skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i love this project, it has had me transfixed for some time now. in my head i created a whole story around it. imagine either being on board the ship when it leaves and travels across part of the galaxy, or when it returns. you have the equivalent of a ford model t showing up at your doorstep. i also try and use what knowledge i have of sea faring explorers for insight into how this might go. the time scale and the constraints are just so far beyond anything we've ever done, however, so it has no real historical precedent.

this project is so immense, it requires so much thinking: air, food and water prodiction and recycling, population genetics and management (both biological as well as sociological), materials management, energy production, navigation, communications back to earth, etc. you can't just stop and fix something, you have to actually manage it while you fly.

in my night time thinking about this you'd have designs tested in multi-year experiments first under the sea (no new air, sun light, etc), then a small (10-12 year) mission to mars or something, and then finally you launch for the stars. where do you go? frankly, 100 years isn't very much to explore too far beyond the solar system and the next one (as i understand it you'd wind up in the middle of nowhere if you made a straight trajectory out of our solar system). so what do you find and where would you go?

then think about being on that craft. what if you're a kid who was whisked away by exploring parents, would you resent them for taking you away from everything you knew forever? imagine being the last person alive who could recall earth. imagine the governments that would form on the ship and how they would manage things, i imagine euthanasia would become realistic sine your resources are so visibly constrained. imagine how that would fly when you came back to earth.

i find this whole thing fascinating, it's such rich fodder for the imagination. i love it.
It's not that simple.

First, the problem isn't inherent to virtual hosting services, you could just as easily get hit by this on a bare-metal site, though the interplay of S3 and Google Docs is an added dimension.

Cutting off all services opens the door for a class of DoS attacks. Simply direct enough traffic at a single account's assets, and you'll knock them offline for a given billing cycle. If the attack is cheap to launch (botnet, URL referral network, etc.) it's a cheap attack. Different entities would have different cut-off and degradation policies.

Better would be to identify the parameters of a specific anomalous traffic pattern, but this can be hard.

A more general solution is to set asset (server side) and client (remote side) caps in tiers. You'd want generous (but not unlimited) rates for legitimate crawlers, your own infrastructure, and major clients. The rest of the Net generally gets a lower service level. Such rules are not trivial to set up, and assistance through AWS or other cloud hosting providers would be very useful.
Does your current app have any sort of external-facing API built into it? That might be step one would be to implement an API to your server that would allow your iOS app to access the photos.

Another option would be to design a mobile version of the site, and then to use http://phonegap.com/ to turn it into an iOS and Android app. This way you could continue serving the photos from your server in its current form, and the only real programming to be done would be creating mobile views for the site. Would probably help you avoid shelling out $$ to a freelancer as well.
We are so used to high frame rates in Soap Opera's low frame rates for films and things with special effects we have trained generations to look at this and think Soap Opera.

It has become a kind of unconscious culture.
I don't know--looking at the punch card gives me a good idea of when contributors to a project are active. This could be useful if I want to contact them about something over IRC, for example.

Also, it's just amusing to see people I know regularly comitting at 3am.
Just downloaded the iPhone app. Sweet.
No need to be sorry — a good reminder that I should mention that somewhere since it’s a strange quirk of legality that affects literally one App Store country. Thanks!
Very cool - just bought.

One confusing thing I found is that, when I typed in "onion browser" into my iPhone's App Store Search field, three results came back. I found myself not really know which one was truly yours (yours was actually #2 search result). It would have been helpful if, in the screenshots on this page, you showed the logo. The logo is shown in the App Store so that would've made it a slam dunk, easy decision.
People aren't forced to work nights and weekends during lockdown, although some teams may up their expectations for people to do that. I haven't been on a high-priority project for a lockdown, but I imagine it is possible that some go overboard. I also imagine it is likely that the guys who have good reasons to not stay late or work weekends also teach the guys that go overboard a thing or two much of the time. Working a few nights and weekends for a known short period of time is different from a death march, making it a habit, or having a culture that expects it all the time. Much like I imagine Sheryl does a few late nights in a row and an impacted weekend every once in a while to overcome some time-sensitive hurdles to the company's success.

The message is that the company is going to make it easy to work on and focus on the particular high-priority projects you are involved in by increasing the rate and operating hours for shuttles and kitchens, and making it even more culturally acceptable (and even dutiful) to avoid distractions like meetings, lower-priority projects, and so forth. Obstacles to getting work done, whether during usual office hours (which are already not that usual) or not, are reduced or removed.

