skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't a gross exaggeration. "Nobody cares" is a common English idiom meant to be understood as a casual generalization. The phrase is intended to be semantically analogous to more precise but tedious phrases such as: "a substantial and relevant, probably majority population do not care about the distinction you are making."
the same happened to me.
So basically idiotic "pranks" that would have been done in high school have now moved to colleges costing tens of thousands a year?

You really have to have a shallow life experience to think a bomb threat to get out of an exam is even remotely an okay idea.
I know not to make fake bomb threats.
In my opinion, changing software in response to emissions (be it audio or EMI/RFI) and power side-channel attacks is mostly futile and correct solution involves just making sure by means of physical security and/or shielding that attacker cannot access places where it's possible to implement such attacks.

On the other hand timing attacks are something that anyone implementing anything security related has to be aware of and actively prevent as they can be conducted from mostly anywhere.

On the other hand measurement of potential on chassis seems interesting as that can possibly be measured pretty far away (eg. PC -> STP cable -> Cable modem -> CATV).
I agree. I programmed for desktop and mobile before the web. Every time I tried to get started developing for the web I was held back by how many different things I needed to learn just to get started (html, css, js, ruby, rails, how servers work and how I get my site onto one, how to setup a local server for development). I use these things to build a web app which could be built on the desktop/mobile using one language.
"This is an interesting question, and unfortunately it comes with a confusing answer. Let me start by addressing the use of the term "Champagne" as it refers to wine. The French wanted to protect the use of the term "Champagne" to only refer to bubbly made using traditional methods from grapes grown and vinified in the Champagne region of France, so when the Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919 to end WWI, they included limits on the use of the word. History buffs may recall that the United States never actually ratified the Treaty of Versailles, and that in 1919 the U.S. was in the midst of Prohibition, so alcohol-labeling laws hardly seemed important at the time. This created the loophole that allowed producers here to legally slap the word "Champagne" on their bottles of bubbly—much to the irritation of the winegrowers in Champagne. Out of respect and to avoid confusion, many producers in the United States called their bubbly "sparkling wine," even when it's made in the traditional method.

Then, in early 2006, the United States and the European Union signed a wine trade agreement, and the issue was brought up again. This time, the United States agreed to not allow new uses of certain terms that were previously considered to be "semi-generic," such as Champagne (as well as Burgundy, Chablis, Port and Chianti). But anyone who already had an approved label was grandfathered in and may continue to use the term."

http://www.winespectator.com/drvinny/show/id/5011
Probably not, IMHO. The author has experience at writing, no reason why he can't turn out something polished-looking quickly. Especially as he has been thinking along these lines for a while. Gestating ideas is "preparing" to write even if the finished pieces is not "pre-prepared".
So what you're saying is "whether a particular method is secure or not depends on the size of the penny"
> pushing more and more work into the single hardest piece of software to scale - your database.

I never understood this argument. Maybe you can elaborate a bit? Almost all our apps use sp for data lifting work (most of the so called "business logic"), and we never got scaling problems. Well, we don't have that much users or data either, but how many users/data do you have that your stored procs could not keep up with? What numbers are we talking about?

What makes the db slow is throwing bad sql at it, not Stored Procs.
Some oddities: The project is "by" Kano - London England and the image shows a UK three pin mains plug and the kit is based upon the UK built Raspberry Pi. Yet the prices are in USD with extra postage costs to ship outside the USA.

A nice little package I suppose and is clearly very popular.
Terrifying - it's a shame the "Learn how to make your account more secure" link is broken. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=324395
Why would you not want it to remember undo's from last time you had a file open?
Sorry, the word I should say is "experiments". I know it's not a good test case, you're right 100%. The lesson I was leaning toward was to always playing with software in new ways because you'll often find bugs where you'd least expect them.
My Experience with Parse and Cloud Code
You mean WYSIWYG editor developed using bootstrap? I read the title as meaning a WYSIWYG editor for developing with bootstrap, which would actually be awesome...

Smart visual tooling for a framework such as bootstrap would be quite nice.
I wonder if more than you think is actually relevant to you? The old adage is you get data, give it structure and it becomes information. I am thinking that maybe nowadays we need the next level: get information, give it 'structure' and it becomes... What?

I've been thinking about this a lot recently due to an article here on HN about the fact that we are getting lots of 'data' recently in the form of scandalous articles in the media, which shock and dismay us, but are we tying these all together into a larger picture? I don't think so, therefore we end up with the modern day equivalent of shamans - conspiracy theorists. They see the 'data' (or nowadays in its current higher level form information) and give us 'information' about what it means (sorry, I'm still struggling with what the higher form of information is).

