skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It includes nofollow links, another problem is that it gives a link in a massive series of links the same weight as others, when Google definitely doesn't. For instance, there is a blog with us in their blogroll hundreds of time, in reality it doesn't do much, they weight it as 90% plus of our juice.

Still definitely cool though.
It is funny how they do not mention how the Atlantic takes payments from potential subjects of their stories (i.e., bribes).

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/not_just_w...
The Maginot line was built to stop anyone coming in. Hitler was not a major figure when it was built.

The Paywalls are being built to try and keep out the hordes, it represents the same fear of the unknown that created the Maginot line.
Definitely better than always reusing. But it’s still semi-vulnerable if for some reason your plaintext password is discovered. gawk--yourpass does kind of suggest bank--yourpass.
I had the same thought as some have expressed here, Time Warner taking a shot at Netflix,,really? Time Warner ??

But the article makes some valid points. When Netflix started it wasn't viewed as a direct threat to the content owners. Nflix served as the physical distribution arm (and a very very efficient one at that) for media houses. But now with streaming the game is changing.

Each of the players can now setup their own web based distribution base, why would they need Netflix anymore?

Plus there's more competition now. When Netflix launched it was the only one that did what it did (true bb tried, but they were poorly run). With streaming in addition to each Media conglomerates own websites there's also Hulu and lets not forget big dog Google (Youtube and Google TV).

In short content owners have options now, that didn't before. I trust Netflix will come out of this strong, they're a great company with some really smart people, but its not going to be easy
Few companies need the 0.001% that is a "Rock star ninja" such as Larry Wall or Dennis Ritchie.

However, to succeed you do need to be able to hire the 0.5% of developers that is competent and capable of bringing value.
1) because all us smart NYC programmers got the hell out of there during the "Silicon Alley" days.

2) Practically anyone who lives within 100 miles of Wall Street and can program, and isn't a completely dysfunctional human (and many who are), is doing something in the financial sector. It's a huge brain drain, and it's practically impossible to compete with on the basis of salary. To boot, you can't easily motivate these folks with options because A) NY doesn't have a reputation for churning out tech winners and B) these same people study finance for a living, so when you offer them some options or founder's stock, suddenly you're into a discussion of volatility premiums and Black/Scholes analysis of the present-day value of said stock/options.

It's just not a suitable place for a vibrant startup community.
No no no no no no no.
It would be cool to be able to compare two sites on one page, as with Google Trends.

A few examples that I thought were neat:

- msnbc (44/55/1) vs bbc.co.uk (15/82/2)

- facebook (40/37/22) vs linkedin (2/90/6) (I wondering why facebook has so much "advanced" content according to Google)

- wordpress (35/47/16) vs xanga (76/23/1)

- boston college (5/41/53) vs harvard (2/6/91)
If you pass around numbers as strings (or JSON, or XML) even though they can be more compactly encoded in binary, you’re doing sloppy programming. If you then parse those back into a native int at some later point and assume it won’t overflow, you’re really doing sloppy programming.

I find this to be a terrible example of what's sloppy. Formatting as text is more portable, it's one of the tenets of the UNIX Philosophy.

If you encode numbers in binary, you also need to somehow communicate the endianness of the encoding (maybe this is standardized, and you always use htonl, but something still needs to know that you're using "network order"), and you need to store how many bytes the number represents (because the int size on the target may be different a different size) , and you need to provide some way to easily convert back to a readable format for debugging.

By the OP's logic, SMTP and HTTP are "sloppy" because they are readable and easily debugable; admittedly, they are sloppy for other reasons, but not because they don't encode things in binary.
It matters a little outside of Gawker, right? Because a site that requires all of say, 12 characters, if the remaining 4 weren't predictable, would be safe even with the first 8 exposed.
No, It's the maximum point in global production throughput.

From which point, supposedly, our oil reserves will continuously decline and demand will continuously and progressively exceed supply.

The hype generated from this is along the lines of the world tanking, political instability, and so on.
Then you're still in the same boat. Over the timescales that startups typically operate under (weeks to months), one senior engineer is more productive than one senior engineer and five junior engineers. The former can get a lot of code done and produce something that works. The latter spends all their time mentoring the junior engineers, who might or might not produce something that works, but it will undoubtedly be ugly and require much refactoring if it does.

