skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the trouble... the "sensible" options aren't so sensible when you really sit down and think about how they can be dodged, broken or abused.

Imagine I'm trying to crack into your site, and you lock any account after 5 failed logins in a row.

If I have access to (or can guess) a few thousand usernames, I can try the 4 most common passwords on all of those with no problems. I'll probably get some hits, no?

Or heck, I can try the 5 most common passwords, and not only will I have a few hits, I'll also have plenty of time to dig around without any attention from you, because you'll be struggling with a massive customer service nightmare, as thousands of your customers find themselves all locked out the same morning.
In my experience, start-up success is one of the universally supported things on HN, except in cases where it is viewed as undeserved.
Wells' personal announcement and reasons for the move - http://www.wellsriley.com/blog/2012/im-joining-kicksend/
Not when you are talking about storing Petabytes, which NASA does routinely.
Also: woman was hit on, but she gets confused about which guy it was, or has the wrong name.
The worst case would be a soothing green light when things aren't ok.
On top of my head I can think of two: Wikipedia and leboncoin.fr (one of the largest websites in france).

EDIT: Both run read-only slaves. I was only talking about no sharding.
"I guess I reject the notion that since you don't like/use it, no one does."

No one's really said that. People say no one uses G+ because, relatively speaking, almost no one uses G+. It may be awesome, it may be the greatest thing since sliced bread and in fact almost every review of the UI has lauded it from what I've seen but the flip side of this is tools without community are useless. Whether G+ is dying/dead/a ghost town is a real discussion that can take place.
This is what Peter Thiel discusses in his "perfect competition" argument.

That's not Peter Thiel's argument. That's Peter Thiel delivering a remedial microeconomics lesson. 'Perfect competition', 'monopolistic competition' and 'monopoly' are technical terms which don't necessarily mean what they might appear to. In perfect competition, for example, all goods are fungible. It's a good model for the commodities market, since one barrel of oil is very much like another (there are different grades of oil with different sub-markets, such as 'Brent crude' or 'west Texas intermediate', but you don't care which particular company extracted which particular barrel of oil from the ground within a given market).

Now once you introduce the element of skill, you have something more like monopolistic competition. Pizzerias are in competition, and they're selling a similar product, but they can compete on everything from the quality of the pizza dough to the comfiness of the seating, so different customers may end up strongly preferring one to the other. Maybe I'm price-sensitive and prefer Mario's bargain slice, but you're a gourmet and you prefer Luigi's home-made flavor. Someone else prefers the fancy service at Gino's, and so on. This is why towns can have so many different restaurants and why supermarkets can sell multiple different brands of what are essentially similar products: you can differentiate products and services, and anchor consumers to a particular combination.

Sure a new business may add value by providing a better service than the competitor it beats, but the overall wealth pie of this nation doesn't increase.

Oh yes it does, because now the wealth is being allocated more efficiently. Commodities are one-size-fits-all, but relatively few goods are commodities. Consider, for example, that there are relatively few companies in the business of wheat production (commodity) but a great many different bread companies, in line with the wide variety of different bread products.

Please, pick up a microeconomics textbook. Macroeconomics is so flawed and obtuse that a lot of people dismiss the musings of economists, but microeconomics is a very robust discipline that is almost criminally underappreciated. If I could back to high school and give my teenage self some advice, it would be 'learn microeconomics.'
Born gay? That's quite the can of worms you just cracked there...
Same with Avc.com

People like things to be subtle though.

They can also read into things that aren't there.

I offered to help someone the other day in a comment (which I did - then going back and forth with several emails and advice which took time) and was voted down in the one line offer. I guess they looked at my profile and thought I was angling for paid work? The truth is I've helped many people but never asked for payment (although it's been offered.)
Application over knowledge
The Good, the Bad, and the Awesome: The Culture(s) of Reddit
I believe at 500 points you can downvote comments.
something makes me think you haven't been through this sort of thing.

hint: it's the "proving your case" part. in this scenario, the parties rarely go to trial or arbitration.

i don't really need a basis for a case, just a basis for a threat. 'rattling the sabres', so to speak. it's sad, but true.
I've just worked it out.

