skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"aware of the potential security threat " but they left it
for the next week, who honestly here would do that?

Just about everyone. There are always 'potential security threats' that are deemed unlikely to be exploited and that you therefore do not give priority above the multitude of other tasks you have to do. They took a chance and I don't doubt everyone here does that on occasion.
Currently putting together some adsense sites. Looks very promising.
In this day and age, I feel weird talking to my computer alone in my office.
Aza, where were you? Firefox 4 UI Complaints.
Yet another great demo day - kudos to the Y Combinator team (and of course the founders in each batch) for continuing to scale with quality.
I tried to log in with facebook using the button on the front page and it popped up a blank white window that didn't do anything. Reloading the pop-up or the main window didn't change anything.

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Realtime means a request in flight is retried if there's a failure. Said a different way, the load balancer already knows about a spare at all times. This is compared to a ~5 minute downtime if spawning a replacement EC2 instance is required.

Nice idea on the hot spare instances however.
Absolutely.

If you're using Wordpress, try one of the Twitter integration plugins. You can choose hashtags when creating a new blog entry and it will be auto-posted to a Twitter account. You should see a bump in traffic after each post.
You have a great point here. My hope was that by getting more users, word of mouth would play a bigger part because of the more limited market.

As a follow up test, I'm going to bump the price a bit and see what kind of effect it has. It's possible that my interpretation of the price test results wasn't quite right, and I should have been thinking up instead of down.
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From Redmond with Love - IE team sends cake for FF4
A two year old video card can crunch numbers faster while using less power than a 2.8ghz Core i7 Quad.

Two things to check out that you can find on the bitcoin forums: pooled mining and GPU miners

With both of those, you can earn 1-2 BTC/day on an older video card.
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Thanks. Regarding 'dirty code' though, you've reminded me of another point I believe in.

4. All code is temporary. I said du jour for a reason. It's all wonderful for a little while, but there's no such thing as "Okay, that's been refactored now", in an lasting sense. We're building and maintaining sand castles. Either the world around the code changes, or our opinions about it do. "dirty" code doesn't exist to me, at least not in some conveniently boolean state. The half-life of a piece of code depends on a number of variables, but there's no such thing as code that doesn't start decaying the moment if leaves your keyboard.

So yeah, it's all dirty, pretty much.
He is 16 and SCARED. What do you expect? A slick PR campaign? Heck in some other countries, kids aren't even considered adults at that age.

He is naive and immature and realizes what he did is wrong. To make amends, in true 16 year old fashion, he gives a bullet list of errors to try and help undo the damage.

For his inability to communicate, show restraint, maturity, planning and foresight, for the very crime of being young and immature, he gets people wanting to throw the book at him? In that case, can we please, pretty please, torch wall street?

Its quite likely that he realizes that giving an error list is BAD and STUPID, and now is trying to back pedal by putting on a brave face to ignore the bone headed-ness of his (compounding) mistakes.

Try and imagine exactly how YOU would feel if you had a huge amorphous mob saying "The FBI should come for you"? At 16 you have NO scale in your head to cope with that.

Restraint is (one of) the hallmarks of maturity. As is intelligence and not taking good faith for granted - like not sending a list of errors you can be prosecuted for.

Here is what I would do - call this kid parents and Leave it at that. Let the family know how close he is to being in BIG trouble. If you want to do one better, give him a constructive outlet. He is already probably one very, very, very, miserable and frightened kid right now. And he should be.

Its called grace forgiveness and wisdom. As adults, we are supposed to have it. You are NEVER going to deter kids from being kids. So you need to ensure that they are scared and know where the line is drawn, so that they can become effective productive Adults.
I run a e-commerce website, selling tools for grafting produced by a company my wifes family own:

http://www.grafting-tool.com/magento/index.php/

I started by buying a few samples to sell on e-bay to see if there was a market. So I guess you could say I started making money right away. The problem with trying to replicate my business, is finding the right product to sell. I was lucky that I saw they had this item, and I figured that there would be a market online for it. Trying to find a new product to sell and establishing links with the manufacturer would take some time. You would also need to contend with issues of minimum order size.

I guess you could call it a partial success. Currently its bringing in about $300 per month. I want to increase my revenue, but it hard to know what to focus on. The other problem is it has somewhat of a high overhead - we need to spend time shipping products, etc.

