skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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This seems like an overly complex Diceware. Not only do I have to remember the phrase (Diceware), but I have to remember the first three letters of each word in the phrase. Interesting, but cumbersome.
I have two primary issues with Medium:

1) It's essentially halo-effect-as-a-service. People assume that since it's on Medium, it'll be a high-quality of work, but more often than not, Medium posts lie on the pseudo part of pseudointellectual. Which leads into...

2) Complete lack of any personal branding. Not even a username in the URL. Yes, it keeps things simple, but it dramatically reduces the personal benefit from posting on Medium. Even worse, in line with the previous bullet point, the lack of branding leads writers to spam links to their Twitters with the cliche "if you liked this, follow me on Twitter!" And recently, I've seen people say in bolded text "PLEASE CLICK RECOMMEND." It's jarring.
Ugg -- if I weren't still employed full-time right now I'd be all over this. I really miss my phone-hacking days.

There are _so many_ vectors to privilege escalation on mobile devices. The only reason I stopped working on projects like this is that (most) of the manufacturers released official "root" tools for those on "decent" carriers.
I've read the book many times, looked at reputable youtube videos, had people with perfect form try to correct mine and still have trouble understanding how to do the lifts perfectly. My brain just turns off during the workout and takes a while to come back. Starting Strength's 30 pages per lift are also overwhelming. I really only need a checklist of 30 things per lift and have to figure out which to emphasize for my crap posture, knees out, chest up, etc.

My numbers should be better, 2.7 years, 185 BW, 400 lb deadlift, 275 bench, 275x5 squat, 150 OHP. All thanks to crappy form, not understanding how to do the exercise properly. People with hunchback posture have a lot more to think about than those with good posture. I got to 375x5 deadlift within 1.5 years. But my form was already crap at 245 and I had no idea because I only checked with video at 225. Also filmed myself and couldn't tell what I was doing wrong, looked ok as far as I could tell at the time. But it was wrong. My idea of how to deadlift/squat/OHP was fundamentally wrong at 1.5 year mark. Bench needed major corrections.

You might be doing it wrong too, you can get away with it for a long time.

A trainer at some globo gym like Planet Fitness, Bally etc. won't promise correct form for 300 lb deadlifters, even if they pull 500 lb themselves. They're just there to make total novices feel comfortable.

If you want proper training you need to find a freeweight focused place like a powerlifting gym, maybe crossfit and pay whatever obnoxious price they charge for personal attention. Train a few months there to get started. Or hope you're not as dumb as me and rely on youtube and books.
Just checked that out from the other comment, actually. Not bad for the simple stuff, but it looks like it sticks to one-sentence pros and cons for each solution.

Like for example, one of the top questions there right now is for what is the best blogging platform. The answers are stuff like WordPress - Widely Used and Ghost - Markdown support. I'd like to see something more like a detailed description of the pros and cons of hosting a Wordpress blog vs a Ghost blog by somebody who has actually done both.
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Exactly how I feel! It looks awesome, and quite understandable when explained step by step. But I feel that I wouldn't be able to get past the first few steps if I encountered these problems by myself.
I've been to Shenzhen (and specifically, the mobile phone markets) a few times.

Two impressions stuck with me...

First, I don't trust anything I buy anymore. If you buy a mobile phone on ebay, or if you buy one on amazon and it isn't fulfilled directly by the manufacturer, I don't think you can have any assurance that it is truly a brand new, factory produced device. I saw stall after stall after stall of women with long spools of holographic tape and "genuine nokia" stickers by the thousands who were brazenly re-wrapping and resealing both batteries and "new" devices. Bunnie speaks of the value of his spare parts, but the box and the manual would probably have been of equal value.

Second, I was surprised by the near total absence of anything truly interesting ... I spent 2.5 days looking for any tools or devices related to osmocom/openBTS/openBSC ... sim cloning, sim tracing, IMSI catching ... development kits or test hardware... and I saw not even a trace of this. I was also keeping my eyes open for any kind of console modding / console hacking and didn't see any of this either. I'm sure you could get your xbox chipped there, but beyond that ...

I'll be back soon ... I'd love to be proven wrong that there's nothing bleeding edge being hacked together around the phone-marts...
This is the exact reason why I switched to Emacs about a year ago. Sure the transition was difficult. But never regretted it!
Title made me think it would be something for beginners. Either it is not or I am very dim.
I find it hard to believe that Dutch lenders don't quantify credit risk into something that's effectively a "credit score".

Did you mean that there's some particular aspect of credit scoring as it works in America that doesn't happen in the Netherlands?
Seems like it's just people posting the amount of what they would give, so I would expect the hacker to receive less than $17k.
Ukrainian Election Commission network hacked (in Russian)
It kind of works that way from the other side too.

