skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I could be wrong though on actually how easy it truly is.

It's impossible, unless you're already an NBC cable subscriber. If you _are_ an NBC subscriber already, it's only pretty painful (involves passwords you basically never use otherwise and so forth).

But yes, they're working hard to make it as easy as they can within the "you can't get this if you're not already one of our customers" constraint.....
Given that any type of human-solvable captcha can be easily outsourced for cheap, I think the next best alternative is some computationally expensive operation per form submission.
Aaargh.. Please include pictures in an article exploring visual history.
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Cars and spaceships built on existing engineering and physics principles. We've never had anything like programming. We can't even decide if it's a math, a science, or some kind of engineering.

We have languages with built-in async support (and some that fake it decently), languages with syntax for safe and unsafe pointer use, languages that bundle impurity away from everything else.

It's a slow process, since any new language has a massive uphill battle to gain any traction. But I think we're getting there.
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Did you mean for humans or for English speaking humans?
Ever since the Ouya was announced, it seemed to me like it is a project that Gamestop will/should try to buy.

With digital marketplaces, Gamestop, Best Buy, Amazon, Wal-Mart and other more traditional retail avenues run the risk of becoming irrelevant the same way Tower Records and Blockbuster did.

Look at Steam on the PC, why on earth would you buy from Gamestop? Oh wait, Gamestop doesn't sell PC games anymore really. Wal-Mart and Best Buy sell a few. Gamestop needs to do something to put themselves in a position to be relevant in 5-10 years or the Xbox 3 and Playstation 4 at some point in their lifecycle will likely be close enough to digital only that you'll have 80% of sales be digital instead of 10-20%. That will kill Gamestop and will put a hurt on Wal-Mart and Best Buy as well.

Gamestop has started trading in and selling tablets, but they don't get any of the software revenue and there's no such thing as "used apps", so unless they get their own platform or marketplace to make a cut of sales on, I think they're done in the long term.

Buying or building something like Ouya is probably Gamestop's best hope of not dying in 5-10 years.
I had the opportunity to meet Andre last summer while interning at Cisco. I had no idea who he was at first, until I looked him up on LinkedIn and "googled" his name.

Towards the end of my internship, I was there until 10 PM some days working on code. Andre would see my cube lights on and come over to talk to me. Considering how I was just working all alone when there that late, I really appreciated the brief talks, as they provided me when an opportunity to think about something other then the problems within my code for a few moments. He would often share a few technical tips or an interesting story with me during our conversations.

Although I didn't work with him much, it's disappointing to hear of his death. It seems like most of the comments in here (on HN) are regarding mental illness -- something which I never observed during the brief period of time that I knew him. Regardless of his reason for taking his life, I'm glad I had the opportunity to meet him and thank him for those brief conversations.
it's all serialization - but that's not a bottleneck for most web servers. i'd love to hear your context-switching free multicore solution.

this is the sanest and most pragmatic way server a web server from multiple threads
No blog post, no -- but you can link to my HN comment[1]. Also, as long as I'm commenting again on this, I should point out that pkill also had an Easter egg of sorts: "pkill -V" was a shorthand for killing everyone's least favorite Solaris daemon: vold. (This option was ripped out when vold itself was ripped out in 2006.)

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4306515
If you email me at coderrr.contact@gmail.com I can try to help figure out why you get slow speeds on some of our US servers. None of our servers are even running near capacity.
I feel like you didn't read the article, because the author already addresses what you said and had you read the article you'd realize you made incorrect assumptions that, again, he already addressed.
And presumably you have heard of every single person in the entire world?

Judging by your comment history you are also familiar with every single school in the whole world.
Seems like ArchitectSpeak. I used to hang out with architecture students, they are indoctrinated to write and talk like this. And thus they can't help but sound like literary critics who give talks by reading their own papers. Contrast this with scientists who try to make their talks sound as informal as possible.
There are 3 steps needed to exploit this attack vector (assuming no wetware exploits):

1. Download the file. Any website can do this by design.

2. Get LaunchServices to open the file. This requires at least one vulnerability.

3. Bypass quarantine. This requires at least one additional vulnerability.
For an interesting alternative to traditional captcha check out Solve Media - they monetize your captcha for you by making you input brand messages (that are retained better than just seeing a banner ad). I thought it was an interesting idea when I met the founder Max & team (although I was just slightly skeptical of the level of security provided). They seem great though, so it's worth checking out.
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lol, I'm totally going to take creativity advice from the guy who was just outed for self-plagiarizing.
Relaxation means to be free of stress. A couch potato can be on as much adrenaline as a hard working person. We only know a single state which is state of constant stimulus and excitation. Relaxation is a state of similar to meditation. You don't call Buddha a slacker; do you?
I'd highly recommend this option. Tried them out a couple of months ago and the service is brilliant. Multiple Exit IPs and unlimited bandwidth including torrents takes the cake.
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What's the problem here?

This is a hypothesis, but the answer is probably something like: Lots of people want to demonize free markets, and HFTs are particularly easy to demonize because it's hard to see how they add value (although they do), but easy to see that they are ethically self-interested (which people also unjustly demonize).

My recommendation to HFTs to counter this would be (a) do a better job explaining the mechanics of how you're providing a valuable service; (b) do a better job supporting capitalism in general, on a moral level, in the public sphere of debate. Otherwise, you're gonna have to pack up shop and move to a more free country pretty soon (if there is one).
It would have been good courtesy to declare your affiliation with this company in your original comment
And how do you determine that Linode is more trustworthy than TunnelBear?
long term traders have trouble quickly buying and selling the stocks.

If you're a long term investor, and the particular minute of the day when you make your transaction makes or breaks your strategy, then you were effectively just flipping a coin with your long term strategy.
First sign this NDA
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Its not. I just put a disclosure at the bottom of the post and would like to donate whatever the referrals are to an anti-censorship organization, assuming Linode can make that happen.
I didn't know that. Now that'll be my pet peeve. Im guessing many people have only seen the + as a gmail hack to sign up multiple times on the same site.
The version that created the data reads it just fine. The new version just isn't backwards compatible.
Yea I should have. I guess I forgot to because I had already done so in these other comments [1] and wrongly assumed everyone had read them as well. Anyway, I'm the cofounder of said service.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4307364 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4307380
Very impressed that this went from a one page cookie-cutter site, to a HN post, to 4K sign-ups, to a BBC article. Hopefully it is the start of something big -- if executed on well it could be very appealing.
I did something similar to watch hulu from Canada awhile back but I had split tunnelling disabled where all traffic goes through the vpn so no messing around with static routes and ips. Also setup a local DNS cache on the VPS and configured openvpn to use the VPS DNS cache when connected. CDN's generally use the ip of the DNS request to determine where to direct your browser to download the media, static host entries would avoid the DNS request though. I no longer have it setup, but I do have my config backed up somewhere. If someone's interested I'll look for it.
given that recapture uses english words and Roman lettering, it's already pandering to a particular audience.
except that vaccinations are convenient and instant

and each computer is in contact with thousands

and browser infection almost always comes from servers

I don't see herd immunity working with browsers, and it barely works with operating systems.
I just bought a 32 mb vps. That is more than enough for openvpn. It was only 0.5$/m. For slightly more you can get a decent one outside US.
This post is right on the money. The very small chance that someone will "steal your idea" based on a short pitch is completely outweighed by the much larger chance that the listener will offer useful feedback or that your conversation will eventually have other beneficial results.
"Understandably, I forgot my password"

That's not understandable, that's stupid.
People will "fudge" things, as you say, for pride or sympathy just as much as they will for any concrete benefit.
Three words important to business types: Sustainable competitive advantage.

Two words important to technical types: Working code.

For "pure" tech ideas -- where the product primarily consists of software with unique functionality -- these two things are equivalent, and staying in "stealth mode" and protecting yourself with NDA's until you're ready for release is important, because it's easier for an adversary to develop an equivalent product than it is to develop equivalent relationships.

For more "businesslike" tech ideas -- where network effects, marketing, positioning, or inter-business relationships are most important -- the business-side execution is more important than the software details.

Of course, your mileage may vary, and most real companies require both technical and business competence to be successful.

The more time you've spent on your code, the harder it is for your competitors to replicate it. As a very rough rule of thumb, the time it takes to build a meaningful competitive advantage is probably approximately equal to the time it takes to get a working prototype, so you can stay at least one major release ahead of your competitors, but this can vary a lot.
While I can see some validity in some of the points I can't really say that an NDA is a completely useless tool. I have never dealt with one before so I might not be the ideal candidate to talk about them. Nevertheless I think that if the NDA is reasonable and restricted to the matter at hand, in this case it seems to be some kind of consulting for a new startup, then is OK to use one. After all, wanting to protect a cool new idea is perfectly reasonable and understandable, specially in a highly competitive field.
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openvpn is hard. Use sshuttle instead.
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Google+ asking for birthday now.
One nice thing about recaptcha is that you know those cut off words don't matter (badly OCR'd) and can just enter gibberish for them.

