skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, yes, yes!! I think this is the smallest change that could be made to the current system to make it sane.

The burden of proof needs to be on the patent holder to show, by a preponderance of the evidence, that they invented something nonobvious. That's a pretty low bar, but would require them to present some evidence, which they currently don't have to do.
Because most companies who employ DDOS mitigation services want discretion, and smart DDOS protection companies are discrete. Even Cloudflare does not discuss most of their high-end customers. In this case Spamhaus gave them permission to write it up.

Cloudflare differs from most DDOS mitigation companies because of their low-dollar, self-service tier. This gives them a reason to blog, and customers and attacks to talk about. Most DDOS companies only provide bespoke service for $$$, and those contracts usually come with silence requirements.

Akamai is not 2nd on the list of DDOS mitigation companies, BTW. I know a couple companies who left Akamai for DOS Arrest, one of great companies you'll never see mentioned in a NYTimes article (because that's how their customer want it).
Timeline editor for JavaScript
I hope not... I find shelfari to be a far superior site than Goodreads.
I am trying this with the reboot of my project http://cluedb.com/ - it's a daily tip project. It efficiently reuses old content so it isn't strictly a mailing list.
So, just push into the same table. The studios have a legitimate interest in protecting their business model, just as tech people have a legitimate interest in more open business models. Engaging with them is likely to be far more productive than of demonizing them as incomprehensible and all-powerful alien beings.

I am on first name terms with the CEO and execs of a mid-size film studio with a good number of Oscar nominations and statuettes to its credit. They have no particular love for DRM or desire to screw people, but they do want to monetize their content. I think this is reasonable considering that they sign their names to checks for tens of millions of dollar so that good films can go into production. Gripe about Hollywood not producing great films all you like, but the reality is that a) almost everyone I know still enjoys watching good movies and b) good movies typically cost quite a lot of money to make, and c) it's a very high-risk business model in that films are more likely than not to lose money.

If someone were to suggest some innovative methods of monetizing content while simultaneously making it more accessible to a wider audience, that'd be very interesting. You can assume we're talking about young and tech-savvy people here, as opposed to people who spend all their time at the country club or on the golf course.
Effective Search Engine Optimization Does Not Have To Be Expensive
I guess that's nice if you live in San Francisco. Same day delivery doesn't exactly seem that challenging if you only deliver to a 30 minute radius.
Attractive is subjective, but a (female) friend in PR told me that 80% of PR people are female. And given the well documented ageism in tech, young seems probable.
Awesome. I love Goodreads. I hope this helps them make it better.
Plugins: usage, distribution and future in Firefox
Yes.

Do we have to be US citizens?

No, as long as you can get here for at least three months. We've funded many startups founded by non-citizens.

(http://ycombinator.com/faq.html)

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Check the specifics for coming to the US for 3 months with your nationality. Most western countries fall under the visa waiver thingy, for others you'll have to get a tourist visa.
Well the formatting got messed up and it's too late to edit it:

* html you can change inside of a text object. If you are say anywhere inside of a link <a href="som|e link"> you can ci< and you have deleted the whole thing and are left with <|> (where the cursor is denoted by |) If instead you typed ci" you would be left with <a href="|"> this is a very powerful pattern

* you can script little macros that do text editing on a macro scale very efficiently. This is more useful than a simple find and replace. you want to make a list that starts with a number, has that number in it and is incremented by one(or two or...) every time.

Type the first sentence 1, xv001, "", more stuff.

exit out of insert mode: jj or esc

start recording the macro into register r: qr

yank the line and paste it: yyp

go to the beginning of the line: 0 or ^

increment by one and move one word right and increment the next number: ctrl-a w ctrl-a

move down one line: j

exit recording: q

run macro r 100 times: 100@r
New Technology To ‘Reactivate’ Blind Eyes
That isn't a coincidence. The federal reserve district banks distribute the notes to commercial banks in their districts, and, as worded on wikipedia: "A Federal Reserve Bank can retire notes that return from circulation by exchanging them for collateral that the bank posted for an earlier issue. Retired notes in good condition are held in the bank's vault for future issues."

He effectively came up with a way to reverse engineer the district boundaries.
Thanks for the great explanation.

So if I understand correctly, the problems with the DNS amplification attack using only authoritative nameservers are:

a) You have to keep track of which name to request from which server

b) You can't optimize for a particularly large response

c) Operators of authoritative name servers are likely to be more sophisticated and therefore have egress filtering.

d) There aren't as many authoritative nameservers as open recursive servers (?)
Show HN: Nestgrid tree structured extensible user interface (GPL, w/ flash demo)
Really? I think UPS is just fine... they know where my condo is better than Google Maps, and they walk up to the door and put it on the porch and ring the bell.
I am not sure how the logistics work with participating stores but I would really like to see them make this an easy way for small local businesses to compete with Amazon. Basically a platform for them to list their products and the logistics to collect and deliver them.

