skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I used to work at a large porn company, and the porn industry has been hurting for a long time.

That had to be intentional.

On another note, what insight did your market research yield with regards to the store? I would assume that a lot of people would be turned away at the prospect of porn-related services showing up in their credit card statement, just to name one assumption.

The online porn business actually makes for an interesting study, come to think of it.
Very interesting. Many photographers and famous scientists died because of this kind of experiments. At that time the effects of radiations were now well know.
If Ben is really for Equality and Diversity, as he says, he would be pushing for Catholics to allow anyone to be a priest that had the faith and ability to be one, using the scandal and the dwindling number of priests in the church as the reasons, and leave it at that.

By not allowing women priests and not allowing priests to marry, priests' numbers have dwindled and they've basically had to take most of the people that applied for the job, if they showed significant faith.

This was less of a problem when being a priest was something many families thought were important. Parents would groom one of their children to become a priest who might have otherwise gone on and been an average person in the laity. This was a respected position, and a pretty good living up until the last hundred years or so, so many would aspire to it. In many places in the world, to some extent, many still do. However, it is much, much harder to find priests than it used to be.

The church really needs to consider the fact that there were a significant number of women and married people in the early church, and that even though Jesus asked the disciples to put God and service to their neighbors first over family, he did not say that women can't be priests, nor that priests couldn't marry.

But, I respect that the Catholic church is doing the best it can given what has happened, which was awful, and my heart goes out to all of those affected, as does every Catholic I know.

I think anyone protesting the Pope though is probably less interested in actual reform than just emitting anger and promoting division in the church.
This robot is skinny enough that I feel like it could be 'skinned' and made to look almost human with just a little work.
Tinkering is fine. The real problem is making abstractions and general knowledge from it. All too easily tinkering turns into nerdery, thrilling some, despicable to others.
The footnote is broken; you can find a copy at http://web.archive.org/web/20080311215730/http://www.pataphy...
A typeface designer has left his mark on everything from Microsoft to magazines
Heh, name a couple "clueful" cryptographers you think could have helped design a better system. You'd be surprised who was actually involved in its design.
I have a pretty good idea for how to combine both concepts, running auctions using Craigslist, but keep running into the limitations of their API. It's on the shelf right now, but I am thinking I might take another look at it.
Does ebay run auctions the exact same way as they did 10 years ago? In some sense, auctions are the same as they were however many thousands of years ago when the idea was invented, today though ebay has branded it and built in some levels of assurance and trust, it's still an auction but they'll help you dispute and resolve issues.

I expect if there is a different way to slice search, google will explore it. Fundamentally, if you're going to beat them then you have to index more, better, faster, and somehow produce better results, then provide a better experience. I'm not saying people shouldn't challenge them but they're good and I think it's an insanely difficult challenge to beat them.

In 10 years, we'll still know of and probably use Google, I don't know if that's true for bing or ddg, or any of the others. Unless we stop searching.
I think the massive hype they ran prelaunch is a good anti-lesson. They had to do all of their learning in full view.
Cybercrime is world’s most dangerous criminal threat
The Axorcist updates: Graffiti is the new ‘in’ bling thing.
Look at Etsy for ideas/inspiration? [Incomplete idea, just considering the big guys' reactions to an "art" site.]
caused by corruption in an Oracle database.

Could happen to any database. Not just Oracle.
Side Effects of Vitamin E Overdosage - Health and Financial Freedom
Which you should be if you are in the US. A freelance should be a S-Corp and pay themselves a "reasonable" salary. To not do so you are throwing a huge chunk of money away on employer FICA. Basically you are pissing away 8% of you income if you are not a S-Corp and that is just in taxes. When you factor in the tax deductions a corp can take the savings are astounding.

Someone up stream mentioned that a freelancer should hire a secretary and stop doing the office work for $100 hr. My though is the first thing a freelancer should do is outsource accounting to a CPA. These people pay for themselves, second should be legal counsel, at least a paralegal after that a secretary would be a good third.
Yahoo reaches the 2 Quadrillionth Bit of Pi - users don't care.
kilometer is km not ks. just sayin'
2014 actually. 2013 was the House version of the bill but the Senate chose to make us wait another year.
Neal Stephenson's hiring a game programmer
It's only illegal if you get caught, which will never happen if DDoS from behind 7 proxies!
How is DDOSing some websites productive? I would call appearing like immature bullies rather counter-productive if you fight for improving your rights.
Pentagon Considers Preemptive Strikes as Cyberdefense
So basically Twilio in India?
pair coding with video, 3d videoconferencing, brady-bunchesque multi-person video conferencing (which would include games, collaborative art projects, etc.)
Random number generation using C++ TR1
3d multi-person chatroulette ;) (ok, i'm waiting for the high-probability comment that follows this... first good one wins a point, whee)
Ask HN: Anyone have a contact at Cuil?
I've been interested in contacting them for their index and now is as good a time as any. Thanks for any contact info. You can email me at kapauldo AT gmail.

