skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also think that there are similarities here to the 'sister' Reddit community/mentality (especially r/programming which is cross-posted back and forth regularly), in that people are willing to support people that they personally identify with or like. I don't see that as detrimental to a community, but rather as a key element in fostering community (unless it gets too insular and discriminating in who is able to get that treatment). Any news about a Ycomb grad will rise to the top because of the tight-knit culture and identifying with each other from the early stages of their respective companies, so I don't see any issue with someone posting to the community with a transparent "this is my post" statement by someone from outside the group of grads.

Regardless of previous success, I think we can appreciate someone who is still excited by a new opportunity and sharing his content for anyone who might find value and/or support his quality content. Many financial fundamentals have been taught before, but can be repackaged and interesting and valuable to readers, especially those who haven't read his book (which I haven't). Like Mike says here, some overly promotional agendas get drowned out, but there is also a certain amount of community appreciation for people who just come out and say "this is something I made, what do you think?" Of course, in a social voting system, if people think "wow that sucks" then they downvote the content and leave a "that sucks" comment.
The TRIGA design is over 50 years old, with about 65 reactors built. It was designed to be inherently safe, and "safe even in the hands of a young graduate student."

So we've known how to do this for some time, at least in the realm of research reactors.
> Who are you or anybody else to make a decision like that that effects billions of dollars spent and tens of thousands of lives? I didn't elect Assange. He doesn't represent me.

shrug

The majority of the USA voted for Gore rather than Bush. Still, Bush was made President. His administration then led us into a war in Iraq that cost tens of thousands of lives and billions of dollars, under what now appears to be false pretenses, pushed by his administration.

However, if We The People, at the time of the run-up to that war, had more insight and transparency into what was being done, and been able to see more of the real evidence (or lack thereof) first-hand, we as a nation would have been more able to arrive at a wise decision as to whether or not it was the right thing to do to start that war. As it was, instead, the Bush administration got to work mostly in secret, and we had to trust what they claimed. Trust violated. Billions gone, thousands of lives lost.

> And I have no recourse to remove him from his post if I feel he is acting maliciously or incompetently.

Many citizens felt that way about Bush and Cheney. And yet they were not removed from post. And even now into the following administration, they have not been punished nor has a prosecution attempt even been made. This is how our supposed "democracy" and system of laws works today in actual reality. Not in theory land. In reality.

This is the world Wikileaks is operating in. For better or worse.
This is very interesting. If Wikileaks does in fact become designated a terrorist organization by the US, then it seems Amazon will have to shut them down or run the risk of providing them "material aid".

The same would be true of any other cloud provider... are there any sizable cloud providers outside the US?
I'm not understanding. In which case? Aho corasick works just as well on a sequence of bytes as on a sequence of characters.
I think what he meant was dating sites suck if you're a man since:
1.) Men do all the chasing/initiating contact.
2.) Women get inundated with a lot of messages from a lot of other eligible men that you're competing with your entire neighborhood for a single girl.
3.) Hence women tend to be really picky and chances of her noticing/replying back you are incredibly low.
Chrome's JS blocking doesn't allow you to distinguish between first-party scripts and third-party scripts, which makes it almost useless as a security tool, even if you ignore all the non-JS-blocking features of NoScript. The best thing about NoScript is the ability to break only the ads, not the whole site.
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Also, keep a record of your work environment and your productivity, try to identify associations, good or bad between the environment and your concentration.

I made a list of things that help me concentrate that I can pull out when I'm having trouble concentrating.

For example certain types of music help me immerse; having a clean (uncluttered) desk helps me.

Before lunch is better than after lunch, etc.

Remember your home office is not your office, and you will have to be disciplined to stay productive in the long term.
That's just another flaw of the series. They can never really decide if Star Fleet is a science or
military organization. So you wind up with wierd things like science vessels on the front lines or shooting wars.
Why don't they invest some of the donation money in P2P DNS and start hosting the site as torrent ? Many people would be happy to seed.
As it's mostly static content, they're likely just using Amazon as a CDN, which isn't very expensive at all.

Makes perfect sense actually. It'll be interesting to see what Amazon has to say about this.
It would depend on how Wikileaks designed their AWS infrastructure. Amazon's policies are specific to the territory in which they operate. They obey the local laws for the data they will store on their hardware and will only comply with local laws. For example, if you provision your services in the EU-Ireland region, it is governed by the laws of the EU, not by the United States. That being said, I don't know the specifics of the laws with regards to each of the different AWS regions.
HN does a great job of extolling the virtues of working at a startup, so I won't bother going into that. However, I graduated 3.5 years ago, and I sometimes regret not starting my 'career' at a large corporation for a few reasons:

1. I think I could be a more well-rounded entrepreneur if I had some understanding of the protocols and practices of a large corporation. For example, it's tough to get experience working with 100+ other full-time developers on the same build target outside of a large corporation.

