skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah sorry, teach me to try to be clever... :)

It appears that the Changelog was modified thusly:

https://github.com/mirrors/gcc/commit/63f5ad449bbe0a4d478ae9...

I guess you could just download the source and see if it's in there.

EDIT: It is not.
Most people are going to say Tenderloin. Honestly, if you're just not paying attention, you'd get robbed in South Beach.

Just pay attention, stop texting on your phone and don't walk around like you're looking to get something taken from you.
GPUs that Bitcoin miners would certainly have around. Not saying that this is what happened, but it got me wondering.
I am not sure there is a rational answer when it comes to possibly jumping from a building and breaking your legs or maybe even dying versus staying in the building and possibly dying from smoke inhalation or burning to death. It would be very hard, even in hindsight to figure out what was the more rational decision.

If you want technological examples, say someone calls someone else irrational for basing their website off PHP instead of Ruby. Someone calls the printer industry irrational for making it cheaper to buy a new printer than to buy ink cartridges or that someone buys a new computer because their computer is infested with malware instead of re-installing Windows. You could say those are irrational choices, but the people who are making those choices probably have reasons for doing so which may make sense to them. The person with PHP may not know Ruby and would have to invest significant time in learning it. The printer companies bottom line will make their decision rational to many. The person buying a new computer may not have the skills to perform the task, the local computer shop wants hundreds of dollars to do the work & the computer is old.

So on the surface we say "that's irrational", but then later after learning more, maybe our opinion would change to "that's actually rational".

Also this does bring up the point that we often have to make a choice on what to do without the power of hindsight or with incomplete data. This can make our choices look irrational to those who are not in our shoes.
$120k is high enough to pay full taxes on anyway so no matter how they distribute it, they will very likely loose half to taxes.
There are a few ways to look at it.

The cheapest iPad you can get without a contract is $499, compared to $699 for the other tablets.

Then there is your way.
Uhh, this person didn't profit from piracy.
1) No idea, that's something Linode needs to answer. I only guessed what it takes to change a root password of a VPS system.

2) Very good point. In that case it might work undetected for quite a while..
Because it's the 9th safest city in the US in its size category >500K.

http://www.morganquitno.com/cit05pop.htm
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Hey, Skid Row is crime free!

Obviously this is not actually the case.
The STS commands documentation was marked FOUO in the 90's. NASA may have gone all ITAR since then, but I'd bet there are a lot of ISS docs and PDFs from that era that don't say anything about ITAR.
I've never heard of one, but there may very well be a market for that sort of thing. The problem with Bitcoins will be the legal jurisdictions involved, since these services are regulated nearly everywhere, right?
Oh. Thank you.
Now if only more American bosses would take the money they earned with help from their employees and redistribute it to those employees, then maybe the economy (in America) wouldn't be as crazy as it is.
The gist was fine - the notion of the advantages in not taking serious VC backing.

My concern in reading the post was how you're gauging opportunity, scale, and competition. The $50 million remark in particular threw me.

In my experience and opinion, while legally you may have no other employees or investors right now, you'll benefit from assessing your business as a founder, an investor (your time or money put in), and an employee (CEO of Airtime, LLC or so on). You are all three in one, and I think that's an advantage if you use it. Those perspectives will all help you shape the business and its future. Do you have investors and employees? Yep, you and Patrick. You guys should be the most demanding investors you'll ever deal with.

If you're pursuing an idea that can be worth $50 million (in either sales or valuation), some sizable companies, whether venture backed or other, are going to want to eat your lunch. The competition will absolutely be there, and it'll be every bit as fierce at $10 to $50 million as at $1 billion.

Clearly you can target a market and not need to make much money for two years (what that might be implying about your product or execution is another matter). I imagine you know that you can buy one or two good servers for $250 to $500 / month, enough for a web server + database setup, plenty strong enough to support a load of tens of thousands of users or more in almost any segment. Financially it's very possible to keep that afloat with zero sales for an indefinite amount of time, particularly with no kids or family to support at 20 years of age. Sometimes products and companies go through crazy iterations and reboots. Point being, definitely don't assume it won't take up to two years to get consistent sales rolling in.

It's mostly regurgitated propaganda that you don't have time, the idea that everything is moving at light speed. That's true in a very small subset of Internet segments. There are a lot of web companies out there running $5 to $10 million businesses that took ten years to build up from scratch.
"As a respected hosting provider, I hope they do the correct thing and refund me for this liability due to their error. Many people trust Linode, and they have proven themselves as a serious contender for hosting critical sensitive operations on the internet. I would hate to not see them live up to that reputation."

"hosting critical sensitive operations" in particular. If you are doing "critical sensitive operations" you need a more secure solution and process which will cost you more money.

