skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This strike is not intended to inconvenience the cab customers (voters!).

They intend to prevent vehicular access to City Hall. A few percent of the cabs will be involved in shutting down the streets at City Hall and if Uber takes up enough slack so the customers aren't inconvenienced that could be helping the cab industry. They don't want pissed off voters.

(Personally, it seems ill advised. The core seems to be the cab companies keeping a 5% transaction fee on credit card processing, which isn't far from the cost. Some cabbies also don't want GPS trackers on the company's cars or LCDs playing advertisements to their riders.)
The question is what will this newspaper do that HN doesn't. Perhaps an approach would be creating a friendly and attention grabbing wrapper for HN, one that shows "trending" stories and popular comments to greater effect. Positioning questions and showcases in their own spot to maximise interest.

Also bear in mind who you're making this for. The developer mindset may require page efficiency (size of text, number of features), while designers may value page effectiveness (pictures, layout).
Regarding my Ticker Tape app here's my original description with a bit of explanation on what it is:

OK - I have no illusions about winning the contest, but just for fun I gave it a go by adding support to my existing Android app, SocialMediaTicker. My app is designed for when your device is charging or otherwise idle and is a bit of an eye-candy display. It's a 3D, interactive ticker-tape type display that scrolls facebook feeds, twitter streams, news headlines, photos, rss feeds, etc. Click once to stop an item, click on it again to call up the full photo, story, rss feed, etc.

For HN, I added a headline search capability and also made it part of my experimental Twitter Trends mashup where the search terms for content automatically come from the currently trending topics under Twitter. This can be hit-and-miss for HN as oftentimes Twitter trending terms don't match well to the topics found under HN, but other times I've been surprised about what pops up.

If you want to give the mashup a try, I'd turn most other content off, turn the mashup on, sit back and watch what happens! Configuration of all content can be found in the preferences menu. By default HN is off.

To give it a try on your Android, download the app here:

http://www.socialmediaticker.com/SocialMediaTicker.apk

Feedback appreciated!
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Ask HN: Review my product concept: farsquare - A doorbell for your meetups
farsquare is a concept for a tool which allows you to create events and meet-ups, invite guests to those events, and track their location before the event.

It is very much in it's concept phase and I would love to know what you guys think about it.

www.vikasvadlapatla.com/farsquare
cough I can go out right now and sign up for a new service plan and get a "free" iPhone4. On any carrier I want.

But Android is still growing pretty damn fast.
All of GitHub's space limits are soft limits to prevent abuse.
Or maybe the filter bubble will just show how the web sees you.
Private keys and such are not infinitely reproducible without cost to their value. Cultural value doesn't degrade over popularity/distribution. Apples and oranges.
This is the very POINT of strikes to show that you matter, and that people shouldn't just take you for granted.
Here is a link to the article: http://download.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/PIIS09609822110...
"Five Antonio Salieris won't produce Mozart's Requiem. Ever. Not if they work for 100 years."

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html
Eh, not really. Here's a very clear example of why your stance doesn't work.

I buy an MP3 from Amazon. I then copy it 'copy bits' over to another computer. Agreed, at this point all is fine. However, then I go try to sell the copied song for value to a 3rd-party. I may profess to 'own' the original download and the copy, however that doesn't give me the right to sell the song. It's the same with Bitcoin, if you just copied my Bitcoins, it's not theft in a sense, it's when you try to sell or exchange my Bitcoins for value that theft comes into play.
If it was test entries in a database, then how could the OP transfer real BTC to his wallet?
That would be because they (obviously) do exist.

This comes off as people strangely perturbed about the popularity of Something They Don't Like to me. (Paul Graham's own comments on the matter included.)
I see where you are coming from, however I would bet that the majority of the money you have, with the exception of the coins in your pocket, is already in the form of bits on a computer.
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You sound like an exact match of the audience of this book.
I follow the .net publications out of the UK (Future Publishing). They are gorgeously produced magazines and CDs, have full digital archives, are prohibitively expensive and worth every penny!
Just like money Bitcoins are numbers in a database. With software I can make 100 trillion copy's and cost you nothing, I can't do that with money or Bitcoins.
The people in those companies that Facebook bought are not just engineers, they are also people who can see a gap in a market and create a good product to meet the need.

They are not typically the people that apply to for jobs, especially at facebook or respond to head hunter requests.

I can see why facebook needs to buy companies to get those people.

I can also see why they often leave again, since they can't get things done that they want to, in big organisations.
"Nobody would suggest the Bruins had the best individual players in the NHL — throughout the year, the stars of the Vancouver Canucks shone much more brightly."

