skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, I have to admit, your post is bloody brilliant. -40 is exactly where the two scales meet.

Astounding.
Slow to load here. I waited 5 sec and gave up. Slowness is unlikely to be at my end because google loads as fast as ever.
Server down. Google cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9HT6OkA...
I've now had four times the traffic of the past two months in one hour. The first time something like this has happened to one of my projects - it's quite exciting!
Well MS now knows how to perform this sting, so I'm sure we'll hear if their results show up on google. Until then, you have zero evidence.
There's also RFC-1738 (URL syntax), which says:

host
The fully qualified domain name of a network host, or its IP
address as a set of four decimal digit groups separated by
".". Fully qualified domain names take the form as described
in Section 3.5 of RFC 1034 [13] and Section 2.1 of RFC 1123
[5]: a sequence of domain labels separated by ".", each domain
label starting and ending with an alphanumerical character and
possibly also containing "-" characters. The rightmost domain
label will never start with a digit, though, which
syntactically distinguishes all domain names from the IP
addresses.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt
I came here to say that. It appears that we are both smartasses.
One curious thing I notice is that there's an emphasis on "understand the underlying mechanisms" in git thought, vs. with hg being a "just use it" approach.

I really like the idea of a tool not having its underlying details poking out.
Efficient people get something done, then have time to spare. Lazy people don't get anything done.

Confident people listen to reason and input on how to do something they're already good at, better - and take new information with grace. Arrogant people believe they operate at a different level than others (See: Jason Calcanis)

Risk-averse people weigh a ton of information in order to actually make the right step FORWARD. Fear-based people avoid all risk because any movement forward causes them worry about losing what they already have, thus they don't gain anything new.
Agreed. Just turn them off. Especially if you're also handling their email. That will get their attention far quicker, and more professionally.
From the article: "Nginx handles the SSL itself, in a straightforward fashion, as long as you’ve compiled it with the SSL module turned on."
"We are a member of the InfluAds network. The quality of advertisers here is incredible. You will only see one (relevant) ad on the sidebar because of this great partner."

I give it a month. These hipster advertising networks never pay near enough that you can make, once you hit "success" with traffic you'll be funding out of your own pocket if you don't switch.
I was working 3 jobs and seeking a startup to join (didn't have a green card back then, so start my own wasn't an option). I was in grad school and had a 4.0 GPA and needed to keep it there in case I couldn't get something interesting, my b-plan was PhD (I didn't want to return to my home country tail between my legs). One job was waiting tables from 3pm-1AM 4 nights a week. I was married.

One night I got into an argument with a fellow waiter who badmouthed me for coming along and picking up american jobs (I had just started making a lot of tips b/c I served humans better). Manager took his side so I got pissed and quit. I went home and my now ex-wife told me she wanted a divorce and was planning to move in with one of her friends from school (she was a student too). I got depressed and had an accident with my Pontiac POS. It was a freezing cold Chicago winter with temps 20 below. I got even more depressed, sat home on a couch and drank bourbon for a week.

That's my absolute lowest point. Everything got better after that. Much, much, much better:)
Don't take it personally that I'm not going to "line by line" your comment the way you did mine -- I'm pretty busy today.

But the issue is, my clickstream is mine. If I chose to share it with somebody -- Bing, Google, My Mom -- it's my choice.

If I, as a user, don't want Bing to have access to my clickstream, I won't install their toolbar.

But if I do, it's not Google's business.
The waiter is the user's agent, the kitchen is the server. Each food preparer in the kitchen is a thread/process.

The waiter takes the customer's order and then waits for the food to be prepared before returning with the dish.

Asking the the waiter to ask the chef whether or not the fish is fresh is like making a head request.
Is it beer O'clock?
Everything about this thread is awful. Please flag.
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if you follow various twitter tech talks you'll notice that they spend a lot of time talking about 'fan out'. they basically prefer writing many things asynchronously vs. having to aggregate later. makes sense... disk is cheap and only getting cheaper. but processing time to return realtime data and information is finite.
"twitter <3 open source"

try-hard or what...
If you're reading "mainstream reddit", you're doing it wrong. Though more relevant may increase the amount of time "wasted".
"Court gives permission" are the key words, though. I don't think they get to deface your walls with giant messages spelling out their side of the dispute, and on their own authority.

BTW, I don't know why everyone assumes the facts are as described on the defaced website. It's not like we've heard the other side of the story. (Personally, I'm unlikely to spend any time to study it in detail, anyway). But if I knew who the web designer was, I'd certainly stay the hell away from him. This was ridiculously unprofessional and inappropriate.
So what is an 'official' TLD?
One that is controlled by an American government agency?

Why can't we have our own TLDs - just like we have our own browsers and servers.
Only black & white? How much more would it cost to get one in, say, 4 levels instead of 2? A couple greys go an extremely long way to making handwriting readable.

