skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's the permanence that changes things, it's the visibility.

This is what confused me most about the whole case. As the article says: "Many other websites control extremely salacious material either by using special coding to keep it to themselves (so that Google doesn’t pick it up)..."

The major issue wasn't merely that there were false statements being issued, but that they were high on the Google results for the laywers' names. Why didn't the website merely turn off Google indexing for the problem forums?
I don't understand this submission, it links to some tarballs. I've used SLURM before, it's pretty good, it's homepage is here:

https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/
Managing Big Egos So the Entire Team Wins
Even if you're anxious to get a job in the industry, I would argue that you should never offer to do so for free. Employers don't value "free" because they assume it's sub-standard even if you kick ass. You may be great, but if you offer to do something for free, your time likely won't be valued much and you'll end up working the useless projects. It's not fair, it doesn't make sense, but I notice that's just how people treat "free" and the highest paid opinion usually wins even if it's not always right. Respect yourself, ask for at least token pay.
Running Monte Carlo simulations with typical stock/bond returns and volatility, the max safe withdrawal rate is usually put at 2%-4%. This really depends on how you factor in inflation.

(Of course, what is "typical"? In 2007, what we saw in 2008 certainly wouldn't have been seen as typical.)
I love those marsh trails. They're saving my life right now.
Nokia killing future development of Qt "Jambi" Java port
Thanks! I've been meaning to write this exact thing for a while but never got round to it, now I don't have to :)
I don't want to throw rocks, because I used to work for Larry (in fact, I wrote the original codebase for Ma.gnolia.com) and I like him.

But I distinctly remember talking about backups and how a raw sync of the innodb files wasn't really what we needed (it could sort of work in the original deploy of ma.gnolia, but would not scale as the site scaled). I'm kind of surprised that the community has been so tolerant of this failure. Personally, I'd be furious if I found out that a site I trusted lost all my data because they hadn't even tested their backup system.
You're not very good at this are you ?

""Photoshop is the only Mac program I've seen that uses "setup" and "uninstall" paradigm, two idiocies from the Windows world." I guess you hate apt and yum too? Gee, having a list of programs that are installed is really lame.
Right, because the Mac makes so much more sense. The dmg files that you download have to be mounted (lame). Inside the dmg, you _might_ find a folder, a bunch of files, a single file or a setup program. You just never know. Then when you're done figuring that out and you finally get your program "installed" on your Mac, you have to unmount the dmg.
Windows is much simpler: Download setup.exe, double click, Next, Next, Finish.
(originally posted by user: wizlb)"

that comment ?

Shows up just fine, whether you're logged in or not doesn't seem to matter.

I suggest you look into whether something is caching your web traffic, not to start firing random shots at websites that you have just joined.
Happy Birthday! My favorite community here. Great people, great ideas, great service!
May I also suggest...

File Tree
http://abeautifulsite.net/notebook.php?article=58

Autocomplete
http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-autocompl...

uEditor
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/uEditor

Table Sorter
http://tablesorter.com/docs/
This sounds like your fault rather than theirs. You have VCs who are inviting you to pitch your company to them, you are accepting their offer and then getting upset that they actually expect you to pitch them.

The point of an intro call is that you tell them what you are up to and they tell you what their firm is about. If you aren't interested in hearing about their firm and and you don't want to explain to them what you are up to, then don't waste their time and yours with the phone call.
It serves the purpose of imparting a conversational style with minimal effort.
Just out of curiosity, whats wrong with experts exchange?
This warrants repeating: Hulu is doing their very best to drag the content providers into this century. Boxee gets this, which is why they complied with a request from Hulu, without forcing the issue. Hulu asked, Boxee agreed, and now Hulu tries to convince content providers to change their mind.
There is a "delay" number in your profile that says how many minutes elapse after you post, before your comment shows up to anyone else.

If you want to set it to 0, go ahead.

