skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't seen this mentioned, but evidently the reason there is no Micro SD slot is to prevent a split in memory options and the confusion that comes with it.

See: http://www.androidcentral.com/why-nexus-devices-have-no-sd-c...

Though, I suppose they could develop some sort of solution that manages the split for the user so you can expand the memory and never worry about what it saved where...

All that said, I definitely prefer large internal memory over having an expandable memory slot... If I'm forced to make the choice.
There's only around a million (or a couple million if you're generous with conjugations, lulzspeak, etc) English words.

If you figure passwords understand 75 characters, then one million passwords is around 3.2 randomly chosen characters. If you step up to 4 randomly chosen characters, you'd cover 31 million entries, and hence have about the same strength as reversing a hash of 31 million different words.

A 4 character password is woefully weak by modern standards.
In theory, passwords are random combinations of words and/or characters so you cannot 'guess' larger than a character at a time.

This scales very quickly to the number of combinations.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/words/the-oec-facts-abo...

You can guess 90% of the words in the OEC with only 7,000 words in your rainbow table. I suspect that is a pretty fair representation of e-mails text. Even if it is the 1,000,000 number...
[As of 2011, commercial products are available that claim the ability to test up to 2,800,000,000 passwords per second on a standard desktop computer using a high-end graphics processor.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength#Password_gues...

So ya. If it is a per-word hash, there is no real security value if you have the salt.
I think it's reasonable to ask vapers around you to take it elsewhere if it bothers you. Similarly, if someone is wearing a very strong perfume that bothers you, take it up with them. As a vaper, I'll generally ask first before vaping in a closed area, but if I don't, I'm totally okay with someone asking me to take it elsewhere. If you run into large groups of people who don't, those people are just dicks. That doesn't mean we should start legislating away everything that's irritating to some group of people.

It seems to me that the argument for legislation seems to come from the idea that smoking is bad, smokers are bad people, so anything that looks like smoking is also bad.
When you spend that much money on a scientific project (Lunar program) you should get as much PR as possible.
"Why doesn't that simplicity apply for salted hashed passwords?"

It does. Don't store salted hashes for passwords.
In this case one obvious aspect is having the basic belief that "a woman complaining of abuse is always in the right".
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I didn't. I have seen too many mobile "optimized" sites that make me more frustrated than it's worth it to view the content so I just went back a page. This is similar to the sites that paginate articles on mobile and make it so that each page "view" is in the browser history requiring a back press. It's hostile to the competent mobile web browsers.
The catch is that the device gets wiped during the unlock, so someone can't disable a PIN-lock by going through the back door and access sensitive data.
Chrome add-on lets you copy and erase text inside any image on the web
There are only probably a million or so frequently-appearing terms in English-language email messages (including the most common proper nouns, though of course not all of the long tail). Computing a million hashes with a custom salt is still trivial for modern computers.
I sat through 20 minutes of a co-worker directly comparing these two items the other day. As different as they are, people look to both company's offerings like they're competing neck and neck.
In Washington (state), it is legal for people who are over 21 to buy cannabis. However there is nobody that is currently legally allowed to sell cannabis (to non-medical patients).

Nevertheless, a few groups have popped up that are willing to sell cannabis to you (buying from them is legal, selling to you is illegal, only one party in the transaction is at risk). These groups are hyper-vigilant about only selling to people who can legally purchase from them (are over 21). They do this because the officials have publicly stated that their policy is to tolerate this, as long as they are operating within the general spirit of the legalization laws.

Bars rarely card me anymore. These guys? Every single time.
No hangover? Except for, let's see, a short list:

Severely depleted serotonin levels, causing irritability and possibly depression

Loss of focus, concentration, and attention (good luck programming competently the day after)

Bruxism (jaw clenching/grinding)
When are you submitting a proposal ? Ping me if you want to talk more about what a project in this space would look like.
Thanks for the links, Adrian.

I was looking for quality learning material on front-end deveopment last week and came across this site:
https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Front-end_Web_Development
Jeffrey Faden is teaching that free class starting 2012.
Videos available on YouTube, links can be found on his website.
http://jeffreyatw.com
Album is not under a free license, so be wary of using proprietary kernel modules :)
arrrrr....
I wanna get one, so I just lookup their site, but it says I need to get invitation to buy because their limited stock.
http://support.oneplus.net/hc/en-us/articles/201866890-Why-d...
Important news about Quibb's first round of funding
This is disappointing for two reasons.

#1. I have never heard of Grand Street until now even though I am their target demographic. Now I fear I won't be able to get all my purchases in before my other disappointment below.

#2. How long will it be until Grand Street is selling cheap knockoffs like Etsy allows?

