skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
daz.com looks like a fing spam site to me; I've got Markov Chains that make sites that look more honest than that. If you want to make a living making sites like that you've got to spam the fk out of them so you get a lot of money fast, and be careful to make up phony identities so you can keep getting new adsense accounts and not get your new domains burned.

Once you've got a good content gen system, the really interesting question becomes: "how do I create protective coloration so that I can pass site reviews?"

daz.com obviously answers that one poorly
You say you found him. Is he working with you now?
I (the author) would agree with this statement, except for the baffling fact that Google Chrome Frame has a non-zero number of users. So obviously some people thought "I don't want a new browser, but I'd be OK with installing this plugin."
Interesting Timing: The Economist and P≠NP
Talk about a Belgian scientist using "swarm intelligence" rather than AI to solve the traveling salesman problem.
I don't use the same password for every website, but I do use slight permutations. (For example, adding extra numbers or letters onto the end of a longer random letter and number root password that I have memorized.)

Of course this is probably not the best technique, but its probably secure enough. In addition, I do use alternate passwords for sites that I don't trust. So, for example, I would never use a permutation of my email password for a random site on the internet.
One minor tip, not needed for a few months yet: make sure that the socket inserts are difficult to remove.

A number of companies made plastic plugs one can insert into wall sockets to keep babies from exploring them. Unfortunately, at least one company makes them too small. We discovered this shortly after our child started crawling: he crawled to the socket, removed the plug, put it in his mouth, and attempted to re-insert it. We immediately replaced those plugs with ones that required effort for an adult to remove and were beyond what a baby could manage.
MathJax 1.0 is out Cross Browser LaTeX and MathML Rendering Just Got Real
If we want to routinely produce global scale startups in Africa we need to concentrate first on gaining sufficient skill to routinely produce continental scale startups.
26 Letters of the Online Marketing Alphabet
I'm roughly your same age and have similar exposure to the internet, but have no problems reading a GOOD book or watching a GOOD long movie.

Content used to be hard to find. Either you had to get a recommendation from someone for a book or watch whatever happened to be on TV. This led to a lot of mindless consuming of stuff that people simply did not enjoy, but it was all they had. The internet has made me (and many others) acutely aware of the back button. If you don't like the content you can move on since there is so much else out there to pick from.

I now view books and movies the same way. If I don't like a movie I simply turn it off and pick another or go do something else. I do the same thing with books. If I'm not into it after 50 or so pages then I put it down and try something else. Why force myself through content that I don't enjoy?
OK, but the amount of data you need to access will be bounded by a polynomial...
May 6, 2010 flash crash
I take a slightly different approach. I use the permutation method for most websites, but then I have long, random, and unique password for the key stuff like banking, primary email, and servers.
I've actually been reading more books since I started using the Web. There is no doubt in my mind that reading web content engages different kinds of reading skills and requires different kinds of reading discipline. Because so much information is hyper-linked in the web it is easy to get off the main thread of a subject and find yourself reading about a topic that had very little to do with the topic of origin. And that's where the special discipline comes into play, keeping the mind on track and knowing how deep you need to pursue links that will help you more completely grasp the original topic. In some printed non-fiction texts, footnotes allow you a similar ability to do this, though these are more often citations than clarifications. We don't need as much discipline to keep ourselves to the book, because the book itself doesn't offer the same convenient ability to hyperlink to the text referenced in the footnote that a web page does. In the world of books, we are forced to enrich our understanding of our text by following up with other books.

This does mean that it can be much easier to do research on the web, because of the immediacy of hyperlinks. However unless you are a careful reader, you may not actually do research. Casual reading of web content without the discipline amounts to just surfing. But surfing is not always bad, you might surf for a while and then find yourself doing research when you encounter a topic compelling enough to read more carefully.
China surpasses Japan in nominal GDP, now 2nd largest economy
I actually wrote a blog post about this a while ago, called "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" (http://goo.gl/K4RY) because I was hearing people complain that the site I was designing was too "similar" to other sites, specifically 37signals' product marketing sites. But who cares? They're good design patterns. You have to start somewhere.

And aside from that, building a promotional site is hard: http://goo.gl/8OlP. There's a lot of work there that's hard for a programmer to predict in advance, given that programmers generally haven't done things like think about how to market their product to an underserved niche. Tongue somewhat in cheek.
My method of "remembering" passwords, yet not using the same password for everything, is that I created a simple hash function which I can compute in my head.

I take the name of the website I'm visiting as the input for the hash.

