skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meta point: I'd really like to see (non-www) subdomains added to the article title. I clicked through to the article thinking that Heroku had redesigned their Cron management only to discover something completely different. Subdomains are included in Posterous links; why not everywhere?
This .files attack was common too. We posted about it a while ago:

http://blog.sucuri.net/2010/05/it-is-not-over-seo-spam-on-si...
I recently purchased a subscription to Mobile Me. I was sick and tired of Google's offerings not synching correctly, or completely losing my data. I have not had this problem since switching (mind you, I've only been a member for one month).
i don't do graphics bro sorry
Oh, you’re right. I thought you couldn’t display ads in any application that used the Twitter API. I guess there’s still room for advertising in any Twitter app then.
What's so good about a linked list of characters?

Really, I think most people complain about bytestrings because "foo" makes a "normal string". If it made a bytestring, who would care? Bytestrings do the same API that you'd expect from any traversable.
what's wrong with that? i removed that part from the conclusion to help fix your butthurt.
They should do that in my opinion. It's one of the few consumer-oriented ways to sync contacts, calendar, and email without using iTunes.
Any programming language you don't know is bound to look something like line noise with some words mixed in.
Intel Kills Larrabee GPU, Will Not Bring a Discrete Graphics Product to Market
we can never recreate consciousness, we can only approximate it ... ones and zeros will never be able to compete with true spirit.
Peak $resource is not the right phrasing.

Peak cheap $resource is.
The Scary Truth about Copiers
A waiter stealing credit card numbers has a good chance of being caught eventually. I assume the credit card companies do some basic data mining on their stolen card database, and if card numbers start getting stolen shortly after dining at a particular establishment then they'll track this down.

I googled "waiter stealing credit card numbers" and here's an example from today's news of some folks who got caught:

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0510/739156.html

On the other hand if you have a radio scanner and are picking up numbers going over the air from tow truck companies there's no traceable link between you and anything in the database.
The stable Mac version has better idle CPU usage. Doesn't cause my MBP fans to crank up so often.
..::Linux Club::..
So what about analog computers?
>Any niche will eventually get filled, even the niche of "actual serious news stories for people who want to read actual serious news".

No true - the people capable of filling that niche might find a more profitable job elsewhere leaving this one niche dry. It will play out like this:

1) start a "serious" newspaper

2) realize that you have plenty of people who are not in fact serious but like to think of themselves as "serious"

3) realize that above people like pseudo-serious fluff

4) realize that above people are generating you plenty of money

5) realize that fluff is easier to produce

6) start producing fluff, click-bait headlines etc, but try to retain appearance of serious

7) Slide into being a second-rate publication, but keep riding the reputation wave until it's dead.

8) Rinse, repeat.

This path is unavoidable, for anyone who made it to step 2 will follow through the end, or get ousted by profit-seeking shareholders.
I'm astonished at the magnitude of the difference correct prediction can make in a scenario where the effect of a misprediction is to either increment a sum or not. How is that possible? How many clock cycles does an accurate prediction save in this context, and how many are used in moving through the loop and evaluating the condition?
Maybe you'd like the message better if it was inverted: "Contrary to popular wisdom, with modern processors there's very little penalty for conditionals where the same branch is taken each time. It's only when the branches are random that slowdowns occur, and even so it's usually not a big deal."

I disagree about the "one guy" theory. While it may be true that very few Ruby programmers would benefit from this knowledge, if you are bothering to use C or C++ you might as well take full advantage of the speed it has to offer. If not, why not use a higher level language? I'd certainly want the author of my interpreter to be fully aware of these issues: http://bugs.python.org/issue4753
Yeah, but Google should overthrow the government and set up one without subpoena power. Otherwise, they're just not doing all they could to protect my privacy.

(I think I'm being sarcastic.)
i regularly give my credit card number over the phone for restaurant delivery.

The CC number is almost never secure.
But that tuition is unrelated to your military work, and it's a contract you enter beforehand where the tuition costs is essentially a bonus.

In the grandparent case the company decided to train him in whatever, and after the fact used that training to guilt him into staying.
From a previous HN thread, here's the real reason at least for AmEx: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1108650
Dealing solely with information, Facebook has a "slightly" larger problem than McDonalds ever did.

It's not just that the Facebook needs to offer different fare but that the fare older adults want conflicts with the fare Facebook would like to offer in order to become profitable.
Seconded. Can't find anything like this in the release version of the Mac build.
About 2-3% of people.

http://visualrevenue.com/blog/2007/08/eu-and-us-javascript-d...
PyPy: the other new compiler project
Why is air travel so annoying?
Chrome 5 released, browser exits beta for Mac and Linux
Actually, you can sign up to be a Comcast IPv6 beta tester: http://www.comcast6.net/volunteer.php
An alternative way of phrasing this would be "Journalists try to write things that have a chance of being interesting to readers."

