skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I don't understand is EveryDNS's claim that the DDoS was affecting them. Why would the bots be making repeated DNS requests? It seems like an efficient bot would cache the IP in order to speed up the flood.
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You're right, they're totally besides the point, because they apply to the whistleblower and not the media. It was generally assumed (until this week apparently) that it's always ok for the media to print things after they've been leaked. Nobody went after the NYT's hosting, for example.

There's some detail on the actual laws at http://whistleblowerlaws.com/
This post needs more up voting, re: the responsibility of those around the conferences (or any every-day situation) to step in (as men) to the aid of a women being harassed. Women, physically (at a 99% level), are weaker then men (this may spawn a large discussion), but at the simplistic level, deserve to feel safe within public and private places.

I like to use an analogy when explaining the female mind to men who are not respectful of women's private space: imagine an 8 foot giant of a man whose only thoughts, leers, and actions speak to wanting to have sex with you (or rape you). Visualize that in your head, you may have a better appreciation for the "why's" of women and how they act in social circumstance.
You're stating the obvious without really replying to bhavin.
"A talented developer has an interpreter and compiler in his head and thinks in pseudo-code anyway."

So true, if you think this way, you will adjust to almost all OO languages very quickly. Also it's always good as a developer not to favor only one language and/or one framework. Don't get me wrong, I don't say you should be Jack of all trades master of none, it's good to learn and 'master' a chosen language or framework, but during the learning you should not be 'blind' towards the other options and not have any interest in them.
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the problem with official cablegate torrents is that there are very few trackers in them and DHT is reportedly disabled. Not sure why they did it this way.
Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1546378

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1368176

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1051327
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I am new to HN. The post below does not have option to add comments. How do you submit post without having comment option.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1967058
That would be the 'cmath' module.
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YC startups get to post special help-wanted posts to HN. It is a non-negligible fringe benefit of getting accepted into YC. HN is not a neutral venue when it comes to YC companies. For obvious reasons.

I think it's a bit hard to get too upset over a job posting for an executive role in a company, even if it does seem unlikely that you can get the person who can sell ice trays to Inuits from a simple job post. Probably, you should relax a bit.
don't all ice sheets have crevices? I thought they run on permafrost in Antarctica...
I've read none of them. I read the teaser summaries or capsule reviews and could not get excited. I do read a lot of books, but for these particular books to be the best of the best puts our literature in a sorry state. Most of the books chosen by the economist look to be formula books that will last a few weeks and then be forgotten. "Business books" almost always seem flimsy and without much more content than a single good idea or two drowning in a sea of case studies.

As for what "significant thinkers" ought to be writing books -- well, that's another problem. When I try to think of really significant thinkers who have something meaningful to say, it's a pretty short list, whether they write or not.
Crowd-sourced transcription over OCR for something like business cards (where the accuracy of transcription is crucial for the card to be useful) is just BRILLIANT.
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WOT has proven itself over the last couple weeks to me to be incredibly untrustworthy, dominated by "platinum" members who rate and comment down sites without having done any actual research on the business, and who absolutely will not correct erroneous ratings and comments when factual data such as BBB ratings, PCI certification, news articles and customer testimonials clearly tell a different tale. If you look in the forums you can see the flagrant ignorance of these controlling users. Because the ratings are so heavily weighted toward the power WOT'ers who have dedicated months of their time to rating sites they know nothing about, you could have literally dozens of glowing ratings and comments by real customers and one or two of these heavy weights can drag down the site rating into the red. WOT is dangerous, misleading and a farce. ...and yet website owners have no choice but to dive into the chaos to try and fight back against this horrible system to attempt to protect their good names.
> * This is one of the most factual, well written articles that I've encountered on the subject.

As an aside, LWN is great and has lots of well written articles, technical and otherwise.
"Terrorism is a means to an end, not an end in itself."

Precisely, hence my objection. My objection to the original statement is not based on the goals, as the statement below implies:

"However, it's hypocritical to decide whether someone is a terrorist based on the goal of their terrorism."

When we discuss terrorism, we're talking about a tactic. You've described that tactic well above. My objection is based on the fact that I am not aware of any specific activities on the part of the founders of the United States whose goal was to inspire terror in the populace at large. The primary tactics employed ranged from civil disobedience and sabotage (e.g. the original Tea Party) to conventional warfare (e.g. Bunker Hill).

If you are aware of specific actions conducted by the founding fathers prior to or during the Revolutionary War whose only purpose was to inspire fear amongst the general population, please do cite them.