I guess the idea is that if you post something, er, stupid, you can edit it and save face.
There was so a missed opportunity for a nerd joke here:

Hacker News is 10!
Your HN posts may be removed without your knowledge

Having been on other online forums, I consider this a feature rather than a bug.

It is also possible for users to delete their own posts if they write too hastily. That can improve the tone of discussion here.
Delay is 0 by default, unless my account is an anomaly.
Wow. It seems somehow both sad and funny that people are now making a living as professional "wealth therapists". I guess it's just another example of how decadent and wasteful our society has become.
Kelly's basic argument is that, yes, the Unabomber was fundamentally correct in his understanding of the tension involved in a technopoly (a society where technology is no longer a tool but actually driving the society--read Neil Postman's book of that name for a good read), but that he (Kelly) disagrees with what to do about it.

Obviously, Kascinzki (sp?) was crazy in how he responded to this tension, but I think we should be thinking a lot harder about the challenges he raises, rather than simply accepting the forward march of technology.

Kelly makes some good points about decent alternatives being hard to find. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be thinking hard about them.

For further good reading along those lines, I'd recommend any of Wendell Berry's commentaries (his novels are good reading, too) and Neil Postman's (Amusing Ourselves to Death, Technopoly, etc.)
Carleton or UofO? Are you in the co-op program or looking for a general summer position?

Startups tend not to hire co-ops, because they cannot afford the risk of getting a dud. I worked for a term at a startup and it actually was very difficult to dive into, it was a very niche technology and nobody had time to guide me.

This early in your career, maybe working for a large company doing a small project would be ideal. You would probably get paid better and have a boss that has time for you.

If you want to volunteer at a startup and find the right team it would probably be the best opportunity for skill growth.
You mean, something that would try random inputs and URLs to the spidered site map of Hacker News? That tool already exists, in many forms.
Check with your a university advisor. In Vancouver we have someone from the local university that helps places students at startups.
Gold is seen as safe right now, but that could turn around very quickly if the economy starts to recover or demand fails to keep pace.
This article assumes that talent and an assertive ego go hand in hand. There may be two star players in terms of talent, where one views everything as a competition, and the other may be more self-competitive. I wonder if you try to redirect the competitive ego, or try to build up the less extroverted one?
Didn't Reddit lose user account data at least once after start-up (as I seem to recall from personal experience)?

I know that MSN lost a lot of user account data soon after its start-up, way back in the 1990s. Preserving data for an online community is not easy, even for richly funded market entrants.
I ran this article by a bunch of nontechie friends and every one of them said they don't want to use yelp anymore. Half of them use it all the time too...
Great talk on visual analytics by Tableau CEO
The iPhone Application Builder
certainly... autocomplete is great
I thought the real possibility was deflation rather than inflation. Either way if I just wanted a way to keep the money safe I'd just buy some gold.
Join this meetup group: http://www.meetup.com/The-Ottawa-LAMP-Perl-and-PHP-Meetup-Gr... and try networking there. There's a lot of smart local folk, and many of them are hiring.
the problem is that "hiring" someone where they get paid is a HUUUUUUUGE pain in the ass because of all those state/federal forms you need to fill out for employees.

Which is why the really early stage startups don't really hire. Since they want to avoid that hassle.

Also when startups are squeezing every penny trying to get profitable/launch, they can't take a chance and start paying someone, even the few grand a month a "paid" intern would earn.
Burton redux
On one hand, I understand that this is inevitable. No language can be spoken forever, and unless there is a reason to communicate in a language, it will evaporate. This is a natural consequence of increasing communication between nations which are searching for a standard language with which to use.

On the other hand, there is a certain emptiness associated with a language which is no longer spoken, entombed in books. My inner linguist laments the death of these obscure languages and dialects.