This service seems to be mostly orthogonal to Instacart in that Instacart provides perishables but you can only order from a single shop at a time where with Express you can order products from across multiple stores but they focus more on non-grocery items.

Looking forward to trying it.
> it's the application of the algorithm that gets the grant

And that should simply be copyright for the expression of the algorithm.
Odds are, if you were recruiting for [promotional ] work 90% would be outgoing and attractive young women, just like recruiting programmers will get you 90% geeky white males.

Absolutely not true. There is no shortage of male actors and models. Whatsoever. And the prettier they are, the bigger the pay delta vis-a-vis the female actors and models. Whoever is hiring booth babes is actively excluding men, and paying through the nose to do it.
“Ruining HN by turning every Google-related discussion into a snark-filled pile of garbage isn't going to bring Reader back.”

Well, we can try ;) Anyways, I've reached a level of discontent that I wouldn't come back to Google Reader even if Google promised to keep it running indefinitely.

I'm ditching Google entirely, I only need to cancel my Analytics accounts (I switched to http://www.haveamint.com/). DuckDuckGo works fine for search, IMAP works fine for email, http://www.feedafever.com/ works fine for RSS, Vimeo works fine for video, and Dropbox works fine for online storage.
Where Do the Rich Get Their Money, Again?
I have said it before, but I love SVBTLE. That being said, this was another great article. It just repeats what has been told to you since you have been in elementary school; break down the problem.

Breaking down problems, step by step, into smaller digestible pieces allows self confidence when you can check on task off a list. It allows you to tackle one facet of the problem and stack layers of knowledge. I think the problem with most things is "paralysis by analysis"; you see a problem, say a start up idea, that you want to do but you have no idea how. You get too involved in the minutia of things and become paralyzed before you ever start.

Another great line:
"I recall a disagreement I had with a friend many years ago. My claim was that anything I set my mind to was achievable; he thought this idea was ridiculous"

Not only is this a great line, because you REALLY can accomplish anything you set your mind to, but it is also a fundamentally different way to look at the world. You see obstacles for what they are; obstacles. You don't see them as a reason why you can't do something.

The more obstacles in your way, the more reason why you have found something worth your time doing. Obstacles let you know what you're doing is important, worthwhile, and because it has obstacles you have already beat at least 50% of the people out there because they will likely give up when presented with a challenge that they do not know how to solve.

Great article.
Yes, this works [1]. Much harder questions are what to do, and who to do it with.

[1]: The only difficulty is when you encounter a combinatorial explosion of potential solutions. It will work eventually, but it might take too long.
Akamai is not really in the DDOS mitigation business. They are in the CDN business, and "DDOS protection" is just one way they market their CDN resources.
you patent "a method for sorting an array of integers by doing <steps of Quicksort> on a computer". want to use the algorithm? go ahead, doing it with a pencil and some paper is ok (i believe).
Facts are not copyrightable, correct?
Show HN: a simple but colorful node.js site generator
She's talking about "women who are pretty but not models, dressed in normal street clothes to push whatever product they have." Is that what you think of for "booth babes"?
FundersClub offered exactly that, the YCS13 fund that invests in about 10 companies in the YCS13 batch, with a $10k minimum investment. It closed about two months ago.
So unless you're imgur, whose load has substantially to do with images?

In most of the stuff I've worked on, it was either a database or an analysis backend the requests were blocking in.

More power to 'em though, love stuff like this. :)
"You make $1mm in 20 years", or "You make whatever is left after taxes & expenses"?

The latter, clearly :).

Anyways, the point was well taken; he did undersell his IPO. Newcomers on the block will surely learn from him and offer shares for more inflated prices ;).

In fact, his IPO earned him a pittance <$1k (nine-hundred and something shares sold to 'friends and family').
In related news, researchers from Mozilla and UC San Diego with support from Microsoft Research have recently published another approach to typed JavaScript, named Dependent Javascript or "DJS". This isn't focused on performance so much as correctness.

1. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4700

2. http://goto.ucsd.edu/~ravi/research/djs/
Aren't there technically two cities, called "East" and "West" Memphis respectively?
Oh yeah, this looks really inappropriate and sexist! Pffff.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolpinchefsky/2013/03/27/reall...
Sir, that is fucking awesome! But why the human ? A Nao (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2STTNYNF4lk ) would do. I would bark at Siri for toilet paper, the self driving google car would arrive within minutes with toilet paper, a Nao would walk in through the door, I'd drop my pants, he'd wipe my butt with my newly purchased toilet paper & I'd tip him handsomely and he'd be driving off to the next customer's anus.
The goal of things like asm.js is to make JavaScript a general purpose, low level programming language. I'm not sure why you consider it esoteric, though.

