skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A sockpuppet for this guy submitted this story, about a small business being taken for a ride by the FTC, and the VP/Engineering of that company being deliberately targeted despite having no role in advertising/marketing the product.

Only it turns out, that's not even close to the whole story. See the comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1761038

This story collected something like 80+ votes and a profoundly negative stream of comments before its sockpuppet promoter deleted it. I think it's worth looking at.
I missed that article, interesting, esp. the response.

I haven't followed Windows Phone 7 much - probably not a good sign as I'm a pure c# guy 99% of the time - but that is actually a smart/interesting way to leverage Silverlight. This is similar to Surface, which is (I believe) another variation on Windows Presentation Layer (everywhere).

Don't get me wrong, silverlight is compelling to any .net developer because it's pretty easy to pick up and get results fast. I just wish MS would make the web less muddy by NOT adding to the confusing with something that is more or less already handled by Flash. There just isn't any need for it in that space (the web versus win phone 7, surface, etc).

In the long run I'm sure you are right, it's not like Silverlight is going to be 'canceled', I just wish they would come to there senses about its use as a web plug-in.
What if the US just nukes every country with terrorists in it?

Well, you'll get the war you're looking for that's for sure. Unfortunately, you might actually be fighting a war that looks more like the downfall of the Roman empire than the liberation you seem to think you'll achieve. This isn't really a winnable strategy, even if you win the actual conflict.

For the vast majority of history winning wars didn't rely on winning the hearts and minds of anyone, it relied on the complete destruction and subjugation of the other faction.

History shows that wars without a clear decisive outcome tend to drag on for generations. "Most wars" did exactly that. The fact that WWII did have such an clear outcome does not make it the norm, even with the idea of "total domination".

Wars of ideas(opposed to those over resources and/or land) don't end until one of the ideas goes out of fashion. The cold war is a perfect example of this. That stalemate ended because the communists didn't think their ideas would work. It had little to do with how many nukes the west could muster.

In the same light, radical Islam - I could argue Islam/religion itself - can only be "defeated" when the Islamics themselves decide that the particular path that they are on isn't worth the struggle. People turn to religion - any religion - when their needs are not being met. This is true even in the West - the Catholic church was the supreme authority during the dark ages, when Europe was suffering, and the Muslim world was enjoying a much less religious but more established existence a few miles away.

Fulfill the needs of the person to a basic level and religion offers nothing. You cannot win a war of ideas until you kill the idea, not the person.
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I've had much better results from using Syslog-NG along with php-Syslog-NG.

Syslog-NG can already split your log files into subdirectories with the hostname of each server, but it also has the capability of redirecting messages to named pipes. This is great because you can pipe it into mysql and stuff all of your log messages in a database. Combine with a php front-end and now your developers and sysadmins can search logs intelligently across multiple servers, and get really fine-grained on their search strings. Want to tail the output from all Tomcat servers in your app server pool looking for a specific string? Go right ahead.
Put together a simple lead gen page and run some adwords to capture emails from interested people. Then start talking to those people who sign up. You can do this by sending out surveys or asking for permission to call them up directly. This should keep the business guy busy, your market will like your MVP much better, and you'll get some loyal customers to boot. If you're not getting enough leads from adwords, try other paid advertising, and also face to face stuff. If you still don't get any leads your business guy needs to start coming up with a new idea.
>> Now, thanks to cellphones, BlackBerrys and other gadgets, too many of us have become blasé about being late. We have so many ways to relay a message that we're going to be tardy that we no longer feel guilty about it.

Poppycock. It's in your hands to determine whether it's okay for the other person to be late, messages or not. If you've been waiting for over 30 minutes, leave and tell your partner that you've done so through your "gadget".
Man, that's 4 times in a couple of inches of screen space. You really seem to like the term "top notch" :-)
That's a lot of faith to put in a single parachute.

Funny to see everybody walking around as though it is overcast but one guy wears really dark sunglasses.
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Take a bus. Or Amtrak. It's not like you're coming from Florida. Or Estonia. Or Australia.
Can you repost your top comment from that thread? It was great detective work you did there in a very short amount of time.
Perhaps passive radio style listening vs random access is a better way of explaining it. I think.
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I'm not saying not to talk to people. I'm saying that I can't imagine anyone literally using that phrase from the article as suggested.
It depends - if you're logging from thousands of machines or services, you might want to use UDP logging. Then, provided you don't saturate the network connection, you should be fine. UDP is connectionless, so you definitely won't have as much overhead.