*edited to fix typo.
This is great, congrats. I've been wanting to get more into game development.
Our particular reference dataset (TV and movie data) had some application use cases that required custom data structures to get the in-memory performance we wanted. Sirius doesn't provide datastructures per se (and isn't really even a datastore itself)--it provides an eventually-consistent, replicated update stream that you can use to maintain your own datastructures. Having that developer freedom and control over the datastructures was an important design principle.
Submitted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7636013
Show HN: Exchangeogram.me – Bros on the line
Ask HN: Good developer, bad partner ¿What to do?
Hi, first sorry for my bad english, i'm a good developer i know and use a ton of languages to get done a job, I've read a lot about software contructing, developing, etc. I created myself alone very big projects, mobile apps, etc. 'm not the only developer who knows how to do all this but now i have a partner that gives me about 200 dollars borrowed(as a credit when the work I pay that money back)a week for my work, take 80% of the money from my work, so we have a year working at only pleasing customers with credits because his company has income that has nothing to do with software development, I need the money right now for my healt and family but just give me 200 dollars with which I can not mantain my family, IN A YEAR ONLY HAS INVESTED ABOUT 15,000 dollars and say's it's much, yesterday i just finished with society and he tells me I'm wrong and crazy, I can make money alone and do not need him, ¿who is evil the partner or me? I need someone outside this situation encourages me

EDIT: All the projects I've done this year and has not charged to client each is more than 150% of what the partner have invested in one is 1000%
How valuable is it to learn math deeply?
My IT coop started last year by taking out a loan from the Cooperative Fund of New England: http://www.cooperativefund.org/
This is typical, I have just done the whole process myself a few weeks ago from scratch (fresh CentOS install) and now this comes up.

However I do not regret it at all. I had Linux experience and it took me one day and a half work to get it all working very nicely.

I am happy with my config: Postifx, Dovecot, RoundCube, SpamAssassin, ClamAV

Server supports unlimited domains and user accounts - SSL is required for all connections, I only allow IMAP and I have configured it with two valid free StartSSL certificates:

One under mail.domain.com (for email clients)
One under webmail.domain.com (for the webmail)

And both of course do not show warnings and green padlock is always nice.

The thing that scared me the most was outgoing emails being dropped - however to date I have delivered fine to all main email provider - followed a few simple rules:

Ensure you have both SPF and TXT correct DNS records
Ensure you have IPv6 configured properly (Google was rejecting due to this)
Set your reverse DNS
Set your machine hostname etc. in postfix
Could you point at a high quality reputable paper saying "as low as 1:1,000"? Did you mean 1 in 1000 people with disease have a mitochondrial cause, or 1 in 1000 people have a mitochondrially caused disease?
I don't know what happened with JAH, but it seems obvious that the Ada initiative judges without having any inside information. That's the real issue.

Besides, it seems possible that women who work at GitHub don't quit because JAH is gone, if some accounts are true (ie the Jane Doe on Medium article).

But you are right, the JAH incident itself probably doesn't motivate anyone to join IT (neither men nor woman).

Then again, perhaps eliminating drama from IT (by eliminating drama people) will in the long run entice those women to join.
1) Questions that introduce bias are known as leading questions, and researchers have devised multiple methods of avoiding that - including, as Dan noted, asking the same question more than once with different wording, and using only neutral language. Also, keeping questions simple, clear, specific and brief - with no implicit assumptions or loaded phrases.

2) Good research controls as many variables as possible. The more uncontrolled the variables are the less valid the data is - but this applies to all studies, not just self-reports.

3) Correlation ≠ causation is rarely forgotten in the actual research - the discussion sections of research in reputable journals are overly modest at best, noting the limitations and weaknesses of the study and typically making few claims for generalizability. Mass media reports, however, tend to take more than a few liberties.

I agree any valid study of friendship has to be longitudinal - the issue becomes one of measurement. You do not trust self-reports, yet how else could it be measured? Hire a researcher to follow people around? Ask them to carry an audio recorder with them every day for a few years?

The only practical alternative I can think of is to ask their close friends or relatives. However, this may be unnecessary because research has already compared self and other reports on a sensitive issue (life satisfaction) and found a high correlation (1).

And finally - although unscientific, the high upcount of this article suggests that it hit a nerve and that many here are unsatisfied with the quality of their friendships. It is my own experience, and that of my brother and my father, and most of the other men I know - more than enough to suggest something is not quite right - that it warrants a thoughtful discussion and not be dismissed out of hand.

1. Crandall, R. (1976). Validation of self-report measures using ratings by others. Sociological Methods & Research, 4(3), 380-400. http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/69039...

