skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The estimate isn't very good, my old site that gets about 300 visits a week is estimated to have about 3800 visits per day.
Another one that gets about 100k visits daily is estimated to have about 50k visits. So I wouldn't trust their estimates that much.
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I think you are mixing up problem and tools.

OP was probably thinking of something like web frameworks that help you realize your idea for a web-based app..

If you have a fundamentally different approach for developing web-based apps, you might have to start from the scratch, though.
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Forwarding email from a random address to a gmail address has been possible as long as gmail has existed. It's not a feature that depends upon Google support.
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Just so you know, you can still see the email originated from gmail; you just don't get to see the gmail username. Probably not a huge issue, though?
Very disappointing indeed. I shudder to think that this guy (who is quite obviously pretty harmless, even though he also clearly did something stupid) will have to face the full barbaric apparatus of the US anti-terrorist justice system. For all we know, maybe he'll end up in Guantanamo Bay.
This change does not seem to affect secondary gmail accounts: does anyone know of a way to get them to work too? Or is there a technical reason why Google cannot do it?

In case someone does not understand the problem: I have a few gmail addresses that I use in contexts where I don't want to disclose my real name. For convenience, all mail sent to these addresses gets forwarded to my primary account, which does use my real name. But because of the sender field, I can't use my primary account to reply to these mails, which makes the situation quite messy.
Thanks so much for your feedback.

Audio quality is a big issue, and one that can indeed be improved upon.

The 128kbps mp3 listed as CD quality was inaccurate and has been fixed to no longer be listed as such. Thanks for pointing that out.

As for a lossy to lossy conversion, if the end user would like the file as an mp3 ( which the vast majority do ), then re-encoding is the forced route. That said, you're not the first to suggest adding the capability to download the original demuxed AAC audio stream ( where applicable ), and just such a feature is in the pipeline to be included in a later release :). And if curious, the lower quality YouTube streams ( formats 5 and 6 ) have mp3 audio streams while the higher quality videos ( formats 34, 18, 22, etc ) have AAC audio streams.

But the audio quality on YouTube is frequently iffy to begin with, where for many videos their audio streams are already n-th generation re-encodings of some original file. Thus, if one is an audiophile or would like a truly 'high quality' version of some audio, YouTube probably isn't the best place to go to begin with.

Thanks again so much for your feedback; and please don't hesitate to voice any other ideas, suggestions, or concerns!
Does anyone any information on how to handle security in the cloud? Seems to be easier to find hacker patterns monitoring a (virtual) server.
Seth Godin on why marketing is too important to be left to the marketing dept
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Yeah, "apt-get install php" is much easier to type than "apt-get install sbcl perl ghc python ruby ..."... (The other langauges also all run faster, use less memory, and have more features.)

(And no, you should not compile your app into your frontend webserver. Use FastCGI or a reverse proxy!)
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Able, yes. Wise, no.
The wisdom of the action may be changed by the way that it's a large and respected market-leading company potentially throwing away lots of kids homework.
Grad school. They pay your rent for a few years, and you just kind of do whatever you'd be doing anyway. It's great.
As if Google and Palm wont have their own horrible technological, political and/or ideological problems with their devices. They both have early-stage app-stores too, you know. Google also has a history of no-comment on important issues and closing down / kicking out accounts from their services for unknown reasons, e.g. closing ad-sense accounts without payment.

There are too many parts involved and too little competition that we pretty much have to take bits of any given device and leave other bits alone in order to stay reasonably happy.

You know what the result would be if this noise gets the Google Voice app allowed onto the iPhone? It would be a Google Voice app that I can't use because they don't support GV in the UK. sigh. It's never going to be perfect.
this is solved ore cleanly with escape continuation/exceptions.

Perl also provides 'last LABEL', which is handy (lets you break out of any level of nesting).

I guess in a language like C where you can have neither and function calls are slow so the 'return' escape continuation is also unusable there is a reason to use goto for this.
I'm feeling pretty disillusioned about my iPhone recently. I'm basically waiting for a sufficiently-captivating Android device. I'm curious to see what the Hero will be like, once I have a chance to hold it and they've had a chance to smooth out (and speed up) the software stack.
The title should be "I quit AT&T".
This list is so bad it's embarrassing to see all those great people on there.
Indeed. This is really sad.

