skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As with any medication, side effects vary. When I took melatonin, I would very quickly fall asleep but would still wake up extremely tired. I also experienced very severe depression when on melatonin, that started about 2 days after use, and ended about a day after stopping use.

I do know people that have had it work very well for them, however.
Forex is generally not a good investment. Sure, some people get lucky and have hot streaks, but it's very very tough, even with high frequency trading.
I can understand that writing up technical details can be difficult as things are constantly improving and also as AWS has to be careful about what they claim. Perhaps a reasonable compromise would be to team up with some 3rd parties to let them try it, optimize a bit with techs from AWS and write up their experiences. Similar to how Apple does the marketing for the iPhone but then lets other people review it. Not perfect but perhaps something that would help the community understand and deploy these technologies better.
What I do for most sites is to enter a one-off random string and forget it immediately. I just leave myself logged in and when I get logged out I just use the email password recovery to set a new random password. Your email password recovery mechanism is already the weakest link.
Also, you don't have to deal with a disruptive timezone difference. Same story in Mexico, where I spent the winter and did a little remote work.
Kickstarter and friends can't, but there are other tech options for creating money, or money-like instruments. Bitcoin and Zynga points are some first steps in that direction. IOUs could be another. Any firm that can give credit is also a move towards money.
This comment is a gem. Its not good. But its a gem.
>Is there no value in keeping your phone in your pocket at the dinner table?

What's the difference between being distracted by a phone at the dinner table and glancing to the watch ?

If I'm at the dinner table and ignore the notifications in my pocket, I won't easily reach for the phone this way. On my hand though it will vibrate/chirp away and knowing it's "just a glance away" I'll be more easily distracted.
Thanks! I kind of felt I needed to visit Spain again to appreciate the cultural feel. :-)

Do any movies do it justice?
I agree with you that it would be insulting to pass this on to an industry veteran, and I wouldn't send this to someone who had that kind of resume. A lot of the candidates we've had so far have only been coding for a few years, so I think it's a fair ask, especially from people who don't have a portfolio at all.
All this assumes the third party service is even hashing their passwords.

To say nothing of the people who drop in a single round of md5 hashing without a salt and then sit back and tell themselves they are smarter than all those idiots still storing plaintext passwords.
Ember at Netflix – Ben Lesh [video]
My Dad got himself a brand new laptop (i7, 8gb ram, ssd, etc). And a brand new printer HP OfficeJet (big black shiny machine with all the bells and whistles).

He couldn't print his stuff for work. He called me up. After over an hour I gave up. Windows 8 couldn't figure out which drivers to use. The CDs attached with printer didn't help too. I mean the installation went smoothly, but then nothing was printed. Check your cables, etc. messages like we are still in 1996.

I don't have time for this BS. Drove back home, got my macbook pro. Came back to my Dad's home and did THIS:
1. connect printer to the mac
2. driver installs after clicking 'OK' or 'install', dont even remember at this point
3. print

that's it! Welcome back to 2015!
I think GP needs sarcasm tags.
Why an arbitrary 100-200 character limit?

"I still think that the standard should just become a 8-16 characters password limit with no other restriction."
I would think something like LastPass would be a good solution for you. Sure, it syncs across browsers and is stored remotely (on LastPass's servers), but at least it's encrypted and allows you to easily have very different passwords for every service you use.

Currently, someone just has to compromise your account on one third-party service in order to compromise every service you use (do you use Yahoo Messenger? I think all passwords are cleartext for that).

With LastPass, someone would have to compromise the (likely more secure LastPass service, or physically access your machine (and then compromise LastPass) in order to access your passwords. Seems just as easy to use, but more secure.
> something serious

What do you recommend? Autotools, bespoke shell scripts, or something else entirely?
Yeah, xylitol inhibits bacterial growth in the mouth. I like it in gum, it seems to help me. It seems like different people have different tolerances for xylitol to some extent; I know that my wife, who is much smaller than me, has a higher absolute tolerance than I do (i.e. if we eat the same amount without accounting for body weight, I will experience discomfort and she will not).

