skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The website was renamed back on 20th April 2007.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclus...

Changing the website banners and page titles and ... proved to be too subtle, so a new project was created just so the website could have a benchmarksgame sub-domain.

The URLs were changed December 2012 and the switchover took a few days --

16th 0 visits vs 1,048
17th 265 visits vs 1,026
18th 1,262 visits vs 136
19th 1,333 visits vs 8

The old sub-domain scripts were changed to redirect --

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location:http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/");
It told me to go fuck myself when I entered Sixpoint Crisp, what's wrong with Sixpoint?
Sridhar Vembu of Zoho - http://blogs.zoho.com/author/sridhar

Craig Newmark - http://craigconnects.org/blog

Mark Cuban - http://blogmaverick.com

Tim O'Reilly - http://radar.oreilly.com/tim

Yeah, I'm pretty sure evidence to the contrary is stronger. A little googling tells me C-levels and founders of forbes 100 are often proflic bloggers. Novell, Cisco, Oracle, a lot of founders of big companies in India, and many here in the non-tech sector blog as well.

Insofar as commenting on HN and other similar sites is quite similar to blogging, there's a lot of others here too.
Accounting firm gets Cryptolocker virus, tech forgets carbonite keyfile password
Functional or imperative language?
Key points that as I discussed with Keith became clear we were using different definitions:

What is a blog? I'd content any direct communication with the internet at large is in the intent of "blogging".

Which CEOs should count? I have no idea. But for fun lets say $100M+ valued companies.

Does frequency matter? To Keith it does but I think its beside the point.

Does it have to be written personally by the CEO? I would argue not. Many blogs (Svbtle, Medium, Sequoia's) include editing or content help.

So...

If you use the above criteria many many many CEOs blog. From Steve Jobs' letters explaining why Apple has it's stance on Adobe to Elon Musk's discussions about cars catching on fire. Then there are the by almost any definition bloggers mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
Yes. It's even a Node module.
Plenty of people have had their coins stolen, both from personal computers and hacked exchanges. For example: http://www.geekosystem.com/first-major-bitcoin-theft/

The ability to irretrievably lose massive sums of money with no recourse is a challenge for Bitcoin. Banks have insurance for just this sort of eventuality. Cash is relatively hard to steal in gigantic quantities.
They both acted sleazily. But it's elance - the Bangladeshi sweatshop of the internet.

They both got exactly what they deserved. Next time, they should try upping their budget and expectations.
/r/compilers [1] has some good resources. You can also check its top submissions [2].

I also recently found Matt Might's Compilers class [3] via a submission here on HN. It has a lot of language-agnostic resources.

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/compilers

[2]: http://www.reddit.com/r/compilers/top/

[3]: http://matt.might.net/teaching/compilers/spring-2013/
Will we see a dramatic increase in the formation of unions as a defensive response? Most likely.

I'm struggling to follow how a union could help this situation. What would happen? Workers would go on strike if their firms use robots? Seems like that would just push the owner to accelerate robot orders. My guess is that unions are pretty useless in the face of automation. Does anyone know any precedents?

I agree in spirit though. What I think is likely is the rise of populism. I think the battle will have to be waged in the political arena.
NSA Director: Defending America in Cyberspace
Why I run
Stay on top of design trends, movements, and thought
You might also get lucky that the value will increase throughout the process - it might also drop.
With WU and XE and other exchanges at least you have certainty of the final converted amount you will end up with.
UK to be fastest-growing Western economy
I suppose Dalton could have worded it better, but technically, "lack of positive" is just as bad as "negative." The problem with how people think of opportunity costs is that they don't perceive them as a negative cost, when in fact they have the same effect as negative costs.
It feels like I've seen photographer.io for a while now. It isn't my bag but I'm honestly surprised you aren't making anything yet. It seems long overdue, honestly. I think the other advice is perfect and to some users, they may not see value until you put a price on it you can live with.
Many of these internet memes are genius hilarious. People know the good Monty Python bits 40 years on. The good doge pics bust my guts just like that stuff. Will anyone get or remember this in 20 years? Interesting times.
Unless someone stole his private key.

