skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No backups needed

Doesn't Electrum do this by backing up your wallet to "the cloud"? Even if it is 100% properly encrypted, I can't say that I feel good about this. Feels like one bug away from compromising many people's wallets.
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2 copy + one hash could do the same job?
From the article, Odyssey's Top500 page: http://www.top500.org/system/175596

It debuted in 61st place in 6/2008. By 11/2010 it had fallen to 434 and has since dropped entirely off the list.

At 6 years old it's fairly long in the tooth now.
It's probably like our dedicated UI team: cheap.

Our head UI designer sent SPAM for a living before working for us.
Reading the title made my blood pressure start slightly rising as it gives an impression this is not configurable. Fortunately this is not the case. I like the menu bar where it is now, that space is wasted anyway. If Unity didn't have the HUD then the current solution would be problematic with focus follows mouse, but with the HUD it's a non issue.

Doesn't anyone else find it a bit weird how they pretend they invented the top bar menu and are like: "Yeah, we had this really cool and innovative idea, but, um, yeah as it was used in the real world for the past couple of years we gathered some data and we have second thoughts... You know how it is when you're the first and only product with an original feature..." Right... Because it's not like there's a certain other operating system GUI which has had this feature since the '80s.
Thanks,
Multiplayer will depend on players in fact, if they want to "divide" the planets by face. We see pvp more like "each faction on each planets and be prepared for invasion!"
same author wrote a 50 language quine:
https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
This also impacts iOS 6; there's an update available.
I don't know - I can't imagine that nobody on their security team pointed out that someone would promptly reverse engineer the patch and figure out that OS X is also vulnerable.
I've never found any of these reasons very compelling. Esp. that various Apple devices "define an era." I shudder to think that history will look back on the last twenty years and think primarily of iPads and iPods, and even worse that a manager will be considered the genius behind it all. Certainly he's an inspiration for business people, and maybe that's enough for a postage stamp, but I'd pick plenty of other people before Jobs.
That's a rare problem among developers. The more common problem is that developers make mistakes. All of them.

Static analysis, regression tests and turning on all the warnings you possibly can should be mandatory, especially for such critical pieces of code.
We see this game more like a rpg than a pvp game, the first gaming hours will be dedicated for discovery. When the storyline is finished then players will surely start "pvp".
I think you would know the answer better than anyone - because you should have the most feedback from users already. If it doesn't look like the idea easily catches hold, then sell it after some negotiation. Don't think about "webapps like this", but think what's it worth to your acquirer. That's the only way to gauge price. Every buyer would be different.
Sam was 'parachuted' into YC 9 years ago - so almost twice as harsh!
Just curious, is this a rendered demo? If you started in October 2013 and actually wrote an engine that could do this in 4 months, its time for me to to leave software and go into lawn mowing. It looks great, and I like the concept, but devil is in the details of actually making it work.
In general for small hardware I go with two options.

Qualcomm-Atheros AR9331 based systems, with 64MB ram and 16MB flash (kind of hard to get in that config cheaply). You can get decent performance, potentially hang a 5.8/2.4ghz radio on it too, and power it off a single laptop USB port (200mA normal power use, and with stuff, still less than 500mA.) Can put second ethernet, wifi, 3G, etc. there. There's no current commercial hardware in this space which is perfect. That should change shortly.

Much beefier systems with "real" amounts of RAM and flash. I generally skip the Broadcom/RPi/etc. and go straight to an Atom or i3, but that's just for convenience, since I only need a small number of them. There's probably something more reasonable to do in the embedded space, but I'm indifferent on qty 1 devices between $500 and $200, especially if I already have most of the components for the $500 thing lying around, and it saves me an hour or two getting it working.

There are a lot of things missing from widely available commercial hardware in this space right now.
No, it's actually best handled the way they are about to handle it: let the user choose the alternative themselves.
Well, as the article says: A test case could have caught this, but it's difficult because it's so deep into the handshake. One needs to write a completely separate TLS stack, with lots of options for sending invalid handshakes.
Most likely hrrsn was referring to code-signing keys. Even if you can successfully MITM a software update connection, iOS won't run your trojan unless it's got a valid signature.

