skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The effect being proposed here is not new, but like most things internet it is perhaps new only in terms of the scale.

For example, I don't sit in the crowd at a football game wearing blue when all around me are wearing red. I don't walk on the street, in an economically depressed area, at night, with an expensive camera hanging around my neck, talking on an iPhone, and giving the finger to the local homies.

There's no evidence that there's any connection between geohot, Anonymous and the recent Sony hacks. But Sony certainly put a big target sign up when they (somewhat vindictively) went after Hotz. They may not even be the worst offender when it comes to drm litigation.

When car, after fancy car, rolls through the neighborhood, disrespecting the locals, you gotta expect that sooner or later they'll go past someone with enough criminal tendencies to throw a stone. When the population have no bread it may be king and not cake they end up eating.

The internet is a big neighborhood - and when the law is out of touch with the mood of the people then there's always some backlash. Sooner or later stones will get thrown. The music labels, for one, could do worse than to think about such things.
It's a government chartered corporation. Like Fannie Mae or the Post Office. I was surprised to also found out they still existed when I got a call for a contracting gig with them. I believe the second sentence out my mouth after the introduction was, "I didn't know you guys were still here!". But it makes sense. It's not like all those dams, powerplants, and electrical lines continue to take care of themself once the installation is done.

Unlike the governments law enforcement apparatus, TVA still works in the domain they were deployed for, managing water and electricity in the areas around Tennessee.
This post is fluff at best, and linkbait at worst. I don't know how it wound up on the HN front page, other than on Wilson's name recognition as a major VC:

Companies and governments should not underestimate the power of hacker culture to extract revenge on institutions they feel have wronged them. Unfortunately, it looks like Sony did just that and is now dealing with the repurcussions.

I'm afraid Wilson's conclusion doesn't follow. Sony was running an unpatched version of Apache on its servers without a firewall. So, I think it would be much more accurate to say Sony didn't underestimate the power of hackers at all; they simply rolled out a red carpet for them.
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Go also has gobs which according to Rob Pike improve on protocol buffers in several ways: http://blog.golang.org/2011/03/gobs-of-data.html

And while gobs are (by design) Go-centric, there are already implementations in C for example: http://code.google.com/p/libgob/

And Go also has the rpc package, which uses gobs (but can also use json or other encodings): http://golang.org/pkg/rpc/
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unless they mean only for use on AOL's network, and not cross-network like with gtalk or msn chat. It's worded just awkwardly enough that I could see non-techies making that wording mistake.
Something crucial is not mentioned in the article: What is the traffic you receive? The facebook page lists 11K fans. I disagree with "don't check email". Users do a much better job at testing our apps than ourselves. I 've essentially stopped monitoring my own apps thanks to them.
What tells you that Intel won't be getting back to working on ARM cores? ARM isn't anything new to Intel; I'm sure you've heard of XScale. Not that other actors on the market are doing a bad job, but if anyone can make ARM shine in silicon, it's Intel. Give it a few more years before you say that Apple won't be transitioning to something better than x86. I personally predict "The Announcement" within 4 years.
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i still don't understand why the jit can't also do a decent job on "easy" code. i can see that sse and, as you mention, the need for warm up would be an issue. but if that is the case why not include ways to support sse and flag that assumptions about types are reliable in python? (or, if that's just too hard, make it easy to mix rpython and python - perhaps i am mistaken here but last time i looked that seemed to be completely undocumented and apparently hard).

it's often the case in numerical code that there's some algorithm that you can't convert into standard matrix routines, but you still want it to run fast. when you're using BLAS + fortran (or c) that's not a problem. but here it will be.

sure, that was also an issue with numpy - but why can't pypy be better than old numpy?

[i am not trying to ask for the technically impossible here - i'm saying that numpy is not so amazingly different that rpython isn't going to be necessary for other projects. either make rpython accessible, or do numpy in some other way - what bugs me is the "we can use rpython because we're special, but you can't because you don't need the power" attitude]
Not only that but he miss understands hacker culture when he lumps criminal crackers in with hackers.
See also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2368486

(there are lots of comments, a couple of months ago, it would have been easy to see which ones are "interesting", now you must read them all).
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more info. on the hack - when user tried to forgot password ,they got their original password back. If it was stored as encrypted then there is no way to decrypt them. And also in interview CEO claims they use "2.2.17" for past 5 months but http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.ccavenue.com shows differently
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Noone is denying that. But what's the point of bringing that up here?
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You're right, the server needs to send additional unique information, as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash

Server:

uniq_id = long random string
salt = long random string
work_number = random integer

storage[uniq_id] = salt
send(uniq_id, salt, work_number)

Client:

new_number = work_number

while hash[:4] != "0000"
hash = hashfunc(salt | new_number++)

send(uniq_id, new_number)

