skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tool seemed to be the right tool or at least good enough for the master carpenters of Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Zookeeper, Neo4J etc etc... and Google, Netflix, Twitter etc etc...
My experience of brainstorming is that everyone comes up with a crap idea (a couple of people will probably come up with the same idea).

I can see why some are crap, and can't see why some others are. I have an OK idea, I can see is better than the crap ones. The loud people get hooked on one of the crap ideas and don't listen / or bother to comprehend why your idea may be better, they are too busy elaborating on of their crap one.

My best ideas come at unusual times. Staring into space. Or Riding my bike.
Crap idea wins.
No, just a regular Steve Jobs.
I have to admit I understood almost nothing of the abstract.
According to their FAQ:

Can I bring a Reactor on a plane?

Yes. Per FAA rules every traveler can carry-on up to two Reactor sized batteries.

[NB I'm not saying I believe them - I wouldn't go anywhere near an airport with one of these things.]
So what would be a good, affordable backup solution that doesn't get in my way on my linux machine?
The client verifies the key by checking that the signed tweet, gists, etc., all exist and were signed by the private key that matches that public key. So to get the server to successfully lie, one would need to coordinate lies from twitter, github, etc., all at the same time.
Show HN: New place dicovery Android app (Berlin only)
That's more of a style guide rather than a list of gotchas.
DevOps Contrarian
Proof of Concept, Prototype, or Pilot?
For those wanting to check out more about the GNU flavor of Make, there is this little book: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596006105.do
Another success story of commercially successful cooperative society is Amul which is a cooperative dairy society. With 2 million + milk farmers as owners and is one of the forces that revolutionized milk production and distribution in India. Making India the largest producer of milk in the world [1].

The beauty is that, majority of these farmers own one or two cows and that is their main means of income for their whole family.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amul
[2] http://www.iitk.ac.in/ime/MBA_IITK/avantgarde/?p=1018
Correct - as the article demonstrated, we achieved rather buggy results in the short time we had available to us. We're continuing to work on the project and have plans to get the piece performed for LeedsDataMill by a real brass band. I'm guessing the performance will be blogged and I'll cross post it to HN when it's published.
I didn't say that it was the _only_ tool I used. I also regularly used R and SQL.

However, it is the best tool for fast mockups and visualization.
No, I used them because I tried nearly all of the alternatives and decided that they were the best for the task at hand.
If I were them I would market more the online identity verification aspect and not mention one word about crypto or GPG.

Also, I don't like the choice of a centralized solution for privacy problem. It could have been decentralized.
If you enjoy this, you might like 'To Sell is Human'. It's full of little treasures. http://www.danpink.com/books/to-sell-is-human/
I've made an update to the original post to link to this article: http://blog.lrdesign.com/2014/03/thoughts-on-keybase-io/ which has some good arguments against my original optimism.
My MacBook would need 18A @ 5v + 10% loss in the DCDC, that's one hell of a thick power connector.
If your well-beloved GNU coreutils did not breach every POSIX standard and add new flags to every program, no such problem would exist. Seriously, I do not know whether Mac OS is using a custom implementation of UNIX utilities, or distributin BSD coreutils, but I know that it is a licensed, certified UNIX.
In practice it is better to build p2p systems under the stronger assumption that actors need not be economically rational. Otherwise the market could be attacked (say by a nation state that wants to kill it) by repeatedly building up rep, then scamming on a large transaction (even if the accumulated rep is worth more) to destroy faith in the market itself.
There is nothing wrong with Email – we just need better ways to manage it
Yes, I read it. He says in the book that it took him ownership of four consecutive MLM businesses (I use the term lightly) to realise that the only person who profits from MLM is the person who starts the business itself. Who needs four full ownership experiences to realise that? I realised it from the literature when I was 17.

Not to mention the many times he quasi-advocates actually starting MLM structures. I can quote the book if I need to. I'm now wondering if you actually read it!
Is it ever possible to have both security and deniability? Aren't they kind of intrinsically opposed?

I mean, is the same argument to keep security off your home wifi router so that if the MPAA goes after you for seeding torrents, you can claim that it might've been the neighbour.
Are you sure about that? I've read studies that say that the opportunity to move overseas is quite helpful in the case of doctors because it creates incentives to get medical training, and many of the people who receive that training do not move.

