skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got a Kindle and use it exclusively for public domain, but I think the general public is just not very well-educated about DRM. I want to think Amazon's ebook business (not the same as ebooks in general of course; I <3 feedbooks) is doomed, I think it's wishful thinking.
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And with MySQL you throw out ACID or any type of consistency ...
I don't necessarily agree the article but I'd be interested in hearing opinions on the interesting point the author presents near the end of the article: That social networking sites are like physical social spaces that will rise and fall in popularity.
Assuming it's not an hoax - this wouldn't work if WiFi hotspots used WPA2 with same password as the SSID or something known to everyone.
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I think you're blowing the importance of pennies out of proportion. Lower-quality pennies would not suddenly mean we don't have physical money to trade with — we could do away with pennies entirely and the only difference it would make to our physical money system is that cashiers could be a lot faster.

Not only that, but if this story is to be believed, we could have a lot more useful physical money if we stopped wasting millions on pennies.
My guess? The suits at Sony, being as incompetent now as they always have been, still haven't realized the seriousness of their situation.

I'd love to be privy to the email exchanges that must be going on there between their engineers and management...

Alternatively they do have a solution, and it's something to the effect of "nuke it from orbit"/"if we can't have it, nobody can". They already tried to take that approach with OtherOS, so this should get entertaining if that's the case.
So does anyone have any actionable, constructive advice for alex_c in promoting his app store app?

Here are a couple of things I can think of:

* Make some friends on Twitter; give out free copies using App Store promo codes

* Submit your game to the various iPhone game review sites
Let's say they update the hardware to include a new public key. They now have the issue that existing signatures don't verify properly. You can mitigate this by having a list of existing valid signatures which can use the old key, but that can't be the best way. Can anyone come up with another?
$ whois -h whois.arin.net "n <IP>"
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Do people really use iPads for music much? Seems a little too large to be convenient.
Value or reference?
InnoDB is a high-reliability and high-performance storage engine for MySQL. Starting with MySQL 5.5, it is the default MySQL storage engine. Key advantages of InnoDB include:

Its design follows the ACID model, with transactions featuring commit, rollback, and crash-recovery capabilities to protect user data.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/innodb-storage-engine...

Edit: swapped out Wikipedia for MySQL's official docs.
Missing are data stores. Web store isn't the same thing. I'd like to see the percentage that use S3.
Just reading that article turns my stomach. Personally I can not believe this will happen, but just the pure fact that the Congress is talking about it tells the story how serious the situation is.
A reminder to "think for yourself" can be helpful, and does not necessarily imply a lack of clarity or boldness. Sometimes a story is told so well, that you get emotionally wrapped up and forget to take a step back and make a fair-minded analysis. Not everyone is an astute reader.

You also included some conditional statements with, "depending on the context" and "But in a general analysis". I see no problem with acknowledging that things aren't always black & white.
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Since I agree with Thomas Paine's view on the necessity of progressive taxation, what you specifically are taxed would be dependent on your income, but given the extraordinary circumstances (two major wars, numerous conflicts, near economic collapse, etc), I would support a temporary 90% tax rate on the upper income brackets similar to what Eisenhower enacted in order to pay down the debts and make major necessary social investments (education, infrastructure, etc).

That said, I favor the Nordic social democracies to be good economic models, as they have been proven to support greater class mobility than the current U.S. system. Norway, for instance, ranges from 0-49% tax rates.

However, as this may be relevant to the important point that you would like to make, I don't think my personal views on the proper rate of taxation take away from the need to recognize the importance of the existence of economic social relationships.
Would be interesting see most the most popular tweets for this hashtag adjusted in some way for #followers per retweeter to see if you could separate the "quality" of the tweet from the volume of followers it reached (to counter the Katy Perry factor mentioned)
Were the DNSMadeEasy outages related to their DDoS after they terminated DNS services for Wikileaks?
As little as possible while still being able to live with the risk and consequences of the thing blowing up.
my understanding was they were created for companies that provide network services... like isps etc.
That was my impression, too. 30 euros is too good to be true for what they described, which made me suspicious. The rest of the site is an obvious hoax.

Still, it'd be cool if it were true.
having a regression test of some kind is always good. You don't have to test everything, but at least have something you can run each time you change it to make sure the basics work.
Your right. Would there be a way to get a sample of the database and attempt to do a test if there are a considerable amount of false positives?
Attendees with existing iPhone's may wish to rely on other means of being woken in time.
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Too bad, and somewhat hard to understand. I used to love the Borders stores in the UK (while I still lived there).

Browsing Amazon isn't actually much fun. And the Borders stores always seemed packed. What gives.
Same configuration here; but buttons work fine for me.
This is how it worked for a friend of mine.

