skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry as someone who lives in the mainland I can tell you that it is NOT easy to get around the GFW(Great Fire Wall).

All websites related to T-o-r are blocked, even if you can get a hold of T-o-r the GFW blocks the IP that T-o-r initially connects to as well as the default ports.

Web proxies are useless unless they are https and even then if there are the wrong keywords in the https get request it's blocked. The GFW uses deep packet inspection, so not only are there blacklisted websites but they also analyse the content your viewing.

People say there are trivial methods to get around the GFW but I haven't found any that work(short of buying access to a VPN, and currently unless you have an international creditcard you can't). Where are the trivial methods that work if there are so many of them?

This is a censor-ship net where the gaps are constantly being closed, a few years ago it WAS trivial to get around, not anymore, and it's becoming more difficult as the GFW systems and methods advance (using technologies provided by western companies such as Nokia, Motorola, Microsoft etc)

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I think these issues are relevant here, controversial as they may be. One of the article's central elements is the widespread nature of teachers who do not have a firm grasp of the very subject matter they teach, even at an elementary school level. That's a very serious and fundamental failing of the public school system and relevant to the discussion at hand even if the underlying reasons for that failing were not brought up in the original article.

Indeed, I think moving the discussion one or two levels deeper is worthwhile. As in software development, there is almost always a tendency to discuss defects at a superficial level, often resulting in superficial fixes which mask symptoms instead of fix the underlying root causes. In this case the urge to paper over cracks in an increasingly fundamentally broken system is a mistake, better to find out what's at the root and fix the problems there.
Thanks for the additional context... like one of the other posters mentioned, I think once your target organization has evolved beyond the capabilities of the existing products in this space, the knowledge and analytics built-in to the product become the product differentiator. Scalability is assumed. For known problems, the real value of a log analysis tool is in the knowledgebase you buy with the product and the canned reports you can get out of it; that's why there are specialized SIM/SIEM products out there. If it is an unknown problem, your customer will end up generating the knowledge base themselves anyway. Unfortunately, many of your customers may not even know what their problems are, and will expect you to sell them an "Easy button" solution...

All that said, good luck in your endeavors!
Shouldn't the example 640 x 480 image instead be labeled DCXL x CDLXXX?
As someone that has lived in a communist country (and not just as a visitor), I have to say that that thinking about "just use Tor" does not really make sense. Yes you can use proxies, but the government can find out you are using proxies. It is easy to encrypt the information, so the government may not know what you are accessing, but they do know that you are encrypting your communications.

The thing is that if you are using proxies then you can get into a lot of trouble. Then you cannot claim innocence, you cannot say that you were led astray, or you were just curious, etc., because you took active and complex steps to avoid a government security measure. And if you were stupid enough to use very strong encryption, then you are in even more trouble because the police will not know what you did, so they will assume the worst.

So no, "just use Tor" is not an answer.

Regarding about how you think China is run, well I have not been to China, but in my experience with the other communist country that is not the case. That is probably the ideal a communist country strives for, and they often believe they are ran that way, but what usually happens is that there is some kind of test used as a gatekeeper, and after that the people that are just good at politics win out. It is the same as any large organisation, such as most corporations. The corporation likes to think they only promote the smartest and most able people, but really the people that are best at office politics usually climb to the top (although there usually is a minimum intelligence they must possess).
People interested in this might like a site I launched a while back:

http://www.readfresh.com

Feedback is appreciated!
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He isn't distributing the font, is he? Rendered representations of fonts are explicitly permitted by US copyright law under all circumstances as far as I'm aware.
The color scheme is hard to look at and it doesn't seem to do anything that delicious doesn't. What makes this notable?
He is, actually. Download the source.
Damn. You must read very quickly.

Or I spend way too much time in my programming bubble.
It sounds like 'leasing' rather than 'renting', both of which are different than 'buying'.
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Of course not; for that I have a girlfriend. If I didn't, why would I need a therapist? Ba dum bum....
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Pretty cool. I usually just use: http://jessefornear.com/images/mr-t.jpg (Dimensions be damned!)
I agree, as do many other principled web-devs. Flash is not "of the web" even though today it is very much in the web. One hopes that the innate advantages of pure html/css/js designs will provide sufficient momentum to push the tooling and the rest to a state where it's absolutely better than flash.

