skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google App Engine Answers Critics with New Release
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978785

Here, sans video, with more comments.
Um... Duh. Seriously. I want to make money, I want to make enough money to stop thinking about wanting to make money.
you might get more and potentially better answers somewhere like stackoverflow.com
Next superpower is not China IMHO,
but Germany-centered smaller EU.
Or, if for example if Russia truly change,
that will be a real force as well.
The exploit is specifically designed to only work on a small subset of kernel builds, as indicated in the header:

* In the interest of public safety, this exploit was specifically designed to
* be limited:
*
* * The particular symbols I resolve are not exported on Slackware or Debian
* * Red Hat does not support Econet by default
* * CVE-2010-3849 and CVE-2010-3850 have both been patched by Ubuntu and
* Debian
*
* However, the important issue, CVE-2010-4258, affects everyone, and it would
* be trivial to find an unpatched DoS under KERNEL_DS and write a slightly
* more sophisticated version of this that doesn't have the roadblocks I put in
* to prevent abuse by script kiddies.
Good point, sorry, I'd forgotten about them.
That death total is not last year, that's all time. 216 dead people in a year would be the end of mountaineering.

The attempt numbers you quote, 4102 attempts by 2700 individuals, was for 2008. A year with one fatality.

Those odds are quite different.
kgo may have been referring to how the contents of /private/tmp, /private/var/log and /private/var/tmp are not encrypted and may contain private information, such as com.apple.QuickLook.thumbnailcache.

I've had some success using scripts on the following website to plug these holes, but recently, I have been more concerned with my data's survivability than my privacy. Once that grad degree is done, I hope to return to a more secure approach.

http://xercestech.com/fixing-filevault-random-key-disposable...
Google Just Launched An Official Latitude iPhone App — In Japan At Least
89 months is over 7 years.

And those numbers assume they are in circulation.

So it's perfectly plausible to have the old $100s in circulation for the next decade, assuming some are kept in security boxes, etc.

But I guess they are planning for after 2025 to have some kind of lock against fakes finally.
Glen Beck for intellectuals
The industrial revolution, while revolutionary, did not improve on the intelligence that invented it.

...typed the person into his quantum-mechanically-mediated instantaneous conversation with ten thousand of the best-educated technologists on Earth.

You're going to have trouble convincing me that Google doesn't make me more intelligent. You're also going to have trouble convincing me that, say, cheap printing and cheap food -- both products of the industrial revolution, and without which I might be a subsistence farmer -- do not make me more intelligent. I wouldn't know quantum mechanics without them, after all, so I wouldn't understand how computers work.

And if you strive to define "intelligence" such that human intelligence has not been improved by technology -- which can be done; I'm clearly less intelligent than my Cro-Magnon ancestors by many criteria -- you are going to have a hard time convincing me that the future will be any different. If technology hasn't worked to improve "intelligence" before, why should it do so later?
They have transparent sections, holograms, angle variable colors - they are extremely difficult to counterfeit.
US notes you can copy with half a carved potato
Funny, Internet was born in USA and here it has began to die.
But US is not the only country with Internet...
Hopefully EU will keep itself neutral.
It's quite troubling how the government is trying to push this one down the memory hole as quickly as possible. Instead of using it as an opportunity to hold some people accountable for actions (get different contractors, assess fines on others, find out what parts of public policy the public finds distasteful)- they are just hoping it goes away if they close their eyes.
I thought it was 'chasen' but sending an email there bounces back. Also tried 'chaseh' but got no response.
I'm from Brisbane :)
PUT to myapp.com/project/1234 with the param {"status":"archived"}, then set your model up so that when the status changes to archived, it archives itself.
The Groupon Editorial Manual
From what I can tell, I think it depends on if you want to be able to access the project later. If you don't, then I would recommend using DELETE /project/1234 with { archived: true} as an option. If you want to view the project later, then I think you should do a PUT to create the "archive" resource as in PUT /project/1234/archive or do a POST if you don't know the actual archive URI.
Pirate Bay Anti-Paypal ad
Pirate Bay blog explaining the add at http://thepiratebay.org/blog/185. The people who run the Pirate Bay are pretty pissed at Paypal for terminating Wikileaks' account.
I upgraded to a larger RDS instance and we're running fine again now.
Except that currently these stores do very little to create that meritocracy. I'm not sure they ever truly can.

