skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is this kind of spam trying to do?
The contact form on my website receives some spam occasionally.

It's always a meaningless jumble of urls.
It is always of this type (I've replaced the meaningless jumble with some of my own in case the urls are valid):

ty8769 <a href="http://iduqfhuerhferif.com/">iduqfhuerhferif</a>, [url=http://powjrjie.com/]powjrjie[/url], [link=http://oproprktt.com/]oproprktt[/link], http://pesdukiqwro.com/
The Art of Lisp & Writing
AdDuplex launches the first cross promotion network for Windows 8
Markus "Notch" Persson (creator of minecraft) is doing AMA
Hey! Is Kippt the first startup from Finland to get into Y Combinator? Looks like they are reinventing delicious.

Karri Saarinen is also the founder of the articstartup.com which might have help kippt growing so fast .
Err, I don't think people are up in arms over the damage done to this one company. The story has legs because it implies that this is happening on a larger scale, and that Facebook is making a significant portion of its revenue from valueless clicks. Facebook should have had a system to avoid charging for such clicks, and if it doesn't that's a huge nationwide story. And it wouldn't be because they didn't realize they needed one.
cjdns doesn't need a bartering system for handling traffic. It uses Kademlia and some novel routing concepts, peering is assumed to be mutual because it's already explicit.
Gagan Narang wins 10m Air Rifle Bronze for India...
Google and Facebook's new tactic in the tech wars
All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace
I disagree, Rand's whiteboard Fridays are usually outstanding. However, you are correct, they are generally not newbie friendly. They are intended for a more informed audience.

As with anything, it all takes time. I think there are too many quick-fix SEO blogs and "products" that the genuine content gets lost in the wind.

I'm usually a fan of the SeoBook blog, but sometimes Aaron Wall's posts can get too preachy.
If it's not source code, he doesn't care how closed or restricted it is. It's what the computer does, not what you do with what the computer does that is his interest.
I made a proof-of-concept implementation and, well, it works, but I suspect they're too difficult for many people. They can be made easier by emphasizing one of the colors in the letters, but that opens them up to more traditional attacks.

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Maybe he actually cares about the children?
It's a bot who thinks is posting news comments which will appear in the web page.
The heart of the problem is that outside of the US, the software industry just doesn't pay very well. So the people who are interested in tech leave to go to the US, then start companies there, and when these companies are successful, they fund people in the US because that's where they are and the scene that they are familiar with. I'm Canadian, it sucks how much talent the country bleeds, but it's really hard to get critical mass.
It would seem, then, that Google is trying to figure out who's site is legit. Google generally has an "index everything and sort it out later" mentality. Quite a few sites I've build show up #1 for their target keywords right away, but within a few days they get buried again.
I understand bcantrill's point as a quest to remove uncertainty. He wants to interview people who meet certain basic criteria so he can focus on what makes one CS grad different from the other. If he interviews people with more diverse backgrounds he will have to deal with more diversity and the interview would consume more time and resources.

But an engineer or a physicist would probably be able to advise him on what he should sing his hard drives to make them run smoother. I don't think a compsi grad could do that ;-)
The article states that giving quantum pseudo telepathy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_pseudo-telepathy) to provers who have been otherwise separated isn't disastrous to all interactive proof systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_proof_system).
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I agree with RMS on some points, but I think this one is going to get him into trouble. I agree that most games contain some form of art, which means that if the software is free and the art in the game isn't free, RMS would be for paid games in GNU linux where the source is free, but you have to pay for its art (so it is non-free).

And if he is going to include art, why not literature and other media as well? Old text adventures were filled with great writing, even if they were brief descriptions when viewed in part. Newer games spend a lot of money creating CGI cinematography with paid actors to do voice-overs for written dialog that is not code. Would he be ok with that part of the game being non-free and the code being open-source?
Class-action lawsuit settlement forces Netflix privacy changes
Shouldn't their "system protocol" have a way for the the server to recognize resends of orders it has already received, and ignore them?
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Pretty sure this makes it illegal in the UK under our crazy encryption laws [1]. I definitely wouldn't want to be the one to test it.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4234614
If Wikipedia isn't missing any, it looks like these are now the two largest blackouts in history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_outages#Largest
this made my day, the conversation is so fun :D
This is equivalent to boycotting companies that sell cameras, hard disk manufacturers, computer vendors, ISPs, etc, to "think about the children".
He's made his $1 billion, he doesn't care now what happens, nor do the initial investors.

