skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they want QUIC to be TCP/2. It's design goals around slow start, congestion control, and RTT reduction are squarely aimed at TCP's short comings.
TIOBE index disagrees with this one. I'm not saying only one of them is correct, but it shows the measuring methodology is more or less, flawed.

I was surprised that Ruby is above C, TIOBE seems much more accurate to me.
That is terrible, he/she used the same phrase as in the example!
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I don't see how it's disputable that the less expensive it is for the navy to sink ships, the greater the capability there is for sinking ships.
Twitter has been used to overthrow governments. I'll pass on the verified account meaning Twitter knows where I live bit. Facebook likely doesn't know my street address.
Have you applied and failed to get those positions?

A lot of companies have trouble filling sales roles, and adding your technical expertise is a huge advantage. I'd imagine any smart hiring manager would at least talk to you.
Building Robots with Better Morals Than Humans
On some small sites I've worked on, switching to SPDY shaved about 20-30% off our load times. And all we had to do was type " SPDY" into our nginx.conf. That's like the definition of a win.
Be not brave
I believe it works both ways. If you're a small upstart company with novel tech and BIGCO gets you on the ropes with claims of patent infringement, you can buy protection from IV and in turn they'll provide you with patents from their arsenal so you can countersue BIGCO and settle on better terms.

http://www.intellectualventures.com/news/press-releases/dash...

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110801006668/en/Dash...
This is 10 million out of 1 billion that he has.

So there is only a 1% chance of a leaked account getting in this list.
Pretty cool idea, and beautifully designed website. Any idea on what this type of design would be called and/or how its done?
Check out exercism.io. Its effectively a series of unit tests where you fill in the implementation. Peers are there to help/comment on yiur specific implementation. As you work through the tasks they increase in scope and complexity.
OpenResty does not include SPDY as there are incompatibilities with it and Lua. But I'm sure CloudFlare has the engineering resources in house to decide what they want to support and when :)
The missing word kind of broke the joke for me ("so he [can/could] get a vasectomy") - I got so hung up on wondering whether part of the sentence was missing or whether something had been lost in translation that I missed the fact that it was just an attempt at humor.

Copy editing - it's important!
Incredible views of a single solar eclipse, from a photography mastermind
Anyone who invents something and then patents and licenses it without owning the factory is a patent troll the way you're defining it.

The problem is that the patents modern trolls abuse are garbage patents that don't promote innovation. Some are overbroad or obvious. Most are directed to math and computer software, a field totally incompatible with the patent system. Over 90% of programmers with an opinion prefer only copyright and trademarks to apply to computer software.

The patent lawyers were thirsty to bleed software companies dry and pushed their system where it isn't wanted and now we have to suffer the consequences of having little influence in Washington to defend ourselves.
> I find it extremely amusing to watch the US crow about IP

Irrelevant nationalism. What does the U.S have to do with China's blatant IP theft? Plenty of my non-American friends have lost quite a bit due to China's underhanded tactics, and they're not big players. China isn't stealing IPs from the U.S because it's "America", they're stealing any IP they can get their hands on, whether it's from America, Russia or Bulgaria. They've already "caught up" to the rest of the world as far as technological development goes, now they're trying to get ahead.

It's largely the reason why every country who participates in the ISS wants absolutely nothing to do with China and wouldn't let them participate in the program. There was a vote and it was unanimous. Participating in the ISS would have opened the doors to a lot of sensitive and classified IPs and nobody trusts China enough not to abuse their position of corroboration.

China is literally bursting with corruption and it boggles my mind why anyone would want to do business there. My experience with that country is that if you're not corrupt, you stand no chance. It's not something that's underhanded or kept "hush hush", but par for the course. Expected.

China really is shooting itself in the foot here. It's not just America they're pissing off and scaring, but the rest of the world. America isn't the only country with IPs to lose, and if you think everyone else isn't paying attention, then you're naive.
Reminds me of Ted Taylor: http://www.amazon.com/The-Curve-Binding-Energy-Alarming/dp/0...

He didn't stop with the high explosives, he went Nuclear!
Native Americans Say Facebook Is Accusing Them of Using Fake Names
People have been saying things ain't what they used to be since forever. I'm sure during your youth people were saying the local arts scene's best days were behind it too. In fact, no less an authority than former Suicide Club member and Burning Man cofounder John Law had this to say on the matter:

"When I moved to Frisco (g’head – take that one on!) in 1976 [...] the hippies I met back then [...] all told me the same thing: “Party’s over kid, ya missed it.” Well, they were full of crap on that one. The story of this town as with all towns is one of constant change."

