skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You usually don't have to write headlines like "1.5M users compromised!" to get people to fix trivial web flaws. Also, before asking VC's and posting public Twitter messages and spending two days trying to track down a security contact, try mailing "security@" first; as you discovered, that sensible default generated an immediate response.

Edited out "not '96 anymore", the word "breathless", and my assessment of his effort to track down security@ as "hinky"; I wasn't happy with the tone of this comment in retrospect either.
Technically, f(x) converges to y as x -> infinity if for every epsilon there is an X such that |f(x) - y| < epsilon for all x > X ("the error becomes arbitrarily small"). For instance, 1/x converges to 0 as x -> infinity (pick X = 1/epsilon), but the sequence 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, ... does not converge to any y (pick epsilon < 1/2 to see this).

In particular, the sequence r, r^r, r^r^r, ..., where r^2 = 2, does converge (to 2; the first terms are approximately 1.41, 1.63, 1.76, ...); the sequence 2, 2^2, 2^2^2, ..., however, does not (the first terms are 2, 4, 16, ... - and it only grows faster from there.)
Agree that profit margins can be very thin, but in this case the Fiero guy is probably doing pretty well.

If the Fiero parts guy is primarily selling to end users (which it looks like he does), his profit is probably closer to 33% per item. Standard markup for auto parts to private customer is 1.5x

Source: Family run auto repair shop for 20+ years.
A favicon? That’ll be £585 please.
Then you get your bill from your isp, $5 extra per device.
Valid point. Right now, my GF and I are texting these codes to each other ... this wasn't something I imagined. Accessing the net while talking is another issue you rightly bring up.
Small quibble, but could you make it so the hyphens in the code aren't necessary? (or at least so you don't have to manually type them)

Oh and it was deadly accurate when I tried on iPad. I could see this being useful if you've lost track of people at a carnival or something
Hackers Take Down Government Websites in Egypt and Yemen
Seems like a good book - bit surprised that it doesn't seem to cover Genetic Algorithms.
This is something I never quite fully understood. So as they depreciate those assets over time, that goes against their profits?

Why would a company want to do this? Is it just for tax purposes?
That's the clearest explanation of the problem that I've read so far.

I've always known that there was something inherently wrong with charging by traffic, but I could never put my finger on what it was. A clear explanation, such as you've just provided to me, on exactly how the internet works and is billed at higher levels makes things obvious.

Traffic is a problem, but only insofar as it contributes to saturation of the overall available bandwidth of the existing infrastructure. Calling the problem "traffic" is just a convenient scapegoat for other concerns that can't be directly billed as easily, even if traffic isn't the real problem.

Thanks. I'm always impressed by the quality of discourse on Hacker News.
Storify Raises $2M From Khosla Ventures To Blend Social Media W/ Storytelling
You have a whole heap of space, why would you overlay the text over the image, it also feels like their is more advertising space than content space.

An ideal layout would be all one page, it would have the text nicely under or around the images. Even if the ad in the top and side bars was still there at least they wouldn't seem like the most prominent thing on the page.

The NYTimes does all this quiet well, they page but at least their pages are quiet long. They may even have the same amount of ads on the page but the content is so much more dense that it doesn't feel spammy.
Amazing! So many different worlds on our single planet.

(For some reason it also reminded me of different "lands" on a single map in Heroes of Might and Magic III.)
Guvera - Search for metallica
UK based Cambridge Technology Centre was able to repeat the death grip too:

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/07/30/49184/c...

It is dependent on location, my experience is that in more urban areas the problems are more prominent, you probably live in some small city or a city with less providers or mobile phone users, or you haven't tried it in the bigger and denser located buildings. I can repeat the problems in the center of the city easily, but not so easy at my home. And it's not that I'm wasting time trying to repeat it -- it just happens if I hold it without the bumper case.

Once again: Death grip is the real "feature" of iPhone 4 when 3G is used. And it's the iPhone 4 problem, not the AT&T problem.
Just downloaded Metallica Free on Guvera.com- Sweet
Halle Barry versus Gabriel Aubry
I'm pretty sure nothing will happen. They likely have several blocks already allocated which give them enough headroom for growth.
I see a lot of RDF bashing. Particularly from the "Web 2.0" crowd. It has warts, no doubt (is anything borne of the human mind without warts?), but it also has its strengths. A lot of people say it is a failed technology but it's less the failure of the technology and more a failure of the people saying so to properly understand what it can/does do.

Is that a failure of the technology? Because most people don't understand what they would use it for or how they would apply it? I don't think so. I think the claims that it would change the web were high-flown. I also think its creators did a bad job of explaining it. However, you'll find the people that do understand it and have a domain in which it is clearly applicable - love it.

