skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These kids seriously need to be punched in the face. "For the lulz," as it were. Or perhaps "for great justice" would be more fitting.

Is there any way we can help these 62,000 people? I'm reading through the password list now, and many of these passwords are to people's gmail accounts. I see a comcast account too ... you could probably access billing info just with that password alone.

It feels like our duty, somehow, as good internet citizens, to help these people out. Many of them are probably mom'n'dad-types ... they have no idea what a "Database" is, let alone what it means for one to be leaked.

But we can't just go and change their passwords, even if it's for their protection, since it's the password to their email account and we have no way of notifying them.
I want a certificate from the FSF that LoseThos contains no GPL code. If they are in charge of prosecution, there should offer a service to verify no GPL code.
Well, Texas has tried recently to say that simply having a server in their state creates a nexus for sales tax purposes...
On the flip side, if you work in Massachusetts but live in New Hampshire and work from home some days, you don't have to pay income tax on the days you worked from home (NH has no state income tax)
And can we please let VCs and Tech Luminaries be just that, and not be an authority in how to bring up our children, or the value of college education?

Will it take another bust for us to take them off their pedestal? By all means, lets celebrate the value they have added to the startup ecosystem and the technologies they have enabled in coming to fruition. But for the sake of everything sacred, lets stop taking parental advice from them. Most of us, I am sure, have pretty good parents to look up to, rather than relying on a blog post or a tweet to glean parental advice.
How do we know they are accounts from writerspace?

EDIT:
never mind... `cat LulzSec\ Delivers.txt | grep writerspace`

Also sent a warning out to the one email i found which was on my schools domain.
How do you manage the freelance editors? Have you made a proprietary system to help manage the images and video files?
Clarification of Immutable and Mutable Objects in Scala
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How do I create my own programming language and a compiler for it
http://linux.die.net/man/1/fakeroot
Editors apply to be part of our network so that we can ensure that they have the required level of editing skills in order to make awesome videos. We have a number of proprietary ways we handle the video and images on the backend that make it easier for both the consumer and the editor.
>I tend to think that the lack of openness is done on purpose

I doubt it. From my experience it's from outsourcing development to too many different groups with no coordination.

I worked on interfacing with a BigName's Hour Time Tracking module which takes hours to 8 decimal places. I submit the first payroll and hear it is imported with no errors.

Two days latter I get a frantic email asking me to resubmit because the Payroll module only takes 6 decimal places and was throwing out all the submitted hours. The systems are so large the consultants themselves cannot possibly understand it, let alone provide proper documentation.
Wikistream
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/i16hm/lulzsec_j...
Actually, for a while in an effort to learn more keyboard shortcuts for Excel I took out my mouse. The problem was I needed a way to play youtube videos but the focus was never set on the flash frame. So I wrote a Autohotkey script that would go one half the distance to the edge of the screen on each successive press of a key. In most cases it was very fast. I could click on any pixel with a theoretical max of 26 keyboard presses, but I also wrote in a "nevermind" key, so I could engage the key again for certain cases. For example, say the cursor was in the middle of the screen and I wanted to go 15% towards the left. I would activate keyboard movement, go right, deactivate it (now at 75% towards right) reactivate the keys and go back left bringing me to roughly where I wanted to go.
Actually Bloomberg is not a Republican. He changed his status to Independent a couple of years ago, but got permission from the Republican party to run on their ballot line during the last mayoral election.
just tried to explain this to a few of my windows using coworkers.
I went over to Tusulog.com, but I didn't find anything to make me want to use it. :(
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HN already is a mobile-optimized version (except possibly the up/down arrows). No need to waste your time.

EDIT: Well, the community has spoken.
1. If it had a backdoor, other programmers would see it, because it's open source.

2. Tor bridges can't be blocked because the ISP won't know the IP of them. Please inform yourself about what a Tor bridge is.

3. Have you used Bitcoin? Transaction fees are voluntary. You pay them if you want the transaction to be faster. Compare that with the fees you pay with Paypal even for sending money to a friend. Or compare it with the slowness of an ACH. A Bitcoin transaction without fee still beats an ACH transaction for several days. About money laundering and illegal activities, Bitcoin is as anonymous as having an offshore account in a tax haven: it's usually possible to trace down who the person is. If you dig in the Bitcoin community you'll see one of the most repeated questions in the forums is how to report to the IRS the money earned in Bitcoins. Right now most users of Bitcoin are partly ideological, like GNU/Linux users 10 or 15 years ago. It's about freedom. About having a currency not manipulated (inflated) by Governments.