Shamans saw dark clouds on the horizon and said the gods were angry, conspiracy theorists see the NSA spying and say 'illuminati'

Now I've done a fair bit of work on KMSs (knowledge management systems) and that could be one view, structured information becomes knowledge. But I think that that is somehow missing the point. Information+structure+experience+remembrance = knowledge (one way of looking at it IMHO) So I'm searching for an other, different way to think about this issue, because that doesn't quite seem to fit the bill here.

Is the path data>information>knowledge>wisdom ? Or are we missing steps, or even missing completely different paths?

Or is it not even a path, but more of a n-dimensional network that is recursive in time and size?

Maybe this should be the future focus of technologies.
Artificial intelligence: Our final invention?
What does that mean for third party applications? Like those built using Adobe Air, which as far as I'm concerned, does not use Xcode. Will an application that complies with the iOS 7 guideline be rejected just because it was not compiled under Xcode?
It's funny you mention this because that debate was fierce inside Apple itself, from what I have heard. They knew it ran like crap on an iPhone 4.
A true leaky abstraction is where the behavior of the interface is forced to reflect some of the complexity of the implementation, but in a way that is surprising given the rest of the interface.

I think most of his abstractions are not leaky, but they come at the cost of poor performance in certain cases.

In any case, his point is correct: it's hard to use complex systems to implement a simple interface, because it's hard to create the glue code so that the simple interface drives the implementation in the "right" way in every circumstance.

There is, of course, another approach that the author didn't mention, which is providing a mechanism in the interface for "hints", e.g. "please store this matrix in column-major format". That is not a perfect solution, but it is another tool for better abstractions.
Thank your for the correction, I always make at least one mistake before I've had coffee.
...have you seen Frozen? Go see Frozen.
Which can be hidden by mixers.
We just need cheaper and safer nukes (LFTR!)

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/federal-lab-say...
I switched early in the Beta 3 cycle and never had any significant problems. In fact, I'm so happy with 3 that I don't even use 2 any more at all. The only "weird" thing was a couple of packages didn't like it very much. However, at this point all the packages that you are likely to need work in 3.

Go for it. You won't regret it. :)
I agree, and that makes complaints about lack of options completely legitimate.

But that's a completely different complaint from saying it's overly expensive for what's actually included. That's what was being said in the comment I replied to.

"Too expensive for my needs" is not the same as "too expensive for what's included".
Exactly this. This entry must have made sense way-back-when, but users today understand how to keep an email thread alive in their memory, and do not need to read the entire chain, selectively quoted or not, before getting to the reply.

A big impact may simply have been the advent of greater storage and bandwidth capacities allowing bigger emails. Along with that, email clients threading messages for you allows for relatively seamless review of history if necessary.

And, the "selectively quote, then reply below" concept opens the door for biased selective quotations, where anyone getting in on a thread in the middle will likely be misunderstand the true context of the email they're receiving. Better to have the whole history, or none of it.
Not if your short-depth 1U is < 8.5".

(relax, I'm agreeing with you.)
Non-SlideShare link: http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2012kul/materials/D1T3...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaYdCdwiWU
This is complicated by the human ear's variation in loudness perception over the frequency spectrum, and the effect this has on music. The stuff over 10k is typically mixed quieter than the stuff under 10k, though it doesn't sound that way. Records with lots of energy above 12-13khz tend to sound pretty awful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contours

EDIT: also pitch is logarithmic with respect to frequency. 8khz sounds really high pitched.
Woman walks off a pier and into the sea while checking Facebook on her phone
> Bitcoin is only deflationary if the supply of everything else grows forever.

Right, Bitcoin wouldn't be deflationary if the economy simply stopped growing.
Yea, powdery snow isn't all that hard to simulate (relatively) I believe. The snowflakes are just particles that are acted upon by an outside force( wind usually). I live and grew up in New England, and the snow in Frozen looks completely realistic.

It's amazing the amount of work put into these movies. Most moviegoers won't realize what it took to simulate snow realistically, but the would have noticed if it was wrong.
Surely there must be a kind of duality between inflation and deflation in context of the total money supply and the individual unit of money that is deeper than commonly taught?

Couldn't a a fixed-money-supply economy and a flexible-money-supply economy be unified in a single mathematical and theoretical framework? This must surely be possible, but in that regard "unit of exchange / money" would have probably discarded in favor of another thing?
"""Who can take a look at the deflationary nature of land, and think "gee, I'd like everything to be like this!""""

People who think they're going to come out on the long end of the stick.
I'd love to know if the partition was completely wiped as you describe. It's a Galaxy S2 running Android 4.0.4. It's the /data partition on the internal storage, I think.

How would I find out?
You could imagine it's a thing, but it'd be nigh-impossible to measure for Bitcoin, because addresses!=people. When BTC-E consolidated 97k btc onto a single address, how many peoples' claims did that represent? Heck if we know, but if you naively assume '1 person has 97k btc!' you're going to get a pretty distorted Gini...
So then is LOCATION visible to the ISP before it hits the first Tor Relay because the ISP knows the real IP Address of the user making the request?
Bitcoin plummets as China's largest exchange blocks new deposits
I want to keep it classy and thought that having multiple ways of donating would seem a bit desperate, no?
Thank you for pointing this out.

