skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://boston.conman.org/

If you are using Firefox, you can use the "View->Page Style" menu to select the various stylesheets (all, except for the default one, is a type of April 1 joke).

Also, if you check the source, you'll see that the main content appears first, with the extraneous stuff (navigation, obligatory links, advertisements, etc) appear at the bottom of the page.
Rackspace Acquires YoMamma
My company's beta testing app is hosted at SliceHost. I'm happy for the SliceHost guys but given Rackspace's reputation I was not very happy with this acquisition. Maybe it's cuz I'm afraid SliceHost might lose it's small tech company service...
I hate you almost as much as I hate GoDaddy.
While this is a good demonstration of a phishing, it's not very technically challenging.

Approaches to preventing phishing attacks relies on SSL certificates, phishing filters, and browsers making it hard for inexperienced users to make silly mistakes.
Word...gosh I hate GoDaddy worse..DNS...evar.
>If more people had to kill their own meat, there'd be a ton more vegetarians.

History disagrees.

You're just not used it, that's all. But if everyone had to kill their own meat, and therefor you grew up that way, you wouldn't see much problem with it.
"... Using cellphones to connect the people who produce drugs with the people taking them, the Dartmouth-schooled duo's big goal is to reduce the amount of counterfeit pharmaceuticals in the world by 25 percent ..."

A huge problem in the Pharma industry is identification and verification of consumer drugs. I wonder why the industry itself cannot find solutions like this.
In fairness to Yahoo Search I have been hearing some commenters in HN actually saying that it gives better search results than Google. Of course there's this thing called brand awareness...
If you read the article. It says.
"The cheaper your company is to operate, the harder it is to kill."

That's one of the most bad ass business quotes I've heard in 2008. Nice PG!

(btw, I started a new company this year and would add that it's much easier to hire GREAT people in these types of markets.)
Why does the logo remind me of the Zune logo squished together?
I can't believe I fell for that for a split second :)
Half of a Protocol Droid?

"Catalyst three"? It sound more like an acronym for "Command and Control Center".
I think the difference is that this guy is taking paying passengers down and some in the industry seem to think that they're not being made fully aware of the risks.
I'm pretty sure you just hang around a weird crowd...

pages through Facebook to see if anyone's status is building submarine or hobby rocket

Yeah, just a weird crowd :-)
Cool, where did you get your source for this?

I've been trying to find a breakdown of which services make money, as far as I can tell they don't even track it internally at Yahoo for every service, which is why I couldn't find any data for yahoo store.
But there are kitchens. And they are as safe as we know how to make them (in principle). But some that don't meet those standards are not allowed to operate.

Same with jets. And buildings. The home construction industry in Miami generally concluded that the codes required on houses there were too strict and expensive, so many did not comply. They could have argued that with the rules there wouldn't be houses.

Then Hugo came, and there were (no longer) houses. Plus, we had an expensive mess to clean up.

So just because something is not allowed to happen because it doesn't meet code doesn't mean that the code failed. Perhaps the code did exactly what it was supposed to do.
Load and Parse Awstats With PHP
This tutorial will teach you how to load your awstats log file, parse it, and display some general stats using PHP.
I read the headline and thought, "Good God, why?!"
Who murdered the financial system?
"I've also heard it explained like this: Assume everyone wants to work (or talk about technical stuff) 95% of the time, and flirt 5% of the time. Assuming your company (or LUG) has a 1:10 female:male ratio, and furthermore postulate that all participants are hetrosexual. The women who do show up will be irritated, not because they don't want to flirt, but because they want to do other things as well."

Though humorous, this seems a surprisingly cogent explanation.
Resolved: The best versions of Windows are the minor ones
Scientists without borders
I smell rushed push out of features to ward off defections to Yahoo's competing service. They even promise their API is 'coming soon', a feature that set yahoo's offering apart. Gee I love competition. Let's hope yahoo stays independent a while longer to cause a few more of these chain reactions.
The argument the demonstrators make is that the SiteKey protection is useless. I would counter that this is not the case. Their demonstration does illustrate that the man in the middle attack can work for a small number of phishing attacks.

