..

The fact is that I want my email and my documents to be linked to me and my name. Anything else I would like to be attached to a throwaway name like the one I have on HN. Something I can abandon without worry that my opinions in 2013 will survive as "internet fact" for years to come.
Thanks! In my defence, the FF feature only made it into release 19 days ago and the chrome one is still 'experimental'. But great to know this is now available.
25 here.

Oldest online is when I was 21; a GPU-based MD5-password cracker/recovery program:
https://code.google.com/p/cudamd5

It was one of, if not the, fastest at the time :D
As far as I know, they all rely on you using their browser on mobile as well?

We faced a problem a few weeks ago, where Chrome for mobile worked fine, but the built in browser on Android phones pre 4.4 had some issues with our web app. Then we needed something else than Chrome to do the remote debugging.
One thing that struck me as painfully obvious about this is that the actual coding aspect of someone's job is only a small fraction of what makes them a good hire. Not to mention, they might have JavaScript or what-ever language is good for an open source part of a system, but if they're working in DevOps, DB guru, etc. none of that comes through in this.

I don't think I'd call this a GitHub Resume, more of a formatted GitHub summary that could be part of someone's Resume.

Sure, if you're inundated with so many resumes that you can't decide where to start (doubt this is a problem most companies have) this might be a good place to start.
Flip teaching
"The local revision numbers play no role here -- btw, they're just an (arbitrary) ordering of the commits in your local repository. No magic there."

I disagree. Mercurial is famous for its "simple" revision numbers that differ between repositories. These revision number are magical as they can suddenly change when you merge some branches and older commits get pulled into your history. Since mercurial and git are mostly about collaboration, non-stable identifiers can be very confusing.
In other other news, HN does not erupt into self righteous indignation that a country spies on another country.
At PlotWatt, we've been using the picloud's pickler for a while in our own implementation of the picloud job queue. We don't have all of the bells and whistles that their service did, but running our own queue made it easier to control the details like the number of machines, environment and network configuration, though we tried them out first before their environments feature was set up, so they might have solved most of those problems by now.

Anyway, if anyone is interested in seeing even a bare-bones python function queue based on picloud's pickler, get in touch and maybe we can open source what we have and build it out a little more. Its not open source right now just because its tied into some of our other libraries, but if there is interest, we could probably split it all up.
This new Bayes/frequentist test comparison test referenced looks interesting. That "which is better" storm about a year ago was less than coherent, but brought the differences to my attention, given that I was taught only frequentist methods for my researches. Academic practices and blinkers, again! I was always sceptical of the arbitrariness of the 2 SD "reasonable proof" standard in our researches, so it's great to see a specialist shed some more light.
There are libraries for matlab (and I think matplotlib too) that let you interpolate the ColorBrewer maps into gradients. Here's the matlab one: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/34087-cb...

Also for gradients, I wrote a pretty simple colormap editor here: http://colormap.org/. This maybe gives too much freedom, since it doesn't enforce any best practices as far as colorblindness is concerned. But if you make sure the brightness (the gray line) is monotonic, it's a step in the right direction.
By that simple statement alone, you've shown an astounding amount of ignorance about Australian-Indonesian relations, or the entire APAC region...

(And an inability to use www.google.com... - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%E2%80%93Indonesia_rel...)

I'm Australian, so I'm probably biased, but the relationship between the two countries is complex, and layered. And it's definitely not a case of yes salah.

And if you think the Indonesians didn't know we were spying on them (and they probably on us), then there's a bridge I can sell you...
Support for plugins is high priority!

