skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
while we're at it and throwing stuff around as if its an easy fix: lets stop using passwords. Use keys. Use a trust model on these keys.
So many advantages.. you don't receive the cleartext password no more (because really I DONT CARE if you use triplezscrypt.. SINCE YOU GET MY PASSWORD IN CLEAR TEXT during authentication.. its not like if compromises were "on the database". Its always at the application level.)

Beside it makes rotation easier, and not having to remember multiple passwords, or having a password manager, etc. a thing.

Oh wait ;)
Google and others are actually attempting to make this work with U2F:

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6103523?hl=en (yes it works with gmail. Right. Now.)

https://www.yubico.com/applications/fido/
http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html
I don't question the technical achievement. This is just a prime example of 'Being so concerned with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to consider whether they should.'

Also, even if I were to want to use it, it's too heavily dependent on scroll speed. It's completely unusable on my computer unless I use the down arrow.
yes actually im curious.
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Hanford Site beating out the Space Needle for tourism is very interesting.
Perhaps you should consider that not everything you think is the most wonderful thing ever to happen to the human race. What you think and what is right are very different things. And if you happen to think stuff about other people that isn't nice, then you should make a concentrated effort to understand why and evaluate whether you should continue thinking that way. It's called self improvement.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancia_Stratos The '0'.

Beautiful car!
I wanted to go back to the source, or at least as far as I could go (I didn't look to see if any of Von Neumann's papers covered it :) ). I know D. Goldberg's appendix covers this (pages 218-219), for the binary to decimal direction, for single-precision floating-point. But I wanted a simple example as well, and I. Goldberg's paper had that.
That's good. I don't know. I've never read their policies.
I hope they go with C#.
You know, at first I found this was really good, but after trying it for a little I just completely forgot about it. Is it as good as everyone says? From the comments so far it makes me want to try it out again.
This reads to me like a massive overthinking of a very old problem - bad products.

We used to have bad products that did a hundred different things badly, rushed out to meet an overambitious spec sheet and an unrealistic launch date. Now we have bad products that do one thing badly, rushed out because the Kickstarter money or seed funding has all been spent.

I think the author completely misses the mark on what these teams are getting wrong, and the solution to the problem. The products he describes have clearly had no small amount of effort put into the "whole gestalt experience"; The hardware he complains about looks beautiful, and I expect came in beautiful packaging and was sold with beautiful marketing. His gripes are straightforward engineering issues, mainly of poor software quality. There's nothing romantic about refactoring and debugging. It doesn't take any sort of deep philosophical insight to do proper QA.

If I may be somewhat blunt, I think that the answer is perfectly straightforward - stop buying unproven hardware just because it looks cool. Companies ship buggy, half-finished devices because the market makes it profitable to do so. Curb your enthusiasm and wait for version two. Pass over the hot new thing from the hot new startup, and buy something more pedestrian from a manufacturer with a proven track record. Ignore the glowing press reviews on launch day, and wait for the trickle of complaints on Amazon when the thing starts failing after three months.
Yea, they claimed that they were going to take years to comply with the BRs. They ended up limiting it to French TLDs. It seems that they are finally phasing out this CA now.
Or just don't use floats at all. In many cases fixed-point makes more sense.

The only problem with that is that there's no support in most programming languages for either and no hardware-support for decimal floating points in common hardware.
Most of his talks he mentions this. He was doing a PHD to study ultra-capacitors, or at least, was accepted to UPENN with that intention. He left to start zip2. He has also mentioned that a part of the reason he didn't proceed was that his research was very theoretical and it would've been able to find (or disprove) of a method after years pf study. He mentions some of the other breakthroughs on iltra-capacitors having the efficiency of a lead battery, but, while extremely efficient, the prototype used an extremely rare material that only was mined in a few tonnes a year. Thus the solution could never scale.
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Terminator resistors! although it's not rocket science they can be quite PITA to figure our during development phase when you are testing different i2c components with different impedances
What makes you think postfix is safe from prying eyes?
I bought a bus pirate and after dealing with all its problems I'd have paid twice as much for something like the Saleae. Never again
Interesting to consider --- is there enough lithium in the world to support this stuff?

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/eason2/
not affected as it doesn't use CNNIC as root
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If you are a Chromebook user, you want to run Android apps so there are more to apps available to you.

If you are an app developer, you want your apps in front of as many people as possible, regardless of their device.

Or, for the kids, this may mean Minecraft Pocket edition on the Chromebook :)
Aren't they mainly a subsidy company?
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> The battery in a Tesla Model S, OTOH, is continuously computing whether to charge or discharge

Is it? I would imagine the software does that. The battery really is a large array of commodity batteries made by panosonic. Tesla is doing the gigafactory for vertical integration and to bolster it's own supply. Obviously, they have done a lot of innovation around the pack in terms of heat distribution and cell construction, as well as the management system. The innovation is really about the macro-cell construction and the software to manage the array. On a micro-level it is just a bunch of commodity batteries wites into small cells, that make up a large cell array.
It's just an organizational decision. CNNIC is super trustworthy to a lot of people. It's so many people, in fact, that they can't possibly verify all of the sites these people want to visit. So instead of burdening CNNIC with verifying the identity of every single site that wants a cert that their users will trust, CNNIC will just verify some other CAs as being trustworthy enough to do the job.