Thanks,
Kevin
Tell HN: This is not spam from Amazon, I promise
This is not spam from Amazon, I promise!

This is how campus recruitment email from Amazon starts.
Islamic Praising using a counter
Well in Islam you have always to remember God or Allah. You can remember him in everything you do and especially by the Islamic practice of 'Zikr' or 'Dhikr' by repeating small verses mention by prophet Muhammad PBUH. Some websites including the new www.ezikr.com, are allowing muslim to do this easily and quickly online and keeping count of their praising.
Very nicely done! I think the separation of simulation is makes it more sensible.

We did something similar in the earlier days of Creately, but ended up focusing on more diagramming and less simulation as time went by.

I think use cases like this belong purpose built apps like Logic.ly - a lot more UX optimization can be done.

You can play with an example of a Multiplexor with simulation if you are interested - https://creately.com/creately-start?tempid=fvtdhokh2

Nothing fancy really. Use the "Properties" panel to change signals of inputs. The UX can be better - bringing me to the point of purpose built apps. :)
HISTCONTROL="ignorespace"

now you can keep a given command from history

find ...

<space>!! -delete
Carol Bartz: Apple’s iAds Are Just Awful, Which Is Why Yahoo Buys Them
Thanks for the encouragement. Yes, I like it, and think I'll stick with it. I can defiantly see why your former name could have problems in search, and it turns out that Techniche is a tech conference in India this year ... who knew? So hey, should work itself out over time.
Economic Thesis producing using talented Skills 
Students assigned to write economic theses have a vast area of topics available to them. However, although finding a topic may seem easy, writing the economic thesis will be challenging to many. These students will be benefited by understanding the process of writing their thesis in order to submit one of high caliber.
This IS the market working.
"public shaming" is an amusing feature
Google Relaunches Instantiations Developer Tools - Now Available for Free
Vote if you want an Eclipse alternative for java made by Google
With a super intelligent editor, simple plugins system and maybe something with the UI of Chrome developer tools would be nice...Because face it, Eclipse really sucks. You might like it but still, it sucks.
Microsoft, Please Stop This Madness
> Impact of Workaround: If an error occurs during a web transaction,
> the web clients will see the same generic error message on the
> server, regardless of what error actually occurs.

It looks like Microsoft didn't get it. Juliano/Thai showed timing the error was as useful as checking the error type.
I am not sure that I learned much from the article. Pretty much, it summed up to "work hard". HN crowds are probably more enlightened to know how much that "hard" is, compared to average people who think going through related education would be enough.

Anyway, those fast-track programming books are not totally useless. I started with those too. The important think is to not stop there, but continue to work with more technical books and actual standard/specification.

If I want to learn new language i.e, Clojure, F# etc, I'd probably start with fast track books (free ebooks) too. It has become a habit, I guess.
The YouTube video referred to in the article (SFW): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xNzsTHA1nI
What do you think about my app idea
It's fun to think of a software product as a giant ADT (Abstract Data Type), as it specifies operations that may be carried out (via a GUI, or command line, or webpage, or webservice, etc), while the detail of the implementation of those operations is hidden. Each instance (running copy) of a software product contains its own data.
An unexpected twist in cancer metabolism
Interesting, we also added a Varnish based cache layer and also got a dramatic performance boost. The connections to the backend dropped to 50%, taking off a lot load.

I am currently going through your VCL to take some ideas for improvement. Thanks for posting that.
Business Plan Writers - Know Your Audience
Any organization that tells its followers that using birth control will earn them eternal damnation is an enemy of the planet.
Sorry intel - pandora's box is open, and you can't sue it back to a closed state.
It's not like DRM. Effective DRM is impossible because the client has to have the decryption key. All you can do is try to obscure it.
Pension Gaps Loom Larger
Ask HN: Hotel API's
HN, I'm in desperate need of some help. I've been applying to many hotel API's and affiliate programs, and have been able to get into most of their affiliate sections, but the API is a whole other story. They're locked down like maximum security prisons.

It's been weeks with lack of responses, and rejections citing "Incomplete Site", which is quite difficult, because the site I'm building requires access to an API to finish it. It's completely reliant.

Does anyone know any open hotel API's which don't take weeks to get into? I needed to have this project launched last week.

Would really appreciate any help, or suggestions.

