skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have personally known several corporate security teams who only found out that their networks had been penetrated because a federal agent called them and told them their networks were talking to known malware control IPs in Asia.

This happens because of a mismatch in the levels of sophistication of the corporate security defense team vs. the security threat team. The defense team is simply not aware of what the threat teams are capable of, or the extent to which attacks are being specially and carefully crafted to target individual companies.

It's important to understand how common this is. For years most companies have not had to worry much about security because they were not previously targets. Now they are the targets of attacks that are carefully researched and crafted to target their particular vulnerabilities, and in many cases actual specific employees or users.

So most companies are playing catch up. First, they are having to learn much more about the details of the full stack of their technology, from the hardware firmware through the OS, applications, local networking, and internetworking. It's no longer enough to trust vendors, which for years was the corporate way.

Second, to speed this up, they are trying to figure out how they can learn from each other, from security experts, and from the government without triggering all sorts of legal consequences like shareholder lawsuits, antitrust investigations, privacy lawsuits, etc.

This is where the desire for bills like CISPA comes from--to simplify what appears to them to be a legal minefield. The feeling is that the bad guys can all freely share threat info with one another, but corporate security teams are legally limited in how they can share info about vulnerabilities and defense.
$100 billion valuation on $4 billion/year revenue(not profit)? No thanks, I'll pass. For perspective, Apple's $570 billion value is with $100 billion/year revenue
Very, very useful. What languages did you build it in?
Also, the PC revolution exploded so quickly that it fractured the hacker community which had fostered it. It took on a life of its own, and the very people that invented it have often publicly questioned the various directions it has taken since. While it could be taken as similar to saying, "I liked the Internet before it was cool", Kay's remark about Pop phenomena struck me as utterly insightful.
I'd upvote this more than once if I could. The beauty and efficiency of a web framework must be measured as a trade off between the amount of instructions executed to check for corner cases etc. Anyone could write a framework that executes hello world faster than a popular one if they just assume for instance that no one will ever make a POST request or use a query string. That wouldn't be a very useful framework, but it could definitely execute GET '/' fast.
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Thank you! Maru and Ometa look interesting.

Speaking of terseness, reminds me of Prolog. I remember thinking how beautiful the solutions are but how broken my brain is as I couldn't come up with them on my own. I could see the final result that someone else produced and understand it, but struggle for hours and hours myself.

I think at some point levels of meta and abstractions can go that high that only very few smart individuals can effectively create products, others more or less hit a wall.
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Also:

>@http://news.ycombinator.com/ visitors:
You just DDOS-ed our web server ;-)
Demystifying semantic search
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I wanted to know the benchmarks including luvit. Vert.x vs luvit vs Node.js
https://github.com/luvit/luvit
I often use a mind mapping exercise. You start with a word that's central to your product or service and then branch out with words that spring to mind. You'll be surprised by how the associated words in your thought cloud will bring forth great imagery. Additionally, this exercise is great for logo design ideas.

Just be sure whatever you come up with is easy to spell and recall. Also, your name strategy should be 'future oriented'. If you should pivot will your name still work? Think ahead of how your product & services may evolve over time.
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Forgive me, I started with 1.5.2. Back then, you used getopt. Then came optparse. Then came argparse. So I guess there have only been three, unless there's a popular non-built-in option I don't know about.

Now, I haven't had to maintain anything I wrote back then (not sure I ever even did use getopt) but if I'm sure if we looked we could find someone who has upgraded their option parsing twice.

I'm being a little snarky. I'm really just trying to point out to the new user that the much-vaunted "TOOWTDI" concept is at best a policy decision and is to be taken with a grain of salt rather than treated like a straight-jacket. There's always more than one way to do something. Python just doesn't endorse the kind of free-for-all on every line that Perl does.
It's all done using CodeIgniter and jQuery.
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Even if your whole data set fits into main memory, writes still have to go to disk.
Well, there's a queue of tats to work through first.
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A Node.js inspired API in Common Lisp
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Very good point.

V8 does heavy code optimization and Node.js http sever code should be well optimized as well. And maybe the load balancer for the multicore Node test isn't optimized enough. Thus, these results feel a little shady. Anyway, Vert.x was the trigger that I am finally downloading the JVM (JDK) to try Vert.x (and maybe later Clojure).

