skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A simple timeline would be nice. If for instance, funds were given to the shady guy before it was known he was shady... it is not the same type of scandal as if it was the other way around.

Edit: I decided to look into this situataion. Here is the basic timeline:

0. Climate researcher becomes athority on "global warming", the science is assumed OK by most scientists. (This turns out to be false but this is not yet known)

1. June 2009: Grant awarded to climate researcher in good standing.

2. November 2009: Climategate hack occurs

3. December 2009: Climategate scandle breaks

4. January 2010: Somehow mass hysteria breaks out over #1 alleging the funds were awarded in spite of revelations from #2 and #3.

Seems to me there is a deliberate attempt to confuse the order of events. Or worse, accuse the people in charge of being active conspirators in the climategate thing.
It would be funny if showing up at the correct place for an onsite interview was part of the weed-out process of candidates who don't read the company blog!
Don't be evil, right? ;) Instead of being the bully, pick on the bully, as that will bring google even more of the 'good guy' points that Ballmer so desperately needs.

If you think the Chinese gov. will give after for this kind of pressure, then I would say you are naive.
Granted, but that's still an extra step that I wouldn't want clients to have to take.
What about the people merely clicking the link, to view what it is? It reveals their email address/name for anyone to see. That's behavior unlike any other public page on the web.
Aussie band Gerling had a song called 'dust me selecta' - i wonder if one served as inspiration for the other?
What's a "scripting language"?

Or interpreted language, if the nomenclature is that important.
Broadly speaking, I honestly agree with this.
I had a meeting there when Twitter was still laying carpet. Never saw it completely finished - it's pretty sweet looking!

If you have lots of log files to manage and are open to squatters, give me a holler! ;)
Someone comes to me without any credible evidence and states "I think statins cause cancer. Let us randomize people with high LDL to statins or placebo." I will reject this study, not because my mind is "made up" and I am stubborn, but because the prior probability is low (due to lack of credible evidence) that statins truly lead to an excess of cancer, whereas the evidence supporting the use of statins to reduce death in those with high LDL is of gargantuan proportions.

So while I am sorry that we as a medical community have not succeeded in making it clear why no randomized trial should be conducted for vaccines given the current evidence, I reject the assertion that this is simply because "my mind is made up."
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What about those of us that use add CSS classes dynamically, based off user events?
I could definitely use a tool like this, my CSS sheets get long very fast.
I think the article's headline is a bit unfair.

I read that and thought that they were/are manipulating the network in some way to slow it down, similar to ISP's that traffic shape torrenting clients to minimize the effect on their networks.

It could very well be that an increase in demand has meant a higher utilization of available hardware, and response times have slowed down as a result.

It could be that they're trying new, higher-density configurations to maximize ROI.

It could very well be that they're prioritizing the higher-paying customers, which seems reasonable (to me, anyway).

Sure, response times have apparently slowed down, regardless, but the headline could sound less "evil" or intentional, I guess.

Still, it'd be interesting to know what's really going on, rather than hear the generic "no over-capacity issues here" mantra from them, or the thundering silence when asked specifically about response times.
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That is a perfect quote. Please tell me who it is attributed to. I tried to give you a point, but failed.
I don't really care if they are doing any of the above, that is certinally their rights as a Business to optimize their infrastructure, but the problem is all about their lack of communication about the latency issues.
I have no idea if this is the case in Haiti, but in many parts of the world electricity is not on all the time. I wonder if that has something to do with it...
When you have a new son (boys are diagnosed at a rate of 1 in 70) we'll see if you aren't more willing to be critical of one or two studies that are quoted so often it seems like there are 50.

It's human nature. Kids get vaccines every 6 months (or so it feels). If/when they develop autism, as a parent you are bound to wonder what happened. You look back, and the first thing that you can think of is the needle in your son 6 months prior. Nothing else comes to mind.

But that's because we don't have a clue what causes autism. So it's easy to associate any kind of needle, something we don't understand, with the shock. It helps cope.

Back on rational grounds, vaccines definitely have +++++++ effect, and you are trying to argue that there might be a tiny (-) somewhere, which is still very much completely hypothetical. Do the math: vaccines still end up way positive.
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This is pretty silly. Half a mil went to fund the research of a climate scientist who happens to be under investigation?

Grab the bill ("American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009") and start paging through for fun stuff.

NOAA gets $230 million.
NIST gets $220 million.