It will be per install. I just put that price as a baseline. It will be adjusted depending on the needs and use cases. If you would like to talk about it in depth, shot me an email.
A few @nsa.gov.pl addresses, I conclude that the list is probably fake.
But what about personal projects? For me, the best way for learning new programming languages, libraries, techniques, etc, is to build something with that language. Naturally, I put this type of work into a public repo on Github and slap an OSS license on it. It's a great way to learn, but also to showcase your work to potential employers (or fellow hackers, etc).
I would assert that there has been at least one murder prevented by the law against murder.
aka the chinese National School of Administration
Worth noting that the spying incident occurred in April 2009, which was under the leadership of Kevin Rudd... who would have been Prime Minister if Abbott hadn't won. Voting the other way may not have reduced the impact of this incident at all.

I think all we can do is stop looking to government to solve everything for us. Work on your own sphere of influence, what you can improve yourself. All sides of politics are failing Australia right now, maybe it's better to just bypass government wherever you can, do things yourself or work with the people who can do things directly.
Thanks, when trying to set up a build environment for FF on Mac OS X I nearly gave up a couple of times! Videos would have really helped, rather than a recursively complex set of wikis (Which was my recollection of what the docs were like - may be wrong/out of date.)
> Now I visit the Alienware website and all I see are Alienware banners everywhere I go for the next week. Its freaky.

You point out a really weird feature of targeted ads. Someone mentions something, I do a websearch for that thing and look at a couple of websites. And then, for weeks afterwards, I get that stuff in my ads.

I'm very tolerant of ads (don't run an ad blocker, etc) but I wish there was some better way of guiding what ads I really don't like.

An option box for "Please don't ever show me this ad again," with a few reasons would be great.
Peut-on vraiment gagner de l'argent chez soi?
The interview makes clear he has a communist/socialist mindset.

Community owned banks? We have those in Spain, and those were the main culprits of Spain's banking crisis because they were just politician's toys both on left and right wing communities.

It's not that we distrust politicians: people just can't be trusted, not even the people with good intentions! Economy can't be regulated effectively and public banking demands high levels of regulation to prevent bad behaviour... which is very hard (impossible?) to do right. People with money will always be able to go around good legislation, while the common citizen still has to fight against the system's errors.

He proposes fighting the State with the State instead of with techonology. My opinion is that more State won't fight the State, it will just make it a bigger monster to fight against.
Because people don't trust Facebook when it comes to privacy.
This chart might be of use, http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Ana... http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/2013/11/18/the-view-from-germa... via here. As to where we are in the 'bubble' that's anyone's guess. You just need to be ready when it does crash.
"Thunderbird is actually pretty cool once you customize it a little (it even works with Google's Calendar and Tasks)."

I used Thunderbird for many years, but switched to Evolution this year. I remember trying Evolution a few years ago and being unimpressed. It has come a long way since then.

Evolution also supports Googles calendar/tasks and also supports PGP. These things are built in to the main app though, rather than being included as addons. Evolutions LDAP support includes write support too (unlike Thunderbird) if that's useful to you. I've also found the UI to be faster and more responsive than Thunderbirds.

Also Thunderbird development has been pretty much abandoned by Mozilla, yet Evolution is under heavy development. Just take a look at their git log:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/log/

So yeah. Give Evolution a try if you haven't for a while. It's a great IMAP client.
Naczelny Sąd Administracyjny

http://www.nsa.gov.pl/
yandex.com is a great replacement for gmail
Grunt un-CSS: A grunt task for removing unused CSS
I like this! I'm right now reading Ars on it and it works pretty well.

A tiny request: Would it be possible to allow changing the background graphic? Maybe a wallpaper of my choosing? Also, a method to "archive" in addition to saving tagged articles would be awesome. Having to tag if I want to keep an article permanently each time may be a bit cumbersome.

Edit: Oops, nevermind about the background image. Found bg.jpg in Sputnik\app\visual\images ;)
As a guy who routinely has his resume tossed because of a lack of technical degree, Github is a godsend for the auxiliary benefit of companies that want to take me serious can find my code there. I routinely have stuff trend in Objective C and it's slightly frustrating when interviewers think the toughest question is what's different between an NSArray and NSMutableArray because my resume says "Majored in Graphic Design."