For me, the lockdown concept gave me an opportunity to consider working on more important things than the things that just happened to be in my tasks list, my appointment calendar, what people in team meetings thought was important, and so forth. Lower-value meetings started happening less frequently or being indefinitely postponed. In terms of time, I think I ended up working less at the end of lockdown than I did before it started.
But when you're not using the internet, an idle Wi-Fi radio wastes power.
Less flicker and should also be brighter. The one aspect of the Hobbit I look forward to.
Google's justification for ignoring this is very weak.
Bandwidth pricing is a funny thing, in that it's only metered because it's convenient to do so. You haven't consumed any kind of finite resource by moving 1GB or 1000GB. There isn't any "use".

And it makes good business sense besides. They can let the guy off and eat the probably less than a hundred or so bandwidth this guy actually cost them due to their upstream providers, get a good writeup and look better as a result,

..or kill his account, take him to collections, etc, etc, etc, (which would probably cost them more than $1K anyways), and lose a customer and get a PR black eye while they're at it.

So yeah, it would be a jerk move, and a pretty dumb one at that.
I actually did an analysis of that once but I can't seem to find it now. There actually is a pretty big reduction of keyspace (in the billions) but most of it is keyspace you don't want anyway. That is actually why the best policy is to have minimum length requirement of 12-14 characters and nothing else.
The argument in favor of bill-capping: it puts the onus on Amazon (or whatever other service provider) to have the tools to identify what's causing cap-busting behavior, as they're going to eat the costs.

I killed my EVDO wireless service based on a similar experience with my cell provider, after requesting multiple times that they provide me capped service. It simply wasn't worth the downside cost risk.
Yours is actually better because it works in IE7.

I really hate these sites that don't tell you what browsers are supported.
Quite an interesting article. I didn't even think of it as a potential DDoS tool until he mentioned it. It makes sense but it seems like Google should have a built a fail-safe for something like that situation.
Don't think so, I don't think it supports ImageData.
It's the monthly art from a calendar app.
Monitoring sites with SMS notifications for $0 (Google voice, ruby, heroku)
The guys at Effect Games were actually making a pretty kickass javascript game engine in basic non-HTML5 HTML, using all kinds of Flash hacks to get sound and other advanced stuff working... until libraries like impact.js came out and browsers made a jump forward to support canvas and HTML5 better.

So they shut it down and started a game development company: http://www.goldcartridge.com/

I wonder what they're up to?
Apple WWDC 2012 Sells Out in Under Two Hours
I can't help but notice you're asking almost exactly the wrong people. People on the riak-users mailing list are by definition the choir.

As someone who works somewhere that looked into riak, here was my first impression:

[root@brandt ~]# yum install riak
<snip>
No package riak available.
Error: Nothing to do
This is nice and all, but PLEASE fix the network graph! It's the most important one and it's the most useless at the moment.

EDIT: Illustrated/Ranted about here: http://gun.io/blog/github-network-graph-is-broken/
HackThisSite Basic Missions 04 Solution
Based on some completely suspect math, having 1000 engineers available for the length of the conference "costs" apple ~40 million dollars in productivity:

num_engineers * total_session_hours * (revenue_per_emp / 2000)

where num_engineers = 1000, total_session_hours = 40, and revenue_per_emp = 2020000‡

‡ http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=apple%20revenue%20per%2...
An early sketch of Spotify's user interface
How do you know I don't already have your password anyway?
Why Is The iPhone Made In China?
I hate to nitpick, but it's very difficult to not get distracted by the horrible punctuation and spelling.
But not if you simply manufacture it abroad.

We found a nice friendly country in the middle east who were more interested in their troops have good equipment than keeping lobbyists in business. They took the idea, made it for us and buy them from us.

(don't worry - it was the one full of beard wearing, no-pork eating, religious fundamentalists that like us)
Android revenue numbers revealed in trial
Yep, they won't even let you use "fingernail clippers" as a password.
Amazon was genuinely nice in this case. I had no expectation that they would refund the charges. It was a self-inflicted wound and Amazon had no obligation to pay for my own stupidity.
The exploit demo is written in PERL. Finally, something I can read and understand.
Please, Mark Ferrarri, find a coder and start a project on kickstarter.

I would love to play a game with these artworks!
so, if someone comes from twitter @newsyc20, @newsyc50, etc. the votes don't count? looks like a bug not a feature
I filtered out over 75% of all signatures manually, since they were just generated text. I kept only the few that had something interesting going on.
Andreessen Horowitz to give half their earnings to charity
Google discusses partnerships with carmakers for self driving system
A few points

1. The concept of "mastery" is both relative and subjective, so if a skill is particularly common, then an aptitude which could be considered "masterful" in another field might simply be considered "experienced". In addition, for some skills there is not that much difference between competent work and masterful work; as a result, we'd be unlikely to consider someone a "master" of, say, bussing tables.

2. Most jobs are "unskilled", and those who have them are not practicing what they do with an eye toward improvement. They are completing the task to get their paycheck.

3. Jobs that do involve some skill typically also involve a fair amount of unskilled work (note that "unskilled work" in this sense can still require education and experience). They also tend to involve splitting one's time between multiple skills. Working full time as a lawyer for 5 years does not mean that you have spent 10,000 hours in a court room, much less arguing in front of a jury.

Now, with all that said, it's true that practice doesn't scale linearly such that you can simply say "you need x hours of practice". The human brain stops responding well to practice in the short-term and needs time to incubate, so practicing 40 hours a week for 5 years is probably not as effective as practicing 20 hours a week for 10 years.

Still, if you actually did practice the same small set of significantly overlapping skills full time for 5 years, you would be extremely good at those skills.
Premiere Digital Looking for Software Engineers
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We are currently looking for a full-time software engineer or summer intern to join our team.

We are looking for someone with the following skills:
- Python proficiency
- Strong database skills, MySQL proficiency
- Strong knowledge of *nix systems.
- Networking skills would be a strong plus (especially Juniper).

The following would also be a plus:
- Working knowledge of ffmpeg
- Django familiarity

A few of the projects you'd help us with:
- A Web-based CMS-from-scratch to organize and manage our entire work flow, from client order to final delivery.
- Automated transcoding system,
- Analytics and reporting to our clients.

If interested, send resume to david@premieredigital.net!
I think pixel art looks awesome even in 2012. What do modern developers/artists think about its future, given that high-DPI displays may become the norm? Will there be 264 DPI pixel art?
> we already know that the how well a drug work depends on how much the person administering the drug believes it will work

hahahahahahaahahahahahahahahah what? No, no we do not.

If you have a citation that suggests otherwise, I would be thrilled to read it.

The reason that we blind is because there ARE effects based on perception if the person administering the drug knows its experimental. There have been studies indicating that the administrator would say things like "this really should work", for example. That invokes the placebo effect response in the patients (which is also well documented,) but the concept that "we know how well a drug works depends on how much the person administering it believes in it" is completely incorrect.
in fact, these are valuable lessons for any position. Specially, the last one.

1. Look for jobs that will let you <do whatever you want to do>.
2. Don’t give up on becoming <whatever you want to become>.
3. Learn how to take charge of your career.
You might be right, but I couldn't help noticing that if I'd purchased the more prominently merchandised products I'd have spent about $50 rather than $30. Years ago when I worked in computer retail, it was just part of the job to put all the hard disks in one spot, the network stuff in another, and so on, even though this meant extra work in splitting up the incoming shipments.

That'd be even more true if stocking were done by representatives of the different manufacturers or their distributors.

Very possibly the case, now I think about it. I know that's how 7-11 works, and I've noticed similar arrangements at Home Depot for some high-end products.
I personally dont think it is, at least if I consider the things I am good at and how I got there. I read books. I find that tutorials and online classes actually slow me down.

I think this can appeal to people used to a classroom setting. It can also appeal to people see it as a chance to commit to things, like to videos coming up each week.
Cutting off all services opens the door for a class of DoS attacks. Simply direct enough traffic at a single account's assets, and you'll knock them offline for a given billing cycle.

I dont' see this as a real issue (the potential DOS is there, but not a real problem with having a bandwidth metric kill switch). I'd assume this would be a configurable setting and would have to be enabled by choice. In the author's case I'm sure he'd prefer to have is service cut off prior to running up a 1k bill. If one of my test instances started bleeding bandwidth I'd prefer for it to just get killed then to rack up an ungainly bill. If its your production service then don't configure a cutoff.
The president threatened to veto the National Defense Authorization Act as well, yet he still signed it into law with the objectionable clauses. The administration simply added a signing statement that the President wouldn't use the more dangerous powers to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens, which were granted by that legislation.

I'm glad to hear this veto threat, but I hope our President has the sense this time to realize that signed laws can be used or abused by any future President.

We cannot predict how laws will be used. Software patents are a classic example.
Why not just veto bills when you want to veto them, and signing them when you want to sign them?
Good point. Still, the $7m is a minor dent in the overall cost, so it seems almost insignificant.
Sorely lacking in technical details. They imply triangulation based on signal strength which is not what I'm talking about.
"The company is profitable, and expects to bring in $45 million in revenue this year, according to CEO Toni Schneider and founder Matt Mullenweg."

