skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a pretty huge difference in the risk of a bad apple writing code and inserting it into the system vs a bad apple looking up a password and logging in normally.

One requires significant sophistication and risk (of colleagues knowing your intentions are malicious), the other requires virtually no knowledge and low risk.
Woah, not 300MB per day! At that rate, it'll only take 9 years to fill up a 1TB drive! Oh noes!
Ad.ly as viewed by AdBlock Plus
http://www.adambreckler.com/proof-that-ad-ly-is-spam
Yeah, that made me do a double-take too. Can you imagine what a gram of the stuff would do?
Excellent point but isn't it prudent to take these factors into consideration before choosing a path? We don't want to dwell on the irrelevant but we would like to make a sound decision based on where we envision the product going. Do you have any words of wisdom for choosing a framework? Any recommendations?
App Store Adds Explicit Category for iPhone Apps
These are clickstream logs for sure. The guys at Facebook always talk about this Hadoop-based system in the context of analyzing users, rather than systems.

I have been tempted to use Hadoop/Hive myself, but what I'm REALLY interested in is Yahoo's column-store DB, Everest. Being able to use SQL with these monster-sized data sets would open up a lot of possibilities.
I heard WoW has 1.3PB online.
Douglas Crockford: “Act III: Function the Ultimate (73 min.)”
I remember in Manila (Philippines) there was a light at an intersection that turned red in probably half the time any other light did. What's more, crossing the intersection required crossing 6+ lanes of traffic, so frequently you could enter the intersection with a green light but still end up traversing it mostly when the light was red. There was a gaggle of 10 or so cops standing at the other side at all times, issuing tickets. If you gave them a disapproving look though sometimes they'd just wave you through anyway, looking a little embarrassed at their scheme.
That'd be the histedit extension, I believe.
Thank you, each and everyone of you. I really do appreciate all insight. Long time reader of Hacker News, first time poster on any forum. I have learned a great deal from lurking around here, ever mindful there is much, much more to learn.

The concept for the character " Juan Corbett " website grew out of an art project. As a graduating dual major in Communication Design and Studio Painting, I am familiar with the fine arts, and the design of marketing. SEO and how the Worldwide Web operates are skills/knowledge I am currently acquiring.

Right on the "competition keyword". We did a lot think'n & drink'n to come up with it. Thanks to Terra with those insightful words. Developing a "Brand" is worthy of exploration. I refuse to put a bunch of ads on the site, (unless they are ours, (grn).

Again, thanks to all ya'll. jc ...
The Unused Cellphone App: 'Calling'
He's probably talking about mols of the stuff.
Let me know if you write that post and I'll link to it. Thomas Korte (AngelList member) has his take here: http://thomaskorte.com/archive/how-to-cold-email

I've been surveying people on AngelList to see if they want to remove their e-mail address. So far, about 5 people have said "keep it" and 1 asked me to take it off.
Fourth, we need to become as good at providing career and emotional support as we are at criticizing performance (a very highly honed skill in most academics). However, research and experience show that the ability to cope with failure varies a great deal across people and situations.

Interesting how it works both ways between students and professors. At my University, professor evaluations were weighted somewhat according to students' comments and overall "learning experience," and did determine which professors achieved tenure (and when).

Some brilliant people, however brilliant they may be, just don't belong in the teaching field when they can't genuinely motivate students to learn. However, individual academic institutions still need to have / make a place for them where they can maintain a standard of living without resorting to such drastic things.
Do you have any specifics, or is this just mud slinging?

Longtime slicehost customer here, haven't seen any negative impact from the acquisition.
Or if you're serious about installing Python packages, you already have a .pydistutils.cfg file specifying where you want things to install. Learning a few options to put in that file is a lifesaver.
Kiln gets you a pretty cool (if I do say so myself) code review system, an all-new web interface for managing your code and repositories, tight integration with FogBugz, and support from Fog Creek. If you don't need those things, then by all means, use the open source version.

