skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah - then we are on the same side. Thanks for the clarification.
Why the White House is backing away from Net neutrality
Agreed. MSF is the only large charity I would consider donating too.
I just ordered both Manning Clojure books for 50% ($45) off with your code. Thanks.
I have to wonder if there have been some recent changes which are causing all kinds of issues. Just a few days ago, Ryan Tomayko twittered about it completely ignoring Github's robots.txt - http://twitter.com/rtomayko/statuses/7685967826
I've been told by Germans, none of whom were law enforcement or lawyers that calling someone an asshole or sticking up your middle finger is a finable offense. It's well known that publishing Nazi propaganda, denying the holocaust and the like are illegal. It seems to me that free speech is less than fundamental in Germany.

The US has a less than perfect record on the issue as well, with obscenity laws and the like.
Charity isn't always about being as "effective" as possible. People there are literally dying from not having food, water, and medical care. I hate to say this on hacker news, but not everything is a numbers game. Haiti is in a humanitarian crisis right now. Yes, you could logically say to yourself that X dollars would be more "effective" elsewhere and that Haiti will never become a flourishing country, but that largely misses the point. It also presumes that you have the balls to say who should live and who should die. People there need help. Now.

A good charity I donated to is Partners in Health which was founded in Haiti (by an American) and has always been in Haiti. You can read more about them in "Mountains Beyond Mountains" which coincidentally and topically was written by Tracy Kidder who also wrote "Soul of a new Machine".
I'd just cap comment scores at 50 (or less). Scores give a way for people skim read a thread. You're already capping at -10.

edit: On plastic.com, they stopped displaying user scores at 50 when it became a competition. -- you could do that too: remove the ego from karma.
I nominate this picture: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/01...
Larger tablets (i.e. beyond the iPhone size) work just fine with handwriting recognition, it's worked great for over 10 years now. Sure, you need a stylus rather than a finger, but again on a larger tablet, finding a couple of mm for a stylus holder is easy, and you can fall back to virtual keyboard for short-duty entry where a stylus is impractical.

When I used to use handwriting recognition - back about when OSX first came out, I found it to be far more comfortable than typing, and I'm a fairly decent touch-typist (~100wpm).
Can you give examples. Also the good thing about nyc is the startup scene. There are lots of networking events which I've found very useful and also I'm single so I need a little social life.
Its my understanding that a WFOE is not a Chinese invention. Many countries can be strict about foreign investors/owners as they feel there needs to be a local citizen that holds legal liability. China is very pragmatic in these areas of the law. They are not interested in chasing owners around the globe to haul them into China court. This thinking extends to why only a fully owned Chinese entity (not a WFOE) can hold a license to run a web server and own a domain name. I'm not defending the position. But thats the rational.

Your observation that many Chinese see deals as a zero sum game is on target. Most do not believe in win-win situations as they have no history of seeing such things.
My parents are in India and I will be living there for some part of the year for sure.
Hm. I can't find the quote by Phil Zimmerman, of PGP fame. He said something along the lines of "If your lawyer says 'you can't do that,' they're useless. Look for one who can say, 'you can do that, if you do this first.'"
Just so you know, you're not the only one who feels this way. There's no way you could carry that load AND a day job/family.

Maybe tools like incanter will bridge the gap and let application software practitioners put this research to work.
It affects IE7 too, and may affect IE8 when DEP is disabled.
Andrew, can you stop doing so many of these please? They are so good that I feel compelled to drop what I'm doing and read them.

:)

Just kidding. I know each minute spent on Mixergy will save me multiples of that over time.
Seems a bit pre-emptive, as the suggestion is based on "a critical yet unknown vulnerability" that was "probably exploited" in the recent attack on Google & others.

