skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as the machine is on, can't the attacker ask the YubiKey to generate signatures on their behalf?

For the 2FA OTP portion: No. The button needs to be physically touched.

For the PGP (ssh) portion: Yes. (but again, the attacker can not obtain a copy of the private key, that's the critical difference to your scenario)

That's why (at least for critical servers) you should combine the two. That way an attacker can at most piggyback your connections. He can not initiate his own because he can not touch the button.
it's not about fairness, that's what we see currently.
Ironically - I'm still on 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion) - My system is rock solid, no longer kernel faults, and I rarely have to reboot it more than once every two-three weeks because of a system hang.

Only specialists, or people with massive, massive data sets require more than 8 GB on OS X - I push my system really, really hard, and I rarely (if ever?) come close to maxing out memory.

This isn't to say there isn't a subset of people who can make do with more than 8 GB - but 95%+ of the average knowledge worker running the Office Apps, Google Earth, Safari, etc... will be fine for several years with that much memory.
And where does MPAA get experts from if not from ex-congressmen responsible for IP reforms?

It seems to me like the same thing, just a more reputable company.
Programmed obsolescence...
The analogy is, buy a new car if your spare tire is flat
Is it just me or does there seem to be significantly more of a recode.net presence on HN at the moment?

I hadn't heard of the site until recently and now I've seen a few fairly low-brow articles from it on the front page here in the last 24 hours.
Interesting! What qualities won you over?
"Make you buy" is sort of a harsh way to cast it :) But yeah, that's probably how they'll imagine you'll use it. Makes sense.
If that works for you, then great!

You might consider the same cheat I use for charging, which is to keep a small but reasonably capacious USB battery [1] in my bag, and top it up via USB whenever I happen to have a port free. Since it's specified to fully charge an iPad twice, it can charge my phone several times before running flat, and a fully powered USB port can charge the battery itself in a matter of a few hours -- an overnight charge is ample. (And, hey, the only thing I ever plug in my phone for anyway is power, so it's not like I'm losing anything by not plugging into a port on my laptop.)

Another trick worth considering is, instead of using a USB headset, instead to use one which connects via the headphone jack proper. Mine is a Sennheiser HD558 with an aftermarket cable incorporating an Apple-style mic/remote module, but you don't have to get that elaborate, especially since the HD558 isn't designed to travel and does not do so well; for simple VoIP purposes, anything halfway decent will do, and serve the purpose of freeing up a USB port for things that a headphone jack can't do.

[1] http://www.nothingbutsavings.com/Product/270265-APB27US-Targ...
The New MacBook Hands-On
Vikram Adve and Chris Lattner started LLVM at the University of Illinois in 2000. Only 5 years later, Apple got involved and hired Lattner.
That used to be the theory - but four years now, and I've been fine with 8 GB, more than fine. I wouldn't recommend purchasing more right now - Unless you have special requirements (Running Oracle, or some intense image management/CAD system/Development platform) - Wait for the next round of upgrades in 5 years to see if more than 8 GB is needed - I'm guessing it probably won't be even then.
I once felt the same way as you did, but I'm coming to appreciate the allure of minimalism. Come on. Join us. Look at the shiny laptop. Pretty, isn't it? You don't need ports, or reliably functioning software. Drink the Apple cider.
Just my 2 cents. I've been trying my scientific computing code (QM/MM, not ML) in a cluster using various configs (6xK40, 4xK80, 6xK20, etc) and the performance I noticed of the K80 is quite strange. I've been using the CUDA_DEVICE 0,1,2,3 of that config and if I try to use more than one logical GPU, the performance is not 1:1, but more like 1:0.6

The only conclusion I've been able to find is that the K80 presents itself as 2 different devices (0,1 or 2,3 in that config) but the performance is not 2x, at all. There is quite a lot of PCI bus contention, hurting badly the performance of my code (as it is just running many <10ms kernels at a time). So far, having 2xK40 seems to be a better value and performance proposition than 1xK80 on the same bus, but the flops/watt aspect of that equation favors greatly the K80.
Had that exact mp3 as a ringtone a while ago. Really cool to see the breakdown of what the modems "say" during that whole process.

