skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only problem with your points are they have lead other countries to financial ruin. The one thing keeping this country from being Greece or Ireland or even worse Egypt (all I expect would rank higher on government sponsored entitlements) is that the dollar is the world's backup currency. When that stops and it will, there are already signs such as Russia, China and OPEC have met to discuss getting off of the dollar. Our government will no longer be able to just print money to pay for the growth of our government.

The clear lesson with Europe and now Japan is we cannot continue to over tax the capitalists and raise the entitlements.
Originality is overrated. Various sites with CSS-only layouts and minimal interfaces are best described as an emergent aesthetic. Expect more like this.

There are simply too many people drawing from the historical experiences and examples laid by e.g. Metafilter, Digg, image boards, etc. for it to consititute individual acts of copying. That there are so many whitelabel apps & plugins ready for the implementing only accelerates this evolution.
This is the third largest economy with less than half the population of the U.S. The Japanese just printed off a few bazillion yen to keep the wheels of the economy greased. Do they really need our donations? The biggest problems in Japan right now are simply logistical issues, not lack of funding.

There are far more people in this world in much more dire situations than the people of Japan but not getting the same headlines. Donate money, but don't earmark it for Japan.
there is nothing i havent seen before.... a multi million euro betting site (sponsor of real madrid) had this for years until i suggested it was a bad idea (and a lots of dev man days later......)
Cool, I wrote that article 18 months ago and I am glad to see it on HN. Chichen Scheme and Racket may have a lot more batteries-included type libraries available but Gambit-C with its custom Emacs support makes for a really nice developer experience. The ability to generate small native apps is great and it is a great tool. Marc Feeley also does a great job supporting it.

Since the article is 1 1/2 years old, you should check out the wiki http://dynamo.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/wiki/index.php/Main_P... because only covered what I needed for my own projects in the article..
Yeah, it's interesting to guess.. There are mild grammar errors in each longer sentence she's quoted with.. and two of them conflict strangely (she uses 'into' correctly once, but not again). I'm just playing detective, but either smells like someone young.. or like someone intentionally peppering grammar issues to sound it. I dunno. If I had to vote I'd call BS. I think it's someone older.
Lightning rod... Red herring... take your pick of phrase.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_nuclear_accidents#P...
getElementsByTagName always returns a NodeList, which is an Array-like object. You want the first thing in the array.
> how the police sometimes "leak" that the suspect in some crime is weak, pathetic, individual

Except that the "you just got hacked by a 16-year old girl" taunt was apparently started in Anonymous circles soon sfter the attack. Not to say any of this is true or not fabricated, just that its not likely being fabricated from outside for those kinds of reasons.
Any information as to what this actually is?
Looks great. I especially like Text. An export option would be great (maybe .org, .md and pdf).
Users interact with applications, things a user doesn't directly interact with are systems. Where you draw the line is really dependent on what you're doing.
Props for typing up a more detailed version, which is what I started to do, but then got lazy and decided to make a somewhat vague general statement.
I believe he mentioned in response to people's complaints that the site looked like Quora; I don't think he meant to relate it to security at all.
What if the 8year old kid died of heavy metal poisoning because we stripped mined his water supply for coal?
Or he lived downstream from an oil sands fracking plant?

Or he lived in Bangladesh and global warming caused his land to flood.

Or he live din Africa and starved because we pay more for corn to make biofuel than he can afford.

Or he lived in the middle east on top of our oil and we had to drop some laser guided democracy on him?
Works very well in Chrome 10.0 beta, barely runs in Firefox 4 RC1 on the same machine. Oh, the irony.
32GB XOOM Wi-Fi U.S. release on March 27 for $599
True, but they're all throwaway account I don't care about. Things I do care about all have their own unique password.

Excellent point about the plaintext though.
I don't understand how a bunch of redirects from his own sites simulates clicking on ads.
My bs meter was high for a number of reasons. This paragraph was the most notable:

"Meanwhile she refuses to be chained to her computer, limiting herself to a few hours a night online. She rarely visits online forums "they’re boring"and a few days a week takes a course in college to further her goal of being a teacher. She lives in an English-speaking country not the U.K.but won’t say more about it"

So the previous paragraph stated she was "memorizing Windows Opcodes and scouring source code for exploitable bugs", but then suddenly she only spends a few hours online? Not likely. Most hardcore hackers I know don't just drop off the radar. The hunt to break into systems is like a drug. I have yet to read about, or know any hacker who simply spends a few hours online a day. At the speed internet security moves, this person's knowledge would be useless inside of 6 months.

