skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What made the Nazis' use of "Arbeit Macht Frei" so sickening in the first place was that it had been a moderately common German saying or proverb prior to that. It really was used to indicate that infinite labor brought spiritual freedom.

It was, at one time, a saying more closely associated with The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism than with Mein Kampf.
I hate spam as much as anyone but blacklists have gotten out of hand.

I rented a server, and when I decided to use it for sending emails, I found out the IPs were blacklisted. I tried appealing to Microsoft and they claimed the IP was blacklisted after I rented it. This was ridiculous since I had just installed Postfix for a few days and barely sent any emails out.

So I decided to relay all my emails to another server and haven't had any problems with it for a year except now I am stuck with a server with blacklisted IPs.

Some messages still randomly get blocked by Hotmail while Gmail happily accepts them. This whole email delivery problem is a mess and the fact that people are paying to have someone else send their emails is proof of how bad Email is failing.
Goodreads Acquired by Amazon
Does rauth work with Python 3?
What's the deal with Pennsylvania being cut in half?
They'd know it was there as soon as a patch was released, anyway.
Knowing that there is a vulnerability might motivate them to look for it, but given the size of the software, I doubt they'll be able to find it without knowing more.
The bad guys already assumed that.

Seriously - the entire premise of IT security (no matter the color of your hat) is the assumption that there is no such thing as a secure computer.
Modern Icon Design
This was launched just yesterday. Written in pure Javascript.

https://peercdn.com/
Google still needs H.264 for youtube. They can get rid of the player in Chrome, but they still need to serve it up, unless they're willing to completely sacrifice any hope of playing videos on iOS (and given how much they make off of iOS I'd be shocked if they did that).
Maybe wearing a beat-up t-shirt that says "Come to the Dark Side. We have cookies. " would help establish the OP as an engineer.
Ernest Shackleton is probably the greatest mortal leader since Moses. Read Alfred Lansing's Endurance and you'll probably agree, although his greatest skill is probably this: http://cbpowerandindustrial.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/the-unc...

I gave you an upvote for the description. Nice to know about that "human" side of him.
I roughed up a flask benchmark but I haven't been able to test locally.

If you want to help, check out this pull request: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/pull/14/f...
I wish we had more men who dressed up as booth babes. Don't we have enough body builders in the game industry yet?
isn't recorded history only 150 years? How long have we had accurate thermometers with reliable, consistent recordings?
As long as it is stuck to "accredited" investors it's pretty boring.

I think the SEC is going to forced to give up on this concept after a few more years of conventional investment instruments available to most people struggling to keep up with inflation.

It's definitely true that some accredited investors are smart about investing but plenty of them are just people with a lot of money.
"Why asm.js is a JavaScript subset?". Simple, because Mozilla wants the benefits of the (P)NaCl approach but don't want to have to import LLVM. asm.js allows them to 1) make use of their existing JIT compiler and 2) avoid defining a new bytecode format (the benefits of this are questionable). asm.js is ugly, but it doesn't seem that much more ugly than adding a new multi-megabyte dependency to every browser.

I suppose an interesting question would be how hard would it have been to standardise on the PNaCl bytecode format and use that as the input to ${FOO}monkey
MobileWorks is hiring a star Community Operations Manager
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About the position:

We’re experiencing fantastic growth and need an all-star community operations manager to interface with the MobileWorker community and our clients to keep things running smoothly. You’ll be working on our Premier product, which provides hands-on, direct assistance to our highest-value clients.

At MobileWorks, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of community members from around the world to ensure that we continue to provide fantastic service. You’ll make sure that each client using Premier has an incredible experience, not just through direct customer service, but also by building design processes and policies that support Premier as we add hundreds of new staffers and clients each month.

About you:

You’re a self-motivated, detail-oriented person that loves managing projects with a lot of moving parts. Bringing people together--perhaps with a wide variety of backgrounds--is second nature to you. Great communication is something you take personal pride in--it’s not just a bullet point to check off on an application. You take great satisfaction in training others on a team to be successful with their roles. You get jazzed knowing that you brought a group together to complete a well-done project. And you can use all the latest desktop and cloud productivity software (e.g. google docs, MS office, Skype, etc.) like it’s another appendage.

It might be a match if you have:

* 1-2 years of experience in an operations management, community management, customer service, or similar role in a startup or small company
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* Worked with people from a wide variety of backgrounds (international experience a huge plus!)
* Are extremely service oriented
* Super savvy with new technology
* Have tried Premier and can tell us what you think about it!

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* The chance to work with a bright, fun team on an impact product
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* Breathtaking sunset views of the Golden Gate Bridge from your desk

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As someone who's fallen in love with writing absolutely everything in straight plain-text, seeing this brought a warmth feeling to my heart : )
We use Zendesk, mostly.
I think that short concise bytecode is why we have high level languages like javascript to begin with.
Uber respect if the file had gzip content-encoding.
If you'll allow me a shameless plug...

My company (dailycred) wraps ten OAuth 1 & 2 providers, as well as email & password and Mozilla Persona in a single OAuth 2 call.

(We started this project because even just within OAuth 2, providers break spec left and right and OAuth can be a huge headache, so we manage all of those headaches for our customers.)
Yea I tend to agree on a lot of those points. I'm currently working on a native application that does heavy AV compositing and there is no way that HTML5 solution would be as capable.

Mainly the pain points are on the API and the legacy nature of it, and the surrounding crappy tools. I see cool IDEs, testing frameworks, scaffolding/bootstrapping sets and I can only be a little jealous. Sure we have our share, but it's a small slice of where the majority of effort is in the web world.

My hope, crossing fingers, is that one day HTML apps will truly be able to compete across all facets and access native functionality with the same performance as native platforms. Will this ever be the case? I can only hope.
Introducing Project Meniscus: The Python Event Cloud Logging Service
How I got 4G LTE on my Nexus 4 (on T-Mobile's Network)
Isn't he describing Dart in his second to last section?
As I was reading this, all I could think to myself was "wow, I would've done the exact same thing" in almost every circumstance Formspring found themselves in. Bottom line is: it's easy to play armchair CEO when reading a post-mortem (and hindsight is always 20/20) but I think the fine people at Formspring deserve a well-earned pat on the back.

They tried, they failed, and they will undoubtedly try again. As the old adage goes, fortune favors the bold.
Did Woot get murdered? No.

Did Zappos get murdered? No.

Did Quidsi get murdered? No.

Did Shelfari get murdered? No.

(Note: I'm biased.)
Goodreads Blog | Exciting News About Goodreads: We're Joining the Amazon Family
I'm not as tuned into iOS right now but a guy I work with just got an Android gig. As soon as he started looking he got a ton of calls and found one he liked in less than a week.
I've heard plenty of reasons Mozilla doesn't like NaCl, but that sure isn't one of them...
This seems to assume asm.js came first. Really it's a development build on top of what things like emacripten were already doing.

There doesn't really seem to be much criticism here of asm.js as a bytecode, only as a syntax.
Ars Technica had a pretty good article about peering and transit:
http://arstechnica.com/features/2008/09/peering-and-transit/

don't know if that is what you were looking for but it does a pretty good job explaining that part.
Spring Hackathon 2013
The focus of the Spring Hackathon, scheduled for 27/28 April at the Google Campus, London, is “apps for local communities”.

Over the weekend devs will be challenged to create web and mobile apps and visualisation tools to make local council websites and local public information more usable and accessible to all in the community.

We have some outstanding APIs and datasets to get your creative muses flowing. And as usual, some great prizes.

Register on Lanyrd here: http://lanyrd.com/cmmyx
Also, classic papers 1945 -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_important_publications_...
Not surprised. Goodreads is for books what IMDB is for movies (which Amazon also owns). It'll nicely complement Amazon as a recommendation engine to push buyers to amazon to purchase books (which it already does). I use goodreads to track books that I want to read at some later point; and have used it to discover new books.

Atleast I'm glad it was Amazon vs "Any Other Big Corp" because I believe that Amazon will keep the service alive vs shutting it down or trying to absorb it somehow.
I feel the same way. In fact, reading math feels like reading code where all the operators have been overloaded and there are only 26 available variable names.
i guess this is an important criteria for recruiters/companies
>The next part is where things got interesting, and is the part that nobody outside of extremely technical circles has actually bothered to try and understand yet.

Isn't this talked about in CloudFare's write-up?
I don't care for the desktop shell they're making, but the applications I have tried are really high-quality. The screen-capture program is really great and feature-full.
My cofounder and I created Skyforge with the aim of helping Android developers get basic testing and validation of their apps quickly and easily, so I'd love to get feedback from Android developers on whether such a service would help them or not.
The New York Times and BBC took their account at face value and published it as fact.
The lack of integration with my kindle is a large part of why I don't use Goodreads as much as I might otherwise but I'm kind of disappointed that it will take a buyout to get that integration rather than Amazon creating an api that would allow third-parties to integrate their services with the device directly.
Hmm... So I go and buy a lottery ticket. Then go around selling people a piece of the ticket for 1/10 of what it cost me ($1, so 10 cents). I sell it to 100 people, and manage to make $9. Cool. I made money. But what happened to the lottery ticket? Did I win? No. The aim was never to have the winning ticket, but to sell a piece of the ticket and profit. What happened to those that bought a share of the ticket? They stopped playing the lottery.