Brings back memories. I know i could mute the modem, but i never did.
If I could make all my patent problems go away by sprinkling magic Apache License dust on my code, I'd consider it, but I don't think it works that way.
The right to fork is not the same as the right to sell derivatives.
Google Drive issues
> Anti-vaccine movement comes from declining levels of trust in authorities.

I'll just leave this relevant episode of [Last Week Tonight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQZ2UeOTO3I). While anti-vaxxers are clearly wrong let's acknowledge that health care, at least in the US, has been partially corrupted.

The thought that medical workers might be offering unsound advice in this one area when it's known they behaved unethically in that other area suddenly does not appear so unreasonable.
Could this be a canary for the end of this investment cycle?
Well it depends on the viewing distance of course. With a telescope you can only (barely) image the accretion disk, if the BH is not too far and not shrouded by dust. So it's more of an artistic perspective, but accurate rendition :)
How does a tech company run out of money? Isn't this where some VC steps in with a billion dollar valuation for the series G round?
I've been involved with multiple large data center migrations over the course of the last 25 years. Every single time, there is a discussion over the best way to transfer the data. Every single time, we choose the same option: Copy all the data to external hard drives. A tech puts them in a carry on bag, heads to the airport, and flies to the new data center.
The problem is that such a sysadmin is expensive, and what companies call "sysadmin" today is an almost completely different job.

Microsoft revolutionized personal computers because they made things easy and cheap. Their stuff was meant to be used by the average joe, not a greybeard who'd survived the Unix Wars.

At the same time, IT is always seen as a "cost center" to be reduced and outsourced. Unix? Too expensive, replace them with Windows, and if there's a problem, re-image the system.

The sysadmins you describe still exist, but they're called SREs by Google or who knows what elsewhere. Today's "sysadmin" is an outsourced phonecenter guy in Bangalore.
Thanks to Mathew Ingram for his valiant articles and twitter commentary on journalism ethics. Maybe he will consider following the Ben Thompson / stratechery business model.
Thanks for the detailed answer. Caching is a good idea. Another idea is provide the content as static JSON to crawl over. I presume there is a lot of crawling from other nerds wanting to make their own HN interface or search.

I'm impressed it runs off a single core it's a very popular site!
The machine instruction set is generated from the CPU generating tools per family member.

The lowest level you'd want to get in terms of hand-writing "assembly" would be genAsm, http://millcomputing.com/wiki/GenAsm_%28language%29 , but there are no released emulators or simulators yet.

genAsm is a pretty generic language, and the OS's specializer will compile that to the architecture-specific machine instructions.
Mixpanel Releases Web Notifications
This is neither intuitive nor easily discoverable
I have one account active for a few years now (I've created it in 2010 or 2011, not sure). I didn't tweet anything at a time and started using it (and Twitter altogether) somewhere in November 2013. It already had ~300 followers -> all of them bots (like this one: https://twitter.com/rachid82369439). I have no idea how I got them. Maybe I had some specific keyword in my profile summary that they were looking for. I honestly don't remember at all.

After using Twitter for more than a year, I have seen some slight impact from having those 300 Twitter bots. Because I am only following around 150 people (and around 500 Twitter profiles follows me), whenever I follow someone new they feel kind of privileged and they think that I have a some kind of influence like a steady number of favorites and retweets per tweet. After they consider that, they usually follow me back.
It might be fun to take a cardboard box or something and make a "vertical" stand for your macbook. You could keep it constantly rotated 90 degrees for code reading. :)
I looked at the data and am pretty sure it's just random fluctuation.

If there's a higher-brow article on this story we'll happily change the url.
It's not particularly rare in SciFi either:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Ships
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistborn_series
What a great article. And this was my favorite part. After making many millions of dollars from The Simpsons...