Of course the jailbreaking community knows well that there have been many ways around that...
With M-of-N multisignature you don't need to fully trust any single party.

With Electrum you have to have a fully trusted machine to sign transactions. Using M-of-N multisig transaction is safe even if NSA secretly owns your machine.
http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm ?

Presumably this will actually be released at some point soon.

Also the soekris hardware looks nice, but it's pretty expensive.
Reminds me of Hexen and Heretic. Awesome!
If the only code somebody shows is code they make excuses for, that's a red flag, but shit does happen in life and if you're not the type of boss who can deal with that, then you're not the type of boss I want to be working for.
Yes. Met Yair and Sefi (two of tech founders) via my uncle who was doing biz Dev for them. I was writing a shareware win32 app at the time called "AoLOL!", an add on for AOL 2.5 and up that would extend the AOL toolbar and add a bunch of features. One of those features was called "keep in touch". You could specify a list of AOl screen names and it would run through that list and perform AOL'd "check if online" function. It would tell you if your friends are online and of so, what chat room they're in (if any). A precursor to the "buddy list."

The icq guys are Israeli. My parents are Israeli. I spoke Hebrew fluently. I helped them fix the broken English on their web site. Later I gave them access to my AOL account so they could take a close look at AOL's buddy list when it did launch.

They also offered me UIN (the icq #) "007". I laughed it off, didn't even know at the time what 007 meant.

Always wondered what would have been if I was a few years older, not living with my parents, able to drive, and would have taken their offer seriously. To me they really kicked off the dotcom boom and for me, my focus in startups.
There goes 20 years of muscle memory...again.
> Dijkstra always contended GOTOs were harmful!

- The bug here has nothing to do with GOTO.

- Dijkstra said a lot of stupid things, this is one of them. Parsimonious use of GOTO is fine and sometimes leads to clearer code (exiting deeply nested conditions for example).

- Another stupid thing that Dijkstra said is that anyone who started by learning BASIC has their brain corrupted forever, which is total nonsense (I bet most people reading this started with BASIC and turned out just fine).
Documentary on Dogecoin (NYC DogeParty 2014)
The "weeks looking for number 3" part sounds apocryphal to me.

Snopes [0] has one real example and one television example of this prank. In the real example, the students were caught on camera, and there was no long search for the remaining livestock.

[0] http://www.snopes.com/college/pranks/livestock.asp
I'd hope after this someone brings it back in some form – it's an incredibly useful tool and a diversity of implementations would be great for security-critical code.
I just wished that Canonical would sell an Ubuntu laptop. Not a namebrand laptop with Ubuntu installed in it, but a machine made for them exclusively. Then they can integrate the OS to perfectly work with the machine. I'd buy that in a heartbeat.
Using Forums to Find Stuff to Write About On Your Website
Oh, it's a real flamewar and people still seem to be here, so I want to add a little constructiveness to it. Vim, bash, LaTeX. Let's postpone vim, as the whole topic is [supposed to be] about it. And we have enough shells (zsh, fish) instead of bash, many people (me too) tried it and have chosen bash (although I use IPython quite often). And I don't know sane and fully functional alternative to LaTeX. (Markdown and co don't count as they don't have same control on output.)

So let's stick with LaTeX. There are 2 categories of people: those who think that LaTeX is fine for its usecases and those who think that something is wrong and could be done better. Fine is fine, so lets concentrate on the second category. I'll recite main complaints: slowness, horrible syntax, arcane source code, impossibility to divide semantics from representation. (Did I miss something?)

