skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If any of you guys actually go and sign up for a Mighty CV I must apologise if you encounter a fail whale when you try to view your résumé. This is most likely to happen if you use the LinkedIn importer to create your résumé.

My number one priority tomorrow is to squash whatever bug is causing this. Pretty sure it's to do with blank months in the LinkedIn profile. Hope you don't encounter the bug but just thought I should mention it. Any feature request you have please ad via the uservoice feedback button. Thanks!
>Bacon is the only form of pork that Americans eat

I can't agree with you there. Think of all the ham, barbeque, and ribs, and pork chops.

Maybe you are talking about fast food (lots of beef, not much pork)?
Ignoring tsunami records: hubris, complacency, or just human nature?
Just to balance this article a bit; here is an excerpt from the judgment pointing to the many potential benefits to this deal:

The benefits of Google's book project are many. Books will become more accessible. Libraries, schools, researchers, and disadvantaged populations will gain access to far more books. Digitization will facilitate the conversion of books to Braille and audio formats, increasing access for individuals with disabilities. Authors and publishers will benefit as well, as new audiences will be generated and new sources of income created. Older books -- particularly out-of-print books, many of which are falling apart buried in library stacks -- will be preserved and given new life.
I hear there's a team at Adobe that everyone loves to hate that consistently adds features and keeps binary sizes down year after year...

True story.
Everyone here is missing the point, this is not exactly meant for direct ports of iOS applications to Mac OS X. For example, look at Twitter for Mac and Twitterific in the Mac App Store, they aren't direct / touch-based ports, but rather, they take cues from their iOS counterparts.
How Privacy is Ruining the World
this is really flawed logic. i hope no one takes this advice. including todd. here is sample size calculator -
http://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm

if he had 100 clicks and 3 buys, then his margin of error with 95% certainty is +/- 3.4% - maybe that's enough to make a difference?

but more importantly, companies like twitter never happen under this methodology. i guess this may be sort of ok to use for incremental products, but nothing big will ever be developed this way.
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I never said he wasn't pushed, but I wouldn't make it sound like he was fired. The role didn't evolve as expected and so there's no reason for him to stay. Pretty simple.
Hiring the hackers is a terrible idea. If they had done it ethically, yes. But do you really want to hire someone who has already displayed highly unethical behavior, and is likely a ticking timebomb? There are plenty of smart, ethical hackers out there.
Meh. They ripped off Things.
Your email isn't in your profile - but definitely ping me - would love to talk!
Given the frequent privacy-related news stories that appear here, I thought that this anti-privacy essay was an interesting alternative view point. And actually a fairly persuasive argument against privacy.
This was discussed a bit in the Hacker News thread after last blog post but I continue to feel that bloom filters aren't particularly useful here. Since any solution I use would require no errors it would mean that I'd have to place the bloom filter in front of another solution (likely the succinct trie structure that I described).

Let's assume that the bloom filter is as fast as a hash lookup (unlikely, but anyway) - at most it'll be saving me about 5-46ms of lookup time, with some non-trivial additional memory usage and data transfer. I'm 100% OK with having 5-46ms of lookup time if it means that I can have such an incredibly low memory profile. If lookups took somewhere around 200ms then yeah, I'd definitely look at layering a bloom filter on top of this. As it stands though using a bloom filter will only add additional code and memory usage for a negligible amount of benefit.
Been down since at least 7pm eastern time.
I've thought about the infrastructure issue a lot. The nice thing is that our value add is in the "create." We can hand off the "host" on videos that aren't profitable by just posting them to youtube or elsewhere...where they will still have value for the user, and where we can still generate some ads from them...
You can also just go to:

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

And download it for free, including checking out all of the .rst files that make the whole book.
Let's hope they are salted and iterated.
I fixed the wording to make it a bit more precise, thanks.
They claim in the README that Snappy is usually faster than QuickLZ. Haven't tested myself, though.
"Hey, Jules, which one of these commits is yours?"

"Mine's the one that says 'Bad Motherfucker' on it."
Yeah, that whole mental ninja trick of saying a programmer who doesn't want to do your bullshit "process" isn't a "team player" has to stop. It's just a manipulative way of calling someone autistic, a nerd, anti-social, and other offensive things that aren't right.

I mean, I don't go running around calling you a cheese eating brown nosing smiling sales douchebag with no real skills other than talking and pressing palms do I? Then don't say I'm an "anti-social nerd", I'm pretty damn good at talking to people.
Memorable quote: “Josh, in his spare time, is the largest wholesaler of diamonds on Amazon.”

