skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an idea for you (aside from banning all of those annoying IPs). Try mapping the courses the random clicks have. If you see a pattern, then once a bot starts the pattern, have a form pop up asking it if it is human. If there is no patter, then you can still initiate a random form pop up asking if the user is a bot. I think you will probably stop some of the bots.

Fine. I'll suggest banning IPs. If you find a form filled with random characters- ban the bot. And then maybe- there might be software which can tell you if certain text is a sentence. If that exists- run that software on the posts, and if there is a large percentage of non sentences, then you can either ban that IP or pop up form asking for human confirmation! If the gibberish is random sentences, you can try searching for common words. If you find none, then you can auto have a form pop up. Gosh. Lots of work =/

I have lots of ideas, however, lots of them wont be easy to implement for various reasons. Well, if you want more ideas- Feel free to ask me!

Man. I've always wanted to design anti-bad-things software. Makes me feel superior?
Could only see the video.

The scrolling text effect wears thin very quickly, please don't use it. Also you've written "lets" instead of "let's" in there.

Also by the end of the video I still wasn't sure what could go in an album. Photos? You never actually made that clear.
No, it's not an overall net gain -- Virginians are only going to spend a fraction of their money on things coming from California, and even if they spent all their money, Californians would be working harder for the same amount of money.
Nice catch :) will correct it.
For breakfast eggs I eat M,W,F, it's just the egg whites(just following the diet). And sandwiches are Tuesday and Thursday.

For dinner, steak I usually eat 3 times a week. + 3 days of turkey patties. And 1 day of takeout.
Why now Google?
Yes, this would be tons more philanthropic and if it were just readable. Just some simple line breaks and variable names that meant something. It's not impressive that you can just cram stuff into 99 lines.
It was on one particular contract for that period about a year before I went to work at my present startup company.

It was crazy I'll admit, I'm unlikely to want to do that kind of compressed work schedule again.

I actually didn't see daylight for most of that time and ran mostly on something I think was an adrenaline high. The sense of accomplishment at the end of it was enormous.

It was a crazy rewarding experience both in terms of self-satisfaction and in the wallet. I made a year's salary + about another 20% in bonus pay + a few other interesting compensation pieces.

More importantly, for that 12 month work year I managed to accrue the equivalent of 2.5 years of experience by hours and in terms of total output with that contract and some other long hour work, likely more since I had 100% focus on that work with absolutely no room for interruption, it's had a amazing impact on my career trajectory because I can point to that remarkable output and all of the spin-off developments that came from that body of work. In addition, I probably learned more in that 4 months that I had in my previous 4 years of work. It also landed me my current position as employee #(some single digit) with my company and put me immediately into a position of significant responsibility.

It's also given me good perspective on how much I'm worth when negotiating salary as well as how abysmally few hours are in a 9-5 40 hour week and how little work I can get done in that time by comparison.

I wouldn't recommend it for most people though, it was a pretty big sacrifice, but I'd wager that if I were to become employee #0 and startup my own company with my own $$$'s I'd work about those hours to see it off the ground.
site design looks generic and overloaded

quick: what benefits do i get from this, and how do i find out if i'm even the target audience.

if i don't know after 2 seconds i'm gone. on this page i hadn't even figured out what to look at after 2 secs.
Bad minus being able to directly sniff your password equals less bad, not just as bad.
I always appreciate people giving me advice on my website, even if I don't end up taking it. It is unlikely that I will take your advice.

Here is my reasoning: the audience of my website might hypothetically include programmers who know me from off-site and are looking for the online version, but, well, y'all don't pay my rent. The people who do pay my rent are overwhelmingly non-technical 30 ~ 50 year old women who are arriving from a Google search. The page is optimized for them to comprehend what I'm offering in 5 seconds or less. And what I offer is "A solution for the problem you were just searching for", not a download and not an online version.

You are right, some people do get the impression that the online version is the trial and the downloadable (or CD version) is what they are paying for. I get email to that effect. You'll note that that miscomprehension doesn't hurt either the customer or myself -- they get two more-or-less functionally equivalent ways to access the software they paid for, I get $29.95 either way. On the other hand, I have tested more explicit (and longer) explanations of the relationship between the two than what I have currently, and it just decreases conversion rate to both options. There is a lot to be said for being succinct.

The Buy button you simplified out of the redesign makes me ~$1k a month -- in a non-trivial number of instances, before the customer has even tried the software.

I do not have screenshots of the online version because the primary purpose of the screenshot is to demonstrate that I really have software to sell and am not an Evil Internet Scammer. (I sell to people who fear the Internet and their computers.) Letting them try it instantly assuages that fear for the online version. (Besides, it looks fugly.)
The Hacker Dish (Makhlouta)
Too right, I stand happily corrected.
The article states that "Europe was massively enriched by the genocides in the Americas".