I am sure there are already virus and malware out in the wild which target private keys.

Offline wallets are the only way around this - but eventually the user will need to use their private key to move those funds.
Not really related, but your comment reminds me of a fantastic exchange from a Seinfeld ep, with Kramer advising Jerry on how to get to Coney Island.

Kramer: Ok, you can take the B or the F and switch for the N at Broadway Lafayette, or you can go over the bridge to DeKalb and catch the Q to Atlantic Avenue, then switch to the IRT 2, 3, 4 or 5.

But don't get on the G. See, that's very tempting, but you'll wind up on Smith and 9th, then you've got to get on the R.

Elaine: ... Couldn't he just take the D straight to Coney Island?

Kramer: Well. Yeah.
You are enraged because someone else is getting paid way less than you are for doing the same work? Shouldn't you be feeling lucky and grateful instead?
Here’s why Paul Graham (probably) owes me an apology.
This reminds me of the Ani Difranco lyric, "Everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room."
Looks like Tom hasn't actually blogged in 2 years though. That's not really very regular...
Did you try using a bank wire transfer? I've transferred money from US to Russia via bank wire transfer and they had a flat fee ($45) which is perfect for large amounts.
Not suggesting it would help, but rather that it's the expected response from labor. Organized labor means far greater political influence. Robots don't vote, yet. That greater political influence will be necessary to restrict robotics / slow down the process of innovation and productivity gains (and labor job destruction).
After skimming through all comments, I decided to humbly post my blog a while ago about hiring offshore team on Elance to develop my first iPad app, because it is a journey along which I learned a lot and derived pleasure. https://medium.com/on-startups/bad992e31ab6
All around the world, ursine mammals defecate in forests.

I suppose though that it's a good thing that the Economist is at least talking about it.
Consider this:

Company 1 has a history of monopoly abuse (including giving OEMs financial incentives to not ship computers with competing OSes pre-installed).

Company 2 has let at least two (probably more) new mobile OSes bootstrap themselves using parts of its ecosystem.

Which company do you think is going to get the benefit of the doubt when introducing security features that make device modification more difficult?

That being said, I think the biggest issue with UEFI secure boot isn't the idea, it's the implementation. People have reported things like confusing, hard-to-use key enrollment interfaces (that sometimes don't work or even don't exist at all) and other crazy, undocumented restrictions (e.g. only allowing OSes with certain names). And there's a lot of concern that these issues won't be fixed in a timely fashion, because installing an alternative OS is a corner case use for most OEMs. And then there's the issue that there's no shared authority (across most OEMs) for signing off on bootloaders other than Microsoft. Add past history into all of that...

Meanwhile, on the Android side, there's a clear, standard unlocking process, implemented on the Nexus devices of each generation (worth noting that the Nexus 5 support was added to a well-known rooting tool within minutes of the tools developer getting the device). Yes, there's still potential for problems and abuse (e.g. bootloaders locked by manufacturers, usually by carrier request), but the issues and pitfalls are relatively well-understood, including ways of avoiding them (buy from manufacturers that offer a bootloader unlock process, avoid AT&T and Verizon-specific devices and so on). And these issues need to be balanced against the security benefits. There are certainly still issues to watch out for, but past history suggests that they will be balanced appropriately.
I've always dumbed this down to "Fast, right, or cheap."
Selection bias?

Blogging is a marketing strategy. It's not always a good one (time expensive, money cheap). It also works a lot better for some people than others.
some people prefer to play skyrim on xbox, where i suppose it 'just works'? others prefer to play it on pc, where u can add any number..check skyrim nexus..of mods to your game and extend the experience. there's even people who make mods! i mean, how would a computer(vs an electrical appliance) work with just a steering wheel, 2 pedals, 1 indicator stick and a gear shift for input? i think its unfair to want computers to work like xbox(s), since plenty of people find usefulness in a multipurpose device. maybe there's a huge market for a 'xbox for emails' appliance that hasnt been tapped yet? maybe users can stop asking for new features and ask for killing unnecessary ones instead?
He's infinitely more intelligent than me, but I fail to comprehend how a world without human labour could possibly lead to a richer experience.

