skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't a liquid securities market imply that a lender in a 20 year loan can always sell their loan to others if they want? So there's no need to require them to provide a 20 year lockup, assuming a secondary market exists.
Make the leap to a password manager. I recommend Keepass, it can run on Windows/Linux, there are a number of compatible alternatives, you can export your database if you don't like Keepass, chromeIPass/PassIFox make browsing the web a breeze.
It's too late, that ship has sailed.

I've seen the incorrect usage in very fancy printed reference books.

This is just one of those ways where language changes.
I can't say I have any problems with NFS - we use it for shared storage on some pretty busy servers without any issue. I'm not saying they don't happen - just that we don't experience them. I'd be interested to hear the problems you've encountered - did you submit bug reports for them that you could perhaps link to?
Wikify it.

Let users can log in and change the remote/non-remote status (and other attributes).

Have some kind of trust system (could be linked to HN points or whatever).

(Even better if the YC guys made a custom job board where you fill in a form with all the details so there is no inconsistency.)
LA-area tech community has been growing incredibly over the last few years. Lots of early stage startups; some are now maturing like Dollar Shave Club and Lynda.com
Interactive map: US police have killed at least 5,600 people since 2000
I knew someone would post that ;)

Kudos!
Back in 1999, the first time this hubbub started:

https://books.google.com/books?id=FwIAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT37&lpg=P...

Money Quote: "If you want to patch together a lawnmower, a walkman, and a pair of ice tongs to play "Sonic Cruises for Hookers", or anything else Sony is publishing, that's your right.
>If you absolutely need to read a PDF, Foxit Reader is free, as in beer.

You're actually proving his point : on Windows something as basic as reading PDFs (yes you "absolutely" need that in 2015) requires specific knowledge of obscure names like "Foxit Reader".

I'm not even going into annotating that PDF or adding your signature to it then.

The same goes for : an office suite, a file manager with decent previewing+smart search capabilities, something that quickly resizes/converts your pictures, great photo editing/cataloging software, video editing software, music editing software, e-mail client, a comprehensive development environment (1)

All of the above, which covers almost all areas of what people actually use computers for, comes as standard on OS X

(1) Pages/Numbers/Keynote, Finder+Spotlight, Preview (also your answer for annotating PDFs btw), iPhoto/Photos, iMovie, Garageband, Mail, Unix CLI/XCode

> Yes, you'll have to uncheck some boxes to avoid their bundled software. Big deal.

Hate to say it in troll-ish way but : everyone but lifelong Windows users has higher standards than this.
It does explicitly say that Security Update 2015-004 only updates Admin Framework on 10.10+ (it does not require 10.10.3) to fix CVE-2015-1130 : Emil Kvarnhammar at TrueSec
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204659

Quite a few other security related things are fixed with this update that do apply to older versions of OS X.
for a long time one of my credit card companies truncated my password. I typed in something long and hopefully secure when i set my account up. Something like "NineteenBumblingElephantsOnP4r4d3". I didn't even notice it was truncated for a while because whenever i typed it in the form would just stop accepting characters after 8 or 10 which is what the original sign-up form had done so I was still entering the correct password but it was shortened to "Nineteen" Not a very secure password at all.
For good master passwords: Randomly select 12 words from a book (be honest with the randoms, don't be choosy), and then doodle a picture where each word has a memorable element. Draw it a few times. Put one copy away for safe keeping. Work through the image whenever recalling your password, and once it becomes muscle memory, make a point of imagining it as typing it every once in awhile, to make sure you don't turn it completely instinctual :)
great info, much appreciated, thank you!
Couple things.

First, yeah, this should be easy.

Second, yeah, you should do almost anything other than whine. That certainly includes improving your skills.