"Mr. Simon put his money toward his passions. He started a foundation that trained dogs to help disabled people, including veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he gave generously to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, among other groups."
Does this help:

http://osxdaily.com/2012/07/04/change-finder-window-view-sty...
That's a good point w/r/t desktops, you could easily have the CPU case hidden away down behind the desk or something, but the parent comment said "especially on a laptop" where the monitor/keyboard/cpu are somewhat bound together.

I guess you're right about the setup time, but that seems like an extremely minor irritation to me, compared to the moderate irritation of swapping out or recharging dead batteries. Ultimately, I suppose it's a personal preference: Do you prefer a tiny annoyance every day, or greater annoyance (still negligible, in the grand scheme) every few months.
Technically rjohnk didn't claim his sister used IE, only that IE toolbars were installed.
As open source software itself has gained mindshare, more people have become aware that there's more to it than just Linux, er sorry, GNU/Linux, and those parts aren't all GPL. Anybody developing for the web was probably using some combination of perl, php, python, ruby, node, etc. and those parts, i.e., the parts they're directly exposed to, aren't GPL.
while apple has made some beautiful products like the ipod and unibody macbook, i honestly think the apple watch is pretty ugly. to me, it looks outdated today. i also think it's ugly from a design standpoint. the ipod and macbook were both takes on already existing technology that overstepped their competitors through holistic design that made the product more functional. the apple watch does not make a watch more functional, it just adds a bunch of tech shit to it.
If the company is worth $1BB, then you must own 3% of its equity in order to have $30MM worth of equity of that company [1].

Non-founders rarely, if ever, are given that much equity (commonly cited numbers tend to top out around 2%). The most likely candidates are engineer #1 and an early VP, but engineer #1 has likely been diluted by over 30% since seed stage and even the exec will have been diluted by 10~20%.

At $5BB, a nonfounder needs about 0.6% of the company. By this point though, dilution is usually even more severe, and engineer #1 will likely have had his/her initial share cut by close to 50%. This means that only the earliest of early employees, along with the VP level hires, will have $30MM at a typical $5BB startup (though $5BB startups are hardly typical).

It's the companies that are another order of magnitude higher in valuation that mint wealth of that kind to dozens of employees.

[1] ignoring liquidity preference for the sake of simplicity.
We offer a lot of data (in JSON and XML) via our Firebase powered API:

https://github.com/HackerNews/API
Great point. It's happened before. For example, at many companies, HackerRank-esque code tests were meant to replace the technical screen, but just ended up being an additional step you have to do.

More red tape happens because companies feel like they have the power to ask people to jump through whatever hoops they want. But you can reverse this. If you have the people companies want desperately, you can dictate what the companies can and cannot do (no 3-day interviews, for example). I think that's what Starfighter is trying to do.
I time to time read gigaom, the articles were mostly somber devoid of sensationalism, I will sorely miss gigaom.
The image "inversion" effect you get near the black hole is very intriguing ... you get an infinite series of inversions with increasing compression corresponding to the number of revolutions light took around the BH. So a few photons getting to you might be really old (could be almost as old as the BH itself!), it's a series of windows into the past...
A breaking dam will drown some people downstream, but once the flood passes it's over. Nuclear disasters have more staying power.
Front (YC S14) is hiring Marketing Lead #1
Is 25% heavier on such a light laptop that big of a difference at the end of the day?
While this might indeed help employers find better employees, I am concerned about hidden (or not so hidden) bias. Games like this (and the way this one is described confirms it) select for competitive people. Other talented programmers might prefer expressing their creativity and talent in less competitive ways. While competitiveness might be a desirable quality, sometimes it is not. It might also appeal to men more than women, and so might be inadvertently sexist. I think you should very carefully analyze player demographics to make sure you're not making matters worse in terms of diversity.

When you design a test -- any test -- you should make sure that 1/ score correlates with success (i.e. full bivariate correlation), and 2/ if the test is voluntary, that there are no prior biases which would select candidates prior to taking the test.
> Shell scripts, when you're not dealing with autotools generated script, aren't really that big, or even that complicated.

