skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Note the language: finding the vulnerability.

You're probably referring to http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0108.html#1 where Schneier criticizes eEye for publishing (not finding) a vulnerability with potential for a large-scale worm outbreak while selling a product that protects against that vulnerability. The blame is for leaving everyone but their own customers out in the cold, not for finding the vulnerability. The blame for the flaw gets directed to MS, where it deserves.

This quote from The Register sheds some light on this:

> eEye makes several good security products for Windows and IIS, and has been responsible for finding and aggressively publicizing a number of holes in Microsoft products, especially IIS.

> But the business of searching for and publicizing security holes while at the same time selling the solutions is a tricky and controversial business, not unlike the model pursued by anti-virus companies. We note, for example, that eEye has yet to publicize an IIS hole that its SecureIIS product won't defeat. Their discoveries inevitably support the claim that SecureIIS is a very wise investment.

(from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/07/20/internet_survives_co...)

IMHO the chide is well deserved. They could have handled that better.
Crazy exploratory programming is the best way to learn and grow your skill set ... but please don't do this in a team project where other developers have to grapple with your insane abstractions that lead nowhere and mental meanderings ... keep it to yourself.
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Awesome, this is exactly the sort of thing I'm working on in my PhD. Glad to see it's becoming mainstream.
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I like that your process for calculating how long you could last appears to consist of multiplying the amount of time others can last by their ratio of working ears to yours. Science!
In Uruguay, ~570000 kids use Linux
Dashboards are not just for "Is my product working for my users?"

They have variety of purposes. For e.g our webapp is an open book, we display live dashboard (https://my.infocaptor.com) of our very app itself because it is meant to be a dashboard platform

The main purpose of dashboards is to keep a birds eye view and take action when something is off.

Don't track metrics where you don't have time or resources to take action against.
June 1: Sandboxing Day for Mac App Store Developers
I have the kindle version and it looks fine. And why are they paying for copyright-free material? They can get a nice eBook version from Project Gutenberg.
Olark - YC S09 - Ann Arbor, MI (http://olark.com/jobs) is looking for a DevOps engineer.

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As soon as the page loads, Firefox tells me that this site is wanting to store data on my local disk. I'm not sure when I last saw a website wanting to do that. I don't know what exactly your site needs to do in this respect, but it might be good to not do that on the main page. Let your users learn more about who you are, what the site does, etc., before alarming them with stuff like that.

The site seems to break the back button. If I have to exert inordinate effort to browse backwards away from your site, I am unlikely to want to return to it.
First Lady Michelle Obama Answers Your Twitter Questions
that's an interesting issue. wonder if it'd be useful (or just abused) to have a "Show HN" link-filter on top for people who are interested in those kinds of posts (which I'm hoping to Show NH something soon too, so certainly a biased opinion)
The 7 Deadly Sins Of Startups
There are also ports of Underscore.js to Perl & Lua:

* http://vti.github.com/underscore-perl/

* http://mirven.github.com/underscore.lua/
Clicked around for 30 seconds trying to find the price, came to the comments to find it. The "Exclusive" header made me think all the text under it would explain that the socks are exclusive, so I skipped it.

I'd at least put the price in the How It Works and Subscribe sections, that's where I looked.
Left the tab open - nice little easter egg you have there :)

window.setTimeout(function(){return i("i love you")},9E5);
As I said, I see where you're coming from. The US government is completely in the wrong. It had no jurisdiction over MegaUpload and this case should never even have started.

Additionally, I never argued that the government has the right to seize all assets without justification. First, the government should only have the ability to freeze assets related to the case at hand. I should only lose access to the $400 million in question, not any of my other property. That $400 million should be kept safe, so that it may be returned to me at the end of the trial if I'm found not guilty (another place where the government is failing).

Additionally, I don't believe that the government should be able to do this without needing to explain itself. This should only occur if the government has been able to justify before a grand jury that there is reason to believe that I have committed a crime and that the loss of this money would aggravate the nature of the crime. For instance, in my check fraud hypothetical, the $400 million should be frozen, since my spending it would aggravate the crime. On the other hand, there's no reason for me to be held in prison, since the act is completed. Now, if I'm accused of attempted murder, it is logical that I should be prevented from going near the person I'm accused of trying to kill.

You'll argue that the grand juries are a joke and I'd say that you're right. They are broken and need to be fixed. However, once they are fixed, they should serve as a temporary, provisional guilty in the concept of "innocent until proven guilty".
I don't think it's as simple as "Iran is probably the worst country on the planet when it comes to supporting terrorism."

Every powerful country uses violence to advance it's political goals. Every powerful country kills the civilians/citizens of other countries, publicly expressing varying amounts of regret.
Show HN is in http://news.ycombinator.com/ask.
I think the (debatable ) key point here is that the treaty was a bargain between the then possessors of nuclear weapons and non-nuclear states. The deal was that non-nuclear states wouldn't develop weapons and the nuclear states would disarm. After the treaty was signed and non-nuclear states (largely) complied the number of weapons increased radically for decades and the destructive power of weapons in theater today is still massively greater than the weapons at signing. It can therefore be argued that the holders of the weapons have consistently acted contrary to the terms of the treaty. They have undisputably acted contrary to the spirit of the deal underlying the treaty.
How do I sign up? Where is the signup button?
I think its safe to assume that any down votes this post gets were by accident due to the button size.
the quality of content on HN is inversely proportional to this idea catching on IMO.
That was exactly my point at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4040022 and it is a valid one.

However I have been thinking about it since, and it is possible to design a multi-armed bandit approach with logarithmic regret (though higher by a constant factor than a traditional approach), that can handle the varying performance ratio. It also would allow you to add variations at any time.

There remain operational differences, but this problem is fixable.
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Thanks for your reply. That was my deleted post up there, I worked out a table like yours and realized your point shortly after posting.
Show HN: Recipes with Reputation, Votes, Tags and Ingredient Search
+1 for a "show" only view too
This seems to be a common criticism. I have re-written the description dozens of times and I can't seem to get it right.

Many people tell me it's too long at there is too much text. Others tell me they don't see what it's for.

Even though I believe strongly in the value Bookvoid provides, the fact that I have difficulty articulating concisely this value is definitely a weakness.

One problem is that it was inspired by machine learning/ Bayesian probabilistic principles of how information should be organised and mathematical principles don't make good tag lines.

Maybe the whole thing is just too wonky. I don't know.
Love the idea, as I too love and have many weird socks.

Feedback:

Obviously, as others mentioned the call to action is incredibly weak and I also thought you may not have launched yet when looking for the Sign Up link.

Copy is hilarious on the front page.

Learn More actually gives you no new information, which is quite annoying. That section needs more. Can I cancel anytime? Am I charged monthly or annually? Maybe something about the socks, "we source top quality socks from brands like X, Y, Z using whatever fancy cotton". Do you ship internationally? I'm in Canada.

Your blog entries other than January don't exist, sloppy. How can I see the brand of the sock in the gallery?

I will likely sign up when I get some more info. Best of luck.
sweet :)
window.setTimeout((()->saySo('i love you')),10006015)
A) That's awesome.
B) It's sad to look at the points for those posts, maybe due to the lack of visibility or the idea, but 2, 1, 4, 10, 2 ,3,3, 1,2, 2, 1, 85 (oooh)
I was going to say a phishing site, but they both resolve to the same IP. So, I'm just guessing it is a read only mirror to placehold to stop phish.

dig news.ycombinator.org

; <<>> DiG 9.7.0-P1 <<>> news.ycombinator.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 61061
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;news.ycombinator.org. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
news.ycombinator.org. 1200 IN A 174.132.225.106

;; Query time: 41 msec
;; SERVER: REDACTED
;; WHEN: Fri Jun 1 11:06:20 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 54

dig news.ycombinator.com

; <<>> DiG 9.7.0-P1 <<>> news.ycombinator.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6506
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;news.ycombinator.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
news.ycombinator.com. 1200 IN A 174.132.225.106

;; Query time: 37 msec
;; SERVER: REDACTED
;; WHEN: Fri Jun 1 11:06:27 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 54
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Is it $11 / month? I couldn't find that anywhere.

This would be a cute gift for my wife - the posted socks fit her style, and if it is $11 / month, it's certainly affordable. But I'm not going to sign up for something if I'm not sure I know what it costs.

[Edit: Ah-ha, the other commenters here pointed its location out. Pricing has to be prominent and up front - little grey text always gets skimmed / glossed over.]
If she would put 3/5 (like you imply) I would think that she as B1 level or something like that. She is not native. If she was a native the scale would be different.
If it gives you comfort, if there is a significant underlying difference and the calculations are done right, with high probability they will get the right answer even though they are misunderstanding the statistics.

Acceptance of this fact has avoided a lot of potential ulcers for me.
Would be potentially useful if it could import or interface with an Evernote user account.
Congrats on launching! I also started a lifestyle business (Startup Threads and the monthly part StartupThreadsMonthly) and my advice would be to think deeply on how you will acquire users: thats the hard part. There are basic changes to the site you should think of, many of them in this thread, but finding people who care about this kind of thing should be the main thing you should be concentrating on. Would love to trade thoughts on this if you need some help in thinking about this frank at startupthreads dot com.
No, the president would need Congressional approval to have military units in Iran for more than 90 days. In practice presidents almost always ask Congress for advance approval, since having to pull out in the middle of an invasion would be rather embarrassing. The only exception that comes to mind is Reagan's invasion of Grenada, where the US military was in and out easily under the time limit.
Show HN: Live coding in Lua with ZeroBrane Studio
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We use Github for source control and you will have an opportunity to open source the code you write.
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I thought the large Buy Now button was not that hard to see :)
As the globe moves to mobile, advertising dollars lag far behind
"8. Find people that are cooler than you and hang out with them too"

