skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do this on a smaller scale so here are my tips.

1. You process the initial payment.

2. 30 days later or so, after any refunds have possibly gone through, you pay your affiliates.

3. You can pay your affiliates through PayPal or check. Or credits to your system if they want.

4. You have to keep track of all payments you make.

5. Any affiliate you send more than $500 to, you have to send them a 1099 at the end of the year for IRS purposes. (It might not be $500, double-check that.)

6. I would recommend getting an affiliate management script like iDevAffiliate to handle the front-end for your affiliates so they're clear on how much they've earned and so on.
i never understood the appeal of these sites.
The original question was 'If you could only learn 3 languages ..."
Anon is (a) digitized mob mentality. No reason to commend it.
I'm pretty sure strcpy et al pre-date the introduction of varargs. Besides, there's no reason the format string couldn't be the last argument of printf, except the specific technical detail that C requires at least one mandatory argument in any variadic function (the variable's address is used to locate the optional arguments in the stack.)
I find outrageous that compagnies like VISA or MASTERCARD take the right to forbid people to do what _THEY_ want with _THEIR OWN_ money.

Please continue the DDOS until they bankrupt.
Not doing commerce with someone is not suppression. It's a peaceful activity. They were never responsible for helping wikileaks or anyone else do anything, so they are not violating an obligation by failing to help. (OK they do have obligations to their customers, but those are governed by contracts which let them cancel service and which they no doubt followed).

Whether you agree with Amazon/Visa/etc or not, it's important to keep clear the difference between their actions (no force involved) and the Government's actions (force involved). It's not all the same thing even if they help accomplish some similar ends.
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Can you substantiate that rumor? Taking down Visa.com isn't really a huge deal, but taking down Authorize.net would actually affect a lot of merchants.
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Hence why it's a rule of thumb instead of a rule embedded in deep concrete and signed by the Highest Authority?
"ALWAYS BE CLOSING"

I know one of the Zenter guys. He is definitely a closer.
Any chance you would be open to a remote SA? I'm pretty darned good, but also I really don't want to relocate to California.

If it helps, I've worked for a partner from one of the funds in your series-A round (we were acquired ~ 2.5 years ago).
The announcement includes a notice akin to a primitive open source license:

The code is not strictly public domain: it is copyright
CERN (see copyright notice is in the .tar), but is free
to collaborating institutes.

Was it typical back then to release code while retaining the copyright as opposed to making it public domain?
It sounds to me like the Writely engineer who called you didn't know why he was meant to call.

That would have set of very loud alarm bells for me. What did you think at the time?!
> Any idea how much it would cost me if I get lawyers involved?

Ask the lawyers?

If they're in the middle of an acquisition, that might give you some leverage. I don't think an acquiring company wants open lawsuits...
Talk to a lawyer, fast.

You're a creditor. Owing somebody money hurts their acquisition negotiations, which is the reason for their original offer.

Get lawyers involved while the company is still a legal entity. If you delay until they no longer exist, the new entity may not be liable to pay you either and you'll be trying to hunt down individual founders, which is not going to be any easier.
Remember The Milk is looking for a sysadmin. We're in Sydney, Australia, but you can work from anywhere.

http://www.rememberthemilk.com/about/jobs/sysadmin.rtm
Visa is a private company. If they are wrong, it's wrong in the same way as Apple's app store policies -- you can object to them, compete with them, complain about them, even jailbreak your phone, but you'd definitely be wrong to DDoS the app store website b/c your app was rejected.

Visa isn't attacking anyone when they reject customers for any reason, just like Apple isn't attacking anyone when they reject apps. Attacking is the wrong word. It's refusing to cooperate with, even "discriminating against" (but not the various illegal types like racism or sexism), being unfriendly to, maybe "being a jerk", whatever, but there is no attacking when a business makes legal business decisions, especially one that they think lots of their customers would prefer (Why else would they do it? I'm guessing Visa is run by soulless bureaucrats just trying to make money and keep their jobs and they don't care about having a political agenda).
Clickable: http://hipchan.com

Thanks!
I thought it was common to invent new terms or repurpose neutral ones rather than subvert common, loaded terms for your own purposes?

I would not call it "oddball", I would call it either "intentionally misleading" or - granting benefit of doubt - a "misjudgment causing more harm than good".

How about "cyberterrorism", a reasonably established term?
A pending legal action could put the acquisition in jeopardy. I'd expect that they would take any credible legal threat very seriously. See if you can get a lawyer to write a threatening collections letter. That may be all you need to get them motivated.

It shouldn't cost you very much to get a letter drafted by an attorney. It took my lawyer about an hour to draft a similar letter in the past, so figure 1-2 hours times your lawyer's hourly rate.
sounds like a good experiment - conversion improvement certainly depends on the site as well. Mind sharing your results afterwards?