But that won't happen tomorrow, and probably not for several years.
"Free/libre/open-source software advocate and standards proponent"

These people are the vegans of the internet.
Ah, I see, I didn't realize he was including it with the source distribution. That might ruffle some feathers.
Presumably when the Google team wakes back up on the west coast.
This is amazing work. Congratulations.
Let's use a different industry to illustrate what is happening. Let's say a band named The Beatles records a new album. The local radio station gets a copy of their album and plays their song. The listeners love it so they play it more often, but they don't mention who the band it and on their website, they put up a link to download the song... but without any credits. Their audience grows. They get advertisers to advertise to their audience. They say, "hey, playing good songs gets use more listeners and more listeners get us more advertisers, which gets us more $$. Let's do this more often." So they go do this 500,000 times, and each time never mentioning who the artist is. They grow and prosper while the artists starve. Oh, in the mean time they call the artist scum.

In the above metaphor, the artists are the bloggers whose content Mahalo is using. The radio station ripping off the artist is Mahalo. The Federal Communication Commission is like Google, who is allowing all this to continue because the radio station is giving them a cut from the advertising revenue.

Hope this helps make it a little more clear why what they are doing is wrong, needed to get exposed and needs to get fixed.
What a great hack. Nobody should feel any unease at using perfectly legal methods to fight back against a system that is designed to screw people over. Who exactly deserves our sympathy in this article? Verizon? Time Warner? Bank of America? They would steal candy from a baby and charge the parents a service fee.
More like the "this is the year of the Linux desktop" people.
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Pretty accurate, too. Though you have to a nerd to appreciate it.
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It goes beyond SEO being an industry. Many "SEO's" who are actually good at what they do spend a lot less time on SEO as a profession and spend 100x more time on building businesses. Auto-generated content sites like Mahalo, eHow & other Demand Media junk are hurting their legitimate businesses with debatably unethical businesses practices.
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iPhone is the new IE6.

HTML5 is the new <applet> which no one will bother install.

There is a common fallacy among developers, we all assume what we like must be also liked by end-users and consumers.
Are there no pro-flash devs? I for one love as3. It made flash so much lighter, more manageable, and far more developer friendly. As of today there are no solutions to match flash's breadth of capabilities, and I would be sad to see it go...
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Kind of obscure, but you might want to check out NodeBox. It's a bit like Processing, but for python.
http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Home
The comments in this thread are one reason why it might not be so good for folks to ask their readers to vote them up on HN...
If we want to stack only at Twitter, it was only 1 of the several tools (news media too) USA (and whoever made profit) to make propaganda, yes actions like this are still called propaganda. This is the same method it used to invade Iraq, though used different tools. (Be aware that this is my opinion as I don't have sources.)

definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

Look, I'm Albanian, I'm not attacking anyone, nor I'm interested in doing it.

EDIT: For those of you thinking we live in a free world. Try writing down anything that undermines your country leaders, or what they won't you to say: in fact we don't know what to say, because if we did we couldn't (we will be the second one to know about it). We will be taken down as a National Security threat.

See the Joseph Goebbels quote by chrisb down.
Also not wanting to sound like a mouthpiece, but choice of log management system is a very interesting topic to me... scalability is only one concern and may not trump everything. We actually looked at both LogLogic and Sensage during our initial evaluation both of which scaled better than Splunk did at the time. My memory of the evaluations is dim (2+ years ago), but I recall that both products seemed more brittle in our environment (education), where we have very little control over incoming log formats due to somewhat chaotic organizational structure and infrastructure. Splunk seemed more able to accept unstructured or unexpected data without complaint and to deal with the parsing at search time rather than index time, and was a more natural fit. The other decision points/tradeoffs we ended up making were a) no additional licensing cost for Splunk agents, b) prioritization of real-time perusal for troubleshooting purposes over long-term reporting and canned reports. Sensage excels at the latter since it amortizes the cost of reporting by caching periodic results, and provides a large set of prebuilt reports, if I recall correctly. Splunk's "summary indexing" serves sort of the same purpose as the cachign feature of Sensage and has been improved in v4.0. And c) no additional cost for users (we have over 50 people looking at data indexed by Splunk). The "search" metaphor is also very easy for people to grasp which was an added benefit of the Splunk GUI.

