skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes you have to be careful with being messed with on a train. Whilst drunk and unconcious on a train, a friend of mine had a penis drawn on his head in bic biro (this was UK, London, Kingston loop)
...great, I already imagine starting to use this and then feeling guilty that my sites don't give enough 404s :|
No way! It's that Marc Andreessen. What great humble beginnings!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen
I see where you're coming from, however I really do believe it is possible to build a great business on a shoestring.

I think there is a lot of comfort to be had in having more cash in the bank but not having much sure does focus you on making sure you are delivering a great product that your customers are willing to pay for from day 1.

I started my current project on practically nothing, with an idea and cheap rackspace cloud account. A year on we have 5 people, sure it would be great to have the luxury of a large amount of funding but I think running on a budget does have an upside in that it forces you to always focus on customer satisfaction and profitability.

Growth is just slower on the organic route and that is the main thing that concerns me.
Meh.

This guy pops his head up in documetaries and occasionally in the startup blogoshpere. Usually to toot his own horn about his 80s Apple Cred.

His advice and style are hoplessly outdated and his persona is actually rather annoying.

I'm still angry about the waistcoat he wears in that dumb 'Art of the start' video that still does the rounds...
Isn't this just because it offers unfettered web access? Safari has its own section in the "Restriction" settings (does this apply to UIWebViews, too?). I guess if apps could opt in to use that and Apple were to rename it to "Safari & Web Access" or something, there'd be no need to mark something 17+.
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CEO JB Rudelle called Criteo a "Ninja Turtle" on the eve of its $50M Series D
"Good proposal though, and hope that this takes off."
it was a proposal made 19 years back?
I'm old enough to remember reading this reposted on usenet (or was it gopher) at the time. Cue discussion about how gopher was much better as it already did images.

Little did we know back then...
It's too bad they went with `img` and `src` instead of listening to Tony Johnson and using `image` and `source`. Saved a few characters for needless abbreviation.
Oh, they have that. It's called metafilter.
I quite like -ms-grid, it's simpler and easier to understand imo than flexbox.
The reason why this is hitting HN again is because his domain was stolen and he has been able to recover it.
At a small company with specific goals, there's no implication of doing "'science' in general". I can buy that the idea of being chief scientist at, say, IBM or Google or Microsoft is a little fluffy, but if you're a startup focusing on one goal that is a little beyond what the scientific community knows how to do in theory, it's entirely reasonable to have a position in charge of guiding and directing (and performing) research to that goal and keeping up with the state of the field.

It's largely equivalent to a PI role of a university research project, except that there are things going on in the company other than pure research and so there are chief officers of other things too. Nobody thinks that "primary investigator" is a fluffy title on the grounds that people don't do investigation in general; it's clear they're investigating specific things.
The reply was especially amusing:

"I was proposing to use the file extension (.xbm above) to tag what format the
image was in, but with the intention that in future, when HTTP2 comes along,
the same format negotiation technique would be used to access images."

Almost twenty years later and still no HTTP2!

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0183.ht...
I've been using a it for a while. Downloading their PSD patterns make your design life a lot easier.
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Try adding '&viewall=true' without the quotes on the end of Wired URLs.

It is annoying though, a little bit of jQuery would fix it in about 5 seconds flat.
But how many more bytes would've been sent since 1993 were they image and source? :)
Have you found anything truly "enlightening" in the Django Book (like actually helping you to make a mental model of something or teaching you a better way to do things) that would make it worth checking out after initially "skipping" it?

(I actually went from the tutorial to specific parts of the docs and then to actually digging through the code of some os projects like django-cms, bypassing the Django Book altogether and learning things by reading the docs while actually doing client work ...after "lying" that I actually knew more about Django than I did ...but it all worked out magically alright, ahead of time and in the budget :) ...and this is what really made me feel good about D and made me eager to digg deeper and maybe even contribute to it sometime)
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May just be me but the drag-dropping method no longer works.
Jim Davis:
1) why have SRC instead of HREF?

Marc Andreessen:
Because I wanted to avoid overloading HREF -- doesn't really make sense in this context, I don't think.

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0196.ht...

So... that's the reason!
Great idea Marc. Just wondering what should happen with images stored on different web servers should someone in the future ever come up with a way for servers to identify individual clients.

Best sort something out now, before people get used to things working in a certain way.
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Thanks for the feedback -- I'll see if I can work that in before I release the first implementation!
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Personally, I'm skeptical.
This was the same year that NCSA Mosaic, the first ever web browser, was co-created by Marc Andreessen. He was probably working on Mosaic when he wrote this email.
Actually I just submitted it because it's very cool. Share this mysterious story with everyone?
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LIke a few other people here, I also didn't get any recommendations even after liking(and disliking) beers. I'll follow up tomorrow and shoot you an email or tweet if I still don't see any recommendations. Good job! You even got the Philippine beers :)
I had thought he'd given up on the site the other day, and just started using the git repo instead. Glad it was just a blip instead.

