skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to read the next rest of the sentence and the next:

that person would probably prefer you just dump it all in the trash. Because finding fragments of your private life on people's yards and scattered on the street, in the shrubs and gutters, is a unique kind of psychological torment. Suddenly a routine violation starts to feel really personal.

She wasn't upset about the stuff being stolen, she was upset about the stuff lying all over the neighborhood for the world to see. She felt violated and exposed.

The proper digital analogy is having your "bits in the cloud" hacked and posted on a public website for all the world to see.
There is a gradient of criminality, and committing a non-violent crime of opportunity (where he even discarded much of the proceeds) is pretty low on the scale.

Yet now the justice system is going to spend tens of thousands of dollars+ incarcerating him, and the net result will be that his options after being released will lean even more heavily towards criminality.
Why is it stupid to tell people how insecure their favorite messaging platform is? So when they get hacked, they will have to wonder why? Sounds like a great plan...
It would be pretty ironic if this enables D3D 10 on Windows XP.
It's true, there can be a lot of complexity. Maybe Mr. Henderson ought to take some of his extra few hundred dollars a month and meet with an accountant so he has a better idea of how he could be affected.
It isn't actually clear that that reduces crime, though, if you're advocating it from a utilitarian perspective (as opposed to advocating longer prison sentences as morally justified punishment, which is a different argument). For example, doing the opposite, releasing people early under various kinds of early-release and parole programs, generally doesn't appear to increase either crime rates or recidivism rates, at least in any studies I can find. And increasing sentence length also rarely has a statistically significant effect on either crime rates or recidivism rates. One alternative that does seem to often have an effect is increasing policing, i.e. increase the probability of being caught rather than the severity of the punishment if caught. (Doubling the sentence length and doubling the being-caught probability each has the same effect on an "expected years of prison for committing this crime" computation, but they seem to have different deterrent effects.)
Artsy Hacks: Art by Sebastian Krüger
I was wondering, "What self-respecting web developer would suggest using IE?"

Then I see Microsoft is listed as producer.

Case closed.
Interviewer: So, Why [do they call you] Ronnie?

Ronnie: Well, it's the perfect pseudonym because it's my name also.

This is the funniest thing I've read all day.
Glad we (http://olark.com) could help you guys out :-) Thanks for the props!
You're correct.

That fallback technique mitigates the majority of failure cases though (NoScript, overbearing firewall, blocked regions, etc). The CDN itself being slowly-down is vanishingly rare.
WP SuperCache?
The blog post says nothing about how you launched your product in 3 hours.

Slightly misleading, perhaps?
A higher marginal tax rate is at most a minor disincentive since you still end up with more overall

That's not necessarily true. As I point out elsewhere, there's much more going on than just ones top marginal rate. I pointed out the discontinuity when one hits AMT.

But also, more topical to this aspect of the argument, is the other expenses involved in employment. It may be that I'm still making 60% of my labor after tax. But in so doing, I also have to forgo the work that I'd been doing myself, and pay someone else to do it.

Most relevant is childcare, since it's something that one can't readily avoid if both spouses are to be employed, and is extremely costly. It's quite possible that the loss to taxes plus the expense of childcare together exceed the potential income of the second spouse. Indeed, I'd guess that is a leading reason for single-income families.
If you're just running Linux on your PC in your dorm room, go for it.

If you're running 10,000 machines you don't make changes that you haven't regression tested and aren't committed to supporting. Effectively, you'd need to write your own package manager, maintain your own repository and deal with upstream yourself... You'd be Red Hat.
He will probably need to up his price from $5 to $10 if he goes legal. The increased overhead (especially in NYC) will kill the operation.

If he wants to be really clever, he could offer on-demand pricing and ensure that he doesn't get overloaded with order and fail to deliver on time. People would text and say "how much?". Then he would reply with the on-demand pricing "$5 in 20 minutes or $15 in 5 minutes."

