skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sophistication and determination of this attack actually makes Google's actions more plausible.

By walking in and trying to take what it viewed as Google's most valuable assets, the Chinese state signaled that Google would never win in China. The playing field wasn't just rigged by one or another forms of low-level favoritism. The state at a fairly high level had decided it was going to 'p0wn' all the competition. So at that point, it was pretty obvious Google had nothing to lose by leaving China and perhaps even more intellectual property to lose by staying.
Or someone else voted it up too...

Hard to tell the difference.
http://prgmr.com/xen/ gets good reviews here, is run by a HN member, and has the cheapest prices out of any VPS by far.
I've used elance and odesk in the past.
Who will protect Dante's copyright?
Well for me, I used to be a Chinese citizen. So there's some emotional obligation for me to try to not let the country go to shit. For other Americans, there should be a moral obligation to make sure developing countries are doing so correctly.
Guessing at the Apple Tablet
it doesn't validate for TrustWave at the bottom
Absolutely. If Nobel's were worth anything, he deserves one. I don't know what category it'd fit under though: he should get an award for being an outstanding educator, the conscience of science etc. AFAIK, there's none such.

He did get one for science writing, though that doesn't really highlight the absolutely fantastic job he's done in pointing out how science fails, and tying together threads that specialized (and NIH funded) researchers have no incentive in doing.

NIH needs to set up an educater/conscience medal just for this guy imho.

I really hope he expands that book into a site where he could make available his original interview audio etc.
I would argue that learning can be reduced to statistical inference.
Absolutely right. Can't believe we missed that. Thx
Really not that much. Once you find a good exploit, the payload code is copy and paste for a lot of it. The payload issue is a solved problem with lots of available source code and knowledge out there for free.
> Do you want the international edition? I have a few of them, and they are better than nothing. But, the paper is so thin that I get distracted by the words/figures on the other side of the page.

Yeah, I don't buy them for myself either; I just know they're wicked cheap.
Not exactly the same but take a look at the Lenovo U1 hybrid http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/lenovo-ideapad-u1-hybrid-...
Haskell for games
why are people expending effort making excuses for George's abortion?
Give http://www.programmermeetdesigner.com/ a try
Things that were true on August 27, 2001,

I wasn't posting silly comments on HN.
This just popped up on Cracked's "6 Insane Fan Theories That Actually Make Great Movies Better" article - http://www.cracked.com/article/18367_6-insane-fan-theories-t...

A related discussion at Metafilter pointed out TV Tropes' page on "Wild Mass Guesses" - http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/StarWars - specifically, "Luke was a baited trap that got lucky." Obi-Wan & Yoda would have rather trained Leia in the Force. :)
The leaderboard does not really seem like it is that impressive anyway. It seems to me that a well formulated bot could easily surpass the highest ranked listings at this point.
No, that isn't it, RoG is well above those thresholds.
Yes, jacquesm, you were one of the first names I began to recognize, and in one early thread you were being downvoted, something to do with poverty differences in nations I believe. I thought man this guy is getting beat down, but you stood your ground and kept making your point. I respected and admired that. As for the karma points for submissions I'd rather see a 5 point maximum awarded. Some submissions get over 100 votes, but I've never seen even the most insightful comment do that. I guess it becomes more important depending on what we take karma to mean and be used for.
Good point about the orphan threads. I should somehow normalize for that.
That will come as soon as I learn more about Fantom
Google in China: the view from Further Education
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=10ren
I agree that removing the points may cause the issue where someone is upvoted tremendously without merit. After all, I often decide whether to upvote a comment based on its current score. If I see someone with a score of 20 for a reasonable comment yet someone with a score of 1 for a brilliant comment, I would be more likely to upvote the lower score. I think this would cause a bit of Karma inflation if the points were not visible.
I wonder if the "aerodynamic design" and "patent pending 'shoulder straps'" would be able to stand up to the wind on a motorcycle. If so, this could actually be pretty useful, especially if combined with a poncho and waterproof gloves. Almost like driving a Smart then...
Interesting manning has 2 clojure books out at around the same time.. http://www.manning.com/rathore/
I'm a big fan of this style, and I recommend Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" as the canonical take on it. He would have a field day with "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques"!

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

There is a tradeoff here though. Shakespeare's language was elaborate and complex but still powerful. He loved rummaging through the back of the vocabulary cupboard to find just the right word.
No, I mean I've had the experience where I've voted something up (making the arrows disappear), then reloaded the page, and the arrows are back again.
Direct link: http://www.snailpad.com/api
Bing could beat Yahoo by the end of the year
All the cool kids were on kur5hin :P
Boring? God I hope so. Classic MacOS had the right idea aesthetics-wise. Boring, clean, neutral grays. I'm paying attention to the applications, not the OS windows.
That would take care of the Ask HN threads as well, especially since these suffer from the additional burden of being identified as 'self posts' so they are hardly ever on the top of the homepage.
You are technically correct on some of your points. However, the net is that most of the value created stays in China. This is the nature of the game. The real or de-facto operating entity, is almost always Chinese.
And it's on the user page as well. I dunno whether it was already there before I mentioned it. I guess it's been a while since I've looked at my user page.
I don't know why people keep voting this guy down. Just because you could go to the gate in the US doesn't mean it was true everywhere. My dad travelled internationally a lot for work and frequently mentioned how much tighter airport security was in a lot of places.
Public domain, yes, I know.

