skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much of it is going to be wasted like this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12575029

Why use tax payers money to buy prints of Turings papers when the original papers weren't lost and the content of the prints was known? Makes no sense to me. Just so you can stick some pieces of paper in a glass case somewhere?
AngelList is shockingly effective, I can't recommend it highly enough. We were at the end of our fundraising when we opened up that channel, and we ended up turning away 14 investors. YMMV of course.
GNOME 3 is still absent from the 11.04 repositories (although GTK3 was there from day 1). However, the Ubuntu GNOME maintainers have an officially-unofficial GNOME 3 PPA, which I'm using right now and am very happy with.

I greatly admire Fedora's tradition of sticking close to whatever upstream releases, but I don't think I could leave behind the breadth of Ubuntu/Debian's package archive, or the ability to do in-place version upgrades.
Ask HN: I can't tell why my site is showing malware warning.
UPDATE: we took down our site for now. Thanks all.

UPDATE: STAY AWAY FROM OUR SITE, it seems like it's compromised for real (even though all the official signs point to the opposite). I have asked WPEngine to turn it off immediately.

----

Hello HN, I hope there's some googler here who can help me.

My website http://balsamiq.com has started showing a malware warning in Chrome (and intermittently in Firefox as well) about 20 minutes ago.

The interesting thing is that the Google Diagnostics page here: http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http%3A%2F%2Fbalsamiq.com%2F&client=googlechrome&hl=en-US says we're clean.

Also, Google Webmaster tools says we're clean as well, so there's no way to request a review for them.

Also, http://www.stopbadware.org/home/reportsearch doesn't show anything for balsamiq.com.

OK so if my site is clean, which I think/hope it is, why it showing the warning and what can I do about it?

Sorry if this is not really "news" but I hope there's someone here who has had this issue before...
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Wait, what?
Is he saying symlinks are bad?
I like symlinks.
My thought was to match the bell curves, but this is nearly the same thing now that I think about it.
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I'd like to add one more "B" to OP's title: Body.

I have found after many years of programming that how I take care of my body before I ever sit down is much more important than the environment I sit down to. I have sat in over 100 offices of every possible condition (some you wouldn't believe) and have figured out that there's a "time warp" involved here... If I've taken care of myself, then I can function quite well in the worst client dump. If I haven't taken care of myself, then the most expensive of everything won't help much.

I have had scoliosis my whole life, so I've had to learn how to take care of myself or I never would have made it this far. Some of the things I always do:

- jogging (3-4x per week)
- body weight exercises (I love Hindu squats and push-ups.)
- stair climbing
- proper eating (a whole subject itself)
- monthly chiropractic visits
- getting out of my chair every hour (a must for ANY chair)

Oddly, I have never really followed most of OP's advice because I never thought it was very important. Most other programmers can't believe me, but here is my typical arrangement:

- cheapest chair from yard sale
- cheapest (disposable) laptop (currently $350 Lenova)
- one monitor (I can't stand > 1; I lose my focus.)
- good keyboard & mouse (the only things I don't skimp on)
- any work surface, as long as it's lower than 29"
- at least one feline companion

OP brings up some good points, but the most important thing is to find out what will work for you for years. It's a marathon, not a sprint.
It's amazing how many people can't write strlen(). Honest.

Then you find out they don't know what 'const' means, have never heard of size_t, and spend 20 lines on something that should be about three.

I wouldn't find that out otherwise. Instead, I'd find out after hiring someone, and spend six months to a year getting them run out. That sucks.

So: Everyone writes code.
I had an Aeron at my previous job. My experience with that chair was that it tended to act like sandpaper for whatever I had in my back pockets, even a very thin wallet. I bought a Leap for my home office and I really like it. In my opinion, the upholstered bottom and back on the Leap are more comfortable than the mesh on the Aeron. YMMV.
> Think of nuclear fission: it generates useful energy but if it runs out of control you get a cataclysmic explosion. After Fukushima, Germany announced that it would phase out nuclear power. And yet, when it comes to the sovereign-debt crisis, Germany is prepared to live with the risk of economic meltdown.

This bullshit analogy nearly made me stop reading the article.
3 monitors is absolutely the sweet spot. On my MBP I use 2 USB display adapters and shut the lid to give me 3 external monitors running, works really well for a number of workflows. To main screen setups I find most useful are
Web Dev:
Web Page - Code - Documentation/Google/command line
and TDD:
Test Code - Code under test - test runner
The moral of all this is that if you want to disappear silently, you should disappear silently. Silently on the internet does not mean deleting your content. It means leaving it there.
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"my morale is directly proportional to the number (and not necessarily the dollar amount) of PayPal 'new subscription profile created' emails I receive each day."