Server:

salt = storage[uniq_id]
if no salt
deny

delete from storage[uniq_id]

if hashfunc(salt | new_number)[:4] != "0000"
deny
else
allow

May also add timestamps.
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I don't use it to monitor, but it's one of the first places I go when things go awry to search and see if others are experiencing issues.
If you set your logins/hour limit higher than the actual logins/hour, your scheme does nothing except smooth some peaks by forcing people to wait. If you set it lower, there will always be (a growing number of) people waiting to log in. In either case, you annoy real users and spammers to the same degree.
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It seems that the issue may be Hurricane Electric. They appear to have completely disappeared from the Internet. Nothing like a global backbone taking a siesta from providing network service.
Very nice, but when do we finally get a new version of Elite/Frontier type of game? :)
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I thought a bitcoin transaction was only considered successful after a sizable number of other bitcoin participants have based their successful computations on it?

If that is correct, bitcoin validation isn't fast enough for instantaneous forum postings when the spammers can be assumed to be as dishonest as fits them.
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From my http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2518120:

> Not part of this article: Sony ran unpatched Apache on a system actually containing sensitive data, Sony was actually hacked via unpatched Apache.

Let's not spread rumors.
I wouldn't necessarily suggest it, but imagine if this were implemented at the protocol level and handled with native code built into clients.

There could be a new HTTP request method called "SUBMIT" which works like a POST request except with an added step for proof of work. When making a SUBMIT request, the client opens a connection to the server, sends the initial request header with the SUBMIT method, and receives a proof of work challenge as an HTTP field in the server's response. The client then processes the challenge and sends its proof of work to the server which verifies it and sends an OK. Then the client sends its url-encoded data to the server, the server sends its response data, and the connection closes.

Then performance impact and behavior would be fairly uniform for all clients, especially if a standard library of problems and problem solving code were used by them, so you wouldn't have to worry about finding a problem that isn't too hard for poor Javascript implementations to solve while still being too easy for native code implementations in spamming tools to process. There could even be an added field for the server to inform the client what problem type is being used, allowing the addition of new problem types of different difficulty and performance requirements in the future without any more updates to the protocol.

Personally though, I don't like proof of work solutions. Sure, they add some computational cost to spamming, but the mass implementation and use of any proof of work solution would probably just create a new, lucrative market for botnet hackers to sell their services to. Besides that, it just feels like the wrong solution to me.
i think it's taking advantage of opengl. so all devices that support opengl get accelerated graphics. no need for per-device optimisations.
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I look forward to seeing it when it's up!
IIRC, you can almost instantly verify that certain bitcoin wasn't spent someplace else before, which would be good enough. Now, the attacker can use the same bitcoin for several web forms simultaneously, but 1) the scope of this attack is limited by the time window, and 2) if the server discovers a fraudulent transaction in, say, a few minutes, the spammy comment can be automatically deleted then.
I doubt that - Android is a memory hog, even my phone has more memory than that.
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This is affecting me. :(

I was trying to access one of my sites right after it went down.
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It varies from website to website, there's no firm rule on it. Different market sectors will have different Javascript support, for example people on HN are (probably, I haven't checked the stats) more likely to be running NoScript, or to be browsing from something like Lynx.
> Are you so confident in your sanitized inputs that you run your webserver as root?

I don't see what the first half of this sentence has to do with the second. No, I will not run my webserver as root but that has literally nothing to do with sanitizing input.
Right. I noticed a small translation error in the first paragraph. The Russian word "машина" - in the paraphrased Henry Ford quote - is translated as machine, but in the context of the sentence should be translated as "car."

When I corrected it, the old one was left in place.
Do mobile game developers optimize their products for every GPU out there?

If it's necessary, which is more likely to have the resources to do such optimizations, Adobe or an individual developer? (Well, at least in theory... Adobe's track record with Flash Player is of course lightyears short of stellar.)
"I'm a developer. My time spent with Jira is an annoyance at best, or a hatred at worst."

I support that. Jira is a feature monster. It is aimed at producing nice pie charts, percentage numbers and lists (of solved, unsolved, analyzed etc. problems). A nice toy for managers. These are probably the people who make the buy decision, so it was clever to aim jiras features at this group instead of bothering with developers needs.

Gamification of jira may simply add more entertainment options. Not a bad thing, because the less these type of managers interfere with developers work through jira, the more useful code can be written.

I could easily image to give a character to every logged-in developer and let them run through charts or hop around in bug lists. The managers may virtually shoot at them with rocket launchers or laser blasters. Not bad. Go on.

The time is not far when I don't take a job anymore because the project uses jira.
Gamification makes things more fun and I like to have fun even though I am an adult.
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"I hope computer science never gets into high school curriculum, it will only make students hate programming. "

I'm a bit of touch at 41, but are you sure that it isn't already available as an elective for students? Perhaps you meant making it mandatory, which I agree would probably not be very productive.

