skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hey there,

I'm running elipsis.io which is basically an online password vault. I almost registered my app on your website but ended up not doing it. Here is why:

1) yes, creating an endpoint specific to your app is not something I am willing to do. Mostly because of the effort, also because I consider it bad practice. I'm not going to pollute my webapp for some 3rd party that is not core to my 'business'.

2) you're pretty much telling me to return an API that I need to protect against DDOS attacks. Yes, computing a salted hash is CPU expensive, as it should be, and I'm not going to make it easier to DDOS me. I have a whole bunch of higher priority items. Password salt verification is at the bottom of the list.

3) There is no incentive to use your service. I completely feel your pain there. You need a lot of users to know your service for third parties to register and use your brand. And you need these third parties to help your brand be known to the end users. Which come first ? The egg of the chicken ? I am sorry but I am not going to be the chicken...

4) I'm not going to tell the world how many iterations are used to generate hash based on my XXXbits key. Good security is only through transparency but there is no need to tell the number of hashing iterations. Users don't care. I just make sure it's as high as my hardware allows vs user's response time.

5) any website can lie to your service and be 'verified' as secure.

6) even if your service was worth it, there are many attack vectors that I am more worried about than just the password hashing. Password hashing is a no brainer if the standard solutions are implemented. Other stuff in-memory protection (make sure a plain text password is not in your redis), SSL, etc. are a bit more complicated.

Sorry, I'm not just buying the idea. I'm sure there are plenty of things that could be done to help people be better at security. Keep improving !
But that's exactly the problem I'm getting at: they make so many of these things, and while you can find them on eBay as replacement parts, there's no documentation on using them from scratch.

I don't even care about support. Does Atmel provide support to Arduino end-users? They just need to sell it to me with good enough instructions to make it work.
2048! Took ~4-5 hr. Thank you!
I am glad to see I'm not the only one who has done this!

Ever since my first Garmin GPS, I have always switched to the Australian accented English because it 'felt the most accurate'. But thinking about it now, it's clear the reason was that US and British English is so common to my ears that I noticed every flaw. Australian was just unfamiliar enough to have me focusing on decoding the street names rather than noticing the unnatural gap between two phenomes.
Do you think that the significant presence of Federal work has a lot of pressure on salaries in DC and surroundings?
Please don't run anything 'at-scale' on these. You get exactly what you pay for with these desktop-grade processors.
Guys like Snowden, Assange, Stallman, etc are the best fire fighters humanity will ever have. Bitcoin, Bitmessage, Meshnet, Tor, etc are the tools of the rebels.

We can go to sleep safe. With an eye always open.
It's like the joke "How do you make $1000 fast? Well, you start with $1,000,000…"
Ahah good artists copy, great artists steal! :-) As a non-designer, I acknowledge that medium.com was a strong inspiration for my website
I like it, but why not use something like htop? [1]

Perhaps it's not entirely comparable, but you do not need to open any extra ports or run any extra processes.

It looks really nice though!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Htop
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Thanks for the super quick reply! I'm glad to hear I'm not completely crazy with this idea. Multiple 20GB images make my diddy little SSD cry, so this feature would be fantastic.
Last time I checked they seemed to have an unlimited bandwidth usage policy, but this was buried in a forum. Could anybody using the service please answer this? Thanks!
As far as I can tell, Machina Dynamica actually started off as a parody of audiophiles ... then a tidal wave of idiots bashed down their metaphorical door, screaming "TAKE MY MONEY!!" As woo-hostile as I am, I can't quite bring myself to completely condemn them for just taking such resolutely stupid people's money. I must write up the story for RationalWiki.
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I've used Kimsufi for over a year now. So far no complaints, granted that I'm not doing much with it. The main point I suppose is that in dedicated server market there are not a lot of players that can match such prices - in fact I couldn't even come up with an alternative except Hetzner, but they don't have the lower range servers like Atom.
If anything Snowden himself has and will accelerate the erosion he fears.

Even if the UK, France, Germany, etc. can somehow assume that NSA will stop (which is laughable, but let's assume it), they still will have to deal with a resurgent Russia, Iran, and China.

Whatever methods can protect them from China can protect them from NSA, and vice versa. If anything they've been trying for a long time to put up "cyber borders" but policymakers have blown it off as unnecessary when it's just a matter of cyber crime.

Now that Snowden has opened up peoples eyes to the possibilities (quite forcefully, I might add), there is now political cover to build those cyber walls, only under the guise of "blocking the NSA" instead of blocking Chinese hackers.

