skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like it's related to this: http://www.geekosystem.com/cryptome-leaks-microsofts-online-...

discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1148247
Burning, oxidization of hydrocarbons, is very much a chemical process. It generates heat, if they have somehow found a way of making it generate electricity directly, that would be really interesting.
Is this his http://twittershouldhireme.com attempt at YC ?
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Why did the pirate use open source?

Because he doesn't like trademarrrrrrrrrks.
> If they have root on your VM, they have your root password too. We're talking about maybe a couple hundred lines of code, tops.

The default hash for crypt(3) (and thus /etc/shadow) in newer Linux distributions is salted SHA-512. Shouldn't that be significantly more difficult to crack than the old MD5 hashes? john didn't even support it when I checked a few months ago.
"Sustainable Energy - without the hot air" (http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/c7/page_50....) also seems to favour heat pumps.
The cost of universities has everything to do with the federal student loan program.
A tool that I wish more people would use is PwdHash (https://www.pwdhash.com/). It's a system for generating psudo-random passwords for the web.

Basically, it will take some input from you (a password) and then hash that with the domain name of the site you're accessing and supply that when you actually submit the form. This means that my GoDaddy password would be "O0ErvdwEiy" instead of "asdfasdf".

It helps protect you against sites that may store your password in plain text because a compromise of one system does not mean a compromise of all systems.

It's fairly painless to use, but is only supported as a Firefox extension or through their website. There are some issues with sites that use different domains for their login servers or that use flash for their login dialog (yes, they exist).
For distributing, he should pay the same fees that radio stations pay.

In other words, they should pay him!, preferably through a shell corporation.
Pick one of two

Why? Couldn't you have 2/3 of one and 1/3 of the other? For instance, enforcing speed limits on a busy road near an elementary school? Not only do you get to write a lot of tickets, but you also slow down traffic, making it safer for pedestrians.
I should add that while a lot could have changed since I left, I still speak to people there occasionally and strongly believe that not much has changed (especially with regard to Account Executives' ability to remove reviews and the spam algorithm).
I think most distributed "unlimited scalability" databases (S3, Google bigTable) are (essentially) serialized hash tables.
What if there are multiple founders? Do you need 1Mil per founder after 3 years? Can only one company be started per EB-6?

I really really hope we get a profile of the people and companies that get started if this bill passes.
LOL.

He can go about his business....

In other words, thanks for visiting, make sure you tell your friends all about us, see you later....

Move along. Move along.
I'm just gonna say it. Tesla was a pimp.
I don't get it. The bill does not require the entrepreneur to have $500,000. It requires that the company raise a million dollars (and/or) earn a million dollars (and/or) create 5 jobs in 3 years AFTER the visa is issued.

Now I am not a lawyer, so I would really like to know if it is "and" or "or", but I don't see where it requires the entrepreneur to be rich.

Am I misunderstanding the text?
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All I can do is give you feedback. If there was more info up front, I would've considered coughing up the password to give it a shot, but not with what's up there now.

You can call it a design choice, but I can only tell you that it didn't work for me. Your second click seems a bit wasteful too? You could easily add 4-5 bullet points up front.

Just checked the site again and see that you've added bullets and a screenshot - what happened to the design choice of two lines of text and a button? ;)
Apparently it is now temporarily hosted at:

http://cryptomeorg.siteprotect.net/

This is temporary Cryptome address until the Cryptome.org domain is transferred. Network Solutions shut Cryptome.org and has placed a "legal lock" on the domain name, preventing its transfer, until the "dispute" is settled. Some recent files are available now and the full collection is being transferred.
Thanks for the feedback. Gmail is pretty awesome. I built the site after getting a lot of unsolicited emails from legitimate companies that I did not have any affiliation with, the only answer was that my address was sold/leaked. Working from this position it is difficult to calculate who sold your info, and to hold them responsible. I don't intend to replace google's auto spam filtering, just supplement it.

I also have a google "spam" account primarily to sign up for website offers, though i realized i've signed up for so many things with it, that I can't afford to close it now. Its either an all or nothing proposal. I wanted something in between.

I use it (almost) every day, but i also understand it is privacy-overkill for most people.

Thanks again for the feedback.
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or
sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting
new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or
cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news,
it's probably off-topic.

On-Topic: ... anything that gratifies one's
intellectual curiosity.

I can't see how this is on-topic. If someone would care to make a case defending it I'd be interested to learn.
It's entrepreneurial servitude. You come in and build a business to our specifications, making a certain amount of money for the rich investors or you lose your rights to live here.