Put this way, it seems less like a new development, and a lot less surprising. Nobody ever voluntarily wrote a story with the idea, "This will be totally uninteresting!" True, a lot of stories are totally uninteresting, but that is usually a mistake, not a moral stance. Editors and publishers have always wanted stories that would attract readers. (And, of course, this is also what readers want.)

If you print more stories that people don't read, you really are just wasting your time.
The point is that Facebook doesn't have the same competition...
Well, I've tried it on Mac, Linux and Windows and it only blocks a minority of all flash files I've encountered. It seems especially bad with youtube and vimeo files embedded in blog posts.

In fact, I don't think it really can work in any real sense as an actual blocker since chrome doesn't provide an API for that. As I understand it, the best it can do is to remove the flash after the page has rendered.
Really, just an ad?

Amex's lack of security is no less interesting if it's discovered by a competitor. It's a pretty serious mistake by an organization you would expect to be more careful and knowledgeable about these things.
Those packages are great, my only complaint is that they (at least the Debian ones) don't include a changelog file. It would be great to see what's new through the standard Debian facility when they release new versions.
I know a lot of people love free but I'm a big fain of paying for my email accounts and data hosting. I believe in that "you get what you pay for" saying.

Mobile Me however is one of the things I'm finding isn't worth it right now because it doesn't support bringing one's own domain to it. I mean, I love iPhone sync and stuff, but not being able to bring my own domain to it is really crap, as is the speed of iDisk when you're not in the US.
This sounds scarier than it really is. Why? Because credit card companies focus on identifying fraudulent transactions rather than verifying your id.

From Bruce Scheier's blog[1]:

"But once you understand that the problem is fraudulent transactions, you quickly realize that authenticating the transaction, not the person, is the way to proceed.

"Again, think about credit cards. Store clerks barely verify signatures when people use cards. People can use credit cards to buy things by mail, phone or Internet, where no one verifies the signature or even that you have possession of the card.

"Even worse, no credit card company mandates secure storage requirements for credit cards. They don't demand that cardholders secure their wallets in any particular way. Credit card companies simply don't worry about verifying the cardholder or putting requirements on what he does. They concentrate on verifying the transaction."

[1]:http://www.schneier.com/essay-153.html
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At the rate facebook is currently going, in a couple years all data on facebook will be world-readable. At that point it should be easy for anyone to download their facebook to another site. One could then clone facebook, and at an agreed-upon date, everyone could move over to the new site.

I say this only half in jest. One can't get 400 million + people to move, but niche sites could certainly peel off a substantial number of users over time. And facebook itself started out as a niche social netorking site...
How I did it (starting January 2008):

- Drove from Atlanta to Long Beach with dog in back seat.
- Rented room in Long Beach for three months (found on craigslist).
- Found it wasn't working with Long Beach co-founder.
- Drove to San Jose and stayed with friend for three months.
- Realized startup wasn't working. Got job. Got apartment.
- Still in San Jose needing to jumpstart a startup.

I find it amusing when people go through the "self discovery" phase of seeing how they "feel" about everything. I prefer the more direct approach of "move there and figure it out as you go along."
Yes,

The problem is: suppose they weren't making a profit on the hamburger and so serving the turkey was the only way they knew how to make profits. But also suppose that it would be quite hard for customers to switch to Burger King.

Then you have characterized something of the paradoxical condition of the Facebook. Making money while accumulating ill-will.
Reddit's unpaid "internship" offer is apparently against labor laws
The author apparently has too short a memory to recall when .mac was called "iTools", and it was free. It turned out to be a much larger money pit than they anticipated, one that was only ever going to be viable by violating their users' trust and selling their privacy away.

I'm of the opinion that Apple made the right choice in keeping their brand clean from all the privacy issues with those free ad-supported services, opting instead for classical b2c relationships (service to client in exchange for money) with the implied privacy protection of typically confidential business to customer relationships.

The author [also] makes the repeated mistake of assuming cloud services are better than the obviously obsolete trail of tears that is syncing to a computer. What if my personal and relationship data is valuable to me, and I don't want to have to upload it to ANYONE WHATSOEVER? What if I want to be able to transfer it directly to another device I own without having it reside on a third party device? That's worth money to me, and that's what I'm paying Apple for.

[edit]Made it slightly more clear that I'm talking about two different topics, .mac and syncing of data from iPhones and iPads.[/edit]
You have the right to ask for that information. You have no right to compel the user to answer.

The user has no right to view the site owner's content. The site owner therefore has the right to make provision of analytics data a prerequisite for access to content. No one's bothered to do so because the proportion of people who opt-out is currently quite small.
Chrome -> Wrench menu ("Customize and control") -> Options -> Under the Hood -> Privacy -> Content Settings -> Plug-ins -> Disable individual plug-ins -> Disable Shockwave Flash.