For us, we also get a lot of solid suggestions and feedback from chatting with customers, so the benefits are not always solely in the conversion improvement :)
The comparison to sit-ins is an interesting case I hadn't considered until reading further comments.

On a technical level DDoS certainly seems equivalent to a sit-in. I will have to think on this a bit more.
"Google Inc., Apple Inc., and Facebook Inc. need to pitch in to help pay for the billions of dollars of network investments needed for their bandwidth-hogging services, European phone operators say." -- How about no.

If some telco operators don't want to pay to upgrade their systems, I'm sure there'll be other telco operators would upgrade to entice customers to switch over. Especially in Europe where mobile phone networks are all cross compatible.
My first car (a 1967 Dodge Monaco) had 'backwards' lug nuts on the left hand side of the car...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lug_nut#History

Propane tanks also used to have backwards screwing connections. I believe this was a safety 'feature' given the mainstream use of small propane tanks. Having them tighten counter-clockwise prevents similar looking but wrong hoses from being attached to the tank. It also tricked people who didn't understand propane tanks form being able to remove a connection (since they would usually just tighten it further).
I find this a more informative comment than the one above:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1984609

as I don't have to google around to find out what south is (I haven't used Django yet)
Is Nathan Myhrvold/Intellectual Ventures a patent Troll?
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Actually we started off with that - having the same interface for both Android and iOS.

But Android users don't expect Android apps to behave like iPhone apps - so the affordances don't carry over.

They kept tapping the context menu, or holding down list items: actions which are normal on Android but nonexistent on iOS.
Considering that the Jesus was the original revolutionary and one of his major acts was throwing the money changers out of the Temple, I am stunned about the internalized commercialization of Christmas and the comments that put into question the current protest.

And I am saying this even though I hate DDos viscerally, my business was a victim of such an attack. But I have to say, as long as no one gets killed or injured this is a legitimate form of protest.
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> If you don't ask for money for what you do, then you are saying that what you do is worthless.

"Um, what?"
--Every open source developer, ever.
Oh yes, it was partly my fault for leaving my phone on non-silent mode, but that doesn't sound half as good in a story.
Both Visa and MasterCard are down. This just shows how fragile the internet is and how 'easy' is to shut down the entire economy and system.

The point is that coordinated attack by terrorists or plain old criminals can cripple the entire world's economy and there is no easy and effective way to prevent it.

We do need to think about how internet can be re-organized to be 100% distributed system to prevent this of happening again.
As far as I know, no has a system like ours that can actually scale OLTP workloads. Warehousing/Analytics databases are very different beast. Can you point me at an OLTP system that I can expand without taking any loss of availability? How about supporting online schema changes?

Infiniband ports cost less than 10GE right now. There's really nothing that ties our architecture to IB. It's all about price/performance. When a better/cheaper technology becomes more available, we'll switch to that.
Understanding what Julian Assange is really trying to do with WikiLeaks.
The word itself doesn't matter. That's the whole point.

Call it "foo". The point is that I create a symbol that has these attributes. We can then reason about this symbol.

You cannot do this by picking up an already-loaded term and working with it. It doesn't work. So by redefining "foo" or "terrorism" or "cyber-terrorism" or whatnot, you then have to go back to where the old word was used in context and see if it works. In some cases it works. In some cases it does not. You find out all sorts of interesting things by slightly formalizing your language in this manner.
It's the Ghost in the Shell. The Internet's collective id.
And we're always looking to hire good engineers with skills in distributed systems development.

http://www.clustrix.com/about/careers/
Twitter just suspended @anon_operations. Expect involutary Twitter fast. ;)
"... I didn't design this computer to make a lot of money, I wanted to accelerate the world's advancement in the social revolution that it would cause. So I gave away my designs for free. But eventually, Steve Jobs came and said, 'Why don't we build it for (consumers)?' ..."

Closest thing I've read by Woz explaining the origin of the Apple business plan. Replace Woz with a herd of 'Woz-like' engineers and you get Apple now. Removing Woz meant Apple also removed the freedom it once had.
Truth.
If we vote trustworthy people into government, there is no need for transparency.
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If the people making the laws rig the game, you're not going to stand a chance of winning if you follow the rules.
I'm all for copyright trolls getting their due, but does anyone know if this kind of thing is enough to seriously hurt their profits?
I was using it more in the sense of "Long story short". I suppose I would usually use it to make a related/contiguous point, but I didn't want to imply that I rejected the application purely because he had woken me up at 3am (which was partly my own fault anyway for forgetting to flip silent mode).
Except your assertion requires that the availability of imported tea was an essential component to the American Revolution's success. The founders didn't reduce their available resources by making people less likely to import tea.

Anon has reduced Wikileaks' available resources by making people less likely to facilitate donations to them.
damn that's a serious flaw!! hope they fix it soon or else it's gonna become a storm...
If you're trying to do actual real work of tracking down terrorists, you don't want the whole world to know(at least until years later). But if you're doing something EVIL behind our back, the world have the right to know.

The main safeguard is rule of law. There's a whitelist of information that is allowed to be classified -- spelled out in http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13526 .

Information shall not be considered for classification
unless its unauthorized disclosure could reasonably be
expected to cause identifiable or describable damage to
the national security in accordance with section 1.2 of
this order, and it pertains to one or more of the
following:

(a) military plans, weapons systems, or operations;

(b) foreign government information;

(c) intelligence activities (including covert
action), intelligence sources or methods, or
cryptology;

(d) foreign relations or foreign activities of the
United States, including confidential sources;

(e) scientific, technological, or economic matters
relating to the national security;

(f) United States Government programs for
safeguarding nuclear materials or facilities;

(g) vulnerabilities or capabilities of systems,
installations, infrastructures, projects,
plans, or protection services relating to the
national security; or

(h) the development, production, or use of weapons
of mass destruction.

You can't simply mark your shady activities "TOP SECRET". Not even the president has the authority to do that. That's an improper classification, and is illegal -- anyone who works with classified information should know that, and could be expected to report it.

Between rule of law, a law that outlines which categories of things the government is allowed to keep secret, and the fact that even really secret programs of any significant size have to ultimately be staffed with lots of normal citizens, I think it's actually a pretty safe and sane system.
Can't say where's the fine line (if any ..)

Would $4M be FU money? Yea, definitely.

Would $1M do it? Hm, I'm not really sure. I'm sure it would be very fortunate to have that amount (I'd be able to pay college debts for all my family and move somewhere else), but I'm not sure how long it would last me.
The way I remember it is "ln -s target [filename]", where filename is an optional argument to override the default, where the default is a link created in the CWD pointing to target. Easy.
I just think of the "-s" as "source".
Cars generally still do have backwards nuts on the LHS. Something about vibration and direction of turn. Some of the other bolts on the LHS can be that way too.

Same with some of the LP gas cylinders I have encountered here in Aus.
Telling your counterparty that you're about to get on a plane to meet them is one way to qualify a deal: they may tell you not to.

Ah, again we see the parallels with dating?

(I did very nearly do this once.)
Cool stats bro. Chill out, here's a glass of wine.
Apologies. In the CNN article now posted on Hacker News, http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/12/more_wikileak... , the Low Orbit Ion Canon is volunteer. It would seem that there are that many who are agreeing with the assault, or at least not removing their agreement with Anonymous' general decisions.
Looks like they're redirecting it to USA.visa.com
As an average merchant you wouldn't have any reason to care about the ethical actions of large companies like VISA unless you were affected. These types of actions (right or wrong) force you to care.

In fact, this is one of the core principles that America was founded on through the symbolic Boston Tea Party and beyond.

I think the real point of these things, though its likely that the intentions of many participants differ, is to simply bring these issues to light to the common person.
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They are obviously swinging for the fences, especially with Sequoia involved. It's fair to expect that they would aim for a 9 figure exit. IPO or not.

Interesting case about Cisco. I would've also thrown in Apple because of their huge war chest and select big acquisitions. Dropbox could easily outdo MobileMe. Then again, I'm sure Google wouldn't mind getting a GDrive finally.

But then, there's facebook!(Sure, they got Drop.io, but facebook loves grabbing startups away before Google get to them)
This single event? Not directly. But rulings carry precedent. If they are actually ruled against in this case, it would be much harder for them to go after someone else with the same tactic.

If this company is built upon this type of trolling, then yes it will greatly impact their revenue.
I wonder why they don't get payment gateway IP's from shops, surely some of them work in them, and DDOS those. Maybe too much heat because Visa and MasterCard would lose millions per day and people would lose the ability to pay with their cards?
Similar confusion arises from the AT&T and Intel syntaxes for x86 assembly which differ in the order of operands:

Intel:

mov bx, 100

AT&T:

mov $100, %bx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_assembly_language#Syntax
They are up again:

http://twitter.com/AnonOpsNet

http://twitter.com/anonops

http://twitter.com/AnonOperation (not official, but seems to be working along: http://twitter.com/AnonOperation/status/12652603078877184)

This tweet (http://twitter.com/#!/anonops/status/12651605946015744 ) is a wary thought on how things can scalate, and how badly: if we can't have twitter account, nobody can

I just wonder if any of this will come on the panel with Tim Bray later tonight: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1981547
It's not the profits that matter. It should be shown that these cases are defensible and the average victim should defend themselves. This way, the company would not be able to settle with anyone and thus not make any profit, and hopefully die.
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On a machine's runtime stack, there is no indication of how many parameters were passed to the function (at least on x86). C functions must use one of the mandatory arguments to determine how many arguments were pushed on the stack. In the case of the printf-family of functions, it's the number of format specifiers, e.g., "%d".
The issue here is not about censorship on the web (ha!), it's about confidential relationships and whether, as a society and for the betterment of it, we feel some information should be confidential and protected.

Would the same arguments be made about censorship if WikiLeaks' instead posted health records, or confidential conversations between attorneys and their clients? (which are confidential and legally protected, similar to security clearances).

The debate should be whether we want to protect communications between our politicians and diplomats, not the inevitable publication of released confidential material and the vilification of the one who does it.

This release does show, however, that once this type of information is on the internet, whether it's medical records, nuclear secrets, or what the Secretary of State said to some diplomat, no one can stop its availability, as long as there are people who support its release.
> we do elect governments

This is just not accurate in any meaningful way. I don't elect my government, and neither does anyone else here. I vote, but my vote's effect on what actually happens is so small it's not even measurable. Elections are not decided by thoughtful voters; they're decided by propagandists who control the majority of thoughtless voters.
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What percentage do you think are "real" accounts? (or anyone of course?)
NoScript and AdBlock Plus may help with that. Even if the page is using a META refresh, NoScript has an option to kill those.
This doesn't affect the payment gateways AFAIK, only their front-facing websites.
I don't think "bully" is the correct term in that case.
Good point. The problem with this is that this is exactly the reason why the Government is using companies as proxies for suppressing freedom, because it leaves nobody to blame: (1) the Government didn't really forbid donations to WikiLeaks and (2) the companies can always blame the Government or the law for what they were forced to do.

I don't have the right answer for this and it just makes me sad that our freedom is being eroded incrementally.
Easy in theory, impossible in practice. Since we have yet to prove the existence of psychic powers, transparency is the only way to know whether somebody is in fact trustworthy.
One of the classic papers on sentiment analysis utilizes this operator (in 2002, it was AltaVista's NEAR) in the algorithm.

"Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Semantic Orientation Applied to
Unsupervised Classification of Reviews" by Peter Turney is the paper if anyone is curious.
There are so many active topics on the DDoS's happening today. I now wonder. What happens if Anonymous wins? If, under the pressure, Visa gives and succumbs to their wishes? What happens then?
I love this story. Kudos to them.
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Interesting idea. I would imagine the page load for the person who opens the webpage would be pretty high, unless there's a way to stop a webpage from loading. (Disabling images/js/flash client side, perhaps?). Also, the website owners would get banned pretty quick, unless they have some offshore hosting.

Also, a double meta refresh is another way to get rid of the referrer beside using SSL.
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I don't this this is about government vs. private corporation. I just don't think anyone cares about space anymore.

My sister goes to Purdue and when they dedicated the Neil Armstrong building the school had just built, there were apparently 15 or 16 astronauts in attendance. You know how many students showed up to hear them talk? A few dozen. Purdue has like 30 or 40k students and they couldn't even fill a classroom.
Is DDOS'ing wikileaks really an attempt to stop free speech?
Is capturing a journalist due to condom breakdown really an attempt to stop free speech?

YES THEY ALL ARE!
The worst part with that kind of mistakes is that you end up never knowing for sure. :)

You start with "ln -s A B" and realize you always make the mistake, so you force yourself to do the opposite of your natural instinct: "ln -s B A". It works until this becomes natural but you still think you always get it wrong, so start doing the opposite of your new natural: "ln -s A B". You'll now be very confused until you force yourself to learn it for good.

This happens to me all the time for various binary things.
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But you're missing a huge point here. Visa and MasterCard don't have a responsibility to allow you access to their networks.

This is akin to arguing that your free speech rights are infringed upon when a moderator removes your comment on their board.
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@Anon_Operationn too. Maybe the plan is to have multiple redundant ones then post to them via a script?
You mean the Clustra that was acquired by Sun and renamed HADB? I used it, and as far as I can remember, the HADB fault-tolerant story was that each node has a mirror that takes over if the first fails; and it's basically all in-memory. The Clustrix redundancy granularity is much finer, and everything is on disk.
Does any know whether "Chrome" signifies the browser or the OS? Everyone here seems to assume the browser, but my first thought was that it referred to the new OS since I was reading just yesterday that you will be able to read the NY Times offline on there. Also, when I opened the link in Opera it asked me if I wanted to let the site store 10mb of data, which I assumed related to that feature.
I'm smiling ear to ear about this one. I hope Righthaven gets taken down hard!