This isn't hard to answer. As a share of the U.S. economy, the entertainment sector (movies, TV, video games...) has grown consistently. Why? Because people are spending less money on almost everything else thanks to declining human labor input costs. Another big winner has been restaurants which are, on average, much more numerous and of dramatically higher quality and variety in your median metro area than they were 50 or 100 years ago. Air travel is also, of course, way up, as more people visit faraway places.

I don't see why we should mourn the decline in traditional "labor". Robots aren't going to be cooking anyone a six course meal or directing the next Star Wars movie any time soon.
UX Redesign of Evernote.com Landing Page (Blog)
A take on how to make the Evernote.com landing page better. Inspired by Jason Shah's Airbnb critique.
I guess it was always to be expected that this was going to happen, I don't think people realised just how quickly. Once the whole idea of bitcoin being a money maker was popularised people jumped on board. I am wondering if, and when, we will hit an point where people stop buying mining rigs because the difficulty keeps rising and the payback just isn't there.

Even when we hit that point, there are thousands of devices out there fuelling the rise in difficulty.
How and where did you sell the WordPress plugins?

Also, how did you market them?
I would expect a tax on machines, absolutely. Many possibilities will be floated: such as taxes, limiting how many hours per day a machine can operate, limiting which hours of the day a machine can operate, projecting human costs onto the machines (cost of health insurance, sick leave, vacation time, etc).

Organized labor will pull for machines being restrained to as much of an equal footing with human labor as possible. Whether that will actually happen or not, impossible to guess. I do expect various cities, jurisdictions, countries, etc. will try implementing various schemes though.
It was hardly paradise. The systems of the various companies had separate fare collection and few interconnections, and the maps from those days look thoroughly incomprehensible.

After the consolidation, it took a major project to provide the modest amount of interconnection we have today, via the Chrystie Street Connection [1], and that only united 2 of the 3 legacy systems. We're still left with bizarre redundancies in some parts of the system and lack of service in others, and two entirely separate systems (known as the A-divsion and B-division) that will likely never be fully consolidated.

Today, as much as I can find plenty to criticize about the system, after many decades of public stewardship, NYC's mass transit system is by far the best of any city I've ever been to.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrystie_Street_Connection
The logical next step would be to write a wordcloud generator in Dogescript. Which always includes a "wow".
That would not stop bots crawling the pages generated by the hosting software, about 90 pages for each of 1,000 projects, duplicated at 4 different sub-domains.

This stuff --

http://alioth.debian.org/projects/benchmarksgame/

The X-Robots-Tag HTTP header does provide a way for admins to instruct bots not to index and not to crawl -- without requiring changes to upstream software.
Ok, sold.
The boiling frog is about as bad as low hanging fruit.

(The frog would jump out of slowly heating water, and picking the low hanging fruit first is a sure-fire way to get fired from your fruit-picker job.)
Rep Mike Rogers said (about respecting privacy) "We did this in the 1930s and … that led to a whole bunch of misunderstandings that led to World War II that killed millions and millions of people. We did the same darn thing that led up to the [9/11] Osama bin Laden effort."

Did he really just say that 9/11 and the Holocaust happened because the US was too worried about individual freedom and privacy? That's really ridiculous.
Robotics, technology, etc. sure haven't led to more jobs in America the last 50 years. I'd be hard pressed to name a large country (a nation with a sizable pool of labor) in which it has. The American standard of living has fallen by half during that time.

I'm sorry, are you seriously arguing that the American median standard of living was better in 1963? I could spend 20 minutes or so going statistic by statistic, but more or less everything has improved dramatically since then, most especially for the lower 20% or so of the income scale.
Silicon Valley Has an Arrogance Problem
Gary Vaynerchuk (garyvaynerchuk.com) blogs all the time and runs a highly successful, high growth marketing agency. Although, he mostly video blogs which can take less time than writing if you are good.
Yep, is a big part of the problem.