My sense has been that at least the low end of the market is increasingly preferring a search-oriented log management architecture versus a database-backed, query-heavy architecture because organizations are familiar with the search metaphor, the overhead of managing a search index is less than the cost of database administration, and the unsophisticated use case (i.e., free-text search rather than advanced query syntax) is increasingly common. Smaller organizations also rarely have the maturity to deal with logging systematically since it requires a pretty systematic approach to infrastructure. That said, the tradeoffs we made may or may not apply in a terabytes-per-day environment, I unfortunately can't speak to it directly.
...the year of the Linux phone. Android arrives in a big way. We're saving the desktop for last. :-)
uh....I didn't claim that piracy was immune. you do know that it is possible to talk about the effects of things without condoning them right? we can talk about how the murder rate of cities affects property values for example.
Ask HN:  Why not a service to provide timely vaccinations for harmful memes?
Whether a meme is harmful may be subject to debate.

So maybe allow people to specify what sorts of memes they would like to be vaccinated for.

They would then be given regular updates on memes to watch out for -- including psychological tricks by which they may spread -- so that they won't get infected by them.
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Gah... I just got the email announcing Linode and SMS support, jumped up and down, visited the site... and found the cheapest plan to be $100/mo.

Sorry guys. I much prefer your service (assuming SMS + Linode), but thats way to expensive. Pingdom FTW. :(
For what possible purpose?
Sometimes when you raise the price of an item the sales will go up.

Revenue may go up, but unit sales usually won't. They have a name for unit sales going up: "Giffen good" but I don't think it was ever observed in the real life.
I appreciate any advice given at all. I'm a programmer, not a designer, so don't expect a whole lot outta me in that department.

I'd like to know what you think of the a) usability of the service and b) ideology behind the pricing, restrictions on budget, etc.

Thanks a million!
I was at the bots today and there were 5 QBs in various stages of construction. I knew it would look impressive when there were n of them, but I was still surprised.

(The article has it slightly wrong. The QA was the previous model.)
Being able to tell sound quality is a learned skill, anyone who didn't spend a lot of time on it will assume it's all just cheating. It doesn't help that there is in fact a lot of cheating going on as well.
If a teacher of either gender feels "math anxiety" when reading a receipt or teaching elementary school math, they probably shouldn't be a teacher. I honestly don't care about what gender stereotypes girls are picking up. The fact that teachers this bad at math exist in large enough numbers to produce decent statistics is far more shocking.
You're not far off, actually. One of the original raisons d'etre of Anybots was to do labor market arbitrage, by letting workers in one country perform operations in another. But that's not the intention of the QB. It doesn't have any hands.
I think it is even worse than they suggest. Suppose you compromise a username and password combination anywhere on the Internet, or offline compromise the dump you got from some random forum. This gives you a list of username => password entries.

You then farm that out to your favorite botnet and begin hitting low security consumer sites, like Facebook, Twitter, what have you. You should be able to recover email addresses in a totally automated fashion doing this. You can then probably remote compromise those email accounts instantly, using the exact same password.

Then, again in a totally automated fashion, you search their mail archives for the signatures of mails from your list of 50 high-value target sites: banks, brokerages, domain name registrars, WoW (don't laugh -- best dollar to security tradeoff of any of the above, since an account compromise can be worth $2k+, it is trivially cashable remotely, and it poses no risk of criminal prosecution), etc. You then use their recover password functionality, probably totally automated.

Then you just check your botnet for the new credentials for high-value sites, and start cashing.
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That you can find examples of people abusing patents is not proof that all patents exist to be abused.
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That would also be my recommendation. BTW, I just wrapped up Lucene, Sesame (RDF data store), and Java DB in one package (I wanted RDF+geolocation+search of text in RDF triples), and also put Clojure and Scala wrappers around my Java wrapper.

If you are using Clojure, Scala, JRuby, etc., might as well take advantage of great Java libraries.
You need to learn Java before you write for Robocode, which is a fairly big task on its own.
The code checks to see that x is nine or fewer characters, so you can try to request up to 9999999x9 or 9x9999999.
I like the "gentle" word in the title. Makes it less intimidating, well at least for me.
Annualizing Q1 revenues is probably a bad idea -- Q1 includes the all-important holiday season
most of andrews interviews are interesting. this one is the best i've seen. seth is inspirational and really puts into words what is happening in the labor market we are all living in now. must see.
Very cool. Suggestion: If you make the background pattern of the image a 1px checkerboard (light gray on dark gray or something else not too obnoxious) then that will make it easier to spot places where an image is being rescaled in-browser. A 1px border might be useful too...
Sure. But this is all supposition dressed up to sound convincing. Here's some of my own, hopefully somewhat convincing as well:

Why can't our girls learn math? Because they are surrounded by a society where math is frightening black magic, a society which largely looks down upon anyone who is good at math, and particularly so those who specialize in it. This is emphasized for girls; the linked article provided evidence that their math abilities declined in proportion to the amount in which their teacher reflected those societal pressures.