And then we have

"DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER BOX PROGRAM
For an amount for "Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Program", $650,000,000, for additional coupons and related activities under the program implemented under section 3005 of the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005"

That's right, more than half a billion dollars to make sure nobody misses any TV. And that's just page 15.
The biggest problem with the stimulus bill was actually finding "public good" projects (i.e. ones that don't look like pork) that can spend the money fast enough.

The biggest problem with the stimulus bill is that it passed.
Tumblr sends passwords in the clear.
Or the only installations of Firefox are at PC cafes, places likely to be closed at night.
Yeah, but none of those are political hot buttons. Outrage!! Liberals!! Arrghhhhh!!!111
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Twitter's form looks very Rails'y. I know they used to be on the Rails framework, but are they still?
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The use Rails for the user-facing web parts of the site. They use Scala on the backend to process asynchronous tasks.
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It could very well be that they're prioritizing the higher-paying customers, which seems reasonable

It's their right as a business to do that just as it's the customer's right to complain and use rackspace or google instead.

If a 1+ second internal ping for an entire day is reasonable for Amazon, I personally wouldn't be using EC2.
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If I know anything about Bollywood, I'm guessing this movie will have about as much to do with engineering as Legally Blonde had to do with law.
Except we don't know who did this work, the research could have been done anywhere.
For what it is worth, I liked many of the points in your post, in spite of its shortcomings, particularly where you remind readers that some of the most spectacularly successful tech companies are very discrete in what they reveal to the world and when. That in itself should give less mature companies pause before starting to feel sanctimonious in having adopted a business idea that sees virtue in lunging violently in the other direction.

I find it jarring to hear young entrepreneurs touting their own virtues in relation to others and, if the basis upon which they do so is ultimately insupportable in a business sense, so much the better for causing them to examine themselves and their motives. I would personally elevate the tone a bit, but that is just me. In many ways, a stimulating post. Thanks.
Maybe RMS will become the hero and Linus the villain.
It's Mancur Olson's "Institutional Sclerosis" growth theory. He claimed to have shown that growth rates increase after a large shock to the existing order. His explanation for this is that institutions tend to be corrupted by special interests over time, feeding on the wealth of society. Shocks give people a chance to start afresh.
So which way does the causality flow? Do those Japanese citizens have high expectations because they are from a G7 nation? Or did Japan get to be a G7 nation because of the fact its residents have high expectations?

Anyway, Japan just sprang to mind as a country with lots of earthquakes, it was not central to my thesis. Feel free to substitute the name of any well-run country in an earthquake zone.
Please don't try to make what are very complicated macroeconomic points (there are some valid arguments against Keynesian stimulus, but I'm all but certain you've never heard of them) with trite one-liners you probably heard on FOX News. It cheapens the site.
Microsoft deeply needs a change at the top.
Uh yeah, welcome to http. If you read the warning that pops up when you submit a form over http, it says exactly what the author "discovered". If he disabled it without reading it, that's his fault, not Tumblr's.

But of course, I think everyone should use https. I hear the excuse, "it uses too much CPU time", but this is often from people who have written their web applications in Ruby. Not using https is a very premature optimization, in that case. (Of course, crypto is not that slow on modern computers. I can do about 60Mb/s of AES on one core of my 8-way consumer-grade machine. If you are getting a constant 480Mb/s of login form submissions, you can probably afford one of those load-balancers that does SSL....)
Why is this on Wired? (or HN, for that matter)

It is nothing more than a plot summary, copied word-for-word from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Idiots)
This makes me happy.

I tried to make 6x13 for OS X a while back:
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/6x13_redu...

Then I discovered the full set of characters (er, codepoints?) supported and pulled the emergency brake on that idea!

http://rasher.dk/rockbox/fonts/misc/6x13-full.png
I agree except for the everyone should use https bit.

It's not a question of CPU time but usability, what if you want subdomains (then a wildcard SSL cert, then the cert expires and everyone is unhappy for a few days, and those annoying warnings about security exceptions that are bound to happen) and all that hassle for what? Just so that someone doesn't steal your oh so important blog password? I dunno, seems overkill, no?
Ask HN: Anyone figured out the IE 0-day vulnerability ?
Anyone figured out the IE 0-day vulnerability that was exploited by recent Chinese attacks ?

Microsoft security advisory: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/979352.mspx

"The vulnerability exists as an invalid pointer reference within Internet Explorer. It is possible under certain conditions for the invalid pointer to be accessed after an object is deleted. In a specially-crafted attack, in attempting to access a freed object, Internet Explorer can be caused to allow remote code execution."