I guess many of us are able to program. So why somebody, right here, right now, wouldn't create a github/bitbucket repo, post link on it and explain, what exactly in your opinion could be done better? I personally would probably participate if somebody has a plan sane and explicit enough.
Exactly my thought at first, they are asking for it all the time, but I'm not giving it. Now I uninstalled whatsapp from phone because I don't want facebook having my number.
Any language that lets you omit braces for single statements is prone to this bug, which includes C++.
Illegal Tiger Trade: Why Tigers Are Walking Gold
/me salivates

Unfortunately by the time it's released, the hardware will already be a bit old. But nonetheless, the specs are certainly sufficient for most cool things.
"We all know that DNA and genes mean nothing for success"

No. Please explain.
Also, it's open source and design related. I imagine that means that as the project grows, the bike shedding scales O(n^2).
This link IS people being taught this. Don't be so dismissive of people whose lives are slightly different from yours.
Good question. I've been meaning to try that one. Anyone know how secure it is?

Is there a way to get Btc out if that site goes down?
This was a young researcher who's access to the cluster was never revoked when they left a few years ago.

Original e-mail Harvard sent last week:

------

Dear all,

I really hate having to send notes like this to our community -
especially one as smart, gifted and talented as you all are, but
anyway here goes...

Yesterday we were alerted to an unfortunate situation by one of our
community members using the cluster who spotted an anomaly
with a set of compute nodes.

Long story short, a "dogecoin" (bitcoin derivative) mining operation
had been set up on the cluster consuming significant resources
in order to participate in a mining contest.

I do want to also quickly state that we do not
inspect, examine or look at algorithms and codes that are executing on
the cluster, we respect your science and assume we are all good
citizens. However, in the course of business, or as happened
yesterday, if we are alerted to unexpected behavior we always
investigate the cause of any issue.

So, to put this simply:

Harvard resources can not be used for any
personal or private gain or any non research related activity.

Accordingly, any participation in "Klondike" style digital mining
operations or contests for profit requiring Harvard owned assets to
examine digital currency key strength and length are strictly
prohibited for fairly obvious reasons. In fact, any activities using
our shared resources for any non scientific purpose that results or
does not actually result in personal gain are also clearly and
explicitly denied.

As a result, and as guidance and as warning to you all, I do need to
say that the individual involved in this particular operation no
longer has access to any and all research computing facilities on a
fully permanent basis.

Don't let this happen to you.
Maybe Apple should stick to hardware.

Just sell me the beautiful hardware.

I'll manage installing an OS that's
1. audited by a community of volunteers I generally trust and
2. can be audited (read: modified) by me: I can compile it from scratch.

Apple's OS offerings provide neither 1 nor 2.

But, go figure, Apple's OS offerings are based off of OS code that is both 1 and 2.

Like a "Linux distro", Apple gives me a lot of stuff I do not want or need, and makes it very difficult if nt impossible to remove.

I want a very minimal BSD or Plan9 OS running on my Apple hardware.

And nothing more.

Hardware we purchase should come with full documentation for writing drivers.

If enough users demand this, maybe someday it will.
For all the people ranting how great iPhones are at the moment, just look back 6 or 7 years to the "revolutionary scrollwheel!" rants that were going on back then. Seems kind of irrelevant and unimportant these days.
Because he made more money than most people though was possible.
Colorado Pot Tax Proving More Lucrative Than Expected
> Syrians are not even Arabs

Well that depends on your definition of Arabs, Some people claim that Arabs are the sons of Ismael, and they were in Saudi Arabia, but the word Arab was first used to describe the Bedouins in Syria. So you could say that Syrians are the original Arabs.
I was really intrigued until I realized it was all IAP and copies of existing games.
Is being on a stamp even a good thing anymore? I'm not sure I'd want people to associate my picture with snail mail.
System76 is kind of like that. Obviously it isn't Canonical choosing hardware and tweaking software to match it, but they do make good choices to make sure everything works well. In my experience, it's not quite as seamless as a Mac, but it's damned close.
What made you think that was worth sharing?
Applying Pareto's rule to your client list might help improve your life's happiness and hourly rate tremendously. Saying that you need to do bad work because your clients don't pay you well enough is a quite bad excuse.
Many of the famous Jews are only Jews in the same way that Steve Jobs is Arab. E.g. Dylan, Einstein, Marx.. The point is that there is precedent in letting the minority itself decide which persons are members of it and which are not. We should extend the same courtesy to all minorities.
Apple introduced -Weverything because suddenly changing the scope of gcc's -Wall (which indeed does not include everything) would break a lot of builds.
I opened this and stared at it like an idiot for a minute. Am I behind the times to expect something on the main page of a site that says what it actually is?

