skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. People need to stop looking at things as "social networks". There's will always be a ton of room to build technologies that connect people. Some may call that "social networking".

It's like someone saying in 1999, someone needs to stop building these "websites".

It would also be the same in the 80s/90s with someone saying, people need to stop building this software stuff.

If youre building something that connects like minded people together, there is value there, hands down. Whether its a venture backed type company is a case by case issue.
Ask YC: What do you use for penetration testing?
Hi there. We were approached by a 'security company' for penetration testing one of our PHP applications. Just wondering what you use for testing server and applications?
And .... still no linux build.
Not suprisingly, Apple releases the SDK ahead of the OS release, so that developers get some lead time. When the SDK is released it also announces the new features.
This is going to lead to a lot more revenue for developers and is a great idea!
They check to make sure the user exists.
// Disclaimer: I work in investigating these crimes \\

His assertsion about the number of wrongly convicted people are very wrong.I would say that around 80% are "users" whereas the rest have usually stumbled across it (this is very obviosu btw: there is not often a fine line). A lot of the defence is "it was a virus" so it is one of the first checks and has been the case in only one example as I recall.

We deal with all sorts of computers weekly & I have never identified CP on any of the machines that cross my desk (bar the odd image or 2 come across whilst browsing legitimate pron sites)

In terms of the origins: a lot of the mild abuse is "homebrew" with a small proportion of the worst images being homemade. The majority of extreme images are, from their context, commercially produced.

I cant say much about the children being forced or not (or comment on the argument of whether they are innocent or not) because I am biased due to my job and because it is wholly subjective (actually I deliberately emotionally detach from such thoughts to allow me to do my job fairly). And finally because I am involved purely in the technical side and have not met any abused persons :)

I am a bit worried to say any more: it really is grazing close to a line here (silly laws ;)). Im well on the right side of said line (i'll add) but....

EDIT: edited slightly after chatting to a colleague :)
I'm lower-brained. I was checking out her arse.
A simple solution would be to place some sort of obvious badge on the App Store page if the app has in-game sales.
I think this is a bit premature and oversimplified...
Cool. If you use one frame, though, you have access to things like windmove (Shift-Up/Down/Left/Right to navigate between windows) and window-number (each window gets a number, and you M-<number> to switch to the window). I also have some hacks I use to improve this, iswitch-windows and snap-to-terminal (easily the most useful 10 lines of code I've ever written).

Windmove is core emacs, I think, and the window-number stuff is on the Emacs wiki:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/WindMove

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/window-number.el

My stuff is here:

http://github.com/jrockway/elisp/blob/d33170528fbf4ea1738426...

http://github.com/jrockway/elisp/blob/d33170528fbf4ea1738426...

Hopefully something is useful; patches welcome ;)
If the point of the legalese is to have a predictable effect in court based on a previous legal interpretation, how is it fair to expect me to "read, understand and agree to" the legalese when I don't have lawyerly training to have studied all the relevant previous interpretations I am agreeing to?
A CS degree is hard. What does a fad CS major do when he runs into the compilers or OS class?

If I were looking for a relatively easy way to make money while setting myself up for future management opportunities then I'd study accounting, personally.
PC sales jump in February as Mac continues to decline
What does this have to do with copy and paste?
yep - the botnets are usually multipurpose. You can buy botnets containing a few thousand machines all over the place fairly cheaply now.
and Flash
You're right in the sense that there's nothing to lose. But if he does get accepted to the interview and decide not to do it, he took the spot from another startup that would probably have accepted.
i can choose the rotation direction. Its not that hard really, its not a real test, you are not physiologically bound to one perception or the other(at least im not, but since this was in wikipedia, then i guess others can change direction too).
"the popularity of computer science majors among college freshmen and sophomores is because IT has better job prospects than other specialties, especially in light of the global economic downturn."

An old joke:

- Scientists learn to ask "why does that work?".

- Engineers learn to ask "how does that work?".

- Accountants learn to ask "how much does it cost?".

- Liberal arts majors learn to ask "do you want fries with that?".

So yes, maybe economic necessity is driving here.
What would a new iPhone be like? Slightly smaller? Better battery life? Better camera? It would be hard for many people to justify dropping $600+ for just those features. And, Apple has demonstrated with these major firmware revisions that they can upgrade the device substantially; I think consumers will get angry if they start withholding firmware updates as an incentive to buy more hardware. That is exactly what Nokia does, and I don't think Nokia's customers are going to take it anymore after seeing what Apple's doing here.

