skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cruelty, not humor. Look at this from the perspective of a different profession:

Why is it a problem if I'm a doctor and I put a non-lethal poison into every few flu shuts on April 1st? Because April Fools.

This is how people who don't program view this sort of thing. You can say that you feel sorry for them, but, in reality, you lose, because they'll never trust you again. And they shouldn't.
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Uh, sources ?

It has the same amount of RAM as most ultrabooks (the base model it has more than the base Air models or Dell XPS ones, actually).

The keyboard is shallow, but I haven't seen it described as "awful" or even "bad" anywhere.

Besides the fact that it's probably good enough for things that are not compiling complex applications/gaming/encoding/simulations (heavy loads sustained in time), it is more than enough for the uses that the parent wrote about (remote ssh/compiling small programs).
Are you really claiming that an amoral company whose sole responsibility is to produce income made a deal to produce income at the expense of user privacy? How could anyone have seen this coming?

If you trust your data to a company it will be sold. That goes for Facebook, Google, and any other major company.
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Yeah, extracting would be the easy part (the engineer did say as such in the episode). I doubt they would have transcribed it by hand in 1983. Writing the spec was the hard part, it actually took nine months and a team of 15 to produce the final BIOS. (assuming we're talking about Compaq here, but the show keeps it intentionally vague)
If that were the case the number of PEOPLE's personal data would be a far more compelling number. 100 laptops worth of data may be equivalent to the servers but they still don't represent the only thing that should matter: innocent's people data being unlawfully searches/seized.
Unfortunately, there are no silver bullets. You have to pedal hard. dexxter's comments are a great place to start.
Why free tier is a very very bad idea for PaaS market
Authoritative source of information, thanks ;-) I will evaluate it on my next project.
UPDATE: Let me clarify that with "socially-owned factories to solve nation-wide necessities" I meant to say "some way to use this technology towards the common good" - I tried to express this idea with a contrived example "socially-owned factories". Sorry for the misunderstanding
I use Flipboard for my bookmarks, I have about 10 private mags that I flip bookmarks into.

I've found saving bookmarks just to my browser tends to be a bit of a black hole, stuff goes in, but never comes out.
I webcasted my wedding in Vegas ($100 add on). It was a great hit. With more millennials jumping into the marriage pool, this is a great startup vertical (horizontal?). Just make a pi, put a sim card on it / satellite link/ connect to wifi, and you can invite everyone to your special life event.
I did a lot of testing of a few WebRTC platforms last summer for a product idea that we had.

I came to the conclusion that on mobile phones, WebRTC video is not yet usable. Even with just audio on a cellular network, call quality started deteriorating after a few minutes on every platform that I tried. Video without a WiFi signal was hopeless.

I discussed this with an WebRTC expert, and the problems are partly with WebRTC, partly with how mobile operators shape their data traffic.

Also all platform implementations that were considered the best of the breed were bought by mobile chat companies (both SnapChat and OK Hello did acquisitions on this front)
I would like to be able to query device status and issue commands from across the internet. So some other device in my home will be acting as a 'hub'. So direct access sounds redundant at best, and more likely just a nightmare to configure and maintain.

(Change your wifi network or password? Have fun updating a dozen devices. Get a new phone or watch? Have fun pairing to a dozen devices.)

Beyond that, from a security standpoint, I'd rather smart devices didn't all have direct IP access. There are enough security concerns with the Internet-of-Things. Mitigating large swaths of those concerns appeals to me.
There are 2 types of matrix multiplications which should not be confused with each other.

The first type is a change of basis where the columns of the matrix are the old basis represented in the new basis.

The second type is a linear function that takes in a vector and outputs another vector.
Looking forward to install it from homebrew but it's not there yet. Good to see that for python drivers PIP is already updated!
I honestly don't think it's a big deal. Don't be so prude!
I was looking into this recently. Here's what looks to be the canonical Stack Overflow post on the subject:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10040954/alternative-to-g...

Questions of this nature seem to usually end up pointing to Yahoo's API.

I saw elsewhere (can't locate source at moment) quotes ranging in the $10,000's a month range for real-time data. I'm sure someone on here could provide a more accurate figure.

It's valuable data associated with an industry that's famous for extracting value out of data so I'm not really surprised it's not free.
And you trust someone who thinks that it means we will have an affordable quantum computer soon to report it?
Why should my embedded system have to support unnecessary functionality? Just so your grandmother is safer from phishing attack?

I'm a developer, but my clients are not.
I think you're wrongly equating "old" with more undesirable epithets like "enterprise" and "proprietary". There's a ton of old technologies that scale marvelously, and using software age is a heuristic as probably really poor when you should really be studying internal qualities.
It's in a redis database, so it's not all that hard to get at, either, should someone compromise the system. "Not on disk" stops being such a good defence when it's stored in a semi-persistent DB.

My main complaint, though, is that there's simply no reason to choose such a low number of rounds. Using the exact same code as in this app, 5 rounds takes 3551534 ns/op, 10 rounds takes 3583632 ns/op and 15 rounds takes 3623005 ns/op. In other words, it's only 2% slower to use 15 rounds than it is 5, and the default (10) is less than 1% slower.
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huh? what's with the downvote guys?
I have a feeling this was set up by immature expats who lack the life experience to understand why this is stupid and exclusionary.

Expats, because I doubt most Amsterdammers really care that much about the RLD.

Immature, because "lol boobs".

I'm trying to avoid getting on my moral high horse here but... Godverdomme, this is one of the reasons it is difficult to rectify the gender disparity in the tech industry. For every well-balanced person who really does not care about the gender of their colleagues, there seems to be an immature person who thinks boobs and booze is a good way to reach out to the tech community.

As an (expat) Amsterdammer, and someone who would love to see the end of the "boys club" or brogrammer culture, this is an embarrassment.

To the organisers: Grow up a bit guys. You're dissuading a lot of your potential audience by pitching an otherwise interesting idea in this fashion.

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Yes, it "seems" to predate Justin.tv by eleven years actually.

It also predates Google, Facebook, and web based email.
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Submit it to Product Hunt! http://producthunt.com - It is a great place to launch your start-up.
excuse me.. from what did I say that made it sound like I said gender discrimination is "not a bad thing".

that's quite inflammatory and it's quite upsetting.

What I actually said was; "it's good that you educated yourself because self education is much better than formal education in this industry"

I received the same amount of encouragement as the Parent. Zero, none, my mother thought it was stupid- no father, and no education system for 25 miles that would educate me on this.

And from what I've learned in nearly 10 years in industry; Self education beats formal education when formal education doesn't work hard to learn.

k? now, please, in future read the comment properly, parse what is actually being said instead of throwing accusations and insults at people.
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The guy posted it in 4chan, an anonymous image board. Shouldn't that make it public domain? If he copyrighted it after that, shouldn't people be able to use the version of the image they got before the copyright?

Also, 4chan doesn't keep archives, how do we know he's the original author anyway?
Sinopia [1] lets you run a private NPM repositroy. It can also act as a cache for the official npmjs.com repository.

[1] https://github.com/rlidwka/sinopia
I think that French startup is worth mentioning: http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/11/sigfox-raises-115m-to-take-...

It's a low power high range network for IoT, when in place it could help a lot of people
Well, about #2, people are defending the status quo (where any governemnt anywhere on the world can compromisse a site's key) by arguing that with DNSSEC there'll always be one government able to compromisse any site's key. Calling that a falacious argument is too charitable, it's an outright lie (and I wonder why that piece of propaganda is so pervasive).

About #3 the article simply points that there's nothing wrong with DNSSEC, unless you choose to use bad crypto algorithms. Guess what, any cryptosystem works the same way, TLS included.

About #6, yes, it's specious to criticize DNSSEC because browsers choosed to not support it (unless you are talking from the point of view of a site master wondering how you'll configure your host today - but even then, that's not a valid criticism of the algorithm, it's just reason to not deploy it now).

About #8, yes, that's not valid. DANE is the main end-to-end encryption algorithm that used DNSSEC, so one must either criticize DANE (if able) or shut-up.

Anyway, what a badly formated page. Points #1, 4, 5 and 7 are flaws. Point #7 is a big flaw, and don't hold your breath waiting for it to be solved. I'd say about point #9 is that DNSSEC is exactly a less broken CA system. I can't see where the author is going...
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It does not take to be a criminal to support "war on drugs" and the like. It's enough to be a bureaucrat.

According to Shirky Principle, "institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution". Bureaucracy is very much about being a self-sustained and preferable expanding body. For that, it needs that the problem it is intended to solve to persist. If needed, it will sustain and even re-create that problem.

This is why we have so many forbidden and controlled things: so that those who check for compliance kept they jobs and could get a pay raise sometimes. And their jobs are not easy!

Note that this is not "evil" per se, there's no malicious intent, and the whole "war on drugs", much like the Prohibition 80 years before it, is entirely driven by (outwardly) benign, even noble motives.

Rather, this is a primitive form of life and natural selection. Life needs to self-sustain; its forms that fend off external threats better extend and persist. Any organization that had actually solved a problem it was built to solve has been disbanded, as something not needed any more. Any organization that offers solutions which perpetuate the problem is kept around to continue solving the problem.