Years ago I went to one of my first programming conferences , sat in the same room as GvR and Stroustrop and had one of those what am I doing here moments. But it was an amazing revelation - hundreds of people way smarter than me all of whom chatting where the side conversations and corridor chats are always more interesting and informed than the set talks

HN is just like the corridor outside the worlds biggest tech conference. The door bangs open and someone is talking about space and suddenly you realise there are actual rocket scie fists standing in ear shot.

I used to want to write scintillating blog posts and bump my karma score. But that happens in the main hall. Not in the corridors and I think I am happier here, like a young guy open mouthed that brilliant people actually like explaining stuff and it's beginning to make some sense...
Selling the illusion of control to lost managers is a pretty good business plan: it scratches an issue which terribly itches them, and they're paying with someone else's money.
You don't get to play with proprioception that way :-)
still key/value, no deep packet inspection.
I'm not sure about all security questions, but I have noticed many credit card support lines ask me for my mother's maiden name, and the answer I give is long and not easily spelled but they always confirm -- instantly -- "that's it" and and proceed.

Think about last names, as well... there's huge variety in length, spelling, etc. -- it's poor customer service to force the customer to spell it out letter by letter -- so it's necessarily just displayed there on their screen.
So it's these telescopes that were the entire reason for the shuttle program in the first place, wasn't it? The conventional rockets could launch satellites of most sizes all day long, but something the size of the Hubble required a vehicle with a large "mysterious payload" capacity.

Does this explain the Buran as well?
I hate to seem ungrateful, but I just wish their bandwidth costs would come down a bit. That said, this is much-appreciated.

The object versioning system seems interesting if you haven't rolled your own yet, though I wonder how relying on it might affect your ability to migrate to Amazon.
Federico Garcia Lorca’s Birthday is Today
So given that he didn't release Instapaper early on Android, what should he have done? Stayed away? Given he wasnt on the platform, is not going to it all a better move or not?
While I don't know what the correct number is I can almost assure you that it is nowhere near 90%. Quick and dirty if you were able to determine the amount of state business registrations and compare it to the amount of vc funded companies (even taking into account not every vc funded company is public) I'm sure you would find an extremely small number.

"personal savings and family money" - sba loan, mortgage the house, credit cards, equity line to name a few more.
Contrary to popular belief, game companies have salaries to pay and are interested in protecting their IP so they can continue to pay those salaries.
Is that sarcasm? 'Cos while Steam restricts you in a few ways (e.g. no giving free copies to friends) the experience is so superior I continually choose to buy games on Steam over any other method.

Hell, one of the biggest reasons I patronize the Humble Indie Bundles is because I can get the games into my Steam account.
"after much deliberation".

Why did the team deliberate so much?

I will let the readers ponder this.

There are already some very good stub resolvers and resolver libraries available to users (e.g. dnsqr and the djbdns library). I have a hard time believing Google is going to do better than djb.

Of course I have no problem with them or anyone else writing another one. Have at it. The more attention brought to name resolution the better -- because it can be so easily abused for questionable purposes, it is something that deserves user oversight.

But why does Google need to place theirs _inside the browser_? That is a very curious design decision.
"You aren't ready to be an entrepreneur"
I definitely understand his point that is a radical departure from existing Windows design and that business, who are loathe to try anything new, might not be interested.

But that fact is, businesses already aren't interested in upgrading to new Windows releases. XP was plenty good for the vast majority of businesses and many of them are still running it because it works just fine.

I had the chance to play with a Windows 8 tablet and I have to say that was pretty impressive. The Metro interface works great in that environment.

My guess is that Microsoft will support Windows 7 for businesses for another decade. In the mean time, they are hoping to win the hearts and minds of people in the fast growing tablet and smartphone market.

