skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3.5 million visits is small in current internet terms. And now having a look, it is a small text message system. No media, no video, not many images. Sorry, but it's not a good example at all.
The first thing that popped into my head was Google Zeitgeist (www.google.com/zeitgeist) but I don't think that's what he's talking about.
Oh, fair enough, that makes sense.

I got the impression you were a first-time (non)-entrepreneur. My apologies.
In America these problems are systemic because government has gotten in bed with powerful banks to create a monopoly via the Federal Reserve. We have given all economic power over the issuance of credit to very few with zero oversight. We have centralized (economic) power. "The fundamentals of Keynesian economics are sound" Just keep saying it to yourself, Mr. Hutton.

In Britain they have their own central bank monopolizing their credit issuance, as well, through their confiscatory Bank of England.

We yammer on endlessly about the evils of capitalistic greed and never once consider that governments(i.e., the people with the guns) are the ones controlling this entire system.

Mr. Hutton seems to be suggesting what Mr. Frank Shostak sarcastically suggests:
"If central bankers and government bureaucrats can fix things in difficult times, why not in good times too? Why not have a fully controlled economy and all the problems will be fixed forever?" http://mises.org/story/3131
The people you're really worried about --- the people who are set up to carry out extortion operations against your site, who know how to safely deliver their demands and safely collect your money --- already have the ability to take you down with the push of a button. Some of them herd massive botnets, some of them have relays set up in various countries and on various networks. Some of them are even set up to inject prefixes into BGP4.

From 2001-2005, I worked in various roles at Arbor Networks, now basically the dominant DDoS defense company, deployed at every major ISP in the world. I was, among other things, the lead developer on Peakflow DoS, their DDoS tracking and remediation product. The thing I learned there that sticks most: ISPs deal with tens or hundreds of DDoS attacks (real, honest to god attacks) per day.

I can't see how any new DDoS research is going to change the game at this point.
Surprised no one has said it, but find an IP lawyer who specialises in negotiations.

Seriously, a few $$$$ now could save you heaps. I did the same thing (worldwide exclusivity) when I was young and naive, and there were no "minimum sales" targets set. The company who now owned the code sold none in the first year despite being well connected and rich. I managed to wrestle the IP off them via free consulting, and within a week had my first "enterprise" client.

Make sure if you sign something you get minimum sales volumes written into the contract, as well as who gets what once the money comes in. Anyone who has ever set up a distributor or partnered with a company will tell you the same thing.
How do you know it's C++ and not Java?
Please note I mentioned memory. Java is OK on bare language algorithm implementation speed, but if you have a look at all the benchmarks in the language shootout its memory needs are up to 108 times better. A conservative consideration would be 10 times better in the average algorithm.

That is compounded with the typical architecture of Java frameworks. Also finding issues sometimes feels like occult magic on modern JVMs. And then, running with compatibility issues on JVM versions and all that.

Java failed in the browser and now it will probably have a crash at the server. There is no more budget for multimillion dollar datacentres everywhere. But thanks for all the jobs! :)
If the company can pony up enough money to convince the developer to permanently move his efforts from the open source project to their product, what's "not ok" about that? Companies are entitled to offer money in exchange for goods and services. Developers are entitled to consider accepting money in exchange for their services.

The only condition that's been "laden" onto this deal is a noncompete, which actually strikes me as reasonable, as the company has every reason to believe that this person will work in their spare time on a project that will cannibalize their own market.

Again: they're not forcing him to do anything. They're saying that if he'd like to move from open source to commercial development full time --- at least for the application he's working on now --- they'll pay him to do that. Most developers would be happy to face that kind of decision. Only on Slashdot is it considered a tragedy.
Forgot the link of the Language Shootout:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all...

It's no proof, but real life shows something even worse than that against Java. For example the one thread per connection model everywhere or the XML web services throwing away objects faster than the GC can handle.
Where is your site that receives 3.5M visits per month? It doesn't matter what language or platform you use. Handling 3.5M visits takes some thought. In fact, where can we find anything to support your language-bashing in your last few posts? I see you knocking down other people's suggestions without putting forth anything of substance yourself.
Previous jobs qualify you for future jobs. Do you think you should get a sweet buyout deal because you need to stop working at your old job?
Print news is thriving - it's merely the ink-and-paper medium that's in decline. The challenge is to monetize that audience. I believe we'll continue to see a bifurcation between those that specialize in analysis (The Economist, WSJ, NYT) and opinion. (Huffington Post, Town Hall, Politico) It's the local papers that provide little beyond repackaging the newswires with a bit of local content that may not have a future.
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I'm not a fan of partnerships with large companies.

