skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing, this has been on my todo list for a long time. Thanks for making this!
See below. There's been a fix.
I don't see any evidence that the attack was a government operation, and not just some script kiddie with time on his hands.
Wikileaks gave these "dedicated storytellers" first shot at analyzing the information. They've release .3% of the documents to the public.

"The embassy cables will be released in stages over the next few months. The subject matter of these cables is of such importance, and the geographical spread so broad, that to do otherwise would not do this material justice."

It seems they've given consideration to the sensitivity of the material.
I've started using NoSQL with an ACID-based system by storing the document revisions (e.g, modified invoices, purchase orders) into a NoSQL database with the SQL database holding the master data. We store document revisions so if we were to ever audit modifications of the invoice, we could pull up the very first version to the second, third, nth revision of the document. Meanwhile, we still keep master data on SQL database.
Fair point, but imagine the following scenario:

A power line gets destroyed by terrorists, cutting power to NYC for 3 days as crews work to restore service.

Some member of the public or some journalist might ask "gee, why didn't they have someone guarding that power line if it was alone responsible for carrying power to a major city?"

The answer from officials would of course be: "Whoever did this attack was a fearsome mastermind and analyzed our grid to figure out which lines would do the most damage. Of course now we have the line guarded 24/7."

But the attack still happened. It was in all of the officials' best interest not to do anything prophylactic because they get more mileage out of making a show of dealing with things people are already scared of.

So I'd argue that thanks to the leak, we are all safer from the sort of misbehavior caused by the perverse incentives officials have toward these sorts of things.

How difficult would it be to plan an attack that would have significant consequences for a major city's infrastructure? The New Yorker ran a piece a few years ago on New York's water supply and how it's extremely vulnerable. Surely anyone who spent a few weeks studying the infrastructure of any city would be able to assess the vulnerabilities well enough to determine whether or not an attack made sense.

So given that there are already thousands of things which could reasonably have been determined to be good attack targets, the addition of a list of a few thousand more does not make terrorism any more likely, since there was nothing stopping anyone before.

What the leak does give us, however, is the ability to look at these pieces of infrastructure and evaluate whether anything has been done to secure them. If it hasn't then there is only one direction blame should flow.
I got the distinct impression that the number was being given as a somewhat joking reference to the RIAA logic. I doubt the entire company has a gross revenue anywhere close to that number.
Actually, in all seriousness, deeply ingrained problems is also what 20 years of development gets you. That's why it's still important to have new up and coming languages getting created. Unfortunately there is no language so perfect it can escape this fate, and I wouldn't say Perl's problems stand out particularly on that front. It's a rare language that is even around to be criticized 20 years later, they all have their issues.
This is great news. Wave has loads of potential, it just needs someone to take it by the hand and show it some UX love.
Why do some startups seem so much more productive?
That sounds useful, but I'm unfamiliar with iTunes and its store, and would rather not register with them or use their software. Is there some easier way to do it?
did the author of this article actually take a moment to google for NFL Streaming? The game hasn't started yet but I have it open in a browser and watched many games this way before. Horrible article.
Fear of Being Envied Makes People Behave Well Toward Others
I'd have to agree.

Also, that phrase "profundity by paradox" is a nice one. And remarkably little-used. Right now it gets just 3 Google hits (a 1993 book, a 2007 quote from that same book, and a 2009 philosophy discussion); perhaps we should see what we can do to increase that.
To prove your logic faulty, you just have to look at all the arrests for similar crimes where there was no NYT or any news article.
what a garbage blog post. It doesn't even go into detail as to what these home businesses do. Is the point of this post to make me feel better about myself. To give me some hope that I too can start a business just like these people since the stats are going up!
Sounds like you are doing what we are doing. Testing the waters, evaluating how NoSQL technologies fit into your architecture, and testing your problems against NoSQL solutions.

It is refreshing to see the approaches.
I typically see 70-150ms pings when I'm on HSPA+. 200-300ms if I'm connected to UMTS 3G.
Why Michelle Rhee Isn't Done With School Reform
I used to be conflicted about this as well. But then I realised something: If I like an article, I always click and read it on the original site.

