skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know people who washed into Cisco in acquisitions who multiple times left to start companies marketing remarkably specific and incremental improvements to existing Cisco products; almost as bad as, "here's the company I started to provide this specific report for the Cisco 4371GX†". I'm not kidding about the MRD thing; if you're an entrepreneur and a developer, I think they might be tradeable information.

I've never worked at Cisco and I have no negative opinions of them or their products. Like I said, the strategy seems to work.

I just wonder whether Google's culture is ready for the terminus of this slippery slope.

Remember what they used to say about Microsoft in the late '90s? How it wasn't a good idea to make fun of their 1.0 products, because the one thing they were going to be good at was refining them and refining them and refining them until they took over the market? Who still does that anymore?

† Made up
I was 4 and probably sucking a lolly pop :)
A previous manager of mine used to work at AT&T in the early 90s and according to her, AT&T was convinced that gopher was the future. The web was too disorganized to be of much use.
Some kind of irony in a broken link I think.
How do you convert the PSD files into HTML & CSS? Does Photoshop have an option for it or what?
Rosa Parks wasn't really harming anyone in her actions. Anon is most certainly harming people with theirs. I don't see how a parallel can be drawn.
A walk-off grand slam even.
Thanks for the update. Your readers may be interested in a simple Google Optimizer Code checker at

http://www.observepoint.com/optimizer-test.php

You just enter the URL of the page in question, and it will tell you whether the google website optimizer code is up-to-date, and if it needs to be edited, it will tell you what to change and where to change it.
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You do realize that there are actual human beings working for Mastercard who are just like you and I who are getting hurt by this, right? There are real people behind these websites.
The intermediate stuff starts after #10
How is DDoSing MC physically harming someone? I say physically, because Rosa Parks was, at the very least, caused economic harm.
Yes, but so should citizens.
It has always bugged me when someone (usually my mom) says that a target page is linked to the source page (reverse from normal web speak). Now I notice that Berners-Lee himself spoke of hyperlinks in that way on the first page:

Everything there is online about W3 is linked directly or indirectly to this document

[edit: clarity]
You raised a good point about US schools focusing more on 2 or 3 subjects rather than "integrated design". I find the idea of learning in an environment where artists from all sorts of fields (architecture, painting, sculpting, industrial design, graphic design, typography etc.) get to interact together and influence each other very charming.

Do you quite possibly know, what is the design scene in traditional art centers like Italy and France?
An exploration of scale and levels of detail
So let's ask the real question here. How often does Interpol get involved with an individual rape case?

Commenter in the Salon forum says it best:

"What is odd here, however, is the "international community" suddenly jumping on a bandwagon to freeze the personal finances, cut off legal assistance, swear out arrest warrants, and act quickly on those warrants - all over accusations that were already dropped once for lack of evidence."
Ideas are a dime a dozen.
this was a waste of 20 seconds, they should have at least put more than one example here. total fluff.
"Who still does that anymore?"

Apple?
Strike actions have symmetry and boundedness. Withholding labor obviously affects both the company and the workers and the action can only go so far since both sides need each other to survive.

This kind of action is asymmetric and unbounded: Anon can hurt MasterCard without cost to himself (presumably) and he can theoretically carry it out for as long as he wants. This can only lead to some kind of escalation if MasterCard (and similar entities) want to survive.
I had a great experience at RIT in the Graphic Design program. They give you a really good base of knowledge and skills.

I've also heard good things about RISD.
I vote him up because I don't vote based on agreement. Invisible text simply makes the discussion difficult to read.
I wonder how hotornot is doing these days? I haven't been to that site since they sold it, and before that only once since 2001
So the first version of WWW was implemented in Obj-C?
It does harm people physically when, say, their sandwich purchase doesn't work and they become overly hungry -- physical stomach pains. And maybe a diabetic somewhere will end up in the hospital.

And what about the guy who was buying safety equipment and now he has to do the first day without it?
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Meh. In a few years when we all depend on the internet even more, the law will catch up with this sort of internet petty vandalism. A couple of people will get sued and thrown into jail, joe schmoe user will be cut off from the internet the moment a ddos is detected from his ip, and people coordinating 4chan ddos'es will be tracked and arrested.

The only reason these things work today is because of a lack of urgency. I mean, when this starts happening every week, people will call for regulation, it may take a few years to get it sorted out politically, then another few before the policy catches up, and things like this won't be possible any more.

In the mean time, the damage done is relatively small. Yes it sucks for some online merchants, but let's not blow this out of proportion.

