skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's interesting.

Could you please share more details ?

1. What is the minimum wages in Germany ?

2. What's the rent for nonprofit apartments , or are they free and provided by government ? decent size , reasonable quality neighborhood , or small apartments and shitty
neighborhood (junkies , etc ? ) ?

3. What's the starting age for state provided kindergarten , what happens before that age , do women get social security ?

4. In short could german people earning those minimum salaries have a stable living with all the basics provided ?
This was inevitable - Google takes a laissez-faire attitude towards copyright violation on Android market, which is full of ripped-off IP - games with names and artwork belonging to other companies, rip offs of Rolex logos for clocks, etc - that I've personally reported and that have always been ignored by Google.

If they don't care about the small stuff - and it seems they don't - something nastier was always going to come along.

Hell if they'd bothered to notice one of the submitted apps was 'Spider Man' perhaps this would already have been averted.
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>they're not doing anything harmful with your information,

You don't know that. It could be harmful for me if I don't want my contacts connected together.
IPad 2 (or something) shows up in the wilds of China
Bear in mind that this is just something casting a wide net by using the android marketplace.

There's enough bugs and 0day floating around in webkit as well as unpatched exploit code to take on Safari, the Android browser and Chrome at the moment.

From a mail over the weekend about a pentesting exploit kit we subscribe to:

This release introduces two new exploits for the webkit CSS rule
deletion vulnerability. Use safari_parentstylesheet to exploit
all those pesky OSX machines (fully up to date and patched)
and android_parentstylesheet for anything running android 2.2 and
below. Moreover, using android_hotplug you can further escalate
your privileges to root. Being offsensive has never been so good!

==New Modules==

o safari_parentstylesheet (Safari <= 5.0.3 64bit webkit css rule deletion vulnerability)

o android_parentstylesheet (Android <= 2.2 webkit css rule deletion vulnerability)

o android_hotplug (Android privilege escalation vulnerability)

That's just one pentesting tool we use and that's a legitimate toolkit. Malware targeting webkit in general is on the increase, with various payloads for safari, chrome, osx, ios and android. It's still the minority by far, but it is growing. Heck, even Metasploit's getting in on the game (http://blog.metasploit.com/2011/01/mobile-device-security-an...).

Incidentally if you want to see a video of the safari bug in action, you can download one from http://partners.immunityinc.com/movies/Lightning_Demo_Safari...

There's also one on owning android at http://partners.immunityinc.com/movies/Lightning_Demo_Androi...
I'm saying kind of the opposite -- JS/HTML/CSS and Flash are now more similar than they are different. It's not the platform that's the problem. It's what you can do with (and how you can abuse) the platform.
That's clever and useful. Thanks. I've used http://checkip.dyndns.org for this problem for years, but this is an improvement. Checkip:

>>> url = urllib2.urlopen("http://checkip.dyndns.org")
>>> url.read()
'<html><head><title>Current IP Check</title></head><body>Current IP Address: 192.168.0.1</body></html>\r\n'

Details here: http://www.dyndns.com/developers/checkip.html

It's not as easy to parse as JSON, but nor is it very difficult. The format has not changed in years; I've got a regex running I haven't needed to adjust since day 1.
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There are ISPs that will route all (or some) port 80 traffic into a bank of caching proxies but route traffic for all other ports normally.

(GRC.COM's 'Shields Up' service makes a point of using HTTPS to make sure it's testing your external IP rather than a random proxy server.)

I suppose it depends on what you actually want to use the returned IP for. As you say, the concept is hazy.
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you really are not missing much, it was a tautological snooze-fest.
They really just should block BitTorrent. It's overloading an already slow Tor Network with stupid people downloading porn and piracy.

No seriously. I know BitTorrent is also used legally. But there are other, less invasive ways to share files in Tor.
Not really... Twitter was a huge success in Japan, and that's about as simple as it gets.
Why doesn't Microsoft understand tablets?
Most HN readers might think twice on a PC, but anti-virus creators have got rich off the majority who don't think twice.
I was not being pedantic. I was being subtle about my point that if people wanted to use the internet as an applications-delivery platform they could have defined their own damned internet service instead of making life difficult for those of us who want to use the web for its original purpose of reading and writing.

It makes life difficult for us by making the browser into a huge ball of complexity and churn. (I still remember the days when the people who wanted to use the web as an applications-delivery platform implored people to upgrade to Internet Explorer 5 to make their lives easier, and of course they were not satisfied with IE 5 for long.) The vast majority of the crashes, unresponsiveness and mystifying software behavior on my Linux and OS X systems come from the graphical browser.
This is probably where third party 'app stores' come in. EG, Amazon's app store or someone else's who manually picks what apps go in may become the 'trusted' source for apps.