Under no circumstances can a hosting provider assume the liability for something like this.

The tradeoff you make for the low cost you pay is that you might have an issue like this because someone screws up.

You pay more for a safe to store your money (and for a safe deposit box to store your valuables) because it's important and you understand the risk involved in not doing that. If you have valuable jewelry many times the insurance company will only insure if you keep it in the safe when you are not wearing it and even the amount of days is specified when it can be out of the safe.

It's unreasonable to expect (and linode's contract clearly states as other's have mentioned) a hosting provider to have a liability over what you are paying them. Edit Add: Unless you specifically have an agreement in advance or that is what they promised or charged you for.

Before anyone reacts to this with any harsh criticism please think for a second what liability you would want for any mistakes that you make with your web startup or idea. You could either be charging zero or charging a small $5 to $20 per month charge. You might make a mistake. Are you willing to accept and even be able to insure for thousands or even millions in liability for those mistakes?
Who are the other shareholders of Mojang?
Perhaps I am just cynical. I did not mean to suggest the devs were scammers. But I still believe the ecosystem as a whole reeks of pyramids and other scams and I am sick of reading about it. I also think Scientology and MLM are scams but there are people who think they are not and we can't all agree. But then I also think casinos and lotteries are scams so I am kind of outside mainstream opinion on a few things I guess.
Then this conversation should be about the security breach and the BitCoin aspect should be a side note. The data lost is not what is important, just how the breach should be resolved and prevented in the future yes?
I'm extremely interested to see how this plays out. Giving large cash bonuses seems like it could wreck morale just as easily as it could boost it. And now when they're hiring in the future, they have to wonder whether the candidate is more motivated by the money or the love. And will the employees expect a similar bonus next year?

I'm not saying he shouldn't've done it. I am, however, extremely curious. This is the sort of thing that I have wondered why more companies don't do.
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Is there a different tax rate if the employees received the equivalent amount in shares and then sold it?
Yes, what we need is more non quantifiable moralizing. Surely the minutia of the problem will respond to our passion.
Please people (not corporations w/ staffs), do not run critical systems in the cloud.

Get a dedicated server (not cheapest you can find) and secure it with:

(install in this order)

APF - http://www.rfxn.com/projects/advanced-policy-firewall/

BFD - http://www.rfxn.com/projects/brute-force-detection/

rkhunter

Ideally, install rkhunter on fresh system, right after updates, APF, & BFD. Then update the binary check-sums with this command, if you know server is secure:

Update file properties:
# rkhunter --propupd --sk

Run a system check to make sure it is known clean:
# rkhunter --check --sk

Lastly, sign up for the security alert mailing list for your version of linux on your server.

If you want maximum security, be sure to password protect your boot loader and use an encrypted file system. This will make it very difficult for ISP to work on your server however!
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I am an SF native - and I am about to take a very large project which will move me from SF to Dallas. I am worried more about Dallas than SF.

I have never experienced any crime in SF, aside from my bike pump being stolen when I forgot to take it off my bike which was locked at bart.

I live at the top of Noe Valley/Castro area and its quiet and fantastic.

If you don't put yourself into stupid situations, you'll not see crime.

I don't go out to shitty bars in the mission at night, I don't spend time in the tenderloin either.

But the tenderloin is surrounded by amazing areas, like union square.

Tranny valley (polk street) has some colorful characters which you'll see if you go bar hopping or to SF Grubsteak after a late night of drinking.

Overall - I find SF to be one of the safest, most wonderful cities in the world.
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I know Reeder is adding Fever as a login in the next iPhone version - maybe we could get NewsBlur on that list somewhere
Oh, FFS. I meant "what state?" as in, "why are you talking about the state?", since you said:

(...) something that the state can protect (...)

and since the PCI (which was what we were talking about) is private, it doesn't make sense to talk about the State.

US-centered mindset

The fuck? Firstly, I'm European. Secondly, I assumed you were talking about the State[1], not a particular state.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(polity)
I am off to store some cash in my car and put all my important docs in a bus locker. BRB.
Samuel, I just wanted to let you know that you are a huge inspiration to me even though you don't know me. I remember your first post when you said you did the first version of your site while commuting on the NYC subway every day.

That small piece of info is my driving force every week as I recall how productive other entrepreneurs can be. So thank you.
As far as I know it is Carl Manneh (serving as CEO) Jahkob Porser (developing Scrolls) + Notch.

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/09/16/mojang-foun... (paragraph #3)
not having your wallet separately encrypted means you're asking to be robbed.
Absolutely nothing.

It's brain melting difficult to build a $50 million dollar business. If you can get to $50 million, you might as well up the ante, and just say you're going to create a billion dollar business. Because the curve on difficulty is off the charts either way.
I think that like share dividends in the UK, it attracts a lower tax rate. I think Sweden is 30%?

However, "gifting" monies to people is a strange area, with various odd rules.

You can only give away a certain amount of money a year in the UK, and that depends on who it is you are giving to or even the circumstance. (EG, you can gift £5,000 as a wedding gift.)
You memorize it.
Because the good out weighs the bad... how does anyone live in the suburbs assuming this was a loaded question.

Crime is everywhere, you can stick your head in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist or you can enjoy your life. I lived in a containment zone in SF where the cops intentionally pushed criminal activity towards a 2 block radius. It was trade off to live in a prime location. SF is dirtier than it is dangerous if you're smart about it. What got annoying fast was the amount of dog poop on the side walk(s). The end.
The terrible art makes the article awesome. Too good.
how do you transmit it to the server in such a way that it can't be intercepted by someone that compromises the bits of your virtual that boot before the key is uploaded?
I'm aware there are other solutions. Compared to all the work I did to properly tunnel SSH over HTTPS (it was a pretty good firewall, apparently), deploying a node app is trivial.
This is already a solved problem. Even emacs has notifications for IRC.
That has many complications.

If he gave the amount in shares, they have the shares and could sit on them. This may have problems with shareholders voting rights and such like. (Which is why you should always try to have 50% of a companies shares in the ideal world.)

If they wanted to sell them they need to find a buyer, and if one person bought many of the shares they may end up in a controlling position of the company.
I agree - East LA, South LA, all are not nearly as safe as West LA. My main point is that West LA, as a whole (and by that, I mean you never have to leave it), is safer than SF, which is more akin to taking the different east/west/south LA's and packing them all together into one peninsula.

In other words the bad parts are impossible to avoid.

Having said that, the restaurant food in SF is better on average (LA = driving to eat good food) and of course there's more/better/bigger tech companies/activity in the bay.

:)
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Almost every day we read news about Google or Facebook failing to protect our privacy, about Twitter selling huge databases with "our" data or similar bad things social networks of all kind do to us.

I believe that where technology is concerned, if you wait enough time somebody else will eventually do the work but I got tired of waiting and started on my own.

I need your honest opinion and if the idea doesn't seem entirely stupid to you maybe you could help somehow.

My current setup:
Fireox + dotjs + node.js server on my computer (Chrome should work just as well).

Using dotjs I can inject a small piece of code in every web page I visit.
At this point the code is just a console that allows me to tag the page or send the page link via email but one could easily add any other functionality with small amounts of javascript code (chat, g+ stream, twitter, ...).

The console talks to the node.js server via socket.io and everything is very responsive. Being injected into every page the console has access to all of the contents of the page even when logged in or over https.

For the moment the local node.js server only stores the history, the tags added from the console and sends data via email but it could easily share a directory with your friends just like Dropbox, run a torrent server or talk to other similar node.js servers directly or via a proxy.

This is just a proof of concept but it works really well. I don't see myself sending links to my friends using anything else, using read it later or other bookmarking service. This way I can keep control of my data and my social graph. The bonus for keeping almost all the functionality on the client is that we don't need much centralised infrastructure ... all that is needed are maybe some proxies.

So ... what do you think?

P.S.
https://github.com/clneagu/pig
Written on a scrap of paper in your wallet. only the password and no other info should be on the scrap.

If you can memorize it, it is a bad password.
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Assuming that the money is deserved by the employees, this is a very shrewd, selfish^ move on his part. Giving people their just deserts is in everyone's interest, and Notch's long-term reward will be a robust, growing business.

^I use the term to mean what it should mean - "what's good for Notch, long term" - and disavow any connotation about harming others. It's not truly selfish to hurt others.
So hardly "from linode"

More accurately "according to somebody at linode"
You obviously have never worked for a retail ISP.
If you click on the icons they give you more detail as the the nature of each crime. Most of the ski-masks seem to be "STRONGARM ROB." which implies a mugging to my mind. The gun symbol means weapon, and most of them seem to be knives.
I moved to SF from NYC, and NYC was way safer by comparison. I used to work for the NYC Dept. of Correction crunching the numbers on arrests and inmates and I can tell you this is the biggest difference between the two cities:

NYC -- There's a cop standing on nearly every corner in most of Manhattan, and actually standing, giving directions to tourists and being friendly but professional. If there's a big crime in an area they show up, on foot, and patrol like a damn army to say, "That ain't gonna happen again, try it." In the words of one very sketchy NYC taxi driver, "You can't do anything in this fucking town with all the goddamn cops around!" In NYC the police presence is direct, visible, and makes them feel like part of the community.

SF -- Not a cop in sight, even in cars. They never patrol on foot. Even in places like Union Square and Haight Ashbury you rarely see them. They might show up for an event but they don't do shit but stand there and maybe harass a homeless guy or two. I walk all over this city at all hours of the day and night, and even seeing a cop car is a surprise. Usually they only show up after something major has happened. They do show up quickly, but they are not present and do not feel like part of the community.

If all SF did was make cops walk a beat and arrest people for every petty crime (like NYC did) they could drastically improve things. After that, making sure every street was well lit with good street lamps would help even more. Hell I'd willingly pay more taxes if it was agreed that the SFPD motorpool budget was cut in half and officers were forced to walk.
It's the only city where leaving your car windows down is safer than leaving them up.

:)
> waiting for someone else to decide to upgrade will not be a problem :)

It is sad that a lot of servers are not like this, and PHP 5.4 will take ages to appear, if at all.

Heck, I know of a hosting company still using PHP4.
Top-Notch!
Originally this blog post was going to be a "and so can you" type post. I thought it was kind of important to set the tone to say that I'm a schlub who just pushed hard enough on the persistence/patience/perseverance/perspiration mix. It ended up being all about me instead, but I'm still working on the post in my head.

I'm not especially productive. I just work relentlessly on NewsBlur, every single day. Check the graph on http://github.com/samuelclay. There's another year before that of the same persistent pushing. And oftentimes I think that I take more than twice the time others do to get something like a distributed feed fetcher built. But push through it and one day you're shipping.

My first year was all internal motivation. But after I launched, that very quickly switched to external motivation. I added NewsBlur's Get Satisfaction forum to the dashboard of every NewsBlur user. That way I get a lot more feedback about the product. I had to build that little table by hand, even writing a cronjob to grab the latest feedback so it would show up instantly for users just logging in, but that was so clearly the basis for my external motivation.

Getting paid, on the other hand, was never a motivation. It just didn't occur to me that I could live off NewsBlur. Even today, that's not the case. But I'm taking a gamble by going full-time, spending the next few months cranking out my big social branch, and seeing if there's something bigger in NewsBlur. Luckily, at this rate, simply monetizing the current site might be enough to keep me off the streets.
Isn't this something like investments bank do?

Not even trying to troll, just asking.
Well it's more oriented for people or corproations who don't really want to maintain another server or VPS themselves. We take care of that.
I write software for use by high risk insurance carrier. There is coverage for just about anything. One of the inland marine insurance types might cover this. (possibly Electronic Data Protection or Valuable Papers)
I am pretty sure this is OP's first experience with ISP contracts. I guarantee it is not Linode's first legal dispute over their TOS with a noob.
Securing physical access is a requirement for anyone wishing to obtain pci compliance.
I run several programming related e-mail newsletters and have considered this route after seeing the success AppSumo is having with the technique. And anytime I mention I might try it.. I get flooded with responses saying it looks lame/desperate/cheap/etc yet.. they keep retweeting and entering the contests. Argh! :-)
If only that were the case. HTML and CSS are super tightly connected. Want to change a float? You probably need to reorder your HTML Want to change some margins? Time to re-nest some elements.

Even the finest HTML in the world often needs to be modified when the CSS changes. It's a shame but them's the tools we have.
Well sometimes the leading . is useful to you're replying to something.

An arguably better convention is simply to @ the person you're replying to at the end of the tweet. If it's a tweet worth broadcasting, it may as well read like an ordinary tweet.
Both of the above comments are very useful...

I think our idea is great, i know we will be profitable in the near future...its just interesting to see the forks in the road appearing.

I guess we'll wait out and see if more information comes available. Next week is going to be a big one.
Without passing too much judgement........ it's common sense that as your revenue goes up, the time and effort put into ensuring you are on an appropriate platform should go up as well.

Because sh*t happens...... whether we like it or not. Even if the technical requirements are light and it runs fine on a tiny linode, that might not be the right place from a security or integrity point of view, depending on the value of the app.

(for me, a digital wallet worth that much, I'd want at my home..... where I can control it)
Income tax + payroll taxes + state income tax can easily total 40 percent, so a 12 point bump in tips is not a big disincentive to tax avoidance.

And in NYC they have to pay city income tax on top of all that.

(If the cabbie incorporates and maintains a business bank account and payrolls himself and files taxes correctly, he'll only be paying 15-25% on some fares. I'd be surprised if any significant number of cabbies bothered with this.)
It'd be more awesome and effective (in terms of morale and team) to pay those in shares. Nothing boost productivity and care like owning a bit of a company. Even if it's just a tiny bit.

Now that would be interesting to see.