skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
by "these day" I assume you mean for at least the last 30 or 40 years?

A common story... (copied from http://www.wickedlocal.com/milford/news/lifestyle/columnists... )

A CEO was being honored at his retirement party. The toastmaster, his successor, called on him for parting remarks and advice. After delivering farewell comments, the outgoing CEO handed his successor two envelopes marked #1 and #2.

He said, "Place these envelopes in the top drawer of your desk. When you make your first big mistake, open the #1 envelope and follow the instructions. When you make your second big mistake, open the #2 envelope and likewise follow those instructions."

The new CEO was young, handsome and an accomplished public speaker. He and his family were featured in business magazines and were invited to speak throughout the business world at home and abroad.
For the first few months, things seemed to go along smoothly in spite of the CEO's frequent criticisms of the company's founders, business practices and employee performances. The new CEO seemed to relish pointing out the company's mistakes and perceived weaknesses.
One day, the new CEO committed a huge gaffe that headlined business newsletters and newspapers nationwide! He remembered the two envelopes given to him by his predecessor.

He rushed to his desk, seized the #1 envelope, tore it open and read it. The message was printed in bold black letters. "Blame your predecessor."
Immediately, he convened a series of press conferences, blamed his predecessor and things seemed to calm down for a few months.

About three months later, he made another gaffe of greater significance than the first one. Before meeting with the board of directors, he opened his desk drawer and read the #2 letter. It stated, in bold, black letters, "Prepare two envelopes!"
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Go to the library.
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The fact that you have PhD at the top of your list, rather than as a footnote, tells me that you don't know what you need in a designer/developer, aren't entirely sure that your concept is viable or even doable, and are likely to wind up with some mediocre corporate programmer with little experience, and even less creativity, rather than someone who truly knows what he's doing and could have turned your idea into a real product; and as is usually the case, your poor selection in a designer/developer will result in a poor company with mediocre products that probably don't work like they were originally meant to, but not before you burn all of your venture capital on his salary and numerous wasted expenses on infrastructure and partner products to give your non-working solution an overcomplicated and underrated backend.

Good luck!
Another possibility: if the page had outlinks, the URL could appear in public referrer logs elsewhere. (Pages like intranet login-only wikis often reveal their internal URL structure to outside sites that way.)
Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
There's been a lot of info recently about the hosting plans of YC startups but less discussion about development technology trends. I would be curious to know what the dominant technology is for developing apps among YC startups.
Ask HN: Review my Site
An online friend and I have created a website, Uberessay.com.

We want to compile a database of excellent essays written by and for students for reference and inspiration. Each essay is copyrighted and put in a password-protected PDF, set only for viewing. Uberessay does not in any way condone cheating. We want to encourage academic honesty and integrity in students, from high school freshman to graduate students and anything in between.

Would anyone like to tell me what they think of this idea?
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1 line summary: Reporter/columnist decides he will not honor the privacy request of 'off-the-record' disclosures if he discovers that the source was lying to him.

However, who determines that the source was lying? If the journo in question thinks he was lying to? This would discourage any insider from talking to him anonymously
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There is fortunately no strong correlation between the number of soft drink machines and the duration of your project.

Or should I say unfortunately because if there were we could speed up projects by getting rid of all soft drink machines or buying a large number of them.

somebody has way too much time on their hands:

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You'll be able to sell your iPhone for more than $200 and will save money every month if you go to a competitor, so money shouldn't be a problem.
He assumed that people were telling the truth, let alone their shady affiliation or desire to stay anonymous. Gee, I wonder what they teach in journalism class.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plentyoffish

They aren't a new company. They have 11 million users.
There's swearing.
Looks to me like "oh crap, they've nearly committed to the spec and [I'm guessing] have near complete implementations ready to [alpha] test; lets see if we can muscle in and mess it all up".

Seriously one of their objections is:

Those that use HTMLElement for their interface provide no extra functionality beyond <div class="xxx"> or <span class="">. If they are necessary, do we know if this is the correct set? Are there any missing?"

Well, duh, have you heard of the semantic web? The sections aren't necessary, they don't have to be complete either and wading in at this late stage with such basic issues seems rather unhelpful to me (as an outsider to the spec definition process).

I'll also declare I'd pinned my hopes on XHTML2, which would have come next (as the webs major hypertext implementation) IMO if it weren't for MS not handling xhtml as xml.
First of all, we have coffee places, just like in the US. But as far as I know, we tend not to bring our laptop along. I certainly never did it and I never saw it either. I must admit I'd rather read a book then take my laptop along...