In my last 2 startup companies, I've had 2 partnerships with large, publicly-traded, tech firms in the valley. Other than a few nice, free dinners and the temporary ego boost of having their logo on your website, both were a complete waste of time and resources.

Big companies like to throw their size and influence around as incentive to partner with them ("we have XXX customers", "do $X million dollars in Y industry", etc.). In reality, they really don't care about your success, they will always call the shots–or they're simply "too big to move".

Our best partnerships have come from connected individuals in our industry. Influential bloggers, other entrepreneurs and industry/regional experts can go a long way if you let it.

If this partnership is the only way to get into Africa quickly, I would say proceed with caution. I wouldn't do anything exclusive unless it was tied to a performance quota and short timeline.

Just my $.02
Rumor: Nvidia-powered MacBooks on October 14th
News Site Criticized for Linking to Pirate Bay Torrents
Tell that to nginx. "10-fold increase in the last twelve months."

http://survey.netcraft.com/Reports/200806/
If you ever want to buy a house without having all the cash up front.
That picture reminds me of South Park. Her eyes almost look closed. Smug alert!
Credit is useful for a lot of things, and it's not likely that you'll _never_ need to go into debt. Credit is a tool that can be used properly or abused, just like anything else. It's important to have good credit ... even if you never plan on needing a loan, it prepares you in case a circumstance arises where it is necessary to obtain one, and it's just smart to have good credit established.

Never spend money you don't have, just charge things to your card and pay it off at the end of the month (or carry a balance a couple of months at a time once in a while, some people say this improves your credit score, and some companies will get pissed and cancel your account if they're not making at least some interest). Then, if you ever need it, that credit history will be there, and it is often used for things besides debt. They generally check credit when you go to rent an apartment, etc. Some people are even checking the credit of job candidates now. It's good to have good credit history.
AIG is not goverment's mess. They decided to insure insane amount of CDO, which are not regulated, and being used not for hedging, more like bets in the market. Lehman Bros/Bear Stearn are not governments mess. They decided to leverage themselves at an absurd 1/30+ ratio. The goverment has been staying away from them, and look what happened.

I don't disagree. At least not entirely. Where I disagree is in the distinction between what government should and shouldn't do, and how the "didn't do" played out in this particular disaster. If government is to take part in a free market economy, it's purpose is to enforce contracts, prevent fraud, and come down hard on those that lie, cheat or steal: trust is the most important currency in a market economy, and when it's lost, nothing works anymore. Pyramid or Ponzi schemes are illegal in the United States. Seems to me that a very strong case can be made that CDOs are merely the modern equivalent. At the very least there was significant deception happening at the point where junk debt was re-branded as quality debt, and that claims that this junk debt was "insured" against loss were simple fraud.

We have laws for all of that, and in a just world, there would be consequences. But, we're talking about some of the wealthiest people on earth...consequences aren't really their style, and our government agrees with them.

I'm not saying the finance industry, or a large percentage thereof, is free of blame. I'm saying it's like bike theft and the New York and San Francisco black market: it's a wholly unpunished crime, and so it is rampant. For the kind of people willing to do anything they can get away with to make money, the US government extended an open invitation to lie, cheat, and steal your way to a few million or billion bucks.
Yeah. And you can't exactly say that corporations never do good, either. Because an overwhelming amount of the time, they do. Even when they do bad things, they often do it at the whim of the public. (To pick a lesser example: remember that the people really DO like sensationalist news and cheesy, humorless sitcoms.)

Blaming corporations does nothing. Trying to FIX corporations, yes. Trying to REMOVE them is ignorant and short-sighted.
"Hack" related to writing has been around much longer. IIRC, Byron described himself this way. The article here concerns the tech sense only.

Also, in the case of a writer the noun isn't "hacker" but just "hack".

