skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's obvious that there is much more going on here than simply trying to build an innocuous honey pot. The key part of this scam is to get people to settle out of court for the fine because of the social embarrassment that might come from publicly disclosing that someone has downloaded !!Gasp!! GAY PORN !!Shudder!!, even if they meant to download this instead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btyhpyJTyXg . Additionally, while the title of the file was not listed, I doubt it was "Happy Days in the Barracks" instead it was probably something like "Dastardly Dongs", all with the intentions of raising the level of neighborly cringe factor. So, while this story may be masquerading as a poorly set honeypot, it is also the story of exploiting the latent homophobia that still exists throughout America. Here's my suggestion, instead honeypot Martha Stewart's "Home for the Holiday" under "Porn Bloopers" and see how people respond to the extortionist threat of court time. I doubt it will work out nearly as well.
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.

Watch your words, for they become actions.

Watch your actions, for they become habits.

Watch your habits, for they become your character.

Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

Under the guise of being a piece of wisdom, this, to me, sounds like a healthy recipe for going insane. Watch your thoughts? Indeed. Might as well try to bite your own teeth.

The world becomes a lot more fun and easier to deal with once you stop trying to control everything and realise that things tend to work pretty much ok even if you don't keep a paranoid eye on them.

I much prefer the following Haiku:

Sitting silently,

Doing nothing

And the grass grows by itself.
Google monetizes very little of what they revolutionize. As far as money goes, Google revolutionized how we find small businesses. That's pretty much it. The entertainment, education, and interaction portions are all loss leaders so that the answer to "How do you find small businesses?" is "I go to Google."

Groupon does the exact same thing, answer "How do you find small businesses?" The difference is that they compete on price instead of relevancy. Google's value proposition is that they will show you the most relevant ads to your query, so that you don't need to wade through lots of useless shops to get the one you want. Groupon's value proposition is price: the merchants they show you will give you lower prices than the ones you'd find elsewhere.

It remains to be seen whether this is a sustainable value proposition. I can think of two Web 1.0 companies that Groupon reminds me of: Amazon.com and Kozmo.com. But while Amazon became a huge retailing powerhouse, Kozmo deadpooled, hard. The difference was that Amazon's value proposition was convenience and selection, and they used the Internet to deliver both through some pretty impressive logistics management. Kozmo's value proposition was convenience and price, and they used lots of venture capital money to deliver both through selling at a loss. Groupon's business seems to remind me a bit more of Kozmo's though: they compete on price through using direct subsidies.
Offline Wikipedia in the pocket, with images
Sony hacked again
If by "hot seat" you mean "position from which to comfortably reject your pitch" then I think you're on to something.
More accurately; it's a ponzi scheme, not so much a pyramid scheme. That said, I agree with exactly what you wrote in opinion around it.
never once tried to argue that it is a practical approach...

additionally, attempting to exhibit intellectual superiority by making someone look stupid, isn't infuriating, it's just sad.

i wouldn't conduct myself like that in public or on the internet. it's a shame that anyone thinks it's acceptable.
Wow. Eric and Elizabeth Lefkosky turned a $1m angel investment (according to crunchbase) into $380m cash in 4 years.
I can pick up a piece of paper, scribble on it, ask if people prefer X or Y, draw on a whiteboard, wave my hands descriptively, and generally get much better communication with people who are right in front of me.
http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/76388576832651265

Stay classy
Is the owner aware of how unhappy you are?
Is your boss aware of how unhappy you are?
Is there any chance you can be happy at your current company?

If the answers are "yes, yes, no", then your path seems pretty clear. Give appropriate notice, leave on good graces, and move on.

Otherwise, if you think there is a chance you can be happy at your current company, go talk to your boss and / or the owner (I'd go to the boss first so that the boss doesn't ever think you've gone behind his back). You might be surprised by what they're willing to do to keep you. The results of those conversations should solidify the answer to whether there's any chance you can be happy at your current company, and therefore make clear your next path.

Best of luck.
You're making the mistake of thinking of stock as a speculative instrument only. It's a legal claim upon the economic output of an enterprise - the speculative element is secondary to that.

Even if no market exists to resell a stock, if the company is operating it still has fundamental value, whereas something like bitcoin has no value if nobody else is willing to trade you something.

Given that, I don't think your comparison holds. Yes, a speculative market exists in stocks (and generally, anything else of value.) But the value of a stock is not based purely upon the speculative market that might exist around it - at its root, it has an underlying fundamental value that is not driven by market demand.

Similarly, lots of folks speculate in commodities, but at the end of the day, if you can't sell oil or steel, you can use them to produce other things you can sell.
Right after the HN IPO.
SonyPictures.com was owned by a very simple SQL injection... From a single injection, we accessed EVERYTHING ... every bit of data we took wasn't encrypted. Sony stored over 1,000,000 passwords of its customers in plaintext...

I have to disagree. Lots of big companies are not great at security, but this is just horrible!
That's insane - a few people got very rich. Seems like they should have invested that money back into the company if you ask me.
Jason Fried Of 37Signals Shares Tips For Creating A Productive Office Space
Well yeah; that would have sucked. :P
I have an eTrade account and I regularly short stocks, but I still can't short LNKD. eTrade is still "unable to borrow shares".
Now, if they were only (officially) available in germany :(
I don't think it'd work. Great founders are usually passionate about their business and have been thinking about the problem for a long time. It's unlikely that an "idea from the outside" would be well absorbed or by the right kind of person. Ideas are a dime a dozen anyway. It's all execution.
Also they're ignoring the employees of Sony they're hurting too. If Sony loses money, it's not the management who get hurt, it's the low level employees. It's such a shame we now parade these people as heros, when a few years ago they would have been berated for not disclosing this information properly.
Isn't the context clear? Do I really need to say "This error message is the whole content of the story?" Aren't you guys a little smarter than that?

I received those downvotes the entire time the website was down.
Working next to the people I'm talking to, where I can just turn my monitor, ask "A or B?" and get an instant answer is a fantastic experience.

Even being 30 seconds away across the office is inferior. Working from home is appalling by comparison.
Isn't it a little strange their irc is on 2600? I thought they owned them the same night as PBS...
Down Syndrome itself is the duplication of all or part of chromosome 21, usually due to improper separation of chromosome pairs during meiosis. I kind of think of this like going around a factory and turning up every 23rd valve.

Gene duplication seems less severe. I agree it is not known how to make wings on a giraffe by manipulating the environment so as to control or "benefit" from gene duplication.

Your attempts to study this in nature might be frustrated by the difficulty in identifying paralogs vs orthologs, the fact that gene duplications are often not preserved between generations and the fact that many gene duplications are deleterious.

It's also the case that it is not yet fully understood how gene expression regulates the development and structure of body layouts. New body parts like wings are complex biological structures and do not usually just appear due to a change in genes. At least when I last left the debate conditions in the womb, fetal orientation, rna from the mother, "junk" dna and many other things were being examined for their role in the development of body layouts.

As you are probably aware, research has been done that shows duplication and deletion of body parts due to genetic abnormality. But this is usually not a good way to make an organism survive. How many people missing a leg or who have an extra arm do you know of who find life easier?

Anyhow, my point regarding the giraffes was merely that it is going to take very many generations of giraffes before anything at all happens. You and your great grandchildren will be long dead before then. In that sense I don't think it can be held against science that we haven't been able to demonstrate evolution of wings on a giraffe.

I personally don't hold out much hope for it either. The changes that must occur in a giraffe for it to support wings as a viable organism may be so great that it is no longer anything like a giraffe any more. So the entire concept of wings on a giraffe might just be a natural impossibility.
This is fantastic news. Absolutely fantastic. Congratulations to Google and YouTube for not only enabling CC licensing, but also to enabling the larger context and understanding of CC. I especially like the automatic attribution list that is generated. This may hopefully forecast a whole new way of making and remaking content world wide, from videos to music, to pictures, to stories. Congratulations again.
Interestingly, they are trying out Apple and Android devices, but not Blackberry
My easter egg container never landed on my doorstep :-P

Anybody else gotten some of the late-to-arrive CR48s?
Every Sony customer is an inadvertent supporter of Sony's abuses, and most of them don't care about Sony's morality, they just love the products. If hackers make being a Sony customer unpleasant, then they may be able to hurt Sony's bottom line. It seems far more likely to work than an online petition or boycott...
Never "loan" the client more than 2 weeks salary. If they can't do 10 days net then offer to work off a retainer.
I would love to see improved notifications for iOS
If they didn't release the information:

1) Sony would just accuse them of lying and people (the general public) would just believe Sony over a bunch of anonymous hackers.

2) Change doesn't happen unless people get off their butts. This is a way to motivate that change.

I don't necessarily agree with it, but you're talking as if there is no logic behind this other than recklessness.
I think that in particular the web page schema should be, at least optionally, read from the natural html. In other words, you should be able to give

<div id="WPFooter">

and the search engine should know that this is the footer. In fact, the same could be asked of the rest of the itemtypes so that we can link them with CSS and don't have to repeat ourselves.
Am I wrong, or any idiot can spend 1 billion dollars to make 700M?

It's very scary to me that they scaled and failed to prove they can profit, before going IPO. I have no issue with that tactic as a private company, but you shouldn't go public until you can prove profitability. Otherwise, the bubble word is truly deserved.
can you fix the link? it's simply a signup / login page...
Option 1: have a meeting or a one-on-one and gently bring up the economics. Whether the MVP is actually great or not is very subjective, but you can put a number on the opportunity cost of development (in lost client revenue, using existing data). Explore some contingency scenarios: a competitor launches something similar just before you do, or someone rips off your code, or a patent trolls comes out of the woodwork, or you get hit on the head and forget all your programming skills.

You don't have to oppose your boss's strategy or goal, but if he's going to bet the company on it it's reasonable to point out what the risk factors are. A non confrontational way to do this is to ask what he would need from you if any of these (entirely plausible) situations arose, so that you are appropriately prepared. You seem like an ethical person, and asking for guidance on how to allocate your limited resources seems like a constructive approach to strategic uncertainty. You might not get answers immediately, and indeed that might be a good thing because it would show that your boss is actually thinking about the issues.

Option 2: make a power move inside the company. Ask to hire an assistant or two, train them into the less complex work, build up your own skills as an architecture/CTO sort of person. Do this in the context of a commitment to a product release, that gives your boss some security but also allows you to raise your entirely legitimate points about the time/effort involved.

Option 3: tell your boss straight out that you've hit the limit of your productivity and are rather worried about burning out due to stress. Most people would be sympathetic to the situation where you no longer enjoy your work and want to do something different, even at some inconvenience to them. Your boss would only hold it against you if you began to compete within the same space/customer base, which it does not sound like you plan to do. It's OK to have ideas and goals of your own, and it's highly likely your boss felt the same way before starting his own firm. He might well be wondering about how best to keep you interested and challenged, so as not to underuse your skills with run-of-the-mill projects.

Use your judgment about whether to have a conversation like this in the office, or maybe over dinner or some non-work environment, like a ballgame or something else you can both enjoy. Both you and your boss sound like good people, so just airing the issues may be sufficient. Just think of the situation as a bug/QA issue in the business model, and give your boss a chance to fix it the same way you would fix a technical flaw. You develop and maintain code, your boss develops and maintains deals. Your wellbeing is an important input for your productivity, and you have a mutual interest in maintaining that. Best of luck!
What's the crash-safety/power-loss durability on these guys?

The press release mentions OLTP workloads, but if they don't have supercaps or a battery or something, you'd have to be an absolute idiot to trust your data to them, no matter how compelling the performance numbers. The pictures don't show any connectors for a battery or capacitor-looking doodads (or at least anything I recognize as such), so I'm extremely skeptical. Unf., the linked site is down for "maintenance", and some quick googling yields nothing on-point.

(Edit: formatting)
Are we serious? Besides this being a really specific solution to a more general problem, there aren't that many Bitcoin stories on HN.

Why not make a general purpose filter?
They also mass email spammed their entire database to let people know about it.
Because you don't know which one is the oldest, but which was the first retrieved by the spider.
Windows 8 To Drive Kinect Into Computing
Am I alone in thinking schema.org is a direct answer to Facebook's Open Graph Protocol?
I know someone that briefly worked for a third party company that Sony had outsourced a fairly large project to (building some social networking features into the web based side of PSN). I found it really surprising at the time that Sony had outsourced that sort of thing, but I'm getting the feeling now that it must have been a fairly common practice.

Given the wildly different business sectors that Sony is involved in, it's really not so surprising that their security varies considerably amongst them. Somehow I doubt lulzsec would be anywhere nearly as successful if they were attempting to steal semiconductor manufacturing information from the Japanese offices. Although that might just make it all the more insulting to Sony's customers who just had all of their personal information stolen.
LATimes reports $25 yearly subscription for iCloud
Personally I prefer to use github gists
Few folks couldn't get Tap2Tab setup - So I made a "how to" video
an obvious troll is obvious
And yet, all the media coverage and discussion further encourages this kind of behaviour.

When was the last time a website break-in wasn't news?
http://schema.org/docs/faq.html#14

It seems that they chose Microdata over RDFa because the latter's syntax was deemed to be unwieldy.

It's not really true that RDFa is more extensible than microdata, there are a small number of missing features related to XML data, but nothing too significant for these use cases; see, for example, [1]

[1] http://bnode.org/blog/2010/01/26/microdata-semantic-markup-f...
Holy freaking useful.
It does feel like 1998-2001 but it also feel more solid this time. Business with actual revenues rather than the hypothetical revenues of so many early dot com's.

I kind of hope we aren't' in a bubble but a rise in the economy. Either way head down and back to work. I missed the first bubble and related opportunities being distracted by school and the fun of school.

Not this time. I doubt that http://infostripe.com will IPO anytime ever but if there is enthusiasm and growth in the industry then I want to be in there somewhere in the wings fighting over the scraps.
Ask your lawyer about intent [1] some time. It could be educational.

