skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is another view on Etsy that isn't as positive.
Take a look, I think the NYTimes article dances around this idea but isn't brave enough to come out and say it. It does dance around it a little bit on page two, I guess, but this article makes it the point that most aren't $100K seller and are women who are married and home with their kids.

"Etsy.com Peddles a False Feminist Fantasy"

http://www.doublex.com/section/work/etsycom-peddles-false-fe...
To be fair, it's not clear how hard it is to hack twitter. The site falls over all the time all by itself.

Granted, they briefly managed to serve some content as twitter, so it does look like a genuine hack rather than merely a DDoS or something.

[edit] TechCrunch is reporting it's a DNS redirection attack, so their machines were probably never compromised (your password is safe). It also probably means the site will not be back up for a while, as it will take time for the DNS to propagate everywhere even after they fix it.

[edit 2] ...aaaand it came back up 3 seconds later.
I'm pretty sure you meant "had been so totally pwned". This is the most serious, total pwnage I've ever seen on the tubes.
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Perl has a "reverse" function built in. (Which, I suppose, only goes to show what sorts of eldritch horrors must lurk within.)
One of the great mysteries is why time only goes in one direction, and one candidate to explain that is a dark matter particle.

How?
http://search.twitter.com is still up
Not completely related but, super interesting that etherpad actually started as appjet.

via crunchbase:
AppJet intends to simplify the process of writing web applications. The applications are programmed on a web based text editor in the simple but powerful JavaScript programming language. JavaScript is used on both the server and client side.

I guess they ended up realizing that the code editor was a better product/market to go after than the app creation/hosting itself.

Also, interesting that pg invested in the angel round as well, post-YC.

More: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/appjet
Screenshots.
http://shitmores.blogspot.com/2009/12/twitter-got-hacked.htm...
I had the same thought.

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Google seems to think that it was someone else according to their Search:

http://i.imgur.com/xDTET.png

(Iranian Cyber Army -> Indian Cyber Army)
Well, the site isn't running tests to see if the site that we think of as twitter is up, just is something responding at that web address- which if you're seeing the iranian thing, then it is.

Looks like Twitter just took down the entire front page though. Going to be a late night in California...
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first they hacked our drones, now they hacked twitter

Who is "they"? the drones were hacked by Taliban, twitter by the Iranian Cyber Army.
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I didn't get the sense this piece was criticizing... just explaining.
For all the money invested in twitter and all the people backing it you would think it would have high enough security measures that this couldn't happen.

Or at the very least they would be monitoring for such intrusions and be able to stop them quickly.
And Google's take on the "Iranian Cyber Army":

http://i.imgur.com/xDTET.png
Banks should be Small Enough To Fail. They should also have compliance divisions the size of entire corporations. They should charge reasonable rates of interest. They should also offer money to good customers for free. They need to stop charging so many late and overdraft fees. They should offer free checking. They should revise any policy which has a disparate impact on minorities. They should stop giving out risky mortgages to people who are going to default on them. They should stop relying so much on impersonal credit scoring and have more humans in the loop. They should return credit decisions in under a minute at 3 AM in the morning. They should have customer service employees who speak proper English and can actually help with issues. They should be glad to get a phone call from a $100 a year account at 3 AM in the morning. They should do more to protect customers from fraud. They should stop freezing the accounts of perfectly innocent people.

I am so glad I am not a bank.
$ sh bin/rebuildjar.sh
using JAR jar...
usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-apvX] source_file target_file
cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-apvX] source_file ... target_directory
including etherpad JARs...
using cached JAR-etherpad...
updating...
java.io.FileNotFoundException: ../../build/appjet.jar (No such file or directory)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:106)
at sun.tools.jar.Main.run(Main.java:175)
at sun.tools.jar.Main.main(Main.java:1044)
done.
cp: build/appjet.jar: No such file or directory

Anyone got any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
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The lack of respect for modern web standards and accessibility here is shocking. No alt tags? All in-line styles with no CSS? And no XHTML?

Shame on them.
Looks like the cp failed. What operating system is this on?
These business could scale, if they're owners weren't so attached to making the things themselves.

I'd bet the lady selling scarves could simply design the patterns and farm the production out to a couple women paying them $30k / yr (and take home $80k+ herself).
This would actually perfectly compliment the new PlaceRank effort in which Google is sending out all of those QR stickers - Think foursquare for check in + Yelp userbase/content + locally targeted adwords, and throw in AdMob.