I think people should be going to jail for how much everyone was taken advantage of - though they won't because laws don't reflect businesses hurting society or individuals in such cases. 100x profits as a valuation is pure insanity - no matter what the company is; If someone can cite even a theoretical example where 100x profits might make sense, please do enlighten us - I'd be curious.

The discussion usually boils down to that investing has inherent risks, and that's that - people can make their own decisions, though clearly most people didn't know better. So then the question comes to mind of how much do we value gambling in our society? I suppose it's one of those debates up there with gun ownership - where you should be able to own automatic rifles / mass killing machines (weapon of mass destruction?) as a right, and therefore you should be allowed to throw your money away at others, simply for excitement purposes --- even with many other better options for entertainment existing in the world.
Why would I want a PCI adapter box? I could've done that with Firewire (400 or 800). I want some native devices.

I haven't seen any other laptops shipping with TB interfaces, either (but I'll confess to not having looked thoroughly.) This is probably what's keeping native devices from being more numerous.
Look at what is already possible today:
http://esrlabs.com/android-transporter-on-the-raspberry-pi/
Advanced Python – How to Dynamically Load Modules or Classes
trace back the provenance of that file through a network of peers who are making it available

That doesn't sound very anonymous, does it?
Well, of course not. That doesn't necessarily make it invalid. If your bank took 10k from your account and didn't give it back, you would sue them. If they put an extra 10k in your account you clearly wouldn't!
It gets such bad press over the "Native vs HTML5" debate- but I think people often forget how much more important that a cross-platform universal (much easier to grasp) way to make apps is so important.. (Especially bootstrapping entrepreneurs)
Staring Into The Abyss: Some Thoughts
These are all big problems, but one incredibly common security anti-pattern out there that I never see talked about are the "security questions" that so many websites use to let you reset your password.

It's amazing: a website will make me choose an 8-character (but not more than 14!) password with a number, a symbol, and at least one capital and one lowercase letter, but then it will let anyone who knows my birthday and favorite color change that password to whatever they like.

(Obviously, I can opt out of this feature by typing gibberish into those answer fields, but do you think your grandfather will think to do that?)

One variation that I know of that you can't opt out of it is on some banks' two-factor authentication, where they have you log in by answering a security question first, and then entering your password once you get the question right. The great thing about this is that it makes the bank an easy test-ground for guessing your security questions to use on other sites.
2) Do you really need jQuery there? You seem to be using it only for the html method, and including 93K extra JS instead of just using innerHTML seems a bit overkill.

It checks for the case that .innerHTML setting is not supported (I think that was for certain versions of IE) and switches to using appendChild(). I think that that small oversight is somewhat reasonable justification for using a wrapper that abstracts away the browser differences, although it can be argued that once someone understands the differences, they could just add the use cases to their code.
You are correct that the Django folks should be a little more careful with the staticfiles app.

But I disagree with you that the best practice should change from a static server to a front-end proxy cache. Rather, the best practice should consist of using both.

An important concept in security is deperimeterisation- the idea that you shouldn't assume you have a fixed border, inside of which is secure. So by all means, use a front-end proxy cache. But also put some effort into hardening your individual servers, treating them as if they will be operating under a full load.
Why is this spam story even on the front page?

C'mon, HN, you can do better than this!
Update your plugins 89% of browsers vulnerable
The order workflow is generally like so:

1) Client sends order to market.

2) Market acknowledges it has received the order, sending back the market-generated order ID.

3) The market tries to fill the order (takes from 1ms to a day, depending on the type of order). When the order is filled, the client is informed.

4) At any time before the order is filled, the client can cancel it.

Perhaps during NASDAQ's issues the acknowledgements (step 2) were not sent and UBS didn't have the IDs of the orders they wanted to cancel.
"Thank you for your placing an order with NASDAQ. Please do not hit the back button or refresh this page, or your order may be registered more than once."
Although the title is the same as the one from the article it links to, it is not what he says. He says there are both good and bad things about it. It's good if it stops you using Windows. He still categorises what Steam is doing as unethical.

As Lockyy stated, check out what he actually said here instead: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/nonfree-games.html
It might well be illegal under crazy laws, but not the one you link to: Beneath the vitriol a very important point was made: The prosecution has to prove beyond reasonable doubt that you have the key and that you're refusing to hand it over. The presence of software like this, traces of your participation in such a network is reasonable doubt. Even with this proven, refusing to decrypt is what they get you for, not what they think you've got encrypted.
"We already proved we can do it with machines and who will make first contact with alien life in becoming a really important question. We are not a race of robots."

It is entirely possible that our first contact with intelligent life will be with that life's robots. Just saying.