I remember 10 years ago there was a 'digital sit in' (the term 'ddos' didn't exist yet) on my at that time employer's website. There were camera crews coming in, interviewing our CEO's, it was big news. In reality, the effect was minor; averaged over the few days around it, the loss of sales was not even statistically significant.
Although given that this seems to be run as an experiment, so far it seems to be rather successful. Granted, in the long term it might not be sustainable, but for the short term it can provide a number of benefits. First of all the designer will be getting lots of practice and making a number of contacts while building up a good portfolio of examples. Also the low price makes it a low risk for anyone trying it out, so it is the type of experiment they can be tried with little cost and quickly.

I would find it interesting to see what the designer ends up doing as a result of this experiment.
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Were these installed on the same drive, in separate partitions? Because that makes a difference in benchmarking. The outer sections of the drive are much faster than the inner sections. So two partitions on the same drive will have different performance.
I was 11. My dad was in a master's program and I used to use his account to access gopher. I had no use (or understanding) of the documents but was somehow fascinated by the endless series of menus. That, and prodigy.
ahh.. i wondered when that would come along.

I had a thought that relevance should be computed like a "stream database", but with an index rather than a data store behind it.
Maybe something like Streambase - but written in Clojure - on top of the lucene index.

Take it one step further, where the entire index is expressed as s-expressions (i'm a bit out of depth here) - you can basically write a mapreduce job on the index.

However, I'm not so sure that computing relevance can be parallelized - i.e can it be broken down as opposed to be computed as a global problem ?
I would beg to differ on the "no attack" part. Digital has real world implications and if someone is not able to buy a product because of this then it is an attack. It is like arguing that a protest on the sidewalk is equivalent to nailing the businesses front door shut. If you've ever had your credit card denied when trying to buy gas or food, you probably would understand what happens when someone does things like this in the modern world.

If boycotts and demonstrations don't reach critical mass, then they were not accepted by your peers. Be glad for this, many groups that are not generally accepted do marches that don't generate popular support.
I've always found it odd how many resources they still devote to R&D considering their acquisition strategy.

I agree, I actually still like the company (although I was never actually a fan of the Pix's, the ASA's are a lot better). When I was at BBN we worked really closely with Cisco, and some of my other colleagues made their way over there.

I don't know who is left to do that sort of "iterative product development". I feel like as the scale of technology has increased, it's really become easier to just let someone else take the risk in launching something, and then if they're successful, buy them up.
I think that the events in France don't belong to this list. France is dealing with a lot of youth criminality from ghettoized communities. The burning of cars was not backed up with any political claims. It only reflects how authorities are losing control over certain neighborhoods.
The title is anything but descriptive ("WikiLeaks - MasterCard Website" at the moment of writing).
Some pretty good predictions that seem quite obvious due to hindsight bias but would we have thought the same in '09?
I think a few seemed fairly feasible but I don't know if I would have staked such predictions like Brian did.
Bravo
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Google is 1 in a [insert the number of startups from 1998 to 2010]

1:xyz
The same reasons mentioned above. I've worked with a lot of very fussy clients and have a big name like Salesforce to through out there when discussing options really helps perceived credibility.
Sounds good, but it was probably impossible for them. Once you have a heavy-weight sales and support infrastructure, it is extremely hard to strip it back down to compete in a low end market.

The classic that walks through the relevant organizational dynamics is The Innovator's Solution. (This is the follow-up to the better known The Innovator's Dilemma, and it focuses on what happens within companies facing that particular dilemma.) I highly recommend it.
It wasn't until a good couple of years later that I ran my own BBS - I was running Iniquity and remember the hours upon hours spent on creating ASCII art for all the screens. That and the fact that I ran the BBS on my only phone line, meaning it was a 11pm to 6am only BBS - good times.
I've met Nic a few times before, he is a very smart guy. Looking forward to seeing what he does with Taskforce.
Mozilla Removes support for WebSockets in Firefox 4
Wow. Brian Breslin, I am officially consulting you on all my major life decisions.
I was one month away from starting college, and a month away from discovering that there were computers in the world that were permanently connected across vast distances (didn't require modems and dialing up over phone lines). That first instant telnet to a system 500 miles away = blown mind.
Ask HN: Hacker Resume
I want feedback/constructive criticism from HN community. I know it should've been plain text/markdown; I actually wanted to write in in markdown, parse it, and display in HTML5 + hcard + hcal + hresume. But didn't have enough time :(

Here's the PDF - http://advancewith.us/stuff/Resume.pdf

Anyways, from today I am starting being active on HN. Hello, people!
My back of the envelope calculation over all YC acquisitions so far has them at ~$12million returned. (Over half of that is from Heroku.) That could arguably be anywhere from $5-$20million based on your dilution assumptions, though.

And direct investment costs for 208 startups is <$500k. Even if you add in all the other costs of running the program, YC is pretty f-ing successful.

