skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm, interesting.

You can scale anything, though. For example, a pair of reverse proxies in front of the single "share nothing" app server could reduce the load on that one machine. I'm sure the collective brilliance of the HN readership could come up with solutions.
It's not so much that it's an SQL injection attempt, more so that it's an attempt through paper, which is the same as the Little Bobby Tables one.
http://blog.last.fm/2009/02/23/techcrunch-are-full-of-shit

Perfect example.
While their goal is to MOVE TRAFFIC THROUGH, they move it in the worst possible way. Ask any traffic official, they program the system to limit the speed of the vehicles, rather than help them find the most effecient. This "safety feature" leads to exactly what the article cites: stop lights that inhibit someone from going too far without stopping or at least slowing down.
there are no adults in hollywood.
Oh, nowhere near as bad, it's readily comprehensible. I think it's machine translated itself though, I was able to get the same phrases out by typing in what I thought the English originals were likely to be (e.g. "私はあなたを助けるつもりです" comes from "I am going to help you").

While doing this I was disappointed to see that Google Translate makes one of the biggest English->Japanese beginner mistakes - overuse of anata ('you'), which you hardly ever use in Japanese.
I don't disagree with that.
ChooseWise.ly Hearts Ron Conway
A shamelessly gushing post about Ron Conway from a super-fan, especially after tonight's email leak.
history is a good predictor of the future...
Let's put it this way: Arrington may be right. http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/23/ron-conway-angel-email/
I made a comment to the same effect on this same story, but I've realized that it's actually phonetic given the (mis)pronunciation often heard 'round the Valley. Most people I know say "ahn-treh-preh-noo-er" instead of the more Frenchified "ahn-treh-preh-ner". It's easy to see how one might misspell the former (as RC apparently did).
How is it that someone as sharp as McClure and his posse claim him to be cannot realize that no matter how well-crafted the the persona may be, if it personifies douchebag then maybe you need to dial it back a bit.
Far from "nearly equally" as bad, at least Nate's text is easily interpreted in the intended way. His grammer may be very stiff and incorrect, but for a non-native speaker who probably doesn't live in Japan, give him some slack.

That said, I did enjoy his construction 「あなたは日本語で書くことができます。私はあなたを助けるつもりです。」Trying to preserve the jerky tone: "You are able to write japanese! It is my intention to rescue YOU."
TV channels actually span a much wider range than just near 500MHz. Channel 2 starts at 54MHz, while the highest UHF station is near 800MHz. There are gaps in the middle to accommodate other uses, such as FM radio.
To be fair that was posted by Shonfeld and not Arrington as can be seen in the by line. http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/20/did-lastfm-just-hand-over-u...

I suppose you could hold him responsible for not preventing it from being published, but this wasn't directly one of his posts.
I think in order for this argument to hold true, you'd have to go back for four months (or longer!) and do the exact same thing that the OP did. That is: pick every single article where Arrington has predicted something based on an anonymous source and award points based on whether it was true or not.

Doesn't appear to me that the blogger was cherry picking in any way.
Fair enough. If you can't down vote for the content down vote for the guidelines violation.
As prawn suggested, and I know for a fact, Star Alliance has a program. So, if you stick with airlines within SA and get into their program you'll be fine.
If Facebook really is building a phone, it should buy Skype first
they are all over in the san fernando valley, or at least that is what their section 2257 docs claim...
I guess that what you miss about rails is the MVC architectural layout, but that's not specific to RoR and you can use it wherever you want, even in the webapp microframework for google app engine: have a file or module for models, another for controllers and another for views and get them together in a main module; you can also use django (I've used django 1.1 in gae with no problem) or use Jruby on appengine (there's a whole project for that: http://code.google.com/p/appengine-jruby/) to run ruby on rails, padrino or sinatra, if you really miss ruby. I've also run ruby projects on app-engine (in sinatra, which is the coolest microframework out there, IMO) and it's been easy, I actually felt it easier to set up that a django project, as it was hack free.
Your use of browser detection scripts frustrates me. You should test for features instead if you want to get conclusive data.
According to you, demand dropped when states reduced their purchases of higher education.

(By the way, did you ever provide numbers on gov subsidies for colleges?)
Who in the world thinks that deleting a tweet (or blog post, comment, email, vm, memo, letter, etc.) is going to make it disappear? Through out history seemly smart people continue to do this...
They do this here, too. Last year the system failed spectacularly in Montgomery County (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11...), and it was a nightmare.
$3 per user per month is expensive. Looking at the price SaaS offerings, they're generally in the $5-$15 per user per month range, so $3/month is a good chunk of change.