Any group has a set of "norms" that, if you deviate from them, it's hard to belong to the group. Go to a heavy metal concert wearing a pink shirt, or a linux conference wearing a tie, or (some) churches wearing shorts, or the 1980's without parachute pants, or any one of a million other things. So if there is a group where social drinking is the norm, when you reject that norm, you stand out. This is not always fatal to group membership but it usually makes it harder.

Seen in this light, in some contexts, someone pushing you to drink may actually trying to be say "I'd like you to be a member of this group", and while you see them as not respecting your values, their motivation is trying to help you belong.

(Hackers as a group tend to claim they reject the concept of "norms" although my personal take is that they just have a different set of norms.)
Did you guys ever work out your issues with the Stanford Bitcoin Meetup?
This is what R&D is for.
Note: this AMA is over a year old and many of the issues they were having could be outdated by now. They might have resolved some of the concerns with the technology from a year ago.
1200-year-old 'tablet computer' found in ancient shipwreck
To be fair, if you promise a diamond but then deceive about it's origin, you probably aren't worth their time either.
I got curious about what you actually did in your phone hacking days only to go to your profile and discover that you're the person behind unrevoked.

My first ever phone was the Evo 4G and I spent many hours tinkering with it and running ROMs thanks to unrevoked so let this be a belated thank you for your efforts.
paved roads are re-paved every few years

This is not my experience. I've lived near a secondary arterial road for nearly 9 years, and have never seen repaving done on it. It's still in fine condition.
> had no medical objection to it

Actually, he did. Watson tells Holmes early on (in The Sign of the Four, I think) that using cocaine might damage his powers of observation and deduction; and in the stories after Holmes' return, Watson mentions several times that he felt obliged as a medical man to wean Holmes from the drug, and that he gets worried when there is a long period without Holmes having a case because Holmes might be tempted to start using the drug again.
If you guys are interested in data-mining Strava, here is some interesting info on their metro project and how they are using it to affect change.

http://blog.strava.com/arent-we-all-people-for-bikes-7783/

http://metro.strava.com/
Which also means no GUI to get in the way.

I'm not saying there isn't a time and a place for that, but after your 2nd or 3rd decade of using a tool, sometimes you just want to see the text you're working on.
I don't think repost is a problem (if you don't do it constantly and too much).

I would try another Show HN, but with the direct URL tomorrow - it worked for me, i did a no upvoted Show HN, them a no upvoted Ask HN, them a successfull 43 points Show HN. There is a lot of luck in it, try once more.
No, alcohol use above some level, which nobody knows precisely risks brain damage. Some people prefer not to take the risk, even though it may be small.
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Hey, it's interesting to see Counsyl representing. I interviewed with you guys a while back, and while I couldn't move to California this time and I bailed out of the interview process, you came across as a team with great ideas and amazingly clever environment. Looking forward to see what will happen to this project, have a lot of bitcoin related activity here in Taiwan now, and I can see that a lot more work is needed. Cheers!
The crazy annoyance of linkbait titles.
> someone pushing you to drink may actually trying to be say "I'd like you to be a member of this group"

And my response (like that of logicchains, I expect) would still be "No thanks, I don't think it's my kind of group". So the signaling works fine both ways.
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There is an app called Keychain Access on the mac which allows you to copy a password to the clipboard. If they're using iCloud keychain and they can login to their iCloud account, you might be able to pull it off that way.
Well,

Admittedly, all this is in manner of speaking but still, I would claim that most if not all the times you debug a program you are also debugging your mental concept of what the program does. By that fact that we can change our concepts, our minds are very "debuggable."
>Uhm, that was 60+ years ago.

How old are you? Are your parents still alive? Are your grandparents?

Surprise surprise, when you overthrow a country's democratically elected government to grab some oil, people tend to remember it for a long time.

What's more is, ordinary Iranians don't particularly like their government. Iran was a moderately religious country, not fundamentalist, before the Revolution, and for the most part, it still is. Iranians are educated and intelligent people.

Iranians know that when they vote, their votes aren't worth much. They know the Council and really, the Supreme Leader call the real shots. But they still vote, and in larger numbers than Americans, primarily to demonstrate that they have faith in their government, and they would rather it exist than not.

Most likely, Iran is going to forget the unspeakable harms the United States has committed against it as its people age and the pain of living under a foreign power's puppet dictator recedes from the national consciousness. And when that happens, Iran will liberalize of its own accord, and all of America's saber-rattling and sanctions will have done nothing.