For my new side projects, I'm thinking of doing something digital, that can be handled entirely online.

I have tried selling photos to a stock photo service. I spent many hours tagging photos, waiting for them to work through the approval process, etc. After many months of letting my photos sit, I have yet to sell one.

Next I am looking at writing some Smartphone apps. We will see how that goes ...
This might be a problem with Opera. Do you have another browser you could try? Sorry about that.
I'm well aware of victim blaming, but sometimes it's justified. If someone hacked into your bank account and stole your money because of a security flaw your bank decided to put off until later, surely you would lay blame on your bank as well, no?

Let me be perfectly clear, lots of the blame lies with that attacker. But it is also the responsibility of the a web host to fortify their systems sufficiently, which clearly wasn't done in this case.
type Alt+v then.
In case anyone is reading this thread and becoming pessimistic about their chances of achieving passive income, I'd like to note that there is a clear sampling bias: folks that have found profitable niches are less likely to share their projects for fear of attracting competition. I suspect that choosing a good niche is pretty important when it comes to passive-income type projects. It looks like the most profitable project so far in the thread is il's, and he sold his site on flippa, so competition is now someone else's problem.

Just to test this out, if anyone is staying quiet about their project for fear of attracting competition, could they please reply to this comment and say so? Don't worry, your silence is totally understandable :)

(The sampling bias will probably still remain somewhat due to folks have their projects linked to from their profiles and not wanting to remove them.)
Ah, ok this makes a lot more sense. Getting started with DiabloMiner and http://mining.bitcoin.cz now.
Oh! IE is just 9. Firefox is just 4 and we have Chrome ELEVEN.
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Thanks!

I've actually been doing manual updates to my personal twitter account after each post with a blurb about the latest article. Each tweet is customized rather than a generic auto-update message. I'm just not sure whether this is the best way of going about it or if I should take your suggestion and completely automate it. Maybe create a separate twitter account and do both?
> Technology moves fast enough that your feature is
> usually obsolete within a year or so

That depends on your industry. My company has some core infrastructure running on code written in the 90's when characters were scarce (8-character variable names) and actual loops were even scarcer (goto's instead).

Feature-sets like "processes transactions" never go away just because technology moves forward. Some of that almost feels like you've had "too much of the Kool-aid."
Is he showcasing the extent of his expertise via the design of his personal Web site?
http://www.billbuxton.com/

It looks to me to be a mock-off of Jakob Nielsen's
http://www.useit.com/
Yeah, I'll try in Firefox when I have a chance. Thought I'd give it a whirl at work while I'm not so busy since we have a scheduled blackout tonight.
I don't understand why mining is so computationaly intensive. Well, I understand that it's used as a way to limit the rate that new coins are introduced, but are all these mining computers doing anything useful, or are they just wasting electricity?
Sounds like you're talking about Liam Ashley but have some of the facts twisted:

* it wasn't recent (2006)

* he was sent to prison because his parents denied bail, not because GTA is some heinous crime in NZ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Liam_Ashley
Would gold and silver be valuable if there was an infinite supply of them? You can't print/generate money indefinitely (unless you think quantitative easing is a legitimate economic stimulus strategy and you happen to be the Federal Reserve).

If the desire for BTC goes up, so will its value. There's no problem here.
I don't know about you, but I don't think $25/mo is worth cheapening my blog by plastering tasteless ads on it. I'd have to be pulling significant income from it before I would even consider putting ads on my blog.
You know what we call banks who leave their vaults unsecured? Neither do I, but it's certainly not 'blameless'.
Not typical HN fare, but the wife and I started a business together that has (almost) nothing to do with the interwebs. It's a photography business.. We started it about 3+ years ago, and in most senses it's done quite well. She's been able to quit her day-job. It's what HN folks would call a 'lifestyle' business, I guess. You know, cause we're not rich.

I have to say, it's pretty rad. Software startups don't have a monopoly on giving you experience in doing branding, marketing, sales, running ad-campaigns, taxes, and just all manner of things that go into running a business.
Right now the bitcoin network is calculating at about 500 GHash/second. Only 1 hash is needed to process an entire batch of transactions (a block). Well, technically it is 2 SHA hashes that are needed per block. So 499,999,999,998 of the hashes calculated in the next second will be wasted.

It gets worse. That is 500 GHash per second. Over the approximately 10 minutes between blocks, only two of those 300,000,000,000,000 hashes that were calculated will actually be used even.