Also, how does this person maintain her expert hacker knowledge with a few cursory hours a day on the internet? Literally impossible. Add in the admission she deletes all her emails and wipes all her drives clean? Really? Does this person memorize every line of code she uses then?

My conclusion? A carefully crafted profile of an Anon personality. Although I have no doubt this person probably exists, it certainly is not a 16 year old girl, and a majority of the information in the article is total BS. When you apply some very basic logic, the story just falls apart.
Hate to break it to you but that actually means something. The technical details are surprisingly on target for being written by a tech journalist.

Ex. http://www.metasploit.com/users/opcode/syscalls.html
Not sure what the status is now, but for a long time Microsoft intentionally limited the file-sharing (and printer-sharing) capabilities of their "home" class OSes, to avoid cannibalizing sales of their "office/server" class OSes.
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You're either confusing me with someone else, or putting words in my mouth. I've never said that we shouldn't use nuclear, that nuclear is worse than x, or anything like that. Part of the reason I have a problem with the tone in the aftermath of this disaster is that you guys are seeing a boogie man behind every question. The only thing I did was question the logic and assumptions of a couple of arguments for nuclear power. I'm trying to figure this stuff out for myself, so I'm questioning things.

edit: in fact, if you read my early comment I said this, "Nuclear seems safer than coal, but the knee jerk reaction on this site from pro-nuclear people isn't helping that cause.". That doesn't seem to stop you from seeing a boogie man though.
This matches my experience almost exactly. I wasn't sure that I needed a smartphone, so I got a low-end Android handset on Verizon (Droid Eris), and it's been an absolute piece of garbage, even with custom ROM (currently running a Gingerbread ROM based off CM7). The higher-end Android models I've played with have been better, but even my girlfriend's HTC Desire has boatloads of issues, and some of them are the same as the issues on my Eris (scroll lag, menu lag, poor input responsiveness across the board).

Google really needs to focus on Android's user experience if they want to be a serious competitor to Apple across all market segments[1]. That said, I doubt that Google is going to place a strong focus on fixing Android's UX issues, because it seems to me that Android is yet another platform to get more ads in front of more eyeballs, and if shoveling OS updates and cheap handsets out is the way to do it, then that's what they'll do.

[1]: While it's true that Android has the #1 market share right now, I doubt that it's because of Android's UX attracting the masses--I have a feeling that it's due to Android's low price and availability at said low prices in emerging markets with many fresh-faced consumers (China, India come to mind). I strongly suspect Apple still kicks Google's ass in the all-important sector of consumers with money to spend on phones and apps.
When I had a lot more time, I would go into Yahoo chat and basically phish for pedophiles usernames/passwords. I can tell you that a "hehe" after anything will set the hook.

I could on average phish about an account a minute and I was never figured out. I only fell out of character once to warn an 18 year old kid, that talking to 14 year old girls sexually online wasn't the best use of his time. He freaked out and thought I was a cop!

It's relatively trivial to do this, most people will ignore minor slip ups provided you have the right context. I would set context by doing the following:

1. I would set my profile to the geolocation of the room I intended to work. I would then find a school and neighborhood to say I was from.

2. I would suggest I was home sick (and thus alone).

3. I would use an innocent, although, sexual name in my username like "booty"

4. I would use emoticons and "hehe" on probably 75% of all messages sent.

5. I would let them contact me first. If you contact them they get scared. If they contact you, they feel like they are in control.

For example, I could tell them the wrong name and many wouldn't notice, or if they did simply saying, "Oh, that's my middle name" is usually sufficient.

With all that said, anyone know of a way I could use my experiences and ability at social engineering online in a legit manner?
Any modern web server is going to be able to handle tons of connections, much more than a wifi laptop that can not yet be considered a modern web server. Beyond that, bandwidth is rarely the limiting factor. Framework/language weight, slow db queries, and javascript performance in the user's browser are much more prevalent concerns. In my experience it's always the db that falls over first, well before connection limits are reached.
I have export on my todo list. For now, try clicking History. You can copy-paste from that. You can also share a node + subnodes and copy-paste from that or print to PDF. The shared note page prints very cleanly.
"We also seem quite unlikely to learn anything especially revolutionary about how radioactive materials behave."

But that's not what we need to learn about. We need to learn about how the systems that are supposed to contain radioactive materials stand up to major catastrophe.
Known issue, they use some nasty combination of IFRAME and JavaScript for the site that breaks in a lot of browsers.
The parallelism features of Go are a side-effect of the concurrency features, which are far more about how you structure your code than about how it runs.

