skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not for me, at the moment.

It's very likely there's a DNS conflict. EarthLink probably never removed his records from their DNS servers, so Earthlink customers (and anyone else that uses EarthLink DNS) is getting a different result than others are.

...although, I can't corroborate that on 207.69.188.185, .186, or .187, so maybe not. But I do find it hard to believe that Earthlink "hijacked" anyone's domain name.
I am located in Shenzhen, Popular Republic of China, I am on a 3G China Mobile connection. This connection does not even let you use a VPN, for getting rid of the censorship. I have noticed though that my adsl works with a VPN in USA, so that way i am able to access blogspot, but still not able to watch youtube or use twitter/facebook.
Why nobody knows what they're doing
Good points. As a layman, I wonder, do courts demand that all of a contract's substance be in prose, or is it okay for two parties to agree to a contract that's partly in, say, diagram form?
Probably about a third of the population of England at the time faced constant poverty and hunger due to there simply not being enough land to support the population. To the west is this wide open, un-farmed continent, with enough land to support everyone. Do you allow your subjects to settle this land?

The point of these questions is that it is always easy to moralize when you don't have to make personal tradeoffs. And in real life, there are often hard tradeoffs to make. So I'm trying to figure out under what conditions, if any, you would make the choice to invade. So far, you've moralized, but you've still evaded the hard questions. What would you do in any of these scenarios?
hehe I know, it kinda happened randomly.

Was originally doing a car related site, but it just didn't work out.
This is sad. He was a co-worker of mine.

Here's more info:
http://nyulocal.com/on-campus/2010/01/13/nyu-computer-scienc...
VMware to Acquire Zimbra
Ask HN: Please review our Startup: Twitalbums.com
...for now. There will come a time when dumping their dollars will no longer disadvantage China, and will indeed be to their advantage; but they need a somewhat larger middle class first. Give it ten or twenty years.
I am giving away an iSlate.
A little about the app:

What does it do?

Twitalbums lets you share files on Twitter by creating "albums" which are Social Venues for the crowdsorcing of media, by invitation only. Albums provide a simple and powerful way to have control of what you share online.

How is it different?

Different from Twitpic o Yfrog, Twitalbums is "intimate", not public. Only the people you invite to your album will see what's inside that particular album.

Twitter?

We use Twitter as an identification and notification platform. Comments, invitations, etc, get published on your Twitter profile so the people interested can be notified of our activity within Twitalbums.com

We have a business model:

When you log in for the first time we give you 50 "seeds"

Seeds are Twitalbums credit system. Each seed allows you to upload one file to an album. Once you run out of seeds you can buy more. You can find the seeds option within the file up-loader inside any album.

Thanks for your time and I hope you guys check it out and give it a spin.
The introduction is a nice piece of trivia. However, it bears almost no relation to the message that the story is supposed to convey.
("Legal support f-ed up reading a contract" versus "being careful about designing a UI")
Patently false. If users submit to the login URL through a link that was sent in the clear, a MITM can just run sslstrip (http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/) and presto, you're visiting the HTTP version of the page instead of HTTPS. The login URL needs to be unavailable over HTTP, as does the login form.
You know what the comments remind me of? The scene in the TV series "The Corner" when one of the female addicts finally decides to quit and go off into rehab, and how all the other addicts encouraged her and were happy for her, while themselves remaining stuck in their drug moor.

You should watch that show, by the way.
Bet against. And by the Fermi Paradox I'd be really shocked (and dismayed!) to find life that common.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/05/25/...
The problem is that you are actually understanding that conflict less, by painting 16th century Spain as how you'd like it to have been.
For example, the Spanish crown formally accepted the natives, since the return of Columbus, as citizens of the crown subject to the same protections a native spaniard had back then. Very liberal for the century. It's just that the landlords (caciques) were much more seduced by the idea of free labour, and there was no government oversight on the vast, new-found lands.
Similarly, the Company of Jesus were a religious order which instructed the natives, built schools, advocated for the end of all slavery, and protected natives from exploitation at hands of ruthless Europeans. Hardly crusaders or templars.
But sure, if blind prejudice derived by generalization makes you feel superior...
Assuming you provide full-disclosure for the review, why is this sleazy?

