skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that in general, these sort of tests need to be seen as early probes, not absolute measures. They might be better in a relative test:

"Should I build this or this?" rather then "Should I build this?"
Tech savvy teenager takes Lexington transit in new directions
It looks like some people were simultaneously banned following that thar' flamewar (a bunch of posters disappeared at the same time, and there's chatter) so d(users)/dt can be negative.
If a site is storing hashed passwords with salts, you generally don't know what the user's password is and you can't unhash them to find out.
Ask HN: What podcasts do you subscribe to?
I used to follow quite a few podcasts, but I haven't in a year or two. I want to load some up again, but would like some recommendations.
Right, and what does that have to do with this article about lists obtained by phishing and the like?
'volcom1'? (#39 on myspace)

interesting.
It's better to use 123456 at unimportant sites than re-using your e-trade password. Simple good sense.
this was on the front page about 2 or 3 days ago
I used to make boards like this all the time. Its often easier just to buy a pack of paper made for the transfer purpose (such as http://www.techniks.com/) since you know it will work.

If you use ferric chloride really take heed to the part about staining clothing, seems to always end up ruining some clothing so make sure to wear crappy stuff.

There is also a problem doing them the way he has done... if you use pads that are filled (as they are there) it can be difficult to drill the holes if using through-hole components. The drill bit will walk, or just bend because its so thin... using pads with holes in the middle makes it much easier. If you have a bigger board it becomes really annoying, especially if you have ICs with a lot of pins... they wont line up well.
Seduced by the drama?
While that belief is bad, why do you think there wasn't a reason for it?
Deliberate practice in the working world.
Why would they do this? What is the issue they are trying to solve?

Particularly at a time when the administration is trying to figure out how to enable growth investments this doesn't make any sense to me.
7 out of 10 is good enough to establish a pattern, but you should really try and figure out who your 10 turks were demographically before walkin off into the sunset.

do some basic demographic questions if you can, and always try and avoid easily answer questions with turks because ultimately in the end they are on turk to make a buck, and they will blow thru scale questions and simple yes/nos faster than all get out to get paid.

the other thing i'd do is try to get some folks you know who use the tool, or if its for a broad audience get someone you know, a friend of a friend and test them to see how they stack up against your turk findings, video tape these sessions for the dev team so they can relive the awe of "oh my frickin god" when and if it occurs

overall turk is fine and your 7 of 10 is fine if its a broad range acceptance target like "everyone searches" or what not but if its really demographic specific you need to know that piece of data from the turks because odds are that 10 really represents up to 3 or 4 different demographics, which makes your 7 more like 2 or 3
Could laid off Microsoft workers spark a new innovation wave?
Have you ever actually used a Lisp Machine? There is an emulator available (ask around.) All of these things were actually possible there - not merely theoretically.
A universal quantifier is absolute. Actually, it's a pedantic point.

The better point for tm to claim is most chaste women are moral, whereas the same cannot be said for unchaste women. So, to guarantee a better chance of developing a relationship with a moral woman (i.e. more likely to not commit adultery and be temperate), we men should be chaste and look for chaste women.

This is probably what he intended anyways, since it makes more sense.
How else are you supposed to edit that research paper before submitting it as your own?
Yup, I'm also lucky that poiuyt is not on that list.
Why think that? Uglier people are more willing to sleep around indiscriminantly, since it is harder for them to attract others. Attractive people have a significant advantage if they are hard to attain.
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SecurityTube - a YouTube for computer security and hacking
I recommend anyone extraordinarily pressed for cash launch version 1.0 with either an open source web design and/or cheap template, and then after you have revenue (the plan does include revenue, right?) you can replace it with an arbitrarily expensive design.

I spent 18 months running my business on top of a free design from http://www.oswd.org
Is There Even Demand For New Debt?
Beautiful article - just in time for me to prototype my graduation project.

Personally, I prefer the extremely time-consuming method of building the very first prototype on a perfboard w/ wire-wrap; just because it gives me the flexibility of changing connections then-and-there as I attempt to get a working design and only then convert to PCB.
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I've run out of ideas. I'm getting programmer's depression. Please help!
Open Cloud Manifesto
If frisco is correct, that sites degrade because of a too high rate of growth, this presents an extremely simple way to prevent that: rate limit new account creation.

You could cap it right now, and see what happens to the quality of the site.
Facebook is winning because it has hit the jackpot in finding how to convince regular consumers to throw away their privacy in trade for connecting with friends.