Go's main feature is what it removes. I got stuck with C for a long time because nothing better with the same simplicity came along.
Languages march forward with increasing complexity while offering very little in return for it. Go is a reaction to that and a solution to that problem.
The linked sited is an article that links to a blog post that doesn't really say exactly how they came up with their results, but provide some links (e.g. http://manhaz.cyf.gov.pl/manhaz/strona_konferencja_EAE-2001/...).

It sounds like they take into account deaths where coal air pollution was a contributing factor, but not deaths where radioactive fallout was a contributing factor, and they don't attribute global warming related deaths to fossil fuels.

They also don't take into account ongoing risks - some forms of energy present risks long after the energy has been harvested, so the numbers will continue to rise, while others don't).

I'd therefore take those results with a grain of salt.
And "ED" likely means something entirely different to what I imagine the typical Forbes reader to be.
My bank has a good one - you have to supply three pairs of associated words or phrases

It's upto you what to use as questions and answers
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Just so everyone's clear, AndrewWarner is the man behind Mixergy. He's saying Mixergy interviews successful founders, whereas The Startup Foundry is more of a general startup info site. (I agree there's quite a bit of overlap, though, and I also agree there's nothing wrong with that.)
Sure. When I was looking I found a few dead links on government sites too.
It sounds like our situation was similar to Seeing Interactive. We had some personal savings, we lived in a cramped apt. in Mountain View, had a little revenue early on.

I've been selling Ginzametrics months before it was even ready, just to make sure people were going to even pay for it, which turned out to be a good thing.
In the US fill disk crypto is useless. They will just hold you in jail until you hand them the password.
You know, I wasn't there and she really doesn't give much context for the remark. But a) She has a kid and this is a reason she has put off starting her own company. b) In place of actually starting her own company, she is interviewing other founders with the reasoning that it will help her prepare to someday do it herself (which maybe it will, I don't know). c) She "shied away from" being an entrepreneur when she was young because of what she saw her father go through.

So, she had a secure, stable job, got married, had a baby and makes a blog about "some day wanting to have her own company". She has apparently never actually tried to found anything at all. It makes me wonder if she got mad because the remark hit a nerve. (My therapist used to say "If you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps is probably the one you hit.") Which in my book wouldn't be indicative of sexism at all.
Wow. That kind of traffic is really going to be hard to detect as fraudulent.

Also, I blame Netscape for this and I'm digging out my NO FRAMES animgif! ;)
I heard a radio report in NZ over summer about the kids these days using words like Cool and Wicked in ways that weren't their original meaning.

Someone deserves a medal for epic trolling.
(I don't know what the station was -- I was in a hire car and channel surfing and decided to listen to the news broadcast)
What is a click other than a "redirect" from one page to another? Add the appropriate parameters in the HTTP call and you are done. There is no need for actual user interaction for an HTTP call to be considered a "click".

Take a look at the screenshots: You will see that the redirects are URLs that you would "click" as a user to see an ad.

The clever part is that the "clicks" come from a wide variety of IPs, wide variety of browsers, and on different times.
Everything I write comes out as female and I'm... not. I wouldn't trust that (or maybe I should question my gender...)
That is... pretty creepy.
As one or two articles have pointed out, that kind of skill is generally lacking in girls in our culture. So it is somewhat noteworthy, I guess.
I find this "where you went to school" concept to be the most contentious aspect of YC selection. I'd be interested to see some numbers on how many YC founders are from the "top-tier" schools vs. other places. Maybe that should be the next data point for YCPages.info; I certainly don't want to run the numbers myself.

I wouldn't say I'm embarrassed by where I went to school, but I certainly don't like to tell anyone about it.
Let's see -- are we actually comparing legal, systematized repression vs a couple dudes being rude dogs? When, if that dude was a boss and not a potential investor, said rude behavior would in fact be illegal?

Straw man, my friend. They are nothing alike.

I have run into many rude men at bars when attempting to buy drinks. Some have even butted in while I was dancing with another woman. I guess it's time to write an expose entitled "Sexism in the Beer Drinking Industry."
> With all that said, anyone know of a way I could use my experiences and ability at social engineering online in a legit manner?

See if Chris Hansen is hiring?
>I'm not sure sock puppeting is so cool.

Also illegal if you're running a business in Europe.
I read it as allowing for one of that scale every 45 years, the entire duration of data calculation, arriving at 0.037 deaths per TWh. There's no indication that more than one event of that scale is contemplated.
I'm wondering the same thing. It looks like an email harvesting page to me (?)
Wow, thanks for sharing. Really neat writeup.
Slow DB queries, yes. If your application does something stupid with SQL, your whole awesome C10K-solving epoll-based framework comes to a halt waiting for the database to read 1M rows off disk. Worst of all, your ORM likely hides the facts from you, producing left joins when you need inner ones, or worse not grouping the results so that a full join'ed result is returned when you only need the first and last tables.