That said, the very fact that a browser is not super-sandboxed in the first place is frightening, and IE has a huge amount of integration compared to other browsers. Mayhaps that's why it's been such a problem?
I didn't know about the idea of 'social learning'. I appreciate the link (and your full disclosure).
Very solid write up.
They have to yell to get XP?
I'm not a lawyer but I've seen, and paid for, my share of it, and one thing I know is that if you don't want your lawyers charging you don't fire off emails like; "Hey, if you know X off the top of your head, can you left me know about it?". You either need a legal answer, or you don't, otherwise you're wasting the lawyers time and your money. The law is complicated and convoluted and even things that seem simple can actually require lots of research.

If you're a young start-up, don't hire on WSGR, Orrick or their ilk - I know they're a status symbol, but they'll cost dearly (remember: deferred fees are still fees that need to be paid eventually). Most start-ups need some corporate, a little employment and maybe some patent/ip work. There are lots of small firms that specialize in that, especially in the tech hubs. If you need more specialized work, hire in a firm that specializes in that. Smaller firms usually offer better service, at lower prices - you'll pay a lot less and work with experienced partners rather than 1st year associates.

Finally, your lawyer is not an employee, firing them off an "urgent" email at 4pm on Friday means that you probably won't get a response until Monday, and probably won't get an answer until Tuesday. Just because you work on the weekends doesn't mean that they do. Don't leave important legal questions until the last minute and you'll have a much better experience.
The point being made is that possibly the aid organisations have been given enough to cope with the next few months of needed humanitarian aid. Stepping back and assessing the need can't be a bad thing at this stage - surely?

Sure a mass donation spree in the first few days is a good idea - but we should probably wind it down now till it's needed again.

A much better way is probably to convince charities to run "disaster" funds. That way you could donate to the fund and unused money would still be effective for the next super urgent case.

I don't think this is about "more effective"; just about addressing the situation logically to help the Haitians recover more quickly.

> People there are literally dying from not having food, water, and medical care

If you read the article the point is that potentially no amount of donation at this stage is going to affect that situation. The current barriers are more practical in nature (I have friends literally on the ground at the moment there and I assure you this is the case).
It shouldn't be. I mostly downvote. (I comment more than I downvote, though).

Input to the site is input to the site. If it's well-intentioned, it should be helpful. I assume the 65% rule was put in place to handle abusive semiautomated voting.
Might want to reword this one. It's a 'network flaw' not an 'AP network flaw.'

> In each case, the Internet lost track of who was who, putting the women into the wrong accounts.

I really hate this perpetuation that 'the internet' is some singular entity that keeps track of everything can be 'broken.' [See the South Park episode where 'The Internet' was a larger than life Linksys router]
According to this: http://mashable.com/2010/01/15/german-government-stop-using-... it affects all IE version even in "protected" mode. I am guessing they are referring to DEP.

I am so happy that this single event might start a _major_ decline in IE market share. I am sick and tired of doing IE specific hacks for my sites.
I would guess multiple projectors, an accurate 3d model of the building and skillful art direction. You project a video-textured model of the building over the real building.

There were some other videos of similar installations floating around the web and they looked quite well even with somehow different viewing angles.

For example, here are some with quite large camera pans:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X85A1dCpzsI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h3D6dCLAeo

People are hardwired to see "3D" based on perspective / shadow hints in 2D images.
A nice list of important reads for machine learning info. It's relatively single-track, but certainly a good starting point for anyone seriously interested in the subject, and a lot of the suggestions really are good books.
This vulnerability is no longer unknown, though it is (to my knowledge) still unpatched. It is known not to be exploitable on IE7 with DEP enabled, so most IE instances should in fact be easy to lock down.
I like the body scanner one in the bottom right.

It's got layers.
There were many other similar installations, see for example here:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=3d+building+proj...