The attacker gives up something in order to pull the man in the middle attack off that they wouldn't otherwise need to. The server that is running the attack has to actually make an http request to Bank of America in real-time. It need not be that exact server, but some server has to do this.

If it is a real web server, Bank of America could do interesting things if they are suspicious of the login, for example probing port 80 (in real-time or asynchronously). Or, keeping a database of ip addresses that are known to be ISPs versus datacenters (presumably the demonstration was done from an ISP ip address).

If the attacker somehow re-routes the request through a real ISP in real-time, it becomes easier to track the attacker in the real (legal) world. Now all of the sudden the ISP knows the address of the attacker, can track down the machine doing the attacking, etc.

In either case, Bank of America can detect the attack very quickly because of a large number of unique connections from the same IP address.

If the attacker goes one step further and re-routes the sitekey requests through a botnet, then bank of america loses alot of defenses. The botnet is on real machines on real ISPs and always a different IP address. But this makes it much harder for the attacker to pull off because they have to set up a botnet.
To be honest, neither of these companies (Slicehost and Jungle Disk) seem like the type that move with the economy. JungleDisk is small enough to be self-funded and Slicehost doesn't seem like the "1. Makesomething, 2. ???, 3 Profit!" type of company. In fact, they both have business models that are perfectly sound and don't rely on things like cornering the market (Twitter, Facebook, etc.). They've just created something of real value that people do pay for.

Buffet's words only ring true when the people who own a company (shareholders) freak out and are worried that the world is coming to an end and will sell for cheap because they think nothing will ever be good again. That doesn't seem like the Jungle Disk or Slicehost folks. Both camps seem really grounded in reality - providing something that's a great value with the fit and polish that just make it a joy to use. And a sound business plan of charging people for stuff. They both know that they can ride out this recession.

I think that Rackspace is more of the scared one in this situation. Amazon is generating a lot of buzz and grabbing a lot of customers with their EC2 service - especially now that they have persistent storage. Rackspace tried their hand at that space with Mosso and, well, failed. The way that Mosso and others (MediaTemple) "automagically" and "infinitely" scale your apps is BS. Likewise, Jungle Disk gives them an opportunity to cut into S3.

Virtualization is a huge threat to Rackspace. Their business was built on reliability. When you can just take Xen snapshots and set an auto-restore to a new box when one fails, why choose Rackspace? Because you have an excess money problem? The cornerstone of their business is starting to matter less for clients. I even convinced my boss to let us try running on EC2 and have a cron job monitor the server, create the snapshots, boot new instances, assign ips, etc, in the case it finds the server down. That's a huge threat to Rackspace.

By buying up these companies, they make sure they're at the head of the space and can create and sell such automated packages to their customers.
The New York Times pubisher's seven "observations" for online media
I am in a surprisingly similar situation, except I, in addition, have the experience of a failed startup (was working on a friend's idea, not mine). I have a contract job that's ending in December, and then...
Looking forward to a trip on top of their rocket though :-)
The referrer might also give the phishers away, although maybe you could combine the MITM with clickjacking so that the referrer would be correct.
Where's that down voting button?
Rackspace Acquires Microsoft
Touching Firefox - Firefox for OS X gets Multi-Touch Gestures
Godaddy's absolutely the worst registrar out there. They're totally incompetent.

What's the easiest way to move, say 70, domains off Godaddy?
I'm coming around on Yahoo. They've always seemed a bit ghetto since Google came around, but their results are pretty good these days. If you just avoid going to yahoo.com, the experience isn't any worse than Google.