Obviously it's a complex topic, but why are you so sure?
well that would be my first ever experience with web programming in like 10 years of embedded/desktop programming.. maybe worth the try just to see if my current skills are generally usable
Cryptic Note found at University of Western Ontario. $100 reward from Professor
A series of cryptic notes have been discovered in the Western University library. There are too many for it to be an accident, and they're too similar and detailed for it not to be a coordinated effort by someone/some group.
NIST random beacons can also be used to defend against selfish mining https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/007

Selfish mining requires strategically withholding blocks, the NIST random beacon gives you unforgeable timestamps, thus during block races you can prefer blocks that have newer unforgeable timestamps. Those older withheld blocks will lose blockraces punishing selfish miners.
Bithost.io Referral Program
Exactly. We've known that WPA2-PSK was vulnerable to dictionary attacks since before it was even popular. Also, a ~700k password dictionary is not what I would describe as "very big". This still won't crack my wireless, nor many of the wireless networks I've used that have relatively easily predictable passwords.
No, unfortunately I don't have a source for this claim other than, "I heard it somewhere"
What I mean is that services like Wuala or Boxcryptor offer this since years. And there might be more.
How to Go Paperless
Except that a lot of people's first experience with Git was through Github. I would say that Git might not have been as popular without Github rather than the other way around.
...or a completely ineffective one, advertising itself as effective. Its fraud at the very least.
I thought this was going to be an article in the Onion!
ReSharper is a crutch for .NET developers who are too lazy to learn all the features of Visual Studio and who get confused by LINQ. The best feature of ReSharper is the ability to easily turn itself off without totally un-installing; this allows you to conform to the notion of having ReSharper installed but not crippled by having to use it.
So Google refused to hire Apple employees, but presumably didn't refuse to hire Microsoft employees. What a bad move for their culture.
If you're after a better book on this subject, save your time and read the classic "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill.
UNIX certification means nothing if the utils are intentionally outdated and incompatible with the de facto UNIX-like implementation due to petty licensing concerns.

At the end of the day, whether some script works is the issue, not a UNIX branding.
A someone who has just applied for an H1-B with a tech start-up, it is really not that simple. Modern countries need medium- to long-term visa programs for specialised foreign workers. Whether it is always used to for that purpose I questionable. But in many cases - including mine - the jobs are very well-payed, in no way exploitative and do add real value for the American people and economy.

Many aspects of the H1-B suck. The same is true for their European and Asian counterparts. Just eliminating non-immigration visas would not solve the problem in a highly-integrated world-wide economy - it would make things worse.
Keybase is good because it doesn't re-invent the wheel -it uses PGP.
There's something in-between, though it doesn't actually break the paradox, just makes some different tradeoffs:

In cryptography, a ring signature is a type of digital signature that can be performed by any member of a group of users that each have keys. Therefore, a message signed with a ring signature is endorsed by someone in a particular group of people. One of the security properties of a ring signature is that it should be difficult to determine which of the group members' keys was used to produce the signature

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_signature
I think a better process than brainstorming would be "idea brewing" (made up future-buzz-word :) ):

1. Making the concoction: tell people about the problem they need to solve and about where to find good infos on it (and hopefully also spark their interest about the problem, otherwise it's pointless), let's say at the start of the week...

2. Brew: just leave people alone for, let's say, a week, so ideas can "ferment" in their heads...

4. Distill: meet and talk with people, have them present and discuss ideas they had and select ("distill") the ones that can be really good, let's say at the end of the week.

...now, I've never tried the process in a formal enough manner to have proof that it works better than anything, else, but according to this guy's theory it should.

(now, if you use up the term "idea brewing" a bestseller buzzword-creating management or self-help book, please be a nice chap and give me some credit for it)
Isn't this an indirect boycott? Those are illegal.

I'd guess every CEO has some opinion that many employees/vendors/clients disagree with. In a professional world, we don't use personal affects to guide business decisions. I.e. we buy groceries from the checkout guy that is anti/pro guns and don't blink. Why is this CEO any different?
But if that hypothetical law were passed by Congress, people sued under that law would argue that the law was unconstitutional, and any competent court would agree, acquit the person, and strike down the law.
Malaysia MH370 is believed to have crash in southern Indian Ocean
Reference counting is very expensive time-wise and memory-wise if you have lots of small objects. Memory-wise because of the additional counting-field needed, and time-wise because of the counter update at every gain and loss of a reference. These updates can also easily become huge concurrency bottlenecks, since they introduce false write sharing. Another issue with reference counting is of course that cyclic structures are hard to handle.

It is true that GC works best when you have sufficient amounts of free memory compared to the amount of garbage produced. On any kind of memory-constrained (embedded) device I would naturally view everything about memory allocations as critical issues to handle, with clear memory usage budgets.
Ruby on Rails – Great overview of resources
feedback is always appreciated, leave your comments!
Website screenshot creation and manipulation with URL2PNG and Cloudinary
Even if there were no political will, the judiciary could enforce the protection, for eg by striking down unconstitutional laws.
People are mentioning the need for reviews in such a marketplace. I present one possible solution:

> Users pay some fee to leave reviews. the more they pay the more the review is weighted.

> Buyers can rate the reviews on how helpful they are.

> A small transaction fee is collected from every transaction and distributed to reviewers proportionate to how many votes their each of their reviews has gotten.