*edited for brevity and grammar
A funny part of the history of biology: NASA established its Life Sciences office in 1960, and the following decades they funded some pretty influential research in molecular biology and on the origin of life, which was not getting funding from more conventional biology funding sources.

Maybe the highlights would be Lynn Margulis and the endosymbiosis theory, and Carl Woese finding the Archaea in 1977.

References:

JE Strick. 2004. Creating a Cosmic Discipline: The
Crystallization and Consolidation of Exobiology, 1957-1973.
Journal of the History of Biology 37:131-180.

http://www.researchgate.net/profile/James_Strick/publication...

M Morange. 2007. What history tells us X. Fifty years ago:
the beginning of exobiology. Journal of Biosciences 32(6):
1083-1087.
Simple and reliable, just like T-34 and AK-47.
Dropbox joins the Cloud Security Alliance
Redis and Sirius target slightly different use cases, although they share the goal of keeping data in memory. For our use case that motivated Sirius' development, we wanted to avoid doing I/O to an external system (even a fast one like Redis) in order to simplify development by having direct access to the data in native datastructures.

Additionally, we found that we needed some custom datastructures to get the performance we needed, so providing application developer control over those datastructures was an important motivation.
Can you provide more background on your statement that the SAT and ACT are not achieving the goals for which they were designed? My suspicion has been that things are changing because aptitude tests are unpopular for socio-political reasons rather than for any want of predictive power.
Apple $45.6B revenue Q2/14: 43.7m iPhones, 16.3m iPads, 4.1m Macs, 2.7m iPods
A year or so ago my local cable operator from whom I had only been purchasing Internet service for some years sent a representative ostensibly to check my Internet service. I was a bit puzzled by this as I was not aware of any problems but acquiesced. After a bit of theater somewhat foiled by the fact that I was running Linux and my window manager was xmonad the representative offered me a deal where I would pay less per month for combined TV and Internet services and I was assured that my Internet service would not be impacted in any way. I was very confused and refused the offer based on a general feeling of suspicion.

A few weeks later another representative came to my door and did not bother with claiming to check my service quality. He simply offered me the same deal. I pointed out that it made no sense to me. He then admitted that the cable operator was negotiating a deal with Time Warner Cable to merge with them and they wanted to inflate their subscriber numbers. That at least made some sense to me so I agreed.

Some months later the regional cable operator effectively ceased to exist and I now got bills from TWC. I forget the exact timing but either just before or just after this my monthly billing for cable services increased significantly and I called to cancel the television services I never used which returned the total to approximately the original amount.

Aren't TWC and Comcast in talks currently (I believe the FCC may also be involved)?
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Apple Announces 7 For 1 Stock Split
Most work is the same bullshit over and over. What about personal development at work? Do they have a 1, 2, or 5 year plan for you? If there's nothing for you for the future, get out.

Also think about finding some hobbies. I know that's a tough one, but that's how it gets sometimes. You need to focus energy elsewhere.

I'm near this point right now. I won't get a promotion unless higher ups quit. I'm in a bit of a rut at home. Gotta shake it up.
> typically costs an OEM approx $200-$260 to manufacturer a phone

Yeah if you can sell 40+ million a quarter. OTOH if you're sales are more like HTC's you sell your flagship phones to carriers for $400 and break even.
FCC proposal would destroy net neutrality
Game of Thrones (and all HBO shows) are not broadcast in the US with commercials; do they edit in commercial breaks in semi-random spots (or just pre/post-roll)? How much time do they add per hour?
there is a lot of discussions and actions being made for intra-day settlements.
The Iron Curtain fell 25 years ago, but it seems that nobody told the deer.
It's my impression you might get a warranty claim denied on a Nexus device if your problem is software-related and you have modified software on the phone that could be at fault. I had some instability and camera trouble due to a custom kernel, for example.

The Nexus 5 bootloader unlock confirmation screen says it may void the warranty. From what I've heard, LG/Google never gives people trouble about root when there's a hardware problem.
I co-founded an IT and Computer Repair coop about a year ago. We're called Boston TechCollective: http://boston.techcollective.com

Also take a look at our sister coop in SF: http://techcollective.com
Raspberry Pi-like boardset packs quad-core i.MX6
Yes, over the last couple of years, while making the annual "call-to-comcast-to-avoid-being-ripped-off-completely", I've noticed that their TV/phone bundles get juicier and they are seemingly much more aggressive to bait-and-switch you to those packages.

What I see here is a sign that ultimately, the fate of this industry is to follow the path of record companies towards irrelevance. The only difference being that record companies could only still make a few dimes selling ringtones, while comcast still faces close to zero competition as a decent internet provider in many areas.