He's looking for exposure, not artificial 5-star ratings.

Yes he was a jerk and you are well within your right to decline offers like this, but I don't understand why this is sleazy.
Google and the ethics of the cloud
I would think that if the prices are not set in the contract, and the prices are subsequently raised each year, then you're changing the terms of the contract.
IANAL, but I would think that that entitles you to get out of the contract.
> I learned to never base your worldview on something so tenuous that a new discovery could topple it.

What? I'd just call that "learning from evidence". I believe plenty of things that a new discovery could topple and there's nothing wrong with that, so long as the new discovery hasn't already happened. You can't update on evidence that could arrive but hasn't arrived.
TLS = SSL. HTTPS = HTTP over SSL.
As a designer, I’m in the ideal position to pick apart this design app
Hedy Lamarr - a movie star and an inventor
Like 'The The'? I always liked 'Various' but now they come up as 3rd result in Google.
"Life on Mars", but the "this year" part means that the bet should settle soon, which makes it a good thing to bet on.
Found this link for anyone interested. It gives a pretty good summary of some of the networks:

http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/21-great-advertising-networ...
I was joking (mostly), but if we did it I imagine we'd go all the way and host the censored content, changing IPs faster than they could block. They would have to wall us off completely to their people, which is exactly what we'd want.
Considering that the CPU usage on a Mac is lower than the Flash version of the same demo, that perhaps says a lot about the prospects of Flash on mobile devices . . .
Ask HN: Are there any fast-paced cs education programs?
ArsDigita University offered the equivalent of a whole undergraduate computer science education in 10 months. Is there a modern equivalent? If not, what do you think is the next best alternative for someone who wants to learn CS in a structured program?
mine was "wait...Joel had a job?"
The rate of change will obviously be grater from 1988-1998 than from 2000-2010 because prior to 1988 China was a completely closed society (especially prior to 1978) and just beginning to wake up from the cultural revolution, a highly chaotic period where progress LITERALLY stopped.

That said, this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prc1952-2005gdp.gif

appears to disproves your point. Not accounting for inflation, nominal GDP grew about 8,000 bln from 1990-2000, which is paralleled in only 5 years between 2000-2005.

As for corruption, I don't think you've done much to further your argument that "China has been a historical corrupt society for thousands of years". Benefiting from close ties to the government is a natural economic condition found in every country. Hello US Lobbying industry?

And the percentage of multi-millionaires with close family connections doesn't say much either, only that China has a growing class of oligarchs, again a condition found in many many many other countries.

That said, it wouldn't be fair for me to wholly dismiss your points. Yes corruption is widespread, but I don't see how that proves your point that China as a society has been utilizing corruption to cheat their business partners for thousands of years. That is an absurd point that is not at all grounded in history nor facts.

Finally I think you mis-understood my point in regards to S. Korea/Japan. They have had LONGER to grow economically in the sense that until the mid 1970s China was essentially a collapsed country, with really NO economy. Irregardless of time, both S. Korea and Japan grew their economies out of authoritarian governments. S. Korea was for most of the latter half of the 20th century a military state and Japanese politics was dominated by a single party. Both not exactly what I would call open democratic regimes.

No idea what you mean by "a non 'free-market' system is a better approach when it's provided such poor returns...", can you define "poor returns"? China has been one of the fastest growing economies for the past 30 years. How is that poor returns? In fact, its the very authoritarian regime you lambast as being economically inefficient that has been cited as the source of China's seemingly "magical" growth.

