skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh. That is not a survival situation - in the slightest..

The ones he mentions here: I’ve been through many survival situations. Some of them involved violent financial crisis, others involved personal relationships breakups and others were related to my career choices.

Sound more relevant to his point!

It almost put me off the post... (which did end well)
This is my take: http://raisethehammer.org/blog/1111/the_finance_crisis_in_ei...
This sounds like bull-shit. I did a compiler in losethos, http://www.losethos.com and it's rediculous to think measuring how many loops before doing a true compile is useful. Trust-me, it's easier just to compile the whole thing. I made one compiler for LoseThos that is JIT or AOT and this is bull-shit about making multiple ones. If you have a JIT compiler, you certainly don't need to fuck around with an interpretor as well.
So: low interest rates caused the housing bubble. Could you explain how that happened exactly?

Many things caused the housing bubble, but printing money (causing low interest rates) was a huge part of it. It works like this: when something becomes cheaper, more people purchase it. Interest payments are a huge part of the cost of buying a house. When they get a lot cheaper...

People forgot that interest rates can't stay cheap forever. And when money gets expensive again, housing prices tank.

This, BTW, is a great insider account by someone who was in the trenches. A confession from a home ownership advocate
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f64a9e36-9da3-11de-9f4a-00144feabd...
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he he, glad it didn't put you off the post completely. Point is that during the army I was in a much more violent survival situation, although a little bit different than the exercise described. There's a link at the beginning of the article about that specific situation. The exercise made more sense for this specific article...

happy it did end well for you (the post, I mean) :-)
First off, thanks for giving out instructions for securing wordpress.

> Maybe you should tell them to secure their wordpress install instead

Hence the ":P", my comment was mostly in jest.

> 3. Create an empty wp-content/plugins/index.html file - otherwise you leak information on which plug-ins you run

It's better to just disable indexes on the entire site. That prevents anyone from poking around.

Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks

> This is a lot more efficient than boycotting wordpress altogether.

Wordpress has a history of being extremely vulnerable. I don't know how much of it is user error and how much of it is related to the way php is normally configured and used.

PHP invites uploading malicious scripts. Something like Ruby on Rails (or Django) has the code for the application loaded into ram. Static files are served out of the public folder, away from any code. This makes uploading malicious scripts useless, provided someone hasn't turned on php or cgi for the public folder. (Which you should never do) Every php application I've seen or worked on has mixed code with static files and the webserver had write permissions to every folder in the application. Additionally, anyone that doesn't abstract from the database with a query generator or an ORM is asking for sql injection.

That is why I don't care for wordpress. :)

(Am I bitter? Oh yes, most definitely. :P)
It's an example of how government expenditures can lead to conditions that foster economic growth and out of a depression. That was my only point regarding WWII. The mantra, "government spending is always bad" is, itself, quite bad. The mantra, "government spending is always good" is equally bad.
I often wonder why more engineers don't get into economics. It is a control system and would be well suited to engineering graduates with expertise in control systems.
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> So, the question here is: why didn't you trust your gut feeling? Why did you value your (simplistic) rationalization more?

Why trust instinct when you can trust fact?
Or maybe just (bad) luck? Make sure you have enough data (and control groups) to give significant answers, when you do your ad testing.
Because usually they only wear white overalls, as is common knowledge.
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Related article from this morning's reading: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_prit...
Oh boy... My wife led the project of her company's local branch intranet. She wanted to do it in Plone (probably my fault, as I introduced her to it), but central office demanded it to be done in Sharepoint because that's what they use.

I feel sorry for the companies who use Sharepoint for its document sharing/management... In time, it will prove a huge competitive advantage for their competition.
My 3G is generally slow as well after the iOS4 upgrade. Is there a way to disable multitasking? I just want to see if it makes a difference.
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So, besides drugs and entertainment, what were the growth industries during the Great Depression?
You're a pussy. Just do a compiler. You can transition from interpretor to compiler really easily by having templates for each operation that get concatinated and patched for specific values. See http://www.losethos.com . There's a mini compiler there for teaching purposes that is 200 lines and makes x86_64 assembly to evaluate an expression, a true compiler. The file in LoseThos is ::/LT/Demo/MiniCompiler.CPZ

My compiler's optimization stages resemble an interpretor with a big switch statement. It simplifies constant expressions with what is, essentually, an interpretor but it produces machine code, in the end.
It is credited amongst Austrian economists

That is clearly uncharacteristic of the Austrian school. I never heard of an Austrian economist saying that's the reason we got out of the depression. I have heard the Austrians arguing just the opposite.