4 color model + solar back = note-taker's dream, though. Very interested to see this thing come out. And please please please leave it programmable in some way / shape / form.
I always wondered why are they so small? why aren't they wider, the width of almost the entire laptop? That would be so much easier to calibrate to touch.
It's important to note that this isn't some sort of hypothetical attack either. In fact, it's wicked simple to do.

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/
"That's the way it's always been" is a really, really awful justification for perpetuating things. I dropped my nick of several years not too long ago in favor of my real name.
"One of the things I've noticed in both school and the workplace is that a lot of people expend more energy trying to avoid work then it would take just to do the work in the first place."

Criminals are a perfect example of this. I see a movie like "The Town" by Ben Affleck and I think to myself, "man, all that stress and hard work and almost certainty of death and/or federal prison goes into this, and most of the time they'll walk out with less than 6 figures when it's all divided up".

I think the problem is alot of people never learned how to think in small bits at a time. Our mind is cluttered like one of those hoarder/packrat types they exploit on reality TV. We're thinking about how complex the overall problem has to (or is going to) be, instead of just chunking it out into separate problem domains and tackling them one at at time. The myriad things we have in our head induces paralysis. Distractions like HN and reddit don't exactly help alleviate that, btw :D

For example: Programming a game that has a main character jumping around throwing ninja stars while avoiding spike pits, sword-wielding baddies, and evil wizards shooting fireballs sounds like a daunting task, but starting with "let's move the character thingy around the screen" might be less mind-meltingly hard. But, people just think about the end-goal and just shrug off how others can accomplish it as "magic".

Maybe that's why people choose to be employees rather than entrepreneurs: Complexity kills motivation. Entrepreneurs are just better equipped to tackle complexity one problem at a time.
Using what people click on from search results from competing search engines sounds like copying the competition to me.

It sounds like they automated the process of piggy backing off the work of other search engines, not just Google.

They should exclude all competing search engines from this process.
I've been reading HN for years and have learnt so much - coding, hosting, design, pricing, strategies, funding, sales... the list goes on.

All this knowledge is power. Some risks have been reduced. More importantly, others are the same but I now have a much better idea of what they are!

HN provides me whole new level of confidence!

Thank you everyone, especially those of you who share all the nitty gritty details of your successes and failures!

(ps related thanks to proggit and the BoS forum as well)
> Clearing debt can feel like digging at that mountain with a dessert spoon.

Right, and the prize for those who have the discipline and patience to finish? nothing. (well, nothing tangible anyway)

It reminds me of the "Bee Sting Theory" article (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1467832). We are conditioned to view our finances in a competitive way, as a measure of our social value...and people deep into debt feel like they are so far behind their peers financially that they can't ever catch up anyway- so rather than futily trying, they cheat and try to buy the status symbols on credit instead. Stupid yes, but easy to understand on a psychological level.
that is one damn long essay about facebook
Senator Wyden Asks WTF Is Up With Homeland Security Domain Seizures
If you have enough stamina to have sex 60 hours a week, chances are you already have a midget riding you and caning your butt while you run around in circles chasing a mechanical rabbit.
Shapea (as in Shape Idea) http://shapea.com

The idea is to help entrepreneurs validate their startup ideas. You can get valuable feedback from the community, create a viral launching soon page (no programming or hosting to worry about) and start collecting beta signups. We will also help increase exposure to your launching soon page (are contacting few blogs that lists beta companies).
I am. Here's a hackernewers profile:
http://www.hackernewsers.com/users/emrahyalaz.html
But other countries have the same sort of culture and lack our level of credit card debt. Could it be that the field is tilted -- e.g. wages are simply at a level that does not allow the average person to save much even if they try,...

Most other countries have considerably lower wages (PPP-adjusted, not nominal) than we do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_household_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_wa...

If an average American reduced his consumption to the same level as a profligate Swede of average income (i.e., one who spends his entire paycheck every month), he would be saving about $15k/year.
Its not their property even under copyright law until they pay for it
I don't think google is the best benchmark for page speed. Try espn or cnn.com
Very nice. Take one of these, stick an Eye-Fi[1] in it, set up a few background jobs that interact with my calendar, and not only can I take an unlimited amount of notes (with a pen!), but they can be automatically categorized by date and context with no special action on my part. Throw up an Apache instance, and I can access them from anywhere.

I don't exactly wish I were taking classes just so I could do that, but if I were, oh man would this be useful. At that price, it's probably worth picking up as-is when it comes out.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Eye-Fi
Elizabeth Warren said that in their bankruptcy study, the vast majority of people who filed for bankruptcy didn't do it because they "bought things they didn't need". They did it because they overextended themselves to get a house in a good school district and then one of them lost their job or they had a medical emergency.