Lastly, you absolutely CANNOT ignore China's massive population when analyzing the country's current and future states. Having to support a nation of 1.3 billion people is an epically difficult task and as I state in a prior comment, ALL problems in China derive from its population problem.

Anyways the point of all of this is not to defend China. The hyperbole and level of mis-understanding among the HN community in regards to China is absurd. This is not a good/bad issue. China's problems are nuanced, just like all things in life. It helps no one by making blanket statements that are derived from quick google searches and superficial understanding of complex issues.
Flash! Ah ah. He's a miracle.
I tried to make it clear in my previous post that I'm not passing judgment on your choice of living on your money, however your response seems to indicate that you are upset. If I have offended you, I apologize, that was not my intention.

I have been down the "take the plunge" route before, as I alluded in my earlier comment. I watched my savings dwindle and ultimately had to wind down the startup after 3 and a half long years. So while I don't expect you to understand my point of view, your comment comes across as overly general and fairly inflammatory.

I am a long time follower of Steve Blank. I own and have read Four Steps to the Epiphany several times. He makes it clear in the book, and it is alluded to in that post that Customer Development is a discovery process. It's not yet clear that you have discovered a viable business model and/or how long it will take you to reach profitability. During that early stage, he explicitly recommends avoiding raising money because of all of the complications it brings.

The gist of my first post was that I cannot tell from your post or your graph alone if you have discovered a repeatable scalable business system, and you are just funneling your savings to husband your cash and accelerate the growth of your company. If that is the case, then I heartily congratulate you and wish you all the success in the world.

If on the other hand you are living on your savings in the hope that you can refine and discover your business plan, and you can't fairly solidly project your growth - then in my estimation, that is an unwise use of your savings. But as I said, that is a personal choice. At this stage of the game I have a wife and a son, and while I'm willing to gamble on success, I'm not willing to gamble on putting them on the street in the "hopes" that I've hit on a successful business. Yes, my business will progress more slowly, and my customer development does not progress as rapidly as I like, but for me, that is an acceptable price to pay at this time of my life.

Anyway, I wish you luck with your venture. I sincerely hope it works out for the best.
This article made me hate this guy. It's not his fault. I'm being unreasonable and I know it. But when I read this all I can think is "Does this guy realize that Poor people have been managing 12 hour days without a problem even without all this new age junk"

Again, I'm being unreasonably rough on him it just feels like he's denigrating all those hard working people who have to work 12 hours a day to survive and don't have the hundreds of dollars to spend on spiffy pills and organic food.
I actually like the animated links on Google.cn's page. How well would that type of search page fly in the US? I know Japanese media (news, weather, adverts) tend to use a lot of bright colors and cartoon like characters.
"But Google’s motivations are not as pure as they may seem. ... If Google had not, as it revealed in its announcement, "detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China," there's no reason to believe it would have altered its policy of censoring search results to fit the wishes of the Chinese authorities. It was the attack, not a sudden burst of righteousness, that spurred Google’s action."

I think everyone gets this. They held their nose, to make money, and then received the final straw from a hostile government.
There's a band called '12 year old girls'.
Variety of tech jobs at social games co. omgpop
We are hiring product people, ruby and flash folks to help us continue to grow in making real time multiplayer games!
Why CES 2010 Sucked
Having 1000 Twitter Followers Doesn’t Make You A Social Media Guru
Super awesome. I must do this. With kids.
Acutally, it's the other way around.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_gallon_equivalent#cite...

CNG is 5.660 pounds (2.567kg) per GGE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline#Density

Gasoline is 6.073 pounds (2.755kg) per gallon.

I get the same economy (30-33 mpgge) in my Civic GX as in my gasoline Civic.

However, let's compare carbons based on molar mass (16.042 g/mol for methane and 100.21 g/mol for heptane and octane is 114.23g/mol). That's 160 moles of methane per GGE and 27.5 moles of heptane per gallon. That's a ratio of 160:192 of carbons. For octane, that's 24 moles per gallon, about the same ratio. It's not 1:4, granted, but these are just hand-wavey approximations for the gasoline, which has the added complication of ethanol. I'm also assuming complete burning, which is patently false, considering that, before modern emissions controls, it was possible to commit suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning from engine exhaust.

