skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have some sort of pre-existing test for whether or not a feature is good at the time you implement it. Some way of knowing if it's good.
What, if anything, could newspapers have done to slow down their decline
I agree with the fact that Eclipse is excellent for Java, and unusable for anything else.
It's called oversubscription and it's a very common practise. Statistically, not all of the ISP's customers are going to use all of their quota every month, so why should the ISP provide enough bandwidth to allow them to? That just means they're spending far more on infrastructure than is really necessary to service their customers' actual requirements.

Also, why should the quota be tied to the speed? When I want to download a movie, I want to download it as quickly as possible, but that doesn't mean I want to max out my bandwidth continually.
Well, it's official: 4chan is smarter than us.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com&...
I'm not a cryptographer by any means, so please forgive and correct any errors. I'm assuming you're just saying that building rainbow tables once you have a static salt and the hashes becomes a feasible proposition? Wouldn't using a dynamic salt with each hash make a full dump like this significantly less crackable than DES with several weaknesses and a 56-bit cipher? (And that's, of course, assuming that the DES key doesn't leak along with the dump.)
A summary is "some people disagree with things, but can't give any specifics of what things they think are mistaken and the evidence which makes them think that. I [the author] have to assume that instead of looking at the evidence and believing the most probable thing they can find, they are instead disagreeing for other reasons which have nothing to do with truth or accuracy or evidence based decision making".

but it's perhaps possible that maybe some people are just more cautious than others, for example

Cautious is saying "I wont invest in xyz singularity technology until I'm convinced it works" or "I'm not planning my retirement fund based on living to 150 until I see people routinely living to 150 starting where I am now" or "I've seen 80 claims of new technology fall through, so this has to have extra strong evidence to convince me it's not in the same class".

Saying "I'm too pessimistic for this happy happy future world" isn't cautious, it's something else.

(Also: perhaps, possible, maybe, just, for example? I can't say why but you are strongly hammering into your post that you think someone is an idiot you have to speak down to. Me, or the article author, or both. That's the kind of social signalling you dismiss yet you are doing it (and so am I. Everyone does).
In some alternate universe, maybe. But that's not how it works where I live.
No, but my Android phone is.

In all seriousness, having migrated from a BB to a more modern phone architecture (iPhone or Android, take your pick), I feel like it is much more an extension of self than my BB ever was. Even if I have no particular need to use it, I can feel my heart palpitating if my battery starts to get low.

I've been wondering about this recently...why does my current phone feel so much more part of "me" than my BB ever did? I think it's because I feel like my computer is a part of me and my Android phone feels like a powerful enough device (and is customizable enough) that I can make it reflect what I want to do. I could never quite get there with my BB, and the performance was never quite up to snuff enough to use it for quick internet activities.
does anyone know if their other sites db's were compromised aside from gawker.com?
Notice how by likening a paywall to the Maginot Line, the internet must take the role of Hitler's invading forces. I wonder if that was the author's deliberate implication.
It sounds like you're describing fractal compression. It's true that fractals can generate apparently complex output from small input, but if you're trying to compress a specific piece of data (like, say, a map of New York City) they don't seem to be much help.
The thing is, Krugman is still pointing out one of the major criticisms against corporations. Their top executives make bad decisions and put their own goals ahead of the company's based on the fact that they're playing with other peoples' money. How many of these types would be willing to do this with their own money?
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There seems to be a large misconception about the nature of the internet. It's not a circuit switched network. When you buy "20mbps" - why on earth would you think you were buying 20mbps to EVERYWHERE - that's just not feasible.

There is not enough core bandwidth to maximize every edge connection out there -there never will be. That's the nature of packet switching and shared connections.

Should ISPs have to be more honest, and more flexible about what types of services they offer? Consumer expectations are changing, and ISP offerrings should reflect that.

I think so - net neutrality is important (for the internet as a global community in and of itself - not just for the "consumer"). The internet grew to what it is based on cooperation - lets' not stop now.
Jesus that was dense, I'm sorry.

You type an address in, the browser locates the data via an IP addy. The information requested from a database is recalled, packeted, transmitted, formatted and displayed in the way the front end code requests it. In my case it went to my cable modem with piece of shit comcast and then through my router and it's 192.168.1.1 IP addy.

I'm sure I could make that answer better with a simple google search, but I don't cheat. If you're trying to gauge me, it'd be disingenuous. I hope I didn't flunk miserably, maybe just a C?
Maybe Google's algorithm categorizes made up words as intermediate? :D
What other agents of the free market? Corporations are the free market.