You're right that this has been obvious too. There are no commons that are not regulated by the nations, and militarized when and if they become a threat. Antarctica is only left alone because it's unimportant. The Arctic is a growing strategic concern, and space itself is only a step away from being militarized.

If the U.S. cannot gain strategic value from cyberspace they will certainly not leave it open as a strategic weakness dragging along a "PLEASE HACK ME" sign, and a similar calculus applies to all of the democracies. Whether it's borders, or a national Internet kill switch, or both or more I don't know, but it won't be the same as it was before.
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Mine does. I don't know about the new ones.
FYI: "unsolicited" probably isn't the word you meant to use there (perhaps "unsupported").

This is literally unsolicited advice.
A simple strategy of building along one side will get you to a 1024 tile every time, but getting to 2048 seems largely dependent on RNG. If you get tiles spawning where you want them, it's very easy. If not, it can actually be impossible.

It's unfortunate that RNG plays a significant role.
Given that he did at first admit to being previously involved, you just might be on to something..
He's somewhat more important than just the SR-71. He's the father of the entire Skunk Works project, and is also responsible for the P-38, U-2, and F-104, and had hands in at least another dozen important aircraft... and bundling them all up.. Area 51.

So yeah, he's one of the most important figures in aerospace of the last century. Billing him as 'merely' the guy behind the SR-71 is actually selling him short.
this is the same exact reason i use "amy" from ivona for my morning commute. as a non-brit, rather than frustratingly hard to understand, listening to her instead is totally dreamy...

that, and she doesn't stumble over names like "Abalamahalamatandra".
I think originally Python 3 was a big improvement. But with the back-porting its features to 2.x, the incremental benefit of upgrading has been steadily reduced.
online.net is better to be honest
It's a "Top Secret Clearance," a certificate saying that you are trustworthy to perform top secret government work. Based on what I've heard from others, getting one includes taking a lie detector test, having family members, neighbors, and colleagues interviewed, and hopefully not too many other probing things. My impression is that any warm-bodied US citizen who doesn't have much of a record, and who knows the right things to say, can get a TSC unless their nationality gets in the way.
Good resource - I've been using BeautifulSoup[1] for the scraper I set up for my needs, and it's probably worth checking out as well!

[1]: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
This is truth.

Concepts are eternal and new ones don't come along very often. Tools and languages on the other hand are transitory.

Understanding the concepts well and you will be employable for longer than if you are an expert in tool or language X.
I'd hardly call a Xeon a desktop-grade processor; for the rest, be wary, but don't completely disregard them.
I'm 47, and I know damn well I can't tell a 320kbps MP3 from the CD unless it's a shitty encode. My arse Neil Young can.
Two hours lost at uni today and checking hn first thing back home... nooooooo! I will now proceed to waste time. Good job! :)

edit: Ok, some random friend just emailed me and told me to check out your game. This friend does not hang out at the online places I do. It seems to be on fire!
> In practice you're more likely to find old, hard to maintain Perl code bases that noone is able or wants to rewrite in another language, if you get hired to program in Perl. If there was a realistic choice to use another language, it was likely made already years ago.

Having worked in several corporations now I have to respectfully disagree. My experience is that either the code base was scheduled to be retired (but we all know how that usually turns out: the app is used for at least 3x(abs($retiredate - $now)) + $rand ), nobody could be bothered to keep the system current, or there was always something more important to do (which overlaps a bit with the second point).

Come to think of it, I really can't come up with a situation where you can't replace perl with a reasonable amount of work? But then again, I'm not active in the perl field.
I'm not glad that they hold Obama responsible for something that probably started before he showed up and he probably doesn't have absolute power to shutdown.

What one President can create without the involvement of the other two branches of government, his successor has the power to dismantle.
1. That's unfortunate. I will probably make the pitches accessible to not-logged in visitors in a near future.

2. You can access the ideas list here: http://www.gopitch.me/ideas/all

3. You can see a pitch here: http://www.gopitch.me/idea/4769741570834432
I love htop too, but the great thing about scout_realtime is the couple minutes of context provided the charts.

Sometimes, nothing beats seeing a chart to quickly see what's going on.
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All great points, thanks for the info!
As a co-op student at the University of British Columbia's software engineering program, I want to back this comment as I have 16 months (continuously) of co-op left to look for internships!
The main advantages over something like a VPS are having a dedicated full-sized hard drive and being able to run any OS you want on bare metal (they support remote iso installs via kvm and vnc). If you choose a non-atom processor you can also run your own virtual machines on these.
Care to elaborate? In what way are they better?
> first world democracies

The people don't rule in the first world. The businesses do. So, "Democracy" is the wrong word. "Plutocracy" and "Oligarchy" are more accurate.
Hah, same here. I'll always have a soft spot for medicinal chemistry, though.
Congrats for appworthy. I didn't know about it.