I imagine this would prevent review spam, and reward people who post good reviews. In fact it could even support a class of professional reviewers making a living off of reviewing sellers and products.
This blog post details how you can easily create screenshots of websites, further manipulate the generated images and deliver them via a CDN. Cloudinary's dynamic manipulation and delivery URLs together with the URL2PNG add-on are used to on-the-fly generate screenshots of sites as displayed on desktops and mobile devices. Sample code included for Ruby on Rails, PHP, Node.js, Java and Python.
I played with twitter bots before, and I tried different ways to maximize the exposure of my "automated" tweets, sometimes by parsing dictionary words, other times by targeting trending hashtags, but that didn't seem to generate much traffic.

I would be really interested in any statistics regarding the effect of hashtags, or statistics about users who actually browse/search through hashtags.
I'm taking the SCJP this week... oh, so much simplicity x/
The team would apparently be "Alex" I guess?
https://trontalk.com/member/3-alex

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alex-kiritz/83/528/b31
Alex Kiritz
President at Trontium Inc
Redondo Beach, CaliforniaElectrical/Electronic Manufacturing

https://twitter.com/AlexKiritz‎

https://plus.google.com/107960025708414384190/posts

But this is a Show HN, Maybe Alex can chime in to answer some of the questions we have...?
Another problem I've noticed: many people have no idea how fragile hard drives are, and they keep old ones around for years -- with a precious, unique copy of their early photo libraries... Not only is the hard-drive unused for years, but they sometimes no longer have the necessary connections available (e.g. FireWire) on their latest laptop.
Please for the love of human kind stop this project. I am forced to work on visual studio at my work and i hate it because it make me cry literally.
End-to-end secured messenger app
Cybercrook? Bent on mischief? WE'LL GET YOU, vow Facebook and pals
Slow lane folks, I sleep like a baby.
Only 1 weird correlation mentioned: sales close at higher figures during a new moon.
My interpretation of the article:

Time is kept as an integer, stepped ten times per second. This can be exactly represented as a float, so probably uses the same 24 bit register. For 100 hours this integer would be 3600000, which fits into 24 bits with some room to spare. (But it would give a max uptime of the system of about 466 hours.)

Wide arc radar notes location, velocity, and time from clock above. This output data is still good enough for pinpointing the next position with a precision of about 170 meters (the distance the scud travels in the 0.1 second step of the clock). The precision radar system probably had accounted for this, and had a wide enough beam to handle this case.

Now, when deciding where to point the next precision beam, the radar multiplies the stored time value (exactly 3600000) with 0.1 (which is not represented exactly, but instead is about 0.000000095 less than 0.1) and uses this computed value in further calculations. This floating point value is now 0.34 seconds less than expected. The precision radar, even though it uses the same clock as above, has an incorrect representation of when the last wide arc radar update took place, and this propagates to the prediction of where the scud will be next (which is now off by 0.34 * 1676 ~= 570 meters). Thus, when it points the beam to where it believes the scud will be, the scud is outside the precision radars cone.

Note that both wide arc and precision beam systems have exact knowledge of the current system time at the point of their respective operations. What fails is precision beam's calculation of what wide arc's time reference actually meant.

The ironical part in the article probably refers to some computation using a delta, and if both time references ("then" and "now") have the error the delta will be small and possibly insignificant. However, if "now" is replaced with a more accurate representation of the clock above, only "then" has the big error, and the delta will be just as far off as the incorrect value above.

The exact error propagation depends on the order the calculations are performed in, and there's a whole field (numerical analysis) dedicated to controlling these errors. As developers we gladly ignore the problem even when we shouldn't.
This unfortunately, does not work.

And not for lack of trying, IBM, Google, Microsoft, and many other tech giants have subsidiaries here in Brazil for example.

Yet, everytime you hear about a brazillian that achieved something great recently, was NOT inside Brazil.

I can tell you, my personal reasons why I don't even applied to MS, IBM, etc here in Brazil: You have all problems of working in a big corporation, yet the pay is still terrible.

But I DID applied for US MS for example, because although it obviously has the same problems as working in BR MS, the pay is much, much higher (inside MS itself the US pay is about 4 times the BR pay for a entry level position).

Thus the best talent from Brazil (or India, or China) don't stay in their countries, they end leaving their countries, even if to work in companies that do exist in their countries, seeking a better life.

Now, why MS US and MS BR has so drastic pay gap? Basically, because of the things that made the US a great place to create startups in first place: much less regulation in general, much less corruption, and better infrastructure, in Brazil the mininum costs of running a company, without counting the employee wages, is so high, that not much money is left to actually pay the employees, we call this here "Brazil Cost".

Some examples: Brazil is the country in the world that is most complicated to pay the taxes, as result is the country where companies use a largest portion of their money paying accountants and tax lawyers.