Until then marketing is a huge part of success in these stores. Be it working with the press (blogs, traditional press, and everything in between) to good old fashioned advertising. Very few app-store developers have had sustained success without the normal marketing and sales efforts that you need with any other product (at least the ones I have insight into).
If it was meant to be CAPTCHA there's no need to make it selectable.
Well most of my jobs have been 1 year contracts. I will put in the months I worked. And I put education last because it was only a couple of years of going to college before I started working and my career became my important than my schooling.

Thank you for your time to check out your resume and your input.
Dude, I run the Bedbug Registry. Hence the level of fear. Roaches are trivial to get rid of in comparison to bedbugs.

I agree that the problem is citywide. My intended point was that there is now a big new transaction cost to renting in NYC (and soon to renting in most cities).
Published because, though political, you can all start using this to win conversations:

"Wikileaks is anti-American."

"Oh yeah? Wikileaks exposed that US diplomats were covering for Afghani pedophiles."

You won't lose because pedophilia is considered worse than threats to national security.
I think they just got a bit confused.
You print notes - employing printers, then recycle them, then pay to print more - eventually you have full employment in the printing industry
To someone who recently bought and then gave up an iPhone, this essay really strikes a chord. I actually have time to think again.
Yeah, because comparing something that, if it pays off, will put your family into the lap of luxury, and if it doesn't you can go back to your old life with something that offers no intrinsic value or reward if it pays off, and if it doesn't leaves you dead on the side of a mountain where people name the feature after the colour of your boots is an apples to apples comparison.

Good one.
I lived in downtown ATL and worked in Norcross ~4 years ago, and had solid T-mobile coverage (better than I have with AT&T in SF now, but that's not saying much).
Wholesale China Electronics
Steve Woz (Apple co-founder) Feels Trapped on Facebook, says it's not open
China and India each have about three times the population of the United States. While I don't agree with the direction the country has been on since 2000, I think the problems facing the US are not so terrible as to be unavoidable.

Being the top superpower economically, militarily, and governmentally with three hundred million people rather than one billion long-term is not realistic. Eventually you are going to be outproduced in most areas.

Unless we are about to go over the edge now into Great Depression II I think America will be fine. Having China, India, US and the EU as essentially four superpowers will be a political situation like we have never seen before.
China leading the US in technological innovation? That's rich.
SysAdvent: Website Performance Optimization
There's a zillion books, blogs, seminars, and tips on optimizing Google Adwords. In my experience, unless you're really willing and able to dedicate a ton of time to Adwords, you won't do well with it (even if you read the books and go to the seminars, etc.) What does this mean? Google Adwords still isn't truly reaching the long tail of local businesses. I think it's one reason why people show interest in other promotional tools (like Groupon) for small local businesses. They're simply easier to use than Adwords. Most small business owners don't have the time or aren't web savvy enough to figure out how to optimize Adwords. I think there's a real opportunity to serve the lower end of the market that Adwords isn't reaching.
Music, movies, microcode, and high-speed pizza delivery. That's all America should do. The whole military empire thing has always been the opiate of the elite.
I was under the impression that both ChromeOS and Android were just Linux distros, not new OSs.
Yahoo Pluton
You're right, and that's the point of it.

If you play games where one set of moves means you'll certainly survive and win, then you're going to make those moves. It's like playing chess, with a loaded gun beside the board so you could shoot yourself if you chose to. That might give you a thrill the first time, but you'd soon get bored of it, and you wouldn't learn anything worthwhile from it.