Even in spite of the above process, startup investing is risky, as we disclose in our FAQ. No one should invest money they cannot afford to lose in the startup asset category.

Stop calling it an investment. What you do is pure speculation. It is not an investment fund per se. But a speculation fund. But you can't call it that due to how people do not like the word "speculation" (for a reason).

I just think this "startup" is going to set off a lot of copycats and thus mark the beginning of the end.

Anyhow, I'm not against it. God knows I want this model to happen, so I can buy more cheap stocks.
That's precisely the intent and effect of the JOBS Act: to open opportunities like these to unaccredited investors.
JACKSON STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING

No, just kidding.

Before you start just do a very brief sketch of what you want to achieve. Keep putting notes on this as you go through. This is rough and informal and will change.

When you leave off make a huge comment with some notes - "implement this, that, the other. Don't forget that you were having trouble with that."

When you go back to a project have one tiny feature in mind, and do that. Don't try to finish the whole thing. Little steps.
That is the secret plot behind "brogramming."
Nice UI.
What does those button at the landing page mean? I was there expecting for a hint to come up from any of the buttons.
Then, for some reason, I didn't get what I think were questions since after the "tutorial" (really nice) that part was all white with only the radio buttons.
> is as close as we'll ever get.

This is the point I think the author and a lot of people are missing. It's not always about what is the best possible design, instead it is often "what we will get". Politics, ideology, and timing can often come in the way of "the best design".

I would love to use NaCl (I was cheering for it up until recently), but if only Chrome is implementing it then it's about as useful as a screwdriver that doesn't fit any screws.

asm.js is already a stronger candidate because I can use it right now and it will work everywhere. Obviously the browser vendors has to create asm.js specific optimizations for it to be truly great, but that is like fuzzing over the handle, grip and material of the screwdriver. It fits the screws, it gets the job done, it actually works.

What does it matter how great your technology is if it doesn't work? What does it matter if NaCl is ten times faster if I can't actually use it? From what I see, Mozilla isn't very hot on the idea of adopting NaCl, and Microsoft will probably not even touch it in this millennia.

If a client wants me to produce something, I can't use NaCl, because it won't actually run in non-chrome browsers (without installing plugins).

To me it appears that the choice is either asm.js or nothing. NaCl just isn't happening.
The Mozilla guys have mentioned a compressed JS AST representation as the bytecode-like option if you take the asm.js approach to its logical JS VM as runtime conclusion.
Awesome write up. I'd love to know what the plan for monetization was. Was it simply hoping you'd be acquired or did you have plans to monetize directly from users.
TCP/IP stands for "Internet Protocol Suite" in general.

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite
Proposition Bet: I'll work on your startup for free
Here's my proposition:

a) You're a startup that's pre-series A or less than 5 people

b) You're using a technology that I'm familiar with (Javascript or Ruby)

c) You use an OSI-approved license and release the portion of code you want me to work on

What's the catch? I want to work on interesting projects for small startups, and my employer sponsors me to spend a portion of my time working on open source projects.

Also, I believe it's fundamentally in the best interest of most startups to release as much source code as they possibly can, both altruistically, and for selfish reasons like building an ecosystem and public relations.

Other people are obviously welcome to join in, since it'll be open license and publicly available. Thoughts?
So....Shelfari is going to die now? I guess the team there with Shelfari couldn't cut it with making a good Book data site.
It sounds to me like a situation where a product is complete, and unless the goal is creeping featurism, you might as well just lay people off and run a smaller company.
crystals and charged water don't tend to cost the same as a house.

I think I've changed my mind slightly. So long as people are properly informed - with very easy to understand information - I guess I'd let them access random experimental meds. I'd prefer that to be part of a rigorous study.
You'll like the opening image in this, then; #10 on HN home page right now: http://blog.tinfoilsecurity.com/building-a-browser-extension...
Co-Author here: A cdn using peer to peer has been on a lot of people's minds for a while. There are certainly going to be lots of competing implementations, but you can already start perusing PeerKit's code on github

https://github.com/PeerKit/peerkit
That's pretty cool. I have been waiting for something like this...
Will this be the new formspring?
> Technically, it’s not crowdfunding, but rather a venture capital advisor that raises funds online through a streamlined process rather than offline with traditional paperwork.

Nice. So the VCs won't have to answer to big limiteds, who would make demands like lowering fees (as in the dot-bomb).

It brings up the more general question: Since the avg retail guy is clueless, what prevents them from getting severely taken advantage of? So far, this looks a whole lot like CMGI.
You are not parsing the message correctly. It says nothing about deleting data from your other devices.
What would be the benefit of this to the companies promoting their product?
I love this. Long time ago, I tried to see if I could do a similar project but never got far. It was not for Human trafficking victims but was for the entire female population of South East Asia counties, esp. India where assaults on women and rapes are really common. I think a similar texting service can be setup for women in countries like India to call for help if possible or at least report it (maybe anonymously?). In a country where Police is basically useless, this will at least come in handy if there is enough data pouring in and maybe citizens can help each other by watching out for a particular place that is unsafe.

I'd really like to work for such a project.
But on the other hand Twisted is not a panacea either, not that this is a perfect parallel or anything. But I agree, this is definitely a step in the right direction.

I wonder if it will be feasible to code in JS Next and have a compiler step somehow take care of backporting. Probably not.
IMO and not very familiar on the similarities between Akamai and CF, if Akamai handle's similar issues without driving pr/marketing efforts based on them that's their loss and probably a bad business play.

In my mind, this is similar to an antivirus company saying "hey look at all these nasty viruses out there, but we find and destroy them effectively."

This really just seems like effective case-studying on CF's part. It's arguably their job to hype it as much as possible (though of course they are responsible for the inaccuracies).
How Spamhaus’ attackers turned DNS into a weapon of mass destruction
Love that story. These little touches are great fun.
When spammers go to war: Behind the Spamhaus DDoS
Douglas Crockford: Monads and Gonads
Amazon to acquire Goodreads, a social network for book recommendations
you got it wrong and right at the same time. Right when you say the distro must centralize the work of making the several pieces work. Wrong when you think those pieces are only "kernel, whatever else you like" and think that "whatever else i'd like" does not include the desktop.

The fact is that linux on the desktop barely works without some work still, and that's by using the defaults! without using the defaults it's even harder. heck i spent hours trying to get sound to work on a eeepc with ubuntu 12.10 just because the distro decided to put pulse audio on top of alsa and when i connected the headset it muted the speakers, but when i disconnected it it never moved the sound to the speakers again (turned out a gnome component was doing that, and i didn't have that running)

i could point you to several of the pages i've create on http://www.linlap.com/ most mention more than one solution based on the desktop environment, same distro.
"the first danger that I sense: OdinMonkey is a hammer that will kill incentive to optimize JavaScript that humans write. Why waste time optimizing normal, dynamic, fluid like water JavaScript if you can just ask people that they write something more structured and easier for compiler to recognize? "

I'm eagerly awaiting the day I can write single-threaded Go or Java, have it turned into asm.js and never have to write another line of yucky Javascript again. I like this proposed alternate future.
>For example, many of us here on HN, possess the critical reasoning skills to determine snake oil from a credible research lab. Given that there are almost no practicing oncologists present, we'd all likely qualify as "lay people".

The fact that you think critical reasoning can help discriminate between a quack and someone selling real medicine indicates you don't have the ability to make that distinction.

The truth is, no one does. It takes a process with many checks, and even then snake oil makes it through.

Hell, the same people who make real medicine can have a lapse of judgment and make phony medicine. No one could tell, even their peers, without verifying the experiments performed.

It's not a far-fetched scenario. Prominent researchers fall from grace several times a year. Multinational drug companies sell medicines that perform worse than placebos.
But wouldn't they want to eventually use LLVM to compile Asm.js anyway?

Surely LLVM is going to produce better code than a JavaScript JIT on non-dynamic code, since it's designed for it.

OTOH the Asm.js approach has the advantages of backward compatibility and not being forced to support a specific LLVM bitcode version forever.
Confessions of a Work-At-Home-Aholic
Seems like a hard problem to solve.

Sending people to do product promotional is perfectly legitimate depending on the type of event. Even if you weren't deliberately targeting a male audience with attractive females (although I'm sure that was the case), odds are that if you were recruiting for that kind of work 90% would be outgoing and attractive young women. Just like recruiting programmers will get you 90% geeky white males.
Patent != Copyright
thanks in advance for checking it out :) i think many of us can relate haha
You'd be surprised; on Windows, at least, there are people who reverse engineer the security patches from Microsoft in order to determine the initial vulnerability[1].

[1] http://www.phreedom.org/presentations/reverse-engineering-an...

Edit: Misinterpreted your post. You're right, it's unlikely that they'll guess where it is until a patch comes out.
Astute observation and very true, I don't need consulting revenue and my investors would prefer I not get distracted - but I do need to test my next idea on people who are willing to pay. This little call to action is probably the first (explicit) public clue I've given to what we're doing next... although the obvious guesses are unlikely to be the right ones.

It's usually a good bet to assume I have an angle, especially anytime I reveal a bunch of data like this.