There's a free trial of the hosted version that you can sign up for at http://www.kilnhg.com/. Also, Kiln and FogBugz are both free for Students and Startups (2 users or less). Give it a shot and let us know what you think.
Ha ha! Nice!

I was a chemistry geek in high school, with a penchant for highly exothermic reactions if you know what I mean. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I'm so thankful chemical warfare did not become widely practiced. There are some truly horrible substances out there.
Because their audience is primarily 'non-technical' people. Have you seen their ads?!
Although not something for me specifically. I was interested to see it as this indicates support for Oracle's pledge to maintain Solaris.
GoDaddy CSO explains security concerns
You forgot the camera (camcorder) manufacturer. After all, it was their equipment that facilitated the so-called crime in the first place.

And, then, sue the god, for his/her creations did the crime.. And, if the god can't be sued, well, sue the Pope.

Side note: The blog doesn't mention, but why did the Italians pick these 4 people. What is there connection, if any, to this whole episode?
Update from Godaddy's CSO (Chief Security officer):

http://blog.sucuri.net/2010/02/godaddy-security-update.html
Not self made, as the title suggests. This is a commercial product.
Ask HN: Anybody here using AdBrite?
I've been testing a number of advertising networks (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1108677 ), and I've had something so out of the ordinary happen that I figured I'd give a 'preliminary', and I hope that someone else here can give me a heads up.

One of the companies that I've signed up with is 'Adbrite', after testing for about 12 days suddenly the stats dropped back down to '0', and they say there is no activity on the tag.

This is clearly nonsense, since the tags are still being displayed on the site they're tested on and there definitely is traffic there (and that wouldn't explain the drop back down to 0).

Has anybody else ever had this (or something like it) with Adbrite?

Adbrite support sent a two line non-helpful email when asked why all the stats for this account have been reset:

"Thank you for contacting us. Looking into your account, we do not see that any of your zones have received any traffic since May 2007. Please clarify the issue you are experiencing, so we can better assist you. " (ticket closed)

May 2007 seems a bit over the top for an account that is only two weeks old, and there definitely is traffic there.
Message passing is easier than using shared-memory correctly, but ensuring that a non-trivial message passing implementation doesn't have any deadlocks is not what I would consider "fairly easy".
" But I also know the pain of merging all too well - a benefit that I hadn't really seen explained as persuasively before."

FWIW, try to give a few DVCS tools a shot before settling on one.

I was a big hg fan, and really didn't care to switch when my coworkers ganged up on me and decided that git was a better tool, but I think they were right.

The git command line leaves much t be desired; hg was far more intuitive. But I would occasionally have merging issues with hg that were just too annoying (lost or missing file changes, for example) that I haven't had with git.

But that's anecdotal, and I'm sure (if you follow enough dvcs flame/troll threads :)) you'll hear other stories about other tools. The upshot is to try a few to see which works best for your particular needs.
Don't relocate, it's the easy way out, change the country.

Start with the politicians, the government and then the laws.

Last I checked, Italy was a democracy.
Except the animal hospital isn't the only one who's made similar accusations. If lots of parties join the class action it could get expensive quickly.
My guess is Successful Response/Request ratio.
Which EU law, exactly?
It gives 433 kcal/mol, i. e. 433 kilocalories from 5 * 6.02E23 molecules. It is approximately 68g FOOF and 132g HS. (about 2oz and 5oz respectively)
Kiln also takes care of all configuration/setup for you...and the On Demand version gets you regular off-site backups, secure data center hosting, all that good stuff.
Kerry, Lugar Offer the StartUp Visa Act
Just leave.

Why do you want to delete it? Just leave, don't use your account anymore, and don't ever come back.

(Not telling you to leave, I would love for you to stay, but there's really no reason to 'officialy' delete your account)
This analogy assumes you have a linear scale from black to white, and thus any two values can be objectively compared to each other. You have to be careful, however: Many discrepancies and disagreements cannot be likened to simple shades of gray. I'll take an example from the article:

The Sophisticate: "The world isn't black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It's all gray. Therefore, no one is better than anyone else."