On the other hand, a lot of high security environments want to encrypt their syslog traffic using something like stunnel, which introduces OpenSSL overhead as well as TCP connection overhead. With thousands of clients and lots of encryption going on you definitely are going to hit some limits sooner rather than later. Check kernel parameter net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range (on Linux) and make sure you have a large enough range to accomodate all of the clients.
Hong Kong's also well governed, but it's much dirtier and slightly less safe (though still quite safe compared to other places). HK infrastructure is top notch, government/business relations are good, and HK and China currently have good relations so that's an advantage. I'll give a slight edge to Singapore, but they're both fine places in Asia. I haven't been to Switzerland, but the general word I hear is that it's well governed, with beautiful scenery, and is a dreadfully boring place for young people ;)
This is great, I help run a small business with the hope of starting my own someday.

It's heartening to see the experience I'm getting now is almost exactly what you describe here.
What about the extra time I get to live because I got to my destination faster? All evens out in the end, right?
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I am currently working on a pgp encryped version of latitude. Right now its not even alpha although some of my geekier friends already use it. Its crpto is based on bouncycastles openpgp implementation. On the server side I use google app engine. The motivation is to have full control who can know where you are on the client.
You cannot be compelled to incriminate yourself in the US. However, that doesn't mean you can't be compelled to give up your password, since it's not the act of giving up the password that is incriminating.*

As an analogy, if you had a safe that contained incriminating evidence and you hid the key, you could be compelled by the court to reveal the location of the key.

* As far as I know (IANAL) whether or not giving up a computer password is considered self-incrimination or not is still undecided.
What makes you think the other sites don't know the value of user focus? I am not sure that the aggregator experience is as miserable as you make out.
I'm a CS not a historian I thought the Weimar republic was 1930s

In 2000 years of history that's only an error of 1%
They do, but they'll pass on sales if thats a requirement. They have a waiting list of customers. Imagine that.

Another anecdote, my friends 1 year old small business approached Groupon to do a deal, they turned him away and told him to come back when he has more press.
It's both good and bad to see others are sharing my experiences. And yes, their admin interface is absolutely horrible.

Thanks for sharing!
It's true. They're all pretty sad. That said, the problems he lays out with Maven are mitigated fairly well by using a local Maven proxy. I like to keep all of my dependent bits in there, and I'm no longer at the mercy of changes or differences in repos.
Looks like tosback glitched, or hit a cache of the old version.
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actually I think it's a very bad idea for tech news.

email is slow, any news you cover is old news, that will get scooped by the blogs way before you run it.

A week's time for his editors, means that any news they cover will be severely out of date.

I run http://mydailygeek.com and my run time is only 1 day...and I find myself constantly having to pick different stories throughout the day to run with, since they get bludgeoned to death by the time the emails get sent out.

Now for me it's fine, since my focus isn't startups or the bleeding edge of tech, so the tech I do cover is just interesting stuff that my readers may have missed elsewhere...but for a "Techcrunch competitor", it's suicide.

Any scoop you get will get leaked to Techcrunch before you can run the story.
Didn't realize that!
I think there are two reasons Maven adoption is slower than it maybe ought to be:

1. It's actually pretty darned complicated to use 'correctly' for a non-trivial project.
2. It approaches impossible to integrate into an existing non-trivial project. Maven wants you to do thing it's way (that's the point).. but that makes moving to it on an existing project a challenge
Depends if you're going for quantity over quality of eyeballs. If Calcanis' newsletter provides engaging content that tech professionals with purchasing power consider a must-read then it's going to achieve much higher CPMs than tabloid-style blogging, which can make up for serving fewer impressions and being unknown to Google and the consumer audience.

The advantage of running it as an opt-in email list is that you find out much more about who your readers are.
Couldn't one argue that the 5 billion euros lost were lost only because the Société Générale execs sold everything when it was discovered? Had it been "discovered" (or acted upon) at the right time, I suppose it could have made the bank the same amount of money.
Understood. After reading more of the comments in this thread my original question was answered. Thanks!
And it also monetizes like crazy. The product team there recognises it's a problem, but it's hard to argue with millions in revenue at stake. All sites start out idealistic, and then start making compromises in order to survive.

The actual flight product itself at TripAdvisor isn't too bad (apart from auto-selecting Orbitz as an alternative search so they can do some flag-planting). It's the main site that does all the pop-unders and in-line pop-ups. Try going direct to flights - http://www.tripadvisor.com/Flights
Considering you are perfectly free to join the exact same religion and have the same protections, it is not.

