skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3086793
There is a significant difference between identification of a botnet and listening into communication, controlling it or even taking it down.

Especially the latter can be impossible to do legally if you don't manage to shut down however is controlling it.

In any case this doesn't matter because the government would have to put these safe guards in place. They cannot not implement them simply because someone might suspect the government behind it if it is detected.
Successful Side Project Schedules?
I've seen some things asked here previously regarding how to find time to put into a side project, usually with the idea of how to put enough time into it to bootstrap it and launch as a full time thing. I am curious about schedules people have found that work to be adequately productive for a side project that is intended to remain a side project.

I am interested in hearing about the schedule you kept (hours per week, frequency of updates, etc), what assets (skills, experience, etc) you brought to the table that you feel made it feasible to do as a part-time success, and what criteria you are using to measure "success". I am interested in both monetary and non-monetary measures of success: If there was a specific non-financial goal, what was it and how well do you feel you met that goal? And any other thoughts you care to volunteer on doing something meaningful as a side project, something more serious and professional than piddling around in a hobby-like fashion (which is what I feel I often do and am trying to stop doing).

Thanks in advance.
In multiparty systems, a minority party (like the Green Party) will often compromise on issues that are not on their core platform in order to get support on their one or two key issues.

One of the key issues for the Green Party in Germany was the banning of nuclear plants. They've had an enormous influence in actually getting Germany to make a drastic change and abandoning nuclear energy. This was no small feat as Germany is the leading European manufacturer and the home of Siemens, a major producer of nuclear technology. Although Fukushima was the tipping point, there had already been significant pressure on the German conservative party to at least prevent additional construction of new plants.

Nevertheless, this success for the Green Party was due in part to them forming coalitions to support non-core issues such as the one you've mentioned.
The problem with that analogy is Michelangelo's work actually survived all that time, the iPhone etc's will be replaced by something from Apple or another company, and the devices will get tossed and forgotten just like all the other generations of technical devices that preceded it.
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That's how http://aaisp.net is billing (but they're quite nerdy in general, e.g. you get your own IPv4 with personal RIPE entry and RevDNS + IPv6 ranges)
This should not stop at the CEO level, it needs to apply to every job within the company, at every level.

Nobody cares about your excuses, whoever you are. Everyone's job involves goals, milestones and deadline. If you are performing you deserve commensurate rewards, if you are failing nobody should care to hear your excuses - only what could you fix and perhaps why you believe you deserve another chance.

The performance of the CEO and overall company performance depends on everyone pulling their weight. If the CEO does not enforce accountability throughout the entire organization, he/she is heading for failure and nobody would care about their sorry fate!
0 feet.

It's a flying ant.
Those are not good examples either. They both suffer from the reality show disease: they try to set up artificial conflicts and show "larger than life personalities", i.e., try to get people to act like melodramatic idiots.
Does the ant have wings?
On Monday, it starts a low-speed read of a big array off magtape. Tuesday through Thursday, it continues to read the array. On Friday, a random number is chosen, and the activity stored in that array element is performed Friday night, possibly setting the REGRET flag. Saturday is spent shuffling the array, while on Sunday, a high-speed write of the data is performed back to tape. At 12AM Monday, the brain executes a GOTO 10 instruction, and the process repeats.
Even if HP doesn't the technology for this will probably survive.
based on experience I can recommend developing content around your ecommerce business and the problems the products you sell are solving, and using that to bring traffic to your site.

of course you still have to spread your content so for that you have to work on twitter, facebook, ... connect with people and help them spread the word about your content.
No, it does not. And while someone suggested that it could drop to the floor without injury, you could consider it to be afraid to do so :)
I think it's a bad idea hosting your blog on Google+.

It kind of depends on what type of blog you have of course - if you're hosting a blog of opinions that are a little longer that what you'd write on Twitter, then sure, Google+ is all you need.

Otherwise you need control.

Did you know for instance that Wordpress.com does not allow advertising of any kind without profit sharing with them? And many of us don't expect any profits from our blog, but it is sure nice to throw an Amazon link to a book that you'd really like to recommend anyway, and get a month worth of hosting back.

And sure, Google+ is not Wordpress.com, but IMHO they are worse as their primary business is not hosting blogs. Even if the product is new it already has a history of blocked accounts (WTF is that all about?). If Google blocks you, your identity is gone.