Iran does not need to make an enemy of the United States. The United States made an enemy out of Iran when it committed acts of war for the sake of corporate profits. Iran just hasn't forgotten.
I didn't mean to be rude, but point noted.
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There was a bunch of us in the unrevoked days that contributed to the success of the project (everything from the userland parts to the UI that actually drove the installer). I was one of the guys deep in the radio for hours at a time, and occasionally the Android system source but it was definitely a high-functioning team that made it happen. :)

The Evo4G was our first and biggest coup, and we used that as a shim to get lots of press coverage shaming the carriers and manufacturers, as well as contacts inside of both HTC and Sprint that led to our eventual "victory" with HTC's official unlock program. Glad you found it useful!
Cloud is a marketing term more often than not.

Reminds me of EA's (computer games) latest Sim City. They stated that the player's city would be saved on the cloud, when in reality players logged onto various regional servers ie Europe1 Europe2 etc. The player's saved city were only available on the server they were created on. This was just really naive explicit horizontal scaling and not the seamlessly scaled client/server arch their marketing implied.

So yeah 'Cloud' mostly a marketing term.
Mexican rebel leader Marcos retires, says 'no longer exists'
> If you can drink without issues, I'd highly recommend it - you'll have a happier, more successful life.

I think this depends on your definition of "happy" and "success".
Personally I don't mind the smell but, as other posters have suggested, I think it's likely that less intrusive and safer methods of consumption will become popular as Cannabis moves into the mainstream. Vaporizers and edibles are both good alternatives.
"the RSS spec"

RSS was invented at Netscape with no involvement by Winer. Most informed people starting fresh today would tend to prefer the Atom format.

"XML-RPC, SOAP, OPML"

Some of the "interesting ideas" that I acknowledged. Most people today would prefer REST if possible, although there is a lot of legacy and enterprise stuff that uses, especially, SOAP. OPML is obviously useful, if obvious.

"arguably podcasts were first implemented by Winer"

Automatically downloadable audio files were already in place in several forms before Winer got involved, including subscriptions. Winer and Curry implemented RSS enclosures and used them to deliver audio files. This is an implementation of the existing podcast concept using RSS, and probably helped make podcasting more popular.

The RSS spec is something that a motivated high school student could come up with in a couple of hours. Why grown men consider it an accomplishment and argue about who should get the credit is embarrassing. The real value comes in building a consensus to create an accepted standard. Did Winer do more to help this process along, or to obstruct it? What about stunts like making trivial changes to an existing spec and slapping Userland's copyright on it? What effect did that have on helping to establish the RSS spec as a standard? Edit: The Atom format owes its existence mainly to the desire to create a work-alike that avoids the RSS version mess, which resulted from Winer's antics. Mark Pilgrim early on defined Atom as "RSS without the sociopaths."

And I referred to "products" as flops; you mentioned standards and protocols. The products I'm referring to are Radio and its many precursors and descendants. Do you think that any of these products were successful?
I will very much second this one. That said, there is something for shy people. They sometimes think they have something to hide when they actually do not. So it can be a little bit of a bad tell if you don't realize it can sometimes be a lack of self confidence as opposed to a need to hide something.
Thanks for that. I've updated the post to mention multi-target attacks and the quantum attack against McEliece (which I wasn't aware of, and is saddening because it appears to make McEliece a much less attractive PQ system).

I picked SHA-384 as an example of a case where one might want to spend resources on an "unbalanced" primitive because of the history of hash functions failing to meet design strengths, rather than as a quantum resistance.

Although, if you are looking to pick between SHA-256 and SHA-512/384 for speed on modern CPUs, SHA-256 (in an interleaved tree mode) wins for speed: http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/476.pdf.
That game sounds like a lot of fun. What's the trickiest/most obscure item you've been able to locate?
They don't hide them. Apparently every parisienne is aware of the fact that their subways are suicide targets and they just gracefully ignore them.

I was astounded when I learnt about them initially to say the least.
Mysql -p *
Negligent users left off these crucial information in their repositories :)
JSON is considerably more compact, especially if you use lists instead of maps. For a list of numbers, there is only one character of overhead per item. For a list of strings, it's three characters per item.

Of course you can embed comma-separated lists in XML, but with JSON it will parse them for you.

(And of course it's not as good as a protobuf, but not bad for a text format.)
TL;DR.

I kid, I kid!

On a serious note, has the Mass Effect trilogy led to any conversion of opinions by 'serious' 'art' critics that computer games aren't an art-form... as it seems plain to me that Mass Effect does indeed qualify but is oh so much more besides, as outlined by this excellent thesis. Is 'can computer games be art?' still a debate anymore? Was it ever a valid question or just intellectual snobbery?
> it might be an interesting analysis to see if there would be sufficient yearly yield to offset snowmelting operations in winter

There doesn't need to be sufficient yearly yield. This isn't just trying to pay for itself by collecting electricity on clear days to melt snow. It'd still be a great solution if it uses far more electricity than it collects because it's competing with snow removal trucks. If it could be cheaper and more efficient than having trucks driving around dropping salt and plowing, it'd be amazing.