At least in terms of anything measurable I can find, SF's music scene seems to be holding its own, relative to other cities:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=San+Francisco+...
What is your current stack?
I am looking for what to pick up next, and would like to see what you are currently using for your web framework/language.
Robots on Haskell
An algorithm is still an algorithm if a human is running it. Therefore, humans put their futures in the hands of algorithms being run by impartial humans all the time; partiality is only nice when it's acting in your favor, after all, and we don't want to be at the mercy of people who might not like us for some undefinable reason.
I don't even... It makes me start thinking how many comments on HN are like this. I used to feel like sometimes comments on HN is as valuable as the original story. This makes me think about how many other well-formed read-title-only comments in disguise.
Great game. I played it recently in CPM on my Altair clone.
SPDY is a great prototype that exemplifies why you should write a prototype: to show the problems with your design. It's unfortunate that the HTTP/2.0 committee decided to ignore the flaws and go with the prototype design.
? Primary care is the easiest work-life balance outside of radiology. 0 stress 28-hr weeks.
Hi, great tip. Just fyi - your website is really hard on GPU. I am on Chrome and after keeping it some time in a tab it started to be so brutal on GPU that I had to shut down as my browser was unusable... Maybe possible memory leak?
Only active plugin I have is uBlock.
Part of it may be where the passwords are scraped from. If "dragon" has some relevance to the field then there's a higher probability that it will be used by people working in that field. This list is a sample of passwords from compromised databases not from all databases in the world.

I wonder about the prevalence of "allsop" as a password. I came across it in a computer I was repairing last week and it shows up 159 times in this list. Is it from the acronym SOP? Or because of the company that makes mouse pads?
For sensitive sites, my preferred solution to this problem is to add a sequence of random characters to the User ID field. The user would then authenticate with something like this:

User ID: John-CPE4E38J
Password: snoopy

For extra security the code would then move the random characters to the password so the authentication library would see this:

User ID: John
Password: snoopy-CPE4E38J

In this way even an attacker who gains full access to the server database would be unable to read the passwords (assuming they have been hashed well).

Also, the User ID can be stored in a cookie so that the User ID field on screen is pre-populated and the user only has to type "John-CPE4E38J" when he switches to a new computer.

More details here: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/80352/is-it-a-ba...
Sure. Pricing is per room.
The Electric Home of the Future (1939)
That's not completely a contrary anecdote: I agree the core functionality is awesome. The only difference between our opinions is that the cruft and privacy concerns are not a dealbreaker for you.
I never said HTTP/1.1 is perfect. There are many possible optimizations and fixes possible, of which you've alluded to one.
How are things like Twitter accounts hacked? Are they generally brute-forced with a list like this, or how do so many of them get compromised?
That's interesting! Though after reading so many pros & cons of FairTax on wiki, I'm still not convinced it's a good idea. The potential downsides are pretty dramatic:

* Easier tax evasion (first-party reporting, B2B untaxed)

* Discouraging of consumption (encouraging saving, DIY & black markets)

* Income-regressive nature of consumption

That said, some of the upsides are pretty good too. And if we were switching from FairTax to the current system, the latter would seem even more insane.
I have not applied yet. Usually reading the job description it's a bit intimidating. I've officially only worked as a software developer but have not worked in a sales role other than building my own SaaS from scratch, and selling it to other people.

I've been considering an entry level sales job to fill that gap before thinking about this role, but is that not necessary? Could it be possible to go into this role directly with only an engineering and some entrepreneurship experience?

well my email is john@appsonify.com if anyone wants to talk.
The type inferrence fix ("Type inference for single-expression closures has been improved in several ways:") is the most annoying one for me. Glad they've fixed it. Sure, compiling faster and having less crashes is nice. But that means nothing if it isn't compiling _correctly_.
what are some examples of people and blogs that have done this already? I think I can learn the fastest by reading such blogs and trying to emulate what they've done but in a domain that I'm familiar with.
http://imgur.com/a/bHcLD

They're trying to make those two images look exactly the same.
Depending on the frontend, I use either PHP or Node. Python is a better language and more enjoyable to code in, but I often pass my projects on to junior devs to maintain. It's a lot harder to find someone to take over a Python project than a PHP or JavaScript one. All the good Python devs seem to be gobbled up by larger companies.

I'm getting into Go now, but I'm hopeful Rust will become the language of the future. I'm desperate for a great type system in a web framework. Elixir is cool, but I don't think I could find anyone to work on it for me.
Hopefully none, and hopefully they are all following best practices to protect your password, but you trust them regardless. Besides, who said plain text, such service could use ssl.
I dunno if he should have said "released", because he's not releasing any new data. Everything he's posted is already available to anyone with a search engine and a bit of curiosity.