I love contributing to the community, and that's obviously the first reason why I push OSS, but that extra hiring benefit is extremely helpful for other coders like me who don't have a technical degree.
NASA Launching New Mission to Mars Today: How to Watch Live
> Consider filesystems, which are also tools used to manage stored data. If I'm writing some Python thing, I don't proclaim to everyone that I'm storing my work on a ReiserFS volume, and I'm thrilled by the fact that ReiserFS indexes its metadata using a B+ Tree. I just store my data.

No, but you do see thousands upon thousands of pages of text written about how to best use a shell to interface with the file system. This is what I think we are dealing with, we are on the cusp of actually having competent tools for the task of this collaborative, everybody works on their own computer but everything needs to be merged together in the end, and still work, thing that we have been doing for years. Give it a few years to settle down and either csh (Hg) or bash (Git) will win out and there will still be odd birds out there using sh (SVN) or zsh (Darcs) (feel free to permute those assignments to your taste).
This might help: ctrl-click the compose button to give it a whole new tab to itself. Shift-click for a new window.
Yeah, I'm not exactly sure how this is news.

Australian-Indonesian relations have always had their ebb and flow - East Timor, the boat people, and the Bali Bombings are only the latest things to rock the relationship.

And I'm pretty sure they knew we're spying on them (or tried to) - and I'd put my money that they were spying on us as well.

The mock outrage is amusing, but unless you've been living under a rock, you'd know that nation states do these sorts of antics all the time.

People like Assange and Snowden seem to love rocking the boat, and causing trouble - but spying and diplomacy have been a part of state relations from before cuneiform writing.

Quite frankly, I'd much rather professional diplomats play these sorts of games, and we get to live in relative peace, than the outright carnage, war and bloodshet that characterised the thousands of years before this.
Just do it; the project will be grateful to receive your contribution. Find something that needs to be done, fork the project, do it, test it, and submit a pull request. Many medium to large projects will have lists of things that need to be done, and will usually have many more tasks than they have manpower to complete in a timely manner, so pick one that matches your skillset and have at it. You can also take a look at their issue tracker for ideas. It's probably worth coordinating with the other developers to make sure you're not duplicating effort, but feel free to just jump in there and start contributing.
All software has its quirks.

And it shows when you move out of the ultra comfort zone. If you want to drill a hole in the wall you need to take into consideration the size of the hole, the power of the drill and what are you drilling in. You cannot abstract them.

And then one day someone decides to use your python code not on ReiserFS but on Ext2 that has no journaling and all hell could break loose.
Oh, no that's fine. I wasn't insinuating someone from Cloudfare posted it, I just found it a little strange it got posted is all.
Why A Patient's Story Matters More Than A Computer Checklist
China has its own quality brands. Lenovo comes to mind. Lenovos are probably some of the best laptops out there.
End users dont get their news from Wikileaks directly.

What Wikileaks does is breaking the ice by publishing something that everybody else wouldnt touch, and keeping it in the open.

Once Wikileaks took all the risk and blame, traditional risk averse media can jump on the bandwagon claming "It wasn't us" and serve the news to the end users.
> Quite frankly, I'd much rather professional diplomats play these sorts of games, and we get to live in relative peace, than the outright carnage, war and bloodshet that characterised the thousands of years before this.

Huh? So the causal difference between the peace we now enjoy and the carnage the world used to endure is that there is now more spying?
Perfect! This sums up what I felt after consulting all the tech guys I know and trawling the web from 5s links. Well articulated.
I see this through the eyes of every other big company; Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Adobe. In those glasses Google is still the saint. Give an example of WHAT company you going to go to?

I hear this from so many people BUT explain to me a different scenario on how the largest Internet company can run things? I see the push back against the NSA, Open Sourced Android (Closed Google Apps), almost everything that came out better for the customers (Gmail 1GB storage, G+ (you decided in detail who can read your post) APIs that are extremely usable) Google Voice was/is amazing. My beloved Open Source products get millions of investment from Google.