Hopefully he'll blog about what happened.
Geeklist is a good start
There was also serious backlash from certain people (cough TIM BERNERS LEE cough) that adding images to the web would degrade the user experience, encourage bad use cases, and encourage the riffraff to use it.

Why yes, I still remember that, why do you ask?
"Back Pattern" flickers horribly when I scroll. Which makes me wonder whether the other patterns will have a similar flicker on other displays.
Read on Brazil's history and you will understand why Brazil is what it is today. It's not for nothing and surely not news that Elite has always been in charge there.
This will not change easily when you have a constitution that was written to benefit the elite in the first place.
Agreed. But, there are a ton of people who want a place to share ideas and see them come to fruition - most can't do it on their own so they need help. And what could be better than a closed, tight, perhaps even paid community where users can exchange ideas, prototypes (closed, open), code, work on projects together, seek interest, advisors for two common goals really: make cool software together and make a ton of cash.
I wasn't accusing or executing him -- just pointing out this other case I've read about (linked from HN, I think) where the psychopath faked emotions. I'm not even saying this boy faked them. Just that the fact that he broke down doesn't have to mean much.
I love and use c too.
And here you were, an upstart kid, creating this newfangled "browser" so that anybody (anybody?!) could see the Web! The temerity of it! ;-)
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This is some really sloppy headline-writing right here. Not only is the company not bootstrapped, but in the context of job search, it seems to imply that Monster (the job listing website) was a party to the deal.
Here you can see the details about that incidence.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4531819
I remember how amazing IRC used to be in the 90s - it was the goto for the Internet public. The Internet that wasn't wasting time in AOL chat rooms.

Picture a closed community where you can't just join because it's cool - you have to be somewhat credible - have created something - anything, posses skills, talent, a relative position of employment, etc. certain "criteria" - to build a talents, rich community. Just like FB did it with Harvard only, then Stanford, then colleges, you get the picture.
But it did degrade the user experience, encourage bad use cases, and encourage the riffraff to use it. The easiest way to eliminate those problems is to not have users.

Why'd you have to go making things popular? I could still be using Lynx on a 1200 baud modem!
Just curious, how meaningful was the monetary return on the referral redirects from snugies? Wondering if we should do the same and get ostrichpillows or something.
Presumably the same thing that prevents them starting the start up in the first place. Which is either they aren't capable (call that the nasty hypothesis), or they know to spread their bets over many founders.

VCs commonly do oust founders, rather than buy outs (presumably it's cheaper)
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My thoughts as well. It was likely too difficult or embarrassing for him to reveal his true motivations and intentions in front of his family and his victim. Leo should have dug deeper.
Since when does taking $5M in VC mean bootstrapped? Well, judging from the comments, it seems that many perceive bootstrapping only applies to the early stages of the company. But I find that hard to stomach as someone who is also bootstrapping a company. When you bootstrap, you use your own revenues to finance growth. Getting investors is an alternative to that strategy. I don't see how you can both bootstrap AND have investors.

Looking at it differently, maybe they didn't need the capital, but they took it. You don't just accidentally get $5M from Union Square... term sheets happen. Lawyers are involved. Cap tables are adjusted. That doesn't happen when you bootstrap. It happens when you use other people's money to finance growth. AKA not bootstrapping.

That being said, it seems they did this particularly intelligently and Union Square was a fabulous choice for everyone involved.
Some kind of proxy that would join Tent with other social networks would IMHO do wonders for the adoption rate. But at the same time it’s not what the existing social networks want, which is why it probably wouldn’t work. Google+ doesn’t have a write API at all and see what Twitter is doing with their API. See also my thoughts on Tent, http://goo.gl/lGnfm.
maps.google.com ?
Click next in Thread. Then look at the "Next in Thread" - it's that Time Berners Lee http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0186.ht... And also look at the "Next Message". It's that Guido Van Rossum http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0184.ht...
http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0186.ht...

Ha, so that's what rel was supposed to mean.
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Dan Shapiro also explained this seemly irrational behavior that VCs have: http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2010/08/vc-insanity-economics...
See, if you hadn't let the riffraff in, you'd know for sure...
Yes and what if this signal that consumers want to send–$10, $1, or $0.01–doesn't work for the musicians???? Musicians can send a signal too. They can stop producing content. Fewer young people will consider going into the arts because they don't want to be starving (this is already the case, actually).