Very soon the typical smartphone lifespan will be close to 5 years and the average computer lifespan will be close to 10 years. The Nokia N95 was released in 2006 and there are still tons of people rocking that device. There will probably be millions of people using the iPhone 3G and the Nokia N97 in 2014 (maybe as hand-me-downs).
This sounds like bullshit to me: maybe I'm just naive, but I can't for the life of me figure out how a cell radio could be unable to transmit MMS. Especially the radio in a phone released after 2002.
It will definitely be nickle and dime theater.. and HUGE. The push notifications will be a test on whether or not we all start to hate iphones.
Dads at mall mid-day a good economic indicator?
I got one of these deals a few years ago... and I'm still with them paying $9.95, per month.

They really get you hooked by giving you the first year for essentially free, and hoping you're just too lazy (like me) to switch after a year.

As for the actual service, I haven't had many problems.

Though I have noticed recently they aggressively cache some things (PHP pages that don't change?), which can make development very difficult. Anyone else notice this? Any workarounds.
"I deliberately emotionally detach from such thoughts to allow me to do my job fairly"

How do you do that? (neutral question)
HN: What happened to orange names
(if this already got mention flag it :))

Did they get removed or is it just that no one actually has a good enough average? I was AFK from HN a few days after they got implemented and I dont remember seeing any since I returned.

Que? (just interested)
Copy and paste is a form of IPC. IPC needs to be secure, or (see above).
If I had anything to seriously test, I'd probably start with:
http://w3af.sourceforge.net/
At first they caused problems with the server, so PG removed them for a bit. After lots of discussion, though, most didn't like the idea of orange names because it fractures the community and places unnecessary weight on karma.
I, like many other people, still ask for food by the pound.

Asking for 100g of strawberry bon-bons, rather than "a quarter of strawberry bon-bons" just makes you sound like an idiot IMHO. Also obviously milk is by the pint.

As far as I know though the case against selling food by imperial measures was dropped by the EU.

I agree it's a mess that needs sorting out. Leave people to use what they want to use.
Read the essay:

http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
Ask HN: Help me become a great hacker
Esteemed HN crowd,

I have always had an affinity for all things computer/technology related since the age of 11 or so. Almost every day, I would run home, after being dropped off by the bus, to watch an hour or two of ZD/TechTV, learn a few registry 'hacks', and spend the rest of the night tinkering with my precious e-machines rig.

Entering junior high, I knew I had a future in computer science and soon developed a love for business as well. However, being born into a very traditional family, my path had already been set for me. To them, I was already destined to being a dentist, pharmacist, or doctor. After many failed attempts at convincing the parents, throughout high school, that comp sci/business was my true passion, I was forced into pursuing a medically oriented major.

And here I am, about to graduate university, and I am fairly certain that a medically oriented career is not for me. After years of lurking HN, reading TC and all things web/tech, I've come to realize that the flame my parents have tried so adamantly to put out is shining brighter than ever. However, seeing as I've been caught up with studies over the past years, and lacked parental support to pursue my path of choice, I have little knowledge of all things programming.

So I come to the community filled with intelligent, creative, and knowledgeable hackers to help me begin my journey in becoming one. I've skimmed python and ruby books, but that is the extent of my programming knowledge. So as an absolute beginner, what resources, books, tips, tricks, etc. etc. do you have so that I may start forging my own path?

I want to become a great hacker.
or Mac :(
As a serial app developer (though not yet on that platform) here's what I heard from Apple's announcement:

crap, crap, crap, IN GAME PAYMENTS!!!, crap, crap, crap.

P.S. background notifications

I guess that list would probably be a little less bland were I an iPhone user.
Great question thanks

In terms of viewing images it is quite hard. Partly I manage it due to my personality (empathy troubles etc. which is ideal for disconnecting). Mostly though it is by multi threading: I program & pen test for the company I work at so I occupy my mind with programming/hacking problems for later whilst leaving part of me on neutral to process cases. And then just through sheer will power :)

At first it was difficult to do but I find it easier and easier to function perfectly normally (i.e. thoroughly and effectively do an investigation) whilst not fully connecting with the content :)

(Also we use hash analysis to cut down the amount of actual content we view - standard practice).

If you mean in terms of not feeling angry at suspects etc. - that is difficult but I find ways to channel my dislike outside of work (kickboxing, occasionally alcohol, arguing with my GF):) and carefully control it when in the office. Again - practice makes that easier.

Not for everyone but I (and I hesitate to use this word because of the context) enjoy it.
A lot of first time rejections are for things like version numbers not matching. I'm not sure why that stat would be meaningful.
Well really, their motivation is profit and not not profiting.

If their viewers actually wanted thoughtful news, the agency that provided it would profit.

Since viewers want sound effects, action, drama, and easily digestible black-and-white polemic pieces, that is what the agencies provide, and they profit.
What Makes Happy States
Themselves?

I am not sure what the ideal ownership is now. But CNBC is mostly owned by G.E. whose main interest in this property is making money. The desire to maximizing profits is in partial conflict with strong news reporting.