Robots are a cost-effective way to explore space. You can send them on missions that don't have to be hyper-controlled for the preservation of life. You can send them on one-way missions, vastly extending the distance that a mission can cover. With manned missions, by contrast, the loss of even one life is an unacceptable casualty. Ergo, you need to overengineer the craft, and also load it up with all manner of food, living space, life support, waste management facilities, sufficient fuel for a return voyage, etc. -- all of which add lots of mass to the craft, which adds enormous fuel costs, etc.

I agree that we should return to manned space exploration as soon as possible. That said, I don't find space exploration to be a zero-sum game between manned and unmanned missions. We should be using a diversified approach -- one that focuses on manned colonization, coupled with robotic deep-space exploration and surveying.
Ofcourse it wouldn't be happening then, nobody would have had taken any damage if the FB stock had stayed or risen.

UBS would just have sold off the excess of shares it had received, perhaps at a profit. Perhaps just warning NASDAQ of their reckless technical situation.

That doesn't mean that there for some reason this lawsuit isn't justified. NASDAQ made UBS take a risk they did not want to take.
People get searched and interrogated at borders all the time. That doesn't, by far, only happen to crypto guys.

So, you might as well give them a sensible reason to interrogate you :)
"KURATAS", a human ride robot that you can buy
I couldn't resist, his website is amazingly funny too http://rahultyagi.net/Home.html
If you only have portions of alleged illegal files on your machine, you won't be able to decrypt it. As far as the blocks of data goes on your machine, it's indecipherable rubbish.
The best programming language for Android development may be Scheme
From GNU.org:

> Specifically, free software means users have the four essential freedoms: (0) to run the program, (1) to study and change the program in source code form, (2) to redistribute exact copies, and (3) to distribute modified versions.

Not all these freedoms make sense for "non-functional work" like art. RMS outlines some of his views here: http://www.libervis.com/article/rms_on_the_ethics_of_non_fre... Paraphrasing, art (as opposed to software) is something contributed to society for enjoyment, software is for work. The minimal freedom of art should be shareable for non-commercial uses, with a max copyright of 10 years before people can create derivative works for commercial use.

I imagine there might be (or could be) a license that asks for the "source" of art assets; that is, a .PSD file, or a blender project, or a script that generates the image. That's a lot more useful to me than the final image itself, and a lot easier to modify if I wanted.
A lot of the innovation happening in client-side JavaScript right now is based on HTML5 technologies like Web Workers, "data-" attributes, Canvas, Local Storage, etc. If you read through HTML5Rocks.com, you'll see that many of the things it talks about are new APIs available to JS in the browser.
I could misunderstand what the intent is.

If this is just a distributed block based storage without an index that folks can search, then it's more akin to a way for you to ask folks to hold on to encrypted data for you for a while (without them knowing what the encrypted data actually contains).

I think it's more of a matter of how secure the block chain is. Note this part of the opening blurb:

To ensure quality service and prevent abuse, the Cryptosphere uses an integrated cryptographically secure reputation system which provides a distributed web of trust.
And you consider this a spam story because ... ?
I think you got it almost right. The distinction is between Software and other Media (Images, Sounds).
The Software has to be free because otherwise it could work against you (oversimplification).
'Source code' is misleading since, depending on how the artist produces the media, it technically might have source code without being user-run software (think vector grafics, MIDI with notes and synthesizer values, etc).
Learn to program?
what the best ressources.(BOOKS.lectures) that teach how to become a good programmer?
if u had experience .please share:)
Twitter 'alerted NBC to British journalist's critical tweets' - suspends account
U.S. spends $32 billion on for-profit schools
But they could pull a better microsoft than microsoft[1] and compete on multiple fronts. Than we'd have to take the profit in all of those industries combined.

[1] meaning, better quality output
I Rewrite Apple’s Annoying Genius Ads
I'm actually more embarrassed about the level of English this guys uses. Majority of the school education here is in English, atleast in the cities. All of engineering/technical education in India is in English. I can expect the odd mistakes since it's not our first language, and the accent being a problem. But to be considered an expert in the field, i would imagine you should have a firm grasp on the language you use to impart unambiguous, highly technical knowledge.
I fundamentally agree with your point: changing processes at large software teams is really, really hard, risky, and expensive.

But if I may pick a nit about something I think you were describing as a potential process improvement, per-team branches have been tried at scale many times before, both with and without Git. Many smart people I know who've had to clean up subsequent messes believe, counterintuitively, that the larger and more complex you get, the more branches hurt you, because they encourage you to delay integration, and integration is painful. Git merge capability, while excellent, can't save you if two teams independently decide to rename a method that both rely on; that's still a conflict. I've heard of several other large shops relying successfully on toggles with a single mainline.

