skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hang on a minute. This is about an "op-ed" article that included quotes (as in, contained in quotation marks) that don't appear to accurate, investment advice (allegedly comical or otherwise), and outright derogatory comments (without any justification given). Moreover, the follow-up article republished private correspondence without permission, and is trying to justify its trash article based on some sort of journalistic high ground argument.

Frankly, while I wouldn't have put things the same way, I think the guys from Hashable have every right to be upset, and the web site that upset them is lucky not to be discovering the hard way why serious newspapers have a full time legal department. Their posts have been, IMNSHO, about one step in maturity about the five-year-old in the playground who says something really hurtful to another child, and then tries to make things better by saying "But I was only joking!".

Oh, and the blog post about the whole sorry affair seems to think that communications with journalists are somehow exempt from the usual rules regarding privacy, IP rights and, frankly, common courtesy. I suspect this is not a position that either responsible journalists or lawyers would agree with (as the former would have checked if they were on the record in a case of doubt, and the latter wouldn't assume their personal view trumped what the law actually says).

Does the person who wrote the linked blogpost (on spiers.tumblr.com) have any connection to the betabeat.com site that started this whole mess?
I am very surprised that after all this time, they really don't have a way for someone to say "freelance" or "consultant" without giving yourself a company name. They literally pollute their database by forcing users to make up company names and overload the job titles. It's been this way since the early days: they must have their reasons, but its a messed up data model that doesn't really reflect they world they are trying to reflect.
That's what you do with a blog and 'the twitter'.
Considering my current impression of Hashable, which is derived from this and the original article. The original article seems to be dead on.

An insecure founder formed a company that builds product for other insecure people who then gather and cherish their fears together.

I think thats awesome!

What better way is there than to market such a product than through Streisand effect?

On a side note, what do you think of possibility that the original manifestation Streisand effect, was in fact just a signal from Barbra to her fans, that she is still as insecure as any of them?
Is it possible that this experience was influenced in any way by the fact that they're trying to find a "Senior iPhone Developer" for under £40k? That's ~$65k, and thus roughly $100k shy of what you'd need to offer before you started to pique the interest of any good iPhone Developers in the current market.
On a relative scale? Yes, wiping the system is much worse.

On an absolute scale? They're both still bad: the lesser of two evils is still an evil. ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
HeidiSQL ( http://www.heidisql.com/ ) has interesting statistics on its home page:

MySQL version usage*

MySQL 5.1 44.6%
MySQL 5.0 42.8%
MySQL 5.5 5.1%
MySQL 4.1 4.2%
MySQL 4.0 2.0%
MySQL 3.23 0.7%
MySQL 6.0 0.3%
MySQL 5.4 0.1%
MySQL 5.2 0.1%
MySQL 5.6 0.0%

* Reported by 62028 HeidiSQL users over the last month, which have the statistics feature enabled in their preferences dialog.

I have a WAMP distro called WampDeveloper that uses MySQL 5.1 and have had a few emails about why I don't use 5.5...

Mostly because MySQL (and PHP) have had a really bad history of having their current "general release" versions of being beta quality. To skip the headaches, you should run 1 major version behind. The stats seem to back this up nicely. There are just about as many people using 5.5 as 4.1.

P.S., HeidiSQL is written in Delphi / Pascal and is GPLv2.
The problem there is the fixed width, not the header. People on big monitors shouldn't have to downsize their windows so that the content doesn't look goofy, that is back-assword.
Interesting. They were turned down by 20 VCs before Carmel and Sequoia invested in them.
Bytemark. I've used them for years.

Dislaimer: as of last month, I'm also employed by them.
I never claimed what I did was a good thing.
مشاهدة مباراة الزمالك والافريقي التونسى بث مباشر
Huh? Since when can the 13" model switch graphic cards ?
No, the point is (or should be) that fixed width on a web page is almost always wrong. It will be either too big, or too small.

It is simply astounding the number of web pages that have poor appearance because the 'designer' never tested them on a different size monitor, or with different size fonts.
Great writing, terrible reading.
Well, in your original post you said: "I don't consider what I did to be a bad thing."

So if you don't consider your actions to be bad or good, that means you think they're neutral? ;-)
Interesting ideas and good suggestions but...

I moved to another country, I don't know anyone there, I do go out on my own and I do sit in cafés on my own from time to time - heck absolutely EVERYWHERE I go I am alone since 2 years.

I have not been approached by ANYONE not even a single time. I can hardly catch anyone's eyes to so much as get a chance to smile at them.