This sites don't make clear that is necessary do some specs, mockups, talk about the project, how do feedback, how manage it when it start, what to do about bugs, how report it, etc.

When freelancing, is not as simply as just coding, is project management + customer engaging + quality assurance + researching + coding and the most important of all: Mind reading, and guessing (right!) what the hell the customer want.

After +17 years I never ever meet a gig where it become easier. And all that baggage cost. Is time consuming. Is impossible to do it right the first time (and everyone expect a quote on time and cost, and hate if is by the hour!).
My 2c on the scaling / high scores issue: It seems like the only continuous measure of skill is WPM, and the problem seems to be that maximum WPM varies enormously across the population. It would be interesting to see if making score proportional to log(letters typed weighted by WPM they were typed at) helps balance things.
All your base is still funny 20 years later!
when wasnt that true?
I also live in Brooklyn, but I've never actually had that problem.
Because traditional labor made up nearly all of the middle class jobs in 1967, when the US standard of living peaked.

What do you replace 100 million labor based jobs with? So far, spanning decades, there hasn't been a good answer to that question, and the middle class continues to erode year after year. So now here we sit with 14% U6 unemployment ('the new normal'), and a labor force participation rate that matches 35 or so years ago (before the full influx of women into the work force, so the current numbers are that much uglier).

I'll note that in the last several years, the radical majority of job creation has been both part-time and hospitality based (eg hotels and bars). Hospitality pays notoriously terrible wages for the average worker. That doesn't sound like a good future to me.
I last saw that film about twenty years ago, I think I should catch it again. Back to the Future had some great lines in it as well, but as yet I haven't caught Used Cars.
> The American standard of living has fallen by half during that time.

By what measure?
The 3.12 kernel is out
> The only way to stop (slow down?) the rise of robotics, is to place arbitrary restrictions on machines to hamper their value proposition. I expect politicians all over the world to begin attempting this before another decade goes by.

Depends a bit on how international competition between jurisdictions will play out.
I recall when LOL Cats were actually pretty funny, way back around "I has a flavor". Then people who didn't understand the language [1] overran the Internet with cats that had incredible vocabularies and immaculate grammar (they just didn't know how to spell and were evil).

The only thing that bothers me about Dogescript is that the joke is too forced. The typical Shibe pictures are just "wow", "such X", "very Y", "wow"; when one adds in the "shh", "plz", and "rly", and (even worse) starts crafting a coherent sequential story, it removes the humor from the doge meme.

[1] http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004442.h...
Moz, Twitter, Facebook Graph API, SEMRush, and Topsy.
Who would set up a contract releasing a developer from all obligations, prior to app acceptance, on the handwavy notion that the dev would fix it for free outside of contract?

That's just... not how business works. Milestones are organised such that the client can get the things he values with a reasonable probability. Even setting the milestones up as he did is risky, since the dev could just have decided to take 3/4, ship crappy code, and disappear into the interwebs. I guess in this case the client was relying on the reputation system of e-lance and the relatively small amount of money involved, but still.... when I read that he'd agreed to the final payment on such a flimsy acceptance clause I was ready to read a really bad end to this.

Not sure why people are emphasising the money so much. For a dev in NYC $800 is very little. For a guy in China that's a much better deal. Kind of the whole point of using e-lance, no?
Dropped Wallet in Malaysia
Malaysian people are friendly.
For an entertaining dramatization of social engineered IT infiltration (that does include tradecraft by femmes fatale), there is 2003's Battlestar Galactica.
It needs the active word to be highlighted more, and ensure that it's z-index is on the top. Ultimately lost the game because the word I'd locked onto got covered up by a bunch of other words. Fun game though, would play again.
Size Calculator
Is any amount of Sugar safe?
The American standard of living was drastically better in the mid 1960s in fact.

