skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the bright side I haven't heard about Stratfor before and now I'm considering purchasing an account because so many people on HN give it positive reviews.
agreed. I really wish the startup scene blossoms in Italy in the near future as there is great potential there - One of my favourite italian startups is http://stereomood.com/
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I took a similar approach to this with http://cueyoutube.com and recently found snapbird which gives extended twitter search capabilities. So the URL contains the playlist and twitter becomes the data base, so I just tweet my playlists and they're "saved". You can see all the lists I've created by searching the account iaindooley and search term cueyoutube in snapbird.
I started reading reviews online when I wanted my first toaster oven. See, the thing is, I had no idea what I wanted from a toaster oven, or how to judge them. So I read reviews until I found out all the ways they could go wrong, and then I looked for ones that didn't do that. At least, so far as I thought I cared. "Not tall enough" isn't a problem for me because it's for toast and bagel bites. Not really going to be a problem.

Ever since then, I read the negative reviews to judge products by their deficiencies. It has worked wonders. I've never had such good appliances and footwear, and I'm not spending an arm and a leg on them, either!

This is just one of the ways that the internet is changing our daily lives and we don't even notice. It's quite amazing.
Why should it be memorable at all ? If you can't stay in their mind by having a great solution for a huge pain then it's a lost game anyway. If they love your idea/solution then you won't need to actively use the comparision at all.

The proof that the business model works and/or scales cannot come from a competitor (except 100% was copied from them but then again just cloning is a dumb idea anyway). That proof is the goal of any serious entrepreneur. I don't see a convincing argument towards VCs here.
Youtube : cluttered/anonimity/abusive.So built this.Let us know your thoughts
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Who do you mean by "We"?

Recent news make me believe that there has been no lesson learned from
anything. Right-wing terrorists sponsored by the Verfassungsschutz,
Bundestrojaner, police violence, and Voratsdatenspeicherung. And most
of the population does not even care about any of this. The only thing
that people seem to have learned is how to hide aspirations to power
and control behind some thin veil of democracy.
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There probably are "free" iPhones in China, with similar contracts - but cell phones in the developed world tend to be prepaid, not contracts (78% worldwide)

www.trustvesta.com/press/prepaid_telcel_2010_EN.aspx.

I know there are "free" iPhones here in Uruguay, but very few can afford the contracts.
I also read somewhere that GoDaddy (or as they put it, a group of websites of which GoDaddy is one) would be one of the websites exempt from censorship.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nocbt/under_the_cu...

I wonder if this still holds now that they "oppose" SOPA. If it does, then their opposition is nothing more than a joke..
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I've sometimes wondered about a system where the URL of a document is an actual hash, like SHA-1, of the document. That'd chance the semantics of hyperlinks from "link to document at this internet address" to "link to document with these contents", just like Hashify does, but it could do arbitrarily large documents.

The tricky part with that system would be that you'd also need some new mechanism to retrieve the files. Instead of the regular WWW stack, you'd need something like a massive distributed hash table that could handle massive distributed querying and transferring the hashed files. Many P2P file sharing systems are already doing this, but a sparse collection of end-user machines containing a few hashed files each isn't a very efficient service cloud. If every ISP had this sort of thing in their service stack or if Amazon and Google decided to run the service, all of them dynamically caching documents in greater demand in more nodes, things might look very different.

This would mean that very old hypertext documents would still be trivially readable with working links, as long as a few copies of the page documents were still hashed somewhere, even if the original hosting servers were long gone. It would also make it easy to do distributed page caching, so that pages that get a sudden large influx of traffic wouldn't create massive load on a single server.

On the other hand, any sort of news sites where the contents of the URL are expected to change wouldn't work, nor would URLs expected to point to a latest version of a document instead of the one at the time of linking. Once the hash URL was out, no revision to the hashed document visible from following the URL would be possible without some additional protocol layer. The URL strings would also be opaque to humans and too long and random to be committed to memory or typed by hand. The web would probably need to be somehow split into human-readable URLs for dynamic pages and hash URLs for the static pieces of content served by those pages.