Probably not the safest method of creating passwords, but it's practical in that I get a unique password per site... and I access my list of unique passwords anywhere I go.
Cindy Padnos, Illuminate Ventures, on Venture Chemistry
I think you should hire a local politician ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Parliament ) on your payroll if you wanted to do business in countries like Russia and India.
Yeah, it's weird how people tend to completely overlook that XMLHttpRequest is a Microsoft thing, originally it was to make the Outlook web client work.
Well, thanks for the response, despite the downvote. That said, it may seem like a 'bad' idea, as I understand the pitfalls in managing a consistent data schema across n databases, but it also seems like a much more performant idea than building a customer table and having to do an extra join on every read query for every ticket for every logged in user.
I am not surprised the least about this article.

There are ample examples on the Internet on how hackers manage to exploit one vulnerability, obtain a password, and then cause all sorts of damage since people tend to use the same password almost everywhere.

Getting someone's information and exploiting it has become so easy with social networking, it is frightening. This article http://l.niden.net/identitytheft demonstrates how someone can use your social circle to steal your identity. It is definitely not a far fetched story - it is reality and most people seem to ignore it.

Let us not forget the debacle of Rock You (http://l.niden.net/rockyou-cleartextpasswords) where they were storing passwords in clear text. Once the hacker got in, he had everyone's password for that service and for many others I'm sure.

I would be very interested to see what is the percentage of Facebook users that use passwords like: 'password', '123456', 'letmein' etc. I know my brother in law was one of them....

I wonder if any people from that 75% have heard of services like LastPass? (http://lastpass.com).
From what little legal knowledge I have, I think you don't go looking at your own patents that way, because then you are knowingly infringing, which means you would pay more damages.

It's simpler: they just want to shake Google down for some cash.
You know, if that guy from Mumbai could actually solve P = NP for a cool million, that's bargain. That is, if you get the rights to the solution. :D
I'm with you on the community thing... I mentioned how slow and bloated Magento is on their forums and was told to go and buy a faster server.
I use block permutations where my main password is rearranged by adding and removing similar blocks of characters and numbers.
not too efficient method I must say. I feel a website name specific hash function is the way to go and I use it for one password already.
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> daz.com looks like a fing spam site to me; I've got Markov Chains that make sites that look more honest than that.

I'm sure the 60,000+ users that put it together over the last couple of years will be appreciative of that comment.

> If you want to make a living making sites like that you've got to spam the fk out of them so you get a lot of money fast, and be careful to make up phony identities so you can keep getting new adsense accounts and not get your new domains burned.

That was not the plan.

> Once you've got a good content gen system, the really interesting question becomes: "how do I create protective coloration so that I can pass site reviews?"
> daz.com obviously answers that one poorly

Well, for some reason it passed those 'site reviews' for the first couple of years with flying colours, and then overnight the ads stopped working and there is no way to get an answer out of google why that happened, given a multi-year business relationship that wasn't too much to ask for.

It's their right to disable those ads based on whatever the terms-of-service are, but the least they could do is:

(1) tell me about it

(2) do that without being asked

(3) point out which part of their terms-of-service was violated

Rumour has it that the site was blocked because it contains the word 'hard-core', which refers to a music genre, not to porn, but we've not been able to get that substantiated either.
Ask HN: What does your Hardware Setup comprise of?
With so many great programmers around i think it might be nice to know what did their daily computer gig consists of ?
Doesn't Google use python quite a bit? Are there any good python implementations that use VMs?
Interesting. As a Rails guy, I'm a bit envious of a nice default authentication component being built in as long as it's possible to override.
Brain uploaders are missing that backing up your brain would create a clone of your mind - not transfer your conscious experience inside a digital world. Vacations of this nature would be your clone telling you the good time they had.
Bingo! And who isn't today immune to infomercials? Or better yet, who doesn't unconsciously avoid big, shiny graphics with the belief that they're banner ads? (I know I do)

The point being that unified design will pick up a unified brand. The original poster is noticing the Young Startup brand, I suppose. In time this brand will become associated withall young startups and the enotional aftertaste will dominate a/b tested behaviors.

Thus the virtue of being innovative in design. Ita not going to (necessarily) lose on a/b testing and it'll help you to avoid brand unification.
Varnish = reverse proxy
Squid = forwarding proxy
What really sucked was, as part of the embrace, their tools were the best tools at the time

How does it suck that you were using the best tools available at the time?
Me too, but I'm getting a "E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version" message when trying the new :lua* commands with the Windows version from the self-installing executable.

EDIT: Ah, the binary distribution is compiled with -lua (see :version). Cloning the Hg repository now...
Gadget turns an iPod Touch into an iPhone
http://greaterdebater.com/

Disclaimer: This is my site. It's about as underground as it gets, considering only myself and a few of my friends use it. I stick things here that I find interesting, so you'll enjoy it if you have the same tastes as I do ;) Feel free to post anything you like as well, if you care to.
To be fair, the description is bad and misleading. The submitter probably knew that the responses would miss that the input might be very (infinitely?) long.
Creating High Performance Silverlight Applications for Windows Phone
I tend to do better than that.