Over longer timescales (years), this relationship doesn't hold true. This is why Google, Microsoft, and many of the other big players in the industry can afford to hire junior engineers. That one senior engineer and five junior engineers will turn into six senior engineers, all of whom have worked closely together, and then you have a gelled team that can accomplish great things.

But you have to get there first. When a startup's fighting for its existence daily, it's not cost effective or prudent to make an investment that will take a couple years to pay off, when there's a good chance that your company will be out of business in six months.
Thanks - I agree with those comments; especially re the "What does this do?" text.

We realise the graphs for the example products are below the fold on the homepage and are looking to do a mini-redesign to bring them higher.
Maybe fade slightly, but cable companies are ready to supernova.
The Day MAME Saved My A**
The original comment poster thought the attacks had been taking place for awhile, he thought it look like 4chan previously had a grudge against this man. In the discussion following the comment it was figured out that the attacks started afterward. You're not talking to "a bunch of stupid, here", you could have just asked for someone to explain it to you.
Content Centric Networking
> If I were Google, I'd try that, but I'd also try something like working out percentage deviation from a Markov chain generated from their crawl.

Indeed, that was my second thought, but I wonder if the gains are really all that large over a raw statistical analysis of the word bag, and whether they're worth the extra analysis space/time. It really depends on what Google is planning on doing with this metadata, internally; if an order-of-ten precision is fine (to pick out decisive categorizations), the raw analysis may be all that's needed.
That's not "basically full employment" -- it's the highest unemployment rate among college grads in the last 2 decades.

Here's a BLS report that shows that more clearly: http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?request_...
If you look at the Patent Office record, you will find that the patent was ultimately upheld, with a few wording changes. The blog post refers to the Patent Office's initial opinion (called a "non-final Office Action"), not the final decision.

Here's a post from the same person, discussing the final result:

http://igdmlgd.blogspot.com/2010/03/one-click-patent-reexami...
Anyone how they got access to their Campfire account? (That's where they found the server passwords)
The first thing I noticed was "noobstories" being marked Advanced. It is probably because noobs are trying their best to get karma by submitting some advanced stories.
This is actually being recognized now and being addressed.
The thing is flight software has to conform to the DO-178B standard which is antiquated in how you can verify systems.
Everything has to be done manually, even model/computer generated code. The result is you can handle far fewer conditions/branches than you'd expect.

That is changing with DO-178C which allows model generated code as long as you verify the modeler system. Then you'll be able to put in all the conditions/priorities and have a model spit out to be included in the avionics software.

As to the boeing vs airbus argument? As a private pilot I like a hybrid. I want the physical linkage, but I'd prefer if my systems management be fully computerized. There's just no reason for my gps/flight computer to not tell me "Bingo destination!" when I've got just enough fuel to get to my destination (+1hour emergency/maneuvering required by law).

DO-178C opens up a HUGE green field for avionics development. It'll be cool to see what happens in the future.
One big problem. No one that is a capable enough developer to teach computer science is going to be teaching at a high school. And more pay isn't an answer, the problem is bureaucracy and endemic stupidity in the institutional structure of public primary and secondary education.
This is what mailinator and, failing that, tenminutemail accounts are for. Why people sign up for random sites with their personal emails just to comment on articles is beyond me.
Suppose I'm not able to use bcrypt for legacy reasons. Would a hash of username+password+constant_seed be good enough? What about user_dependent_seed+password+constant_seed? The user_dependent_seed could be a concat of username, account setup date, user id# etc. What hashing algo would you recommend if bcrypt is just not available?
[Edit: my info here was incorrect as it was based on a completely different platform. Removing this to prevent confusion.]
I wrote a blog post on the same DB migration topic about 2 years ago. This can be applied to any RDBMS and any programming language.
Check it out: http://shashivelur.com/blog/2008/07/hibernate-db-migration
That's ok, arxiv.com is smarter than everyone.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site:arxiv.com&hl=...
If I had to bet? Firesheep or similar + a writer sitting at a Starbucks. Your guess is as good as mine, though. Campfire's under SSL, but people re-use passwords and it's trivial to lift a password-in-the-clear off of a public wireless hotspot. If you wanted to target Gawker, it wouldn't be hard to identify people practicing poor security and just watch them until they slipped up.
(Let alone the fact that I'm busy enough with my own projects) There's no link anywhere on the site to the source code, or information about how to contribute.
I keep seeing comments like this posted in this article, and maybe I'm just being defensive; but I kind of think that's a dangerously dismissive point of view.