This is not how the web should work. You can host your blog in GitHub pages, static content is all you ever need. You're a developer, so you don't need a stupid WYSIWYG interface that never works as you expect it to. You can write Markdown or Textile or plain HTML and keep it in a Git repository.

For comments you can just use Facebook or Disqus, or implement your own quick and dirty solution in PHP or something cheap for starters, like GAE or Heroku. Well, Heroku is not cheap, but you can host 250MB worth of comments in CouchDB for free by installing an add-on.

Personally I have my own $20 Linode. I host there 2 blogs and a personal app I'm working on. Nginx is a very light process, it's easy to setup and can withstand an HN-effect on only a small instance. It's also good enough for a Wordpress install if I wanted that, but I just don't bother with Wordpress.

Don't host your blog content on third-party providers. Get your own domain, host static content for free or pay for a small instance - make sure you can rebuild that blog if banned from the service provider - and only submit the links to Google+ or Facebook or whatever, otherwise you'll later regret it.
switching ecommerce systems won't solve marketing problems ... :-)
Less than 31 feet since, in the presence of gravity, the honey is moving towards the floor as well.
I think you're missing the point: this article is about how to react when unexpected things out of your control occur.
Its the best I've found.

Another way of thinking about the visualization is to make a model of the surface that can fold up to form it. The shortest path (which will be a diagonal if not a straight line) on any of those is the answer.
«Even for ISPs running their own network, such as BT, Davies claims the figures of €0.01-0.03 per GB are "rubbish". "It's an order of magnitude greater than that," he claimed.»

awesome, so it only costs about a quarter for a gigabyte. so i use about 20 GB a month. can i just pay 5 bucks a month? yeah, i didn't think so. i'm pure gravy for them, and what does comcast charge me for 4 to 10 Mbps? $70

and don't get me started about the fixed cost versus the variable cost—the variable cost is certainly not more than a few cents per GB but the fixed costs can be enormous.

i wish the internet was just a utility.
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Comment your batch file codes,and scripts that seem cool, and shareable. OR Where i can find a batch file command directory.
Yes, but this won't help you with the general case.
This article is mostly made of quotes from an EEtimes article[1], adds no information or value to it, and is (to me at least) less readable.

[1]:http://eetimes.com/electronics-news/4229171/HP-Hynix-to-laun...
I'm really not seeing anything impressive here. There's zero "true" AI at work, and common sense is actually the cornerstone of true AI.

The robot still needs to be told the existence of subway and the probability of getting a sandwhich there. It can't deduce for itself that the new restaurant across the street has sandwiches.

Edit: please don't downvote because you think my opinion doesn't coincide with your awe at seeing a robot buy a sandwich.
Afterall, if every botnet were perfect, then they would never be discovered by researchers and taken down by authorities.

They rarely are.
Hi Saurik,

First off, we have more detail about the chargeback procedure at https://stripe.com/help/chargebacks. (The short answer to your question about whether or not you can tie a chargeback to an individual charge without human interaction is "yes".) We don't currently link to this page in the FAQ, but we should; we'll get that fixed.

To your more general question as to how we (and our fraud policies) differ from standard merchant accounts: there's no simple answer. There are a couple of things probably worth pointing out, though:

- First off, we should acknowledge that in this particular situation, it's extremely unlikely that Xenonauts is a scam. There are certainly valid questions around "how tractable is it to distinguish such non-scams from actual scams", but the fact remains: in this specific case, what has happened is a bad outcome for the world. Legitimate, trustworthy individuals are being prevented from getting paid.

- Secondly, we're not as radically different as you might think. We use many of the same fraud screening measures that traditional merchant account providers do. We work directly with the same banks and processors. We've worked with the same consultants. It's not the case that merchant account providers use a bevy of effective fraud screening measures which we have now discarded. In reality, most of our friction-elimination is in the removal of information requirements with weak fraud signaling value, and the fixing of senselessly inefficient processes. (You don't fax forms to Stripe.) There is not much fraud screening a traditional merchant account provider does that we can't do. (And there's certainly plenty that we do that they don't do.)

- While PayPal is definitely sometimes cheaper, this is the case more rarely than you might think. PayPal has a lot of fine print that has a bearing on the overall cost.

We're acutely aware of the challenges of online payment processing. Stripe has actually been handling production transactions for over 18 months. Peter and Elon, two of PayPal's founders, are investors. (Trust me; they remain viscerally aware of just how bad it can get.)