Now, about the politics, yes it's true there where a lot of political problems concerning the separation of Belgium into 2 separate countries. Today (almost) nothing has changed. The issues the news reported about back then are still not 'solved'. It's just old news for the media and the people got tired of it so nothing happens anymore. But to give my personal opinion, there never was any problem. To me all the fuss was just to get some media attention for the elections back then and things got a bit out of control. The big problem should be between flanders and walloon, the 2 big parts of the country. But many of my colleagues are walloon and I have absolutely no problem with them at all, why should I? So my opinion about the whole issue is: it was just some publicity stunt. Sure we hear all the time there are 'issues' and flanders is giving (some politicians even call it wasting) a large sum of money to the walloon but I see it in a bigger picture. And as far as I know, that's the main issue about politics.

The last answer, the startup culture. To be honest, as I see it, there are 2 big cities with startups at the moment in flanders: Antwerp and Ghent. You also have Brussels but it's really expensive to live there, if you want to live in a 'better part' of the city. Starting up is not so hard, just get a BTW number (it's a special tax number), fill in some papers and you are working for yourself. The thing is, taxes are rather high so you tend to have less money left. Of course you have an upside too, if you should fail, you can apply for unemployment benefits and even take courses for free (they even pay you to do it in some instances). The typical startup here is different in the sense that here you don't make a web application that attracts a lot of people/investors, you make applications for clients. A group of people I worked with recently started their own little company ( http://1md.be/ ) and as you can see they follow that principle. I guess Belgium is just too small to do it the US way, it's even worse if you know websites from flanders who are immensely popular are not popular at all in walloon and the other way around. So in conclusion, I don't think we have the same startup environment as 'you guys'. If you should move only for that, I think you're in for a bit of a disappointment. Of course that's from my point of view!

Hope this answers your questions, if not let me know!
I thought not-safe-for-work was that guy's column's name.
I don't think it's a bug to assume that ssh is normally used with shell accounts. If you can run a shell on the server, you can open TCP ports. Sure, you could argue that defaults should be set to the most security-paranoid values, but that's really not common practice in any project. Yes, the sysadmin should go through the SSH config file, and not just use the defaults that come with the sshd.
So, you're saying in effect there's no way to properly do encryption in pure JavaScript at all? That you'd have to get the random numbers from a Java applet or something of the sort?

I came across this attempt: http://tim.dierks.org/2007/03/secure-in-browser-javascript-p...

But Billy Hoffman disapproves:
http://www.webappsec.org/lists/websecurity/archive/2008-01/m...
I apologize for not being entirely on-topic, but I don't understand why people have the perception that "Steve's a great guy," as the article says.

He always seemed like a jerk compared to Bill Gates.*

More or less I agree with Wired commentary's assessment:
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2006/0...

* And who else could we compare him to? (Thats not rhetorical, I'd enjoy some replies on the subject. Perhaps Woz?)
Even if they're "cuddle[d] up in the corner" then they're still using electric, still leaving crumbs on the floor, putting dirty feet on furniture, still going to use the washrooms, etc.. They may seem like little things but they're real costs.

I think I'd aim for a tech solution of providing a ticket with purchases over X amount (coffee + danish price) with one hours free log-on. You either then pay for additional web or buy more products or leave.
Based on my reading of the question, I think its intent is not to ascertain biological sex, but rather gender identity. Asking the question about sex tells you about the person's genitals. Asking the question about gender tells you who that person is, which I believe to be the more useful question.

If a person dresses, acts, and thinks of themselves as a male would, would it be useful to know what chromosomes that person has?
Agreed. I've always thought he's a douche bag.
They didn't say that laptop users were costing them $2000 / month, but that they were trying to cut their $2000 / month bill down. Big difference.

If the coffee shop is open 18 hours per day, 30 days a month, and the average laptop pulls 50w, which costs $.20 per kWh, they'd need to have like 350-400 laptops plugged in every single hour that they're open to rack up $2k / month in costs.

If you bring your laptop in and sit for six hours, you've just cost them seven cents in electricity.
First of all I should say that it's unfortunate that this is spreading while it's still very much in alpha. But hey, they did put the website there and this is the internett. I also feel that I should clarify some parts since it's not completely up to date:

It's prototype-based at core, but will have a class system built upon the prototype-infrastructure.

The C++ version supports 32bit now, but more interesting, they're rewritig it in pure C. See the mailing list for more details (snow-dev at Google Groups).

And just to make it crystal clear: This isn't a release. They just wanted to create a site to give some information on the project, and some guys decided to post this to Reddit/HN. It's still far away from 0.1.
this is a video of somebody playing tetris, it could have been programmed in java, haskell or brainfuck for that matter.

Without the code to go with it haskell hasn't got much to do with it. Would be nice to see the source!
I love this post too, I spent a lot of my time at college, sitting in coffee shops doing mathematics/ pretending to study.
Third places are a very interesting tool.
"value added"

You don't need that just sniff the traffic for credit card and ID information; rewrite packets with affiliate IDs link requests so that your affiliate link is used; grab copies of business docs etc.. Should be enough there to recoup your costs, especially with some blackmail thrown in for good measure.