Third, there's plenty to object to in the hiring process and work environment for many software developers, and I certainly don't think all of it should be dismissed as "whining".
... and how do it be?
For secret questions, I always use output from /dev/random (at least 1 kilobyte) and base64-encode it, then throw it away. Secret questions are just too weak for anything, they're useless.
Unless you are growing MJ or cocaine, the cost of farming in the middle of a city in a vertical farm is prohibitive. That area can be better used for residences and offices.
That's right on with "too shy".

The issues of pedagogy whether it is music or programming are largely sociological.

So why not make being a manic musician attractive and marketable like they do in movies about music?

I guarantee you that the core inspiration that starts (and to a large extent sustains) any involvement in any activity is aesthetic. This makes aesthetics the beginning and end of activities.

But in programming, we just use the manic people as Golden Children to somehow whip the other students into shape. This utterly fails of course, aesthetically and practically and in every other way imaginable. It's an ugly way of doing things and it doesn't actually produce good programmers.
Every week? Wow.
Anything much over a kilobyte has zero benefit and has potential to cause issues or slowdowns when shoved through a path that expects a short string.

It's very doubtful you'd type such a crazy-long password by hand, and if you have a password manager there's absolutely no reason to go beyond something like 256 bits of noise encoded as hex.
Are you kidding? Apple reinvents every space they enter with profound invention.

Do you remember computers before the Mac? Notebooks before the Macbook? Music players before the iPod? Phones before the iPhone? Tablets before the iPad? And in a month you'll think: watches before the Apple Watch?
No, absolutely not. See the warning on http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/multiple-data-directo...
I use them for the past two years and can confirm I don't have problems looking at monitor for 12h if necessary anymore. I bought the cheapest ones just to test if I see any difference (at that time around $40) and it seems to be having a surprisingly positive effect on me. The only problem is when I am producing visual art - they have to go away when I am adjusting colors or the results are too cold ;-)
Yes certainly, it is an illusion that marketing, customer support, product development and sales are all discrete things without any overlap.
Holy shit if this isn't a post for the "avoid gratuitous negativity" archives...
What computers don't have access to GNU make? I don't see why you would give up all those extra features in order to be a tiny bit more portable.
Says the guy who will own one within a year. Or the Android knock off.
Building SPAs W/Angular 4 Office 365&SharePoint W/Andrew Connell:Codmentor-5/27
Thinksy: it's like KhanAcademy except inside indie video games!
Not sure I understand the advantages of passphrases that string together common words and names. Presumably a password cracker could look for long strings of common words, too.

Snowden emphasizes using words that aren't in the dictionary, but proper names of historical figures are in certain e-dictionaries (my android keyboard's auto-complete dictionary for instance includes Margaret and Thatcher).
Author of f.lux here: you may want to do some more reading.

Most of the range of "alerting" light for humans is between 11-14 log photons/sec/cm^2, so one photon is sort of an enormously huge understatement.

For sleeping, it is good to be in a dark room, but for winding down, you won't mess yourself up with dim light.

Also, I think it may be poor advice for most people to take melatonin except for "shifting the clock" e.g., jetlag. Seeing extra light in the morning is enough to entrain the clock for most people.
I'd wager better than half of the sites you use on a regular basis (and especially sites like your bank's) would not accept a password that long.
If anyone (the author or anyone else!) wants to demonstrate their make-fu, here is a very subtle issue I ran into with make that I never did get to the bottom of.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25589586/why-does-patsubs...

Someone pretty knowledgable chimed in, but we were both stumped. In the end I found a workaround, but never did get to the bottom of this peculiar behavior.
Perhaps not, but its what was in the original XKCD comic.
A very neat idea. Does it work for husbands/wives as well as friends? :-)
I appreciate your interpretation, thanks.
We all knew it was going in this direction. But it's so creepy, nonetheless.
I just want to clarify the point about long common sentence: we keep getting stuck with comparing 100 characters commoN sentence with truly good password from rng. Of course the latter is far better, but the average user is not going to use RNG to generate password. The comparison is between common long sentence against 20 characters password with arbitrary restriction.
NetHack 3.4.3
Google to make Android Wear devices compatible with iPhones
Maybe unrelated with the product, but I think that the whole problematic of brushing your teeth is still a tabu on many environments (such as corporate). If you see someone brushing their teeth after a meal, chances are you will be looked jokingly and a joke about it is going to fall on your lap.
Now imagine that on bathrooms we could have something that would tell everyone that "washing your teeth is cool!". Like having tooth paste available, just like soap. Better yet, if there is a critical mass of people in the company that washes their teeth, than the whole company might start doing it!
It kind of sucks that you have to feel like a criminal when you wash your teeth and people are just passing by with judgmental looks.
'Windows signature edition' sides steps the crapware on purchase that most OEMs have. You can buy the machines in the microsoft store.
i believe it is legal in the UK, but lots of activities related to it (e.g. running a brothel, soliciting it in public places) are illegal.

afaik (i have no real, direct, experience of this tbh, so don't quote me) there are none of these safety measures that you see in Vegas or Amsterdam etc. its basically treated as a form of self employment and is completely unregulated.

you should also consider the psychologies of vulnerable and desperate young women and criminal gangs. there is a long history of techniques they will both use to avoid problems with the police and both types will see it as protecting themselves from harm...
A major government wants to store $30 billion of their
own currency in a financial product that will decrease
in value against the dollar more slowly than their
currency. Is there an app that helps governments store
30 billion in assets (or are we naive enough to suggest
that bitcoin is a smart investment?)

Could someone, well versed with central banking methods or fiscal/monetary policy, explain how this works?

I'm not very monetarily/financially literate.

Why would a country invest in some product that decreases in value in the first place - even if their own country's currency is slowly but surely losing value?

By "decrease in value", does the author mean temporarily or in a slow downward trending gradual spiral ?

Why not pump the same money into something that is likely to grow in value, like rare earth minerals or into companies that hold rare expertise in battery technology or something similar?

edit: clarification
Woaw. Many ideas at once. Gaming needs game designers and investors (am I wrong?). Will they come on a totally new concept? Maybe the risk is too high...
An yes, I agree with you: that's the hard question. A VW what for ?
Tutorial: Slack Robot in a Minute
It would be interesting to compare with a country with similar incarceration rates.

Like Russia.
Ripple formalized its topology requirement in its consensus whitepaper (page 5, section 3.3):

https://ripple.com/files/ripple_consensus_whitepaper.pdf

Basically, any two UNLs must have 20% overlap to avoid any risk of a fork.
"the author was confused about which subtype of Machine they were operating on"

One could hence argue for strong types. If I got €1 for each time I see careless typing breaking people's Python and Ruby scripts I could retire rich right now.
If by "post" you are referring to the pile of shit that is linked, then yes. My negativity here is NOTHING compared to the negativity and resentment by the professor in the article, who cloaks it in positive language.

I'm only saying that people should be more aware of what drives others, and look past the surface.

On the other hand, he is advocating for a Cult of Computer Science with specially designed courses for different races of people. Whites get one sort of programming class, women another, blacks yet another, asians yet another, etc.

He's also completely submitted and subjugated himself to the concept of education as preparation for being a laborer drone to make the few richer, rather than education as a way to educate the student. You can tell by his blind devotion to Paul Graham and business students (only business students are as self driven as CS people, obvioulsy they must be because everyone's in it for the money and BIM students are closer to the source)

And as a professor, one can do a lot more damage to society being like this than in other positions. So either this whole article is gratuitous negativity, or it's not and what I'm saying is actually gratuitious positivity; the world is going to be so much better once people like him aren't around!
Oh but a number of them do work legally. Their masters pay all the fees to get them into the country and then they work off the loan for the rest of their life. This method isn't just used to import women.
How is someone supposed to know you're just going for a yuk and not simply ill informed? On HN, this just creates noise.
Separating Collections to Improve MongoDB Measurability
Design Hunt App for iOS
I'd guess that in terms of average health and temperament, the order is random/natural-bred mutts > well-bred pedigree > puppy/kitty mill animals.

Breeders will always put health and temperament first. If they don't, they're a mill. A nice pedigree and a super healthy dog are not mutually exclusive.
> - (Not mentioned) Both Linux and Windows have built-in NFS clients.

Does anyone use the NFS for Windows? Is it reliable enough I can move servers away from CIFS alogether if I want to access a Linux box from Windows. For instance if I click the folder's Properties in Windows, will I see the proper Unix perms and metadata and be able to edit them?
20 characters where the user attempts to be random is going to be much better than any common sentence.

Even 10 characters of attempted random is going to be better.

Maybe even 5, if they were going to use a song everyone knows.

Increasing the minimum size past a point doesn't help security, it just leads to people using low-entropy padding methods.

Whether a sentence is better than "no restriction", I'm not sure, but that's not a very fair comparison because you can't force them to use a sentence either.

I'd say what you should recommend is a series of words that don't make a sentence, but where they can remember a scenario.

Or you could have the computer generate random words and let them make a sentence out of them.

But don't use a preexisting sentence, or a tiny modification to one. It will be far weaker than it should.
Junior Max Planck researchers win reforms
FWIW LWN posts subscriber links to HN themselves from time to time, as a promotion. I'm sure they could block access to subscriber links that saw "unusual" amount of traffic -- but I guess (whether or not this was posted by LWN or not) they usually assume that the more people that read one or two free links, the more people will subscribe (like libraries leads to increase in book sales etc).
Some of the blog posts have died.
General details are linked from footnotes in http://www.yjil.org/docs/pub/39-1-comment-randolph-the-revol...

One of the moderator series is at:
https://www.google.com/moderator/?hl=ar#15/e=581e0&t=581e0.4...

Note that moderator is not only available in a ton of languages, it can do auto-translation between all language pairs google translate supports.
Arduino for Makers Tutorial #2: Deconstructing Arduino Programs
Until you see technical details on any file, network or storage system you should always assume your writes (or data for that matter) are/is not safe. It's disappointing to see a product launched and hyped without the appropriate details required to make an informed decision around its use.
Yep. A buddy of mine growing up had large numbers of feral dogs and cats running around. Solution: Dishes of antifreeze everywhere. There were too many to shoot, but antifreeze was cheap and effective. He said he had trouble sleeping because the dying animals screamed so much.
How tiny satellites spawned in Silicon Valley will monitor a changing Earth
Life of a Software Engineer Explained in GIFs
What's your company's Joel Test score?

The ad should be ask and answer the question, Why would you want to work for us?

IMO, say 45k. Everyone reading the range knows they will be low balled. Ask yourself: is it worth saving 10k if it reduces the applicant pool?

Good luck.
Currently reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and Exploding the Phone By Phil Lapsley. Atlas Shrugged is an amazing account ofIndustry and government. Lapsleys book is a bit dry but it's a quick read and very informative
It's a upcoming product announcement page from a vendor asking for preview registration, how can it be anything other than a puff piece?
This analysis is only looking at the price of the S&P 500, not the total return. An investor that sits out half of the year will miss out on about half of the dividends paid, which are always positive.

EDIT: Here is a graph highlighting how important including dividends is: https://i.imgur.com/YZSq6K3.png

Another consideration is taxes. The short-term gains produced by selling after 6 months are taxed at normal income rates (or slightly higher), as is the interest from the "risk free" interest-paying investment held the other 6 months. Long-term capital gains and dividends are taxed at favorable rates.
I'm interested in learning more about this topic, specifically about the RNA world, the mechanism behind DNA replication, gene recombination, ect.

Does anybody have good literature I could read into?
And KeePassDroid on Android... it isn't pretty, but it works.
it dragged down land values and contributed little tax income to the city compared to the ~40 or so houses that are now replacing it.

While those 40 homes lead to greater tax revenue, the amount of expense they demand is even greater.