The burden does also reside on the consumers who demand more entertainment then real information.
The only site you will ever need for content...
Hypocritical Artists and Secondary Ticket Sales
I hope I'm not the only person who after reading this immediately deleted their browsing history; the thought of the title of this article appearing in my browser/address bar history in front of certain/most people, is cringe worthy.

EDIT: To the people down voting me, all I meant was I'm often showing stuff on my laptop to different people and I would be afraid of their assumption if I typed the letter "m" into my address bar and "My Life in Child Porn" popped-up because they might come to the wrong conclusions that's all. Whether their assumption is right or wrong, is irrelevant, I was just saying; it's something I'm aware of and wouldn't want to happen!
That Wikipedia article makes it easier to change the direction. If you scroll the frame-by-frame stills at the bottom in either direction, and look at the animation again, you'll probably see it in that direction.
I don't know anything about the man in question, but it's at least a 55/45 bet to short a VC firm that hires a Facebook founder.

Too bad you can't short-sell VCs. :(
We need a mac release...
Don't forget that great hackers didn't become great by wanting to be so. They started working on a problem -- just like any other entrepreneur -- but their abilities to make machines do what they wanted was what set them apart. Technology is leverage.

Start small. Make a website or write a tool for some idea you have, and your development will grow out of there organically.
Built-in TV is a joke.
So if you're Al Queda, the play here seems obvious. Get as many sleeper agents in the U.S. as possible (which I'm sure they're constantly working on) and each day send a couple on a plane armed with an old thermometer. How many could you take down before people realized what was going on? And after they did, how much damage would it do to the economy when nobody flew anymore?

I sure hope I'm missing some secret reason why this wouldn't work well.
as near as I can tell, there is little illusion here. The woman's right leg is on the floor and the point is rotation. This sets up the animation to be counter-clockwise.

Maybe if the body being turned was uniform, no clear front or back, there would be interesting merit. Maybe not.
They should have reported to wait time too. It's been 3 months and counting for my first app.
Don't you think that a decision to begin charging 5 cents per click would significantly reduce the perceived quality of the iPhone?

I know it may be hard to believe, but we're just talking about cellphones here; I'm sure Apple is aware of the fact that doing something like that would be suicide in a very competitive market.
So it's accurate to say the distributors are almost impossible to find?

What do you spend more resources on? Going after customers, distributors, or creators?
I think that one of the things he has going for him is he's not in San Francisco, New York or some other metropolis.

After reading Doctrow's thoughts on giving away his eBooks which increases dead tree sales, I've been thinking about how this model could apply to web apps.

It seems to me that giving people an option of paying what they want for a service up front could potentially work. There's a ton of people who would be willing to pay for the free apps they use. The freemium model seems to work to some extent, but, I haven't heard of anyone attempting the donationium model like many museums use. Sure, people ask for donations, but it's left on the sidebar somewhere. What I'm talking about is making it part of the signup process. Present the user with a suggested charge of $5, and then give them a chance to enter what they want. Accept $0, for those that want to pay nothing and accept more for those that are willing.
Derek Foster, author of Stop Working sells all his stocks
Interesting history about the Google decision-making process. Unfortunately the comments on the post (December 2005) start to degrade into a (rather obsolete) discussion of MySQL vs Oracle vs. PostgreSQL .

The only thing that hasn't change since then about evaluations of MySQL as a database is the "religious"-like heat (pros & cons) that accompanied what could be a useful analysis of pros & cons.

Since I don't have a need for transactions, have a few years of experience w/MySQL, and have it in my coding habits (as well as on servers of all clients to date)... I confess that I just keep scanning for possible persuasions why I should be jumping anywhere else. [ though I also confess hoping that the new Sun overlords will push to address its competitiveness... outside commercial-grade version ]
ok, now I see. if I close my right eye and turn my head, the animation appears to reverse itself.
The author is completely dismissive of security concerns, but is incorrect in this attitude. These problems are not primarily technological (we know how to keep secrets, if only we could get users to follow the rules), so the barriers can't just be broken down by smart people.

The problem is regulatory. HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley make online documents a non-starter for significant sectors of the economy. As long as business can be penalized to a degree that far outweighs any benefits for such decisions, these shared online systems will not chase away the traditional "I run my software and control my own data" model.
So what's the answer? Propublica.org style journalism?
Do you know how likely it is for the police to arrest a bot herder?
I tried to go to the URL from those but it always says the server is down :-( does that thing work for anyone?
Note that the comment "debunking" the article is by the author of the article itself (or so he claims). The debunking seems to consist of repeating what is in the article: the FAA doesn't allow large amounts of mercury, as is present in a professional barometer.