And I think most group psychologists would dispute the idea that groups don't take on hive-mind-like qualities.
How does one manage all of this? For example, I've successfully followed up and want to re-contact with them in a month with something topical. How do I manage to remember this (when the contact list get's large) and how do I manage what's topical to each individual contact?
If you like that, check out Subversion. Not only does it procedurally generate cities, but they look totally sci-fi. http://forums.introversion.co.uk/introversion/viewtopic.php?...
I'm actually one of those minority of people who have completely stopped taking my laptop anywhere (and when the time comes to upgrade to a new machine, will absolutely be getting a desktop).

I used to write code "on the go" in a computation notebook (actually I do that even when I'm not on the go), and only after getting it working the way I want do I actually enter it into a computer.

Typing in code on a portable device has pretty much replaced my notebook, and I'm more than happy with the tradeoffs entailed in using that type of device.

I should caveat everything by saying that I'm not a professional software developer (I make my living breaking software, not making it), so my use case for development might not match up with most people's.
As simple as possible, but not simpler :-)
Which means that when (I can't bring myself to say "if" in this situation) holes are found, everyone with bitcoins will be SOL.

That said, after more digging, I note that a name I know and trust and have worked with in the past (Jeff Garzik), seems to actually be heavily involved in bitcoin, which lends it quite a bit more credibility in my mind. I don't know him as a security or cryptography guy, but I do know him as a really smart and competent developer. The project really shouldn't make it so hard to figure out who is writing the code and the standards (I still don't actually know what Jeff has to do with bitcoin, I just see his name a lot in the forums).
Well 4chan.org is simply the homepage, if you link to the actual boards (specifically /b/): https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=rl:1&q...
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Directly, by taunting and baiting and saying they were unhackable, not afraid of 4chan, etc. Granted, 4chan had nothing to do with this, but it doesn't matter. They were cocky and they got burned.
No, it is most certainly not. In most, if not all, democracies, you have the right to restrict the freedoms of others through contract. For instance, if you want to buy a piece of furniture from me, I can impose conditions on how you use it. This is not common practice, because it isn't feasible to enforce and most people selling furniture don't care. However, it wouldn't be a violation of your human rights. Democracies allow us to limit the freedom of others as a condition of them engaging in commerce with us. No human rights are violated.
I was with you there for a second until you threw out the idea of teaching non programmers to program on the job.

What startups should be more open to is CS types that don't have years of experience in certain languages but have the ability to learn quickly. Too much focus on minor technologies that could be picked up in a few days.
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You, sir, have made my day.
Why don't more languages use Structural Subtyping?
IPv4 runout Doomsday Clock
It depends on the measure doesn't it? Does it work "horribly" if the company grew from one person to having $600 million in revenue in 2008? I mean it isn't like Facebook success, but it doesn't seem horrible (at least if measured that way.)
There's hope for us yet!
And as a computational physicist I think the thing that probably annoys me most about all of this is the amount of CPU time which is going to be wasted before this particular bubble ends. I could be using those millions of CPU hours to actually do stuff, y'know.
Ironically, I think the one language it doesn't support is Objective-C.

edit: sorry, correction, I must have been thinking of the other one, Code2Go, which also features a lot of languages and also lets you run them on a web-bound service, but doesn't do Objective-C (ironically)

Textastic is a very neat program. Especially useful if you just want to review code. Very nice highlighting/search feature. Looks like they're going to add Dropbox support too.
Yeah, they were literally asking for it.
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I can't see it having been mentioned anywhere else, but HNdroid on Android is fantastic. It'd be nice if the site itself had a decent mobile stylesheet, but in the absence of one, HNdroid does a great job.
Gawker Stops Publishing After Hacker Attack
Here is an another cool city generator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnWUp9JnLyc&feature=relat...
This is for the Subversion game that is in development since long ago: http://www.introversion.co.uk/subversion/
And the post doesn't allow comments either, so there is no way for users to mention the extent of the compromise.
Ya, starting up a company in our home-country is another option we are thinking, but we are targeting the US market, not sure how complicated the international business thing could get...
So is there an ideal case for selection sort that isn't shown or does it just suck?

Edit: Never mind they explained:

From the comparions presented here, one might conclude that selection sort should never be used. It does not adapt to the data in any way (notice that the four animations above run in lock step), so its runtime is always quadratic.

