skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering ~3% of Americans are NetFlix subscribers that means only ~900 people per Basic Zip might be subscribers. Gender will half this to ~450 people, and considering that (IIRC) each 5-year population group has on average ~5.8% of the population in it with a median age of ~38 (where the percentages are hitting 7.8%), but let's say an average 1.2% of the population is of any individual year of age.

This means, on average, you should still be able to place someone down to ~5 people. God forbid you're a 110 year old using netflix. If netflix is releasing it in 5-year groupings that still puts you in a group of ~30 people for grouping of ~30,000.

I'm unsure if any data release like this counts as anonymous.
More like, "People should like what's good and keep an open mind to things, even if it's outside their social sphere." That appeals to geeks and nongeeks alike. But point taken.
unfortunately being able to live on making crafts in the US is not at all due to 'hard work', that is simply a red herring in terms of difficult things facing these producers. Instead, it is likely due to obscurity or the novelty of that market. Someone in the story is already hiring employees to do the work, it is only a matter of time when those employees, and then even the entrepreneur will be outsourced outside the country.
Countdown to IRS audits on all of them begins...
Where did I claim otherwise? I only noted that his suggested approach -- which is clearly reflected by 37signals -- has led to me maintain a lower estimation of their decorum and the value of their positions.
I always thought it was because comics and certain sci-fi novels are easier and more appealing to people at a younger age, and they've got enough depth to maintain you until you're older. Science fiction moves you from the simpler works of Asimov to multilayered literary pieces like Dune; unless you're actively curious about the rest of literature, you can evolve as a reader while staying in those bounds. Ditto the transition in comic books from early DC to modern Moore.

A person more receptive towards social expectations may be repelled from the same novel because they're aware of the lack of respect associated with the genre.

Partly, maybe, but I'm really insistent on this point that most people really don't worry as much about popularity as geeks do, and that a lot of what we might assume is driven by it is instead following a certain logic. I love science fiction, and my good friends read sci-fi, but if I came into a room and it was decorated by huge Star Trek posters, I'd still be turned off - not because Star Trek isn't popular, but because it doesn't strike me as being good enough to be worth such an intense love. It's like seeing a Titanic poster in a room. Or, if I see a copy of Watchmen in a bookcase, that's a good thing. If there're a bunch of comics scattered on the floor and no sign of any other form of literature, that's a little worrisome, and if there're energy drink cans and Star Trek posters, then there's an ugly stereotype in my mind, even when one of those things on its own might not trigger much.
Looking forward to when this comes to the USA: in Pittsburgh, directions are typically given via landmark, as the road system is beyond chaotic because of the hills, rivers, and the fact that downtown is a triangle.
This seems like a good marriage to me (or is it an adoption?). More and more on google, I see adsense results that are local in nature, and with more focus on android, this is a perfect addition to get more ad real estate that is location based.

I use a lot of iphone apps, but more often than not, when I have my wallet out, I use the Yelp app to purchase food or drink. As a user, I'd be much more reluctant to utilize an admob ad on an unrelated iphone app or game as opposed to clicking on an ad when I'm trying to find a good thai restaurant somewhere in the midwest.
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Kind of. More even that the idea of drinking huge cans of caffeine is sort of a dirty idea in and of itself. We've got certain images in our heads about chain smokers and alcoholics, who overindulge themselves in a public fashion; energy drinks have a similar image going for them. The demographic of energy drinkers tends to skew young and heavily male, because the sorts of people who drink it are the sorts who are fine with momentary jolts of energy followed by huge crashes, and who actively desire that as a mood change versus other intoxicants.
the mob has spoken
I think the films being referred to were more along the lines of "how to spend your millions", "what it's like to show off your superbowl ring", or commercials where sports stars are asked "What are you going to do now?" and they respond "Go to Disney Land", as if these somehow indicated HOW to win. The films you're referring to are the proper ones to watch to, as you say, study the problem area and come up with winning strategies. It's not watching movies like Big to find out how to become an executive at a toy company or Gung Ho to determine how to run an auto manufacturing plant.
So who is buying all these banks' assets? (Assets = money owed to these banks, like loans, credit card balances, etc.) Wells Fargo's news release didn't say.
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Man, I can't wait to build this locally. In its raw form I expect it to work great for essay writing, etc., but I can imagine all kinds of cool modifications, like allowing cross-pad hyperlinks. Let the hacking begin!