I'm not a vet but I'm waiting on some batch tests at work so I did some reading. According to http://veterinarymedicine.dvm360.com/new-findings-effects-xy..., dogs absorb Xylitol much more quickly than rats or humans do. Xylitol also provokes dogs to release insulin, but not people. The reasons behind that are not completely clear to me, but since they quickly and completely absorb Xylitol, they end up producing a ton of insulin very quickly which tanks their blood glucose levels. That's dangerous without any complicating factors.

Additionally, dogs metabolize xylitol differently, and it's thought that a side effect of the metabolization is to deplete adenosine triphosphate in the liver, which can cause liver necrosis (obviously very bad news).

Humans don't absorb xylitol well (it's only partially digestible and some of it acts as dietary fiber, sort of), and we don't metabolize what we do absorb very efficiently. The difference is likely in both the dose relative to body weight, and the intensity (since dogs metabolize it much faster and more completely).

That's all secondhand info though, I don't have a JSTOR or equivalent account so I couldn't read any interesting primary papers. If we coincidentally have a vet wandering through I'd love to learn more about this.
So you don't use online banking at all?
I am surprised it didn't get upvoted to the top...because javascript.
I remember reading a paper evaluating the security of several password managers. As I recall PasswordSafe was rated strongest, followed by KeePass. I used to use PasswordSafe but switched to KeePass some time ago. Now I'm thinking about switching back. I'll see if I can find a citation for you.
Right, the issue is not the thing, but the tests and reviews on said thing being made by humans.
How to smuggle a million bucks with Spanx and Saran Wrap
The special privilege of extra legal protection, such as a "right to farm".
Its going to be really nice if you are able to snapshot these like EBS volumes. I didn't see any reference in the details on how data recovery would work.
echo 100-i;
Boiling timer
Nope. I thought about it, but I felt that writing a spec would impose a design, so it's up to the candidate to add tests if they choose. I actually didn't expect anyone to do that, but some (to my surprise) did.
Agree 100%, in that light, anyone know how far we are away from having data wrangling be more automated? I saw a demo for a product called Paxata a few weeks ago, it looked like a good start. Anyone know more about things like that?
Whatsapp and Snapchat cool tricks
They've been working on this for 2.5 years.
I'm not going to disagree that the free classes from Stanford and MIT aren't better, but I find courses on Lynda, coursea, etc to be easier to swallow with the way they break it down and generally have a better delivery of content. Watching a video of a professor give a lecture is even more stale than sitting in the class and from the few courses I've worked through that's what was offered from the universities.

Also, I'm currently doing the modules on data science on coursea and that is put together by people from John Hopkins. I like this the most because the information is coming from a verifiable good source and in a format that is easy to digest.
General Biotics [http://www.generalbiotics.com] has some more information available on that (and a product based on the research).
My 2009 imac took 3 sec to respond to each click with Yosemite. Got frustrated and installed Mint and it works great!
Write your passwords down on a piece of paper and put that piece of paper in your wallet. If you lose your wallet, well you just lost your credit card and maybe social security card too, so changing passwords ain't so bad.

Use incorrect answers for secret questions (wallet too).
There is no jargon for "obscure, deliberately implemented security hole which supports system functionality", because nobody does that.

(For values of 'nobody' which are not members of a set that includes such as Apple, obviously.)

Jargon and slang is needed for shortening the names of everyday things that people do, use or encounter.

If Apple has started a trend, we might need a new term, like "root kludge". A deliberate solution with negative attributes is a kludge (that much we have slang for, because we encounter such things with reasonable frequency). This type of kludge gets us root. So ...

Wait, if Apple starts a trend with this, then it will be cool, and have some name that begins with 'i'.

How about "iHole".

"An iHole was discovered in my wi-fi router's firmware".