2. Similarly, at a large corporation you have a lot more people to learn from, instead of having to learn things for yourself/from the internet.

3. At a startup, it's tough to not get emotionally invested in your company. This is good, but it also limits your mobility--you can't really just say, "I'm going to quit so I can spend six months in Madagascar photographing lemurs", because you will probably be screwing your coworkers.

4. It's really tough to go from a startup to a large corporation without an acquisition, because of #3, and because you'll likely lose some personal freedom. The degree to which this happens depends on the company, but at the very least, you will probably have to interact with a lot more people, and thus you'll probably have to make your working hours more compatible with others (e.g. 9 to 5).
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Where should I start to become awesome computer algorithm hacker/programmer?
To compete in competitions like TopCoder, Google code jam and International Olympiad in Informatics....
Where should I get started ? Any tutorials books suggestions ...
Using CloudFront (Amazon's CDN) does promise to solve their immediate DDoS problem.

I don't know much about wikileaks as an organisation but I expect most of their money comes as donations via the web site.

So, clearly having wikileaks.org up at high traffic times is important.
Cosma Shalizi's review of Steven Johnson's "Where Good Ideas Come From"
Head.js is it for everyone?
Might help if location was an independent field to facilitate searching for hackers in my location and to auto-suggest based on matching location.
I believe the only market for Chrome OS is in inexpensive light-weight portable computers. It's the perfect OS for a machine with extremely limited capabilities. There's plenty of room in the market for something like an iPad but with only the capability and the computing power to surf the web if it's also a fraction of the price.
International Olympiad in Informatics on Wired: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/mf_algorithmolympics/a...
The problem is that such ease of use shouldn't require the small-time publishers to make what are seen as risky moves like that. And that it's tied to the publisher: they go down, they take my ability to retrieve what I paid for with them. Those two are particularly buyer-friendly, and I've purchased a few from them, but they're certainly not the standard.
Accuracy matters when you're smart enough (or pedantic enough) that technical details break your suspension of disbelief (assuming it is not intended to be campy).
I'm surprised that no one mentioned this paper that first evaluated this approach to using Wikipedia data: http://www.aaai.org/Papers/IJCAI/2007/IJCAI07-259.pdf
That said, the major drawback of using Wikipedia is the size. If this approach is to be used for all words (not just Apple) then the total training corpus will be several GBs. Definitely not practical...
ie. like Morpheus, Assange is at least offering us more of a choice. Between the blue pill, which is what some want you to believe, or the red pill, which is documented evidence of the real. So to the folks who hawk the blue pill, and who profit from having the masses continue to believe in the illusion they're promoting, Assange is a terrorist. To those who'd rather know the Truth -- to see the world as it actually is -- you'd rather take the red pill. And therefore to those people, he would be a hero. Terrorist or hero. Same man, same actions.

(Note: Sarah Palin, the dipshit-diva of the right-wing has lately literally been calling Assange a terrorist. And she's the not only one. So my hero-or-terrorist model above is not an exaggeration. It's already happening.)
Just a nitpicky suggestion - it would be nice to see some stats somewhere- e.g., this story was the highest upvoted story last week with ### upvotes. This comment was the highest rated, etc.

Also, it's not clear if the featured articles were among the most upvoted, though my guess is they are just being included as a bonus?

Either way, thanks! And thanks for the student subscription as well.
github.com ....and you get to see what they have been up to!
The overheated rhetoric spewing from some politicians notwithstanding, I can hope that no court of law will be persuaded that there can be a terrorist organization without weapons, indeed without violence of any kind.

(Even if Assange has committed some violent crime on his own -- and I am not saying he has -- this is clearly not the purpose of the organization.)
Maybe people at work who are forced to use it?
So, I looked at Plesk's 404 Page
The Air Force doesn't suffer from the same kind of planning paralysis as NASA, so I'm assuming they actually carried out some kind of mission. It's not clear to me what this thing is really good for, though. The payload bay is about the same size and shape as a coffin - far too small for the kind of sensors you find on spy satellites.

