skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Reading such long-form content and then being able to process + critique it is an important life skill many of us have sadly lost."

Sadly everything seems to be going the way of buzzfeed and infographics. You think you are getting information, but its the equivalent of a newspaper headline, compared to getting all the details.
And you see no coercion in this ill-conceived scheme? "This tax is 'voluntary', but if you don't pay it someone will certainly come along and take your property from you." What world do you live in exactly?
Who Does What in a Massive Open Online Course?
I believe the custom in digital watches is that a leading zero implies a 24 hour display.
That's because you're way out on the edge of the city in a commuter ghetto and by the looks of it you'd still be paying more than $2/SF to live in squalor (that unit is a dump, sorry). I apologize for the negativity but no one should be paying that much to commute without a nice spec (floors, kitchen and bath). You deserve better than that kitchen.
PHP's own password_hash() should be used more
Another Debian based boot-from-CD OS that used to be quite popular is Knoppix [1]. I remember that was a big thing in the times of Win98 viruses when people used it for system recovery. In Germany they distributed it as add-on to computer magazines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoppix
And yet England did well; the golden years of British innovation are the '50s and '60s when this policy was in effect. Whereas come Thatcher and the '80s and the lowering of taxes you see the destruction of British industry, ruination of national infrastructure (the railways are still recovering from that era's underinvestment), and even what felt like a cultural collapse.
> a tax on (unearned) wealth

Doesn't the estate tax fully cover this case?
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Thats nonsense.

England / the UK is a mess at the moment. They are heavily in debt. They keep on cutting benefits to the poor and allowing the rich to pay even less tax. According to your argument everything should be getting better because of this, but I assure you it is not.
Top 20 Replies by Programmers – Funny yet so true
Sip it like Hemingway
Would you still be able to offer relo ? as the H1B quota has already been reached
Eminent domain is always an option, along with the value as determined by the local taxing authority.
Animated 3D Logo in CSS
The full list of winners[0] and runners-up[1] is available on pulitzer.org.

[0] http://www.pulitzer.org/node/8501

[1] http://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/2014
The line-up this month includes Dan Crow (Songkick CTO) and Azmat Yusuf (Citymapper Founder/CEO).

Thanks to gmail marking all meetup.com messages as spam, our sign-up numbers have been quite low this month so please spread the word.
Quite ironic how a blog constantly zooming in on the successes and ecosphere of the Valley attempt to explain the problem. The reason people are flocking to Silicon Valley is partially found in the overly-positive media reporting by Techcrunch and the like.
You mean when he did a video interview? He managed to do what he did and leave the country without being caught. I call that mission accomplished.
To continue a slight derail about MD5:

For some fun performance figures, check http://golubev.com/gpuest.htm

A new AMD Radeon™ R9 295X2 is pretty speedy, clocking in at 23GHash for single MD5 (there are cheaper per $, but this is extremely impressive imo). Dividing 630249409724609375H by 23e9H/s leaves us with 27e6s, or 0.8 years. That means we'd need 42 cards to crack it in a week, costing somewhere in the region of $80k (1.5k/card + extras). That puts us easily within the range of governments, companies and just generally rich geeks. You can get ~ twice the hashes/$ so maybe $40k, and if you're cheap about the computers you connect with then probably lower.

But that's consumer kit. There are also speedy MD5 FPGA cores, I've not got a great reference but found one from 2007 which did 44MHash / core using a Cyclone II which I can only find described as "built for low cost". Assuming a 5x cost/hash reduction would grab us at $8k which would be in the range of hobbyists.

Beyond this, several private companies have been able to build double SHA-256 ASICs (for bitcoin mining). You could buy a while ago kit that did 7GHash for $300ish, and there's supposedly some 1THash ones in development. Granted, double SHA-256 is not equivalent to MD5, but I'd be surprised if MD5 was significantly harder, and expect it to be a lot simpler. Now the development cost of these is the expensive bit, but then your hashing rate would be insane.