Of course, there is a reason for this. Hashing to obtain a relatively unique result is called a "proof of work" and is the method that Bitcoin uses to ensure that the amount of currency issued occurs only at the levels specified in the source code. http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_work So far, that method has been the only one found so far that works as the transaction processing system for a decentralized payment network.
Yes, I tried my hands on "hardware" stuff, specifically iPad cases.

http://millswyn.com/
http://worqbench.posterous.com/

Have a few sales. Not complaining.
I actually live off the passive income (I've been an affiliate full-time for almost 4 years). While it has been quite a ride and I can't really share my most profitable sites/tools (without my wife - who is also my business partner - getting me back for it), I will say that it can be a good thing. That said, it is also an extremely competitive business. It is very easy to generate $50/month off a little blog, but generating $10,000/month takes a lot more out of you and carries far more risk.

If you've got something that is growing or doing well already, see if you can grow it - when there is little competition in whatever segment it is an opportunity not to be missed. They are rare.
I don't use Bitcoin anymore (now that it's popular, I'm a cryptocurrency hipster), so I can send you the few BTC I have remaining if you want to play around with them. Just leave me an address. :)
This can be done without a plugin in Chrome. Simply go to about:flags and enable the Click to Play plugins option. This enables an extra option in the prefs under Content Settings IIRC, that allows you to force any, all, or specific plugins to behave this way. Godsend.
Banks are absolutely considered victims, but if the victim didn't do their due diligence with respect to keeping their vault secure, then they absolutely share in the blame.
They're doing something useful.

1. They secure the network from attackers and check for double spending attempt.

2. They process transactions.
But code can be dirtier if its implementation was poorly thought out, half of it was modified to reflect new assumptions while the other half was worked around and left intact, etc.
Agree - creating a tangible identity to the villain is pulling heat off of PHPFrog.

Lets put it this way - a 16 year old kid who got lucky broke their site.

If it was anyone with intent, we would not know.

This is a case study in how to handle a situation like this. Its brilliantly done, inclusive of the comment where he says "the community is standing by us".

Its actually a brilliant brilliant PR piece.
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Shouldn't this read ycombinator's best startups from YC Spring 11 ? I would probably expect startups from previous funding rounds to be on the list...
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Firefox has also other type of extensions. Jetpack extensions ( https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/ ) which don't require restarts. And there are also "mini themes", called Personas ( http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/ ) which don't require restarts.
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Firefox actually vacuums occasionally now (I think ~1/month for the places database)
Their response and abilty to turn the situation around is a case study in dealing with a difficult situation. Kudos!
I'm saving their response and will use it when dealing with things. Being able to have a counter party to identify has definitely helped in handling the situation. I didn't realize how powerful that can be until I saw this, I learnt something new.

Its a brilliant piece and a great start/way to restore faith and recover from what must be a pretty grueling ordeal. Good job.
I'm not so sure. Renting a VPN seems an awful lot like renting a small space on their network. Sure, it's not residency. What if I rented you a tiny part of my house? Part of the rent includes network access. But you travel, lots, like you're never there. How would you feel about "place shifting" your access to these services?

Okay, okay... I'm reaching. But I guess I'm saying, I don't see it as immoral to use a VPN in order to establish network presence in the US or Canada or wherever.
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In the Bush Administration? And no, the point of not taking their word for it is that they never earned, nor do they deserve, one iota of trust.
Well, legally no - I think 16 year olds _aren't_ "held responsible" for pulling crap like this (rightly or wrongly).
But, that's the reality. If you want it, today, you do have some options.
These are 16 year old kids, old enough to know right from
wrong [..]

These kids were being assholes, but that does not warrant federal charges. The problem is that we can choose between unsatisfactory public shaming or thoroughly ruining their lives. There is no middle way, where they get an appropriate punishment, fitting the damage done. If harsh punishments were a deterrent, these kids would already have been deterred, because there are plenty of examples of teenagers harshly punished for relatively minor computerrelated crimes. I'd rather see them grow up to become, probably average, members of society.

Also, whether they know right from wrong is a question whose answer definitely isn't as clear-cut as you make it out to be. There's a reason we don't consider them adults yet.
Just a suggestion - perhaps you place a sample of the book on your page? A paragraph or two, just so people can see what they are getting. Also it would be good to know how long it is.
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So.... your argument is that we should stop building nuclear plants using 50 year old designs? I think that problem is already well solved.