If someone in the subway is REALLY hungry they'd probably pay $15 for a sandwich - especially if they know there's a two hour ride home.
That's a very good point. I had some pricing variations in the beginning and the one I have now is at the sweet spot.

One of the most interesting moves was to add a company license (a friend suggested it and it took less than 10 minutes to add it. It sold several copies to date.

I am planning an update that should position the product at the right value/price point.
Managers should keep in mind, BEFORE layoffs become necessary, that laid-off workers, understandably PO'd, sometimes hit back by suing the former employer for discrimination (age, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion), or for sexual harassment. The charge might be completely bogus, but fighting it can still be expensive. The employer may have to demonstrate, usually with contemporaneous written evidence (job evals, etc.), that there were legitimate reasons for the layoff or other action. See generally http://www.legalworkplace.com/layoffs_result_in_more_discrim....

To illustrate the point: A client of mine once had to do layoffs. One of the laid-off employees filed a charge with the EEOC. He belonged to Religion X. He claimed he was discriminated against because of it. In response, we pointed out who else belonged to Religion X: the guy's manager's manager; his VP; the COO; the CEO; a majority of the board members; etc. That was the end of that charge, but it still took some management time and legal fees to respond.
The proper digital analogy is having your "bits in the cloud" posted on a public website for all the world to see.

So, you mean Facebook.
Announcing the Ubuntu Application Review Process
Simple off-site backup for photography
We've been working on some heavy-duty javascript projects for some of our recent clients, and docs are fairly weak on writing your own custom jQuery UI widgets, so I wrote this up.
I refer you to Brad DeLong (an economics professor who used to work in the Clinton Administration):

Back in 2000, the U.S. government's long-term budget was out of balance--although not by all that much. The government had, you see, made promises--very popular promises--for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security without proposing sufficient funding streams to pay for those promises.... So back in 2000,... we elected George W. Bush. Two wars.... A huge unfunded expansion of Medicare.... However, instead of raising taxes George W. Bush reduced them. This simply does not work. As Milton Friedman liked to say, to spend is to tax.... Taxes are going up over the next decade--barring cuts of 1/3 to Medicare, etc. They can either go up smartly or we can pretend they don't have to go up, in which case they go up stupidly. (http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/09/in-which-mr-deling-res...)

Professor H., the author of the original complaint, does not want his taxes to go up at all. But if his taxes don’t go up, whose will? His gardener’s?
Hi Steve - it's "Palatino". I also have "Palatino Linotype" and it looks fine now that I've knocked off Palatino.

It's a problem I've come across previously on Windows, I think Sun's Java was also installing some horrible version of Palatino a while back. Pity, as it's a wonderful typeface and looks nice on your site.
Yes. How dumb is that?
To be fair, the Russians did have that massive collapse of society to deal with a few years back. It slowed them down a little.

The Chinese still aren't big players in this space, and they mostly take their lead from the Russians.

The Russian's haven't exactly been twiddling their thumbs, but while they make great aircraft, their radar and weapon systems are just now starting to eclipse western fourth generation standards, and the Raptor is still posting 20-1 kill ratios in simulated combat.

That will probably change as the PAK-FA and J-XX come online (the Sukkoi being the greater threat, realistically, since nobody really knows what the J-XX actually is).
Jobs to journalism student: "Please leave us alone"
http://www.naked-eye-research.co.uk/
I've thought to myself, "I wish there was a timeout attribute on the <script> tag," about once every few months for the past 10 years. Is there any good reason you can't manually specify how long you want the browser to wait for an external file to load?
see also: the twitter lobster roll guy in greenpoint
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/33/20/wb_lobsterman_201...

got caught:
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/33/34/wb_drclawcuffed_2...
Yet another iPad review...
Inside the App Store: Sales figures for Terminology Ph’s first two weeks
> We're talking about simplicity and clarity of language's syntax? Why memory management?

Both the syntax and the semantics are nicer.

