skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally prefer the idea of a thermite charge planted on the ram. Cold boot? Try that when the dram goes from 40 to 300 in two seconds.

Then again, encrypting your drive and making sure the encryption key is safe might be slightly more sane than turning your macbook into a puddle of aluminium.
A simple tip is to look for activities that regenerate, rather than medicate. "Sitting with a cocktail" isn't a solution to anything, it's treading water at best. A classic regeneration activity for couples is dancing. Meditation is another great choice, but isn't for everyone.
in europe we just transfer money fromany bank account to any other. this way i easily pay bills or send money to anybody i like. we have smartphone apps to do so.
it seems strange to me that the us did not get so far yet.
An arc with the same length as the radius. This is what the animation illustrates.
"they don't allow you to store large files and that is what they want you to pay for...you can see here maximum file size is 250mb without paying"

I found that comment a bit jarring. Is 250MB file size max and 50GB total storage for free considered to be stingy now?
As a layman, my opinion has little value apparently. Apologetics aside, I have noticed a massive cultural shift to computerized expert systems. These systems are systematically replacing live human experts in many mundane but important ways. And I believe we need to keep going in this direction. Paying homage to a human expert when IN SOME CASES their knowledge can be sucked into a program that can be distributed widely for low cost and very rapid consumption just makes sense. What are the ramifications of this new digital expert culture? Heavy reliance on automation which appears to lead to somewhat dull thought processes.
Said someone who clearly never used a Zune. Marketing won Apple that war, not technology.
> What's the difference between that and running JavaScript unfettered?

Except that the article is specifically about the Java plugin for browsers.

But, that said, the fact that there have been so many Java exploits reported compared to JavaScript exploits probably says a lot about the major browser developers (Mozilla, Google, Apple, Microsoft) compared to Oracle/Sun.
> People speak at ~100-180 WPM (words per minute), with American Sign Language ~200 WPM[1]. Professional typists type at 50 to 80 WPM [2].

That gap closes very quickly if you have to say anything other than words (versus typing it). Saying numbers or symbols is far slower than typing them, as is spelling out something a computer doesn't know how to spell. I'd bet that, unless you had an optimized "dialect" for coding or a language designed to be efficiently spoken, a keyboard will beat a human speaking code every time.

Even being very generous with the computer's ability to interpret open/close parentheses and brackets intuitively, having different terms for initial capitals versus all-caps, and assuming automatic indentation and newlines:

"include s t d i o dot h, blank line, int main paren int argc comma char pointer argv bracket bracket paren brace printf paren doublequote capital Hello world exclamation mark backslash n doublequote paren semicolon return zero semicolon brace"
> single-page apps will be the death of the web

What en earth makes you think that? Yeah, the current way of doing SPAs without fallback for non-js clients is horrible and the alternative of a two-way site too much work.

But the solution is obvious: if what you serve is of any meaning to anyone else, you also have some sort of content consumption API. Sooner or later we'll standardize some RESTy way of doing it for apps, and for blogs and magazines RSS/Atom feeds are already good enough content-consumption pseudo-APIs.

The API will be the Javascript-less version of all sites, and all sites will have an API. Then people will make UIs for the content consumption parts of these (pseudo-)APIs, and these UIs, even if they run themselves in browsers will become the new "browsers" and gain their own scripting level features, while "old browser apps" will become today's equivalent of desktop apps.

It's not "death" of the web, just "endless, infinite pain" for us developers working in its perpetual shifting front-end... it's way worse than death! :)
I'm personally working on redesigning the account panel. We're about 6-8 weeks out but what we have so far is a huge improvement. Would love to hear your feedback - ted@namecheap.com
I think they are already going to default to only running signed applets in a a future update.
Good content depends on

• Highlighting (usually, a great headline/share title);

• The audience;

• Content form;

• The KPI. Conversions or comments? Visits or shares? Etc.

• The content itself;

• Incentivizing distribution.