1. Friend: "I have an idea,...., but i'm not sure if it's great or crap. "
2: Me: "Don't worry it IS crap."
3. Friend: "Screw you, i'm gonna build it and show your ass that it's not."

He made that app, and sold it to 4 people. It was more of an (offline) app, so couldn't link it here.
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It's obviously a joke, but ARP spoofing to mitm your gateway will easily work on a WPA2 network, WPA2-enterprise or even a wired network. This isn't passive eavesdropping.
It's lumped into Amazon.
The "buy the album" link doesn't work on windows 7 / firefox 3.6.13

I went to buy the album, or at least see what the price was, and the link sent me to http://normativedesign.com/#/anamanaguchi
Instead of money, let's just revisit this thread after the first Verizon iPhone sales weekend and see who was right :)
Yeah, it's also called "Newstweek" and it's clearly a replica of the Newsweek website (http://www.newsweek.com/).

So, it's definitely a hoax/satire. It's just kind of not really very funny..
Exactly.

Two conversations:
#1
"Which runway should I land on?"
"Runway Charlie."
"Which one is that?"
"The one on heading 180 deg."

#2
"Which runway should I land on?"
"Runway 18."
Even when I open only this site in my browser, within a while it uses >90% cpu time and soon rises to 100%.
The more neurotic you are, the better this advice is.
Strongly encourage applicants to contribute to any open source project. Reviewing this code will tell you more than any stupid programming question. This takes less time and can be done asychronously. An interview can be used to determine if the qualified applicant will fit in your culture.

And if they haven't contributed any open source code, then whack them with stupid programming questions.
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Some people will get a lot of money in shares. The difficult question is when to buy and when to sell. The hype will fade and shares will fall down very quickly but to win in this game you have to determine when it will happen. I don't know when, but I think that the fall down will be the extraordinarily stiff, in one day or two a complete collapse. Wait and see.
I assume the real estate under the stores is worth more than $100,000 per store, so Borders must have a lot of debt, or the figure is irrationally low. Or possibly, Borders only rents its land, but I find that a little surprising.
Note that the ascii art on the screen shot for busy box says "news tweek" the name of the site.
Yeah, part of the reason I don't buy so many books anymore is because my wife said we don't have physical space for them. That, and having the ebooks all on the kindle is nice. I read the wizard of oz to my son over the last few weeks, and it was nice to pop out of his room at bedtime and switch over to reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles. For novels particularly, the kindle is super nice, and I think it'd be nice to do most of my for-fun reading there.

For reference stuff I'm still not sure if it will work because the "note" making stuff is not great, and definitely is not as easy as flipping through the book to find the page you want.
Yeah, that's true, though most of the e-books available for lending at libraries that I've seen so far are like d-list novels that aren't so great. I think the publishers are trying to put a kibosh on the library e-book lending.
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Didn't enjoy Lemmings as a kid either, eh?
"However, as always, every genius has their undesirable part"

This is the same reason that people are obsessed with celebrities' private lives - you're not famous/genius but you can at least tell yourself it's ok because Charlie Sheen does whores/Tiger Woods has two dozen mistresses/Feynman is a misogynist and women just happen to like him anyway, a lot and while naked (note the trend here).

Why does it matter and why do you care?
Regarding #1, for some people, the opposite happens: because the idea is out there, executing becomes less important. So YMMV. I personally feel that one part of executing is indeed to get validation on the idea itself. By discussing it, one might get early validation from friends ("oh yeah, that's a good idea!"), which can seem good enough because it validates that you can have good ideas, that you're not crazy for finding a problem here and that you're smart for finding a solution.

As for the idea journal, worst case, in a few years you can look back at all these ideas that you had, did not execute on and that somebody did with (some) success. Happened to me just today :)
I'm a bit skeptical of the facts - but there's nothing really hard about this - this could easily be built and do exactly what it claims to do.
what is the catch with google as email hosting? we use rackspace, it seems nobody is using rackspace for email. What is the criteria in choosing email hosting?
My favourite commit message this week:

"improve crapping"

(typo: should be cropping)
If this wasn't a joke, this would be way wrong. This article is so focused on the computer aspect of getting away with this that they forget the physical world. There is such a thing as a camera and if your going to be going about installing this at enough locations to be meaningful, enough information will eventually come out to get you caught. Moreover, once a device like this began to scare people enough to enter the news, people would find it near the hotspot and its threat would be neutralized.
The news media is dumb. Borders is going out of business because people prefer other physical books or buy physical books online. e-books are still a tiny part of the market yet.
Yeah, I agree. I got an amazon gift card for christmas and probably will buy a couple of books with it. Probably Neal Stephenson ones that are huge and will take me a long time to go through, so they're less effective as library checkouts. The DRM thing is certainly distasteful to me, but the convenience I think will win out, unfortunately. Which is lame, I know, but also pragmatic...
If you are your own worst critic that indicates that others think your ideas are valuable, but their opinion should be converted into money, so I should ask to those that give high value to your ideas to pay or to get a share of it. If they don't want to put a single buck in your pocket for following your ideas then you are not your worst critic but a realistic person. If they give you some money to continue, then try to change your mind, you have some value in your head.
My sentiment exactly, wonder if the solution includes something akin to the rootkit they deployed once before.
Is this only pre-acquisition companies?