It is pretty difficult given Android's structure to have any chance of keeping the automated shipping of apps while also retaining security. Yes, you can keep adding more warnings about what apps do, but in general I don't think people read them, and you can ask for an awful lot of privileges.

The great thing about Android is just how much power you have to do stuff as an app maker, but that is of course one of the main problems as well.
I like to put here the Rework from Jason Fired quote "When you don't need someone, you don't need someone". Don't give a job just to give a job to someone, wait for a position that fits him properly an then, if you wish, put him on your company.
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Predicting 40-50 years ahead , in today's world is pretty meaningless.
A lot of FB's trouble can also be attributed to Mixi essentially curb stomping them early on, and then people in Japan getting quite tired of "socially connecting" because of it.
You're thinking like the typical German it seems. What you should know:

- Other "cheaper" countries are getting more expensive as well, at a staggering pace.
- In Europe, Germany is actually much cheaper than 10 years ago.
- Currently the employment for qualified persons is doing very well

Germany's problem is rather that it's going out of qualified engineers at a very fast rate, thus accepting immigration should be a key politic.

Germany's politicians and CEOs have been very good at scaring people to keep their salary down, but if you look at the state of workforce now you'll see that all this doom speech that all jobs are moving to China and India was not quite true.
What's a good conversion for a mockup MVP?
Hi!

I am building prototype sites to choose one from many ideas to bring through, and would like to hear about your experiences. What conversion percentage do you have for a splash page for example?

thanks!
Showcase Of 30 Efficient And Well Designed E-Commerce Sites
E-commerce is one of the best things that came along with the internet, making it easy to purchase goods not only from local shops, but from a worldwide selection. This thing goes both ways, not only good for us, but also for the shop owners who increase their sales considerably through internet. However, times change and just having an online shop isn’t enough. You need to take advantage of every aspect to outrun your competition and when I’m saying this I’m referring to design, usability and a well written code. In this article, there are 30 e-commerce websites that combine in a charming way those three aspects of web design.
Here is a RSS feed for this thread's parent comments (which are mainly job postings):

http://whoishiring.heroku.com/rss/2270791

Thanks to Ronnie Roller (http://ronnieroller.com/) for Hacker News API.
It's done manually, when the iPlayer was new there was talk of this being done, that you can rent servers in every exchange. BBC are really relaxed about piracy (in comparison to others) so this might not be common.

Too hard to work out what should be cached. Should BBC send the latest episode of Eastenders, Hustle, Tudors etc to every ISP before it's up for download? (Yes) Should Youtube try to guess which of its popular videos will be in demand next week? (No) Should Steam send out its new games? (Yes) You have to pick services where there aren't too many options, the iPlayer and Steam together have less than 2k items, and have a fairly predictable future demand.
I'm not sure I would qualify Google's response as "speedy." On the Reddit thread, the developer of the real Guitar Solo Lite claims to have been attempting to contact Google about this issue through various channels for a week with no response. http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/fvepu/someone_just_...
Amazon EC2, MongoDB, S3. The EC2 instances scale with how many stale feeds we have, but it is usually less than 2.

Just checked and we have ~25k feeds in the system, though not all are deep harvesting as we call it.

Note we do a few things over just extracting the full content as well, we also try to grab out images and create a pleasing thumbnail using face detection etc.. So that probably slows things down a good deal as well.
"as well as remotely removing them from user’s devices"

...well that is an interesting feature!
Bad idea. Never, ever, give a job out of compassion when the only reason is sympathy.

You will end up frustrated with a worker that doesn't bring much and your friend will also end up discomfited with a job that doesn't fulfill him.

Be a great friend and help him find a job, you are the smart one.
Memorising things is a pretty important skill for a good hacker. I forget (D'oh!) which famous researcher into comp sci it was, but one of them had done a study on the "uber-programmers" (the guys who out produce normal programmers by a factor of 10 or more) and found that all of them had much better memories than average.

The real danger of being too smart in high-school is that because you can pull the answer out of your arse any time you want, you don't develop a good work ethic. And in University, not having a work ethic is almost certainly going to catch up with you. In high school I was in a streamed class (ie all the bright kids) and almost all of them came off the rails in the first year of uni when they got to the end of the year and discovered that they weren't allowed to sit the final exams because they hadn't done the 'stupid' assignments.

Naturally, being smarter even than the rest of the smart people, I sailed through first year uni. ... only to come unstuck during the second year. :D

A lot of the kids you look at now and despise for their inferior intellects are going to have an easier time of it at university than you, because they've built up a work ethic, and you haven't.