So if you're concerned that information which wasn't previously public is now public, you can be at ease -- all of this data was not only public already, but less "cleaned up".
I have personally done this with much success. It is not easy, but it is not rocket science either, just consistent effort.

https://sysadmincasts.com/
Untangling Data Science from Engineering
I'm so sick of software patents. The solution seems pretty simple - the approval process for software patents should consist of running the idea past three people off of the street. If they say "Well, duh..." in response to being presented with a complex idea like "Method for Storing Phone Number With a Name" or "Method for Buying Something by Clicking On It" then you don't get your freaking patent.
Zero stress? 28 hour weeks? Where are you getting this from?

http://medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com/medical-economics...

> Median hours per week remained unchanged from 2011 to 2012 for family/general practitioners at 50 hours, though visits per week increased slightly from 98 in 2011 to 99 in 2012.
I'd believe it, my friend had one and the delay on all commands in all forms was very 'laggy'.
"family" business has a nice ring to it, but there is an undercurrent of nepotism and privilege. It's not quite wrong, but it's not quite fair shakes either.

This youngster should be evaluated relative to other privileged youth, not the average American child.
Whoa! Didn't know about that! Very cool. No ruby support though :/
Writing better apps with Node and Express
Looks like Azure has a PaaS now though-- I mean it's no heroku, but as far as I can tell it's working.
This is very interesting. I'm watching the docker video. Very easy to understand.

So how did it lead you to a sales engineering role or other opportunities? Do you ever mention it in your interviews or resume? How do you explain how it demonstrates your abilities for sales engineering roles?

Did you create the screencasts just to build a portfolio or do you have a general interest in this area?

You should upload it on youtube and monetize it as well (but I've not done this but seen other people uploading screencasts on there with success).
It's a true statement, but it makes little sense in context. Parentheticals are supposed to relate to the surrounding text somehow, and I just don't see it here.
12 years ago I was kicked out of college due to a low GPA. I just listed the college on my CV as attended, but never indicated any type of degree.

For me, having a portfolio of work was more important than the college I attended. If you don't have a portfolio, do some free work for a local business in exchange for a testimonial.

Don't go for internships, look for Jr. positions, find something that pays.
I don't really see how the "old" methods were really less accessible. There were tools such as HTK, cmu sphinx, etc., or srilm for language modelling, each with documentation and a large user base. Granted, a lot of fiddling is involved if one wants to use speaker adaptative training (MLLR, VTLN), feature transforms (HLDA, MLLT), MLP features (TANDEM), etc., but DNN approaches come with their own set of screws to tweak..

It's just hard to make something work really well for a specific use case; when contributors to an open-source project are all trying to scratch their own itch (make it work for their specific use [language, vocabulary, etc.]), the result may not be universally satisfying.
Has anyone been able to do any sort of correlation or alerting with ELK?
Yes you are getting old. Just observe a kid using an ipad and you'll understand how useful it can be. My 5 year old is able to find pretty much anything she wants (like videos of play doh of frozen characters) through voice search.
You are giving the american public too much credit...
Are you generating the User ID with the additional characters and expecting the user to remember/keep track of it? I do think that is very user-friendly, even with the cookie trick you describe.

It seems like you are trying to force your user to remember a salt. Why not just use a proper salt and a strong password hashing function?

Also note that this protection is only useful in the case where an attacker can get a database dump but cannot perform an active attack on the server.

On the other hand, I have seen some sites (gandi.net comes to mind) do something similar to this. Wonder if they have a similar security reasoning?
Thanks, I spent ten minutes reading the post, clicking a lot of the underlined words that didn't result in links and missed that this was based on an academic paper.
It irritates me that almost every Boston Dynamics video features someone kicking the robot to demonstrate its ability to self-stabilize. I know I'm anthropomorphizing here, but I always find myself half-fearing and half-hoping that the robot will give the smug bastard a taste of his own medicine.
The Tyranny of Footnotes
And also depend on all the contents of disk and network and all attached input devices.
This is a horrible practice. You are trying to implement two factor auth, but with a static second factor that will not be considered private by most users. It is a huge burden on them to remember, and is providing you with dubious security at best, and actually providing a vector of attack at worst. Please don't do this.
Overall the BlueMix and Watson documentation is very green and fair to call alpha-stage. This problem tends to all directions, although if a specific example would be helpful, trying to discover what load balancing options exist within BlueMix was something I tried and failed to learn last week.

For a Watson-specific example, at least a few months ago it was the case that putting together a full-featured client implementation for Q&A required poking around several obscure webpages and then plenty of runtime experimentation on top.
The suicide club was so named with the expressed intention of scaring away people like you, who don't look into things further.
I wasn't saying use AS2 directly but an iteration of all the pain points of before solved, it is a decade old now. There are some things that wouldn't be needed and an iteration needed.

The things that AS/2 got right was that it rides on top of an existing infrastructure of MIME/HTTP. The other part is doing encryption/compression of any type specified by the server/client. And there is some benefit to encryption/compression/digital signing over plain HTTP.

