skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm linking to it because I think it's always good to discuss this problem and potential solutions. However, if this platform is run by anonymous people (the "author" meta tag says "Andrew Leeds Burton for Browse Digital" in the HTML source of the page, but Browse Digital seems to be a web agency) and is centralized, I'm not sure its a viable option. I know this kind of platform is hard to decentralize, but to me it still seems necessary for research to be independent.

EDIT: the domain name whois point to this guy: https://pandelisperakakis.wordpress.com/.
Indeed, his Twitter one-line bio says he's one of the co-founder.

EDIT2: got more info here: https://twitter.com/p4bl0/status/402892533149089793 (read the whole conversation).
Selection bias. If you lack strong opinions you are unlikely to comment. As with almost everything; small number of doubters and supporters on the ends, huge number of 'meh' in center of bell curve.
From here: http://stricture-group.com/files/adobe-top100.txt

We wrote a script that hashed these passwords with the stored salt for each user and compared the result with the stored hashed value. Basically we brute forced everyone's accounts with the dictionary provided. Anyone who was found with an account that was in the dictionary was locked out with forced password change. We changed the password policy before doing this to increase complexity and block dictionary and the decrypted list words. We also force people to change their password every 28 days anyway and keep the last 7 hashed passwords and salts to verify that the user hasn't reused.

We store financial data so it's pretty hardcore auth requirements.
How is uploading source code to a cloud IDE different than using a hosted VCS like GitHub or Bitbucket, which is also increasing in popularity? Also the people who are deploying to Azure are already trusting Microsoft with their source code.

And you're not owning the software even with a normal Visual Studio license. You just get the binary blob and a license to use it, not the source code. Using the cloud-based version, you don't get the binary blob, but does that make a difference?
Well, that's how most scams work. The person fails to foresee the worst that can happen until it's too late.
to be fair, that comparison isn't too valid. Look at the wild yearly fluctuations in bitcoin, compared to the steady rate(3 percent) of inflation of the dollar throughout history. On the other hand, OP is wrong because bitcoins will eventually slow down massively in production(almost to a halt) and stabilize at that point.
It depends on what language you program in. For C++ dev, I find both vi and emacs to be of no benefit. The Editor + Debugger + Source Navigation + Refactoring features provided by Visual Studio + Visual Assist plugin are unbeatable IMO.

vi/Emacs' strength is text manipulation. But in IRL most C++ developers (on any platform) are NOT typing in reams of C++ code non-stop. I will often pause to think, look up documentation/reference books, maybe take down some notes or work out a problem on a whiteboard, or debug/step through code, etc. In short the vast vast majority of my time is spent away from the editor. Honestly I don't see how a C++ developer can objectively claim any time-savings with emacs vs a full fledged IDE like VS. YMMV with other languages.

Apart from VS I have recently heard some very nice things about Qt-Creator, but I haven't used it personally.
From yesterday:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/11/18/announcing...
Yet another product that expects EVERYONE to own an iPad. W-T-F? Try this. Control + F, search for "ipad". Nothing. Search for "apple", nothing. Search for "android". NO-THING. What's wrong? Is the iPad the definitive standard and everyone is now born with one?

Sick.
Cute but nauseating.
Android on the TV is something to run XBMC on, where you only occasionally, if ever, exit to "plain" Android.
An object in motion stays in motion
Not a thing. No ads at all anywhere. I'm in the UK though so it might be different and this unit is 3 years old now.
http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page is very good.

My own kernel (https://github.com/fotcorn/kernel) is hacked together with code from osdev.org.
Our New Pricing and the Evolution of Bitcasa
Instagram photo's from around Silicon Valley
The debit networks don't universally allow for refunds, even for legitimate transactions. Additionally it is generally against their terms of use.

Either Square is flying under the radar or has gotten special permission to do this.
Drone Imagery for OpenStreetMap
I didn't say there wasn't any difficulty, I said it was FUD. It is true that there is more mental overhead in reasoning about space usage in a lazy language. It is not true that this is unpredictable. If that were the case, it would be a complete crapshoot for people to write code in a lazy language. Luckily, a basic understanding of Haskell's evaluation model gives one the ability to predict space usage and know reliably what sort of anti-patterns to avoid (such as the infamous lazy foldl).