Have you considered insulating yourself from these emails entirely? If your morale is so deeply affected by something that doesn't directly affect your bottom line, it will probably cause you to optimize for the emotional boost rather than the bottom line.

Perhaps you could instead set a daily email with projected revenue or some other number that does impact your bottom line so that optimizing for the emotional boost and optimizing for the bottom line are the same thing.
I'd call it biased, and treat it with skepticism. Disingenuous seems too strong a word. If they really wanted to hide their agenda, they'd astroturf the idea.
Yep, WebGL is enabled. I don't get the unsupported browser message, just the same spinning circle that the other browsers have, except this one doesn't go away.
On the other hand, I miss the correct arrow daily.
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NAFTA was the catalyst the created the waves of immigration from Mexico.

Why?

"Free trade" destroyed many US factory jobs, but it vaporized Mexican agriculture. Small proprietor farms were out of business overnight by the flood of cheap US corn.

The human element in illegal immigration is usually completely ignored. People don't pull up stakes and walk across a desert because they think that working in a poultry slaughterhouse is a great life. They do so because it is a better life than complete destitution that they face at home.
He's saying "get off my lawn".

And he has earned the right to do so.
Also, anyone suffering from wrist pain, mine went away after I bought one of these for use in the office:
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/p/natural-ergonomic-...

I don't have one at home (they aren't that good for games so I haven't bothered to change my home setup) but just using it for the 8 hrs in the office a day was enough to get rid of the constant pain. Take a little getting used to , but really the way your hands sit on the keyboard make more sense than twisting them in to sit properly on a flat keyboard.
Hi, yes you are right.
Also we haven't any problem on the Share page here, can you tell me which browser/OS you are using? a detail which could help? Thank you.
AirBnB was around well before the Sequoia letter -- they were around in (at least) 2007.

Also, Sequoia wasn't wrong. Venture funding slowed dramatically in 2008, and didn't pick up again until (roughly) 2010. The latest cycle of good times is still quite young.
Thanks! It gets hung sometimes, but it should work if you select any field other than the Date as the X variable. Refresh and try again if you like.
I'm reminded once again of Rumsfeld's "Old Europe".
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He said they weren't added with proper appreciation of the Unix model and its simplifications. So he could mean that symlinks can be implemented in a more Unixy way?
As a German I must say that in my opinion this article captures the German sentiment very well. On the one hand it is short sided, it will likely lead to more economic problems than necessary and the stance of the Euro members (and Germany especially) on Greece is hurting the economy there much more than necessary.

On the other hand I do feel that some of this sentiment is justified. After all the example of Italy (Bond markets demand high risk premiums, Italy announces much needed reforms, ECB buys Italian bonds, Italy removes reforms) is quite telling. The same (much worse, actually) applies to the financial institutions. What precedent have we set by bailing almost all of the out. Without a lot of reform investors will no doubt assume that financial institutions are state-guaranteed, allowing them to continue the tails I win, heads you (the state, taxpayers) loose game. Clearly more decisive action is required to deal with the current problems but I think we are deluding ourselves if we believe that we can make it out of this debt crisis only by clever policies.
Get out of my head!

I had also planned on buying RAGE but at $60, forget it! I know it will be discounted, maybe around Xmas, so why pay that much?
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I started doing hay (which involves throwing and stacking 40-50 pound bales in a hot barn) at $6.00/hr. After a year or two I was doing a variety of jobs that were a higher value to my employer. Also worked for an awesome family who worked us very hard.
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What an interesting website.
Invest in a good window that you can see out of too - it will let you look up every few minutes and change your focal point, thus reducing eye strain and the eventual headaches that follow.
I would expect they mean special people with well-known stage names like Madonna, Sting etc. similar to how Quora enforces it. But I guess if Larry is making the rules he gets to decide if he is special enough :)
No matter what chair you're in, if you are going to be sitting all day - get everything out of your back pockets! Otherwise you're putting strain on your lower back, and it might punish you someday.

I bought an Aeron over ten years ago and have never regretted it. Everyone's different, so go try chairs and make sure you have a return period. What feels fine after five minutes in the store may not feel so good after five hours of coding.
It also shows an upside of digital publishing, where others can restore the useful content the same day if it was published under a CC license.
Since each list is independent, sort them individually and graph them.

Here's the result in Excel: http://ii.snag.gy/vSt4H.jpg

Alison's lists are A, D and E

Charlie's lists are B, C and F
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I probably would be if I spent less time writing fictional stories to accompany math problems. ^^
"Symbolic links make the Unix file system non-hierarchical, resulting in multiple valid path names for a given file."