Edit: I realize that a local build makes very poor use of etherpad's killer feature--its super-fast realtime collaboration--but the biggest draw for me was actually their "playback" mode.
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I can certainly understand the desire to vilify MBAs, there's certainly plenty to complain about. However, it's also worth remembering that folks with sound business sense and good intentions are really very valuable. There are countless examples of very talented people (engineers, artists, musicians) who came to ruin because they lacked even the slightest business sense and made some bad choices they couldn't recover from. Weighed along with that there are many examples of healthy working relationships where makers and business folks work with each other, complementing each other's skills, making a more successful business venture than either could alone. Would Woz have helped revolutionize the computer industry to the same degree without the help of Jobs? How many other examples of that sort exist?

As well, the quality of the average programmer is nothing to crow about (just check Daily WTF if you need examples). Personally I can't say for sure whether I would rather work with an average programmer or an average MBA, neither situation fills me with enthusiasm. The absence of business savvy professionals from the startup world is not something to look forward to, even if it comes with the beneficial result of fewer predatory MBAs. A preferable future would be one where a greater percentage of makers gain enough business sense to be able to get along on their own, avoid the worst business mistakes, and also to develop the radar to be able to avoid the sharks and find the angels.
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I don't know that they'll be outsourced. For those who buy crafts from Etsy, the whole point is that you have direct contact with the seller and you're getting a handmade, one of a kind item. I know several individuals who buy things from Etsy, and being able to get a cheaper version made in China doesn't deter them. I tend to lump the growth of Etsy in with the increase in people buying local, organic food and fair trade products -- the buyer consciously avoids supporting that kind of outsourcing.
I've wanted to add a feature like this into userscripts.org for a long time!

stop! compile time
Sounds like Plurk should taken the horrible burden off the CEO from doing public relations all by himself. He's not very good at it. They've gone from exploited underdog to greedy lawsuit trolls pretty quickly here. Whatever small amount of traffic Microsoft's regional site took away from Plurk was totally offset by the free publicity. They should have sent Microsoft a Thank You card.
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Huh, looks like the whole thing, client and server, are written in Javascript. I think I would be fine with that. Beats writing it in C++ that's for sure.
So how much did it cost U. N. A. Cycle Traders to be listed as a "landmark"?

It brings up a mildly interesting machine vision problem: using the Street View data to confirm that the "landmark" business has a highly visible sign which is visible from eye-level when you're walking (and to confirm that the sign is written in Latin alphabet, if it's an international user trying to get directions). Maybe they'll give reduced advertising rates for better signs (e.g. highly contrasting colors, prominently lists the street address, etc.)

Apparently they have been busy collecting Street View images for India:
http://sushubh.net/3539-google-street-view-india
There is a ton of Scala in there.
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This is silly. Both aspects are important. Someone who thinks money isn't real may make huge basic business blunders like not paying the right taxes, not managing their debt/income correctly, or just making horribly inefficient business choices (I've seen this a lot). The result may be a company that goes out of business even though it's perfectly viable if run correctly. Or a company that dies because it inadvertently violates tax law, or labor law, or environmental law, etc, etc. Or merely a company that doesn't compete as effectively against its cohorts and falls so far behind it becomes irrelevant.
My mistake for making it personal, no harm intended.
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They also released internal development notes, goals, TODO list, design decisions etc. Check out *.txt files.

http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/source/browse/trunk/infras...
http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/source/browse/trunk/infras...

Thanks for sharing them!
Where? I only sampled a few directories, couldn't find anything except js.
Usually if you're conducting surveillance, you don't want other people to know that you know their position. Something tells me that getting access to this type of information would... lessen.. its strategic use.

But hey, this means I can start sending user logins in cleartext and add in the product page that we have "military-grade security."
The critical moment in that story was not when Shockley moved back to the Bay Area, but when the traitorous eight decided they wanted to find a way to remain here, even though they couldn't stand working for Shockley anymore. Of the eight, I believe only Moore had family here. The rest wanted to stay simply because they liked it.
For the same reason why many people in the world experience material privation: not enough time/talent to do it themselves.

If you had enough time, effort, skill, and raw material, why would you ever need to buy clothes from the GAP, mass produced food from Safeway, or entertainment from BestBuy? Certainly, it would be cheaper and healthier to make your own food. But do you really want to spend all your time making stuff, when, overall, it would distract from what you really want to be doing with your life?

In terms of Harry Potter, there is a law of conservation occurring there. Many things 'conjured' there does not last very long, and even to get them into existence requires energy from the summoner. In fact, it specifically mentions in the last book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Hermoine states a conservation law about why wizards can't conjure food. (Don't remember which one.)

I hope this answers your question.
I got it running on a vps and it works great. The documentation made it trivial to do so.
Wow, that was fast.