I think developers have been creating applications long before they had "large screens, efficient processing and multi tasking". I won't argue that these things make development easier, but they are certainly not a requirement.

Every day I hear about people using these devices for creating content, and every day the trope about them only being for "consuming information" seems more and more absurd.
"I want to say one word to you. Just one word."
-- Plugins ;-)

You can pick out a set of objects that implement a certain interface from a larger set. You can do this for classes, objects, perhaps modules.

Someone already mentioned Twisted plugins. They currently use Zope interfaces. You create a class then declare that it implements a particular interfaces.
Sorry for all of my chrome junk in the url:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
According to the article they're projected to make $6.1 million in revenue for the year. I'm estimating they'll have received 300 million page views over this period of time based of Quantcast and figures from the article. This means they're making about $0.02 per page view, which seems high to me. Is this a somewhat believable number that's inline with industry averages?

I've heard news sites make $7-10 CPM. Is this per ad, but they show multiple ads, so they make more like $20RPM in total (which would line up with my estimates)?
I skip Cable based on Hulu alone. Still paying my share of 50$ for cable internet though.
Relo packages are a perk that's given out to those with a certain amount of experience. I got one last time I changed jobs, but I barely squeaked in (official policy was that it's only for candidates with 5+ years of experience, I had 4 years, they said "We'll work something out"). And I would've had to pay it back if I worked at the company for less than a year.

The vast majority of my friends did not get relo packages, because this is their first job out of school. Companies don't typically offer relo for fresh college grads.

I thought this discussion was about junior engineers?
Wait, this guy tries to go deep and gets downvoted, while

"Also: no evidence of Pop Tarts either." Gets 5 upvotes?

That makes about as much sense as this article.
>>"Did they actually check with these users to see if they would want their image and identity to be used in this way? "

I think we're waay beyond the point where fb checks with its users on how, where and when it wants to display their content. Sure you can go through their convoluted privacy controls but they'll find a way to do what they want.
I agree, and I'd like to clarify that when we are talking about training it's not about learning how to program. It's about being OK with hiring a developer who is expert in C++, LISP and Haskell, and being able to say, hey, it's OK he doesn't know PHP because it will only take him a weekend to pick it up. The training of talented developers is self training, but sometimes they do appreciate the company providing or covering the costs of the books they'll need.
The attraction of bcrypt is that you can tune its work factor to counter increases in computing technology, so that it's very slow to brute-force compared to an MD5/SHA/CRC, all of which are extremely fast to compute. It's counterintuitive, but the idea is that if Joe Blackhat gets your password hash, he's going to spend orders of magnitude more time chewing on it to get a result than if it were hashed with a fast hashing algorithm. Adding more salt to the hash is going to increase its time-to-crack, but swapping SHA1 for bcrypt gets you a future-hardened algorithm that can be adjusted in responses to gains in computing power.
Using Static Analysis for Ajax Intrusion Detection
The group responsible put up a pastebin here: http://pastebin.com/9rRmf6W5 (Warning: questionable legality)

It lists a bunch of the password/email combinations (plaintext), and tells a bit about how they did it. I'm guessing they used a dictionary attack for the easy ones. Also displays chat logs from campfire that show the staff in a highly unfavourable light. Then again, their work does that just fine without any outside help.
For some reason RIM gets little but hate around this place (maybe because it doesn't make products for hackers and it competes with Apple), but I think their story is actually quite inspiring.

Mike Lizaridis quit engineering school a early to found RIM in 1984 in a tech backwater. He struggled for a decade, but slowly built up the company over a decade to around 100 people. They then hit a rough patch and had a tough round of layoffs, but survived. 15 years after they were founded, they hit upon both a brilliant idea and execution. When the BlackBerry was released in 1999, RIM had around 120 people and sold 25000 of the units. Over the last decade, they have managed to fend off all big tech companies while growing into a global brand a major tech company. Meanwhile, Mike L has funded one of the coolest charities around (Perimeter Institute) and RIM has turned Waterloo into a major tech center.

So, to answer your glib question: many times between 84 and 99, once around 2003 (replacing an old OS) and right now (with the move to QNX and webos-like SDK).
I'm pretty sure Google has shown the longevity of Gmail. That's another large IT platform which they are trying to get enterprises to use.