Otherwise, I don't believe the categorization of the founders as terrorists is supportable.
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Good question. I'll keep an eye out... :)
Script Hebrew is a lot easier to write. Printed Hebrew is rarely written except by scribes, or typed.
YCombinator-funded companies have that special privilege. It's only used for job offers.
That may change however:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/republ...

"Ireland's low corporate tax level of 12.5% should be doubled to 25% as part of a common rate across Europe, a cross-party group of MEPs have said."
We are definitely looking for something pre-built and do not have a merchant account.

Recur.ly looks a little pricey. Wepay does recurring billing, but not recurring payments.

Thanks, though!
Well, then let's find a compromise. This new more anarchic system could come in parallel to the already existing one.

If you are a business or university you still follow the .com and .edu rules. If you are a broke student who doesn't want to pay for a domain or someone who is afraid of getting tracked/shutdown you can join the decentralized system. I doubt squatters would be too interested in getting those.

I suppose the .p2p thing they mention in the article must be something similar as a concept. They should just get another extension though because p2p sucks
Perhaps one could launch a tethered helium baloon with the antena and thus increasing the range ?

Or in the city one could deploy a bunch of radio relay stations and create a mesh.

Then I guess it all depends on how automated the plane is.
If it is able to track terrain, can stabilize itself and can be programmed to fly a round-trip mission, there might not be a need for a constant realtime radio link to it.

I can see configuring a flight & surveilance plan, launching it and just waiting for it to complete its mission then return, in a complete radio silence mode.
we got the point already, relax, it's not that big of a deal :)
They just had a turkey trot (5k) in Antarctica...

http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/Summer%20on%20the%20Ice/posts/...
They do recurring billing, but not recurring payments. We want a "set it and forget it" option for people to choose.

Thanks, though!
They should change the title of their job post.
The article is two years old?
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You've got it backwards. Industrialization buts incredible power in the hands of the individual, see the damage that individual terrorists and crazies are capable of. And there's no way to take away that dangerous capability and keep an industrialized, mechanized economy and society intact. Anyone with the necessary knowledge and intent and access to home depot can build modern weapons (guns, bombs, and worse things).

But the plus side is significant. An agrarian population is a population that can be cowed by force. History is clear on this. When the bulk of the population are tied to farms they can be easily dominated by any militant group with weapons and a will to subjugate.

Keep in mind, the horrific practices of, say, the Nazis or the Fascists or the Stalinists or the Maoists were de rigueur in ancient times. This is not something I want to return to, no matter how imperfect modern times are.
Well, they succumbed to political pressure, thus, quite close to if not indeed at the whims of politicians.
The plane would have to be programmable and would have to support a semi-automated flying mode. Then there won't be a need for a high-capacity realtime data stream.

But then the plane would have to have obstable avoidance, auto-pilot, and it must return back to within radio range if it flies too far.
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Why this obsession with app container performance?

It does not matter either way in practice. People are running large websites on ruby, remember?
True. So true.

The thing is c++ is a vast massive monster. Most likely whoever deeply worked on it, knows there's so much stuff left to learn, and so many deep dives, that whoever claims expertise is likely to be a newbie who hasn't been close enough to the edge to see what's ahead.

I remember once, spending like a couple full days along with a graphics researcher, who worked on that stuff full time, trying to get to work some rendering done with OpenGL on c++ which just didn't behave when compiled in MSBuild. Only on MSBuild. We found way later the solution from a guy in a forum, which was hacking the opengl implementation , overriding some macros ,and doing some other obscure thing on the library as well.

Even today we're both baffled at how that dude came up with that hack.
Well, I say they bowed to political pressure, what say you?

Opinions are one a plenty.
Depends on how much you trust them, really. What you call collusion is, for them, co-operation. There were a lot of powerful internal voices in the security industry against the kind of online information-sharing that makes a leak like this possible.

The reason they were overruled was because 9/11 in particular showed how badly joined up the information services were. Now the pendulum will swing the other way again, inevitably.

I'm not yet convinced this a great outcome. Shouldn't diplomatic staff be able to send back accurate assessments of political figures in countries where the US has interests? If internal comms are sanitised for potential public exposure, who benefits?

The "taking on tyranny" rhetoric surrounding wikileaks is overheated, too. Assange is taking on the softest Western governments; the ones who will go after him with arrest warrants. Were he actually to take on tyranny he knows he'd end up in a London clinic with radiation poisoning.
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For the last 3 weeks I've been playing around with what I'm calling a "micro project". It's just big enough that I can put some time into it between social events and not be inactive.