I took programming in High School, but back then it was all using BASIC. We learned the concepts of variables, memory, loops, and even simple algorithms. And if we finished our homework ahead of the rest of the class, we got to play games. Quite the motivating factor for me at the time.
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Original discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2511808
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A danger here is that a new user makes a typo in their e-mail address when signing up, puts a fair amount of effort into their new profile/account/whatever, and is then locked out forever. They won't realise they made a typo and will blame the site instead.

But I agree that new users having to leave the site to check their e-mail is a hurdle to get over.
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Not surprising and I predicted this last June. If you plot Apple's current trajectory, it's the most obvious conclusion. If you doubt this, go look at Microsoft doing the same thing with Windows on ARM. You have a generation of people spoiled with instant-on and 8+ hours of Internet on an iPad wondering why their laptop can only do two hours.
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Try explaining that to some of these development shops where they describe it as "their culture" to work from 8am to 6pm every day. Who in the hell can write decent code in two 4-hour blocks every day, 5 days a week ? They're just stealing your personal time for no reason, and deluding themselves into thinking that they're getting more work for the same price.

Personally, I'm lucky if I get a good 4-hour block of really good work in every day. After that, I'm burnt and need to switch to menial tasks like email or just taking a break.
When you work on a Facebook app, you need to customize the urls of your scripts and stylesheets to bypass their aggressive caching.

In my first, the markup was littered with urls looking like

http://www.domain.com/path/to/stylesheet.css?v=20

After a couple of projects I noticed that the number was decreasing. As I was learning to work with their fucked-up FBML/FBJS/weird-corner-cases my code went through less and less iterations and the final numbers were lower and lower.

And I was a little happier inside.

That's gamification, but unintended.

Making it part of the product? I'm not sure.
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From Hurricane Electric: "A utility failure is affecting much of Fremont, CA, USA, damaging some electrical equipment. We are currently working to restore power."

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They prevent others from suing you, at least over that one patent.

This is not valuable. Placing ideas in the public domain also prevents people from suing you and anybody else for those ideas, and it's much less expensive. The only reason to pay for a patent is to acquire the right to sue for compensation.
Until Node gets long stack traces natively (as mentioned in the slides) check out this hack: https://github.com/tlrobinson/long-stack-traces

It works in stock Chrome too, since it's implemented in JavaScript using V8's stack trace API.

Caveats: There is some performance penalty. Not for use in production. May "leak" memory in certain situations (e.x. function foo() { setTimeout(foo, ms); })
Interesting. When I spoof an iPad, I get the embedded video. However, when I identify myself as Firefox on Linux, Microsoft insists to push Silverlight for me despite the fact it doesn't run on Linux.
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With respect to size, you could easily get a suitcase full of these into any developing country, while a suitcase full of "pentium-class machine" contains only 1. You can also own and carry these things without making yourself a target.

On the power front, the power requirements are minimal, allowing them to take advantage of the solar infrastructure in places that rely on car battery power (central america is covered in solar). Also to run on 12V SLAs which are a common feature in places with unreliable power.

You might be surprised to learn that your city may have a recycling contract with the landfill. Those thousands of landfilled PCs are effectively unavailable to you or anyone else, no matter how feel-good the project.

I think this is a Good Thing and I hope it becomes available to everyone.
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FWIW (from game.php):

eval(base64_decode('<long encoded stream>')

decodes to:

$passwd = array('root' => '12befbfe1068efa2d6813188cb48f796');

if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']) ||
!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']) ||
!isset($passwd[$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']]) ||
$passwd[$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']] != md5($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'])) {
header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="HELP 1.8"');
header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
$authenticated = true;
echo "<html><head><title>Access Denied</title></head><h1>Access denied</h1><hr><body></body></html>";
exit(0);

} else {
$authenticated = true;
}
If social recommendations didn't work then amazon would have no 'people who bought, also bought...'

The point is, if your business starts off as "we sell books" (and expands to "we sell books and stuff") and you get a lot of users that way, you can mix in some social recommendations on the existing user base and thereby sell more books and stuff.

If your business is "we do social recommendations" you're screwed.
Oh, yeah, I didn't even realize the other one happens. I've never had a connection where I didn't have to get off the plane, and usually I have to change planes. I think maybe once out of hundreds of flights have I got lucky enough that the connecting plane was actually the same plane I came in on. So I assumed the hidden-city ticketing was just people skipping the 2nd connecting flight, not literally exiting the plane at a layover.
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The point of the article was as I understand it, which influence the title has independent of the data. Stuff like quality of writing will just be noise that does not matter anymore as long as you have enough data.
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I am afraid the experiment is screwed up, because you announced it before and because you won't get/don't want upvotes.
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