The scariness of the article seems to reside mostly in the comments here and choice of headline. (although the picture of the dissolving I-beam isn't particularly reassuring...)
Why would you (or any customer) pay the initial $4.99 if you knew about and objected to the in-app purchases? Or if you didn't know, why would you pay the initial $4.99 unless you thought the product was worth it as-is?
Offtopic, but maybe not: You're a great writer.
In-application payments are not available for free applications.
Well the comment biohacker24 linked to wasn't really debunking it, but it was by the popsci author (supposedly).

Both of these comments (in the same thread) do debunk it:

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/85clw/why_mercury_i...

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/85clw/why_mercury_i...
Somewhere between low and impossible.

Usually it would be the users (the ones that send out the spam etc. via the networks) who get caught - and that is a very low number as well really (compared to those uncaught).
Ex-Microsoftie’s Startup Telligent Takes on Jive in Social Software for Businesses
Anecdotes are not data, but if you're in the market for an anecdote anyway...

A thousand times no. Nginx+php-fastcgi is screamingly fast by comparison, while allowing me to free up about 70% of the memory previously in use, and get huge gains from loading the PHP code into RAM with APC.

I look after one managed server which chucks out tens of millions of requests per day despite only having half a gig of RAM in it. Before, running apache2, it had a load average of about 6.0. Now? 0.2.
Customer: but only because they are the easiest to track (and we get most of the cases from a 3rd party).

Distributors fall into "community" who download and share as much as they can for free and commercial. The former are often caught, the latter next to none are tracked - most are in Russia. Thel atter are usually also creators - the commeercial creators are cuaght once in a blue moon.

I do do private work (for ourselves) to track these networks but it is incredibly difficult.
Finnish programmer wears prosthetic finger with USB drive attached
They're not irked that much, though. But I agree: let's return to this debate after a month and see just how things are going. In the meantime, I'll keep saying it's not objectively bad, and we'll see how long it takes users to adjust.
Ask HN: Has anyone used Mashery to manage their API?
Has anyone here used Mashery (or any similar service) for managing their API? For a small startup, are there any major problems that Mashery could help solve/avoid? The pricing for startups is arondd 500 bucks/month, so its not cheap.

If the Mashery infrastructure sits in front of our own API, I'm not sure I understand how it can really manage load or performance issues, especially if there are underlying problems in our own API? Thoughts?
I'm 20 and feel old.
The Real AIG Scandal
This seems to be geared towards Electrical Engineering.

Anyone got a version for a (beginner)computer engineer?
Internship at a startup
I am a masters student in CS and a ex-Yahoo. I have a considerable experience launching web 2.0 websites. I would be interested in a summer internship at a VC backed startup. Please shoot me a mail at suman@cs.brown.edu, if you have an open positions. Thanks.
I think for you the best solution would be to keep your day job and work nights/weekends on your startup. With your big financial liabilities and GF that has to stay in school in FL you can't make it work on a YC check and uproot to silicon valley...

If you really wanna be in the silicon valley tech scene -- it's a good place to network about your startup idea -- start applying for jobs out there. You'll make way more money than you're making now and you can still work on your idea nights/weekends. You'll probably find a co-founder and some advisers out there and have a better chance of getting serious funding than you'd have in Florida.
You're conflating the third party iPhone application market (which can now use micropayments) with the cell phone market as a whole. That's very odd.
A significant amount of work is going into both those builds but a lot more is needed. As much as I love having a multiprocess browser the V8 JS engine is the real heart of gold of chrome, and that is cross platform. Just nothing uses it besides chrome as far as I know. I do know that the next Mozilla JS engine feels to me at least (and if you benchmark different apps) just as fast. So the next firefox will be on par with speed and it will be cross platform. It will just have tabs that are not as cool.
Also take a look at "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed" by Ben Rich (manager at Lockheed after Kelly Johnson). Despite the title, he also talks extensively about the U2 and SR-71 projects - Amazing pieces of engineering all.

http://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/d...
Clever biomimicry: Natural Sunscreen Made With... Hippo Sweat
I wonder if the mercury in the thermometer would set off the metal detector. It might be hard to get it past security.
People are never going to understand supply & demand. They always feel entitled to face value prices while ignoring basic market realities. The Chicago Cubs experimented a few years back with a variation of an auction format for primary ticketing and it completely bombed. Now, instead, they have vested interests in most of the broker shops populating the area around Wrigley Field including roof top tickets. Similar end result, different method.

My favorite stories relate to when an artist gives out tickets for a free show then becomes enraged when a secondary market forms for them. Their problems would be a lot bigger if a market never formed to begin with...

Also, if the team/fan is really concerned with certain people being excluded due to prices, they should hold a lottery based on cell phone verification. Or make tickets will-call pick up only (photo ID and purchasing credit card required). But even methods like this can be gamed and often lead to more headaches.

The interesting part about all of this is the opposite is happening for most teams and artists:

http://ticketstumbler.com/new-stuff/2009/03/08/reillys-right...