Edit: Molar mass
I actually signed up for a USAA free checking account minutes ago. Fully online. Not military -- they just opened it up. They gave me the option to select an overdraft account. I chose not to. So I'll get point of sale declines if I ever were to go in the red.

Highly recommend them. Take pictures of your check with an iphone to deposit. They cover other banks' ATM fees up to $30/month, so that's pretty much eliminated as well (for me, at least).
Appreciating Donald Murray: "Quit trying to make pigs out of sausage"
I suppose so, but one point here (that I'm sure many delude themselves above) is that there is no safety. Working for a startup and e.g. paying for minimal catastrophic coverage is not necessarily more dangerous than working for the established companies who have laid off millions (???) of workers in the US this recession (many many if not "millions"; heck, 600K+ workers dropped out of the US job market in December 2009 alone).

And ... hmmm, if you're in a country with nationalized health care and resultant higher price levels, aren't your expenses and therefore ramen profitability just that much higher? I.e. you pay one way or another ... and if you're young, you're subsidizing the older (and in the US, the elderly in Medicare as well).
Why must it be stored in clear? Why not encrypted rather than hashed? That still allows password retrieval. Of course encrypted data is only as secure as the DB and keys/decryption code ...
And who wants to start a golf game at 8:00 PM?
That's one of the things that Google has proposed as part of their SPDY protocol.
I think the spirit of your comment is pure tinfoil-hat, but the letter of it is actually valid.

It is vanishingly unlikely --- on the level of "major diplomatic incident" --- that China (or any other government, including ours) has the key associated with Verisign's root CA certificate.

It is somewhat more likely (but still, I think, pretty unlikely) that one of the following could have happened:

* Your computer is controlled by an employer that installed a deliberately insecure certificate.

* Your computer is infected with malware that poisons the CA store in your browser.

The first scenario is just very unlikely. We work extensively on-site for Fortune 500 enterprises, in some of the highest-security environments in the world (and in some of the most idiosyncratic and crazy), and none of them require us to install bespoke certificates to access the Internet or their websites. Now, you have to find the one employer (or zero ISPs) that not only installed a custom root, but also gave the keys to China.

The second point is irrelevant. If your computer is infected with malware, there are worse things to be done to you than injecting bogus certificates.

It is almost the case that it's worth pruning out certs from your browser from untrustworthy CAs; unfortunately, the market for certificates has devolved to "who will give us a cert the cheapest". I wouldn't know which ones to kill. A year or so ago, pruning out untrustworthy CAs would have protected you from the MD5 problem.
I have heard this though, from the designers of a system (about 4.4 years through a five-year research grant): "You're going to implement how much of this in 6 months?" and after I told them, "Can't be done! Flat out impossible."

It took me 6 months and a couple days, working 40 hour weeks.
I dont know, but I think we should apply the same moral standards to ourselves that we appply to others.

These questions echo the age-old maxim of Thucydides that "The strong do as they can, while the weak suffer what they must" but that doesnt mean that the actions on either side are just.

There are fundamental questions to be answered here about the legitimacy of the nation-state, and what right one group has to natural resources over another simply because of their location on Earth, when the results of this unfairness are the strengthing of one group and the weakening of another.
Don't blame Baidu — it works on any server located in China. Just append "?google.blogspot.com" and you're blocked: http://www.faas.cn/?google.blogspot.com
While no one uses Flash for the language, there are a lot of (non-developers) out there who use Flash (MX,CS4 or whatever it's called this week) to produce animation, etc - and we're still a long way of having a similar set of tools that produce 'browser native' content.

I'm intrigued as to how much Flash it does cover.
That is misspelt though; is that new or has that always been uncensored.