Your auth is pretty clever to minimize the barrier to entry.

Yet, I thought Twitter could be an interesting channel for my app and decided to build my website on top of it.
I've never seen Mad Men, but your comparison seems at least a little unfair. In this case, knowledge of the particular meme or participation in the culture that created it is not necessary. A complete stranger to internet jokes, who happened to be at least generally acquainted with the technologies being discussed, could very easily identify Snowden's claim as a joke (or at least something very odd and worth investigating) whether or not they had been exposed to the original meme. "Seven proxies" should make your eyebrow raise whether or not you're aware of the original joke.
>This is literally unsolicited advice.

I read it as his friends viewing him as someone with brewing experience and asking questions. Which would literally be 'soliciting' his advice...
Why is it that you see Android becoming irrelevant? And when do you see this happening by?
While this is often true with games, given that Threes doesn't use your contacts, I would be quite surprised if this was the reason.
Mozilla not happy that Dell are selling their free software
Am I a Technologist?
Oh god, I coded my first xml clock in 2002 very similar to #1. I even had the first web page completely done in SVG. The whole index.html was a nicely done svg tag with a sidebar and links with plenty of transparencies and rounded corners.

Those were the days. Phoenix was the browser.
That is true, charts are nice.

I actually mostly use glances [1]. I forgot to mention glances in my comment.

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Glances
cool !
shouldn't it be:

U32 ind = (xx-xStart + (yy-yStart) * 16+ ( zz-zStart ) * 16 * 16) * 2;

in your code, though ?
Thread is getting too deep for HN, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore%E2%80%93United_State....
Only the smallest civilian turboprop aircraft would have any hope of landing on a flat-top freighter without arresting gear. Even a BAe-146 would require too much landing distance. A Boeing 777 would be much safer ditching close by a freighter and awaiting rescue of passengers from life rafts.

A US Navy Cruiser (Aegis type) has a maximum radar tracking range of about 200-300NM for an airliner. If they were tracking MH370 then they'd have a good idea where it went down. When AF447 disappeared, there was little Naval activity in the region. When TWA800 went down, the US Navy turned over volumes of radar data to investigators that somewhat confirmed how the aircraft broke apart.
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Try and contact Prof. Zaenker at Witten/Herdecke University.
http://www.uni-wh.de/university/staff/details/show/Employee/...
He is one of the world's foremost immunologists and spent decades in experimental oncology. He was most helpful for me in the past and at least is very outspoken when it comes to the chances of a recovery.
An interesting comment on a Valleywag article -

"I am a 20 year resident currently in the process of being "de-located", and will be leaving San Francisco in a few weeks, destination unknown. A little known secret about the tech industry is that if you're not in your 20s or early 30s, you are basically unemployable. It's a great gig for the kiddies, but if you're an adult with a family and responsibilities, you'll learn all about the magic of "at will" employment. Not to mention that many/most of these companies are run by financial criminals/sociopaths who could care less about anything other than lining their own pockets."

Comment on http://valleywag.gawker.com/twitter-will-cause-so-much-gentr...
My memories of the 90s were that Perl programmers were helpful and got things done, whereas if you asked a Lisp user anything they would tell you 1. you were wrong 2. everyone else is also wrong 3. you need to study another five years before doing anything, or sometimes 4. you should kill yourself.

Hopefully now that we live in the world of the future we can use him as an example of how not to write mailing list posts.

(There were one or two angry Europeans on the ffmpeg list who got things done, but the behavior and getting things done were both seemingly caused by having lots of free time since they were unemployable…)
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Thanks! I mentioned BeautifulSoup existed very briefly in the lxml section in prerequisites. I just added a short section on CSS Selectors, you can actually use lxml with them. I'll add a little more info with BeautifulSoup and PyQuery mentioned though.
Yeah LLVM would be really cool like emscripten, but for x86.

I would like to see a performance comparison of this approach vs. running a full virtual machine since the x86 to arm conversion approach still requires a wine lib to execute all the windows APIs.
What do you mean, you generate a default address?