One of my friends works for the library at UCSD and they use RDF, RDFS, and OWL-DL extensively - I couldn't even imagine doing what she does with the library's book ontology using JSON (as some have proposed replace XML and it's vocabularies, even with a JSON "schema" language). I have another friend working for a biotech company - and he uses it there, extensively. These are only two examples and it excludes the other web projects and companies out there that also use it and it's higher level vocabularies/ontologies (UMBEL, etc...).

Is it a failure for the web? (a topic in another thread a few days ago) I don't think it is, I think it is a failure on the part of developers to understand it and apply it (Drupal has applied it).
I'm just using the location given by the browser (it might be IP-based, wifi-based, GPS-based etc). I am surprised how inaccurate it is sometimes on my desktop. Thankfully, I get relatively accurate location most of the time on my phone.
So, why hasn't IBM, GE, MIT, and other legacies been offered a little cash to move back to a handful of class Bs? I mean, Stanford did it...
This is a fantastic article in Harvard Business Review:

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:QgB-NnO_xTEJ:f...
Don't want to sound condescending, but I don't think that seeing this in layman's terms has any merit. All of mathematics, although often built out of some intuitive, natural notions, is about definition: describe an object and then see what follows from your description. The description is not, in general, something that's "out there" and can be deduced by common-sense.

(Infinity, in fact, can be defined as a number and can be defined as a non-number in different contexts. But infinity is only something when it's part of a strictly defined mathematical universe with specific axioms.)
Even if you exclusively use Google's web interface to search, the Bing toolbar gathers anonymous data about your browsing (if you've got that option enabled). It's fairly clear about that when you install it. To my knowledge, all of these search engine toolbars gather statistics on a broader scale than specifically what's typed into their search fields, Google's included.
Acer Aspire One AOD255-2520 Netbook
> "It isn't running out. It is out."

I think that's an unfair assessment.

When every ipv4 address is actually used, it'll have run out. We're a long long way away from that scenario though.

Vast ranges are "allocated" but "unused".
We're using it quite gainfully on our current project.
yes when you have a monopoly you can charge anything you want and people will pay it.

The Fiero example is different, since it's an "iconic" car, which means there are plenty of aftermarket suppliers/vendors who sell this stuff(usually other enthusiasts), so he can't really gouge.

Plus, since its a GM product from the 80s/90s..everything is interchangeable...which means he can't really charge a premium for Fiero stuff, since those exact parts can be found in any number of other Chevy, Pontiac products.

For example the 4 cylinder that came in the Fiero, also came in Chevy Astro, Camaro, Citation, Lumina, S10 and Pontiac 6000, Phoenix, Celebrity, Grand Am, Firebird, as well as Buick Century, Somerset, Skylark and Oldsmobile Cutlass and Omega.
I believe they could (and probably do?) de-dupe at a lower than file level to handle this issue.
I don't personally, right now, but I have a friend working for UCSD that uses RDF, RDFS, and OWL-DL quite a bit with their ontology there. I also have a friend in biotech that uses it a lot.

I've used it for past projects (NDA, can't really talk much about it here) in the knowledge representation and inference domain.
I've had mixed reactions when I mention it, but back then (2002ish) they paid my broke college-self infinitely better, and were doing stuff that was so far ahead of the "mainstream" clients wanting $200 all-flash sites.

I really regret not keeping in touch with those guys, aside from being able to show my mom what I work on now :D
Wow, Christopher Chantrill is a powerhouse:

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/

http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk

http://usgovernmentrevenue.com

http://www.usfederalbailout.com/program_details

Any politician truly interested in transparent government will pay this guy a salary (job description: "same thing you always did, but more"), and maybe even give him a few hacker underlings and a web designer. His sites are ugly but awesome.
What, specifically, is the point of this site that everybody that up-voted (presumingly because the post gratified their intellectual curiosity) is missing?

But, in the meantime, might I remind you of this section of the Hacker News Guideline [1]:

'Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. [...] If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.'

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[1]: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
http://twitter.com/about/security has been on their website for a little while now, but it's not so easy to find via Google (at least for me).
Social Media as a Tool for Protest
There are 25 votes for an inaccurate SO answer. Help me prove it wrong.
Yeah, take your pick. It was kind of a joke but the reality is already starting to make itself known. It used to be that every cable modem and many DSLs got public addresses even if they weren't static. It's getting more and more rare.