I won't grieve too much, for as language evolves, communication between humans is facilitated. As most people will only feel comfortable learning one, maybe two languages, why not learn the ones most spoken? Of course languages are going to "go extinct," that is the nature of their evolution: survival of the fittest.
Usually if a star player leaves everybody wonders how they'll get by without him (it's always a him) and then they find out things actually become easier...
Housing will not bottom until around 2012. Buying now is stupid any way you slice it. You are buying a depreciating asset for no good reason. Furthermore, municipalities all around the country are set to jack property taxes through the roof.

The owner of the representative property on the market for rent right now is losing money every month if they had a mortgage written in then last few years. Rents are cheap. Renters are still subsidized by bozos who think houses will appreciate, or are desperately trying to make their payments.

I'm not sure how applicable all this is to Canada, however, as their property market never went quite so insane. It will probably bottom sooner and after a shorter correction.
That's right. Now, that being said, it begs the question of whether or not the style imparted is any good.
Anyone know where the original is?
Kelly's page lacks historical depth. My short essay http://www.cawtech.freeserve.co.uk/back-to-nature.2.html could serve as a wake-up call, alerting people to the need to read older books and learn enough of the history of technology to appreciate the depth of its roots in human society.
Wow, thanks! This sounds great!
But it's the other way around. This isn't the typical startup hustling for VCs intros while hoping to get funding.

Wufoo is profitable and growing. And Wufoo is in the very fortunate position of having VCs sell them on the idea of taking money. So far, the VCs appear to be doing a piss poor job of it.
Microsoft’s ‘iPhone Killer’ Secret Prototype Stolen in Barcelona
It is not so easy.

The behavior that you read described in this thread is placing real bad review at the top of the list, review that "normally" wouldn't be so high.
An email is noise. Meeting in person (in the context of a relevant event, conference, meetup, etc.) or submitting patches to the startup's pet OSS projects is signal.
This is probably true overall, but not true for every location you could possibly want to live. I doubt Manhattan is going to get cheaper.
Incorrect. In the latest browsers, js can be downloaded in parallel, but executed in the correct order - sequentially.

AFAIK, that includes the latest safari, firefox, and IE8.

However, it's still obviously a good idea to concat and minify all your scripts.
Spreading further down Rte. 95 is desirable from my perspective as it connects Providence, RI with Boston and 128.

The mass transit system is setup as a wagon wheel with everything south of Boston going into Back Bay and South Stations. (I believe every line north goes into North Station but I've never gone from that direction.) Frankly I can't see a better approach for mass transit. The problem I think is that the high tech jobs tend to be up in Cambridge or parts of Boston that require transfers from the major commuter line stations.

Rte. 128 is an old highway that wasn't intended for the traffic on it and I'm not sure if property lines and such prevent further expansion of it. From my perspective, I wouldn't put a company there unless I was prepared to give the employees 100% telecommuting. Having people lose 3 hours of their lives daily to breathing in fumes and looking at other cars' bumpers is an almost criminal waste of their time.

Sorry robg, I didn't mean to evade your question. I tried giving some background that makes the answer more obvious.
But in every other major case I've heard of, it has been properly backed up.
Those are all excellent additions. The file tree plug-in is especially impressive. How well does the file tree work in practice with a large number of files?
Well, just keep an eye on ebay and they'll be able to buy it back for a song.

I don't know why Barcelona should be 'known for having the best pick-pocketing thieves in the world', but if this one plays his cards right he could be the wealthiest pick pocket.

On the whole I think it rates as 'pretty stupid' to have your pre-production samples out in the open like that, there is not much 'secret' about them anymore when relations of relations are walking around with them (and now, of course, pick pockets).
Many eggs, many baskets.

Make sure some of your wealth is out of the reach of your government. Bullion stored in switzererland or the channel islands is good for this.

Learn how to hedge with options. Puts were quite cheap before the crash. People who had insured their positions are doing fine. This occurs to remarkably few.
I used to offer myself for 'free' as a youngster, then after a week I'd ask how much they'd pay me if I stayed. Never had a company not make a half decent offer after that week.

