skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now I handle spam by not having a recurring tweeting function ;) You have to manually send each tweet, however that's not to say someone determined (not to mention, also very bored) couldn't sit there constantly hitting the send button. I'll look in to this.

I'm going to play around with where else to put the price as you're right, it's a bit hidden at the moment.

Currently, the only way to pay is to log in with a Twitter account first and then upgrade from there. I'm thinking about an option to "sign up for premium" where after signing in with Twitter the user's taken to a payment page. Do you think that'd be a good idea?
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Those are good points, thank you. I hadn't considered going pro-only, as I'd thought users might like to play with the system first before paying and this might get more signups. Hmm... I'm tempted to do an a/b split test and see...

I'm going to make the pricing more obvious, and will knock up a features video at the top as well.
L for low, H for high.
You're now the second person to mention only offering Pro accounts, I think this might be the way forwards :)
Supposedly prevents XSS attacks via submitted HTML.
This item has prompted me to investigate the strace command. It's one to put in the bag of things to try on occasion to make sure I don't forget it.

In the BUGS section of the man page you can find these items (amongst others):

A traced process ignores SIGSTOP except on SVR4 platforms.

Hmm. That's useful to note.

A traced process which tries to block SIGTRAP will be sent
a SIGSTOP in an attempt to force continuation of tracing.

I can understand that, although it could be surprising in practice for the unwary.

A traced process runs slowly.

Understandable.

Traced processes which are descended from command may be
left running after an interrupt signal (CTRL-C).

That's definitely worth knowing.

On Linux, exciting as it would be, tracing the init process
is forbidden.

Damn.
exactly! it try to remove "risky" tags from user inputs
I did say that I'd written about it on my site. Here are a couple of links.

http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2240
http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2258

Here's one from Randy Bias, which I had also alluded to.

http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/virtual-disks

Now, why don't you take Dennis to task for his lack of supporting information? He provides even less information about methodology, and his results are simply not grounded in reality at all. In my experience, application of a double standard strongly implies preference for outcome. Why don't you actualy state your position, and then back it up to the same degree you demand others do? I know this is Kibitzer News and all, but it would be nice to see something besides sniping from the sidelines for once.
Yep, my bad >.<
Thanks! that looks useful... I completely missed your submission the first time you posted it
Well you've obviously never been around animals then. I've worked on farms and availability of food beats willpower in most species, including humans. Read up on ego vs willpower research.

Can you really tell me what type of diet is best based on my individual genetics without doing the test? Is there any clinical basis for that decision?

BTW I worked for a biotech company that did extremely similar work in animals, and the differences were astounding once you worked out animals SNP's.
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It probably depends on the culture. IIRC in the US you only have a 20% chance of being seriously injured if you cooperate with a robber. I wouldn't be surprised if the odds were different in other countries.
It's not exactly what you'd think when someone says "linked list." The "next" pointers are there, but there's also an "aux" pointer that the patent suggests can point to any other element in the list, not just next or previous, and can be used for any purpose to form any kind of sequence desired.

I think it's "new" and "novel" because really there's no use for it.

(Ok, I jest... I expended barely 30 seconds worth of thought and couldn't come up with anything. Maybe there is a use for it, but the patent's still pretty lame.)
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If you're just plugging libraries together it's a sign that the area of computing in which you're working has ceased to innovate.
The most important question is: do you want users or customers? You may be trying to be benevolent by giving away your work for free, but don't forget that making money enables you to be more benevolent in the long run.

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If it's intractable why do the field of nutrigenomics and personalized drugs see such large experimental effects, when the studies treatments usually only manipulate a single SNP target?

BTW: Of course...but is not a logical argument.
I don't think swombat needs an explanation of how HN works.
You are not alone:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1151791
Being a virtual world publisher already dealing with Offerpal and the like this certainly looks attractive. When you're not yet big enough to make it worth getting a payment card in a store, credit cards and pay by phone are your only alternative and are difficult to convert. This gives you a local point of presence for users, I can see this one taking off bigger than the CPA types.

Though they didn't sell me on Kwedit Promise, I'd need to see some deeper explanation and hard figures on that before I go risking the virtual economy on a promise.
Sandra Bullock is not attractive.
Doom is about “maneuverability as defense”

How true. I love games where you have to move like that.
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Amen to that. I love your analogy, I've always thought of the government as "friction"
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What's amazing is that this is a news story at all. "Websites uses open standards, like most other web sites".
IBM has been a cornucopia of invention. And they stand in stark contrast to a much younger company, Microsoft, which has done no innovation at all.

M$ has good research going on. The question is whether it can be productized.
I find this 'welfare scrounger' outrage coming from britain laughable. Britain has the least generous welfare system of any rich european country, yet you get the most compaints from there.
I mean that that following the genetic test diet is not going to work in the median human. That person does not have enough willpower to not buy food that is bad for them.

Is this product a D2C version of tests that nutritionists have been able to order for a long time? If my genes can tell me what my ideal diet is, I would want to know, but I'd want the information delivered by a qualified professional that could tell me the limitations of that information.
Right, I'm sold, Pro-only it is! I think I might do some coding tonight... :)
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Even if it's 50%... that's the risk.. what's the reward? Saving whatever cash you have on you?

He could've taken those odds and handed over the money. And then, if the assailant attacked, he could've sparred with him as he did.

This is a silly point to argue, though, because i'd be surprised if the story wasn't tweaked--even just a little--to the authors purposes.
> The intelligent thing to do would have been to hand over the money and NOT risk being sliced open lol.

Not for the Israeli soldier. Consider: he must have been confident in his ability to disarm the guy (based on his assessment that he did not know how to handle the knife). The other option of co-operation gives control to the thief, that's not a good thing if you can avoid it.
What if the odd's of disarming the guy are 95%?
"People who are born intelligent"....now that's a whole different debate
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More expensive.
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The fact of the matter though is that most people don't consider it as invasive, despite the factors you listed (which, to be honest, are probably edge cases). Your solution seems fine, but doesn't change the basic premise that having technicians of both genders would solve a good proportion of the problems.

I also said this because my understanding of the main religious reason that muslim women wouldn't want to go through the scanner is because they men other than their husbands aren't supposed to see them. As per the particle:

One, who is believed to be a Muslim, refused on religious reasons
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That's one of the reasons why the whole 'NoSQL' thing is silly. No SQL picks the wrong battle. SQL just fine as a compact language for expressing certain things.
Crap.

The world is not very colorful in an objective reality.

The world is very colorful in an objective reality, is what I meant.
It's the fault of the teacher's unions. 12 years of school gets you no employable skills. If they simply started teaching programming in grade 8 to everyone by grade 12 everyone would be employable (since there's an unlimited supply of programming jobs).
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Awesome! By the way, how are you finding Poland?
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> what's the reward?

Living life as something other than a coward.
All the training in the world still doesn't make it a smart decision. You only have to make a mistake once, or be a split second slow, to pay the ultimate price.

Consider the thief's motivator is obviously money. Once he has it, anything else is just extra work for him (assuming mental stability). In that case, then the Israeli soldier has no choice but to engage.
SELECT *? A function in the SELECT statment?

Oh dear god, a blasphemer!

The former can cause performance problems if you have blobs as well as being an unnecessary security hole, the latter can cause performance problems over large datasets as it often forces the execution plan away from a set based solution.
> My biggest gripe with modern programming is the sheer volume of arbitrary stuff I need to know. My current project has so far required me to know about Python, Django, Google App Engine and it's datastore, XHTML, CSS, JQuery, Javascript, JSON, and a clutch of XML schema, APIs and the like.

The situation seems ripe for a disruptive technology to emerge.
I have no idea what the submitters intent was, but I upvoted this and am commenting on it because I think that it's interesting.

If the anti-botnet vendor's assertion is true, that the botnet was ordinary/amateur, then the much of what the media called 'advanced persistent threats' and 'state sponsored' attacks would be incorrect. If major corporations got beaten by amateurs, the state of corporate desktop security is far worse than I imagined.

The assertion originated from a security tool vendor though, so one must assume that they are severely biased toward selling security tools.
But I can schedule tweets right? How does this work?
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There was an obfuscated C program that worked the same way: a circle of code used to get its own area and radius. I can't seem to find it though.
while I dont know what I would do in this situation, I know I wouldnt ever call someone who handed money over to someone who threatened them with a knife a "coward"
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Yeah, the intelligent thing is to surrender and give more power and money to the robber.

If people with weapons assault you in Somalia, give them millions of dollars and make it stronger, so they can kill more and assault more people.

If someone kidnaps someone of your family, give all the money you earned all your life to them, so they can buy more weapons, and kidnap more people, and make society better.

Your ego will boost as you acknowledge that you are not able to fight against other men under any circumstances, that you could always surrender and let them sodomize you if necessary.
I suspect his application saves the datetime of when the tweet is to be made and simply submits it at that given time.
So handing your money over to an aggravated knife wielding robber, shouting at you in Portugese, makes you a coward.

Bravo.
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Yes, I do. So If you allowed me to click the option I wanted (e.g. free or pro) then you could record that selection as session data in your web app, then take me to the Twitter page.

Then like you say, take me down a altered registration path if I chose pro.
I'm a little out of the loop in more ways than one, but isn't the entire meta-shtick of the Colbert Report that everything he says is exactly the opposite of what the audience and creative staff think? His character is a one-man out-group, designed to be laughed at.

If he was praising their capitalist spirit as the second coming of Ronald Reagan himself, perfect for the moral education of the next generation of Republicans, then Kwedit would have reason to be worried.
Easy money for hackers, big headaches for IT
The title is just flame-bait. The message is: (a) being lazy will kill your startup, (b) smart people are lazy.

But, well, all you really need to kill a startup is (a), and we already knew that. The next possible conclusion is that maybe smart people underestimate the challenge of starting a startup, but I think everybody does. What's more critical is how people react when they realize they're in over their heads.
The only "novel" part of this appears to be the use of the aux pointer to make navigation more efficient in some circumstances.

Which sounds awfully like skip lists to me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_list
I really hate Java UI development so I'd love to know just how predominant having do deal with shit like GridBag is in Android.

The author puts the case that doing interfaces in iPhone is easier, does anyone else have anything to share on the matter?
Yeah, the intelligent thing is to surrender and give more power and money to the robber.

How are you giving power to a robber?

If people with weapons assault you in Somalia, give them millions of dollars and make it stronger, so they can kill more and assault more people.

If people with weapons assault you, your dead. I'm not sure why you're trying to link this situation to the political one in Somalia, they're quite different.

If someone kidnaps someone of your family, give all the money you earned all your life to them, so they can buy more weapons, and kidnap more people, and make society better.

Tough talk, lets see what you'd do if your family got kidnapped for ransom.
Programming jobs are not unlimited. There's just a big demand for programmers and lack of supply. If every wannabe musician/artist/celebrity wanted to be a coder we'd certainly feel the strain.
Summary: People who breeze through school but are not hungry for knowledge are less likely to succeed than those who struggle but have that hunger.
The problem is that there are so few hardware manufacturers that have such attention to detail as Apple does. So if you want a really high quality laptop to run windows, macs are probably still the only way to go. I've owned dozens of Sony, HP, Dell laptops and none of their build qualities match Apple's.

The Apple competitors suck. That's why we still buy Apple even when we hate them.
It's the fault of the teacher's unions. 12 years of school gets you no employable skills. If they simply started teaching car repair in grade 8 to everyone by grade 12 everyone would be employable (since there's an unlimited supply of car repair jobs).

.. equally nonsensical.
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> After six years it was time to refresh the face of Ubuntu starting with the word mark

Yeah, that's a core principal of branding - as soon as the customers are familiar with your logo, change it.

Someone tell Apple, IBM, and Coca-Cola.
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I suspect he meant Spring anyway.
I'm going to get on and do this, thanks for the suggestion :-)
Yes, that would make it a better title. But the article is surprisingly spot on.
The analogy is more accurate if you were to say that someone took a sample of your DNA and used it to create an army of yous.
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You can :) You set a date and time for a tweet to be sent (as well as which Twitter accounts for it to be sent across), and then TweetingMachine waits until that time to send it to Twitter. Job done!
FBI crime studies show that, no matter how the attacker is armed, your are LESS likely to be harmed if you fight back.
Got it in one, although before a user can schedule tweets they have to tell us what their local timezone is. So that, plus some funky timezone fun inbetween :)
".. equally nonsensical."

Yeah, and that's just brilliant and informative
Poland rocks and I love it here, although the language is still breaking my head on a regular basis ;)
"...carried out by relatively unsophisticated attackers using outdated botnet tools..."

Sounds exactly like a government launched attack to me. "Amateurs" are more likely than anyone to be using the cutting edge of botnet tools.
The machismo from behind the keyboard is priceless.
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you're welcome.