Both teams have some of the best hockey players in the world, not mediocre hockey players.
Same here. I was writing C++ with templates and the STL in 2002.

Of course, I was also 14 years old and working alone on toy projects, so I didn't have to worry so much about any of that. ;-)
Why shouldn't they? It seems perfectly reasonable to exclude customers if they are unprofitable: in this case, it may be that google is willing to take a hit in the short term, with the view to allowing them to strongly innovate in the future.
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback trb. The site is targeting a fairly specific market... basically, people who are planning events that normally have gift-giving associated with them. Weddings, baby showers, engagement parties, and the like. It's common practice to make a gift list somewhere so that people know what you want. I could probably do a better job of immediately communicating that on the site.

I'm most definitely not a designer by trade, so the typography tips are much appreciated.
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Very good synopsis by Kevin.

However, he has two technical mistakes in his post from a security perspective:

1) We don't know the attack vector. For example: If Mt Gox has a SQL injection vulnerability, then a sophisticated attacker will not waste their time doing a rainbow attack on a random user. Instead, if the account balance is not encrypted and the key kept secret, then the attacker simply needs to do a SQL injection attack that returns the account with the largest balance:

select top 1 t1.account_id, t1.balance from Account t1 order by t1.balance desc

Instantly, the attacker knows the largest balance. This automatically reduces the attack space. This is a standard trick attackers use to bypass even needing to guess a password.

2) Compounding this issue, it seems Kevin is right, the attacked account had a naive password susceptible to a rainbow attack. According to rumors, this attack was a pooled account that mediated all the assets traded on the exchange. This implies that MtGox used a password susceptible to a rainbow attack to secure the master account. To answer Kevin's question, what user would amass $8M in bitcoins and use a bad password? The system administrators. 0xDEADBEEF.

Postscript: I have never traded or owned bitcoins, or even signed up for an exchange. I just find the security breach fascinating!
A bitcoin exchange is a shady business, no regulation exists. So it is a freespace for criminals and hackers. You hustle or you will be hustled. This guy should have made a withdrawal by any means. In the bitcoin business only your wallet file counts, the rest is just a big hustle. And please forgot that you're able to sue somebody over a bitcoin dispute.
I was surprised to find this has nothing to do with Aza Raskin
Sadly Mt Gox used salted and at one point unsalted MD5s for its passwords. Finding a collision would be far easier with that consideration taken into account.
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The best way I would explain it is the following: In (way old skool) Eddie Murphy's "Raw" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092948/)... he talks about growing up wanting to eat a Big Mac at McDonalds. Yet, his mom refuses to take him there and keeps making him bologna sandwiches to save money. It's the same thing, she says! He cries and cries. He wants his McDonalds! It's just not the same as a homemade sandwich, he blurts back! His mom, of course, was optimizing on the wrong variable. She never get's the difference between the homemade sandwhich and McDonalds. You can tell that Eddie Murphy is quite bitter at the whole thing. Anyway, I never seemed to have forgotten that story when I think about good vs. bad marketing.
There's a straw man here. Nobody said that those 5 great programmers are necessarily prima-donnas. When they're described as great it isn't in the idiot savant sense of the word, it's in the all-around sense. Nobody said those 1000 other programmers are good team-workers.

He's also forgetting something that's pretty painful: the average programmer can be a net loss in better teams.
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To be even more of an utter pedant, quadratic growth is exponential growth, where the exponent is 2.
Can't edit parent post now, but here's an article with links to other articles about FBI priorities:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100809/17262010563.shtml

Identity theft and missing persons don't pay the bills, I guess.
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> Two months ago we migrated from MD5 hashing to freeBSD MD5 salted hashing. The unsalted user accounts in the wild are ones that haven't been accessed in over 2 months and are considered idle. Once we are back up we will have implemented SHA-512 multi-iteration salted hashing and all users will be required to update to a new strong password.

I'm quite surprised that a service with accounts holding millions of dollars would store passwords without salt or a stronger hash algorithm than MD5!
That blog is trolling. The blog author copied and pasted the material from the blog we are currently discussing, and replaced WebGL with Silverlight.

Silverlight is more secure than WPF, too, by the way, and has to be. For example, in WPF there is a very insecure static method that allows you to steal a bitmap of the entire screen! This was one of the first things taken out of Silverlight.

If you want to know more about Silverlight security, ask Nick Kramer who maintains the Silverlight security best practices document for Microsoft.
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I've had a similar experience. Now that I've had my iPad for a while I just use it as a glorified Kindle. And aside from technical books with lots of diagrams or equations it's an inferior Kindle. I rarely use it for web browsing anymore since I often want to add a comment to a thread or something like that and I'm 10x faster on a real keyboard. The portability of my phone makes it very handy but the iPad is almost as big as my Macbook so I'm not really any more likely to take it along.
I am amazed at all these viewpoints (in the article and in comments) in favor of 1000 mediocre programmers versus 5 great ones. Have you actually seen big software development departments at work?

1000 mediocre developers is like a huge battleship (an old, clunky, unarmed one). You can't get everyone one the same page. You can't change directions. You have to dumb everything down and cut your ambitions in half just to hope to get a working product out.

5 great programmers would absolutely beat the hell out of 1000 mediocre programmers, every single time. I can't believe anyone even thinks it's a contest.
I like this a lot. . . passive notification. It would also be cool to post messages to the group. . . for instance if everyone is going to a bar to watch a game, but the bar turns out not to be showing it. You could message the group.

I am not too enamored by the name though.
5 great vs 1,000 average, it depends on the technology and the application they are working on, and the stage of the product.

First, the logic in the original article is not valid. Sports and software engineering are basically incomparable. What they share as team activities don't justify the reasoning in the article. A simple counter example. In professional soccer games (like in the top leagues in Italy, Spain, Egnland, etc.), a second-tier team of ll players could quite possibly beat a top-tier team of only 9 players (the other two players are kicked out for whatever reasons). In software engineering, it is quite safe to say that 5 great engineers can outperform 30 average engineers.

Back to my original point, it depends on the technology and the application they are working on. If the technology and the application require high creativity and innovation, 1000 average engineers cann't lead it long. Most probably, it will lead to a mess that has to be cleaned up and rewritten later. On the other hand, if the application is already well designed and well-established, and the primary jobs are to add new features within the architecture, 1000 average engineers may deliver more than 5 great ones.

In reality, a good combination of both types might be the best scenario.
Question also is, what happens when you put 10 good creators in a hyper-engaged creative environment with 10 great ones? Are good performers simply good because of their innate capabilities or can regular interaction with greatness help tease out capabilities that were previously buried?
Every rollback has a detrimental effect on confidence in the exchange.
The choice between 5 great engineers and 1000 average engineers is, of course, an utterly false dilemma. No-one gets paid 200x average salary for being 'great'.

The choice should be between hiring 5 great engineers PLUS 100 good engineers in support of these guys (and maybe 20 ancillary staff to answer the phones, and keep all the other distracting stuff out of the hair of the 55 engineering staff) vs 1000 average engineers. Maybe a few high-quality managers to make sure that 'greatness' is actually staying on schedule rather than just sitting around being really awesome, too. :-)

Everyone has a different skill-set, and using your great engineers to do stuff outside their area of expertise is like using a oscilloscope as a hammer.

This also leads to another corollary: that is, given 2 'great' engineers, if engineer A is a little less brilliant than engineer B, but can make effective use of a team of 20, while engineer B insists on doing everything 'his way' and can't work effectively with others, you're going to want engineer A.
Would you rather buy a Sports Illustrated Swim Suit Issue with 5 incredibly beautiful women, or one with 1000 mediocre-looking women?
2 copies of a movie can exist simultaneously and both still have value. The bitcoin network exists so that only one copy of a coin can have the value. They are fundamentally different things, even if their physical instantiation happens to be "just bits".
If you had sql injection rights in the database, there would be no need to trade; you would just insert a few nice rows in the db for yourself, mark yourself 'super trusted' and then initiate a withdrawal. This wasn't a SQL injection attack in my opinion.
I think people trading in Bitcoin need to keep perspective on what they are actually doing, which is participating in an experiment.

No investor with a sane mind would consider Bitcoins a solid investment decision. Unfortunately, ideas like this tend to attract both extremely savvy people as well as a bunch of lazy people who would otherwise be lapping up "Make 10,000 a week with Clickbank" e-books.

There will likely be many more stories in the same vein as this one.

In my mind, the wealth of this discussion isn't who is right and who is wrong, it's the fact that we're recognizing the current faults in a new and ambitious system, in the hopes that we can make a better one in the future.
You mention hardware in your first line but absolutely everything else you said has to do with the software only.
I'm not really sure I agree with this.

The right to sell something is predicated on owning the item in question.

A buyer of stolen goods is unable to take legal ownership, it doesn't matter if he doesn't know the item is stolen. (i.e. I steal a car, and sell it to you, you don't own the car even though you gave me money and you didn't know the car was stolen)

It does matter that the coins were not put up for sale by the owner.
BTC is semi-regulated, by a group who work on the mainline client plus the voice of the bitcoin forums.