Why do their teachers have math anxiety? See above.

Why are their teachers incompetent at math? See above. Also, their teachers were incompetent at math. (See the exact same referenced article.)

Why do schools hire teachers incompetent at math? Most of all, because math is not valued. But also: Because there aren't enough teachers available to only hire perfect ones. Because the ways of measuring "good at math" are quite brittle, let alone measurements for "good at teaching math."

----

In other words, you have your axe to grind (unions) and I have mine (a thoroughly anti-intellectual culture); personally I find mine rather more convincing. Neither was really directly brought up by the article.

[Also, my axe doesn't conveniently align with over-repeated, loudly shouted political talking points, which is nice. ;) ]
Hmm, I might do this with a ruby script, except pull random images from WikiCommons with the exact size specified. (And color!)
I just added http://news.ycombinator.com/ as a Google Feed. The results are totally shame - see at http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/3760/screenshotgoogleread...

All entries are linked to homepage. titles are identical.
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(full nsfw image). Check out the strategic, crude touch up designed to keep away obscenity charges.
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Huh? Why in the world do you think removing unionisation will result in better qualified people? The only thing it will do is reduce the salaries. Their already low salaries, might I add. And when that the salaries are lower more qualified people will flock to those jobs, right?

By the way the study did not correlate for teachers math ability but for their math anxiety. I.e. they were presumably able to master the material they just felt anxious dealing with numbers and the students were able to subconsciously pick up on that.

And in general you are not likely to get any math wizzes as elementary school teachers. These are usually people that do their jobs because they like kids. Analytical people whether male or female are not usually the kind of people that consider being in a roomful of 30 children all day their dream career.
That's an interesting solution but couldn't you just resize a 1px grey GIF with the width and height attributes to act as a placeholder? You could also add the dimensions to an ALT and TITLE attributes so they are displayed when you mouse over it.
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No, actually I've come to learn that what I hate will be what's most liked by end-users and consumers.
This kind of argument is usually vacuous.

Reputation is worth billions to companies like Google. Google doesn't give a fuck about Mahalo.
Good advice.

After you have learned the basic open chords, scales and the fretboard notes, and "Wonderwall" - and are bored with the strings. You could go always back to silicon and build

a) an Arduino interface to an software/hardware mixer such as Ableton Live for live mixing and improvisation

b) an machine-learning program that takes GuitarPro tabs of the entire catalog of your favorite band and permute MIDI compositions/new guitar tabs based on the band's style.

c) Program your own synth in Max/MSP.

d) Develop a real-time music note recognition software that tab/annotate the chord changes, drum tabs, make music sheets for live online music jamming.

Also try to play the sitar/banjo/mandolin, there's already lots of guitar players.
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I'd suggest including the differences in the $75 vs $150 tiers without having to submit a job. Would be kind of nice to know what you get for what money, or how much you'll be charged before you've given all the info away. Other than that, I kinda like the design of it, would prefer a country/state/city type dropdowns for location instead of just a "location" entry (but allow a textbox for like, zipcode).
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I'm not seeing it. Help me out?
I'm pretty partial to this one: http://newslily.com/default.jpg

(It's called default because it used to be the placeholder photo on my website for people who hadn't uploaded a profile pic. I don't know who originally took it, or how to ask them for permission to use it, so I replaced it with something else. I keep it around because it's really funny though)
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One group found programmers, the other (in the current cycle) is doing something that doesn't require significant amounts of hacking, at least at this stage.
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I'm fine with legit collections calls as long as a human collector has to waste equal or more time trying to reach me.

This recent invention of automated collections calls seems to shift an enormous amount of abusive power to the collector. Now I can receive random calls at almost any hour of the day, nearly every two or three days, only to have a recording spew a number I need to call back to talk to a collector.

The worst part is, I'm not the one they are looking for, it's whoever (had my phone number previously | gave my phone number as a fake).

I wonder if Craig from this article will take my case for a referral fee :P
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