It's easy to paint those people as irresponsible, but according to her, it's very far from the truth in most cases.
US & UK corporations helping Mubarak distrupt communication, identify dissidents
Nice- I should've looked. And, I appreciate the idea behind earned trust. Best of luck!
Funny that this comment is downvoted considering the (in my opinion) exceedingly rude act of quietly silencing users here.
Tell HN: Facebook changes https setting permanently on app use.
Something I just noticed which you may want to pay attention to, if you attempt to use an app and Facebook pops up a prompt telling you it won't work over an HTTPS connection, and you accept, it permanently changes your setting away from using HTTPS by default, instead of just temporarily using HTTP.
Don't worry they have set up a series of "Strategy Boutiques" (seriously!) to get over it

http://www.slideshare.net/whatidiscover/open-innovation-in-a...
They have a chart showing how people get out of debt, and the chart seriously does not include the option "pay your damn bills?"

I'm reminded of statistics saying that the average wedding costs $28k or whatever. The reality turns out to be something like "among weddings arranged by a professional wedding planner, the average cost is 28k".

I hope they aren't putting together a funding pitch equating the "1/3 of American's have credit card debt" with "1/3 of Americans have enough debt that they need outside help managing it" as this chart implies.
I made it work acceptably well for my use case. But the query optimizer sometimes was doing stupid things.
Spork is a great app. Love it. ++ Deserves a table for sure
Or http://vimeo.com/3993848 for people outside the US
Sort of classless, but funny. Someone needs to aggregate these on a site a la 404 page galleries.
The borehole, pumped full of Kerosene and Freon to keep it from freezing shut, hangs poised over the pristine lake.

That is all.
I don't disagree but when you say this "proves" that point I'm not sure that's true. You can just as easily hire people that can "hit the high notes" and fail because of mismanagement. The best example of this is Apple's Copland (a.k.a. System 8) Operating System. To quote Wikipedia...

At WWDC '96, Apple's new CEO, Gil Amelio, used the keynote to talk almost exclusively about Copland, now known as System 8. He repeatedly stated that it was the only focus of Apple engineering and that it would ship to developers at the end of summer with a full release planned for late fall.

(Source: http://tinyurl.com/2lrwzd)

So even with the entirety of Apple's engineering resources devoted to it this project still collapsed. As far as we know Nokia could be in the same boat with a bunch of high note hitters being held down by poor management.
Reamur, Kelvin... what's the difference :)
I had some thoughts on sponsorship:

Make it so you can brand a version of the site. e.g. build a verrsion for Virgin America only flights. Make it embbedable widget. License it to the airlines as a widget they can give the link to any affiliate partner - either ticket sales or marketing affiliates.

The affiliates can have a "where is virgin flight now" widgets embedded into any page with a single embedd-link.

Do this through embedly?

Copyright whatever you can about it.

Make it so that you can see "all flights out of SFO/into SFO" by that carrier - then list the tickets available for each of the flights/destinations in the next few days.

etc.. etc..
Even if they don't collect and use Bing outclicks in their calculations... if they're using clicks, and load-times, and view-times, and order-of-visit information from third-party unaffiliated Google sites, including potentially sites with robots.txt blocks against crawling, then they're doing things almost entirely analogous to Bing.
The Deck seems pretty viable (http://decknetwork.net/) but then InfluAds seems to be fairly, um, inspired by The Deck's angle.
Sigh....Two things:
1) Performing this sting and it working or failing wouldn't prove if they did it in the past...The cat's out of the bag. Bing or Google could have easily changed their systems. (and I'm sure the way the two incorporate clickstreams into their search engine is VASTLY different)

2) More importantly, why would Microsoft need to prove google is also using clickstreams? Microsoft does not believe using clickstreams is wrong.
They have waaay less traffic only since Google came onto the scene and stole their traffic by virtue of being better.
The author of this piece is a professional blogger. Having 5,000 FB friends is probably natural to him because marketing himself is part of his job.
Ask HN: Accountant recommendations for incorporation a company?
I'm a US expat looking to incorporate a company in the US, and am considering Wyoming. Does anyone have recommendations for a good accountant who could handle that for me?

Thanks
This is actually the reason McDonald's started taking credit cards. Studies find this again and again that people buy more when putting it on their credit card.

Do you think giving 2% cash back is just the credit card companies being generous? They are making way more through that scheme. Plus, those cash-back cards generally take a higher percentage which will lead to higher prices to compensate.
No. Because in my particular situation I did not have DBA access, and I was running queries against a restored backup of an OLTP system. The risk/reward is such that it made absolutely no sense to try to tweak things to make my queries run faster at the potential cost of doing who knows what damage to the queries that were running in the OLTP system.