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/lexnames
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What's the latency like with USB display adapters?

I've been running a triple-head setup for years, which is one of the reasons I've never been able to use my MBP as my primary machine.
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I'll test it. Contact info is in my profile.
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Do you run a Wordpress Blog? Is it up to date? There was a big "Hack" going around last month on the wordpress platform.
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I would use the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov%E2%80%93Smirnov_test

It's in scipy.stats.ks_2samp

Results:

Sets| D |p-value

-----------------

A,C |0.275|0.080|

B,C |0.175|0.531|

-----------------

A,D |0.125|0.893|

B,D |0.275|0.080|

-----------------

A,E |0.100|0.983|

B,E |0.300|0.043|

-----------------

A,F |0.300|0.043|

B,F |0.100|0.983|

-----------------

As far as the test goes, if D is small and p is high, you cannot reject the hypothesis that the two datasets came from the same distribution. The p-value is roughly how often, randomly you would get similar looking data assuming the null hypothesis (in this case that they are drawn from the same dataset)

In light of this evidence, if they are not lying to us, and really each of these sets came from and A-like or B-like distribution, I'd say fairly confidently that:

F is B-like

E is A-like

D is A-like and

C is B-like (though with lower confidence)

The box-plot: http://i.imgur.com/epPw7.png
seems to confirm.
I can understand why he wouldn't like symlinks. They weren't introduced until 4.2BSD and they seem like a bit of a hack. Compare them to hard links. If you move the destination file the hard link remains, but the symlink is broken and there's no simple way to figure out where the destination file was mved to. Also hard links include reference counting so you know that someone is pointing to your file. Not so with symlinks. Also, hard links mirror the permissions of symlinks.

Note that the history shows up in the ln command which originally only created hard links, and then got the -s parameter when symlinks were introduced.
The only part that is relevant to you is the last part:

"In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message."

So maybe you sourced some external javascript or advertising that contained something bad.

Edit: what does that obfuscated code at the top of the html do? http://pastebin.com/u3T3wJcG

Edit2: I think it's a bit irresponsible to post a page that has been marked as containing malware to a highly trafficked website. You could have at least run it through some alternative scanners first.
Chrome uses a bloom filter[1] to check a URL against a list of known malware sites. It's possible your URL, by coincidence, has become a false positive.

However the article also mentions that once found in the bloom hashes, Chrome checks in with HQ if the URL is malware or not, probably to avoid false positives. Maybe these servers are down, and Chrome by default marks all (false) positives as malware without checking with HQ.

Keep in mind that this is the web security's equivalent of saying "my program doesn't work because there's a bug a in the compiler", it should be pretty low on the probability list.

[1]: http://blog.alexyakunin.com/2010/03/nice-bloom-filter-applic...
Indeed, it would be interview terminated.

Perhaps I'm envisaging an ideal world but I'd much rather see some production code they have produced and ask questions about that. It's very easy to gauge someone's knowledge of a particular technology by just talking to them about it.
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"The equivalent of Aston Martin releasing a competitor to the smartcar." Sorry, but I need to LMAO here. Please meet the Aston Martin Cygnet: http://www.cygnet-astonmartin.com/
Yes it's Wordpress, managed by WPEngine and updated (we're on 3.2.1 right now). The guys at WPEngine are looking into it, waiting for info from them as well (I'll report back here).
Doug McIlroy (inventor of pipes, original author of diff) was on my undergrad thesis committee. I think he would agree with Rob here.

While the design of these additional features violates the "UNIX way," it doesn't violate pragmatism. Too often in our field, perfect is the enemy of good enough. Is BSD's model and implementation of sockets perfect? Surely not. Is it good enough? From the purists perspective, maybe not. From the pragmatists perspective, absolutely. I probably wouldn't be typing this today (on my macbook pro) without the implementation of BSD sockets.
The problem is the text, not a technical thing. Certainly not a browser/OS issue. Specifically, this piece of copywriting: "We beleive that people interactions are the base of exchanges then it has to be built directly in the network."

At least to me, that makes no sense at all.
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I guess the author hasn't heard of Debian.

DNRTFA
Funny thing is it gets quite better towards the end :-)
So how do you know it's 80% - sounds pretty confident.
Irony implies a reversal or an opposite. Your comment was stupid, not ironic.
Holy cow, I did the exact same thing as you!

For the sake of completeness, my first steps before sorting and plotting were to:

1. take the mean, median and mode of each set,
2. try and fail to use more sophisticated statistical analysis [1],
3. have a look at the minimum and maximum value for each set.