Huge thanks to both the Appjet team and Google for doing this.
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This is what the site looked like at around 1AM Eastern Standard Time. http://i.imgur.com/pfkXR.png
Based on the transcript, Shopify isn't even mentioned once within the actual interview.
Check the 'infrastructure' at the root.
I have my last final today. This comes as a perfect school-is-over-and-i-can-start-hacking-again gift! I'm hoping to be able to integrate LaTeX export into this so I can collaborate on LaTeX reports without having to download and build manually.
Twitter Hacked by "Iranian Cyber Army"
This is a screenshot of what Twitter looked like at around 1AM Eastern Standard Time.

(Sorry for the duplicate post, but I realized it's better to link to the screenshot of Twitter than Twitter itself, which is down at the moment.)
A friend sent me: http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/9016/twitterhackeado.jpg
I would guess that the money was probably inherited rather than earned -- likely from James, as Lily was muggleborn. Even though they may have been a power couple, or as you say, a highly skilled witch and wizard team, they were only 20 when they died -- not really enough time to amass obscene amounts of wealth.
If everyone lived by the "it's not THAT evil, 'cause everyone else does it" motto the world would be a vastly more horrific place.
Thanks to The Google & The Etherpads!

I fully expect to see 30 different sites offering this now, and HN to be full of links to them tomorrow.
You seriously believe he "accidentally" told techcrunch there was a free promo, despite not actually taking any action to make that happen?
Could not find any information but pingdom does now report it has down. Here is a copy of the source code of the hacked page I first saw :

<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>..:: This Web Site Has Been Hacked By Iranian Cyber Army ::.. </title>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#000000">

<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><img border="0" src="index.6.gif"><img border="0" src="index.2.gif"><img border="0" src="index.7.gif"></p>
<p align="center"><img border="0" src="index.8.gif"></p>
<p align="center">
<a href="mailto:iranian.cyber.army@gmail.com?subject=Mowjcamp">
<img border="0" src="index.5.gif"></a></p>

<p align="center"><img border="0" src="index.3.jpg" width="43%" height="106%"></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="#FFFFFF">U.S.A
Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access , But They Don't ,
We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power , So Do Not Try To Stimulation
Iranian Peoples To ..............</font></b></font></p>
<p align="center"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#FFFFFF">NOW WHICH
COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN?USA?</font></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#FFFFFF">WE PUSH THEM
IN EMBARGO LIST ;)</font></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#FFFFFF">Take Care.</font></b></p>

</body>

</html>
I found no website reporting any information... Anyone?
Well, that sure isn't being evil. Thanks!
Another user submitted this image:

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/9016/twitterhackeado.jpg
Did you have any success with suggesting Chrome Frame?
This feels like the 9/11 of internet
Yes, a cool feature would be to let multiple etherpads talk to each other. Sort of like Google wave :)

Also imagine HN (or any other forum) working on some sort of similar platform. Threaded chats I would say.
The problem is that the only thing TARP is good at motivating banks to do is get the hell out of TARP so they can get back to taking outrageous risks, now even safer in the knowledge that if it all goes south the US taxpayer will bail them out rather than destroy the economy.

The banks should not be allowed to leave TARP. As long as these banks continue to enjoy an implicit government guarantee, the government should maintain its stake, and its say, in the running of those banks. If they want to stop being under the control of the government, they need to split themselves into entities that are Small Enough To Fail.
Who knows who it really is. Could be some random kiddies in Des Moines.
Isn't there a kind of catch 22 going on in the media with regards to banks these days?

If they pay back (with interest), they're bad guys because they just want to get the government off their backs (what would you do if you were them?).

If they don't pay back, they're bad guys because they took money from the government and that hasn't somehow turned them into "nice" banks that lend to whoever you'd want them to lend to.

Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of shady characters involved in this story. But it still seems like a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't.
That commenter was me, and I didn't mean it at all in the sense of "normal" people being "inferior", it was simply an observation. The majority of people will finish work at 5-6pm, then go to the pub (or to some other social activity, or home). That's not a good or a bad thing, it's just how it is. But if you want to be a part of "mainstream" social life, then a profession that often keeps odd hours is probably not for you, was my point.

Hands up who's rolled into the office at lunchtime and hacked through 'til 3am... Would you trade that for 9-5 in a blue suit?
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Awesome! You guys handled this incredibly well, and open sourcing with an Apache license is super classy. Can't wait to see what comes of this, and starting up our own internal instance. Thank you!
Twitter down; hacked by "Iranian cyber army"?
What do the brightest and poshest students at Oxford and Harvard want to study? Business.