Fowler describes this pain in terms of feature branches rather than team branches, but it's the same idea: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/FeatureBranch.html

Branching is a poor substitute for genuine modularity.
I can't disagree more. What I'm interested in, and I think what scientists are interested in, is to explore, to understand, to discover. Robots are a manifestation of humans: it's a tool for us. A tool that is better than risking life of astronauts or spending a lot of money just to have that cow boy feeling of "I was there with my foots".
They also released lots and lots of "minor" updates for different applications (iWork = 1GB, iLife = 3GB, OS X Voices = 1GB, ...), so the number is actually higher than that.
But smaller does not always mean better. Benchmarks have shown that parsers based exclusively on regular expressions can be even several times slower than parsers that use scanner/tokenizer.

The bigger regExps you write, the slower and more bug-prone your code will be.
Food for thought:

If there would be such a license, one could still argue it offers not the most freedom possible.
To take it to the extreme, the license could ask that all assets have to be in a format editable/compatible with FOSS :)
As a fellow Australian, I think you've oversimplified.

1. America is a better fit for Australians. We ostensibly speak the same language; thanks to cultural exports we are highly familiar with American popular culture and domestic affairs.

2. There are 15 Americans for every Australian.

3. America has a gigantic middle class. Only mainland Europe is its rival.

4. It's easier to start and run a startup business in the USA than it is in Australia. Capital is much easier to come by, regulations are better suited to startups and you're not a pariah if you fail.

Comparing your list:

Indonesia and China don't speak English, have highly distinctive cultures from Australia and each other, neither has a middle class that's bigger than the USA's, capital is scarce unless you are politically connected, regulations tend to be based on personal schmoozing rather than impersonal rule of law and they are not tilted to favour small startups.

Right now, if you speak English and you want to launch an internet business, the USA is by far and away the most advantageous country to do it in.
Usually the way this works (or should work) is that you answer the security question and then it emails you a new password.

The reason for the security question is to prevent people who don't know you from being able to lock you out of your account. Of course this doesn't work so well if the person knows who's account it is and can find the answers to security questions online.
> 1) Get traction.

aka "Nothing succeeds like success".
I would hope not. While some of them are almost children (<20), there's no need to treat them like children.

Software solutions to peopleware problems are always a bad idea.
How PowerPoint changed Microsoft and my life
HTML5 compass and straightedge pentagon examples
A page I wrote back in June covering the math behind four different ways of constructing a pentagon. Includes an HTML5 engine for animating classical compass and straightedge constructions.
Making up shameful quotes for a prominant politician seems a lot less benign than discouraging people from purchasing a competitor's product.

"I like to grab old women's tits from behind, they never know what's coming" laughed the mayoral candidate in a private moment last night. By the way, Coke is better than Pepsi.
> I imagine there might be (or could be) a license that asks for the "source" of art assets; that is, a .PSD file, or a blender project, or a script that generates the image. That's a lot more useful to me than the final image itself, and a lot easier to modify if I wanted.

This is used in the GPL :

"The “source code” for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it."

And also in the "open source definition" that can be used to judge whether something is free software or not :

"The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program." [1]

[1]: http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php
What distinguishes this prize from others is the sheer amount of money. The recipients gain a measure of financial freedom, allowing them to pursue their lifelong goals with much less regard to job and other mundane considerations.
Just leaned about the fact, that he's the maker of Celluloid/DCell. Both pretty awesome!
I take exception to your mention of China as a viable market.

There's a lot of red tape you need to overcome in order to not only operate in China, but also to get money out of China.

It requires a lot of money to be spent on legal fees, as well as connections in China.
The problem is that this is no different to Google.

It also earns a tonne of revenue through fraudulent clicks many by competitors. It's a big deal and Facebook needs to make attempts to fix it but the problem will never be completely solvable.
I'm usually very hesitant when it comes to discussions on corruption in the country. Corruption carries the burden of many meanings in it and so its very easy to get caught up talking past other people.

For one there are several different types of corruption, I usually treat them as small c corruption and Big C "Corruption".

A break down for Small C corruption for Bangalore between June July can be got here - from ipaidabribe:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=413057582064179&s...

(for some reason their site doesn't have the photo, so had to dig up their Facebook page)

Then there is large 'Corruption', the purvey of our politicians which has to be treated differently. Thats what we need the Lokpal bill for.

The new changes to service tax though, will slowly close many of the loop holes though.