The BAD in my eyes: Killing off of many products (I don't use new Google products normally)
in that case, what's the best way to protect your coins?
It's not hard to switch your email, it's just hard to train other people to send you email on your new address. I have switched to my own domain three years ago, sent notification to everyone in my address book about the email changes, enabled automatic response on my old gmail account that informs the sender about email change every time it receives any mail, and I still receive ~25% of all personal emails through that old email account.

It's the same as when changing the phone number, people will just keep calling you on your old number that doesn't exist anymore and that complain to you that you didn't call back.

As a side note, the lack of support for legacy emails in Gmail and Contacts is really bothering me. I would like to be able to mark someone's mail as inactive, so that i can see these mails when I look for old conversations with the person, but not to show up in autocomplete when I try to actually write an email.
I didn't explain myself for #2 very well... I can imagine a setup where a bot is monitoring the exchanges for the current BTC price, and perhaps (if such data is exposed) the market depth at and near that price. Then, monitor the Amazon spot price for GPU instances (if Amazon makes GPU instances available at spot rates, otherwise use their fixed price). At some point, the cost of BTC in USD would be greater than the cost of EC2 compute hours in USD required to obtain coins, in which case ramp up EC2 instances and get to work!
BUT why are you leaving Google???? You are leaving Google to go into the arms of Microsoft????
Aren't they just ignoring the important things in order to remain in China.

If they're not going to report on meaningful things what is the purpose of them still being there then?

I suspect it's money but that just confirms my suspicion of them not being real journalists.
I went through Learn Python the Hard Way years ago when I was a newbie programmer trying to wean off spaghetti php. I recall it didn't explain things thoroughly and often said FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF HERE'S SOME CODE AND EXERCISES.

I ended up cutting my teeth on K&R instead which improved my coding abilities significantly.

Zed's style and personality just don't appeal to me.
It's basic spam in French (translation: "Can you really earn money from home?")
The Jungle of Responsive Images
In-depth resources for Responsive Images I found in the Internet
I did some digging, and it seems that the rules for FBA are highly variable for different vendors. Larger vendors, or vendors who have been part of the FBA program for a long time, seem to still be able to comingle, but there's a lot of confusion about it. No one quite seems sure if it's something that only old vendors get (grand-fathered in from back when it was a standard part of FBA) or something that large/trustworthy vendors get (offered on a case-by-case basis). It might even be both.

As best as I can tell, it seems that commingling is happening today, and may account for the bulk of FBA transactions (due to a few very large/old vendors still doing it), but the overwhelming majority of FBA vendors cannot commingle, many have no idea that commingling even exists, and if you signed up today you would not be able to commingle.
My favorite: ispy@nsa.gov. Totally legit.
One of them is "|-cat vomit $|--", password hints maybe?
We could build stuff so people can actually afford it

What "stuff" are you talking about? Manufacturing? Because the US actually makes a lot of "stuff", it just doesn't need people to do it, thanks to a lot of engineers like us who have automated it to hell.
Remembering Netscape: The Birth Of The Web (2005)
Problem is, it isn't just 6 weeks. Not to mention restricting withdrawals is the same strategy you would take to prevent a run on the bank if you were insolvent. You should give it a try though and let us know how long it takes.
I give it less than 10 days until the crash.
Debatably, a big issue with Bitcoin is that there is no reliable/trustworthy way to short sell it (I could be misunderstood). I think academic study has suggested that markets that can be shorted are less susceptible to bubbles than those that aren't. If there was a ready pool of people ready to trade a view that the Bitcoin price should be lower than it is, perhaps there would be less volatility/exuberance?
Microsoft Says That Open Source Is More Vulnerable than Proprietary Software
jbooth's axiom of internet comment sniping:

Anyone who accuses an article of being (insert ideological label) actually has a much harder ideological bias in the opposite direction.