They might have some scheme cooked up for refueling spy sats, which would extend the service life and give them the ability to shift orbits more freely. Still... even then, would it really be cheaper than lofting a new one?

In theory they could fit a guy in there, barely. That might make some sense for repairs. Assuming you could find a good mechanic without a trace of claustrophobia. And assuming the flight profile didn't flatten him. Maybe some kind of teleoperated repair bot?
Killer app for chrome for me is that one tab crashing doesn't take the whole browser with it. So I do most of my surfing with it.

Also helps with memory consumption because its per tab so I can easily regain more killing tabs as opposed to killing tabs and then reloading the browser.

I really miss the awesome bar though (got really used to having all of my history show up from typing a few characters) so I still use beta / minefield branch for some surfing and do most development in the stable firefox so that I can use the bulk of plugins that help with web dev
Apple have rejected apps in the past that do nothing more than point to a website. A common way to get around that is to implement a feature in native code, e.g. a banking app that points to the website, but has native mapping functionality for finding branches. I am not sure, but I think it's now covered under clause 12.3[1] of the guidelines[2].

1. Apps that are simply web clippings, content aggregators, or a collection of links, may be rejected.

2. https://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guid...
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If a issue falls in a forest and no one is around to report it, is it a problem?
John McCarthy on the importance of doing the math
This applies to Chrome as well, FYI.
I know DDOS is a difficult problem to solve, but I think using the cloud to out-scale your attacker doesn't solve the problem, it just increases the cost of it. The obvious solution for the bad guys (not gonna call them hackers, can't call them crackers can I?) is to use the cloud too. Generating an HTTP request is even cheaper than serving static content on a CDN.
World Bank app competition
In case anyone needs a project for the next month... There is a lot of very cool data there.
A few paragraphs on the importance of running the numbers in any discussion. Part of his greater series on human sustainability and progress (http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/index.html) [WARNING: epic material].

excerpt:

"""
Many questions can be settled by recourse to available statistics and arithmetic - arithmetic not higher mathematics, although higher mathematics is also useful. The converse is that failing to look up statistics and do the arithmetic is a recipe for ignorance.
"""
Question - if they had been using a DVCS which checksums every commit, would they have been safer ? Presumably, you could build a tool that stores a list of checksums and if you had to do a restore, that tool could validate the backup.

Or is it that, with a little effort, DVCS' can be hacked/corrupted fundamentally ?
Halfway to anywhere: A really good book on the subject, including an interesting story about development of low cost space launch capability. It is a bit old now with SpaceshipOne and SpaceX in progress, but still worth a read: http://www.nss.org/resources/books/non_fiction/review_013_ha...

I was actually expecting some analysis on interstellar space travel. But you can find an entertaining attempt at this by Charles Stross: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high...
Was IE the top browser before this four-year run?
Amazon is fine with it, according to the WSJ.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/11/29/wikileaks-using-amazo...
I'm not sure whether this could carry someone. The spacecraft doesn't have to carry just the body, but also oxygen, heating systems, waste disposal, food, …

Maybe you could fit someone inside, but that might just be the hardest mission ever flown.
Ask HN: How should i donate my profits to charity?
HN, I have always cared about charity. I have been donating a certain amount of my income to charity even before i started earning. Now i starting an online store...with one product..i know the product is quite good(really good design and functionality) and it will sell..but i somehow want to give a certain portion of my profits to charity. How should i go about this?..I dont want to give 10% or 20% of my income to charity as a whole...instead i think i should give a certain amount on every product sold...my product costs around $40-$50..i can give up to $10 to charity( in the form of products like shoes or books) on ever product sold...so that i can keep a count...any ideas what should i go about it..what should i give that is worth $10?..I want to give it to charity which cares about the development of children. I am from Pakistan..currently i have SOS village in mind.
http://www.sos.org.pk/

help me out?..Do you support this kind of thing?
on ec2? 10 bucks that site is gone by end of this week.
I know some folks here don't like watching videos, so here are the points I'd take away (and I think they echo pretty strongly what Thomas has been saying here):

* Don't do your own cryptography, use SSL and GPG. If your problem isn't able to be expressed using either of these, you should probably refactor it.

* Don't read Applied Cryptography (but do read Practical Cryptography), it's responsible for a great deal of the shittiness of our industry.

* The Art of Software Security Assessment should be required reading by everyone in Canada (the talk was given in Canada)

* If you're into CS, you should seriously consider getting into the security industry (it pays well, and lets you work on much cooler stuff than you might otherwise get to work on)

* If you want to get into the security industry, you should find an open source project (or any project) and try to find vulnerabilities in it. Report them in a non-doushy way and you'll be off to a good start. Also, pick something to become specialized in (dsp, etc.) and you'll have a greater chance of getting the industry's attention.

* Writing secure software is ridiculously hard. Even software designed to be secure will have bugs, and bugs can more often than not lead to vulnerabilities. This bodes well for people in the security industry.

I recommend watching the video, it's nice hearing Thomas talk about this stuff, and while his advice shouldn't really need to be vouched for, I agree with what he says.
You have to be careful. To be more sure you'd need another means to verify their authenticity (for example a SSL certificate).
And preferably use a SSL certificate to authenticate yourself as well instead of a user/password pair.

Sure, most websites still live in the 90's where it concerns security, but with P2P it suddenly starts to become much more important to have proper authentication for both sides :)
Not true since version 2.0 of the plugin.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepj...
Application that depends on the native browser of the iPhone, such as PhoneGap based application, has severe limitation imposed by Apple on how much memory they can take.

So far, I have downloaded several applications, mostly which I don't really need, to test the experience of PhoneGap based application. I should say, given the limitation, its quite impressive. However, if you are being really picky, its easy to notice if you have say, a list on the application, scrolling the list after the view is opened (even if its the second time), the scrolling isn't so smooth and stutter a bit.

Of course, for normal people (aka non-developers), they may not notice, much else know if it is a PhoneGap application or not.
Interpol issues sex crime warrant for WikiLeaks founder
Why Google really wants Groupon
Does the government still need to go through courts when dealing with "terrorists"?
My first job was at a 40 person shop that designed and manufactured specialized data processors. I look back and thank my lucky stars for that job, because you can learn far more in a company like that. Think of it this way - a company with 10,000 employees has ten thousand cogs in its machine. Each cog is very, very specialized.

Small companies can't afford to specialize. We had three or four full time programmers, and seven or eight EEs. I designed and tested circuits, laid out PC boards, designed enclosures (that turned out to be the hardest task - whaddayamean customers won't appreciate taking out 40 screws to change the power supply? It's solid.), wrote microcode, talked to customers, wrote software for an automated tester I designed and built myself. All in the space of four years. It's not impossible to do that in a big company, but it's very, very unusual.

The downside to a company like that is you don't make nearly as much money. But for me the money came later, in spades, because I learned how to do things. If you go to Facebook or Google what will you learn?
Continuous availability deployment of node.js apps
Wait, what? Assange believes 'authority is bad'? Where are you getting that? Surly not from what he actually says;

"The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie. This must result in minimization of efficient internal communications mechanisms (an increase in cognitive “secrecy tax”) and consequent system-wide cognitive decline resulting in decreased ability to hold onto power as the environment demands adaption. Hence in a world where leaking is easy, secretive or unjust systems are nonlinearly hit relative to open, just systems. Since unjust systems, by their nature induce opponents, and in many places barely have the upper hand, mass leaking leaves them exquisitely vulnerable to those who seek to replace them with more open forms of governance."

For an anarchist, he seems pretty unclear on the concept.
Actually, it is kind of hard to make a secure solution that takes arbitrary submitted source code, compiles it, runs it, and finally times it with high precision. Sandboxing in a VM is unfortunately not feasible since timing is very hard to do.

And as for the question if this is a legitimate paranoia: yes it is. Many contestants are very smart, and there have been hacks and security breaches in high-profile contests.
Because Bittorrent-powered P2P DNS is a weird buzzword, not yet really existing piece of technology. And, I'd guess, WikiLeaks probably want to publish (primarily) on the mass-accessible Internet, not at some obscure place where nobody except for crypto-geeks could access it.

They could try popularizing Freenet (which is already existing and is a fairly stable technology), but, again, I'd guess they probably have their hands full of other tasks already.

WikiLeaks hosts torrents. For example see the link "Click here to download full site in single archive" at the bottom of http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/. And, I believe, the content is already copied to (and being discussed at) Freenet and other similiar P2P networks.
>> You want to apply gaming mechanics to exercise? Good! Do it and tell me about it! That sounds awesome! Make an iPhone app for it, make a facebook app for it, let me pick random strangers across the internet to challenge at it. Make leaderboards and lots of badgers, and blog about it. If you fail, write more blog posts about why you failed.

We just did that for Medical field - "Prognosis", currently at 5th position on iPhone medical apps (after 15 days).

http://www.prognosisapp.com/
http://blog.medicaljoyworks.com/
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