You will need to produce your claim that Austrian economists believe it to be so.

Beside, nobody can detect sarcasm on the internet. There's no body language to detect.

Addendum: Argument from authority is what you're arguing for getting out of the depression? The Keynesian and Austrians believe that World War 2 got us out of the depression therefore it is true is what you're arguing. That's unconvincing.
Apple could do that too, if they felt like it.

Edit: Except with iPods.
That's likely what is happening. My notebook came with Windows 7 installed. Corporate IT installed Vista on it. Now I run Linux.

My netbook at home came with Windows XP. It received a full install of Linux the day I laid my hands on it.

They probably count as three Windows users.
First off - making that cold call during the video like that was awesome and he did a good job convincing the guy that what he was doing was valuable. People doing business easily talk about business. Its not like they have to initially "like your face."

Going after companies that are already advertising is also an obvious win as their marketing teams probably have a budget that they need to fill.

Overall, hands down, the one thing I would take away from this incredible clip is the fact that pure, unadulterated tenacity is severely underrated.

And as someone else pointed out - time to get a new iMac Gary :) (But only because we told you to!)
The low scores are the reason why football is so exciting. Both teams know a single goal could change the course of the game. In American sports when it is 52-11 who cares if the losing team scores?
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There's plenty of "luck" based drama in other sports. I can think of numerous games in American Football that were decided by a moment of extreme luck or a single bad refereeing decision.

If you want to eliminate that, you need to try and maximise score differential (rather than just total score).
This is possible with the iOS as well. Not really sure why this app was targeted. Any app with permission.INTERNET could do what that application was doing.

Saying it hinges on a kernel exploit is rather silly. If a kernel exploit were found for iOS or Android, the effect and response would be the same. Some developer would try to ship it do to "malicious thing" and Goog/Apple would revoke it to spare their users any pain or harm.

This is a really moot issue when you realize that Android users can always install whatever APK they want, so it's not significant when Google removes apps from the Market for ToS violations (even then, it's incredibly rare), etc.
You know, despite the Android app store having plenty of these crappy "Free ringtone!" apps, I'd still take it over Apple's controlled/censored (yes, I would call some instances of their app removals censorship) app store. It doesn't really matter though, since I can install whatever I want through .apk anyway, but I'd just like to say that not all users are getting fed up and asking Google to remove apps.

That being said, damn browsing Google's App Store sucks. It's horrible. Seriously, there needs to be some much better organization, lengthened app descriptions, easier to use and better filters, and just an overall better experience.
Of course you can bootstrap yourself from poverty. But what is the probability of you doing that 1%. Count yourself lucky. Here is a different perspective on poverty:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/03/30/...

"Poverty and wealth, by this logic, don't just fall along a continuum the way hot and cold or short and tall do. They are instead fundamentally different experiences, each working on the human psyche in its own way."
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> It doesn't matter to me if they always decide a certain solution to certain problems, as long as they are right.

It doesn't seem obvious that anyone is "always right", and the discussions tend to go 'round and 'round...
Hell I might go and write a "How to survive on 100 dollars a month." guides only on stuff I learned from her.

I'd rather like to hear about this, since my upkeep costs are about four times that (though I'm not sure I'd trust housing that rents for less than $100 per tenant per month).
But if you don't go and track down the meaning of a word, you may be missing something. Obviously, meaning can be gleaned from context, but if you really want to understand the message the author is attempting to convey, it's worth the momentary distraction.
You might get away with just mentioning your product in these forums, but also mention that you are related with the product. If you are humble enough and the product really fits the audience of the forum, you might generate some interest. And you don't need to fear any backlash from somebody uncovering your astroturfing.
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So you're a dishwasher then? It would take you 25% of your time to earn 250 euros?

If you don't want to support the socialist government, you should really move to the US.

Your argument has swung from "can't pay the costs" to "hate socialism," while also loving that you can only pay 20 euros a month for basic healthcare.

Which is it? Do you want a very socialist govt to pay 20 euros to? Or do you want none? Do you want health insurance? Or do you want none? Do you want funding so you can live off somebody else's investment in your business, or do you want to not have to pay anything?
I'm interested to know how many of these helpful steps need to be done again when an upgrade is installed? And thanks for sharing these, very useful.
Re 3: WordPress now includes this default index.php file in wp-content/plugins/ (and elsewhere) for this purpose:

<?php
// Silence is golden.
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Edit: This is true at least as of 2.9.2. Not sure about earlier versions. (Clarifying that it's not only as of v3.)
I guess you need a product that fits well with the demographic that sees your TV ad to make that work well.
I think this story basically demonstrates that once you focus on the money and simply do many projects that quickly bring money, you will be successful in making money. The biggest problems with most startups is that they focus too much on the product and too little on the money.
Does that include shipping, packaging, marketing, design, research, legal, office space, utilities, software and all the rest?