However, selection sort has the property of minimizing the number of swaps. In applications where the cost of swapping items is high, selection sort very well may be the algorithm of choice.
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If I don't like it, I ignore it and do not read it, I don't destroy it.
After dealing with my sick wife, I very much needed that laugh. Thank you.
I think that you're taking the analogy too far. The main point seems to be that the paywall is this 'line in the sand' that keeps moving as soon as the 'enemy' crosses it.
Actually, it does support Objective C (at least according to their web page, I've never edited an Objective C file in it).
I agree. I love the spartan UI. That said, reading HN sucks on mobile and this would only take a few minutes to fix without compromising the simplicity of the main UX.
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In my teens, I had a boatload of academic awards. There was a lot of social expectation (pressure) in terms of me Being Somebody Someday. I passed on a status-y scholarship, dropped out of college, and did the wife and homemaker thing for a couple of decades.

As a teen, I fixed my dad's back. He had been bedridden for short periods about every other year due to his back problems. When I was 17, he was so bad, for the first time ever he was unable to make it to the bathroom a few feet from his bed. They got him a bedpan. I spent 2 weeks using intensive gymnastics stretching techniques to get him back in normal range of motion, modified the doctor prescribed exercise sheet, and spent 6 months doing daily massage. He threw out the "corrective shoes" they had prescribed. His back problems never came back.

With that experience, I seriously considered going in to medicine. At 17, while filling out my college applications, I had two majors I was considering: Physical Therapy or Geology. I interviewed an actual physical therapist and discovered it wasn't what I was envisioning. So I put down Geology for my desired major.

Years later, I enrolled in an environmental studies program. In many colleges, such programs grew out of the Geology department or something closely related. And then I had a major health crisis and spent a year at death's door. Doctor's told me "People like you don't get well". I've been getting well for some time now -- which I don't think would be possible had I gotten some kind of medical degree because I would have the same training and thinking of the people who claim I can't get well.

So, I've done something pretty amazing. And it mostly isn't welcome news in online communities for folks with my condition. I get accused of being a liar, a charlatan and a snake-oil salesman.

I don't know if I want to Make My Mark. I don't feel I have anything to prove to anyone. I didn't get well to impress anyone. There is apparently no money in trying to help others who are suffering horribly and dying. There is not only no money but I get routinely kicked in the teeth and very few people are at all interested, so all this crap isn't even accomplishing anything. So I spend a lot of time wondering if I should bother to keep trying to find a way to more effectively share information about how I got well or if I should just leave these hostile people to their dire fate while I go off to make money rather than my mark.

I don't have any answers. I wish you well in your journey.
Hmm, interesting. I called in and they asked me to confirm the address but never repeated the actual listed address. Guess it depends on who's on the other end.
Java as an applet host has been effectively dead for years.

Blackboard still uses it :(
You guys are not really helping.
Some folks requested a more elaborate explanation of the mvp.

In short the idea is to create a truly interactive sports site.

It's simple and allows users to curate a link board (like Reddit), it gets more nuanced to the person as they vote and interact more. Add in comment and voting systems that look and respond like Quora. Very fast, built in editorial controls, extra stuff like formatting and bulleting. This is the minimum viable product.

After you get enough users and enough content being curated, you can start scraping the information. Make a truly personalized sports application. Flipboard, but more bad ass.

People use facebook and such for flipboard, which looks at their ENTIRE network. I have 500+ friends, most don't like sports, many don't like MY teams. I want the best content on my teams from all sources in one place. I also want to be able to interact and game with other sports fans from my teams.

That's a more elaborate version of the idea. -Chris
Well, because you can't, as all these posts whining about how hard it is to find people allude to. Since there aren't enough senior engineers to go around the next best thing is to hire some talented novices and turn them into senior engineers.
PyCharm is good for a 'heavyweight' IDE, and you can get it free if you're involved with education or open-source.

TextWrangler looks like the best free option to me, for those of us who lack the patience to learn emacs and vim.

For java, there's a nice lightweight IDE called jGrasp, that's free.

My favourites are Coda and TextMate though, because they've got the proper Mac sensibility going on. Ie. they're pretty, the menus/panels aren't overcrowded, but there's a lot of power tucked away if you care to become a power-user.
> Advertising salespeople were told it did not matter what percentage of their sales were digital and what percentage print; they just needed to hit one sales target.

How is this not absolutely, positively common sense in 2010? I could understand in 1999, getting more people to advertize on your website could accomplish some internal goal but in 2010, why does anything other than at actual dollar amount matter?
RE: same articles - I would love a condensed HN RSS feed.
I love hacker news, but the RSS feed needs some work... 118 new items overnight is wearing me out a bit.