Edit: can't find the reference in Byron. I am reminded, though, that a "hack" used to refer to an old or low-quality horse that would be let out for hire. Perhaps it got applied to writers from there.
The Hacker's Manifesto, The Mentor
Having previously worked in IT for a medium-sized MLM, I can tell you that at least some of our distributors were getting relatively rich off of it. We cut at least ten or fifteen checks for more than 10k each month, the top usually being around $25k.

If you invest the effort, you can make it with an MLM. Of course, there are much better and/or easier ways, but I don't think that it's fair to call all MLMs "slimers". Most of our distributors signed up because they loved the product and it gave them a network to socialize about it with. They generally made enough money to purchase the products they'd be purchasing anyway and have a few bucks left over. I don't see the problem in this, really, as long as your company is up-front about it and focuses on the products and not the "get rich quick" stuff.

It's a great way for the entrepeneur to get rich, though. Works really well from what I've seen.
Same here - my edition of the economist takes up it's residence next to the toilet every week. It seems to be perfectly tailored for a weeks worth of toilet-reading.
100% focusing on your school?

You can always choose to focus 80% on school while 20% on your startup. When the opportunity really comes, focus 80% on your startup and 20% on your school. And, if the opportunity seems so attractive to you, DROP OUT.
No Signs of Intelligent life on Earth, Says Stephen Hawking
There's no patch.

TCP is a stateful protocol. Per-connection state uses memory, so creating more connections will exhaust memory OR it will cause no more connections to be created - both cases are a form of DoS.

A naive approach is to initiate a lot of connections, but never complete the setup. That's a SYN flood. Another approach is to actually complete the handshake, then initiate a tear down and never complete it. The OS at the server end gets stuck with a lot of half-closed connections that may take many minutes to timeout and there's no application control over this. There's no control over this 'stuck' connections at the OS level either, the only option is to wait for them to die off as per TCP spec.

There are other variations, but you get the idea. I do agree though that these two guys are simply whoring for attention.
I just love his proposal:

It can require the banks to behave differently – to move from financing casino capitalism to productive enterprise. There can be a new emphasis on relationship building and offering cheap long-term loans to business

The banks were not financing "casino capitalism". They were providing artificially cheap, long-term loans to unqualified homebuyers. Swap out "unqualified homebuyers" with "unqualified businessowners", and you can see the full extent of this guy's idiocy.
I reread it every 6 months or so. It's really fascinating not only because each time you read it you become aware of the nitpicky flaws in it, but because you become MUCH more aware of how there are really people who do talk like Rand villains, and it's scary.
First, please take a deep breathe. This is a technical discussion and it doesn't necessarily need to have "a winner."

Second, please look my other posts 4 and 6 minutes before this one you just did.

On a C++ thread some people above say the thread creator should use Java. I refuted that argument with my opinion and reasoning. It is not bashing:

bash:
- To engage in harsh, accusatory, threatening criticism.
-ing When you deliberately attack a person using offensive and/or inappropriate language.

See on top of this page:
"Suppose I wanted to write a C++ based web application... [...] But what if I just wanted to write plain C++?"

Can't Java people play along? Can't you guys even play pretend? There are very good comments in this thread (both pro and con.) And if you think C++ Web Applications are a bad idea, fine, say so and state your case. There was no need to bring up Java. Of course you are free to do so. But that allows others (moi) to counter-argue with you.

Thank you.
wow that was the most insightful thing i have read in a while. I know that there are lot of lies that are told to kids. I lived a life where i was constantly lied to and I knew that I was being lied to. I just didn't mention that I knew.
If there is no fix, why the warning? TFA talks about this.
Credit is useful for buying things you don't have enough immediate cash to buy, like cars or houses. It allows you to leverage, which is a powerful concept if used wisely. For a simple example, if you buy an investment property with a 20% cash down, and you sell it for 10% increase, then your ROI is 100%.

Having a credit card is like having health insurance. Insurance allows me to reduce my risk of going broke. Hopefully you never have to use the insurance, and the average expected return may favor not having insurance, but the return is worth it. In the same way, having good credit and a credit card (even if you pay in full each month) allows you another option to get out of some sticky short term cashflow situations.