On the whole, I think this is untrue. For European countries that had colonies, as often as not the colonies had a negative effect on their economies. If you look at European states today, ones that didn't have colonies (e.g. Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Greece) are just as prosperous on the whole as ones that did (e.g. UK, France, Spain), or the ones that were owned by other European countries (e.g. Ireland, Finland, Slovenia).

Spain in particular suffered a good deal of long-term economic harm from its colonies as the importation of gold crowded out the real economy.

Germany and Italy had short-lived colonial empires that didn't run at a profit.

Probably the British did gain overall from their colonies, but much of their American colonies were lost in the 1770s. Jamaica OTOH made the fortunes of many wealthy British families.
I hear you. I guess that is a risk we all take when we build on top of platforms such as Twitter or Facebook.

Of course getting acquired is a remote posibility but we are in it for the long run. Is about creating value for the users.

Twitalbums is a bet in the sense that we are going against the nature of Twitter were everything tends to be public.

Someone asked us the other day: can Twitter and privacy mix together? I believe so.
What can you do that is of value that Flickr cannot?

It seems that you are trying to compete with a lot of well established, free technology, such as wikis, stuff from 37Signals and flickr.

I don't see a competitive advantage in here.

Also, your video assumes from the get-go that people know what your service does - all you seem to talk about is restricting access. With all the scrolling text there is only a very small window of time when you are putting a concept forward.

I'd much rather a static splash page approach to conveying this information, perhaps with some of your video of the app being used from the existing clip. By splash screen I mean http://gridspy.co.nz or http://backpackit.com/?source=37signals+home
Thanks. Actually the app will take your photos, videos and mp3.
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Either that or get FU money... then find a gf and do a lot of F

:-)
In perspective,

http://www.saintjoe.edu/~dept14/environment/rogero/core5/cel...
I find myself wondering just how many of these "the resident sleep schedule is fucking insane and kills patients" studies we'll have to get through before someone, anyone, finally takes the oh-so-radical step of actually changing the schedule.

BREAKING NEWS: Medical residents are in fact not superhumans invulnerable to sleep deprivation. That the medical community doesn't understand this actually offends me; it's my life and yours they're dicking around with. (Yes, I know they intellectual understand it, but until their actions reflect it I will not say they "understand it".)
And from a fellow researcher:
http://hunch.net/?p=1172
Facebook Gets Pushy About Its Automatic Friend Finder
I've always wondered why microwave ovens have static sources (and thus standing waves.) Why not have the emitters reorient themselves as they cook, perhaps following a space-filling curve?
Ask HN: Invite manager?
Hey all-

So today, I was setting up a beta invite program, and I thought to myself "what a pain in the ass this is." The next steps I realized are also pains, get the right people using them, collect bugs, get proper feedback etc. So then I thought SWEET, uber successful startup $$$$ here I come. And then I looked around, and found launchset, which looks pretty sucky. So what do you guys think? Viable product, micro isv, or just a lark.

Thanks.
I see your first point, but isn't the second paragraph you quote just standard practice? Granted the legal jargon is horrible, but it seems to be saying that the work you do as a consultant during the term of the contract belongs to the company. Every consulting contract says that. How is this one egregiously different?
Wow. The last sentence made the author sound like a liberal Rick Perry!
Well we are not a picture site per se. We understand that in terms of number of items people will upload more photos. But in Flickr you can't create an album and add photos and music for example.

We are in a very competitive arena, however we feel that our positioning as "intimate sharing" is something people will value. (contrary to opinions such us "privacy is dead" and "public is the new standard"
More specifically, I am proposing a limit to the impact of human populations on the rest of Earth's environment -- in practice this is a limit on human populations too, though it could still go far.

I don't have any answers I really believe in as yet. One incomplete idea I have been toying with is that much of human population growth is driven by the 'biological clock,' one's reproductive age ends relatively soon, and so if (a woman) wants to have children she needs to do so relatively early in life. Were lives longer and were the reproductive years extended, perhaps there would not be such a drive to reproduce so quickly; in a similar if distinct way to how reducing infant mortality reduces birthrates.

Reducing the age of reproduction is nearly as important as reducing the number of children, in terms of limiting the rate of exponential expansion. I don't know any collection of strategies that seem complete, however.
I don't know why the fuck pg thought a whitelist for subdomain preservation was a good idea. It's actually more work than just stripping off a leading www, which would accomplish everything we actually care about.
"Services" aren't "power". You don't have to think all government services are bad to think that we should perhaps reserve the power of the men with guns to fewer things.