None of this is -- or can be -- a proof of how Stripe is invulnerable to fraud. And, of course, we're not. But I can assure you that we get it. We're not oblivious to the challenges, the mechanisms used by others, and their successes and failings.

Happy to discuss more over email: I'm patrick@stripe.com.
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It's possible that this is an approach to deal with the patent troll Lodsys, who claims to own the patent on in-app purchases. I don't say that to let Apple off the hook if it does use the patent offensively, but it was the first thought that came to mind.

EDIT: I should be more clear – Apple is currently trying to "defend" independent developers from Lodsys, and this might be a means to that end.
Just before the Mac is born, a strange request from Steve Jobs
Many of the comments following that story are deranged, and I mean that in the strongest sense of the word. "Software extremists" like that really exist? There are people who honestly think Steve Jobs was evil? And most disturbingly, there are people who will flat out bash on the reputation of someone who so recently died? Wow. Just wow.
It's 100 million, not 100 million million.
Funny thing is, the Polaroid existed to quickly give you the image. No sending the film off to a Kodak lab for processing.
Ah, for a second there I thought Cyc had delivered something truly interesting.
You're going to have to explain your math here, because I don't believe the diagonal is going to give you 40 (unless I'm visualizing the problem incorrectly). In fact, I believe the diagonal is longer than the naive solution.
The quote is from original iMac launch
I was a Stony Brook student and David S. Warren was my professor - he is not the David H. Warren of the Warren Abstract Machine. He (the Stony Brook Warren) liked to joke about how only his luck could require him to deal with the naming confusion in a field of only about a hundred people.
I'm no physicist, however this is bugging me.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484

The CERN experiment has bothered myself. Maybe because I'm uneducated in the field however this is how I feel:

Time as we know can be stopped, time as we know can be traveled back and fro into. However, time as we know is simply a measurement of results. Results from impulsive and undefined actions from participants in life.

Proving that we can travel faster than light may prove we can time travel, I feel it merely proves we can bend a measurement of life. The ability to travel and arrive at a destination not in a negative amount of time but in an amount of time we can not measure in our current capacity.
ShawnJG: I share your Interests and have plans on how to redesign the Internet as well. Are you looking for a co-founder? I am. Call/text me on 850-240-1383 (Florida number but I'm local to SV) I'd like to discuss this topic with you off-line. Or email a4c4g4@gmail.com.
The really exciting part here, to me, is the idea of fabricating large amounts of nonvolatile memory on top of a CPU. Modern processors already spend a huge amount of their time waiting on memory, and a great amount of power trying to hide that memory latency. If these guys can lower memory latency dramatically -- and it looks like they can -- computers would get a lot faster.
...and the bubble goes -pop-.

Like eDreams or Startup.com?
- "What are they doing this week?"
- "Coding"
- "You mean like sitting all day in front of the computer?"
- "Yep"
- "Ok... we are going to put some music and a lot of green zeros and ones like in matrix... for half an hour"
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Try to think about yourself as a movie creator, for example. Or even an investor.

You are sweating your blood, doing everything to get your movie made, believing it will make you money in the future. Taking huge risks, if you are an invetor, or spending huge amounts of time, if you are a moviemaker.

And then some asshole, who pays cheap buck for hosting, will make money on YOUR creation, without you seeing any of the money he makes.

You have to balance the rights of the copyright holders and consumers' rights.
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It depends which diagonal. I'll explain in more detail later but don't want to completely spoil it :)

Stay tuned!
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As it is there is no incentive for the companies to not try to get a subsidy and every incentive to try to get it.

If congress makes the habit of slamming those companies which seeks subsidies with a tax, it will mean that companies have an incentive to shut up and compete on the open market.

This will improve the US economy and lower the deficit.
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Ask HN/PG:Should I include links to lesser known HN lists in my HN iOS App?
I am building an iOS App for HN and I was wondering if I include links to lesser known lists in my HN iOS App.

Some of the lesser known lists can be found here

http://news.ycombinator.com/lists

One other lesser known list that I know of other than those listed there is the classic list.

http://news.ycombinator.com/classic

I just wanted to check with you guys since I am a relatively new HN User and I dont want to do anything that might result in decline in quality of comments and posts.Therefor please advise.