Hmmm ...
Let me know what explanation you are looking for and I would be happy to go into more detail.
Do you have a source re: aspartame and seizures? I did a cursory search and the only non-anecdotal thing I could find was a study[1] that showed there was no link in people who described themselves as sensitive.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7614911
What if you put a receiving antenna in every power outlet, light switch, and light fixture – then you could use these throughout the building.
Forex makes money off of bad currencies. Sure currencies fluctuate, but always to their detriment.
MIT Announces New Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Given they know about it, they should just add a custom Google search widget to the sidebar.
If the government (by US theory, this is: "the people") wants to take out a $800M loan, then, by definition, it will have no problem 'crowd-funding' it.
Then again, just burying the money in your backyard wouldnt be too far off...
After getting more and more tired of Apple's generally obnoxious behavior over the last few years I'm wondering which straw will be the last for me before doing exactly that. I'm pretty seriously considering wiping OSX off my MBP and running some variety of Linux on it at this point, though regrettably I might still be forced to consider them for future hardware purchases on account of the fact that I don't think I've ever encountered a non-Apple laptop that seemed worthwhile (in terms of general construction and build quality).
Righton. I was at MetaTools/MetaCreations just down the road in Carpinteria. Lynda ran the Bryce Camp and Painter training courses for us. Some of her very first ones.

The current Lynda.com HQ is now in Carpinteria - right across the highway from the old Meta offices off Bailard Ave.
And yet forex is literally the highest liquidity market on the planet, plenty of which is speculative trading... go figure.
thought this was going to be on Woz's byte-code interpreter for 16bit calculations on Apple][ 8bit 6502 :( http://www.6502.org/source/interpreters/sweet16.htm
> What's your favorite color?
> What do you want to be when you grow up?

See, I can ask good interview questions too!

It may have been a good interview, but not a single question was going to get an answer that was more valuable than if you'd asked it to a random person on the street.
yes. its nice to see the common sense, with tons of historical data that indicates it, being backed by some data we are collecting right now today.

well done to those bits of the US for being progressive and intelligent instead of reactionary and ignorant. i'm glad its paying off. :)
Maybe you didn't notice, but they just invented the Watch.

Imagine...if you could put a whole entire clock...on your wrist. Almost everybody has a wrist!
* The Fall of Doc Future - http://docfuture.tumblr.com/post/82363551272/fall-of-doc-fut...

There are very few stories that strike me as having been 'natively' written for a reader like me; this is one of them.

I also bought book 1 of the Bartimaeus series, read it, and am now onto book 2.

* http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786852550/ref=as_li_tl?ie=...
The Story of Sweet 16
I use Keepass, I store the databases on Dropbox, I memorize the passphrases, and I store their private keys on a thumbdrive.

I do worry about someone analyzing each and every change to the database for some kind of information leak, but I also change the compound key every 6 months which should help.
One of my university professors used lyrics from folk songs to create passwords. Usually he took first characters of each word and created a long password out of them. He changed the song every week - I saw him often singing without a sound when he was about to login ;-)
The implicit assumptions that ones' choice to have sex with strangers for money is coerced, wrong, constitutes self harm, and must be protected against are telling a story that denies the people who make that choice the very same autonomy such a statement pretends to protect against.

I'd say that is incorrect and based on incomplete understanding. I'd say it's a choice, made, no matter how incomprehensible, for money. Like other choices people make, eg choosing such and such career path, or such and such relationship, sometimes there's peer pressure. And because it's connected with orchestration by criminal enterprises, tainted by that association. However, when you come down to it, people could sell themselves before criminals wanted a cut. It works to consider how you might come to make that choice, and whether your assumptions about prostitutes are filtered through the landscape of what you perceive as your own possible choices.