I doubt they'll succeed, but they have to give it a shot. I applaud them for making the effort.
Get.drapache: serve a dynamic web site from your Dropbox
Yes, it is pertinent. But that doesn't change the fact that it's a really dumb way to evaluate the "talent" of a person or company.
I'd like to see some negative scenarios mixed into that list:

* Gets kidnapped

* Gets struck by lightning

* Is a victim of a terrorist act

* Dies in a plane crash

* Dies in a car accident

It would help illustrate how we spend so much time worrying about such infinitesimally unlikely nightmares.
What? You realize anti-depressants like SSRIs modify your brain's chemistry and can take 6-8 weeks before you'll notice any effects.

I was staying over at a friend's house and had some drinks (2 beers + 2 screwdrivers), and at the time was on SSRIs for about 4 months. My alcohol tolerance is fairly average and expected a light buzz. Instead I ended up wasted for the first time since college days. In my scenario, anti-depressants definitely amplified alcohol's effects.

Regardless of what you think, it's been clinically proven. That's why the drug's label has a warning about alcohol intake.
This is good news. It seems to me that Rackspace Cloud services don't get much publicity compared to AWS, which is a shame. RS is a good alternative and their tech support is great.
I read the speech. I also read Liars Poker. I knew Lewis had worked at Soloman Brothers, but somehow in the years since I read the book "Goldman" replaced "Soloman" in my head. So this is a typo.

Of course that I named a different firm (equally hated) than the correct one doesn't change the content of my article.

It is a post hoc, ergo proctor hoc argument to evade the obvious reason. The actual reason has been presented as an argument by the majority of the respondents so, anti-intellectualism.
I have to ask: why? It's server-side, so why not just write Clojure and take advantage of the JVM performance, scalability and everything Clojure gives you that just isn't available in ClojureScript?
So there is an unopened space telescope sitting in a canister in orbit?

Wouldn't a device to open. The canister be cheaper than starting from scratch?
Until new consoles are released? It's not like Crytek is small company that no one ever heard about - they're well known, they have released games on current generations and I'm sure they have preliminary hardware of next-gens.
I don't think the Go developers "think in oop", and they certainly don't love Java.
Netflix Rolls Out Its Own CDN: Open Connect
That source says that that money is over the apps lifetime. So divide that by 4 (?) and its starting to become more limited.
EDIT to include the quote (the low end of the scale starts to make things quite tight by my guestimating):

>>> TL;DR:
Final estimate is somewhere between 0.15% to 0.60% of the iOS market, netting it somewhere between $875k to $2.3m for the duration of its existence (not yearly)<<<
Announcing the Netflix Open Connect Network
Its really hard to comment on Hacker News without getting a reply from you where dishonestly exaggerate what I have said to try and impunge me. (which is, frankly, ad hominem)

The fact of the matter is that "Goldman" had replaced "Soloman" in my head in the intervening years and so I typed the wrong thing.

I think its hilarious that you guys are trying to shut me up and attack me because it is such a plain admission that you cannot actually make a counter argument, and thus you must evade and engage in the standard issue ad hominem and censorship approach. Hilarious and sad.
It would be cool, but one thing about games that makes this much less painful- they usually don't depend on twenty system libraries.

In other words, I doubt Valve is going to create a hyper-robust platform that can intelligently install any package; that's completely unnecessary for their purposes.
Definitely.

There are two streams of information being analyzed. First is color, observed as one position changing properties from one frame of video to the next. Second is position, which is a change in location of things within the field of view from one frame of video to the next.

Both color and position changes can happen at the same time, but it's easier to see how this information is used if you start off by treating them separately.

For color changes, imagine video of a stationary person's face where the center pixel of every picture is the center of the face. The color at that center pixel changes from frame to frame. At frame 1 the red value (of an RGB triplet) is maybe 200 (out of 255), and by frame 5 the red value is 203. This is a temporal red shift of just 3 levels over 5 frames.

For position changes, imagine video of a beach ball in a still pool of water, where the center of the ball changes from frame to frame. At frame 1, the position is (in x,y) (512,512), and at frame 5, the position is (512, 515). This is a spatial shift of just 3 pixels over 5 frames.

In both of these cases, the observed change is probably too smal for humans to notice in casual viewing, so an exaggeration of some kind is desired. To make the change noticeable, we'll take the change of signal (3 values over 5 frames) and "amplify" it. These modified ("amplified") values will be shown on top of the original source video, resulting in an exaggerated change. If a color shifted by 3 red levels, we can show that by varying the color by 30 red levels. If a position changed by 3 pixels, we can show it changing by 12 pixels. We can choose the level of amplification best suited for observing the changes we've isolated.

Now the really cool aspect of these data streams is that their resulting "amplifications" don't need to be applied to the same data stream that they were observed in. It's possible to take a position change, and represent it as a color change. It's possible to take a color change, and stretch it out over a longer time (over more video frames). Any combination of properties you like can be used to represent your observed set of changes. Some of the most interesting representations will be a mixture of different data streams, represented as another mixture of exaggerations to the original video.
1) I don't eat the cookie, I just read the fortune.

2) You only get one fortune a day, so the 2nd would be a waste.

3) My instinct as leader would be to let the other two split it or "first come" - whichever is quickest.

4) Nevertheless, the 2nd "alpha" cookie always tastes better.
It's a classic anti-science move of forcing them to commit to an impossible project and then later lay into them for not making any progress and cut funding even more severely.
I did some spot checking. In general, the odds seem lowish. Some are surprisingly reasonable, some seem absurd. I would've liked to see sources.

Below I assume a U.S. population of 300 - 310 million (rounding as convenient).

> Goes to law school: 1 in 80

That's about 3 million people.

It's vague wording. Does it mean going to graduate law school? Being accepted? Or does it just mean have a declared major of law at some point? I can accept the latter, as ambitious / high-earning jobs generally have an over-abundance of declared majors by freshmen/sophomores (who change their major every semester). But I don't think that many people actually get into graduate law school, or else they would rival business majors (the most popular major).

> Works as a Google engineer: 1 in 2,500

That means Google has employed 124,000 engineers over it's modest 14 years. Currently they only employee 33,000 (according to Wikipedia), and I can't imagine more than 1/3 of those being engineers (consider marketing, finance, managers, maintenance staff, sales, support, etc). And they only really grew in size in the past 8 or 9 years. They'd have to have always had over 2/3 of their staff as engineers and be turning over an entire fresh set of employees every year to have a chance at making those odds.

> Plays in the NFL: 1 in 15,000

At first I thought this sounded low, but not necessarily: This would mean we have about 21,000 NFL players, past or present. There are 32 teams and I counted 91 players on the Giants' roster (seriously, 91!?), so that estimates to about 3,000 players active. That means we have a full 7 independent generations worth of NFL players alive. Considering that a lot of players only play for a year or two and that even those with long careers usually retire by 40, this actually seems reasonable.

> CEO of Fortune 500 company: 1 in 60,000

There are 500 companies on the list, and year-to-year most of them stay the same. That means we have 5,000 present or past such CEOs in our country. No more than 500 can be active at any time, so we have a full 10 sets of CEOs alive. From a survey (http://www.forbes.com/2003/03/31/cx_wt_0401exec.html) of the top 100 companies, it looks like the the average time spent as CEO is only 3 or 4 years and the average age achieved is 50. Assuming a lifespan of 80, that checks out even if the vast majority of the Fortune 500 list remains static.
Backbone.js could start getting more opinionated IMHO :)
Hackable web applications
http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/153/retail-pc-game-sales-still...
Survey and tests of crypto libraries in javascript
They dropped their prices in February: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/02/amazon-s3-price-reduction...
not sure about episode2, but Half Life 2 works perfectly with Steam, through Wine (if you are using ubuntu, install wine, then download Steam and run it... it should work just out of the box)
In our instance we were publishing tools for Node.js, so that's why we did it. Id'e rather write code in Clojure than JS or coffee script.
Not the sole cause of cultures' rise or falls, but one of the main causes of many cultures' fall, often due to those particular cultures becoming deeply interconnected and unprepared for large scale changes.