If you say that good content is "not what most people share or reply to" then what KPI (Key performance indicator) are you measuring by?

For example, with a good influencer strategy, shares can be more important than outright clicks/visits, because getting your work to spread results in more clicks/visits down the line.
What Ted said. This has been a long time coming and we wanted to roll it out in phases while we work out the kinks in parts rather than altogether.

It's a tremendous undertaking and we appreciate your feedback :)
I moved to SF from Des Moines and it's definitely working out well. There is a strong builder/maker culture in the tech community here. Make sure to surround yourself with the right people - just like anywhere else - but everything else should fall into place. Good luck!
It's a much clearer explanation than the original post, because it explains a different concept, which is easier to understand than the content of the post (what does a tensor product of vector spaces mean?)

The distinction is between understanding an instance of a concept (stress is a tensor) and the concept itself (what is a tensor, i.e., what exactly is it that stress shares with all other tensors). This is why the explanation in terms of a universal property is more difficult to understand: because by virtue of stripping away the extraneous details, it shows you the concept as it applies to all instances of the concept.
I guess he would have a much harder time getting a feeling for a city where he could not casually pick up what people are talking about due to language barriers.
The 50GB is irrelevant because we're talking about file size. And yes, 250MB is 'not large', in that it blocks super bulky video files.
Wow, Thanks!
I'm so glad you mentioned that. Why? Because in the post you were replying to the author missed the (important) point that not all people who have access to the three ingredients listed will become equally good programmers. In fact, he seems to be of the assumption that anyone can become equally good at anything, given the same conditions. We can't. People have different skills, talents and abilities, and true 'experts' in a field - as well as putting in their 10k hours - possess some degree of natural talent in that area that other's do not.
Branson is British, and culturally, Britain is not Europe.
Walk away with pride knowing you can and will do better.
This was not unexpected; despite all the technical and political troubles iOS and Android have, mobiles OSes can be considered a commodity; there is little competitive advantage that any new contender could bring about at this point unless something truly radical emerges.

Ubuntu's unified OS on all platforms seems like an interesting idea at first glance, but Canonical has so far failed at providing the necessary vision for that to come through.
My sense is that people in LA really want to get to be on stage. No, you don't have to be a superstar, but people in the business want to keep working in show business, more than anything. And for exactly the same reason game developers keep doing it: because they love it. They love doing things just because people enjoy it, and not because it has to be done.

There is joy in frivolity.
Nobody hires egor in fact. Not wow.
"You'll be able to watch your videos for 5 hours until they are deleted forever."

Fixed that for you:

"We'll be able to watch your videos for 5 hours until they are deleted forever."
Any idea if this works on a Comcast business account? I have one of those and a spare modem lying around, but I haven't tried it.
A large percent of consumers won't pursue anything that doesn't make a good first impression and images convey a first impression faster than any other type of content.

Though not all images an be "consumed in a second," all will convey a first impression rapidly.

So images dominate not only because of fast consumption, but because they "sell" their first impression more quickly and completely than any other kind of content.
High school math is often taught as simple facts, without proper explanation of the significance or how it's derived. It's entirely possible to learn how radians correspond to degrees and what you can do with them without understanding where they come from or what they mean.

I learned all the rules of logarithms in 10th grade, but didn't actually know what a logarithm was until chemistry in college. They just.. didn't really tell us. And how often are integrals explained as "the area under a curve", which is a definition that makes absolutely no sense?
It costs $10 a year for a name. How much computation is Namecheap doing for that ten bucks, in general?
over 25% longer

You're assuming a constant factor here. That might be the case. Or it could be one-time start-up overhead as the linker finds and opens library files.

Unless you profile the process over a range of input sizes, you don't know which you're observing. And you know what they say about premature optimization.
I love the new look. It's very clean, warm and inviting. I look forward to the control panel getting a similar facelift.