You don't have to be bipolar for most of the symptoms the article talks about, just smart and lazy. You get a great idea and half complete it? Not necessarily a bipolar thing at all.

Problem is, smart and lazy won't cut it working for 'the man'.

So you might think, well, this is HN, I'll just start my own company and 'the man' can go whistle dixie!

Unfortunately, while 'the man' frowns on laziness, the free market absolutely despises it. It will hunt you down. murder you and then do unspeakable things to your corpse.
Oh my, is this a load of fluff. The PDF is 26 "chapters" in 30 pages, with chapters like "Upload Installer to Website", "Use Demo", and "Create Your Demo's Buy Now Page".

I'm not sure what community this level of content is targeted at, but it sure isn't HN. :/
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Nothing wrong with you, I work with software dev but my passion is about games, sometime ago e had a great software idea and I'm working in it. For me its a win-win situation because I want to succeed to invest in my passion, that is games.
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This still depends on the design of the language, though. Consider Java. There is definitely a pure functional subset of the language. However, any time you call across an object boundary the compiler has no way to know that the call can be treated as functional - because the language has late binding, and the actual implementation is swappable. In practise the JIT learns stuff like this and transforms it at runtime. That extra effort is needed because the language can't guarantee functional purity.

The point here being that some design decisions that add functionality remove the ability to rely upon design assumptions.
Mozilla Firefox 4 will be our last big release
I didn't say he was stupid :D Hey, free money, am I right?
What can you code in 128bits?
Ya, I did the same, and upvoted the comment when I saw it.

Would love to see the battle of votes on that comment. But sheesh, isn't it ok to have a little fun now and then. I mean it is even kinda on topic. :)
That sounds like something out of H.P. Lovecraft. Maybe the old ones are real.
Programmable inpluse watch checks into Facebook places
My $0.02, YMWV

Sometimes when you say things, you need to word them in a way that conveys the correct information to them, even if the same phrase when spoken to you would mean something different. I believe this might be one of those cases.

Your friend needs a job, and sees you as having a company. He needs to be told, perhaps quite bluntly, that you don't have a company. You have something which may eventually pay off, but at the moment, it's a stuggle to make ends meet even just for you alone.

Putting someone on won't increase your revenue, so you can't pay him. Taking time away from what you're doing will decrease your revenue, so you can't mentor him.

In short, he needs to be told that you don't have a company, and in some senses you don't have a job. You have an activity that you spend all your time on, with none to spare, and you don't make enough money yet for yourself.

All the above may not quite be true, but you need to get that message across in terms he will understand. You may want to say something like "As a friend I'm sure you'll try to see things from my point of view" but that message might not be heard.
I don't think you would refer to the raw sectors on your harddrive as a data structure. It may be more useful to view DNA as a just storage medium.

There's an encoding scheme on top of the nucleotides -- amino acids are encoded with trinucleotides. The RNA sequence AUG can be used as a start signal to indicate that peptide synthesis should begin at that point (it can also be used to encode the residue Methionine). Other sequences encode splice sites, these are used to signal the removal of sequences called introns.

Still other sequences (DNA binding sites, like the famous TATA box) have a high affinity for protein (those with DNA binding domains). The presence or absence of enhancers or suppressors can activate or deactive protein synthesis.

DNA also contains error checking information. Eukaryotic DNA undergoes methylation (think of this as adding meta-data to the DNA). After cells undergo replication, the new DNA is untagged. When error-checking enzymes happen upon a mismatch in the DNA, they remove the untagged base. There are also unrecoverable errors. For example, two adjacent Thymine bases can undergo cross-linking upon ultraviolet exposure -- the bases get stuck together. This sort of error can contribute to melanoma.

I don't think that the data structure analogy is appropriate for DNA, but there are certainly data structures encoded on top of it.
While I have never faced such a situation, from what you have described I would have to say "no".

I just don't see where this turns into an employment opportunity. Some people wake up in the morning and say "today I want to be a chef", but they are not a chef until they learn how to cook - no company would employ a chef that couldn't cook. The same analogy can be applied to coding.

While he's willing to work for free anyway, I'd say there needs to be some independent learning and thinking before moving forward. To me, it sounds like he is very desperate for a job and making decisions without fully thinking them through. For example, what if he turns out to hate coding? He may be willing to work for free, but time most certainly isn't free and he could end up wasting a lot of your and your companies time.

My final advice to you would be to say if he's serious about becoming a coder then start coding as a hobby, then get serious if he finds he enjoys it and is good at it. He can look for other jobs in the mean time, he can even get another job in the mean time and practice coding on evenings/weekends, but there has to be knowledge and understanding before there can be employment.
I was under the impression it had more to do with Facebook's policy of requiring real names. Most Japanese users do not use their real identities online.
If there is any, I will.
That sounds great! It seems like the Israeli military system brings with it an integrated approach to pathways in life.

