skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solidifying my view that advertising is a plague, and it must be destroyed. It is the causal agent in so many anti-consumer decisions. Google or Yahoo or Microsoft or any of their agents (e.g. Canonical) need only do well enough not to piss off their current subscribers. To the extent that they manage that, they can encrappen their product with incorrect or useless shit in order to bring more revenue. You will get much better results if you pay for quality.

It kind of makes me embarrassed to work for one of those companies I decried. At least I can rationalize it by noting that our results are the best and we're really bribing other actors to not make decisions that harm their users.
Yes, the weather is terrible, stay away. (that's the story we like to tell people in order to keep it from growing too much).
I wonder what people will think once the first AppStore app gets approved by Apple but turns out to be a piece of malware. I'm sure Apple has indemnified themselves against liability in such a case

Apple has stated that they have a kill switch they can use in a situation like that. It would be extremely irresponsible not to on a device like the iPhone imho.
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Not just parking, apartments are a lot more expensive in SF too. Most events seem to be south bay but if you like driving then Berkeley/Oakland wouldn't be too bad I guess. I'd personally go for Palo Alto area but that's because university avenue is fun.
Tech Details on the Apple Tablet from Jason Calacanis
For a two to three years i was running in a VPS server in VPSLink which had about 64MB of RAM - for everything and without swap space. The target use of this VPS was probably as an email server or something as most people recommended the more expensive 128MB and 256MB plans for serving (static) pages. And actually there were only about 40MB left since the OS needed some memory for itself too.

Personally i thought that with better resources management i could do much more, so i wrote a custom HTTP server in that could fit in less than one MB of RAM. Most of my pages were generated offline using a custom program in FreePascal.

The server could also execute CGI scripts, so i also wrote a forum in FreePascal.

According to my logs, the whole system ran out of memory only once :-). Until the day i decided to give myself a little more features (when i got a much better VPS from Linode) i had about 5-6 sites running (different domains), a Subversion server and a few "dynamic" apps.

The forum can be found here. I still run it in my new VPS, although it got some spam. The a + b = ? anti-spam feature was new when i wrote the forum but seems that bots got better :-P.

http://www.badsectoracula.com/projects/mforum/
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San Fran has a strong EVERYTHING TECH community, doesn't it? Or do Java Developers usually hang out in Santa Clara?
Awesome quote. Attack vs Defense.
Thank you for the info
Your idea of fun is going to a McDonalds in a strip mall, right?
At televised sporting events, a prankster, usually drunk, will sometimes run onto the field to make a spectacle. Yet, the broadcast always cuts away, so as not to encourage the behavior even more in the future.

Perhaps we could consider a similar policy on submissions and upvotes about site-defacements? The hack will already get plenty of attention from the normal visitors of the affected site, and coverage in other 'gotcha' outlets. Maybe we should dampen, rather than multiply, the coverage.

(A post-incident report with details of the vulnerability and valid countermeasures would be interesting. And if the normally-trusted site was at any point subverting visitors with malware, that too would warrant a warning submission. But racing to report and upvote each graffiti incident almost seems to be cheering it on.)
In case it gets taken down, the relevant tweets are:

Apple tablet's 2 cameras is sick feature for video conferencing: u shoot what's in front of you + yourself. Augmented video conferncing!

Yes, apple tablet is oled + back has solar pad for recharging, but it really doesn't work quickly. More a gimmic. Verizon+att,wifi yes!

Apple Tablet has thumbpads on each side for mouse guestures, reads fingerprint for security. Up to 5 profiles by finerprint for family.

Yes, there are 2cameras: one in front and one in back (or it may be one with some double lens) so you record yourself and in front of u.

Well @joshgrenon, I can tell u the battery life is great in ebook reading mode but not great when on wifi or playing games. 2-3hrs

Yes @HappyDrew, the apple tablet is running an iphone os flavor with ability to have multiple apps running at same time (ie pandora, browser

Ok, I will take two questions about the new apple tablet which I have right here. Go ahead... My nda is basically over.

The price will be 599, 699 and 799 depending on size and memory in apple tablet. Also, wireless keyboard + monitor connection for tv

Also, the apple tablet is really amazing for newspapers. Video conferencing is super stable, but nothing new.

The best part ofthe apple tablet as beta user has been the built in HDTV tuner and pvr, and the chess game.
Looks like india has invented the zero all over again. Hope it works. Much needed.
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One more new one, that seems pretty interesting:

Apple tablet games are sick. Basically nintendo wii-level innovation. Custom farmville app is insane. Mark pincus is demoing with steve tmmr
Different software though. Last time I looked it wasn't available.

I think I like that one better than digress.it though.
I wonder if they considered Bing. In a few years, that's what it will be, just with sanitary purple branding to keep people's heads from exploding.
Start small.