So before I pronounce prostitutes as victims to fit a narrative of exploitation I've chosen (seductive also for it suggests my moral superiority that I would never make such a choice! :), maybe I'll remember it doesn't work to victimize the people I'm talking about by pretending they had no autonomy. Isn't that, the very same hypocrisy I'm trying to accuse others of? Using a person for a purpose? And when that person may have done the choosing, and I in my argument may be doing the using, haven't I neatly reversed the roles all by myself, and undermined the very argument I was making?

Tl;Dr - when you're talking about people you want to paint as victims it works to consider them as autonomous,
choice making beings, to gain more accurate insight,
even tho it's seductive to pretend that somehow you've more autonomy than they.

Stl;Dr - fantasising that prostitutes have no autonomy is trying to use them for an intellectual "dry sex", without paying, for the sake of argument without their consent! Definitely only for scoundrels!! :)
KeePass is open source, cross platform and free. I have used it for 4 years.
That is true but there are safe investment avenues that should be returning more than .025% over 10 years (40 mil / 160 bil).
Verge review calls it "remarkably small-time" and "a weird thing to hype as much as it's been hyped" -

"But here’s the thing — it doesn’t happen in real time. I had assumed that sending a heartbeat meant that my recipient would just start feeling my heart on their wrist like some sort of cosmic love connection, but that’s not how it works. Instead, you get a regular notification which sends you into the Digital Touch canvas, where the message plays back: the taps come through, the drawings draw themselves, the heartbeats beat."
{video} Public animate life size dummy from dawn to dusk
One thing keeping me from using a password manager as a comprehensive solution is my Chromebook. I have to manually sign in every morning when I open it up, and I can't use a password manager on the sign-in screen.
A ruby gem for creating music YouTube playlists from music blogs, like pitchfork
When I see a story on sweet16, I think of 1 point by Woz's byte-code interpreter for 16bit calculations on Apple][ 8bit 6502, not Mr. Gruber. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9351060
Social Media Tools That Help Optimize Your Time
Testing in Ember with Sam Selikoff, During Codementor Office Hours on 5/20
Rubbish article by a professor who somehow can't think straight.

Newsflash: Everyone is as "self-driven" as your typical Golden CS Boy who is going to be next #1 at sucking up to VC's.

And I'll tell you what drives most of those types of people: feelings of inadequacy and insecurity and needing someone to compare against to feel better about himself (i.e., subhuman).

Anyways, going back to the main point, people are very obviously and palpably "self-driven." Otherwise they would just sit there like a robot, and you'd have to give them commands in some kind of neuro assembly language lol.

They are just driven in different directions than you prefer, and it's your job as a fucking teacher to find what these directions are and SHOW them gaps in their thinking and how they can get better.

Of course, you aren't actually interested in this; you just want a choir of more wretched subhumans to preach to.

Broadly speaking, it's sad and funny that nearly 80% of professors I've seen don't do it because they like the subject, it's more because they like the status and want to look down on more people.

In fact, it's only like 20% of professors I've encountered who continually renew my faith and sense of curiosity in the subject, and always introduce me to new realms of the field where I can improve my understanding.

One day people will find out they don't have to pay tuition to be belittled by subhuman idiots presiding in what is in most cases, in the final analysis, make-work positions, and just read HN or proggit for however much internet access costs :)
I wonder why you would want to learn "GNU make" in contrast to POSIX make when one of the advantages of make is that you have it on all unix systems.
Clearly you can't rotate your 64 characters of line noise effectively. I'm in a similar situation with my master password.

Does anyone know the security implications of this?
One of my professors recommended passphrases of the same type. I still remember the example he used 15 years later.

"ILikeToPluckStringerdInstrumentsWithAPlectrum"
This article is pretty garbled. Matt Levine is, as usual, excellent: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-09/new-york-di...
usually run well even on 5+ years old hardware

At my last office we had older macs, a mix of laptops and desktops. They all ran slow, with one user's mac pro using all 4GB RAM on a fresh boot with nothing loaded. These folks were normal users, not power users. When a new OSX release would come out, a few people would upgrade, have a ton of problems, and warn everyone else.

