skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a static binary either, it's a script:

$ file `which ldd`
/usr/bin/ldd: Bourne-Again shell script text executable

It's also worth reading up on LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS and the possible exploits therein, e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=902958

If the attacker were a little more clever, they could have faked bogus ldd output too.
I agree with epochwolf.

The first thing that stuck out to me is that the rollover on the share button is annoying. Make it onclick.
bad first impression.
I'd be interested to see what DVD you have of the Apollo 13 moon landing.
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Cynical?

What better way to show your skills to people who would contract you than to point at something as popular as his icon set?
That's the very first thing I noticed on the site. A lot of early adopter types will recognize it instantly.
Love the post. Earlier today I wrote about asking people at random about dropping an orange and melon from the top of the building and wondering how many people would know the answer.

Broader question. Is science really unintuitive or is our lack of intuition a symptom of the fact that we view science to be something learned in school, and not as something ingrained within our psyche. IMO, all of us should have a fundamental understanding of Bernoulli's principle, Newton's laws, basic chemical reactions, etc. It makes the world around us more interesting.
To put the later comments into context ...

The deleted comment was someone saying that "Everyone knows" that this is a flagrant attempt to get twitter followers, that it's spam, and they'd flagged it. Having down-voted and flagged, they then discover that they were wrong, and instead of apologising and retracting the comment, they simply deleted it, leaving, of course, the down-votes.
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Correction: Apollo 15-17 (just checked my email for the correct DVD title).
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I get the feeling that someone will do a text editor that uses the keyboard only and if it has a built in e-mail, etc.

side note: I wonder how emacs would fair in the "no interpreted code"? Probably doesn't matter as anyone who would want to run it on an iPad probably would be a developer and could load it themselves.
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That's what I mean - anyone with any sort of skills in multiple languages very quickly 'graduates' from rentacoder, or picks only very well paying projects, because they can, or focuses on just a few clients that they have prior relationships with.

So a buyer coming in with a new request won't have this person available to him, and should he find a person, he will also try to monopolise the persons time, taking him out of the market.
Article is short and simple. I definitely recommend reading the book.

Knowing about this has really helped my relationship with my parents and my friends. While every person doesn't fit neatly into this framework, it's useful as a starting point to understanding how to have a meaningful relationship with other people.
You should try outsourcing to Latin America then, responses in realtime during office hours.
Cool, glad you recognize it, and your first reaction was ?
I wonder what kind of latency hit you get from routing your requests through a proxy and more importantly how long the polling delay of the BRIDGE requests are.
If you read the book, it specifically tells you to not resort to gratuitous flattery and instead give genuine, meaningful, and honest praise. The book also suggests you to point out people's faults in a more indirect and encouraging manner, so as to incite a desire to improve rather than a doubt of one's abilities.
Anyone want to guess the percentage of this date that will be spam?
80%?
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maybe you're wound a little tight ?
No - "people in Eastern Europe" aren't wealthy or not in any way that can be approximated to a whole region. "Middle class" is not comparable. It's just a different market. You earn more money and spend more money, but on average it's the same proportion. There are some differences because of country-specific issues - gas prices are completely different for example.

Talking about "people in Eastern Europe" is just silly... Which country? Estonia is different to Ukraine, which is different to Romania, which is ... Talking about "people in Eastern Europe" is like putting Mexicans and Canadians in a "people in North America" bag (and trying to get some meaningful economic average out of it)

Why does this depend on a country: "he was pressuring some overseas consultant to lower the final price for some work because he wasn't happy with the result". If the result was not right according to the specification, then why not lower the price? If the result was correct, then changing the price is not right. But what does the country have to do with that?
The item pics, pointing to map locations is cool. Sometimes the pic obscures the map location though.
To me, its showing off how well you know a specific tool (or how quickly you could learn it), rather then a specific market.

Nothing wrong with a bit of ego or wanting to show off something that you made.
What types of documents are needed for software testing?
Not at all, when did I say that? I said it makes no sense to think a cab driver has any reasonable expectation that the location of his cab would be private in any sense when it's in service and carrying passengers.

As a frequent cab rider, I'm happy to know that the location of the stranger's car that I just jumped into is tracked and recorded at all times.

Why do you think this information should be kept private?
I have never used a share link. I doubt many have as well.
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I mean realistically, a huge number of people already have an iphone/blackberry, and the android phones are just starting to be good enough to buy.
Just from the url, i was excited to check it out. Great name.
But then I get to the site and I'm like... peach or salmon color or whatever that is??? Really??

The last thing that jumps out on the page is the content. The share links and ads are overwhelming.

Your design doesn't fit your mood. You don't have to come up with a design all yourself, just steal the features you like from other sites.