New nuclear plants would actually fare far better against these unprecedented natural disasters.

Edit: the problem is this, nuclear power is being put up to a far higher standard than any other power source because of irrational fears. There is risk in any activity, especially providing electrical power. People die from dams failing, from refinery explosions, etc. The question should be whether we can build nuclear plants that are at least as safe as competing power sources, and the answer, even in the wake of Fukushima, seems to be a resounding yes.
Disable all JavaScript annoyance on a webpage with RightToClick Firefox addon
For firefox:
Add the following in
%appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[profilename]\chrome\userContent.css

@-moz-document domain(wikipedia.org) {
#content
{
max-width:50em !important;
border-right:1px solid #ccc;
padding:2em;
}
p { font-family:Verdana ! important; }
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#mw-panel:hover { opacity:1 !important; }

/* Donate to founder banner */
#JA1banner3 {display:none;}
#JA1banner2 {display:none;}
#JA1banner1 {display:none;}
}

Not as nice as the extension linked but much better than default wikipedia.

Hides navigation panel on the left when not hovering and introduces max-width making long texts readable. A border added to make the change in width more natural. Change font to whatever you want, i apparently found verdana to be easy on the eyes last time i edited this but with the new font renderer in firefox 4 i think there are better choices today.
> Maybe create a separate twitter account and do both?

No reason not to. :)

I had a few blogs (well, "autoblogs") go from $5-6/day on 400-500 unique visitors to $10-12 after installing and configuring Twitter Tools. A human touch generally results in higher yield than automation with most marketing stuff, though.
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That's $300/year. Why would you throw it away?
Yeah. In chrome I can type just the domain (without the www. part). But FF (even with the urlbar.autofill property set requires me to type with www.

And in chrome I can do ctrl+shift+pageup/pagedown to move the tabs around. FF doesn't allow that.

Minor irritant, but thats what makes me like chrome.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_fire#List_of_mine_fires

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_mining
Todo lists are a concept most people can already relate to, so there's no need to go to great lengths to explain why the product is useful. Instead they can get away with focusing on a whimsical use-case that's conducive to demos. So it's probably good that they picked a use case everyone can relate to, instead of focusing on a more realistic use case like tracking software bugs that only some people can relate to.
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Umm, then don't put ads on your blog? Wow.
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You have 5 BTC incoming once I catch up on crunching the block chain (I'm a few thousand blocks out of date) and there's a few confirmations. Have fun!
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It's been fun watching these features play out in libraries over the last year.

I particularly like the idea of TemplateResponse - the earliest implementation I saw was in simonw's:

https://github.com/simonw/django-openid/blob/master/django_o...

This approach makes template rendering much more flexible!

For example, it would be easy to swap out a template for a mobile one ... or to A/B test a template. Or choose the content type of the output (HTML, JSON etc.)
Thanks! I'll think about how to integrate everything nicely during the blackout. Not going to change anything now since I don't want to get caught with my pants down.

Edit: I put a one-page sample on Lulu if you're curious.
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The simple answer is no. But the more complicated answer (as a Firefox developer looked into doing this a while ago), is that Keychain is pretty limiting about what you can (easily) store. Our heuristics require that we store more information about logins (for example, the action url). It also restricts protocols, so we can't store password for chrome:// urls there.

Not to say it's never a possibility, but it's not just because we don't want to!
My most profitable side project actually plays in an extremely competitive space but I usually stay quiet about it because it's boring, extremely uncool, and borders on sleazy. Anyways, I wrote it in a weekend and it makes me about $400/month.
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CMake is also very difficult to debug (e.g. to find out why a library test is failing), harder to fix once you've debugged it, has strange ways of accepting extra compiler/linker flags from the environment, has poor --help, tries to allow creating Xcode projects but mostly produces nonsense, etc...

I think it might actually be worse than autoconf in every way, which is surprising considering how bad autoconf is. The handwritten non-macro-expanding not-much-autogenerating configure/makefile in ffmpeg/libav/x264/vp8 is easier to deal with than either.
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bar spending? $50/weekend * 52 weeks in a year = $2600/year. I did much worse than that I have to admit. And don't start with 'most college students are under 21' because most people I knew were resourceful when it came to age modification, not to mention our proximity to Mexico :)