Does anyone know infected sites ?
This post is about Tumblr, which is PHP I think
"often from people who have written their web applications in Ruby"

Can you elaborate? What is Ruby's shortcoming in this area?
I actually just got back from seeing this movie and it was great :) It wasn't too technical; it focused on the stress that comes with engineering school and how you shouldn't be going to school for a degree but because you want to learn.

A perfect movie to see with a bunch of my friends, since we are all grad students at Georgia Tech. Aal izz well :)
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Neither have bearing on passing passwords in the clear.

I've made mistakes passing credentials in the clear. I've made mistakes storing them in the clear. I've made mistakes passing them as md5 hashes. I've made mistakes storing them as md5 hashes. I've made mistakes passing them SSL'd and storing them as md5 hashes with a nonce. I've will make mistakes using bcrypt.

I mentor developers. It makes me nervous is not being able to go from A to F (in a good way). It also makes me nervous there are so many knowledge gaps along the way.
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This includes setting up facebook, twitter, a blog, youtube and managing them.
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The step 2 in google.com/phone after 'get your phone' (radio button T-mobile, then 'continue') when using Mac's Google Chrome browser breaks for me... anyone else?
Given the fact that even before the quake, Haiti was a hotbed of gang activity, and now that many more of its criminals have escaped from prison, I can't help but worry that all of this aid money being handed over is going to ultimately fall into the wrong hands.
Well, age discrimination tends to become a personal issue when a person can be effected by it. Age is naturally only one factor in this.

If you happen to be in situation where age discrimination can't effect you, well, that's great.

If you think that's an excuse not to consider it as an important social issue, well, that's lousy.
If performance is so important that you can't encrypt your login form,
then you probably shouldn't be using a language that runs 50x slower
than C. (Just to be clear; all my web applications are this slow
too. But I enable SSL.)
Ironically, Dresden Codak portrays him as wearing an incandescent bulb: http://dresdencodak.com/2005/11/29/secular-heaven/
Unfortunately, most people use the same password for their blog that they use for their online bank.

Yeah, they're being dumb, but they're going to blame you when their password gets sniffed and their bank account is drained.
Choice quote: Ballmer reiterated the statement in an interview with Reuters. "We're attacked every day from all parts of the world and I think everybody else is too. We didn't see anything out of the ordinary," he told the news service. "There are attacks every day. I don't think there was anything unusual, so I don't understand"
"I hear the excuse, "it uses too much CPU time", but this is often from people who have written their web applications in Ruby"

I'm curious about this, are these excuses you've heard based on configurations where a proxy server processes the initial https req and then sends the backend request encrypted, too? This is where Ruby is handling an encrypted request?

Or are you saying there are people who have excused https from their setup because their frontend web server is written in Ruby?
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John Rubinstein should take a few tips from Woz when it comes to trying out the latest and greatest.
I think the going rate is like $1K a month. But I don't know for sure...I think that's what one of these guys mentioned on mixergy...but I honestly dont' really remember that 100%
If you get the VM, it has all the tools already installed. Best to try it out on your own machine(s) first before paying the big bucks to Amazon. For the record, its not really EC2 that costs a ton, its the storage that nips you in the butt.

http://www.cloudera.com/hadoop-training-virtual-machine
Right, because there's nothing unusual in governments hacking the accounts of their political dissidents.
The concluding remark about 'climate refugees' is out of place in this otherwise very important discussion about failed states.

Climate change and its perceived influence on the mankind is a very controversial subject, and today most of people's suffering from poverty and misgovernment has nothing to do with it. Advancing your own pet theories using a real-life tragedy as a prop is a bad taste.
The poster's point isn't really about Ruby. Ruby works just fine with HTTPS, thank you very much. It's not like Ruby handles the HTTPS encryption. I think his point is more "I hear the excuse 'it uses too much CPU time', but this is often from people who [should be looking elsewhere if they have performance problems]".
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Or more likely copied to wikipedia.
I usually go to Deskography.com :-)
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Whatever you do, I would shy away from making it more mainstream. For example I don't like the idea of "friends" or profile pictures.

I don't want this to turn into a mini-facebook.
It is always amazing to me how much of a mix Dijkstra was. Many of the hand-written articles of his I read are filled with valuable insights, and are absolutely worth the read. And then there's those other sets of comments (like this one) that make me want to pay no attention to anything he had to say.