I built a RSS filter that can filter out keywords from an item title, or limit the feed to a certain number of articles per day. It works great for other sites, but not with hacker news, since I cant see a pubDate (timestamp) tag on any items.

But what would REALLY float my boat is an RSS feed with a custom threshold. Could look like this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/rss/over?points=75

I'd be happy to offer to do this, but I guess thats not how ycombinator works? It would be cool if we could contribute to the site, though.

Out of interest, what determines whether a link ends up in the RSS feed? Is it a point threshold, or is it moderated?
That's more functionality than one would find in a "Hello World." The simplest approach is Picasso's - steal it.
Is there any link to this new feature instead of manually typing this or saving this to a bookmark (or any other ways besides a proper hyper-link)?
I'd prefer under?points=x

The very highly upvoted articles seem more likely to be trendy and/or sensational.
DES crypt(3) doesn't have a "key"; it truncates/pads passwords into a DES key used to encrypt (with a salt) an all-zeroes block. It's horrible cryptography, but it's slower than SHA1.
When I read it, I did not pay too much attention to the fact that the idea was not clear, I think people matter more and for me personally if it had peaked my interest I would still have inquired as to what his ideas where.

I guess like a lot of people, I reason from my perspective and if I have an idea that I am interested in, I could write a novel on it. I would assume if people are interested that we could get into the gory details after the initial contact. And I would be afraid of information overloading my initial letter.

I still think it was a great post, because I think it was one of the few that I have ever seen where the poster said here is what I am going to do and here is what I have to offer. Most as I said act as if, I have done all the hard work coming up with this idea now I just need someone to build it.
Twitter and RSS feeds for HN stories over 20, 50, 100 and 150 points:

http://jeffmiller.github.com/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-ne...

EDIT: Why the downvotes?
How so? People have found collision attacks on SHA1 that are significantly better than brute force, but I thought it was still safe against finding a plaintext that hashes to a given hash value.
The acquisition of Java by the intellectual monopolist Oracle is good for programming, because Oracle's rent seeking will discourage programmers from using Java. There are far better languages that have more versatile typing operations than mere subclassing.
I'm not really sure what point you are trying to make. If someone self-titles with "Web Programmer", and by your own admission that denotes an interest level than that seems like its limiting their career in a way they desire. The OP is refers to himself as a Systems Programmer which seems to fit just fine into your definition of self-titles.

This sounds much more like you're projecting frustration with recruiters rather than making a useful point on categorization.
I appreciate your integrity. I suppose it would have been fairly easy to cheat on that question.

It's pretty much impossible to flunk miserably at this question unless you say something horribly wrong. It's meant to figure out whether you're familiar with DNS, HTTP, client/server stuff, etc, and how deeply.

It's relevant since the product you want to build is entirely an HTTP-based application, and there are a lot of layers to understand to even be able to make credibly intelligent suggestions about what that product might do or look like.
So your choice is pay 80-90k salary to somebody who will contribute $M to your bottom line (Google earnings/employee are incredible) or pay $35-45K for sombody who will just tie up your other programmers fixing their bugs
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I log notes about people that I meet along the way, usually on the back of their card. Then I try to input this data in my contact manager and set a reminder in the future to follow up.

This simple process also helps me to measure my progress (internally) by comparing follow up notes with my actual projected growth.

Fwiw, I also digitally convert bcards, follow conversations online and keep a list of people on a 'watchlist' and plan my events around meeting these people at some point.
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TL;DR version of anything like that: Those people aren't the ones that startups want to hire right now.
The clever bit is finding customers who will pay $5000/day for consultants who can just about do intro level MS-Access.

Except for the government of course
I already did this. I'm tempted to set up a utility page where you enter your email and the utility just tells you if it was in the DB, but I don't know how legal that would be. Checking the data for personal defensive purposes is arguably defensible - setting up a tool based on that data (even benign) is likely less so.
Gawker website Hacked by Gnosis ; Gnosis says they are not 4chan or Anonymous
Can we please nix this print version linking?
Absolutely. That's exactly what I wanted to say, stated far better than I could. :-)
If the question is how can we prevent the attacks we will fail to prevent, we won't. After all, we will fail to prevent them.

The problem becomes what can we do to ensure every piece of infrastructure can be put back on-line in reasonable time. There is a lot of people dedicated to that task, even if, when asked whether their little feud is a piece of critical infrastructure, they may scratch their heads and say "what?".
Without knowing the details, is it possible that internet in NYC cost as much as in the 'burbs because the ISP is a regulated utility? Are they allowed to charge different rates within a state?