I'm hoping to be able to demo the tool sometime next week, but I don't have a suitable site to offer as a sample of what's being tracked. I've tested on a bunch of old client sites, but nothing I'd be proud to link to.

I'm looking for something with a steady amount of traffic 200-500 page views a day, and preferably under 30 pages. In return I can make it really obvious that your site is the one being tracked, or not, whichever you prefer. It could mean some extra traffic for whoever offers to help me out, so I'd like give those page-views to startup further along than mine if I can.
Thank you. Clearly a python noob here...
Honestly I can't remember about how. I think I might have tapped twice on his shoulder but I'm not sure. Anyway it was during the following conversation that it happened - when I asked to share the wine and that I remember quite well.

The situation you describe looks like an honest mistake to me - being grabbed from behind is weird. I wouldn't blame him for reacting and hurting the grabber while he was simply slamming him onto the flow. Bad things happen.

But later on, the guy is still threatening you? To me, the honnest mistake apology is gone. PSTD my *ss - he's abusive. I wasn't there and can't say for sure but to me that's totally different.
Is the DoS targeted against WikiLeaks or EveryDNS? Attackers have been known to target DNS servers instead of HTTP servers if that's the weakest point.
Full disclosure: I'm the co-founder/CEO of CardMunch.

This article by Ty turned out to be a great read for me as well. A lot of the things we did, it really wasn't by intention. It is good for me to take a look back and understand what we did right (although I wish he had pointed out what we did wrong as well).

I would highly recommend other HN hackers/entrepreneurs to take a moment and read this article. You might find this helpful in your own search for angel funding.

Best of luck!
Why not combine both?
Use Erlang/OTP for writing telecom-grade servers and Javascript for embeddeded scripting engine. Both Riak and CouchDB do exactly this.
Use erlang_js OTP application:

{erlang_js,"Interface between BEAM and JS","0.4.1"}
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No major powers have gone to war however. Stalemates of nuclear war and the lack of conventional warfare between capitalistic countries equates to this weird period in history that does not involve actual military expansion. Economic expansion is enough :D

http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hharchive/Show-33---(BLITZ...

An interesting look at "Belgium should not be a country" meaning, pre-1950's, Belgium would be snapped up by an expanding imperialistic country.

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/demowar.htm
Lists of Democracies going to war..though I would differentiate this between "capitalistic" countries and war.

Points and counter-points:
http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/205/01/20060806nb_cheap_wars_tikk...
All is fun and games until drones start firing back at ya.

... or that just means you are in Pakistan.
What OS and theme/toolbar/etc is this? It looks great.
Simplified or traditional?
Not necessarily, assuming the Russians actually wanted to conquer western europe - rather than end the world.

The plan was that they sweep into Germany in overwelming tank force, your only option is to drop serious megatonnage on them to try and melt all the tanks.
They assume you don't want to totally destroy western europe and kill 100million people.

The neutron bomb allows you to (in theory) destroy large numbers of their tanks without totally devastating your allies. So you are more likely to use it - and it still keeps things tactical rather than strategic. They are not going to nuke New York because you used a tactical device on their army.

The Russian response was to wrap hydrogen rich armour (aka diesel fuel) around their tank crew spaces which would provide enough sheilding that you are back to having to use silly amounts of megatonnage to achieve anything.
You're not going to have enough battery or gas in your rc plane to fly cross-country or even a two-hour round trip.

Also, your radio won't be able to communicate with the plane for more than a hundred meters legally and a few miles illegally.
That's not true: the multiplication is different. (x1,y1) × (x2,y2) would have to be (x1x2 - y1y2, x1y2 + y1x2), not (x1y1, x2y2).

The addition does work as you suggest, so a more correct formal statement would be: the complex numbers form an additive group that is isomorphic to the cartesian product of the additive group of real numbers and itself; the complex numbers also happen to form a ring (indeed a field).
I've not seen anything that said RC flight is illegal in controlled airspace, do you have a link showing this?
Honestly, there are so many VPN providers that EC2 looks like overkill for this.
My thoughts exactly. It would be hard to find many people who almost exclusively read white on black, though. I think the groups people break down into are likely the average people from "book-land", where all is black on white, and techies who use dark background terminals, but are fluent in both. In which case, it would make the most sense to test people who have extensive exposure to both (techies) for comprehension, etc.
I always find post-mortems like these a bit strange. These founders are all able to develop some pretty convincing reasons why they failed (albeit in hindsight), yet show no signs of acting on it. I understand the feeling of burnout, I have a handful of abandoned projects myself. I've never been able to look back and say that is precisely why I didn't succeed though. Lessons learned is one thing, identifying the one factor that held you back is a bit of a stretch IMO.