Ramble over, if anyone has any figures for FPGAs or ASICs then I'd be really interested.
Also, Firefox is still number one here in Germany, where this issue was a non-story. Over here and in many other places, person and office are considered independent unless the personal opinions are directly pertinent to the office in question.

After all, if we (average Germans) applied our own present-day human rights views in the same way, we'd be boycotting organizations with CEOs that are homophobes, death penalty proponents, religious extremists, pro-lifers and so forth.
No ISA, sorry. Here's what I can get.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7610280/WP_20140415_001....
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7610280/WP_20140415_003....
BTW your defector is much more known here than ours.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7610280/WP_20140415_002....
My mistake. I meant "sexually abused". Obviously, growing up with little education, brainwashed and expecting to be shot by "the system" is definitely being abused.
A good friend of mine also grew up in the same group, and is currently crowd funding a documentary about her experiences, as well as other cults in the US. If anyone's interested, you can check it out here. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/happiness-is-submission-to...
Great story, but there's one part of it that bothers me.

I really don't like how it portrays humanity as a race where only a tiny percentage have the ability to innovate. All humans have this ability! Not all may use it, but we all have it.

Yes.. I know I'm pointing out factual inaccuracies from a science fiction story written 55 years ago, but because he used the term "human" explicitly I feel the need to do so.
Knoppix was my first introduction to Linux. The boot-from-CD aspect amazed me. At first the only thing I used it for was recovering data from a screwed up Windows install but eventually I got more into it and started installing other distress (starting with Ubuntu I think).
I thought the riots & protests were specifically about Googlers moving to the East Bay.
The standard NIMBY-ism is "Yes, please Manhattanize and lower rents! But not in my neighborhood, do it in other parts of town". (repeated by all residents of the city)

Just look at BART. Very popular in the polls, approved in a landslide, dismal ridership. Why? Because everybody thought that other people riding BART was a great idea- they had no intention of riding themselves.
So you literally want to make rent-seeking the main means of accumulating wealth?

This is a very strange economic theory you've got going here.
What metric are you using to quantify smartness in animals?
If there are no tests, you can always start by writing some..
Lifesum Announces $6.7 million Series A
Thank you so much! Your support means a lot :)

We've tried to optimise load times but we will try to improve them further.
Guarding against side-channel attacks in any language is hard. Guarding against them in Javascript is probably impossible. Whether you would take Javascript over C is irrelevant. It would still be a terrible choice for a security framework. Perhaps modern system languages, such as D or Go might be suitable.
This is always what comes to mind:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/29/san-francisco-media...
Even wired don't know what an OS is. Or rather the definition of OS has changed. A strange time when your industry jargon enters the popular lexicon but always slightly twisted.

You can't even call yourself a Troll in the UK now without people thinking you go on Facebook and mock the dead to their nearest and dearest.
is website under ddos?
I guess that's one more reason to install an ssl unwrapping proxy -- allows you to log what comes sailing in over ssl (if you should be so inclined) -- and at least the proxy could make sure to drop connections to sites with revoked certs.

It would make it more difficult to connect to sites that use alternative CAs/self-signed certs, though..
Alright, now that I've had some time to read through your sources let's get down to it.

First of all, I agree that civilization is wholly dependant on petroleum, and that's probably not going to change much even in the next 30 to 50 years. If we are unable to find new sources of petroleum and/or migrate to another energy source there will be a collapse and likely the vast majority of humanity will die off. That probably would be the death kneel of civilization.

Now it looks like part of your argument is that shale oil and fracking is not going to produce nearly the amount of petroleum as is forecasted. That businessweek article gives some good information I didn't know about, so good source on that. However, it looks like there is still debate around how much oil is recoverable from shale deposits. Sounds like the debates of peak oil from the past decades with one side optimistic and the other side pessimistic. I'm not a geologist, and only time will really tell who is right. But I think there is a good chance that technology will continue to improve and oil prices will rise enough to make recovery of more oil possible.

Now you also say that Clathrate reserve estimates have continually dropped over time. In the OP article it says,

>Estimates of the global supply of methane hydrate range from the equivalent of 100 times more than America’s current annual energy consumption to 3 million times more.

It sounds like no one has a very firm grasp of how much Clathrate is available. But even if we take the low estimate given, that's a substantial amount. It would likely be enough to fulfil global energy needs for a couple decades. Unless you have good proof that Clathrate reserves are overestimated or that it's unlikely we can viably tap those sources, I'm going to say that you haven't refuted anything in the original article.

You said the OP article was terrifyingly stupid, but all I see as a rebuttal is that shale oil reserves are debatably not as large as we think. Or are you trying to say that our energy consumption and reliance on petroleum is at such a high and rising level that even sustaining our current production isn't enough? To that I would argue that hopefully alternative energy sources will free up enough petroleum from electricity production to keep us above water so to speak.
I remember thinking exactly the same thing when i built the new player for a big Dutch music site. Sure enough the highest voted request on Uservoice after launch was a volume control :)
"Just to prove some guy on HN wrong" is not much of an incentive to spend the required resources. It says nothing about the ability to crack MD5 when there are significant incentives. Why not md5 your credit card info and post it here if you are so confident?
I read that as promoting the opposite, that both Jobs & Edison did very well on the work of others.
Thanks to everyone for checking out Loomio! If anyone has questions, please feel free to ask away (several of the team members have answered a few already).
Connected Home middleware startup AwoX announces IPO for April
Unfortunately TrueCrypt max password length is 64 chars so in your speculation you have to use random chars.
Oh yeah the corner groupings are rad. best thing about the xperia is the keyboard though... I can't stand touch screens!! Although my ideal form factor is candybar the only other phone in existence that does what I need is the Motorola Pro+ which is really fragile. I currently have like 4 xperia sk17a's ... Stockpiling them like a survivalist.
Yay! Now OpenBSD can introduce a massive security bug. /s
Try JSHint instead. It catches actual problems and everything else is customisable, so you're not forced to change your coding style to fall in line with the whims of a stubborn author.
i thought it was a cross-post as well endorsed by @progrium until i saw this comment.
Developer Evangelist can sometimes require travel
I recorded this: http://youtu.be/zjOYqiVw7nY

Enjoy!
PHP Script for Hiding "HTTP Referer" Header
Programming 1800s style: Ada Lovelace and the Analytical Engine
In your local time: http://localtime.io/#?d=4%2F15%20at%203:06am%20EDT
Let’s take a closer look at the details of Project Ara:
http://www.dazeinfo.com/2014/04/02/google-inc-goog-project-a...
Ara will have a Google branded endoskeleton but the rest of the components (modules) will be licensed out to third-party manufacturers.
The endoskeleton will be available in three different size configurations – Mini (between 4.0 – 4.5 inches), Medium (4.5 – 5.0 inches) and Jumbo (5.0 inches and beyond).
One clock on that page says 4:30. I wader if they reused an image from an earlier version?
Sky, TalkTalk and CityFibre link up for ultra-fast network in York
His story resembles Ray Kurzweil's quite closely: an eccentric inventor with an extensive and impressive portfolio, parlaying his accomplishments into advocating shoddy pseudoscience. In Cheiky's case, Google is involved through their VC arm; in Kurzweil's case, he may or may not be doing research at Google.
The whole thing is ludicrous. Why can't tech workers work from home, from anywhere in the world?
Yes, I think any moderately complete CRUD-style app is going to fall down with this approach, sadly. Even if you duplicate all of the logic that the server implements to validate data, then that doesn't guarantee there won't be some kind of invalid interaction with a related record that only got changed on the server while you were offline.

Inevitably there needs to be some kind of review screen to let the user adjust their edit in the above scenario and that makes the whole user experience a little clunky.

I agree with the overall point of the OP though, given how flaky a mobile connection can be, this is by far the best approach if it suits the app.
I highly recommend http://www.hokstad.com/compiler/ ; it talks about writing a compiler in a way that makes sense to me - writing it the way you write any other program, rather than throwing you straight in with lexers and parsers and never justifying why we need to do things this way.
There is a fair bit of focus on it. I'm not sure if that is because of the ease of building them or the need for it - it is a fairly critical organ and there is a shortage of donors. I believe the challenge is the vascular (blood vessel) network, which is quite developed and important to the liver's function.

A lab-grown liver could be quite advantageous to a donated liver - the lab would use the person's own cells to make the tissue. Rejection becomes less of an issue. Today, liver recipients need to go on immuno-suppressants. It is inconvenient to take dozens of pills a day and these people are more prone to illness.
I'd just like to thank the loomio team for supporting Taiwan's #CongressOccupied activities as chronicled in http://0sdc.tw/en — you played a key part in ensuring a safe and successful process, and will likely help on our future of constitutional reform as well.
> biological botnets

What, you mean parasites that control their host's behaviour in order to propagate themselves? Those already exist.

Granted, they don't mine bitcoins just yet.
This is a picture taken by Apollo 12 when the Earth came between it and the sun: http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/luceneweb/caption_direct.jsp?phot...

I found the picture on this page: http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2005/2...

edit: And as a bonus, here's a painting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eclipse_from_moon.jpg
Only in American.
We were humbled to be able to support you, and it's reaffirmed our belief in the importance of translations and accessibility in the app. All the best to you in Taiwan!
Yes, the BBC News at Ten told us that "the website Mumsnet has warned its 1.5 million users that their data may have been hacked as a result of the Heartbleed computer bug. It's the first time the virus has been found on a British website"
#GlassUpdates are back with KitKat for Glass, photo bundles and more
Also, as everybody else, we are of course hiring: http://jobs.lifesum.com/jobs

Edit: We're based in Stockholm. From the jobs list:

Director, Human Resources

Finance Director/CFO

Android Mobile Engineer

Senior Platform (backend python) Engineer

Designer

Platform (python backend) engineer
> multibillion global mobile health markets

I don't get it. How do healthy-lifestyle-sector companies (mobile or not) plan to make money? Could someone familiar with that domain comment on the standard monetization strategies? Is it advertising of sports/health-food products? Surely this can't be that profitable...
Kind of amusing how they are so anal with some tiny things, yet allow seriously large cock ups (maps, antennas, etc) out the door.
Tweeting Al Qaeda Jokes at Airlines Will Get You Arrested
It's a fair argument, and one that looks favourable to Einstein. As someone who did a Masters in Physics, I find that his theories were so counter-intuitive for the time that it would have taken decades or longer for them to be discovered by others without his input...

And if you attribute the existence of nuclear weapons to Einstein (a legacy he'd have been pretty unhappy about), that changed the world much more lastingly than Hitler did. Hell, it almost destroyed the world entirely. How's that for a legacy.
Astronauts Will Grow Their Own Food for the First Time Ever
C/C++ to LLVM IR to asm.js to C benchmarks
Making Ecommerce Sites More Secure: How Is It done?
There's a demo running at http://demo.peat.io/ as well.
The Cool Promise of Machines That Run on Body Heat
I was surprised to find out (in 2009, may have since changed) that there wasn't a daily train between SF (and surrounds, pop 8M) and LA (and surrounds, pop 20M). I had to get a bus to Bakersfield before I could hop on a train.
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I signed one of these contracts in 2006. I went to work for a company in product design and development, and since my work was new product design and development, everything I worked on at that time became the property of the company.

There was also a two-year non-compete clause that forbid me from working with any of their direct competitors afterwards.

I signed the contract because I wanted to do the work, and because I knew that all the other places would have me sign the same contract. I also thought that this company was the most progressive of the group. Finally, I wanted my ideas to be funded, and so in exchange for the time and the resources that they promised to put towards my work, I would provide them with the ideas. We were both taking risks to achieve a greater goal together.