Build something you`re passionate about, and go through all the phases: market research > product outline > dev/design > test > release > marketing

See what works, what doesn`t and most important have fun building it.

Small projects like:
http://umbrellatoday.com/ or http://bouldr.net
are the best thing to start off with, gain experience and network the hell out the local tech/biz community.

Good luck and have fun!
>Twitter gets hacked more often than this.
Really? I can remember only twice, in a bout a year, although admittedly I was not paying much attention
Yes dude. I get tons of joy from my Macbook. I love it. It connects me to the Internet. It plays music. It's wonderful.
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He's full of shit.

HDTV tuner + PVR? Right. He doesn't know if it's two cameras or one with two lenses, yet he suggests shooting yourself plus what's in front of you for augmented reality.... cmon folks.
SF. South Bay is really boring. I just moved from SF to Mountain View, and getting bored as hell.

Berkeley is fun, and cheaper than SF, plus there are girls there.
One word of advice: Don't get a first floor apartment. it seems that break-ins are really common, mostly b/c of the proximity to west oakland, which honestly, makes Baghdad look good.

Palo Alto is Ok too.
SF, is the more fun, but more expensive too.

Anywhere else is really suburban and boring.

But if you find a job in South Bay (where most tech jobs are), then you don't want to live in Berkeley, as it is too far.
By the way, I'd also love to move to San Fransisco area. Let's say as a foreigner to the U.S from a Visa Waiver country, is it possible to move to San Fransisco, hire a home office and just live and work on internet stuff? Or is that illegal? What about if I left trhe country every 3 months and came back?
Well I dont know whether have lost any data, but a link on the main page is broken -
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/ipad-touch-sensitive-ca...
No way in hell this is serious.
He wasn't asking you to write code. If you read it, he is asking about writing code that is better, or more specifically, products that are better. A list of projects you've worked on is mostly irrelevant in the face of that accusation.
Leaked tablet pics. Look pretty real
And won't you be looking silly tomorrow when Apple releases a full suite of wearable devices for digital media creators, including augmented reality spectacles and brushes that act as 3D motion capture devices and can read colors off of real world objects.

#not breaking any nda
I dont think its back up yet.
All the links are showing this -
Sorry, we couldn't find the page you were looking for. Please return to the homepage.
but the home page is up looks like and so are all the ads :) (funnily enough even on broken pages the ads are not broken)
twitter gets hacked more than this? source ?
"... FWIW, I pissed off a whole entire mailing list of self-described INTJs once by suggesting the same thing, but for differing personality types: that INTJs, being one of the few types that was so self-analytical as to know what type it was ..."

Myers Brigg illustrates "self-validation" and is dangerous when used to define careers ~ http://www.skepdic.com/myersb.html
Ask HN: Resources for Research Papers?
I've used http://www.ssrn.com/ quite a bit for finding interesting papers in my areas of interest.

Does the HN community have any other recommendations on where one could find collections of interesting research papers? Not looking for individual papers, but collections or links to groups of papers organized by subject matter.
Some seem to be heavier in other areas. I'm a Rails developer so I know about Rails community mostly. :)
And you're conflating two different definitions of security. We're not talking about remote root holes or buffer overflows when discussing phone security; we're talking about trojans and other maliciously designed apps which are downloaded and run voluntarily by the user. A walled garden does provide better security in this regard, as demonstrated by the iPhone having a perfect track record at almost 3 years in, and Android already having malware in it's App Store despite the platform still being in it's infancy.
Way back in 2000, when we launched Planetarion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetarion), we used C++ with a custom webframework, and CORBA for communicating with the database.

At our peak late in 2002, we served about 320 million dynamic webpages a month using three desktop Pentium 3's for webservers, and a dual CPU P3 for the database. No caching, as that wasn't needed.

Blazing fast, and not all that difficult to work with once the basic framework was solid and in place.
San Francisco is great. However, I have serious doubts that you'll want to pay for a three bedroom apartment and deal with parking for three cars. Cost being a factor, I wouldn't recommend SF.

On that note, why do you need three bedrooms? Why do you need three cars? If you could cut your expenses down to two bedrooms and perhaps one car, you might have more luck finding a reasonable place in the city. Since you're just out of college, I'd imagine that you're used to college style living -- is that an unsafe assumption?
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Question for those of you who live in SF currently -- in general, are you finding it difficult to network and connect with other tech-savvy individuals in San Francisco proper?
I always thought that "Eigenman" would make a cool superhero. A man derived from the covariance matrix of the probability distribution of the high-dimensional vector space of all of mankind. His superpowers would be instant recognition of anyone he meets, self-supervised learning, and the ability to do a Karhunen–Loève transform in his head.
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Saying the first hack was not a hack, it was just a "bad file uploaded to comments section" is the funniest joke I've ever heard.
I thought it might be real until - "Apple tablet games are sick. Basically nintendo wii-level innovation. Custom farmville app is insane. Mark pincus is demoing with steve tmmr"
I second that. I grew up in the East Bay and thought it was a great places to live. Oakland gets a bad rap, but there are certainly some nicer areas where one could rent a house much more inexpensively than in the other areas mentioned. Also, there is lots of culture in the Berkeley/Oakland area, not to mention tons of great eateries.
Since there still seems to be a debate about exactly what weakness was exploited, that conclusion is unwarranted.