But there's still one major drawback—the non-existant ecosystem. I know the hint to look for libs from the Java world but I need a concrete and precise guide how to do this. Let's say I want to plugin some Java lib for image manipulation. How? And who will guarantee that these libs will be concurrent and/or non-blocking as well? The lib developer or Vert.x? At the moment there is—except few out-of-the-box modules—nothing. No 3rd party libs, no module manager a la npm and no guide or documentation how to glue Java libs to this Vert.x thing. Nothing. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I got my Ph.D. from this university. I am proud of you, TUM!
Since you're here...

I got an email in November saying "Because you got in early, you can probably expect to get your invite by Spring of 2012."

Can I still expect that? Bank of America is killing me, and there's only so long I can wait.
Also worth mentioning: a mod based on the SC2 engine with a new story:

http://code.google.com/p/project6014/

Slow progress, though.
Remember to have a backup for the jQuery googleapis call, you need to have this right after it: <script>window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="js/libs/jquery.x.js"></script>')</script>
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But be mindful though you always have to look very carefully at benchmarks.

I don't think these are speed tests.

Just number of connections that can be handled
Not sure if irony, or really dumb comment.
> Low Bandwith Version of this site due to large amount of requests:

> Aufgrund unzumutbarer Kosten und Bezugsbedingungen hat das Direktorium des Zentrums Mathematik beschlossen, alle abonnierten Elsevier-Zeitschriften ab 2013 abzubestellen.

> Because of unsustainable subscription prices and conditions, the board of directors of the mathematics department has voted to cancel all of its subscriptions to Elsevier journals by 2013.

> @http://news.ycombinator.com/ visitors:
You just DDOS-ed our web server ;-)
Go, TUM!

The first time I've actually felt proud of my alma mater :)
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I love how using the term "serverless" for a backend provider immediately confuses me about the actual product. Win?
The link is working again now, but has been replaced with a low bandwidth version. (The original version just contained additional images.) The amount of request generated by this site was unfortunately a bit too much for the web server.

(I'm one of the server admins ... and have been in fear of a real DDOS attack during the last couple of minutes. ;) )
Interesting. I just enabled this on my machines. Is there a way to find out whether ECN has been successfully negotiated?
Looks like a lot of Javascript too! http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/game/js/load.js
Deploying is the new Compiling
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Can you explain how improvisation is different in modal jazz vs. improvisation over chord changes?

I understand that instead of targeting the tones found in chord progressions, Miles Davis etc. focused on playing the tones in D Dorian mode for "So What?" which has notes that could be actually dissonant to whatever chord-tones/walking bass being played. But how does one actually construct a modal solo and does one not think about at all the chord-progression being played at all or is chord consonance still very important?
How is healthcare in Canada compared to the US?
In the case of two maintenance branches (1.0, 2.0) you're probably going to use only cherry-picks, and no merges, and just manually track what you've already cherry-picked.

In our case, we had the "bleeding edge" branch (master) and a maintenance branch. Fixes generally go into the maintenance branch and then are merged upwards. But we allowed "emergency patches" to be cherry-picked upwards (or downwards) too. The combination is the problem.

If we had stuck to just cherry-picks or just merges, we would not have this problem. But as I also explained, sticking to one of the approaches has severe drawbacks too.
There are big communities of open source, computer security and indie game development here. Chile has nothing like that.
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This is really great. Now make an iPhone app that syncs with my subscriptions and notifies me of new episodes, stat!

Also, please add my podcast: http://www.ottawaskeptics.org/the-reality-check
I googled but cannot find the right CFA. What is it?
>> Why do so many people still use redundant HTML tags?

1. Dinna know you could skip them "legally"

2. Increased readability at nearly no cost

3. Concern that browser "x" will render crap if I skip them.
You don't need to admit you're not an expert. It shows, don't worry.

First of all, since WHEN metrics really show anything? Let me remind you all the companies developed here in Argentina, that made it globally, like Patagon, Mercadolibre, Startups.com, OLX, ElSitio, etc versus companies in Chile. Chile? Really? Where do you get your numbers? I'll get them right for you :

http://bit.ly/JflMXt

66% average internet penetration in Argentina. That means 27 million people. Want to know more about Chile? What about wide band penetration?

http://bit.ly/Jfmh3H

There you go.

I'm not even going to start about the "dictatorship" because that's just bollocks. If "recently" for you is 26 years, then yeah, we have a "recent" dictatorship. One that the US government helped. As they did in Panama, Chile, and so many other countries. So please, refrain yourself before even saying the word.

Last, but not least, official inflation records against those that are real, are just double. No "three to six". It's huge, but it's not what you're buying.