I never had a single person find me via myspace whereas dozens of people who I had lost contact with by all other means found me on facebook. This only happens because facebook forces me to use my real name as well as seductively inviting me to reveal all kinds of other information and allows people to search on it and find me and even see a picture. As much as I object to this, it's what has entrenched facebook in my life.
I saw the title and was hoping a PCB was something explosive :(
Cocoa with Love: Using NSKeyedArchiver to archive a C linked-list
I used Slinkset to set up an HN for moms/parents at http://www.bababase.com.
Griffin Technology. The make iPod accessories and such.

Wait, I am not sure the President would want to be on Twitter at all. However, Citibank runs ads and marketing campaigns, they have customer service, they run PR campaigns. Twitter is a tool that those departments can use to actively listen and respond to their customers.
Neither is worth spending time/money on ... at least, if you discount network effects

That's a lot like saying, "This thing is completely worthless and illogical . . . at least, if you discount most of what makes it worth something and logical."
Because they're on Reddit, which is diluted.
My mistake, I thought these passwords came straight from the databases.
What are some interesting forums that you go to?
Promotion via linkedin, what do you think?
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What do you think such promotion? consider as spamming?
Microsoft, like any other big company has people with a wide range of proficiency and performance levels. You would assume that when laying off, they would pick people who have performed the least.
We'd host, promote, annotate and fill out the wiki, the important thing is to move this from a pdf to an interactive, scannable, hypertext format so people can tear it apart.

I love technological solutions, don't get me wrong, but we're talking about under 200ish pages, most having copy/pastetable text on them. Set up your Wiki and then head over to one of the freelancer sites, and you'll be done in under a few hundred bucks.
hmm I might be of some help, if not my services, I also know of a couple designers too. Email me if you want to talk further, henry.khachatryan at gmail
Did he misspell "endogenous" as "indigenous"?
Sailing into the Wind, or Faster than the Wind
"RAPED. A. CHILD."

Or could be a 17 year old who slept with a 15 year old, if using a legal definition.
leaker, d(users)/dt can be negative without bannings.

d(users)/dt is growth in users, not their number. To illustrate: if 600 users registered in February, then only 400 in March HN's growth would be negative; d(users)/dt would be negative.
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Heroku alongside IBM. Kudos.
Don't have the quote, but someone pointed out all the people who seemed to be histrionic about the effects of Rock n' Roll, contraception, no-fault divorce, etc. on civilization were pretty much proved right in each instance.

So, yes, civilization as conceived by each of those groups clearly did die, just as they predicted. Whether the current incarnation of civilization is a net improvement, of course, is open for debate.
Java Posse, Drunk and Retired, and StackOverflow for IT-stuff.

1-UP (games), Dan Carlin's hardcore history (history podcast) and Common sense with Dan Carlin (politics) for fun;)
This seems like a very good idea in terms of controlling spikes in comments - but you have to question whether this is the (main) cause of the degradation.

If limiting new accounts seems like the best solution, it should be done clearly and transparently - as the users you are trying to weed out are generally fickle and will not stay, so won't bother to check / sign up later. Let users know the reason why they can't sign up now, and when they should be able to.

However, users that have a legitimate need to comment (eg site / app owners) need to be allowed access - solving this could be trickier.
Erm, wouldn't that be the second derivative?

d(users)/dt would be the rate of change of users. That can only be negative if the amount of users decreases, ie through bannings.

You're thinking of the second derivative, d^2(users)/dt^2, which is the rate of change of the rate of increase of users. If that is negative, it means that the growth has slowed down, as in your example with February and March.
Cloud providers should make it easy for cloud users to move their data to other cloud providers.

Cloud providers and users should avoid any type of lock-in whether it is data based, technology based or knowledge based.
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"On Feb 21 2009 it was discovered that singles.org, a christian dating network, did not have any security at all."

Some of the other ones are puzzling. "trustno1" is from the X-Files, but does anyone know where "letmein" came from?
I really like this idea. I want something like this to really take off. I've thought about decentralized services like this, but you've gone and done it!

Some ideas I've had in the past:

* Use the cloud against itself, as a cheap unreliable cache (which is all its really good for) full of encrypted secure user data.

* Make it as easy as possible to import contacts, email, and other data from GMail, Facebook, etc. Make it easy to invite contacts from these existing applications. You might even create apps for these services that enable secure Tonido integration.

