skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
or two domains point to the same site, and have a $20 in the logo slashed out, replaced with $15.You're the creative one - make it work :)
Partially the time, resources, and cash that Salesforce would need to spend to create a similar product.

Also: revenue, future growth, and intangibles (brand, goodwill, etc.)
Likewise except also attempting to script out Trade Wars 2002. And yes, 2002 seemed futuristic too damn it.
I don't see how putting a button or a banner on your site is going to stop censorship, that seems to be pretty symbolic.

Saying 'no' to online censorship is not equivalent to some cosmetic changes, it's a fundamental thing to do and in the end of all we do is place some buttons then I doubt that would put a dent in to the plan of those that would have it differently.

Contributing directly to the EFF (I believe VISA and Mastercard are still processing donations to them, possibly even PayPal) would be one way, what other ways are there in which we could make more than just a symbolic stand here ?
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I disagree. The press had largely made the story about Wikileaks, Manning, and the tabloid gossip comments about foreign leaders, but if you go look at the contents of the cables, there are some serious issues. The biggest to me is about the corruption and drug production in our puppet government in Afghanistan. The vice president was caught at the border with $52 million in cash http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contents_of_the_United_States_d... and was allowed to keep it. This actual stuff.
And here's the HN comment comparing an anonymous DDoS attack to Rosa Parks physically and nonviolently resisting an unjust law. The reverse-Godwin, right on schedule.
Goosebumps ^_^
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A couple weeks ago I built http://www.hackeress.com with the crowdspring / 99Designs clientèle in mind (who seems to be your audience).

You could expand your site and add a section for designers who specialize in the code-writing aspect of design. Just a thought.

EDIT: Fixed. I'm still working on the site's content; got busy over the holiday. But the design of the site is done, as are the custom 404 error pages. :)
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Closed already - dang it - was going to send in a request :(
This only works if enough people do it AND tell MC (and possibly the media) why they're doing it, though.
What a month indeed! The first two are really only interesting to the masses in hindsight though. I wonder how many interesting technological advances happen every month that we don't realize until years later.
I wonder why the didn't pick web. instead of www.

Not the best alternative for sure but at least a thousand times easier to pronounce.
Would anyone have tips to promote books published via Lulu ? Do you go the SEO road, or try to get your book in reviewer's hands, or anything else ?

One thing I did for a book done by my brother [1] was to create a quick heroku app that displays a lulu preview, a "buy" button and more informations about the book, on a dedicated domain.

[1] http://www.zoo-imaginaire.com/ french book for kids
Gah, I missed watching it. Kicking myself now.
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We didn't start the fire..
Why? I liked your list, but I'm a novice. Would you please elaborate about why you like this combination? Ruby and Javascript make sense to me for web scenarios. Is Java your third because it's more enterprise accepted? Other reasons for Java? Thanks!
From a link in the bug report, it's a WebKit rendering bug that was fixed over half a year ago. Either Chrome's release schedule doesn't include updating WebKit frequently or the fix was incomplete.
I love reading about the old school hackers,
It amazing what you can do with a whistle for example - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/John_Draper

Too bad the who wrote this article is no longer with us - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Justin_Tanner....

In any case my gut feeling is that if you get into trouble - get a real lawyer. Using this or any legal advice you get online might actually make your situation worse.
That very month I was also 12, and at a summer camp at RIT learning 'robotics' and doing animations in Mac hypercard!

Man how times have changed.
Partly because of the changing pace of technology. A watch company could be pretty sure 100 years ago that watches would still be around in 20 years, sure the technology might need to be updated but not dramatically. You think anyone will even use Heroku in 5 years? There is a new language and technology every month now that gets hype, it's unlikely something like this will continue to grow for the long term.
I watched the live stream of this, and it was awesome...
I think Kindle works the same way. It's just that they can come and seize any of your books whenever they feel like it. Dropbox will not be much different because if they delete a file on their server and enforce updates on all of your machines, it will lead to the same result.
Mastercard.com Taken Down By Pro-Wikileaks Forces
Was presented by HN: c1sc0 at ignite session LeWeb10 in Paris to raise fund for @CharityWater. Check the Ballsy guy with this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVVXUDUez6I. Brrr
PayPal Admits State Department Pressure Caused It To Block WikiLeaks
There are plenty of ways to defend against this kind of attack, with varying degrees of efficiency and automation.
That wouldn't be the first time I mix up my metaphors, thanks for the correction!
Symbolic stands like this are often the first step to the more virtuous concrete actions you describe.
So, you and all those experiments that you encourage others to take are the responsible for the slowness of HN...

I was wondering why was HN the slowest website around and now i know why!
> However, it could start a revolution in information access.

He has a gift for statement (not over or under).
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/12/wikileaks_te...

A US government contractor was running a child sex slave ring in Afghanistan. It's not the Pentagon Papers, but it shows a pattern of behavior that company has engaged in for over a decade.

But the individual leaks aren't the larger goal of WikiLeaks. Addressing the wrongs the leaks uncover is fighting the last war. WikiLeaks is trying to change the system.
Clojure, C# (or more generally the .Net Framework), and Python.

As for natural languages, hands down Mandarin. I spent the summer in Hong Kong, and while they spoke Cantonese there, it was still a fantastic introduction to Chinese culture.
You really think cyber terrorism is going to make Mastercard more likely to want to work with similar groups in the future?
Looks like he's in Brazil from his paypal page. Not sure about the cost of living there, but that's probably a decent wage for a lot of people there.
Just checking - what do you mean by private? Do you mean "only visible to the three million people who could access the cables"? Or do you mean a higher level of privacy?
Gimp will work
"Socially desirable" is the right way to think about it. Law has always been "mob rule", with competitive courts competing to define what this entails.

"Legal" just means the government agrees with it. The state claimed a monopoly on "law" along the way.

The tension we see today is that the "legal" does not represent the "socially desirable" / "law" anymore.

Granted, a binary offline/online result using DDOS attacks is a very rude reputation system, but the reputation feedback processes can be improved upon by competition (semantic web startups anyone?).
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Since you're probably using that website to get clients, you might want to verify that all the pages work. (The link you used works, clicking on any of the links gives me a 404.)
1989 is only a bit over 20 years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C5%9Fescu

And I do not doubt that if some European politician got it in to their heads to try something really stupid that such 'reminder' demonstrations would turn violent pretty quickly.

In France it wasn't 5 years ago that 100's of cars were burned every night and in the Netherlands squatters do battle with the riot police with some regularity.

Mob violence is never far away.
It all depends on the type of C++ you are writing. It is such a vast language that usage patterns can range anywhere from C90 plus declare-where-used and single line comments to something that in practice isn't a whole lot different than C#. Modern C# includes RAII-like idioms with using statements and IDisposable replacing C++'s destructors, and C++ manages to fake garbage collection using smart pointers.

It's not an ideal basis but there are worse languages to learn before coming to C#; it might even be easier for C++ programmers to move to C# and begin working comfortably than Java programmers.
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>At Techcrunch we survived a 4chan DoS attempt

I wouldn't mention it; just my friendly advice. Anon is a fickle beast.
Yeah, it looks like I'm wrong about that. But then, I'd have to raise the question why MC hasn't done anything (successfully) yet to defend against this? They must be losing hundreds of thousands of dollars (per hour? not sure of volume here) because of the SecureCode payments failing all over the place. Also, a falling trust from consumers and vendors.

It seems mission-critical to get their site back up, but they haven't. I assumed that was because they couldn't. But if you say they can....why haven't they?
NYTimes likes to sleep around. They've developed quite a few frontends: a WPF/Silverlight version, an AIR version, and now a "Chrome" HTML5 version. Next will be an Oracle version in JavaFX.
This looks great. I'd like to submit a few designs, so please re-accept submissions. As long as they're done within a week or two that's fine.
It would be more useful if the survey asked "Which 3 languages do you wish you could use at your day job"
I vaguely recall that there used to be a feature (and possibly this was with Altavista before I switched to Google) that allowed you to search for words that were close together. So instead of trying ten different permutations of "like jb hifi in London" I would enter the keywords, and various forms "jb hifi type stores in London", "jb hifi stores in central London" etc would be returned. Or am I dreaming?
Finding co-founders, where and how
How do the people in the HN community find their co-founders? I am an operations guy with a lot of code experience and I have a couple ideas that I want to work on. The problem is that I need to find a(some) co-founder(s).

Where does HN meet their partners?
while I like CSS transforms/transitions, they don't support the complexity needed for an app like this as far as I can tell. Maybe I'm missing something, mind illustrating further?
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Jinx us? What could be better? You get to build a product with a clear roadmap, a vast market of disgruntled users of the product that went to shit and basically guaranteed success.

I wonder if I should start building Heroku 2 now...
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They offer founders too much money to pass up.
Interesting, I never realized this connection:

A NeXT Computer was used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN to develop the world's first web server software, CERN HTTPd, and also used to write the first web browser, WorldWideWeb. This workstation became the world's first web server on the Internet.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_Computer
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the skimmer seems to not work at all for me in FF4beta, whereas the chrome one is 100%. Any idea if they changed the approach to the layout?
My guess would be that they incorrectly estimated the magnitude of any attack that they would have to deal with and are now scrambling to get a procedure in place that allows them to forward lists of 'known bad' ip addresses to their upstream providers to be placed in ACLs.

Everything is hard the first time.
It's more of a HTML5 demo than anything else.
Ask HN: Domain registrar with a good API?
I work for a company managing ~15,000 domain registrations. Our current registrar is dumping their old querystring-based API in favor of its XML equivalent. The transition has been anything but smooth.

So tell me HN, are there any developer-oriented registrars out there? Something like BrainTree but for domains instead of credit cards?
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Why would you want to work on the same thing forever? Sure if you found a Google or a Facebook then you may have an ample playground, but most small companies do not have opportunities that interesting. You can try to force a round peg into a square hole or just take your cash and start something new.
It's sort of interesting - maybe even ironic, although I don't know if that adjective is quite applicable - that when a news story comes out that says that a major website is down due to DDOS, the first thing I do - and probably what many others do - is try to go to that website to see if it's still down. That, of course, must make the situation so much worse.
I think it's reasonable to expect some privacy in diplomatic communication. The rough drafts, as it were, need to be private so that fear of embarrassment does not automatically remove any options from consideration. Of course, once privacy is granted, it can and is used to cover up much more -- mistakes, corruption, duplicity, etc.
Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.

- Kyle Bragger (@kylebragger)

http://startupquote.com/post/2144283109
The issue at hand, and what you have to minimize depending on what attack is being used, is malicious packets reaching your servers. Now, it is a fairly difficult task to figure out what packets are malicious and which packets are real as they definitely look alike.

Going with the latest web server attack (the long open connections with POST) there is not a whole lot of protection that could be afforded other than throwing more resources and more servers at the mix such that each of them can handle the open connections that are SLOWLY sending data to them. There could be time-outs, but those are easy to figure out with some experimentation and it doesn't require much to keep endless connections going forever and sending the bare minimum required to keep the connection alive.

Other attacks like ICMP ping floods just flood the network to the point that the routers are unable to physically carry the traffic from point A to point B. They start dropping packets. If at this point you attempt a TCP/IP connection it most likely will not get through in the large flood. ICMP traffic can be dropped at the door, letting legitimate traffic through again, and generally can easily be taken care of at the edge routers.

Then there are the various TCP/IP flood attacks which are mostly designed so that on the target a connection stays in an open queue whereby the host runs out of backlog so that it can't accept new connections, also known as half-open connections. SYN cookies help with this.

Or still the best method is to have a VERY large botnet of computers that attack the target so that the amount of traffic is simply overwhelming no matter the method used. If your server is on a 100 Mbit connection, you can NEVER accept 1 Gbit worth of data. Now multiply that and start looking at where in the infrastructure there is a bottleneck. If inside your network you can accept 10 Gb's a second, but your gateway router is only rated at 1 Gb's a second you can just choke the router and it doesn't matter what is behind it.

With massive DDoS attacks it becomes very costly, as you have to divert the traffic elsewhere first where it can efficiently be filtered for legitimate and non-legitimate and then have it be sent on to the actual backend servers that then respond.
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An incredibly critical point.

A boycott is only effective if the disgruntled group has enough population to affect the business of the target. There in lies the problem with a DDoS attack. It is not a symmetrical response. A small group of people could execute such an attack, while the majority of actual customers may not have an issue with their actions.
> Even more interesting than a simple full-text search would be a regular-expression full-text search of the internet

It would seem to me that indexing data in such a way as to support arbitrary regex would be difficult. Anybody know of an existing system?
Whilst Amazon cloud, Heroku etc may be hot for startups who don't really mind about throwing money away, I don't think that will last. Both are significantly, prohibitively expensive for companies interested in turning a profit or having a business model.

It's more like "VC funded companies throw money at hosting at the moment".
What are some time-saving tips that every Linux user should know?
I wonder if it would be viable to offer DDOS protection in the form of a huge bank of servers that the victim could rent for a specific period of time to help alleviate the affects. Companies could pay for it like it's insurance.
Woah, don't put words in my mouth like that! I never said I thought that. That said, I'm not sure I understand your question. Wikileaks and Anon aren't related. MC can't choose to deal or not deal with Anon. Their choice is about Wikileaks, who have nothing to do with any of this.

If they continue to choose to ban payments through their system to Wikileaks, I assume they'll continue losing money from DDoSs. shrug I don't have any idea what'll happen, but I think you have to accept that Anon has a point, even if you don't agree with them.

