skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, http://searchyc.com/pg?sort=by_date_r
has pg's first post (ID = 1) and what I assume is his first comment (ID = 17).

I lurked for a while before participating, maybe you did the same?

Incidentally that makes pg 1000205 / 17 = 59,000 HNyears old -- and that seems about right, I bet the average reader here cares ~10,000x more about what pg writes than what I write (pg HNyears / davi HNyears = ~10K). :)
"The moral of this story, it seems to me, is that we should make use of the idea of limited resources in our own education. We can all benefit by doing occasional "toy" programs, when artificial restrictions are set up, so that we are forced to push our abilities to the limit. We shouldn't live in the lap of luxury all the time, since that tends to make us lethargic. The art of tackling miniproblems with all our energy will sharpen our talents for the real problems, and the experience will help us to get more pleasure from our accomplishments on less restricted equipment."
Soon it will be even easier to get. The new GMO coming down the pike is a soybean that produces omega-3 via SDA (converted to EPA by humans once ingested) which is a more efficient conversion process than the ALA -> EPA process that most other botanical sources provide.
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Ah, it's a private company that does all the fishing and books all the profit. As in, catches 90% of the fish. Apparently they don't need any special license to do this.

Your point was...?
Since it looks like you didn't make the effort to check the facts by yourself: http://blog.craigslist.org/2009/12/pipes-faucets/ . Again, Craig Newmark had absolutely nothing to do with the decision of blocking Yahoo pipes.
And if that guy who keeps editing the Wikipedia page doesn't stop, this article is going to become wholesale plagiarism!
I sincerely doubt that these guys would be successful. In South Africa there is a habit to start impractical and expensive grandiose engineering projects with government money. Most of these will turn out to be white elephants (a few examples are the Rooivalk attack helicopter, pebble-bed reactor, Joule car, etc...).

The last one, they used funding from the DTI to start an electric car - even though it is not in SA's core competencies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_Energy_Joule). I have no doubt that that will fail and will cost a lot of money.

A much better model for an indigenous aircraft company is to perform the designs of low tech parts locally and import highly complex and critical (safety of flight) parts. That way you can utilise the strengths (design&low cost labour). A good example of such a model is this company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAC_Cresco.
The question is, what do our defence contractors care more about: making their weapons actually work? Or merely selling them?
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11. I have ADD so I get upset when I have too many open, it's better for my concentration to close them down except for a select few, including HN.
Or someone could find a flaw, not tell about it, sell it.
I'm interested in the details.
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i don't think this will displace forums. The key for forums, is users, everything else is fluff.

And existing forums won't be switching to this, because they just can't. Technology won't work together, and few admins would switch if they could.

So their main "target" are the people who want to start new communities, and that's a very fickle audience(I got in on the early beta of Stack Exchange, which had a similar hook, new forums! and ~2 months later, 90% of sites have been abandoned, because it's very hard to get early users.

Starting a community is much harder than people think. Forums take years to build up...and most people just don't want to deal with that, since there is no light at the end of the tunnel(most forums are barely breaking even)

The widget part, does have some merit, but at that point, it's pretty much sounds like a disqus/intense debate copy.

Analytics part doesn't really matter since you can get that already with other software+google analytics.

Insights, even though interesting, doesn't really do any value add to the user or the admin, so once again fluff.

Frankly I don't see why they are going for the forums market, vBulletin barely makes any money. They are like THE forum software, and I don't think they make more than 10 mil in revenue.
Government clearing houses? I thought this was just about benefit payments no longer being made by cheque (or checks if you're in the US). AFAIK the clearing system is oeprated by the banks themselves.
I also appreciate your honesty, and I'll try to address your points.

Many people would save the life of a pigeon. They're just not very consistent about it.

One issue is how we measure progress.

We would generally think that a school program that increases the average performance of a school is a good thing. If it does this by expelling the low scoring students, then it is not an educational program. It does not make the school better, it just makes it look better.

So having no homeless in a city doesn't necessarily make that city a nicer place to be. It can still have the same weak economy and bad infrastructure. It's the difference between rebuilding a wall and repainting it.

A hypothetical city that achieves zero homeless with a great job market, low cost housing, and easy access to perfect psychological treatment is clearly better than a city that eats everyone making under 50k.

I think a more realistic city that reduces some of the impact of homelessness by having adequate shelters is better than a city without that net.

The first city solves the problems of the people in the city, while the second city does not. In the end, we have cities because they are tools. Better tools work more consistently.