For that matter, a truly thorough cracker (with more time than constructiveness) might go to the trouble to identify more than one weak point, hold some in reserve, and exploit them sequentially over time - either to offer a more depressing experience to the site owner or to discredit the site's technical team [taking advantage of people willing to jump to your conclusion :) ]
There's also the old/current method of writing SQL by hand. And you're going to have a hard time convincing me that adding another layer of code to anything usually removes bugs. More code = more bugs. Not always, but just about.
Just 13 hours to go -- we'll find out if any of this is the real deal soon enough.

That's a problem I have with speculation like that. Why spend time spreading/checking out rumors on something that's literally going to be announced tomorrow?..
This isn't very comforting when applied to national security issues like WMD terrorism...

EDIT: I've been watching too much 24...
Look, it is possible to download Adobe Reader without all the junk, however you won't be touching any of the new version stuff (9 or higher) but look around Adobe's web site (through Google if need be) and find the Adobe Reader v8.20 ... with any luck, Adobe will upgrade by myself overtime.
We're in Sunnyvale; South Bay IS boring. And very cost effective. If you plan to spend all your time working on your startup (why else are you bringing your startup here?) you should live somewhere boring and cost effective. You can live in SF after you "make it".
This is precisely the problem that created Ice Weasel.

The code is open source, but the name "Firefox" is trademarked. The two are distinct.
Since you say cost is very important, San Fran is probably not the best. For a place like you describe you'd be paying about $3000/month in SF, and could find a similar place in Berkeley or Palo Alto for about $2000/month.

Between Berkeley and Palo Alto, I recommend Berkeley. Personally, I love Berkeley and currently live there, but that decision is basically would you rather live in a college-town near SF or a college-town/suburb near silicon valley. Either way they're all about an hour drive away from each other at most anyway.
I would say that regardless of where you live, you should shed 2/3 of your cars. Cars are very expensive to own, and if you're a pre-money startup, you need to save money. Everything takes longer than you think.
Google Summer of Code (GSoC), 2010 is up
If there is more than one weak point, do they even need "conclusion-jumpers" to discredit their technical team? Assuming of course that it's not more than one 0day.
I think there could be some cheering going on given the love-hate relationship between TechCrunch and the HN crowd, but I don't think anyone wishes them ill.
Idealistic. But not practical.

Sporting events have just one broadcaster. One person who controls what you see. Online, everyone is a broadcaster. That changes the game. Not everyone will agree to such a policy. And you just need one player to disagree to make it impractical.

Case in point: 9/11 attacks were shown on TV repeatedly - because there was more than 1 player who could do the broadcasting.
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RAID-1 is a (very expensive in this case) waste of space when you already have a perfectly good backup system in place.
techcrunch is usually a good source for everything that happens in twitter, including hacks
Shame they appear to have confused how GROUP BY works. They're correct that -

SELECT users.*, count(photos.id)
FROM users
LEFT OUTER JOIN photos
ON users.id = photos.user_id
GROUP BY photos.user_id

won't do what they want. In fact, it isn't even a valid query outside of MySQL that I can think of.

What -will- do the right thing is:

SELECT users.id, users.name, count(photos.id)
FROM users
LEFT OUTER JOIN photos
ON users.id = photos.user_id
GROUP BY users.id, users.name

(which in the conceptually similar perl thing I'm working on at the moment you'd represent just by asking for a set of user objects with $user->photos->count eager loaded, but anyway ...)
Excuse me? Does anyone realize he is joking?
How does this help the users? Canonical is selling their user base to yahoo at the cost of user experience. This is kinda disappointing and shady.
MS may want to make a phone but after the danger incident, I don't think anyone will let them.
I don't understand this logic at all. Twitter has learned so much by launching as early as they did, and now it's a huge success. It's better to "scale and stop falling over" while you're improving your product and growing exponentially than spend a year and a half having meetings.
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NICKY: Sure!

GARY COLEMAN: And don'tcha feel all warm and cozy, Watching people out in the rain!

NICKY: You bet!

GARY COLEMAN: That's...

GARY AND NICKY: Schadenfreude!