They're not always portable. Some people develop on windows.
Recode automatically has rep here because it's run by the main principals of the old WSJ site AllThingsD. Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg earned their rep—ReCode is just keeping it alive.
> "Headphone/optical digital audio output (minijack)"

Looks like they're going with the same mini-TOSLINK/3.5mm stereo jack that they've gone with in the past.
Agreed, those things suck. But as someone moving in the other direction (Finder -> Explorer), let me share a few of my Explorer grievances. Hopefully I'm missing a hidden option, but more cynically I expect that I'm in basically the same situation you are: stuck putting up with the persistent mediocrity in big-name graphical file navigators.

0) Good trackpad gestures.

1) Explorer can't sort alphabetically by name. WTH? No matter what I do, the closest I can get is "sort by folder/file status, THEN sort alphabetically by name." This really sucks for the common use cases of navigating the file tree by keyboard or unzipping into a crowded directory.

2) The retarded file open dialogs. I don't mean to say that all file open dialogs in Windows suck (although none of them allow drag-to-jump-to-file which is a minor PITA), I am referring specifically to a subset of file open dialogs which seem to be developmentally impaired by a few decades. They display the entire file hierarchy in a tree view that you have to scroll downwards vs the usual click-to-change-directory + breadcrumbs view. Ctrl+L to jump to a path doesn't work, they don't remember your location between invocations, they don't display common locations (desktop, docs, etc), jump-to-first-letter is broken, and they don't allow easy use of the down arrow to scroll because the next item is invariably hidden beneath the fold. These things are straight from the pits of UX hell, yet for some unknown reason they seem to constitute about ~20% of file selection dialogs on Windows. Ugh.

3) There are no consistent "jump to file" semantics (you know the "Open Enclosing Folder" contextual menu? Like that, but more universal). On OSX, this is the command key. Command click a document's icon in the header to jump to open an enclosing folder. Command click a search result or dock icon to jump to its location in the filesystem. Very handy. Very frustrating to find missing.

4) Hot corners to turn off the screen. Some screen/laptop manufacturers have a physical button, but some don't. Finder provides a built-in workaround. Explorer doesn't. In order to solve this issue I have to navigate the fake-download-button gauntlet and crapware-installer gauntlet twice before writing a line of code to emulate this feature with a keystroke. Yuck!

EDIT: added 0
This is very interesting - I see this as an ideal concept to be paired with one of the existing commercial solutions, e.g. Shazam.

If you're indexing all the random and free stuff out there, you're picking up a lot of material that may have never been commercially released or has not been re-released digitally. At the same time, Shazam, YouTube ContentID, Apple's iTunes Match, etc. have access to an extremely large set of references which (more than you could have) contain 99% accurate metadata. ContentID definitely picks up multiple songs in mixes, as well as pitch changes, with a high degree of accuracy (assuming the master sound recording has been submitted to YouTube).

A submission system would be great too, or some way for persons to tag stuff themselves ala discogs, etc.
That is excellent, thanks.

(If you happen to know an address for an RSS feed of Technovore, I'd be very appreciative. Fast Company seems to offer only their entire site's headlines (http://feeds.feedburner.com/fastcompany/headlines), which has too poor signal-to-noise to add to my feeds.)

EDIT: Nevermind, found it:
http://www.fastcompany.com/user/om-malik.rss
Wouldn't largely sedentary refer to the amount of hours sedentary?

I spend 8 hours in a chair, minimum. It's unlikely that I spend 100% of the remaining waking hours standing, so I'm already largely sedentary.

Factor in sleep and it's not even close.
If you were in charge at Apple, would you have made Apple Pay unable to buy a Coke?
If you read http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/, you will see that this approach is looking to find folks that were not obviously good, as you say, but they found someone that is a stellar crypto breaker.
Ok. I see the disconnect.

This fear is unplugged from the reality of recruiting incentives.