I have some sites that do around 25 cents eCPM, most of the time I wouldn't bother with a eCPM that low... $1.50 or $2.50 is more like what I want.

I've got a project in the pipe that I'm projecting about $2000/month in ad revenue... That's based on an extrapolation from a series of smaller projects covering similar domains. Both my black hat SEO friends, legit "Web 2.0" people and people who are experts in this subject domain would all think I'm crazy, but that's exactly why I can pull this off... Nobody thinks this will work so ranking for this is like stealing candy from a baby.

Unfortunately, the average webmaster is drawn to low-eCPM topics like a moth to a flame... That's their loss.
Here's the problem: "I have spent 2 years trying to learn django, why should I waste it? I'm 19 years old now..."

A) 2 years of programming experience in any language is not a waste of time even if you never touch that language again,
B) Sunk costs, if the previous 2 years were a mistake, then don't repeat that mistake by sticking to a language and framework you don't like.
C) 2 years is nothing.
simply awesome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable
Demand Media’s Traffic-Murder Mystery (Except It Didn’t Die)
... but not as large as Germany to UK, which is what the title says. The title does not say 'occupied territory', but 'Germany'.
In Search of Corporation 2.0
The article didn't appear in the New York Times but in a UK paper called The Times.
I remember Egypt getting cut off as quite a big story here (UK), http://dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=18746

Google it, it seems to happen every few months but most countries have some limited backup.

Latest appears to be this one, http://allafrica.com/stories/201007290937.html
Don't miss the bid by "VinayDeolalikar" below.
VinayDeolalikar: I think I have done this. http://i.imgur.com/Oedd0.png
Complicated Mechanisms Explained in simple animations
Is social media creating an empathy deficit?
Perhaps it's a self-fulfilling prophecy? If you believe that some lines are supporting the prices, you may want to sell or buy at those lines, thus re-inforcing those lines (or actually bringing them into being)?

By the way, those analysts you see on TV or read in the magazines--no matter if chartist or not--can always explain every stock movement. With hindsight.
Here is pg from 911 days ago on why downvoting for disagreement is okay:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

He is pondering changes to the voting system, as this issue is discussed every month or so.
Haptic Feedback for Touchscreen Devices
@robhawkes submission to 10K Apart
Which is a strategic move to A) get people to view MS as friendly to open source, and B) get people yearning for Visual Studio. Without Visual Studio, .NET is kind of a pain in the ass to develop. Not as bad as Java without Eclipse, but not anywhere near simple enough to be productive with substandard editors. Visual Studio makes .NET. Mono is intended to introduce people to the features that .NET provides and entice them into trying it where it shines, in Visual Studio, which runs around $500 a copy, which only runs on Windows.
I saw one interesting idea proposed on another blog: What if Oracle wants a license to BigTable in return for letting the Java patents out?
Even if they did Microsoft has it's only patent arsenal. You only bring a patent suit if the IP retaliation isn't equally damaging. I think this has more to do with Oracle seeing Google's cloud as a competitor to Oracle's cloud. If they depended on Oracle you can bet this would be a non issue.
Do you know that career opportunities in Moscow, despite being less great than in 2005, are dramatically brighter than anywhere in Europe (can't tell for the US)?

I left Moscow for Vienna 4 years ago. In Moscow some of my former classmates (in their late 20s) are managing departments in Big Four companies; in Vienna people spend 20 years working at the same desk.

When oil prices are high, the opportunities are booming. Young middle-class career-builders sure consider Russia as a temporary location ("I'll leave as soon as I'll be able to") and their children will attend Western universities and will stay some other place forever, but certainly idea about overthrowing this government is a last thought in their heads now.
That Oracle chose to go "knocking on the front door with a sledgehammer" implies they want something fairly big.

Could be patents, yes.

Could be a yacht-load of cash.

Could also be software source code, or data center or fiber access, or search data, could be the search technologies and implementation, could be a partnering agreement. Or some combination of these.

Google knows what they want. Or will soon.

Whether additional information leaks out from either camp?
And within couple of decades, it will surpass the US
Vitamin D deficiency is a widespread problem
I use http://supergenpass.com/ which generates a password by hashing a single password with the website's domain name (and since it's all in Javascript you can host the code from your own domain)
Quicklisp introduction screencast
This one pays better: http://www.claymath.org/millennium/P_vs_NP/
It is confusing only at first glance.

Django unambiguously states where to put your models, view functions, forms and the url patterns. Those are grouped into an 'application', which you can have many and define logically by the general task you want them to solve.

