skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SH-Crew
Die SH-Crew hat heute vor ca. einer STD. einige Accounts der clp-community.de gecracked.
Zudem hat die SH-Crew eine Phishing Seite angegriffen.
Link zur Hacker Crew: sh-crew.tk
Oxford Business School Venture Fund: Call for applications closes in a week
genial :D
This may help explain why so many Japanese websites seem to be utterly atrocious--fewer people looking at them.
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The book 'The four hour work week' mentions a case where the author eventually decided to cut all the customers that were taking up the majority of his time in support, hand-holding, etc and just went with the bulk customers that were happy with his service.
A lot of people use fields such as state and zip code for demographic data collection. A free form textbox makes that more difficult.
Half of their revenue is groceries, not their income (what they earn on their sales).

Grocery stores, and I am sure even Wal-Mart, operate on razor-thin margins.

For many years A&P was considered the top dog to beat - their net profit margin was 1.06% (for every $100 in sales they made $1.06, in other words).
The host can still mine data. It doesn't know the content of the data itself, but it knows who's looking at whose data, and what IPs they're coming from and what browser fingerprint they have. The only thing you're protecting against is the accidental release of customer data. You'd be better off programming the server in some theorem-proving language that proves sensitive data isn't leaked.

What you end up with is a slow, unintelligent website, with fewer features and untargeted advertising that can't recommend friends. It can't do anything useful that social networking butterflies are interested in, and it's one that people who use secure services because it's fun to be paranoid aren't interested in either, because it's not actually secure, and it's a site that's more expensive to run and more complicated.

Don't do it.
We don't have scantron tests either.
Walt Mossberg's iPad review
Hey, that's what my cat said too! And we don't even have a cat flap, she's indoor only. Something seems fishy...
> I think both are natural and healthy in terms of their own psyche.

questioning why you're harboring beliefs that construct a self-identity that causes you to send "you suck" emails just cuz you're having a bad day seems healthier than practicing reflexive brand management.

call it "examined brand management" :)
What's even funnier about it is that animals do indeed use sound to communicate and that this application is both theoretically and technically feasible.

Animals do not emit sounds for the sake of emitting sounds, they do so with specific intentions, desires, and goals, and as a result of specific systems that have developed towards the end of a complex system of communication involving vocal and auditory mechanisms, sound waves, and cognitive elements giving the capacity to process and generate these patterns of sound.

It's funny to me because I know that some people would look at this application and think of it as a hilarious joke: "Understand animal sounds? Ha Ha Ha good one Google! As if! Chinese Room! Hurf Durf! IMPOSSIBLE!"

It's also funny to me because I know that some hackers will look at this and be inspired to spend their spare cycles researching and developing this application, and wind up making a small fortune when they put it on the app store.

It's also funny to me because I suspect that some crafty googlers have already done this and are using the video and google's reputation for funny April Fools Day Jokes as a viral marketing tactic for their April Fool's Day Day-After joke, where they release the fully functional application, having developed it during their allocated "pet project" time.

Good one Google!
Dr. Goolittle?
Link to the whole story (not that much longer):

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230425270457515...
"For those of you who aren't familiar with the book, ..."

... buy it already. Except for occasional references to kilobytes of RAM (what the heck are those? are they like gigabytes?), you'd think the book was written last week.
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Hmm, I think Steve Jobs could learn a thing or two from Arrington.

Using power tools on stage will definitely sell product - perhaps they could relaunch the Apple TV by taking a jackhammer to a TIVO.
They should have been patient and posted it after midnight. google.co.uk can get away with it, but for a company solely based in Palo Alto, jumping the gun is stupid.
or... catty?
"Can we please move somewhere sunnier? There aren't enough hours in the day for me to work on my tan."
What's the benefit of that? I see downsides: have to deal with the FSF, have to work with the existing codebase, have to fight to get the changes accepted, etc. It can always be ported into gzip if that becomes desirable.
So the JooJoo situation is this:

- it directly competes with a much anticipated product made by one the most successful hardware manufacturers in the world;

- it's released at the same time as the hype machine is in top gear for the above mentioned product; and

- to top it off, months before its release, it's involved in a scandal with one of the most influential tech bloggers, which means most news surrounding the product casts a shadow over the unknown company's reputation.

Even if it had a name that didn't imply something like a puddle of sludge, I think it would be a miracle if any product released under those circumstances succeeded. But good luck too them!
If you go from shout to whisper right at the last line, it becomes one of the creepiest things I've ever heard.
Thanks for taking the time to explain. I think I get it better now, but it's probably one of these things that I'll have to try for myself to really understand.
Pogue is usually a great writer, but this was strangely disjointed. He wants to like the iPad, but feels obliged to give a semi-critical "techie" review, apparently in anticipation of the inevitable hate mail that follows any hint of pro-Apple bias.