I think you're believing the FUD spread by some people about Bitcoin.
Prolific & brazen criminals = enormous egos. They won't stop until they are stopped.

edit: My PR senses started tingling on further reflection.

The best way for LulzSec to be countered is in the PR arena. Since they're already bad guys, and since they've already worn out their folk hero sheen, it does no good to villify them.

The best way is to steal their thunder. An organization of people who make a concerted, publicized effort to mitigate damage to the random victims caught in LulzSec's blast radius would definitely steal the limelight.

It's similar to responding to a forum troll by making fun of them. Take away their momentum and make them a pawn in your press releases.
very cool. I'd love to see a list of tags that other people use.
What's Wrong With This Printer?
Agreed. FaceBook is still growing and will have to continue to change things up and grow in other areas such as deals, etc. The only reason this article is ranked so high on HN is how sensational titles can game the upvote without opening system.
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As a counterpoint, I moved to a new area five months ago, and I have found Facebook an excellent way to communicate with the new people I have met, and to keep in touch with the friends I left. For most people I know, Facebook is just another way to communicate and coordinate.
Lets see LulzSec and Anonymous trying to out do one another..
and mixed in the possibility that both are being played by government agents to get info on wikileaks..

Nothing good will come of this..
Agreed. Facebook will probably fall in and out of fashion, but they'll have a business as long as they use the social graph to solve real problems. I think it has a chance at winning the emerging messaging war - it's a widely adopted, proven, cross-platform messaging service.
Hi,

Thanks for the feedback

Can you elaborate on the design overlay not moving around? The whole thing should basically be able to be moved around while the page stays static. If it's doing that, then it's working correctly. It's a little unpolished to use in the demo, but basically the workflow is that you select the box, then move the overlay so you can see the error, then line up the box with left / top.

The landing page uses Cufon for font replacement which in turn uses the canvas. I like the way it renders the font but maybe it's impractical..

Also the page has overflow:hidden on the body. The editor behaves weirdly sometimes with scrolling so it's disabled for now but will support scrolling in the release.

All the other features are great suggestions, i'll make sure they are all in the release too - re: the Javascript debugger.. I wondered about this one. Most browsers have them already so I wasn't sure. I'm still on the fence
Cufon, really?

Your twitter profile is obnoxiously hard to find. Why don't you just link to it from your site? Same for Facebook. Or at least include the actual Twitter profile name (thepixeljet, not pixeljet), and use real text (instead of cufon) so that a visitor can copy/paste it.
I think making the sliders a bit larger and centered on the page would help, and though I do like "cloudorado", it's a bit hard to spell. Maybe playing around with misspellings like "clouddorado" or abbreviations like "cloudr" could work.
For windows boxes, I like CamStudio [1]. The latest version lists dual monitor support but I don't know how well that particular bit works (the forums list a couple of issues).

[1] http://camstudio.org
What is Web marketing
Web marketing is the process of marketing different products or services on the internet and this is being done for the purpose of generating certain revenue. This is considered to be one of the most
Thank you. I've had very good results from HN contacts. I can't wait for this.
Sadly, I doubt they can be stopped.
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Hi,

It is linked.. but not underlined so it's not obvious. I might just ditch Cufon though..
Perhaps you mean anecdote?
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I personally prefer NOT to use Primary Keys in URLs for this exact reason. At the very least you can generate unique and difficult to guess keys that correspond to those IDs. A record ID (user id for example) has no use outside of database joins and therefore is useless in the public domain (url). As well, for public data (obviously not bank data) a data-based-key (song name, restaurant title, whatever) is far more useful in debugging and in logs.

Otherwise - you're absolutely right allowing access to protected records - via id, key, or whatever - should absolutely be checked against the authenticated session upon every request.
The moral of the story is: don't have employees. Have contractors.
You guys are taking the server down. ;) Coming up soon.
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rm is like a knife where the handle has a sharp edge too...
That never gets old
If you use Prototype 1.7, you should care about its memory leak
It's really not that big a deal. At Stack Exchange I think we have employees in eight different states now, all individuals working from home. It's a lot of paperwork but not disproportional to the amount of paperwork you have to do per-employee anyway. It does cost something to deal with but it's a rounding error compared to the cost of those people's salaries. It is by no means a reason not to hire people who work from home in other states.

It DOES require us to collect sales tax for a bunch of different states, though. This would be a big deal if we were an ecommerce company... you'll notice that Amazon is fanatic about avoiding telecommuters; they don't want to accidentally get themselves in a position of effectively raising their prices by 8% on the entire state of Texas just to have one remote employee there.
Tapjoy Puts up $5M to Help App Developers Port to Android
Even Michael Jordan missed the occasional dunk. It wasn't a reason to kick him off the team.