That's far better than the picture that has been painted in front of my eyes (South-East Asian context) with places like Singapore and Vietnam. With the former, it's 2 years of physical grunt work. With the latter, one of my friend's cousins had to serve in the Army for 2 years as a Private after having graduated with an Engineering degree from the University of Melbourne, Australia. =(
Talk about FB addiction...
It's actually something that RunKeeper integrated for the NYC Marathon last year, automatically checking you in at various milestones.
That is an interesting piece of information. :) Thanks for sharing.
I found this: "Update: holy cheeseballs, they've been pulled already! Took less than 5 minutes from first contact to pull!" utterly amazing. That goes against ... well, pretty much everything I've ever heard about Google's speed and ability to respond to humans saying something.

Too bad it was over a security incident, but at least it proves that Google can react.
But of course, credit card networks are international, and there are plenty of people you can pay in the US to write your website's copy in Japanese.
Yes, but this would not help the debt of the people (and government). In fact, it would make things worse. This is the problem that Greece and Ireland are facing. Those governments are reducing expenditures but their debt payments remain the same. They are getting squeezed.

In a truly free market situation the bond market likely would have stopped buying Greek bonds because of the fear of currency devaluation long before their structural problems became overwhelming. Sometimes though the bond markets make a bad bet and currency devaluation becomes necessary. That's the free market. There's risk in buying bonds. However, in the EU the bonds have an implicit guarantee from the ECB, Germany, and France.
...and the downvote clearly demonstrates the fallacy in such a statement!

It's rather like the paradox in saying: 'I ALWAYS lie'...
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

BASIC was the first programming language I was exposed to when I started learning to program 5-7 years ago... I would hope today this truth is false.

It did, however, took me 2 years to learn something else other than BASIC plus another year of programming BASIC in Java...
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Without the Euro Germany wouldn't be quite the exporter it is now. Italians can buy German products because of the Euro. Initially Germany wanted to keep Italy out of the Euro but the Italians pointed out that they would devalue their currency and then German milk, cars, etc. would not be able to be bought in Italy.

The Euro may not have been welcomed by the people but it was welcomed by corporations and banks. Corporations and banks had (have) more power.
Restore time is important, too. XtraBackup backs up indexes, eliminating extra time required to rebuild them during restore.
Skinny controllers are not enough
> Your statement assumes the entire concept of discourse is to say things in the minimal number of bytes or words or whatever.

No, that's not my assumption at all.

I find it very useful if someone summarizes previous stuff, or reformulates hard-to-understand (e.g. badly worded) previous comments.

However, you should do that consciously. There's no sense in writing a comment that essentially just repeats what others already have written in better words than you'd ever do. Doing that is a waste of time not only for you (the writer) but also for all the readers. And it happens a lot, simply because people are too lazy to skim though the previous discussion.
Greece, Ireland, etc. are not being bailed out. Duetsche Bank is being bailed out. Greece and Ireland have been given guaranteed loans at high interest rates. It's money that they are paying back (provided they don't default). Germany is propping up its banks that made bad bets.
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The Apple walled garden is way more dangerous, because it's almost as easy to slip malware into your code (remember, Apple doesn't do full source code audits), and the false sense of security makes users even more complacent. It really is a perfect example of security theatre.
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It is really sad how relevant and spot on your analysis is. I have moved from a small typical 10-15 guys IT shop to a well established national player in private banking and it is unbelievable how crippling and exhausting work is there - but I am working much fewer hours for a much better pay. The attrition of daily 9-5 not-project work, all "serious business" and no "play" is horrible for even a mildly creative person in a typical "knowledge work" position...

And I love how even big corporations are usually presented as if they were making clear cut, sensible and rational decisions based on facts. This could not further from the truth.

Too bad you only find out about that once you actually start working a real job - nobody gives you that truth in university.
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Military site blocking
Did you know 500,000+ users in the navy network can not access bit.ly or any .ly on the web? If your demigraphic is 18-26 then beware of this traffic stopper. This goes for any domain that is not US. I am not sure what the reasoning would be for blocking entire toplevels, any ideas?
For all the press Mahalo gets I've never seen a Mahalo page show up in the first page or two of Google results. Maybe I'm not looking for the right stuff, but ehow, wikihow etc. all would show up before adding them to Personal Blocklist.
The specific nature of non-engineering classes varies, but most science/engineering degrees in the US will require about 16 1-semester classes spread across {history, sociology, literature, etc}.

This is reduced a bit if you go to an engineering school. I only had to take 9 non-science classes (+ 4 gym classes).