The problem with FUD is that it takes reasonable statements and exaggerates them to an unreasonable degree. People repeat the word "difficult", eventually someone starts using "very difficult", sooner or later people start throwing around "impossible".
True, but having something that is metal and hook-shaped attached to every door seems like a poor idea.
Defender Favicon: Play a Retro Shooter in Your Favicon (2008)
I thought this was some sort of parody until I saw the electronic guts near the end. A pencil made of wood with an eraser that writes on paper. I didn't realize it was a "Pencil" that writes on "Paper".
Egos in Action: My Idea is Way Better Than Yours
The New Kinect for the Xbox One is supposed to offer a much higher refresh rate, with less noise. I'm hoping that someone with the spare cash to buy a USB3 debugger will reverse engineer the protocol so we can use either the Xbox One Kinects or the next iteration of the Kinect for Windows on non-Windows systems.
People who take the time to learn about "alternative medicine" usually end up (or start off) sceptical about evidence-based medicine...
I am pretty sure I've heard something about Japanese wanting to try radiation "eating" fungi at Chernobyl ago in order to decontaminate the area almost a decade ago.
I am not great a JavaScript development, but I enjoy this new fad of creating something in less than n lines of code. The different approaches still enforce that coding is an art.

P.S. I am so bad at pong.
I'm a software engineer with a CS degree and over 22,000 karma on HN. I actually liked that part! I like things that show wear over time for two reasons. First, it communicates how people use it. The wear patterns create some context, so the object feels familiar as soon as you see it. Second, designing a product to wear well means it can stand up to some abuse and isn't a victim of planned obsolescence.

On the other hand, "as easy as falling in love" is definitely over the top ;)
Converting a Raspberry Pi into a 1986 Nintendo NES
Codex seraphinianus
Google releases 'sneak peek' of Glass app development kit
You should include Visual Studio Online Basic in your list - free for 5 users + $10 / user (intro price)

http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-onl...
Yes, that is correct. There are actually two APIs: A REST-ish car state and control API (a Rails app), and a streaming telemtry service (a Node.JS app). The car talks to Tesla's telemetry servers, which their API servers talk to as well.
From what I understand of this, the fungus basically "eats" radiation in the sense that plants eat sunlight, but that only prevents the radiation from damaging the fungus to the extent that the radiation hits the melanin instead of hitting the DNA or whatever.

So if you made a human that did this, you would have a human that could refrain from eating much food for energy and instead choose to hang out in a nuclear reactor (they would still need to eat to take in nutrients, but would need fewer calories I guess?) ...but they'd also still get radiation poisoning / cancer / etc.

Also, it isn't clear to me how these could be used to "clean up" messes anymore than sunbathers could clean up the sun. It seems they just absorb gamma rays, but nothing about them doing that should make that material decay faster... Maybe the idea is that they intake the radioactive particles and consolidate them so that cleanup then entails finding the fungus (which is presumably easier to visually locate) and scooping it all up? Maybe you could engineer the fungus to also bioluminescence strongly to aid in this.
Phusion Passenger has been updated with the default Nginx version set to 1.4.4: http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/11/19/phusion-passenger-4-0-25-r...

The Phusion Passenger official APT repository has also been updated with packages for 1.4.4: https://www.phusionpassenger.com/install_debian
We are looking for "mid-large" scale investors if we take funding at all.
I havent used smartos, but you can only do solaris containers now? IIRC around the Indiana release one of the demos was running a RHEL5 container. I also seem to recall at least one person getting deb working.
Doesn't seem too far fetched...

By removing the sealed packaging on this loaf of bread, you agree to the following terms and conditions:

-- 10 pages of terms and conditions in tiny print condensed to fit on the packaging of a loaf of bread --
There are numerous conservative Muslim movements. The Iranian Revolution was certainly not produced by Wahabis. The Deobandi movement, with its numerous offshoots, is not really Wahabi, despite some similarities. There are even Islamic movements like Dawat-e-Islami that could be seen as vehemently opposed to Wahabism that are very conservative.

Saudi Arabia may be pumping money into the "Wahabi cause" but it doesn't explain the whole picture.
Look at the bang made by that "fraggucino". Look at the effects of the same coffee flask if used as a Molotov cocktail. These two things are not in the same league.
From day one Bitcasa has emphasized unlimited storage for all users. Looks like they couldn't pull it off despite all their boasting and promises. Either that or this is a money grab.
I've never seen a glass coffee table come as part of a house construction, therefore it wouldn't be included in any type of building code.

However, I do see what you are trying to get at. The basic issue is what is the thresholds of affected people needed before something should be included in a public standard? If something is unusable for, say, 20% of the population, then it should be modified for inclusion. If it only affects .0000001% of the population, then it probably isn't worth worrying about. And cost / aesthetics / personal preferences should factor in, based on how many people are affected -- that is, the fewer that would benefit from an inclusion rule, the more other factors (such as cost, or design considerations, etc) should weigh in against inclusion. And if half the population is affected, then that would put more weight on inclusion and less on cost.

Then there is the threshold of public buildings vs. new construction for private residences. As mentioned previously, the purpose of including residences in the inclusion laws (and actually all building codes) isn't for the current owner, but for the benefit of future owners and their visitors. Again, the percentage of the population that would benefit from a particular building code can weigh in on how much other factors are considered that would weigh in against the code. Which is why door handles are specified to be at a specific height, so that it is usable for the greatest range of the population.