* Provide blogging, microblogging, friends & contacts, etc. A p2p facebook. Use "the cloud" to handle spikes in traffic. How do to this securely? There's gotta be way.

* Leverage something like the Dining Cryptographer's protocol to provide completely uncontrollable darknets!
A woman can also have many partners, etc. etc., and then continue to compare you in her mind with other men. So I'm not sure how useful your fact is without data or context.

Agreed that a woman's reasons for infidelity are probably different than a man's reasons. But I don't think that is much consolation to the man she cheats on. So, I feel that time_management's desire to find a woman not prone to infidelity is wise, but he is embarrassing himself with an immature understanding of women (to put it kindly).

I would also say that this issue is covered in considerable depth in the movie "Chasing Amy", and I think that one of the conclusions in that movie is that, no, it is not psychologically easy for most men to set aside a woman's sexual history, even if he wants to.
This might sound cliche, but this is exactly what TechcrunchIT needs more of... well thought out articles instead of Gillmors mini-essays on Twitter and XMPP. The subject matter is still not business IT, in the traditional sense, but its an improvement.
Divorce means wasted years, loneliness, traumatized children, and yes, even in America, social stigma. Nobody wants to be on the dating market as a divorcee, because everybody looks at you and wonders what went wrong and what kind of baggage you have. As a never-married guy, I can say that despite my best intentions I view divorcees with suspicion. If you think people take it lightly, then you're wrong.

In reality, marriage in America illustrates the blade of freedom cutting in both ways. I would like to point out that traditional marriages, Indian or otherwise, carry very strong expectations about the partners' roles and the structure of their home life. If one partner fulfills his or her economic and social role, the other partner's expectations are fulfilled. In American marriages, there are fewer culturally determined and socially enforced rules on who brings what to a marriage. That creates a disorienting number of possibilities. It is harder for two people to live together when every choice made by one closes off possibilities for the other. In a marriage where tradition has already closed off all possibilities except one (if indeed any other possibilities are imaginable) there is less disappointment and less reason to resent one's spouse.

Obviously, it would be nice to have a modern marriage contract, a new set of obligations such that if each spouse fulfills his obligations, then both spouses share a mutually beneficial marriage that supports, rather than hinders, their goals in life. That is what traditional marriages offer, but they are too concrete about household roles and duties. Modern attempts to define marriage are rather abstract and dependent on interpretation; probably that's what bothers you when you say that Americans depend on a "feeling" being there. Modern definitions of marriage are very wishy-washy because there's no concrete division of duties to found them on.
Dad, I Need an iPhone to Do my Homework
Re: games? I tend to mostly lurk on two of the bigger ones - www.neogaf.com and the www.somethingawful.com games forums, though I also sometimes read the more industry-focused www.quartertothree.com and www.thechaosengine.com forums.
I think if you were to change that to "I want to become romantically involved with a woman who is ladylike, resolute, and discriminate" you would be getting a lot less grief. The rest of it is highly empirically questionable.
I friend everyone that requests it, and block many people from my news feed. That has made Facebook just like FriendFeed and Twitter and Tumblr for me - just a different social graph.
Or have glass walls. Facebook's growth rate is enormous, but it still retains its character because your personal Facebook's growth rate is actually rather small.

Not that this has any obvious parallels to HN.
"neting"

Ok, so I couldn't resist. I will now bend over and take my downmod lashing like a man.
People need to grow up. Real world relationships are nothing like forced symmetry. It's the wrong model for a large application.