Lachy
Reading things like this make me think back to all the missed opportunities and wasted time I spent as a kid and teenager. I can only hope I can teach and lead my kid to be better than I am, and was.

Good for him.
Based on the prose examples the article gives (the chess/lunch story and the crucifixion/bike race story), it looks like a truly 'pataphysical system wouldn't need IO at all. Instead, you'd have a program of some sort, that was simultaneously doing 'pataphysical computation and mundane computation. In the story of Jesus and the bike race, the narrative never shifts between the story of racing up the hill and the story of Jesus being killed on a cross, the story is both at the same time throughout. By analogy, I suspect the article would like us to consider what kind of system we'd need to construct in order to, I suppose, be a story about a bike race (or something else equally removed from programmer's usual domain) and an application to serve web pages at the same time.

Of course, given 'pataphysic's status as "the science of imaginary solutions" I won't be holding my breath for a 'pataprogrammatical Rails-killer anytime soon, but it's a fun idea.
Ken, Unix, and games
If I understand the exploit correctly, attackers are able to make a series of bad requests, record the error page display timing, and eventually figure out the machine key used for AES encryption. [EDIT: Even if my assumption of the nature of the exploit is wrong, that's not my point. My point is the questions below.]

So, an attacker could alter the data of a cookie, thus impersonating a user or security level, and they could also alter the contents of ViewState. I don't use ViewState any more, having moved on to ASP.NET MVC, and I shudder to think what actually might get stored in there, but what is the route to alter ViewState and cause arbitrary commands to be executed on the server? I ask, because the article states this vulnerability allows an attacker to: "read data from files on the target server, such as web.config." Files like web.config are not allowed to be served up, out of the box, so does this SA assume that remote errors, which I believe will display a portion of the web.config, are enabled, or that this exploit can cause them to become enabled?
Hey mgkimsal, thanks for the opinion.

Is there any particular sort of whitenoise that you found better?

Where do you get your whitenoise, CD, download, etc?
I really enjoyed that article, it was very honest and the guy obviously enjoys what he does which really shines through in his writing.

It's also nice to see the thinking process he went through when developing his solution to this.

Yes the algorithm might not be perfect, it isn't a Shazam clone, but it does demonstrate that within 48 hours he created something that could recognise music. Now that's a good effort in my eyes!
I use revenue per employee as a rough guide to the type of company in question (is it human-based or tech/marketing-based? is it a startup or an established business?). It's simple to calculate, and revenue is usually less sensitive information than net income per employee (so easier to get for non-public companies). My feeling is that for the average (non-public, not particularly successful but OK, non-automated) company the average salary is about 1/3 of that (more or less). Actual net income per employee of course depends on the degree of automation and success.

Example tables:

http://www.jbryanscott.com/2009/02/07/nasdaq-100-revenue-per...

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2283-ranking-tech-companies-b...
Could you elaborate on the node.js part? I thought it would be mainly used for certain aspects of a web app while the rest would be written in python or something similar. I'm not an experienced programmer so i really have no idea how this will turn out.
> That's like saying mechanics classes should be required

I think mechanics class should totally be required. I'm often amazed that we force children to study subjects like geography or physics, that are important but only if you're interested in them and not terribly practical anyway.

I think all children should have to learn basic life skills to enable them to control their physical and social environment ('hack' in the context of this article). Subjects such as driving, mechanics, basic electronics, law, small business, tax, nutrition, rhetoric, negotiation, plumbing etc. etc. And those just off the top of my head.

All 'academic' subjects should merely be introduced and then left up to the student to choose to pursue. What on earth is the point of filling children's heads full of history (for example) if they aren't interested? They forget every word of it a year after their final exam anyway.
PocketOdds.com Launched
No kidding, I'm frankly impressed that it took this long to get the crack out. Blu-Ray devices have been on the market for years now! This was a very good encryption system, and as we know there are very few encryption standards that are truly unbreakable (lets see someone try a one-time pad on a HD video! come on!)
I work in a cube farm. Most folks use earphones and listen to music to help block out distractions. I can't do that (it promotes ear infections and I am very prone to them). Recently, the place was rearranged to put more space between some people which has cut way down on idle chit-chat. The place is a great deal quieter now. Where I work, actual work doesn't seem to be that noisy. It's the socializing, involving loud laughter and such, that tends to be noisy.
Simplicity wins. Very nice indeed.

Privacy can be an issue if the secret url leaks. Maybe a visit count/log (to detect leaks) and a (change) option (to get a new url and close the previous one).
You make a valid point, but would you not factor that into your ROI calculation?
I won't be holding my breath for a 'pataprogrammatical Rails-killer anytime soon

What, Django doesn't count? (ducks)
Principal principles.