I'm probably reinventing the wheel here, and someone's already worked out a more thought out version of this idea.
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And my personal favourite:

"A single word expletive as a headline isn't just a way of getting cheap pageviews"
Let's repeat what the nice mister said;

"The author is saying that Apple's trick is getting people to focus on option 1 to the exclusion of options 2 and 3, exactly as you do here."
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How is a spatula that's 1.2m long a "simple utensil for your kitchen"?

Sure, I guess the design is probably simple, but what type of kitchen do they imagine you're running where you need a spatula that's over a meter long?
Can you leave WPS off most of the time except for the initial connection of 'device A' to the network? Or will device A need it every time it switches on?
You mean it is obviously anything apart from the Macbook itself maybe having a loud fan noise.

I think I have read an article about this sort of behaviour and reasoning somewhere.
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Good spot, thanks :)
Never even occurred to me it would be registrar related, as I don't use OVH as a registrar - they must apply the same standard to all their customers.
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+1 to "I'm not sure this is a good place to post this sort of issues"

Anyway, have you checked if your browser has JavaScript enabled?
common ground found.

not sure what pg would say, but for me (if i were in his shoes) it would depend entirely upon what/how the company was owned. there's a big difference between, say, a hacker exploiting a hole in a well-vetted, well-known encryption api and a hacker exploiting a hole an encryption api that you rolled yourself.
not so bad for incurable cancer ..

"The results, published last year in Science Translational Medicine, revealed that it probably extended the lives of four of the patients, while one other died. "

original research: http://dca-information.pbworks.com/f/Metabolic%20Modulation%...
"something that links to that" like my browser's cache of news.ycombinator.com ?
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But it’s FUD. It’s a smokescreen.

Google is harmless compared to the power nation states have. It’s just wrong to focus your effort on companies and not states. What politicians try to do is make privacy all about companies and not the state and that is, honestly, disgusting. All their gushing about Facebook and Google only serves to hide their own failings.
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http://arab-timess.blogspot.com/2011/12/30-12-2011.html
Agreed. It cannot afford to be the way it is, being top site on internet in its category used by everyone in the internet.good thought.
I didn't say it was easy; it's usually pretty hard/expensive to do it right.

But there are known best practices, and it looks like those weren't followed (at the very least, have a good password policy and salt the goddammed passwords before hashing).

here are two examples of companies doing security right:

[1] http://blog.lastpass.com/2011/05/lastpass-security-notificat...

[2] http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/11/valve-confirms-st...
Smartness is a must have for a proficient developer, but this is an out of topic remark.
Given a new technology, you can quickly learn the 80%, but the remaining 20% is got acquired by experience and it's the only way to really master it.
similar - 229 days ago on HNEWS.

"DCA: A simple, unpatentable cancer treatment? (ualberta.ca"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2549349
I didn't downvote you, but I might imagine it's because your post didn't contribute to the conversation.

From the Hacker News welcome:

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

"The most important principle on HN, though, is to make thoughtful comments. Thoughtful in both senses: both civil and substantial.

The test for substance is a lot like it is for links. Does your comment teach us anything?"

I'm also from a poor country, and an Android phone was my first true smarthphone (this Christmas :) ).
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Stratfor Offers Customers Identity Theft Protection After Hack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_name
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On top of that, you prevent that, if something is wrong, you end up in a blame game (the computer must be defective/you asked for the wrong memory modules/etc).

There also is the possibility that Apple's stuff is better, even though it comes from the same factory. For example, Apple could have every RAM module run for months at above-spec frequency, temperature and humidity to weed out bad modules. I do not think they do such severe things, but I do think (without having any evidence, except for the 'evidence' of their pricing) that they buy slightly/somewhat better batches. That does not guarantee that their products are better, but it will weed out the almost-dead-on-arrival ones.
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re: sample - Looking at CyberCoders job postings for New York right now it only shows 252 job posts in total so the sample is very small.

And you can slice and dice this kind of data in so many ways you can end of with many different types of results from it :)

Searching on CyberCoders for PHP, Python, Ruby & Perl at moment (in NY) returns these numbers of job posts...

PHP 48
Python 33
Ruby 27
Perl 13

However if we then break this down into clearly defined posts for a PHP developer, Python developer, etc we get...

PHP 9
Python 8
Ruby 9 (3 Ruby, 6 RoR)
Perl 1

And the average salary range given for these developer posts are...