But one of the collaborators in this stunt are Random House - known for over-reaching (imho) in their crusade against copyright infringement. [1] [2]

[1] http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2009/05/13/kindle-2-vs-readin...

[2] http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/business/0,39044229,10035062,0...
Do you have data to back that assertion up?
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When I went to china I did it all the time to see what was banned and what wasn't. As far as I can tell, nothing has happened to my relatives. Also if you were a dissident you'd probably be smart enoguh to use an encrypted connection anyways.
That may have been a case of being a little bit too quick on the draw on your end.

If you look at the status bar of your brower, your vote has only registered with the server when it says 'done' again.

If you refresh before then you may cancel the vote altogether.
This is just a wild idea without much thought, but I used it on an old web site I maintained that had social interactions. Perhaps you could make a similar system work by giving a salary of points to members. The longer they remain a member, the more points they get, but at the same time, you could make it so a portion of their points are transferred when they vote. This might encourage point hoarding, though, which was a problem that existed with my prior system. (In actuality, my system gave points for participation (visiting the site with some frequency) and removed points through a 'Karma tax' for not visiting the site, and then people could transfer points to each other.)
I see what you mean, but I was referring more to the situation where merely the existence of the product is enough to show how it's done -- e.g. the infamous "1-click" patent, which doesn't describe a technology but instead a method.

My point was that a patent was supposed to be a trade: monopoly for blueprints. If nobody needs your blueprints, then why are we granting you a monopoly? That should be the yardstick, and the bias should be towards denying patents rather than granting them.
Do you care if you have reduced your risk of CVD death, if risk of other deaths increase?

I might if I have a family history of heart disease. I might if I have confounding factors for CVD (like being on oral contraceptives). The point is, this is why people have doctors who went to medical school. Dr Google doesn't know about your particular situation.

Moreover, if I may channel badscience.net for a minute, I think the whole "science says don't eat butter! science says butter is okay!" ping pong reporting undermines public understanding of the scientific process. While this complaint is usually addressed at traditional media, we are in fact being complicit by submitting/upvoting these kind of stories, since we are essentially meta-publishing them.

I do actually agree with you about the fact that total mortality is the most appropriate indicator for people to take to heart, and I do agree that there is a lot of evidence that points to the fact that cholesterol levels are not as correlated with mortality as people who sell you statins will have you think. But that is beside my point.
Keep in mind that Mike Jordan is a superhuman math machine. I remember his undergraduate research assistants at Cal were telling me that it would take grad students days to understand 5 minute proofs he would do on the fly.
You can blame the ever so unreliable ISP Nac Net, we use them in our office which cut out as well.

"
Good Afternoon,

At approx 12:10pm, we lost communications with some of our equipment in our Newark, NJ location. Upon investigation, it was discovered that equipment located in the cross connect area had lost power. Customers may have noticed degraded internet service for about 2-5 minutes while routers propagated through alternative providers. As of 12:23pm, power has been restored in the Newark, NJ site. We are still investigating the cause of the problem."
Cool story. I am guess the $SUPERMARKET is Giant ;-)
Patents still expire--it's copyrights which are slowly becoming indefinite in length.
Good idea; I'll consider it.
Strange things happen when you use linux, my sister is a CE student but didn't care much about linux apart from the whole no virus threat thing. We have a triple boot (ubuntu for her, arch for me and windows for work/guests/my gaming needs). One day we got a different maintenance from our usual technician to install a new UPS. He just looked at my work in setting up the arch part, my work in making the grub boot screen preety, my work at completely changing ubuntu into something between mac and a kde desktop and my work in setting up arch to do maintenance cron jobs and got impressed. And you know what he did?Gave my sister a job offer to do some linux dev stuff for his startup(I was not at home during all this btw).My sister who cannot even install things using synaptic and I dont even wanna go into how she sucks at using gcc for her college work. And all this why?Because she has the degree and I dont.

PS: She turned down the offer btw for her obvious incompetence.
Not that Most Chinese would Even care. I think most of them are worried about getting their children into university so they can lead a better life. Stuff like politics is of little concern. Governments censorship efforts are pretty futile, and the only reason there isn't revolt is because it's good enough for people to not care.