Of course, the whole door knob vs. lever thing can be retrofitted without changing the door hardware -- someone just needs to invent a clamp-on device that would add a lever to an existing knob.
I doubt there are published prices on the web for the volumes that Sony is buying. Much smaller companies than Sony make special deals with suppliers for parts.
Netflix users in danger of unknowingly picking up malware
Floors and their traction level are in fact already regulated as part of ADA for many buildings. And there's tons of building codes regarding your residential bathroom for similar safety issues - minimum clearances, height of fixtures, anti-scalding valves, types of glass.

As others have pointed out, the entire building code is basically a balance between cost and safety. Anything having to do with egress tends to get extra attention, as well. If there was a zero-cost way to prevent slips and falls, it might well end up in the building code, yes.
Simplicity is another thing I value immensely, which this branded-software nightmare is completely at odds with. A TV should be a dumb display, with connectivity for anything people may want to add. Nothing more. I don't want to pay for trash I'll never use and I certainly don't want to be stuck with it or spied on by it. Nor do I want a frankenstein-remote with 300 buttons when 12 will do.
Ramps are cool (many uses). Changing door knobs seems a bit problematic. You are trading one problem (disabled access) for a couple of other problems (children, large pets, its a hook). If they could come up with something that had the ease but did not enable the problems then cool.

One of the big drivers of people getting cranky about accessibility is the number of lawsuits brought (USA), not to fix things but by vulture lawyers. It is a nice little scam especially when folks think they are complying with the law.
Barring living in a socialist utopia, I wouldn't dare to have even one child without being independently wealthy, let alone 8.
Seriously?? It's just a few fake TV show clips they recorded specifically for this video. And for me, the channel buttons do nothing but bring up a description of the current "channel."

[edit: the channels do change after a delay]

Aside: I'm sure I've heard it all throughout my life, but it was only a few days ago that I looked up the lyrics and backstory behind this song. For a song written just shy of 50 years ago, it blows my mind how good it is.

http://rock.rapgenius.com/Bob-dylan-like-a-rolling-stone-lyr...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_a_Rolling_Stone
Will Apple even permit this in their appstore? Sounds like the kind of thing they would not be happy about.
It's a tradeoff (isn't everything) but I don't think the cost is cleanliness/tidiness.

Your client (could be a web app consuming the api from the server) accesses the api like anyone else. You've created an api that others can build on - and you know that, because you're doing it yourself.

More to maintain. More cpu processing. Still a cleaner architecture though (compared to, say, having to maintain an external api for others to use while having a web app that talks directly to the db).
I think Blu-ray will live out its full allotted decade of life; whether Sony makes back their $4B during that time is questionable but it's their strategy tax to bear. 4K will probably be download-only (and probably fiber-only).
DOJ: We're not going to release our Patriot Act interpretation
iPhones have (something very similar to) this baked-in as of iOS 7 in the form of AirDrop.
I didn't mean it has harsh at all, I was outlining my views today at 37.
It says "Paper" all over it, and Paper already requires an iPad. Requiring an iPad would be redundant. Edit: Also at the bottom they actually mention Apple once, in tiny print in an image lol
Are we talking Bourne Ultimatum? Because that was 2007.
This is almost out of a Michael Crichton book. So close. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain
Google Wallet Creators Raise $7M To Rethink In-Store Retail Data
DigitalOcean Sucks. Use DigitalOcean
Kano: A computer anyone can make
My Samsung TV wonderfully plays videos from the USB port. All I had to do was change the internal settings of the TV to a different model which causes it to randomly turn off/on once every few hours.
Yay! 3 layers of fees!
People do spend nearly all their USD. It's called investment.

BTC, as a main currency, would exert a negative pressure on investment.
It's not really any more or less complicated than doing it on the client-side, especially if you use something like Her (https://github.com/remiprev/her). It's definitely more complicated than just using a database though - whichever way you do it. It's the other advantages that it brings that makes it potentially worth doing.
Great read - I've known Tony for some time, and seen him through a few of his ventures, and this strategy seems like an incredibly savvy way of solving a real problem. Congrats, Tony!
I found this link as a source to help explain (it's good), I'm on the move:

http://www.coindesk.com/china-leading-global-rise-bitcoin/
Air Force sending 29 satellites into space at once
Umm, we're not really fighting wars to secure a supply for coal, uranium ore or wind capacity.