It is in the direct financial interests of companies to recruit you directly, not through us. To recruit through us, they have to pay for the privilege.
This is kind of gimmicky. Most people are probably better off going to a 4-year university and studying CS/engineering/math/physics or something, and the few who want to learn in a nontraditional way and don't intend to get a corporate or hardcore engineering job would probably be smart enough choose to use books, a startup internship or some freelance gigs, and, say, the Internet (???) over something like Make School. Many big cushy corporate jobs require traditional degrees, and most startups could care less about your formal education if you can show what you're capable of. I'm having a lot of trouble picturing the market for Make School, even as a massive proponent of autodidacticism and hands-on learning.
cmd+shift+G
im sure it was traunched. god i hope so.. actually no i dont, dumb money
Wearables and Self-Awareness (Personal)
In defense of the parent: Apple sells more than just the 12" MacBook, and if its specs aren't to your liking then you're not the intended demographic. Some people DO want an extremely thin/light Mac and don't need more than a charging cable & audio jack, enough people that Apple decided it was worth going to this extreme. Want more ports/power/etc? get a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, or Mac Pro - each with a variety of configurations.
Yes. So as a guest do you make the best of it or whine that there are better things available?
Damn. I read Gigaom regularly, really appreciated the straight up news. It will be missed.

Gigaom had an excellent writing staff, hope they get back on their feet quickly so we can keep reading their pieces.
what a terrible website.
> It seems that a simple yeoman/grunt setup that just preprocesses some HTML and JS takes... a very long time.

I have not experienced this. I built a 15k+ line CoffeeScript app. Every time a file changed it would compile it to JS and run thousands of unit tests in ~1 second.

As for the clean NPM... I never deleted that directory. I believe I read an article somewhere that you should actually commit your module dir. Maybe that's no longer in vogue though?
Would that many rsyncs on the same volume thrash the disk like crazy?
Best answer I can give was that we've heard that concern from a bunch of different sources, we share it, and we're designing against it to some extent.

As a reminder: this is an outreach strategy we deployed at Matasano to enormous success. We had an English professor finish the crypto challenges. We didn't solve all our diversity problems, but we made a palpable dent in them, and we did that by coming up with something that surfaced aptitude that wasn't held hostage to the biases of random human interviewers.

There is, to my mind, no hope for the "random human interviewer" hiring strategy. It's hard to make the problem we have now worse. But we're watching out for it.

I would love to hear more thoughts on how we can address this at the level of game design! We're at a "finishing touches on infrastructure, just starting with level design" place in our design right now.
Sorry to disappoint you, but it absolutely does fit in my pants pockets and all of my jackets pockets.

UPDATE: Here's an image gallery that I just made showing it in the jacket I'm wearing today, in the pants I'm wearing today and again in a pair of pants that I grabbed out my laundry pile - http://imgur.com/a/hFeDo

Not only does it fit in my pockets, but there's room to spare. Maybe it won't fit in some skinny jeans, but I don't wear tight pants because I'd rather be comfortable. In any case, whether it fits in your pocket or not isn't the point - it is true that Apple doesn't offer a highly portable device that runs a full OS for over 10 hours
She's been acting head for years. No big deal.
Looks like I picked the wrong side project now this team is working on it.

Competition is a signal that you picked the right field. Just about everybody gets this backward.
I'm pretty surprised by this, particularly in part because their events business seemed robust. My company sent me to an event of theirs in NYC two years ago, and it had a very high caliber of presenters/panelists (David Karp, Andrew Sullivan, Tim Ferriss, a few others). The tickets also weren't cheap.

Sure, the company didn't go down the clickbait road, but it also had come up with revenue models that made up for that. Beyond events, they also had a research group—something that, to a degree, arguably made their real competition Gartner and Forrester.

I wonder what role Om stepping away from the day-to-day played in this. What he said a year ago makes this turn of events seem shocking: https://gigaom.com/2014/02/20/now-that-gigaom-is-all-grown-u...