But until I can see the first few paragraphs or an image, I can't quite decide whether I like it or not, or at least it would seem my decision isn't as accurate.

The thing that really bothers me about the current HN feed, though, is that it looks sooo spammy. Just a quick succession of same-looking entries. It's psychologically discouraging.
I like Foucault's Pendulum too. It's the first Eco book I read! My friend Mike Tracy, then a CBOE trader, turned me onto it when I was in high school; gave me the impression it would be a difficult read. Mike needs to read more Pynchon. I'll tell him tomorrow (I've hired him at 4 different companies, including this one).

Rose is still my favorite; it resonates with my career, for obvious reasons.

Have you read many of his essays? He can get stuffy and pompous. Maybe I just don't understand him.

I think you have a good idea what I think of Umberto Eco at this point. Now, you really think I'm "damning him with faint praise"? Of course I'm not. Could I have written The Name of The Rose, or even Cognitive Types and Nuclear Content? No.

But he wrote a shitty article. It makes banal and, in at least one case, stupid points. It reads as beneath him; less an attempt to cast a lense on the mass-leaking phenomenon and more a chance for him to holler "I'm here! This is my milieu! Include me in the conversation!" I've heard more trenchant analysis of Assange's effort from blog posts, hell, from Megan McArdle.

You are, as always, welcome to disagree with me. But as I am not (in this instance) casting aspersions on your arguments, the "ad hom" label seems lazy. Hominus Eci conpetendus est.

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By the way: Jack Schafer did a fine job sticking up for Wikileaks. And I'm normally inclined to think of him as a curmudgeonly contrarian. There's one.

And, oh, look! Here's Clay Shirky, an acquaintance of Assange's, sticking up for the "short run" value of WL as a corrective. I have a hard time finding anything to disagree with in this article:

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/12/wikileaks-and-the-long-...

Feel free to post that article to HN and collect the karma. I'd rather not add more fuel to the fire.
The G2 got WiFi calling added with its first official firmware update, FWIW. I'd imagine the new Nexus will likely support this as well, nevermind the fact that 2.3 supports native SIP calling.
this guy didn't merely cheat, he threatened. had he not crossed those (very obvious) bounds, i'm afraid this practice could have been fostered and tuned.

i can't help but wonder if the internet (Google, more specifically) could still help malicious businesses achieve disproportionate conversion.
Tinatra: Sinatra like DSL for Twitter bots
I was recently thinking of switching from Time Warner Cable ($95/month) for Xbox 360 with ESPN3, Roku, and OTA. However, TWC only offers ESPN3 to customers who have internet and cable tv.
"Twilio wants him to do this"

That's quite misleading. One of the workers encouraged him to apply. This was 75 days before the product actually launched.
There's a bigger deterrent value when an arrest is made in a high-profile case.
The bad guy in me sees an opportunity to 'googlebomb' competitors using fake bad reviews

In the spam world, it's very common. They call it joe-jobbing. Since spam websites typically have to be hosted on "bulletproof hosts"(hosts that won't shut you for complaints), "joe-jobbing" a site hosted with a regular host can have it shutdown temporarily with a very small amount of spam and the ensuing complaints. So you could hire a spammer for few hundred bucks to take your nice-guy competitor down by joe-jobbing him. Pretty sad.

My knowledge is a bit outdated but I am curious how folks deal with this now.
He has been arrested before for how he treated his customers & the only outcome was that he didn't violent threats against customers anymore; he chose his words more carefully. It didn't even slow him down.
Is it? Because that's what we were told about:

The G1.
The N1.
The Droid.
The Droid X.
The Galaxy S.

Etc. :)

Which one is the magical Android phone we've really been waiting for? :)
That would be really interesting though; if the probability of a bubble approaches 1 given enough time. Is that an accepted law of economics?
It seems they've given consideration to the sensitivity of the material.