It took one worker in the household to pay the bills; now, two people work and can't make ends meet. Mortgages were 15 years, not 30. The savings rate was extremely higher; now the savings rate is negative. America had little debt, and consumers had little debt. College education could be paid for with a part time job; now we're sitting on $1.2 or so trillion in debt on that end alone.

The minimum wage was equivalent to over $40,000 in 1967. Now a decent job pays that.

Using nearly any measurement, even the bogus CPI from the Feds, you find that wages peaked in about the late 1960s to 1970. And meanwhile, we've had to accumulate vast amounts of debt just to maintain these levels, so in real terms the standard of living has plunged.

In the 1960s, America had roughly half of all global manufacturing to itself. A lot of that was due to our manufacturing base surviving WW2 fully intact. However, we saw the benefit of that, and it showed up in the form of jobs and wages.

Now, welfare program dependency is at all time highs. Poverty rates are at multi-decade highs. The split between the rich and the poor is up dramatically, as workers drown, good jobs disappear and the rich shift capital to avoid the devaluation of the dollar. The % of the population dependent on food stamps is off the charts. The labor force participation rate is at multi-decade lows. The Federal Government is running a 3/4 trillion dollar deficit, propping up millions of jobs. Interest on all of our debt is as low as it can possibly go, and won't stay this cheap, that includes student loans, consumer debt, mortgage debt, corporate debt. Add it all up, and there has been an extraordinary real erosion of the standard of living over four decades.
Also known as Basic Income: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income

Charles Eisenstein makes the case for it in chapter 14 of Sacred Economics: http://sacred-economics.com/sacred-economics-chapter-14-the-...
Black guy here. I don't think I've ever been locked out of a cab that stopped in front of me until I stated my destination or had a cabbie refuse to take me home to Brooklyn or anywhere else. I do always make a point to get in the cab first.

However, I've had plenty of cabs mysteriously go "off duty" as they approach me. That's probably a much less risky way to avoid a trip that presumably leads to a less profitable/more dangerous destination statistically, due to my ethnicity.
This is nice, but can you add the machine name (ie. c1.xlarge) and add costs scenarios for reserved instances?
Smoothed analysis is a pretty handy!

For those who aren't apriori familiar with it, heres a wee summary. Its been a few years since i've worked in the area, but the facts havent changed in the mean time.

Smoothed analysis asks the question: "If I apply some small random noise on the inputs, whats the average/expected runtime of an algorithm on that noised input?". Then to get the "smoothed complexity" you pick the family of inputs that maximize the average runtime of the algorithm.

Turns out for many algorithms which have funny "exponential time" corner cases, but are otherwise polynomial time in practice (like the simplex algorithm used in solving linear programs), the smoothed complexity is polynomial! So smoothed complexity gives a nice way of explaining "slow in theory, fast in practice".

Its worth noting that smoothed analysis only really makes sense on algorithms where perturbing the input only changes the answer a little bit, so you need some sort of "numerical stability" style property for the underlying algorithm one way or another.
The client, in that case, should've just had a profit sharing offer, instead of paying a measly some, for the off chance that the app takes off (thus screwing the dev). If the great idea is gonna make millions (for real), the dev would not hesitate to accept the profit sharing option.
According to one game official in southern Africa whom I spoke with directly, the main issue preventing gov't sanctioned dehorning from being a successful is (1) it's dangerous and expensive to track and sedate the animals, and (2) poachers spend time tracking a "hornless" rhino and, upon locating it, kill it anyway.

While [in the poacher's mind] this sends a message to game officials, the poacher is also able to recover about 2 inches of keratin, being that about 2 inches must be left behind in order to "safely" dehorn the animal.
Workplace Equality Is Good for Business
it doesn't like dale's pale ale. dale's pale ale is fucking delicious (I am in fact drinking it right now) and definitely "craft".
Or the opposite of your conclusion:
Women in Science:
http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
Drones as well: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianoce...