skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool. Except...

They forgot to show the "Ukulele $350" ad that pops up when he looks at the book. Also, "Monsieur Gayno Boxed Set - $24.95", "Feet hurt? Try walking shoes from Reebok!" and "John Smith for Mayor! I'll make the trains run on time."
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>To put that 800Gbps figure into perspective, the internet only handles around half an exabyte of traffic every day, which equates to around 50Tbps — in other words, a single porn site accounts for almost 25% of the internet’s total traffic.

That should be more like 1.6% if those numbers are correct...

Still an absurd amount of traffic.
Well, Expected.
I think it's more accurate to say that writing efficient program requires some modicum of thought, foresight, or planning.

In a rush to put in new features for the past few years they've become the new Winamp of web browsers, stealing the crown from IE. In fact, I think from now on I'm going to refer to mozilla as winamp - until they fix their problems.

I'm sensitive to the challenges facing modern browsers. But this bloat isn't (in my opinion) caused by new requirements and features; it's caused by the same type of thinking that allows a dev team to think that it's OK to write programs that require multiple gigabytes of RAM to link. It should come as no surprise that the result is a program that steals half a gig of private space to display a couple static pages.
Quite possibly, if they don't get burned on this one.
Thanks!

It's kind of sparse right now, but all new jobs listed will be geotagged, so it'll get better over time.

It's crazy how concentrated the jobs in SF/NY are though. I'm not sure how much of that is a function of the demographic of Gun.io rather than the actual situation.
It seems assumed that crackers, when doing a brute force dictionary attack, will check the common substitution, i.e. e/E == 3, I == !/1, and so on...so the main rule still stands, don't use simple words found in the dictionary. Also, concatenating two simple words, e.g. "d0gk1tt3n" is also vulnerable given a fast-enough-brute attack.

I don't use symbol/number substitution unless the password-policy mandates it. These days, I'll type out a bunch of objects that are in front of me or on my mind when I'm changing the password, something like "purplepencilandsennheiserheadphones" or "funnyrerunofseinfeldwhiledrinkingminttea"...though obviously not as grammatically correct or as sensical as that, with maybe at least one symbol-alteration...so: "someskittleswithpurple! outside4pigeons" These phrases are relatively easy to remember and are long enough to make a brute attack unlikely.
You have two options, outright selling the ad spaces (like what the PornHub network does) or attempt to sell memberships at other sites for commission. Not easy.
"why would you come rain on someone's parade by telling them that what they did (and saw value in) is pointless?" - Well for 1 the place where you're commenting is known as discussion forum and people are free to voice their opinions/points/provide feedback, can't help if it sounded blunt!
I honestly don't see a market for every day use like they show it in this video.

If I saw this on the streets right now I'd get a "bluetooth-headset-douchebag"-vibe
And, it's not just the number of exploits. It's the nature of the exploits. They're usually very reliable, and often don't even rely on accidental corruption so much as "features that accidentally expose all of runtime memory to the Java sandbox".

Java was iffy in 1998 when it was just the applet sandbox and a graphics context. But today, OS vendors have bridged Java into all sorts of systems code. It's a debacle. Just don't enable it.
So it's official - Groupon is this bubble's Pets.com.
English: Out with the long
Microsoft has almost 90k contractors, yes, really.
British people are more miserable than Costa Ricans and Israelis, UN finds
I love it how the article ends with >The Internet really is for porn<

>It’s probably not unrealistic to say that porn makes up 30% of the total data transferred across the internet.< If this is the case, is the online porn industry held up as models of high tech and innovation? I thought I heard somewhere investors and VC's in particular, shy away from porn...
Sorry, it should've read 2%. Shift-5 = % -- damn my sticky shift key (I did a lot of hands-on research in writing this story...)
Not if it's unlikely to turn that revenue into actual profits.
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I originally wrote Lilnub as a command line tool for bookmarking webpages. A few people liked my utility so I decided to share it on the web.

Lilnub lets you send a web page to your inbox with a screenshot. Each screenshot contains the title of the page, a link to the page (URL), a high resolution image and a text file of the page content.

Happy Nubbin!
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Gender Shouldn't Matter but Apparently it Still Does
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There is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points in Features also.<a href="http://www.htant.com/">hebergement web maroc</a>
Thanks. I Googled Adaptive Chosen Plaintext Attacks, and it seems to me that the statement, "attackers can rewrite the plaintext" needs to be qualified with, "given liberal access to the encrypting mechanism", which I guess means free access to create new accounts in an SSO situation (or access to some other web-method that used the same encryption).
Oh, I'm pretty sure they will, and probably rather less than 10 years. The interesting part will be how well the overlays can be meshed in with the "real" world.
Upmo = ‘Mafia-Wars-Like-Spam’ for LinkedIn
Is anyone at all surprised their tech-stack is php? is it because of legacy or is it because any sensible person moving petabytes of data would use? or does it even matter
> There must be some sort of group behaviour explanation to this.

Inasmuch as Google acts and observers all sharing the same planet react, sure.

Let's run down the list!

- Perceived decline in search quality. They've remedied this to a decent extent, but when your SERPs are full of spammy, scrape-y dogshit for the better part of 18 months, that's going to ding your brand a bit.

- Shoe-horning Google+ into SERPs. Clutters a UI that was once sacred, often with content of lesser value than crawlable content from other platforms.

- Sharing user information across Google products that users considered to be separate. Complicated. Good for Google – helps their business. Not unreasonable for users to be suspicious.

- For special bonus points: Every time Schmidt's mouth has opened for the last three years, the creepiest shit pours out.

Google's willingness – delight? – to be misunderstood for long periods of time is laudable, but costly in terms of potentially irreplaceable goodwill.
> Groupon's claims were so outlandish that a layman could have figured they weren't up to snuff.

If that's the case, it's pretty clear-cut fraud, which supports the lawsuit argument even more.
I think this goes to show that we like low information density. Simple things are easier to absorb, high density things get blocked out naturally.

When we're presented with an large amount of information, our brain blocks it out rather than expending the energy to parse it. PTSD is an example of this which shows our tendencies to block overwhelming information.
Do not sign up for Upmo - it's a deceptive service that will spam your LinkedIn accounts without you knowing about it.

Shame on them.
Not when that company's popularity has leveled off and still finished last year with a $370M loss.

http://biz.yahoo.com/e/120330/grpn10-k.html

http://www.google.com/trends/?q=groupon&ctab=0&geo=a...
The local deals is analogous to department store clearance sales. Retailers have perfected the art of the sale and they know that clearance sales are a different animal. If someone comes into you store and heads straight to clearance they can't be upsold. Don't waste your time on them.

This is different from your event sale, which are an excellent way to gain repeated customers (and upsell them). There is a future for local deal sites but it needs a different hook with customers.
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Launch Checklist: Review Your TOS _Carefully_
...or your early adopters will do it for you. We all know that Privacy is Not an Option -- just make sure your Terms of Service make this unambiguously clear. :)
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Which is why I would want to work for one and not run one. I just focus on technical, they just give me my money and everybody is happy!
1.6B in revenue is pretty meaningless if you're not even making a profit. They are simply really good at losing a lot of money.
Same here. The main design decision is how to represent the secondary stack. I was thinking we could reserve a pair of registers to keep the parameter stack pointer and return stack pointer, and swap them out with SP as needed.

1 2 + >r

becomes something like

SET PUSH, 0x1
SET PUSH, 0x2
SET A, POP
ADD A, POP
SET X, SP // back up data stack pointer
SET SP, Y // switch to return stack
SET PUSH, A

Thoughts?
Here's an example of how I would love to be able to use (even a very basic version of) this product:

I'm an EMT (and Paramedic student). There are plenty of scenarios in emergency medicine where you're following a time based algorithm. In the example of a cardiac arrest patient, everything revolves around two minutes cycles of CPR, medications, and (if applicable) defibrillation. Even something as simple as a clock that was alway superimposed in the corner of my field of vision would be great. If it kept track of upcoming medications and other actions, that would be even better.

I think this technology has applications in technical fields (medicine, mechanics, etc), long before it will be a common thing to wear out in 'normal life'.
Most instructions take one cycle. The ones that don't, disconcertingly, have the results available immediately and then deduct cycles. I don't know if this will be fixed later or not. https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/187449161216573441
I want the API, now. All I can find on Google is Androids AR http://code.google.com/p/andar/ source. Any ideas about languages, frameworks, etc etc. I want to get ready now to start open sourcing.
As joblessjunkie mentioned, novelty is a huge draw. I've seen ads on Facebook, Yahoo and MSM sites (probably delivered by ad networks) that feature eye-catching faces with some ridiculous or unusual element (long beards, tattoos, elongated teeth etc.), but are advertising something that's pretty mundane (loans, online education, etc.). They are much more noticeable than ads that use standard art or photographs.

Judging by the fact that the advertisers are still using weird face ads, the CTRs must be superior ... but the interesting questions would be around the type of customer or conversion rates.
Nokia After the Burning Platform
I wonder if they use a laser to do range finding.

While asking for public input into what they should be able to do, it is clear the real value is that all Google employees can wear them, where they can stream snippets of other teams that are working on other parts of your project to you so that you can co-ordinate with your team. This should really streamline the release process, allowing groups of Googler's to get way more done than they would working alone and relying on email or other social media tools to co-ordinate. Creating dynamic hang outs, streaming the feeds of those around you, allowing for collective action against problems and to respond immediately and on target with just the right resources. A real break through in organizational efficiency.

The only hangup is that the legendary mobility of people in Google, being able to switch jobs almost at will, means that trying to hard code names into the stream is really time consuming. The current work around is to just use numbers for the groups, so if you're the group working on adding Picasa support which is group number 15 on the p pages, you might be referred to as 3 of 15 ...
low and mid-range PICs too
iSpecs? Maybe iShades?
But with each exchange fee only 0.65% (MtGox's highest rate), 1.3% is competitive with many other transfer methods.
I'm assuming you are talking about YouPorn. I'm surprised they went from Perl to PHP. But they obviously know what they are doing. I wonder if they use HipHop at all.
I'm an ex-Yahoo. I have friends there and have sympathy for how hard today must be.

But I strongly think this is the right move for the company. They had way too many people, more than what they need/afford and were the cause of much overhead. Of course, it all depends on whether they're laying off the right projects/people.
You're forgetting hockey. There is always a new hockey coin. Always.
Add TechCrunch, Mashable, TheNextWeb, and PandoDaily to that list. I'm burned out and fatigued by the middlemen. Seriously, just link to the fucking content.
Great. Now we'll have Google Ads projected into our retinas.
The CEO, Scott Thompson is apparently leaning on a group of management consultants from Boston Consulting Group to come up with a turnaround plan and these firings are apparently the result.

Do CEOs really ask outsiders for ideas on how to run/turn around a company? I am in the wrong profession! I wouldn't mind dispensing advice on how to do things I have no experience in doing, all the while pulling in 300+ $ an hour. Somehow I can't visualize (say) Steve Jobs outsourcing thinking and decision making.

The closest thing I've seen in software is a couple of instances of bringing in agile methodology consultant/book author types to save failing projects. Those didn't work out well either.
In fact, it does not. That's perhaps the best thing about the designs currently shown - they look like something a normal, even attractive human being might wear in public. For the first time, I'm starting to take this project seriously. The key, of course, will be the integration with the environment and the internet. But if the project dies, it will leave a good-looking corpse!
Unless you're targetting working for a major company (Brazzers who owns PornHub, Tube8, KeezMovies, Extremetube, etc) you've gotta have some serious skills, otherwise you have to create your own site... Not many in the realm of porn actually have full companies behind them, most of them are just your average joe running a site by himself.

Not to mention most porn website owners are cheap... Doing any type of work in that realm is a pain.
I know the architecture was built to be very easy to emulate, so I'd like to see how it compares to a PyPy JIT version :)
"... most of the advantages it has over physical / digital cash or credit disappears once you add such things. Once you have a ... physical device governments will get into the game and start regulating"

Not sure what you mean. By 'device' I didn't mean some special hardware developed by some special company, where the government can then regulate that industry. I just meant any computer. I'm saying that signing a transaction can be done offline on devices that are never connected to the Internet, such as an old laptop, or yes even a special device. There's no fundamental requirement to have the keys on your virus-ridden home PC at any time. This doesn't remove any of Bitcoin's advantages from what I can see.

And multi-signature transactions will allow for multi-factor authentication at a protocol level.
Back in the day people used goats for currency. Then wheat, coins, etc. Simple timeline.
If it makes you feel better, it's not so joyous most of the time and the coolness comes in measured doses.

Imagine for the millionth time that day, you're yelling at your older kid to do his chores, feed his pets, practice his instrument, do his homework, etc. Or the younger one smells like ass and he's having a meltdown because you want to change his diaper and he'd rather keep playing

I swear, some days I come home and feel like turning around and heading off back to work. So, no, it's not all wine and roses.

But then they do something that shows you're at least semi-competent at raising them and it makes your day.
Dear Github, please fix your pull requests
London 2012 prepares for cyber-attacks
As someone who builds legal matter management software for large publicly traded companies, I can confirm that your perception is correct.

Public companies are sued all the time for this kind of stuff. These lawsuits often allege misrepresentation in a company's SEC filings.
Cute winky face, but you completely miss my point. I'm not saying this is "lame," I'm saying most people won't want to wear pixels on their face. Even the most successful products get criticism, especially in the beginning.
Ask HN: What service would you pay me 10$ a month for?
I'm looking for ideas to build an MVP and I thought I would hit up the HN community. As developers, entrepreneurs and techies, what service that doesn't exist now would you gladly pay a monthly fee to use if it existed? Or, if it exists, what service would you use if it was cheaper?

edit: spelling
Respectfully, as someone who doesn't know anything about getting rich, isn't your advice more "how to get richer" rather than "how to get rich"?
There is beauty in the simplicity of the graphics.
What if they looked like normal glasses/sunglasses? May not be possible in the first revision but certainly a possibility.
Wow, this thread sparked a lot of criticism, I should have clarified that it's work on open source, he gets to totally own the code. We're also not U.S. based.
An Open-Source Food Fight In The Cloud
You would have to abstract the CPU in some way and then write the permissions management in software as part of the interpreter. Bear in mind that this is already only a 16bit CPU with a restricted address space.
Oh yeah, you could whip a sweet little Forth system up for this processor.

The first thing to do is to write a DCPU-16 assembler in Forth, and use that to write the primitives. That's pretty simple -- just look at the 6502 assembler: http://www.forth.org/fd/FD-V03N5.pdf

Some Forth systems have metacompilers so they can retarget themselves to different architectures. http://www.ultratechnology.com/meta.html

Using a metacompiler with a Forth DCPU-16 assembler would be the best way to go. Then you could easily experiment with different threading schemes, stack architectures, etc.
"but it didn't show the glasses on his face"

It did not show them on her face, either. That made me wonder whether it would, at some time, become socially acceptable or even the norm to have a video call where both parties do not see each other, but what the other is looking at. I think it might become the norm soon, if there are no technical challenges (how much stabilization do such images need? How much lag will that stabilization introduce? How will the experience be if the connection isn't good enough?)
Thanks for the link. What I find troubling is to read so many articles pointing to shady business practices from Groupon and bubble valuation, and still the SEC lets the IPO go through and investors lose their money - that part did not happen yet but it seems written on the wall.
This is great an everything, but I think Google really needs to concentrate on many of their half baked solutions they currently have. I am a huge fan of Google, but with their whole social drive recently and this (their take on augmented reality which to be honest just looks like another was of wrapping you into their facebook clone rather than providing any real context aware information) I'm beginning to feel they are really loosing it. I just bought a chromebook (as a lightweight browsing machine) and im massively disappointed because its just such a terribly laggy, glitchy and frustrating experience. Its very quickly becoming a 300 quid paper weight.

Google have many brilliant sounding pie in the sky ideas, but when it comes down to it they have to really ask themselves, will people actually be able to use this? Is it really worth chasing after this or will they concentrate their efforts and resources on other more achievable things.
Apple respecter, not fanboy here:

I don't know either. It'd be nice for some explanation.
While we're off topic, it's amusing that anyone would take the subway from 23rd and Park to the Strand. Perhaps Project Glass will have an option to promote healthy choices.
My understanding is that each time the try is "executed" makes a performance hit.
"Chosen plaintext" means that the cipher can't tell if what it has decrypted was what the original authentic encryptor encrypted. "Adaptive" means that the attacker gets repeated attempts to break the same piece of ciphertext. The canonical example of an adaptive chosen plaintext attack is the AES CBC padding oracle, but there are multiple others.
define "apparently". i'm honestly curious
Here why I believe you're looking at it incorrectly:

Suppose there's two businesses, each making exactly $10,000/mo in revenue. One charges $10/mo to 1000 active customers, the other charges $1000/mo to 10 active customers. Which business is "better?"

Clearly there will be two sides, neither of which are "crazy."

If the total market size for both is limited, then business B is better because you're extracting more money from the limited potential number of customers.

If the total market size is large, business A has proven it can get orders of magnitudes more customers, which is MUCH more important going forward. If you can get 1000, you can get 2000, etc., and indeed probably ever cheaper to acquire those customers. Company B still has the very risky, difficult job of solving customer acquisition.

If tech support per customer is high, obviously company B is better.

It is a general rule that over time you can find ways to increase prices (i.e. just do it, have tiers, addons, etc) and decrease cost of acquiring customers. That again makes Company A more interesting because they can start doing that whereas B has just embarked.

Again, in the end one isn't automatically better, but your perspective that "it's crazy" I believe is certainly not true.

Companies where people aren't paying AT ALL I agree are often in fact valueless. But when they do take out their wallet, that's not nothing.
You could also make this data available as a Public Google Map. That would allow Google Maps users to overlay your data as they make travel plans. This will also work in Google Maps for Android!
These, like smartphones, do not have to be used all the time. There's no reason you can't wear them when you'd like to be connected... you'd be crazy NOT to take them off.
I am not knowledgeable enough to know whether or not a business is viable just from looking in the storefront.

Though I would argue that as the owner of two retail locations, I am probably better equipped to make that judgement than most.

In my experience, most retail leases are for 5 year terms. I can't imagine that the default rate on those is anywhere near 50%. Most business "failures" likely never got far enough to sign a lease.
You wouldn't even necessarily need the speech "recognition" to resolve words completely, e.g. deciding which homonym is appropriate in a given context. Just representing incoming phonemes in IPA could be a great improvement. The human brain can translate this input on the fly just like it does with spoken words.