The fact that your choosing to not join the religion - also your protected right - doesn't come with exactly the same perks is not grounds for discrimination.

I consider the fact that I'm not mandated by the government to pray to Mecca three times a day at work a pretty acceptable trade off.
Uh, no, the article is saying precisely that it doesn't all even out in the end: "A approximately 1-km/h (0.6-mph) increase in speed for the average driver yielded a approximately 26-second approximate increase (not decrease) in total expected lost time because the savings from reduced travel time were more than offset by the increased prospect of a crash."
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I've had this situation escalate to threats of violence. It was exhilarating. I caught some kid tagging the subway.

Turns out he didn't really want to escalate it and ran out the other door. I was pumped the whole day. Vagrants, bums, and the vast majority of people who commit property crime are experts on reading people, and displaying aggressive stances, if you fear them they will smell it. If you stand tall, look them directly in the eyes and adopt an aggressive stance they will be startled to the response and flee. If you're looking down at the ground you are unaware of your tactical situation and are inviting trouble.

If you don't fear them they will run because underneath it all they are generally very weak individuals who thrive off of intimidating the easiest looking target. As Sun Tzu said, "When your hand is weak, make it appear strong" and "When your hand is strong, make it appear weak". Perhaps he was talking about poker, I don't know.

Initially that day I looked like a target in a suit, but as soon as I was willing to see his threat of escalation he reevaluated the situation and left.
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"This is a very popular opinion these days, but since when do we have to win the hearts and minds to win the war?"

I think we do. Extreme violence just isn't an option in our situation. If we did to Afghanistan what you suggest and nuke it, we'd probably find ourselves at war with France, Britain and the rest of the free world. Such a move wold probably be just as bad for America's interests as (to choose a silly example) having Osama bin Laden elected as the next president.

Besides, Americans want to be the good guys. Everyone, even those war-mongering conservative (especially the war-mongering conservatives) imagines that we are heroes bringing peace to these oppressed people, or at least not hurting them. As it is, every move available to America, will make her the villain.

If we kill enough people to defeat terrorism militarily, we will be guilty of violence out of proportion to the actual threat terrorism represents. (We already are, but whatever.)

If we simply leave, we will be guilty of terrorizing thousands of people, helping no one in the process, leaving the countries worse off than they were before, and abandoning many people who had come to really on us.

If we proceed with this robotic war, we simply alienate the people we (partly) want to help and provoke them further into becoming our enemies.

If however, we can actually help them, and win their friendship, perhaps creating genuine allies in a part of the world that has good reason to hate us, then we become the good guys and everything turns out fine. But that will require an effort few Americans are willing to make.
Grooveshark has deals with a few of the major record labels. They get paid everytime grooveshark plays a song. They have been sued a couple times in the past and now have deals with most of these labels.

Grooveshark makes money through their VIP, advertising, and promotions put on by the artists themselves.

Technically they are not sharing music since you cannot download it, which is why I would guess they get around a lot of things that way.
You can have a million open sockets in Erlang, although it requires serious RAM: http://www.metabrew.com/article/a-million-user-comet-applica...
Disclaimer: IANAL. Disclaimer: IANAA (I Am Not An American)

Assaulting the same person twice would still be two different assaults. Stealing a truck, getting caught and punished, and stealing the same truck again would, to my understanding, not be risk-free, legally speaking. I suspect the same would probably apply here, though given how unintuitive the law is, especially in this area, I may well be dead wrong.

Edit: To clarify, my point is that if the law amounts to "Refusal to turn over requested passwords => jail time", this would seemingly constitute a second refusal, even if the requested password was the same.
leave and tell your partner that you've done so through your "gadget".

Or, for repeat offenders: leave and don't tell. They'll figure it out when they get there... (passive-aggressive? surely)
it would saturate the IO of the logging server.

Rather unlikely unless your deployment is very large or you're doing extraordinarily expensive filtering/binning on the sink-host.

The first bottleneck is normally diskspace, not disk I/O. Those logs pile up very quickly, depending on how long you retain them.

The raw network and disk I/O, however, are rarely of concern. Before you approach either limit you're already logging to the tune of ~300G per hour - and have probably switched to a distributed architecture of some sort long ago.

Writing broad streams of sequential text is very cheap.

Making sense of what you wrote, ideally before actually writing it, but at the very least before being forced to purge it due to storage constraints, is the difficult part. ;-)
There is the new Barnes & Noble PubIt platform just detailed [1] for digital self-publishing. Royalties are 65% for the $2.99-$9.99 range and 40% for $10.00 <= prices <= $2.98. Supposedly with "no additional charges, regardless of file size" and "no hidden terms or fees".

[1]: http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/04/barnes-and-noble-opens-pu...
So what will music look like in 5 - 10 years? Still just iTunes and streaming? Lets not forget labels aren't sustainable businesses in their current form.
Depends on what it's evidence of. If you're destroying evidence of murder, treason, or something else that'd guarantee you a life/death sentence, an obstruction of justice charge isn't going to seem like very much in comparison.
I've done it. When you walk up and say something -- anything -- to someone, they are generally focused less on the words than the the body language of the approacher.

But it's up to you. You can say whatever you want as long as it's non-threatening.
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The problem with this is the invisible barrier to entry. Calacanis has a good point - but what does it take for TechCrunch to rebut? Simply ask three or four editors to spend more time putting out Atlantic/New Yorker-esque articles. Instantly.

That is ridiculously easy to do.
In the USA of today you can be compelled into doing anything the government considers a matter of national security. It all changed starting with the Patriot Act. American citizens have no inalienable rights anymore merely those that are not inconvenient to the government.
As much as I hate dealing with a lot of files and ID3 tags, streaming music sucks for mobile devices for a couple of reasons:

- 3G quality and speeds are guarranteed everywhere and every time. I was left with nothing but the songs I had on my SD card when I was on vacation on an island.

- Constant streaming kills battery life, killing your phone and music player in one kick.

- Because of massive roaming charges, you can forget using it outside of the country.

If you don't travel much, have a good plan and don't mind the battery issue, it could be useful.
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Gentoo effectively copied FreeBSD's port system.
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The secret reason why your life is boring is you waste time doing useless self-help nonsense misrepresented as a 'game' and posted by the self-promoting SEO consultant who created it.
I pretty much stopped caring after "computer model". I find it very hard to believe the putative results are above the noise threshold of errors in the model. In fact the cynic in me finds itself a little surprised that that's the best result they managed to gussy up after fiddling with their model's parameters. I also can't help but think that they could kiss further funding goodbye if they reported that driving faster is better.
I think everyone should learn to read, write, arithmetic, programming and preferable some mathematics.
I'm a little surprised they could actually defend themselves against wolves and fire rifles after prolonged freefall.

Also, pretty surprised that rifles are a standard thing that they have in space. I thought "no guns" was a pretty basic safety idea for space.
That seems like just another enabler for people. "Hey, I'm late, but you can track me in real time!"
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It seems a bit strange to blame Zorn for spreading the myth that "programmers shouldn't manage memory" on the basis of that paper, when at about the same time he was writing a bunch of other papers extolling the virtues of customized memory allocators: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=172674, for instance.
I have been to Switzerland, but not Singapore or Hong Kong.

I found it quite interesting, and I am only 24, now, and was younger then still.

One notable thing about the Swiss political system is, that in general each level of government spends as much as it earns in taxes. I.e. there are no huge transfers between federal and state (=Canton) level.
I have seen Groupon deals with caps. Will append to this post once I locate it.
Ah, one of my favourite correlation/causation mix-ups. Proving that increased speed is associated with an increased accident rate is not the same as proving that accidents are caused by speeding (and therefore 'accident rate could be reduced by slowing down').

Personally, I'm more inclined to think that dangerous drivers tend to speed more than safe drivers, hence the correlation, but in any case I'd love to see some evidence either way.
It would probably make sense to do this as a service though. I'm guessing people probably listen to similar tunes, so it would be significantly cheaper if you could pool 10 people's music and only store 1 copy of every song.
You might be right. The wikipedia page said "the laptop was powered-up", which is a little ambiguous ("was [already?] powered-up"). But I think the principal is the same in either case. He already volunteered the information once.
> Some people were raised in cultures where tardiness is tolerated.

Some European countries have the academic quarter[1] which basically means that it's ok to be 15 minutes late.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_quarter_%28class_timin...
Of course, you wouldn't need oxygen. You need oxygen to break down compounds; you need carbon dioxide to build them. Your lungs would have to switch to absorbing CO2 and expelling O2.

Now, on the other hand, if you continued to eat food AND synthesized, that could get pretty cool. I'm not really sure what you'd wind up expelling in that case.