This is (partly) why higher forms of life have a death trigger built in. Eukaryotes have telomeres. Similarly, presidents only have limited time in office. Problem-solving bodies should have something similar.
The container root certainly has UID 0, but it has reduced system capabilities. The irony of user namespaces is that they provide additional capabilities, but give you a fake UID-0 while "actually" running as a higher UID.

This distinction is important because it's why, in practice, Docker's current approach has proven to be more secure than user namespaces. User namespaces allow various operations that would be outright denied under a Docker container's very-real-but-very-limited root user.

However, yes, user namespaces are coming to Docker. It's a highly desired feature and eventually userns will mature.
Intel’s latest investment could make holodeck-like experiences a reality
KAG3 is the scripting language of an existing popular (native) engine Kirikiri; from skimming the O2 site it seems to be implementing an alternative interpreter, similar to how ScummVM implements the LucasArts engine. Unfortunately I can't seem to actually see the SDK to confirm this without figuring out enough Japanese to sign up on novelsphere.

There's some old English documentation on http://kirikirikag.sourceforge.net/contents/index.html (which seems to be a translation of the original upstream Japanese version).
PGP is acceptable for exchanging a symmetric key, though.
Interesting. What do they do now?
NPM Enterprise is a potential solution. You have to host it yourself, but it gives you namespaced modules and the option of selectively mirroring the public registry.
More like "it's not a pen until you have an ink cartridge and the whole body - having just the metal end with a ball inside doesn't make it a pen".
"because it will make our companies better" is an OK reason, I guess, but I prefer "because it is the right thing to do for our fellow human beings".
This does not discount the possibility of a license change after a hypothetical acquisition, however. Though in that case you'll likely get a community fork branching off the upstream proprietary base.
Interactive Brokers has a very robust API, and market data fees are $10/month or free if you spend more than $30 on commissions.

(I'm not affiliated, but I've used their services before and have been happy)
I have a similar list and try to pick from the top whenever I have time to devote to a new project.

I prioritize the list based solely on one factor: "How excited am I about this idea?". At the end of the day, if I'm not excited about it, I'll only finish part of it; I'll write a few lines of code then get bored and move on. If I'm really excited about it, I'll see it all the way through to the MVP phase.
Do you know any women in tech at all?

They would be the people to ask.
Anyone still using PHP in 2015 is doing it wrong.
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Sinopia has iffy authorization support, last I looked.

We ended up going with NPM Enterprise instead.
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Anyone still hating on PHP in 2015 is doing it wrong.
Yes, although Telefónica are selling O₂ to Hutchison Whampoa shortly: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32043874
This is a common idea and it's flawed.

Let KC be a well-known and implemented cipher and CC a custom cipher written by you. Instead of communicating like this:

A -> KC-encrypt -> transport -> KC-decrypt -> B

You can use:

A -> KC-encrypt -> CC-encrypt -> transport -> CC-decrypt -> KC-decrpyt -> B

The advantage is it breaks automated cryptoanalysis in case KC is broken.

A better idea than the one you stated is: don't rely solely on custom cryptography.
The other key distinction being the number of extra direct and indirect jobs Corpocom creates to sell its product, because its margins on manufacture are so much bigger than Mechacom's it can justify whopping commissions and a really aggressive marketing play...

Sucks to be a production control manager for Mechacom, but life looks a lot rosier if you've a flair for persuading people that they won't get fired for buying Corpocom instead.

Plus the majority of Corpocom's products end up being sold to people who didn't think they needed or wanted Mechacom's anyway. And even if Mechacom doesn't survive, there are jobs in production innovation at Nucom figuring out how the machines will talk to each other when manufacturing a device people thought had no reason to exist two years ago.

We've been a supposedly decade away from eliminating much of our labour requirement for at least a century, but what's actually happened is that most people have more stuff and different job titles these days.
Is it normal for them to be randomly allocating tickets?

It seems that people need to pre-register, but when it comes to the sale itself, it's a lottery who gets one.

See : https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/tickets/
No, it's that you don't need to discuss it. Women in tech reading it will probably have a lot to say. They may even be doing it elsewhere--I'd venture to guess that HN is heavily male-skewed.
In college I had a sociology class where the professor had studied happiness in marriage. He ran a survey asking how happy people were with their marriage. 5 years later, he ran a follow up survey to people who said in the first survey that they were unhappy in their marriage and the only reason they would not get divorced was because of (children, religious doctrines, etc).

He was shocked to find, that of these marriages that were the least happy, something like 20% went ahead and got a divorce anyways, but, of the other 80%, their happiness scores were no different from the general population.