IPv4 won't die overnight, or even any time soon but there is likely to be an uncomfortable transition period where it becomes difficult for people like me who like to have static publics to get them cheaply, or at all.
Oddly, Symbian at number 2 makes it more credible as a smartphone OS
AT&T has horrible service on MacDill AFB; they have impeccable coverage in the rest of the Tampa Bay area except the exact middle of the 275 bridge to Pinellas. I'm not sure how other carriers do on MacDill.
Discovered the Avoid Struts toggle from your comment. Thanks. Been wanting this since I switched to xmonad.
Why the iPad will dominate the tablet market for years
I've found over 9000+ available six letter (a-z) dot coms
We moved back to the UK last year after 10 years in France - quite enjoying living in a small English country town after the very rural life in SW France.

Nice to know there are some local (ish) HNrs
I doubt your average developer knows that Paul and Knuth went to Case Western. You're average developer probably doesn't know that the founder of Paypal and the co-founder of Youtube went to UIUC. I'm not really sure what argument you're trying to make. People in industry typically just don't care about these types of associations.
I suspect some workaround for IPv4 depletion will be created so ISPs wont have to upgrade to IPv6.
I meant that its time is out, not the addresses themselves.
Because they realize the monetary value of their claim.
Thank you for the kind answer. It's a beginning...
The SO thread in question is this one: http://stackoverflow.com/q/4837876/172322

The accepted answer has correct options, but its inaccurately suggesting that the Sizzle selectors are faster. I setup this JSPerf test to prove that Sizzle is least efficient, and that in fact the OP's version seems to be THE fastest across all the browsers. The more data points I can gather, the more effectively I'll be able to rebut that the conventional wisdom here is wrong.
Macros that Work Together
I was responding to the post above mine.

What Google presented was enough to show that there exist possible situations where an individual (query, URL) pair's presence in Google's search results causes it to appear in Bing's. That definitely demonstrates that Google has a nonzero influence on Bing, and you can call it "copying" if you like - on the level of individual (query, URL) pairs.

I personally don't think there's anything wrong with this, in itself. I think an individual (query, URL) pair is small enough to be 'fair use', more or less. But it's another matter (to me) if this sort of thing is happening often enough, and in important enough cases, to have a strong aggregate effect on the Bing search engine as a whole. Google has insinuated that they believe this to be the case, but they haven't shown it. That was what the post above mine was about and that was what mine was about.

If you think that what they actually did demonstrate is bad enough in itself, none of this matters.
You can subscribe to author-specific feeds on techcrunch. I subscribe only to Arrington's posts with http://techcrunch.com/author/tcmarrington/feed/
Interesting concept. The helper quiz is interesting as well: 10. Are you interested in health and healthy living?

Why, no, I am not interested in healthy living.
No, the security pages were put up after I talked to Bob. (Those are new pages and are about a week old. They were put up precisely because it wasn't easy for people to report security issues.). Also the headline wasn't written by me. Boston Innovation editors modified it. My original headline is on my website at waynechang.com. And yes, it was hard to get a hold of someone -- I spent two days. Emailing security@twitter.com was less obvious then, since emailing support@twitter.com sends back a form rejection letter (try it).
That's disgraceful... I don't know what else to say.
Yea -- it's hard to find because the twitter.com/about/security page is about a week old. When google updates their indexes, it should be easier to find.
So you've setup a throw away account, just so you can answer a question related to the DMCA counter notification?

Do you work for iCoder or something?
The YouTube video recommendation system
Open source databases would have never gotten to where they are if there weren't two top-notch competing projects. Without MySQL, PostgreSQL developers would have probably not as heavily focused on performance. Without PostgreSQL, MySQL would have languished in MyISAM or broken InnoDB world forever.
Community Fights Back, Releases Instructions on Removing Reflector TimeBomb
Great story Patrick. I think a lot of people equate physical products with low margins, but often that is not the case. Music and media focused startups are a great example of this. After license payments the profits of even a successful company like Pandora are tiny. Compared to a number of physical products/ecommerce companies where margins can be 30-50%.
To a point, it would probably have been a boom for Office Depot. If you are a company and need to get the number of 1099s down, you would probably be wise to pick a vendor who could provide a rather large chunk of your supplies. Office Depot and it brethren have the IT to track all that.
So I would be interested in knowing which companies have better, more successful alternatives to tech interviews. Is there any reasons why companies still insist that low level detailed knowledge of a language is a good indication that someone will do well on a job? I feel technical interviews are significantly harder than doing the actual job.
Dude... where i am from... you ask such a question to the government they will laugh to your face ! should you insist security is called... If you come back you will be thrown in jail...
On another note... a FAVICON generator website business startup anyone (of course based out of the UK)? lol
Where's the justification for most of these businesses actually being worth 20 million dollars? I mean they're awesome stories, but when you have $1-2 million in revenue and have to deal with physical products, you won't exactly have millions in profits. So if you're generating, say, $200K in profits, who exactly is going to give you a 100 P/E and pay you $20 million for that business?