(Yes, I know, HackerNews-ers don't like jokes, yes, it was supposed to be a joke.)
That's a good one! Thank you, I had not thought of that possibility. Then if that other site logs its statistics publically that would do it.
If you let the "waifs and strays" in those same people when they're better off will consider themselves above your establishment and go somewhere more expensive that doesn't let in the riff-raff. IMO.
I prefer coffee shops (U.S.) and tea houses (in China) that do not have WiFi. I find it very anti-social to walk into a cosy little place and see everyone focused on their laptops. A coffee shop is a great place to meet your friends and find new ones. The feel of it being a "free" temp work place doesn't suit me.
Isn't this just more of the same old drivel about that Sam whatever-he's-called, but without naming him? Who on earth is voting this pish up and, more to the point, why? I'm genuinely interested.
Compared to Woz both Steve and Bill are jerks.
Great technically, but leaves out the social aspect. People are conditioned to think that if they buy anything, they are entitled to sit at a table for as long as they want. Putting a meter on that right isn't going to go over well, especially if I can just go across the street to your competitor and work as long as I want.

So the key would have to be if all the other coffee shops started turning off wifi and covering their outlets, or it would have to be a really great place to work.
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More important things in life, or at least more important things for this community. The top two stories right now are two dudes complaining on their blog. One giving the same old tired reasons why Apple is turning sour, and the other telling a personal vendetta that I don't give a shit about. Sometimes I don't understand this community. There's a few stories on the front page that deserve to be much higher than these two.
Presumably this is newsworthy because building Tetris in Haskell is harder than in an imperative/OO language? Why is that a good thing?
I've tried to get into emacs and vi but neither of them "feel right". Generally it seems like these editors take a particularly geeky sort of personality to get into in the first place, which is awesome. The nature of emacs isn't exactly user-friendly, so someone moving towards it would already be adventurous enough to parse the help files (and has probably read a fair share of man pages as well... blegh).

As for the images and title of the article: what could have been (very often times these sorts of pieces ARE) a very drone-like, dry sack of shit for a paper that only someone with a robotic policeman's mentality could enjoy, I found to be humorous and filled with life.

Will I be using emacs anytime soon? Probably not but it's encouraging to see that there are cool, funny, HUMAN community members out there who want to help get people excited and productive with something they enjoy.
SSH port forwarding is used EXTENSIVELY in enterprises to provide mutually authenticated secure tunnels for services that either don't do SSL, or don't do it correctly. Smart security teams won't allow SSH or SFTP through their perimeters because of things like this, but default disabling port forwarding would probably break more things than it would fix.

The real issue here is that people are casual about giving SSH accounts (limited or otherwise) to strangers. That's a mistake.
So in summary: iTunes doesn't allow open devices, AT&T and Apple's single-provider agreement is bad, App Store approval sucks, App Store approval sucks, App Store approval sucks.

As much as I want the above fixed, I'm really, really tired of seeing the same tired, old problems listed on HN without a proper solution that doesn't involve the words "boycott" or "jailbreak". (And if there isn't such a solution, I could do with a lot less whining.)
I think you're confusing sex and gender. Sex is biological, and you could reasonably claim that it is written in our bodies, as well as our souls, if you see a connection between the two.

Gender, however, is psychological -- it's how you perceive yourself in relation to societal norms. And it can be fluid, like any other psychological process.

Consider someone that told you they were "feeling mad." You can not reasonably refute that statement, as it's purely a statement of internal state and perception. Gender is the same way.
And then told again, in 2002, by someone else, in a message sent to bugtraq, about the same problem, and apparently fixed it at that time.

that bugtraq message says "OpenBSD cvs servers", as in, the anoncvs mirrors that are setup by volunteers, many of whom are not openbsd developers. we don't control any of those servers. an email was sent out to all of the mirror maintainers years ago telling them that they should probably disable the forwarding if they didn't know it was on.

And yet in 2009 at least 3 of the OpenBSD cvs servers once again have the same problem.

the list of mirrors is updated constantly (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/www/build/mirrors.dat). old mirrors drop off, new ones come on. if new ones are allowing tcp forwarding for anoncvs and they aren't aware of it, email them. clearly it bothers you more than it bothers any of us.
Good tip. Thanks for the share.

It seems the top manufacturers are Humanscale, Herman Miller, Knoll, etc.
His first point about iTunes is not very strong. Unlike the iPhone, the Mac is an open platform and you have choices. There might not be a lot of alternatives to iTunes, but is that really Apple's fault?