The correct spelling IS censored.

I know when I tried in the past (when it first was censored) miss-spellings were still not filtered.
But since that's a public good (for spammers) it's hard to understand why they'd do it instead of sending a profit-making campaign, any given time.
I think it's slightly more positive than that. They held their nose to make money, and felt that it was a net positive for Chinese people despite the censorship.

That's just conjecture and purely a matter of what you believe about them ofc.
I agree. If you look at the history of contact in northeast N.A., you'll find that the Europeans were relatively few at first. The natives in the area were notably not fond of each other and regularly used Europeans to acquire the means to slaughter their enemies.

Before the arrival of the Europeans, relations between the Huron and the Iroquois consisted of constant, low-level warfare (which could be brutal, and involved post facto ritual torture).

So in the early-mid 17th century, the French traders were generally allied to the Huron, while the Iroquois were allies of the Dutch, then English. Both sides sought trade monopolies with the Europeans, but the Iroquois, the Mohawk in particular, acquired heavy armaments first. They then used those armaments to slaughter, and in fact, pretty much eliminate the Huron. (I'm glossing over a lot of detail. See Francis Jennings' many books on this period.)

Now the Iroquois weren't tricked into doing it. They did it because they didn't like the Huron and wanted what they had. The Dutch and English supplied guns and "monetary" incentives, but the Iroquois were morally responsible.

I think that pattern is most obvious in the example I'm trying to describe, but it was hardly unique. There's a tendency to romanticize the Natives (coughAvatarcough) but they could be as filled with hatred and lust as any of the Europeans. Not all of them, of course, but neither were the Europeans all alike.
The original intent of DNSSEC was to provide an IETF-endorsed public key infrastructure, not to defend the DNS from attacks. The idea was, "we have this great DNS protocol, it works well at Internet-scale, let's leverage it for something other than hostname resolution".

The reality of DNSSEC is that it's creaky, somewhat broken, solves neither the PKI nor the DNS protection problem well, and --- because it is likely to pervasively screw up applications across the Internet --- unlikely ever to be deployed.

Either way, there's no magic bullet. If you concede root keys to China, you have to concede DNSSEC keys --- which are, if anything, more loosely held and more widely distributed than CA keys, which have never had a known breach.
Ask HN: Review my site, ModsLog.com
http://www.modslog.com

So I've just soft launched this site and am wondering if there are any suggestions as to how to acquire users. There's so many options, but are there better ones to start off with? I'd also love any feedback on the design or interface. I designed and built this entire site from the ground up and am its first official customer, which you can see if you click the "Browse" button.

Some background to the site: I'm a car guy. I have friends that are car guys. So this site came about when I asked my friend, who has spent tens of thousands of dollars on modifying his car, how he keeps a log of it all. Most people will post hand-coded journals in car forums, uploading images, stylizing text, and it is very very meticilous. Others will go to a site like CarDomain.com that has a really ugly interface and presentation, not worthy of their prized and loved possession. So this site solves the hard work of hand-stylizing their car in forums. Everything is easy to add and update. And vbulletin standard forum code is given to them so they can just copy and paste it into any forum. It also solves the ugly presentation of a CarDomain with a Tumblr-esque clean display.

Thanks for looking!
"pi seconds in a nano-century" is how I remember it.
So did Rob Glaser.
How to make money selling dirty rotten flowers
Anything that uses Javascript to encrypt passwords is almost certainly just obfuscating passwords, in effect. Meebo was an example, awhile ago.
Is there a non-dev build?!
It's unlikely to have been a temporary problem. Depression is pervasive, all encompasing, and, seemingly, far outside your expreiences to have made such an uninformed comment.
also nothing with opera 10
I haven't used any Twitter app that didn't use OAuth. I don't use a lot of Twitter apps, but what's the popular one that still wants your password?

I don't love OAuth, but it is at least a decent answer to the concern you're raising.