Why does Forbes need to go the bullshit "How This Kid Made $60M" route to rouse interest? Can't it be awesome enough in itself that someone is making a very fine living selling labels or socks? Oh no, unless they're worth eight digits, they're not worth talking about. Sad.
A head crash (assuming that's what you're describing when you say, "the head was scraping the platters") is good example of "it's always recoverable with enough money". For example, if you're really willing to spend money, there are special atomic force microscopes ("magnetic force" microscopes) that actually spin around the platter, which stays still, allowing individual bits to be read off of the disk.

Of course, if the magnetic field is gone then it's certainly possible for it to be truly unrecoverable, but that bar is very very high.

One firm, DriveSavers (which incidentally is who Apple sends all their data recovery problems to), has an ISO-5 cleanroom and maintains a hall-of-fame of ridiculous situations they've successfully recovered: http://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com/company-info/museum-o...
Verizon Says It May 'Throttle' Heavy Data Users Ahead of iPhone
Ask HN: How to go from zero to livable wage
Hey everyone, I am trying to figure out this big thing we call life, and I could use some advice, and I know a lot of people here are very smart, so I figured this would be worth a shot.

I graduated from a state university in May of 2010, with a B.S. that isn't super great but it's not Liberal Arts either (Geography). I didn't take college very serious, so it took me five years to graduate, and I only graduated with a 2.1, meaning I leave my GPA off of my resume.

I only held one part-time job while I was in college, and it wasn't in my degree field, just a regular, minimum-wage job college students get for a little extra money.

When I graduated from college, I tried a series of alternative solutions to getting a job. A few weeks after graduating, I went on a two-month road trip of the entire contiguous US (during which I also spent my entire personal savings), hoping to advance a book deal when I got through. After I finished the road trip, I queried literary agents for a few months, I decided that it was more of a long-term project, and focused on other things. I applied to YC for W'11, and didn't get in. When January hit, I decided to quit trying to find job alternatives and start looking for a real job. I applied to all the entry-level positions I could find in my degree field, and to various tech (video game) companies for a community manager/social media strategist role, as I was pretty heavily involved in the video game blogging scene in college, and haven't gotten replies in any direction.

There aren't a ton of entry-level positions in my degree field, on the field's biggest job board there are probably only 3-4 entry-level positions posted a week.

When I applied for YC, I started to learn the basics of HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, and Javascript, got interested in it, and I'd like to learn to be a front-end web dev, but I figure the amount of time it would take me to learn enough to be hirable would be at least 6 months, and I really need something more immediate. In hindsight, I really wished I had become interested in programming in college.

I'm not homeless or starving, I live with my family, which I'm thankful to have, but student loan payments started last month, and while I can pay them (it's not that much per month), that's absolutely all I can afford. My youngest brother is going to college in August, which means in August my family is up and moving somewhere else (they don't know where yet), and I'd rather be moved out by then.

Basically, I really don't know what to do at this point. I'm not lazy, I'm relatively smart, and I have plenty of motivation, I think just didn't take "the real world" seriously enough.

To clarify, I am not asking for handouts or sympathy. I know that I am 100% responsible for my low GPA, my decision to not look for a job until recently, and everything else in my life. I just thought that a query of the HN community could yield some ideas that I hadn't thought of. Thanks.
Who Are The New BRICs?
Years away? Gosh! Depends a bit on where you want your servers to be located, I guess, but still. For a lot of server hosting customers, prices for additional IPs have already increased steadily over the last few months. But don't take my word for it, here's a bit from a recent APNIC announcement, for example:

"APNIC expects normal allocations to continue for a further three to six months."

(https://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2011/delegation)
Anyone know how the transition in China is going? My employer sells networking products there, and all Chinese customers require IPv6 support. It would be interesting to know if it's rolled out to consumers yet.
I'm sure that the process I use rejects some people who could do good work but I've never let anyone through who I regretted hiring later. I always ask a basic programming question and ask some questions to gauge how much the person actually takes time to learn more about software development. That's usually enough data to figure out what's going on.

95% of people fail the programming question so I continue on the interview and get more information about why I'm going to reject them. Usually they fail every other portion of it as well.
Cool. I've been a member of the Kink site in the past and found it to be fast and well done. Did you just work on the back end stuff or did you also work on the design/layout of the site as well?