Anywhere I've lived, even sky-high property tax NJ, the property tax coming from a single home is rather less than the town is paying to educate a single child. So unless the average child density in that development is much less than 1 (say, 0.75 children per house), despite the town collecting more taxes, they'll be spending much more on schools, and it'll be a net loss. And that's before we consider the cost of other services at all...
Drupal 8 is 2x to 200x faster than Drupal 7 for anonymous users
This was a great read.

Question/thoughts regarding CitusDB:

It looks to be really cool, and also proprietary.

On the heels of the recent abrupt FoundationDB shutdown after being acquired by Apple, I'm apprehensive and reluctant to even consider investing more energy into proprietary datastores.

I'm torn because I love shiny future tech from outer space, but the FDB burn felt horrible to me.

I'm keen to hear thoughts on other perspectives which might help me figure out a better balance or attitude on these matters.
Facebook Sued for Gathering World’s Biggest Stock of Facial-Recognition Data
> The question then is: What do you do with your cash when it’s not invested in the stock market? Assuming we put them in high caliber (“risk-free”) interest bearing fixed income instrument they would still give us a return on our investment while we’re out of the stock market. Based on data from various historical sources I’ll stick with an average annual geometric risk-free rate of 5%.

I must be misunderstanding this, otherwise WTF??? Tell me where I can get this risk-free 5% rate.
The BSDs don't use GNU make (OS X interestingly does). You can also install other build systems, the advantage with posix make is that you don't have to on unix systems.
> It's like a car manufacturer selling you a car with a "feature" that takes away 50 HP to play a jingle every time you turn on your headlights, all because the got paid $7.34 by the jingle manufacturer.

Not that bad, but my car does come with what amounts for an advertisement for Sirius Radio built in.

:(

I was also offered a TON of extra add-ons when I bought my car. I'd say it was roughly equivalent to the process of setting up a new low-end PC in regards to the number of ad requests I got.

On the PC side, this is all typically mitigated by not buying the cheapest PC possible. In my experience (and this is not universally true!) the higher end SKUs are more customer centric, since at that point the customer is the one paying the entire cost of the device!

(See also, Nexus devices versus carrier branded phone models!)
Which one is POSIX make?

This is also lowest common denominator computing. If you work on a system or environment that will provide certain set of features why would you limit what you can do or learn based on what is possible for everyone? Should we also be limiting our belongings to the space of other peoples living conditions? Should I ride a mountain bike in the city because my road bike doesn't like rough terrain?
Here in the US, many larger businesses created large campaigns and gathered support..

Some of those businesses was Mozilla
https://sendto.mozilla.org/page/s/protect-net-neutrality
I was wondering that too, since Aurora uses shared multi AZ storage. When I learned that yesterday I found myself wishing they made just that available on AWS as it's own service. One day later, they announce it. I love what these guys are doing.
Okay, so... memorize two strong passwords instead of one. Possible?... :)
About the security content of iOS 8.3
A shutdown(O_RDWR) is safer, and AFAIK, reliably interrupts any blocking calls on the socket. Calling close is risky because another thread might just then decide to read or write to that file descriptor, which might be a completely different thing just opened.
To be fair, Google Groups is a terrible UI.

I'm surprised about the problems they had with (un)subscribing -- the web ui has always been a controversial part of Mailman, but intended for those that think the email UI is too hard to use. FWIW I actually think it's much easier to manage subscriptions to Mailman (via the web UI) than to manage them on Google Groups.

As for search and archive -- yeah, those have been in need of a facelift for a long, long time. I've been toying with doing something about them myself, but have hold off, waiting to see what Mailman 3 would ship with.
The author is claiming 5% is an historical average, which is plausible because in past decades, both interest rates and inflation were much higher.
From the wikipedia article referenced earlier: "Peptidyl transferase activity is not mediated by any ribosomal proteins but by ribosomal RNA (rRNA), a ribozyme. This RNA relic is the most significant piece of evidence supporting the RNA World hypothesis."