Clicking through the tiny About link I found at the bottom of the page, this appears to be a platform for monetizing web-based games, at least some of which are WebGL-based (which I found out after clicking through one of them and being told, once again, that Chromium isn't interested).

So... new Newgrounds. Except with microtransactions. Unless I missed something?
I find it ironic that the people who claim to be against racism actually seem to promote it with positive discrimination policies. Positive discrimination for one person is negative discrimination for the rest.

Truly non racist behaviour would not mention the race, and treat everyone as equal.

(I also find the attitude in the States kind of strange, as there is a lot more mention of racial background than in the UK. If someone "does well" in life and is from a racial minority, the background is pretty much always mentioned).
Even when I don't like the changes, I still like the idea they're experimenting with the UI. But I really wish they had added a "just turn this nonsense off" option in the configuration too. The tweaks never play nice with software from outside of the ubuntu repos.

A few commercial products running on Linux are important to our workflow. If they have a GUI, chances are high that there is a visual bug that makes the program unusable and that the root cause is a Unity feature. For example, the thing that moves the menu to the top bar meant no menu at all. Something else meant 1 quadrant of the application window just wouldn't paint at all, still no idea why on that one.

Wasting half a day implementing a workaroud here and there isn't the worst thing in the world, but it's a low enough number of special purpose machines that I always threaten the next time I'll just migrate them to another DE.
Holding the button down for longer than some threshold or moving the mouse more than some distance starts a drag.
This is made in html5 or WebGL?
Parallel and Large scale learning with scikit-learn
Working smart any day. What I meant was it does not stop there. For a programmer (or any job frankly), you have to constantly work at improving yourself. Say, if you don't keep up with the technology, a person who has gone the extra mile and done so will definitely be favored over you.
So here is the shirt – proceeds will go to EFF and FSFE: http://teespring.com/goto-fail
we're talking about throwing ticket numbers around. and this fixes absolutely NOTHING except egos.

> The customer is always right, right?

no. if they talk bullshit, it's still bullshit. then to just comply and go with bullshit is the reason there's so much atrocity.

don't be sheep and talk to the other side like educated human beings do.
And having the source code available made that even easier.
You are literally saying that you need to behave like a man to be taken seriously. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Actually Arabs were living in Syria in 9th century BC.
The Google Smartwatch Is Real, And It’s Coming Soon (But Maybe Not Too Soon)
Guessing applicant quality based on evaluating the information you have about him is not judging. I can say "this guy is not a good match for our team, philosophy, and/or strategy" without saying "he is worthless"!
Excessive fear of backwards compatibility: you make -Wall. People use it. You add a new check which will reject some shoddy code. “What if people complain that their project no longer builds with -Wall? Let's add a new setting…”. Repeat…

I've been wondering how hard it would be to get to the point where the defaults are rigorous and developers have to opt out with specific -Wno-… options.
I noticed this when travelling from Eastern Slovakia to Western Germany. It was really noticeable.

I personally prefer the red zones where the sun sets really late in the summer, so it's nice to see the map of those. :-)
My conspiracy theory is that it was all a practical joke by Shuttleworth, bringing us so close to the ideal of a usable Linux desktop that everyone could get behind, and then randomly moving shit around and creating division within the Linux community. We went from Ubuntu clearly being the market leader and providing a consistent UI, to a clusterfuck of different distributions and DEs.
I know two identical twins (well they have an unidentical triplet sister as well). Interestingly they have reasonably different personalities - the nice one and the arse (relatively speaking).
I'm actually really excited about this! Reminds me a bit of minecraft, but different theme and far more polished.
there is a bit of irony that mathematicians are not really rigorous in the naming of things :)
Understanding the Aesthetics of Apple’s SSL Bug
Give it time.

So far the worst effect has "merely" been to introduce needless hassle and obstacles when installing non-Microsoft operating systems [1]. Microsoft's current hardware certification spec (that manufacturers tend to implement so they can put "Certified for Windows 8" on the box) requires that the user be able to switch off Secure Boot (generally taking the entirety of UEFI with it) as long as they are not on an ARM system. They could change this at any point, and unification of ARM and "PC" is a current trend at Microsoft of which the move to Secure Boot on both platforms is already a part. Forgive me, but I'm not ready to accept Microsoft having me by the balls just because they haven't clenched their fist yet.

Secure Boot's purported threat model is a solution looking for a problem ("boot sector viruses" in 2014?). It doesn't really make much sense to make the boot process entirely unmodifiable on the grounds that "malware might modify it". Malware might modify anything else on your system too, and you are pwned either way. So it's probably safe to assume Microsoft had a different motive. I don't think it's wise to think of it as over-and-done-with.

[1] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/9844.html?thread=328308
You know Europe is not a country, Although Americans seam to think Africa is :)
I think your just used to browsing one too many SaaS startup websites. Not every website needs a introduction and breakdown of features, especially for a game site where its target audience already knows what they are looking at.
Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamp, sample a look back you look and you find nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check.
I'm an Ubuntu + Gnome 3 user, but this seems a little pointless. None of the applications I use these days even have the 90's style File/Edit/View/Tools/Help style menus. Everything is in a right click menu, a function bar, or a much smaller all purpose "more" icon. File/Edit/View always made for a frustrating treasure hunt tracking down which of the properties/preferences/settings dialog box a certain setting was buried in; I don't understand why those menus lasted as long as they did.
My 9-to-5 work computer is actually a Red Hat machine. So I think I know what I'm talking about. I release .rtf files when I can so that it can be friendly on most platforms.

As for document writing... I've mentions practical alternatives already. WHY are they sending you an OOXML file? Is it for collaboration? In which point, a Wiki is more than suitable as a replacement. Are they sending it for final consumption? A PDF file is good for documents where the layout must be faithfully preserved.

If you're documenting code and leaving the documentation in an SVN server, .doc documents are treated as binary and don't really get revision editing you'd like. Its better to document using Doxygen (which is much akin to HTML) than .doc in many cases.
The guy was amazing on Wikipedia.
Like scaring children?
Shown HN: Rest – a Mac app that suggests exercises and reminds you to take breaks
Yes, that is precisely and literally what I am saying. I'm saying that if women wish to be taken seriously they need to behave like men.

Thank you for this very constructive dialogue, I have developed so much insight in this exchange. You've clearly gone to great lengths to communicate thoughtfully and understand the true matter in this situation. Thank you.
Are you sure? Why does the restore process require a server address?

https://electrum.org/seed.html

The screenshot uses ecdsa.org, which seems to be just an Electrum server of some kind.
Who even notices silly things like this?

It's gnu/Linux. Ubuntu isn't doing much, they do a string replace and change "Debian" to "Ubuntu", force everybody to use a half baked semi optimized for tablet even though nobody anywhere runs Ubuntu on a tablet UI layer, Unity is just garbage, but none of that matters. Ubuntu hasn't made any decisions, they are just setting some defaults.

Who cares what the default menu location is when it takes 5 minutes to get everything back to the way you like it? (10 seconds if you are clever enough to rsync your home directory from another machine)
That moment when you realize: Ukraine Parliament vs USA Congress. 
That moment when you realize: Ukraine Parliament has higher approval than USA Congress.
Entered username, clicked "Lets play" and got TypeError: Cannot call method 'split' of undefined at (...).js:63:508 at createUser
That's the kind of contribution I do (plus some translations). I don't even have it written down because it's so minuscule compared with the work people do on those projects I don't think it merits attention.