I'm curious to try out the iPad after reading his and Mossberg's review, but can't imagine shelling out a lot of money for what is essentially a leisure device that doesn't fit in my pocket.
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I hate to google things for people, but is none of these vendors good for you? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mi...
If by "really, really niche site" you mean "any site that charges money," that's about how it works, I believe.

The point of her story, though, is that she deleted all the messages, and implied that she regularly deletes all the messages—she's not going out with any of them; she's fishing with no hook.
Yes, but what you type into a shell is just parameters to a system call ;)

Seriously though, from the user standpoint, typing "vim" into the shell and typing "TextMate" into Spotlight are more similar to each other than either of them are to navigating through the Finder and double-clicking TextMate, or even clicking it on the dock. The shell is smarter, but perhaps too smart for some users.
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What would this do to existing software patents in NZ?
Dodd would never see it; at best (and this is unlikely, since his political career is over) it would get a tick mark on a sheet of "people against destroying angel investment".

Might as well get some anger out of his system and maybe motivate others to take action (I'm appalled with two 'p's about how disinterested the HN crowd is about this existential threat to what they are about (or so I thought is what they are about)).
I can imagine making something that cheesy-sounding for a lark; I can't imagine making it on Famitracker.
Anyone looked at the source yet? Is it just multi-threaded or actually using parallel frameworks like ITBB or OpenMP?
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"We call it the F.U.J.J. for short."

Nice Arrington . . .
Unless you know exactly why you need the expensive one, you don't need it.

Unless a reasonable-length cable is damaged or malconstructed in such a way that it distorts transmitted waveforms so much that they're not recoverable, any reasonable conductor will work. This stuff isn't rocket science since about a year after RS232 was invented.
Investor see, founder do.
So what sort of rants do you consider witty, then? Use me as a target. :p
I do. I wrote a tool to help me understand what I could do on various storage tiers running as safely as possible. Here's one of my results from linode:

http://skitch.com/dlsspy/nh2qb/kvtest-results-on-linode

Here's the code: http://github.com/dustin/kvtest

Depending on what you're doing and how safe you want it, you can adjust inputs to select a different winner.
Ask HN: Is there anything better than Zoho Office for group collaboration?
I've been looking for the perfect intranet solution for a non-profit that I've been volunteering with for the past 6 months or so. I realize this may sound like an infomercial for Zoho, but it's not. I value the honesty and intelligence of the Hacker News community, so I'm soliciting your opinions and experiences.

I tried Google Apps for Your Domain, but had problems with the initial set up and it was (surprisingly) difficult to get it working properly for me. I know that millions have "Gone Google", so I'm sure the problem is on my end, but it was not a good experience.

I've considered Backpack, but it's prohibitively expensive and the interface is unfamiliar to the set of people that would be using this. I've also heard that 37Signals apps can run slow during peak usage times, which would only cause confusion and frustration for my user group.

So, I have used Zoho Office in the past and have been very happy. I've checked a few online reviews and everything seems positive. They even offer a full blown version of their Business package for free, up to 3 users. If my group of technology neophytes really loves Zoho, then I will gladly encourage them to pay for more features or additional users. I really like that Zoho offers LOTS of different products and services, from Remote Desktop help to Wiki software, to Forums. I can mix and match whatever suits my group the best.

tl;dr; Zoho Office Suite seems to have the most features for the lowest price, but I fear that I may be missing something that HN member have experienced, which would make this service "too good to be true".

Thanks in advance!!
This made my day. LOL, how cute.
Really, an image of some text on Facebook? You could have at least clicked see more.
A long time ago, someone decided that if your file was 100% ASCII and you chose to save it as UTF-8 and you opened the file up again and added some >0x007f character and later saved again that you should not be prompted

The author makes this sound like an unreasonable request, but I don't see the problem. All ASCII text is also UTF-8; if a file is valid ASCII, it should be opened and saved in UTF-8 mode.

P.S. Isn't there some tool on UNIX that does this correctly?

Yes, nearly all of them.
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Also the author of "No Silver Bullet": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet

I haven't read anything of his that wasn't worth reading and the MMM is still one of the very best.
today is going to be an easy day to ignore the distraction of the internet
Hey, cache is the new RAM, RAM is the new disk, disk is the new tape. So all though 256KB L1 caches still mean something....
Original link is now broken, story is here: http://www.popsci.com.au/2010/03/imagining-an-apple-tablet-i...
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You have to come at it from google. Go here and click on the WSJ article from there:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Wal-Mart%27s%20G...
The functionality of the touch-keyboard has been my #1 concern in ordering an iPad - his comments:

"I found email easy and productive to use, and had no trouble typing accurately and quickly on the iPad’s wide on-screen keyboard. In fact, I found the iPad virtual keyboard more comfortable and accurate to use than the cramped keyboards and touchpads on many netbooks. . ."
No Silver Bullet is one of the essays in The Mythical Man Month book
Ok, but everything handles the UTF-8 "BOM" just fine.