Edit: BTW based on author's comments on Vimeo, the first video (top right) in the original post is indeed fake, second one (bottom left) is real one, from live performance.
Good point. I came in to post that it's remarkable that nearly every Mixergy interview (maybe even all now?) makes the HN front page. This stuff is like brain candy to entrepreneurs.
That's a good point. One really needs to balance the cheaper price against whether the diff with the latest edition is worth it.
Ah, apologies:

Algorithm Design
by Jon Kleinberg & Éva Tardos
ISBN: 978-0-321-29535-8

Or an Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Jon-Kleinberg/dp/0321...
Related news ... ?

Some Italian guy posted a discriminatory video on Youtube Italy, four top Google Executives now have arrest warrants in Italy, and cannot be anywhere in the EU (due to reciprocal extradition treaties). The Head of Google Video Europe moved to Google UK to head Consumer Marketing in consequence, cannot travel anywhere within the EU at this time, and who knows for how much longer?

References:

[1] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/google-executives-f...
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/technology/17google.html?_...
It's amazing how little of the blogspam page was the actual content, as opposed to various blinking ads and stuff that your eye naturally skips over.
It was probably preemptive when it was written, but it's been borne out by the facts.

The only browser that is "super sandboxed" is Chrome, and nobody knows how effective the process security model in Chrome is going to end up being. The actual vulnerability appears to be a basic object lifespan problem in DOM handling code; in other words, this could happen to any browser.

After Chrome, the browser with the next most involved security model is IE with DEP, and, in fact, when DEP is enabled, the exploit doesn't work (that's no guarantee that it could never work, though).
Considering the original report was unsourced, I'm inclined to believe them
It sucks for them, but I doubt any of perl.org really needs to be indexed by Bing anyway (though it's always nice to be indexed).

It's not an entirely fair or scientific comparison but my general Ruby site had ~55k visitors from Google in the last month. 280 from Bing. I'd suspect their market share in the Perl world is as bad or worse.
I meant cheapest per unit of RAM. Do you know of any decently reliable VPS provider with cheaper prices for 256/512/1024 MB of RAM?
Cool, thanks! I've got more reading to do now :)
Australia unveils new Cyber Security Operations Centre, 2400 attacks last year
Thanks, I was initially thinking of using tinc, but ssh might be easier to set up.
Yeah. Extreme contraction of "I agree with this." It's just a new idiom.
That's ridiculous.

Having a natural aversion to the kind of idiocy described in the article does not mean that you're specifically for the dumbest patents that are granted by the system.

Personally, I'm against inefficiency and against stupid patents. One is an administrative issue, the other is a policy issue.

You with me? Do I need to break it down further?
Well a few things.

1. I read TC daily, and when you mention smaller startups(within other stories)...they are a direct competitor to the site being discussed.

Here it's way out of the left field. "When we think of images, we think of <art galleries>, another good company working with images is <facebook>. Now back to our story about this cool new invite site...that uses images for the site background."

+usually the smaller site is already launched. Or you say something like "blahblah, which is still in private beta"...this one just reads differently. It reads like Quora is Yahoo Answers. In fact replace Quora with Yahoo Answers and it's a perfect fit.

2. The buzz is just among a few techies. The guys from whom I found out about them, don't seem to be active users...yet they praise it all the time. Calling it the best site and super addicting. But the first guy has only 2 Qs(last one a week ago) and the other has 3 As(last one also a week ago).

Yet both praised how addicting the site was. That's why I tracked down an invite...wanted to find out what the buzz was about.
I assumed that being banned wouldn't be a positive experience if not being banned was more of a positive experience, i.e. if you got more value from communication.

But yeah, communication is often minimally useful. And I get that the pollution of motivation caused by social app incentives make make it even less so. It seems that without these incentives things tend to fall down in different ways, but maybe my experience of qualities communities that don't rely on social app incentives is limited.

[And chincilla is mischaracterizing what happened between us: it was my understanding that it was consensual.]
The stigma is true, but is also somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophesy (at least in much of the US), in that if you can afford not to take public transport, you probably wouldn't want to.