Oil is exclusive in that regard.
Google also remembers your location, browsing history, search history apart from many other things and you worry about your hashed-salted previous passwords?
>OP is wrong because bitcoins will eventually slow down massively in production(almost to a halt) and stabilize at that point

Eh, quite the contrary. If this rate of growth continues and production becomes 0, it will not stabilize at all because demand increases yet supply stays constant. Which results in the existing supply getting worth even more. This will make it an hoarded asset even more still not able to function as a currency as fluctuation will still be too drastic.
There's a brief delay between pressing a key, the channel banner changing, and then the video stream changing, but it definitely responds.
> Like the owning of the object itself is more important than what you're supposed to do with it

Welcome to the world of consumerism. Where we've long produced more than we need and without manufactured desire the high-gear economy would collapse. Companies can't market products anymore cause we all have too much. Instead the market "an experience".
Do you recognize, that GOOG is primarily a PR firm based on surveillance? (revenues, ads etc.) Their business is telling stories to influence (euphemism for fooling and diversion of) people using surveillance.

-8≤----

Upon this layer of commercial surveillance activity two things, then, happen with respect to government: the complicity and the thievery.

The data-mining companies believed, by and large, with respect to the United States and other governments around the world with whom they deal, that they were merely in a situation of complicity.

Having created unsafe technological structures that mined you, they thought they were merely engaged in quiet—that is to say, undisclosed—bargaining with power over how much of what they had on you they should deliver to others.

This was, of course, a mingled game of greed and fear.

But what the US data-mining giants of the West Coast basically believed, until Mr. Snowden woke them, was that by complicity they had gained immunity from actual thievery.

What sent both Facebook and Google into orbit since we were all last together—or rather, what had come out two weeks ago on the Wednesday that we were last together—was the news that their complicity had bought them nothing.
[...]

So the problem is that, for the data-miners, the situation is not controllable, just as for the American listeners it is no longer controllable.

And it will only be controllable for Us if we bend our attention closely to the environmental nature of the problem that we face because environmental problems—like climate change, or water pollution, or slavery—are not solved transactionally by individuals.

http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartIII.html
We had paying users for GraphMuse, not Codentical. GraphMuse was shut down by Facebook, whereas we quit Codentical.

As I stated, we had a good number of people "willing to pay for it," but they weren't paying customers yet.

We will include this information on our website soon! :)
Yet again, this is just the cost of doing business, and no one is going to prison.

If what they didn't wasn't so illegal, they wouldn't be paying $13 billion to settle. If they settled for that much, the damage to them, either the bank itself, or the executives could've been 10x greater if they went to trial.
There was a story about Google and sex at the workplace, recently. So we are seeing both positive and negative articles about Google. While Google would like to portray itself as something akin to what Toyota was, naysayers would try to do the opposite.
As pure speculation, I'd expect they recorded each channel singing the full song and then switch stream and sync the times when you change channel.

It would be really interesting to see how they dealt with the buffering on slower connections, since presumably the video can't prefetch too much ahead as the channel is likely to change regularly.
I would like to know who told them that it's physically impossible for software to turn a radio on, look for other radios nearby, pair, and then send data.

Because that's basically what radios (and the software that controls them) are designed to do.
Error: The password "trustno1" is already in use by the account jane.doe@gmail.com.
A minor correction -- dotCloud the PaaS does not actually use Docker in production, as the article claims. It uses something pretty similar, which was the inspiration for the creation of Docker, but not Docker itself.

[Source: @solomonstre, in person at a Docker meetup a few weeks ago]
It's great that you use pentadactyl and you don't have to worry about these changes :v
Btw, I don't find that the menu list looks nice. The way it shows history just doesn't fit.
who are 'they'?
Internet Engineers Plan a Fully Encrypted Internet
>> Maybe we should ban slick bathtubs, tile floors, and raised floors.

You can usually look on the box and find the coefficient of friction (COF) for any floor tile you buy. OSHA has requirements for what COF is appropriate for various uses (dry and flat or wet and sloped, for example). It wouldn't surprise me if that sort of thing eventually makes it into the residential building code.
How To Sound Like a Coffee Aficionado 101 - Wet & Dry Processing
People only find things "in Google" if Google ranks said things highly. The ranking algorithms are only minimally a function of content quality, as in how highly a human would rank the value of a piece of content. To rank, you need a solid backlink profile and a site structure that plays nice with G's SEO guidelines. So you need to market (build backlinks) to have any chance of driving search traffic.

In other words, getting traffic through google is only a function of having good content insofar as good content is easier to market, i.e. convince people to link to.
It's marketing. They are going after the Apple iPad crowd.

This type of marketing speaks to that crowd as its similar to Apple's.

Most people that have an iPad and want to do writing on it, have likely gone through at least a couple of stylus's or even more to find one that works well for their needs.

I would say I am one of these people so I find this product useful. Will I buy it? Don't know yet but the marketing is effective for their market.