Of course, this is the guy who said "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." And while I believe I understand his point he was trying to make, I have much higher respect for a person who still likes to get their hands dirty (still actually spends significant time programming computers) rather than just dealing with abstract theory, algorithms, analysis, etc. Yes, I know that Dijkstra knew how to program (and did so, extensively, especially earlier in his career). But this is the guy who never owned his own computer -- even after personal computers became commonplace. That, coupled with the above comment about BASIC (and other comments I've read from him like it) make him come across as kind of an elitist -- like programming is beneath him or something.

Perhaps my take is wrong, and it very well could be. But I will say this. If Dijkstra was still alive and well, and you put him, Guy Steele, and Don Knuth in a room and asked me to pick two of the three to spend the day with, Dijkstra would be the one left out in the cold.
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Seriously dude....
Ah thanks, that's interesting. Before I saw a sat phone, I thought power draw would be too much of an issue, but obviously it works.

I suppose you could beam in static versions of wikipedia, chinese language information, etc, easily enough via satellite or terrestrial sources, like radio free Europe. As a publicly traded corporation, if Google started putting money into a venture without any hope for revenue to antagonize a major world power, the shareholders would likely object.
is that entry level or advanced? My client wants to pay me per hour instead of a flat fee for setup and maintenance.
This is sensationalistic at best. There is no story here. Of _course_ Woz plays with every gadget under the sun. Of _course_ he has good and bad things to say about the iPhone too.
Since When Is "Hacker" a Bad Word?
Ah I see. I was confused.

It didn't occur to me that he or she uses Ruby (in italics) as a catch all for slow application performance, not slow encryption performance.

That said, do people really eschew https because they are that CPU strapped? Bizarre.
Of course the passwords should be encrypted, but when they're not it's nice to have a different password on each site.

If you haven't already, take a look at 1password, which makes doing this pretty transparent.
Easy to say if you're coming from the vantage point of someone living in a rich country.
I have discrete under my belt. And a bunch of other stuff too (came a bit short of having a minor in math in college).

And... well, I can't say that I've ever explicitly used any of it in programming. I suspect you're falling into the trap of generalizing from a field you're familiar with to all fields, and that's a generalization that doesn't hold up.
most chinese know nothing about the GFW!
even now! most chinese know nothing about the true story of why google is going to leave!
nobody could help chinese to build a better gov, and they just fool all of themselves.
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The problem is that there isn't one "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis". There's a spectrum of such hypotheses, running the gamut from the mild "language has an affect on how we think" up to the extreme "if your language uses the same word for blue and green then you'll be blue/green colorblind".

The extreme forms have been rather thoroughly debunked at this point. The milder forms verge on tautologies.
http://ConvoyofHope.org is a highly rated charity with a warehouse in Haiti and people on the ground. A web donation is still pretty convenient, so if your looking to put your money to work ASAP, look them up.
Brings up memories of one of the best CGA games ever:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_&_Death
Yes? My point was simply that where he struggled with frustration, I struggled with my ego. Considering he is probably a better programmer than me, I thought this was an interesting contrast to bring up. What is the problem?
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It's an interesting idea, but most likely doomsday will occur right after a downgrade.
There is an interesting question lurking behind this post. If a tablet does materialise, what will make it successful?

Is it something that could have been done much earlier or something enabled by recent (or impending) changes to available technology? Hardware for an iPhone quality smartphone was available a decent prices for a few years before it came out (especially if all you want is a phone that handles music and video pleasantly, not internet & installable apps), but not many.

If Apple comes out with a tablet that succeeds because Apple has figured out the right use-cases & metaphors for it, that might mean that they could have done it ten years ago. That's something.
But, knowing the money is coming is enough for lots of relief-related spending to occur: drawing down existing balances below usual levels, putting supply/travel purchases on credit, etc.

Even if actual cash is required, a 90-day loan backed by the certainty of mobile payments clearing should be dirt cheap, too. So this delay may not make much of a practical difference.
Wow, this is the ugliest font I have ever seen. I do like the color-less syntax highlighting, though.

Also, Haskell looks nicer when you translate things like -> to →, \ to λ, and so on.

But really, both of these things would look nicer on high-resolution displays. When can I get a 1200dpi 24" monitor? (In the mean time, you can pry hinting and subpixel anti-aliasing from my cold, dead eyes. It's a necessity on the limited hardware that's currently available.)
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