I'd guess, though, that the problem for Yahoo is that their results aren't dramatically better than Google. The bulk of searches are for proper nouns, company names, etc. that both of them serve up perfectly well.
OMG!! Rackspace Acquires Itself and Becomes Self-Aware!!
Blog in Japanese: http://plant.bowls-cafe.jp/

English Translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://plant.bowls-c...
Hacking the Amazon S3 SLA
Rackspace Acquires Itself and Becomes Self-Aware

That doesn't make sense -- you can't acquire something without being aware of it, so you must be self-aware before you can acquire yourself. :-)
Come visit us here in Australia. Our dollar's just been killed so you probably could live like a rockstar!
Yes, Facebook Has 110 Million Users
Guido van Rossum. Guy who invented Python.
Email From Jason Calacanis: How To Handle Layoffs
Go to godaddy.com and unlock all of your domain names. Make sure you have access to the administrative e-mail specified in each of your domains.

Sign up at dynadot.com and pre-pay $500 to get bulk pricing, e.g. .coms for $7.75.

Highlight and copy the list of domain names from godaddy, and paste into the bulk transfer tool at dynadot. Pay with your account balance. Godaddy and/or Dynadot will send you a confirmation. A few days later, the domains will be under a new registrar, each extended by a year as well.

Congratulations! You've moved your domain names! And you didn't have 30 ad screens at checkout, either!
I've been in a pretty similar situation recently. I quit my day job in May, wanting to pursue my own projects. For two months, I worked on my own projects, releasing something new every week or two.

That was fun and I learned a bunch of new things, but in retrospect it wasn't the best way to spend those two months. I had planned to start looking for consulting work in month three, so I started emailing and calling people, arranging meetings, and putting the word out at geek gatherings.

A funny thing happened. I started hearing a lot of great project ideas, some of which were potentially paid jobs and others which were just cool hacks or proto-startups. And these came not just as spark of inspiration but with a person, or sometimes a small company, that actually cared about getting it built. It took longer than I expected to actually get paid -- almost a month; it turns out consulting contracts aren't that dramatically easier to sell and execute than getting hired to a regular job, so plan on lots of slow interpersonal cycles -- but in the meantime I was amply supplied with great projects and some good partnerships. Many of these are on my back burner now, behind the work that pays well but dominates, and I mean DOMINATES, my schedule. On the bright side, timing my every minute has dramatically increased my stamina -- I can do a lot more work in a day than I ever have before. This will come in handy with whatever I do.

Anyway, here's my advice: start looking for consulting work immediately, and try to get quickly to a point where you can pay your living expenses on 15 billable hours a week. By the way, you might think this is "not even two full time work days", but let me assure you that when you can't count lunch, news.yc, stupefying meetings, etc. against the clock, this will feel like a huge work load. Do not promise anyone 20 or more hours a week until you have tested your capacity; there's a lot you can optimize, and you will.

The regular consulting work will help you develop discipline, improve your stamina, and keep you in touch with people. In your spare time, which again you should try to preserve, do whatever projects draw your fancy. Get in the habit of soliciting ideas at parties, from family friends, etc. and see where you can take them in your spare time. Then when you find one that works for you, and some people who might make good partners, deploy the rest of your cushion (the one you didn't spend because you were paying your living expenses off of consulting) and take the plunge.

Good luck!
Can we please not turn HN into reddit? Flagged.
RackSpace acquires US Govt.? Oh wait, that's not that expensive...
Don’t Hold Your Breath For The Facebook Android App
How to conduct a market analysis
So, what did ya'll think of Anathem?
A year ago it was quite common to see Mahalo show up in google searches. They're in decline.

Hate to bring up digg, but its in a positive light rather than my usual bitching. When we were around 4 million uniques we had 4 people (not actually employees, this was pre-series A), and Calacanis tried to buy us for $5 mill (almost all of it subject to earnouts). Rough subjective cash estimate of mahalo valuation based on his own offer to digg - half a mill.
Nathaniel Branden on the Art of Living Consciously
I did quit my day job and decide to pursue my long-time goal of building a startup vs. getting a grad degree. Great article.
Anything that begins by relating an anecdote from a Thomas Friedman piece gets my immediate back button. Friedman is a master at (somehow) conveying his anecdotes as data.
Almost all Mac OS X apps should not have installers or uninstallers. (Un)Installation is done by drag-and-drop, and that's how it's meant to be. If you absolutely need an installer, you can use Apple's installer, which if you run it a second time presents an option to uninstall. But the recommended and proper way of doing it is just to use drag-and-drop.