However, regarding the landing page, I think the teal background for the customer quotes negatively affects readability and the text seems to big. Perhaps displaying one quote at time, within a slider, would be more appealing.
computation?
It seems like I read a story like this several times each month. It is good advice. We all know it deep down. Yet the "I'll sleep when I'm dead" culture of constant work persists. How do we change that? I ask honestly as someone who is reformed. It took nearly losing my marriage for me to establish balance in my life and work. How do we set up an enduring culture of respect for actual balance?
"Better incentivize your industry's distributors, and the world will beat a path to your door." ;-)
I didn't conduct a scientific survey, but I think more the latter than the former; also, a lot of peoples' knowledge has been very much based on the public debate, which tends to the idea systemd offers benefits for desktops. Which may be true, but I see far more benefits for desktops.
(1) Automate. Besides saving time, it helps generate different kinds of ideas.

(2) Have a bug tracker, and create in it smaller subtasks for a task. It dumps thoughts out of your mind, which helps focus on individual subtasks.
Valve + Oculus + Carmack. I agree, they're going to nail it. This is the first time that VR doesn't seem like a gimmick, but rather the beginning of something great.
No, they got it right. The #1 advice he should have given his former self was to ensure that the company DNA had proper work life/balance at its core. Once that culture was in place, the other things would have pretty much taken care of themselves.
Compared to Europe, the US is very homogenous.

Think about how many cultures you would encounter walking from Paris to Moscow. Now compare that with walking from New York to LA. Even though Paris is much closer to Moscow than NY is to LA, you'd experience much more cultural diversity along the european walk.
Just a heads up if you're planning on using namecheap. I transferred a bunch of domains (around 70 or so) and they just refused to provide me with an invoice, so I couldn't deduct the expenses from my company's taxes. They will only sent you receipts, which are completely useless if you're in EU (and I think refusing to provide an invoice is even illegal here).
You know PG was born in England, right?
There are corollaries to "turn off the phone, do household chores, take spouse to dinner" that you've probably tackled successfully in the work context. It's not the nicest thought in the world, but personal life (and family in particular) is often a similar schlep as a startup.
Thank you for stating that, it's one of my biggest pet peeves as well. The startup culture is one of doing regression on the 0.001% of the companies who become unicorns, while completely ignoring the failures.

I really want someone to start putting together stats of successful businesses that were built working at most 40 hours a week without wrecking homes, by people who knew how to use their time wisely. People who didn't fart around at the office, hanging out with the guys watching anime at night and doing whatever other freshman dorm-room behavior you constantly see the worst performers do at the coworking spaces.
Cool looking Nokia smartwatch concept is based on leaked prototype pictures
im ready to buy google glass at $99 ...and id bet a whole bunch more folks are too
> doing SPAs without fallback for non-js clients is horrible

Why? The number of customers that a) don't use javascript and b) would pay for a service only if they have a non-javascript version is incredibly small in my experience. If the service has value, non-javascript users will enable javascript to use it.
Hey Ted, loving what you and the Namecheap team have done with the website! Would it be possible to add a few mouseover/overlay tutorials in the control panel for new users?
I would agree unless said culture is toxic or negative (such as racist, sexist, or any combination thereof).
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Bong Smoking Session, Dual Tree Percolator
I think "Register your domains from just $3.98 a year" was better than "The Internet Needs People. To tell stories, open stores and share what matters."
It's a shame the way that Canonical have isolated themselves from the rest of the Linux ecosystem. I wonder if the future for Ubuntu Touch would be brighter if they had more community appeal.
Linux has functionality to wipe encryption keys from memory (and require their re-entry) without unmounting the encrypted filesystem (see "luksSuspend" in the cryptsetup man page). Unfortunately, I don't know of any screen locks that automatically tie into it.
THE BARRACKS - INSANE Military TV Pilot
Watch "The Barracks" to uncover military life from the inside, Hollywood seems to miss what we deal with and go through.

Tagline : From Drug abuse, Hate Crimes, Sex, Abuse of authority, Violence and the former Don't ask, Don't tell policy. The Barracks is the place to be.

