skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I severely doubt this line of thought.. but they didn't make any friends with their "switch from X to us" campaign, and it only takes one bruised ego with a lack of ethics to stir up trouble.

That said, if it's like most other DDOS attacks I've seen reported, the target is probably a user of the service with Posterous merely being unlucky enough to host a particular site someone doesn't like. I vaguely recall another platform got DDOSed recently due to some Israel vs Iran type cyberwar.
Yes, but the obsession with accumulating money can lead to problems.

Setting a high target for success and working hard to get there are worthy goals for men and women alike but going through life with a perpetually-agitated constitution because you don't attain a result that puts you in the top-1% wealth bracket (for example) is an almost certain way to find yourself unhappy and discontented as you strive to meet your main life goals.

In the midst of the tech bubble, a prominent Valley newspaper ran a feature story in which it interviewed five couples who were each at varying degrees of financial success, from modest to rich. Ironically, it was the rich couple (net worth of approximately $200 million) that was quoted as saying, in response to a question about what they most wanted, "we want to know what it would be like to be worth a billion dollars."

To me, this sort of mindset can be problematic, and the problem becomes one of loss of perspective. When the accumulation of money becomes in itself an obsessive goal, it comes back to bite because, no matter how much one has, it will never be enough. I don't think this is really an issue about the money itself, either - it involves instead the idea that your very perception of your value as a human being somehow becomes defined by how the ciphers add up, and that ultimately represents a sad loss of perspective because you wind up forever measuring your wealth (and what it brings) with what everybody else has.

Money is great when rightly gained and used. So too is ambition and a desire to achieve the ultimate success. It is good to set your goals high. But it is never good to become obsessed about the accumulation of money as an end in itself. Such a goal, even if attained, will sap the life out of anyone who allows money to become his master.

This piece was thought-provoking along these lines, though I think flawed in tying to tie all this to feminist themes. The issue of avarice as a problem is a transcending one that is hardly shaped by gender.
It amazes me how so many times this python feature gets overlooked:

>>> x=5
>>> 1<x<10
True
>>> 1<x<3
False

EDIT: fixed spaces, thanks epochwolf for the indent tip.
Maybe, and take it with a grain of salt, some people got infuriated by their recent switch to posterous campaign. I know this may be a very remote option, but in my opinion it's very possible.
It seems that HN is not the target audience for this. The folks here probably need much more sophisticated tools and likely build those tools themselves.

Who is this intended for?
To split hairs, I imagine his signature could be found in most of the comics...
"Evernote is an application that allows you to take pictures of objects that you wish to remember, and then search for that object later. Guess what else does this? A camera."

There's just one problem: Evernote is a note taking application that happens to be able to OCR images and allow you to search the text. Seems that someone is reviewing a tool that he has never used?

Remember the Milk has primarily picked up steam (IMO) because Google hasn't pushed/facilitated third-party adoption. Google Tasks is great if you're using Gmail, in a browser. Not so much if you want to access tasks from another application, mobile device, etc.

And when did Twitter claim to be any form of productivity app/tool?

This article seems to compare brainstorming apps to task trackers and a variety of other tools, claiming that some are "better" than others. It's not that I disagree with all of the points, but it is hard to follow/swallow.
about the fansites and the copyright, why don't the webmasters do that on stuff like onioncat ?
Text for anyone who can't see it due to site being down:

Oracle finally filed a patent lawsuit against Google. Not a big surprise. During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle. Filing patent suits was never in Sun's genetic code. Alas....

I hope to avoid getting dragged into the fray: they only picked one of my patents (RE38,104) to sue over.
A karate monitor told me his secret. He started with heavy and reduced the weight until he ended with just the bar. I tried it and in just four series with few repetitions the muscle feels like it's lifting the whole weight, not just the bar.
Good point - that's one thing I wonder about - although nothing's been said, it wouldn't surprise me if Chris Mason left Oracle for IBM or Red Hat.
I could careless about money. I'm actually horrible with it. I build things and break a lot of stuff. One thing I have become obsessed about is reaching my goals. Not sure if i'm the only one, but I am terrified of myself. For example, has anyone set a goal in the beginning of the year and then on December 31 reviewed how far they got? A new years resolution? I have gotten very serious about my routines and where they take me. I have been surprised by how hard it is to keep a goal in sight and develop routines that help me reach it. But, so far, my new routine has become my happiness. I wish for all of you the same.
How can a startup understand if it's the right time for a pivot?
When is a pivot necessary? Before the MVP because of feedback on a demo? To help formulate an easier customer acquisition and sales strategy?
So, if we make a Corporate entity as person analogy, you like someone who is unabashedly horrible and perfectly honest about it, rather than someone who tries to be good and is a dick sometimes.

If I were you, I think I would die from cynicism toxicity shock.

Well, either that or you think that all industry should be destroyed because all corporations should invariably end up being perfectly evil.
No. Pay attention to your data, then trust your gut.

There's a bunch of research that suggests that our unconscious mind is much better at making sense out of a large number of contradictory signals than our conscious mind is. If you blindly follow the data, you'll end up following whichever piece of data was in your mind at the time you made the decision. Instead, you want to absorb that data, let it affect your gut reactions, and then make a decision based on everything you know about the product and market.

You do, of course, have to "prime the pump" by seeking out information, particularly information that contradicts the assumptions you already hold. But you want to incorporate that information into everything else you know, not immediately take action because of it.
What shipping? DealExtreme has free worldwide shipping.
Start digging for bloggers and other potential customers by Googling relevant queries. Either send them to your dry test page, or ask them if you can chat over IM.
Why is taking so long for 1.0.1 to be released?

On a side note, they clearly jumped the version number to "1.0" way too soon. It is nowhere near production-worthy software (which is implied by a 1.0 release).
>because people that refuse to cooperate unless all of their demands are met never really get anywhere (see RMS).

RMS would be a clear counterexample. (See Linux, GNU utils, the recent GPLv3 release of Castle Wolfenstein, and many many other victories.) It's a curious sort of logic that says a hardline stance is ineffective because 100% of his goals aren't meant.

Not that moderates don't also serve a purpose, but the radicals are an absolute necessity.
Not directly related, but as the child of a family that amounts to a dynastic succession of academics, I feel the need to disabuse anyone reading of the impression that there is any connection whatsoever, at all, between having professors for parents and getting a tenure-track position.

As it stands, it's nearly impossible for spouses to exert enough leverage to find academic employment at the same institution. If they're lucky, they'll spend a good deal of their career building up the karma to pull that one off; there isn't anything left over for little Billy.
The question really is: What problem are we trying to solve?

The answer is: Allowing you to easily find certain types of people over your hundreds or thousands of contacts. Types = certain business or personal relationship, certain skill, certain place you met, etc.

Here are the core features, the minimum viable product. In fact, I would avoid something that is bloated and doesn't focus on these core features:

* Automatically importing and deduping your contacts from a variety of sources: email contacts, linkedin, facebook, maybe twitter.

* Automatically assigning a rank score to each friend, based upon your frequency of contact with them, and analysis of the social graph. You want your spouse to be ranked high, and the guy you met once at a networking event to be ranked low.

* Depending upon interactions with people, you can upvote or downvote them, to change their rank score. Ran into someone you want to hang out with more? Upvote. New girl made a date with you and then stood you up? Downvote.

* You can search or browse by tag. There is smooth autotagging and query expansion, to make sure searches don't miss certain friends.

That's it.
No, but removing it is a statement they will not go to great lengths to protect free speech from the government, if it comes to that.
When what you're doing is starting to look a lot tougher or is not working, and you see an adjacent (and somehow related) opportunity.
Cyclists often have better developed legs than many guys in the gym.
Must be something that they really dislike.
Bullshit. It's OK not to get rich, but it's not OK not to try.
Shrug. I think bad code had more to do with it.
Jeff Jarvis: “We Should Switch to a Default of Publicness”
I was once in an industry meeting with representatives from five major corporations. The corporate-speak got so bad sometimes I could barely follow it. It was like a different dialect.

After a while I noticed that the more unpleasant the thing the speaker was trying to convey, the thicker the dialect got. One guy treated us to five minutes of near-impenentrable jargon that ultimately boiled down to "what's in it for us?"
Well, I am sure the Wolf and Doom games will take more effort to convert to something unique, and sell it as your game.

My source is a great way to get started developing iOS apps

Thanks

let me know
2nd DDOS in a matter of a week.
In other news: Who goes to MySpace?
Why online brand spending will create new winners in online ad networks
This is true. However I find most guys at the gym rarely do squats, lunges or leg presses. They tend to focus on their glamour muscles and foolishly ignore the rest of their body.
Sure, I can send you couple of .m classes and you can decide
email jimmy@inodesoft.com
on the titanic, 46% of women in the 3rd class was saved whereas only 33% of men in the 1st class survived.
You are earning ~$60/day and that's quite an achievement to say the least considering there are tons of games on the App Store. A quick check on the App Store shows a pretty good rating of 4+ and I see there is a potential to keep this game going instead of selling it off.

Anyway, if you are really keen on selling it off you could try eBay or better still contact other iPhone/Pad game developers, companies to see if they are interested to buy it. As for price, I'm not really sure.

Good luck!
I'm not sure where you live but travel doesn't take a lot of money. If you live anywhere in the western world and make a modest living, it is very much possible to explore the world around on a cheap budget. The pleasure is in experiencing the world and her people, not in being able to do it in style, I suppose. IMO, at least.

EDIT: didn't mean -in style- in a negative manner. There are probably only a few thousand people in this world who own private jets - ridiculously low odds. So why put it off? That was my only point.
Droid 2 Review
From the footnotes: "In addition, we will be transitioning to SHA-256 in the future. "
IBM is already a Java licensee and the Java used on the AS/400 is licensed to users from Sun via IBM. This should be totally obvious to anyone who has ever seen the JavaTM logo anywhere.
If possible, look into meetups. They are awesome sources of real time surveying :-)

If you are doing enterprise software or even small business, getting a letter of intent to purchase can help you raise money as well, if you need to.
Are you saying that there is some more direct route to working on what one wants? Or that the direct route to happiness is to give up such aspirations?
Is Dogbert talking about Nokia?
Based on the those tasks, seems like hiring a lot of cheap VAs would be helpful to spammers.
I got bad reflections on my iPad just sitting on my bed. It's like holding a mirror up in front of your face, and you have to adjust it to not catch distracting things.
I've only found that to be a problem with black text on white. I just finished an 800 page book on my phone with white text on black with no issues. I've found that I prefer reading on my phone to the kindle or physical book, mostly because the page turning is instant, my phone is always with me, and I can read one handed in bed without needing a light.

If you have an android phone, check out Aldiko.
This is also true. But I do squats, cleans and deadlifts [1], and most cyclist have much more defined, and often bigger, legs than me.

[1] Well, I used to. These days I don't do much heavy strength training, and mostly do conditioning as a part of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practice.
Apache procedure requires a 72-hour vote window, which will be closing soon.

As far as 1.0 being production ready, yes the bug is unfortunate, but the fix is 29 characters long. Aside from this unfortunate line of code, I'm 100% certain that CouchDB is production ready. Lots of sites have been running it in production for years without issue. An incomplete list of happy users is here: http://www.couch.io/case-studies

Here's the bug-fix, to give you an idea:

http://github.com/apache/couchdb/commit/1423d6f0a593e1681706...
Well, firstly this isn't a big problem for HTTP based services like justin.tv, almost all Tor exit nodes allow HTTP exits, but it's a bigger issue for non-HTTP exits.

But the better way is to take into account exit policies. Only ban access from those IPs that are Tor exits and allow access through to justin.tv.

You can query the exit policies of a given exit with TorDNSEL: https://www.torproject.org/tordnsel/

I also whipped up a quick script that can be fed a list of Tor exit nodes on STDIN and will spew out a list of exits that aren't allowed to access a given IP:PORT: http://gist.github.com/523328

According to that 5/1338 Tor exits have policies that don't allow exits to justin.tv on port 80 (199.9.249.22:80), but e.g. 309/1338 ban exits to irc.freenode.org:6667.

That means that justin.tv is needlessly banning ~0.4% of Tor exit nodes, but someone using the same approach with an IRC server is needlessly banning ~23%. With SMTP (checked on a random GMail server) that percentage rises to 98.8%.
Geez. I never thought about that scenario, but it makes perfect sense. So much for the one possible advantage of employer-based health insurance.
I really like that quote.
Most of Oracle's moves are short term plays. Growing the Java and Unix industries would allow them to sell boxes. These do the opposite, in favor of making cash now.
> set at very low weight to failure.

Keep in mind that "very low weight" in this context might be what you can do 12 reps of. For anyone who wants to know a lot more, look up "Doggcrapp Training". I'm actually serious!
is that what freedom means? it sounds like you're condition of freedom is to have money, and its only freedom as long as you can pay for it. not really that free.
I take Paypal by the way.
I wish she had said that explicitly at the beginning, a low six-figures income is rich enough for me but making that money is almost as hard as becoming obscenely rich. After you reach 80-100k a year working for someone else it's a very large and all consuming step to make it to the next rung of the ladder.
"A grain of salt" is the expression.
Estimates versus Commitment
If you are a member of development team, sooner or later someone will ask you to estimate something. It can be something small like a bug or task but it can be also something bigger like entire project. Regardless what that is, try to figure out what kind of answer you are expected to give. I don’t mean here that you should be trying to give the “right” estimate. I’m thinking about something different — usually there are two possible types of answers...
It was iD Tech 4 plus MegaTexture. The feature for iD Tech 5 is being called Virtual Texture, and it supports more than just the terrain.
Laser Pumped Flying Saucer Spacecraft
The problem is when you don't have money or savings to not think about money all you think about is making that money to do whatever venture you want without worrying about putting food on the table and a roof over your families head.
Entrepreneurs Turn Carbon Sequestration Into A Source Of Revenue
The NYT shines a spotlight on a pair of innovative chemistry-focused entrepreneurs, Brent Constantz, founder of Calera Corp., and Joe Jones, founder of Skyonic Corp., who have found ways to use the carbon dioxide emitted from power plants and other industrial sources to produce valuable materials including "green cement" and a variety of common chemicals, as a profitable alternative to current Dept. of Energy plans to bury the CO2 at huge expense and complexity.
Birth Order Affects Child's Intelligence and Personality
How To Empower ASP.NET Repeater With jQuery
Simple example how to use strong sides of ASP.NET Repeater and strong sides jQuery to write less code.
If by "interesting" you mean "totally misunderstands patent law". What Google claims is irrelevant; either they use Oracle's patented techniques or they don't.
Id GPLs Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Return To Castle Wolfenstein engines
Do you have any examples of startup pivots?
[Citation Needed]

(pirate bay founders create flattr)

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/12/pirate-bay-founders-flattr-...

Here is the video where he talks about sharing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyGCsCpofVk

"How do you know they are profitable?"

Bandwidth isn't that expensive. With all of the micropayments that will go through their service, they will make a profit.
Darn it you changed your reply after I replied, this still kind of applies. Edit again, you're reply is practically evolving every time I hit update.

Being free and being broke is what I think his direct route is. You can say that the pan handlers have more or less freedom than a business owner, depends on how you define the words.
unless you have no data. in that case, start with your gut.
But this is about Google, not the government. Your local book shop is free to not sell nazi literature and so is Google, freedom of speech doesn’t even come into play here and neither does segregation. Nazis can try to find another book shop or open their own, simple as that.

It is pretty obvious why it is not a good idea to apply freedom of speech not just to citizen-state relationships but also to citizen-citizen relationships. Wouldn’t citizen-citizen freedom of speech, for example, imply that publishers have to publish every manuscript that is sent to them?

Freedom of speech is all about making it impossible for the state to make a law which would, for example, make it illegal to sell nazi literature. Nothing more.
I personally define people by their track record.
Here's a legitimate way to make money from affiliate programs on Twitter. I make modest commissions each month via @ThemeHunter without promoting.

http://www.dotsauce.com/2009/10/28/affiliate-id-rss-feed-yah...
I followed the HST routine for all but the last 2 weeks. Started out with 2 weeks of 15 reps per set / 2 sets per exercise and then on to 10 reps a set for 2 weeks and then on to 5 reps per set for another 2 ..

It not only helped me put some muscle on, it helped me knock down 3-4 percent of body fat as well and increase my strength by quite a bit. i ended up benching out at 240 lbs in the last 2 weeks where as my previous max was 170 lbs. I highly recommend the routine.
Mark Ripptoe's Starting Strength is one of the best books out there for Strength Training.
> low weight, high rep training builds red "twitch" muscle and high weight, low rep training builds white "slow" muscle

There's more to it than the fiber type.

High volume training like this induces sarcoplasmic hypertrophy. The muscle gets bigger (puffed up), but explosive speed can actually decrease. Capillary density is decreased so aerobic endurance is compromised.

People who train for combat sports are well aware of all this. Bodybuilder style high volume workouts can decrease hand speed & punching power, and endurance. The emphasis must be on fast explosive movements.

Another aspect is that a major fraction of strength gains come from training the nervous system. The nervous system must learn how to fully engage a muscle. This is best done with fewer more intense reps than with higher volume, bodybuilder style lifting.
I've had issues with knee pain my whole life - at first it was because of "growing pains".

Any high rep stuff to muscle fatigue I've tried causes pain for several days. But strength training helps it in general and makes it a non-issue in day to day life.

As always, YMMV.
Umm no.

Deep brain-churning scholarship is hard! Let's have spiffy whizzy pop science talks!

(TED can be interesting, but this article is WTF.)
too bad posterous goes under the only time I write something. :)
Isn't this a repost of "Ask HN: Tips for Hackers having Kids?"
Using GNU Screen to perform a command line demo
How Chávez tries to hide the truth about his government
Not another CSS Framework (CSS Layouts that always work)
Facebook Seattle open for business (plus a puzzle)
You are describing a false dichotomy.

My comment was less an expression of admiration for Oracle than disdain for Google.
1. No. Read what I said.

It's all about patterns. A single spammer uses a small set of patterns. It's not just down to IP address.
If you already have patents (as Sun did in this case) you can't just forget about them. Saying nothing about patents is equivalent to saying "some day we'll change our mind and start suing". If you want to make something really open you really need some kind of irrevocable license or promise not to sue.
Did he code Branchr, too? Or hire others to do it for him?
An interesting piece of fiction. I guess it was a nice change of pace from the other stuff on here today.
What is the Rails3 _snowman tag?
To split it even further, he only signed his strips as 'Watterson' and so a search for 'Bill Watterson' or 'Bill AND Watterson' should return zero results :P
touche, I should have studied your examples longer as the second one it is clearly not straight sql. I have always been a bit jealous of linq and I agree there should be a language which allows the compiler to be extended. Smalltalk allows this to some degree particularly the research done by SCG: http://scg.unibe.ch/research/helvetia/examples
It seems like the biggest gain came from lifting until failure. Even bigger gains were made from lifting more reps of lighter weights to failure than from lifting fewer reps of heavy weights to failure.

Personally I prefer to lift fewer reps of heavier weight and just get it over with. The high rep workouts take more time and are somewhat masochistic.