There is nothing less interesting or meaningful than a typo.
global warming crowd

I don't know if that's the bes term, since I think you'll find it's the same as the evolution crowd and heliocentric crowd.

Your argument is specious -- we're also only talking about it getting a few degrees warmer. If you investigate, you'll find why that's a problem.
You can use GNU remove, which lets you put arguments last for safety, on any Linux box:

Eg:

rm /whatever -rf

Ie, if you hit enter too early, you still haven't forced.

I've been using Linux for 14 years and have never accidentally rm'd recursively. I'm not sure when they added it, but I've been using it for a very long time.
Twitter first four steps to squeeze out developers
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Honestly, the more you rage about this in comments here, the more they love it. Stop caring, it's the only thing you can individually do to reduce their power. Unless you're working for the cyber police.
Yet another example of selling good old chemistry as nanotech. The photocatalytic properties of titanium dioxide, also known as the Honda-Fujishima effect, were discovered in 1967:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_dioxide#Photocatalyst
You ever hear the one about how you can't possibly make someone understand something if his job depends on not understanding it?
I take issue with this article because it would come across to me as a red flag about work-life balance. That an employer would expect you to be doing something programming related in your spare time comes across as a bit self-serving.

Instead, I would ask "What would you like to develop in your spare time, if you had any?" That way they can answer the same as his question if they are working on stuff, but can still show interest in programming otherwise.

Frankly, yeah, it can be hard to stay on top of things, and companies that don't foster learning and expect you to do it all on your own time don't help.
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Good luck with that. The IRS has very specific rules for who can be considered an employee and who can be considered a contractor. Attempting to treat people who should be employees as contractors is one of their number one enforcement goals, because contractors don't have withholding and are therefore far less likely to pay their taxes.
Shameless self-promotion - CallRail (http://www.callrail.com) provides call tracking numbers that are perfect for these tests. Give it a try, and feel free to contact me directly if I can help (andy at callrail dot com).
While we're on the subject, has anyone successfully found/created a replacement for rm on OS X that moves files to the trash, but doesn't break the interface of rm for use in scripts?
"Tapjoy said last month that a survey of about 500 of its developers found 54 percent of them have seen revenue decreases following Apple’s effective ban on pay-per-install."
No one is infallible, it's only a matter of time until they slip up. They're making a rather large footprint
The better (and maybe more interesting) question would be is why people create new languages, i.e. what aspects of existing languages bugged them and/or how do they discover deficiencies which motivate them to create a new language.
Not immediately, but there are more errors later in the article. Not a reason not to read, just really surprising from a "major" news source.
They'd have released credit card info if they actually wanted to cause real problems. It's just attention and lulz.
It gets even better when states like New York can't even define what "doing business" actually means:

"Most of the law of 'doing business' is found in the decisions of courts. Those cases afford no precise measure of the extent of the activities which may be determinative of whether a foreign organization is doing business in New York for purposes of qualification. Each case must be decided on its own facts."

http://www.dos.state.ny.us/cnsl/do_bus.html

[where "foreign" == not organized in New York, not necessarily overseas]
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I never bothered with notes. They never seemed to work for me. I think and memorize visually or systematically. Having connected words or flat sheets of paper is no good to me. I also saw tests as of more of a nuisance and a disruption in building an understanding. To spend as little time on them as possible, I would figure out how the lecturer creating the test thinks.

The day before the test I would spend a few hours having an imaginary conversation with the lecturer and made sure my model of him matched all my recollections of him/her (if unknown, I'd just imagine a generic lecturer). The imaginary form would ask me questions that might be in the test and I made sure I could answer them. I usually found the actual test to be predictable and much easier. My GPA in college was among the top 1%.

I've tried to teach this technique to others occasionally, but with limited success. It usually fails on not being able to imagine a honest representation of someone else and only asking yourself questions you want to be asked.
Be careful about selection bias. Perhaps people dedicated enough to leave their home and move across the globe are probably better entrepreneurs.
It's a great time to be a security specialist. People who know their shit can probably make an absolute killing right now consulting for companies.