The Story : 'The Barracks' is a movie about the U.S. Army unlike any Military film before. It is not about warfare or the glorification of combat, but about the day to day life situations men and women in uniform have to tackle... This was a self funded 35 min short that evolved into much more. MADE BY REAL US ARMY, MARINE, NAVY and AIRFORCE VETERANS for VETERANS and troop supporters. Be advised, NSFW.

Instead of releasing several 8 min webisodes we decided to go with this version. Veterans submitted several real clips to help make this possible, (YES, THE LIVE ACTION IS REAL) Divids was also used. This film does NOT speak for the armed forces, DOD or any sole individual but does utilize what countless soldiers have endured while living on various installations.
"cunning (not intelligence)" - well said.

Intelligent people often think intelligence trumps cunning. Truth is, cunning people are very, very successful. Don't underestimate them. (I have.)
so, what are the things that a d-wave system cannot do that a 'pure' quantum computer can?
C-Level Execs Value Data, Have No Idea What to Do With It
Sounds to me like it'd be better to encourage people to pick longer passphrases (8 - 10 words instead of 4), in addition to using scrypt.
I got excellent grades in high-school math. I took a year of math in college. I knew how to calculate with radians, but never understood their basis until viewing this animation, despite asking people on a number of occasions what the benefits were vs. degrees. (They never gave me a real answer to that question, and certainly never derived the basis for radians.)

I now feel enlightened; too bad it has been more than 20 years since I last needed to calculate with them! However, it'll probably come in handy when I help my children with their math homework in the coming years...
Looks nice! Are you planning to compare conversion metrics of the old design vs. the new? That would be very interesting!
Yes! We plan on doing such things.
We don't and have never had a system for invoices--nor have I seen that anywhere else. You do get a whole record of your purchases with the full amount spent.

We do appreciate the feedback though while we build out the interface even further!
Ruby Threads, Unicorn, and You
I always thought you would get a lot of work via HN people. It surprises me but I don't find it hard to believe. Why it doesn't surprise me is because security and pen testing work is as much about sales, marketing and presentation - perhaps more than skill.

Some of the best security guys I know find it hard to pitch their services, so they end up working low-end generic programming or sysadmin jobs. I've tried to get more and more of them involved in my work (I do contract pen testing while also doing my own sec startup at the moment) by including them in proposals I write up, works out well. I messaged you on twitter.
You can go to namecheap.com > Domains > Pricing to get our entire pricing details.
It seems namecheap is more concerned about small business and/or side projects. The market for small, "I'll try this thing out" sort of people: that is the market they, NameCheap, seem to be luring. Eventually, except in rare circumstance, the sites do not do too well and are sent back into Tao.
1. Build system for giving invoices

or

2. Enjoy having less businesses do business with you
Aw shucks - I thought it was a complete site overhaul judging by their new landing page.

It seems they took the old client area and just plopped it into an iframe. :(
The measure of an angle in units of radians is equal to the length of the arc subtending that angle in units of radii.
For the love of money
As a long time namecheap customer, I am completely lost on this website. Ok, I agree, it looks very modern but "The internet needs people" is less likely to make me sign up for a domain than "Register your domains for 9$".
I would venture to say that most people use dropbox and similar services for image sync. Sure people use it for all sorts of things, but I would bet that the majority is images.
Galaxy S3 and Note 2 Expected to Get Android 4.4.2 KitKat by March End
As we mention elsewhere in the comments, this is phase one of a multiple-phase project. Stay tuned, Sergio. ;)
Lost Civilisation of 20,000BC in Indonesia
I've seen plenty of startup CEOs that add value and some that subtract value.

The ones that subtract value just push to meet arbitrary deadlines and don't pitch in.