Interesting side note: The first failed company, Verifiable, links to the sixth failed company, swivel, as an alternative. Apparently charting is a tough space.
Agreed completely. The articles relating to Noirin Shirley's recent post were clearly polarized: participants "picked a side" that agreed with the biases they brought to the table, and not much in the way of useful discussion actually seemed to happen.

On the other hand, this article is much more useful: a compelling description of the problem and examination of what isn't working, followed by a clear call-to-action on what they suggest be done (in this case, adopting a minimal anti-harassment policy).

More like this, please.
Regardless of your page preference, please strip any unnecessary hash information. I am often annoyed to find that a link contains the hash of a comment, scrolling my browser down to something which is irrelevant because I have not read the article yet.

http://thatcoolsite/article-i-love#comment-103
should be submitted as
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Rejected by some incubator? Prove them wrong
Unless I missed something pretty significant, HN doesn't support downvoting on any stories.

As tptacek pointed out, being able to post the help wanted threads on HN is a pretty cool benefit of being a YC startup. HN is full of smart, creative hackers that want to work in the startup sphere, so why wouldn't the general audience here appreciate news of the opening?

I have seen a bunch of posts on HN recently that consist of out-of-work coders or failed startup creators trying to get hired in the startup world. We have monthly (commentable) threads about jobs in the industry.

Yes, YC companies get to post job offers on news.ycombinator.com, but not in an unfair or domineering fashion. If you're not interested in the job, don't apply!
I dunno... I can see both sides of it. I mean, for myself, I carry around the attitude "If I get rejected by $FOO, I'll make it so big, that I can buy $FOO and turn their offices into my ping-pong room." And I encourage others to feel the same way. So in that regard, I'd like to think that the people who got rejected by YC are actually hunkered down somewhere, working their balls off, planning to show the YC decision-makers "just how wrong they were."

But, realistically, I'm sure there is some pool of people who applied to YC, were denied, never found funding anywhere else, and gave up... but are still interested in working in a startup. In that case, joining a different startup, who did get accepted, seems like a reasonable scenario.
>You're not going to have enough battery or gas in your rc plane to fly cross-country or even a two-hour round trip.

There was an R/C plane that flew trans-atlantic; it wasn't much larger than a hobby store plane. Cross country is much, much farther (about twice as far as the transatlantic flight), but this is what makes the problem so much fun.

(link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3145577.stm)

(Picture of the plane: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39393000/jpg/_39393283...)

>Also, your radio won't be able to communicate with the plane for more than a hundred meters legally and a few miles illegally.

The point is to make these things happen autonomously. Beyond that, yes, it is absolutely possible to control the thing all over the world (albeit this would be illegal). While it absolutely wouldn't work for doing real-time controls, HAMs have been bouncing radio waves around the planet for longer than I've been alive.
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Well said, friend. As I said before, I encourage people to adopt the mindset that "If I get rejected by $FOO, I'll make it so big, that I can buy $FOO and turn their offices into my ping-pong room."
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We were rejected by YC before ourselves. "Rejected by YC" in this context is a compliment, it means you applied.
That's what I have to look forward to! It's going to be Awesome!!
Been a fan of CardMunch for a while, but this article was a great read for other founders interested in seeing how some investors think.

Is social proof really only %5 for most investors?
"This has been the most peaceful period in history."

Not by a wide margin. The US for example is at war every single year of its existence. Now, it might be peaceful in Chicago or Pensacola, but the same was true for those living in Rome when the romans wages wars worldwide.
Sorry to hear your experience as a father is less than positive, socially-speaking. As a mother of an 18-month old whose father is currently taking care of him full time, our experience is quite the opposite. My husband gets more compliments in a day than I do in a month, I think largely because of the "otherness". He is is also a very popular member of the local "mommy" group. Perhaps it has something to do with where you are? As an ex-New Yorker, I've found the city to be unfriendly to parents of either gender.

OT, are you aware of the HN parents google group?

http://groups.google.com/group/hn-parents
So... all the latest buzzwords or technologies that anyone already following such things knows are hot. Gotcha.