Your Species is Irrelevant.

Personhood matters though, I think a person dying is a tragedy. I'm not sure 'obligation' is the right term, but I think if you were actually faced with the death of a person, you would value their life more. I'm not trying to make an 'I know better than you' argument here, just saying that a lot of our values are context sensitive and inconsistent. (as with pigeons)
Is it really going over your head that the issue here is the fishing rights are public? Tragedy of the commons, all that?
Pages that are centered and expand horizontally to fit don't work well with this. Eg: google web page. Apparently not everyone can see all of the search bar when I maximize but when I make the window smaller almost everyone can.
While I obviously think they need to close the security gaps, I just want to make a comment on your comment: it's that kind of thinking that keeps our taxes increasing and our economy in shambles.

I'm with @tsally on the solution to this kind of problem...
God am I sick of tedious gloomy post-apocalyptic stories. I had them in school when they were about nukes. Now they're about the environment but they're the same boring gloomy defeatist stuff. Between those two dates, of course, we had tens of millions of Chinese and Indian people being lifted out of poverty, the fall of apartheid and the Soviet Union, democracy in Eastern Europe, the Internet...

The future is the Jetsons, baby, not this shit.
Shockley did not come to the bay area for San Francisco, he came to be close to his ailing mother in Palo Alto. From Shockley Semiconductor came the traitorous eight and Fairchild and from this cluster came most of what we now know as silicon valley. Hewlett and Packard both came from Stanford, etc.

SF may have dominated the bay area for quote a while, but none of the seminal events that can be pointed to as the seeds of what became silicon valley have a very direct link to what you and everyone else seems to consider the San Francisco "culture." The marine geography that makes San Francisco a great anchorage and led to a strong naval presence in the area probably had a bigger impact on silicon valley than anything you can point to an as a uniquely "San Francisco" impact on the valley.
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No, I checked the wikipedia article on the date before he published his piece.

And yes, some of his article is making his way back to wikipedia - but now wikipedia has a ref.
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Why hasn't Bill Gates done this yet?
Also note that your German "translation" is not a translation at all, but a paraphrase of the paragraph in English.

Given that different languages have different semantics all the best translations are paraphrases.

Though perhaps you didn't notice the footnote. That is Moore's translation, not my own. Once again, you are wrong. You are literally correct, but Moore's translation (edited with Friedrich Engels) is semantically correct. If I had translated it myself I would have said something like "the passively rotting lowest strata left of the old society," which is probably a little closer to your own rather than Moore's, but for the most part I think Engels knew what he was saying, given that he helped write the original German and all.

I do speak German, btw.

Also note that Marx de-humanises the people (by calling them "rotten".

Yes, Marx was a bit of a jerk, thank you.
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for more of the same feeling, try reading The Mythical Man Month (the entire book)
It's amusing that they consider the lack of encryption a mere "flaw". Seems like a huge oversight to me.
The article said that people knew the potential existed since the mid 90's so the problem was't ignorance it was arrogance and apathy.
It's possible the stocks would be better protected if Omega Protein were sold exclusive 100% rights in perpetuity.
You're right. What we really need to do here is grant a monopoly, which will solve the problem immediately. Then we can move on to privatizing the air and things like that.
Its ridiculous that so many sites do this. Especially since it takes all of 2 seconds to activate a salting + hashing function in current web frameworks of today...and if you're not on a framework, it takes all of 30 seconds to write your own salting + hashing function or find one on the internet...
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The potential drone vulnerability lies in an unencrypted downlink between the unmanned craft and ground control. The U.S. government has known about the flaw since the U.S. campaign in Bosnia in the 1990s, current and former officials said. But the Pentagon assumed local adversaries wouldn't know how to exploit it, the officials said.
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I owe you a nickel each time I use "The future is the Jetsons, baby, not this shit" - awesome!
Just have a text file on any drive you're worried about losing.
Agreed - I read that sentence and asked myself "How are they privatizing federal waters? Fences? Guard Boats? Exclusive Fishing Licenses?"

It read like the resource was still public. I wonder though, if we can consider it a "Tragedy of the Commons" when a single player is doing most of the (alleged) damage to this resource.
The potential drone vulnerability lies in an unencrypted downlink between the unmanned craft and ground control.