The one time I rode the bus where I live (for about 1.5 miles), my experience was as follows: Around 1pm, I wait at the bus stop for about 5 minutes and start talking to the other guy waiting. The bus comes and we get on. On the bus the guy tells me he just got out of jail and has been working at Wal-Mart for 2 weeks. A guy gets on at the next stop and starts yelling at the driver, who then pulls the bus over. The driver and the passenger get into a fist fight and the driver shoves the guy out of the door and tells him to go fuck himself. Then I get off the bus at the next stop and walk to the car rental place as quickly as I can (my destination).

Certainly my experience was unique and depended on the part of town, but it didn't inspire me to ride the bus again. I commute about 98% of the time by bike. When I lived in Europe I rode the bus every day and didn't think twice about it.
But the context never matters as much as most people think. I know a few people who have completed 1-3 of your list. None of them made the business into anything approaching VoodooPC. Why? Did this particular 17 year old just get lucky? If so, why interview him? If not, why not lead with the insight that helped his business succeed?

On that line of thought, why just interview the successes? Cargo cults are made of "success stories". Personally, one of the best business books I've read was Richard Gabriel's essay on the fall of Lucid, especially with how that related to "Worse is Better".
As soon as I saw that big Flash movie I thought "Oh shit, am I going to have to watch a long-winded mostly-content-free movie to get any information from this page? Run away!!"

I'm not surprised that removing it turned out to be a good idea.
Yep, MSNBOT does the same type of bursty crawling here too. Not graceful at all.
I agree - I like the current format

I just don't see how using 'kid' is demeaning or insulting, but maybe that's me

The titles are interesting enough for me to click
If I read everything that came up on HN because it could possibly be useful, I won't have much time to start that business. For worse or better, we all have certain filters that every once and a while have a false positive. I was just elaborating about one of mine.
This is very clever and deserves a lot of points. It doesn't look very interesting on the landing page but once you get into it, it's well written and there are some clever strategies (including a small JavaScript console at the bottom you can use to test bits of code while learning).

I haven't got the time now, but I'm going to work my way right through this one day - what I looked through seemed very solid.

The only downside? The font chosen for the code examples looks pretty gross on OS X, but since you can download the book as a ZIP file, it can be changed in the stylesheet! (I'm hoping..)
I live in Johnson County, KS, the whitebread predominantly wealthy cluster of suburbs to the southwest of Kansas City, MO.
JSON.parse will also choke on the out-of-spec JSON. If your AJAX interactions stop working with jquery 1.4, it's your AJAX that is broken :)
Their bots have just become incredibly greedy, while Google is becoming very tidy. Despite a growth of content on LinkUp.com, Google has gone from consuming 8gigs of my bandwidth in September 2009 to being on track to use only 4gigs this month. During those same time periods, MSNBot has gone from using 4gigs to using 15gigs this month.

Sure Bing may be on a growth spurt (http://www.adotas.com/2010/01/bing-hits-query-growth-spurt/), but I don't see any correlation between that and pwning our servers...
Looking back at Hotwired
Mathematics in India
China and the USA both have access to the Windows and IE source code, correct? So presumably they have as many pre-0day vulnerabilities as are ever needed.
If you want to get technical about the US constitution the constitution merely enumerates SOME of the rights that exist, it certainly does not grant them, the ones listed are simply not disputed (what the right entails certainly is). The US constitution should really be viewed more as enumerating the rights of the government, as all rights not explicitly granted FROM the people TO the US gov't vest with the states or the people.

The Federal Gov't actually gets most of it's power in legal theory from a serious abuse of the interstate commerce clause.

You'll notice that the US constitution doesn't actually grant a right of free speech, it prevents congress making laws abridging the freedom.
Can you give examples.

Back in 2004, when I was living in St. Louis, two guys in a 3 room apartment near the Wash U shuttle line in a neighborhood which was 20-something friendly was $400 a month each. If you were content with the college kid lifestyle you could easily do it on $800 ~ $1,000 a month total.