It's even worse for advertising based services, who generally make far less per user per month.
using Ubuntu or Debian as a server instead of Fedora-derived distros was a sign of non-professionalism

Funny. In my circles it's considered a sign of masochism to run a RPM based distro in this day & age. To each their own, let's keep the evangelism off HN.
Calacanis has already publicly denied being at the meeting:

http://twitter.com/#!/Jason/status/25165977135

> No, I was not at the "super angel summit," and I would never be pro collusion. Sounds like @arrington is stirring the pot to get pageviews
Michael Arrington is a writer, not an oracle of truth. Regardless of whether he gets it right, people are still going to go to his site. In fact, the further he spins the story, the more people he gets to visit TechCrunch.
McClure's response wasn't defensive. Defensive would have been keeping quiet and not admitting to have been there in the first place.
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Like almost everything Steve writes, the story is great, but I would have preferred a different take-home message. As it stands, it seems to be: "You have no choice but to give up on your values and lower your standards to those of your competitors. Perhaps even lower if you want really want to win."

I guess I would have preferred something like: "You have to ask yourself if it's worth giving up your standards to compete for these contracts. This might be the right plan, but maybe you're better off lowering your projections and sticking to your core values --- it's worked for you so far!"

Am I just being naive?
If you can do it part time, I say go for it. I did an undergrad in CS and then did my MBA after working for a few years. At the same time, I started my first company and the knowledge from the MBA really helps. Little things like basic accounting principles to big things like contracts and corporate finance really do help out.

Perhaps the biggest benefit is becoming more comfortable with working in groups where not everyone is an engineer, which is very challenging. Engineers have a certain way of thinking and it's easier to deal with those who think like you.
Don't be too naive. The 4chan guys are great but not at that scale.

After facebook's outage started, there were like 9128 threads in /b/ with trolls claiming it was their success.
How Loneliness is Contagious
'Asshole' is not a style
The Death of Textbooks, the Dawn of Learning
Could be all fake and disinformation. Stirring up controversy is how people get attention (and therefore money) nowadays.
Ask HN: Can you provide any feedback on this Ethical Hacking course?	
Hi,

I am considering attending the Ethical hacking course offered by CEP Logic in Orlando in November.

Has anybody or anybody you know attended this course before? If so, what would be your (or that of the person who attended) feedback on this course or CEP logic?

Thanks.
In my book, that makes it even worse. I can at least have sympathy for people who write and talk that way because they've never known anything else.
if it personifies douchebag

It may personify douchebag to you and 82,482 other irrelevant strangers on the internet. More important, though, is what it personifies to the entrepreneurs looking to raise money. What you see as douche, many see as no-bs straightalking angel investor(whether accurate or not is irrelavant).

At the end of the day, his blog is a sales pitch to entrepreneurs. And from all that I can see, he has done pretty well. ie. he's scored many deals where the entrepreneurs see him as the no-bs guy; I'm not aware of any where an entrepreneur blatantly turned him down due to his writing style. Most that claim they would never raise money from him have never raised money and never will.

Conclusion: it's his style, it works for him and his goals, so he continues.
It's hard to know what's fact when it's written like a tabloid.
Ask HN: I have users, I have traction, How do I get paid?
Hi HN, first let me say thanks in advance for your suggestions and insight.

I was hoping to get some advice on a side project I'm looking to monazite. I've built a social tool that is starting to pickup traction, and I'm looking at building a "pro" version which users would have to pay a monthly fee to use (it's a service). It would be great if they could just fill out their payment info and a few other pieces of data we would need, and then be on their way.

I'm not expecting a ton of monthly subscribers at first, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to charge users. Essentially I'd like to test the market without a huge investment.

I'm looking for the lowest barrier of entry. I've been considering using Paypal as it is incredibly easy to setup, and I won't have to mess with a merchant account. However, I've seen people completely bash Paypal around HN, and I'm not entirely sure why. Is there a better tool I should be using here?

Thanks for your advice.
I just moved here and I think it's awesome. There are so many tech meetups, startup founders, hackathons, and jobs (if your startup doesn't work out) that it's worth it. I still only interact with the drama by reading it on the internet and I get a lot of benefits from living here.
Background checks and Internet companies
I recently applied for a job in a big internet company and attended the interview. I use hosted email service of that company. I own multiple email id's and use them for different purposes.