You risk a week, if they know what they've got they'll keep you, if you're not worth keeping then the problem might be on your end.
So that all your money won't be locked in.

That is, for his ($175-$100-$8) * 3100 equation, you are only leaving 8 * 3100 on the table, as opposed to 100 * 3100 if you were to buy and hold.
You should also consider putting a link here to your blog/portfolio or just a way to contact you. I am the founder of a Montreal-based startup and always love to talk to smart students who are eager to learn.
I've always kinda hated tag clouds.

Can you give us a sample of what the data looks like?
Manhattan is one of the biggest bubbles of all. I actually have some short positions betting on that. NYC real estate is going to crash over the next two years.
Wikileaks leaks its donors e-mail addresses
But grandparent said:

In New York, price/rent ratios are above 40. A $2500/month apartment will sell for over a million.

And $1,200,000 > $1,000,000! The first sentence implies the second, but not vice versa... am I the only one to stumble on this?

To me, it sounds like saying "I have over 20 cats. I have more than a dozen cats!".
Go to entrepreneurship or tech networking events. At least in LA, I'm always surprised that no students show up!
I mostly agree, you don't want to spend less than 500K on a house if you live anywhere near a major city.

But if you live outwards a bit (say, an hour from Toronto or similar) then 400K gets you a massive 3 story house in a quiet neighborhood.

Depends on what you're into.
4chan is not profitable?
Mozilla And Skype Back EFF On iPhone Jailbreaking DMCA Exemption Request
Turning Out The Lights: Coghead
I've seen the opposite quite a few times already...
That's my blog, but I didn't post it here. The original link is in the post: http://moderator.appspot.com/#15/e=c9&t=10c
It would be interesting to figure out the incidence of those cases and any other options.
It wasn't our intent to spam (or create blogspam, to be precise), we just wanted to provide some exposure for the great website which complements the book very well.

We link every projects official website up in our coverage to make sure the source gets properly mentioned.

Best, Benjamin datavisualization.ch
> I'd be furious if I found out that a site I trusted lost all my data because they hadn't even tested their backup system

Exactly - first rule of backups - test them. For a database, it can be as simple as using your nightly backup to create your dev or test database or whatever. I guess it isn't feasible with a half terrabyte database every day, but to not have at least a several week old backup set is somewhat unforgivable.

On the other hand, I bet he will never ever make the same mistake again, and it will make a lot of people on here think long and hard about their own backup strategies ...
Sorry, I just typed out a reply to this and deleted it because I can't speak to the details adequately enough for my liking.

The gist of it was that gold is also subject to monetary pressures because its price is a reflection of the fact that it is used as a financial instrument. (In other words, gold's value is tied to the fact that it is used as currency).
4chan is profitable, profit just has yet to be made from it. There are enough advertisers who care more about page views than content toxicity.
An absolutely fantastic way to kill customer loyalty and build a terrible reputation
It's actually pretty fast because it only returns HTML snippet for the current layer. To my knowledge, it doesn't do recursive digging.
I think it is more survival of the least unfit, but I agree. I'll be happy with English, Arabic and Mandarin.
make that Spanish, Mandarin and English...
Still waiting for the ability to select my own font for plaintext editing and viewing (I'm aware of the Labs fixed-width viewing feature).
Thanks, I've added my email.
Ask HN: My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give?
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's computer system. He didn't do any major damage, but I want to make sure he knows why what he did was wrong and show him ways in which he can use his talent to make a positive impact on the world. What is the best way to approach him? Are there any good articles / books I can recommend to him?
Honestly, not too sure. I know I wanted to be able to see other hackers from HN at my school. I've gotten a lot of feedback, just wish I had more time (or help) to build it out.
Thanks for sharing that link. I just posted it up on the Windy Citizen so Chicagoans following the story can get a local take:

http://www.windycitizen.com/chicago/spotlight/2009/02/yelpco...
Well, then lowball. Why not use the downturn to your advantage. Make incredibly low offers for anything you want. Make 100 offers and entertain those that seem okay or are willing to get out of it.

