skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need to ddos the network connection. All you need is enough fake names that the database is worthless. How many fake names would it take per real name before its impossible for the police to check them all?
Michael Faraday on security theatre
Interview of Zonja Capalini
Jurassic Park succeeded I felt.
So and so. At least part of some game's appeal is an element of random - too lazy to look for the source, but it creates an amount of addiction.

Take WoW. Yes, there is a lot of skill involved, but in a way it's exactly what the OP wants: no matter if your skill improves or not, the game makes sure you'll go ahead. All it matters is you put in the hours, and there will be progress.
Put your product in your signature, and make it as proeminent as you like. Then help people in related forums.
This is a good response, accepting his fault and explaining the reason. Transparency is a good thing, and after making a mistake apologizing too. Chapeau Chris.
Standup response.
Wasn't it Netscape who popularized that?
I really like his response. He took complete responsibility for the error and gave a very reasonable explanation for how they got there in the first place. In doing this, he came across as a very honest and straightforward kind of guy.

I wasn't interested in this book before but I'm going to buy it now after reading so much about it. Its almost like a brilliant PR move. Perhaps there is some truth to "There's no such thing as bad publicity"
Thanks for your illustrative example of the No True Scotsman fallacy. Good to know that capitalism, by definition, cannot fail, since anything which fails will be redefined to not be capitalism.

Now, get in line with all the "but communism was never really tried" folks.
That article has a flair of "kids playing the internet warz" to it.
It's telling that your example of uncorrected problems is people being too well off.

And, once again: you seem to think that people in places like Bolivian tin mines have options, that they can just move, or be moved, to something else at the drop of a hat. Reality ain't like that.
It's probably as superstitious as your XORophobia but the counting part of CTR has always made be a bit uncomfortable.
This is a very good analysis. Thank you!
About the other markets, indeed in Italy there wasn't a single player and actually we are doing well here. I suspect other bigger European markets are a bit harder to enter, and if we should do the effort of good quality translation I want to play big trying entering the US market.

The SEO and landing page efforts are really worth to try, and of course we'll sort out the "Try It Now" thing :)

Thanks!
Thank you very much to everybody commented here, it was a very informative thread and we'll be able to improve the service thanks to your advices.
Perhaps, but I'd like to know how common this 'write-through' technique is. That's basically taking text directly from some source and rewriting it to make it your own words. That doesn't feel like the same thing as writing.

If I'd known that was acceptable it would have made writing The Geek Atlas a lot quicker!
Repost of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=671977
Bootstrapping, Working with investors & Building a team
TC just today ran a story on 'DoNanza', a Kayak-like metasearch for contracting sites:

http://www.donanza.com

The sites it lists as its sources are:

* Scriptlance
* TopCoder
* RentACoder
* Ifreelance
* EuFreelance
* Odesk
* Elance
* GetAFreelancer
* Designcontest
* peopleperhour
I have had similar issues like you (i.e. very poor performance of Berkley DB, especially under load). I am sure thought one can configure this (some options are listed here: http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/d... ), I have tried different options, but I can't recall the effects.

Anyway, after testing MemcacheDB and Tokyo Tyrant in production my conclusion was to use Tokyo Tyrant instead of MemcacheDB. Tokyo Tyrant implements the memcached protocol and performs really well under load (and has TONS of features such as master-master replication, Lua scripting, different types of engines [hash, b-tree or memory]). You can also check LightCloud, which is a distributed key-value database built on top of Tokyo Tyrant.
check out http://javascript.neyric.com/wireit/
I think the only thing I can say is that I don't necessarily question your logic. It seems sound. And I personally have no problem with the meta-discussion (though who am I to say either way).

My only counter point is that your opinion is worth your one up vote which you most certainly shouldn't give to this post.

Put another way I don't see any paticular problem with you posting a link to the original submission. My only issue was the indication that the person who submitted this story was guilty of wrong doing (again I think the brevity of the article does add value so I don't think it would count as blog spam even under your definition).
I find these links very useful. HN seems to be serving a broader role than news,(another instance is the askhn posts). About non-shortage of online course material, this is very much true. Still, the 'aggregation' part remains - a way for users to post study notes that they find useful or interesting and then to discuss them.
Ask HN: how to react to government borrowing billions?
My country has just decided to take out the biggest debt ever. Is there anything one can do, short of leaving the country? I just feel very uneasy about this. I think eventually money will just be devalued or taxed away - but what other investments are better? Maybe just education, knowledge, networking? All material property seems to be fair game.

I don't feel like any of the money the government is taking out is doing anything for my benefit (which would include social expenses - I don't mind helping the poor), and I resent being exploited. I feel pessimistic about being able to reach financial independence - all in all, it is just depressing.