If you, as an end-user, don't like iTunes then just use something else. Like for example Songbird, which also actually does sync with non-Apple MP3 players.

If you are a hardware vendor then why not invest some time and money in either supporting Songbird or create your own player and sync app.

iTunes really is not that brilliant. Maybe some guys in a garage should see this as an opportunity to build some great software that works with 'the other players'.
I misread your original comment, saw the "Java" and not the "script". You're right.

So far as I know, there's no cross-platform way to get secure random numbers from Javascript.

You can, for instance, get them from Mozilla from the "crypto" interface.

This is another reason why Javascript crypto is a bad idea.
Django here.
Honestly, my point isn't about saving money (although that's a nice side benefit).

My point is that there's not a single "good" lawyer out there who says, 1) I do this and 2) This is what it costs. I'm very much of the opinion that if a third year associate at Wilson, Orrick, or wherever put out a shingle and said "I'll do these forms for you and it'll cost $10K (I've been told that this group of docs runs ~$5K)" that they'd get away with it: make more and work less.

Barring "good", I'd settle for competent - where my arbitrary line is just someone who has passed the bar. That's why I made that comment; you can get competent for 95% of cases off of these model documents.

Lookit, Orrick puts out these docs, great. But Orrick's really dumb. One, they don't have a page that says cleanly and clearly "we do incorporation for new startups, and we can introduce you to angels and VCs" even though that's exactly what they do. They don't say "we have six partners who do incorporation work, one each in internet, hardware, enterprise software, biotech, cleantech, and services" even though they surely have multiples of each. Instead, we get this page: http://www.orrick.com/practices/corporate/emergingCompanies/... Let me spell it out: this list is completely useless to a budding startup founder. It doesn't tell me which person to call. This is why big law firms are dumb as rocks; just segment the list. And take off the Associates. Yes, I know the Associate will do the work. No, the Associate shouldn't be the senior point of contact for any startup. The Associate ain't the one sending an e-mail to Clavier.

Did you know that even though I'm in Illinois, I could have hired a Valley law firm to do my incorporation work? I'm sure you did, but I didn't, and it's cost me an extra $50K in legal fees I wouldn't have had to pay if Yokum did my incorporation, where I would have had better advice and more complete set of documents from the get-go.

That's where the opportunity is; undercutting the inability of the best law firms to cleanly and succinctly explain just what the hell it is they do.
I don't see what he is so pissed about. Yeah he was lied to but he found out and didn't publish the bad information. Isn't that what journalism is all about, verifying facts?
In my opinion this is another in the recent series of overblown invectives along the lines of, 'I'm a consumer, therefore a company that produces consumer products must suck my dick.' I'm so sick of hearing this.

I don't buy Apple products because it's the cool thing to do, or because Microsoft is a monopoly, or because I think Steve Jobs is a nice guy. If nobody else liked Apple products, or Microsoft wasn't a monopoly, or I thought Steve Jobs wasn't a nice guy, I'd still buy Apple products. I base my purchase decisions on the products, not based on moral judgments of the people who create them.

If Apple wants to censor apps in the App Store, that's their prerogative. If they want to be non-transparent and inconsistent in how they approve apps, more power to them. I would want, expect, and demand the exact same power over the products I create. The products do not belong to the community, and Apple doesn't have any responsibility to the people who buy them. They don't have to be more open or less controlling or promote more consumer choice, or give away their products affordably. If you want the products, buy them and use them; if you don't, then don't.

Apple is a smart company run by smart people. Apple's mission is to make products and make money off them. Just because Jason Calacanis thinks they're making bad business decisions doesn't mean they are. My bet is that they know what they're doing. Last time I checked, Apple was a billion-dollar company and Jason Calacanis wrote Mahalo — you do the math.

And let me make one more specific point. Jason brings up the Japanese MP3 players that you can find in Akihabara. I've been to Akihabara too, and, frankly, it's filled with tons of incredibly cheap, tacky, and poorly made electronic crap. iPod's probably don't have dual headphone jacks, TV and radio tuners, and audio recorders because they aren't crappy products marketed solely on the number of poorly-implemented features that can be crammed in to them.

I could go on and on here about everything that's wrong with what Jason says, but taking the time to write even this much is making me feel less productive today than I should be.

EDIT: Wow, what's with the downvoting? This is my thoughtful and honest comment on the topic of the original post. Haha, I guess people don't like my colorful similes?
and then when a vulnerability is found in webkit, it will affect everyone at once. awesome!!!
@jacquesm someone is not getting the joke :) http://twitter.com/#search?q=sixtoeightweeks
It's for robots.

Come on, this is HN, you don't think humans are they only ones here do you?
But you have to set that sort of user account up specially, at which time you can disable tcp forwarding. What he wants to change is the sshd default.
Yeah, the source code would be very good to see.