What's hiding behind that revenue number. The co. is "profitable". Is the company going to make $10 in profit or $10 million in profit this year?
What I learned about FOMO from passing on Instagram before the IPO
>Why was that downvoted?

Tone, I'd take it. The same reason you are being downvoted.
A very interesting article about data leakage in cloud resource allocation. I'm impressed by the steps taken by all parties involved. Security vulnerabilities will continue to creep up over time as they do in most systems/services and the seriousness with which providers treat them is ever more important. What we have to remember is it's not just individuals hosting their own content that are at risk. More and more startups are utilizing cloud infrastructure which means we as consumers must be aware of where our personal data is going. I would love to see some sort of auditory process in place that verifies the security of cloud providers regularly and we as consumers having access to this information.
You've consumed energy.

But in any case, even if in theory nothing is used, are you sure that Amazon doesn't have to pay for it too? Because then it's irrelevant whether it was really used or not.
Stop getting your news from blogs. Really.
Yeah, but you have the code. You could see if they were doing that.
Neither. I did not mean to be sarcastic. Perhaps they can feature your website in their blog or they can refer you to a site visited by ex-pats. They could even provide you with Chinese marketing knowledge in exchange for a equity or a fee or for free. I'm just brainstorming all of this.
Thanks for the two factor info and link. I wasn't aware that was available.
That's a really good idea. I wonder what the duplication rate will be given the scale.
The Origins of Night Trap: An Excerpt from Generation Xbox
What are the benefits of PulseAudio other than making your sound system buggy and increasing audio latency?
Try Heaven & Earth: http://iangilman.com/software/heavenearth.php
> Selling encryption apps to France apparently requires an "export compliance approval" from the French government

they require a backdoor?
Ask HN: Why is compiling C/C++ so slow compared to Java?
Every big C/C++ project I've seen takes ages to compile. At least regarding build time Java seems to be a lot faster. What is the exact reason?
> you'll knock them offline for a given billing cycle

Er... Because caps can never be raised mid-cycle?
First, I'm very sorry for your loss.

Second, there is no more predictable rule of human behavior than the conscious, rational pursuit of self-interest. Adam Smith was very clear on this, businesses will seek to form cartels at every opportunity. We can legislate against explicit collusion, but these laws are very tough to enforce. It's very possible that the executives in these companies are deviating from legal standard, but enforcement of laws governing intent is even harder. As a policy matter, better / stricter law is unlikely to solve the problem.

The stronger solution is discouraging barriers to entry. Competitive entry of new players is the best discipline against cartel behavior.

Commenters elsewhere in this sub-thread are arguing that one bad regulation isn't an argument against regulation generally. But the problem is distinguishing the bad regulations from the good. It's very likely that at some point there was some policy argument for these stupid rules, sufficiently plausible at the distance held from all but the most expert. The formulation of such arguments to justify known-bad policy is a constant component of our governance. It's possible that the intelligence of the rules depended on some other rule or aspect long since departed.

That's the beauty of markets: The players' incentives lead them to constantly monitoring and adapting to conditions. And those incentives provide discipline that forces analysis from "sounds good enough to me" to more exacting standards. Congress here has suspended a large chunk of market operation, in a medical market where many other chunks have been suspended. It is not the least bit surprising that this has lead to grotesqueries.
Oh, I thought you meant code blocks in general, not the particular OP "codeblocks"... Sorry.

I'm not sure that codeblocks actually solves the problem.
What keeps JS from protecting against timing attacks?

Even so, I would argue that it's fair to say that this pushes it along a continuum towards less secure, not that it is "broken".
I disagree. Feedfetcher is no different than a browser: it fetches the URL the user inserted, nothing more (unlike a spider, which discovers URLs by itself).
Especially for organizations. Individual contributions within an org appear as a single user on the network graph. Not as useful as it could be.
Check out the Nuclear Effects Calculator; You can see what effect various historical bombs would have. (They include Tsar Bomba.)

(http://nuclearsecrecy.com/blog/2012/02/03/presenting-nukemap...)

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3624714)
Get the heck out. You shouldn't have to micromanage him. If he doesn't have the self discipline and mentality, he's not meant to be in the game.
No I don't use the same IP. I do however brows Hacker News, Facebook, Reddit, etc from both work and home.

Interesting, thank you for the information.
Probably initially DVed b/c it doesn't add anything to the discussion, and partisan, unbacked assertions generally aren't welcomed. Poisoning the well fallacy might apply here.
Don't worry, most of us who live in the US don't understand our liability laws.