Mt. Gox, however is fairly self-regulated; everyone who participates in it wants it to be.
It was "Inspired by Macintosh visionary, Jef Raskin"[1], who was Aza's father.

[1]: http://raskinformac.com/#features
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The SF taxi system is highly corrupt. I hope the taxi companies go out of business and their cronies in SF city government get fired.
It's not "just like piracy".

If I copy your file and the file is the asset then I don't deny you free enjoyment of that file. If you own the right to prevent me copying that file and are not disclaiming it then an unlawful copyright infringement has occurred. You and I both get to use the file, this is essentially why the file is not "stolen".

If I copy your file and the file acts as a token for a real sum of money, and I acquire that sum of money (be it virtual or whatever), then I deny you free enjoyment of that file. Once used to extract the value it tokenises the file no longer has value and so I deny you the value inherent in the file by my use of it. This is stealing. It may also be a copyright infringement in this case.

Compare the second action to using a one-use credit card number. If you copy the details off my one-use credit card number then you've more than likely acted unlawfully. If you use your copy to spend the money that those details represent then you've stolen from me.
While I'm probably one of the first to experiment with new, innovative computer interfaces, I closed Raskin after about 60 seconds of trying to use it.

For starters, I couldn't get it to actually pinch zoom, making it near impossible to read any file names. The scrolling itself was so fast that I found myself flying around the screen without any ability to recognize where I was or where I wanted to go. Images had a consistent and ugly black border. Files seemed to be resized and ranked without any plausible order. Loading was slow, slow, slow. There were no keyboard shortcuts to allow me to quickly flip through a row of images. The viewpoint would not stick to a column or series of images, causing me to easily lose my place. The font rendering was horrid.

I could go on...
Do you want to listen to songs written and performed by 1000 mediocre individuals, or would you rather be limited to music from just 5 absolute musical geniuses?
There's been a lot of talk about regulation, but I read something earlier today that I found rather surprising:

"Unlike stocks, futures or options, currency trading does not take place on a regulated exchange. It is not controlled by any central governing body, there are no clearing houses to guarantee the trades and there is no arbitration panel to adjudicate disputes. All members trade with each other based on credit agreements. Essentially, business in the largest, most liquid market in the world depends on nothing more than a metaphorical handshake." - 1

So basically, the method of bitcoin exchange isn't all that different from ForEx. What's happened here is that the trading house has taken a fall, but doesn't appear prepared to take it on the chin. I don't know much about Mt. Gox. Any guesses as to whether or not they're insured? If this turns out to be a case of Mt. Gox's systems being hacked, are they liable?

What's most interesting for me is the irony on display. Bitcoin, Mt. Gox, and the whole ecosystem were established on principles like lack of regulation, anonymity, and un-traceability, yet here they are, hoist by their own petard.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/06/SevenFXFAQs.as...
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Property rights are establishable in a lot of things that are abstract with numerous physical representations. You can own commercial licences, shares, bonds, debts, legal rights to this and that and so on and so forth.

Property law does not require physical property in order to be applicable.

(IANAL, TINLA)
I remember almost exactly the same argument being made in 2009 about Android on phones.

Here's how it unfolded chronologically then:

1) "no one can complete with Apple because of the quality of design"

2) "no one can compete with Apple, only geeks buy Android phones"

3) "no one can compete with Apple, except if you are a geek or want a phone on a non AT&T network"

4) "no one can compete with Apple, except if you want a non AT&T phone or want a low end handset"

5) "Ok, Android is outselling Apple, but Apple is more profitable"

So... why, exactly will the tablet market be different?
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I think it's more accurate to say that the iPhone and iPad are game platforms that happen to have very good web browsers and email clients. Games utterly dominate the top 25 app lists on both sides.
When Mt.Gox was created it was handling thousands, not millions. It's a hobby that grew out of control.
The RIAA and MPAA would disagree with you.
This is why mtgox is a joke (a very unfunny joke too).
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Are you kidding? The semantic web and using more metadata is making it easier than ever. Nowadays in many cases not only you have the content, as it is tagged with microformats or RDFa.

Try looking at Freebase or DBpedia and tell me where did you have such a huge amount of easily parsable, semantic content in the 90s.
There's a blog post addressing this incident now on the dropbox blog:

http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=821

It is very light on details of how exactly the problem occured other than saying it was due to a bug in a code update.
"If they were hacked, it's their responsibility to make things right with the party that was hacked, and not interfere with anyone else's accounts/trades."

Exactly. Trust and consistency are the foundations of a usable exchange. Without those two things, there is no confidence, and the house of cards falls down. Mt. Gox is acting in their own interest. They're changing the rules of the game as they go.
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