I mean we care because most of us have cushy jobs, or have already made it in a developed country, so we have time to think about philosphy and politics. But honestly it's no big deal, because their censorship is a meaningless effort. When I went to china no one had false understanding of the living conditions in china comapred to the USA, and most people were enjoying what they had to care.

With the Internet, telephone, mail, it really becomes impossible to censor. It's just a facade to make the government feel like it's in control.
Think of the leaderboard as an odometer, it basically logs how much time you spend on HN.

If I had to put a number on it I'd say 1 karma point today equates anywhere from 1 to 5 minutes of work on HN.

If you were to express that in money, given the kind of expertise that walks around here anybody on the leaderboard has spent upwards of several thousand $ worth of their time, which gives you an idea of how much they get back out of it.
I need to go look up the internals of batteries, but the first option is interesting.

The second option is basically the flywheel suggestion, except with compressed gas instead of a spinning wheel. At that point you require a second power system, and it's probably better to refill on gas/diesel and be done with it.
No clue.

I'm guilty of reading the article

“The encryption was highly successful in obfuscating the attack and avoiding common detection methods,”

One of the malicious programs opened a remote backdoor to the computer, establishing an encrypted covert channel that masqueraded as an SSL connection to avoid detection
Ask HN: Woot For Music?
I'm a big fan of the one thing a day (woot, groupon, daily candy,etc.) model. ie- concentrate a huge crowd of people on one awesome thing a day and let it rapidly multiply via social sharing.

What if it was done for music? One artist a day. Give a track away for free and heavily discount their album (FLAC DRM Free) + other merchandise. Throw in the sharing goodness of social networks as well.

Thoughts? Praises? Pitfalls?
This bothered me too at first but it works pretty well in practice, especially if you mix 1-2 "normal" parameters with a map of optional ones.
When one of Australia’s top mining firms, Rio Tinto,
refused to allow China’s Chinalco to double its ownership
interest last year (to 18%), China arrested local CEO
(and Australian citizen) Stern Hu and three managers,
who remain in jail today, under espionage charges.
China denies any connection. ... In politics, thought,
and business, China remains a police state.

No. I'd support the conclusion, but the evidence presentation here is shabby.

The event that immediately preceded the Rio executive being arrested was the closing of contract negotiations for a yearly contract on iron ore shipments [1]. The rejected Chinalco acquisition mentioned in the quoted section was only a month before, but evidence for link of causality between that and the arrests is weaker than between the price negotiations and the arrests.

Other motivations need to be weighed up as well:

* At the time the arrest happened there were internal riots in China's western provinces (causing their leader to abort one of those G meetings and fly back to China). There's nothing like stirring up trouble against foreign devils as a mechanism to distract your people away from internal strife.

* The snubbing given to the Australian foreign office also suggests a political aspect. Did the Rudd government imply that it could cause things to happen that it could not deliver? Or did it hamper the process? Or are China just being big-girl's-blouse because they can? [2]

In weighing up iron ore issues you need to be aware that China is easily the largest producer [3]. It tends towards bilateral deals on 'strategic' commodities rather than working through global markets like the other major consumers (e.g. oil). This pushes the dynamic of areas affected by those commodities from flexible markets into a zero-sum game.

[1] See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Tinto_Group#Arrests_in_Chin...

[2] "The Chinese seem determined to continue to humiliate Canberra.", http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/beijing-ramps-up-the-hu...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ore
"The Michigan company behind the SarcMark have applied for a patent to protection their invention." Let's hope for all our sake that that isn't accepted. I have these doodles...

Perhaps next the Guardian will patent their grammatical errors.
Did Steve Wozniak really ditch his iPhone for the Nexus One?
What's the point, when the Chinese government already has all their source code?
There's no requirement for it to be custom. It's encryption.
Why Google is upgrading to EXT4 FileSystem
I believe s/he meant if the box you are using to log in is compromised, then all boxes your box has access to (by way of the private key it has in its file system) are compromised, whereas it seems you interpreted the comment to be implying that the host to which you are logging in (which only has the public key in its file system) has been compromised.

The point is that the computer on which you type becomes a lynch-pin.
Both now redirect to pbworks.com.
No, Seriously, a Working Star Trek Phaser With DIY Instructions
Well, pg knows how the numbers look in this case from the last brief experiment, so he probably could try to adjust with a logarithmic scale of some sort. Would it work?
I'm not impressed with the Russian doll encryption. Like with DRM, you have to give away the keys to your users. So the analysts had to work a little more than usual to examine the code. Big deal. There was never a question of if they would be able to analyse it, but just how long it would take. There must be something else they have not disclosed that is making them take notice.
Thanks for the clarification. I've been thinking of running http://wasitup.com from 3 different Linode data centers for a while to remedy problems like this (the service currently runs on 3 different racks in the NJ data center). I would first have to find a way to send Tokyo Tyrant data encrypted/authenticated over WAN first.
"Also supported by the NIH. Why is it that Dairy is a conflict of interest, and the NIH isn't?"

