skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be implying Wikileaks ordered the DDoSing. Anon is a completely separate "organization" and completely unaffiliated with Wikileaks. They supported Wikileaks' views, and so decided to DDoS MC/Visa/Paypal, but Wikileaks had no part in ordering the attack from my understanding. This is an important distinction to make.
This should shed some light on the technique: http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/1589/fixed-time-s...
cool thanks a lot for the info
anyone of you reached the floor yet?
Tax cut support, deficits and voter identities
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Infographic: 9 guns for every 10 Americans
Making macros in CoffeeScript
Nice. I definitely agree with the comments to show the points and number of comments, but apart from that I think it's really great.
Apple Loses Its iPhone Game Guru
All we need now is a more responsive kinect.

As a proof of concept this kind of interface is fine but for real use it's slow and unresponsive.
>Code is like poetry. Some is beautiful, the rest of it isn't very good…

Didn't read the article but appreciated the tag-line.
* the government is learning what the music and movie industries were forced to learn years ago: it's easy to copy and distribute digital files. That's what's different between the 1970s and today. Amassing and releasing that many documents was hard in the paper and photocopier era; it's trivial in the Internet era. *

Great point.

If you're interested in 'how the internet/computers change things that were impossible/hard', then I recommend Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirkey.
Another great idea inspired by DZone.com http://java.dzone.com/articles/if-you-could-only-learn-3
Survey: 8% of Americans on the web use Twitter
I'm experimenting with AeroFS for just this reason. While you do have to talk to their servers to manage the shares and such, the data is peer-to-peer and unless you request it, your data doesn't get stored out in "the cloud" somewhere.
It looks promising.

How it works link is broken at the top of the page http://replybutton.com/features.html

Does Replybutton have a capital letter? Some mixture of cases used.

Probably don't need the links to each question on the FAQ page.

FAQ? - Does each interview I buy in the packs have to contain the same questions? Can they be for different jobs?

Make the logo in the top left link to home.
I must admit I would have never got to that conclusion without this clarification :)

Though it is an interesting perspective. It just says that market is large and like in all large markets there is a niche of users who are dissatisfied because top solution doesn't fit their specific needs. So yes for a startup looking to enter the market, it is great to solve that specific need and then grow from there.
Trying to balance the karma.
After much deliberation from top management we have decided that the 10x lithium battery device must be brought in on-time and under budget. Sincerely, Thaddeus Plotz.
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Searching for reviews of my competitors, contacting the blog owners and asking for something similar, along with a free subscription - so far to a resounding silence.

It's listed in a few directories, and I still get a few visitors from the likes of KillerStartups (featured it back in March), but other than that I don't really know where to begin :)

Oh! I added an affiliate programme about a month ago and submitted that to various directories, and have had about ten users sign up for it, leading to zero sales.

Honestly, I think the product itself is good and enough people seem to want to pay for it - I'm just not sure what the next steps should be. I'm deliberately not mentioning the site as I want this question to not be specifically about me, but if you have any tips I'd love to hear them! :)
Wow, nice work! (even if it is admittedly via black hat ;))

What niche is the site in?
No. There are 9 guns for every ten Americans, which is a very different picture.

Please edit the title to something reasonable.

UPDATE> Thank you.
Perhaps (neo-)corporatist might fill the bill better than socialist?
One would hope that they'd understand that removing it is nothing against wikileaks, it's just not the right place for it.
That there are 9 guns for every 10 Americans does not mean that 9 in 10 Americans own a gun. This is absolutely basic statistical competency.
Perhaps there could be a hotkey to collapse the frames and serially focus the one frame - like Alt-Tab but internal to the site; or simply a floating toolbar with the standard layout, article layout, comment layout as option buttons.
Now is a great time to be unfundable
I can't be the only one that hates the word "automagically." I don't see anything magic - he's explaining it right there and "therefore" or something similar would have worked fine.
Snapstick Brings The Entire Web To Your TV With A Snap Of The Wrist. Get it?
> Governments take IT security very seriously, I don't see where you've seen they don't.

The very fact that this whole cablegate debacle even exists clearly demonstrates that parts of the US government do not.
Gource: a software version control visualization tool
There are many, many methods that return autoreleased objects, which must be retained if you don't want your app to go boom, so I'd argue that autorelease should be covered. At least to the extent of explaining this.

autorelease was added at the same time as the retain/release. @property, on the other hand, came much, much later and is entirely separate.
Let me know which email address you used to sign up on eBookBurn, and I'll issue you a trial subscription (if you use the contact form on that site, I'll see your message much sooner).

I do intend to charge for it, though I may have to experiment with the pricing.

As for Fifobooks, we need that info b/c of taxes we file on your behalf if you sell anything.

It's difficult to ask that after the fact, since there's no way of knowing if you'd provide it (and FWIW, it's the same setup as the iphone app store).
> Big companies often have purchasing departments actually do the purchase. They are trained to expect discounts and the people in the purchasing department know a lot more about asking for discounts than they know about software, because that is their specialized role in the organization.

My wife actually works as a senior purchaser for quite a big (non-US) oil company, and it was funny when she had to negotiate the fees with the web-design company that had been asked to implement an internal application. She didn't know anything about the technical side of it, as you well pointed out (even though I helped her out with is), but the sad part was that even her company's online department (the ones that should have known better) were quite on a different planet.
Do you really think that either of these would be higher than paying users? There really isn't that much money in ad revenue these days unless you can control the market and have truly massive (ala Google's 400+ million searches a day).
Infographic: The Most Wanted Employees of Silicon Valley
The general concept seems to be ContactMe (http://contactme.com/) with videos.

My only question is... I got my first webcam earlier this year. I know a lot of people who don't have one. Do you think this could be a potential block in the road adoption?
Wikileaks Cables for Sale on Amazon
I think we should be worried. From what I've seen on reddit, downvote abuse seems much worse than upvote abuse. Flag abuse would be much the same as downvote abuse.

The power of upvote cabals is often dwarfed by the will of the majority. Downvote cabals can prevent material from being seen by the majority, so they are inherently more powerful. (The distance from 1 to -5 is much less than 1 to 99.)
Operation Payback Is About To Attack Amazon.com
It's interesting how 3D, holographic interfaces have been in so many sci-fi movies etc., yet they all seem to get referred to as the "Minority Report" interface.

Relevant: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HolographicTermin...
Physicists can set the upper boundaries on engineering problems, engineers can do as much as they can to approach that boundary but will not cross it unless the first person was wrong.
might be worth chatting with a lawyer on this - I know that pictures on CVs in the US are frowned upon due the the discrimination they may cause (age, gender, race, etc); how do you ensure you mitigate this risk when passing a video of someone around the office?
> 'apps' do not necessarily have this same requirement

But a great many do. Many of the 'apps' on Google's web store are literally just normal web apps doing their normal thing, expect that Google is presenting them as though they don't work in anything but Chrome.

> No server is needed in this scenario

Where is the html/etc hosted?
Obviously it's still a bit choppy, but it's clear this is only a few software improvements away from being a very usable peripheral.

Just from waggling my hands around a little in front of my monitor, I feel like the touchscreen fatigue Apple made a big deal of isn't as much of an issue, since you're holding your arms upright, which has much more structural support than having your arm outstretched to touch the monitor. It actually feels like a very natural way to control virtual desktops or application switching. Additionally, this is a peripheral that can be added to any display of any size, or even used across multiple displays.

Is there a reason this tech hasn't gotten traction as a PC peripheral before Kinect?
I'm curious, what legal issues come to mind? We've thought through many and what we always land on is "it's a gray area". Very little precedent and lots of existing services with similar functionality.
World disappoints us once again: Japan loses 2022 3D holographic World Cup bid
Seed Fund Reject Still a Ne’er-do-well
Logo - first taught me that computers were programmable. that little turtle actually went where I told it to!

BASIC - Forget the turtle, this machine can actually do real stuff - interaction, graphics, solving my rubik's cube. For a young kid, the declarative style of programming was simple enough to make sense

FORTRAN77 - First taught me to think about how data was stored and the difference between the value and the address (and pointer arithmetic).

C - What can you say about C? It's the fundamental building block.

MIPS Assembly - At the end of the day, you've got to move bits and bytes around in registers. Programming assembly taught me how that all works.

LISP - opened my eyes to recursion and functional programming. moreso, it first showed me that programs could be elegant.

Python - It's fast and easy to read. I can show a program to non-programmers, and they can often get the gist of what it's doing. Python code is the most "readable" code I've written.
It's not the point? You can't just say "x officially confirms y" when that is factually untrue. Blatant hyperbole from mediocre "journalists".
Great comment. I've noticed that the procurement guys typically need to show their bosses they've gotten the company a discount. So now I just price the "standard" price column artificially high, show a 20 or 30% discount to get to the real price, and everyone is happy.
Making Macros in CoffeeScript
No, downvote cabals are worse. They are also harder to detect. Note that the distance from 1 to -4 is much less than the distance from 1 to 99.
Looks interesting, and maybe something that's actually useful will come of it, but I don't think I'll be trading in my mouse anytime soon.
Sounds a bite like Opera vs the major browsers.

I use duckduckgo as the default search engine with Chrome, and it works really nice. The key to make switching easy: Preface your query with, like `!g my-query' or `"!bing my-query' to search on Google or Bing. Useful, because for me Google is still better on searching stuff in German.

Just using `! my-query' gives you I'm-feeling-lucky semantics.

Have a look at http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html for an exhaustive list. !hn searches Hacker News via searchyc.com.
At some point down it was all turtles.
c, lua, clojure
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I answered Python->C->Javascript, but I'll pretend I was invited anyway. :) Python because I enjoy it the most -- if I had to be stuck with a single language, Python would be it. Even if it doesn't run the fastest, its library set and readable syntax make it very endearing to me. I picked C next because it's the obvious choice for speed and systems programming. The fact that you can write libraries for use in many other languages in C is also very appealing. Finally, knowing Javascript lets you contribute to the web. It's a great scripting language that I think gets a lot of flack from people that had to use it in the days before great toolkits like jQuery. While I'd like a choice in front-end scripting languages as much as the next guy, I've come to appreciate JS for what it is.
One advantage I can see is that you'd have a video you could show to the rest of your team at their leisure, without everyone having to sit in on the phone call. Maybe you send the team a link to the list of applicants, where they can rate each one 1-5, and at the end of the day you have a consensus who you should talk to.
How to Write a Literature Review: Basic Summary Papers
The literature review is will provide the reader with an understanding that your topic is worthy of research. Knowing how to write a literature review is vital to a good research paper. With understanding, students will be able to receive approval for their research project.
On your outward-facing servers

* turn down the TCP handshake timeouts
* turn on TCP SYN cookies
* watch incoming network connections and traffic logs and add firewall rules to block each suspected attacker subnet.

In a real DDoS you have to block the attack traffic at the TCP level, not at the application level (the web server) which means adding firewall rules or iptables.

You will end up blocking a lot of legitimate traffic but better than being 100% down.

Still getting hammered? On to phase 2:

* Launch mirror servers, change your DNS records to point traffic at the mirror. (Most attack bots don't follow DNS changes)
* If it's an application-level attack then put your site in static delivery mode.

Still getting hammered? That'll teach you to hate on Justin Bieber.
I don't get this concern:

"I've thought about getting an email assistant. But I am worried that putting more capacity into the system will simply create more volume that will eventually overwhelm the increased capacity."

Ok, building more roads might entice more people to switch to cars. But not every system has this positive feedback loop. Good secretaries have their ways of discouraging unnecessary communication.
OTOH, $800K/month gross is probably less than what your grocery store does.
gorilla arm: n.

The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all those spiffy touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized — the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one afterwards. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; “Remember the gorilla arm!” is shorthand for “How is this going to fly in real use?”.[1]

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[1]: http://ftp.sunet.se/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html
C: Simple and powerful.

C++: Nice library (STL) and RAII.

Java: Simple and fast enough for most tasks.

Bash: Great Swiss knife scripting.

Perl: Great all purpose hacking language.

Python: Is a very expressive language.

Ruby: Simple and expressive language.

Lisp: Clean, flexible, and beautiful.

ML: A very expressive language. Lots of fun.

Prolog: A kind of magic.

COBOL: It's Turing complete.

Pascal: It's Turing complete.

DBase: It's Turing complete.

Fortran: Short but better than a priory expected relationship.

GWBasic: A toy, lots of fun back in the day.

Visual Basic: It's Turing complete.

HTML: It's simple.

Javascript: Extrange but powerful language.

PHP: Useful for getting the job done.

z80 assembly: Not bad for the money.

6502 assembly: Simple and beautiful.

8086 assembly: Could be worse.

68000 assembly: Resourceful.

i386 assembly: Could be worse.

x86_64 assembly: Ugly as always but with more registers.

MIPS assembly: Lots of registers (32i, 32f), nice syntax.

PowerPC assembly: Lots of registers (32i, 32f), nice syntax.

ARM assembly: Just 16 registers, but very expresive instructions.

Spanish: A rude but phonetic-honest language (mother tongue).

Catalan: As musical as French, as simple as Spanish.

French: I like how it sounds.

Italian: I like its rithm.

English: Simple and beautiful language.

German: I like its grammar.

Latin: For Rome!
The lesson for me here is that even if Barack Obama or Bill Gates approaches you - you should act calmly and politely (and alertly as inner state) but as if you know or presume nothing of the opposite side's intentions, power, possible usefulness to you, etc.

Some kind of mental aikido stance combined with polite poker face that seems to leave off the initiative of first action but disarms the other side of certain ways to influence you.
I would love to see this feature. Preferably as a way for search results to be "voted-down" by multiple users, with an aggregated score (this would probably be heavily gamed/spammed by black hat SEO people, and become useless anyway).

At the very least if I am logged into my gmail account, I should be able to hide certain site from being returned in my personal results.
Can't you just use Google Task for it? I do. And I don't need any evernote or whatever. I can edit from web or phone.
I wouldn't assume Amazon is even aware it's on sale. Someone just submitted it through Amazon's self-publishing system, it looks like.

Probably anyone could do the same, and offer it for $0.00.
Not really :-)

No better than pointing towards a dusty old copy of the Jargon File -- or the New Hacker's Dictionary, the book version I read when I was a teenager, without which I probably wouldn't be here saying this.

Anyhow, the difference in mindsets between the different readers is EXACTLY why I wouldn't go around flagging things as off-topic that other people liked. Viva la difference.
Because I feel like a chump, not knowing if my flag effort counts or is being secretly ignored. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it just doesn't feel like it's in the spirit (or what I perceive as the spirit) of the site to trick me like that.

I'm not sure if I'd want to know my flags are being ignored. I know I was pretty disappointed to lose my downvote ability a few weeks ago (I was one of the 200-500 karma notch babies). Knowing that I'd lost an unearned flag ability might be even worse. On the other hand, if I knew, I wouldn't bother with the noobstories page anymore.
Curious that Canvas rendering is so much slower / causes more load than the HTML backend, at least for me. Anyone know why?
While on one hand your restraint in self-promoting your site here on HN is admirable, I suspect that it reflects a reluctance on your part to aggressively market/promote/sell your site.

If I may be so bold, I suggest you try to get over this reluctance. If you're shy or self deprecating with your marketing message, you won't attract as much attention as you may deserve. Be bold, be aggressive. For example, try different approaches with the media (just asking isn't enough, you have to give them a reason to cover you).

Good luck!
Thanks. I don't know what the answer is. Some of the technology we are using lives on in some new ways like with Fready (http://getfready.com/) but we decided to not continue selling GoBuzz.

I'm always thinking of new ways to apply what we built over the years. I certainly believe the technology has other applications but Fready is the first one we've landed on.
Giant Patent Troll Awakened: Intellectual Ventures Files Its First Lawsuits
Unless things have changed or my memory's not so good, Verified by Visa's servers are operated by multiple individual banks and payment processors (or entities acting on their behalf) -- there isn't a single point of attack.

And -- again, IIRC -- VbV or SecureCode aren't necessary to the successful completion of an online transaction. Taking down these services would frankly be a favor to consumers, as 3D Secure is an extra step that they don't need.
Out of the 60,000 Chrome netbooks that Google, 25 have already been destroyed.
At the risk of getting all meta, what's happening to HN?

Why has this already disappeared of the front page in just over 3 hours, garnering only 17 points (including mine)? To me, this is what HN was all about; seeing the great stuff people had been working on, reading many (often hundreds) of encouraging/helpful comments.

Here's a guy who's been an active member of HN for well over a year, busted his gut creating something, and it's met with a collective "meh".
It's good to look out for the little guy, but I think this is misplaced. The Minority Report interface was neither 3D nor holographic; just projected onto glass. What it did have was UI using individual fingertips as control points without touching the screen. So this system, for example, is pretty specifically a Minority Report interface.

I don't know for a fact that Minority Report was the first conceptualization of that specific interface, though.
This is very nice; please find a way to add the number of points and comments as others have mentioned. Contrary to some opinions expressed in the comments, I think that your use of frame is very appropriate and efficient.
OSDev ( http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page ) has a bunch of great stuff. Start at the top and work your way down.

Also, Operating Systems Design and Implementation, aka the Minix book, is an amazing resource.( http://www.amazon.com/Operating-Systems-Design-Implementatio... )
running a mirror of wikileaks :)
Sounds like fun but the guy must shop to get to the following points in 11 months:

130,000 American Airline miles
105,000 British Airways Miles
40,000 Starwood Preferred Guest points
25,000 American Express points

I'm only guessing at the spend required for that many points but surely that is $200k - $300k in spend. Surely this blog post isn't accessible to everyone.

Having said that, I admire his sense of adventure to just pull-up stops from his life and travel the world for 9 months. It is something I really need to get around to myself.
People With "Warrior Gene" Better at Risky Decisions
huh... interesting post, because i'm in the process of building up miles in order to do the exact same thing. glad to know it works
This is an idea I've had for a while. We would compete with OpenCalais (http://www.opencalais.com/) but I like competition.

I actually have an NLP server that converts any data sent to it to JSON format with names/companies/locations, but no business behind it. I'd be curious to hear a unique idea on applying this data if you have one.
Studios Crippling Netflix Rental Discs to Encourage DVD Sales
I can vouch for nTop. Really cool project. I did a bandwidth monitoring deployment for a customer who runs their own layer-3 network atop a carrier ethernet solution, but didn't have any plan in place for monitoring what goes over the wire. We found all kinds of fun stuff once we installed a few nTop nodes. Among the things we found: a Halo server to which employees from several different states were connecting and playing on a daily basis.
Yep - that's probably the best bit.
This epitomizes eye candy but I can imagine that it might be a nice way of grabbing people's attention at a conference when introducing an open source project that has had a lot of recent activity.

I am interested in hearing what other use cases people here can come up with.