So curious about this. Josh who? Any more detail available?
Very little risk has been taken out until you've found product/market fit. Unfortunately, ideation and fundraising don't eliminate risk, they're the easy parts.
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And here's Elliot's "official statement": http://elliotspeck.com/phpfog.html

And for anyone who missed it, here's what Elliot posted in the previous HN discussion about the phpFog breach: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2346161
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The blog post is riddled with the words "luck" and "timing" which brings doubt into my mind that the team can actually take full responsibility for their actions.

"aware of the potential security threat " but they left it for the next week, who honestly here would do that?

I have also seen comments around the web of migrating to Php Fog because of how they handled the situation. If you are one of these people please enlighten my mind as to how you came to such a logical decision or how much you get paid per year.

Also if Php Fog could enlighten us on how their terms of agreement will work in the case where our intellectual property is stolen on no fault of our own.

Save your sympathy for the sites that are still down, four days and counting
Yes, and after the fact, they sound like excuses (even when they are true and they are not meant to be excuses as in this case).
hmm I wonder if they ran into issues with ISPs
What a neat idea. How are sales?
But the reality is that 99% of the time, companies don't need a chapel roof painted, they just need a quick watercolour to put in reception (abandoning the painting analogy now).

It's a business decision - is it cheaper to hire one genius to produce something amazing or to hire a few mediocre programmers and manage the heck out of them to produce something that just about works?
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Or do like the FBI and offer them a job, when they come for the interview they get frogmarched into the police cruiser.
I pay for Freshbooks, Pandora, Grooveshark, Dropbox, Linode, AWS, Flickr, Github. Does Netflix count?
Or is this AWS again? I know they run a lot of infrastructure from AWS.
I use Multiple Tab Handler. Closing a group of tabs in FF is a simple as selecting them (click, shift+click) and closing them. This is an example of why I love Firefox - it is way more permissive with what extensions can do.
And great restraint/maturity. Which didn't happen either.
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Yes. HN != Reddit. Motherfucker.
Sweet thanks for that data point. We're migrating to a distributed set of web instances (working on that this evening in fact) which will significantly improve capacity.
Thought this would be a musical about the Red Green show... I'm so disappointed.
I didn't have a major role. RedZep had a great team, some funding, and vision, but the tech was really hard and they were ahead of their time. They set up a storefront digital studio, and the idea was that you'd do all the preproduction work online (script, music, backgrounds, transitions), and then go into the physical studio for an hour to do the shoot in front of a greenscreen. The plan was to disrupt traditional video production by using the web to squeeze all of the labor out of that process, and to make it easy to publish and host that video online. (Back when hosting video was EXPENSIVE). Then go nationwide with the model. Again, this was years before YouTube and webcams, when it was kind of hard to publish video online. It obviously failed, I don't know those details, I was working for a tech partner that failed first in early 2001. Yeah dotcom bust!

You can google Red Zeppelin Digital, there's still some web mentions and press releases. The principals are all local so you might reach out to them, heck you might find your cofounder!
Try Multiple Tab Handler - you select as many tabs as you want using standard list-selection behavior (shift-click or control-click) and do whatever you want (for instance, close) all of them at once.
Self documenting code should be accompanied tests, which further replaces the need for documentation. It also has less chance to rot.
Ahhh - yes, definitely quite different. What was it the man said? "I'd rather be lucky than good." Go 1999!
$50/month!? Luxury service!? We pay $50/month for 768KBps (6Mbps), and that's the second cheapest service in town. I'm going to go cry now.

P.S. Mapping software is by nature huge. It typically contains, you know, maps. Of the whole country.
Oh he was 'made redundant', not fired. Gotcha.
Touche. Hence the equity :-)
This is interesting as a postmodernist critique of the ineffability of programming practice.

You have on the one hand, techniques with gurus, certifications and thick tomes. Juxtaposed with this, a completely undefined process, just do it, swoosh. Coupled with this is a heavy dose of skepticism, that the defined processes are nothing but snake oil, sold to incompetent managers in bloated companies, rather than practitioners of the art.

Normally Zed posts piss me off; but I've got to say this one is spot on.
Actually, Wikipedia even lets you upload your own custom css and javascript when you're logged in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#preftab-1
That was actually what I tried at first, but still found the extra cruft distracting, even when faded down to 10%.

I wouldn't be opposed to merging in a setting if someone else wants to create it. (Same goes for justification / hyphenation and serif / sans-serif.)
Producteev (http://producteev.com ) has been around for a couple of months and really solid alternative IMHO, cross platform, free for individuals, and moving fast! We are very happy with it!
Also a nice rundown:
https://spreadsheets2.google.com/ccc?hl=en&key=t_toYuVyy...
What would be awesome would be if Google fights these guys in court and wins, getting a decision that what they do to web pages is legal to do to books, too.
I was really talking about the creation side.