The really absorbing games are the ones where every set of moves could get you killed, and the winning ones are more likely to than the safest losing ones.

Many books have been written about this stuff. I think Joe Simpson's This Game of Ghosts is the most accessible.
> “Maybe you keep the wrong company,” my mother suggests. Maybe. But I like my friends! We can sympathize with each other and feel reassured that we’re not alone in our overeager consumption, denigrated self-control, and anxiety masked as ambition.

This is Gametalk[1], and you are a Loser (a term from [1]: basically one who is not Playing to Win[2] in the game of life.) You are finding no meaning in what you see around you because the things you are likely surrounded with are not real, raw art with messages to communicate, but rather tranquilizers and peptics to calm mutual nerves.

Do not do for what will happen if you do not—acting in fear to return the dial from its painful drift back to the sacred reference point[3]; instead, simply do for what will happen if you do, moving the dial to a new place and observing the change.

[1] http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...

[2] http://www.sirlin.net/ptw

[3] http://lesswrong.com/lw/dj/what_is_control_theory_and_why_do...
Strange that Cmd-backtick doesn't work for you. Try this: Open up System Preferences, select "Keyboard", change to the "Keyboard Shortcuts" tab, and highlight "Keyboard & Text Input" on the left. Is the "Move focus to next window in application" box checked? What's its shortcut?

Also, long-clicking on the dock icon just activates Expose for Application Windows. I have it set-up to activate upon mousing to the top right corner and really like it. You don't have to wait for the delay of clicking and holding on the dock, though you'll still have to scan for the correct window.
Can you sort for music videos as opposed to static images with audio? I attempted to tackle this problem with youvj.com (a weekend project of mine) a while ago, filtering for music video, official, etc in the description and title (as well as popularity and other factors), but never got results I was truly happy with.
A Google engineer should not expect to get a helpful response when he asks the Google search engine for advice on building a better Google.
im getting a lot of static cover art : (

Very cool app though
Path Job Reqs: Active participant on Quora and Twitter (StackOverflow?)
So when the government prints money it "stimulates the economy" but when anyone else prints money they do jail time?

If printing money is so good for the economy why don't they give us all printing presses?
Last I read, JavaScript has 2 scopes: function scope, and global scope. Unlike many languages, there is no block scope (e.g. a counter in a for loop).
Known holywar, weak proofs, nothing new, flag, yawn.
I'm going to call shenanigans. Do you have a source for that claim. I'm not disputing the quality of Australian currency, but I don't see how American currency is trivial to counterfeit.
Ask HN: Startup uses pirated/warez software, what should I do?
throwaway account

the startup I recently joined uses a lot of warez software and i'm really uncomfortable about it. i use eclipse which is open-source of course but I was given photoshop, illustrator, ms office, etc to install on my computer by the company which are all warez copies. the windows boxes we use for qa seem to be warez too and it seems as though a lot of the ide's and other tools other guys are using are warez. im not sure any software has been purchased by the company other than what came on the apple machines.

i asked a coworker about it and he seemed to think i was mad for raising it, and pointed out adobe cs is $1000+ (apparently true). the company is angel funded and not profitable so funds are tight. it is a small startup you have probably heard of which is why im using a throwaway account.

i'd like to raise it with the founders but i can't see how it can turn out positive and as much as i'd like to advocate open-source tools, software like The GIMP isn't really up to par with photoshop. building slide decks is still best done in keynote (or powerpoint I guess) etc rather than google docs.

it's not something i'm prepared to quit my job over but i'm really uncomfortable about it. what should i do?
You sound just like Doc in Back to the Future (he was talking about Japan however).

This little tidbit points to the problem.

just as America's current supply of brilliant scientists and engineers retires, without adequate replacement by an ill-educated younger generation.

Without the collage educated middle class to fill startups and R&D firms/departments what is the US going to build it's continued technological innovation on?