But consideration to the sensitivity of the material was never at issue.
Hackers take down website of bank that froze WikiLeaks funds
Daniel,

Thanks for the thoughtful post.

The logical stretch I think you commit is that you view consent or dissent as largely black and white. I'd argue that it is our civic duty to dissent about all things we disapprove of, both at the ballot box and in our day to day lives.

That entails that we break any laws we disagree with, etc. Of course, the limit to this is the willingness we each have to risk the consequences (if any) of breaking laws.

I don't think we are somehow bound to support or obey all laws just because we haven't yet gotten to the point of renouncing our citizenship or packing up and leaving.

In a majoritarian system like ours, the minority is constantly unhappy. Since we are nearly constantly in the run-up to an election, we must publicize our dissent in order to participate in the democratic process.

Again, civil disobedience puts the individual at risk, so I agree with your point that a person must accept the consequences of his/her actions, but I strongly disagree with the idea that we should accept the majoritarian conclusion of the moment and feel bad about speaking out against bad laws and bad policies.

On the issue of secrecy, I don't hold the belief you describe. Sure, some secrecy is inevitable (and probably helpful). But the US today has way too much. We learned that the military was keeping things secret that bore no relevance to the battle but only to the perception of the battle by the American public. That's not secrecy, that's propaganda by omission.

I think in order to claim that the Wikileaks people are jerks, you have to explain why you think it was appropriate for the US Government to reply that "we don't negotiate" when offered the ability to redact whatever it thought might prevent any harmful consequences of the leaked info. In my view, this response is just as grating as when George W Bush crossed his arms and proclaimed "We don't negotiate with Terrorists" as he attempted to escalate things with Iran.
The favicon's blue, while the website green. Sorry, minor nitpick!
Thanks Jeff! I think I've told you guys before, but Twilio is one of the most awesome things I've ever seen as an entrepreneur. You're going to make several people absolute mints. (I will settle for a mintlet.)

Context for HN users: jeffiel co-founded Twilio and is their CEO.
absolutely. i realize now that this mentality is likely the cause behind wave's quick downfall, but it wasn't only until after wave was pulled that i began to think "wish I had a wave for this".
Sun's McNealy to Ellison: How to Duck Death by Open Source
Is Groovy++ already doomed?
i don't disagree with the article, but i believe that anyone who is capable of marketing themselves has likely drawn these conclusions already.
Info pirates seek an alternative Internet
You have to love it when authors take scaling out of context in graphs. The vertical axis should most likely always start at zero.
"Tech/Silicon Valley". Didn't imply he lived in the Valley.

"My lawyer, my accountant, my dentist, my doctor, my grocer, and my pharmacist don't have particularly innovative business models."

This has nothing to do with his business model. It's about using someone else's work and passing it off as your own. I'm sure I'll get downvoted again, but I hate the blatant disregard for intellectual property. Twilio paid its $90-100K+ developer to program and document the appointment reminder script, and in the end, weren't credited for the crucial component of the work.
Thanks for the compliments!

I'm still a bit wary of using NoSQL, and we store document revisions (e.g, if I modified invoice 1021, the lastest version would be updated in SQL, and the last version would be pushed into NoSQL) into SQL just in case (by using a draft_id column).

We need to see if our software is still deemed auditable by accountants since they have very strict guidelines on how a document trail should be stored.
But think of all the traffic DecorMyEyes is seeing right now!
Evolution of Script Loading
My first instinct is "what about furniture"? And later, "hey, let's use the dimensions of shipping containers!"

The problem is volume of dirt to be removed. Assuming circular tunnels, the volume approximates (pi(r^2))length. It's an O(n2) problem to increase the size of cargo.

Hence the focus on food, I suppose. For small cargos in densely settled areas this might be viable. For long haul I think that rail and road will still be king and queen.
It's not as "hands-free" as you'd like to believe. Check out the MongoDB sharding introduction[1]. There are some pretty big caveats. Very few people are using auto-sharding at scale in production (bit.ly and BoxedIce are all I know of).