About the stickers: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/16/check-in-google-foursqu...
Also in NYC. Heck, it's even good for restaurant reviews when I visit home in NC.
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The Drones were not "hacked" - they were listened to.
Yeah, I have no idea how to tell my friends what's going on or find out if they've heard anything without twitter. I've taken to randomly IMing people.
From the earnings report: Apple sold $12.25B worth of iPhones and Apple TVs in the last quarter.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/10/19results.html

In the first month of the App Store, (arguably not very close to now, but still) Apple sold about $30M in apps, of which it takes only a 30% cut. The difference between hardware and software sales is a few orders of magnitude.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121842341491928977.html
My Farsi sucks (non-existent) but I can understand the text at the bottom of the following image to mean: "This is a warning to the United States for interfering with our internal matters".

The rest is an scripture quote ("The partisans of God shall prevail", or literally, "Hezbollah will win" ;-) and what seems like a stanza from a nationalist poem.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xpwq_Sv0p98/SysgktMZ9fI/AAAAAAAAAq...
Exactly, in a case like this I'd be pulling Ethernet cables and decomposing the issue without the rest of the Internet seeing the carnage. Regardless, this is bad.
Telling your people your competition sucks isn't unethical, you're just making them aware that you can provide them with more value. If you can't live up to your claims, you'll feel the backlash.

I can see that using Mechanical Turk could be unethical for certain sites (e.g: dating sites), but it could also be pretty useful, and was something I hadn't thought of at least.

Also, I don't see how your complaint about #5 applies to blogs but not twitter or facebook sites.
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As of 11.06pm, it's back for me.
I think they are up again. It is working for me at least.
Oh, thanks. I had assumed that whole appjet thing was some kind of framework, not the actual EtherPad server.
Weird.. still trying to figure out how you got news.ycombinator.com out of www.freerepublic.com...
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Interesting to note too that at the same time all this is going on, Citibank is jacking up credit card interest rates to 29.9% for many of its customers:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2370258/citibank_ra...

Laughing all the way to the bank indeed...
From cp usage message, it seems to be a Mac. But compilecache.sh seems to be handling properly for Darwin based systems.
Go ahead and descramble your cable signal, you will be charged with "hacking". I was just going by the sensationalist label of the act given to it by law-enforcement, media and the political "establishment".

Similar dilution of the term occurs here on a daily basis.
The traditional analogy would be Apple's own iTunes Store for music downloads, where Apple makes money from iPods instead of 99¢/$1.29 downloads.

Granted, they probably make a bit more with the apps than with music, but it presumably costs more to manage and host them as well.
Ah, right. But which one is apple profiting more from? The hardware with it's high cost or the app store with it's virtually zero cost?
The Google index isn't rebuilt in real time. There was a higher frequency for the phrase "indian cyber army" before this incident.
For most students, MBAs are for networking, from what I was told.

People exchange their business cards on the very first day and build up a network trying to climb the corp ladder together...

It is a sad situation but nevertheless, who seek true value in our modern world? Reflections will bring us wisdom.
That sounds somewhat overwrought. You can get much more and higher quality data on 'the disposition and tactics of US forces' from satellites, traffic analysis, reading the official sites of US military units and soldier's blogs than you can from terabytes of narrow-field grainy footage of the Hindu Kush or Sadr city. It might be of some tactical use to someone engaged in 'asymmetrical warfare' against US forces and is probably even more useful as a propaganda tool. The intelligence-gathering operations of other countries probably have more storage space dedicated to episodes of The Simpsons than intercepted US UAV video.
Six weeks passed this prior semester before I realized I was going to fail all of my classes. Was I focused? Absolutely not.

This past semester I switched into Engineering from a Liberal Arts degree, and I'd never felt so worthless, incompetent and overwhelmed. Everyone had it together, everyone knew absolutely everything—and me, half a year of teaching myself programming in my spare time was showing no results. Except for developing carpal tunnel syndrome.

My roommate was another source of tension. Every day (and I really mean every day), he would talk about how Harvard Law demanded a 4.0, who wore real suits and who wore knock-offs, how School A was so much better than School B, the difference in salary between top-tier and bottom-tier grads, and, to top it off, how much he valued "good ol' American values, like from the 50s".

He flew through his tests and quizzes with straight-As, and I struggled to scrape up a passing grade.

To make matters worse, I started learning shell scripting, further distracting me from homework and classes. Also, I was getting treated for depression.

Anyway, I couldn't find a way to be motivated for anything other than my side projects. I tried turning my homework into a programming puzzle, but it was too late—my grades were too low to salvage.

Taking time off was something that had always been on my mind, but hearing it recommended was the final push I needed.

So I withdrew.

And, surprisingly, the world didn't end—it opened up. I didn't know what to do with all this free time, so I increased my volunteering time at a local school and started job-applying like crazy.