Personally, I think I should trust the hardware or OS manufacturer to pick exactly who is trustworthy enough to certify websites, since I'm trusting them that my computer is doing what it looks like it's doing anyway.
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5ms is a really long time
It's quite interesting how much of our data is decimal floating point (any ascii representation like in css, html, json, javascript, svg, when we enter data somewhere), yet we convert it to binary floating point back and forth all the time.
And, as always - these discussions about Salts/bcrypt/scrypt are only relevant to people where passwords/security are important, but not critical.

For anybody who has critical security needs, just use an HSM already. Sophos/Utimaco makes a nice one, and it is a nice foundation for password security.
I wish we could do micro-subscriptions in a seamless way. I would gladly pay $0.50 a month for a site to get the ad-free version of it.

Unfortunately, the legal and financial problems with those kinds of systems have kept that from becoming a reality. It's not a particularly difficult technical challenge.
Wonder if Mozilla will follow suit:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542689
To add that list:
- alternative formats text/media
- ARIA and semantics for complex js heavy apps.
And McDonalds is a Real Estate company.
I am going to think twice before buying nuts again...

It takes 1 gallon of water to grow 1 almond! How many almonds' worth of water does it take to:

* Flush a toilet: 1.6

* Run a dishwasher: 8

* Run a garden hose for 2 min: 20

* Take 10-min shower: 25

* Do a load of laundry: 45

How much water per year does it take to (in billions of cubic meters):

* produce all of the almonds in California: 3.6

* provide water to all Los Angeles homes and businesses: 0.86

* provide water to all San Francisco homes and businesses: 0.11
Especially given that they have been selling batteries to Solar City for use by their customers for a while already, and have publicly talked about larger scale production of that. E.g. here's an article from MIT Technology Review from 2013 that touches on Tesla's battery sales to Solar City:

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/522226/solarcity-using-...
I know this isn't the place or time, but I got your extension and I would like to request that the archive.org music player be added to it. I do not know how to contact you through your site or send a pm through here or github.
That is a good presentation!
Then you might want to see both of them on the same stage in June :) http://www.dotscale.io/
Spartan needs to be on iOS, OS X, and Android to make it big. It has to go cross platform
Didn't know about Set, thanks for the article. I really appreciated the "when you use it" part under each datastore entry.
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We updated the site with a video showing video chat!
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Dyn's early results were not representative of our network or service. This was as a result of the limited number of nodes currently testing and the location of these nodes. We found a routing issue between Azure and ourselves via one carrier leading to elevated results for a short period of time.

There's been great commentary on here about providers showing as fast because of the proximity of the tests. This will only be rectified by adding more monitoring and a broader base of test locations.

I know jimaek is working on getting new locations online - if anyone here can assist in providing or sponsoring test locations, I encourage you to reach out to him.
With regular SIP you might have a look at mizutech SIP encryption. It has multiple encryption methods (the standard TLS/SRTP and non standard RSA based) and also a nice obfuscation to bypass VoIP blockages. They are also running a distributed network to mask the VoIP servers.
http://www.mizu-voip.com/Software/VoIPTunnel.aspx
Definitely awesome first effort. Just keep on sharpening your skill and good things will happen. Mentoring will help accelerate your curve, which is what Recurse (or just a developer friend) can help with it. Good luck!
The Galaxy S5 has a form of fingerprint unlocking: http://www.cnet.com/how-to/a-deep-dive-into-the-galaxy-s5s-s...
Why do you discriminate against the numbers on the left of the decimal point? They are an approximation too.

They are precise in fixed point representations, but floating point has a single bit as the integer part of the mantissa (and even this one can gather error on some sequences of operations).
The cable car museum? Ok, that makes sense for SF.
http://www.cablecarmuseum.org/info.html
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I'll start with a few:

"How did you learn to do all this?!"

“It’s not ‘P.C.’ to say this, but…”

“Wow, you’re pretty strong!”

“You know about making coffee, right?”

“It doesn’t have all the features; this is the soccer mom version.”

“Let me know when you want to do that so I can help you. No offense, but you just don’t know enough about it to try it on your own.”

“See, that’s the great thing about you, I know I can tell ‘offensive’ jokes around you and you won’t care.”