I think something like the bing.com design could work REALLY well for your site. Some bright and inspiring fotogs, then maybe a translucent block to hold the content.

Don't be afraid to make the content for people to read in a big font. The length of each individual peace of content is so small that it doesn't matter if it stretches onto a few lines.

If you look at the page right now, the ads are the most prominent thing, and clearly, I didn't go to your site to look at ads. So make sure your content does the talking, and they are the first thing the user looks at.
I suggest you remove email verification and add it later once you have traction.

You shouldn't fight spam until spam fights you... until then, you are just discouraging users.
I have no problem whatsoever with untasteful remarks about, among all people, Kim Jong Il. I was only quite surprised how skinny he looked. I also had different memories. Maybe it’s that ugly coat?
>1. The USPTO has in fact tightened up significantly on the granting of software patents for the past five years, meaning that the flaky ones (like One-Click) are historical artifacts and not indicative of current practice

Not true; I saw a patent the other day for a system call being transformed from (in one application of the patent) "send(data, host_port)" to "send([data1, data2, ...], [host_port1, host_port2, ...])"

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7568013/description.html
If you do want to read "How to Win Friends and Influence People", try to get an older version of it. It has been rewritten over and over by Carnegie's successors, with more "relevant" but less interesting anecdotes. The original is filled with fun anecdotes about turn-of-the-century robber barons. Good stuff.
beyond mlia, http://www.givesmehope.com looks like it's trying to the opposite of FML.

Not to say that competition should be a hindrance, but I think its worth looking at these when comparing.

Also, somewhat tangential, FYML is in urbandictionary with the Y standing for "Yeah" and some usage on twitter in that regard. Nobody has the full domain yet.
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I don't understand this either. I'm currently doing "I made ___ in ___ months/years."

This is because

1. This idea has been done before and usually done poorly. (No, I'm not letting on with what I'm doing.)

2. It's a side project. I have a reading list I want to make a dent in and I have school to finish.

3. My audience isn't going anywhere. I have strong incentive to launch with an excellent website because there are plenty of other people in other communities.

4. It's not going to make money until it's large if it ever gets there. I'm in no hurry to support a monster community by myself.
+1.
I'm wondering what will be Haskell's killer app, aside GHC ;)
Originally ordered a 16GB 3G one but I pre-ordered a 16GB WiFi version in case I don't want to wait another couple of weeks for my first order to ship and I finally convince myself that I'll likely only use the 3G less than a handful of times over the year I have the iPad before I upgrade to the next one.
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make the font of the content bigger :)

also, a much smaller point: consider putting in ads later when traffic makes it legitimate to put an ad in. for now the zoosk ad that I see does not match in the spirit of the type of content you probably are trying to bring in.
I'm still pretty sure this specific example got put there on purpose though ...
The author's first name is "Helen". I think "He" is a little inaccurate ;)

Sorry to nit-pick
A) Inspirational value. If somebody else on HN can make a useful tool to solve their problem in 3 hours, I might be inspired to take a crack at solving a problem I've been putting off dealing with.

B) Technical interest. HN isn't just about getting in to YC or proving you're a great entrepreneur; much of what we discuss is simply "interesting". Being assembled quickly is one attribute that can make something interesting.

C) It helps us remember that not every problem is of the same scale, and not every solution has to be a multi-year startup-spawning VC-requiring system.
Pedobear. Eww.
>I suppose my big concern is that for the individual inventor, there really isn't any protection at all besides patents. An individual isn't big enough to mass produce products or protect them or market them more than the big corps, but the individual can sell the patent or get investors to help him/her fight infringement.

Why is that your big concern? Would you like to take a guess at what percentage of GDP that example represents in practice? (hint, single digit is too high).
I don't think it's about gloating at all. I think it's more about showing something but with a warning of how much went into it so those that judge can have some context. I also think there certainly is a bit of pride involved, but it's completely understandable. This is a site by and for hackers for the most part. If it were a site about bicycling enthusiasts then a post about a new bike purchase might be accompanied with how many seconds were shaved off some normal riding route, because others might relate and appreciate it.
I've worked with some from Mexico and Argentina. Both are good places to look, so yes, that's a good alternative to distant time zones.
not at all. you're hip and not afraid to publish subtle memes for the sake of others who get the joke.

If this just a fun mashup with no future use no loss. If it's a start of something bigger I got a bad first impression. Your not serious about the site.

I honestly thought you got xss until I saw the image was in img/smallpedo.
How do you mean? His site hasn't been updated for 4 years. I don't know anything about the author.
Did I mention 50 years ?