Because "Overall the dairy industry would probably greatly benefit from a recognition that saturated fat is healthy."

Again, I'm not saying the research is invalid. It would benefit everyone to accurately know what's healthy, what's not, and what doesn't matter so much.

And yes, of course, an industry that sells saturated fat should know as much about saturated fat as possible. But this is the world, and it makes sense to treat such a study and its participants with healthy skepticism.
This highlights one of my biggest problems with lisp and macros. Every personal preference of every coder results in a macro that changes the basic symantics of the language. If I were to pick up code that used this macro, now I have to lean a new function call syntax. Just one macro to change the function call symantics, and just one DSL isn't a problem, but multiply that by every coder's interpretation of "natural calling convention" and every domain's DSL and next thing you know, you don't even recognize the language anymore. The original author usually thinks it make code "cleaner" and more readable, but I find that it rarely does.
Cloud Over Subscription vs. Over Capacity – Two Different Things
I am glad we are very like-minded, but I will continue to focus on the few differences:

The point is, this is why people have doctors who went to medical school.

The average doctor knows very little about nutrition and exercise. They are lucky to spend a week's worth of time on it in medical school and generally just repeat what they have been told on the subject. Following your doctor's advice on these issues is a sure way to ruin your health.
Pardon my ignorance, it surprise me there's even a term WFOE specialized for this. lol

> the net is that most of the value created stays in China. This is the nature of the game. The real or de-facto operating entity, is almost always Chinese.

This is true. It will take some time for the Chinese to realize market is not always a zero-sum game. I blame the Communist education, sub-consciously everyone think capital is dirty and tries to grab their share as much as they can to feel secure. Voices inside the country are always fear of US invading China, this is laughable but it is true. So in business 'foreigners' are often excluded precautiously.

However it's important to realize that nationalism & patriotism is non-reversible for China. It's necessary to act like your business in China is doing good for China.
We use a system that is very close to what you describe on a very large site that I have helped to build and it actually works really well.

We're thinking of ways to allow people to turn their karma in to more tangible forms of rewards as well, such as one-shot functionality that you pay for with karma and physical goodies from a 'karma store'.
Might want to check your contract about nondisclosure requirements on the incident notifications -- which is why I didn't post it.
"The only thing I've ever come up with is a hot-swappable battery, so they sit and charge at a station until needed, then you swap a new one into the car."

http://www.betterplace.com/
2 minutes on the site and I can't figure out how it attaches to ones person ...
Friends who are hiring
290%

or

190% improvement

but not

290% improvement
I don't understand this logic. He may have built a successful, efficient and popular service. But he still did so on the basis of other people's work and the entire basis of the site was to take away the creator's control over their own work. Sure his site itself contained nothing illegal and all that. But the fact remains that the people who create a piece of intellectual property must retain the rights to do with it as they please. They shouldn't have to be taken at the whims of the community just because a lot of people happen to like/want it. If Salinger had decided he never wanted any of his books published and no one should ever read them, that's his choice, not ours. If we can't respect the people that create and/or own the intellectual property, then we are part of a disgusting society.
Or perhaps surrounded by a giant cloud, wanting desperately to touch its creator and elevate itself to a higher plane of existence.
Totally unrelated, but I'm very happy with wasitup. Had forgotten completely I subscribed when I got a bunch of emails about a sick server. Really helps.
On the downside I found a couple of emails in yahoo's bulk folder.
Even if it works it suffers from serious Segway Syndrome. Anyone using one looks terrible.
Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User's Notes
I second this. I sometimes notice people talking to me and repeating the same thing 3, 4 times, just with different words. Please! It gets on my nerves a bit. Say it once, I'll ask if I don't understand. If you need me to understand, and want assurance that I have, repeat it twice and feel free to ask 'Got it?'
I've got 7/10 - I'm a poor "C" programmer.
Looks like a great concept. We need more such initiatives. At what stage is the project at the moment?
I chose #define SECONDS_PER_YEAR (60 * 60 * 24 * 365)
instead of #define SECONDS_PER_YEAR (60 * 60 * 24 * 365UL)

I realised that 365UL would make 16-bit machines happy. I haven't worked on such one from a long time.

I also make a mistake on int (*a)[10], and I had no idea about "volatile const".
Italy wants citizens to officially apply to upload YouTube videos
Wow. Thank you for the link. Beyond the comic relief and incisive review, this is practically a crash course in movie making.
Just got both, since I got a 50% on total order with my previous order (boofinal50 - may not work for everyone). Maybe I'll post feedback a few months later when there's more chapters. Just start reading the pragmatic one now.
So multiple exposures to content that's been slightly modulated each time will result in greater user uptake, right?