At least that's a start. Plus, it's not like Google OS is a from-scratch endeavor. It is just a highly customized Linux, is it not? So at least enterprises could be reasonably comfortable with getting support in that regard. However, I suspect that businesses that might be inclined to such migrations may have already moved in that direction.
That's correct, but as you pointed out, with massively parallel cloud computing available for so cheap, you really want a slow function to shove that data through.
Penrose would be a safer bet if he hadn't written "The Emperor's New Mind". Having completely flamed out on a subject I consider myself competent enough to judge him on, I'm much less willing to bet he's right in an area where I am less confident and knowledgeable.
Might want to check that the server hosting the content for http://milomarsei.com/ isn't compromised.

AVG popped up an Threat Blocked: Exploit. Felt you should know.
Well we could always try it out. Here's 24GB (compressed) of ngram data from Google: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/08/all-our-n-gram-ar...
Undelete folder
Card recovery utility can easily regain complete deleted, accidentally lost data from memory cards.
I like words, so I know a lot of words. But I try to take the wordiness way down. Why lose people who don't know the same words?

I mean, even if you don't care about losing people who don't have time to learn a more precise-but-obscure synonym, there's always people who learned English as a third language. Why alienate them just to look a little clever?

Even this comment has too many big words. If I had more time, I'd edit it down more. "alienate" would become "turn off" and "precise-but-obscure synonym" would become... I dunno, something simpler. Big obscure words that lock people out is really missing the forest from the trees.
At the risk of stating the obvious, you can get the results for the reading level of your own HN comments by adding your user name. It's kind of interesting going through the leader board and looking up different people's scores.
From an Bayesian/Occam's Razor standpoint, Penrose's data could fit the data "even better", but as it's (arguably) a more complicated model, still have a lower posterior probability.

Would a universe with infinite time extent be easier to believe than one with a definite start point? I have enough trouble merely comprehending the possibilities, much less assigning prior probabilities to them.
The real reason Japan keeps whaling
APIs that developers should know about
How much do you pay, what relocation is offered, what interviewing expenses do you cover, what benefits are paid, what severance package is offered, and do you provide engineers with all the tools, books and training they request.

You don't need to answer me, just answer these honestly to yourself and that will tell you why you can't find anyone competent.
Speaking as a netflix subscriber, the problems I see with this are:
1) many of these libraries, on their own, wouldn't even be worth $5 a month to me
2) I don't want to have to buy a bunch of different services and somehow integrate them. Maybe if they all showed up as Roku channels... but netflix is available across many different devices. Few other services are so ubiquitous.

Honestly, if netflix failed and nothing took its place, I expect we'd just buy/rent dvds for a few years and wait it out. But I don't think they are going to fail. The sad truth is that there is so much content out there that it's pretty easy to live without the latest.
It's currently rare, but Netflix does offer some shows prior to DVD release. For example, Party Down Season 2 episodes were available on Netflix the same week that they were originally broadcast. They've since been removed, and I assume will be back once the DVDs are out.

On a tiny scale they're experimenting with a hybrid model of "instantly available" and "waiting for DVD."
If Epic's building it, you can expect it. They're one of the biggest middleware providers for games.

IIRC, many games use a procedural foliage generator for trees and shrubberies.
This is what happened with monster.com and a lot of other big sites that got hacked. I bet most don't even make it public, much less email their members. They work so hard on brand reputation and image, then it all goes down the drain because some admin used a weak pass. It's not so easy for them to throw away their christmas bonus and job security. They'll do the minimal.
Isn't that what Hulu is to some extent. I guess it's different forms of media (tv vs. movies) so one could convince themselves that they don't compete, but this seems in the same vain to me.
Argh, are these old farts still making grunting noises? How many important projects started in the last 5-7 years are GPL licensed vs Apache/BSD/MIT? The battle is over, and the copyleft zealots lost. Time to move on.
Woah there, your post is misleading and I want to make sure no one is confused as a result.

You said you inquired about Voxeo/Tropo but the pricing you mention above has absolutely nothing to do with Tropo.

Tropo is 100% free for development use - always.

Production Tropo pricing starts at 3 cents per minute with free second-leg (connected) calls, free voice recognition, free high-quality speech synthesis, free 24x7 support, no minimum, and no port limitations.

http://tropo.com

Prophecy IVR is a completely different service. It's intended for a different customer set, and those customers love the product.