Even if it's a little more costly, the ability to keep all the roads clear, all the time, would be incredible and worth some added expense. Think about how much safer the roads would be if they could remain free of snow.
One neat trick is that, unless it's been explicitly rebound, this will show you all keybindings beginning with <prefix>

<prefix> C-h

So if you want to see all keybindings in the current buffer starting with C-c !

C-c ! C-h
There is no chance these are going to be more effective or cheaper than the dedicated roadway snowmelt systems that exist today.

And, is there widespread adoption of roadway snowmelt systems? No. Why? Because the energy and maintenance required is simply immense. Even when you get energy for free (geothermal), it's rarely worth the cost and upkeep.

It's a nice idea but the maths just don't work out.
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Are you developing relevant product features?
The quora experts exchange parallel is not a fair one. Expertsexchange attempted to get you to pay for membership to view the answer (it was available impossibly far down the page so google would index, but obscured as much as possible). Quora prompts you to create a free account after a couple question views, which is infuriating as a user(imho probably not going to be worth it from a business perspective either), but thats a pretty big distance from deceiving you into paying.*

*admittedly Quora's total lack of a revenue model at the moment helps them out here.
The first part of R&D is research, implying "research if this is even possible". The point people are making it's far from clear that this will work, so it's silly to assume that it will work a priori given the obvious engineering challenges.
That's good, but is not enough. A metadata support would be useful!

e.g. It's like with photos (JPG) were you would only know it was shoot with a Canon camera, or a music file (MP3) that only stores the application name media player.

Most common file formats support metadata formarts like JPEG with its EXIV, ITPC, XMP and MP3 with ID3 v1 & v2, etc.

So for SQLite4 a very simple key value format would be great, with some predefined key-fields.
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This is the height of pedantry (and I apologize), but guitar/banjo/mandolin players are not really "opposite" to violinists--they all need to keep the fingernails of their fingerboard hands short. The difference is that the former may choose to keep the nails of their picking fingers long, whereas the fingernail length of a violinists' bow hand is almost inconsequential.
Also:

Step 1: Spend users' deposited BTC until you can no longer cover withdrawals.

Step 2: Freeze Bitcoin withdrawals.

Step 3: Wait while the internal Gox BTC price plummets as people try to get their money out.

Step 4: Buy up the "bad" BTC at the deflated prices until it's all gone. Nobody will ever know the difference.
That's what I did when the same happened to me. Enable iCloud Keychain on the iPad and the Mac, wait for the passwords to sync (might take a few minutes) and then open Keychain Access on the Mac and find the password on it.
In my limited understanding, the frequency of required maintenance depends heavily on weather conditions, and also on the size of vehicles who commonly travel on the road. Trucks cause orders of magnitude more wear on roads than cars do.
Devs: Stay away from full blown web frameworks
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> "Real men" are supposed to eat red meat, be promiscuous (until 30 or so), and be experienced with liquor.

You forgot watching sports.
Most of the Kaggle competitions (if not all) do not allow any use of external data, as far as I know.
You'd be surprised. I've been on the receiving end of one of these bounties and nearly everyone fulfilled their pledge.

On top of that, donations trickled in for months after from folks who didn't originally pledge.

The XDA community is very good about these things.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=499076
1) They are dependent on Intel or AMD for the higher end processors. This is a $5 billion-per-factory industry. So that is one thing they can't easily replicate.

http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/infrastructure-as-a-ser...?

They don't make that on AWS, in gross revenues. This is similarly true of most hardware inside a modern server. They can make small improvements but they can't magically take over the CPU market or any of the other core components in a 'big way'.

2) Creating all that in-house software automation is complicated, difficult, and expensive. This software isn't a requirement for in-house hosting.

So they need to crush the margins of their supplies [power; bandwidth; hardware] to the point that they can get their own margin on top of that + cover the cost of a bunch of custom in-house software development. For a stable workload...that just isn't going to happen.

AWS isn't going to cut their prices 33% after the largest price cut I've ever seen them make in April, let alone the 67% they'd need to.

Sure, in 10 years, they might manage it. I don't see it happening faster than that.
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They have a resource called 'push' too. I don't know what a 'push' is.
Humans have been researching and developing road surfaces for a few millennia now. It's going to be very expensive to find plausible materials that haven't already been tried.

Especially clear ones.