> btw, to whom memory management is a PITA?

To anyone who tries to do it. That automatic memory management is easier to program with than manual memory management is self-evident.
A List Apart: Testing Accordion Forms
Hi Adrian
Just glanced through your profile and was wondering if it is kosher to contact you with a gist of my idea. I think you are overwhelmingly qualified to give some sane advice to me:)
Distinguishing those cases is the trick, I suppose. Especially for first-time offenders, there are people who might be deterred from future offenses by being put on probation, once they've realized that they got caught and had better knock it off, who would instead turn into more hardened criminals if they're put in jail (and, with the current state of U.S. jails, likely end up joining a prison gang). But there are other people who have to physically be restrained from committing more crimes.

The current common sentence lengths don't seem that useful to me, though. Sentences like 6-36 months are just about the worst I can think of, keeping someone in jail just long enough to inculcate all the negative effects, while not actually keeping them off the streets that long. It creates this odd revolving-door mentality, where in some communities it's completely common to be in and out of prison, and everyone's got a bunch of criminals in their social circle. Now we could just lock all those same people up for 20+ years and not let them back out of prison to reoffend, but that seems like a problematic solution as well, given the current numbers (you'd have to be prepared to permanently lock up a large proportion of the population).

One start might be to start basing policy on empirical data. Can we find patterns in which kinds of policies have deterrent or anti-deterrent effects on which kinds of people? My impression is that laws and sentencing are not very strong based on empirical research currently. It does occasionally get brought up in debates, but the stuff written into the laws seems mostly pulled out of a hat.
Why You Should Never Get A Job
Probably a fine idea. The stocks are so hugely undervalued compared to the commodity itself that its just irresistible! Famous last words perhaps? :)
You are over thinking this. The greatest part about this story is the simplicity. I bring sandwich to you - you give me $5
> Organize your Gmail and have fun while doing it

I'm not sure if collecting virtual points fits my definition of "fun"...

On the other hand we all have fun while doing that on Hacker News :)
There are lots of anecdotes like these, but one factor often overlooked is social capital. That's difficult to measure, but consider the difference between a fairly cohesive and inter-reliant sub-community on the one hand (Italian) vs. one riven by gang warefare and in which high grades may get you branded as "too white," on the other.

Not that that proves anything. Discussions like these are 90% a game of "re-enforce my confirmation bias," imho. Believe people are poor because they make bad moral choices? I'm sure you can find lots of great examples of that. Believe people are poor due to external societal forces? Ditto. A question I'd like to see more of in these types of discussions is "what would falsify my theory of poverty?"
I was dying for something like this in grad school. Haven't had a chance to play around to much with it, but it looks useful.
This thread doesn't have enough of what I expected: congrats and good luck, Marco!
Game mechanics are everywhere, even when they are displayed by colorful illustrations and badges. From friend counts in Facebook, to Karma in HN, time pressure in Groupon and leaderboards in Digg.

Here's a great overview over game mechanics.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/scvngr-game-mechanics/
I was born as what would probably now be considered "poor white trash". I didn't realize it at the time because my parents worked their butts off to provide for me and for my sister, and to see to it that we did well; it wasn't until I was an adult and living on my own for the first time that I really started to understand some of the sacrifices they made and some of the choices they had to face.

I have been poor. I have been soul-crushingly under water. I've had to do things I'm not proud of just to stay afloat. But now... I live comfortably, have a job with a decent salary, and have the respect of my peers.

Did that take a lot of work? Yes. Can anyone put in the work? Yes. Is that the only factor? Not by a long shot; the number of contingent factors along the road from where I started to where I am now is staggeringly huge. Much as I'd love to toot my own horn and talk about how I pulled myself up by my own bootstraps, I know perfectly well how lucky I was, on multiple occasions, simply to be in the right place at the right time, or to make a decision -- on a whim, not on any sort of prescient wisdom -- that later paid off in ways I couldn't have imagined, much less anticipated.