Your suggestions sound smart and useful but ultimately they probably only work for very attractive people and/or people who are not shy and already extrovert anyway - at least in my experience.
For cheapest, I have yet to see something less expensive than prgmr. Luke, I'm not sure if he owns it or is just the main administrator is a member here.

http://prgmr.com/xen/
Depends on whether the code you're running will use the extra cache. In some HPC and gaming circumstances, people write in assembler to make sure a code loop or the data structure being worked on fits totally within the L1 or L2 cache of the processor, which can provide a huge performance improvement.

But, for standard use without such specialized workloads, $250 a minor clockspeed and cache improvement doesn't make much sense.

You'd probably get a much bigger boost from adding a SSD or going up to 8GB of RAM in the machine. I'd buy these aftermarket - RAM especially is a good deal as you can get 8GB of DDR3-1333 for less than $90 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148...
PHP is just as secure as any other language. It's the programmer's best practices (or lack of) and implementation that can make the code secure or insecure. The language is mature, actively maintained, and has a nice standard lib (debatable). Whether or not YOUR program will be secure depends on you the PROGRAMMER not the language.
It's not like your two options were either wipe the box or take over their twitter account.

A responsible pen-tester would have reported the issue privately and disclosed it publicly at a later date.

Take a look here for a protocol to follow in future http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/policy.html
Traffic Squeezer Demonstration of need for QoS in WAN or P2P Networks
i'll go with either linode or slicehost.
Another great post Joel. Couldn't agree more with your first paragraph when speaking about the "scale anticipation fallacy". Not only do people think they have to get everything being able to scale to millions, they also think in terms of "it only works if used by millions". Even worse if these two things go hand in hand. :S
I can also totally relate to the last part and have to say I am super proud to be as naive as I am, just like you wrote. Following my intuition as what works and what doesn't has paid of very well. Sometimes in the form of mistakes, sometimes as little successes. One thing for sure, they were and are always great points of learning.
Awesome post, let me Buffer this :).
Is the situation in HTML/JS applications any different, though?
Just wasted five minutes :
1> Journalist trashes Hashable in satirically laced 'opinion' piece
2> Hashable CEO fails to see anything funny and calls journalist/s liar(s)
3> Journalist posts sections of CEO's emails in a follow-up article
4> CEO gets upset and ... the loop shall continue
That's not the usability perspective. Usability would be "don't mess with the semantics of the controls". E.g. if you're going to make something that looks like a button, it should do everything that buttons do.

Having the sidebar always on so as to avoid the bounce is not a usability thing. Usability would suggest that you leave the defaults the heck alone. In this case though, it is a pretty minor infraction.

Rather, it is an aesthetics thing. They've decided the default behaviour is 'ugly', and they've decided to override it to make it look better. In this case they've decided that prettiness trumps usability.
As an introvert, I tend to agree with the author. Introverts generally make up the extreme ends of the population distribution in terms of being "successful", success being defined the way it is generally accepted. On the other hand, extroverts are spread out much more evenly. For example,the CEO of a big corporation might be an introvert, but most of the middle level managers are extroverts. Then there are those introverts who find it difficult to move up in the management hierarchy, for one reason or the other. I believe that those who are exceptions are so in spite of being introverts and not "because" they are introverts.
Their text: "This ongoing crisis has highlighted the need for trusted sources. With conflicting reports of radiation levels in affected areas, we wanted to build a way to report and see data in an unbiased format.

This site is not meant as a replacement for government nor official nuclear agencies. Our hope is that data sets from various sources can provide additional context to the official word in these rapidly changing events. ..."

They're using loaded language. They don't say that the official reading are not credible, but let's take a few measurements to make sure.

Background radiation levels vary quite a bit due to surrounding geographical features. A reading from a government station is made under a controlled environment, so a prolonged and large increase in their readings is a good indicator of possible contributions from artificial sources. Getting people to run around with consumer radiation meters isn't going to produce credible data, especially when people are more likely to submit a sample if they "find" an unusual reading.

Also, they're calling for contributions from people in Japan. Yet they do so not in their native language. It seems to me that their intent is that they want radiation readings primarily from English readers i.e. not Japanese.
What happens when computers stop shrinking?
No.

I 'think' what I did was a relatively good thing. I never claimed it was, nor would I use that sort of thing as a defence. Everything that I have a say in is under control of phpFog now, and no data was lost. Anything further is completely out of my hands, I can only do so much.
they are now with 4 cores with higher clock frequency
It doesn't break them. Safari doesn't accept cookies from across domains (by default). Safari still sends cookies to iframes across domains.

Even if Safari blocked sending cookies to other domains, it would still be possible for both commenting and the like buttons to work. On a low-tech level, rather than working by Ajax (which is how I assume they work - I haven't actually used them), they would work as a standard link or form to Facebook's site. Once not in the iframe and on Facebook's site, it would realize that you were logged in and rather than asking you for your email and password would record the like or comment. In fact, when you try to press a like button not logged in, a small window pops up asking for your email/pass so that it can log you in and do just that. It's easy to imagine that the window would pop up, offer a little "thank you for your comment" confirmation with a close button.