I am currently working on my own Tweet Suite, shall have to let you know when it's ready so you can repay the favour ;)
Suggest to HN: user profiles / links to homepages
A few times recently I've found a HN commenter who seems particularly intelligent or insightful, and have clicked on their profile name, hoping to get a link to their home page. (Yes, yes, a smarter person would only do this once - I forgot each time that I'd done it before).

It would be nice if we could add a URL, a twitter handle, and/or one paragraph of text to our user profiles. That seems to be the norm these days at most sites.
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Programming is fundamentally different to any other activity because it operates at a meta-level, it's about the automation of work. As long as there are people working, programming hasn't reached it's saturation point.
I find this very interesting. Could you please cite a reference?
Nice counter-example for anyone claiming expensive enterprise products (Perforce) are more secure than widely used open source products (git/subversion).
You can fill in the "about" section in the profile with text can't you?

Most users put their web site URLs in there.
I'm good at math and programming and all the stuff required to work as a quant and I'd much rather write C++ than anything else.
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Could you point to a reference of patent validity tests which includes enforcement? The three tests, "utility, novelty, and non-obviousness", seem to be the standard ones.

Perhaps you are confusing patent law with trademark law, which does require enforcement?
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That's assuming that 1) choking plus walking is less fun than eating a meal over a long period, and 2) that it takes just as long. I would dispute #2; you're correct about #1, but there's no reason to expect that you can have weight loss independent of other factors, some of which you might not like.
Well said. A very motivating speech to those of us without the advantages.
Sounds like BS, would love to see some citation.

Common sense dictates otherwise.
It takes a bit of time to get used to a change like this.

It has been haphazard up till now version to version. And the themes never feel totally cohesive.

Why have different logos for xubuntu and edubuntu etc, why the different names? Why not have Ubuntu education edition. Or Ubuntu light instead?

Perhaps they should have poured money into gnome instead. And concentrated on the logo.

Instead it looks, as other people have commented, like a bastard child of OSX and windows.

Just pay a good designer. And keep it simple.
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Depends on your definition of fun, but I've used text books to give me practice exercises, instead of having to invent problems myself. (It's also a good way to learn a language's way of working, rather than learning how to implement your old thought patterns in a new language.)

Something like SICP has problems that are fairly interesting from a mathematical perspective as well as a coding one. I don't know if there's the equivalent for Python, but it might be worth checking.
Oh yes, that's right, because engineers don't care about compensation or their future, and probably don't have a family to feed! You know I think all engineers must be 22 year old graduates interested in technical challenges. I think when they go into the middle ages they just vanish, kind of like in Logan's Run. poof

I heard you can feed a family of four on a technical challenge for a year!
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If I had a local working copy of a git (or any of the dvcs's) repository and a hacker attempted to taint the "master" copy, would that show up as a diff between my copy and the master?

With SVN, a hacker could inject changes into the repo on the server which would show up as a incoming change to my local repository.

In both cases, we could detect an intrusion if someone was vigilant enough to take a look at all incoming/outgoing changes and diffs -- or am I missing something?
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Criminology by Larry J. Siegel disagrees, asserting that while it decreases your chance of being robbed, it increases your chances of being injured or killed.

edit: Zimring and Zuehl's study shows that robberies with "active noncooperation" (refusal to hand over money, attempt to flee, resistence with force) had a death rate fourteen higher than those where the victims cooperated, and that victims who simply denied having money (but did not otherwise resist) had a death rate twice as high as those who cooperate.
“Additionally, due to the open nature of most SCM systems today, much of the source code it is built
to protect can be copied and managed on the endpoint developer system,” the paper states. “It is quite common to have developers copy source code files to their local systems, edit them locally, and then check them back into the source code tree. . . . As a result, attackers often don’t even need to target and hack the backend SCM systems; they can simply target the individual developer systems to harvest large amounts of source code rather quickly.”

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Forgive me but isn't this the function of a SCM? What other models are there?
How so? I didn't create my DNA. I did create a lot of the info on my hard drive, though. Including source code.
“It is quite common to have developers copy source code files to their local systems, edit them locally, and then check them back into the source code tree. . . . "

Well, doh. How would it work otherwise?
wow, according to the OP's twitter: (http://twitter.com/maxklein)

The same Israeli soldier was killed in a robbery two years later... which is a huge asterix on the post.
I guess that totally refutes my argument! It's like Quroa, because of where the founders previously worked, suddenly got all this prestige and glamor that will turn into real fame and fortune someday because they're entitled to it.