By the way, I would like to know how could he have made $800.000 in damages. Is this the money spent to make the system more secure?
Should have titled it "Fuck You, AT&T." I would have done it. The company deserves no sympathy, not just for cell phone coverage.
Screen resolution? RAM? Flash memory?
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And, basic respect and consideration are very inexpensive. Often it's simply a matter of returning emails and phone calls.
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In C/C++ I have longed for a parametrized break statement with value indicating number of nested loops to break at once. I'm sure this goes against some kind of lambda calculus CS ethos though.
This guy is going down not because of the damage he created but because of the embarrassment he created.

A military installation that can be hacked by somebody in a foreign country ought to be plugging holes instead of asking for extradition.
That's a bug.

First opened a long time ago, first successful workaround proposed by Buddha around 2,000 years ago but it's a lot of non-effort and can be quite difficult to grasp. First dreams of a real solution beginning in the past 1-300 years. Progress towards a real solution is ongoing and at an increasing clip. Check back in 15-50 years.
Ha! Not sure what my mom would think if I sent her an email with suicide in my signature. Plus, Google does crawl your emails, any concern that if you consistently use "bad" keywords it might alert the Black Helicopters to come swooping down and nab you? :)
I sell a few command-line utilities for Windows ( MailSend, MailGrab, CMD2EXE, and ScreenKap ).
We heard your request for another option that wouldn't show the "on behalf of" text loud and clear,

right. loud and clear. The imperative word there is probably "heard" - the thread about this on their support forum was started around at the time when gmail began adding support for 3rd party addresses and all the customers got was a mixture between silence and "working as intended".

Don't get me wrong: I'm incredibly happy that this is fixed now, but talking about how well they were listening to their users and how quickly they reacted is borderline cynical.

Sorry. I just had to vent.
Strange but true: Microsoft encourages their employees to get their non-employee friends to use the employee discount.

A sale is a sale, I guess.
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Pardon my presumed ignorance, but how is that?
Sixty years ago, ish, Feynman found he could pick safe locks in the Manhatten project offices, and alerted the military higher ups to the weakness and how to reset the locks when they close the safes so they would be secure. Their response was to send round a memo banning Feynman from entering their offices. - "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman".

It's all just a little bit of history repeating. Heh.
I'm flagging this, there's lot's of conflated ideas here as well as some real trash. My flags went up when I saw the comments about saints/devils in math relating them to Schoenberg's introduction of atonal music.

Yes there were and are deep philosophical issues in mathematics, .eg. between intuitionists and platonists, but this writer strikes me as somewhat of a conspiracy theorist. Lyndon LaRouche? Give me a break
EmployeeTheft.com ?
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It's pretty easy to envision this. Say something he did caused a pallet not to be included on a manifest and it had to go out on another flight when a human at the other end noticed it was missing.
No, I didn't assume you did. My comment was partially tangential (now there's a geeky oxymoron).
We only have his word that he was "looking for UFOs". Just sayin'.
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Duh. It just hit me. Math is mostly edge cases. Consequently, the urge to be have perfect logical validity (same as the urge to write a bugless program) requires you to spend most of your attention on the edge cases.

That urge is stronger in mathematicians than in software engineers.
Your warning about IE6 is undismissable. Why go to the extra effort of deliberately blocking IE6 users?

An IE6 user is probably quite happy to view your site with a few layout problems. Please don't be a hater.

For what it's worth the site layout looked roughly OK through the opacity.
Main problem of this list is that 30 is huge number. You can simply create Top 5 or 10 list of most influential programmers and place just A+ people on them, but there are no 30 A+ so you need to place "just" A players and there are hundreds of them.

Another problem of this list is that they place also B and C level players and also non programmers (Jason Fried).
So you're sitting at your computer, programming, where manual pages are a keystroke away... and instead of pressing that key, you reach into your pocket, unlock your iphone, buy this app from the app store, and then type the example code on the phone into your app?