I'm not really sure about the context she was told these things in, and perhaps they were said to her in a tone that was dripping with condescension, but most of these seem like fairly gender-neutral things to say. But it all depends on the tone, and I imagine since she wrote this article that she perceived the tone to patronizing because of her gender.
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The images of California reservoirs remind me of images of the Aral sea in Uzbekistan which was drained during Soviet times in order to grow cotton in the middle of the Central Asian desert. Humans really are greedy and stupid.
As I recall, this drought has been ongoing for 5 years+.
It is easier to be myopic it seems. Best of luck. I'm sure when the water finally runs out, everybody will want to get a word in
Floating point numbers are a pretty generic concept. But there are infinite possibilities of fixed point ones, with completely different qualities. It's just not viable to implement them in hardware.
According to the article China consumes most of them.
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Perhaps its an April Fools joke? This project seems very interesting. I would hate to see it just sit there.
Nebraska is a great place for driving really fast. One time while passing through on my way to Montana I hit 130 mph in my Integra. I don't really have anything else to say for Nebraska.
I used to think China needed us. Now I think they are using us up the way the US has used up 3rd-world countries for decades.
https://scotthelme.co.uk/hpkp-http-public-key-pinning/

Chrome also preloads HPKP information for many sites.

It's interesting to note that certificates signed by a locally installed CA (e.g. an org's MitM proxy CA) will be considered acceptable. If MCS had just made their own private root CA and deployed it to their machines there wouldn't have been an issue.
Back up DVDs to a Blu-ray
Former Motionloft CEO Jon Mills Sentenced to 24 Months in Prison for Wire Fraud
I've been wanting the android kindle app on Mac for a while. It is so much better than the Mac app.
These aren't minimum viable products, they just aren't very good.

Minimum viable product is about getting something minimal built to test the market and see if there is any interest. If there is, you iterate on it to build out the feature set.

I'm not much for minimum viable product. It's a fine distinction but I build "minimum valuable product" - i.e. the product that I think it should be.
The Mozilla root program currently has a similar plan proposed, with a final decision pending in the next day or so.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security...
It's good to have a choice.
The author should check his definition of viability. This doesn't mean the product is polished or done, it means that people will buy it. And he did buy it.

Don't call yourself an early-adopter if you aren't willing to accept the challenges that come with it. Sometimes investing in new products pays off and you get access to a new technology before the rest of the world discovers it. Sometimes the product miserably fails and your money is wasted. It comes with the territory, and nobody should be surprised by it.
There are already standalone Android runtimes to run apps as is on your computer without Chrome. See BlueStacks[1]

[1]http://www.bluestacks.com/
> Hopefully CNNIC deploys CT

What are the odds they'll do this? I'd bet extremely high.
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and myopic and self-centered ..

> Not planning ahead for a foreseeable event

and

> 33.8 million people not batting an eye for over 5 years while their state runs completely dry of water

People have to face personal consequences in today's society before they wake up. Notably, that's when you hear the most yapping and observe the most activity : When something is too far gone and its too late.
Thanks for the reminder to recheck my certs. I manually wiped CNNIC (among others) when the news first broke, and with today's Firefox update, I'll check again.
I've worked at both large corporations and early-stage startups and for me a small software company is the ideal size (I've been at a company with < 100 employees for the past two years). From my experience you have more job security than a start-up but do not have to deal with the soul-crushing bureaucratic processes and politics of a corporation. You also have the ability to make a real impact as an individual and usually get to work with the latest technologies. I'm sure this varies in degrees from company to company but in general I've found it to be true.
> Do you get to chose between electricity providers?

Texas also. Compare pricing here: http://PowerToChoose.org
Bluestacks is an emulator running the Android OS under Windows, not an integration of the Android runtime with Windows. The latter is possible, but it would take quite a bit more work. Whereas ARC really is an Android runtime, separated from the Android OS, and ported to other OSs.
You seem to think that because it's more likely for someone to be wrong in Biology versus Physics that they can't have a strong, confident opinion backed by science. Dawkins holds a PhD and is a really smart guy who has contributed to science in general and, more specifically, the theory of evolution. I don't see the problem here.

As far as I can tell they were both being asshats to each other in the media (Wilson calling him a Journalist then Dawkins saying to throw Wilson's book hard). Reading Dawkin's response[1] I think it has merit and it refers to plenty of science (which doesn't come across at charlatanism to me) though I'm not going to say he's right because I don't know.

[1] http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/science-and-technology/edw...
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This is why we should be looking seriously at desalinization for both drinking and irragation water.

With proper designs, we should be able to mitigate a lot of the bad side effects while protecting more of the land based ecosystems.
Probably the bigger problem is that the more money you'd be willing to pay to get rid of ads, the more your eyeballs are worth to a potential advertiser. You're demonstrating that you have disposable income that you're willing to part with to overcome an inconvenience.
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"ARC runs Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS thanks to Native Client (abbreviated "NaCL"). NaCL is a Chrome sandboxing technology that allows Chrome apps and plugins to run at "near native" speeds"

Straight out of the MS playbook, 'lets use our dominant browser as a pincer move to gain developer/market share'.
You either see (call) a bet or you raise it, you don't see and raise, as it's confusing. There's a name for this confusing, inappropriate behavior in a poker game: string bet [0], and it's simply not allowed at most tables.

[0] http://www.pokertips.org/glossary/w/STRING+BET