Excepting, by the way, school, which is essentially mandatory. We call not attending school "truancy". It's a crime. (The word "essentially" is not extraneous. I am aware that it's not quite 100% mandatory in all places. But it's close.) That's not entirely a "service".
Pharen: A lispy language that compiles to PHP
I don't understand why this post has the #1 spot
Try not paying for those services. You'll be a criminal, and you'll be cracked down upon. Not dogma, just a matter-of-fact statement. I'm not sure I see the point your criticism is making...?
I agree with you completely. By alternatives, I meant wholesale replacements to SSL/TLS.
FBI agents don't talk.
How do you deal with the age of people's opinions? What's in fashion this year, might be totally out by this time next year.
Yes, your argument was a non sequitur. Just because they were also apparently targeting industrial espionage, it doesn't follow that dissidents weren't "clearly targeted." Both of the Drummond quotes you highlight are completely in line with your subsequent analysis.
Beans & rice, a worldwide staple. Calling this "hacker" seems like a stretch though.
If you prefer just the audio (and in better quality than this, I think) then check out the 37signals podcast: http://37signals.com/podcast - It makes for great listening and this presentation is the latest episode.
Considering how many different subdomains google.com has, it's probably a good addition to said list (I hadn't noticed that some subdomains are shown - e.g. wordpress.com - nice catch).

That said, if I had to guess a motivation for the technique, it'd be to stop people getting attention by wildcarding subdomains and linking up nonsense like click-here-for-my-awesome-blog.domain.com, etc. Not that such a thing should avoid getting flagged anyway..
might labor regulations have something to do with this? German corps might have an incentive to keep him working while he looks for a job rather than having to pay some kind of severance/unemployment?

I never really understood the rationale behind laying someone off then escorting them out the door. Presumably its so they don't damage the company in some way because they're pissed. But a major reason people are pissed is because their employer just fucked them over. People can handle being fired for business reasons if it doesn't throw them right out on the street. People can handle "I'm sorry, but we can't afford you past April. Let me know if you need a reference or need to take time for an interview." Apparently, HR is never taught common decency.
Yup. That's why Microsoft Game for Windows can not do any business in China.
Dumbing this down to just 'beans & rice' is a bit ignorant. In my culture alone we have at least 5 dishes with grain components that all taste vastly different from one another. As to the comparison, grains are often a more 'practical' type of food as they're cheap, have a long shelf life, and are quite diverse, possibly making them more appealing hackers.
This was very much a learning experience and I'm sure there will be lots in the code that isn't done properly. If you find something wrong, please let me know!

Pharen was also started to eventually abstract out things I don't like about PHP's syntax, and maybe add some new ones. It's not meant as a competitor to other lisps!

Some special features are micros (closer to C macros than true Lisp macros) and partials (partial evaluation). Documentation for those can be found near the end of the linked page.

It is by no means close to completion. Although lisp should be entirely expression-based, parts of Pharen can't really be used as expressions yet (namely conditionals). Closely related is that returning something other than the last expression in a function has to be done manually.

Any questions, glaring (or subtle) problems, or suggestions you have are definitely welcome.
Google and China: Google errs
Scheme is pretty bad too.
One on One: Anil Dash of Expert Labs
Actually, all of the lines are <75 characters. But yeah, it'd be at least twice that long with a normal coding standard.
It's a good idea. The compelling part is that you could add additional complementary services over time, as you figure out what makes sense. Biggest drawback is that startups probably make demanding customers for a product that is fundamentally software plus configuration.
Sergey Brin wanted to leave China; Eric Schmidt wanted to stay
Rotating plate is much cheaper and simpler, more robust...
The fundamental properties of computing
Agreed. The dish can last for days, with little preparation (other than the pre-soak).

It's a high calorie meal that'll keep me filled for hours. Pretty ideal when I need to just lock down and code for a long period of time.
"I'll pay you ten cents if you answer a simple question. Do you think ten cents is a fair price for an answer to a simple question?"
it doesn't follow that dissidents weren't "clearly targeted

Right. Half-truths meaning "these are not lies, yet they aren’t something Drummord is completely comfortable about, either". I'm saying his statements are true, but only a minor part of the whole picture - that this was a much bigger attack, and Chinese dissidents were a minor target.
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Microsoft releases Kodu game creation tool for PC
More information never hurts

Of course it does! It biases you in a way which is completely unnecessary - whatever your questions and concerns are, bring them up with the people you will be working. If you aren't comfortable asking direct questions and need to go with a guy who got fired, you shouldn't be in a management position to begin with.
Strategizing Web Content: The Right Strategy for Writing for the Web
Users do not commonly browse the internet looking for a good design or decent user experience. Users browse in search of good content. The more effort you put into your content the better the pay off.
>If you focus on improving yourself, beating other people takes care of itself (if you're capable and that sort of thing matters to you).

As you note, unclearly, this only works if you're at the top of your game. If I do a marathon in 12 hours then beating my personal best isn't going to get me anywhere close to a gold medal. Also I've always found that competing with my betters tends to bring up my game.