I also don't know any "bootstrapper" who could honestly say anything different; achievement and advancement simply don't happen in a vacuum, and they don't happen unaided. I know it's popular in certain circles to pretend otherwise, but that's just the way it is, and posting demeaning screeds whose sole clear message is "it's your own fault if you're poor" always makes me think someone's ego has gotten in the way of actual understanding.
If you didn't make the jump to the footnotes, I thought this was great:

"One of the Y Combinator questions asked you to name one non-computer system that you’d hacked in some interesting way. My answer concerned a man-in-the-middle attack I once did on Craigslist personals. I placed an ad as a woman seeking a man, and as a man seeking a woman, and then simply crossed the email streams by forwarding mail from one to the other, and vice versa. Most Craigslist personals didn’t even have photos back then, so the switch went undetected, even after the couples had met. I handed off the relationship by telling one that the other’s email address had changed, from my fake one to the real one, and likewise vice versa. For all I know, those couples are still together and having kids. They probably don’t know to this day what happened or what brought them together."
Those are all good points, although as a different method you can offset some of the load time of putting scripts in the head tag by flushing the head as soon as possible:

http://yehudakatz.com/2010/09/07/automatic-flushing-the-rail...

(not a new idea, just new to rails)
Sounds more like "How I built, refined, and publicized a free trial of my product for months, then released the paid version in 3 hours."
If by "cool" you mean "glacially slow", yeah, that's pretty "cool".
The iPad Newstand: Apple (likely) wins out over logic again
You could send a DM to everyone you know with an shortened URL that links to a page full of malware and evil that pwns their computer, steals all their data and account log ins, and uses their machine as part of a botnet.

Because the DM would come from you, a person they know, the person is more likely to trust the page or file that's linked to and less likely to catch it brutalising their computer.

The actual data on your Twitter account might not be valuable in itself, but it has significant value as a vector for other attacks.
My first reaction was: "oh no, not another post from this guy."

It was better than his earlier stuff, and makes him seem less of a jerk.

Still, his is the only YC company I'm not really rooting for to succeed; an IPO or acquisition would turn him into an insufferable lout.
I know what you're getting at (non-attachment and all), but also remember that the Buddhist position is one of compassion, even for those not practicing non-attachment.
Come to think about it, it is actually kind of exciting. You could also have a REPL for every example and solve the problems on the spot (and get immediate feedback).
Where do you believe the rights of ownership derive from?

Don't think of it terms of "rights." Think of it in terms of fairness. I don't get to control what you do with the money I paid for your product, so why should you get to control what I do with the product?
www.userresearch.co.uk
(c) For some reason, most people really want to have children.

"For some reason"? Is natural selection not a good enough reason that people have this desire?

(d) Humans aren't exactly rational creatures.

True, but not relevant when talking about goals. Reason cannot tell you that your highest goals are right or wrong, only that some action or lesser goal is right or wrong with respect to a higher goal. I think the drive to reproduce is probably a pretty high-level goal, and while wealth has temporarily short-circuited it somehow in many developing countries, that situation doesn't seem stable.
that's funny, but it used to be available via the google soap search api.

actually, the chinese probably have the source code after that security breach.
Are you using it as a LRU cache? I'd really like to use Redis for this -- are there any examples out there of how to do it / could you share how you've done it?
One of the major problems involved with using third-party login systems, like Facebook Connect, is exactly that: you need to make sure it's not critical (so you need your own login system anyway) and you need to make sure it's not blocking (which involves iframe shenanigans).
Exactly the same thing that I do. I currently have about 40 labels, ~60k emails and 3.2G of storage used and only 4 emails in my inbox. My inbox is always easy to clean and maintain. Also having years worth of archives of bugtraq/full-disclosure etc is great when trying to search for information. Just like today when searching for info about the recent kernel vuln, CVE-2010-3081.
VideoJS (Zencoder, YC W10) re-launches with new site, new features, still free.
The thing we're discussing here is whether jquery.js is stored on my server with the rest of my website, or some other third party server. I'm not sure how the things you've said above apply to this discussion?
Thank you.