MC slows the flow of information. Anon slows the flow of cash to MC. If MC doesn't respond, it seems like they'll keep losing money.
Looking for startups that combine WikiLeaks & YouPorn -or- moot gets a VC wallet
They are alike in the aspects being discussed. Comparisons need not entail that two things are completely identical in all respects.
Ok. Nobody ever does anything for bragging rights.
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There are companies that do this. There was an article a long time ago on Wired (IIRC) that described how this was built for an online gambling company when they were being extorted.
Nice strawman. I use and contribute to open source.

I don't think Apple is looking at Ubuntu though, certainly don't think they consider them an opponent in any race.
f(x,y) evaluating to X for some x=X does not imply f(x,y) = x.
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So "top manifestations" now turns out to mean "manifestations involving most people" and "Hitler" now turns out to mean "WW2 and the Holocaust". Well, fair enough.

Now, why exactly should WW2-and-the-holocaust be regarded as a "top manifestation" of the capacity for abstract thought? I mean, sure, lots of people and lots of effort were involved, but that's just an artefact of the way you happen to have chosen to carve up the world -- with WW2-and-the-holocaust as a single item. If we take, say, "medicine" as a single item (which seems to me just as reasonable) then the number of people involved is very much larger, the net change in utility probably also much larger, and the amount of abstract thought involved also much larger.

In any case, why focus on single events? Imagine something that has the following consequences. (1) Two events, in each of which 1000 people die premature and nasty deaths. (2) A sustained change lasting for ten years, as a result of which 100000 people (independently, on separate occasions) avoid premature and nasty deaths. Then if you focus on "top manifestations" you might say that the top two are those two events in which people die. But the net benefit -- which surely matters more -- is large and positive. (Note for the avoidance of doubt: I am not making any pronouncement on whether bringing this thing about would be morally justified, which is an entirely different question from whether on balance it's a good thing. No person brought about the human capacity for abstract thought.)
Visa + Mastercard is a duopoly. They have been abusing their domination for years. I don't feel sorry for MC.
My mistake, I didn't know that. I looked for the information on where they are registered on their legal page http://www.canonical.com/legal, and it simply states 'United Kingdom'. Anyway, the point stands - they're not a US company.
Wikileaks: How are they staying on the Internet?
I was 11 programming in GW Basic. My dad didn't give me a copy of his C compiler until a year later.
Same with the BCSA (British Computer Software Alliance) they do audits on your software licenses and then offer you 'membership' which includes special priced deals to handle any 'accidental licensing mistakes'
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Yes, based on the spreadsheet I keep:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l...
This would make for a fun A/B test: "$15 + $5 extra" vs. "$20 - $5 discount".

You might collect some evidence that people like getting a deal more than getting hit with an extra cost.
The really sad part about this is the people who are probably getting most hurt by this are the web developers who maintain mastercard.com; probably a few fellow HNers. I'd hate to be in their shoes right now.
ACTUAL JFB QUOTE FROM SEEING AN EARLY (LATE 91?) DEMO:

This sucks. Why would anybody switch from Gopher?
No, it is probably a majority vote among the share holders. Minority share holders have no say in the decision.
Yeah, it's almost as if the government and large businesses only care about each other.
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Yes, and that is how it is supposed to work. Boycotts and demonstrations not working, does not justify attacks.
Value can be added without being taken away.

Oil can't.
I assume you can still donate to NORAID with your mastercard?

All of us little old England are so glad we have never experienced any terrorist attacks before 911
No, we need to make that more clear on the site. It's our own search engine, written to overcome some of the limitations of Lucene. In particular, update of relevance formulas on the fly so you can experiment without reindexing.
"No means no".
... working in Firefox 4b7 for me
That's great useful advice.

How do you promote your books? And if you're willing to share: How many have you sold?
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And for those without a math or CS degree: http://floating-point-gui.de/
Good job, I think that it is a good way to earn some bucks while gathering experience.
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i've talked to small business owners about the BBB in the past, just in incidental conversation, and they all used the exact same words to describe it: "protection racket".
Another Heroku-like service for Python is DjangoZoom. Sign up for the beta at http://www.djangozoom.com

Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of DjangoZoom.
It was the point that Heroku agreed to sell at
Why would anyone need this when they have Gopher?
Happens to me too. I don't function correctly when I'm tired.
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No no, not 13. I said 14. Nobody's coming up with 13. Who makes a web design in 13 minutes?

14's the key number here. Think about it. 14 days in a fortnight. 14 - the atomic number of silicon. 14 stations of the cross. 14, man, that's the number.
i am really looking forward to business app developers learning ruby so I can finally stop using curly brackets for my primary work! (except dicts in python)

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This may be myopic of me but after reading Russell/Norvig I more or less equate "AI" with "the kind of stuff in Russell/Norvig". Or, (I hope) less lamely, it's more about a paradigm or perspective on programming - "agent-oriented programming" - than about any particular technique or result.
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