There are other operational issues with MongoDB. MongoDB can only do a repair if there is twice the available disk space as the database uses, and the server must be effectively brought offline to do this. To reclaim unused disk space, you have to do a, you guessed it, compact/repair. Want to do a backup? The accepted way to do this is to have a dedicated slave that can be write-locked for however long it takes to do your backup. They suggest using LVM snapshots to make this short, but disk performance on volumes with LVM snapshots is terrible.

I would consider using MongoDB for a setup that would either be either non-critical, completely within memory with bounded growth (which itself sort of begs the question...), or involve mostly write-once data, such as feeds, analytics, and comment systems.

[1] http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Sharding+Introduction
Void main(void) - the Wrong Thing
You can assign A: to a removable drive if you do not have floppy disks [such as the DVD-RW]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844
I don't, purely because local merchants are very, very brand conscious and suspicious of new brands. It is why they keep giving their business to Yellow Pages and to newspapers. It's why Google's had such a hard time cracking the local market.

Groupon is the first tech brand that local merchants have totally bought into. Sure a percentage will be adventurous and go with the cheaper groupon-clone, but the vast majority will stick with the brand name imo.
Grandalf,

I see lots of shades of gray. I think they're all covered under option 2.

As far as how the U.S. should have responded, I don't think they had much of a choice: the State Department couldn't tell whether one doc should be secret or not even on a good day. Even with an order from the president it would have been physically impossible for them to go through those docs. Not to mention the precedent it would set -- very bad thing there.

Yes, the U.S. has too much secrecy. Let's vote to fix it. Or let's leak selected stories to fix it. But let's not come up with plans to massively overwhelm the government with tons of formerly secret documents. Not only is it not productive, it is taking up a position of control over other people's lives that we are not entitled to, and it is deciding that the entire thing is so broken as to be worthy of attack. That's not a very good way to get your point across, no matter how right or wrong you are.
This guy was a swivel chair and a cat away from being a Bond villain. Frankly, I'm surprised it took the NYPD that long to arrest him.
Meh. No doubt someone in the US government thinks this is a serious issue, but lack of access to Windows source code is little more than a speed bump for professional exploit developers.
When will we see an international version?
A Priority Inbox update: time savings, new features, and your feedback
You say "got married" = hosted a fantastic wedding, complete with huge conga lines, traditional Jewish chair dance, a wedding "cake" of cheese, otters, owls, eagles, and more!
Why WikiLeaks Is Good for America
Not sure that I agree here. I don't know about you, but my understanding of the variety of metrics they used in this article is quite minimal. Instead, it is instructive to just see the relative variation in the past five years or so compared to the 30 before that.

For instance, I have no idea what the metrics in Figs 2 and 3 are exactly, but I can see that the inequality metric in Figure 2 has reduced itself to approximately 1970 levels and that, since 1995, the welfare metric in Figure 3 has increased by (very roughly) twice the standard deviation of the past 30 years' measurements.

Of course scale is important, but it is folly to trot out the same argument every time a graph does not include the origin. Without knowing something about the y-axis variable we cannot make this type of claim.
Quorum writes to Dynamo nodes allow you make atomic and durable updates to single keys and the data associated with them. ACID transactions allow you to mutate data associated with multiple keys atomically. This is not the same thing at all. Common operations like debit from one account and credit another or sum a set of values become difficult.

Now atomic updates to single keys can actually be used as the building blocks for transactional functionality (using the lease pattern and/or compensating operations). If you need a transaction here or there, this might be a very workable solution. If you need lots of transactions, then you end up using Dynamo systems in unnatural ways; many of their performance and availability advantages are wasted in this configuration.

So yes, you could build a bank given quorum writes, but the point is that it would probably be a poor engineering choice.
Ask HN: Best way to monetize newsletters?
Are there ad networks for newsletters? Or is it better to just go the HARO route and sell your own ads? Just curious on what people's experience has been.
Hitler is pissed Tumblr is down
Facebook Profiles Makeover Puts Focus on Ads
Yale Study Says Lesbian, Gay And Bisexual Adolescents Singled Out For Punishment
Gmail: Priority Inbox Is Working; Users Spending 15 Percent Less Time Reading
Unit and Functional Tests are as Useful as 100% Code Coverage
So does this mean religious charities will finally stop trying to guilt trip me with starving children when I'm trying to have a few drinks while watching television?