I feel I have to say, to counter any false assumptions: To win at sport for me has always meant to feel I've performed well and enjoyed the game - and that's not because I'm totally rubbish. Winning is something I enjoy, but winning badly is worse than losing well.
Taxes taken by the Federal government are taxes that cannot be taken by the state government. So the two compete with each other for finite amounts of money.

Thus, California's meager shortfall pales in comparison to the massive amounts taken by the Federal government.

When a startup succeeds, the Federal government gets a huge windfall, yet if a startup fails and a few people end up on unemployment, the state of California has to pay unemployment benefits.
I've never understood why America outsources so much half way around the planet for cheap labor when it is available on her doorstep - a short flight, easy transport, same time zone , reasonably stable, friendly democracy ... what's not to like?
"This kind of "pure evil" doesn't really exist"

I'll argue that it exists - not everybody who torments a baby has an excuse for it. Of course it is useful to try to figure out what made them do it, there might be a kind of excuse in terms of an explanation of what made them do it (bad childhood whatever). Or why - um, presumably they wanted the land? I think what happened in America is that some people had the better weapons and they wanted the other people's property.

"by playing the blame game"

How is it playing the blame game? A bunch of people killed another bunch of people. There is nothing to play about it. What to do about is another question - I am not even sure what you are worried about. Nobody in this thread has called for any kind of reparations or anything, I think?

Isn't pointing out the history of European settlers exactly what you want: pointing out that Europeans can be bad, too, so we always have to keep asking what makes the "bad" come out? I don't think by forgetting history, we are helping the kind of understanding you seem to seek.

Ultimately, though, I think the bunch with the better weapons will always get and take what they want...
users with lots of points get edit powers. So they can update things
Yes, it is a serious emotional/chemical/psychiatric issue, but there are alternative solutions that are less drastic. (Even though one may not see them as valid or helpful at the time.)
You would want to be extremely careful - despite all logic against it, the US Dollar spikes when just about any international crisis takes hold. The dollar's decline might well occur afterwards, but that would be a longer term consequence.
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Google v. Baidu : Its Not Just about China
That's the hazard of looking for examples, sometimes they disappoint the point.
You forget Haskell programmers :)
See issue #395 below. That stops most mobile applications--except those on the iPhone--from using OAuth.

See http://twitpic.com/api.do, http://img.ly/pages/API, http://code.google.com/p/imageshackapi/wiki/YFROGuploadAndPo..., http://twitrpix.com/api, http://twic.li/api. All of them require and/or allow the client app to pass the user's Twitter username and password.
If China kills the dollar by dumping their reserves, they're going to hurt themselves just as much if not more than the US. They wouldn't do that over just Google. That's small potatoes compared to that...
Evaluate Clojure in Google Wave
I wish the source code was cross-platform. It doesn't build in Visual Studio.

'erand48': identifier not found
'M_PI' : undeclared identifier

Obviously #define M_PI 3.1415926 should do the trick, but I need to track down an erand48 replacement.
So? Find the link, bookmark it and never search for it again :|
I am sure Patio11 will go own to do great things. I often find myself saying "Damn this guy is smart" after reading his opinions on just about anything.

Good luck Pat.
Links of London Charms
http://www.performable.com/
Except that's not what he said, so...
Yup, you've got the right idea.

I've managed to figure out a few peculiar things the bots do while crawling combined with the fact that they seem to only use one of a handful of legit, but very specific user agents. I've got some mod_security rules + a script that combs logs and passes the IP to an iptables script to block them. Are you familiar with mod_security? The default rules are a little too aggressive for my liking, but it's a really fantastic tool.

Adding a CAPTCHA to all forms would be an easy solution, but it's just not practical on many of our forms. I've had a good deal of success adding a hidden form field (that is, one that's set to display:none by a CSS rule) and then ensuring that it hasn't been tampered with when the form is submitted.

The gibberish is typically random letters and numbers, but it's smart enough to fill all numbers in fields expecting phone numbers and email addresses in fields expecting emails.

The scale of the operation is daunting, though. My script is pretty conservative (I really don't want to block legit usrs) and it still picks up a few hundred new IP addresses every day. I expire the bans after a week or the list would get unmanagable.

And dealing with Google is very frustrating. Google says they've already detected all fraudulent clicks and credited us. I think they're wrong, but I don't see how I could possibly prove it.
Making a Space Invaders clone with PushButton - The first enemy
Maybe a karma threshold for letting people resubmit stuff? (that is no longer accessible other than via ?id=x)

I was going to suggest decaying old stuff faster, but looking through the 210 current items available through clicking "More" from the /news page, only 3 are listed as 2 days old (none 3 days).
Niche product with customers who are broke?

Hmmmm.
Why I don’t have a girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation
Perhaps it was to acquire the engineers?
As vijayr put it

That is Patrick (patio11) of Bingo Card Creator.

He's an active member of the community.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1050982
GSM encryption crack made public