For small values of "everything". I can't even count the number of bizarre errors I encounter, only to discover that one of the files I'm working on has been corrupted by somebody carelessly using Notepad. Usually it's not obvious what's going on -- the error will be something like "Error parsing file: illegal byte before start of message body", which provides not much help when it's 23:30 and I'm staring at a text editor wondering what the hell byte it's talking about.
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To add onto lmkg's explanation, there is another good one at http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/bkj2o/that_4d_game_m...
Funny that the download is 57MB - for something that would probably have fit in a 32KB cartridge with room to spare.

I guess that's progress for you :)
"U.S.B. jacks"

Ugg, NYT style guide.
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As I mention on his blog post, both of these tactics are inherently evil and can result in security vulnerabilities, since the attacker now can keep trying memory addresses until he succeeds, which defeats ASLR for one.

It will also turn an easy-to-debug SIGSEGV into a horrible-to-debug memory corruption; check out http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976038 for an example. This bug made debugging large applications on x64 a real pain.
Out of curiosity, what sort of introductory messages do you send? And how many times have you gotten such a response? I mostly get either nice responses or no response on OkCupid.
It was added to the 20th anniversary edition; I read it in the April 1987 issue of IEEE Computer with the wonderfully Gothic cover.
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This was used in several Linux drivers (PPPoE if I recall..?) as an EoP exploit - mmap low addresses, then get the kernel to jump to a null pointer. This is one of the reasons that all addresses <= 0x10000 in Windows NT are invalid, regardless of user/kernel mode.
If you act fast, you can unsend too.
"My favorite Google product is definitely Gmail Paper! I have already done so much amazing for the environment."

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html
As someone who's built his own infrastructure, I'll respond.

1. 30m requests/month is about 11.5 requests/second. My service can do 300 search requests/second sustained off of one machine. That's with a pretty minimal setup. Data is backed up to S3. Multi-homing isn't a big priority for me, but I could easily do it for not much effort/cost.

2. If you're whitelisted, Twitter actually gives out 14.4 million calls a month for free. If not, it's 111,600 calls per month. So, I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers here.

3. I've spent a lot of time building my service and API, but AFAICT you're not providing an API I could vend directly to client applications I don't own myself. Ditto on the premium content, which I can almost guarantee you don't have the rights to give re-vending access for. (As in, I can't build a weather API service on it and charge money. Same for business info.)

4. How many of those POIs are license-free? Also, half a terabyte of point data would be a lot, if you were actually indexing that much. I'd wager $1 you're counting non-point data in that number, such as addresses and the like. That said, this is probably your strongest point,

5. That's cool. It took me awhile to write my mapping engine, and I haven't started on my AR view yet.

Honestly, your biggest problem seems to be that you don't describe your service very well. If I were you, I'd be pitching this as a good way to build up a service without the knowledge required to build a geo API in house, negotiating with geodata vendors directly (who can be extremely standoffish and unreasonable), and monitoring/scaling/etc the geodata side of things.

Also, the things I'd like to see, so that I don't have to build them myself, would be:

1. Worldwide address geocoding with no usage restrictions. AFAICT, this service does not exist.

2. Worldwide address canonicalization. If I'm missing a postal code, province, etc, or if a phone number is in a weird format, I'd love a service that would clean that up for me.

3. Address unification among services. I'd love to be able to tie together the primary ids of a given address among the various services: Yelp, foursquare, Gowalla, OpenStreetMap, etc.
I agree with the author. Right or wrong, Notepad:

1: is on every Windows machine ever

2: just works

I leave it to you, critics, to select something, anything, that is a fundamental tool available on every *nix machine, and just stop using it.

Hint: nobody but a purist is going to stop using `cat` or `cd` because of a minor incompatibility with a small percentage of computers.

I love Linux, I love Unix, but I also love that Windows had and still has Notepad. One of Microsoft's most successful apps in my eyes, that honestly works. Hell, in any case if it didn't have at least one flaw I'd start getting suspicious wondering if M$ really did write it after all.
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And this is better than http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html how?
Apple asserts that the iPad runs 10 hours on a charge of its nonremovable battery ... in my own test, the iPad played movies continuously ... [for] more than 12 hours. That’s four times as long as a typical laptop or portable DVD player.