Edit: writing it felt a bit overly dramatic, but maybe another sentence expresses it better: I feel like they (the government) just sold my future.
Very good point.

Your total life expectancy went up by 18 years just by virtue of having made it through the first 10 years.

Aubrey de Grey makes the same point in talking about extending life further in this talk:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can...
It's easy to admit guilt when caught red-handed, so I don't give him any credit for that.

He copy-pasted from wikipedia, utterly indefensible. He didn't copy a quote from wikipedia, but entire paragraphs. Even WITH attribution that's totally unacceptable. What he calls "rewriting" is exactly the same thing kids do in highschool when cheating during exams, and when copying each other's papers. The teacher isn't fooled by this transparent cheating. And neither am I.
Missed it.. Wonder how come HN allowed it through..
If your objects have a wide variety of attributes, either you need lots of columns with many of them empty, or you need some sort of attribute table with object-key-value triples. Both are bad relational design, but the structure is inherent in the data. If you're having to use a fixed DB schema, I can't see any way around bad design.

PostgreSQL HStore is very handy in situations such as this:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/hstore.html
The other one went to the printer friendly.

Basically, the dupe filter doesn't try very hard. It counts www.x.com and x.com as different stories.
It may simply be in a different temperament or just/pure intonation rather than out of tune. I'm rather curious if anyone can work it out.

http://www.kylegann.com/microtonality.html

http://music.cwru.edu/duffin/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament
If you wait because something better might come along which disrupts your present efforts, you will wait forever.

Eventually, you must commit to something while recognizing that you may have to be adaptable and change your course later. Success depends less on what you choose to do and more on the fact that you are doing it.
msluyter, do you know what flutes (and other wind instruments) are generally tuned to these days? I noticed some of my sister's clarinet music books show different fingerings for sharps and flats so presumably an extended meantone? Ta :-)
U.S. Trade Officials Urge China to Revoke PC Rule
That picture of Doug is old, here's a more recent one

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/9flta0OnYb_kvo0sm4a8gg

and here's one taken before I was born !

http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Douglas_McIlroy...

Here's he is in 1968 explaining ActiveX to NATO (and I'm not joking, except it's not called ActiveX at the time!)

http://www.knowledgerush.com/wiki_image/9/95/Software_compon...
from
http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Component-orien...
Cracking RSA maybe....
Google Trick Revealed
In case you didn't read the story, this title isn't accurate. ReadWriteWeb printed a retraction: Messages for those members with profiles that are already public will become public. Everyone else will have the option of making their statuses public.
Great article. Precise and still void of legalese.

Another way to reason about ownership of a company where two founders have 1 million shares each out of 10 million authorized shares goes like this:

The company owns the remaining 8 million shares. So when a founder has N% of the issued shares, he indirectly owns N% of the shares owned by the company (remaining authorized shares), bringing his "effective" shares to 1 + 4 = 5 million. 5 out of 10 million shares, so he owns 50% of the company.
Why on earth would you install Firefox 2? Firefox 3 has been out for a year, and 3.5 is a release candidate.
(Disclaimer: I am not a biologist)

DNA can only have four bases (ACGT), so each DNA base can only encode 2 bits of information. 20 amino acids could be encoded in 4 and a bit bits, not 20 bits (actually, you need a stop code, so 21 codes are needed).

As it is, DNA uses 3 bases, 6 bits to encode each amino acid, so there is a little redundancy. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code#RNA_codon_table for the mapping.

Proteins are 3D entities, but their shape is determined by the amino acids, which are determined by the DNA - so there is no awesome compression here. To put it another way, the words "booktitle:Dune" encode a novel, which is much more than 14 bytes, but I cannot encode any arbitrary stream of bytes in this way.
“Bad” reviews are good for your brand
I cant help thinking Douglas Adams brought this exact problem up ages ago when Deep Thought found the Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything.

As Adams pointed out the answer is sometimes useless because the process (or the question) was incomprehensible to the "beings" who sought the answer.

Then later when Earth is destroyed before the Answer is calculated he makes an even stronger point: It doesnt matter

The answer gave occupation to the philosophers for years before it was discovered, it provided millions of years of purpose for the "mice" in finding the answer. And Ultimately the lack of the answer didnt matter anyway.

Perhaps we can just accept the answer (knowing that it could be innacurate and keeping an eye out for indicators) and make use of it? Surely that is more worthwhile - it's something of a leap to completely trust the computer, but it seems more dangerous to refuse to trust it at all :)
Sorry to be flogging a dead horse, but I just want to raise a point again.

From the article:

"Opera’s idea is that you should be able to share your own data easily and with whoever you want,"

If anyone at Opera reads this, here is a (very short) list of a few things in the browser that allow you to do just that.

http://www.facebook.com http://www.gmail.com http://docs.google.com http://www.flickr.com http://www.youtube.com http://www.drop.io http://www.tinypic.com http://www.getdropbox.com http://www.box.net http://www.photobucket.com http://www.vimeo.com http://www.rapidshare.com http://www.megaupload.com http://www.me.com etc etc etc...

This is what is called reinventing the wheel. All Opera has managed to figure out is how people can share their data SLOWLY and with less availability (unless you leave your computer connected 24x7) than these pre-existing services.

Opera FAIL.
Facebook: The Twitter wanna be.
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I think this is pretty bad although if you sign up to a social networking site that is on the "world wide web" i guess you can't really expect for that information to stay private! <a href="http://www.smoothhound.co.uk/>Simon</a>;
I have the feeling that you could just delete all of the Sense widgets.
Jun.24, 2009: 2 new Cisco critical vulnerabilities
Agent: Alright. We have a blue Ford Escort for you Mr. Seinfeld. Would you like insurance?

Seinfeld: Yeah, you better give me the insurance, because I am gonna beat the hell out of this car.
Most of those sites filter what you upload, doesn't allow some content and limit your possibilities.

I often see messages like:
"Wait 60 seconds before...", "This video is not available in your country", "Your account has been banned because we say so".

You are also limited by some laws that normaly don't apply to you, because service is located in other country. You often have to deal with popups and ugly banners.

Speed might be the only problem, but sometimes freedom is worth it.
Five questions you need to ask about load-balancing and the cloud
An interesting not exactly Freudian typo there.
How about leaving a comment to the actual post pointing at that? :)
A blog is one of the best tools for organic search, so I disagree with you about it's importance. But I do agree that it's not the end-all marketing strategy by any means. Speaking of, what is FF marketing strategy? Aside from TechCrunch/Mashable posts and Scoble the cheerleader, about 99.5% of my IRL friends have no idea what FF is.

I also agree with you regarding FF providing structure and communication across content streams, but I disagree that's its the best solution. Fact is, Facebook is commoditizing just about every feature of FF, Flickr, Vimeo, Twitter, etc. and generally doing a better job with the user experience and outreach. :(
Friendly Fires do it in the dark
Freindly Fires do it in the dark video, cool video check it out.
Fee likely for Times's news via iPhone
SF's Fluid Inc offers Facebook Reviews - based on 'Friends'
Sorry, I don't understand you. The big NATO photo is linked from the last URI.
Or do you mean the first one, I just found it on google images, I was looking for pics from Holzman's Beyond Photography (http://spinroot.com/pico/) which features pics of Doug when he was at Bell Labs and they were inventing "photoshopping" but they are all in the PDFs and I didn't have the inclination to extract them.
> Not the sort of person I'd expect to suddenly turn around and release a good movie.

Well, you shouldn't dismiss his movies just because some of them fall into the action/horror category.

In fact, you might want to consider watching them.
HTC Hero handset to run Google's Android, customized UI
In my little corner of FB people are already reporting seeing things that they never did before (e.g. status updates and photos from cow-orkers). If FB screw this up there will be a huge backlash.
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One of the best schools in Abu Dhabi based on my research
China's Google Block: A Final Warning?
I agree, when private information is given to somebody else, you cannot count it will stay private forever. The company can be sold, governments can ask for the data, a cracker can take it. So, a good recommendation is to act as Facebook updates are public, even if they are not.
I'm interested in operating systems research and I haven't seen this before (perhaps only because I'm just getting started). So, this is useful to me; it may not be for you.

Besides, the biggest value of HN is not the links or 'news' posted here but the discussions around them.

Surely, not everything on HN is always useful to everyone. But on days when the front page isn't that appealing to me, it reminds me to get back to my work and try and apply what I've learned so far.
New Django Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch October 19-23, 2009
Google I/O 2009 - Offline Processing on App Engine...
Ask HN: Why No 'Save' Feature?
Sorry if this is a FAQ. Why is there no feature to just save a news item so I can mark it for later reading and then decide if I want to vote on it? I know this isn't Reddit, but it sure would be useful, IMHO. Or, is this feature available, and I just missed it?
Medical coding conferences
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I like pairnic.com

They're expensive ($19 to $13 per domain/year), but the interface and support are great.
It occurs to me that I could still use integer primary keys internally and have indexed strings as external lookup keys. I want the same key to be able to show (a) which user, (b) which database, and (c) which row, so I can verify ownership and route directly to the particular sub-db without having to do several lookups first.
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Microsoft Bizspark now supporting 15000 starups
The approach also increases the chicken-and-egg problem: if EAX would be more widely used, it would be safer, but since it isn't widely used, it might not be as safe and thus should not be used, etc... The only way to break that cycle is by starting to use EAX.
TechStars Episode 4 "Skills & Persistence"
Why not bookmark it in your web browser?
+1 for this.

At the moment I am saving comment links etc. for great comments in a versioned text document - it's not great :(
It's exasperating to see Facebook flailing about like this. A corner of the Internet where there is no anonymity and you only get what you opt into all my intuition says could be an incredibly valuable thing. FB essentially solved the spam problem for example (app invites notwithstanding) - something not even Gmail has managed. They can do things with photos Flickr can only dream of, since Flickr can't assume that the people in the photos will be members. Same with events. They could be sewing up all sorts of commercial arrangements here. If I create a LAN party event FB should be handling ordering pizza through Papa John's website (and taking a cut). If I create a group trip event FB should be partnering with travel companies, cinemas, everything.

Instead they're dumbing everything down to become what exactly, a lamer Twitter than Twitter itself?
LiveWIM: Location-aware Photo Sharing From Your Cell Phone
Mochi Media Launching Flash Games Payments Platform: Early Results Stunning
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It from Martin Rinard who is god among men in modern operating systems research.
Leader of Authors Guild Defends Google Book Settlement
Well, that's true and yet completely general -- therefore not particularly useful when considering specific cases.

I do not believe that an employee is obliged, in all cases, to do as you say.

Once you're beyond legal and contractual (read uniform) requirements, the rest depends on the specific context. It's silly to make an absolute statement.

Your literary / dogmatic phrasing raises interesting questions. Is this a special topic for you?
Open source Free Collaborative File Sharing Client: Jake
Check this Firefox extension out:
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Let me address some of your problems.

"Most of those sites filter what you upload, doesn't allow some content and limit your possibilities."

Yes, because most of those sites are content specific (eg, youtube is for videos, not documents)

That being said, there are sites like Rapidshare which don't.

I often see messages like: "Wait 60 seconds before..."

Ok, let's assume you mean rapidshare. Well, let's do a little analysis of that shall we. I have the fastest home connection available in my country - 24 mbit adsl. My max download speeds are around 2mb/s down and 70kb/sec up.

So, assuming I am downloading a 50mb file from a friend and he has a similar connection to mine, it would take about 11 minutes to download directly from him, or 1.5 minutes to download from rapidshare (which includes the 60 second wait time).... no contest. When you're sharing files with multiple people, this becomes more apparent which is the superior solution.

"This video is not available in your country"

Well I live in Australia, we have some of the most restrictive distribution deals when it comes to media content and I've only ever seen those kinds of messages from places like the TV networks and Hulu. I don't think this really applies to peer content, so the point is moot.

"Your account has been banned because we say so".

If you're sharing illegal content or content that is of a questionable nature, then of course you're going to get banned. Either way, the point still stands about the speeds given a lot of this content would be video, which doesn't really scale for home connections.

"You are also limited by some laws that normaly don't apply to you, because service is located in other country."

You would also be limited by the exact same laws if someone is downloading from your computer who lives in another country.

"You often have to deal with popups"

None of the sites I linked above showed me a popup when I visited them to make sure all the links work....

"and ugly banners."

So far, the only valid point you've made.... and that is easily avoidable with adblockers.

"Speed might be the only problem"

Well, it's a pretty big problem if you want to share on any kind of scale.

"but sometimes freedom is worth it."

Freedom how? Unless you are doing some seriously shady shit, most of the above services won't even blink an eyelid at what you're doing.
Britannica.com makes me want to weep
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That paragraph says the workers are doinging it for their self interest. The bit about the miricale of capitalism is the author's feeling about it not the bolivian mine worker.
I have real doubts whether this payment model is going to work for Times in future. As a consumer of their info it is right now a PITA. [ I'm open to seeing what ease and cost/benefit emerges with future micropayment processes. ]

The conventional wisdom seems to be (becoming) if you start out offering something for free (as they do now), it's going to go hard for you if you begin charging.
ZeniMax Media buys Id Software
I'm ready to pay for access to newspapers via electronic means. If I could get a Kindle DX in the UK I would buy one and use it for magazine and newspaper subscriptions. I think it's the perfect way to get access to recent material like this.

I would prefer to continue buying physical books because I like having them around the house (except for technical books which have a limited shelf life). That way I can read them again, give them to people, etc. I like the serendipity of looking at my bookshelf and rediscovering.

But I don't keep newspapers or magazines. If I need access to their archives I'll pay for it. If I could subscribe for a reasonable fee on a DX that would be ideal.

At the US prices for magazines and newspapers I can imagine subscribing to much more content if I had a DX. But the killer publication for me would be The Economist.
I'd be interested to know what the lowest paid job you have ever held is.