Today i received a notification in my primary email address that, "You are subscribed to xyz" group. But i didn't subscribe to any xyz group. Some one did on my behalf.

I believe they are doing a background check on me by connecting different email id's.

Is it legal? Any one experienced same kind of behaviour?
Most people that I know that get mbas are trying to move up in a big company. It seems like to me a lot of the information is theoretical... like Porter's five forces. I would research the curriculum and see if it matches up to what you want to know. where are you thinking about going?
The Russians were barely able to slow down Facebook back in 2009. Unless someone on 4chan has a bigger botnet and just decided for lulz to DDoS Facebook, 4chan would not even come close to generating enough traffic to register on the #2 website on the Internet.
This had me up until the McClure part. I'll need something more than an anonymous source to believe it.
If ever there was a time for PG not to weigh in, its right now. Paul has said all he needs to say by what he's done. The whole debate has been partly shaped by YC's innovative approach to startups.

Paul's got one of the loudest voices in the debate already without saying a word.
By the way, can this meeting be connected to Angel List (http://angel.co/) in any way?

As far as I understand, Angel List is an effort to create a centralized curated marketplace for angel investing. Seems very similar to AngelGate. Even if these are unrelated, I wonder, whether Angel List can be viewed as something against competition.

On the other hand, Angel List simplifies angel fundrising a lot and therefore is beneficial for entrepreneurs.
Please god no, Skype is probably one of the best developer collaboration platforms I have used. It is an essential tool in my team of freelancers arsenal, I do not want FB anywhere near that data. FB is too loose with their privacy protection for a communications product like Skype.

I would be much happier if they licensed the technology and let Skype be. Besides they don't need the brand they just need the tech, a licensing agreement would give both parties what they want, FB would get the tech they need and Skype would get a payday as well as be compatible with FB's phone.
If he were going to comment on this, is there some reason why one of the existing comment threads isn't sufficient?
I disagree. Or at least, you will cause problems for other people. One of my coworkers was delivered a Windows app by a third party - it was written using MFC. I said, "Seriously? In 2010, MFC? MFC was bad even before it became obsolete." My coworker said, "They used it once before and decided it works for them, so that's what they use."

Here's the thing: part of being a developer is keeping up to date. If you find one thing that works for you and don't ever update you are not doing your job.
paypal's likely going to be the easiest. To some extent, whatever your initial results are, factor in a few % who aren't buying solely because it's Paypal. If you have profit, expand in to using Google Checkout as an alternative (though I don't think they have recurring) then look at getting a full merchant account that support recurring (or investigate spreedly or other services).

Good luck.
The President of the United States managed to miss the fact that the word derives from french.
Well by that logic the Facebook phone (conveniently ommitted) should be launching any day now.
Any sort of mind mapping software usually works for me. I've had great success with bubblus[1] which is a very simple web based mapper.

[1] http://bubbl.us/edit.php
http://bit.ly/d0uHHX ;-)
Ron Conway rocks but the email almost feels like it was intended to be leaked.
I can't imagine anybody using '風' for 'method' for anything relating to software. It's usually written in either katakana (メソッド), or the mathematical term for function is used instead (関数).

Really wish I could see the original message...
Which is just what I'm doing with it, so I brought it up here!

I've had the urge to homebrew an 8-bit computer from the chip up, but I don't know if I have it in me to go that deep just yet, so I'm testing the waters by homebrewing some 2600 ware first. If I like it, maybe I'll build a hardware emulator somehow (Typing that I thought of half a dozen obstacles, but hey, why not?).
Sorry, I guess I was thinking of this reply: http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/22/deny-this-lastfm/ but that would have been to the post I linked to above.

Back: http://www.last.fm/forum/21717/_/535934/5
and forth: http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/23/another-blanket-denial-by-l...

Since Arrington wrote two of the three articles, I guess I just figured he wrote the original too.
Dickens in Lagos
Yes, but Dave's accidental tweet to the whole world came after Ron's email, didn't it? That's what really makes Dave look like a webtard - Ron told Dave not to "cause silicon valley more embarrassment with your unprofessional classless writings", and then Dave sent out a tweet doing exactly that!
When process are cheap, who needs timeouts?
I find the opposite true - for me it seems like HN is a great way to find those longer, more detailed, articles that I use Instapaper for all the time.
I would read it as, "You need to learn how the system works inside out and backwards, and only then will you be in a position to decide what to do with that information."