I'd love to pay only $1000 for a brand new car, but that doesn't work for car manufacturers. There's no reason a $10 a month service is necessarily sustainable just because that's what people want to pay. Heck, if consumers can demand what they want to pay they'd most likely just go with $0. Why can't they send that signal? It's convenient for the consumer to say $10 because they are comfortable with that. This amount is what labels can squeeze from consumers (because piracy has left them no options), but that doesn't mean it's the final and perfect solution.

If music subscription services end up not being much better than piracy, then all it does is grant a false sense of entitlement to these people who might as well still be pirating.
Google maps allows you to find things you didn't know existed in the first place. I've often found myself spinning the globe and zooming down onto a remote island's beaches just to see what it looks like on another part of the world. Being able to zoom down even farther to actually see the coral reefs is a natural extension of that. It's about discovery.

It doesn't matter that information about X is available if you can't find out that X exists in the first place.
I don't think that is correct. They never compared themselves to Oracle. I spent some time with Monty parts of the team and also tried working with their business side and they never went after the Oracle workloads.
Their huge popularity come with the LAMP stack and their ease of use. They went after this along with data warehousing.
All of our inbound links and API calls from our clients are https from the get go. However, you are correct that a man-in-the-middle could rewrite the http website of someone using us to change the links to http from https and then perform a man-in-the-middle attack on that request.

Because of this narrow risk, we encourage our clients to still get ssl certs as they grow. However, when they are small MVPish non-sensitive apps with 50 users, the risk of this kind of attack is very small. (For example, Facebook Connect, which has the same vulnerability I described, would be a much more obvious target with a very high payload.)

The way we see it is getting people who are about to either store plaintext passwords or not salt their hashes correctly or pass them over non-https (like HN by default, boo!) or mess up a dozen other things, we're much more secure.
Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into HTML5 has a chapter about this very conversation, providing some usful context: http://diveintohtml5.info/past.html
That's a remarkably clear and sensible strategy - I am glad you posted it. Also it gives a lie to the 1 winner, 2 profitable 7 busts theory of VCs I had heard from some bloke in a pub twenty years ago.
There's even a massive JIT vulnerability in webkit on iOS at the moment.
Agreed - I thought that Monster was the acquirer or somehow Monster was involved.
> 155a7a01308fa0807f722c5984bd91fb

You may want to read the last phrase of my comment.

> I find "high-end graphic card (~$500) can compute 10 billion md5 hashes per second" a bit unbelievable

And yet those are the numbers oclhashcat lite publishes for 0.10 on a stock Radeon HD6990 (10886.3M c/s): http://hashcat.net/oclhashcat-lite/

> Yes I realise that md5'ed password strings aren't random

Which is the whole point, and the knowledge the tools I mentioned use: https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2012/06/08/l... (note: the article is about sha1 hashes — which are about 3 times as expensive to compute as md5 — and is done on an older CPU, not GPU-assisted hashing)

> Just saying.

Just saying absolutely nothing?
Awesome to see it back again!
I like the guy who responded to that with "Full disclosure? This is touching yourself in public."

And for sure it is, on a fulldisclosure list, nothing is revealed. My monocle dropped in my morning Java.
Except iTunes don't stream all songs for free and don't give you a variety of formats to choose from? Then yeah, you could say that.
Grsecurity has it.
I would be very sad if I had to bring my children up in these kind of living conditions. I would much prefer a nice house in an area where we can enjoy nature a little but also be close enough to a city so we can access its services.

I had a great garden as a kid and access to one of the UK"s nicest woodland areas. I would be sad to not be able to give my children the same just so they can have 'friends in the same building'.
It is mainly because of the infrastructures. It is a developing country with massive population, where the infrastructure is poor(er) outside cities. It is all part of cycle.
I found a chrome plugin that tries the patterns on any website quickly. Pretty handy while choosing something I guess.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cnhhinfdmnakglphga...
The guideline only affects projects started after September 20. This one was started on the 18th.
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You know, there used to be a 'lowsrc' attribute for the image tag. (A lower resolution image, which would be downloaded and displayed before the download of the 'src'-image file.)

It apparently is ignored by most browsers now and no longer allowed in HTML5.

http://www.ssdtutorials.com/tutorials/title/html5-obsolete-f...
Billboard??

Over here (in the Netherlands), we have a text message / radio broadcast / digital road sign alert that's put out within hours of the child being reported stolen.

> Also, 75% of children who are abducted and murdered are killed within the first three hours

This is exactly why it's a very fast, responsive system (here).
I was expecting a response like this, since I'm aware of these Immersive Media videos. But YouTube doesn't handle these type of videos (yet). They also don't let you control which direction you'd like to travel in.

Street View is more convenient as it offers the same 360 degree view as the Immersive Media videos yet more control like zoom and navigation.
There are DRM removers for books if you know where to look.
I'm glad you find it useful :)
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Exactly right yes, there's really no excuse for using plain FTP anymore, and FTP over SSL is just a mess.
Just a few facts that I have to deal with:

1) I can't afford a million machines or hundereds of clusters or keeping petabytes of data around in a way that doesn't make the data completely useless. Yes mutable state causes complexity, but I can't afford to rid myself of that problem by using brute force.