Assuming they're talking about moral relativism, it can be argued this is a purely subjective matter. When it comes to morality, it's likely people will disagree on whether ActionX is a darker or lighter shade of gray than ActionY. Although his reasoning is faulty, the Sophisticate's conclusion is correct.

Instead of: "It's all gray. Therefore, no one is better than anyone else."

It should be: "No one can definitively claim one shade of gray is darker than another. Therefore, ..."
Mmmm, he's a corporate pharmaceutical researcher with a PhD and not an academic, so while you can call him "Dr." he's not a "Prof."
Not really a segway; not even close. Just a feedback control loop in a cute demonstration model.
Menus, the Merge, and a Patch Sprint
Wow, you're letting them off the hook pretty easily don't you think? Seems like this is a major breach of trust, worthy of a little more sustained anger no?
Bloom Unveils Its Game Changing Energy Box
I just checked directnic.com, and they seem to store passwords in clear text as well (if you retreive your password, they email it to you(!))
My favorite line from his blog is "[Perchloric acid] is a liquid with a boiling point of around 80 C, and I'd like to shake the hand of whoever determined that property, assuming he has one left."

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2006/05/30/things_i_won...
And you can do the dirty tricks, if you really want to, in Haskell. The code will just make this obvious to anyone watching (lots of unsafePerformIO).
The allegations are demonstrably false, since many businesses that advertise on Yelp have both negative and positive reviews.

I don't see how that demonstrates the allegations are false. It demonstrates that there must not have been an extortion scheme that every business paid into.

Update: see mustpax's comment. Yelp is making a statement about businesses which have paid them.
My wife, a chemistry Ph.D. turned stay-at-home-mom, loves the “Things I Won’t Work With” series. It brings back fond memories of all the bench-top fires she was responsible for as a grad student.
Ask HN: How should I pursue my passion?
Dear HN,

As a community of creative, passionate, and ambitious people, I have a question for HN.

I am at an interesting point in life. I am 25 yrs. old, and I am a programmer. I know what I want to pursue, but I don't know how to do it. I have tried. I saved up money and quit my job 2 months ago to pursue my passion. I am going to move to a different city in a few months anyway, so that decision was low risk and easy to make.

My "passion" has many sides. I love 2d/3d real-time graphics. I also love programming language design. I am deeply devoted to the Scheme programming language, and I love using it to construct 2d/3d worlds which I can interact with. I like games, and obviously I should be working with games, but I definitely don't enjoy game programming (game logic, AI, etc.).

My love for programming language design leads me to compilers, syntactual abstraction, macro transformers, etc. I believe that graphics programming is currently bulky and complicated, and I would like to see more languages compiling itself into vertex/geometry/fragment shaders, scene graphs, etc.

It's been 2 months. I have found that I haven't even been able to work on the things I'm interested in - I have to make products that sell, right? I've been developing an iPhone game, and 95% of the work has been making 3d models, putting graphics together, marketing, integrating audio, developing a menu system, integrating fonts, and building the actual game logic.

It's a struggle. I want to do research, and I think I'd be good at it. But I have to make money. It's either one or the other, I can't possibly do both at the same time, unless I get paid to do the research I want to do. I'm going to finish my iPhone game, but I doubt I'll make much off it. From here, my options are, in order of preference:

* Work on a graphics engine and do the interesting work. License it and sell it for something like $100/license.

* Find contracting work to do graphics programming for games.

* Look for part-time contracting work and work on the interesting stuff on the side.

* Get a normal full-time programming job and try to be satisfied.

These are in order of "passion <=> practicality". The problem is that there's a linear correspondence to "lack of money <=> money".

With all that said, I truly do believe that if I was somehow funded for a few years, my passionate work would truly pay off and I could start making money off of it. It's a bootstrapping problem.

I would also love to meet people with my interests and/or passion. I know you are out there, those who can either supplement or complement me with the same or different talents, and I want to be shaped and inspired by you.

I hope this doesn't sound like I'm whining. I think it's extremely important that you figure out how to do what you LOVE in life, even if it takes a long time to build up to it. I'm not looking for quick solutions, I just want to know how I can build up to it. Any advice?