More on topic, scaling web servers is not hard, just tedious. Scaling storage, especially if you need to use RDBMS's is the real trick.
Oh.. I know this one. It turns out to be Kevin Spacey in the end.
> But it doesn't matter, I would still choose hydro over nuclear, because it just feels right.

Why would you admit this?
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Calling someone a "stupid worthless cunt" is viciously sexist.

Hitting on someone is not "viciously sexist." Nor is telling someone you intend to hit on them for half an hour, later. Saying you'd like to see someone in your bed is not viciously sexist, it's just terribly unoriginal, right up there with "Is that a mirror in your pocket? Cuz I can see me in your pants."

If the behavior is unacceptable, don't accept it. It's that simple. If you want money from someone but don't like the cut of their jib, WALK AWAY.

Imagine if you were taking your kids with you to apply for a home loan. You weren't on food stamps or anything - you just wanted a loan. What if the loan officer looked at your kids and said, "What a bunch of ugly little brats. Glad they're not mine."

Would you smile and stuff down your feelings and try to take his money anyway? Commit yourself to a working relationship with that guy and earn him a commission?

Or would you grab your kids' hands and walk out?

If you don't protect yourself, nobody else will. If you don't respect yourself, nobody else will.

But seriously, telling somebody you plan to hit on them is tactless and rude, but it is not sexist. It's just dumb.
Get better friends.
But if even you can't guess the right answer, then that doesn't really count, does it? Hacker can't get access to your account, but neither can you. Might as well have entered sdaw4#$%@#$%#$5.

I'm talking about the scenario where someone either has your answer from another corrupted site, or tracks down the information publicly, like the kid who 'hacked' Palin's email.

Assuming you're using legit info, it's easy enough to try several reasonable variations of, say, University of Iowa, in the way a human would abbreviate it.
One thing I notice is that I can't select most of the text. I'd like HTML sites to do better than Flash in this regard -- conformance to established HTML behavior is supposed to be an advantage.
Yeah, I meant sans serif for body text :)
Should I apply to YC?
I work as an independent consultant (for 10 years now) and make a significant income without pushing the boundaries of my time. I have a wife and 4 kids to support so I am not interested in living on savings while I try to make some startup happen; at this point I am plodding along with some ideas hoping for lightning to strike.

I see something like YC and the ideas that get funded and along with my partners I scratch my head and often just say 'Really? Are you serious? That got funded!?!' knowing with great conviction that the idea I had on the toilet last week was a more viable business.

Should I apply to YC if I am older (31), have a family and have bottom line income needs? I hate to live on the investment of someone else because I feel like that puts me in a less than ideal negotiating position at the table but I also am torn by the idea that I have good ideas and the proven ability to execute.
Side-thread: This 'extra commitments' idea shits me in SO many ways.

It's trotted out to explain why people who are older earn more when they have the same experience. It's why our student allowance in Australia is ridiculously low but our unemployment is much higher. It's used as an excuse for only asking the single/childless employees to work late/weekends/not from home.

You're right, it's definitely just an excuse. People generally chose their life commitments in some way, and using them to justify unfair treatment is just incredibly annoying.
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It was pretty accurate for me, and I've used several examples.
I know that was simply an emotional response and I don't want to take anything away from the child who died, but to point to a specific child and say that they died because of Chernobyl is no more logical than to look at the snow on the ground outside and declare that Global Warming is a hoax.
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It doesn’t even matter if you don’t have a co-founder.

Any additional thoughts on this? "You really, really, really should get a co-founder" seems to be the standard response, but I'd really, really like to hear that it isn't an accept-or-reject issue.
Just came across this a few minutes ago. Never heard of them before; are these folks the 1st doing this on-line as a community?
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Minor rhetorical note - you used the phrase "exception that proves the rule" incorrectly. You used it to mean "the single exception to a general rule", with "open source software is necessary for a successful startup" being the rule, and Stack Overflow being the exception.

The phrase actually means that the existence of a specific rule implies that the negation is true for circumstances not covered by the rule. So, if half of the blocks in a city have "parking prohibited" signs, and no such signs elsewhere, that "proves" that parking is in fact allowed on the other blocks, since the signs are excepting the general rule. In other words, why would there be a sign if it was understood that there is no parking?

Sorry to make such a big point out of a small matter, but we already lost one good phrase ("Begging the question") to widespread improper usage. Wikipedia has more info, including the origin of the phrase: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule