skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If aliens arrived and told us P is not NP, would it still be worth trying to prove? What do you gain from the negative (except freed time to tackle other problems)?
Emacs Lisp now has lexical bindings
And that is how most of my interactions with Craigslist have gone off.

However, there have been some more frustrating experiences. My friend getting his ad ghosted, when he was trying to post his mom's guest house for rent. And it costing them 3 months of rent because Craigslist didn't let on a peep that his ad was ghosted. And there really isn't any clue on how to find help, I got lucky and found the forums via a Google search for something like "Craigslist ad not showing up". Then there was the merry-go-round of pathetic employees I was trying to hire for the unskilled jobs in my warehouse. But that was back in 2008, before the bubble burst. The quality of the applicants I found in my more recent go at it was greatly improved. But the frustration now was 300 resumes showing up in my inbox in 12 hours, and sifting that down to 10 people to interview I guess I should not complain about that, it is a little frustrating though.

The bottom line is Craigslist will always be around because it works, and it works anywhere. There isn't any limited deployment like some of these startups that are piloting in 2 cities. And probably won't go nationwide for a long time, if at all. From what I read here on HN, the name of the game is for the startups to make the big sale and founders glide away on their golden parachutes, then the buyer crashes the company into the ground.
Yep this is correct. See the note about "exclusion" on http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/08/16/dnssectls.html
Ask HN: Conversion rates for ads?
How much should I be paying for customer acquisition via facebook/google ads? What has been your experience with facebook vs google ads? Facebook approved my ad very quickly (within an hour?) and Im getting about a .045% click through rate at a cost of about $1/click. About 20% of the click throughs are registering. Still waiting for google to approve-- they are slow! 1) What kinds of conversions do you normally expect? 2) What is the cost of acquisition that I should expect? There is a quora thread which suggest $5-$6 and that under $10 is good.
CFO needed for social network startup company
They also used an open graph meta tag, too. So people can easily share the prank on Facebook, presumably. A little ironic.

<meta property="og:description" content="Hulu.com is a video service on the World Wide Web that offers hit TV shows including X-Files and Newsradio. Our extensive library also includes classic TV series and blockbuster movies. Dial up and start watching now. No CD-ROM required." />
Why I went with them and not you: feedback to an interviewer
if that's the case, it'd be 99.7 or 99.9, american stations use odd numbered frequencies.
Is there anything better than CL for apartments in the SF area? RentHop (in the graphic in the article) looks like it's NYC only.

I'm looking at a move to San Mateo this summer and every "apartment finder" website I've tried has been a pitiful experience.
Thanks! I was checking the comments just to find out how they managed to get the non-antiliased windows-xp like fonts :)
I, for one, prefer the no-frills Craigslist approach to any of the competitors.
screen. worked well for 200 machines.

#!/bin/bash
if [[ "$1" = "-n" ]]; then
DETACH=
shift;
else
DETACH="screen -d -m"
fi

for i in $NODES; do
echo $DETACH ssh $i $@
$DETACH ssh $i $@
done;
padmapper.com gets info from craigslist and others. hotpads.com is also good.
Of course the code was written prior, it says so right there in the comments

###Copyright 2009 Not-working-for-money-in-the-us
Yes, but there are tons of other data sources out there, right? For example, how many developers are members of mailing lists for a given API, service, language, tool, etc.? How many contribute? Plus, that doesn't even include the world of personal blogs, twitter accounts, etc.

I think we're entering an age for software engineers where expressing yourself externally is going to be even more important than your resume. For example, a really intelligent, well-thought-out post like the one linked above can really move you forward in your career.

I'm focusing on making a startup that captures all this stuff and uses it for both display and matching candidates. I'm still in the very early stages and would love some feedback! http://proovn.com
This thread is making me reflect on my 7-8 years of using Facebook.

To be honest, I'm surprised I'm still on it, but I am. It's the best way for me to send media bits to people I like. It's easier than email for me.

However, I'm a sharer, and many people I know aren't. I don't really have a clue why they're on Facebook then (if they are). It does seem kind of dry.

In college, it was awesome because it was a community setting where you could find out about acquaintances (i.e. stalking) in a trusted network setting. It was OPEN within a CLOSED off system. I could see that still being the case to a certain degree in some social groups or large companies.

But the stripping down, deemphasis and normalization of the profile, turning it from a 'face book' into a social news tool was the inflection point for me. Facebook was great when you could surf people, not news. The funny thing is, Facebook was catalyzed tremendously by their decision to go into social news (i.e. news posted by people you know), and it'd be weird to see it causing their downfall (like a huge investment that looks great at first).

I doubt that's going to be the case, as the social graph infiltrates through the internet and 'like' buttons show up on every e-commerce site in innovative ways. I don't think Facebook truly has much to worry about as they're basically becoming the ID gatekeeper to the internet. I just don't think social news is something particularly interesting, and I'd like to see them deemphasize that part of their business. I think they should focus on making the news feed less of a potpourri of news (Twitter, HN, microforums, NY times, CNN, and so on own that already) and try to innovate ways to emphasize microcommunities on Facebook. The groups feature was an attempt, but didn't really strike gold. I'd like to see them try out more things like that.

I could be way off. I suspect Facebook is just losing touch with nerdy people who are more interested in things, not people. It's probably doing well with people who generally like smalltalk.
"APT"? I don't know that acronym...
Craigslist has done a lot LOT of harm to the plight of the renter. Realtors have incentive to spam, post bait-and-switch, or flag the FSBOs when they are significantly < "market price".

Side note: http://www.realtor.com/robots.txt

Problem: locked down rental listings (can't search) + free advertising for Realtors = the leeches in the NAR controlling market prices w/nobody stopping them.

</soapbox>

Rather than that "beta testing" charge for companies to post jobs, craigslist should charge for posting in the rentals / housing, category imho.
I dunno, it's pretty effective to narrow one's search by the part of town you're looking in, for example, in L.A. you can break it down by Central L.A., SF Valley, SG Valley, etc. and then search by city name. Click the map link to see where the exact location is. It's really not that hard. Found my current jewel of a home that way.
Sadly, it provides basically no details.

Skip to the appendix if you don't want to read irrelevant comparisons to U-Boats and stealth aircraft.

Even there, the details are light. They got spearphished with excel files with flash payloads (CVE-2011-0609). Those installed "Poison Ivy" (some remote admin a la vnc/rdp). They spread out from those points attacking other accounts/computers/servers. They looked around for interesting things, put it in passworded RARs and FTPed them out to other compromised (non-RSA) servers (apparently "Good[DOT]mincesur[DOT]com | up82673[DOT]hopto[DOT]org | www[DOT]cz88[DOT]net").

There is very little useful information in their breakdown. Everything they mention is standard fair, certainly not something special to "Advanced Persistent Threats". The flash vuln (with excel files) has been known for weeks. There is no discussion of what the attackers actually managed to get their hands on.
This gets posted about once a month here. It's very cool, but still...
Pure html awesomeness!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Persistent_Threat
I applied. Lets see how this works out.

PG, you better have my back on this one. Ill give you 6% of my 10%.
TC may be declining, but I don't think Arrington individually is to blame.

Let's not forget that he is not the CEO of TC anymore, and hasn't been for a long time.

Peter Yared says 'If it was not for MG Siegler and Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch would be a content-free environment.', yet MG's apple fanboyism is often such non-sense that I avoid his articles as much as possible.

In general, the quality of content from TC has gone way down hill.

Arrington said long ago that he'd like to get back to writing about start-ups, but that just doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

As far as the stuff about TC being a 'king maker', I don't think that was ever true. My startup was covered by TC a few years back, and though getting covered by TC gives a bit of cred, it doesn't make instant success.