In the end, they reneged on their side of the bargain and didn't provide the necessary funding to complete the production and testing that the product design needed. After trying to get the work done myself in-house by funneling time and energy away from other projects towards mine, it came to a head and it was acknowledged that they weren't going to fund the work and that we needed to part ways.

On the day that decision was made, I was escorted out, leaving everything behind, my notebooks, and all my digital research files.

Several years later, when they won a large contract for work that was in the area that I was working on, my manager took me out for lunch and said that I had just been about 5 years ahead of the curve, and that they hadn't had the resources to carry that type of research and development that far ahead of a clear billable opportunity.

When I asked him about the files and the notebooks, he said that nothing ever happened to them, they were all just filed away in the archives.

I left understanding their situation well. It's hard to fund something when it's not clear when the payoff will materialize, and when it did materialize, they were able to get there first anyways. So the loss of five years in R&D wasn't noticed, by them, their clients, or the industry.

The lesson that I did learn was - back up your files offsite, and have duplicate notebooks, one that is your private notebook and one that is your office notebook. Because when you sign a contract like this, you have to be prepared to leave everything onsite when it ends.

The irony with the 2 year non-compete is that after I left, non of the other firms were interested in even discussing the work that I had done. Which is why these guys were the only ones that I could have worked with in the first place, and it's why they were the only ones able to secure the contracts when the need for the technology finally arrived.

And there wasn't much I could do with the technology myself, since it was untested and unproved and I couldn't fund the research myself. So the non-compete clause didn't impact me much either.

Perhaps this sheds some light on why the contracts exist and why people like me sign them.
There's course material on this kind of thing at http://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/index.html
I worked for a major mobile phone manufacturer a while ago. They offered a pathetic £200 (I think) for any inventions you submitted to them, and they got a patent on. Funnily enough, I kept the ideas to myself.

(Has anyone come up with a phone / camera that does automatic tagging based on GPS location? Your phone knows you are in front of some famous landmark, and tags the photos with the name. I assume it has been done by now, but this was when the first phones were starting to incorporate GPS and it seemed like a novel idea).
Also Dynamic casts(w/exceptions) and virtual methods/Dynamic dispatch which do provide some dynamicity not easy/natural in c.
Tax on real estate doesn't really work - see England/London: the council tax is simply imposed on the tenants (not even included in rent! has to be paid separately).
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Too bad we all know which agency is far more likely to discover such a vulnerability.
I have found the BBC's Technology reporting particularly irksome. Their website is filled with re-hashed press releases. I even re-wrote an article concerning turning urea into electricty for them to show what it could have been like if they had put half an hour's effort into it, naturally I didn't even get a response.
I'm also impatiently awaiting your today decision!
So excited ;)
I think it is pretty much the norm that most kids get bullied to some extent. You can usually tell the ones that have had a sheltered life.
Yep. One of my favorite examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis

Part of a pretty cool Wikipedia category: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mind-altering_parasit...
Sometimes the fastest solution to a problem is to get everyone in a room with a whiteboard and deal with it. There are ways to collaborate online, but none are as efficient as person to person. Also not everyone has a good internet connection or home office condusive to working 8 hours a day. I'm not saying people can't work from home ever, just that its not practical for the vast majority.
Depends on the goal. If maximizing quality and length of life under constrained resources, prevention is more effective. But, as you mention, prevention does have inherent limits on life span. Biotechnology could allow further, perhaps infinite extension to lifespan.

I'm not sure this is a good goal to have. To paraphrase Jobs in his Stanford Convocation speech, death allows the clearing of old ideas and provides urgency to motivate the living. Further, the infinite-living "you" would no longer really be "you", since all the matter and its organisation would be replaced several times over. (Biologically, this also happens but at a different scale so the organisation is more preserved). Arguably, your own ideas, thoughts, and concept of self remain.