Education is a long term investment in the future and one that the US has being failing making for some time now.
If you mention wikileaks or aethism then of course reddit.
Really? Because last I checked all of the top schools are in the US, with falling admissions rates.

EDIT: Not all, of course, but let's put things into perspective.
OTOH this does not bode well for the future potential bloat in Gmail.
Was that a deliberate reference to Snow Crash?
I wonder what Mark Zuckerberg would say to that. He's always stating that Facebook is an open and social place.
After having lived the last 4 or so years overseas in a developing country, here's why I'm not as concerned about America as alarmist pundits:

1) I'm not trying to be nationalistic here, but we have one of if not THE most entrepreneurial, hard working, critical thinking work forces in the world. That is an intangible but one I believe will keep the US competitive long in the future. It generally takes generations for this to change (both in countries that lack it and in countries that have it.)

2) Economics isn't a zero sum game. Just because China or India overtakes the US as the world's leading economy doesn't mean that the US is worse off for it. Value can be added without being taken away. If China becomes the world's largest economy and at the same time, the US's per capita GDP doubles from where it is today, is the US really any worse off?
I think COLOURlovers is the only YC company that I can say I had heard of / often visited before they were part of YC.

Are there any other companies that were reasonably successful before starting in YC?
YouVJ looks nice.

There are many songs that do not, and never will, have a 'real' music video. Even songs that do have official music videos are often not allowed to be embedded/streamed. [As I'm sure you know.] I chose to offer the largest amount of music, at the expense of having actual music videos for each song.

Perhaps I could implement some type of pref that could toggle between 'all music' and 'real music videos'.
No, you can actually generate different names for the actions that are part of url using rails routing, and you can require that they all use the HTTP PUT method.
I think part of the thing is that it's relatively easy to measure how long it takes to generate your page. You don't need fancy tools or guidance from google to time how long you queries take.

Figuring out how to make the page appear to load faster or how to encourage browsers to cache your files in a smarter way is quite a bit more complicated and subtle.
| Heck, just your algorithm access to an email server or something.

Then my dog will find the bone faster than AIXI. See what I mean?
Except that the polymer used is hard to obtain and the process to print on it is difficult to achieve without some serious equipment and know-how. Some of the notes have now been in circulation for more than a decade without realistic forgeries appearing.

So whereas a passable USD forgery can be made with a photocopier and some soft paper, the polymer notes are so expensive to reliably forge that it's not worth the effort. In practice Australia has very little in the way of forgery and it's usually detected by merchants almost immediately.

The main blight on polymer notes is that the company (Securency) which manufactures them has been accused of bribing officials in various countries to switch to polymer notes. Given that Securency is half-owned by the Reserve Bank of Australia, it is tremendously embarrassing.
Ask HN: Are there secretaries or administrative assistants at Google?
I come from a non-technical background (flight medic), but I have always wondered if Google has secretaries or administrative assistants in the traditional sense of a large corporation?

I have heard many Googlers remark that the company is quite email intensive, but surely they have the standard office supply needs, sending faxes of legal documents, fetching a book from the far side of campus.
Thanks!
Indeed. I expected some sort of trimmed down simpler versions that would load more easily on a Chrome OS netbook. So far I've tried MapQuest and Evernote, and both just showed up as the regular bloated websites that they are upon 'installation'.
This is what I don't quite get; why make the distinction between "real speed" and "perceived speed"? Really, as far as the vast majority of your users are concerned, the speed of the page is from when they click you in a Google result to when Internet Explorer's status bar says "Done". How long your queries take relative to the page's rendering speed is irrelevant.

My main point is that the database and queries to it usually has much lower-hanging fruit for speed hacks.
This comment thread is why I love Hacker News.
Yes, itvis, but I think the title is a good starting point for a discussion on the point(lessness) of 8 hour work days, 8.30 am starts and 5 day weeks.
Syntensity moved from Python to JavaScript as an embedded scripting language,

http://www.syntensity.com/toplevel/intensityengine/

worked out very well there.