Facebook could also decide that it wanted to use Flash cookies which would work if Safari blocked sending cookies to other domains. Safari isn't in control of whether Flash is loaded in an iframe and a Flash cookie is requested from another domain. This is part of the reason why it's more significant on the iOS platform. Advertisers do use Flash a lot and that usage can be used to set a Flash cookie that the browser doesn't control and Flash doesn't have a setting to disallow Flash cookies from sites you don't visit.
How do you get it started? Do you have to learn something about the market and start posting your own content?
This was extremely useful, thank you. We applied few days ago for this batch and I JUST KNOW that we are IN! :-)
Yes, since 2002 :-)
So you have no problem with the concept, just this specific implementation? There are more understandable ways of saying that.
I think he ignores other possible advances besides miniaturization. Currently making smaller transistor seems like the easiest way to improve performance, but other methods may become more attractive when it isn't possible anymore.
Exactly, just do it again and again, over and over... eventually things will fit together and you will get it right. The spirit of not giving up and to keep learning from mistakes is the only that counts in the end.
This is the same thing I think every time someone says "Why is it so danged hard to find a developer that knows SEO or an SEO who can program their way out of a paper bag. It's like nobody has even heard of any, when we'd gladly reward any with $80k and all the soda they could drink!"

If you think you are paying market, and you can't find a candidate despite using all the normal channels, you by definition are not paying market.
If you were the last person in the world, would you build a parser?
Fukushima one week on: Situation 'stable', says IAEA
False. They may not make money in the same way, but they definitely make money off of app developers. The PS3 SDK costs something like $10,000. They also charge royalties against each game sold.
Yes, I can explain that.

The links are dead. They were the links to the original uploads for the others to look at. The link was leaked to Andrew somehow. By looking at times, I'm very sure that the files were deleted from there before they were posted by Andrew.

I don't know and don't want to find out how he obtained those links. We're all a big group of people, but the links were never shared by me to him. He's a rash and irresponsible person as you can tell from that tweet.
I've heard stories about YCers whose companies failed being hired by other YC companies

I've heard successful YC companies referred to as being like piranhas (or something like that). Any time another YC company shows signs of failing, the others tend to wonder about hiring opportunities.
I don't know about the UK in particular, but salaries in Europe are in general lower than in the US.

40k gbp is almost 46k eur, which is not a bad salary in Vienna.
Arduino + Eventmachine = Volume slider for my mac
a year isnt that long in a lot of business contexts. a year is quite a while in personal contexts.
I get emails like this occasionally. Not from Sony, but other large firms in the industry that I've been in for many years. It's all quite routine.
Interesting. Link bookmarked for when it's not midnight, I'll definitely take a read through that. It'd be nice to have a guideline of sorts, I guess.
As far I can see, by being accepted from YC you get your chances up from 1% to 50%. Still not 100% guaranty but it's 50x better than before.
Debugging Javascript with a Stacktrace
Chroot will only delay an attacker a bit of time [1]

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[1] http://serverfault.com/questions/19473/does-using-chroot-for...
I deleted my account a couple of months ago. After a few years, I got nothing out of it. My gmail serves as a better contact list. My day job is research, and linkedin doesn't serve our type of networking very well. It's more business-oriented.

As for my work outside of research, I don't want to cross-advertise in one place.
Mine is still rockin, same vid card... best machine I've ever bought! (first mac)
Irrespective of the appropriateness or not of the rate actually offered, the edited version is quite simply a lie perpetrated by lying liers and unfortunately this sort of behaviour seems to be the norm for the recruitment industry in my limited experience.

The amount of blatant untruths I've had to be polite about as I've taken calls from recruiters trying to hawk their wares. Actually, I've stopped being polite: responses like "speaking to him an hour ago were you you lying git? Only he is sat opposite me all morning and hasn't taken a single call. Would you like to start telling the truth or just hang up now and save us both some time?" are common from me.

Next time I'm looking for work I plan to try stay as far away from that sort of company as possible - I'd feel morally dirty just thinking abut dealing with them. Unfortunately I'm not sure how effective other paths are, but fortunately I don't expect to need to know for some time! Opus is most definitely on the "would not deal with even if desperate" list after having read this post.
I didn't like this idea at first, since it struck me that if for some reason you had to create many records in quick succession (e.g. some kind of bulk upload) they would essentially be placed in random order. But thinking about it, the only scenarios where you would need to do this and want to preserve the order exactly would be if all the records were coming from the same source -- in which case you could just choose a single UUID for the batch and append increasing values of a local counter to this.

