skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also consider that if you're a musician, people are less likely to say that they dislike music to your face, out of politeness.

I don't think it's so much cultural pressure as it is unusual. It's like meeting somebody who doesn't like art. It is so common and there are so many kinds out there that categorically disliking it entirely is strange. Most people probably do not want to be seen as strange.

It's also possible that in Western culture, not liking music is traditionally associated with something sinister. For instance, in Julius Caesar, Cassius is described as follows

"...He reads much,
He is a great observer, and he looks
Quite through the deeds of men. He loves no plays,
As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music.
Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort
As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit
That could be mov'd to smile at anything.
Such men as he be never at heart's ease
While they behold a greater than themselves,
And therefore are they very dangerous."

which contrasts with the more sympathetic character, Brutus, and his love of music.
So evil means suppressing reverse engineering? Any company that suppresses reverse engineering is evil?
At the risk of trying for the HN-discouraged "witty reply:"

I'm not young enough to know everything--Oscar Wilde
I guess these guys are focusing on the software side of the plug.
Except that even with my 2.4 802.11n, the DSL is far, far slower. Maybe this makes sense if you have a for-real wired internet, but even 802.11b can max out most residential internet...
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Care to expand on that? I am looking for something for team collaberation like basecamp and curious as to what is out there.

I recommended basecamp to my boss to check out but after seeing this I am a little hesitant about it.

Edit: I am hesitant because I cannot guarantee that all the users of basecamp will use a different password than the normal one for their email.
Virtually everyone likes food, but not everyone is a gourmand. I think it's mostly the same way with music. People may not like the music you like, but they still like music.
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Seconded; I've liked that idea and become sensitized to my and others use of Just and Simply, since reading c2.com's wiki - I think the page is "JustIsADangerousWord".
Yes fair point.

But hashing the other data isnt practical - so it's the security vs. access tradeoff. You can hash passwords without much inconvenience.

Also with individual pieces of those other examples of data you mention it is not possible to gain access to the rest. Whereas with a password it IS. Damage limitation.

Finally the password and username (or email) are "front of the line". They HAVE to be accessible to an unauthorised client simply so said client can be authorised. Whereas the other data should require authorisation to access.
You are allowed to contribute to society, but only if you contribute something that can be used by someone however they want it. Otherwise, don't even bother contributing---making products that bring music to the world, or create jobs.
Direct link on IBM site: http://www.research.ibm.com/deepqa/
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In order to create value in this society some aggressive behavior is typically deemed necessary. But this is win-lose behavior. Is it possible to think of a new, win-win paradigm?

==> Conclusion,

evil = win-lose

good = win-win

How's that for a definition of evil? All of the parent posts make a lot more sense now, to me.
Assuming I can get out of work on time, I'm there.
Because pirating it takes more work than just sucking it up and using the player.
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In order to keep that trade surplus, the entertainment industry is going to have to stop delaying the release of its products in other countries. There are plenty of people who are willing to pay, but not willing to wait.
I'm guessing thats for late stage "startups" with millions in revenue, since I don't see anyone taking those numbers for an early stage company

* CEO 5.40%
* President/COO 2.58%
* CFO 1.01%
* Head of Technology/CTO 1.19%
* Head of Engineering 1.32%
* Head of Sales 1.20%
* Head of Marketing 0.91%
* Head of Business Development 1.23%
* Head of Human Resources 0.24%
* Head of Professional Services 0.60%
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Just like Microsoft. :)
Sure, but it has the potential to speed up backups and streaming media (between your hard disk and television) over wireless by quite a bit. Folks running dedicated media center PCs have a bit more flexibility now.
I disagree. Response to music is fundamentally human. Animals respond to music, so the ones who say the have zero appreciation for music are kidding themselves. Now, all music? Of course not, I cant stand, rap and girl bands, but others appear to like them.
Famous last words: "If it was really big, it would have been exploited already."

Never mind industry best practices or the cautionary incidents at other companies -- this "it's not big until it bites us" attitude can be used to deprioritize fixing any risky behavior until it's too late.

There are low-stakes situations where this attitude is a virtue -- where the damage from an exploit is minor and quickly reversible. For famous and business-class internet services, the stakes are high.
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Protect yourself against lax companies like this with the PwdHash Firefox extension. http://www.pwdhash.com/
Weinberg in one of his consulting books suggested replacing "just" with "have a lot of trouble" (as in, "we'll just add this feature" with "we'll have a lot of trouble adding this feature") and "should" with "isn't" (as in, "that information should be kept here" with "that information isn't kept here"). It's surprisingly effective. I think there was another such magic word or two on his list, but don't remember what they were.
I would have expected Rails libs to store hashes by default. Don't they?
Media was only really considered a product for a few decades in the 20th century. Before that and again now, it's effectively been a service. A movie can only be "pirated" if one thinks of it as an artifact (the physical film, disc, or file). If it's instead thought of as the experience of watching it, a viewer will compensate the provider in the same way as most services: tips. The trick is making it social, since tipping habits seem cultural.
Inform HN: Read comment pages having pre tag without horizontal scolling with Fx extension
Hi HN.

Recently there have been some comment pages which require horizontal scrolling because of a single comment that was (probably unintentionally) <pre>formatted (eg: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=589346). In case you find that annoying, you can use the Firefox extension 'Toggle Word Wrap' (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2351) to (temporarily) enable word wrapping within <pre> tags also for that page alone. This restores the usual HN look and eliminates the need for scrolling too.

I'm sorry if this is a resubmission or is very well known, I'm submitting this since I personally found it very helpful.
You don't have to change it. Type in the same password if you really want.

Of course, if you knew what the password was in the first place, you wouldn't have needed to reset your password...
Your criticism of Clojure is based upon aesthetic ideals, then, rather than practical or technical considerations. However valid this criticism is, it's not something I have a particularly strong interest in, I'm afraid.
That adds up to a pool of roughly 20% for management. That's the venture-backed world for you. Try taking 3 rounds and see where it leaves your equity!

More telling are the equity stats by founder status (more detail in the post on mean and median, but here's the range):

Non-founder CEO: 3.9%-6.5%
Founder CEO: 8.3%-30%

These figures might strike you as low, but if you take a look at the salaries these people pay themselves, it starts to make sense:

Non-founder CEO: $205-$260
Founder CEO: $162-$229

As the CEO of a venture backed company, it seems you're not always in it for the equity... (more details of massive bonuses in the report too).
We're not quite there, but I'll certainly keep you informed of our progress. :)
LOL, a favorite like 37signals does something so egregiously wrong, is reported, and there's plenty of security 'experts' to say no big deal. This is a HUGE deal, and thanks to the OP for pointing it out. And you call yourselves experts. Note to self, be sure to avoid writings by Thomas Ptacek, if these are his standards.
How about 4) Have companies advertise their products as facebook.com/product

At the very least, people will continue to use facebook to check their friends's updates. Some people use it for more than that, but it just depends.

Leaving any social network for something better isn't a huge deal because the "worse" one will still be there if you need to access your cache of photos or look up someone's phone number who isn't on the new network.
Second opinion by author with better bedside manner (last one raised a few hackles: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=586095 ;-)

This one actually examined the patient (not just the paperwork), which does not mean the diagnostic is really any better. In spite of the title, "a severe delay between striking a key and text appearing" does not sound good.
The CD is plainly marked for extinction, to be replaced by digital downloads, most of which will be traded from one person to another for free.

You made me realize that we don't really know this. It does look like it, but what if networks and PCs (Windows) really were universally filtered? (Which is happening) It's unlikely, bad - but possible. Prediction can be tricky, particularly of the future.
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I've made a site for localized twitter trends: http://www.happn.in.

Its sole function right now is to group Twitter trends by city, display these on a page, and tweet them out to followers a few times per day.

HN, where would you go with this? Looking at trend histories is tempting, but I just want to tell people what's going on right now.

Writing some code to classify tweets into [music, arts, politics, etc.] also seems like a possibility...

Any other suggestions? Does the world even need another Twitter trending service?
I too would highly recommend this app (it's for Windows by the way). It has made several things much easier - for one, I can now copy the different parts of a post (here or at proggit) at a go before replying, and paste them one by one as I need to cite them.

It can also save your file copy operations, so you can copy the same set of files to different places at a go and do many other things you wish Windows had native support for.
It's open source. FF extensions are just renamed zip files, Fork away!
I think this is a problem that is artificially inflated by the media. It’s been possible to get pirated copies of movies long before anyone dreamed of bit torrent. I remember going to New York as a kid and seeing obviously pirated films for sale right there on the street.

But the reason piracy has never managed to take down the media industry is quality. Back in the days of VHS the videos were lousy copies obviously filmed from the back of the theatre while legit copies were of normal quality. Now we have leaked torrent’s compressed to make the file size smaller against legit copies on Blu-Ray with crystal clear picture and surround sound.

So as long as Blu-Ray players continue to sell and Theater owners continue to upgrade their facilities I don’t see piracy doing any more damage than before.

Edit: One last point I forgot to make about how piracy has always been around. Some in the media argue piracy is going up because it's so easy to download torrents. To them I'd ask this: Is downloading a torrent any easier than renting a VHS video and copying it?
Only the ones which have password reset mechanisms. My bank doesn't, for example, because they realize that intercepting someone's email shouldn't allow an attacker to get access to the victim's bank accounts -- but that wouldn't help me if I used the same password for my bank as I did for 37signals.
...and your both downvoting this because you believe every security problem is solved by having hashed passwords?

Another point is, do sites even protect against brute force remote hacking of passwords, Twitter for example got hacked that way.

To be clear I believe they should hash their passwords, but it's not the only measure you should take.
Is this Seattle Entrepreneur Edison or Don Quixote?
That is an interesting idea. I like to see what's going on nearby. I think you might want to geolocate based on the IP and filter only the stuff that is nearby me. ~90% of the people are only interested in the stuff that is happening nearby. For instance I only looked at the San Diego and Los Angeles stuff. Of course you should be able to browse all the items if you really wanted to. (A New Yorker who is visiting LA for instance might want to see NY stuff.)

Another suggestion would be to offer up more than 5 items if you click on the subsection heading.

The world does not NEED another twitter trending service but if you can do it better than the others and differentiate yourself enough you might be successful.
I think if you were still considered a startup your executive should only want to get paid enough to cover living expenses plus maybe a little more if you have revenue. Assuming they have a share in the company. After that are you even considered a startup?
Failure is overrated, redux
Related:

Search Flickr by color: http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr . This one lets you pick a palette of several colors, and the UI looks better.

Various other crazy ways to search Flickr: http://mashable.com/2007/07/11/browse-flickr-photos/
Film critic Mark Kermode's thoughts on movie piracy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/04/piracy_240409...
I wonder if netbooks open up a business opportunity. To use the fact that the category is new and most software is not designed for the screensize, usage pattern or hardware. It is difficult though, since they are not that extremely different. My vague ideas that haven't materialized to good ideas are:

* Design websites with the screensize in mind (dimensions as well as font sizes).
* Overall focus on what _usage_ difference there is between netbooks and desktop computers. With a netbook you either have short 10 minute sessions going online for something at a cafe, or you use them as entertainment while traveling without or with only spotty connectivity.
It's both ethics and covering their own ass. Giving legal advice entails risk for the attorney. As such it's something they don't do without careful consideration and payment to offset the risk.
Classic strawman.
I use a similar program, Ditto (Windows only). Ditto is very configurable, including allowing one to specify what clipboard formats are captured. It uses SQLite for the datastore and supports searching of the clip history.

I agree with the parent; a clipboard manager is great for assembling information while minimizing context switches. In particular, I've worked in environments offering rather limited screen real estate. In those, Ditto helps keep me from overdosing on Alt-Tab. It's also useful for parking "I may need this" snippets for longer term reference. With the search facility, as long as I remember some aspect of the snippet, it's usually only a second or three away from my fingers.
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There are quite a few similarities, but the design trade-offs are radically different:

* CrossTwine Linker is designed to be integrated into an existing language interpreter, without modifying its behavior besides improving execution performance. Any other difference (including when dealing with source and binary C/C++ extensions) is probably a bug.

* Is is not a VM (nor a VM compiler), but rather a (constantly evolving) set of C++ engine pieces which can be adapted using “policy-based design.” So while the demos aim to be generally fast, we can tune the engine and its adapters for any specific use-case; e.g.: you embed the Python interpreter in an application using the standard C API (no lock-in), and we make sure the binding behaves optimally with your application objects. (Note: we can also implement the binding as part of the service.)

* As such, everything is pluggable—except that we only target native hardware (PyPy is much more ambitious). But that's theory; I'll defer further comments on the backend to when we get the chance to implement a second one!

[Edit] Note that this means we support the full standard library—and all of its quirks—from day one. Which is both a curse and a blessing, because it is written with interpreted execution in mind, but that can be improved as time passes.
> images might linger after they had moved or changed. Atari programmers took advantage of this feature to "flicker" objects between frames.

Interesting that they turned this bug into a feature. Pacman's ghosts were literally "ghosting".
I think the point kind of is:
If the plain text password (which is reused on multiple sites) is sent out via email, then you need to compromise a single email in order to compromise many accounts.

If you want to abuse pasword-resetting mechanisms from N sites, you have to compromise N emails.

This means: mailing the password in plaintext might result in a lucky attacker seeing the password over your shoulder and then, he has access to a lot of stuff. If he just sees a password reset link, he has seen nothing.
Of course, this includes compromising the account, because once the account is compromised, an arbitrary amount of emails is compromised (and thus, of course, also 1 email and N emails).
I don't know about you, but I've seen plenty of Blu Ray torrents. I agree that theatre quality is better, but some leaks are just as good as a DVD would be. The problem is knowing where to look. (Which admittedly, I don't)
Is it September, already?
I don't know which browser you are using or if your link is right, but I don't need to scroll horizontally on that page. I've tried it with Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4, and they both look ok. These are two very recent browsers, so I wouldn't be surprised if they actually fixed an old presentation bug. Hopefully we will need less and less of these "fix" extensions in the future.
I didn't exactly remember the quote, but there are another 'biological' prove of this concept - in case 'one man, hundred women' there are guaranteed survival for entire specie, while 'hundred men, one woman' is a lose case.

In simple words, men are consumables, and this fact is known for ages. Especially in poor countries.
I've seen similar filters in emulators for years.
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I don't actually remember the formula for Bayes' theorem. I just visualize it as shown in this article, and write down equations from there. For me, anyway, that is actually a more reliable way of working.
In 2001, I visited some friends in Cologne. One afternoon, two of us cycled down to a big stretch of open parkland along the right bank of the Rhein. It was a warm spring day, and "everyone" was out enjoying the weather. Lots of groups camped out on the grass with picnic lunches.

Along came a herd of sheep. Yes, sheep! (I said to myself, after a double-take.) Nobody got upset; neither people nor sheep. The sheep slowing munched their way forward, the herd casually breaking around the various groups.

I got some great pictures. Not online, unfortunately.
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Ok, I was assuming the attacker had full access to the server.
You could be right. To be honest, I don't personally use any torrent software. I'm just going of friends I know who generally get mpeg quality stuff.

But it still sort of makes the point. I mean, people who copied VHS from rented copies got essentially the same quality too. I think what it comes down to for me is the people who download torrents (or copied VHS in the past) have always existed. There may be slightly more due to torrent software but I have to think the difference is negligible.
There was a similiar discussion not long ago about 'everyone is a damn expert'. It could be described as copy-and-paste sindrome. Read in one tab of the browser and write in the next, without digesting or even understanding. Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V for faster scoring.
LiveJournal has all those too:

1) In most cases, these people have 7 years of accumulated journal entries, all tagged and memory'd, which is a significant chunk of their life. And these are harder to get at than FaceBook photos, because you typically write a LJ post directly into the browser, yet you upload photos from your computer. I dunno about you, but I keep a backup of every photo I send to FaceBook.

2) Ditto LiveJournal via communities, at least among this user base. I've got 200+ friends on LJ, though most are inactive, having moved to FaceBook when they went to college. Some of the people in question have hit the LJ technical max of 500 friends (I think this is now 750, largely because of their complaints). Instead of their high friend counts preventing them from leaving, though, it makes the impact worse. They act like "superconnectors" in The Tipping Point, spreading the word to lots and lots of their friends.

3.) The defriending process on LiveJournal is also silent; it happens to be noisy here because people announce that they're leaving (which they can do on FaceBook too, through shared links, wall posts, status messages, etc.)

I think that the real reason FaceBook hasn't seen an exodus is:

a.) As mentioned elsewhere, they're really not that bad a site. FaceBook still actively develops the code, they've got a real corporate communications department, and they're basically a "serious business". That prevents them from making the sort of pissing-off-users fiascos that LJ has been plagued with.

b.) They've tried very hard not to cultivate passionate users. FaceBook users basically use it as a utility to keep track of friends and don't think too much about it, so when they leave, they just stop using it and don't try to convince all their friends to leave with them. While LiveJournal users tend to let their lives get very, very wrapped up in LiveJournal, so they have a large emotional investment in it and get very upset when that investment is betrayed.
I think Jon is completely missing the point of 'failure'.
Failure doesn't mean that you created something which lost money and completely disappeared.
We hear often about business which change their model from where they started. Therefore, the first 'idea' was a failure.
I believe the 'it's ok to fail' speaks more about 'it's ok for not everything to be a success, but don't give up'.
That is completely missed in this article.

John quotes Mark Pincus founder of Zynga and Tribe. Pincus himself has described Tribe as a failure. Perhaps failure is in the eye of the failer.