Inside the model, view, form and url files (settings too for that matter) you write your code according to the style and philosophy of Python.

For that reason Django can not and must not define for you in what other file should you keep and what name should you assign to some class you write that is required for one of your views or another.

If you don't feel comfortable with the structure of your Django code, it's best to look into general good practices of Python programming, because Django is Python!
Interview with Chris Spooner
Chris Spooner is one of the most successful freelance designers. He kindly accepted our offer to make an interview for ProPeople Blog.
Peepcode has a pair of excellent starting with vim screen casts. I started a few weeks ago and they helped me a ton.

https://peepcode.com/products/smash-into-vim-i
Yes that may be a problem but the question was what books would you add. I would love to hear any suggestions you may have.
I'm admittedly not a Java expert, and I'll grant you, Microsoft's VM might have had some cool features - hell I bet if you gave them enough time they would have had GPU accelerated 3d graphics available in a browser through Java - for Windows platforms only.

The problem with Microsoft is that they are a habitual monopolist and their method of choice is embrace, extend, and extinguish. They were already on step 2 of their plan before Sun's lawsuit stopped them.

Do you really think Java would be in the state it is today if you had to target a different VM for every OS? Microsoft always tries to lure developers over to their platform with the "ooh, shiney" factor of new APIs and features. This is like cheese in a mousetrap. Once they have you hooked on their APIs you're screwed.
Clojure Protocols and the Expression Problem
Personally, I think HTML5 is the wrong answer for the wrong problem. The problem is not "how do we make HTML+JavaScript work more like an application." The problem is also not "how do we make more application-like web pages." The problem is "how do we distribute application-like functionality over the web." That never had to mean making a new version of HTML. That never had to mean running inside the browser.

The folly of HTML5 is this incessant reliance on SGML and human-readability. In real-world, big-boy-pants development, we don't write HTML, HTML is our output format. We never needed a new HTML, we needed a new output format that worked. I don't think the WHATWG is up to the task, as evidenced by the complete lack of sane audio handling.
It's a goal, but we all know how goals don't always jive with reality.

It would still be nice to take Java code and run it on any server platform I choose. If a project is written well, it can, which is a major win for Java.
You're talking about memories
You might want to update this page: http://redis.hobsonfiles.com/about/
Going to college?  Call your lawyer first.
Creating computer-orchestrated knowledge work
Wait, Assume that all agents are anti free-riders. Whether from moral prohibition or for some other reason none of these agents will ever knowingly free ride on another. Assume, however, that each agent is unaware that the others are anti free-riders.

I am a free rider when possible so his logic falls apart. People make irrational choices all the time so charites are capable of gathering relativly small amounts of money (total from all of them is 2.2% GDP and there are a lot of such orginizations). However, there is a reason expencive things like building ITER are not based on cheritable donations.
The DJ has now substituted his bed for friends' couches

How does this scale when no-one has free crash space to give...?

It's like those TV shows where a family give up the corporate rat race and go and run a B&B or a vineyard in the country, who are their customers apart from corporate workers? It's not a revolution if only a small percentage of the population can ever do it.
I hope you're joking. Canada speaks English and French; Mexico speaks Spanish. Sure, they're different dialects than the European version, but they're all lumped together. It's kind of how people say think Chinese is one language, but in reality it's not just different dialects--it actually is multiple languages.
Although it is great that they are funding Mono and distributing silverlight on other platforms, I hardly think this is for altruistic purposes. They have a history of strongly pushing people towards their OS and platform and then ending support for third party tools (e.g. IE on Mac). I think moving towards something utilizing the power of HTML 5 and Javascript is the way to go long term.
Some chart analysis is valuable when used with discretion. For example, moving averages and moving average crossovers can help clarify trends in the market. Using a 13 week and 34 week exponential moving average crossover gives useful (and conservative) buy and sell signals and will often keep you out of the shit. Being aware of divergences (eg. the market is going ballistic but volumes are rapidly getting weaker) can give you an alert that things are about to change.

But yeah, a lot of TA - especially stuff like Elliot Waves - is probably worse than looking at chicken entrails.
The Five Failed Video Game Consoles (That Had It Coming)
Video games have a long and complex history.Take a look.
Medical treatment carries possible side effect of limiting homosexuality
I still must be missing your point... What would you prefer? If there was no contrib.auth then at best you'd have to do it all yourself which still means customizing third-party apps.
How to be concise (5 lessons from haiku)
An illusion. You're as attached to your digital possessions as you were to your physical ones. You just have different preferences.
Vimcasts are well done: http://vimcasts.org/
I had a real hard time understanding decorators when I was learning python. The documentation is vague as hell about them. I finally had to bug someone on irc to explain them to me. (Not in #python, I got my ass chewed out)