For instance, say someone wants to create an hour long video. From the little that I know of rendering video on my desktop machines - to render a small 5 minute video can take a few hours.

So it just seems that a long-form video will churn up CPU cycles that you are paying for.

Although, now that I think about, I guess you could just charge per CPU hour or whatever.

But I was more thinking of the creation - than the distribution/hosting.
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Node is also -- and this is important -- fun.

JavaScript may not be your cup of tea, but CoffeeScript is a nice way to program. The community is great; pretty much all of the open source code is on GitHub and there's a strong "jump in and start hacking" vibe. You can do some really neat stuff with socket.io and a bunch of miscellaneous technology. Just jump in and start hacking. It's easy to learn a lot by accident this way.
So what's the story? The Atlantic published this online and then deleted it, or what?
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Insanely simple round-robin http proxying in Node.js
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Since a blog can be an integral part of your company and the "voice" that people hear I think its worth doing a custom theme and Wordpress install to match your site design and host it on a sub-domain (but on a different server for security reasons, as mentioned in this thread).

If I see a http://webapp.posterous.com blog for a company with the default theme I think "Oh, this is probably another MVP this guy churned out over a weekend".

I've always like http://blog.twitter.com which is a blogger-hosted blog, but with a very nice design.
You're already ahead of the pack just by realizing that, though. Good luck to you. Feel free to reach out if you want any help.
Reminds me of when I was in the Navy and I went to Navy Security and Vulnerabilities Technician school. I was all excited, so I went out and bought a copy of Hackers Exposed and read through the whole thing, learning everything from how to determine what family and version of operating system a computer is running by what ports are open, to how a buffer overflow attack actually works.

Fast-forward to the class, and we're sitting there running tools like BackOrifice that exploit vulnerabilities that had been patched for years, and learning that a SYN flood is "a malicious attack". That's it, just "a malicious attack". When I asked about the difference between a SYN flood and a Christmas tree attack, I got a blank stare and "they're both malicious attacks".

I spent the rest of the class in the back of the room, reading the Armadillo Book.

Also, I did not once in my brief Navy career get to hack an enemy computer. Hugely disappointing.
The chaos monkey strikes again!

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/12/chaos-monkey-how-n...
I don't want to get all Alex Jones on this, but I think shit like this goes down for nearly every new brand that makes it into western culture.

When the sources we use to develop brand preferences are cross-bred to producers of stuff, our brand recognition processes are disrupted, hijacked, and corrupted. In the end, consumers lose.
Many years ago I had to do a bunch of sorting and merging datasets on some underpowered hardware. I found that I got significant speedups by compressing my data during mergesorts because I was able to squeeze extra passes in RAM before data had to hit disk. (To be clear, I was writing to and from files, but found the data still in cache when I went to read it again.) If compression/decompression were an order of magnitude faster, the win could have been even bigger and more obvious.

Don't think of this as, "We can cheaply compress large amounts of data to save space." Think of this as, "We can compress/decompress stuff on the fly just because it is convenient for us." For the latter kind of usage the efficiency is an enabler, and the fact that the compression is supposed to be temporary makes interacting with other things a complete non-issue.
https://github.com/Groxx/wikipedia-beautifier

Don't have Git installed, so I can't delete the hyphenator.js file, but there ya go :) Delete it when you download it, and load it as an unpacked extension.
Exactly. This post tries very hard to trivialize the security holes, and blame their problems on bad luck. They had problems because they decided not to fix glaring security holes immediately.
> Eliminate shared hosting failover server – We may never do shared hosting failover again if we can not guarantee its security. We might do a non-realtime failover to automatically launch a new instance for you, but this experience taught us what a bad idea this can be.

What does realtime mean in this case? Anyway, this isn't the only option. They could keep a few bare instances of their php stack online and simply run the deploy script instead of the image creation script. That ought to be able to run in under ten seconds I think.
I agree with all that, but I still think the notion that you could bargain away someone else's copyrights via a settlement to a class action lawsuit is insane.

At least that's how I understand it. A bunch of publishers sued Google, and they wanted to negotiate terms for essentially all authors everywhere. No, sorry. It really shouldn't work like that.
Wow, just did a quick test and it looks very promising.
Or swapped over to Bcrypt
IMHO, I found these readability plugins for wikipedia are not good for printing. I used Beautipedia Modified before, but I switched back to original.
Sometimes its odd to think a thousand lines of C++ is something folks were waiting to be released for years.
As soon he says "I don't believe I did a bad thing" I thought this boy needs to be prosecuted.
I wondered the same (selfishly.. we do too).. I thought only their Watch-Instantly streaming infra was on AWS though, and that main site is still self-hosted.
"In his ruling, Chin hinted that he would look more favorably on an "opt-in" settlement—e.g. one that applied only to those authors and publishers who explicitly chose to accept it."