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You're assuming everyone is better off with Google as a default search engine. Seems like a pretty strong assumption.
You say that like it is a bad thing :(
Because it's so much damn fun!! ;)
Great set-up - sticky so incriminating they must be blocked out, a black cover pulled back, white apple connector cables everywhere . . .
I guess they call it marketing. Just imagine they would release a product nobody cares about.
This guy has style!
A big iPod. I still don't know why all the hoopla about it.

1. It is not portable enough
2. It probably is not powerful enough to replace your laptop

Useful for the few people that have money to spare, but not sure will be useful to all people.

Now, if you can dock it to a computer setup, it will be a great grandma/granpa computer, but still, I don't see this selling 10s of millions in a year.
Not necessarily the web server.

Standard `rake test:units` (or even `ruby test/units/model_test.rb`) takes the whole Rails stack so it adds up.
Good explanation of PS3 hack potential . . .
I can't wait for the RESTful API for my alarm clock, and washer. ;-)
Heh, not during the summer. Seattle is BEAUTIFUL in the summer, far nicer than anywhere else I've spent a summer - a list which includes New York (where, as a great man once said, "if you are keen to breathe [during the summer] the best plan is to open a window and stick your head in a building."), Haifa, DC, and Massachusetts.

Even more specifically, Softies seem to spend an awful lot of the summer going on hikes and picnics.
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"Chances are that the majority of developers won't find the most efficient algorithm to solve the problem."

If that is so and the code does need to run fast or use little memory then the majority of developers would benefit from a fast language.

Very often, code doesn't need to run super fast. Memory usage and concurrency (the GIL) are greater issues with dynamic languages in my view.
Current embedded devices are likely to have at least 256Mb of RAM, 4Gb of Flash, and as much MIPS as a Pentium III. Not so "embedded" any more, don't you think? If Portability is an issue, then I am likely to use C with something like Lua. But I can't imagine for a second abandoning garbage collection before I see proof I can't afford it.
I agree, it sounds ridiculous. But Jason has a pretty good reputation - and I've met him before, and he didn't seem like the sort of guy who'd make this sort of thing up.
That's a good example. I agree with you. In that case Wikileaks was clearly unethical.
I write shopping lists and todo lists on the backs of old receipts, so even if I did write them as txt files I wouldn't save any paper.
Build something/anything and put it on the web. It almost doesn't matter what. Aim for something where you can build a kind of working version in a week or two. Do NOT launch into 6 months of development before making it public as your initial ideas will almost inevitably be wrong.

If you get no users, why? Fix that and repeat.
If you get unhappy users, why? Fix that and repeat.
If you realize the initial idea is incurably broken throw it away in favour of something better.

You may have no ideas but once you start you'll suddenly have lots.
Interesting thing about Apple Tablet is that, at least among my friends, it raised a debate about the perfect portable machine.

There's so much speculation that if you filter out some simple facts, you basically get one's picture of the machine one imagines.
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This is just correlation vs causation. ;-)

It is false that "Absolute power corrupts absolutely.", but it is true that "Those who are in absolute power are corrupted absolutely".
He's lying, C++ apps are not portable.
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Useless indicator without counting in international returns. Money is money, no matter which country it comes in from.

Still, it has to do about 30% better than Titanic (which did well overseas), so it has a ways to go.
Call me a gullible consumer, but part of the fun of waiting for an Apple product is anticipating Steve Jobs' awesome sales pitch. I can walk in without giving a damn and walk out feeling like I need to preorder TODAY.

Time to bet on the over/under for "incredible": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx7v815bYUw
so just to make sure this is clear... on a site titled "Hacker news" you don't want hacking to be in the news?
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I don't think incidents could (or should) be completely hidden, as in the sporting example. But they could be less promoted.

We don't all have to magnify the events. Each news site (and voter) can decide where they want to play on the information continuum. Should News.YC be more gotcha-tabloid-if-it-bleeds-it-leads, or less?
I have a couple friends with friends at Apple. Stuff I've heard from people on the inside:

- 3 product verions/3 & 4 figure price points (people working on apple.com)

- March ship date

- Carrier-tied (AT&T), US launch only for now

I was really excited for it, but if it is a carrier-tied device then I may pass on it. Who knows though, this could all be BS - there's so much secrecy within Apple, I'm surprised more hasn't leaked yet.
TechCrunch got hacked, maybe he used the same password for TC and his Twitter account, or he's taking the piss... With 90,000 followers I don't see why he would.
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The thruth is, my company maintains a C++ we application. It's implemented as an Apache module and employs some very interesting in-memory shared structures.

And, like I said, I missed that part.

It was not proper markup ;-)
Geeks have really got to spend at least as much time with people as in front of the keyboard, which is something they can only partially influence by themselves. Employers have to realize that too and redesign jobs so that no-one should be spending more than 50% of their time in front of a keyboard.