For those who want a sneak peek,here are a few sneak peek iphone screenshots.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68420544@N03/
Clickable Link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68420544@N03/
It appears there is a separate network casting for a different (competing?) show. A casting director got in touch with me:

"I'm currently casting a show which is a Nerd/geek/intellectual competition based show, designed to showcase the passions and knowledge of nerds/geeks/intellectuals. It will be hosted by 2 of the original cast members from Revenge of the Nerds."

It seems these things come around and fizzle away. In ~2008 I had a meeting with a director trying to pitch an idea to CBS/Sony about a potential pilot for some kind of reality show following around 6 entrepreneurs/startups in their daily life. I think they quickly realized how mundane startup life is and decided not to go through with it. They were going to pay to have a camera crew follow me around. I quickly told them that there would be no following around as I only ever worked at home in my apartment all day.
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The latest surveys show the Pirate Party at about 8% while the FDP (the smaller one of the governing parties which got 14.6% in the state elections in 2011) is at 3%

http://www.infratest-dimap.de/umfragen-analysen/bundesweit/s...

However I don't really think that the German public is strongly opposed to surveillance, especially since the media tried making a big deal out of the few incidences where some assholes decided to beat up people on the Munich and Berlin subways lately.
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Circles are a privacy tool, not one to indicate relevancy. I wish Google thought about this too.
The answer, with a diagram, can be found here:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SpiderandFlyProblem.html
> Also, we decided to detect it.

How generous...
The Wright Brothers have a national day of observation each year (Dec. 17).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Brothers_Day
Thanks for answering.. I mainly bring it up because of this line: "Good artists copy great artists steal" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
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Really, RMS being a dick keeps you from using, developing, and supporting free software?

Your level of support is not that great, then.
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Because people still have to make money. IT is a multi-billion dollar business. If you can afford it and you're making money off it, they feel you should pay for it.

Makes sense to me.
Most employees have a very different mindset. It seems that a company composed only of people who understand and follow the 'nobody cares' principle would be a perfectly operating entity where everyone always smoothly goes in the right direction, but I'm not actually convinced that's possible. 'Nobody cares' personal philosophy is very much correlated with alpha personalities, and you can't have a team where everyone is an alpha - they'll rip each other apart with conflicts. It's very tricky to balance this well - I'd like to see how different leaders do it in organizations of different sizes.
What would be the more effective way to get people to give two shits about needing a special tool to open the computer case sold by vendor A?

Choice #1: strike a PR blow against vendor A by railing against them at every opportunity.

Choice #2: labor to improve the user experience available from the freetard universe, thereby neutralizing vendor A's relative advantage so that not having to go buy a Torx T15 driver becomes an important differentiator.

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I hope G+ will evolve into a nice blogging tool by itself. The amount of G+ posts linked to from HN and other aggregators indicate the potential is there. I wish it were able to format code nicely and posts' urls included a title instead of a meaningless id (for SEO as well as humans).
“You can do anything if you believe in yourself” -- is there something in it?
The big advantage over MacVim is that Vimroom works from the terminal, anywhere. I can use the plugin no matter which machine I'm logged into, which is pretty valuable to me.

I fixed the only issue that was on the project before today (errors when mapping keys that were already mapped), and pushed a v0.7. I hope that fixes the issue you experienced.
Unfortunately as time goes on this might be not as free-will a decision. The right of law enforcement to breach our computers for the 'good of the public' will probably only get worse.
Why would the robot need a salary? So it can buy afford robot entertainment on the weekends?
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Ask HN: Programming resources for a 9th grader?
I was chatting with one of the moms at my son's baseball game and she asked my advice for her 9th grade cousin. The kid is stuck for a semester learning FORTRAN from a wizened teacher that believes it is an absolute essential component of child's introduction to computer science.

This is how you make kids hate programming. No?

I am assembling a list of resources to forward to this kid, and wanted to get your input.

Where do you think he should start digging, and what should he do after that?
until something better comes along

Like http://www.swipe.com ?
It's a shame because some of his thoughts on Foxconn are interesting. I saw him in an interview and I'll admit that he made me think about the impact that my buying has. He's an engaging speaker.

But he really does a disservice to these arguments by going off on EFF-style rants. Its not in the same ballpark as the human rights concerns, which sure makes it look like he's just looking for a conveniently high profile target.
Why are we restricting the discussion to IT?
Probably a stupid question, but does this target Windows?
Android + IOIO period. No need for an Arduino.
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