This is one thing I've always found interesting. Apple underestimates their battery life in every product I've laid hands on, even under relatively high-power operations. And they claim longer battery life than any other similar product.
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It would be an understatement that Plato is open to interpretation, but it's worth noting that the consensus of Plato scholars is robustly against this interpretation of the Republic. The article doesn't really address any of the literature on this topic, which is odd.
What does the 'auditable' qualifier (which seems to make the difference between SQLite beating BDB, or BDB beating SQLite) mean?
Invalidate them, I assume.

Keep in mind patents can be considered a license granted by the government rather than a form of property. Thus invalidating a patent would not involve a taking of property from a private owner.

Of course, I don't know whether the New Zealand has a constitution or whether that constitution prohibits the taking of property without compensation.
If he doesn't want hate mail, maybe he shouldn't be so condescending toward people that don't think exactly like him. That review was insufferable.
I have to admit I'm surprised that both reviews (this and the Walt Mossburg one) state they were able to achieve well over Apple's claimed 10 hours batter life playing video, both reaching almost 12 hours.

I'm surprised because a) that's one hell of a long time, and b) Apple, like everyone else I guess, tend to overstate battery life and reviewers seem to find it almost impossible to replicate the published claims.
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NZ are a bit strange with regards to their "constitution".
Check out the wiki link for an explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_New_Zealand
Thanks, I wasn't clear on what RDF was. I skimmed the wikipedia article and I thought it was just a variant of xml.
So, the world is composed of hypercubes. Neat.

If you want to go the other direction dimensionally and technologically, you can get 'Flatland, a romance of many dimensions' off project Gutenberg.
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/97

It is a pretty amusing read.
Check out:
http://www.htm2pdf.co.uk/htm2pdf-web-service.aspx
Their pricing indicates 40,000 conversions for $90. I'd pay that.
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Disrupting Moral Judgment with magnetic fields?
When I was in my 20s, I ran across a man who'd been a 'successful' salesman for 15 years. He made a special point to tell me how he regretted all the time he'd spent away from home and not being around to see his kids grow up.

We all have different ways of evaluating our satisfaction and what fulfills us. I'd rather fail at a difficult task than succeed at a simpler one... because the difficult one engages me, the simpler one bores me.

I'd rather take a walk in the woods than drive a Lamborghini. Rather read a good book than take an expensive trip to see yet another pile of rocks.

YMMV.
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I'd guess playing movies uses less battery power than using the internet.
I find it odd that you go on to say "both sides of the conversation need to avoid dehumanizing each other", after "a robot" and "[not] a real human being to me".
I'd agree with you, if Notepad did in fact work. MS changed Paint for Windows 7, they could have more easily fixed Notepad. (Have you ever tried to open a file without \r's?)
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I agree, it seems odd to complain about a geek shortage at a time when there are plenty of out-of-work geeks around. Hire some of them.

That said, the article mentions cuts in Darpa's funding for research at universities makes me wonder if they're hoping more for geeks with grad degrees. Hard to tell for sure.
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auditable means every revision of every change was saved in a fashion that allows you to go back in time and what-not.

Specifically, it means this: http://github.com/dustin/kvtest/blob/master/sqlite-base.cc#L...
> "show me all ratings for every book that was written by the authors who currently have a book in the top 100 books list."

Why not? That seems like a pretty basic SQL query to me, with one nested query. I think we even did something almost exactly like that in my undergrad dB database management class in the first few weeks.

That's more like (sorry, I'm bad at sql too)

SELECT ratings.*, book.name, author.name
FROM ratings
JOIN books ON ratings.book_id = book.id
JOIN authors ON books.author_id == author.id
WHERE author.id
IN (
SELECT author_id
FROM books
JOIN ratings ON book.id = book_id
ORDER ratings.score ASC LIMIT 100
)

You better hope that sucker uses indexes or it's going to be a few minutes. And you better cache that because you don't want that running every time someone hits the recommended reads.

SQL can be pretty scary for this stuff. It would be even worse if you allows a many to many relationship with books and authors.
I hope Walt's right, but I just find that so hard to believe. Did you see Steve typing an email at the iPad keynote? It was so awkward that it was kind of painful to watch. And, as I recall, Steve even had an uncorrected typo slip by in the one-line email that he composed.

That said, watching Walt's video got me super excited about getting one of these puppies. :)
So would that mean that you could easily and transparently use this as a backend for something with a sqlite interface, say for example Django?
My vote goes to markov chain. These dudes put (NYSE: V) after Startup Visa.
Not for me, but it didn't work, either.
With my mac laptops I have consistently seen high battery life at the start and it has diminished considerably after a few months. Does this not happen with everyone else?
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That's not the only way... that dog made it into Window XP's search.