Another option is doing the startup part time while working, which tends to make the difference between $800 and $1,200 pretty immaterial.
I mostly sympathize, but this is crazy:

"I'll now be denying access to anything with the IP matching /^65\.55\.(106|107|207)/. If you discover you fall into that pattern, and are a real person, please let me know."

How hard is it to lookup DNS?
I don't think it's controversial views that make your comment score go down. Popular views definitely have a positive effect, but I don't think it's the biggest factor.

My current average is probably a lot higher then usual because I had some relatively early comments on the Google in China thread. Those comments probably got read by 100X or 1000X times as many of my other comments.

Most votes are up, not down. The biggest factor (I think) is how many people read it. The second biggest is how many people care. The third is how many agree or otherwise like the comment.
If you read the transcript, make sure to hit the bottom.

The healthcare startup and twitter stock trading stories are also very interesting.
No, "protected mode" and DEP aren't the same thing.
This is, I think, a reduction of the underlying problem (in Haml):

http://pastie.org/780341
I cant help feeling this one: http://www.schneier.com/images/logocontest/Auximinus.i.jpg

Is an example of Godwin's Law in practice [1].

To be honest I cant see the point of this; it's barely productive or conducive to addressing the issues.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law
I agree with your sentiment.

My first thought, however, was that is extremely costly to dynamically lookup DNS for every page request. Even if a DNS lookup was only performed if the IP matched that range, you'd still end up doing a DNS lookup for every MSNBot hit. If they're calling way too many pages (which is the reason for the block in the first place), this will thrash your server.

Now, if you followed the above but then added the IP to a static blacklist if it resolved to an MSFT host - and a whitelist if not - then the system should work without too much of a performance hit (except a small one upfront).

Of course, at that rate, it would probably be easier to just submit a batch job to generate IPs in that range for blacklist and whitelist.

Anyways, your rhetorical point still stands :-)
Not related to the original article, but look here:

* [...] si aumentano per Mediaset (il tetto per gli spot sulle pay tv passa dal 18 al 12 per cento nel 2012, per Mediaset sale dal 6 al 12 per cento, ndr). [...] *

Basically it says that most tv channels have more limited advertising concentration than Mediaset (now from 6% to 12%), now Mediaset has a flat 12% adv concentration. Wow, now this is an ad hoc decree.
The currency manipulation was agreed to by many foreign countries. China could not have done this without WTO and U.S. approval.

There are many human rights problems in China, but it is unfair to say they throw _all_ these issues aside. I known many Han Chinese that openly support Tibetan culture and wish to see it preserved.

Environment damage has been a calculated cost and there are many in China that push against it trying to say its time to pull back. A few years ago, I was walking up to a subway station in the Shanghai suburbs. There was a group of local college students with a huge banner urging people to protect the environment. They were asking people to sign the banner. I stopped and said hello and signed. The students were thrilled to have a foreigner sign, but the banner already had hundreds of local Chinese signatures on it. There were no police harassing them and the students seemed at ease in their public protest.

Sure, the playing field is not level. This is by design and China is fairly transparent about the mechanisms they will use to protect or lock in economic growth.

Look at a different trading partner with the U.S.; take a look at Mexico. NAFTA was promoted as a "trade highway" to U.S. voters. Most would take that to imply the highway goes in both directions. But if you have done business in Mexico or travelled there outside the confines of a resort, you'd notice that U.S. goods do not move into Mexico as freely as Mexican goods move out. In English, we always distinguish something that is "one-way" by being sure to say so. But, I never heard a U.S. politician talk about the one-directional nature of NAFTA. I think much of our problem with China is that most simply don't know what the real deal is and some of us are just starting to figure it out.
This comment is copied from the OP comments.
from pg's comments elsewhere my thoughts on what behaviour limits your voting might be incorrect - simply circumstances of coincidence (and more related to volume of posting_
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