People don't do those things in the browser because asm.js (or some alternative) isn't widespread yet. When it is, they will.
>More importantly, I assume anyone representing a product or service at a show is knowledgeable about its inner-workings until they give me some reason to believe otherwise regardless of their gender or attire.

That must get pretty tiring at a conference like this (assuming the description in the post is accurate). People don't stereotype for fun, they do it because it's effective.
The trick is that when people you talk to universally assume you're not technical due to your gender, it is simultaneously:

a) exhausting to have to change every person's perception of you prior to being able to really engage in conversation
b) demoralizing when your male peers are treated with more respect automatically based on their gender
c) a sad loss of opportunity to engage in the discussion, when no opportune moment arises where you can comfortably communicate that you are qualified to participate

The author cited conversations where men she was with did not have the same experience as her. She essentially had to work harder in order to be seen as an equal participant.
People who are desperate tend not to be the best test subjects--if there is any indication that the drug isn't work, they're likely to switch to another treatment. This is absolute havok on both safety and efficacy trials, which depend on participants sticking to their regime (whether or not their regime is the tested drug or a placebo). The end result is that the drug ends up taking longer to get to market than it otherwise would, assuming that it can get through the trials.

Yes, it sucks for the people who won't survive until the drug reaches the market, but the overall outcome for society is better.

Also, at the end of the day, taxpayer money is used to pay for most EOL care. The taxpayers have a vested interest in not exposing dying people to expensive and unproven treatments which could make their conditions even worse.
I gave up reading and just did a Ctrl-F for the phrases "profit", "revenue", "business model", and "money". 0 of 0. That's the f%^&king problem!
>I think President Obama has or will have appointed half of the court.

"Will have appointed" has taken on a new meaning during this presidency. The Circuit Court currently has 16 vacancies, and 6 "Judicial Emergencies",[1] meaning that there are too many cases for current judges to handle. Although Obama has made fewer nominations at this point than his predecessors, this shortage is largely because Senate Republicans hate Obama and refuse to confirm his nominations — ability of litigants to have their cases heard be damned.

[1] http://www.afj.org/judicial-selection/judicial-selection-sna...
When the guys were shouting, the rest of the crowd and security was frowning at them. It was really easy to see this problem was something everybody knew about, that good people had my back, and something we would solve shortly. It wasn't fun at the time, but I knew it would be done soon.

GDC was a worse experience because it was profoundly isolating, and made me feel like an outsider. Also, I don't see an easy solution coming to fix it, which makes the situation feel more depressing.
They said the same thing about flight attendants.
I am pleased too, but unfortunately it seems like they turned it into Python 3.

That is: not a stable, cross platform, version on the horizon yet --not even excluding IE--, and we're in for a long wait.
Remind HN: YC S13 applications are due tomorrow at 8pm PT
Ask HN: How do you deal with a "death march"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_march_(project_management)

I have a friend who very clearly described to me these exact conditions, and he was completely stressed out as a result.

Have you encountered this type of situation before? How did you deal with it?
When orchestras started doing tryouts behind an opaque screen, they found that their previous insistence that women couldn't play as well as men was bogus, because the interviewees that got the job were 50/50 male and female. You could get a third party to white out the gender cues on resumes before you sort them into the shortlist, and then conduct interviews over text skype.

But honestly, someone who uses the concept "ugly women" is failing so hard at sexism already they might as well be a character from "Mad Men".
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By "bytecode" we probably mean "ActionScript" which is a train-wreck of an implementation due to differing bytecode formats internally for various versions of Flash.

Maybe this is why people are terrified of the idea.
How about advertising that focuses on the product instead of a set of reproductive organs?
This problem isn't limited to conferences. I'm a woman and an engineer, and I can't count the number of times I've met someone at a casual tech meetup and the first thing out of their mouths was "You must be in PR." If you want to make a small difference in making the world a nicer place, just ask me what I do.

Booth babes and female sales reps are an interesting thing to discuss, but we can't individually change the whole marketing culture. But we can individually make the tech scene more inclusive just by being more sensitive about the way we interact with other people. So please, please, please don't make assumptions about me or start presumptuously explaining things to me without asking what I do.
Nice, would be great to have a better interaction to pick one slice. Imagine you want to pick one in the middle ?
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Toxic comments are a bigger problem than inappropriate posts. The latter can always be killed or flagged, whereas toxic comments poison the bloodstream of the site. They're the opposite of the civility that HN's guidelines call for.