Where is that wallet located? Are you a wallet supplier on that website too?
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If you're interested about the followup device:
http://pyra-handheld.com/

Done by some of the founders of OpenPandora. Will probably be the only followup device. It has impressive specs, but is priced like a laptop (which it is tbh).
I believe that -std=gnu89 should give you C89 with that particular extension (and some others).
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I also don't have a twitter account, and therefore can't post my ideas.
Nice. The play/pause should be one button that changes icon -- the current setup is a little confusing.
US government wants to use machines to constantly monitor up to 5 mil employees
I lost my whole damn day.
i thought god's number was seven:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsHITZRCgqs&feature=kp
Hope this web app I built, help hackers.
I'd just like to add that I fully agree. It's a confusing setup as it is now.
To add to what jmpe says:

In production you would profile the boards. You take a board and run it through the oven with some thermocouples. You'd then set the temperatures of the pre-heat, heat, and cool down sections. This would heat the solder to melting point without putting too much stress on the components.

This is from memory from a long time ago using a teeny tiny little pick and place machine that did a few thousand components per hour.

BGAs were always always horrible to do.

"Design for production" is really very important and it's hard to find much information about it. Some simple little things can make the difference between an operator having to plonk a component on the board by hand every time just before it goes into the oven or having the machine do it. (Again, from memory).
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You make a terribly compelling argument...
Yeah, the problem we found is that when we switched to non-American English, Siri expects us to be speaking it as well... and messes up what she understands.
Any reliable VPS offering should support custom kernels -linode, prmgr, and ec2 do. While it's not "any OS you want", they support any kernel that runs under Xen, which pretty much opens the door to most distros you'd want to run a server with. Really, the only thing you're technically locked out of is Windows.
Nice, but it requires ruby :S

I been using this https://github.com/abimaelmartell/system_monitor, easy to install and dont eat too much ram :P
This was discussed just today, I suggest you read it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7371906
Where can I find the complete source code?
Yeah, when I tried a systematic approach, I was getting better results than when I tried thinking about it.
Left Down Right Down repeat.
maybe he'd just like being made to laugh, somehow? i mean - be nice to him, love him.

when you are ill, there are times when you are angry and want to fight. and then a friend with ideas on what else to try is useful. but there are also times when you're just tired of the whole shitty thing, when you just want a break, and then a different kind of friendship is needed.

good luck to both of you.
Excellent, thanks for the update!
You need to be careful on how you define R&D. Pure R&D, the kind of culture that spawned say UNIX, Oak (Java) or Plan 9 etc is on the decline as in recent years the bean counters tend to look at pure R&D as a waste of money as there is no medium term return on investment. Look at the decline of IBM Research in the US as an example. Google and in some cases Microsoft are exceptions to this.

However the US tax code allows companies to write off new development of new systems as a tax break, so you typically would be doing this kind of R&D at a startup until the system moves into production and is then accounted for differently for tax purposes.

So US companies invest load of cash in R&D, just not the traditional kind of Pure R&D.
This service, and it seems by extension namecoin, raise some questions in my mind.

It seems to me that you will very quickly run out of useful names and instead get confusingly similar names. It gives the illusion of human-readable, but its really not. Refer to xkcd 1279 for why this becomes an issue :)

The bitcoin integration is flawed; People don't have one wallet address, any wallet can generate hundreds or thousands of addresses. Remember, there is no message you can send with a bitcoin payment so what you are expected to do is create a new bitcoin address for every payment you want made out to you.

What is with the limitation of only supporting 'a-z0-9' ? Swedes and Russians would probably appreciate a much larger set of characters. Not to mention Klingons!
My guess is that the first car was doing something odd, some tiny instability that caused the second car to change, say momentarily lifting their foot from the accelerator, etc. Your higher brain functions were doing an executive analysis of options, but your lizard brain was already alert to danger and had sounded the early alarm. Have you ever noticed how you are extremely sensitive to tiny sideways movements of cars as you pass them?
I managed to beat it following a basic pattern similar to yours:

1) Mash up-left (or towards any corner) until blocks stop moving

2) Press right

3) Start over

The trick is to keep the high numbers in the top corner so the new numbers don't spawn behind it, you basically start building towards that corner and things start to work themselves out.

Like you, I had to do a bit of actual logic near the end, you can see that I overshot by a small margin and ended up with a 128 block too....

http://i.imgur.com/NA92d3G.png
oh god I get it now.

That's what I get for idling on HN between dealing with misbehaving employees and hiring new misbehaving employees on the one day this week I deal with the restaurant

tl;dr basically. if you're lucky not to lose it altogether. :(