Then you start thinking about the other startups yet to exit (ie, Loopt, Dropbox) and you see the YC team is truly kicking ass.
Ditching 200K of C++ for 30K of Scheme
I'm fairly plussed.
Small, niche communities are generally easier to manage and yield more valuable content. I think this is why reddit decided to go with subreddits over tags.
I think its a good problem solving tactic to try to look for analogous situations and gain insight into our current dilemma in doing so.

I think a better analogy might be a sit in. If you occupy all the seats in a restaurant, I think it kind of qualifies as a meatspace DOS. I guess the difference is that in civil rights sit ins of the 60s, the people sitting in actually wanted service.

I guess the digital analogue would be a bunch of people requesting permission to donate to Wikileaks, rather than permission to load the page. It seems the subtle difference is that civil rights groups actually wanted the service that they deny to others, while anon wants a service different from the one they are denying to others.

I guess its up to individuals whether they think the difference is significant.
I was about to turn 3. I am sure that I was geeky, and trying to program my high-chair, but never the less, still just learning the world.

I do wish that I would have been more in the 10-11 year old range. So much excellent stuff happened that year - just a few months after that, the Minnesota Twins won the series.
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Ignition, the lead in the final round, has stated that they made over $50m on the deal, so probably triple that valuation - $10M was on a $25-40m range.

http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/12/ignition-backed-her...
Selected papers in Anonimity
The second part of your answer isn't correct anymore. Google recently (about September) migrated all of the apps emails to the wider gmail infrastructure

http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=182034
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I didn't find the learning curve to be steep.

The core of git is really simple. If you understand objects, hashes, blobs, trees, commits, then you pretty much know the basic vocabulary and you'll be able to learn more as you go.

This is a really good explanation for these basics: http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf
and Archie, too ;-)
wikileaks.eff.org is not resolving for me. It seems inconsistent for the EFF to talk about standing up to censorship without them hosting a mirror and encouraging others to do so.
I just hope some business guy doesn't go in there and "rethink" heroku
So:

1) Paypal lied to the public.
2) The State dept. effectively ordered content off the web, not unlike China.
3) Paypal hasn't restored service to Wikileaks, even though it's a legal organization.
> I'm looking around, I'm seeing movement by Microsoft, Apple, and Google to limited-purpose simplified computers with app stores built in. I'm seeing developers actually able to sell software again. I'm seeing rich, beautiful interfaces that are responsive and smooth. I'm seeing voice, camera, accelerometer, and GPS integration. And I'm seeing it in native software TODAY. It works now, it's not beta, and it's making money. Tell me where I'm wrong?

Your not. However, I haven't argued against this.

> You fail to realize that these "tools" are ugly hacks to make HTML do things it's clearly not well suited to do.

Well, good thing they aren't using HTML then.

> In what context is that?

In the context of the article. PhoneGap let's you create native software but using technology like HTML and JS that hooks into Apple's (and others) existing API.

More importantly, Apple uses XML for it's UI as well, so the difference between HTML and Apple's own XML format for it's UI is negligible.

> and naturally you're resisting change.

The industry is changing from desktop TO web-based. Your cherished MS, Apple, and Google agree with this as well, as you can see by their plans to not only support, but promote these types of applications.

And, in this case, I can either follow the lead of Apple, MS, Google, and Mozilla, or take the advice of some nobody random commenter with a stick up his ass.

Maybe you can explain how these companies are wrong?
I never thought I'd be having this discussion on HN, but by that definition Fox News (and to a lesser extent other networks and/or "commentators") would qualify as a terrorist organization.

As much as I dislike Fox News, actually extending the definition of terrorism far enough to include them, and Wikileaks, would dilute the definition to the point of uselessness (or, worse, to the point of including anyone you don't agree with who is trying to induce political change).

I should probably start staying out of the WL discussions here, this is starting to sound too much like /r/politics :(
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Agreed. My comparison was purely in reply to the concept of "you shouldn't hurt a company to improve things, because it hurts their customers too."
His portfolio should be relative to what he wants to do in the future. If he intends to do full-scale designing, then of course he should focus on getting that into his portfolio. But if he intends on doing quick, small design deals, this is perfect.

Time invested is not a measure of quality.
But he can stop at any time. He can even send back the money for unfinished jobs.
I've gotten a telemarketer call from the BBB here in Southern California recently and it reeked of the worst things Yelp is accused of.

They led off with a yarn about how they had heard from consumers looking for information about my business. Uh huh. Pull the other one...
Really cool video of the manufacturing process of the Glif
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Irrelevant to most, but the tangled mess of network cables behind the "Woz" in the interview really ticks me off. I'd love to have a word with the network folks there.
Following orders is not a valid defense for wrongdoing. If you work for a company, you're complicit in their wrongdoings.
The benefit for a coder of having it built on blueprint is that it can be worked with immediately - otherwise one might as well be working with a template from a theme site with unknown/inconsistent markup.