That was my first submission to HN and I was really surprised to see my submission title changed, and you're correct that the title change directed the conversation away from what I intended. I'm probably not going to start a blog so that I can control the titles of my posts to HN, so I will probably be dissuaded from submitting content in the future.
Apparently there is anyway movement to UV, as it is safer than handling/dealing with chlorine (at least, this is what someone tells me about the industry in the US).
@rman666 - Thank you! Yes, I wanted to print the free PDF on Friday last week, so I looked on the Kinkos website (and a host of others) and all showed $45- to $50- for one 20x24 poster, which seemed ridiculous and made me think there might be something here. Based your experience, it's now obvious there isn't. I'll zip to Kinkos, spend $4 and be on my way. THANK YOU AGAIN!
I thought the multi-cursor thing was way neat when I first saw it, it demos brilliantly. Having since switched to Vim which has visual block selection - I don't miss this.
That'll be so you can look at it. It'll be glued in though...
Backblaze AND Amazon will do this as well. You can mail a drive to both of them.
Billion dollar race: Soviet Union vied with US in ‘mind control research’
Lots of bitching/moaning below about the inability to get more than 64GB of ram, etc.

My only gripe: no 10Gbps Ethernet.
Adults with autism thrive as software testers
> I guess I should have written a paragraph's worth of inane blog spam to get my submission title used?

Oddly, the Guidelines suggest exactly that:

If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead.
That's a really interesting point. I hadn't thought about phase cancellation at all. You certainly couldn't remove everything, since the signal you picked up would be influenced by the speakers/room/microphone/converters/etc, but you still might be able to remove a significant portion of the music that way.
Back when I was a projectionist we referred to this mechanism as "The Intermittent".
They caught him because he was signed into the wifi network using his personal credentials. Had he went to a Starbucks or McDonalds we'd be having a different discussion.
My catch all dumps the from line and the subject line and date into a log. I've got a perl script that scans it once a week for anyone in my contacts list. I did create a set of ecommerce/web site aliases which are all structured similarly (prefix-vendor@maildaomin.com) which are processed separately.
Great, so as long as we solve six of the major technical hurdles of the day, we can avoid the societal and technical dangers that BitCoin poses. What a pleasant ultimatum.

As you pose it, it's now a race between the darker aspects of BitCoin and our ability as a world society to check off the items on your wishlist. I don't disagree that those are all good things to have, but I don't see how holding a gun to everyone's head and demanding short-term solutions to long-term problems is going to accomplish anything. I don't see a world where we get there in time.
Besides, insurance!
Part of the reason for that is that people who use non-stolen electricity to grow get busted; the electricity companies monitor usage and the police have access to that information.
Why ban them? It's important to hear multiple opinions on the topic. If they are trolling or not adding anything to the discussion, then yes, ban them.
I'm all for reimagining the concepts that go into version control, standing on Git's shoulders. However, I think this is way too close to normal git for me to think it's useful. It might be simpler in ways, but it feels more complicated in others. For example, branches are pretty much the simplest concept you can think of in Git currently - just pointers to commits (referenced by name). Trying to think of them as separate lines of development actually makes me a little nervous that I would clobber some history somehow.

Anyway, that's not to discourage the effort - this is how we move development forward.
I think we're in agreement mainly, but I wouldn't self-describe as being "disruptive and damaging" were I you. Perhaps just "disruptive," but such an environment can't be "damaged" any more than it already is, in my opinion.
Agreed, with reservations. iPhone 4 itself was a grossly mis-executed product, though it wasn't obvious at the time.

The core issue is that the iPhone 4's CPU and GPU performance are only marginally better than the 3GS it replaced, but it pushes 4x the number of pixels around.

At the time we weren't really pushing the performance envelope, so everything appeared fine. Now we are - it's trivially easy to hit the upper bound of iPhone 4's performance envelope, whereas the 4S (and the 5, 5S) have a lot more wiggle room.

More critically for app and OS developers, the GPU performance on iPhone 4 was woefully inadequate for the number of pixels it's tasked to render. IIRC the iPhone 4's GPU has a fillrate (i.e., max pixels rendered per second) that's about 13% higher than the total number of pixels it has. This is to say, if you draw even a trivial amount of stuff in the background, you're going to start dropping frames.

For the 4S, 5, and 5S, the lack of CPU performance can often be made up by moving things to the GPU judiciously. On the 4 we don't even have that.

Here's where I disagree:

> "There is no good reason for iOS 7 to be slower than iOS 6. The "it requires more processing power for animations" reason is bogus"

Of course it is, but no one stated that the slowness is due to animations. A large part of the slowness comes from the "blur everything!" design of iOS7, which is inherently GPU-heavy, and thus performs very poorly on the iPhone 4 and its shittastic GPU.