Mashables numbers are seeing similar decline...
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/techcrunch.com+mashable.com...

it is a bit of a coincidence that the large drop in views came shortly after the AOL purchase of TC.
I completely agree. I'm surprised at the level of negativity towards CL here. I would expect a community of hackers to recognize a highly generic solution like CL when they see one.

The only critique I would give is that if CL were really trying to be a generic platform that does a decent job at solving a myriad of problems, then they should open themselves up and have an official API. Right now all of the CL mashups do some kind of scraping to get their data.
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Ya, it looks like I bungled the logic. Let 'Pr X' means 'X is provable'. Let A be your A. Really what I wanted to say is that:

Pr A -> (~Pr ~Pr A)

and thus, Pr a -> Pr ~Pr ~Pr A.

Hence, ~Pr ~Pr ~Pr A -> ~Pr A

Taking A to be ~Pr A, we get:

~Pr ~Pr ~Pr ~Pr A -> ~Pr ~Pr A

So you can peel off pairs of ~Pr until you get down to one or two. Not very surprising, I guess, since Pr A == A in constructive logic, and you can do similar negation collapsing there.
or (better) a new job

(I hope I understand the difference between these words)
Assuming the guy is the interviewer he need to learn to shut up and ask questions.
I might be an atypical user (?), but none of those sites appear to do the two things I and everyone else I know use Craigslist for: 1) buy/sell used goods; and 2) find long-term apartment rentals.

For #1, eBay seems to be the only real competitor, and does non-shippable goods poorly (Ebay Classifieds has never really taken off). For #2, I don't really know of any (AirBnB and Couchsurfing are good for trips, but not really for finding somewhere to live).
[Breach] Kroger's Customer List Stolen from Email Vendor
Don't underestimate the beauty that is the cash cow.
I don't know why you ask, it's right next paragraph to your quote. But let's save other people the time to check:

> The irony though with RSA is that they don’t eat their own dog food.
> In other words, they relied on yesterday’s best of breed tools to
> prevent and detect the attack. They gave a lot of credit to NetWitness
> for helping them find the attack in real time but they obviously weren’t
> able to stop the attack in real time, which means the signals and
> scores weren’t high enough to cause a person to shut down the attack
> in real time.
>
> RSA sells its own fraud detection systems based on user and account
> profiling which use statistical Beysian models, and rules, to
> spot abnormal behavior and intervene in real time to re-authenticate
> users and verify the authenticity of suspect access, behavior, or
> transactions. (RSA appears in the leaders quadrant of Gartner’s 2010
> Web Fraud Detection Magic Quadrant). They should have applied these
> techniques to their own internal systems. They need to stay innovative
> and apply the lessons learned from serving their clients to their own
> internal enterprise systems.
I'm hiring a software developer for my group at Janelia Farm Research Campus, in Ashburn, VA. The goal will be to develop workflow for extracting wiring diagrams of neuronal circuits from large-scale serial electron microscopy of brain tissue. You can read about what I'm doing at http://www.hhmi.org/research/fellows/bock.html, and browse data at http://bit.ly/ga3Cfk. A detailed writeup of the approach was published a few weeks ago in an article at Nature.

I think the ideal candidate could come from a variety of backgrounds -- someone who had previously written or contributed significantly to the development of a game engine could be good, for example. Looking for strong quantitative chops, creativity, and a willingness to do some plumbing in order to make an elegant solution.
Heh, it seems that that's been Google translated into Greek as well, as it doesn't make much sense. A more accurate translation would be "let's not call it one [sic] mafia, we've had for years".

I'm assuming they meant "let's not call it a mafia, we've had one for years"?
Thank you, I thought I was missing something really subtle
And the increased dimensions merely make it more obvious. I generally prefer to watch things on my laptop / slightly larger screen, things look better than at the theater where a moderate-speed pan means things are jumping foot or so at a time.
Read as "Automated Trolling."
Actually, there are problems that are neither provably true/false, nor actually true/false. In fact I think a standard counting argument shows that 99.9999...% are in that category.
The real question is: why were you searching for comic sans?
Agreed that all of the "omg, APT" in there comes off pretty badly in light of the reported details. APT has more or less been poisoned as a term lately (see comodo, etc.) and amounts to the latest scapegoat scenario. "See, we can't be blamed! It's an APT!" is what I'm betting the RSA board hopes is the take away here.

Of course they could also know something pretty significant that they're not telling. What was taken and how tough it was to get at internally could be a flag. If there was a really significant or telling element to the attack it may well be that they've been asked not to reveal it. Not that I'd bet on that side of the line.
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It's a speculative "what if" piece, dude. Relax.
My question would rather be "how does it make sense to rely on an outside source for this stuff?". Really, website developers are introducing another, completely unnecessary point of failure if they hotlink an external jQuery version.

It's not such a huge file either, I can't imagine what benefits people think this has. Is it so the first page loads a fraction of a second faster (maybe)?
It is not like the criticism has really hurt them any. I say go whole hog on it, and crack as many skulls as needed. If Apple is going to claim that they hold an iron fist over their customers' devices to deliver a better experience, they better actually deliver a better experience.
Cascadia Ruby Conf proposals now open
I LOVE the blinking "NEW" by Hulu Plus.

Brilliant. And incredibly well done. Slow image loads, old internet references, a page counter in the double-digits and a guest book, blinking and scrolling text... utterly fantastic :D
What RSA's SecurID customers really want to know is what specific information regarding SecurID got compromised, and what are the implications for the security of SecurID itself. Which neither RSA's official post[1], nor Gartner's writeup, seems to tell me.

(Knowing the details of how RSA got spearphished is interesting, I suppose, but it leaves out the really important bits.)

[1] http://blogs.rsa.com/rivner/anatomy-of-an-attack/
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This is so beautiful, so sublime, truly one of the jewels of the Web. And yet...

I wonder if anyone else had the same reaction I did, quite a few I would guess. Hmm.

The thing is, it is so enchanting, produces such a sense of wonderment, lulled by the music and so on, that as I approached the end of the sliding scale, with each step the animations taking a few moments to load...
I started to think: what is lying in store for me at the very largest scale, what am I going to see? What message is waiting for me? What object gets designated the very largest 'thing' of all?..

...And then it hit me. Oh dear, this is April the 1st, isn't it. In that case, it can really only be one (category of) thing. It's going to be something like "yr mom's ass", or something, isn't it. An object, on whose vast cheeks the known universe is no more than a pimple. Yes.

And if I'd gone in the other direction, well surely I'd find something like "yr dick" waiting in store for me.

Gosh, I'd rather it isn't that, I really don't want it to be that. It was such a beautiful thing. But I see now that it has to be. As they say, it is in-evitable.

So that's what this is then. Just the winning move in some great 'Yo Momma' game between hackers that got way out of hand. I guess that's how marvelous things like this get built sometimes. Like Facebook. Spectacular works of man, haunted - poisoned, perhaps - by the sin of their creation.

Actually, now that I'm getting used to it, I like that in a way. I do like jokes like that. I like to tell jokes like that. Jokes where the humor is produced from a shocking scale mis-match, of truly cosmological proportions. In a way this is truly the Archetype for that kind of joke. And it's all the more exquisite when the only way it is able to spring the surprise, to so perfectly sneak past my joke anticipation detectors, is by the pure chutzpah of simply selecting scales so enormous that they don't register on my dials, and all the while I'm quietly sailing into a punchline. Actually what tipped me off just before I got to the end was the slightly too-good-to-be-true music, gently mocking me (plus my slow browser giving me time to reflect).

And so, as I moved the slider the final stage of its journey to the right hand side, knowing this inevitability, imagine my surprise to find that there was no punchline after all. And lo it was just a pure and beautiful thing, unsullied by cynicism.
A lot of good points that would definitely influence me in picking a company. Especially developing on windows, I would personally list that heavily in the cons column.
Wow, Project Turf looks very nice. I'm definitely going to recommend this for at least a trial in my group. We're a network operations team so it's hard to find something that's not geared towards software development groups. Nice recommendation.
Having read GCBC, that is not at all my impression of Gary Taubes. As well, the piece to which you link is what comes across to me as dishonest, so I was glad to see Taubes' response:

http://reason.com/archives/2003/03/01/an-exercise-in-vitriol...
I think a simple flagging mechanism ("this is crap, Steve wouldn't want it in the store, take another look") would suffice. A supposedly curated app store should be enforcing a certain level of quality.

And if they're not doing it already, only publish reviews from accounts with a credit card.
Take a look at padmapper - it's craigslist apartments data with filtering and on a map.
Rotoscoping[0] is by definition frame by frame. Keyframed animation would largely remain unchanged, though rendering would take 2.5x as long.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping
I'm wondering what would happen if people could pick between different app stores for their phone, much like how a Linux system allows you to get packages from multiple repositories.

Benefits to third parties: They could host their own "app store" and monetize however they like

Benefits to developers: They could put their products in any store that will take them, or perhaps try for Apple's "high quality" store for potentially(?) higher gains.

Benefits to Apple: They could police all they want and people's claims of "Too much policing!" would be groundless since consumers can just switch stores, though it may be harder to monetize

Is this how Android works with Amazon's "app store" competing with the Android marketplace? How is that working out?
Don't you need a credit card anyways to sign up? I had to have a credit card (or a gift card) when I made my iTunes account.
It says pretty specifically that they don't store or index the data in the google charts terms of service.
Web browser market share: Modern browser edition
It's odd that Facebook hasn't allowed users to turn off all tagging to the Wall. You can turn off friends posting links to your wall, but not photos. Bad incentivizing.
Kardashian sisters Twitter accounts hacked
Jeremy Zawodny is implementing some interesting tech at Craigslist. It looks like they're doing a lot of development with MongoDB, Redis, and Sphinx. He drops tech notes on his twitter feed (@jzawodn) occasionally.
>>But when you look on the desktop web you see the overall ratings are vastly lower and that they seem to game the system by releasing "new versions" to reset their ratings and then probably paying people to write positive reviews

I've made this point in the past (though not about this app/company or about payments)

imo Apple made a mistake in resetting app ratings after every new update/release. Developers who release poor quality 1.0 apps benefit from the ratings reset and I can see why some people may see this as a benefit.

However, the two problems I see with the resets are

1. It makes it easier for companies to game the rating system

2. It is a disincentive for developers (of highly rated apps)to update their apps. I'm planning on an update for a recent iPad app. However, that update will reset the 4.5 rating obtained through the 271 ratings received by the 1.0 version of the app in the past five months.
One big - 100% effort, balls to the wall, worked your ass off to get there - rejection will hold far more wisdom than a myriad of small insignificant rejections.

Why does sending Steve Jobs a single email and not receiving a response within in a day count as a noteworthy rejection? Seems hardly worth the effort and predetermined to count as a 'rejection'.
Simply calculating stars using a weighted average would help this particular case. If ratings for previous versions counted for half as much as ratings for the current version, users would get a better sense from the overall rating.

That said, the mechanic of different versions being rated independently is very important. Apps can go from great to broken or broken to great in any given update.

As a user, you can dodge a lot of the spammy stuff by focusing on paid apps.
'Work' is sometimes used to mean 'office' or 'job'. For example, someone might say 'Why don't you drop by my work after lunch?'

I think that's the usage the parent meant; possibly, it was an intentionally awkward but colloquially valid variation on the grandparent's post.