skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, it may be a good thing that the internet didn't find the right person in this case, because I think the reaction would have been different and may have ended up reinforcing this behaviour in the future. As it is, we have been able to take this a lesson on the power of such internet outlets with hopefully far fewer "casualties" than there could have been.
fail2ban should be the first thing to install, first thing to manage via puppet/chef, first thing to have centralized logged etc :p
Probably, just hoping the story was HN friendly enough (it apparently was) to overcome the source (I guess it wasn't)
>It's win-win, too.

No it isn't. Average performance might go down, work down still goes up (to a point).
I'm not impressed by the guy who convinced the monk to buy a Ferrari. That guy's raking in the dough, sure. But he's doing nothing to help customers. Do you really want to build a business based on customers that don't need or care about your product but got sold it anyway?
I don't think we know that - I'm pretty sure more than 0 of us suspect that sales tax shouldn't exist at all.
For the small businesses, especially the restaurants and coffee shops, the biggest advantage will be that the "mobile people" will like them. Mobile data is dead expensive, if it's available in high speed at all, and giving your customers access to high-speed internet will increase the timespan they spend at the venue.
Why are your friends more popular than you?
If goods are taxed more businesses raise their prices. Businesses aren't being taxed. Consumers are. The only cost businesses have to pay is the cost of implementing the system, which is a fixed cost that you'll pay off over time.

Also, you're kindof proving my point by stating that these new policies may deter brick & mortar businesses from entering the online space. A brick & mortar business by definition doesn't have an e-commerce presence. Ones that do have a hybrid business model. For those, there's an interesting dynamic that management will face that's a close reflection of what the greater market will have to deal with, i.e., which side of the business to invest in. But anyways, if you admit that brick & mortar businesses will be deterred from moving to e-commerce, then you're admitting that the brick & mortal model is more competitive under the new tax regime.
"Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights."

Here's a short link to bypass: http://www.ssyoutube.com/watch?v=sWFFiubtC3c
So, my gut feeling says you're right, but your methodology here is wrong: HN aggressively encourages sharing the original story, cutting out any intermediates. HP, for all their reach in making stories go viral, don't actually produce a lot of original content. When something is on NYT, it is generally original.
> Terribly sad, maybe the next generation of feminists will be able to break out of the box they've made for themselves, and devote themselves to more general philosophic introspection.

And maybe the next generation of people who get riled up about Aaron Swartz and Weev will spend equal effort and bluster getting riled up aggressive prosecution of kids in the Bronx. And maybe the next generation of people who have online protests about SOPA and PIPA and CISPA will exert similar efforts opposing laws that make it easier for companies to pollute.

Or maybe people will continue to be people, and have issues near and dear to their heart that affect them and not feel like they have to fight for every perceived injustice out in the world.
Tell me about it. We're playing in a pretty congested space as well, depending on exactly how we define ourselves and our offerings. But we are, for now, looking at pursuing a niche strategy to try and get a beachhead, so we'll see how it goes. We do think the products we're building have a certain measure of uniqueness, but where we're really looking to differentiate ourselves is by having a better, more comprehensive overall vision for enterprise IT and by having a very diverse, but well integrated, suite of products.

There are a lot of niche players in a lot of different subfields. BPM, BI, "Big Data", Enterprise Social Networks, EAI, etc. We intend to be as close as possible to a "one stop shop" with solutions that tie all of this stuff together into a cohesive whole.

But depending on what decisions we make, and how exactly we position ourselves, we could be competing against some or all of:

Microsoft

Jive Software

IBM

Oracle

Cisco

Red Hat

Novell

Pentaho

CA

SAS

Hortonworks

Cloudera

Google

Revolution Analytics

Alfresco

Clearvale

...

So, not a small challenge.

I'm in it for the long haul. I've got a ton of room to pivot because it is a vast market. I've got a few different aspects that might become successful. I like my chances.

Same here. And this is one reason we're sticking with the bootstrapped / self-funded approach for now. As long as the burn rate stays low (and it's essentially zero at the moment) we have an infinite runway to learn, experiment, pivot and find our niche... as long as the founders have dayjobs and stay motivated.

I know I quote quoting this essay, but one of the most powerful things I have read is pg's "How Not To Die" essay. That really speaks to me:

http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html
It was less consistent, but there some brilliant ones. The brain switching episodes is one of my all-time favorites.
It may seem like a minor nitpick, but the main Churnalism site[1] touts the byline "Discover the journalism you can trust and what you should question." The purpose of this tool is definitely a step in the right direction, but just because a given piece probably isn't a recycled press release doesn't mean you should stop looking at it with a healthy dose of skepticism.

[1] http://churnalism.sunlightfoundation.com/
I've been using BugHub for iPad and it's a pretty solid product. Pretty excited to try out the Mac version now.
Dutch city closes its schools in response to a threat on 4Chan
> if taking a sabbatical or two destroys a career then we as a society have failed.

Damn it, I keep doing this life thing all wrong. I thought taking a decent sabbatical was where careers went to flourish and thrive, not where they went to die.

Aren't sabbaticals usually when people start playing and new and marvelous things come out that they couldn't get done when worried about deadlines and stuff?
I've certainly noticed that every time new laws are passed restricting young people, a few years later a study is published showing that the brain doesn't mature until even older. I'm not sure which way the causality runs, but I've definitely seen the supposed age of brain maturity rise from 18-20 to 22 to, nowadays, 25.

Which means that apparently by the time my brain actually matures next year, I'll have been able to vote for 7 years, hold all legal responsibilities for 7 years, drink legally for 7 years (outside the USA) and 4 years (inside the USA), and apply for a driver's license for 9 years. I'll have actually lived outside my parents' home for 7 years, been in a single steady relationship for 6 years, supported myself financially for 3 years and held a driver's license for 2 years.

Apparently my legal qualification and actual, demonstrated ability to behave like an adult - all of which is actually pretty normal for someone my age whom I know - either demonstrates unusually precocious brain maturity, or doesn't actually require brain maturity, or these "studies" are showing the effects of society's treatment of young people as barely-functional retards for ever-more-extended periods.
Sorry, it was $180/mo. but I've never met anyone that ever paid that much unless they were a seriously bad driver or wealthy. Most students I knew were driving an old beater or the family car. The former (like me) would find whatever was cheapest and the latter had it included in the parents insurance so didn't know their exact contribution.

Speeding tickets were the main way to lose your license. Most families can tolerate the bump in adding a teenage driver, almost none will be as forgiving when the rates go up even after 1 ticket.
The geeksphones are unlocked and open. You can reflash them at your leisure. It is as easy as:

sudo adb reboot bootloader

sudo fastboot flash boot boot.img

sudo fastboot flash splash splash.img

sudo fastboot flash system system.img

sudo fastboot flash userdata userdata.img

sudo fastboot reboot

This will reflash the phone and reboot, provided you have the right images which can be built from source or downloaded from geeksphone (once they release it). The most important part is Gaia and Gaia can be built and installed from source.

These are open devices and the promise of an open web app ecosystem is far too fun for hacker like us to let it pass.
Ask HN: GitLab vs GitHub
In the company I work for we're considering using a self hosted GitLab for our repos. At the moment we are fully GitHub.

We're planning on deploying GitLab on an in-house, Ansible deployed OpenStack. In terms of day to day use does anyone have any experience or insight they'd like to share beyond the initial investigations we have carried out?
Last times I've posted a Google+ link I got some comments from people who couldn't read it. For those, here is a copy:

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TL;DR: Schools were closed in a Dutch city yesterday because of a message on 4Chan. Nothing actually happened.

A message was posted on 4Chan two days ago, stating that a person was going to kill his teacher and as many others as possible on a school in Leiden. The Zürich police found this in a regular scan and contacted the Dutch authorities. The message also said that he or she would be carrying a note which was to be publicized. If not, a friend of his would do so on the internet that afternoon. This note was what convinced that the police that it was a real threat; it was something a real killer might think about.

After some deliberation, the major of Leiden decided together with the police that schools should be closed yesterday. Both Zürich and the Dutch authorities seem to have failed to notice that this was 4Chan they were talking about, and the website even carries the headline:
"The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."

One of the biggest Dutch news websites (nu.nl) now reports that 4Chan is calling the would-be killer's post a "work of art", without naming sources. The translation of 4Chan's publication, according to nu.nl, fits the headline exactly, and they even cite a part of the sentence. They seem to have completely missed the point that this message has been on the website for months ifnot years.

Anyway, the schools posted on their websites that they would be closed that day and also e-mailed the students. Most got the message, either via social media or from the e-mail directly, and those who came to school were told by personnel what was going on. Besides those, the only people roaming the place were media and police with bulletproof vests.

I don't know what you'd do if you were expecting someone with a gun to come to school, but I wouldn't close the place, tell everyone, and hope for him to come anyway. You might as well post a tweet asking him to turn himself in.

Later that day another kid actually tweeted that he was heading over to Leiden "right now" and was going to shoot a teacher. This made national news as well, but a few hours later he tweeted in full caps that it was a joke and that he was sorry.

A little while after that a suspect was arrested. He used an "open proxy", but with the help of the FBI they managed to find the person. He was suspended from a nearby school since late 2011 because of his behavior. Upon searching no firearms were actually found.

Today schools opened again and police remains on guard incase the current suspect turns out to be not to be the perpetrator. Nothing happened yet though, so I'd say it was all just a great overreaction.
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"Shug" I use Okular everywhere.
I don't understand the need for the intermediary stages, couldn't the main rocket just deliver the payload and then land?

As it is in that video, it's having to carry engines and fuel for 3 separate stages, for no apparent reason.
Good idea, and one that more and more sites are implementing these days.
Look, I wasn't talking specifically about your post. I'm irritated with the tone here, in general. Live and let live, let people be interested in what they are interested in. I will probably look back at what I am interested in now, 10 or 20 years from now and consider it a little backward. I hope so.
You're welcome! If you need any more information about Firefox OS check out the developer hub at:

https://marketplace.firefox.com/developers/

:-)
I'm confused how someone could be considered your employer if they don't pay you.

Best answer on yahoo says you can sue: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090705044359AA...
This website has advice from a lawyer about what to do: http://lifehacker.com/5993754/what-should-i-do-if-my-employe...
Ah, but some things are "amazing" while other things are "amazeballs".
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Your use of the vague phrase "this activity" muddies the waters. There are two components here, a harmful one and a harmless one. The suggestion is to curtail the harmful activity without being so heavy-handed as to stamp out the harmless activity, too.

By conflating them as you do, you're fighting a strawman who supposedly doesn't even want to curtail the harmful activity. But nobody is suggesting that.
If you happen to use an iPhone, I highly recommend Sol:

http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2012/01/sol-sun-clock-for-iph...

I'm not sure what the equivalent on Android might be; if anyone knows, hopefully they'll weigh in.
Presumably the duplication of the pull quotes and lack of the video comes from copy & pasting from the original web page (for whatever reason).

If you're curious (and not that it matters for his story), the author, Michael G. Santos, initially received a 45 year sentence for 'a scheme to distribute cocaine':

http://www.quora.com/Michael-Santos-4
http://about.me/michael.santos
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Aren't good PR people supposed to "sell" their story directly to a "journalist", without an intermediate publicly available press release? Will this tool find those?

Also, there's a certain irony in that this story itself almost certainly is "planted" PR.
And for Node.js:
https://github.com/bramstein/url-template
Has Steam ever claimed that their DRM (where it's used) is either for (A) Offline compute, or (B) MMO use?

Personally, it's not so much the DRM that EA has infected their latest games with, or not even so much that it requires a constant internet connection (though, Sim City was one of the great play-alone games left) - but that they've been too cowardly too just come out and say, "Yes, we require you to be connected to the internet to play this game so that we can reduce piracy."

Lying (or not telling the truth) about this obvious situation only makes them look bad.
Reminds me of the fake web browser and IQ study (which claimed IE users are dumb). Basically every media house just copy pasted the press release.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Quotient_(IQ)_and_...
Living expenses (especially housing) vary wildly within the area that uses American dollars. Someone in San Francisco can hardly afford a place to live on $31k. Someone living in a rural area in the US can afford a pretty nice house on the same amount.
There was really little evolution of the language since 1995. It was initially launched as a "perfect complement to Java" [1] and until recently its development was stalled.

Constructors and "new" were there from the beginning. Nobody have even noticed the prototypal nature of JS until people like Crockford started evangelising it 10 years later, which in turn resulted in the addition of Object.create() in ES5.

[1] http://www2.ldc.lu.se/temadag95/javascript.txt
Not unless you're getting your products shipped to Delaware
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I think the power of silence depends on the severity of the crisis. If your product is physically harming people or cost someone a lot of money, the controversy probably isn't going away after a few weeks of silence. People will not forget about a loved one being seriously physically or financially harmed.

However, if the issue is a buggy piece of software that costs $60, that is going to be quickly forgotten. People don't have the energy to stay upset about something that in the grand scheme of things is so minor. If this is still registering on your personal radar a month later as a serious problem, consider yourself lucky.
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I think the old Chris Dixon article about builders and extractors is relevant in this discussion. At the end of the day there are people in the startup world who add value and those who extract it.

I'd say for the most part, technical people are builders. I'd also say for the most part, non-technical people are extractors (especially at early stage companies).

I think that for many startups though, in order to be successful, you need to have both technical and non-technical builders. There are plenty of "business people" out there, but not many that add a ton of value. The magic happens when you have these two very opposite builders working seamlessly together.

As a non-technical co-founder, I think that it is important for business people to understand that the value of being able to develop in-house and iterate quickly is out of this world, and that you should never take having an awesome technical co-founder for granted.
I'm almost never on a 50+ MBit/sec connection, which brings up another point. When on a slow, data-capped connection, such as the one I'm on right now, I want to know the size of the file I'm downloading. That lets me decide if it's actually worth spending my precious bandwidth on. If not, I cancel the download. When letting the browser display the file there's no (easy) way of finding out the file size.
'We Don't Cower in Fear': Reconsidering the Boston Lockdown
Thanks for the feedback. I made the text darker.
I second that recommendation. This is the successor to a site called "Hobbyspace" which was the best clearinghouse for all commercial space news since the mid-1990s. Although it was just a hobbyist's website, I have reason to believe that its comprehensive reporting and very clear-headed analysis actually bears some of the credit for catalysing the entire Newspace movement (eg., Elon Musk was a following and commenting there since before he founded SpaceX...).
Yes, exactly! I think the piece is excellent -- perhaps the best I've seen on the issue -- and my only criticism is that it doesn't speak at all to men, to whom essentially all of these insights apply. That said, men do seem to be much closer to have figured this out for ourselves: generationally, we seem to have (quietly) decided that we don't want to be like our absent fathers -- that we want to be home for dinner and available on weekends. Work is important, but family is essential.

Speaking personally (I am a VP of Engineering at a startup and a father of three), when I have needed to forgo a work commitment for a family one, I have enjoyed nothing but support from my CEO. He's a generation older than I am (his kids are young adults), and he is surprisingly blunt about wishing he had made different choices when they were younger. He knows that I work my tail off -- but he also knows the importance of making the right decisions at the right moment. So I can't help but thinking that the Sandberg-esque way of thinking strives for women to become like work-consumed men from a generation ago -- rather than modern, balanced parents as advocated by Walsh.
No, I'm referring to on-earth tests, such as this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv9n9Casp1o However I can't find the exact one I had in mind, or perhaps I was off with the date.
I don't know how common it is, but I do some some areas have a maximum on sales tax. The Kenai Peninsula Borough in AK had one when I lived there. I can't remember the details, but I know with the truck I bought the tax bill was $35 as that was the cap.
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I think "good enough" needs to be a guiding principle, but I hate that that light of introspection is never cast on child-rearing. Frankly, all the shit you do for your kids when they're young is for you, not them. They won't even remember most of it, other than the general feeling of being loved.

My model is really asian immigrant families. Those families where the parents work all day at a restaurant or dry cleaner, for far more than the "50 hours a week" the author here finds "not compatible with family life." And generally their kids come out great. Hard working and studious. That's "good enough" parenting.
Errr... no?

I thought sabbaticals were where you took time away from everything work related and went travelling round the globe. Certainly seemed that way at a big corp I used to work for. Did it myself and know lots of others that did much the same.
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Not too long ago we had a discussion about an article which basically stated that anybody who has been unemployed for more than 6 months becomes basically unemployable. There may be a difference between a forced sabbatical and a voluntary one, but the line between the two is often very blurry...
I've been itching to try out RoundCube (http://roundcube.net/) for a few years now but haven't found the copious free time to check it out. It looks really pretty and the feature list looks nice.
Ask HN: What are the most paranoid security measures for running a web app?
I have a few different web app ideas and some of them I feel would require maximum security measures to be put in place (e.g., storing someone's medical history, or a system for tallying votes without corruption).

What kind of tools would you use for something that requires high security? Is SSL enough? Are there alternative secure transport protocols? Should the entire database contents be encrypted? How would that affect data integrity and backup strategies? Are there certain databases that are more secure than others?

Ideally I would want the web app to be designed so that anyone can connect to it with a regular browser without the need for a special client-side installation, but I want to ensure that the information being transmitted and stored is as safe as it can be.
That was terribly devoid of data and the only link in the article links back to their paid app. The choice in colors of the pie chart was just terrible.

Also, what do databases have to do with anything? Obviously MySQL would be heavily used since it's commonly used with PHP and other web frameworks.

Also, how is their scanner false positive free?