PS : I don't defend AT ALL the Argentinian Government. I'm actually against them, but I can't really stand that somebody, just from what they read online or hear "from friends", starts giving opinions and recommendations. So, if things get "hard", then just leave Argentina alone and make business in Chile? Bitch, please, that's what you would recommend somebody in other countries? "Don't create value in your country, because it's TOO hard. Instead, make other countries wealthier. That's fixes the problem".

Please, come and live in Argentina for a while, and you'll learn a lot more than just reading Wikipedia.
Who's correct on the inflation figures? The commentators saying it's about double what your government claims or your government? I am sure "a lot of business" gets done there, just not as much per capita as in Chile and far less than tons of other countries in the world. It's not "The Economist" vs "reality". It's The Economist, many other journalists and publications, Transparency International, the World Bank stats, the economic freedom index, other global statistics on education and indeed some commentators here with personal experience. Why are the non-Argentines with personal experience negative and the, presumably Argentine, people positive but unable to provide anything other than anecdotes. Sorry but on every objective measure I can find it's worse, or significantly worse, than Chile, and a long long way from the first world.

I am open to you providing links to enlighten me on some aspect or another of why it's so good. But even if the rankings were quite bias you are virtually at opposite ends to Chile on some. I mean even asking leading and bias questions with a specific agenda to make Argentina look bad it'd be hard to get such huge differences. Given everything else backs that up, and some commentators here with anecdotes are saying so too, you will have to forgive me if I discount your talk as misplaced patriotism until you can back it up with some form of links or stats.
how far we have come, and yet...how far we have yet to come.

I speak, of course, of DOOM - in pure CSS. The gold standard of...I'm not sure, but it's gotta be something.
Discovering a bubble is easy. Knowing when it will burst is not. This is why most people can't bet against bubbles in the market; the market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
I'm surprised of no mention of Bliss. Nice low-level DEC-10 language, later generalized a bit.
sorry for that - hopefully such an unusual event also provides positive feedback to your directors for their decision.
Too many people are throwing around the "people are just seeking a place to park their cash because the economy sucks" misguided idea.

Startups offer investors exactly the opposite of what a capital preservation strategy seeks: high risk with low possibility of considerable returns.

Even if the world economy were in recession (its not [1]) most asset managers would recommend dozens of other asset classes before recommending investing in a startup for capital preservation, specially when inflation is low as is the case in most of the world at the moment [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_recession http://www.economy.com/dismal/map/default.asp

[2] http://www.indexmundi.com/world/inflation_rate_(consumer_pri...
nice... but please don't call them codes... i have a hard time taking the site seriously.. It's code.
AFAIK, quite a lot of the money that VCs are so desperately trying to invest DOES come from Pension funds.
Yeah, well let's say "partially solved".
Yes, that's still the plan. Your patience is appreciated.
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Thanks for the pointers, I'll look into that when I have more time :)
They want you to build server-less apps, so they provide the server. It makes sense.
Thanks for the feedback. Believe me, I couldn't believe the domain was available either :). Always thought about doing this on podca.st (which I own), but decided to look for something else based on feedback.

1. Yes, curating the featured channels is an ongoing process and ultimately users will be able to curate channels too, beyond their main channel containing their subscriptions. (The mechanism is already in place behind the scenes as all the featured channels are owned by a single "featured" user.) If you have any specific suggestions, please list them here or mail mike@player.fm, thanks.

2. Agree - similar to YouTube's time-based URLs. For sharing a point in the podcast as well as resuming. I think it would be nice to bookmark a time range as well, for sharing/commentary purposes.

3. Definitely want to add ratings. This would be cool for a given podcast series as in iTunes, but an extra benefit here is you'd be able to see how a user rated things in their own channel too.
I realize you're probably joking (at least, I hope so) but just to talk to the scalability point, I've had much better success scaling Netty (which Vert.x is built on) than Node. I've been able to scale Netty to more concurrent connections and Netty performs much better under load than Node. Just my experience.
"Sorry man, just trust us" ? good job paisano, they will totally believe you.

Undoubtly there are good "hackers" in Argentina, like in every country with good education but high levels of poverty (Greece, Ukranie, Russia, etc.). Maybe the reason is that becoming a hacker is basically free, You only need internet and free time.

About the proof, go check any important security conference, I'll guarantee you that you will find one or more Argentinian teams there, wondering why everything is better and cheaper outside their country, except of course that disgusting thing foreigners call "food" :)
those are just for customization, invoking pre-determined functionality endpoints...

He asks about software WRITTEN in a FL.
Awesome idea. But the site is giving me 500 error after 2-3 clicks.
The 2010 revelation that U.S. cyberwarriors could turn a computer into a "brick" stemmed from research into a design flaw in U.S. computers, according to several sources. It was determined that an adversary could conceivably update computer firmware — the low-level software that dictates how the hardware works — to make the machine useless.

And this is considered a revelation? In 2010?

In that case, the standard of what constitutes a revelation has definitely slipped over the years.

I love the design flaw in U.S. computers bit as well, because U.S. computers are obviously so very different from the other foreign kinds of computer. You know, the ones without updatable firmware, or something.
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> Ah, but is Vert.x web scale?

Better write a Mongo-backed fibonacci generator to check.
Sudo gem install fizzbuzz
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I think you need to go back to the benchmarks and take a close look at the "Requests/Second" part.

These benchmarks are nothing but speed tests.
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Where the hell is gaming headed?
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Good writeup, completely agree.

>My guess is that the bubble will burst soon after the Facebook IPO. Why? Because at that point, paying $1B for a company with zero revenues will likely be the cause of shareholder lawsuits, and there will be a lot more scrutiny involved in these acquisitions. Since selling to Google or Facebook is the exit strategy for most of these SV startups, if that door closes, then funding will get pulled quickly and violently, and it will be the start of the next dotcom bust 2.0.

Yes, another thing that would burst the bubble is the end of cheap money. The Fed's zero interest rates + debt monetization + QE + the Federal Government's massive deficit spending won't last forever.

The end result will either be hyper/inflation, higher across-the-board interest rates, and/or a contraction of the money supply, or some combination. The latter two will definitely end this state of affairs you've described, maybe the former as well.

The macro situation is ugly.
On the other hand, the 'socialist'/'communist' government was happy to pay (in full) for my cancer treatment. I had to get out of the US and come down here for 6 months so I wouldn't incur in massive debt over there to receive exactly the same treatment.

I guess YMMV.

I do agree with some of your points (although the restriction to buy dollars has nothing to do with taking money out of the country), but please don't take all your news from a purely US/free-market point of view. Argentina had that for a decade under president Menem and got fucked in all kinds of ways.

(Also, please notice the 'nationalization' [more correctly, forced purchase of the company's stock] of certain assets was long overdue because of the way the private companies where managing them. It's easier to appreciate when your family lives in the place, I'm afraid.)
Because I use my terminal as file manager, and urxvt doesn't support drag&drop yet.
We know the java libraries are there for lots of things, but Node is all about async and handling thousands of connections. It does this by forcing the entire ecosystem to be async too (including things like database drivers).

By using a Java JDBC database driver you're completely losing any async support. Same presumably goes for redis or Mongo drivers. You can do some of the work with threads and pooling, but it's still not the same, and makes this another useless micro benchmark.
>Becoming a layman's authority/source on a subject is not really the same as being on the "cutting edge of research" of the topic

No, but doing something nobody else has done is not "Becoming a layman's authority/source on a subject" it's being on the "cutting edge of research" even if it's not academic research.
There's a lot of truth to what you say but some people choose to be here because of family ties or for other non-economic reasons, and still feel the need to start businesses, even though they know they know it could be much easier elsewhere.

Economically Argentina is very tough, but culturally it's a wonderful place, and my personal attachment to it - despite my many complaints - transcends money and perhaps even logic.

Chile is a wonderful country with many things going for it, but it's not like it's paradise, and not everybody wants to live there.
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We are going to look at our sign up form and make it simpler to get in and get active.
Just goes to show that when the node.js fad is over, the enterprise world will keep its high availability servers running on proven technologies.
Very nice. But does it react dynamically when I update the DOM?

One of the reason we do not have the subject selector or :has() yet is that it is very hard to implement efficiently for dynamic updates. In the general case with :has(), you have to check the whole document for every DOM change.
> It does this by forcing the entire ecosystem to be async too (including things like database drivers).

Yes, that's exactly Node's main selling proposition everybody forgets when presenting their next Node.js
Chord consonance is still important in modal jazz. For the most part, the players have more freedom to stretch out on longer harmonic movement, rather than hopping around quickly like in bebop. If you look closely at transcriptions of the solos in kind of blue, some of the players do hint at chord progressions towards the beginning, middle, and end of their solos, which might be the dissonance you mentioned. At least, this is what I remember from back in music school. :)
There really isn't anything to see except:

"Because of unsustainable subscription prices and conditions, the board of directors of the mathematics department has voted to cancel all of its subscriptions to Elsevier journals by 2013."
Will PHP __autoload() function really affect performance?
Probably comparable or a lot better by the time you factor in the cost of health insurance (a "tax" for any sane person with a family or preexisting condition) and health care....