Moral of the story, perhaps people are a little too quick to pull the plug on a marriage.
I also found it relatively shallow, but I mostly enjoyed watching it because it introduced the whole 80's computer revolution story to my wife, who had previously ignored the subject. She seemed to get along fine with the characters without getting too geeked out by the technology, so I imagine that there is a balancing act going on with the AMC writers behind the show.

That said, we're both looking forward to the next season .. for me, mostly because I love the soundtrack and have a secret crush on Cameron .. for my wife, I guess for the same reasons. ;)
It is not prudish to think this is immature. I like boobs and I like tech conferences. But not at the same time. There is no synergy there.
Would be nice if they support some video tracking capabilities. In the demo video, the arrow pointing to the slot is "asking" to be stack to the slot independent of the camera motion.
No. We setup the private npm repository specifically because of the lack of support for git version tags in npm.
If npm isn't ever going to sell out how are their VCs planning on making any return on investment? Go public? (Which is arguably selling to the public)
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Customers will pay for Docker Hub potentially. The type of customer who would pay them for Docker Hub is roughly the type of customer who would pay for Github (with market size constrained by Docker adoption.) That is, customers who are willing to pay a bit for private hosting of some part of their development or deployment process and are willing to do that using SaaS.

My tiny company pays them for private repositories as part of our deployment process. (Push to Github, Docker Hub makes automated build, built Docker image gets sent to AWS ElasticBeanstalk). It's worth the $7 a month for the convenience of not doing the builds and hosting the images ourselves.

Not saying it's going to turn into a business model that will justify that valuation, just that it does at minimum provide a value I'm willing to pay a small amount for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

"Humans Need Not Apply" (by CGPGrey)

In case someone hasn't seen it yet, this is prone of better overviews on the problem we need to start solving now, now that automation has started making many of the remaining jobs obsolete,
Most Apple watchers are pretty much in agreement that an AppleTV refresh is the most likely event at WWDC. The current ATV model was knocked down to $69 a short while ago.
Many suffragettes used the same kind of logic, but to argue the other end of the issue. When women were agitating for the vote, in many cases their rationale was that women brought a different perspective and set of sensibilities than that of men. Some even argued that women were more moral.
Is there any chance of scaling WebRTC any better than that?
If someone has an active compromise on a running machine, they can intercept network traffic and bypass bcrypt completely.

> In other words, it's only 2% slower to use 15 rounds than it is 5, and the default (10) is less than 1% slower.

So are you arguing that your complaint is petty or isn't? Because this isn't helping your case.

Overall your attack scenario is where an attacker has just enough access to the machine to read memory in the redis database, but not enough access to read memory in the web-server, or at the point before bcrypt has been run in the process.

If redis was stored to disk you may have a valid point. As it stands your argument actually doesn't make sense. If they can access Redis they can access pre-bcrypt passwords and therefore making bcrypt's rounds completely unimportant.
Setup a local npm cache. There's lots of instructions online on how to setup nginx to act as a proxy to fetch npm modules and cache them locally. This way, you don't have to worry if npmjs.com goes down, your build process will pull everything from your local cache.
this free course teaches you almost everything you need to know about basic html and css:

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There is about 5 hours of material, you can work through it in about a week if you put a couple hours in a day. It is a good way to quickly pick up responsive design and html/css fundamentals. The videos are really good and functional. It is really good from an efficiency standpoint.
David Marcus: the man to keep Facebook afloat
"En mobilité dans les lieux de forte affluence où le réseau peut être occasionnellement congestionné, l’option Débit Confort vous permet d’être prioritaire en disposant d’un débit plus important (jusqu’à 2 fois plus rapide que le débit standard). Vous conservez votre confort d’usage en allant plus vite que les autres quel que soit votre terminal."

Basically it translates to:

When you travel in high traffic zones, the network can be partially disturbed. The option comfort bandwidth allow you to get priority by giving you an additional bandwidth (Up to 2 times the standard bandwidth). You keep enjoying your regular speed while browsing faster than other people no matter the devices.

French hypocrisy at its best. (Orange is heavy directed by the state.)
That's the exact reason I built (open-source) Taniger [ https://www.taniger.com ]
I think the distinction is important, especially for a headline. They aren't capturing the full rocket, just the rocket engine. That's a much lighter load to capture, and likely much more feasible than catching a full rocket.
I'd guess that, in reply to your statement "if you try to pick a fight...", a woman in tech might reasonably reply, the fight started years ago, women are just now starting to stand up for themselves.
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See, this is interesting, because I found Silicon Valley puerile and delinquent -- too many dick jokes -- whereas Halt and Catch Fire is a little more intelligent. Generational difference? Possibly: I grew up with computers in the 70's.
Congrats on the 2.0 release! Changefeeds are an incredibly powerful feature. We're looking forward to the next release with automagic failover!