I didn't think so.
Devops Survey
I'm sure many of these people are violating copyright to get a copy of the installer, but surely that can't be the main law being broken. Avoiding the specifics of Avast that I don't know, if they can get the installer from the producer, maybe because there's a trial, there can't be a copyright violation when no unauthorized copies are made, can it? So what is the exact law being broken?
Google Expected to Outgrow Apple in Mobile Display Ad Market in 2011
Go ahead and down vote me for suggesting the author do a simple web search. BTW New England is up 3 to 0.
You can subscribe to the rss feed in iTunes. It's under the Advanced menu when your in the podcast section.
As for the VoltDB comment, how much we compete with NoSQL or whether we are NoSQL is an interesting line of questions. We're trying to bleed customers away from entrenched systems the same as most NoSQL systems. I think there's plenty to go around.
If the meaning of the graphs isn't made clear, and the origin is not included (obscuring significance), it is not terribly unreasonably to suspect manipulation.
Thank goodness Wikileaks has been chased away, now there will be no more leaks!
We do this as well. Having sets, sorted sets and hash tables built in makes grody hacks much less common, and Redis is seriously fast. We persist the important info back to a more conventional store (Postgres), but we can keep a large proportion of our current working set in memory, in Redis. That rocks.
Really? Is this something different from UMA - tmobiles wifi based femto like service - that would be perfect for me but it seems they aren't putting it in new handsets anymore. Unless the G2 got UMA? That would be awesome.

Or does tmobile have some sort of official VOIP service now that allows you to receive calls on your cell # if you are up on wifi but aren't on the carrier network?

I know I could use gv+sip provider to get voice at home but at least in my mind the femto setup we have with verizon is nice - low muss, works with feature phones, people who visit etc. Well you can't have everything.
I hope the Chinese never get access to the Linux or BSD source code that runs my computers.
SpaceX Press Kit for Wednesday Launch [pdf]
New startup funding scheme in Ireland... any irish hackers keen to discuss? 
New scheme (see link below). Deadline is Friday, but could try to knock some ideas around.... dave.mcgeady...gmail

http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/funding-supports/Company/HPSU-Funding/Internet-Games-Competitive-Start-Fund.html
I don't know about that but it sure is keeping my local bar in business.
Worrying about whether someone else will copy your idea or not is immaterial. 99.999% of the time they will not be able to copy and execute on your idea. I believe the greater issue at hand is whether your psyche can take the abuse of critique at a really early stage. Oftentimes, I'm really pumped about an idea but haven't formed the entire concept. If I share my baby too early and someone criticizes it, it can be deflating and I often move on the the next idea when in fact the idea I shared may have real merit - I just haven't worked all the kinks out. For some people I suggest waiting to share a killer idea until they have time to work it out. Then when they get good critique, they can use it to refine it instead of deflate it. If you have super thick skin, then I say share away.
I don't have any problems reading this site on my HT Desire. I don't like the mobile versions of some sites, so the "Mobile View" setting in my browser is usually off ... but I can read the android site with it off or on.
You're sort of missing the point.
Exactly. Lots of energy drinks taste similar. Redbull and Ciclon taste pretty equal (you have to really be looking to actually notice the difference). I find it retarded that they're using Squirt as a replacement when they should be looking for a way to imitate Redbull's flavor to perform such experiment. Also, I think the candidates should be within a 10 year range, people in their 20's react very different from people in their forties to big amounts of sugar. In any case, my past employer used to pay for one or two sixpacks of Redbull for when I had to do 3 or 4 day marathons to achieve a deadline (I loved those because once I hit the bed I slept for 24 hours straight and the company gave me a few days to a week off and bonus for my efforts. The good times.