Limewire, the app mentioned, shouldn't have an installer or uninstaller (other, native P2P apps don't) for its Mac OS X version. As for preferences and other files created, they remain on your system if you drag an app to the Trash (i.e. uninstall it), which is also how Apple intended it. There are tools to remove all traces of an app, like AppZapper, but developers should always follow the HIG and distribute the .app bundle for dragging, zipped or otherwise.
Alpha Version of Camino Mac Browser Debuts
I don't use Yahoo products because they refuse make up for helping the Chinese government jail dissidents. Their response was basically "It made sense fiancially to destroy these people's lives, and morals don't trump Chinese law, so let's just forget about it, okay?" Google at least makes an effort to ensure they don't fall into the same trap.

I won't be sad when Yahoo is gone.
Debt Consolidation Loans
Five things your recruiter won't tell you
Nice, 70% jpeg compression, 1997 html markup.
It was a mind bending exercise.
Your missing one variable: profit.

No rich silicon valley duder is going to spend $25 million unless hes gets a return.
Why Platforms Are Letting Us Down - And What They Should Do About It
Is 39 the New 28 at Google?
London to get fleet of electric taxis
Sorry I interpreted his question/comment "make money" as "still exists and has revenue" not "has profits" since many companies that are acquired become defunct surprisingly quick (see: Broadcast.com & many of Google's acquisitions).

I was only speaking in terms of my own knowledge. The baseball team I used to work for (Toledo Mud Hens) used Yahoo Stores to power our online store.
I have never found the lack of an uninstaller to be a problem. A quick look reveals 122 items in ~/Library/Preferences and 27 items in ~/Library/Application Support. I'm sure there are a handful of files elsewhere. This is hardly unmanageable.
My Take on the Calacanis Email Missive
Path to nowhere leads to success
It's not a terribly hard exercise, I'd expect that almost any programmer could do the math and figure out that a solution requires files. After that I'd expect a candidate to at least sketch out a logical solution.

It's cool that it's Guido, though. And that it's a complete solution.
Wow, thanks, this looks to be just what I needed!
Google: "Because these promotions [for special times] appear on our homepage for only a few days at a time, we don’t consider them in our official homepage word count."

When I read this, the only thing on my mind was:

Why do people freaking care?
Agreed. "The World is Flat" is a poorly conceived metaphor, applied too broadly, and out of date somewhere before the last of x million copies sold. We (we being the denizens of the suddenly flattened world) all hope never to hear from Thomas Friedman again in our lifetimes.

Sort of like Tim Ferris.
What is the culture of the cloud?
Folks I know using rackspace love them, so hopefully this will go well.
We run http://www.edmodo.com on slicehost and love it. I'm a bit worried about the rackspace aquisition, but giving them the benefit of doubt for now.
It may be my sociological opiate, but I have more faith in our species to tolerate less tyranny than your post implies. I also think we will see a marked decrease in tolerance in the next few years as more people have 'nothing to lose' and choose freedom over bread.
Rss at http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/rss.xml
Would status count as a kind of profit?
Grameen bank has a program which lends street beggars capital to do door-to-door sales: it works, both for the beggars and provides service for the customers. Of course, the beggars they are dealing with are not alcoholic.
Poll: Could open source produce an iPod killer?
The release of the first Android phone has me thinking about this in terms of product design. Independent of Android--if the open source community were charged with making an iPod killer, could it be done?

I'm asking about the iPod (and not the iPhone) because I think there's general agreement that it is the best designed portable music player in the world. A poll asking this about the iPhone would no doubt lead to all kinds of tangents.
2. that's what xhtml is all about isn't it? like xml + html? so then you're already encoding xml when you write xhtml, so proper semantic should be important.

At least that's what I think, may be misunderstanding the whole thing.