I'd still like to know how can you as the developer and your software survive in either scenario (with or without knowing that you infringe) it the patent covers the basic functionality of your software?
When you say you bought gold, did you actually buy coins and such? Or just paper? Just wondering since I don't know much about precious metals, aside from jewelry stores.
Lithp - A interpreter for John McCarthy's original Lisp.
Even though I spent a lot of my childhood programming in C, I never understood why people started strong typing was so necessary when Ruby started becoming popular. This article explains that thinking for me, finally.

It's funny that it's the same article that also explains why it's wrong. At least, now it is.

Unit testing not only replaces the need for strong typing, it does so without any extra effort on top of what you'd already do for unit testing. It's not like you have to do extra work on duck-typed languages than you do on strong-typed languages when you're unit testing. (Assuming you're doing it correctly, of course.)
3.6.10
Minor edit: gmail's file limit is not 30GB, and there's no way a 1m 10s video fills up that much space. ;-)
This comment is out of topic but related.

When I saw this I thought about a video where the speaker talks about how our future could move/is moving towards a reality where human action is rewarded with points as in a game. I think that he made a prediction where this sort of thing could take off once game designers move away from games and into other activities.

Video: Most Disturbing Presentation Ever: Our Tech Nightmare ("Skinner Box") DICE 2010
Lenght: ~10min
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nka-_Mhp7f0&feature=playe...
What city do you buy in? Can you actually buy something today that is cash flow positive. or do you put some work into them to pretty them up after buying before you rent them out?
Stop telling parents to save for college, stop the madness
Recently I posted a rant about the ridiculousness of making paying for college a parental responsibility: http://colabopad.blogspot.com/2010/09/who-should-pay-for-college.html

Anyway I was just reading slate (http://www.slate.com/id/2267997/) and here's an exchange between the columnist and a reader. Notice how the college fund comment is plugged into the response as if it is a given! What is the HN opinion on paying for college?

Q. Biological Clock vs. Financial Reality: My husband and I have very different views on when we should start trying to conceive. My feeling is there's no time like the present, while he feels that we're not ready yet. We both feel ready emotionally, but we both feel, quite frankly, poor. (We're both graduate students—we make less than 20,000 and after this May have no guaranteed income.) But I'm of the "simple life" mind-set anyway. Infants don't need much beyond onesies and diapers; no matter how well-off we are, we wouldn't be doing diaper genies and such. And mostly, I feel, we can always get money, but we can't get these years back. (We're fairly young—in our late 20s—but we want to have lots of kids.) I'm having a really hard time waiting; I break into tears every time I see a baby. We've discussed this ad nauseam. He says it's not just up to me, so we should wait. But it's not just up to him, either. I guess my question comes down to this: Who's the default decider?

A: Among the devastation this bad economy is bringing is the situation you are in: People who would otherwise be starting their families are too financially afraid to do so. There's no default decider here—this has to be a decision the two of you make. Your husband is right that having a baby requires more than onesies and love. But you're also right that you can't put this off indefinitely while you wait for the economy to improve. In any case, however bad the economy is now, eventually it will recover—<b>perhaps in time for you to make a dent in a college fund.</b> I think you two should talk to some trusted outsiders about this. Not necessarily a marriage counselor, but maybe some older relatives who started families in the late 1970s or early '80s, when the economy was also in the dumper. Or perhaps you should consult with someone who does long-term financial planning, so that your husband can feel more confident about making the decision that now is the time for you both to start adding future wage earners to the workforce.
I know this isn't traditional HN fair, but when I see a movie that's highly relevant to my profession compared to Citizen Kane and The Graduate, my ears perk up. Thought yours might, too.