skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for the fawning adoration.

But you see I've been reading HN since the beginning and the endless neoliberal bullshit has made me despair for hacker culture--to the point where I'm now embarrassed to tell educated people that I work in the software startup scene. I'm ashamed to call myself a hacker because of the people the word is associated with.

The smartest people I know see only bad things coming from Silicon Valley. I try to convince them that there are a few good hackers out there who can make positive contributions to civilization...

But even the hero Aaron Swartz has a blighted track record because he created reddit--a shitheap that is destroying culture and causing a resurgence in "White Nationalism" aka Nazism.

If you recognize that memes don't matter, reddit's most notable cultural achievement is that it has become the biggest white pride recruiting site on the planet. And this is the legacy of our BEST hacker activist... this is pg's big hack of society.

So your existence on HN has been meaningful. There are other hackers with similar thoughts, but they rarely speak up publicly. The ones that I know have learned to keep quiet or use pseudonyms so they can get by without conflict.

Anyway don't take my fanboyism too seriously.
Man, is it annoying when writers don't know the difference between the internet and the web. Maybe we could have a little test on the account-creation page?
SSL is much more expensive to deliver at scale, it could potentially kill popular non-commercial websites as the costs of hosting would be much more expensive without the caching, etc. that non-SSL permits.
Show HN: Super simple static blog generator, Benjen
How about we join forces bobby?We are both trying to help people, you more on the business side/me also taking care of the more personal side.I believe we can help more people this way.Email in the profile.In any case, good to see others help too.
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Hm.. ok, thanks for link. I will check this
When I started learning how to pick locks, I was shocked to find out how simple most house and apartment locks are to pick. I went to a fellow picker who had been in the scene way longer than I had. I asked "why don't more criminals use lockpicks or hacks to get bypass security?"

The reply has always stuck with me: if ones objective is to steal something of value, then picking or hacking a lock -- or a desire to be undetected - is outweighed by a necessity for speed."

If you are trying to break into a car to take something out of it -- or take the car itself -- then a glass breaker or even a brick will turn your 20 to 30 minute hack into a 3 second breech. Besides, they will know someone was in there when they realize everything is missing, whether you picked the lock or not. So minimize risk, not detection.
>Your math is a bit wonky

What math? I only put some numbers forward. Didn't even do addition. What I said is that for most technical books, 4000 copies is not that far off the mark. Or $12000 dollars.

And, thanks for clarifying that, the amount includes the advance. Note also that not all publishers give an advance, not all authors get an advance, and some authors even PAY to get their books published and/or promoted.

As for the publisher doing all those wonderful things, that's more about traditional publishing (and back in the day). With technical publishing, today, you get far fewer niceties.
Open-source Google Reader, we will take it from here.
Reminds me of layer tennis: http://layertennis.com/
I studied at Ha Noi University of Science, High School for Gifted Students and I can confirmed about algorithmic programming part. People consider math/algorithmic stuff is a major skill for CS; without it, do not even consider going CS major.
If The Architect hadn't thought he was smarter than JSLint, they wouldn't have ended up with that pesky anomaly.
Got any specific details of how this makes hosting more expensive and difficult to scale? If the browser and all web servers have the same certificate, I don't see much of a challenge in going SSL-only.

Also, I did some research after posting. Google Chrome now has an HTTPS-only mode: http://www.cgisecurity.com/2009/01/httpsonly-mode-added-to-c...

And the EFF has released extensions for Firefox and Chrome that apply HTTPS to all websites: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Then you also have companies like Scion using the incubator concept as a marketing campaign where they do provide a small amount of seed funding, and mentoring to young entreprenuers, but dont take any equity in return. So instead of selecting the business most likely to gain a return on their investment, they select companies that best represent their brand and the image they are trying to create.
Ask HN: Is it wise to switch to Google Compute Engine, from Amazon?
I've been reading up on Google Compute Engine. Lately, I'm into high-performance numerical computing, and I use AWS for much of my work. But looking at the kind of instances and pricing that GCE provides - is it a good idea to make a switch?

Thanks!
Wow, I DO NOT envy that Sisyphean task you have undertaken!

Still, bravo!
Technically the money has not been taken yet, bank accounts have just been frozen to keep at least that amount in them (or more). The vote has been postponed until Monday, and it may well not pass, presumably which is why there is a delay. Given that the politicians were just elected a few weeks ago saying this would not happen I imagine some are reluctant to vote in favour.
A more technical argument: Implementing SSL with name-based VHosts is pretty much impossible, making the use of a dedicated IPv4 or (alternatively) one Port per VHost neccessary.
Some of them. Don't think that Iceland's problems are all resolved. It's still unsure if the new constitution will pass, lots of people in power do not want change.
The HN readership is one of many things PG sells to companies in return for equity in them. This should have always been clear.
The local governments and the local banks are bankrupt.