The blur is everywhere, even (especially?) the stock apps where every tool bar and navigation bar blurs items behind itself. You may want to try turning the blur off: http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-turn-off-ios-7-blur-effects...

This really has little to do with optimization - iOS is on the whole a pretty performant OS and platform. This has everything to do with Apple deciding to include features that are beyond the performance envelope of a targeted device (or conversely, failing to drop support for a device when features move past its performance envelope).
Well that was amazingly useful. Someone had guessed my PW and was logging in regularly from a Windows CE device in Denver.

Very odd and confusing. Scary since my Skydrive has all sorts of personal stuff in it.

2 factor is awesome, but I always fear losing access to my account. Basically it means that if I don't have my smartphone on me, I have no way to check my email except on pre-authorized computers.

This is of course the point but it also means if I am traveling and I lose my smartphone, I have no way of contacting anyone that I know. I would be completely lost in the world and unable to reach out to anyone for help.

Of course there is the recovery code, which I have a copy of in my wallet, but that does me no good in a "traveling through city, get mugged" scenario.

It is scary how reliant we are upon technology. :(
LG Announce ‘Chromebase’ All-In-One ChromeOS PC looking like an iMac
If you don't have an electric car, it's probably cheaper to buy one than to pay for the gas made by this method, no?
Which makes it odd that 2011's iPad 2 is not only still supported, but still on sale.
Works fine for me now, link followed in both IE11 and the latest FF build. FF was logged in, IE wasn't.
It removes the staging area, which also removes one of the more powerful tools in git for teasing apart work into distinct ideas, whether for creating a sensible commit history, or to separate "tangled" work into different branches. For example:

1. Write code
2. Realize it's more than you want to commit at a go
3. Stage just the files (or hunks, using `git add -i`) you want
4. git stash
5. confirm tests still work
6. git commit
7. git stash pop
8. continue working, committing, etc.

I certainly understand the desire for cleaning up Git's CLI[1], but the staging area is one of those truly new offerings in Git w.r.t. legacy VCS. One that requires cognitive effort to learn but becomes a very useful tool in practice.

[1] Cf. Steve Losh's infamous "Git Koans": http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/
How did they know the something was done by someone using TOR on their network?
Reminds of a time when my boss wanted to print out some forms that were essentially just a bunch of columns and rows with a date at the top of the page. He wanted one page for each day of the year. And for all my programming knowledge (30 or so years) this problem turned out to a pain in the ass. I imagine if I were an expert in back-end scripting MS Word, then maybe it would have been easy, but how many of those experts do you know? I don't think I've met a one. It seems like such an easy problem, the lay person would think it could be done in minutes --a few hours at most. After two days of trying to write a Ruby script using (at the time new and unfortunately buggy) Prawn postscript generator, my boss told me to stop wasting time and get back to work.
Moonpig: A Billing System that Doesn't Suck
Yes all good points. I have a relatively small data set < 200GiB and so my costs with glacier are less than $2 per month :-)
Other articles about this story:

http://www.edn.com/design/automotive/4423428/Toyota-s-killer...

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319966

http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=269500

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319952
I love his meta-criticism of Libertarian and Leninist (and presumably other) ideologies:

> [It] makes prescriptions about how to run human society that can only work if we replace real messy human beings with frictionless spherical humanoids of uniform density...

I need to read more of his books.
Is it better to have """low pay""" in San Jose or low pay in Tijuana?
That was Star - http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Star

It's a completely different process to a restore. Star used a PDF exploit to work it's way up to a kernel exploit allowing for the patching out of various protections which allowed for a jailbreak. You could not have used this exploit kit to restore an iPhone in the way this video claims to.
You'd have to be pretty stupid to not know this was illegal.

The things people are actually going to track you down for you can be pretty damn sure are easily identifiable as illegal. Sure, you may not be aware your Halloween costume of a priest is illegal (illegal to impersonate clergy) but no one's going to arrest you for it. They could, but arresting officers probably have only a slight degree better understanding than the average person. Now, if you're shooting someone, raping someone, bombing something, those things are obviously illegal and it doesn't take a Harvard student to know this...or maybe it does.
Even my buddies who work directly as analysts pack their shit up at a certain time. I guess it's just that we have great management that cares for us. It's our banks policy to very strictly enforce work life balance. You get scolded if you do too much over time, regardless if things aren't getting done.
Really though, what have climate change deniers added to the discussion in the last 5 years? I'm all for entertaining multiple opinions on any topic but I don't think deniers are operating in good faith.
you found a typo
Pretty sure they purposely did it so it would slow down your "old" technology. I had the first iPhone that came out. As updates increased, the device's speed slowed.