And all companies should be on red alert, because if nothing else, this is an amazing wake-up call about security.
So why isn't anyone upset that writerspace.com is storing passwords in plaintext?
That's not solving the problem.
Nice, bookmarked, alongside the also excellent http://css3please.com/
(Even more off-topic)

You really reminded me of Jordan's "Failure" commercial, which everyone should see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45mMioJ5szc
I don't meet your qualifications, and I'm already thinking to myself that I need to post/comment more. So here's a data point.
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Ditto. Funnily enough you also get some rules that tell you to use id selectors:

Overqualified Elements	Element (a#galleryLink) is overqualified, just use #galleryLink without element name.
a#galleryLink {

This was given as a warning, but it's spot on too - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Writing_Efficient_CSS for example.
Wow. As a developer with a fairly long history of not liking MS technology, I'd have to say that .NET WebServices and SQL Server are 2 things that I WISH I could use. Of all Microsoft stuff, those 2 things are fairly excellent.
I was working from this definition of "almost surely": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_surely

If I understand that correctly, we're dealing with a case analogous to the coin-flipping scenario.

And since, as you admit, there are infinitely many scenarios where a bogosort never completes, we cannot place a finite upper bound on its running time for all cases, which is what complexity theory's big-O notation is all about. As I stated, the average-case complexity for bogosort is in O(n!), but the worst-case complexity isn't bound by any function.
Parse & collect email accounts, send emails (in serial) and weep as it gets gobbled up by gmail's spam detection.

A more realistic alternative might be to notify Google with a machine-readable list of email addresses the passwords for which have been compromised so they can do a system notification of these users without fear of getting eaten by spam filter.
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I think they'd need to license one of the bulkier versions of BusinessObjects to get the BI angle out of SAP. Not saying it couldn't be done in house but the mentality of using something like SAP doesn't seem to fit with the home-grown approach that well.
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Just tell them it's the same as a Windows installer accidentally removing the entire Program Files directory.
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Thanks. This generally seems like a bit direction into Platform as a Service, which I will defenitely need to go. That is Google Apps Engine / Windows Azure space. Though the border between IaaS and PaaS is getting blurred, since IaaS providers give more and more platform services, while PaaS are going into IaaS as well (Azure now has VM role in beta).
I think calling it a "large" footprint is an understatement.
My conspiracy buddies are going nuts with the idea that its the government trying to convince us to hand over our internet freedom to them. I wish i could laugh at them with confidence
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"Tried?" Certainly it wasn't that hard to explain.
Spartan is cool (for Apple)
For a brief moment there I thought you were suggesting that it should only be available to people who registered 100 or 2 years ago
I just use it for my boxes. It doesn't stop me putting something silly in a make file (as in the example here), but it does stop me getting burnt by it.
Im already on it, at least for domains that I am a part of or know people in
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I like the visual appeal of it. Evernote or Springpad have maybe 20+ times as many features, but I end up using Corkboard because it's simple and looks interesting.

I showed it to my middle-school daughter and on her own she used it to collaborate on a project with another kid.
It's done. Redditters took care of that.
This is somehow expected in fact. If you buy a server, it has 100% allocation. With cloud by definition you need to have servers underallocated to be able to deploy more servers at any time. Actually I think that some kind of hybrid hosting is a good choice - dedicated or colocated servers for the constant load + cloud servers for bursts. Only few providers have such options.
I think Facebook has gotten boring in the same way that Google has gotten boring to me: it's become a reliable, efficient tool that I can use so quickly it's almost invisible to me. I throw up a picture every so often and get feedback from friends and family. I can plan a party and quickly/easily organize invitations. I can quickly reconnect with someone if they come to mind, whether or not I have their current phone number or e-mail (which used to be a real problem). I love how they seem to focus on their core products and speed rather than rapidly expanding the feature set (like seemingly every other social network).

The News Feed has become less and less "engaging" and chatter-filled which might be a problem for their business model, but not for me. I'm interested in most of the people on my friends list in some way, but their stray thoughts aren't the best way of relating to them.
About half of my Facebook friends (IRL) are actually too far away to meet up with in real life. Facebook is a handy way to "keep up".

Unfortunately they don't post as often as I would like - instead preferring to talk "face to face". :-(
Why o why do developers keep storing plain passwords in databases. They should store hashes instead.
Scaling the mentor–apprentice relationship
I had it enabled for a while, but it never worked, which was pretty annoying when wanting to print a boarding pass.
How not to build a following online
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Omnimo - Super Geeky Windows 8 Metro UI
One word on your landing page: I initially clicked on through to the demo, tried some things, ended up a little underwhelmed and then only came back because of all the positive comments here on HN.

A few highlights on what PixelJET can do (such as editing code in a separate window and see the changes live) would have made me stick around in the first place.

Your product is awesome, but your presentation could use some work :)