By #3 I already had a good enough guess, but I felt I had to see it.

[1] In fact, could anyone point me to a refresher? I'm talking about distribution curves, regression, that kind of thing. I seem to have lost hang of it — couldn't pass my own "5 minutes to implement the simple thing" criterion.
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Plan9 was a project that intended to be more Unix than Unix. For example, when Unix says "Everything is a file... except sockets, windows, etc." Plan9 says "no really, everything is a file." Here is a list of things that are not in Plan9 http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhatIsNotInPlanNine Oh, and did I mention Pike was one of the original leaders of the Plan9 project?
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(http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/general/pikelex.html)

>Symbolic links make the Unix file system non-hierarchical, resulting in multiple valid path names for a given file. This ambiguity is a source of confusion, especially since some shells work overtime to present a consistent view from programs such as pwd, while other programs and the kernel itself do nothing about the problem.

etc etc.

filesystems are a mess, and it'd be great if something could fix them.
On the other hand, signals were just a poor design. They are much nicer now on Linux with signalfd(2), which gives you a file descriptor to read them on, a much nicer interface than all the old syscalls for signals.
They were papers owned by Turing with his handwritten notes on them.
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Cool article and interesting suggestions on where to come up with ideas...I tend to come up with ideas while I'm in the middle of working on projects. My most recent idea came to me several weeks ago when I found out I had several Giftcards from last year and had a painful time trying to get the balances on all of them, and then GiftcardMate was born.

Isn't the mother of invention necessity? Need something, and then make it happen!
FWIW, I just visited your site and it contained some compressed JavaScript at the top and a broken link to http: // gsdgsd.freewww.biz/showthread.php?t=72881717 (slightly obfuscated to avoid accidential clicks). It was gone after a reload, so I can't give you any more information.
He didn't just say that, he headed up the Plan9 project to fix it. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Plan_9_from_B...
As the article makes a point of mentioning Angela Merkel...

> All this is true. Yet Mrs Merkel seems to lack a sense of urgency. Despite the world’s calls for action, she does not believe in bold strokes—be it letting Greece default, or issuing Eurobonds to mutualise governments’ debt. Only a slow, step-by-step approach will work. In other words, the pain, austerity and market turmoil will go on for the foreseeable future.

...it's worth pointing out, by comparison to other world leaders, Angela Merkel has a PhD in Physics (Quantum Chemistry in fact). In other words she's more than capable to grasping the complexities of financial markets.

Much as it annoys Anglo-Saxons, Mrs Merkel might be right.
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This is awesome. I love the idea. It's very likely I'll be signing up soon. What do the different colors of the stickers mean? If nothing, you should let people know that the colors mean nothing. Also, on the order screen (that's right, I already tried to order) the boxes are filled with php error messages. Gotta love php.

[edit] I just told my cofounder about this. He bought labels immediately. He also had the php errors.
It only makes sense, right? Personally i am quite pleased that the Germans lead this psychological warfare against the faceless 'markets', that are pushing more and more to funnel taxpayer's money in their ill-gone investments. As a greek, i find it ridiculous that the world's markets are turbulent over a tiny small country like Greece (the only PIGS country that is actually bankrupt), and exaggerate the risks so much. I do agree that markets have changed and it's time for a reform [What lessons have we learned from the 2008 crisis: None].
From the rejection e-mail, 2400 applied and 716 got in. So you had a 1 in 3.35 chance of getting in.

Congrats to everyone who did, looks like I need to actually start accomplishing something and try again next year :)
PEOPLE!!! Are you hackers or not!?!? Download the Excel spreadsheet and look at the raw numbers. The numbers in columns A,D and E have 2 significant digits after the decimal point, whereas the numbers in columns B,C and F have 13 significant digits after decimal point! No calculations necessary!
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Even the title of this article doesn't make a large amount of sense. Of course the Germans want to take part in "fixing" the Euro crisis. But this is the problem with people in the finance world today. All they want is a "quick" fix. "Patch" the hole and the boat will stop leaking. I completely agree, something must be done to avert a double dip however a "quick fix" will not get us there. Most importantly, people need to increase their savings, lower spending.
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The real problem is the uncertainty of the solution. It is not clear whether strong action will have the slightest effect so Germany, given it's calamitous history with financial crises, is probably holding back just in case.

The picture of a group of penguins standing on the ice at the edge of the water waiting to see who jumps first (or gets pushed) seems to sum up the situation nicely.
Completely agree. There is a step by step process that must occur.