skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making a quick glance a the source code, it seems that this is basically fusing a simple mix-network into a torrent swarm. The clients have basic anonymity from each other (at the cost of a significant bandwidth cost due to the relaying) and the tracker acts as an oracle to hand out paths through the mix network so that peers can exchange blocks.

Here are some basic problems that come to mind:

* The tracker is a SPOF and making its role in the whole operation a distributed one at some future point will be _very_ difficult. If I want to "censor" this system I just DDoS the tracker and suddenly peers can't find each other.

* The tracker is using a simple weighted graph using Dijkstra for the shortest path from A to B. This is good for the swarm resources, but bad for attack resistence. If I want to probe the network and figure out who is who then I start taking out nodes I have connected to and see how the graph re-balances itself to adjust to this disruption. Instead of making the minimum path length a fixed number it should at least include a bit of randomness in the path length to increase the time it will take an attacker to completely map out the network in this fashion.

* The pipes are still not fixed bandwidth and always full. There is no cover traffic here, so in addition to the node by node mapping probe described previously a sufficiently powerful adversary can still black-box large chunks of the network and trivially match up the flows among nodes. Since the relaying has no delay at all this task is made significantly easier. When it comes to anonymity protocols you can trade bandwidth for security (full pipes with a chaffing/winnowing approach to pick real messages out of the cover traffic) or you can trade time for security (packet delay and re-ordering at relay nodes makes large-scale analysis harder), but you have to at least pick one.

Cute, but definitely not secure from TLAs, large network providers, or quite probably from a determined amateur with access to several widely dispersed boxes.

Now here is the real irony in all this: BitTorrent was a stripped down version of MojoNation that eliminated the centralized bandwidth accounting, crypto, peer chunk relaying, and persistence all in the name of moving bits quickly. Over the past six years everything but the persistence has slowly been layered back on through different efforts...
Moore doesn't want to get into city housing, preferring to make it on his own.

This man wants to make an honest living, and you're criticizing him for not taking welfare instead? Believe me, this man is not the reason for the failure of the system.
The hackers complain about Astalavista being targeted towards script kiddies. However, it looks like they used a prepackaged exploit, too.
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Where is that coming from?
I doubt quality folks such as the one's participating here at HN would ever post a link to a site, even a defaced one, that would potentially harm anyone visiting it. </circlejerk>
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Well, I guess they deserve it for screwing people over $6.66/month at a time for 15 years for distributing publically available material (literally).
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Nice and snappy though!
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Who? If it was altavista.com this might be news...
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268 days on this site and you don't know what he looks like? btw, the buttoned-up, black-sweater look is not "American", but straight up San Francisco. The man sold out; his earlier MIT/Boston/East-Coast look was the traditional "Lisper" look (i.e. wife-beater and bandanna)
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Bravo!

PG and YC need more of those cover stories to spread their message.

One step at a time :-)

And the picture really look good.
People will probably lynch me for this, but I think SomethingAwful is a fine example of how a money barrier for membership works really well.
And furthermore "sands" is still perfectly legitimate, even though "sand" may be inherently plural (the "sands" of time, different "sands" of the world).
What sort of surprised me was hearing pg talk in some video. I'd been reading his stuff for years, and the voice is completely unlike what I'd imagined.
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I'm running it now. Notable that the window was up, cold start, in zero bounces. Better than safari, way better than FF.
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Though what it doesn't say is the network latency, and for queries going over the back end that's what matters: http://www.bigdbahead.com/?p=119

So I'm not looking for gigabit for the bandwidth per se, but for the reduced latency that it offers.
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gaius already made this point, but I wanted to make it again as a comment rather than a reply to head in a different direction: Unions are the problem. When crappy educators rise through the ranks to become department heads based on literally nothing more than seniority and a union contract, the education system has failed.

As far as salary increases, what good would that do? Because of the unions, crappy teachers would recieve the same increase. Not only that, there would me MORE crappy teachers; $125k is definitely enough to attract people who don't want really want to teach. Good teachers teach for the same reason good programers program: it's what they love to do, it's what they were made to do, there is no other life. Money isn't everything. I'm not saying the rewards shouldn't match the benefit given by a good teacher, but again, the union prevents this.
Virus is Latin for poison. It's a mass noun because it denotes something uncountable (not in the strict mathematical sense, but in the how the hell do you count poison sense). As far as I know, there is no Latin plural form for virus.

Second declension singular nominative nouns end in 'us' and their plural form end in 'i', but fourth declension singular nominative nouns also end in 'us', but their plural form still end in 'us'. Also, like in every language, there are funky exceptions to these rules, like second declension singular nominative nouns which are neuter rather than masculine, but still end in 'us' rather than the normal 'um'. Moral of the story, don't assume that the plural of word ending in 'us' is 'i'.

It's also been about 8 years since I've taken Latin, so take that into consideration before someone goes all Life of Brian on me.
False dichotomy. And how it dishonest to avail of a welfare system one has contributed to in the past and/or will contribute to in the future?
I see how you've cleverly perpetuated the policy by forgetting to make the methods public.
Oldie but goodie: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...

In my startup one of the mistakes we made early was pricing things too low.
One story I heard was that, at the height of the dotcom boom, Wind River were receiving $1 in OS royalties for every HP printer sold. They do a lot of other business, but that alone would make any company very rich.
In my opinion, the solution to all this is free school choice through a voucher program: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=1500338

Also, for anyone who's really interested, I believe you can watch this report if you search 'Stupid in America' on youtube.
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I fully expect this to work. The kids will love school in a way that no one thought possible. They'll learn more in a year than most pick up in 4. What then?

Why do I suddenly picture Don Quixote raising his lance, or Wile E. strapping on rocket skates?
Please note that YC is a company, not a cult. I don't see the need to "spread the message". WTF is the "message"? Whoever has the "right stuff", will find YC or similar companies. It's that simple. PG's essays are all the marketing that YC needs. Your "fanboyism" makes you look like you're 12 years old...
Yeah, he sounds normal doesn't he? Previously, all my contacts with "business gurus" have been hyper-agitated, super-excited sales guys, motivational speakers and the like; think Jack Welch.
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To be clear, perhaps I should have said "make a living for himself" instead of "make an honest living".
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I hope he won't take offense at my dissecting it, but he sounds more ... hrm, I'm not sure what the accent is... it reminds me a bit of Dave Sifry, actually. You could really hear it when he said "so" in this video, which tended to be a bit drawn out: "seeeewwww". I expected something a little bit more clipped and neutral.

Perhaps the difference is that he spends a lot of time getting his essays 'just right' whereas speaking is a bit more of an off-the-cuff affair.
Gunfire may be a little extreme, but we should consider carefully allowing a person like this to continue to work for the city. There's a certain attitude that pervades the lower echelons of public service that entices people to beat up the helpless with the letter of the law. They pretend that they're doing good by "enforcing city ordinances" and then smugly refuse even to tell the poor guy which building to go to because its "not their job".

This is evil (little e). We'd be better off with the position they fill being vacant. Should they ignore the law altogether? Certainly not, but we employ humans so that it can be enforced with intelligence and compassion. I have a suspicion that those who would engage in this kind of cruel enforcement on the low end are the first to give favors to the wealthy on the flip side. That's just what corruption looks like from the bottom.
I think they haven't found any verified debris yet.

What's the probability that what those pilots saw was an up beam?
I wonder what would be a good way to eliminate few million restless males ages 18-35? Let's just say it probably involves a land war with the west.

Hopefully our MTV will subvert their plans.
Take http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034351734@N01/137275735/, subtract the black sweater and microphone, and you get what I call "canonical PG", in an orange polo shirt and khaki shorts.
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Yeah. The annual revenue is almost 400 million, this seems like a low price to pay.

I think the deal involved something else. Otherwise, I am not sure why would anybody find this number attractive.
For the record, I did not edit my comment.
So you need a framework that allows you to do both, without it falling apart.
Err... you could happily do without the last sentence there. Otherwise, you're right.
Patents question - territorial limits in the internet
I am curently researching a few patents since our company is considering to make the leap and attract some american companies as customers. We are providing a web analytics solution which works by putting a pixel into the website to be tracked. Said pixel is stored on our servers in Europe. Now I wonder how patents on webanalytics are applicable, when they are filed in the United States. Our company would not operate an office there, we do not even have servers there. The client computers would receive their pixel from europe and an american company would access a frontend in europe or collect data via SOAP.

If we now attract american customers and provide stats for american websites are we then suddenly violating patents, because they are american? I don't understand how the international fences are drawn and before we start setting out to the american market we certainly will ask a lawyer, but my experiences with lawyers were rather bad when it came to such technical and complicated issues they rarely understand. So if anyone of you has some reasonsable speculations to offer or could point me to a source or a case, let me know.
I read this morning that Wind River make an embedded OS for ARM based processors, which is used by many of Intel's competitors in the netbook market. Looks like a strategic move from Intel.
These builds have been around for a little bit, but Chrome is much faster. Finally we have respectable JS performance on Linux; the first few tests of Dromeao run 4x faster on the Chromium nightly v. Firefox nightly. Excited to see more progress here.
I think I agree. I'd call something a database only when it's capable of transparently managing a quantity of data significantly larger than your RAM storage.
Interesting that the longest subthread here right now, and consisting only of upvoted comments, is this one, about PG's looks and voice.
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One annoying thing with this thing is that it creates a bunch of dirs in your home dir and dumps stuff in them when performing the analysis. Shouldn't they put things like that in /tmp, if they need to store them at all?
File it under that internet phenomenon of knowing a lot about someone (or at least one facet of them) without seeing or hearing them and being a bit surprised by the reality. Sort of like reading a book and then seeing the movie and being a bit disconcerted.
It was a pretty good article, too. Too bad it's not on the website yet. It's worth picking up in dead tree form if you're interested.
Went studying further on JavaFX after seeing this, to http://javafx.com/launch/

Looks pretty neat, actually, hooking into Photoshop etc. Wonder if this will take off...

Anyone have any experience about JavaFX?

[The page has a Java-based video player on it. Killed my browser for about 2 minutes, and needed a few prompts to start. Not that Java is slow or anything, but still. :) ]
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Ever hear of "the face that launched a thousand ships"?

Well, she didn't push the ships off, either. In fact, she was far away and didn't even know they were launching!

Figurative speech -- which is fair to use on a magazine cover -- needn't be judged on a literal basis.
Just noticed that, rather annoying.
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more mainstream publicity should be a good thing. it's not a cult, and it's not like only the "anointed ones" with the "right stuff" should know about YC. spreading the startup "message" -- that you can start your own company, instead of slaving away at a BigCo -- should be a good thing, so i'm a bit confused as to where your animosity comes from.
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So in the last couple of days I'm getting more into Hacker News. But I find it difficult to keep up with the links. The RSS feed is no real help since it only contains the link and no information like points or comments.
So how do you read HN?
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First thing in the morning and some tiem in the afternoon I check out the links on the main page to see what I missed overnight.

Then I have the HN-links chatterous room open in Gtalk which posts new additions to the main page - so popular stuff comes to my attention.

Then I dip into the "new" page once an hr or so.
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I was an XP user and was involved in a lot of Open Source software development. Mostly PHP and JAVA.
I must say I was happy with XP.

I recently brought a new Laptop. It said it is vista read and will ship only with Vista. I brought it thinking Vista is a upgrade to XP hence I am buying a state of art Laptop.(not to mention under a nice term "disk management" they charged me a good amount just to create for partitions of hard drive instead of just a c:\)

I am totally mad with Vista. It keeps on poping up security concerns assuming I am a fool. It has so many processes running in background that I just cant work with Netbeans.

Many applications which worked on XP doesn't work here. It fails to detect wireless hub.

Worst when I tried to install XP on it, I realized that the BIOS simple refuses to do so. Probably i have goofed up with some settings.

Even if I install I don't think it will be of much use because the manual clearly says that they will not proved XP specific drivers at all.

Overall the whole machine is completely unusable and user experience really sucks so hard that I feel like banging my head on wall.

All my friends laughed at me when I told them that I tried out Vista making me look like a fool.

I just wanted to know whether all the developers on HN too had same experience or was it that my Laptop Vendor was a cheat, or is it just a matter of Habit, or the Vista really sucks that hard ?

And another most important question. Can I install Ubuntu on my made for Vista Laptop?
So this is just a web bug? Whats the problem? I have worked at several companies that have inserted small images in web pages so that we can analyze the log files to provide usage statistics.

To my knowledge there is no patent on this and I suspect that there would be a large body of prior art should anyone claim to hold such a patent.
This should be obvious. Look what happens in a culture where the wealthy/powerful are allowed 4 wives, on top of there already being a shortage of females.
I agree. Some people argue that if we raise teacher salaries, we'll have people become teachers for the money instead of for the love of teaching. However, many teachers that teach solely for the love of teaching just suck at it. I know because I have had many of these teachers. I would much rather have a teacher who is good at teaching, whether they love it or just like it, than a teacher who loves teaching but is bad at it.

There are x number of brilliant and dynamic students that graduate from universities across the US every year. Before the bust, did > 50% of these students want to become investment bankers because of their love for working in Excel all day? No, they wanted to do investment banking because of the high salaries and solid career footing it provided. It's basic economics; the higher the salary and job prestige, the more qualified the applicants will be due to increased competition for the job.

The main problems that cause education to under-perform in the US (I think) are bad parenting, a non-education oriented culture, and poor teacher quality. Of these three, poor teacher quality is the only one that is most easily affected. So how can one say that it's not logical that increasing teacher salaries can be a solution to helping improve education in the US?
Except the teachers the poster is describing aren't the ones from the article- they're the relatively poorly paid ones in the regular school system.
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Here, they tend to be 'not drawn at all', or all heaped up in a corner. I'm also getting a lot of messages like:

ERROR: unable to open font '0'
ERROR: unable to open font '101'
ERROR: unable to open font '402'
ERROR: unable to open font '101'
ERROR: unable to open font '603'

...and none of the links are clickable.
A friend of mine once wrote a shooting match scoring / ranking program for Palm PDAs. He had a hard time getting people to actually pay for it. But then again, he wasn't selling on the web.

Amen on the GUI comments. Other than that, how would the program go as a value-add to manufacturers of specific supplies and/or equipment? If it helps increase sales and/or help people achieve increased accuracy and/or grouping then maybe some such suppliers might be prepared to have you brand the program for them to sell at gun shops.
Well there are a number of patents and recently Nielsen/Netratings sued Omniture (http://www.omniture.com/press/242) and Coremetrics (http://www.internetretailer.com/internet/marketing-conferenc...)

The number of patents is surprising, so far I have found 24 patents we seem to be violating, among them:

Content display monitoring by a processing system http://www.google.com/search?q=Patent+7386473

System and method for analyzing remote traffic data in a distributed computing environment
http://www.google.com/search?q=Patent+6112238

Online Traffic Sampling
http://www.google.com/search?q=Patent+7185085

And plenty more.
If you could make it run on iPhone / iPod Touch then you have the GUI handled as well as an outlet for sales.
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I remember that Marc Andreessen was on the cover of Time or Newsweek back in 1996. The internet was starting to take off, and a bunch of really young guys became instant millionaires thanks to mega-hyped IPOs. Seriosly, does one need publicity more mainstream than this? Everyone knows Gates, Ellison, Andreessen, etc.

Everyone can dream of starting a company, few can do it. I lost the count of how many smart guys I met who talked about big ideas and "thinking outside the box" (whatever that is), and being entrepreneurial and how taking risks was sooo cool... only to join a safe, cushy job at a management consulting firm as soon as they graduated. They may have the smarts, but they could not face the constant emotional terror of running a startup. Dreaming and talking is the easy part. The difficult part is to walk the walk, the commitment and persevering on the face of hardships. Some will succeed, most will fail.

I am sorry if I sound bitter. I have worked at a couple of startups which failed. You know... you think you can beat the odds, but the odds end up beating you. I get upset when I see these young kids thinking that the startup world is a "movement" and that there's preaching to be done. I used to be exactly like that, and it's a waste of time. The startup world is brutal. There's a tiny chance you will succeed, and a huge chance you'll grow old, bitter and burnt-out. Pick your battles carefully. Sometimes your dreams cost you too much.
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