skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it is now much harder to make a Wikipedia, for a number of reasons. To name just a few:

1. The Internet is bigger now. Being an average-sized fish in a small pond is not the same as being a small fish in an enormous ocean. Back then, being a professional blogger was actually doable and you could trivially game search engines and ad networks. The Web as a whole has a lot more resistance now.

2. There is already a Wikipedia now; there wasn't one when Wikipedia started.

3. Google wants to have Wikipedia's babies. Google does not want to have your babies.

4. An improvement that would be a great boon to an existing product is not necessarily a sufficient basis for a completely new project, particularly given the inertia outlined in the above points.

Overall, your contention here reminds me of suggestions like "If you don't like the law, go start your own country."
> Am I the only one concerned with how these services can be used to funnel money to Mexican drug cartels and terrorists?

Probably.
I'm going to check this out. I had some issues the last time I tried RubyMine a month or two ago.
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Isn't this fairly obvious?
I have some volcano insurance to sell you. True, a volcano popping up out of nowhere almost never happens, but it did that one time so can you really afford not to spend money preparing for it?
Step 1: Find problem/customers and figure out how to use google to get them to you

Step 2: Solve problem in a high-quality, maintainable, relatively bug-free way

Step 3: Charge a lot (so you don't need as many customers)

Except to add new features, you can literally watch the money roll in since you've somewhat automated getting the customers. And don't do stupid things like iPhone apps.
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Nope. Not even close. Anyone on here could write it in two days but they'd all dismiss it because it's too small minded.
Good luck, Onanymous.

Big talk, like with Facebook, but nothing will happen.
>but low relative frequency for a risk with catastrophic consequences, e.g. your house flooding

Let's be honest here, you don't have sandbags piled around your house and a boat tied up and ready to use for evacuation.
You've also done nothing to protect yourself from the thousands of other extraordinarily unlikely catastrophic events that might happen to you on a daily basis.
sort? grep? find? ls? Maybe I'm just jaundiced but those tools are far too primitive to be even compared to e.g. a Symbolics machine, let alone a modern IDE. And POSIX is laughably far from treating everything as a file, or having a small set of orthogonal tools, or indeed having anything like a coherent worldview.
> You win some and you lose some - evens out in the long run.

I believe you that it works, but I'm totally shocked at this... surely everyone just starts rounding up to .75? It will add up! You've literally blown my mind with this; how do people carry on like this? It's like you've just told me up is down and down is up, I just do not comprehend at all how people can use this system?

Seriously, I know that sounds sarcastic but it's just thrown my brain.
I'm pretty sure every hacker group has gotten this idea at one point or another. Has anyone even come close to taking down all the root DNS servers at once?
I don't know if it's tech minded, so much as just plain laziness. Clicking a button to say "hey, cool" is a lot easier than filling out another damn form with info you don't need.
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Yep, completely correct.
Thanks for emphasizing this distinction that neither I nor the post I was reponding to were really making explicit: "rules" as in "guidelines" vs technological rules that are not (normally) possible to break.
They should say the word "thus" more often...
Is there a specific reason you assume the academic community is doing a good job at this?

Consider the case in point. The myth the Chronicle author was refuting was a political myth: that the Haymarket defendants were innocent men railroaded by a biased prosecutor who was not "credible." This myth had been repeated by generations of pro-labor historians with a big ol' axe to grind.

As for the anti-labor historians? Oh wait, there aren't any anti-labor historians. At least, if by "historian" you mean "individual funded by the US Government to teach history." Thus, Wikipedia is simply recording in its pages the depressing result of a political power struggle in academia.

Now that labor has become the establishment, an honest historian who is not pro or anti labor, just interested in the past, can discover from primary sources that gee whiz, the prosecution actually had a case. It's 2012 so he won't be purged for this. On the other hand, it's not clear how he's supposed to purge all his axe-grinding colleagues who continue insisting that the sky is green.

Academia is just a thing called "academia." Science is just a thing called "science." The Soviet Union had both. Ours are better than the Soviet Union's, but they're still de facto government agencies. Jeebus didn't come down yesterday and make our government systematically infallible.

Imagine Wikipedia in the Soviet Union. Would you want it to be a crowdsourced version of the Great Soviet Encylopedia? Or would you want it to do a little better?

Wikipedia has done a great job of being a tertiary source, mostly. That doesn't mean it can't have higher ambitions for the future. When I stop being a child, I put aside childish things. It's childish to assume that "reliable sources" are reliable just because everyone says they are. Is Wikipedia all grown up now? If so, maybe it should at least think about starting to address its utterly circular definition of a reliable source.

If there is no conceivable mechanism to distinguish between homeopathy and medicine, how do our existing mechanisms work? Are these mechanisms unique? Are they perfect? Can they be duplicated, improved, advanced?
While the DOS discussed in that link is quite obviously misguided, counterproductive, juvenile and likely criminal, 'terrorism' seems like a pretty strong word.
Most interesting bit :

The principle is simple; a flaw that uses forged UDP packets is to be
used to trigger a rush of DNS queries all redirected and reflected to
those 13 IPs. The flaw is as follow; since the UDP protocol allows it,
we can change the source IP of the sender to our target, thus spoofing
the source of the DNS query.

The DNS server will then respond to that query by sending the answer to
the spoofed IP. Since the answer is always bigger than the query, the
DNS answers will then flood the target ip. It is called an amplified
because we can use small packets to generate large traffic. It is called
reflective because we will not send the queries to the root name servers,
instead, we will use a list of known vulnerable DNS servers which will
attack the root servers for us.
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I think you're absolutely right, but I the point kind of still stands - when evidence appears that challenges your agreed position, you should still consider it properly before responding rather than make a knee jerk reaction.
For whatever it's worth: Jim Collins coverage of Walgreens in _Good to Great_ focuses on how Walgreens pioneered this siting concept.
"This is what often irks me about Gruber - he makes disagreeing with Apple out to be an act of incompetence."

No, you're missing the point. The incompetence is not "disagreeing with Apple", it's "presenting Gates' assertion as fact when it demonstrably is not."

Isaacson's task was not to convey what Gates said on a sales call. It's not a book about Gates.

Isaacson was using the quote from Gates to make a point about Jobs and Apple, and because Gates was wrong (even if justifiably so given his motivation in context), Issacson misinformed the reader.

Isaacson ought to have checked out Gates' claims, with someone who would know, like Avie Tevanian, or Glenn Reid, whoever.
Ask HN: What is that website that sells themes and stuff?
Someone in the past week mentioned using it to get their site up and running quickly.

The site sells themes and other design elements.

It isn't themeforest.

Any ideas?
As a UX person, I have a little secret to tell you: if the product idea is really good, the UX part is really easy.

Hiring a UX person isn't going to make your product take off. It's not going to make your users love you. It can make it easier or harder for them to love you, but it's just a modifier.

Design is how it works. Your idea is how it works.

Unfortunately, the idea, the technology, and the UX are all tightly intertwined. New technology lets you do things that were never possible before, enabling new ideas. New ideas need to be massaged through a few UX wash cycles before they come out looking the way they should. UX must live within the technical confines of what is possible.

You need all three. Companies fail because they don't care enough about one of them (or two of them). Traditionally, UX has been the most commonly neglected. That's starting to change - but that doesn't mean that UX is the source of success - it's 1/3 of the source of success.
There simply aren't enough artists with the resources to do what Louis CK has done and Gaffigan is about to do. So it's almost tautological that it can't take off for lesser-known acts until some digital-publishing middle-men spring up to simplify and streamline the process of going from "I have a 60 minute comedy act" to "I have a $5 special on somesite.com".

And any digital publisher worth their domain name is going to offer promotional services.
Ask HN: Has this been made yet?
After a bit of googling, I couldn't find a service that could help me find out if my friends were busy or not. I have a few close friends that I talk with on a regular basis, but there are a lot of other people whom I still consider my friends that I don't. I don't care about sharing my videos, pictures, and thoughts with them online; I would just like to meet up with them in the real world. When I have free time, it would be nice to see who else is free. Facebook would do a good job of this, but my "friends" mostly post up song lyrics or other clutter and a lot of them I hardly know. Is there any service out there that is something along the lines of:

-I'm bored/ have free time

-I sign on and click a button that says so

-It gives my location to my friends which can be found like how facebook does it

-I can see other friends who are bored and message them to hang out

-Other buttons like I'm free to chat/text

-(Maybe) a section I can go into that shows me other people reasonably close by that
a. Are free to hang out
b. Do in fact want to meet new friends

If it exists already, I'd love to know what it's called. If it doesn't then it's a nice idea for a mobile app.
Ah, but the lazy option is the "Login with Facebook" button- I'd say the tech crowd are much less likely to click that, for privacy reasons.
Let's assume they succeed. They take down the Internet at noon EDT (9AM PDT). What's the worst that could happen?
Same here. Although I liked your post enough that I spent a couple minutes and signed up using a temporary email address. Sign-ups like that irk me.
I agree, site monitoring is a commodity it seems. I use Pingdom and am happy with it. One thing I do need that no monitoring service has provided is the ability to monitor/alert for potential automated scrapers/bots(that aren't search engines) that visit my site. Would not be trivial of course, but it would address a pain.

Also, I would love to have an easy way to view my current memory, hard disk space, CPU load in my Amazon instances. I KNOW there are ways to do so but just after 10 mins of Googling them, I get a headache.. I want something less painful.
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Nothing mind blowing but I agree. It seems like the bottom line is that there has to be a killer app and an easy way to get started.
Are there actually any significant number of people that are acually pleased with the TSA, the naked scanners, the intrusive patdowns, and the bigger security theater?

I can see people being fooled by the theater and grudgingly accept it, but does anyone like it and think it should be expanded?
John Siracusa was complaining about the same thing recently. He also argues that it is possible to create a wiki where truth is more important than verifiability.

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Isn't their example of google that won't be affected? I was under the impression that very few DNS queries actually go to the root nameservers as ISP's and so on have it all cached. And since I highly doubt there is any ISP that has not had a user visit google.com in the last 48 hours, Google will still function for people?

In fact, the only people I can see this affecting (in the unlikely event it does happen) are people setting up new sites.
Now, I'm thinking about the order of DNS requests.. Local Hosts -> Router -> ISP/OpenDNS/etc -> On out to the Root Servers. Now wouldn't make DNS caching make this attack only partially effective really...if it even worked?
" To the vast majority of people "design" does mean only aesthetics, so the author is to some extent justified in following the same route."

If he's writing about Jobs, then it's pretty much inexcusable to fail to put it the way Jobs would, rather than how "the vast majority of people" would.
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The whole system of publishing academic research is thoroughly and painfully mired in the 1950s.

It is much harder to make a new encyclopedia now, but that's not what I'm suggesting 'angersock should do, because he doesn't like encyclopedias.
Is it actually part of your job description to dump itworld links here while otherwise not engaging or being part of the community?
When people start making decisions about where they need to go based on how comfortable they are at the airport there?

There aren't that many places where there are airports that can realistically be said to be in 'competition' with each other.
Where could we find more information about those 13 servers? Why are there only 13 of them?
> I'd like to use the the permission to act as your Google account

Oddly; even when you (the dev) ask for this; Google prompts you (the user) at access-time to approve/deny account access permissions (similar to Google's OAuth prompts on the web). Seems that would remove the need to ask for the permission at install time as well.
I think that's barking up a pointless, semantic tree. You don't need property for there to be "theft", you just need to deprive someone of something.
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Compared to what a comedian would pay for venue, cameras, producing, directing and editing, the slack between what Louis paid and could have paid for his site and streaming setup is probably the least of their concerns.

That it worked and held up under load is probably going to keep them from even asking if it could have been cheaper.
It has indeed been attempted in the past. If memory serves me well, the best hackers could do was take 3 of the 13 out at the same time.
>Extending that thought to multiple cores/threads. Comparable to a small business in a way? You have one guy who can go tell other people to do certain tasks.

Depends on the architecture, actually. What you're describing is a lot like the Cell processor design. For x86-based processors, it's much less organized than that, because each core is, for all intents and purposes, effectively an independent processor.

The best analogy for multithreaded programming I've come up with is a(take a drink) car factory. Each core is a generalized assembly line that is capable of producing any part, but it takes time to switch to a different task. The end goal is a car, which means that you can have one core working on the transmission, one core working on the interior parts, one on the exhaust, and one working on the motor. If you can balance them out, you can have all of them finish around the same time. But if you're trying to actually make a car, you're going to end up with some overhead to finish the entire thing. There is some overhead where the body is made, and all the parts that were produced by the other lines are actually put into the car.