I was interviewed for an IT position and another to cashier, and I got neither. Still don't have a job, still wondering how I'm going to feed my cat, yet not worried.

Don't get me wrong—I'm stressed like hell, but I'm enjoying it. I can literally spend hours coding without feeling guilty.

Finishing college is important to me, however, and I'm set to return in the fall.

Hopefully my work ethic will keep maturing—I'm excited to start again.

GPA definitely isn't on my mind.
You're calling out that a search for "indian cyber army" is performed more often than one for "iranian cyber army"?
There was another article here the other day about how the banks were basically exchanging TARP money for guaranteed loans from the government. Now that is shady.
Are you new to the Internet?
With an 11 trillion dollar debt it was never ours to begin with.
Excuse me, I forgot to write: profit from the iPhones and Apple TVs is about $2.85B, if I understand the report correctly.

They'd need to sell $3.2B on the App Store each month to match the hardware profit figures.
I don't know how many servers twitter has but common sense dictates it's more than would be practical to pull Ethernet cables from in any reasonable amount of time.
Admittedly, the MPAA doesn't (yet) have the second option. Maybe it's the better of the two?
...and it's offline. Whole repo now 404s.

[edit] Appears Aaron is re-importing the tree as I type. Paths have all changed to be under trunk/trunk...

[edit2] Back to normal paths. Not clear what has changed.
Go big or go home.
I suggest that you should let them know "Twitter got hacked" via http://identi.ca next time ;-)
Twitter Gets Hacked And Defaced By Iranian Cyber Army
As entrepreneurs our focus is different anyway. Some people will attend b-school to get a better job. We'll attend to learn skills, which is part of what the article says:

"In future, those who stump up will do so because they want to learn the skills, not because they think they are buying entry into a cool and exclusive club"

B-school is what you make of it. You get a couple years to soak up a ton of knowledge. Sure there's always BS but there are some incredibly powerful models that you just won't learn outside of it unless you're very dedicated. HR? As primarily a developer, I'm not going to read an HR textbook unless someone tests me on it. Turns out it's a very interesting subject and links strongly to your strategy. Same with marketing, finance, etc etc.

You can also attend, get through the exams and have the primary output being a piece of paper - same as any other degree.
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I disagree on the point that digital video is required for scrambling the feed. Commercial feeds such as HBO have been scrambled since 1986, albeit with analog schemes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videocipher

DVB-S came out in 1993 and was one of the first digital standards. It uses DES-based encryption.
http://www.dvb.org/about_dvb/history/

While it may have been difficult to fully-encrypt the video with airborne hardware in the early 1990's, they certainly could have made some effort to scramble it. And by now, it should have been updated to 2002-era webcam technology.

Most of the surprise is people confusing the NSA with the military. While the NSA may have the latest and greatest tech, the military is always much farther behind.
Another vote for Utrecht.
Ironically the research that book was based on found that most of the skills you've listed are not important for good managers.
Cracking knuckles can lead to "lower grip strength and functional impairment."
It's a little off topic, but I'm intrigued by the '87% of Americans can be uniquely identified by DOB, gender and zip code'. Given the size of the US's population and the relative scarcity of zip codes, this seems an incredible claim. The link in the article is broken so I can't read the paper. Even just thinking about the big cities, where I imagine virtually no one would be identifiable, that figure sounds impossibly high. Maybe the figure actually refers to just working adults or something like that. Does anyone have any more information about this, or access to the original paper?
You are misunderstanding the Etsy community. If she did that, she would lose all of the sales she is making. Because the buyers at Etsy generally only purchase when they have a reasonable certainty that the item will be produced by the original artisan, by hand.

It is very much a Catch-22.
Yank the fiber? That'll do it ;)
IANAP.

"To detect dark matter, scientists have to wait for the extremely rare occasion when a dark matter particle knocks into an atomic nucleus in the detector and makes it vibrate"

Why? If dark matter is 90+% of the mass of 'everything', then surely many more anomalies would occur without us having to be hit by a chunk of dark matter. It would simply have to be anywhere near us (or a nearby body we could observe carefully) to observe weird gravitational effects. Nearby ones, not 'out there in other galaxies' ones.

Assuming it's not near us, why would that be? Our star isn't much affected by it. We can't see nearby stars being pulled willy-nilly. How far out must we search before we could reasonably assume it doesn't exist and there might be another explanation?