Didn't think so.
Or use advances in technology to find jobs, probably mostly in the way of finding ways to use unskilled people effectively. Theres no doubt their is an endless amount of work out there that could be done to make life better, it's just that it's probably uneconomical to undertake currently.

Maybe the answer is part welfare state, except that the government assign positions to people collecting welfare.
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Everyone here has been given some fantastic advice so I'll just add one little piece.

What I've seen from my own personal experience, is sites that sell advertising space have been tracking their advertising since they started because they need to know the value of their real estate.

Over time, this transfers to a fact that where ever you are doing your ad banners (a web site, a blog, a search engine), the people you are buying from know how to reach their audience best. Serious advertising firms have their own creative-content guys on the inside, and using them in those cases is way better than picking an external designer, freelancer, or using your own guys. This kind of comes down to this:

"If someone has a big yard, the kids that live there know how to play in it best."
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He said he knows scores of single women who are dying to be talked to.
I thought the description in the text box on the side was okay. What would you say sets lystener apart?
Right, but why bother with CS if you don't need it and don't want to do it anyway?
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If I may ask, how do you get full lyrics out of lyricswiki?
Hmmm... I should have posted the Headline as "Lamo just won't STFU". Next time...
Gabriel Weinberg (Duck Duck Go founder) wrote a summary of his experience using Reddit Ads, which he found to be effective: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/03/my-duck-duck-go-...

A couple of key points from the post:

"My ad ran for 13 days, from 3/7 to 3/20. It cost $650, and I spent $50 per day. In total it had 1,288,378 impressions (282,732 uniques) and yielded 20,700 clicks (18,420 uniques)."

"Redditors actually try out your site. 3c per unique visitor is pretty good in and of itself, but it's all worthless unless they actually try out your site. For example, you can get 5c unique visitors from StumbleUpon (presumably in a similar demographic), but StumbleUpon visitors never would try out my sites. Reddit visitors did try out Duck Duck Go."
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I wonder how likely that guy would have been to respond that way in a face-to-face meeting? I mean, I suspect he would have been somewhat likely, but on some order of magnitude less so than for internet communication.

Why do people treat internet based communication differently than other, older forms? I've never had a misunderstanding in person, over the phone, or over snail mail devolve into such a vile display of human worthlessness.

Does the mode change people or does the mode bring us into contact with more people who would be likely to respond in this manner? I know I have gotten into more arguments online than in person, but I also know that most of the people I know in person are fairly reasonable people. The relative anonymity of the internet tends to hide details that would lead me to avoid certain types of people long before such an argument appeared.

Maybe in 20 years, when everyone can no longer remember a time before the internet, we will have figured out "etiquette" properly. Ha, that reminds me, I haven't seen a "'netiquette" posting in so long; they used to be so popular 10 years ago. Do we just assume (wrongly) that every gets it?
The math in computer science may not be much like the usual idea of science, but neither is it what people ordinarily mean when they say "pure mathematics." It's much more nearly "applied mathematics," like statistics or signal processing or control theory: more likely to be interested in, e.g., the development of wavelets than in a proof of the Poincare conjecture.

Maybe it would've been more logical if the applied math end of the CS field had ended up with an applied-math-y name comparable to "statistics", e.g. "algorithmics" or "algorithmic analysis," and much of the rest of the CS field had ended up "software engineering" or "computer engineering" or "computational engineering" or "information system engineering" by analogy with "electrical engineering." But naming of technical fields is not necessarily systematically logical, sometimes because of old idiosyncratic reasons to avoid ambiguity with other pursuits: "astronomy" vs. "astrology," anyone?
In general, I mean the major release version, although I have seen applications pinned to a specific minor release because an update introduces a critical bug (which is especially frustrating when you want the update for security reasons).

I'm not a beginner programmer, but I avoid languages built on Java or .NET for these reasons, among others.
HN needs this

(edit: just kidding. But you should try it, it's fun.)
How would you legally define "speculation?" How could you prove it is different from normal investment? Do you think anyone would buy the debt of a nation that threatened to throw you in jail if you did so in a way they didn't like? What would prevent such a government from jailing its debtors simply to get out of a situation such as what is happening in Europe?
Neither of the games he mentions were won by luck alone. True, there was some luck involved (and some bad decisions), and his argument in general still holds, but to the games he mentions it doesn't apply.
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It seems as though every game I read about, including Germany-England and Argentina-Mexico yesterday, is decided by a lucky goal or a wrongly-allowed goal or a wrongly-disallowed goal.

Except that it wasn't.
Germany 4, England 1. The wrongly-disallowed goal would have given England 2.

And Argentina 3, Mexico 1.
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Running journals costs money.

Most libraries have subscriptions to various journals.
Psychological effect of having the first goal affects future performance.
Just for fun for now, but the obvious revenue model would be buying songs or cd's. I want to expand it, first :)
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But the original article is a selective disclosure of numbers carefully massaged for showing Microsoft as a solid company with a bright future. TC's commentary is to point this fact out.
I'm reading this in NetNewsWire for the iPad, a beautiful, slick, polished app that syncs with Google Reader. I have no complaints.

It sounds like you're subscribing to too many feeds. 2500+ items? You need to do an audit, cut that figure in half, then see if you're still unhappy with your RSS app.
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In that I am a heavy user of mapping software and think programs like MindNode are excellent visual aids, I decided to put together a first draft of the early-stage tech investor ecosystem here in Silicon Alley as a resource for entrepreneurs. As this is a first stab, I would ask your help in the comment section of this post letting me know about any early-stage investors I have left out and/or about any corrections of errors you come across on this map.
Depends on the type of equity being offered, and who it's being offered to.

The equity being offered here is probably worth nothing, or worse, is a liability. Especially since it's being offered to a "young and hungry" AKA "green" programmer who doesn't know that yet.
But the goals in question happened at critical stages of the game. England would have tied 2-2 and Mexico was tied but playing better than Argentina.

When your only option is to win, you have to open up your game, and your defence becomes vunerable. You can't know what would've happened, but you can't deny that these mistakes altered the dynamics of the games.
Except that if you watched the game, Mexico turned into a completely different team after that goal. It's hard to put your focus back to the game after such an obvious miss by the referee. While Argentina was clearly the better team, had the ref made the correct call and noticed the offsides, who knows, it could be a completely different game.
The group stage handles this quite well. If you play conservatively and accept ties, you most likely will need a win in the final game to have a chance to advance. Furthermore, tie breakers going by goal differential then goals scored also encourages more aggressive play. Taken over the course of three games, it is very likely that teams will end up in their rightful position. Take the U.S., for example. Even on the wrong end of multiple calls in close matches, they won their group, and deservedly so.

I believe at one point a group play system was used all the way through the end of the World Cup. This is probably a more statistically sound way of determining the best side, but with less fan appeal, I think.
Sorry, but this seems incredibly useless to me. It's dependent on two other services (Last.fm and Twitter), and it provides no value other than the ego-boost that comes from posting to Twitter. Additionally, the problem it solves is not really a problem; if you're on Last.fm I assume you can type in the title and artist on Google and get the lyrics that way. You have to deliver value to your users, and I'm just not seeing how this would accomplish that.

Perhaps there's something I'm missing here, though, because everyone else seems to love it.
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http://ansblog.com/2010/01/unbelievable-worlds-worst-footbal...
He's right that the real threat is deflation, not inflation. But printing money isn't the solution. A defaulting and clearing of billions, maybe trillions, of unsustainable debt in the system is required.

That will either happen chaotically, orderly, or governments will bankrupt themselves trying to prop it up and avoid it. Looks like the US is hell-bent on the latter, in no small part because most large creditors have deep captured the government itself.
It doesn't even cover Canada, which is a close geographic and legal neighbor of Google.
They haven't had to because they stop this stuff before it happens.

The cost of keeping the Apple App Store clean of malicious software is placed on the developers who are forced to wait for approval. The cost of keeping the Android App Market clean is placed on the users who will have to deal with the malicious apps that haven't been pulled yet.

Freedom isn't free it seems.

Does anyone know if Google can pull apps that haven't been installed by means of the Market?
I can understand your bitterness, one of my earliest wordpress sites got hacked. I just feel that the benefits of wordpress (ease, flexibility, SEO etc) far outweigh the risk of getting hacked.
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I'm sorry, but how many fart apps are there in the iStore? How many packaged (and obviously copyright) web image viewers of various models?

Google's system has problems. Apple's system has problems. Apple's curation has almost entirely been focused on eliminating duplication (even if better) of Apple-provided solutions.
With the right intonation & context it could also mean "stupid woman/girl" but not whore.
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