Speaking of Hulu/Netflix, make no mistake, they will gradually replace cable companies in terms of being crippled with ads and too expensive and I guarantee you that we will hate them equally.
To be honest I doubt I would have believed him at the time given the context. It's a pretty complicated theory that requires a subtle understanding of biophysics.

Remember the reception to the Avery/McCloud experiment- people still insisted protein was the heritable molecule. People simply couldn't understand how a "simple" polymer like DNA could encode information. it was a real mind-bender because (AFAICT) nobody really appreciated how nonuniform polymers could code for information.

Or the reception to the discovery of enzymatic RNA. How could RNA possibly be enzymatic? Well, now we know that RNA runs the game and protein is just muscle.
Aye, it probably does come from that. I'll wait to see what becomes of "vaper culture" before making an opinion, but before then, I'm honestly not going to get involved either way on this process.
It sounds to me like the "programmer" failed to pay attention to "the business guy."
The programmer says "maybe you could first tell me roughly what this would be about" yet the business guy already said "we want to do a partnership with your company because of your nice product Z"
The programmer said "phone calls are for details" while the business guy said "When do you have time for a meeting, so I can talk to you in detail"

So what exactly is the problem? This guy wants to set up a meeting to discuss the details of a business partnership. And the programmer blew him off because... because he wants to build his company?

While I agree that face-face meetings and phone calls are expensive time wise, I would argue that the initial meeting of a partnership or potential big client is probably more important. Sure you may want to try to screen out bad meetings from good meetings, but you don't do that with a "what do you want to talk about?" Maybe something more along the lines of "I'm sorry but I'm extremely busy right now trying to get the next release out. Perhaps if you could tell me some more highlights on the potential partnership I can see about possibly squeezing a meeting in there."
You don't really want to be rude to potential partners and clients, well not if you want to build your business
Heh, tell that to the elevator in my office building. You find e-cigs offensive? I don't, but I do have those sort of problems with perfumes.
Why the were you voted down?
Announced during an Apple earnings call. Surprise surprise.

EDIT: same time as the earnings, not the actual call. But still.
Great work! Where/How did you learn Ruby (and programming)?
I think the relevant statistic here is obscured with faulty logic. The important thing is that, of people who subscribe to Hulu or Netflix, almost 50% more are cord cutters than 3 years ago. If you make an assumption that this number will continue to increase at the same rate, in 11 years you will have 75% penetration: 12.7 * (18.1/12.7)^5 (-4). And, in the following 3 years, cable will be completely wiped out.
Also priority inbox and antispam.
probably a WebGL issue.
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Certainly not related to the numbers. They killed it this quarter!

They had a NON-GAAP EPS of 34C while estimates were at 24C.

That's pretty incredible considering that mobile advertising contributing about 59% of their advertising revenue. That's been the one area that analysts were worried about.
Sarcasm, I think.
Cool beans! Will defly sign up for it. ;)
The plain text is dictionary words, given that the hash and the salt is known it will be really quick to hash every dictionary word for a single user. There are 99171 words in /usr/share/dict/words and off the shelf hardware can do 1300 million SHA1 hashes per second [0]

[0] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/8607/how-quickly...
Not a day too early.
Yes!

It is like teaching someone to read and write: you teach the letters, how they sound, how they go together to form words and then phrases. And how to construct paragraphs and essays and etc. But you somehow forget to teach that in order to write you need a paper and a pencil. And if you want something more permanent you use a pen!

This is how I feel with the little knowledge about programming that I have. If someone sets everything up for me I can write the functions and they will perform as expected. But if someone give me a new computer I have almost no idea where to start.

I would spend about 4 hours coding the software to perform, let's say, a very basic ecommerce website, with menu, product pages, payment integration (with paypal) and stuff. But I would spent easy more than 10 hours to know where to upload the file, with which name, where to host, how to host, how to test in my computer, how to put in production, how to integrate it with a domain, etc.

Some context: I spent 4 months this year learning how to code using a lot Treehouse and Codecademy, reading Heads First C# and then Google+StackOverflown.
With all this help and a lot more from Visual Studio I was able to create a complete, functional web app hosted at Azure. But I can't say I can code, there are a few basic things I just don't understand. For example, I can't learn how to create a webapp based on a API. The basic rules of how ask for information from an API I understand, but I have no idea where to put it to make it work.
Big Zynga shakeup leaves founder Mark Pincus out of day-to-day operations
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Former Iron Curtain still barrier for deer
This is a great point. The 8 billion channel situation with an unusable guide channel seems like it was put together and maintained by a bunch of cokeheads with no sense of a sane user experience.