HTTP/2 might be the first protocol for the web that isn't based on MIME for better or for worse. We are headed to a binary protocol that is called Hypertext Transfer Protocol.

HTTP/2 looks more like TCP/UDP or small layer on top of it that you might build in multiplayer game servers. Take a look at the spec and look at all the binary blocks that look like file formats from '93: https://http2.github.io/http2-spec/. It is a munging of HTTP/HTTPS/encryption in one big binary ball. It will definitely be more CPU intensive but I guess we are going live either way!

Plus AS2 was a huge improvement over nightly faxing of orders, large companies were doing this as late as 2003. AS1 (email based) and AS3 (FTP based) were available as well but HTTP with AS2 is what all fulfillment processes use now. And yes it has tons of problems but the core idea of encryption/compression/signatures/receipts over current infrastructure is nice. Everything else you mention exists and definitely are the bad parts though much of that wouldn't be needed in the core.
Haven't tried this one yet, but I've used theorytab before. Wish it had more songs.
http://www.hooktheory.com/theorytab
No specific reason, didn't think of it. Got some other comments along the same line, will think about changing it, thanks!
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GNU was doing just fine without corporations for a long time.
Node isn't a graph here. Not sure what it is, at is like a "cut" but is rather underspecified. But it's not a bad model of... Whatever it is modeling.
Bitcoin, Anonymous ECash, and Strong Privacy (2014)
Is there a list for these? I have seriously had problems trying to redeem any offers from Microsoft / Bizspark. I run a sports science startup and would love to look into this.
I guess this is more of a symbolic gesture than anything else but I will take it as reminder that we take for granted so easily the fruits of a free market economy like united states while actively encouraging government involvement for the so called "fairness". Cuba is probably most fair among all countries. Almost everyone is pretty much destitute.
Personal preference: Node.js for the backend. Angular.js for the frontend if it's a prototype and performance isn't critical. React//Flux for the frontend if it's a production product and performance/maintainability matters.
By cognitive speech, do they mean 'understanding' the natural language? Can somebody please explain how is it different from other solutions?
I have had no end of problems getting signed up for this for my startup. It was a month of back and forth arguing then I eventually gave up and paid $200/month on Digital Ocean and stuck with Linux. Very frustrating. Anyone to talk to there that can help outside of generic customer support?
Probably. The whole patent system is broken and it is just infuriating to observe the farce. I have simply lost count of all the examples of patents which should never have been granted being used in litigation.
Here's Waldo: Computing the optimal search strategy for finding Waldo
* " There are only 5300 broadband internet accounts on the Caribbean island "
WTH? I even said my comment was knee-jerk from the title only.

Whats wrong with admitting that? You know what I am tired of, the constant HN ego.

I'd love to see a conversation between you and any single person you know; do you cut them off after every single comment or sentence and ask for a source?

How hung up you are on ensuring that every single comment ever is always backed by reading everything?

I dont even.... what a ridiculous narcissistic way to open your non-rebutal.

^This
> It's pretty evident how we can pick cotton without slavery. We do it every day.

The morality of it wasn't evident to slave owners in the past, it seems. Like the morality of printing money isn't evident to most nowadays.

I'm not going to defend gold specifically here because what matters is that there not be a group of people that can issue money. The problem with creating it out of thin air is precisely that some people will be in control of printing it, and will get corrupted by it, endangering the health of that system and of its participants.

I'm also not going to defend gold because someone that is against slavery need not defend and explain ad nauseam how machines will eventually take on agricultural work and blah blah blah. Slavery is immoral because it impinges on people's freedoms. Same goes for printing money.

> I don't think there's a country on the planet that will accept gold for financial transactions without converting to currency. So, no, it hasn't "lasted thousands of years"; it's gone.

You're being intellectually dishonest. The world cared about gold until 1971. It seems to me the world still does care about gold, or central banks wouldn't hoard it like there's no tomorrow, and keep transporting it back and forth. Why do they not keep diamonds? Why not keep Platinum? Why not keep famous artwork? Somehow they seem to love that gold. But you say it's "gone".
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Woah you are REALLY optimistic about law enforcement agencies wanting to focus on real criminals.

But Barrett Brown is not the first or only example.

Aaron Swartz is the only example I need to understand what to expect from the various US law enforcement agencies.
Job offers was not my motivation for creating the site. Just an interest in the tools and changes happening in the area. Yes, I have mentioned it on the resume, and in interviews. I should say, that I am working full-time on the site now, so I am not doing sales for any company. But I do get offers, via email, from companies that I had done videos on. So, I know the options are there. I kind of hate how this sounds like I am bragging, I am not, I am just trying to let you know that building an on-line profile will take you places, far beyond a single job. I am not an expert, I do have domain experience, there is nothing stopping my colleagues from doing something similar, it just takes a long time. Go read some of the things patio11 has to say, he is far smarter than me, check out https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/content-m...