Compared to a single-assembly line factory, it's possible to make cars much faster with multiple lines. But there will always be some percentage of time that you cannot split across multiple cores.
ok, thanks for the clarification. what confused me was "thus, disabling the HTTP Internet"

i'm kinda glad they're attempting this, IMO. i'm tired of ignorant people not understanding what the "web" really is, and how important it is to keep it free and open. sure, this might make "hackers" look bad, but honestly, if we sit back and do nothing, then we cannot complain when laws are passed, etc..

if they pull this off, it will be a historic day, no?
Let me join the chorus of "Better late then never".It is pathetic that this privacy breach occured - not to imply that Apple is anything short of God's final incarnation of perfection. :)

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Seems to me the flaw in the plan here is that we're talking about asking the user for permission, when we should be asking the contact. I don't want Path to have my contact details, but anyone who has me in their address book is able to provide them. Asking the user for address book permission doesn't fix that.
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What is the purpose of the action if not to create some small amount of terror on the part of "our irresponsible leaders"?
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That looks almost good. Unfortunately it seems they only accepts direct credit card payment. Many users wouldn't trust them.

Integrate with PayPal or Google Checkout and it could be huge.
Is it just me or does it seem like this attack will be self-defeating? They are relying on DNS servers to serve responses in order to make DNS servers stop serving responses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver should answer most of your questions.
And how is Apple going to go about securing the permission the people LISTED in the address book for their personal data to be harvested.

Address books are out of bounds. End discussion.

Permission fail.
I definitely agree that many of the permissions are far too broad. I'd like to see send SMS silently separate from send SMS with user approval.

I guess what I'm advocating here is a combined approach

- up front permission notification of android, but more fine grained

- activity alert approve/deny from ios

- selective permission blocks from bb except the developer can specify which permissions are optional so the apps don't crash when you disable random permissions, they just refuse to start with a clear message.

- parameters for some permissions to further narrow the scope like URL masks that you'll access over the internet instead of asking for full net access, etc.
If the site is using name-based virtual hosting, then you'll have to add a new entry to your hosts file. Otherwise you likely will get an error.
Meta comment: Why create an account just to ask this?

Secondary comment: real time active/inactive status is a feature in pretty much most any chat protocol out there. You might make some headway with a variation on Lattitude where you can have phone identify 'I'm bored' places (like perhaps the couch in the den) and have it auto-change your status but other than that you would be hard pressed to get folks to actively turn on/off their available bit.
I think there are some great points that adapt well to the startup mindset.

* [Ship stuff]. A lot. Try stuff. Make your best stab and keep stabbing. If it's there in your heart, it will eventually find its way out. Or you will give up and have a prudent, contented life doing something else.

* We did not start as friends, but as people who respected and admired each other. Crucial, absolutely crucial for a partnership.

* Have heroes outside of [startups / technology / business]. ... You're welcome to borrow [other people's], but you must learn to love them yourself for your own reasons. Then they'll push you in the right direction.

* Love something besides [technology / startups / business]. Get inspired by a particular poet, film-maker, sculptor, composer. You will never be [ $famous_startup_personality]. But if you want to be, say, the Salvador Dali of [startups / technology / business], THERE'S an opening.
I'm using the Firefox add-on version 1.7.8, with the default URL Components settings (subdomains not enabled), and it uses "bbc.co.uk" as the domain for "www.bbc.co.uk" and "evil.co.uk" as the domain for "evil.co.uk", so the problem you described doesn't exist.

Maybe this was a problem in an earlier version and it's been fixed?
The goal here is to support the idea of companies hiring developers based on what they've done online and not a resume/1 hr interview.

Right now, GitCV only supports github, and I plan on adding more sites once I get all of the features down.

Any feedback/advice would be appreciated. I'm working on this for free, and hosting it for free (no ads) because I think it would be cool to make it easier for fellow developers to get hired.
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Most of them are not single-box servers, but cluster with
multisite redundancy.
That's why all attacks were unsuccessful in the past.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server
Only in moderate publications. On Fox News that would be "Obama supports terrorist attacks against America".
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