PHP $80k - $121k
Python $93k - $128k
Ruby $83k - $128k
Perl $80k - $110k

As with quoted figures everywhere please take these with a large pinch of salt :)
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The Lighter Side Of The Cloud – New CEO
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A MVP, under the original definition[1], is a learning tool that helps you to learn the most about your hypothesis, with the least amount of waste.[2]

Note that product under the MVP definition may not be a product under the most common use of the word.[3]

[1] http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/08/minimum-viable-...

[2] http://www.w2lessons.com/2010/10/minimum-viable-product-diss...

[3] http://www.ashmaurya.com/2011/06/your-product-is-not-the-pro...
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But now also PC games are unhexeditable, so you don't have anything left to hexedit.
World
Superlative + noun + in the world: ‘Hirakud dam is one of the longest earthen dams in the world.’
All over the world = everywhere in the world: ‘Since joining the newspaper, she’s travelled all over the world.’ ‘There will be teams from all over the world.’ ‘Her novel is famous all over the world.’
December 22, 2011

"In November, 2011, Viral Genetics announced that a patent under which it is exclusively licensed will be granted for using a compound known as DCA to treat cancer. DCA (dichloroacetic acid) has emerged as a compound that accelerates the destruction of tumors without the deleterious and debilitating side effects associated with chemotherapy or radiation. This is the first patent granted for the use of DCA to treat cancer, and represents a significant milestone in the Company's growth.

Since filing the application, other companies and research entities, both in the US and internationally, have also done much work to validate and unlock the value inherent in utilizing DCA as a therapeutic agent. Over the last four years, extensive validating research has been performed that documents DCA as a potentially powerful cancer treatment. Dr. Newell Rogers is one of the scientific pioneers suggesting that agents, including DCA, that disrupt tumor specific metabolic pathways, will have value as novel cancer drugs and, as such, she is the first researcher to have a patent granted on its use in the battle against cancer.

Viral Genetics has been strategically accumulating a significant and valuable portfolio of intellectual property rights around Dr. Newell's core metabolic disruption science. This patent, and many others that will be granted, are expected to continue to create value for the Company’s shareholders. In concert with our legal team, Viral Genetics is setting in place the licensing and revenue strategy for the Company from this IP portfolio."

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good luck to them in building to scale with money only from advertisers who don't mind being next to MG's middle finger.

But would they have to? I mean, Google's whole business model is to match ads to the right content, and they specifically say they're good with detecting such "offensive" images, so they could simply content match advertisers who were looking for "edgy" images.
it's not.

the issue (for me) is how valuable the valuables are and how much security is protecting the valuables. There's a good reason why there's a major difference between the security protecting the mona lisa and the security protecting my car, even though both are secured and both are valuable.

when people under-secure assests that they claim to be securing, especially when those assets aren't theirs, I think they're partially to blame when the assets are eventually stolen. I'm blaming stratfor because i think they did a shitty job securing their customers' info, especially since the info belonged to paying customers.
other news ( Public release date: 22-Dec-2011 )

"The experimental drug dichloroacetate (DCA), which inactivates PDHK, is being used in new clinical trials for cancer. Chen is collaborating with Haian Fu, professor of pharmacology and director of the Emory Chemical Biology Discovery Center, to find other, more potent inhibitors of PDHK."

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-12/eu-etf122211....
I just read all of the above and then realized i am not sure what a ladle exactly is.
Right. Turns out my use of 'URL' everywhere in grandparent comment is a misnomer then. Should've used URN or URI.

I'm not quite sure if URN is exactly right for the hash thing either, given that it both fails to unify things which humans would probably assign the same URN to, such as two image files of the same picture using different encodings, and it has the theoretical chance of assigning the same hash to two entirely different things.
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How would you monetize that site?
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Not really a good reply, but I think that hashify.me's potential for an IE audience was probably small to start with. But consider this: if this idea took off, wouldn't this press MS into keeping IE more modern?
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It's cases like this that show that you should use a proper timezone library in your code. Too often I see websites where the timezone field is given as "+/- X from GMT". Just store everything in UTC, and use tzdata fields (e.g. "Europe/London") to convert to something nice to show the user, and People Cleverer Than You™ will make sure everything works.
These messages are SOPA proof. They can never be "taken down" since they don't actually reside on the server
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... and we find out about it thanks to the british correspondent of a californian blog.
If everyone had infinite time to read articles on the internet, it would be best to keep reading and possibly learn something useful from the article despite its error. Since we don’t have that much time, we have to decide which articles are worth reading – there is a lot of nonsense on the internet that is a waste of time to read (Sturgeon's law). Errors of sufficient number and magnitude at the beginning of the article indicate a higher likelihood that the rest of the article is too nonsensical to bother reading, i.e. that the ratio of usefulness to time spent is too low.