The ones that add value actively remove burdens (go get lunch) and look to keep people from burning out (send people home or off to the beach).
The $ in credit card processing...
You could also train yourself (using e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system) to memorize a completely random private key.
Autopsy Lesson #1: Don't Serve Nasty Left-Overs
Easy solution to any chrome extension possibly getting sold to spam ads is to disable automatic updates and manually inspect and install all updates for all of my extensions?
Citing for something found isn't bad practice per se, nor is pulling over searching for statistically likely infractions. But too many officers use this argument as an excuse for bad behavior.

I've been abused in a similar manner, versus given a warning and relevant "counselling" (how to not get pulled over) from an officer with a more mentoring style.
The download button says Windows, but the screenshot has a distinctive Aqua (OS X) look.
But unless you take a moment to think about it, that connection isn't so obvious. And in HS, unless math is your interest (and even if it is) there are hundreds of other things running through your brain that are probably more interesting than pondering the relation between the words "radian" and "radius". There are also many other words that people use frequently that they don't realize are connected until much later. And as others have said, HS math (in the US) often presents them as: radians = degrees * pi/180. The calculation has zero relation to the radius of the circle, as presented.
Yeah, I think you could make a convincing argument that the difference between (parts of) LA and SF is that the non-tech creative people in LA are more likely to be doing it because they love it because the big money boom has peaked. There's still a dream of making it big, and there's still a lot of very visible success, but you're not going to raise nearly as much money for your indie film project as you would if you were pitching a new app in the Bay Area.

(That's a rather cynical view of the Bay Area, but hey, it balances out the rather common cynical view of LA that was expressed above. :) )

Disagree on the weather, though. I'd appreciate a bit less fog (not that it's anywhere near as bad as SF) and like my constant highs between 60 and 80 just fine. Maybe some better close skiing would be nice, but I've found lots to keep me busy between the Malibu Mountains and then further up the coast like Santa Barbara, Ojai, etc, outdoors-wise.
As a born and raised Ohioan, I am loving the East Coast. 8 years in DC and now in NYC. I've only ever visited the West Coast, but there's a grit to the rust belt and the east coast that just doesn't exist out west, and I can't live without it. Life just seems too... smooth out West.
I Love Hackathons, Long Live Hackathons. I Hate Hackathons, Hackathons Must Die.
We'd love to hear your feedback on where you get that impression. We speak to lots of small business owners, but we also speak to everyone. The Internet needs people--and that is a blanket term. ;)
Oh lucky you; in 93-94 I could only dream about a 9600bps connection. At the time I had a Hayes 2400, but lines were so noisy that most of the time it'd connect only at 1200.

(worth noticing: I was in South America back then, where the telephony system was less developed and a lot more expensive than the US)
Optimization Hell
How so? Android and Firefox OS can run few if any GNU/Linux applications without major modifications. Ubuntu run every Linux app I can think of out of the box.
I find it hard to believe. I know it's true. I just don't believe it.
Sorry, no idea. Please report back if you do try this.
Horizontal Scaling of PHP Apps, Part 1
+1

Anything is better then "The Internet Needs People. To tell stories, open stores and share what matters." Talk about going full-retard. Or full-Oprah.

The Internet needs registrars that publish their prices.

Ok, I found the pricing page. You have to scroll down to the bottom.
If Best Buy staff were merely apathetic and unskilled I might still shop there. Instead, they seem to actively go out their way to piss me off. But maybe that's what you mean by unskilled. :-) I used to go there when I needed something that day. Then I decided that there's nothing I need so quickly that I'm willing to put up with Best Buy. So Amazon or Newegg it is.
NSA Codenames
This is an inspired, and inspiring, piece of writing.

On a slightly snarky note, I always do appreciate a jab at DC, where I was both born and raised. It really is LA with bad weather and less attractive celebrities.
Did Target Notify Its Customers About Security Breach Quickly Enough?
Not entirely sure what you mean, unless you're suggesting pages should just spew a ton of JSON or XML for users who have Javascript disabled.
Nope, it gets as hot/noisy as I feel is appropriate for the amount of work it's doing.