Basing it off a well known framework should (a) make life easier for you, (b) give your work a hook other than low price-point.
Even more interesting would be Computers aswering other Computers questions about Humans...
Nasa sells shuttle PCs without wiping secret data
I wish I could do this for application prototypes. But from experience I know that prototypes can take much more time than $15 justifies. Or maybe I could just accept the ideas which interest me. Hmmmm....
Just to continue this thought of 'avenues you could pursue which don't involve a direct application': there's always graduate school. Prove your aptitude at a school that will take you for your BS and then apply to GT for the next step.
Even if they grow, eventually they'll be too big to remain the "friendly cool kid next door."

With 20,000 employees, it's just not the same.

Either way, you can't expect a founder to stick around for 30 years with the same company and product. It takes a Steve Jobs to keep things interesting over decades.
Are folks answering "three new to them" languages or "which three languages, even if you already know one or more"?
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whoa - just in time.

My wife has been working for the past couple of years as a copywriter for a top notch ad firm in India. She has been wanting to switch careers into design and has been looking for a college program that will give allow her to transition into it.

I'm not sure if this is the place for it, but I'm extremely interested in knowing about the entry requirements (read through the website already), the class composition and what next after this course ? Plus, the prospectus isnt clear about what exactly do they teach.
No of course not, I was just wondering anyway. "He will read it and not care" doesn't seem a likely reason for stopping him from reading it, unless it's coming from his PA.
Great, but what I really want to know is how fast Photoshop runs on Ubuntu 10.10. How many frames per second can I get on WoW? Does Pro Tools run more efficiently?
I can apply the same "what if" logic to Rosa Parks, who caused police to be sent to arrest her rather than patrolling their location and stopping a murder. Or someone on the bus that got delayed being late for a job interview, not getting it. Or that same diabetic not being able to get to his medicine he left at home.

Edit: I should also remind you that even if you want to accept your arguments, they aren't impacting actual transactions. Merely SecureCode transactions done online. So I highly doubt a diabetic in need of medicine now is going to order online.

Edit 2: And seriously, a guy get's a bit more hungry because he has to wait a tad longer because he can't order Fat Man's Pizza online because SC is down, and that's violent? Heck, then I guess Gandhi wasn't so peaceful after all, what with his salt march causing less money for people, and therefore, less money to buy food with, and therefore, less food to eat.
I can be on your life board of advisors if you like. ;-)
Note that he does add a tag to the object he creates, presumably so it doesn't get collected.
thanks, appreciate it. working on my 2011 predictions now.
You don't have to use your apps account only, you can still use your regular one for buying Android apps etc.
I'm sorry but that's a bullshit notion. Why is anyone still using PHP today? or Java? Just cause something new comes out, it doesn't automatically displace the old. I think paperback's are more likely to go away before the last rails app is written.
Japanese conditionals come (AFAIK) before statements.

They can come after statements, just like in English, "Tell me if you see him".

I don't use Ruby but I actually like this idea.

Often when reading code, I'm looking for what's being done, not the condition under which it's done. I only look for the condition after I've found the statement.
Wow, awesome list, good work sir.
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Am subscribing to your blog, like right now.
I also agree with your rejoinder and upvoted it :)
Also that war in the Balkans.
> I would beg to differ on the "no attack" part. etc.

Same logic can be applied to Rosa Parks, who held up a bus full of people and delayed them from getting to wherever they were going, and also forced a police officer to deal with her rather than stay on patrol watching for real crime.

Of course, even in this case, it's dealing with the MC servers, which affects SecureCode. People aren't buying gas or food out and about with SecureCoded MCs.
You can try to contact artists on fiverr.com and see what they can do for 15 usd.
Correction, "10 million rules"
Well i already know php to some extend, and the basics of C/CPP, Java, Action Script and all..

But i really like to get my hands dirty on C/CPP(im working on a MySQL storage engine as a hobby) and i like to learn python( i like maya[Animation], not only that python is a very strong language) too .. Those are the 2 currently in my list..

And if u want me to chose one more.. i say Java, because it will give me a very strong background on some very kewl concepts which i can use in other languages.. :)

And about my natural languages..

I definitely like to learn Sanskrit because their is a lot of knowledge hidden in Sanskrit books which u can never find else where, then i like to learn Chinese because i like the way its pronounced. and finaly spanish because.. well their is no because for that.. i just like to learn thats all.. :)

actually its harder than i thought it will be to reason why you learn a natural language other than if you are going to visit the related country or you are dating someone from that country ;) ..
Heroku (YC W08) CEO Talks About Salesforce, Future
Operation Payback cripples MasterCard site in revenge for WikiLeaks ban