Now, maybe you disagree that a graph with loops is that big of an error. But then you should write about the graph specifically. I don’t think you have grounds for disagreement with the basic principle of generalizing the quality of an article from part of it and using that estimate to decide whether to continue spending your time on reading that article.
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Ask HN: Your resolutions for the new year?
What are your resolution for the new year? I'll start first

1- Learning: HTML5, the new JavaScript specification, CSS3, NodeJS. Also C# to start developing for Windows Phone

2- Freelancing: Make a net income of $15K freelancing on the side.

3- Products: Make a net income of $15K selling products online.

4- Location: Move to the capital, and setup a better work desk.

5- Travel: Visit two countries.
They do however reside on server hosting the link
Exactly, a good night like that is awesome. We recently had a Horror Night in the back room of a pub, so we had pies and ale delivered to us (I literally ate two pies as they were fairly priced and goddamn awesome), and it was a lovely atmosphere, everyone sitting around on chairs, the odd technical hitch providing a smoking break. Absolutely awesome.
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This was my point, they're passing their 30,000 char URL to bit.ly to return a short URL (20 chars)

But what happens if bit.ly just say "Sorry incoming URLS (long urls) can only be a maximum of 1500 chars"?
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So someone at Godaddy read a reddit comment about how Godaddy still doesn't oppose SOPA, and interpreted that as "Godaddy hasn't used the word oppose."

That is not the main issue. Using the word oppose does not change your position. Just as Godaddy's support of SOPA involved helping to write it, Godaddy's opposition of SOPA - to show that they actually oppose it - must involve active campaigning against the bill, and working towards making it fail.
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Interesting datapoint, that the quicker loading of the page made that much a difference. Also I think the conversion ratio of 25% is really high. 1 in 4 getting your app? whow).
Anyway, this pushed me to set-up a cloudfront distribution to do some tests. And while sometimes it's really fast, sometimes it is also a lot slower than our normal server (300ms vs 50ms or so).
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Fuckify this ify trend to emulate or ride the spotify (anti)fame.

Is it just me or does anyone else also just back away whenever there is a project which turns nouns into verbs with ify? Spotify is a sockpuppet of
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This may be the worst comment I've read on HN in months.
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Hello,

18 months back I quit the job second time to take a shot again at entrepreneurship.

I failed fist time 4 years back.

In my last organisation I was leading a national team of more than 400 persons. Almost got my promotion letter (If I hadn't quit for 2 more weeks).

Have almost lost my immediate family due to this decision of mine.

18 months and I have still not given up.
Ron Paul speaks against SOPA
may be you can share sometime. Keep the faith, I am also struggling to keep my faith at present.
This morning I woke up with an idea to find out what the different presidential hopefuls have said about SOPA. Sadly, this one was the only one I could find...the only one I thought I could guess his stance on.
Maybe so, but the big companies don't have sincere values beyond financial self-interest. They'll only act if pushed into feeling that their credibility is at stake. Otherwise they'll pursue more conservative paths that benefit them and other large entities exclusively, like lobbying for carve-outs and exemptions, to the detriment of everyone else.

Individuals and small companies actually have the ability and willingness to act decisively according to real principles and moral values. It may be unfair for the little guys to shoulder the burden at first, but the sad truth is that if we don't, no one else will.
> Different laws apply to companies in a monopoly position,

That doesn't necessarily mean the same thing as "used by the majority of people", since people can and do use many different sites rather than choosing one exclusively. Those laws also doesn't have anything to do with the absurd schoolyard notions suggested by the comment I responded to; monopoly laws exist primarily to keep monopolies from preventing others from entering the market and disrupting that monopoly.

> and that is right and proper.

In your opinion; I strongly disagree with the notion that such laws have any basis in morality.
Maybe this would work well in an email? Especially if you want to get content past filtering.