Where's reddit? ;)

FWIW:

Web Host: EC2 (Amazon)

Email Host: Self hosted

DNS Host: Akamai

Registrar: Corporation Service Company

SSL Issuer: None

Certificate Type: None
the theory was clear. the problem is that he is inconsistent about taking it/using it, which makes me highly doubt its credibility/safety
Google Apps email is free and easy. The paranoid will not use it, because Google can read your email, possibly with good reason.
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This has been my exact experience wrapping several big SOAP APIs.

Worse still, I've (recently!) wrapped an XML api that cares about the document-order of sibling elements. It might as well be a binary format if I have to copy your request examples and can't use a bog-standard XML parser/generator.
Yeah, I'm really interested in how those guys are strategizing around e-books these days. I'd imagine it's somewhat like the music industry, trying to hold on to an old-fashioned market, but it's also different than the music industry, since it's there are a lot of un-parallels with MP3s.
Got it, thanks. SSL enabled sites would not be vulnerable to this so the impact of this attack is limited, no?
> Has anybody _exclusively_ begun using ebooks?

I have. I got a Kindle, and I love it. It's a no-brainer for me. I move relatively often, like to travel, and commute to work by train. I mostly read non-fiction books that are all (or mostly) text.

Re: e-readers vs tablets

The e-reader will give you less physical strain due to the lighter weight and e-ink screen. And less strain = more pleasure, while reading. It's the strongest benefit of e-readers over tablets.

If you read books with mostly text and read in a linear fashion, then get an e-reader. Examples are: most paperback books. If you read books that require a large viewing area, color images, or strong navigation features (for non-linear reading), then get a tablet. Some examples are: textbooks, magazines, technical books.

Ideally, you'd get an e-reader for paperback-type books and a tablet for the media-rich or reference books.

Also, this fellow HNer wrote an article on switching to e-books: http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/11/how-i-read-more-by-getting-r...
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Honestly, I think a lot of borders' problems are mismanagement, not related to Amazon as much as to other things. For a long time their online presence _was_ amazon, just branded with a borders logo, which means that they weren't competing with Amazon online, which means that they didn't have the distribution chains optimized the way that Amazon does, among other things. So there's certainly a lot of pieces to the puzzle of their demise.
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You're delusional and narcissistic and clearly incapable of understanding another person's life beyond your own. What about the people who work back to back jobs at minimum wage and still can't afford to get educated or gain the necessary skills? There are plenty of people working just to pay their bills and barely treading water.

|Poverty exists in every nation in the world.

The poverty in those countries doesn't even begin to compare to the poverty in the US, in terms of number or hardship. Those countries all have national healthcare.

|If you are stuck in a dead-end job, I don't feel sorry for you.

Yes because those people are so inferior they deserve to live in squalor. Great attitude.

|Hell, if you want to go the less legal route, you can find almost any college textbook in pdf format, for free.

You're assuming everyone has access to the internet, a computer, and knows how to torrent.

|If you have a job that anybody can do, you aren't going to get paid very much..because its value is low. Making money has never been just about working hard. It also takes intelligence, skill, and there needs to be value in it.

What about the millions upon millions of people working jobs in construction, fruit picking/packing, working in warehouses, garbage disposal, retail, or any number of other jobs.

Some people are born into poverty and because of one reason or another are never able to escape it. I don't think everyone deserves that, even if they aren't a Mensa members. Clearly intelligence does not make you a better person.
You need to go read Howard Zinn. He explains this much more eloquently than I can. I find your entire rationalization of poverty to be completely bogus, unfounded, and disconnected from reality.
I'd like to echo seeing things through to a prototype. Unless theres some hurdle (technical, time, etc.) actually standing in your way, I fully support the idea of finishing the product in one form or another.

When you start questioning the idea, focus on the use case you're writing it for and cut out all the excess features that don't contribute to it. This will help you get closer to completion.

Remember that you're just one user and cannot possibly be representative of the population. Go test it to see what the market thinks!
Same comic on the fast link: http://dilbert.com/fast/2011-01-07/

(Dilbert has a "fast" link at http://dilbert.com/fast/ to load just the comics without all the extra stuff)
Cloud seems to be the ultimate Rorschach Test, both in the real world and the IT world.
(From http://blog.labslice.com/2010/09/wispy-cloud.html).
it seems you're saying you run selenium using testswarm? Can you describe how that works in more detail?
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Wow. This is the same zarf of "Zarf's List of Interactive Games on the Web" circa early '90s.

http://www.eblong.com/zarf/zarfs-list.html

Nice to see this guy is still doing big things. I'm sure some of you must recognize him by that page as well.

(reference: His kickstarter profile @ http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/zarf shows website eblong.com which hosts the legacy "Zarf's List")
I don't see why that wouldn't be the best way. How many signatures would there be to check? A couple of thousands?

I do not know how firmware gets signed on PS3, but an alternative could be that all software already is signed with a second key. If so, having new firmware check for that key would close the hole. If they used the same broken algorithm, not for long, though.
>MySQL outperformed Postgres.

For my part, I thought Postgres was slow until 5 months ago (when I came from a port from SQL Server).

Then I learned something! The default install of Postgres is slow (at least on Windows). And on benchmarks against the baseline SQL Server port I had, it was about 2x slower. BUT there were a number of things I could do to make it faster:
a) Use the EnterpriseDB wizard for tuning Postgres --> resulted in a 2x to 3x performance improvement.
b) Adjust the way I did updates (there is a way to get Postgres updates to be fast, it just takes some massaging)
c) Get rid of views when possible -- I found that certain query compilation optimizations I had taken for granted on SQL Server weren't available.

Doing all this resulted in a system that performed faster and w/ less RAM than SQL Server(and I had spent a bunch of time tuning the SQL Server perf in the first place!)
This issue was discussed briefly here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2002992
This Ars Technica article has a much better explanation and is an easier read.
That seems like a perfectly good solution to me. Storing a hash of each signature is say 256 bytes and supposing an upper limit of 10,000 signatures, the database file is pretty small. (Better hope they sign the signature database though)
I think the problem is when you drop all your ideas for over-thinking them too fast. I know exactly how the OP feels: I get an idea, start thinking about what would be needed to make it work, throw some stuff together and see that it could work, then either get satisfied that it's in the realm of the possible, or lose motivation by thinking the ratio usefulness/complexity is too low.
This went a slightly different way than I was expecting. I expected it to be more of an "AOL is dead, it's about Twitter/Facebook hookups now", a direction which the author alluded to briefly at the end.

That said, the way it did go with respect to Amazon and Borders is quite fascinating, especially with the market cap and per-store statistic.
I would like to share one quite from Gandhi:
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

People usually don't know what is a good idea / bad idea. Otherwise killer products can be made from market survey, but this is usually not the case.

I second the comment from switch. Also even you just got one user, you are still doing something for good. Start it small, just spend a week or so build a prototype and release it.
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I'm rather impressed that this was started by someone with so few followers.
If I'm not mistaken, the second photograph of the Asian man is the one taken by authorities of a man who boarded a plane as an old man, then removed his mask and by the time the plane landed, he was young:

http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/old-man-boards-plane-leav...

I have no idea what the first picture is originally from. I don't recall any recent stories of anyone replacing their head with a Rubik's Cube.
Interdisciplinary work is always that: you're contributing to another discipline - being an amateur - because you can bring the perspective of another discipline to it. You're bringing along new questions, and your answers don't need to be better than 30+ years of people trying desperately to find better and better answers to the same questions.
There is no such thing as good code (yet). Any code is a compromise between idealistic, natural language and realistic, machine language. Between fantasy and matter.
Maybe not worthless, but worth a lot less.

The biggest problem as anyone who owns (buys) a lot of books knows is what to do with them once you've read them. E-readers will continue to get better, more convenient and cheaper. My desire to try to sell used books on Amazon, bookstores or donating them to Goodwill or the library (even though libraries don't actually want your donations) will continue to remain low.
"If you have a job that anybody can do, you aren't going to get paid very much..because its value is low."

This is not how labor markets work. I think the inappropriate generalization of a HN reader's experience to the working poor in general is aptly addressed by other responders.
I would argue that at younger than 16 (I started working with C when I was 13), it's nearly impossible to properly learn programming.

Sure, you can throw code around, maybe compile some neat code and even familiarize yourself with the programming mindset. However, to understand data structures and algorithmic thinking on a deep level I think the mind must be sharp and mature.

This isn't to say that there aren't "real" programmers who are under 16 (there certainly are), but I think to learn at a deep level it might be hard when at or below that age.

Good luck!