skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. My work's web server logs show that the number one referrer is a Google search for the full URL of the site.
It's silly to pretend that a DDoS attack is the same as a sit-in, such a contention is intellectually and morally bankrupt.

Moreover, sit-ins are not legal either. If you choose to attempt to disrupt a place of business and you refuse to leave private property when asked to do so you can be arrested.
Just switch off electricity for ISP buildings.
MiniDisc came out in '92, well before any portable MP3 players existed. MiniDisc recorders typically had optical digital inputs so you could get your albums on them from CD just fine.
No, you cannot legally create lethal booby traps, in any state in the US.
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Mercury is a qualitatively different language, by the way - it adds static typing (which I'm ambivalent about, in a LP language) and AFAICT removes the ability to work with partially-instantiated data, which is one of my favorite aspects of Prolog.

Also, PVR's _CTM_ (http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html) has a really good one-chapter overview of Prolog, among many other things.

PS: swannodette, did you get the pattern matching and binary decision diagram stuff I sent you?
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/05/23/60474... where i originally heard about it
Change to vibrate, then connect the wire.
Of course you couldn't legally set that up, are you insane? On what planet would that be justifiable? Even in Texas, you need to demonstrate a reasonable belief that you were in imminent danger of being robbed or attacked before you are permitted to use deadly force on an intruder in your home.
Good to know. How about non-lethal? (Say, something that might break a few bones but you'll recover.)
Funnier still are the people who assume they can "recall" their email once it's sent (a feature that does work on Exchange, but obviously not in SMTP). At one previous employer, HR accidentally CC'd me on a mail suggesting my salary was out of the official comp bands. Recall! Recall! Recall!
>Now, you may have realized that there's a flaw here. ...

Not really. It's more of a fundamental property of hashing functions, and it's technically true of any hashing function, and collisions are nearly just a technical possibility unless you're using an incredibly-small hash output. Though that would likely be preferable to truncating before hashing - fewer practical collisions and safer, as reversing the hash is less useful due to more collisions actually existing in breakably-short password lengths.
exploring some of these on a 3 month trip to Turkey in the late 90's was definitely a highlight of all travels i've had; get there if you can and give yourself time in the region if you can
It's very simple: it Just Worked, and it was Easy. Those two things combined to make it feel like magic.

The founder of Syncplicity (even the name sounds complex!) said it best:

"In the end, it really came down to one incredibly genius idea: Dropbox limited its feature set on purpose. It had one folder and that folder always synced without any issues -- it was magic. Syncplicity could sync every folder on your computer until you hit our quota. (Unfortunately, that feature was used to synchronize C:\Windows\ for dozens of users -- doh!) Our company had too many features and this created confusion amongst our customer base. This in turn led to enough customer support issues that we couldn't innovate on the product, we were too busy fixing things.

After I left Syncplicity, I ran into the CEO of Dropbox and asked him my burning question: "Why don't you support multi-folder synchronization?" His answer was classic Dropbox. They built multi-folder support early on and did limited beta testing with it, but they couldn't get the UI right. It confused people and created too many questions. It was too hard for the average consumer to setup. So it got shelved."
It's Jeff Barr, Lead AWS Evangelist.

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jeffbarr (the OP).
http://www.jeff-barr.com/?page_id=670

edit: Barr, not Bar :(
It would be very easy to turn it off to somewhere like Greece. There are probably only a few companies connecting to the outside world. And these are either government owned, or were until recently but are still so civil service minded and government linked that they will do as they're told.
Any commercial outfits want to keep operating in that country, so unless they think they will get a better deal from the next ruler - are also going to obey order.

California is trickier, there will be lots of links to towns in other states just because the cable run was shorter or a telco in Oregon wanted more of the market. There will also be a more complex backbone links so someone in Seattle may connect through california to Texas, so blocking out those individual routes without killing the whole network is a lot more difficult.
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Without the website though to compliment it dropbox would have been less valuable to me, although still the best syncing solution. There have been many times at uni or at someones house where the website interface has come in very handy.
Yes, that's me, but with two r's.

When I started writing the AWS blog in late 2004 I wasn't sure how personal I should or could be, and didn't know if it was ok to brand it with my full name. I had adopted "-- Jeff;" as my signature a long time ago, when one of my friends had "++md;"
How widespread was optical digital out in 2001 compared to USB ports?

What mattered is whether it was easy to get pirated MP3s from the PC to the player. Fiddling around with optical digital out compared to the much simpler USB seems backwards.

MiniDisks might well have been superior to cassettes but compared to MP3 players? Ugh.

MiniDisks would have been pretty cool (at least for a short time) if you could have plugged them into a USB port.
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Do it For Free. Idea of site
Once again I have a weekend. Weekend when I want to do some stuff which will be helpful for someone.. stuff which will train my skills, my brain. I don't know what to do.. really.

So question: are there some sites where listed small jobs which I can do for free? If not, then it's a good idea for start-up. I think I am not only who have a free time, not need money and want to help to someone who don't have money but need some stuff.

If such site is already exists please provide me link, if not then this is my small view of this site:

- site has a list of small jobs with tags and categories

- site has a list of people who want to do something for free, every man has listed skills he have

- People can group to do some job

- Site has ratings of best free mans

I'm a web-developer and know that creating of such site will not take more than 3-4 hours, but it could be very useful..

What do you think?
Funny name. Serious sandwich.

Wait, that was something else. Just sent some info on ParkGrades.com...
What's in all that tear gas we've been selling Egypt?
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for laws. I'm just skeptical that they work really well across borders.
matt, kudos! this is great news.

a question that I always pondered, what is googles approach on more clever forms of rehashed content that involve photoshopping / cropping an original image, is this something that google looks at?

Example
source photo: (http://shoes.n-sb.org/img/thumbs/472153d5fc674fa1c685f3c7814...)

rehashed image: (http://images.sneakernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/nik...)
We certainly didn't mean to come across as arrogant - just confident. While your frustration on the pricing structure is understandable/reasonable, we don't have immediate plans to make significant changes. If there is anything else we can do to earn your loyalty, we'd be grateful to hear what it is.
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Yup, that's the one. I would've included it in my post, but I couldn't quite remember the specific syntax. Even with this option, though, I ran into some irregularities involving font embedding and Adobe Illustrator.

Supposedly, the newest version of MMA has improved its font embedding behavior such that it all should "just work," but I haven't had a chance to test it out yet.
>Dear Egyptian Police and Military. The US government gives Egypt $1.5 Billion every year. That's what is paying your salary. If you want to get paid, just get out of the way.

And replace him with who ?

We had a nice pet leader in Iran once, he used to buy weapons and nuclear reactors from us. He did torture people and his secret police weren't terribly nice. Then he got overthrown and for some reason the people that replaced him didn't like us very much ( although we did still sell them weapons ).
What bothers us is that you are "not a really happy [customer]", yet your reasoning is understandable. Your website issue is covered above in our response to @krobertson. With regards to Email Activity Search: we’re working on making this feature more stable (we’ve brought on a new web architect to help as well) - also, we probably should have released it to a private beta group for testing first. We will be taking a new beta testing approach going forward (planning it now for our new newsletter app). For Heroku: we're close to having a fresh API integration with them, which will be a huge improvement. Future, similar integrations with other hosting services will be much better with a seamless integration process for them and their users. It’s a top priority item for us.
Notice this too, on the marketing front:

we had issues getting the press excited at launch. We built a fantastic Windows client. 3 years ago, everyone was running Windows. We were so excited to show the press, yet they all had Macs. Walt Mossberg wouldn't write about our product because it was PC only. Months after we hired our PR agency, we found out that they had never even used our product... because they too only had Macs. It's pretty hard to pitch a service when you haven't used it.*

I'm surprised: I could see a fantastic Windows client being okay before 2004 or so (this might be because I got a PowerBook in 2004, but roll with it). By three years ago the return of the Mac was obvious to pretty much everybody, especially people who care about computing. The people who're running tech blogs, writing forum posts, and so on are disproportionately Mac users.

(http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-tha...)
You're dead on with that interpretation :)
Nope, It's Jeff Barr. http://www.jeff-barr.com/

[[edit]] that'll teach me not to refresh before commenting.
Fair enough, but if those treasury bonds don't end up being worth what they're supposed to to be worth, it seems to me that we've got bigger problems than SS going under.

However, I heartily agree with your request for correction by someone who knows better- this is about the full extent of my knowledge on the subject, and I'd love to hear from somebody with expertise in this field.
A few options:

1. They could force everybody with an old password to reset it. This would announce there was a flaw, but shouldn't be any riskier than having a "forgot password" link.

2. Silently upgrade passwords as users log in. This is risky, because many users might not log in for months.

3. Use their clusters to reverse weak password digests. This would be mostly transparent to customers, but runs a risk of accidentally locking out some customers. For example, if "bar" and "foo" both crypt() to "abcd123", and the user has password "foo", the recover-and-redigest method might change the password to "bar".

4. Wrap old passwords in a new digest -- presumably they have some way to determine which algo is used per-user. They could treat the output of crypt() as the input to a more secure digest, like scrypt, and then just store "crypt-plus-scrypt" in their database as the digest type.
Let’s make a change together in February (we can always revert in March)
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Google "Interpol", they've been around a little while.
"Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor. Out of that understanding, they will reinvent it in a more refined second-generation version. That strategy works only when what they're working with isn't changing very much. The stereo industry and the automobile industry are two examples. When the target is moving quickly, they find it very difficult, because that reinvention cycle takes a few years. As long as the definition of what a personal computer is keeps changing at the rate that it is, they will have a very hard time. Once the rate of change slows down, the Japanese will bring all of their strengths to bear on this market, because they absolutely want to dominate the computer business; there's no question about that. They see that as a national priority. We think that in four to five years, the Japanese will finally figure out how to build a decent computer. And if we're going to keep this industry one in which America leads,we have four years to become world-class manufacturers. Our manufacturing technology has to equal or surpass that of Japan." - Steve Jobs 1985
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Sure, depending on the definition of little better:
Yearly growth (# of objects): 2.9 > 14 > 40 > 102 > 262
Yearly growth (as a ratio): 4.8 > 2.85 > 2.55 > 2.56

Also - this is just the number of objects stored (not put in ever) Obviously because storage costs, folks have purging solutions. It'd be interesting to see a similar trend for requests/sec.
Whole drive encryption. I've seen docu-drama's where they actually break in when they know the suspect has gotten up to go the the bathroom/kitchen so that he can't reboot the computer.

Then, like all things with a shred of reasonableness too them, they become an awesome "check this box every single time" way of doing business for the guys who get their thrills kicking in doors.
The PS3 and the PSP both have a great UI, perfectly tuned to be used with their controllers.

Their new portable UI, though? An abomination.
Yup. Sadly no-knock raids have become routine rather than extremely exceptional. It shouldn't be the case, and the fact that it is should be a screaming siren that we need to fix things.
> * The active item in the active | featured | hot | week | month link row doesn't appear to be on the same baseline as the inactive items.

The metaphor seems to be radio buttons; I would expect a depressed button to have text lower down than a non-pressed button, but that's not the case here. I did some pixel peeping, and the active item's text is in exactly the same horizontal pixel line as the inactive items. Frankly, though, I think they look fairly slick.
Or sufficient anti-radiation missiles.

I'd be more comfortable with buried cable.
This reminds me of something I read earlier:

After I left Syncplicity, I ran into the CEO of Dropbox and asked him my burning question: "Why don't you support multi-folder synchronization?" His answer was classic Dropbox. They built multi-folder support early on and did limited beta testing with it, but they couldn't get the UI right. It confused people and created too many questions. It was too hard for the average consumer to setup. So it got shelved.

Anyone else reminded of the other article, "How Steve Jobs 'out-Japanned' Japan"?: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/01/28/... :

Jobs's immersion in Zen and passion for design almost certainly exposed him to the concept of ma, a central pillar of traditional Japanese aesthetics. Like many idioms relating to the intimate aspects of how a culture sees the world, it's nearly impossible to accurately explain -- it's variously translated as "void," "space" or "interval" -- but it essentially describes how emptiness interacts with form, and how absence shapes substance. If someone were to ask you what makes a ring a meaningful object -- the circle of metal it consists of, or the emptiness that that metal encompasses? -- and you were to respond "both," you've gotten as close to ma as the clumsy instrument of English allows.

While Jobs has never invoked the term in public -- one of the aspects of his genius is the ability to keep even his most esoteric assertions in the realm of the instantly accessible -- ma is at the core of the Jobsian way. And Jobs' single-minded adherence to this idiosyncratically Japanese principle is, ironically, what has allowed Apple to compete with and beat Japan's technology titans -- most notably the company that for the past four decades dominated the world of consumer electronics: Sony.
Wow.. that's a great news ! Long wait is over.
How does Apple do it?
Want to bet they didn't fix this until now because they knew it would lower purchase conversion rate?
Planet Earth. While not exactly the same thing, there were automatic machine guns on the Berlin Wall. I'm not trying to justify it though, just wondering if the police or FBI ever take it into consideration before they go around busting doors before knocking. (Other possibilities include rigging a Microwave without a front door to turn on and temporarily/permanently blind whoever comes through.)
My understanding of it (and wikipedia seems to back me up) is that the term 'clip' when used properly refers to the device used to assist in loading a magazine.

For example, you use a clip to load ammunition into the (internal) magazine of an M1, and you could use a clip to load ammunition into a "banana clip", which actually refers to a style of magazine.
>For one thing, eFreedom.com actually answers your question. This is different from ExpertsExchange (which promises you might get an answer if you fork over $, yeah right)

Not sure if I'm taking you too literally, but Experts Exchange does answer your question without having to pay (scroll down).
Actually there are link farms that are doing exactly that in order to appear to robots to be original text. However, it's just chunks of text "mined" into a mass of subject-focussed sentence fragments. That's the thing, the race to the bottom is: original content is scraped without improvement in order to pay someone else via ads, and original content is generated without regard to coherence in order to pay someone via ads.

Two ways to do this: you have good content either left intact (no value-add) or rearranged or otherwised structurally corrupted in order to appear to be a different/better answer (value-minus), or you have advertisers being led to believe their ads are showing on relevant content, when it's really just a jumble of random words loosely oriented around a concept. "The dog was dog walking. Dog food always is in the grocery store. RALEY's. It dogged him for years..." so on and so forth.

On one hand users are being defrauded and on the other, the advertisers/affiliates. There is no defense for eFreedom, nabble, mail-archive, and their ilk. They are bad people, bad for business and bad for the internet. I sincerely believe this.
Anything that can maim is legally "lethal force."

There are legally defensible reasons for breaking into someone else's property. For example, if someone thinks there is someone incapacitated inside, or if someone is running from danger and needs to hide.

Finally, it's not really a booby trap if you're inside deciding which visitors get blasted.
What I loved about this article was the ending. By posting the sample job application it removes this article from a 'hey you should do it' to actionable direction on how you can do this.
What differentiates a DDoS from a sit-in?

Of course you can be arrested for a sit-in, but you won't go to gaol for ten years.
Is your site IPv6 ready?
Submit a URL and have a few simple tests run to determine IPv6 readiness.

Tests for AAAA records, IPv6 connectivity, and IPv4 literals (e.g. http://127.0.0.1) in HTTP/HTTPS-retrieved content. Example URLs to try? brocade.com, he.net, ipv6.google.com, www.v6.facebook.com.

My simple little project that took more work than initially planned .. comments/suggestions, fire away.
Also, to be fair, things may have changed there since 2003, but that was the state of affairs at that time.
Salvatore, you do realize that now you need to put a Klashnikov on the new Redis logo? :p
Submit a URL and have a few simple tests run to determine IPv6 readiness.

Tests for AAAA records, IPv6 connectivity, and IPv4 literals (e.g. http://127.0.0.1) in HTTP/HTTPS-retrieved content. Example URLs to try? brocade.com, he.net, ipv6.google.com, www.v6.facebook.com.

My simple little project that took more work than initially planned .. comments/suggestions, fire away.
No. I can't find it right now, but there was a burglar who successfully sued a guy who set up some sort of electrical booby-trap. He survived, but injured, and IIRC, won the suit.
In a life where you have nothing, you do not throw trash away. A lot of stuff gets re-used.
Francis Ford Coppola: who said art has to cost money?
The original content you do have just seems to be short rewritten versions of other online sources and any comments they have appear to just be random Tweets that use one of the same keywords.
Well, if we're going to insist on an ironclad analogy, I would say it's something like opening up a fire hydrant and splitting the stream into a bunch of smaller streams, pointing them at a building, and walking away. Except it's more like everyone's garden hoses somehow reach the building with no loss in PSI, and it's a few dozen people each with their own paltry residential water supply. Now, this does have the potential to cause some damage, but not really anything a heavy rain wouldn't cause. Likewise, a DDoS has the potential to overheat some servers and make some sysadmins lose some sleep, but it's nothing a day of heavy traffic couldn't cause.

It's clearly illegal. But I don't think anyone there has done anything such that 10 years in prison is an even remotely reasonable punishment. I would say it's a misdemeanor at worst, and it should carry something between community service and six months in jail.

And really, the sit-in analogy is probably better than that nonsense I just wrote.
wow this is great!! congratz guys for the launch. I already spent a good amount of time on the site. Looks so perpetually useful, much more than things like Groupons which only work once in awhile.
Congrats Trip-Js! Love seeing the historical lows/highs of groceries.
Is cloud storage the factor that is driving companies to AWS? I'm sure that's huge for NetFlix, but they are an outlier. My bet would be on EC2 usage as being a better growth metric.
usually making examples out of people implies naming them by name