2) Performance is not replaceable by throughput if you have users waiting for answers on questions they just dreamt up a second ago and you have new data coming in all the time.

3) Cache locality and immutability don't go well together. Many indexes will always have to be updated, not just replaced wholesale with an entirely new version of the index.
Neat idea. I got a Madeleine Mccann missing alert straight away.
Hey, Atle Mo here – founder of subtlepatterns.com.

What happened was that some guy some how managed to hijack the domain (ICANN is still working on a report to see what happened). He said he got it legally, but "would be willing to sell it back for €2.000. Right.
So I sent in all the documentation I had to the legal department of Instra, where he moved the domain.
They gave the domain back to me right away, and like I mentioned, ICANN is still working out a few things, but it will be back to my full ownership hopefully within a few weeks.
I can still access the admin site, so it's business as usual.
I'm thankful for all the support I got from Twitter users, email etc. Cheers!
I was proposing to use the file extension (.xbm above) to tag what format the image was in, but with the intention that in future, when HTTP2 comes along, the same format negotiation technique would be used to access images.

Nineteen years later and we still don't have HTTP2.
dot_clean would come in handy before uploading files from a mac.
Context-aware HTTP caching (with Varnish)
I think the spying should definitely be illegal as it would be in Europe because of privacy concerns. The financing is a little more problematic because you could argue a lot of things should be illegal like Louis Vuitton handbags for example. Have you seen the prices? It is unreal you could get 5 bespoke handbags from a master leathercrafter made from virgin snake leather or something. People who want to pay 3000 USD for a laptop are probably gullible enough to pay lots of money for other overpriced things as well. A reasonable requirement would be to always have to post total amount owed though to help people unable to do math. If they still agree there is not really much you can do.
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Slightly OT: But what are the characteristics of a clever joke? I found it funny enough. Just to analyze my own sense of humor.
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In the link provided by sbierwagen, it states:

http://diveintohtml5.info/past.html

“HTTP2” is a reference to Basic HTTP as defined in 1992. At this point, in early 1993, it was still largely unimplemented. The draft known as “HTTP2” evolved and was eventually standardized as “HTTP 1.0” (albeit not for another three years). HTTP 1.0 did include request headers for content negotiation, a.k.a. “MIME, someday, maybe.”

So, at least in this context, yes, we do have "HTTP2".
Yes we do, it's just called HTTP 1.1 instead - and that exact functionality luckily made it in.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec12.html
Probably. If he wasn't, this bit from the first post becomes very weird:

> This is required functionality for X Mosaic; we have this working, and we'll at least be using it internally.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3091846
Rebol clearly shows its Rexx roots with the battery-included nature. And the SyllableOS actually wanted to use it in a similar manner, sure they're glad that they don't have to clone the language anymore.

But if there's one thing the language needs if it wants to succeed after it became OSS is a good module archive, similar to CPAN/rubygems/PEAR. Not having that for a long while was one nail in the coffin of tcl, especially after web & infrastructure APIs became increasingly important.

I'm looking forward to it. Liked the language, but didn't want to bet on something close-sourced.

Running Rebol on DragonFlyBSD is going to get some Amiga fans a serious case of nostalgia.
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Maybe have some filtering by country visible on the home page. It took me a while to figure out you actually had British beers in your database.

Also, I realise you're a ruby programmer but you should really consider including Python IPA http://littlevalleybrewery.co.uk/our-beers/python-ipa :)
Maybe you could release an API so other people could write clients.
I'm actually glad they did.

HTML is already very verbose. Although 'header' and 'footer' appear (supposedly) once per page, styling inline elements requires to use 'strong' or the generic 'span' tag. And it's one situation when the tag is numerously repeated, which ends up in a very low signal/noise ratio.

My position may come from the fact that I type every line of code (I have no IDE, just Notepad++). But I think that there aren't enough HTML tags for us to have to use longer names in order to avoid confusion.
if you still trust facebook after all the changes they've made to the privacy system, i don't see why lying about this should change much. i think many facebook users (and almost certainly the majority here on hn) use facebook because that's what their friends and family are talking on, but don't trust it.
> rainbow tables are no longer particularly relevant to cracking passwords

If you use a common hash with no salt you can bet your britches the attacker will use rainbow tables!

It's also worth pointing out that rainbow tables aren't the only attack you are exposed to if you don't salt your passwords - it also prevents finding collisions, and massively slows down forward hashing attacks.
Apple builds such nice hardware though ....

Gee .... somebody should port Android to the iphone!!

It would be the best of all worlds... :O