Therefore, even if I was still in that reporting role, I would never, ever even CONSIDER playing with the knob they gave me. And even were I so reckless, no sane DBA should allow it.
A beautiful and dedicated note-taking device.

Microsoft should buy NoteSlate and rename the device the Microsoft OneNote. Have it sync with Microsoft Office OneNote and Office Web Apps.
Your chained cert might actually be the bottleneck if the total data exceeds 4K and the user has to do a second round trip to ACK the cert.

http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2010/07/10/overclock...

Basically, unless you are certain you need it 4096 bit security, use a 2048 bit key (1024 is not secure anymore) and only include the minimum number of intermediate certs you can get away with. OSCP stapling doesn't seem worth it if it cause you to over flow the initial TCP window.
Mixtent is a "hot or not" like startup for the professions.
Is it just me, or is their choice of name a terrible branding decision?

It's bothered me for quite a while. I'm surprised they haven't been lampooned on Fox News as being a terrorist weather outlet.
Yeah, the level of WU branding and website administrative stuff at the top even after the first visit is annoying.

Hopefully they will keep working on it. Their mobile webapp is very good at not wasting my time.
It's relevant and IMO funny satire. Everything can't be an in-depth Erlang tutorial.
I believe Matt Cutts already stated that they don't use any click stream signals from their toolbar in their rankings. So much has been said about this that I haven't been able to find the quote. I may have even gotten wrong which Google employee said it.
But which is actually worse off right now? If the currency markets are anything to go by, the GBP has sunk from 1.5 to 1.2 Euros, and that's after the beating the Euro has taken in recent months.
"The borehole, pumped full of Kerosene and Freon to keep it from freezing shut, hangs poised over the pristine lake.

The explorers now face the question: How do we go where no one has gone before without spoiling it [...]"

Oh, I don't know... how about start by not dumping in thousands of gallons of _freon_?
Somewhere in the world, it's 5pm.
Phlux - the per airline branding is exactly something I had thought of - I'm looking for a contact in the industry who could help make it happen :)

Yes it would be great to be the de facto widget for airlines to show their fleet status etc - in fact that would be the dream! Nice concept :)
Watching this clip was one of the worst Flash video experiences I have ever had. Ridiculously laggy.

On another note, watching this video was also one of the most humbling experiences I have ever had.
Good luck and hope you get a table! :) Much deserved!
Homeland Security Tries/Fails To Explain Why Seized Domains/Google Are Different
Wikipedia (I'm not certain if this is for real or not): Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, it was founded in 1995 as an offshoot of the University of Michigan's Internet weather database. The name is a reference to the 1960s militant radical terrorist student group the Weather Underground, which also originated at the University of Michigan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground_(weather_se...
Greatest Oops Moments in Aviation
Yea, I have seen Oracle do basically the same thing, and our solution is to stick in a stored outlined (effectively locking the plan). If you own the code (ie it is not a 3rd party COTS package) you can also use hints to control queries. I would hate to be without hints in Oracle.

Oracle 11g apparently can spot when a query plan changes and the new one is much slower than the old one - at least that is what is says in the documentation. Whether it works or not I will find out if we ever get a system upgraded to 11g!
It's really much more complicated than this. There are a lot of people in this country who live paycheck to paycheck. Some of those people got there by living irresponsibly, and some didn't. When you're living paycheck to paycheck and an emergency comes up, you use whatever means you have available to get through it. I've certainly been in situations where I've had major unexpected expenses (medical, auto, home, business, etc) that had to be covered, and the only option was to put it on a credit card and hope I could pay it off later.
Startups are always looking for coding rock stars and ninjas. Where are coding pirates and zombies supposed to work? :)
I think both are true: Those countries do not have their affairs in order and it is also propping up the banks.
Haven't you ever wondered where to get the best food in a city? Or what your friends think are great eats? Stop watching Food Network shows and get immediate local food suggestions from Spork!
The only problem is that OS X is a UNIX operating system.
Dell Streak 7 Android Tablet Early Hands-on Demo [video]
There is a Facebook Like button right at the top of the post. The irony.
I listened to him while paying off my student loans. A bit repetitive but very motivational and encouraging.
Definitely, but I don't think that's how the majority of people get into debt. My cousin can't make ends meet (he has a deficit of 100 EUR/mo) but he won't quit smoking and he just got a ceiling mural painted. When I asked him why he did it, since it set him back two months, he said "I didn't realise until after the guy had started painting".
1. Put them on a site,
2. Sort by metadata
3. Let users vote on what they like (think "hot or not")
4. When user hits a threshold of X votes,
give them a free photo.
5. Sell/rent preference data
> pros who use photos: designers, architects etc
>to camera companies to use in R&D and improving digital cameras
>to education outfits that train photographers
> pros who use color: fashion designers, paint manufacturers
My mother literally thought the weather site was somehow associated to the radical leftist organization.