The fates of individual polar explorers is not particularly relevant to the fall of large city building cultures. And anyway Amundsen disappeared while on a rescue mission to find a crashed polar airship, so did suffer a similar fate, just a bit later.
Kicksend Hires a Rockstar Product Designer
Remember how Phoronix insinuated it was just around the corner two years ago: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve...

I doubt Valve need two years to port it to Linux. With Gabe's track record of taking his time developing software, I don't think we should get our hopes up too soon.
Facebook and GroupOn are too small a sample size to draw this conclusion.

Have you accounted for general market trends? Seasonal cycles? Comparisons to other IPOs? Contrast with other types of companies that aren't part of your perceived bubble?
Congrats Wells!
Data as Currency & Dealmaker
Lovely, I'll be looking forward to that! :)

I really like how you divided it up so one actually gets an understanding of the magnitude and what "1 in x" can be likened to.
Rethinking Privacy
Why do people play slot machines or buy lottery tickets?

There you will find your answer.
Zuckerberg sued for unloading Facebook stock before price collapse
Hack your Way Into a Free Ticket to NodeConf
Encrypt files for the cloud
They could do it through a shell account, then have other shell accounts buy GRPN stock to boost the value further, carve that equity up into AAA-graded commoditized securities and sell them as bonds!
I'd say it somewhat depends on the quality of the people working on the open source project regularly and the track records of the VC's funding the startups - in addition to your expertise.

It is possible to consider both as a good sign that your idea is valid. There's a reason that more books on Abraham Lincoln are published each year than on Millard Filmore - the reason is a large market.
Would it be possible to make a 3D Minesweeper game inside Minecraft?
"within the realm of reason" Thats the point I was making.

"Although the law doesn’t prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that are not very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_harassment

So in my view, if the author would go to another conference, and the same creep would try again, that would be harassment. There should be a pattern of some kind. If you count single incidents as harassment, your going to have serious problems with freedom of speech.

FYI, using "FYI" feels arrogant to me. Please stop, you would not want to FYI-harass me?
Noooooo they finished it before I did =(
I liked how they phrased the news in the body of the post -- "Meebo has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Google" -- more than how they phrased it in the headline: "Google is acquiring Meebo." I'd like to think that if I was selling a startup I would be master of my own destiny, too.
What College Tuition Will Look Like in 18 Years
Believe me, I'd wait a few more seconds for it to do that than it erroring out to a prompt with "UNDEFINED SYMBOL: GTK_BUILDER_NEW", or worse, crash with a core dump where I'll never find it or know what to do with.
Atlas rockets and the future Falcon Heavy from SpaceX are able to carry more, bigger, heavier payloads than the space shuttle ever could. What makes the Shuttle unique is that it could bring stuff back from space. Hubble could have gone up on any of the other rockets, a shuttle is the only thing that could bring it back though.
That toolbar is godawful, and I have no idea how they managed to sign up so many companies to display it. I mean.. it's not like they had access to all these advertisers since they were primarily a chat company. It's something that can be duplicated by any one of us. What gives?
Let's not forget that kernel.org itself was hacked. Nor that Firefox et al update themselves. People who live in glass houses...
Just tested it in Canary builds and the async DNS resolver does parse and respect /etc/hosts.
From what I've read, the "A players" mantra seems to be pretty prevalent in the valley, maybe even being decades old?
Client-side Web Scraping
That breaks NAT64+DNS64, for one. (T-Mobile says IPv6-native with NAT64+DNS64 for legacy [IPv4] connections is the future on their network.)