What about the uplink?
Anybody remember the movie Body of Lies? Would be interesting to feed the insurgents a different video feed from what is actually be used.
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Ate Astro today. It was either him or Elroy, and frankly the boy is more tolerable these days since we can no longer find refined sugar to feed him.
This is an area in which I have been interested, both as a startup law practitioner and as someone who has thought about doing my own entry in this field (I have toyed with the beginnings of this on my firm's website with a "Startup Law 101 Series").

Here are a few of the good resources in this area:

1. The Miller book mentioned in OP (Lifecycle of a Technology Company) is actually quite good, with a strong focus on Delaware law. This work had its genesis in a multi-volume work prepared by lawyers at Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, PC, a prominent Massachusetts firm. As written originally by multiple lawyers, it was accurate, in-depth, and pedantic. When repackaged for Wiley as the Lifecycle book, it was much streamlined and became eminently more readable. Lots of good detail here - very helpful for entrepreneurs.

2. Constance Bagley and Craig Dauchey, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law - Ms. Bagley is a former Bingham McCutchen partner who went on to gain distinction at Harvard Business School. Mr. Dauchey is a partner at Cooley Godward in Palo Alto and a veteran startup lawyer. This work is also done with excellence and covers the range of issues faced by a typical "emerging company," including most of the basic IP issues faced by a tech company.

3. Jack S. Levin and Martin Ginsburg, Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Transactions is by far the best technical treatment of the corporate startup issues - written for lawyers, it is a highly readable resource for the intelligent layman and Jack Levin (of Kirkland & Ellis) is nothing short of a genius in his field. If you want to dig deep into how deals and company structures work (including superb treatment of tax issues, which are quite important in this field), this is by far the best resource extant.

4. Joseph Bartlett, Fundamentals of Venture Capital is a book with a slightly misleading title owing to marketing reasons. The book was originally put out by Mr. Bartlett (lately of Morrison & Foerster) in the late 1980s with a fuller treatment of the broad range of startup issues but later shortened to its current format - while dealing with venture capital, it gives a very concise and helpful rundown of the range of legal issues faced by every startup, with excellent overviews of the key issues.
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Not a hack, but a good idea anyway.

Except that I can't read the email address.

Maybe just put a sticker on the outside of the camera?
Yeah - it totally sounds ridiculous, which is why I don't buy it. Something fishy is going on >:)
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The article doesn't mention the 30% figure anywhere (except the title) [edit: I was wrong], which makes me wonder where it came from. Is it the hacker's experience, or is he quoting someone else? If it's the former, issues of small sample size and selection bias come to mind.
For websites, the hacker recommends using hashes with salt or PCI DSS to protect user data. He said that message-digest algorithm-5 (MD5) is an inadequate solution. As a case in point, check out this post we saw today on Slashdot. "If you're storing it in MD5, it's nothing... It's no problem to use a GPU cracker, or better, a botnet of PS3s. I've got three at home."

Uh huh.
As soon as you show me how a chicken dinner can usually cost $10, but can sometimes cost $75,000 instead, I'll allow that this is not an idiotic mischaracterization of the basic nature of health care.
Correction: some anonymous internet guy who claims that he's behind the RockYou hack and has hacked many major US sites says that 1 in 3 that he has accessed stores passwords in plain text. So this "data" is pretty much worthless.
How can it be a tragedy of the commons if only one person does it?
I hope instead of shutting it down, the military feeds them false information. If done right, it could make a good trap.
Whether or not you deem it a realistic scenario does not detract from the artistic quality of it. What about 1984? Brave New World? Dr. Strangelove? All of them gloomy and dystopian, and all of them damned good!

Nuclear warfare was (and still is) a very serious threat. Just because we've been lucky enough to skirt such a conflict doesn't mean it's not a viable threat. And depending on who you ask, ecological collapse is a very serious issue as well. I like these types of stories because they serve as a grim reminder of what could be. And maybe, just maybe, they effect enough change to steer us clear from it.
> I think in terms of what is economical for food production and what is bioavailable to human eaters

I've been taking Algae based DHA supplements for a while. The consensus seems to be that it should work just as well as DHA from fish oil but so far there are no studies using this form so it isn't 100% certain. The cost is somewhat more than fish oil (maybe 2 or 3 times the prices) although I'm sure that is mostly because it is a niche product. There are also version with both DHA and EPA but they are a fair bit more expensive and the conversion of ALA to EPA is generally viewed as good enough for flax seed oil to be used for EPA.
A lot of fish oil is made from other sources of fish, such as sardines and anchovies.
From the article:
Tom says that one out of every three sites he's gained access to store user data in plain text databases.
(I like to get a backtrace with the location of the error, when errors happen, at least like in Python)