The big difference between credit cards and health insurance is that you can use credit cards and keep your expenses the same, while health insurance is an additional expense. So you can spend the same amount with or without a credit card, but gain free financial insurance.
I don't think google will index password protected web and display it in public domain, however google might keep these visiting data as one datasource of personal information mining, and it will be made use of in google ads production.
"..the plug-ins burn less gas and emit a whole lot less CO2 — even when drawing their juice from coal-fired powerplants — than cars running on dino juice,.."

How much less? Comparing MPG for a hybrid vs a plugin is not a good comparison. (Unless what you are worried about is oil imports.)
Python's pypy is written in RPython (it is python but with less features.) And it is already getting close to the main interpreter in C.

I can't wait for them to finally get the on the fly compiler working. Good times coming in the language competition.
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Qi uses /. as lambda; that's pretty close. I like Haskell's decisions as well.

There's also the literate programming route: enter the code as ASCII, then run it through a processor to generate a prettier document for reading.
I think it's a good sign that there ARE sites like NewsCred. Anything that aims for credibility and quality above everything else is a trend in the right direction.
The article links to the federal reserve website, which has updated information for the week after the article was published:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h8/data.htm

The new numbers also support the idea that all this hysteria over loans drying up isn't factually based, but I don't really know much about this stuff.
Some of the stuff you mention sounds very similar to now NewsVine works. Letting people blog directly on the site, for instance, and delivering local news. That said, good luck on your start-up!
Yeah. It's an interesting concept, though: getting around password barriers is by necessity a challenge of having a search engine, and it might limit engines from seeing actually useful content.
What do you use for your templating engine? We are use struts2 as our framework and found that OGNL and struts2 tags are two orders of magnitude slower than straight JSP.

I'm thinking of ditching JSP and have PHP talking to our Java services via Thrift.
Ostensibly, yes; but with catastrophic failures, you're just going to get your monthly fee back. Which isn't really solving the e-mail availability problem.
If the project is relevant, it will be forked. He will retain the copyright to his contributions or sell them to the company that's hiring him, but it doesn't change the fact the code has already been released under a BSD license. It's gone. It belongs to the world now.

As for the NCA, it should be very expensive for the company hiring him and should reflect the value they place on his project. NCAs, in general, are very expensive.
MySpace Music Streamed Its Billionth Song “A Few Days” After Launch
For the record, I am a C++ person, not a Java person. C++ is far and away my strongest language. Nevertheless, I believe that for general web app development, if you want something in the C++ family of languages, Java is more appropriate. At my startup we use a handful of languages for different tasks, C++ and Java among them.

I don't think anyone would have really jumped on the memory comment originally, but what made the thread asbestos-o-riffic however was the assertion that Java is inappropriate for a startup, which is, well, just plain silly.
Silicon Valley Braces for Credit Crunch
Google to save US from fossil fuels
A broadcast medium, or a mass producer, makes more money making something a lot of people like a little, than something which polarizes customers into love and apathy.

From this springs every horror and alienation in the 20th century pop culture.

Upside: it's a passing technological phase, and we're nearly all the way through.
Which would you rather have:

A resource-driven society where technological advancements allow humans to offset work with newer innovations.

Or a financially-driven society where technological advancements put humans into unemployment and make a few guys at the very top extremely wealthy.

I'm not saying get rid of corporations. I'm saying we don't need them. They fight to maintain the status quo.
China Skype service snags and stores users' messages
It already searches the password protected web (via your history), why would you want to index it?
I think the problem with MLMs is that it's ugly.

People react to that. There are plenty of classes of ventures that have a similar failure rate or even a similar number of unethical practices up top, but when you et down to it, it's largely the aesthetics.
Mapping the universe at 30 Terabytes a night
Smush.it presentations
I think Lisp is reasonably fast, possibly as fast as C++.
Sure that's good advice for the young, entrepreneurial would be editor. It means there are niche markets out there. Some of them are big. Some of them are lucrative.

It's not a realistic suggestions for the doomed giants. The economist sells to people wiling to pay full price for a good read. That's closer to JK Rowling's business model then most newspapers.

The papers make (made) money largely on services that are no longer necessary (from them) or no longer need to be bundled. Those that are left are now more competitive. Much more. Top that off with the fact that online ads don't pay as well & probably never will. Their business model has been pulled from under them.