Of course the real examples are... web browsers, which are C++ apps that are scripted by a JavaScript engine. Seems to work good there as well ;)
I was actually just kidding. However, I admit that I did search LinkedIn for a Chase H. at Google.
Off topic question: How do you feel about so many people creating website with spammy content for SEO purposes? I've come across a few of them. I'm sure a ton get made. How do you deal with that?
Stop hiring contractors till you are a big enough company needing sudden growth or can't afford the hiring process.

Hire your intellectual property co-creators. The quality they will create is 10x on a contractor.
I'm always amazed by such blatant anthropo-deprecating-centric (?) statements.

-The difference in efficiency should tell you that that power spent is _worth_ something, like astonishingly superior abstraction capabilities and the ability to speak and write.

-The ugliness (read; complexity) of QM could easily be interpreted as a tribute. Whether you like it or not, it is the best we have. To paraphrase HHG2G, if it's ugly, then it's the universe that got it wrong, not us. (I'm partially joking, mostly because I don't suspect you really have a firm enough grasp of QM, let alone QFT, to determine its aesthetic beauty.)

I mean, I'm all for a little humbling perspective. We are a race of people descended from stupider people unto apehood (and before that, lizards!) that are stuck on a rock in a universe fantastically larger than us.

That doesn't mean we should be debbie downers.
How will we know the singularity is here unless we can authenticate its identity?
I think this is just that people are wired differently. My gf and I are the same way, but it's just a matter of her feeling the need to recap her day to keep me apprised vs my desire to not waste time talking about things that just happened a couple hours ago. I don't see anything deeper to it.
Thank you for the feedback. I am definitely looking at smaller businesses. At least for the moment.

I agree about the contrast of the forms. I'll change it in the next deploy.
Indeed. Plus, some games are Flash based. Chrome OS is going to be bundled with Flash? Hoo-raay.
I kinda like the idea. I'd say go for it, personally. Of course, you've already done two of the cooler ones, out of the set of "old school languages." Not sure how well articles on SNOBOL, RPG, FORTRAN, etc. will go over with this crowd... Hopefully there are some other cool choices left to hit on.
I'm sure they would have, but probably not for stuff like this. If you want another one, go get it yourself. If you want to send a fax, go send it yourself. If you want a book, get off your lazy ass and get it.

The trouble with giving "important" people staff is it leads to misuse and laziness. People start arguing that they're too important to do something, or are too busy to learn how to use the fax machine. If your engineers are starting to complain about learning, there is something wrong with them.
Sorry for the late reply. I live in Portland Oregon, USA. Last time I checked, a person can eat at McDonalds for $1-2 per meal if they don't mind eating the same thing all the time. It's hard without buying bulk staples like rice, beans etc to buy and cook for a family for that cheap.
Mike Lazaridis live at D (with the PlayBook)
> not particularly insightful

what is HN with all the passive aggressive insults of other people's comments?
Anybody figured out how to setup a paid app? I already have an extension in the gallery but I don't see anywhere to set a price for it.

Also, it appears that only US and UK developers can be a Google Checkout merchant, except for the Android Market where anyone from one of a bazillion different countries can sell.

However, the Chrome Web Store developer ToS seems to imply that other payment processors can be used, provided they are approved by Google. It doesn't say who those payment processors are or how they integrate with the store.

So yeah, anybody figured out how it all works?
We fight spam fairly aggressively, and the amount of spam created on the system is a very small percentage of the legitimate users. You've probably visited multiple legitimate Weebly websites before but just didn't know we were behind them.

From what we can tell, we have a lower percentage of spammy sites created than sites like Blogger or Wordpress. But it's an ongoing fight.
This isn't [only] two panes, but it gives you the ability to navigate files while still seeing the directory structure: https://github.com/sr3d/GithubFinder

It's implemented as a bookmarklet that you can activate on any github repo for an advanced view.