But it has gotten to the point that about half of the control words are unintelligible by a human.
Here is a physical map of the Internet:
http://www.cablemap.info/

And here is a logical map of the Internet:
http://www.peer1.com/map-of-the-internet

A map of websites doesn't really make that much sense as a website can easily be in multiple places
Or how about short stories, something like; "Brian came home very late. He couldn't find Mr. Hat. While he was thinking where his cat might be, he noticed the window was wide opened." What's the name of the cat?

I don't know if it's hard or easy to guess it algorithmically.
According to this article from 2011: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2011/06/...

> In a break with predecessor Dick Ebersol, new NBC Sports chief Mark Lazarus promises to show all events live rather than saving the best for tape-delayed coverage in prime time.

So I guess they figured it's not profitable. But I wonder how many people have been pissed at missing the live coverage, see the results on twitter or the rest of the Internet and then just not bothering to tune in during prime-time?

How about charging $X to watch it live online? And if you don't want to pay that money then you can just wait until Prime Time.
Anyone signing an NDA without knowing what it is the NDA covers is needlessly incurring legal liabilities. I would never sign an NDA unless I knew what it was covering AND it was properly scoped (most NDAs tend to be too broad).

Even then, there has to be a really good reason for doing so - everything you agree to is something you have to keep track of and make sure you don't accidentally break at some point in the future.
Sure, I took it to be akin to the way that coffeescript maps down to JS, they're mapping JS down to LambdaJS.

But that said, having read through their blog posts, I was under the impression that their interpreter doesn't in fact support all of the SpiderMonkey test suite, and so, as a practical matter is still only supporting a subset of JS.

My attempts to get underscore working have been unsuccessful thus far (the debug info isn't terribly useful, not knowing their codebase).
I remember it was demonstrated that these questions can be easily answered with high margin of accuracy using wolframalpaha and google search.
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The tricky thing is that there are hordes of automated captcha-breakers that will recycle captchas until they get something that's easy to OCR
Evbn, you seem to be hellbanned, and your comment history makes things look (to me!) that its probably unjustified or a mistake. Email pg!
Interesting. We develop oauthlib (an OAuth logic implementation for python, https://github.com/idan/oauthlib). Will has a chat with the other contributors about implementing this.
> The "flash crash" can be seen as a simple illustration of this but so could be the greater volatility we have seen in the last few years.

Which "flash crash"? The one about a year ago or the one in the mid-60s?
Having used Meteor for a few weeks, I'm always impressed with how much time it is saving me.

One of the unfortunate things about Meteor at the moment is there aren't many open projects to learn from. For others trying to gain insights to best practices through this projects, here are some suggestions I may offer:

Users.find({last_seen: {$lt: (now - 60 * 1000)}}).forEach(function (user) { Users.remove(user._id); });

-> Users.remove({ last_seen: { $lt: (now - 60 * 1000) } });

and

Messages.find({date: {$gt: new Date()}}).forEach(function (message) {
Messages.update(message._id, {$set: {date: new Date()}});
});

-> Messages.update({date: {$gt: new Date()}}, { $set: {+new Date() }})

Excellent work otherwise though. I'd love to see more open source projects released with Meteor if anything for others to learn from!
My mother doesn't even know what a VPN is. Even if she did, she wouldn't know how to use one to watch the bbc coverage abroad as a license fee paying UK-citizen.
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Since when is including referral link on your own site considered spam? If then, you would be disappointed in visiting stackoverflow's site.
I don't know how with you guys, but on my iPad all techcrunch links are always create trouble with safari or even with chrome... I will no longer click on TC links :)
Just an FYI, I pay for nhl.com, nfl.com and nba.com live video feeds for the seasons. It is TOTALLY worth it, cheaper and easier than DirecTV or cable. My total bill for the year is about $250 for all three sports. Sports was the only reason I still had cable/satellite a while back. No need anymore, and a better product.

Just as a comparison, NFL Sunday Ticket Max on DirecTV is $299 for the season. Standard Sunday Ticket is $199. No brainer.
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Sure, but you shouldn't undermine the mission of successfully recording words that can't be identified. It's a pretty noble goal, actually.
What, two wars abroad and a great recession not enough? Fight Club was written in a pre-9/11 world.
That's the case - no adverts any of the bbc's television channels or radio stations in the UK. Most broadcasts are available on iPlayer too, always without adverts.
A link would be nice.

here: http://comehackwithus.com/
So if I install this everyone on the network can flood me with notifications?
Yeah, going to youtube.com brings a top bar with info on what is being streamed and takes you to the official channel. Works awesome here in India.
No commercials. The BBC is funded by UK taxpayers through a license fee (about £12 per month).
Thanks for the suggestions, just some quick hacking over the past two nights. I will update those queries. =)
Pretty easy. Took me 2 minutes to set it up (I already have VPS).