One path forward is to lower standards. Another is to decide to compete in a different way (which had been working pretty well for them). But this is a big decision, and the only people who can properly make that decision for the company are the founders. And they can't do it without knowing what they are up against.
4. To be able to rely less on Lawyers, accountants and other business professionals.

Why, that is their area of expertise and unless you are going to bring yourself to their level of education in their field of expertise then you should rely on them. Especially accounting and major legal situations. Missing a detail on either of those could cost you far more than it is worth. Law and accounting are the two disciplines I specifically advise people to cover first when getting out on their own.

As for the MBA, if you are on your own then numbers don't add up. You can get the education for free so why would you pay for it if a piece of paper is not going to affect you bottom line. As well, there are serious concerns that formal documented education outside of some specific disciplines may have past it's golden age (in relation to job qualifications). The market is hyper inflated due to lending practices so the numbers are really bad on a degree for a degrees sake.
I'm curious, what do you think they should do differently with their logo? It already seems pretty minimal to me.
Simple: buy a bigger server. It's amazing how powerful one machine can be these days.
Is the only revenue stream for Instapaper the app you can buy?
I already have a commercial system (with some homebrew, of course) that correlates, but I absolutely love playing with new things. I'll get this going in a lab soon. Thanks for sharing!
It's going to feel A LOT more surreal in the coming days I suspect. A lot of people are going to go into serious a$$-covering mode to distance themselves from these people as quickly as possible. It's not just a matter of reputation, it's a matter of landing on the preferred side of the law.

Ron's email is great. I do wonder why he didn't write it before this whole thing broke. I'm guessing it would have been even tougher.
I haven't tried that recently, but the Instapaper text extractor didn't use to parse HN comment pages at all.
That is a nice machine. I have been trying to convince myself that if I want to build a custom set of cabinets that should build a 4x8 router to make the whole job easier :)

Yes my web page is lame and written by hand 7 years ago, but it does have a few pics.

http://www.crcarlson.com/Personal/cnc1/cnc1.html

http://www.crcarlson.com/Personal/cnc2/cnc2.html
Ask HN: Tips for buying a domain in redemptionPeriod
I am looking to purchase a particular domain name that when doing a whois lookup shows the status of "redemptionPeriod" with an updated date of Sept. 1st 2010...

I've been trying to look into the subject and have found many conflicting reports of the best way to go about getting a domain name if it does in fact expire... most recommend pool.com or snapnames.com

I've been seeing some sources that say that it takes 30 days once the domain has entered the redemptionPeriod + 5 days of pendingdelete, others mentioning 75 days for the whole process.

So if anyone has any experience with domain name acquisition once it has gotten to this step I'd appreciate some tips, such as when and how to go about getting it. Thanks
Don't listen to rap, then. Stick with pop.
So if I blow away my local storage I'm hosed?
Ask HN: $100k and equity
So I've got this idea for a pretty massive vertical app but I'm not a developer. Talked to a couple hackers (working at legit companies so seemed pretty comfortable with salary) - no interest. Contacted a development group today who 'got it' immediately and want to do it. The thing is though, they don't want to go in as full partners but want $100K + equity for devel. They've also got the contacts for the money. I'm totally dependent on them for devel work, contacts and hooking up with advertisers. I'm working at my own company 9x6 hours so can only do the specs for my portion of the app and be running the prototypes real-time, everyday. My idea, their 80% of the work. What's a fair split if they round up the 100K? How about if I come up with the money?
Mixpanel is looking for software engineering interns - summer 2011
William Wang and the 21st Century Business Model
If you do something like copy-on-write (for storage, and possibly for memory, too), it could be fairly light-weight.

Disclosure: I am working on XenServer.
We actually encounter Thundering Herd problems on a very regular basis. The Starbucks page has nearly 14M fans and posts may get tens of thousands of comments/likes with a high update rate. You have a lot of readers on a frequently changed value which means it is not often current in cache and you can have a pileup on the database.

Since we encounter this on a regular basis we have built a few different systems to gracefully handle them.

Unfortunately, the event today was not just a thundering herd because the value never converged. All clients who fetched the value from a db thought it was invalid and forced a re-fetch.
It's been done already! Has incredible graphics...
I don't know McClure or any of the other alleged colluding Lucifers, but I will say that, assuming McClure is a person of influence in the tech/dev community, I don't want him influencing others to write that way. Why? Simply because I don't want to read any further blog posts that are written that way.

So it's more selfishness than self-righteousness that leads me to criticize his particular style.
This was a result of us throttling traffic to the site - not the original outage.
There sure are a lot of votes for Donald Duck (Kalle Anka).