Brazil has second highest taxes of the world (first place is Sweden).

Yet Brazil security, roads, etc... suck, to the point that most big companies in Brazil are concentrated in a private-built city named AlphaVille, companies and rich people living in AlphaVille built with their own private money their streets, guard stations, walls, electricity lines, etc... and pay with their own private money for cops, schools for their children, firefighters, etc... And STILL pay all the taxes normally too, as you can expect, running a business there (or living there) is crazy expensive.

Yet running our business there, is a necessity, when you have people assaulting business in São Paulo and Rio using heavy military weapons (even Bazookas were witnessed), you have no choice but to run your business in a private ran fortress, and pay everything doubled (once in form of taxes, and once in form of private contracts that actually solve your problem).
Good question! cperciva supports Tarsnap. It's not included on the "deals" page yet, but I'd be happy to add Tarsnap if he wants to participate.

We did our best to invite all of the backup software companies (the more the merrier)! Better deals for customers means more people backing up! To participate, drop me a line at hello@backupweek.com.
Actually, having a power pack in something like a SIGG bottle would be rather good - at least until you go backpacking and take your USB power bottle rather than the bottle of stove fuel...
What stops company making it, to just pay $10000 to heavily bias their own review?
No, this is different than conquest. Conquest is at least semi-stable, for various rather politically-incorrect reasons. I'm talking about a relatively recent phenomenon, where we arbitrarily jam countries together and expect them to work. Even the juice of democracy can't always hold these countries together.

(I think a democracy can only work when you've got shifting alliances that need to continually compete for the voters, as the stable democracies have. Most countries have lots of parties whose fortunes ebb and wane, the US does it slightly differently with its two major coalitions but the effect is the same as the coalitions positions have to shift over time to compete for the middle. When you've got ethnic blocks that vote in solid blocks for their ethnic candidate regardless of anything else, you don't have a functioning Democracy; you've got an Ethnocracy, disguised as a Democracy, and that's not the same thing.)
I was under the impression that github is popular due to it's offerings outside of DVCS (bug tracker, discussions, documentation etc).

To me that makes it seem even more so like keybase. The core of the product is there but it's environment it was makes it special.
The sky! The sky! Its everywhere, solar planes can cruise up in the stratosphere for years, we could have wifi everywhere on the planet! The sea is a terrible environment for robots.
Good thing that today, thanks to Dropbox/Google Drive/OneDrive etc., its more easy to get free backups up and running.
As I see it, the JS gets downloaded from the untrusted server, encrypts data on the client and sends it to the server.

What makes it impossible for the untrusted server to serve malicious JavaScript? I can't think of a scenario where I could trust code I get from an untrusted party...
Introducing the Internet (1994)
Woah. So they have, e.g. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/174832-intel-cancels-14...

And the Broadwell chips using it are reported to be delayed (not in the least surprising for a "tick" to a new process node), although as one analyst points out, if you miss the back to school buying period, as it will, there's no great rush afterwords to start shipping in quantity.

And getting to facts on the ground, as of late December I judged Haswell server systems (the "tock" architectural jump in 22 nm after the Ivy Bridge "tick" to it) not yet mature enough.
A mac user, but I've been using crashplan (linux available) for the past three years and I love it. Haven't had any issues yet.
It does : https://trontium.com/answers/
Obama to Call for End to NSA Bulk Data Collection
Also, when you hover over the 'X' on the ad, the black 'x' swoops away and is replaced with a red 'x'. Ridiculous.
I didn't realize that each item in your list linked to another page with more elaboration until I saw your previous comment.
Actually, I wonder...I'm pretty sure the number of people who go the apprenticeship route is in the single digits (though feel free to prove me wrong). It could be a good way to set oneself apart from the pack when applying for a job. Goodness knows its a shitty job market for lawyers, and if you don't have a top tier law degree, strategically it could be a way to set yourself apart from the pack (especially at the level where you're competing against sorta middle of the road-ish ABA certified schools-like Santa Clara and USF).
Creepy in the extreme. If I visited a website and didn't identify myself, and then got an email from them, I'd block their domain. This is NSA-style spying, masquerading as good marketing.
>High level languages are attractive because they let you write code faster and make your code easier to maintain, and not because they're "fashionable".

Maybe, maybe not. But at least 2 of the 3 points that you made are not true of JavaScript. Also, the whole "write code faster" has always been perplexing to me. The speed at which you write code is never significantly different between any two mainstream languages to really matter in the end, especially since the lifetime of a piece of software is dominated by maintenance.

And I don't know what you mean by "High level language". Java is a high level language.

>To me, "deny[ing] clever solutions" translates to "this code is going to be a pain in the ass to write because I'm going to waste time fighting the language to get what I want."

There's clever and then there's too clever.