But Live streaming is also available on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/olympic .Why are you not using that? Isn't it accessible in US?
On the backs of giants: Olympics in the U.S. Clouds 
Bypassing the BBC's Olympics barrier is easy peasy. You can pay or do it for free. London2012 should be called London1973 for there distribution methods.
That's at least partly because SpiderMonkey supports a superset of the ES5 language, including Mozilla-specific extensions and candidate features for future versions of the standard.

Dave
To come at this from a slightly different angle.. any situation in which an agent gains wealth without creating wealth is at the expense of the market.

Two questions, first are HFT's creating wealth? second, are HFT's gaining wealth at the expense of the investors or the producers?
Actually, when Google Reader removed social features, I stopped using it, and actually I don't miss it much. It turns out that HN and Reddit do a better job of curating the same sort of feeds I was reading anyway - and selecting the best posts from a much wider variety of sources, to boot. The simple fact is that its a rare site that consistently publishes things I want to read. Anecdotally, it turns out that forming a community with others with similar interests provides a far better experience consuming information. (I say this because the "hit ratio" on the HN home page is much much higher than my feed ever was. And I'm not sure if it was ever possible for me to achieve that high of a hit ratio on my own just through subscribing to feeds).

That said, I think that everyone probably has 2 or 3 primary content sites (as opposed to aggregator sites like HN or Reddit or Google News) that they should probably read all the time, because it aligns so closely to their core interests, and RSS in a mail reader isn't a bad solution for such a small number of sources.
He seems a bit ignorant on how reCaptcha works nowadays.

You are presented with two strings - a potential word scanned from a book and a random mash of letters. You only need to enter the random letters correctly, you can write whatever you want for the word from the book. Meaning, if one of the two is obviously a bug in OCR software (or is non-latin characters you can't type), just write your favourite curse word -- I go with captcha -- and it will work.

As for the "unreadable mash of letters" problem, I could read them in all his examples. Though I have seen some cases when they are really unintelligible.

If you must use reCaptcha on your website, do it like 4chan -- when you mess up the captcha, you are automatically given a new image to try, without being sent away or having to enter what you just typed again.

Which just means you'll only limit the rate at which bots register -- the article mentions something like 10% success rate of current-generation bots guessing reCaptcha.
And downvoting someone on HN is going to make Apple abandon this philosophy?
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I'd like to see this happen just so that British taxes aren't being spent providing free coverage to people in other countries.
I see a possible solution that may work in a short term:

Instead of displaying a static captcha, display a dynamic one, with letters going through elastic transformations. Humans are pretty good with video sequences. Computers are not.

As a side effect this may help pushing computer vision algorithms to working with videos, rather than static images :)
Order and Disorder. The most productive work comes from riding the border between the work you planned to do, and the spontaneous moments that draw you away. Stay glued to the work that you do, and you are likely to miss the big picture synthesis. Keep getting drawn away, and you'll have no base from which to explore.

One must put as little order as possible to reach their goal. Too much order and you are prematurely optimizing the solution. Too little order and you don't have enough discipline to get to the solution in the first place.

Balance the opposites of order and disorder.
The correct thing to do is give a warning before the upgrade:

"This new version can not read your old data. Please export it before continuing."

Does Apple provide release notes for the OS? Did they at least document this in the upgrade/release notes?
> Also, the first time I went to Shake Shack, it totally put In-N-Out in perspective. And there must be so many incredible burgers in San Francisco.

Shake Shack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_Shack) is just the beginning.

This place is my current favorite: http://eatdogmatic.com/

In-N-Out is tasty, but it's cheap and low-quality, and doesn't stand up when compared to its better fast-food peers.
Google's captchas actually give me a headache looking at them, there's just too much curliness going on there.
'Visit the Google homepage on your birthday for a surprise!'

Hell yeah, I love surprises.
Natural Language Processing has become better in recent years.

> http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what%27s+4+times+four
I agree the liquidity seems to be an illusion. I imagine most HFT AI's have boundary conditions to stop trading once significant price changes occur to avoid losing money in unpredictable scenarios.
This is correct. Please read about Egyptian Wind Mobile having issues entering market because they didn't have enough Canadian ownership.

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/wind-mobile-violates-laws-on-f...
I have tried Solve media's service and its a good idea in theory but execution is poor.

Problems with Solve's captchas:

* Requires Flash plugin

* Contains sound (not critical to solving a captcha but not great when your laptop suddenly plays ad audio in a library)

* Payout rates are horrible. You earn a few cents for every couple thousand video captchas solved. Successful solved percentage rates are also poor
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Agreed, it saved me watching the video. Another few easy to remember tips, always good.
Do OCR on every frame, perform majority voting on the result. You just made the spammer's task easier.