You are claiming that because the copyrighted work they attempted to download contained a different copyrighted work that the owner of the actual work that got downloaded lacks standing [2]. And it may be that the argument supports a summary dismissal, however it can be reasonably argued that the person intended to download a copyrighted work in the first place.

My point (#3 go at this, then I give up) is that educating people who are naive (which is to say don't know any better) that downloading copyrighted material from the web without the express permission of the copyright holder is illegal, and thus if they wanted access to that work they should seek out a legal source for it, is a positive outcome for what is otherwise a pointless and wasteful exercise.

[1] http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/intent

[2] http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/legal+standing
I don't necessarily disagree with your points nor think that Bitcoin will ever be much of a monetary force but most of your arguments simply have to do with Bitcoin being new. If everything was required to surmount your hurdles from the outset we'd never get anywhere.
I had to stop a previous employer from doing just that in 2003. It was bad practice then, too. Big companies are just more susceptible to these kinds of short-cuts. Especially shortcuts with no clear benefit except to a lazy programmer.

I remain pessimistic.
Thanks, that makes the current 1B valuation proposition even more unsettling. Does this suggest that HomeAway has a 2 B dollar valuation?
well, first you should read the excellent "How to Make Money Selling Stocks Short":

http://www.amazon.com/Money-Selling-Stocks-Short-Trading/dp/...

If you don't get what the authors are saying, that's probably a sign that what you're about to do is gambling. If you want to gamble, great, but it's important to understand when you are gambling, and to understand whether your grasp of the odds in any way correlates to reality - and that's the big challenge in learning to trade.

Secondly, you should look at a good broker like Interactive Brokers: they offer a paper trade account for free, and a wide range of information on their website. Their software is excellent. If you find either their software or the information for individual investors on their website tough going or enormously intimidating (e.g. suddenly you realize that you're running an application that quite literally runs on money...), then that is also a sign that what you are about to do is gambling on unknown odds.

http://www.interactivebrokers.com

If looking at these things dissuades you, then you will have learned something useful along the way - and hopefully it interests you enough to go look at other resources that teach a much better way to interact with the market.
Yes, I guess that it could refer to a blog as well. Thanks!
Trading Students for Employees
Group's twitter page: http://twitter.com/LulzSec
It is surprising because pure functional languages have not been around for a long time, especially not ones with good optimizers.

> Do you really think that "do something before it is strictly needed in a lazy language" is new?

That's not what the "par" combinator does.

"par" along with "pseq" is already used, today, to achieve parallelism in Haskell code, and it already is easier to parallelize than in other environments.

Additionally, STM in Haskell is usable in practice, unlike other implementations of software transactional memory, and it also relates to purity (in this case, the ability to distinguish different types of impurity).
Yeah! Who gives a fuck about people and how this affects them! The important part is the ongoing battle against Sony for the atrocities they commit.

Each and every person who suffers as the result of these kinds of attacks has whatever happens to them coming for not being part of The Cause. They must pay!
You really don't think Groupon has a plan, however flawed, to go from large revenues to large profits?
My read on this, especially given the extreme flexibility series G investors showed in cashing out founders, is that when Groupon is up and running in a locale, it makes a whole shitload of money.

I also would anticipate from reading the expansion numbers and having a little bit of business experience myself that Groupon grew literally as fast as it possibly could in the last few years; there was no way for them to successfully move any faster, no matter how much cash they were given.

I'm guessing you'll see some gyrations as they continue to try and solidify their global lead, then slow move to profitability, then one day, (if margins hold up) BAM. Major Net Income.

Right now the market clearly is going to reward a company who can get this done successfully in as broad a portion of the world as possible; if they can demonstrate that existing locales are profitable after a certain period of time, they will have happy shareholders as well. It's a landgrab, and Amazon is a good comparison.
I Almost Feel Bad, Sony Hacked Again
Watch a strange love story online
watch a strange love story online
It begins with a young couple driving a cara young man sleeps
The first thing I do on a new webpage with cross-browser JS issues is make sure the HTML is valid. It's usually not. Savings cost? More.
While the touchpad is still not perfect it has improved huge amount since launch.
If Nintendo Characters Were X-Men
How do you know which is the oldest content? Are you polling web pages often enough that your spider can tell the time difference between the real content and the seconds old RSS scraped copy?

Just kidding, Blekko is great, althought I'm more of a DDG and Google user.
You're right about that number being so obviously easy to game, but share price isn't completely irrelevant since many mutual funds won't hold shares with a price < $5 [1]. Also, share prices < $1 can lead to delisting from exchanges such as NYSE or Nasdaq [2]

[1]http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/3011203?f=related
[2]http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/krantz/2009-01...