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/principal.html
And then you will run into the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
Which affiliate programs have you applied to?
Expedia, Orbitz, LateRooms, HotelsCombined, Hotwire. A few more that I can't recall.
While scanning this article I was struck by an uncanny likeness of Spolsky's article to very old Philip Greenspun posts about photo.net and the ArsDigita system, complete with nice random photos of wolf-like dogs. In my awareness, and to my interest, frameworks to meet psycho-social challenges in software development are still so lacking. I'm glad that Spolsky and Atwood are working on this.
Notice, this is only a workaround, not a fix or patch. An official patch is coming from Microsoft. Scott Gu has more information here:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/09/18/important-...
> I think paying for porn is easier than torrenting it if you have any discrimination at all in what you're after.

You sound like someone who has never used BitTorrent effectively!
Who sees your credit card statement? You get it mailed, you see it online, its fairly private.
Markets in Everything: Afghan Votes
Have you tried http://hotelscombined.com or http://kayak.com?

Both have great databases for hotel content, but I'm not sure of what restrictions they have for their API.

P.S. I also know Wego (http://wego.com) have an API in the works, if you can get in touch with them through their contact form they can probably work something out (Disclaimer: I used to work at wego.com)
I don't know if I buy it. The jump list isn't really part of the page itself, it's metadata attached to the 'website' in question, so I sort of understand them putting it in <meta>... at the very least, I don't think it makes sense as an inline <menu> element in the middle of the page content. It sucks having all those meta tags there, though, since that's a huge blob of html that has to go in the header of every page when it really should live in a metadata file somewhere on your site... sort of like a stylesheet.
why don't you search it al http://cuil.com ;)
I think bittorrent is most effective towards the head end of the distribution spectrum, rather than the tail, where you're more likely to see dead torrents with no seeders, presuming you can find a torrent at all.
A jump list isn't an HTML document - I'm not sure describing it with html tags makes sense, since it'd be too easy to write invalid jumplist markup that's valid HTML. I could envisage somehow replacing RSS with HTML (use the right tags, in the right order, don't use the wrong tags), but it wouldn't make much sense.
HotelsCombined thinks they can get away with charging $2000 for API access. Kayak doesn't provide much functionality. Wego looks great. Know anyone that I could contact their to get access too today?
This isn't a patch, only a workaround until a patch is released. The workaround includes random bits of time and generic error pages, I'm sure the official patch will be more than that.
We target the bastard group that has thus far led this charge against our websites. [...] We have the manpower, we have the botnets, it’s time we do to them what they keep doing to us.

What else, they stabbed us in the back? I know I'm breaking Godwin laws here but that's some pretty sickening Kristallnacht rhetoric there.
Just FYI, you've got a typo in your markup that's preventing your page from validating:

</figcatpion> should be </figcaption>
Zynga And Facebook Are Killing Soap Operas
The Office Matters
I think the problem with Diaspora is that it received much attention from the media (during the Facebook privacy issue being top of the agenda for most tech/mainstream news bulletins)

Whether that media campaign was orchestrated by the developers, or their investors, or just surfaced naturally as some news stories tend to do, I think this attention didn't really help matters when it came to putting a group of inexperienced graduates together to create what potentially should be a rival to a multi billion dollar company in one summer.

They should have been given more time and let to lead more of a low profile than the charade that's taken place over the past few months
This is likely the case since the post mentioned that storage controller was initially blamed (but cleared).
Sorry, I guess I should have been more specific. I don't have much of a choice when it comes to my set-top box. I was thinking more along the lines of desktop operating systems. At this point, OSX/Linux/Windows are roughly replacements for each other (Linux/Windows moreso than OSX/Windows), and such a "feature" in one would give me great reason to migrate to another.

Then again, if there was an application/feature that was a must have for me in said OS, I might stay anyway. It's not an absolute.
DDoS or human flesh search would be morally acceptable IF there were no other recourse in society for justice. In china the government is authoritarian and the people have human flesh searches as their effective form of justice. But to condone illegal activity for change in places like the united states is to suggest that there is critical flaw in the democratic process. Is there? Because if there is then we should acknowledge that and fix that too instead of relying on mob rule all the time. The only person I can see who morally justifies this (for him/herself) would be some teenager who has never been allowed to vote (thus not having any other recourse for change). But I think its irresponsible to encourage these who must be kids to take the illegal route to get what they want if there is a viable legal route. Write your senator or something, don't cheer the mob on. Make sure you're not operating on impulse.
He didn't say that, he was just stating a simple truth