Too many of us treat HN as a dumping ground for personal anger. (I say "us" because I've not been immune to this myself.) One should try not to, and if that's hard, one should try harder.
Because the ES6 ECMA is made by a bloody time-wasting committee and the V8 team is also slow as hell to implement JS-level stuff (and let's not speak of IE and MS).
That only works if you have a lot of money already (and I mean basically a seed round of investment). Otherwise, you'll need a technical co-founder at the very least.
It's a more efficient social protocol - rather than having to ask everyone what their interests are at the start, and abandon 80% of conversations, you dress in a way that indicates what you're interested in, and then can quickly identify the like-minded people you want to talk to. I thought engineers were all about efficiency.
The idea that men pay attention to supermodel shaped women is (1) sexist (2) very mistaken. Sexist men pay horny attention to them. Horniness is a distraction from a product pitch. "I'm sorry, what did you say again? I was staring at your chest."
Engineers are the group I would expect to understand this the best, since we tend to be proud of our disinterest in selling and marketing ourselves constantly. We want to do competent work, make things happen, keep things working, and move along. Our gold standard for correctness is that no one even knows we exist.

And yet on HN, I regularly find engineers who can't seem to grasp any of these things. Maybe it's because we're in the web age, when so much of our work is visible, or maybe it's because we're in the recession/post-recession era, when self-marketing is often essential to staying afloat in the economy. I don't know. We seem to have forgotten those core bits.

It makes me sad.
It does teach you how to do anything. Just break down the problem. One stepping stone leads to another, which leads to another, which leads to another and so on. A journey (anywhere, metaphorically speaking) is just a collection of individual stepping stones and accomplishments.

This may be too simplistic, but lets take your quarterback problem. Let's assume you are able bodied, in shape, in high school (gotta start then if you want to make it to the pros) and made the football team.

1. You made the team
2. You become back up quarter back
3. Work your ass off at training to become starting QB or at least when he goes down you get a chance to show why you should be starting.
4. You become starting QB
5. You work your ass off to make plays, win games, and become recognized not only as a great QB but also as a great leader, because the QB is the leader of the team.
6. Get accepted into a recognized college and repeat the above.

All you have to do is follow the guidelines set by yourself, fill in the blanks, and repeat. I do not mean to go on a tangent, but the point I am trying to convey is everything you want to accomplish in life can be done if you bust your ass once someone somewhere gives you a chance to do so.
Things like IP law are our "inside baseball" politics: things that only make sense/matter to hackers. I can see a place for that here.

Gender politics which happens to affect a game designer isn't, though; it's immediately understandable to anyone in the general population, and will likely pop up on many other more "general-interest" sites like Reddit. (And, like the guideline says, could be covered on the TV news.)

I take the "spirit of the law" of the HN guidelines as being not that there are certain topics that are bad to talk about on HN (in est, a blacklist); but rather that HN is mainly for discussing things that go "over the heads" of the general population (a whitelist.) HN brings together people who crave other knowledgeable folks willing to discuss subjects usually lost on the people around them.

HN is a respite from the inanity of general news/trivia/discourse, and to ensure it stays that way, we have to be willing to forgo the usual logic of "this instance of [general topic] affects one of our own! Surely [general topic] itself is now on-topic for any manner of discussion or debate." It seems to invade, and eventually dilute, every community that doesn't specifically have a rule about "these are the subjects we talk about here."

An instructive parallel: in my experience, every knitting community has an entire sub-board to talk about pregnancy. What expertise do knitters have to contribute on the subject of pregnancy? Wouldn't these people be better off going to a pregnancy forum, where actual expert knowledge can be aggregated? They're having the same conversations happening in every other pregnancy subforum of every other tangentially-related community, instead of getting together to have one conversation.

What special expertise does HN have on gender politics?
Snark aside, we are somewhat in agreement.

I tend to dislike elitist thinking (or though I'm still guilty of it at times), not for moral reasons, but simply because empiricism, in my admittedly subjective opinion, is routinely lauded over common sense in nerdy communities (HN, slashdot, SO etc), and is often a form of bias. Having a bias doesn't mean one is wrong necessarily, but it can be problematic too, especially if one lacks cognizance of said bias.

For example, my gf is the furthest thing from a computer scientist, but is routinely more observant socially and can spot bullshitting better than I in certain contexts (among other superior cognitive skills).

However in the past I've tried to pick too many battles in one post, and that makes it difficult for someone to upvote, as they may agree with some, or one point, but not another and creates a mixed cognitive dissonance. Hence I didn't want to launch into a large foray of intellectual elitism.

Hence the aim was, for the most part was to try to leave epistemological disputes (how do we know what we know, who knows what etc, do all groups have equally justified beliefs?), out of the debate and focus on the regulatory side of things and empowering the individual to be allowed follow their own life and death decisions.

That said, perhaps I could have left the opening paragraph off altogether in retrospect.