I was thinking of people like the woz and the guy that had his accident last week. Both of them did not struck me as either elderly or infirm.
I think one of the causes for the endless stream of "I built a reddit/twitter/[x] clone in [y] hours" stories that pop up regularly is that many people often incorrectly attribute the success of businesses to that which is immediately apparent. They see reddit list stories in a certain way and assume that this is the reason it is so popular.

95% of discussion I have with non-entrepreneurs about my startup relates to things that they can see or grasp intuitively - for instance our design choices. Few understand that the code I write is just one of a myriad factors that will determine eventual success.
1. People in Eastern Europe can be easily quantified by per capita income. And just because a dollar there goes further, it doesn't mean they have more dollars or can afford the things Americans can.

2. Estonia and the Ukraine are much more similar to each other than any Eastern bloc country is to the US. And I wouldn't lump Canada and Mexico together for discussion, but I would surely lump Mexico in with Central/South America and talk about them.

3. In America, you can agree to a well-defined contract and enforce it in court. Sometimes a buyer shouldn't pay for work completed. If you are dealing with a foreign contractor, neither party has legal protections, the buyer has a lot of leverage and more money, and as such should treat the contractor extremely fairly.
Installing wget took about 20 seconds... brilliant.
> Those old timers don't realize that space is about more than nationalistic grandstanding and sticking flags into moonscapes

And military spending is about a lot of silly things too. But it drives development in the technological field, and we have reaped huge benefits because of all the funding the US poured into arms and space

There's not just one way. Commercialization brings prices for the same goods down, but innovation and progress brings prices down too. The government is useful for a situation where something is still vastly unprofitable; they continue to attack the problem, and somewhere down the line it gets close enough to having business potential that companies start getting involved.

'putting a man on the moon' may not be the best goal, but that's a different discussion imho. (Although I already know planning for a Hubble 2 is something I could really get behind)
a few options:

notepad.exe with DropBox

Google Docs

Etherpad
this is #1 what drives me nuts about macports:

$ port deps clojure-contrib
Full Name: clojure-contrib @1.1.0
Build Dependencies: clojure
Fetch Dependencies: git-core
$ port deps git-core
Full Name: git-core @1.7.0.2+doc
Runtime Dependencies: rsync, perl5, p5-error
Library Dependencies: curl, zlib, openssl, expat, libiconv

with no possibility of skipping dependencies
Additionally, the very first image I saw in the google maps view was a pornographic shot of a woman.

I don't know if I happened to stumble upon an actual ebay item that was somehow using female full frontal nudity, or what... but between that and pedobear, I ain't goin' back.

Besides, I've seen this exact mashup before in a number of forms (hooking to ebay, googlemaps, and sometimes to other third party retail APIs) so I'm not sure what the point is. It's an undifferentiated product entering an existing market... and frankly, it seems less useful than the standard ebay API, where I can switch to distance specific search if there are too many results overall.

Meh.
Shipping a product is a hard thing to do. It takes a lot less work to make a copy of x in 23 hours. The actual "work" of a product often comes right before you release the product. The last 10% of the project is 90% of the work most of the time.

It seems they are doing it because they don't have the willpower to put the finishing touches on and have a shipped product.
That's my concern, because I am one of those. It also seems to be the concern of many who are individuals and worry that their FOSS projects will be squashed by patent holders.

I don't think the corporation vs. corporation battle is as significant as the corporation vs. the little guy -- David vs. Goliath. Patents in this case are David's slingshot. Or shield maybe.

I don't worry about giving corporations any additional leverage. If we want to spur innovation, we have to enable more innovators to exist and profit from their inventions. Megacorps don't need help -- startups and individuals do.
Very light on details and the same thing can be said about a thousand research programming languages.
I'm from Latin America, and just recently I started using sites like RentACoder/oDesk/Elance. I've found that it is extremely hard for me to get jobs on these sites, especially since I'm not a webdesigner (I'm a C/C++/Python/Java guy). What tips and strategies do you recommend that increase the likelihood of being selected for a job?
Actually the pattern has been that as games are released on steam, the old drm is removed. For instance the Splinter Cell games on steam don't include Starforce.
Agreed. If someone's launching an MVP, I can completely understand their desire to put it out there and get feedback. Those types of posts (inviting critique) are fine in my book.

The ones that grate are the ones that say "we built this startup in a weekend."

By adding the "in a weekend" / "in 24 hours" bit, you're automatically discounting the product you've built, as an easy way to deflect criticism. If it's shaky enough that you need to preemptively deflect criticism, don't post about it. If your app is quality, then it doesn't matter if you built it in a weekend or over three years. Let it stand on its own.

To reiterate the OP, build stuff. Share it. Get feedback and criticism, and iterate it to make it better. But claiming that you made "a startup" in a weekend is both ignorant and arrogant, unless your app has scaled so quickly that we've already heard about it by the time you post it to HN.
"Patents are often like art. You can see a painting and think, "I could do that!" You can look at a patent and think, "I could code that." But you didn't code it before you saw the patent, so you don't really know for sure. Hindsight is 20/20."

This may be the case in some fields, but it clearly isn't for most software patent cases. There is very little chance (for this exact reason) that HTC's or Google's engineers read Apple's patents. And yet, they implemented something that Apple considered similar enough to sue over. Outside of a very special cases (like encryption algorithms), it seems that nearly all software patent infringement is accidental, the result of people trying to solve the same problem and happening to run into the same solution. Combine that with an incredible store of over-broad and obvious patents, and you find a world where it is virtually impossible to write anything without violating somebody's patent (actually, if you are writing gui applications, this is literally true).
I'm not sure that the brand awareness of these cases is related to the company naming. For example, I think Bingo Card Creator is well-known mostly because everyone here loves patio11.
I really don't see why someone shouldn't showcase something they hacked together, regardless of the time it took to materialize. Granted that the "in X hours" part may reflect the hacker having some other agenda (as highlighted in your post); at the end of the day however, like you said, if whatever it is that they are showing off holds any commendable merit it will be recognized by the community. Anything else will die down after a couple of upvotes anyway.
If I went to the effort of doing this I'd probably also find somewhere to bet real money on my picks.
Also, the site has a bug where if you don't type in a location nothing happens. Seeing as it wasn't immediately clear to me what the site was, that kinda a problem.
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If the prices are the same, the American probably isn't as skilled/experienced.
Wouldn't JavaScript be print('Hello, World!') instead of document.write('Hello, World!')? The DOM isn't part of JavaScript; it's just a common environment. I would assume that the official JavaScript shell's environment would be assumed instead.
I think in part it's the... well, "absurdity" (?) of bingo cards, of all things, being successful. Something like wheels' Directed Edge is very cool technology and sort of the classic hacker startup. Bingo cards, on the other hand, just seems like this left-field thing, so it sticks in your head a bit more, paradoxically. When you read about something like DE, you kind of nod your head and say yeah, that's pretty cool, and admire it. When you read 'bingo cards' for the first time the reaction is more like "say what?!".

Not to take anything away from patio11 of course - he's a bright guy and always full of good advice. It's just that he sticks out more by not fitting the mold.
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Sometimes I think Apple's product sales numbers are being maintained by the people that bought AAPL stock in the last few years.
What I'd like to try sometime is NIX ( http://nixos.org/nix/ ). Getting it to work well on OSX would be the trick.

Edit: They say it should run on Mac OS X.
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I voted your comment up but I could not disagree more with your assessment of how people are using their iPhones. We know from real data that the iPhone dominates mobile web usage. We know people are downloading and buying a ton of apps -- it's really unthinkable to believe they don't use any of them more than a couple times. If so they wouldn't keep buying/downloading them.
I find it annoying too, but I think it is somewhat of a response to "you say it could be done in a weekend, but you're wrong" positions that there have been an increase of.

I also think it's a little bit of people trying to prove to themselves that they can do it, that some of the excuses they had before are just that, excuses, and they aren't insurmountable.

It puts a lower limit on the amount of time it takes to do, and it's useful to see that. If you were working something similar, but only had three hours a day to do it, but someone says they did it 40 hours straight over a weekend, it helps other people judge complexity (obviously, individual skill and experience comes into play, but at least one variable gets removed).

It also provides support for the position that it's not the technology that is necessarily the hard or time consuming part. If someone can implement Yammer in a week (I pick on Yammer here, rather than twitter, because the business model of Yammer doesn't need to be as scalable as twitter, technology wise, so the first version will most likely get more use before the implementation needs to be revisited), then the impetus is on the "business guy" to start selling it. I've actually been this situation a few times, having had the first beta, production-ready version ready in what seems like an extremely short time, and been waiting for the other half of the team to do their side of the work.
There is no such thing as "Eastern Europe". That's a silly cliche back from the iron curtain era. Stop using it, as it doesn't make sense in any way. Not economically, not politically, not even geographically.

The rest of the advice is pretty good, though.
Great presentation @Qcon by Amanda Laucher: Demystifying monads
Apple is really starting to subscribe to the competition is bad for business standpoint and it really is starting to get annoying.

You can see that apple really wants to be the smartphone distributor but they really can only do that two ways: create a cheaper phone or remove the cheaper competing phones from competition

For me I put my support into google I have a droid and like it very much and the iphone on the other hand was not meant for me but this fueding between apple and the tech world makes me not want to support apple.