You can see the work that I've been doing here: http://jlongster.com/blog/
check www.buysellads.com

a lot of the top blogs use that to sell their own ads
I posted it kinda late, and thought I might receive more feedback during the day. This will be the last post.. I promise.
Using your cell phone via bluetooth in your linux desktop
I kind of don't want to be "the password guy".
Merkur Double Edge Safety Razor Blades (double-edged blades)
I think I can speak to this, as evidenced to the amount of time my 'out of space' sign has been up.

First, technical people really don't like feeling like you are manipulating them on an emotional level, so make sure there is some compelling and objective reason your product is better that you can highlight. (for me, that reason is price, but I'm sure you can come up with other things)

writing technical articles (or getting others to do so) is pretty good. I didn't ask for it, but Uggedal pretty much launched me last year[1] (that article hit both hn and reddit front pages) - i mean, revenue pretty much went straight from around a grand a month to around six grand a month within 30 days, and it kept going up after that (though not quite at that ridiculous pace.)

Getting on the reddit/slashdot/hn front page is incredible.

I don't know if I would recommend my next advertising method, as it was goddamn expensive, but I wrote a book[2]

that took a while. It was really expensive. But, it did give my company and myself quite a bit of credibility.

As far as bannner ads go, I think they are largely useless when compared to reddit. I have had fun playing about with project wonderful on webcomics I like, but that is nothing compared to reddit.

[1]http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-comparison-between-slicehost-...

[2]http://nostarch.com/xen.htm
Passive Income: Subscription model business or bust.
Is that a lot? The same amount of fat can be burned for more energy?
Top 20 Linux Hacking and Security Softwares
Any of the big guys tracking across a huge range of sites is generally alright, although your own personal stats are what ultimately matters - depending on who your audience is you might have 99% of your users using a browser traditionally regarded to have single digit market share.
"Apple is adding an "Explicit" section to it's store."
"Is Apple adding an "Explicit" section to it's store?"

One of these sentences is not like the other.
"Dieses ist ein Selbstbau-Projekt rund um einen Mikrokopter." translates to "This is a self-made project for a microcopter."

In the left navigation panel you can find "Nachbau-Anleitung", which gives you detailed instructions on how to build such a thing yourself.
+ uncluttered interface
I've heard they treat their reviewers pretty badly, as well. Warning: this is anecdotal and only one reviewer. He was pressured to stop writing anything negative at all about certain restaurants until he quit reviewing for them altogether. If that is how they treat volunteer reviewers, I imagine it's worse for paid staff.

In any case, I have enough bad feelings and stories about them to not trust anything Yelp publishes.
Speaking of things the scientific community needs: less academic snobbery.
Have you seen bespin? Obviously not directly for chrome but I think that is the direction of the next generation code/text editor.
One Hospital's Non-Linear Parking Pricing Model
If my understanding of it is correct the people that run the site and that made the video actually designed the thing and offer kits and bits & pieces for sale.

Their store has the weirdest notice I've ever seen on a website:

"For legal restrictions it is not possible for us to translate the article descriptions and most of the other pages directly - sorry. "
This is an interesting concept which may be picked up by online news organizations.
At least the 404 pages don't have comments on them directly, so you don't get comments like "WHY DID YOU KIDNAP THESE KIDS" or myspace-profile-style memorials.
Get customers, get things done, and get paid with Ofuz
Or maybe they don't want to risk a program that isn't 100% Windows compatible, because lots of their potential customers use Windows.
The terrifying thing is that it's easy for a good writer/orator to convince legislators that software is a zero-sum game. It's easy to visualize a big pie of software and see open source conversion as cutting into the profits.

Whereas for those of us actually in the industry it's obvious how pathetically shallowly we've scratched the surface of the potential of software, and how commodified open source software is the foundation of future software progress which will never be achieved if everyone has to endlessly pay a tax on every decades-old innovation that a company stole from academia to bootstrap a software business back in the day.
In Defense of Electronic Throttle Controls
And here I thought that GoDaddy was the bastion of perfection in our technology landscape </sarcasm>
Not off the hook, no. The issue still stands that they store the passwords in a retrievable format. About them accessing the servers, he said that they will change their policy to communicate first with the client, which is a big PLUS for me. If anyone wants their malware removal service, it is fine for me.

But just for calling back and talking about improvements, gives them a +1 (they are famous for ignoring their users).

Plus, that happened almost two months ago (see the date in the logs) and this post was on my draft for a while... So the sustained anger had time to pass.
They really blew out all the stops in publicizing this ... Just the facts:

http://bloomenergy.com/products/data-sheet/

Seems the 'box' we discussed a couple of days ago does output 25 kW (I had guessed 30 kW, based on a 10c/kW back-of-the-envelope calculation).
Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds[TED Video]
What's the Future of Online News?
since many businesses that advertise on Yelp

They are talking about the business that have already "shelled out." They still have negative comments posted, so they can't be removing all of them by paying. Or, so claims Yelp.
Technically, both of those sentences are unlike each other.
Scott Adams: Things That Work
They have several "many to many" calculations with their users, "people you may know", etc.

Build out the full cartesian for 300 million users and you're talking a lot of data.
There's some great old 78s of Chopin on archive.org. Here's one I've listened to 20 times (according to iTunes):

http://www.archive.org/details/ChopinFourteenWaltzes
FWIW the latest beta of Chrome supports extensions, and there's quite a bit to choose from. Not quite at the level of Firefox, but it's a heck of a start.
Perhaps foreign ad networks are finding native partners, instead of going after English speakers. There are >800M mandarin speakers, surely, that's enough to attract a lot of advertisers, just maybe not US ones.
> For what it's worth, personally, I'm doing a lot more than simple CRUD. I'm lucky enough to have worked at larger and larger scale with every job.

Then wouldn't this invalidate your comment about doing nothing different between 1995 and 2010?

> And is anybody making their living doing CRUD from scratch any more? I mean, not counting corporate Java programmers? (rimshot)

Plenty do, I know lots taking high pay contracts doing nothing but CRUD. Many start-ups exist that do nothing beyond CRUD in PHP.

I have nothing against scripting languages (I tried to make it clear by including J2EE/Oracle in the same category as LAMP). For when you have to do CRUD, at least for webapps, scripting languages are many times less painful than Java and C++. The "Hello World" Chapter in the Hibernate book is sixty pages, compare it with Perldoc for DBIx::Class (http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBIx-Class/lib/DBIx/Class.pm). Not to mention Hibernate is actually considered "light weight" compared to EJB and other enterprisey technologies (which luckily I've never been exposed to).
An Overview Of System.Collections.Generic in .NET
Everest was replaced by Hadoop + Pig, Yahoo's take on a Hive-like system. Both Hive and Pig allow you to use SQL.
A quick google search reveals that this stuff reacts with xenon. Nasty, indeed.
Passenger is worth figuring out, especially if you plan to do more Rack apps in the future. Forget the performance. It's easier to set up (at least, the second time) and it's easier to manage.
I've also seen some interesting stuff, too. Nothing actionable.

I guess I want to see screenshots and actually get a hint of what they're doing and why it's interesting.

I get:

- request to come meet so they can tell me the Big Secret (can you just tell me so I can figure out if it's interesting?)

- no screenshots or link to prototype

- an understanding of what angels do (stop asking for a million dollars)

- pitching ideas very far away from what I invest in (multiple pet product pitches already)

Thomas's "catch me in person" via 4sq etc scares me. I even find referencing a joke I made on twitter somewhat creepy (it smashes the register frame.)
Traffic laws and enforcement can be designed for:

-1. Safety

-2. Revenue collection

Pick one of two. I think most American authorities picked the wrong one, personally.
Senators Kerry & Lugar Introduce the Startup Visa Act
I'd take this a little more seriously if it were from a site that wasn't plastered in advertising.
Actually it's the swashbuckling and ocean-based armed robbery that makes me a pirate. Arr!