Twitter became very popular with professionals in tech, in part, because it allows them to connect in a way that mirrors the real world.
Canadian researchers uncover far-flung cyber espionage network
clearly you've not spent much time working at a large company.
I'm curious as to how the figures for young and promiscuous vs. old and promiscuous work out. Is there evidence that young people with many sexual partners have fewer partners when they are old than young people with few partners do?
I was asking about the second derivative; if d(users)/dt wasn't constant, then d^2(users)/dt2 is nonzero and eternal september risk is fairly high (assuming HN isn't shrinking). If you assume idealized user growth (which doesn't happen -- there are so many people in the end that would care to either join HN or troll HN), then eternal september is actually guaranteed if d^2(users)/dt2 > 0, since there will come a time t when (new users) > (old users).
Making it easy to track users I know would make me read and upvote their comments more. Letting me ignore someone (and making them invisible to the public if enough people ignore them) is another wall.
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Let people input an email to be pinged when a spot in the queue opens up. Most people won't.
MacRuby 0.5 Will Have Faster VM Based on LLVM
I think that this would just skew the leaderboard. Everyone would be following the famous members of HN (pg, bucheit, etc), and locally popular users would be distant seconds, while the normal user would make up a long tail of comparatively low karma.
Creative and Rich UI interfaces and How to Create Them
I appreciate the call-out of an important omission from the article. I've learned that having a bizdev on the team is truly critical. That whacked me on the side of the head when I started thinking about Twitter's strategizing (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/13/twitter-decides-to-hire...), and thinking about the shaping of various features that customers are not getting a chance to weigh in on. I've tried to wear the bizdev hat myself but it is all-consuming. Now I have a full-time bizdev partner and it's making a world of difference in focus/direction. The XP practice of "on-site customer" is really enabled by having bizdev pull the customers close early on.

Another valuable role I've discovered is that of the incubator (I'm not YC; doing OTBC in PDX). It's another secondary role similar to Lawyer, but can be very supportive in making sure you're focused on doing all the business stuff that hackers can easily lose sight of. I'm presently being shown the value of having a solid business plan, perfecting multi-length elevator pitches, and refining the more formal investor and sales pitches. This is all possible thanks to experienced entrepreneurial coaches who really want to see you succeed.

Lastly, the "consort" is a non-obvious role -- someone who can give validation to your thinking, and exchange predicament stories with you. You may find him through the incubator, or at a hacking event, or wherever. My main consort is an extremely capable hacker and our regular discussions are gold.

So with the core team containing the right hacking, creative, and outreach balance, you can make progress. But I want to stress that the supporting people (Lawyer, Consort, Coach, et al) provide a lot of necessary elements.
I just use the same username and password for all sites I don't care about that much. That way if I ever come back again I can just log in easily, and the process of signing up is so familiar I could do it in my sleep.

No, the real issue is password questions. "What is your mother's maiden name?" "In what city were you born?. Those always seem like a security hole, so I choose a random question and just remember that the answer to all my security questions is "the landed gentry". That's fairly secure, right?
Final four game times 2009
AAAAAAGHFGUREH!!! I had to write my own a few months ago, which sucked. If I had known about this, I could have been saved a lot of effort. Noooooo!

Technology moves forward, I see.
I hope that's not actually the answer you use...
Another idea is to use the SIFR technique, although it relies on Flash(not my favorite recommendation).

I'd actually recommend Cufón instead:

http://wiki.github.com/sorccu/cufon/about
How to Choose and Learn a New Programming Language
"Cash on hand is just one important variable in a startup’s life, but it’s not necessarily the most important. What matters most is the number of iterations the company has left."

Gotta admit, I appreciate it when attention-grabbing headlines are followed up by the first line or two actually describing what the post is about. It's a good one-two combo.
greatly appreciated!!!
"You offer nothing, though, except mere opinions."

You are just offering your opinions, too, which is because you and time_management simply have fundamental disagreements about what is important, which makes most of your repartee pointless.
I was wondering why anyone would want to make polychlorinated biphenyls at home.
Simplest Erlang Linked-In Driver
Sounds like spam to me. Then again I haven't been particularly impressed with LinkedIn in general to date. I'm still waiting to be wowed.
Plagiarism is so completely different (morally at least) from social copyright infringement.
WAY over-rated story. The network is built using a script kiddy tool called Gh0st RAT, which relies solely on social engineering to propagate. There are no new exploits here, or nothing as sophisticated as confiker especially since Gh0st RAT is a simple client/server model that is very easy to block (infact, most firewalls should already be blocking it).

The security company that wrote that report probably charged hundreds of thousands of dollars for information that any competent network admin could have found online or would already know if they kept up to date with the 'latest' (ie. 10 year old) threats.

It just happens that one of these networks hits a high-valued target, and then propagates. Note that most of the victims are incredibly unsophisticated and from poorer countries or organizations without a clue.

The lesson here should be about training computer users and having competent administration and support of IT infrastructure, rather than a scare campaign about Chinese government hacking. ('oh the host server is a Chinese IP, it must be the government! (300M net users in China.. durgh)).
How Java’s Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere [old][pdf]
With some movies though - I'll go in with a negative expectation - and come out very pleasantly surprised!
Here is the Chinese equivalent to Twitter: http://fanfou.com