Also, HTML 5 and XHTML 2 seem to be emphasizing semantics.
Man, I was hoping the article would be about 39-year-olds being better than 28-year-olds at something. :)
I agree about the Friedman bit, but not about Tim Ferriss. Parts of 4HWW (including the title) are horribly oversold, but there's gold in them thar hills. (And, to carry the analogy to Friedmanesque extremes, there ain't no hills in a flat world. :-)
Randy McNamara
If you know Randy McNamara than this story will be of interest to you. I personally have very high regards for Randy McNamara.
Can't wait until someone launches this as a service :).
I wrote this algorithm to solve a problem for myself one night about 10 years ago (agree - not a very tough problem, but very useful if you don't have enough memory). I told a client about it and he tried to patent it! I never checked to see if it went through...
Behind the Scenes at the World's Most Technologically Advanced Planetarium
Here's some background history, but I don't recall the source.

Google used to receive anonymous e-mails containing nothing but a number. Eventually, they figured out what this hint meant. Google made a sparse homepage a part of their identity.
I found this to be thought provoking: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/moneycontrol
Brothers & Sisters Episodes
The next episode of “Brother & Sisters” will show the meeting between Kevin Walker and Scotty’s conservative parents which features Scotty’s weird behavior in front of his parents. In other case, Kevin will also give uninterested action towards McCallister’s offer although Kitty seems still wondering about it.
Web 2.0ver?
70% of Tech Firms Fail to Utilize RSS
Why do people freaking care?

How many websites get NY Times coverage for adding 11 words to their homepage?

People care because of the significant weight this ostensibly small change carries.
You didn't need to; unix sort has been able to do this for way more than 10 years =).
Ask HN: How should I approach selling ideas?
I find myself in a dilemma that I think is probably the opposite of most HN contributors. I have ideas I would love to implement, but am not a coder. And I have funding, which sounds stupid, probably.

I am technically inclined, strong in math and statistics, background in science. Due to research experience in the natural sciences where I had to program simulations, I have basic programming skills to do small things, but am certainly not a programmer.

I have a few ideas that I want to implement, and non-family supporters who have faith in me such that they are eager to invest even though I have nothing but a few ideas.

I subscribe to the notion that ideas are a dime a dozen and especially in this day and age nobody should really see investment until they at least have some basic proof of concept. This is one of the reasons I refuse to take capital contribution.

The other reason is that I have no idea what a fair amount to take/equity to give is, especially considering that these parties are willing to invest on the basis of an idea alone.

I have a buddy that I've worked with that I trust to develop, but if I accept contribution, I'd also work my ass off to develop programming chops and contribute meaningfully in that time. But until then, all I'm good for is:
1. ideas
2. building models/algorithms
3. providing access to capital

I hesitate to take investment precisely because I am not a programmer, can't do the work myself, and think that the odds of a successful startup are wildly against everyone and especially me because of my skillset.

Yet I really am interested in this space.

Am I out of line in my desire to be involved in internet startup space given my skillset?

How much money should I be interested in taking and how much equity should I be considering giving up?
Really? That's just not a good question. Might as well ask, "What are the possible colors a site could use and what are the pros and cons in each case?"

Sorry for the sharp reply but google, yahoo, whatever - go find examples you like, post them back, and then ask for something. This is just too generic.
Ha, I sent three different online banks emails about this crap over a year ago, telling them that their stupid images and placing logins and passwords on separate pages were nothing but annoying.

Unfortunately, even if they watch this video demonstration, they will do nothing about it. Those images exist only to make customers feel more secure, because we've all come to equate security with annoyance.
Couldn't you use the millions of bots floating around the net? Just rotate through them? Or run it off your computer at a Starbucks, then after a couple hours move to another?

Also, don't phishing schemes usually work by sending out tons of emails and ensnaring only a few suckers? I would think a phishing scheme that netted 25 bank accounts would be considered a tremendous success.

How many does BofA have to allow from one IP per day to account for wifi hotspots? 5-10 minimum? Enough that a phisher can do some serious damage in terms of dollars I'd imagine.