Seems reasonable. The whole opt-out design gave too much power to google, and everybody already knows what a massive pain it is to get in touch with google if a problem arises.
I don't think you can draw those conclusion from the evidence presented. I would guess that quite a lot of the top white hat hackers today sharpened their skills early with some highly unethical behavior of their own.

A good example of this would be how Chris Putnam got hired at Facebook.

http://www.quora.com/How-did-Chris-Putnam-get-hired-at-Faceb...
I now have beautifiers installed for the following sites:

news.yc
reddit.com
wikipedia.org
reader.google.com

As well as readability available for most blogs.

I wonder if this is a trend or a temporary thing?
That's exactly it. I've worked for agencies where the Chief IT Security Officer (if they have one, or an equivalent role) got that exact training, and nothing more, and was considered the site expert.

Like I said, it isn't all bad. Two of the best security guys I know work in the government, and one of them was actually ex-Navy. But the hurdle for finding people that can get top secret clearances AND tie their shoes often proves too high to hire anybody, much less somebody qualified.
Updates apparently coming via their facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=6275848869&topic=1...

[Edit]... course, not super complete ones..

We are aware that some customers may have trouble logging in to the website or streaming to their Television. We're working on getting this fixed as quickly as we can. Thank you everyone for your patience!
What makes you think they are necessarily so different? I'm not a programmer, but in architectural and landscape design and installation there are lots of broad, sweeping design principles and lots of tedious little detail work, and I have observed that the same people tend to do well at both. The important factors are self-discipline and enthusiasm. The enthusiasm to get you started and the self-discipline to help keep you going between bouts of enthusiasm - both to study the general principles (harder in design than in computers from what I have seen - they are not as well codified as algorithms and data structures are) and to keep working away at the tedious little (but so necessary) details.
Well there are 2 billion internet users - i.e. individuals. But each individual has multiple functions.

E.g. I have a dropbox account at home, and had one for work. So did my boss, and some other coworkers.

So while there are 2 billion internet users, there are many organiztions - profit, non-profit, ngo, etc - which makes the pie even bigger.
Thx! We launched last summer and are picking up a little momentum... Moving a copy every other / every day & landed a few good Corp site licenses. Not banking on it being a million dollar business obviously but hoping it'll let me feel like less of a student. If you've got any ideas on how to spread the word, I'm all ears! Sean
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I don't see any AWS outages today on the dashboard:

http://status.aws.amazon.com/
not really possible, he doesn't have the money.
I live in the UK (parents were exiled as pro-democracy activists) and appreciate the same freedom of religion that you describe and I experienced in the USA. No social pressure, some people don't like me, but none can stop me and nor can I stop anyone else. This is wonderful.

I spent 5 years in the USA and what I loved the most was to read US history. Living in DC, I joined a bunch of think-tanks and saw how vibrant the political life is. And I was an admirer of the USA because of its amazing history, just as you say.

I just think the USA can do better than it currently is, and closer to what it is capable of being. I think it lost its ideals and drifted from the honour of a republic to the tragedy of an empire. The UK of course has the legacy of a more cruel empire, and no country in the world is free of blemishes. (And the Arab world is a basket case making its own recovery.)

But I just felt so sad when comparing what I saw Americans do - amazing people, such a pleasure to be around - and what their government did in their name - locally and internationally.
Best part
we have a company and I own 70% of the shares, he owns 30%.

So that is a contract if you will.
Ten Entrepreneurship Rules for Building Massive Companies by Reid Hoffman
Dropbox, pinboard & last.fm
Dang! Beat me to it.

It's evolving, adapting and spawning other chaos monkeys.
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While it is admirable and good that they have learned from their mistakes and are taking steps to reduce the likelihood of getting hacked in future, to say "never again" is to paint a big red bullseye on yourself.
Does anyone know if they're doing one for 9.10? Googled around, can't find anything on it
It seems like incredible coincidence that allowed this to happen but when I think back to all of the security incidents I've been involved in, it always seems this way.

I guess the best way to think of it is that badness on the internet is like water. It will flow into every tiny crack in your wall you haven't sealed up tight. A crack in a dam doesn't leak less because its in an "obscure" location.
Definitely good insight. I am initially limiting the number of contributors and the segment length - so the processing could actually open up another premium feature.
I think you mean a not-quite-good-enough coder.
This feels like a business model where the lean/MVP approach isn't quite appropriate. A lot of things fall out of that decision, not the least of which is that the exposure surface area you get from an environment that allows user-sourced code on purpose is enormous. I feel for the guys going through this but there were a lot of errors in the wild all at once to allow this to happen.