When the entrepreneur is booted out because (s)he was unable to generate $1M in revenue a year after 2 years in business, what happens to the business? Do the investors retain ownership? What legal rights does the entrepreneur have over the business (s)he created?

There are no laws in America protecting the rights of these entrepreneurs who are not citizens. They are here to build a business, hopefully, but if they miss the marks, they lose everything! Their home, their business, their employees, and potentially the rights to any revenues, IP, or equity in the company they founded. Do you think some rich investors who have the ability to have our nation's laws changed to their favor are going to stop taking money out of a business because its entrepreneur isn't allowed to live in the U.S. anymore? It'll be business as usual for them, with or without the entrepreneur who created the business.

This bill is good for no one but rich investors. It's definitely not good for entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship has absolutely nothing to do with venture capital or investors or people with at least $10M in the bank. It's about creating businesses with the sweat off your back. If we are going to reward something -- reward that -- no strings attached!

Especially not strings attached to the fingers of the same rich folks who have caused so many problems in our nation already!

This is so horrible. What is happening to our country??
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I built my first non-static website this last weekend with PHP, AJAX and MySQl. Can you guys can give me some feedback and/or advice on it? I need some opinions outside of my close friends and family.

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Um, sounds like an industry standard HSM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_Security_Module
Great point!

Maybe this is the essence of what all these points amount to.

This reminds me of research I'm doing with Vivek Wadhwa on how the effectiveness of entrepreneurial networks (say TiE) decreases as they grow (or any innovation networks for that matter; maybe even Google) :)
I used $38.70 as the basis for what would have been bought. Most damages are based on something lost. How many seeds got data from the defendant? Is there some number that can be arrived at? I am not sure, I just don't think the amount of damage of the fine is reasonable.
"Infringer" doesn't sound malicious, it sounds like you violated the laws of fashion by hemming your cuffs some ugly way or something.
Check out @fireland and also read his past tweets. Probably not to everyone's tastes, but I think he's hilarious.

You can check out some of his best efforts at FavStar:

http://favstar.fm/users/fireland
At first I bought into the "patent troll" label that was being put on him. After reading more about his company and his career it's apparent to me that he's just an entrepreneur that sees huge potential in a "patent market".

Whether or not his trolling will help create more incentive for invention or impede it is yet to be seen. It's easy to simply call him a patent troll but the economics of inventions and what he's trying to do are fascinating, just like any uncharted market.

I vote that he's an entrepreneur that can be labeled as a patent troll. His company is "bad" in the same way that Walmart is bad. They probably provide a valuable service at a hidden cost.
That's a good question. What happens to the Americans working for the company when its founder is forced to leave the country?
if you don't all get up and shower at the same time...
True. Until that 1$ in revenue is reached, the company still makes revenue and ensures jobs for people, some might have even more than 5 employees.
This seems to be the view for number 8:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
In this case, the fact that shorter yellow lights are increasing revenue, means more people are running red lights, which significantly increases the chance of a collision.
I think they should make it $500 - $1,000 per song. It's enough to make people look at their huge song libraries and wonder if they should go legit, without it being so phenomenally huge it's just a meaningless number.

The people who fantasize about how he should only have to pay $1 or w/e are delusional. Why would anyone ever buy music again if the worst case scenario is they might have to pay a buck a track one day. Punishments need to fit crimes and serve as a deterrent to others as well.
About searching: Interestingly Google loves HN. At least I when I search for stuff that is mentioned in the comments, I often get the very comment as a search result.
Well, they need to have some sort of criteria to prevent gaming the system. I think we'd both agree that you can't open the floodgates by investing $1 each in 50 paper businesses in order to get 50 visas.
Second Life 2 Beta is out with new interface
Italy is in the EU so an Italian can relocate quite easily to any other EU country.
That's not it, but you motivated me to finally find a copy online. As with the passage you linked, the essay I have in mind is from The Wealth of Nations, in this case Book V.1.135–143. It starts here: http://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smWN20.html#V.1.135
You can do anything you want with decades long incumbency - be wise and reasonable, be corrupt, pursue eccentric but harmless pet projects, be lazy, be almost anything you want.

I have no idea what Lugar's motives are here, only that getting primaried out or losing to a Democrat in Indiana is not even on his radar screen. (yes, Evan Bayh is from Indiania, but there are no other popular former Democratic governors ready to come out of the woodwork to run against Lugar)
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He grossly overstates the stability of subscriptions and their predictability. They _can_ be more stable than advertising revenue when faced with some kinds of disruptive factors... anyway, written from the grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side-of-the-fence perspective of someone who hasn't been there.
Stay tuned for our compelling report:

Water ... Wet, or dry?
Um, both?
Weird, I remember 1994-1999 as being full of people selling sketchy get-rich-quick schemes that used the "information superhighway". The spam wars, the invention of domain squatting, and the rise of online porn as a mega-industry happened during that time too.

The internet is a tool of great power, but it magnifies our flaws just as much as our virtues.
"Why were her victims disproportionately of color?"

Could it be because it's a lot easier to get a visa to come here and study STEM than sociology, women's, and gender studies?
Speaking as a Canadian who immigrated from Asia, and know a large number of rich Asians who have also followed the same path, the situation is really not as simple as you put it.

The rich are in no way obligated to share their wealth with you - as the Canadian government has unfortunately learned. Our immigration programs have three paths: skilled labour, investment, and entrepreneurial. Skilled labour is simply letting people in who have skills we need, investment expects that you invest a $HIGH_AMOUNT into the Canadian economy (with the expectation, not requirement, of more), and entrepreneurial requires that you run your own business for $TIME before you qualify for citizenship.

The first category is usually a win for the country, since these people seek employment and are taxable, not to mention you didn't have to pay for their education.

The second and third categories are fundamentally broken - I personally know many families who do the absolute bare minimum to hit the permanent residency requirements, and keep all of their wealth off the books in Asia, bringing them in literal suitcases of cash (staying just under the declaration limit each time). Heck, I know families that are receiving government benefits for low-income families even though they have millions in property overseas.

My point is, unless you require rich immigrants to give up a huge chunk of money just to get in, expecting that the rich will contribute to your tax base is IMHO misguided. These people are already rich, for cryin' out loud.
Glad I can help. Just to be clear about one point: I'm not suggesting that you intentionally fail. Rather, I'm just suggesting you lower the cost of failure.
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I would like to hear announcements of new YC company launches. That way people can see a list of all companies YC funded by following the twitter feed.
I agree with most of the content of the article but the term passive income always bothers me, running both styles of businesses right now (subscription and ad firm) I can tell you that neither of them feels very passive.
Are you the duckduckgo founder?

I just wanted to say that I absolutely love your search engine. Really really good job on that.
There's a media company owned by Silvio Berlusconi suing Google in one of those "you should pay us for indexing our content" lawsuits that Rupert Murdoch is always threatening to launch.

That probably explains a lot about this decision.
5 American employees. Maybe they'll move to Singapore when the founder is forced to relocate the company?
Let me preface this by saying that I do agree with your assertion that a large number of 'internet' or 'web 2.0' companies today get a large amount of their money via less than honorable business models.

Having mentioned that, I am now going to engage in some 'what aboutery' even though I know that it is frowned on here at HN.

You see, the ENTIRE dot-com time period was a gigantic scam. The dot-com guys were far worse than the Zynga-types because Zynga is only scamming their customers, whereas these dot-coms were scamming the public markets via crappy IPOs that the dot-com guys knew were crappy. When the music stopped guys like Naveen Jain, (InfoSpace), were left without a chair while guys like pmarca did the smart thing and got out early. The fact that companies today have to scam their customers is a direct consequence of the fact that they can no longer go public and scam some little old lady via her pension fund manager. But really...which is worse?

It is human nature to be fond when remembering the past, and still, the past was rarely as fond as we remember it.

Again, this is not to excuse what goes on today. I have recommended several times that people take a pass on investments because if the business models are already dodgy, they can only get worse. But let's be honest when comparing the now with the then, this brutal honesty is really what teaches us lessons.
For the record, it was a simple mistake. I read the article, glanced at his bio on the left, saw that he led with his academic credentials, and incorrectly inferred a teaching position.

I'd like to say 'Thank You' to the HN community for brutally enforcing both clarity and accuracy. You guys are the best proofreaders ever.
> There are no laws in America protecting the rights of these entrepreneurs who are not citizens. They are here to build a business, hopefully, but if they miss the marks, they lose everything! Their home, their business, their employees, and potentially the rights to any revenues, IP, or equity in the company they founded.

Where are you getting this from?

Non-residents can own things that happen to be in the US. They can sell them. They can even buy them.

Even if you're deported, there's no forfeiture.
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Mixpanel (S09) hiring a Software Engineer
Winning or losing in court isn't what matters -- the cost of defending oneself in court is enough to "enforce" any bogus contract or license provision against a significantly smaller opponent, such as a lone open source developer.
I hope you don't feel too bruised, and my apologies if I contributed to it. I tried to make it clear that it is, as I said, a common and understandable mistake.
Which fits in nicely with what Google's done in this. They not only have a notice -> take down system in place, which removed the video within hours, but they even helped in finding the people who were the problem in the first place. They used their control to act responsibly. If they allowed it to stay on the site you could argue they're accountable for it, but its temporary existence is merely due to it being a user-submitted content host.

More-so than many other content-hosts, Google did act responsibly. If anything, Youtube is a medium just like the paper, but Youtube responds more rapidly and identifies criminals using the system uniquely, which is something paper cannot do.

Shall we eliminate all paper? It's easier to draw kiddie-porn on paper and post it up all over than it is to get away with it on Youtube.

Obviously, harboring criminals is different than helping an investigation to find the criminals. But without a takedown notice being ignored, there's no harboring, because there's no effective warrant. And without a legal takedown notice, there's no responsibility to remove anything, because to do otherwise would encourage people to restrict free speech just by complaining loudly.

Papermakers have the same measure of responsibility in this as Google. They can restrict selling paper to anyone until they see and approve the use of it, or stop selling altogether, or they can have a safe-harbor because they're merely creating a medium. If they sold paper to a book company that went on to write something which later got banned, they'd be in exactly the same position as Google, but nobody is saying we should all make paper ourselves, and affix our name and address to all the paper we make (running a server is easy to trace, telling who made paper isn't, so this is needed to level the playing field). And, as nobody can guarantee that that name and address are genuine on the paper, it cannot prevent anonymity, and loses significantly to a web host like Google who can point you to the source of everything they find.

Please, everyone, stop buying paper because people can abuse it. In fact, stop buying water because someone could use it to drown someone else, and the water company isn't doing anything to prevent this.
> It combines with oxygen from the air [...]
> the fuel isn't burned. It's converted chemically

My last chemistry class was a long time ago, so this might be a dumb question. What's the difference between combining with oxygen and burning?
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Oh really?

How do you know that the sequence of bytes http://foo.bar.com/a/c is text or an attribute value with a regexp? How about foo.bar? How about Times Roman or 16px? How about the four bytes html ?
http://github.com/ztellman/penumbra/

It's very much a work in progress, but there some interesting stuff in there. Especially of note is the GPU-driven Mandelbrot viewer (http://github.com/ztellman/penumbra/blob/master/src/example/...), where the shaders are syntactically and idiomatically indistinguishable from the rest of the code.

Every graphics engine I've seen focuses on performance rather than expressiveness. With current trends in graphics cards, that seems more a matter of custom than necessity. It's an exciting time to be working on this stuff; there's huge swaths of unexplored territory out there.
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That's such a dishonest way of describing the situation that it's hard to believe it wasn't deliberate. You describe this bill as if it merely allowed powerful people to get their friends into the country, and it's not like that at all. Startup investors are not identical with the rich and connected. Angel investors are generally fairly rich, but not all VCs are. And they're not choosing people at random to bring into the country. They have to invest money in someone's startup to do that.
I think the standard practice with other providers is to have a separate admin account that can login to the VPS and whose actions are easily audited.

Using the VPS owner's account and password is ridiculous and could cause a legal liability for the VPS owner.
Accompanied by a flood of damage control tweets: http://twitter.com/GoDaddy
Ask PG: Can you *please* (pretty please, cherry included) fix the history?
It is getting really hard to find submissions, even recent ones if the history is large, for instance when I ask for my own submissions it now always times out, no matter how often I request the page.<p>In the past it would usually 'get it' after a couple of tries but that no longer works.
Isn't it true that it is $1MM in revenue within 2 years of getting a visa?

So you could apply when you had $500K in revenues.

Also, I don't know for sure if the qualifying clauses for not being deported have an "and" relationship or an "or" relationship.

Do I need to raise a million dollars AND generate a million in revenue AND generate 5 jobs? Or is one of these enough?
The best way to get changes made is the HN Feature Requests List:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363
A well-sized electric furnace will use more than 25kW in one home alone: http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/howmuch.html
Not at all, the thanks are sincere. There's enough sloppy thinking out there, I'd rather not add to it.
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Would John Kerry, a lawyer, introduce legislation that might make it easier for foreign lawyers to come into the United States to start new law firms?

No way.
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Why not just expand the number of qualified people to which we give green cards? Admit that if you qualify for a H1-B visa, you should be eligible for a green card. This eliminates H1-B visa abuses, protects the H1-B applicant from abuse, and most importantly, allows skilled people to come to this country. Some of them will undoubtedly start their own companies.

We might have a serious illegal immigration problem in this country, but admitting skilled immigrants is certainly something we should want to encourage.
Whoever is doing the division sales at GM is failing miserably. So Saturn, Hummer, and Saab are without buyers, and they didn't even try with Pontiac.