Can you elaborate on this? Clojure does have stacktraces, you know.
Ah lame, I haven't updated to Snow Leopard yet so I didn't know.
Its not all that ridiculous. A company that I used to work for did this. And while anecdote != data, I've seen it happen often enough to realize that a lot of devs just dont care about security.
From what I've heard the conversion from ALA to EPA is OK but conversion to DHA is a lot more variable.
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Seems reasonable to me. Some sites have a "recover password" function, and I wouldn't be surprised if they accounted for more than 30%.
i'm sure lack of reliability is part of their business plan. You make the perfect humvee, and suddenly the army stops buying as many.

There is a reason the AK47 is so much more reliable than the M16. And it's been out for like 60 years now.
This is something I started with a couple of other people in response to the RockYou incident: http://blockyou.org/

The overall goal is a "community documentation of bad web authentication practices," but at a minimum it would be great to compile a list of websites that send out plaintext passwords when a user forgets their password. Anyone interested?
Awesome quote: "Fixing the security gap would have caused delays, according to current and former military officials. It would have added to the Predator’s price. Some officials worried that adding encryption would make it harder to quickly share time-sensitive data within the U.S. military, and with allies."
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Hmm,

Art is lovely and creative and all. But if "flying a plane to the cleveland" was "an art, not a science", the passengers might be afraid to get on the plane.

Some parts of programming need have a certain standardization. I guess I'm still feeling burnt by "creative" scientific programmers who want their entire inspiration to exist entirely in matlab unavailable to any grubby practical hands. The quote Knuth criticizes seems like a reaction to schemes of this sort and so I have a bit of sympathy.
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The AK is more reliable because it is less accurate. The tolerances on the various mechanical parts are higher, but as a result they are looser.
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It must be talking about this bit: "Tom says that one out of every three sites he's gained access to store user data in plain text databases. "

Of course that doesn't mean a third of all sites - just a third of sites with lousy enough security that this chap could break in to them (presumably more SQL injections).
Or use an eye-fi card so it wirelessly uploads all photos (hopefully, i.e. if there's a standard/open network nearby).

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Amusing comment from a congressman at 76:25...
"When I'm sitting in an audience listening to a long lecture, my attention usually starts to wane at about this point in the hour. So I wonder, are you getting a little tired of my harangue about 'science' and 'art'?"

yes. i'd already started skimming several pages earlier.

i don't have a problem with reading texts of any length, so long as they are telling me something interesting. belaboring an insignificant point for five or six pages does not fall into that category.

i know knuth is a smart guy and all, but man, this reminds me of why i so rarely read him.
My abstract algebra book from college introduced the axioms and used them right away. But new concepts were introduced independently and afterwards related to the axioms.
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I played with sky grabbing few years back.

Receiver you linked is set-top box, you need PCI receiver card, such as SkyStar (http://www.technisat.com/index381f.html?nav=PC_products,en,7...)

No, you don't have to modify the receiver, card captures IP traffic just out of the box with right software. There was another free alternative to SkyGrabber that runs on Linux, but I can't recall the name now.

edit: grammar

edit 2: I found it!
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For something like a camera the average person wouldn't notice a text file, but may notice photos.

For phones, I generally include my email in the greeting/home screen message.

For my iPod, I select the engraving option and use '$100 Reward. Contact: my_email'
I'm not even an optimist. I'm not necessarily a pessimist either but I know that the technological Genie is not going back into the bottle no matter what else.

Even if the future is going to be grim, it will be grim in a complex technological fashion, not this simplistic shit. Already the homeless have mobile phones.
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That's a good reason to use different password for different websites. With password manager softwares this is easy to do.
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While this isn't directly about the article, anyone who regularly takes fish oil should read "The Great Fish Oil Experiment" by Ray Peat at http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/fishoil.shtml.

That linked article goes in to way too much depth to really paste anything useful here but he basically says that while there are short term benefits to fish oil, it could actually be quite harmful to take it in the long term.
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perhaps 79% of management are also disengaged from their work. The alienation of labor is pretty much complete, even for management. Most jobs are about paying the mortgage, nothing more.
I bet you could sell more Eye-Fi's if there were an easy way to upload new firmware to the card. It's a fundamentally interesting product but I think you could get a lot more creative uses for it from opening it up more to your customers.