You have the time, the money and the inclination. Of 100 homes that are 800K, one of them might go for 400K cash money right?

Well, if they don't you still have the money. They've got a property they want to offload.

LOWBALLING, it's the new commando.
I just feel so sorry for the Magnolia guy; what a waste of hard work!

He must be feeling like shit right now; I know I would.
Flash does have hardware acceleration (Direct and GPU)
My PowerPoint deception
Lame? Mounting a DMG is no different from unpacking an archive, but unlike self-extracting executables this operation is 100% safe since no code gets to run. This is much better than "Are you fucking insane to run this?!" scary dialog boxes that Windows throws at you when you click on a downloaded .exe. Do you know how many people actually do get scared and delete your precious app instead?

Second, inside of a .dmg you normally find an application bundle that you simply copy into your Applications folder. What can possibly be simpler than copying a file?
Europe's language wars | English is coming
I'm guessing "war games" wouldn't help :-)
define "hacking", did he do anything complicated, or did he just guess a password?
If iPhone had never existed, Mobile World Congress 2009 would have been utterly different
I was a charter subscriber to MSN, and I never got my email address back. So I stopped using MSN.
In my experience, MySQL has gotten more buggy and less stable over time.
I'd like to see the comment ordering algorithm reflect the interestingness of the replies subtree. I'd like to see a 1 point comment with a 20 point reply above a 3 point comment.
Networking at local tech events would be a good start. If you code outside of class (which it sounds like you do), you are already ahead of 90% of people in most CS programs in Canada. In my experience, if you meet someone in person or are referred by a friend you have MUCH better odds of getting a reply than just sending an email with a resume.

Being able to demonstrate some working code is always good, whether it's a live site or some open-source contributions or some other code you can show. Assuming you have no work experience as a developer, it's pretty important that you demonstrate your abilities somehow.

Are you looking to stay within Ottawa? Ontario? Canada? There seems to be a lot going on in the GTA these days, if you're willing to live there.
The best reference I can recommend would be Eric Raymond's "How To Become A Hacker" : http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html The key point the article points out is that "The basic difference is this: hackers build things, crackers break them." The teenage thrill of breaking into computer systems is certainly exciting but perhaps he will be even more enthusiastic about learning to be curious about how things work under the hood, how to do clever things via programming and how to develop a true hacker mind set. Of course all this without the risk of getting into trouble like breaking into his school's computer system. I am glad to know that he did not choose to do any major damage but nevertheless I hope he grows up to become a fine hacker and understand the true meaning of being one. Good luck and great effort on your behalf to try to advise him in the correct path!
Why was it wrong ?

He shouldn't have been able to do it anyway. Compare it to a kid kicking against a fence and finding out that it swings open.

Simply explain that if you have no business in a system that you should not try to gain access, that should be plenty.
I think the demand for services like iTunes is driven partially by the perceived legal risk involved in using free alternatives. Suing the pirates might actually be a profitable idea for the RIAA.
That presentation is so good I had to log in to upvote it.
I have a wonderful data backup story.

I was backing up one nearly-full 1TB Seagate Freeagent to another one, and then after 180GB of data transferred, I knocked one of them over by mistake, it fell 15 cm to the floor and died!

I sent the broken Freeagent to Seagate data recovery, but unsure if it would be recoverable, I had this amazing brainwave.

Before I backed up one Freeagent to another, I quick-formatted (note: quick, not full). When one of the drives broke, I had a brainwave: Why not undelete the remaining data?

So I found a utility on the web to unformat and undelete, and the only data left from the copying was off a spare 3.5" drive, and I got back all but 2 weeks of data.

I was lucky. Now I have 3 Freeagents to serve my backup needs.

However, all my core data is now on some 2.5" drives, which are more reliable than a 3.5% Freeagent.