Oh dear, I don't think so.
The term is used for both RF and Audio wave absorbing rooms, but in this case they are talking explicitly about a room that doesn't reflect Sound.
Feel free to suggest additional features here. Simplified proxy support and https by default are a couple I've received already.
The integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect mystery - or - Cosmology as it's being done
Wow, I didn't even know they were there until reading this comment. Also, the links to your blog posts are "not found."
>>Iran is probably the worst country on the planet when it comes to supporting terrorism.
Really? Sounds like rewriting the history again. Everything I read pointed 911 to pakistin intelligence and Saudis
Blowing away bloatware: a guide to reinstalling Windows on a new PC
I don't see any reason why it shouldn't. The backtracking algorithm doesn't care what shape the maze is or if it overlaps itself.

EDIT: Since a maze (overlapping or not) can be represented as a tree of nodes, backtracking will certainly lead you through every point.

Even if the graph is not a tree (ie it loops around) backtracking will still get you everywhere if you reverse direction once you come across somewhere you've already been.
How to Start Using Social Media Effectively
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands. H1B[1]

Booking.com is always on the lookout for good developers, DBA's and sysadmins on-site in the center of Amsterdam. I'm a developer there currently working on search and relocated over there about a year and a half ago, and have been very happy with it.

We have people from all over the world relocating to work with us and are very well set up to handle relocation and visa issues, most of the people working in IT are expats so we've got a lot of experience with bringing people in.

It's a rapidly growing company that represents the biggest chunk of the Priceline (PCLN) group of companies where problems that look relatively mundane on paper become much more interesting due to the scale and growth levels we're operating at.

We use Perl for almost everything with a MySQL backend and Git for development. We get our changes out really fast, it's rare for your code not to be on our live systems within hours of you pushing it.
We're also very open to open sourcing code that doesn't contain any business logic, I've personally been involved in open sourcing a few of our internal tools, including https://github.com/git-deploy and a few CPAN modules.

We have a relatively flat hierarchy with minimum levels of bureaucracy since we're very data driven and have a clear goal: helping our customers. Everything we do is aimed at solving problems for our customers, if it doesn't help our customers we're not interested in doing it.

You don't have to know Perl in advance to be a developer there. We've hired people who've done C, Java etc. before. The sort of people we'd like to hire are good technically, excellent at communication, and can acquire a good sense of how they fit into the big picture.

I'd be happy to answer any questions at avarab@gmail.com and/or forward your resume, I've posted in a similar thread here a couple of times before and have already helped get one person hired, many others have had or are having interviews, and I've fielded a bunch of questions from would-be applicants. http://booking.com/jobs also has some good information.

1. Well, not H1B, but we'll take care of the Dutch equivalent.
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I do node.js/rails freelance. I don't like to, but I can also do frontend stuff(css or scss/html/js).

Currently working full-time on a startup.

$50/hour.
- Like other commenters said -- make "Buy Now" and "Learn more" more prominent on the homepage.

- I'd also feature the price right there -- "We deliver a pair of socks once a month for $11."

- Feature pricing on "About" and "Subscribe" pages.

- On Subscribe pages, where do I enter payment info? Why page doesn't have SSL? (I assume payment info is submitted on the next page, but it is not clear -- maybe change "Submit" to "Next: enter payment info")

- I'd change "Write/Contact Us" at the top to "Buy Now".

Edit: formatting
It worries me that one day hard copy books will be viewed as a hobbyists endeavor..
Wow, what a misleading article. The "she's dead, and how's the project?" quip wasn't to show the scientific, rational way Feynman dealt with death but rather the unhealthy manner in which he'd internalized his grief. The book goes on to describe, at great length, how Feynman would spontaneously break down in tears when he saw something that reminded him of her, and how he'd continue to have conversations with her after her death (which I believe led to his disqualification from military service). I suppose that doesn't fit in well with the narrative of "Feynman is the ideal all rational thinkers should strive for!!!" this guy seems to be pushing though.
Just give it a couple of decades. You'll get used to everyone around you spouting off about a Meaning Of Life that you think is total bullshit... eventually.
Damn unreasonable humans! Why can't they just contort their behavior around my business model?
I've been in an anechoic chamber and it's not so much the lack of sound but the intense visual shock. You're usually in a room with incredible depth levels, sharp angles and so on. It can induce a feeling of sea-sickness.

The absolute silence exacerbates the issue but it's not the only factor at play.
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Nice touch setting $v = 42
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I have been working on a pet project of mine http://brainturk.com , These games are mostly taken from various research papers and I have implemented them in HTML5 .

What do you think we should focus on next , working on existing games to add features , better graphics or add more games or work on the progress section ?.

I have been thinking of adding a section for kids (under 15) where some of the games can be linked and maybe change some graphics and make the levels easier to start with

Please let me know if you think of any suggestions on how to improve the product and also any ideas are appreciated
I had this thought, as well. Let me buy someone a year of SOTM as a gift.