TL;DR: This would actually work really well I think!
> broadcasting knowledge of the holes to the world without a reasonable wait is akin to criminal

I wouldn't go as far as that. It's sure bad form, but disclosing a fact (maybe with the exception of immediate national security concerns) can't be considered a crime.

This will cost the PHPfog folks some and they can - and should - pursue civil action against whoever causes damage to them.
ah yeah -- it just was down this morning, so linked to the cache. thanks.
Neither my radio nor my television could track my choices during their golden ages of ad-supported content.
Yes, we make development tools for .NET and PHP. Two of us, started an year ago and are on track to make $300K in revenue for this year (but we have almost no expenses, other than small hosting plan). We had a fairly popular open source product before that, though, and we created commercial tools on top if it.
It seems to be from one of your friends:

phpfogsucks.com is hosted with tomato.compwhizii.net:

http://sharingmyip.com/?site=phpfogsucks.com

Which is owned by John Du Hart ( http://johnduhart.me/ ) .

You guys could be in a lot of legal trouble if they decide to press charges.
Is it a bad thing? In worst case you'll be working with other people with similar mindset to yours which is not bad at all.
Do you guys have any preference for hardware or software virtualization? (i.e. xen vs. openvz)
Not to mention a few of those countries that have recently been devastated by earthquakes are in regions susceptible to quakes - Japan, New Zealand, even Haiti. Japan, for example, has had a long history of dealing with quakes.

What's striking is the sheer devastation and magnitude of the recent catastrophes, partly because we sometimes forget, that despite our technology and achievements, nature is nobody's pet or mother.
Yes, but the kind of disruptive mindset YC funds will think about how to make some previously non-scalable business scalable. I don't know the answer here, but it's a good question.
You are worrying about correctness of concurrency. Yes, this should always be worried about.

The parent poster is worrying about performance of concurrency. This doesn't need to be worried about unless you are one of about 5-10 tech companies whose name is recognisable to people on the street.
He seems to be saying that they are pretty much like record labels, but they behave a lot better.
I should have added this as part of my original question but how easy is it to upgrade your hosting solution. Say I have a 20$ a month one but then one of my websites takes off and I need bigger and better. Is the transition painless?
Wide Reports of Apple iPad 2 LCD Defects
One thing you should probably watch out for in all this is that you've used your real name and your website is personally identifiable. Depending on the Laws in your jurisdiction, what you've done (getting root on the phpfog server and accessing their twitter account) could be a criminal offence.

Indeed a quick look at Queenslands Cybercrime laws shows up

"The Queensland law introduced in 1997 uses the heading 'computer hacking and misuse' but the offence is defined as the use of a restricted computer without the consent of the computer's controller. A restricted computer is defined as one that requires a 'device, code or sequence of electronic impulses' to gain access. There is a penalty scale of two, five or 10 years maximum term of imprisonment depending on whether (1) an offender simply uses a computer, (2) causes detriment or damage, or gains or intends to gain a benefit, or (3) the detriment, damage or gain is valued at more than $5,000."
Yeah, but thats still more than 11000 pound less than the starting salary for a Danish computer programmer.

For a senior programmer, thats a joke.
It depends where you are living. In London 40K is a lot less attractive than in York (where I live and work) where it is probably very good, and in somewhere like Grimsby it might be considered particularly high. The cost and hassle of working in a particular place (i.e. either rent or property purchase prices, and/or the convenience/availability/cost of transport options, access to good social facilities, and so on) make a huge difference and vary by a surprising amount from place to place even within a relatively small country and this factors into what an acceptable salary is. Of course a good benefits package can affect the acceptability of a given rate significantly too, potentially offsetting the geographical differences - you need to consider a lot more than the one headline figure when judging if the offer is fair.
I've been seeing a bit of this type of article lately, perhaps due to the fuel prices rising, and have wondered; if this is true, why do I continue to hear exhaust noise when coasting in gear?

Exhaust noise is purely the sound of detonation, which requires fuel. So why do I hear it if there is no fuel being used?

I'm open to the possibility of my brain faking me out and I'm NOT actually hearing it, too. But I'm pretty sure I am. (NB: My car is a 1995 model, but it is fuel injected.)
Solving Sudokus with Java and tree data structures
Nice overview, thank you for sharing.

Besides this article, jamii's comment below provides more context of the system.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2328220
In certain contexts, this happens frequently. However, I know that some firms ask their employees not to do this as it gives competitive intelligence information away. Your profile shows who you work for, and if you have it enabled, LinkedIn will announce that you just connected to someone at ... Enron ... so there is a good chance that your company has a working relationship with Enron.
It’s not very often that when someone is offered a plum job with a company like Sony that they turn it down

Yeah, I get job offers like that a couple times a week. Guess what, I turn them down too. And it's not hard at all, because they are not offers of a plum job, they are an invitation to apply for a position.