skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a few thoughts on this. First off, Max Vision got a hefty sentence because he went above and beyond "hacking" - People don't really get arrested for Hacking. Hacking is the end result of curiosity. Semantics, yes, but Max vision blew it. Big time. Bigger than Mafiaboy, YC's own Robert Morris or even Kevin Mitnick. We're talking multiple counts of wire fraud and sale of identity information. Also, this wasn't Max's first time in FPMITA prison, either. The dude had it coming.

Gonzales was right there with him, in my book. I was almost certain that when he went on trial, his sentence would be heftier than Max's. I was figuring 15 years, but 20 doesn't surprise me at all. Mafia involvement and financial havoc have so much more to do with it than his last name.
"Windows only runs on x86 now"?

PlentyOfFish.com is, according to these posts:
http://highscalability.com/plentyoffish-architecture
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/06/scaling-up-vs-scali...
...running:
512 GB of RAM, 32 CPU’s, SQLServer 2008 and Windows 2008

$10 Million? Try ~$100,000. (Granted, the article you linked was from 2007).

My company spends >$10k on fricking meetings to discuss whether they should spend $20k on a server (as well as the other technical details they are unqualifed to be discussing). Of course, anyone that actually knows anything about it is not welcome at these meetings. :)
Thank you for your sharing your insight.
Alternatively, WikiLeaks may find that it's in the public's best interest to alert the DoD that someone submitted launch codes. And hey, it ends up resetting the other country's advantage.

Or it may find that in the second case the documents originate from China and ignores them - or finds that they are from the past and unimportant now. Officials get churned in and out, so this could be easy to disprove.

I think they'd likely be better off NOT getting involved with nuclear technology related posts in general, though. They really just need to do VERY due diligence on other factors. Perhaps they should have paid people be able to review documents prior to mainstream release (sort of a "Beta" release) with a big red alert stating that the leak is pending Beta public review for facts.
You should totally make the animation/design customizable too so I can finally have my own talking paperclip!
That doesn't make any sense. You're assuming that they have 10 times the content, need 10 times the processing power, and that they derive no advantages to caching (from 48 GB RAM to 480 GB RAM).

That is not how capacity planning works at all.
I agree. It's pretty awesome.
In a world of 7 billion people, you will find that just about everyone is a dime a dozen.

To use your own words, the following is equally as true: there is nothing "impressive" about signing up to lobby the U.N. as an unpaid intern.

Show me a student making real money, and that is actually valued by the free market, and I will be impressed.
I'm not familiar with the Digg data model, but the SO data model is not particularly complicated, and any nested interactions between, if there even is such a thing, I'm sure is done in non real-time batch processing.

Facebook, on the other hand, is incredibly complex because of all the interactions between users, not to mention the data is stored if I recall correctly, geographically disparately throughout the world. I don't have a link, but the shit that happens behind the scenes when you logon to your facebook account is wild.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing
In the true ThoughtWorks way. Sorry, couldn't resist. :)
I think, as I have been guilty of, people underestimate just how hard it is to hire someone.

It always sounded easy, but after hiring a few people, it is very hit or miss no matter what you do.

To imagine you can predict what a developing student mind is capable of is simply hubris.
Perhaps because plenty of people are interested in the subject. If you don't like it, don't read it.
I guess I should re-evaluate why the information is secret and attempt to explain why the information is secret to the concerned individual before it's released. I guess that is a slippery slope, but I do not really understand the need for classification of any past air strikes that do not involve future missions.
you shouldn't be waiting for your users to tell you where your security holes are.

while I agree with that ideology, in reality you just can't assume that to be the case when you have multiple people touching the code, and features added regularly that may inadvertently introduce holes. what software has ever been 100% bullet proof?

Also, I think that statement largely contradicts the notion of 'release early, iterate often' considering it's grounded on the notion of integrating feedback and bugs reported by users. Are major corporations held at a different standard simply because they have more resources? Even with thousands of employees, it's still a glass box compared to the millions that will use it.
"I haven’t diagnosed why"

There's nothing to diagnose; for many people it's best to be a single founder.

PG's strong emphasis on having more than one founder has made may people insecure of founding a startup all on their own. I think this belief of PG was influenced by his experience with Viaweb and the great symbiotic relationship he had with RTM.

But what's good for one person, is not necessarily good for others. Many people are the most productive when they work by themselves and when they are in full control of what they are doing.
I've been trying background noise instead of music. At first it can be a little annoying, but it falls into the background is actually quite nice

http://simplynoise.com - I prefer the brown noise, myself.
I'm pro-copyright too, since that's the legal basis that gives open source licenses their power. I'd like to see reform along the lines of reasonable financial damage limits based on acknowledging the nature of digital goods, mainly lack of scarcity, and move away from the rhetoric that copyright is useful solely because without it people wouldn't create.
I once explained this to someone like this: Suppose you were to sit down at length with [insert favorite sports hero here, I'd pick Brett Favre just for fun]. He is probably one of the worlds experts on how to read a defense, what the correct throwing form should be, what exercises to do in the off season, what qualities to make for a good wide receiver, etc.

Now imagine you ask him "Who is going to win Texas vs. Alabama this year" Is he more qualified to answer that than pretty much anyone you will probably meet in your whole life; yes. Does all of his expertise in other areas help in making that decision; yes. Is the guy going to do statistically better than a coin toss? Probably not. We don't need to "rethink quaterback theory" or "throwout freshman textbooks" because of this though as people seem to be fond of claiming.
If "David" attended a school that was serious about athletics, getting good grades with the huge commitment of track is so much more impressive than some political BS that "Steve" seemed to get lucky with.

As a data point, I got mediocre grades (barely top 10% in my high school class at a pretty run-of-the-mill high school) while playing football (it's a year round commitment) and for some reason Carnegie Mellon chose to let me in [0]. When push came to shove I managed to put myself ahead instead of behind because I was willing to work a little bit harder than I needed to, and I learned how to do that with every miserable, awful football practice I ever went to.

In all likelihood, "Steve" isn't as mentally tough as "David", and I think (assuming a similar grade and test score standing) it'd be foolish to take Steve over David.

[0] In fairness, I had also programmed a lot and I think I was able to convey a passion for it, but I think that's pretty standard for a lot of people who didn't make it in.
Uh, do you think a president should be able to so easily avoid having to answer questions from the public (via reporters) directly?
I thought of this too and also laughed... but I don't see myself as an apologist, but more of a rationalist who isn't a victim of his own country's propaganda.
http://www.helpbubble.com/?p=home
http://www.helpbubble.com/?p=home2

home2 redirects me to /
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Ask HN: Payment solutions for a marketplace app?
The project I'm currently working on is a marketplace style web app, facilitating sellers to sell their products to customers though the web app, with me taking a cut in the process. I've been doing some research on possible payment solutions tailored for this type of web app, I've come up with the Amazon FPS Marketplace and not much else at this point.

Can anyone give any guidance or the benefit of their experience with what might be some good options to investigate further?

The full merchant account/payment gateway option would be my least preferred, due to the seemingly higher costs involved, but if this option has enough advantages over something like Amazon FPS or Paypal in so far as enabling the marketplace style model I'm going for in the most user friendly way, perhaps the cost might be worth it? Particularly seeing as my ideal situation would be to have something as seamless as possible, such as:

1. Buyer places order via website and pays by CC without appearing to leave website

2. Buyer's payment is transferred directly to seller's bank account, minus my cut, notifications sent out to buyer and seller etc.

It appears that using Amazon FPS or Paypal would necessarily require more screwing around for the customer/buyer than this. But the lower cost of such options is attractive on the face of it, particularly as the ticket price of the products my prospective sellers will be selling is not huge and I'm realistically not expecting an immediately massive amount of orders to be processed through my site when it first goes live.

I'm not in the US.

Any comments much appreciated.
It seems to me that one of the primary problems is that law enforcement agencies don't need a warrant or subpoena for the SSL certificate. Where's the accountability?
I thought the linked body language analysis (http://gizmodo.com/5503192/so-awkward-steve-jobs-and-eric-sc...) was more interesting than the article itself. If Schmidt is scared of Jobs, I have to wonder why. I can't think of too many things Apple can do to Google...the main one I can think of is the rumored switch to using MS/Bing services on Apple portable devices.
Is it specific to a webpage or whole website?

Another note: http://www.kissinsights.com/ is somewhat on similar model, though it is a survey.
OK, so Microsoft finds lots of bugs by this technique (according to you), but then this guy says that he finds still more bugs, with (according to him) pretty primitive methods. And then the guy says,

'"I found bugs, lots of bugs. That was both surprising and disappointing." And it also made him ask why vendors like Microsoft, Apple and Adobe, which have teams of security engineers and scores of machines running fuzzers looking for flaws, hadn't found these bugs long ago.'

So given your assertion that these teams are very effective at what they do, why do you think this guy is very easily (according to him) able to find additional bugs?

There's a mismatch between what you're saying and the gist of this article. I'm not saying you're wrong -- far from it. I'm looking to you for a resolution to the discrepancy.
Thanks for the link, I totally missed it, thats a great article.
Sorry if it seems outlandish, I'm not really sure how quantify "complex". One personal example though is I designed a national emergency management network (Utilizing XMPP/PubSub, AMQP, Rails, etc) in my head without writing anything down. That may seem special or it may not, I just find it rare, at least in my (diminutive) peer group. I've also designed all of these huge dreamy systems growing up, I have pictures and diagrams I drew in 5th grade :) They sure are funny to look back at!
Really? Reformatting will solve the "bracket should be on a new line" problem, anyway.
You're right, the scale is ridiculous.
What's that old saying? "No one ever got fired for going with IBM."
So you think the best way to judge whether an applicant might be a good addition to a college is whether he makes money in the free market? If he had been a Paid intern, that would make his experience more valuable for the college? Does someone who works at McDonald's for minimum wage have more to offer a college community than someone who has a somewhat unique volunteer experience?

And nobody's trying to impress you. These kids are trying to impress college admissions, who are in turn trying to build interesting and diverse student bodies.
quick hack: when in doubt, withhold information from the audience. this is an easy way to add drama to a scene. experiment with rewriting the dialogue and leaving out a different important piece of information. often one of these rewrites will lead to a much better scene. yes, this is a cheap tactic, and the master writer weaves a web of missing details that funnels the audience towards an earth shattering climax. us mortals can make do with a quick hack.
Here you go: http://www.scribd.com/doc/29010574/Help-Bubble
I voted you back up. HN has been suffering from a flight of noobs that downmod as a sign of disagreement but without voicing an opinion.

I agree with the animation bit, it's a little distracting. I disagree about the size of the box because users that need the most help likely won't notice a 16x16 box. Ideally both items are customizable.

My first reaction was "oh, the paperclip is back". But I do think this could be useful as long as it isn't annoying, and can be turned off easily for pro users.
Hi there,

Please check http://blog.webnet-it.co.jp/2010/03/26/hacker-news-tokyo-jap... for the latest updates on the event on the 9th of April.
It has to be somewhat large and noticeable. If its too small people won't even notice it.
This is particularly exaggerated among Stanford undergrads, presumably by intent of the admissions department. I didn't do my undergrad at Stanford, but I've heard many stories from undergrad friends about the guy down the hall who didn't seem particularly outstanding or bright, until he turned out to be e.g. the #2 model airplane builder in the world. This line in particular stood out to me:

>Admissions officers would agree. They’re not looking to build hardworking and diligent classes. Instead, they want to build classes that are interesting.

The emphasis on this elusive impressive/unusual quality over raw academic prowess also explains the quality of some of the problem sets I've graded...but then, doing well on problem sets and starting successful companies (or becoming an outlier by some other metric of success) are completely different things. Stanford optimizes for the latter.
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Firstly, excellent execution of a very useful little tool. I could really use something like this on my site.

That said, I think I could probably build a less polished version in about an afternoon, and having something native provides peace of mind and flexibility.

That's not to detract from your offering, but my hunch is that you'll find a good customer base in larger companies that have a hard time approving development of anything non-business critical. There's immediate appeal in quick integration and allowing the maintenance to be handled by a non-technical person.
Wow, and I thought they couldn't get any worse than iPad with their branding. Is Jobs going George Lucas? Can no one tell him no? I'm sure the UX will be great as with most Apple things, but iAd is going to have a hard time spreading virally. If you say something out loud to someone and their response is, "What?" then move on.
The loading animation (aka "the swoosh maneuver") actually only happens on the front page of helpbubble.com -- it's intended to really draw your attention to it, since it's sort of the star of the show. When it's installed on your site, it's much more sedate. Fancy animations are easily added via JavaScript hackery, of course, if you so desire. :)
Each question is specific to the whole website OR a particular URL match. For example, you can configure a question to /login such as "How do I reset my password?"

You can also specify wildcards, such as /users/* etc.
The scenario is 10x the traffic, not 10x the content. And given that Digg is an update-heavy site for all the voting (which affects how pages are rendered for your friends) assuming that caching is a magic wand here seems bogus.
That's my point. this isn't an 'option' with WestJet to pick a seat. You have to choose a seat. Do you want a $10 seat or a $15 seat, or ...

There is no seat included in the price they originally quote you.
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I think he's referring to python object's use of "self" in class methods. What exactly he's talking about, I'm not entirely sure.
Please legalize all drugs while banning all middlemen with prior convictions and requiring they be US-made.

Portugal has shown legalization actually reduces both crime and drug abuse: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/03/14...

Plus we will no longer be funding political instability the world over with the money of addicts. Better yet we can tax and treat the addicted.
I'm guessing you don't offer ssl?
The 32 CPU quote [originally from POF's blog and repeated w/o correction elsewhere] is incorrect; the HP server in question has 8 quad-core _CPUs_, for a total of 32 _cores_.

