skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Because he has a huge amount of previous experience in the topics he preaches. He backs them up with case studies, data and scientific evidence (especially the 4HBody)."

What I see is a guy who got lucky once, in an industry rife with fraudulent or borderline-fraudulent claims and huge markups. I'm sure the oily guy in the infomercials selling "colon cleanse" quackery makes lots of money too.

Now, because he lacks more meaningful entrepreneurial skills, he's leveraging that early experience into the self-help field, a field not known for a high barrier for entry, and where the customers are not particularly demanding.

I just don't see any there there. In the universe of accomplishment, "sold snake oil supplements and self-help books amid rabid self-promotion" just doesn't amount to very much, as profitable as it may be for him.
You bring up a good point, actually: since Chrome OS is almost entirely open source as Chromium OS, couldn't just about anybody step in and provide a reasonable level of support for a fee, in the unlikely event the Google decides to quit?
So I think "JS-next" will be motivated not by committees and specifications but by incremental attempts to expose technology that's already in place (modern browsers' fast JS VMs)

If we had some sort of standardized support for "original source pointers" then we could have any number of languages in the browser as first-class citizens. They would just use minified JS as their compiler target. Development and debugging could be entirely in the new languages.

This would be a relatively small change, but it would open up innumerable opportunities.
this is what Guy Steele has to say.
http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...
Thanks for this, I'm new and was brought here through a link on Reddit so this info is handy. It appears Reddit is slowly falling into the Digg world of phantom upvotes/downvotes and stolen, resubmitted content. I'm assuming this was posted because this website has gotten several refugees from those sites looking for intelligent conversation in the comments and posts.
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it's more like an egg room, even though it still is pretty cool.
We have automated the hell out of programming (compilers, shared libraries, higher level languages, etc), but as soon as we do that, they just expect us to be more productive :)

I think it will be still be a long time before robots replace humans, even at Wal-Mart-like jobs. There are a few places where it's appropriate (self checkout, for instance), but there are things that humans do without batting an eyes are very very hard or expensive for robots (spoken communications, visual and auditory classification, spatial navigation and obstacle negotiation).

Humans aren't really that expensive honestly. Considering that the rent on a few servers from EC2 can equal the hourly wage of a Wal-Mart employee, it's going to be a while before these equations start working out.
It's the first I hear of Monocle. I'll check it out, thanks.
I love Radiolab, it's like christmas morning every time they put a new episode up on their podcast.

It is honestly one of the most engaging podcasts available.

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So how many bitcoins are currently in existence? What is the value of every bitcoin that exists right now?
"Unsolicited scary email from some guy that got my email from a hacker" sounds like it would only be slightly less legally dangerous than just straight up forcing hashes and posting them.
Or the content.

Time spent arguing helps define which should get the free-time, though. Otherwise, ultimately, it would be "best" if every developer ignored every bit of feedback their applications caused, because their time is best spent making changes, not debating over what to change.
tl;dr: Getting a Ph.D. is lore like a job than you might think. Also, try to live life a little.
Some thoughts:

Given a sufficiently flexible and late-bound class system (like Smalltalk's), the differences between prototypes and classes can blur.

But in general I would say that it is easier to build classes on top of prototype systems than vice versa, which is one argument for prototypes.

All prototype implementations aren't the same, though, any more than Smalltalk and C++ both have the same class systems! Javascript and Self are quite different in some ways, especially when it comes to delegation (ie inheritance) and iolanguage and research such as Kevo are different again.

Despite the first answer to the linked question, I don't think that either class based or prototype based languages are easier to write a VM for.

What attracts me most is that prototype systems are conceptually simpler in an Occam's Razor sort of way. Instead of needing two concepts: classes and instances, we only need one: objects.
Can Gawker be held legally liable for maintaining poor security standards and incompetence leading to this? Can anybody cite related laws or cases?
I'd love to hear more details on your classifier. I've been interested in trying something like that for myself: a sort of automatic attention filter which brings both unmodeled outliers and probably-good articles to my attention.
Check your username or your e-mail address using a SHA-256 hash: http://undertow.jedsmith.org/gawker/

(Much more anonymous than the Google document somebody pasted below. Seriously? Domains?)
Economics isn't a branch of logic (or, for that matter, statistics) any more than physics is a branch of mathematics. Rather, economists use logic, statistics, mathematics, observation, and in limited contexts experimentation as tools. It's a philosophical question of which tools to use that defines Austrian economics. Austrian economics is rationalist. Rationalism consists in choosing reasonable-sounding a priori assumptions and reasoning from them. Whether you're Descartes saying "I think, therefore I am" and deriving "God exists and is not an evil deceiver", or whether you're an Austrian economist saying "humans take conscious action toward chosen goals" and deriving "the gold standard is preferable to fiat currency", you're basically doing the same thing.

The ideal economic theory would be empirical, observing economic behavior and attempting to build models that fit to it. Both in philosophy and in the hard sciences, empiricism has won out over rationalism for reasons any decent philosopher or scientist could enumerate for you at length.

Behavioral economics is probably the best attempt at this ideal. You can view it either as a feature or as a bug that it doesn't tend to draw grand macroeconomic conclusions you can use to try and win political arguments.
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The domains being leaked are a really bad idea.

Here's a version without: http://undertow.jedsmith.org/gawker/
What is different about Bitcoin is that the amount of it will be fixed, therefore no monetary inflation is really possible

Until the day that everybody decides the bubble is over, at which point the value of the bitcoin drops to zero. But hey, you might make some real money in the meantime!
I wonder if there's an option for an ISP to proactively secure these accounts. GMail has phone verification for backup, they could temporarily disable the account of anyone who has a matching password.

Odd, I'm sure I had a lifehacker comments account, but my username isn't listed. No complaints though.
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Pitty us old C programmers. Every for loop was indexed by i, j for inner loops. Every string was indexed by sp, or cp if you were a purist and considered strings a figment of the imagination. You never used names longer than 8 characters, because even if the compiler allowed it , the linker surely wouldnt.
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To any developer considering this. Here's a list of red flags from someone who's worked with too many guys that fit this mold.

List of red flags:

-No funding. A bedroom in missouri is not compensation. There is absolutely nothing in there about you being able to pay your bills during this. By moving and not having a salary, you will be responsible for assuming the risk of the venture. He however has no skin in the game except a spare bedroom.

-Salesman + lawyer + finance guy. Deadly combo. Can he sell you on the project? Sure. Can he also figure out how to screw you out of your equity stake when there's real cash involved? You bet. Can he twist his words to get you to go along with whatever misguided product pivot floats into his head in the shower? Yup. Can he manipulate all the legal paperwork to favor him? Oh yea. Can he sell the company without telling you? Sure. Can he make up out of scope features in a meeting with advertisers and then freak out when you tell him you can't deliver by the arbitrary deadline he set? Lets just say its happened before. He hustles for a living. He WILL hustle you.

- Self-proclaimed nerd. Literally knows enough to be dangerous. He's a self-professed 'net junkie'. He thinks that makes him qualified to make social media product decisions. What does that say?

- He is not 'a builder'. When building a business, if you can't 'build' you're pretty useless.

- He uses words like "dominate". Alpha male.

- Social bookmarking meets sports. I've never heard of that one before.

- "I want someone that works with me not for me." Word of wisdom - you're actually better off working for this guy than with him.

- Can you make this without him? Absolutely.

- Doesn't live anywhere near a major market. Yea I'm sure KC is a big sports city. Not big enough. Is he committed enough to the tech industry move to a proper market? No. Is he committed enough to stay in it when the going gets rough? We'll see.

- He has the delusion that he thinks this is such a great opportunity he needs an application form with test questions. Its not. Its a great opportunity to learn all the ways NOT to do a startup.

I created a throwaway account just to respond to this. Normally, I wouldn't want to sound this cynical but reading this is the equivalent of listening to the sound of nails scraping on a chalkboard.
If you're on OSX, it's 'md5' and not 'md5sum.'
Has anyone checked if source/ contains the source for their proprietary CMS?

From Felix Salmon:

Most of the value of Gawker Media lies in Hungary—but how much value is there, really? To a large degree that depends on what Denton decides to do with his proprietary technology. Other blogging platforms are worth nine-figure sums—Tumblr just got a valuation of $135 million, while Automattic, the parent of WordPress, turned down a $200 million acquisition offer three years ago, when it was much smaller than it is today, and subsequently raised money at a valuation north of $150 million. I know a lot of people at big media companies who struggle with the limitations of WordPress, and who would pay good money to license an alternative web publishing technology, if it was robust and proven. Big companies are already licensing the NYT’s Press Engine mobile-publishing technology, and it’s rumored that at one point Denton was talking to Bonnie Fuller about licensing his technology to her nascent website, although that never happened.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1998642
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I've interviewed a fair number of people that claim that they completed 90% of their PhD, but didn't quite get to the finishing line. While I sympathize, they haven't really grasped that the last 10% of the distance takes at least 50% of the effort.

From the outside, a PhD sounds like it's all about 'smarts'. Having been through the process I'd estimate the requirements of smarts:tenacity = 50:50. (YMMV)
Remember that through all of that muddle mess of 'what is really illegal' is the fact that 'ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law.' So if the prosecutor won't even comment on 'hypothetical situations' then how is a normal citizen supposed to evaluate these things for themselves? Accidentally cross the line, and then find yourself in jail as an example to others? Is this the 'justice' that we want? Throwing people in jail as part of the process of figuring out where we should 'draw the line?' Just throwing people under the bus?
...because that would still tie them to Apple.
True but if I travel away from a clock at light speed, time doesn't move anymore but I'm still moving.

Personally I like the idea that the big bang is a cyclical event - the universe expands until some point, then it collapses again. At some indeterminate point it expands again. Whether or not Earth gets recreated is for someone else to ponder.
I was under the impression that Gawker Media is indeed powered by Wordpress.

source: http://wordpress.org/showcase/tag/gawker/
I absolutely agree on the virtualisation front, and I'm a steadfast Mac user. Dev systems should be close to production/staging to avoid weird bugs. I really really don't want to spend my time dealing with whatever version of Erlang I can get on my Mac when I could just apt-get it. Case insensitivity is also an issue when using Python with the Cookie library, and with the eventlet library (and that's just off the top of my head).

Added advantage of using virtualisation is I can easily trash and rebuild my dev environment whenever I need to.
> Has anyone checked if source/ contains the source for their proprietary CMS?

Yes, it does. Several copies of it, including trunk.
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Hm, in the GUI world, a mouse press and mouse release are generally considered distinct actions...
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To take trisomy 21 as an example (Down's syndrome cause), this means the fetus has three copies of chromosome 21. After a CVS or amnio, the lab will look at the cells under the microscope and look for two copies of each chromosome. If they find three instead, that's a chromosome abnormality. If you break open the cells and end up with DNA fragments floating around, it's possible to sequence the DNA but there's not any information that can tell you whether a cell had an extra copy of a chromosome. It's like asking whether the apples to make a cup of juice were all packed in the same box or multiple boxes.

Apparently this same researcher does have a down syndrome test, but it is based on measuring RNA ratios and does not seem to rely on sequencing the fetus's DNA at all.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/health/research/07down.htm...

So I am now confused as to what is being reported in this story. Is this using DNA or fetal RNA?
Is 'enterprise grade' referring to a specific technical claim made by Voxeo or more of just a substitute for 'often used in the enterprise'?
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Do you want to live in the cloud?
My bullishness on Cloud has taken a beating. Feel bad as an EC2 customer
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"* If you're legitimately using lots of resources, we'll move you around if you start getting near the limits on the hardware you're on, but we won't install new hardware just for you."

Could you define an "illegitimate use of resources"?
If you can't find employees, you have to get out of the mindset of "perks" that employees are lucky to get and start offering what it takes to get what you want.

Or keep whining there's no employees.

One of these paths is more productive than the other.
Let's apply a single term to everything until it loses all of its meaning!
I've download the torrent, convenient of them to give an email address with each cracked account.

I'm currently writing a little script that parses all the address and emails the owner a heads up. I gotta step out so I won't have it done for 2-3 hours and I thought I'd post here in case anyone else has that idea (don't want to flood the victims).
We recently been through this exact same situation. We have a working product, billing, but next to no traffic or users... even initially. We pushed on for a while and tried to cram it down people's throats. When the sales cycle got too demoralizing, we simply took a 1-2 week break, during which we pretended as if we have never worked on our first product.

We came up with another product and released it in just 10 days (though by reusing some of our old code), and the reception seems better. We of course hope to some day be able to sell our flagship product as well, in hopes of recouping the sunk cost, but we won't need to count on it anymore -- it would just be an added bonus.

In this sense, I believe that it can be wise to:

1) Throw a few (well-thought-out-and-validated) things at the wall and see what sticks.

2) Throw quickly-and-easily-prototypable MVPs at the wall in the first place. Anything that requires 3 months to prototype would present a risk that you probably don't have the stomach to bear. E.g. Twitter probably didn't take long to prototype, same with Formspring. If you can prototype things in 2 weeks, and use the next 2 weeks for marketing, you can pursue 12 ideas in a year, thus increasing the probability of you succeeding.
Well, that is most unfortunate.

A big thanks for the heads up.
Agreed, but precisely only through the mirror of our own desires and fears :)
Still happened though
Surprisingly, or maybe not surprisingly, I had never heard of the Atlantic until I started seeing article's of it linked all over the place in the blogo-sphere. Seems to me that this common sense theme perhaps is permeating to the marketing department who feel that getting eyes on their articles is worth far more than trying to track down every Tom, Dick, and Harry to take more than 5 sentences from an article whilst providing a link back to the source.
I wrote a language that did structural sub typing, and I found it kind of encouraged stupid errors. For instance,

function ZeroOut(Point2D p) { p.x = 0; p.y = 0; }

Now, Point3D p3d = { x = 1, y = 2, z = 3 };

ZeroOut(p3d) is poorly defined. It does what I ask, but not what I want it to do.

My intent and implementation did not match up.

This is one of the reasons I just gave up on static types and object orientated programming; it requires too much damn boiler plate code.
So far, I have been a advocate of the cloud in general and EC2 is particular, to all my tech friends. Many of them look up to me. for tech advise/views.
But in this Wikileaks incident, all indications show them to be 'spine less' to say the least. I will definitely stop being their free advocate. And will consider moving out of EC2, if possible. Unless, I get to see some convincing, response on this matter from Amazon. Or a publicly announced regret etc.
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Exactly, its not about justice - it's about power and accountability.
Non-print single page: http://reason.com/archives/2010/12/07/the-war-on-cameras/sin...
Assuming your data migrations are stateless and reversible.
Pretty serious considering a large amount of users use the same password among several sites:

http://www.securityweek.com/study-reveals-75-percent-individ...
Previously http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=937175

If you're building a large JavaScript application, Closure might be your best option given that Closure Compiler (in ADVANCED mode) produces small obfuscated output files that contain only the functions your program uses. ADVANCED mode restricts how you write your JavaScript (but not onerously), but that's where Closure Library comes in: a 1 million LOC "standard library" already annotated for Compiler.

I've found working with Closure Library/Compiler enjoyable, typically more than Python, because the Compiler's type system finds plenty of bugs as I work. It has even caught bugs in my Python code (after I ported it to JavaScript, of course).

There's also good book out there for Closure: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1449381871/
For a little background information on DES password hashing, check out this assignment from my Computer Security class at UT Austin:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/byoung/cs361/crack-assignment...

It gives a little bit of background information on password hashing and salting, and on simple password cracking techniques.
I didn't say no corporation, just that they're going to be along for the ride.
What is the point of including the domain tied to the address? It just decreases the anonymity of what you've hashed, and actually does a disservice. There are corporate domains in there and the namespace of what to search for becomes a lot smaller.

In addition, my domain is my name. I saw many others in the file that this was the case for. It's not a big leap to compute my e-mail from 'jedsmith.org', and I'm sure it isn't for those guys either. You're leaking data with this view.

Here's a version that is far more anonymous (and easier, I think): http://undertow.jedsmith.org/gawker/
That works really well if you don't tell anybody about it.

I definitely don't do this.
The corp participates in some open source program (that they don't own). Then hire the best people that contribute to the project. I have seen this work several times over and it has always resulted in high quality developers.
9-5 at an investment bank - Sure it's 4x the money (or was)- but it's 100+ hours of weekly work that in my personal opinion is nowhere near as exciting as creating new technologies.
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I'm not saying they won't successfully sue anyone or put anyone in jail. I'm saying that it won't stop anon from DDoSing targets.