[edit] And if it's a weird non-localised 'blanket' that can't hit you in the foot, then it'd be great to have some guesses as to the structure so we can test for it. Does it exist inside all galaxies? Is it in the middle, or does it rotate like normal 'matter'? If it exists in the perimeter, is much heavier, and spins like visible matter, do we have to invent a super-ultra-dark matter to explain why common-or-garden dark matter doesn't fly off into space? If it's in the middle and clumpy, could it collapse into a dark-matter black hole, especially since there's no radiation to force particles apart? Is it only one particle type, or a family like visible matter? Since it has mass, is there another form it can convert to as visible mass does? Since it doesn't radiate (being dark) what happens to the energy when (if) it converts?

If it's clumpy, stop worrying about visible asteroids. It's the invisible ones that can really hurt you :)
Actually, I was thinking about DOB as being just the day and month, not day, month and year. If the year's included then this seems less far fetched, although I'd still be surprised if it's correct.
Interesting to note that the favicon is still there. If it was a DNS attack, you would assume it wouldn't be there (unless the attackers put it on their box, which seems not very likely).

Given that and the speed at which the service recovered, I'm going to say it does not seem like a DNS attack.
I used to revere books, but after buying one too many that would have been better at article length (and often started out as such), I've become more guarded with the time I'm willing to invest in a book. Some books are worth a re-read, but an increasing fraction that I encounter now aren't worth a first.

"The 48 Laws of Power" is an example. I originally read this as a magazine article, which was great. I excitedly bought the 452 page book of the same title when it came out, but unfortunately it didn't cover much more than the magazine article I had already read; it was just book length.
What about people that can't afford a pay cut financially?

Isn't it obvious? If you can't afford the pay cut, don't try to become a manager.

Stop and think about it from the employer's position. If your star programmer becomes a manager, the only guarantee is that you've lost a good programmer. The odds are low that you'll get a good manager out of the deal. So why should they pay more for less value?

Remember. Smart companies don't hand out money out of some notion of what is fair. They pay money because that is the cost of the value those employees are expected to provide. (Note that companies avoid paying the actual value provided, because doing so is a recipe for going bankrupt.) If the deal that they are willing to offer you does not meet your needs, you are free to find a deal that is more to your taste.
I came to know about Twitter hack via FriendFeed.
I'm in exactly the same boat. Wrote my (hopefully) last engineering exam today. I'm on repeat probation (well, I've already failed out once, but did awesome work for a professor for 2 years, and got back in on the merit of that). However, I repeated the same self-sabotaging things that I do, and didn't really study for my exams, so I might not have passed. I want to work in this field, but this degree feels like a nuisance.
I assume you want to include it in the same page to pipeline everything. Using a script tag is relatively safe because search engines tend not to look inside it, and unrecognized languages are typically ignored. (Though in this case, they don't specify a language, and thus comment it out for browsers that assume a default of javascript). A textarea would be a bit difficult because you'd need to escape characters correctly and such.
Except that when I ran the test the site was not responding, and many other services like http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ was telling me that the website was down for everybody.
I am not sure why this is given as "How an Indian" would give directions , that's how we do it here in London as well. No one says "Go Southeast for 0.2 kms" , you are oriented and directed via a well-known landmark.

But as a technology this is fantastic.
I don't think we can claim that "our passwords are safe". What about twitter clients that store your password to fetch your tweets automatically?

Wouldn't they be posting your account password to http://twitter.com, or twitter only uses HTTPS? If there is any way to login using standard HTTP, the same server that is used to deface the website can be collecting tons of user credentials.

And even if twitter uses only HTTPS, what's the policy of twitter clients in regard to bad certificates?
I think it would be conservative to estimate that millions of jobs and billions of dollars of production are generated regularly from firms founded by "bussinessy" business types. Yesterday I was listening to an interview of an entrepreneur that I admire, and I didn't realize until then that he had an MBA. There are probably tens of thousands of people employed by him.

But don't let me get in the way of your prejudices, it's always fun to kick an unpopular person in public for the general amusement.
You know... sometimes life throws you curveballs. If you believe that planning will prevent any and all financial problems from appearing then I have a bridge to sell you...
This is quite a nice short story if you haven't read it. The Cambist and Lord Iron:

http://issuu.com/spectra/docs/cambistandlordiron
what i've always wondered is how to handle apostrophes, parentheses and punctuation. it's not what is Right, it's what will look right to the audience.

i love "hello world." ??

i love programs (especially hello world). ??
The business program that you attended must really suck.
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Isn't this well known ?

Hasn't Dilbert been saying this for years more succinctly and wittily ?
Just tried a few directions from my house... This is a huge improvement! Though one could do a slightly better landmark selection but this is awesome...
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hahaha, exactly

you think about what the author says, you try to apply it to different situations, you aspire to examine its rigor. and by doing so you create multiple "reference points" for your memory
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