So still a factor of 2.5 away from our hypothetical 80 core requirement, and not a refutation of GP's claim that x86 maxes out at 8 sockets.
You should give it a try on http://pickfu.com Other HNers find it useful for A/B testing design mockups.
I'm sure the UX will be great as with most Apple things, but iAd is going to have a hard time spreading virally.

Because that's what people have been complaining about ads missing: great UX.
This is great. Very useful, but it does take up a lot of space. I actually built something like this for my site, but ended up scrapping it since it was too much maintenance.
Correction: it is highly probable that they will have a captain. :)
The really interesting thing to me is how much work it took him to earn his success. In his book "Born Standing Up" he goes more into his adolescence, where he learned stagecraft, acting, and improvisation. Then as a comedian, years of refining his odd formula until he became great at it.
Promiscuous reformatting causes large, unreadable deltas for every commit to the version control system.
Amazon link to Born Standing Up - http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/1416553649
Girlfriend reaction: "Wasn't this in Microsoft Word 10 years ago? It had a cute dog."

Take that for what you may.

Cool concept, but I don't think this is something I'd ever pay for. GetSat or Uservoice could kill this in one update.

There is just something about it that would bug me having it on the page.
Where is the bubble to help Canada assert its sovereignty over Hans Island?
One possible confounding variable that immediately lept to my mind was a study published sometime in the past couple years indicated that women's preferences change depending on whether they are currently taking hormonal birth control. I believe it did say that more "feminine" characteristics were more attractive when taking such birth control - and these birth control methods are probably more common in countries with better medical systems in general.
There's already a procedure for evaluating classification of information, a built-in system for declassifying things after a particular period of time, and procedures for whistle blowers to follow when something is inappropriately classified or merely inappropriate. ("Alert the media" or "leak this to wikileaks" is, generally, a very-very-very last resort.)

I don't understand the classification of past missile strikes, but I'd bet someone who knows the list of classification criteria could explain it. (Or, if it's inappropriately classified, challenge it through the proper channels.)
Thank you! I couldn't find this info anywhere.
Quick additions that you can consider:

* A default option whereby a visitor can ask question which isn't listed on a page.

* A simple 'did this answer help you' under each answer. Like what Google does on its support pages.

* Some basic stats like how many visitors clicked the help bubble and how many got their question answered.

The three options above will provide you will insights whether you are answering the right question.
Never judge a startup by where it is now. Judge a startup where it could be six months down the line.

Of course, this equally applies to GetSat and Uservoice too.
This guy is in the security business. If you think your software is secure, he's out of work. If he creates the impression that he didn't even have to try that hard to find these vulnerabilities, then you get paranoid and want to hire him.

To be clear, I'm not saying the vulnerabilities weren't real, but to buy his story about them being "easy" to find, well...
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It's floating over northern Nunavut as we speak.
For hard (math) problems, which is where I find it hardest to make incremental progress, I usually just walk away, make myself some tea, or look for another problem. Anything that stops me from consciously thinking about it allows my subconscious to sort through the information, and eventually, the answer will hopefully float to the top. If that doesn't happen after long enough, when I do go back, I'll at least have gotten out of the circles I had been thinking myself into.
This is true, and a good point. One thing we do need, however, is to take the opinion of prominent economists with a little bit more salt. I remember when invoking the name Greenspan among those interested in economics was like invoking the Name of the Lord - there was no higher authority. Now good ol' Al is getting hung out to dry and, in my opinion, trying to shunt blame away from himself as much as possible.

There shouldn't be a cult of celebrity in any science, economics least of all. This is what the NYT author should have argued against rather than economics in general. Before Farve went to play for Minnesota, how many Packers fans do you think would have bet against his prediction in the Texas vs. Alabama game if it was a very public prediction? The line in Wisconsin would be outrageously off as bookies bumped it more and more away from Farve's prediction. Go to Vegas and it's probably a lot closer to the money. This decision distortion is a real problem that is wreaking real havoc on our system of exchange.
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Actually, it is surprisingly serial, especially for getting off the plane. I've sat in the back of an airplane for 30 minutes while one person at a time gets their stuff out of the overhead bins, because you can't pull your suitcase down until there's room on the floor for it. If you tried, you'd whack someone on the head who got out and stood in the aisle.
Actually I do see them occasionally here. On articles about China I sometimes see a suspicious number of comments supporting China from newly created accounts.
Uniformity is the name of the game for Apple no?
People who praise globalist government agendas area dime a dozen.
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