I ran linux myself, and was occasionally called over to help with an OSX problem, and I could never understand how my colleagues could stand to work on such slow computers. In my experience, older macs do not usually run well on newer OSX.
I think this is one of advertised advantages of deep learning: it will find useful and unobvious features in your data corpus without much effort from your side.
I was surprised at how few are hiring in Los Angeles. I'm thinking about going to grad school there. Can anyone in LA comment on the state of your tech economy?
No. The first part of the book explains neuro-plasticity with several examples and mentioning various experiments about the way the brain adapt quickly to external stimuli.

Then the author dives deep into the history of culture (oral, written, mass-media, internet).
So far I haven't encountered any mention of how the mind of a "professional" wouldn't be affected by the distracting impulses of the internet and digital communication.
Ask HN: Will existing apps be affected by Heroku price change?
Is it really that good?

My only test case has been a VMWare virtual machine, mounting an nfs share from the host so I could work on my local filesystem and execute within the VM. Switched to a filesystem wather + rsync combo after struggling with poor random read performance. Maybe it was due to bad configuration but always thought it would be a poor choice for anything serius.
> I do wonder how something can be so dangerous for dogs and safe for humans. Aren't our cells almost identical?

There's lots of differences in the enzymes that are made though. For example humans are one of the few species that can not make vitamin C.

Usually if you check the reason a food is dangerous for some animal it's that they lack an enzyme needed to degrade it, so it builds up.
"Making it illegal for the customer to buy something from the prostitute does not solve anything. In fact, it discourages the customer from entering into the exchange."

What it does is destroy the market for those exploiting prostitutes. I.e. traffickers. It changes very little for those who want to engage in sex with prostitutes.
Why not just some old-fashioned input guarding?

if (input == nil)
haltAndCatchFire();

Or whatever the Objective-C syntax for that is.
That hangover in the morning means you were taking too much, fwiw. If I were you, I'd experiment with much lower doses.
Instead of OEM Windows image, use this tool to get rid of the crapware (malware in some cases):
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-re...
Windows Update is terrible. OS X has that beat. But Windows is ~5 years mainstream support, ~ 10 years extended. With OS X, you don't know. It might be 18 months, it might be 3 years.
Both those problems can be solved by emiting bills that anybody can buy and sell on a secondary market.

The problems that can not be solved by that are basically how to discover who one should trust enough to lend money, and agregating people to persue unpaid loans.
No, of course it's good to have people of vastly differing experience and aptitude learning from each other!

You just need to separate the assholes and subhumans from the inexperienced newbies and human being who like the subject for what it is (and not as a way to look down on others).
I like the "We have a list of the top 10k passwords. You can't use one of those." rule.

>common long sentence

Oh god no. Don't use a common sentence as the majority of your password. Don't try to be more clever than the password cracker. It's easy to get lists of common sentences and lyrics. Sure, a common sentence is better than a single special character, but it might only be as good as 3-4 random characters.

Assume the cracker knows your method, and go based on an estimate of entropy. So perhaps a random character is 6 bits, a random word is 12, and a common lyric is almost certainly between 20 and 30. Keep adding things until you have 80 or 100 or 128 or whatever your goal is. (I would strongly recommend not using 44 as your goal.)
Ask HN: Do you buy digital goods?
By goods I refer to basically anything than can be bought and exists digitally (music, steam games, etc.)

How high are your spendings? How often do you buy said goods?
I think for most moderately-technically-inclined people, a decent password manager is going to be much more secure (and in many cases, more convenient).

If you steal my credit card, I'll just call my bank and cancel it (and I'm not liable for any charges you made, anyway). But if you break into my email (or even something like my Facebook, which might have weaker security), it might be really hard to recover from that.
Wow, this sounds to me like a case for the innovator's dilemma.
If simply pointing out negative facts is a "personal attack" now, I'm quite thoroughly done here. You should reevaluate your priorities and ethics, they're far removed from those of any decent person.