The local people are not bankrupt.

But they are soon-to-be.
You don't have a fundamental right to his program. The rise of the Internet hippy is painful to watch.
It seems that a tax of (apparently) just under 20% on over EUR 100k was seen as too high, and would destroy Cyprus as an offshore banking centre, while under 10% as "ok". Apparently the rest of the EU was happy with it all going on large amounts but Cyprus was not. But this may all be hearsay.
Show HN: Flash Proxies Working
I may have learnt about this here, so apologies if so, but haven't been able to find the original post.

You can embed proxies in your web pages as described at http://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/

That generates a "badge" that you can see, for example [self link] at http://www.acooke.org/cute/ (top left).

And in the latest Chromium on Linux, at least, I am seeing that regularly turn light blue which means that (1) it is being used and (2) they probably need more people to do this (since ideally any one page should be used quite infrequently).

Finally, note that this only makes you an entry point for Tor. So you are not the source of any "disturbing" connections (connections from you go only to another tor node). Also, given the transient nature and low bandwidth, you're unlikely to be used effectively for downloading kiddie porn - it's much more about helping someone in China (say) look at a censored web page (since you're providing an entry point at a "random" and so unblocked location).
Firefox is NOT privacy-friendly. The default settings save cookies forever and there is no blocking of any tracking code by default - you are spreading misinformation declaring FF as "privacy-friendly". Another big problem is the fingerprintable request firefox generates - FF developers do not seem to see privacy as a concern.
Right, even removing that flaw would make it closer to two hours than 20 minutes (although half that to get in on average). Significantly less if you leave finger smudges on the keys though.

That said, agreed with the above: anywhere someone fiddling with the lock for 20 minutes would go unnoticed, a brick would go unnoticed too. I highly doubt a car has even been stolen through hacking the keypad lock in this manner.
Who’s Afraid Of Google Glass?
Huh? There's no need to be a dick. Chill out.
Also naming something like one of your plans after 'Katrina' brings up negative connotations
Thats not quite true. There was a massive property bubble. But a lot was lent in Greece, or used to buy Greek and Cypriot government debt.
Maybe you could sell some of your parents organs and buy a new car?

What is a better option? Maybe don't buy a new car?

Let them rot. They're too far away. I can't smell the foul scent. I don't care.
Besides a certain feeling about the company, do you have any hard facts that might give some suggestions about ghostery not beeing trustworthy?

If you do not agree to send them data (config wizard first checkbox I think), is there still data sent to them?

Feelings are ok, but keep them for your friends and family. We need facts here, so please deliver.
no it is not (faster).
Accused Reuters Editor Suspended, Still Tweeting
Google never had The Hacker Ethic (only marketing buzz about it). So that't not a question )
What's the difference between a static blog generator and something like WP's blog system, or Posterous? Bit confused by the terminology.
Its the motor noise. Once the cat is 20 years old and totally deaf (depends on breed...), I can verify the cat will love the vacuum cleaner. It feels like being brushed and massaged at the same time. I'm surprised day spas don't do this to humans. Needless to say this is using the hose and brush attachment, not the carpet beater.
RSS Can't Fill Google Reader Void
The debt crisis is a technical issue that is also political. Much of the money in the world, like these Cypriot deposits, does not really exist as the debt on the other side has defaulted, but we have no, er, nice ways of dealing with this. When this happens in the US I am sure it will also be at the top of HN...
Come to think of it, one can nearly consider this a 'serious game' (though I don't like the term much) or it could be enhanced into this: after all it describes the ... process in quite an entertaining way.

It even explains why sometimes losing is a good thing. :-)
We should have let them default when the crisis started, but no because our government are traitors to the people whom they have to protect.
Even More Raspberry Pi Now Made In The U.K.
Would you like to cooperate on this? I was thinking about this a long time ago, but I am full of other things to do and need some people to help me with that.

I am no startup-millionair, so please do not expect money, but if we build a small team that delivers, we will find supporters, I am sure. Please contact me at bughunter at riseup dot net.
Rather than a web app that runs and serves up content dynamically, this just spits out HTML that your webserver can serve up. No additional surface area for attack, no need for caching to keep things efficient, etc. Super simple.
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Holy God. I'm Irish and I knew we were in a deep hole, but... wow we are really [insert dispairing profanity]
Well... There are 5,000-euros suited thugs sitting in their offices relieving people of fiscal property.

Which is exactly the same as jackbooted thugs going into people's homes and relieving them of physical property.

And it's morally wrong. Like putting tags on people to make fun of them.
> Basic game theory

The guy who came up with game theory was mad + in real life people don't comply to it.
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> Basic game theory

The guy who came up with game theory was mad + in real life people don't comply to it except economists and psycologists.
Generally, a typical blogging engine is made up of templates, your database of entries, and some sort of logic that stitches them together on the fly when a visitor hits your website.

A static blog is run through a processor once, and plain html pages are generated and stored on the server. When a visitor requests a page, they're served one of those static pages.

WordPress has caching plugins that allow your blog to serve static pages (helpful when traffic surges and your database might be overwhelmed), but, by default, a WordPress blog serves content dynamically (meaning it isn't cached).
I'm confused as well. I thought the reason why mailing a letter through UPS is expensive is because using a system set up for delivery of packages to deliver a letter is a bit wasteful and thus they have to set higher costs to make any money on letters.
A post office near me was slated for closure, but the citizens who would have been affected by this closure raised a stink and it was rescinded. This particular community is composed of fairly wealthy people who felt that it was a hardship to drive an extra 3 miles to the nearest post office, but interestingly, don't think it's a hardship to drive 10 miles to get groceries. (This town has no grocery stores.) As long as the post office leadership is overridden by whiners and their congressmen, no progress will be made.

The postal system was devised back when it was a major, all day hassle to visit the closest village. Now it takes 5 minutes and you can pick up a coffee on the way.
North Korea Blames Cyberattacks On South Korea and United States
Just how do I register on Feedly and read the feeds via the browser not mobile device?
This doesn't scale to big companies.
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The “Linux” of online learning? edX takes big step toward open source goal
ok I get what you're saying but your use of 'fiat' to describe gold is not the right word to use. fiat means by government decree. gold is valued by people as a wealth asset - and I agree it's value only comes from the knowledge that other people will trade something in the future for it - but the mona lisa is just a bit of cloth with some paint. pretty useless yet priceless - because there are many in line would would gladly exchange their vast excess of fiat currency for it.

I'm not arguing fiat currency will disappear, it obviously won't. It's just not the correct vehicle for saving. You must not save in the same instrument of the debtors. It leads to you being wiped out when the debtors default as the credit system grows beyond the ability for it to be paid back (eg: see China's trillions of US Treasuries - those are claims that the US economy cannot and will not service).

re: Spain: It was silver that was debased not gold I think.

re: gold failed: Physical gold didn't fail. Gold backed currency failed. Governments always print more tickets to gold than they own. The last big paper gold failure was Nixon in 1974 after they overspent on the Vietnam war.

I wouldn't recommend getting into paper gold to escape a currency collapse. Physical, unambiguously owned metal is the insurance, the vehicle that will transition you through to the otherside.
HTC One review: An absolutely superb Android smartphone with software flaws
Is there any way of turning off the "Featured" content at the top? This is like Facebook pushing content that I never asked for. Here it's right at the top too.

Other than looks good.
https://developers.google.com/+/api/
Unlike people, countries don't disappear. They have many (natural) resources standing still on the earth. Which can be used to pay back loan.

But greed is good. I can have both the other country's natural resources and $1,000 from my citizens. Win-win for me. Lose-lose for everybody else.
I have absolutely no facts whatsoever that they are misusing information. The only fact is that they have an obvious conflict of interest. I assume people interested in privacy would like to be aware of it. I'm sorry that you don't consider it relevant but I am certain others do.
Diversification and multiple pots seems like the best reasonable option. At the very least, one's investment portfolio should be internationally diversified. If you were really concerned, actually holding a portion of those assets in an offshore account might make sense. Regardless, rather than trying to protect all assets, the goal would be to maximize the chances that you would always be left with at least a sufficient amount.
Beijing IT biz taunts Microsoft: Show us your licence for Office 365
Cool. So there is no DB involved at all for the content? When you edit, the old file is replaced by the a new one?
I guess there is a backend you log in to and a wysiwyg for editing?
when credit collapses (which is what this is) then the price of things bought on credit will collapse. Real estate will not be a good store of value in the short term. Long term it is an excellent asset but don't think it will hold value though this.
Bitcoin....you have seen the volatility on it lately? And the other week the miners were all asked to rollback a recent build because the crypto broke? Bitcoin is for speculation, not wealth preservation.
How pathetic Apple has become
You should definitely have done that. But you'd won much less out of it. Now you can gain more.
Indeed and most countries don't have medium sized banks, they tend to have big ("too big to fail") and small ones. When a bank failed in the Netherlands (SNS Reaal) the other week the government said that it would have cost EUR 30bn to the fund which would have crippled the 3 remaining large banks. Iceland had a similar system where the deposit insurance fund could not cover any of the banks failing, as they were all too big. The two big banks in Cyprus are huge.
I was a Wave enthusiast. I felt like not even Google really saw how the platform could have been useful. They presented it as a communications thing - e-mail and chat mashed together. But you can edit other people's messages, which makes communication really confusing.

Wave had the potential to be like Google Docs, but using an open protocol for live collaboration, instead of locking you into Google's services. So you could host it yourself, and seamlessly share it with anyone using a compatible system. In my more cynical moments, I wonder if Google realised this and killed it before it could compete with Google Docs.
Nope, no DB at all. The way you edit the content is 100% up to you, but at the end of the day, your entries are just Markdown files in a directory. You can see my whole blog setup at https://github.com/daeken/Benjen/tree/master/daeken.com
Defeating mobile game clones: Why copyright protection is not enough
Yeah, but Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain don't have any nukes ;)
Random fact: in Polish "free" and "slow" translates to the same word ("wolny"). Only free as in speech though, free as in beer is different word ("darmowy").
No this has not been implemented yet. We are promised it will be in future, once the ECB is the bank regulator.
The problem is worse as far as it concerns loans here in Cyprus. Let's say I have a loan for 100k to buy a new house. Now I have 90k, I still owe 100k to the bank and I cannot afford to buy the house without a new loan. The same goes for startup fudings, student loands and who knows what else. there is no control over special cases and most of the wealthy ones have already moved their money to foreign banks a few weeks ago. Jobs and salaries are still safe and people will not be on the street. Even I as a student not currently in Cyprus had my account frozen and lost some 100s of euros. I hope the country is now in a way saved but this is still a disaster for some of us. However I don't feel the same for the eurozone and don't see how it is possible to keep Italian banks from drying out during the next few weeks.
I'm sure the Cypriots don't want to rot, so why not take the EU bail out? Yes, they lose 6-10%, but that is much better than 100%. And the Russia mafia won't be that angry.
The most desperate needs are hunger and thirst, necessary to survive. Doesn't sound like an area were a lot profit can be made though. I'd say the highest potential to turn a profit is from those with the most money to spend frivolously.
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Well it suggests you are dedicated and a strategic thinker, but not very subordinate. Presumably in owning your company you have to forgo a certain amount of buddy-ness with your workers for the benefit of the company; that's what's being alluded to.

The linked articles are quite interesting in their entirety: looking at binary values of being strategic, dedicated and subordinate has some interesting implications and avoids the suggestion of amorality and mental disfunction carried by the sociopath tag.

One other claim of the articles is that for certain companies the investors are the (sociopathic) executives and the CxOs are middle-managers under a delusion. Not universal but again food for thought.
Microsoft still barely scratching "Surface" with tablet sales
"what research does a business undergrad participate in"

Listening to a coworker of mine:

Marketing, obviously. This is how industry wide 99% of SUVs will never leave suburban blacktop but most SUV commercials have the vehicle speeding up and down dirt trails in a national park. Sometimes similar things in business come from random convergent individual evolution, but more often from the outside. Somebody released a paper on the topic of Americans being germophobes about 5-10 years ago, predictably we had to sit thru a product cycle where anything that can theoretically include triclosan, had to include triclosan (and other anti-bacterials, etc). You may remember a similar fad a decade earlier for citrus oils.

Generalized, generic version of what they'll do on an individual case basis with numerical metrics in private sector. Talk to buddies in the field to get raw randomized data and turn the data into a report from a business perspective if you pay $x bounty for finding a security bug that results in a supply demand curve shaped exactly as such, with this effect on product development times, and this effect on total cost of production / ownership, sales figures, etc, all theoretically "industry wide" or at least "subindustry wide"

We don't have a free market system, more of a centrally controlled system. So there's a basically infinite collection of govt laws, rules, regs, where you can gather the raw data for game theoretic analysis of what the central controllers have decided for us. Is it better, purely economically, to hire illegals to staff fast food restaurants? Identifying all the economic costs is actually pretty hard. Someone out there is probably researching every law/rule/reg out there... costs of obeying vs disobeying, cost to purchase alternative legislation via election funds / lobbying, and repeat each along the short term / long term axis.

For accounting the rules are often "what rule can you purchase" or "what you can get away with" but there's also real world accounting. You need to keep two sets of books, one with how fast does the IRS allow you to depreciate "XYZ" for tax purposes, and another set of books for how fast "XYZ" actually depreciates in the real world. Then you have to live off the real world books or else you can get in a horrible cash crunch if your cashflow depends on selling a used "XYZ" to make payroll this month or as a downpayment on a new "XYZ".

Finally criminals spend a lot of time inventing new crimes. New forms of control fraud, etc. Basically, classic social engineering without computer involvement.
Oh it's nice, but with deeply crafty intent behind it, because they know it's hard to enforce. See the bolded "optional" reply date? Meant to look like velvet glove tactics: this scares most non-lawyered up people I'm sure.
Now $200k isn't enough to pay a mortgage and support a family?

This story is getting ridiculous.

I know people in SV who are supporting entire families on incomes less than $100k. It's not uncommon.

It's simply exaggeration, bordering on lying, to say otherwise.
it's evil, but normal. And not as bad as music contracts.
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