If you're autoupdating Chrome, you have to get in a habit of checking the settings menu periodically for new stuff. Unlike the more mature FireFox settings menu, Chrome's is still getting additions.
you mean like cell phones and telecom?

I think free mobileme and itunes/app sync is coming. Remember that large data center Apple just built?

I've been a mac user for decades but have never used the current mobileme as it just seemed meh, for the money. I sync calendars over google calendar and use drop box and mail attachments for files.

If it was free and beefed up I'd try it and it may just become another Apple sticky.
Then I have a great business model for Indian entrepreneurs.
I'm actively reviewing WordPress 3.0 beta for upgrade and plug-ins. Once I've got the .htaccess fix working in 3.0 beta I'll post the patch.

There are a few ideas I'm considering for securing and monitoring WP installations for intrusions.
Those are fine for colored text or lineart, not all that good for photographs in my experience
Whether or not the person in question can actually write code.

In my experience (both hiring and being hired) no company is going to hire you for a programming position unless you can already code reasonably well. That doesn't begin to cover the full picture (ancillary tools like testing, version control, etc... as well as teamwork and time management skills, more...) but it's enough to get a foot in the door at some places.
I'm just pleased to see that the complaints/rants against python are few, and without much import (at least for me).
Personally I think it's one of those things that "you'll just know". If you're writing working code and are using those skills on an actual project, then you're a programmer...
You're begging the question of how large the gulf is between our current standard of living and what's sustainable as well as the time needed to mature the alternatives.

The peak itself was never billed as a dramatic moment of change. It's simply a leading indicator of an impending, rapid, potentially disastrous, reconciliation of past and future standards of living.

In the case of oil, if you don't pay attention to it, you'll never be able to bring up alternatives or nuclear nearly fast enough to avoid serious economic shocks.

Water's easier, at least in America, because so much of it is literally wasted on American lawns. You can avoid quite a bit of economic shock with an order to shut off sprinklers.

But that's what the peak is all about: the canary in the coal mine. You're still alive and well when the bird pitches over. But you should probably take the hint, because you might not have enough time if you wait until it starts to notably impact you.
The amount of processing it takes to turn oil into gasoline already takes a lot of energy from sources other than oil. Gasoline energy cost about 15x what wind energy does today, changing that to 16-20x is not a huge issue.
that's just crazy
He made the mistake of assuming all jobs were like his, so now you are going to respond by assuming all companies are like yours? I don't think mirroring the original logical fallacy helps anything. In some places, what he did is appropriate. In others, it isn't. Observing that different places are different seems a little pointless. It seemed pretty obvious to me that his suggestion was not meant for BigCorps where you're Worker #L24781124 and you have to file in triplicate in order for your quitting to be recognized.
This is actually sensible, since it shifts the responsibility for verifying the customer's identity onto the merchant, and lets merchants figure out exactly how much trouble they want to go to in order to do this. Some places will demand a photo ID to go along with your credit card transaction. On the other hand, some places like Starbucks don't even make you sign the receipt -- they figure the small number of coffees which get charged to stolen credit cards are well worth the ability to keep the line moving.
Yes, and another aspect of this is that Facebook has a network of users who feel trapped in Facebook rather than happy with Facebook. They talk about this on and off Facebook. Facebook's brand is hurt, its level of respect goes down and a mass-exodus becomes more likely when the means appear for users to leave taking their friends with them.
Ask HN: Please review my Twitter dating app ;)
That could actually work if you were trying to read articles. Other than that, I am not sure I would like to do it t
This seems to be a crucial problem in all facets of the news media - people incentivize the news they want to hear, not the news they should hear. Back when advertising was bundled across a whole paper or a whole news program, you could balance "Lindsey's Legal Troubles" with something informative that served the public good.

But now that viewers "pay" by the story with advertising, we hit a Tragedy of the Commons - everyone incentivizes the fluff, and hopes someone else will incentivize the important research. We've removed the "all the news that's fit to print" standard and traded it in for "whatever you want to read about".
Hi all,

Several months back, I asked HN to review my Twitter dating startup, Plenty of Tweeps, and got loads of useful, and mostly positive feedback.

I have since put the site through a total redesign, significantly changed the way you signal interest in Twitter users, and implemented a payment model.

I would really appreciate your feedback on the new version of the site. Radical honesty welcome. ;)

Cheers,

Brad
Unless I'm missing something this isn't anywhere near the functionality of Flash Block. Flash Block puts a placeholder in the spot of any SWF file it would load, and then lets me click to load the file if I want to see it, or quickly whitelist the site if I always want it to be able to load flash.

This appears to be just be turning flash on or off globally (and not very quickly either). FF has that level of control out of the box as well.
Interesting idea! Personally I really like the idea of making money and helping solve an environmental problem at the same time...

I'm not at all familiar with the low-level process of oil refinement, but would weathering/chemicals/whatever affect the quality/viability of the oil, or would it be fine just to sell it on as crude?
If users were the customers ... really gets to the core of the problem that Facebook has evolved itself into.

Instead, users are the product. Advertisers are the customers.

Too bad the original article failed to clearly make this point.
Hahaha, fair enough.
From http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/06/technology/facebook_excerpt_...

But Ballmer had come with something more sweeping in mind. "Why don't we just buy you for $15 billion?" he replied, according to a very knowledgeable source. Zuckerberg was unmoved even by this offer. "I don't want to sell the company unless I can keep control," said Zuckerberg, as he always did in such situations. Ballmer took this reply as a sort of challenge. He went back to Microsoft's headquarters and concocted a plan intended to acquire Facebook in stages over a period of years to enable Zuckerberg to keep calling the shots.

Zuckerberg also rejected that offer. The deal that was struck was for $250M at a $15B valuation
A millennium is a very very long time :-)
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I ... I can't tell if he's serious ...
Nothing. That's my point -- strings suck, Haskell should implement strings as bytestrings or something that isn't slow.
For me, the problem of MobileMe's pricing isn't that it costs $100/yr. It's the fact that if I don't want to use the service anymore, everyone who has that email address will need to get my new address. With free services that offer email forwarding (Gmail comes to mind), this isn't an issue at all. Once you get a MobileMe email address, it's tough to get out of that mess.

With Google's Sync service, I get half of the MobileMe benefits (push contacts and calendars) for free. And I can move from it if I'd like. There's no lock-in. Then to replace iDisk, there's Dropbox, with a much better merge-handling system.

The only MobileMe feature missing from these services is Find my iPhone.
So when did you realize you were a capable programmer?
That doesn't sound unreasonable, no -- at some point in the future, Scala's hash array mapped trie will be robust and highly optimized. If your plan is to wait until then, you might be able to speed things up by helping them out yourself.

In the meantime, I benchmarked Yoink's PeristentHashMap against 2.8.0.RC2's immutable.HashMap by a) creating a map of 100,000 sequential keys and then removing them all, and b) creating a map of 100,000 random keys and then removing 100,000 random keys. In the first case, Yoink was 20.7041% (±1.83693%) faster. In the second case, Yoink was 24.7834% (±4.17055%) faster. (Student's t distribution, 95% confidence interval, source is in src/test on the GitHub project and I used ministat for the statistical analysis [a cross-platform port of which is also available on my GitHub page].)

So to summarize, I have a provably faster hash array mapped trie at almost zero cost right now because I spent a few hours with a "good learning experience."
He is. I've seen him do it.
Purely FP lang guys are having a good laugh now. :)
Wall-E struck me as quite possibly their most impressive work thus far. It's amazing how much information they pack in with so few words, and their practice with it shows in the start of Up.

Pixar is awesome. More places need to take cues, instead of just re-hashing ideas for more money.
You say you're using Git, but how is it that you had several hours worth of work that was not committed to a remote repo? Does your workflow usually have such large gaps between commits/pushes?
I'm aware of the implementation issues. That's why I don't dislike the idea. But they're just that, implementation issues. Look at it from the user's perspective. I'm me, I'm right here. Stop remembering me everywhere I go. Get it done.

Imagine if you were told you'd keep getting telemarketer calls because 'it's too hard to take you out.' You wouldn't care how valid that argument is.

The prevalence of CCTV is a good analogy, yes. I understand why they need to exist, but they still creep me out. I just go through my day trying not to think about them. I suspect a lot of people do the same. This plugin creeps me out in the same way, it brings up something I'd rather ignore.
He also likes to pick stuff off of his feet and eat it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ
Ask HN: benefits, financial management - what do you use?
What are YC (and YC-like) startups using for benefits and financial management? There are complete HR outsourcing companies (e.g., http://www.trinet.com) but I've heard they like 10+ employees in a company. Intuit is still the standard for small business financial management, but it looks like it is all client/server installs instead of web-based services. Or are benefits/financial management something you do once you have 10+ employees?
There are at least 3-4 competing extensions on Chrome so I'm sure there's a variability in the quality of them. This one has worked well for me:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cdngiadmnkhgemki...

But what you've said is true, FF's FlashBlock has much better control over Flash because of the control it has via the API. Chrome doesn't offer the same level of control to extensions, so they're all just going rewrite the page on load. That's been good enough for me though.
It seems like once a day there's a well-received front-page article on time management, avoid distractions, multitasking, and all that. He claims that his method is a "very efficient use of [his] time". I don't see this as any different.