Brightest? Math, computer science, the natural sciences, and the humanities.

Poshest? Philosophy, classics.

Neither has much interest in an undergraduate business degree, and both classes of people come from an environment where people with undergraduate business degrees are considered not to have gone to college.

Regarding business <strike>credentialing</strike> education: you do that after college, especially if you need or want a late 20s boost. That's what the MBA's for.
Twitter Hacked By 'Iranian Cyber Army'? (Full text)
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I suspect the company was immediately inundated with "helpful" legal advice when this went to press.

While everyone at HN (and probably the Plurk founders) would settle and go back to writing tech, suing Microsoft is every trial lawyer's dream. I think it's only fair for Microsoft to settle since they did have the service up for a few days but a full lawsuit is clearly OTL.

That said, I'm sure both companies will come out unscathed. The one group I see being hurt by this incident are the Chinese contractors. There were a large number of posts here and on /. stereotyping Chinese hackers as cheaters immediately after this incident.

Really, people, think about what you're saying.
I want it so I code do:

% etherclient foo.txt
etherclient accepting from http://example.com/as213

Then I can share the url with co-workers. The pad is initialized with the contents of foo.txt and then updates are sent.

Then make it be more project based. Then integrate revision control.

Perhaps I should sleep instead of reading code.
this will definitely be interesting to see how it unfolds. Does anyone know if the SMS messaging infrastructure is still working? Is this just limited to the Web interface? Is api.twitter.com still up?

I'll be watching http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?pli=... for interesting comments
No, what's silly is that people still quote Peter Drucker with a straight face.

Ever been frustrated by the many layers of middle management in corporate America today, or laughed at a dilbert strip? Blame Peter Drucker.

Just look at the results of all this "management as a science" bullshit - only one fifth of employees feel engaged with their jobs today, as was recently pointed out by the WSJ (http://blogs.wsj.com/management/2009/12/16/management’s-dirt...).
I laughed when I read this article was retweeted 7 times.
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The mob is sated....for now.
http://istwitterdown.com/
I don't like it when they say "$90 billion in repayments to the taxpayers in a week"

That makes it seem like us taxpayers will actually see some of that money as a return, but we never will.
Interesting, as usual, but a lot of conjecture here.

I did find this odd:

But there’s no question that the App Store exists to sell iPhones and iPod Touches, not the other way around.

That turns the Razor/Razor blade and Printer/Ink cartridge analogies on it's head. I would think that even with a small (30%) cut, selling apps from a tightly controlled app store is immensely more profitable for apple than the actual hardware is, just like selling music? Does anyone know why Gruber thinks the actual hardware makes Apple more money?
API is down, as well. Looks like this isn't just the front page/web layer.

Twitter need to really step up: I can't imagine this is something that couldn't have been prevented by paying for some security analysis. Considering their total $155M of funding, I'm shocked this wasn't done. Between their continuing difficulty scaling, their private documents leak, and now this, twitter really needs to get their act together.
Yelp has a lot of relationships with local businesses, something they are trying to grow with AdWords.

They also want the dataset. The current reviews google is crawling are lousy compared to Yelp's.
All of their web APIs are down (for me).
I wouldn't be surprised if Twitter intentionally disconnected their servers after discovering the defacement, rather than the hackers having actually gained access to the whole API layer.
Hopefully this will lead to strong community around real-time eventual-consistency text synchronization. Here a link to etherpad's implementation of their magic algorithm: http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/source/browse/trunk/etherp... -- though it's pretty tightly integrated with their editor component, "ACE".
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/twitter.com
first they hacked our drones, now they hacked twitter...is Google next?

Can you even fathom Google getting hacked.
Yeah, if I found my boxes had been so totally owned that they could serve arbitrary content I'd take everything down to protect customers, at least in the very short term.

Poor Twitter ops; I'm sure they're having a great evening.
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mowjcamp was apparently a reformist overseas-based website that was hacked in the same way.

http://research.scottrade.com/public/markets/news/news.asp?d...

http://mowjcamp.com
Techcrunch article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1002662
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Let's wait to see what happened first (if they'll tell us)
The good news for Twitter is that I keep wanting to go to Twitter to get the latest news on this hacking. They're my go-to source for breaking news.
#fail, it says no but should say yes
Hm, the twitter api wiki has a different opinion http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#IstheTwitterAPIdown

"Is the Twitter API down?
Not likely: Twitter hasn't had more than a couple minutes of downtime in a while. Requests may lag from time to time, but chances are pretty good we're not down."