I don't get it.
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True.

Even so he should have never been able to do what he did. All he should have found were very securely locked doors, alarmbells going off all over the place and a very stern talking to.

We're not talking about the website of the local football club here, it's the military.

If a foreign nation with a large budget and a concerted effort would be able to crack it that would be embarrassing but at least you could have some understanding. Now the assumption is that if this clown could do it then probably every two bit intelligence agency in the world has been doing it as well. In other words there is lots of egg to go around for various faces.

Instead of turning this guy into an asset they are trying to make him in to a scapegoat. What he did wasn't good but he could only do it because somebody else left cracks that shouldn't even have been there in the first place.

As it is they ought to be very much ashamed.

Of course there will be people that will say 'but he had no business doing that' or 'he should have known better'.

Maybe.

The 'rattling a locked door of my house' analogy has been made plenty of times, I think the military should be held to a much higher standard and that they basically ought to put out a bounty for every hole that somebody proves exists.

That way the script kiddies/blackhats get to make a decent living and we all end up more secure.
I also see a lot of office furniture when I look inside a business. But nobody cares much about office furniture. For most of the market, it's a boring commodity that is bought by professional office managers who care a lot about the price. It lasts a relatively long time and doesn't change very often.

Tell that to Herman Miller.
Say something he did caused a war to be lost... if you stretch it far enough then you get to the horseshoe of the courier. It's up to the military to deal with adversity. All the time. They should have procedures and checks in place to make sure this stuff can never happen.

If one bozo in his moms basement can cause hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage or worse they have real problems, and suing the guy that did the damage is the least of their issues.
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So there is no failed startups in hacker news. This must be a world record or something. :)
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And yet, Feminists still complain that the workplace is biased against women.
This Google Voice fiasco by Apple and/or AT&T is slowly mushrooming into a nuclear cloud. I wonder when CNN, BBC et al will start picking it up...

When this hits mainstream, who knows what kind of public backlash will ensue.
"Do you resent the "Sponsored Link" advertisements that come up next to the incoming mail?"

Resent what?... Seriously, my case of ad blindness is so severe it took me several seconds to remember/realize gmail has ads...
US$5m business plan competition... in China
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=732590
Bring back Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, and their ilk. No grantsmanship, just buildings full of smart people working on whatever they like. That was the system which yielded the foundations for just about every technology you enjoy today.
Let's be honest, $400 really isn't all that expensive and it wouldn't stop a lot of the target market from buying one. Of course, I guess we'll have to wait until it actually gets released to find out if $400 is right.
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It would be strange if it was true.
Unless things have changed in the past ~1 year, Microsoft does not encourage employees to get their non-employee friends to use the employee discount. There is some fairly specific stuff about being able to use your employee discount on gifts, but not in exchange for $s or products.
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Oh yeah, obviously any military system that can affect the real world ought to be protected by the best firewall you can get - the AirGap(tm). I'm just describing a mechanism by which changing data can end up costing money in the real world. You could probably really screw up someone's business just by running their printer out of paper.
Freelance sysadmin and web development work brings in a bit of money. I've never gone out and looked for this type of work, but I've gotten to know a handful of good clients over the years.

I do the work more because I like them than for the money, and I'd still help them out if I was rich enough not to work, but getting work from them has really helped when money is tight.
For a moment I thought the title said "available parking" instead of "free parking". Now that would be a great hack!
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I don't doubt he is heading the way of the Intelligence "fusion" centers[1] and some form of interrogation. This is an absolute shambles and shows just how inept and yellow the UK home office are. Not only are they going to hand this guy over in blatant disregard to his Human rights, they are refusing to publicise documents surrounding the Iraq war investigation - mostly due to very subtle pressure levied by US military in regard to "intelligence sharing" (same thing used in this G.M. case). And as a final insult they /demand/ that the UK population bend over and take it when it comes to the National ID scheme, which has been proven time and again to be totally against public consensus....

[1] http://wikileaks.org/wiki/The_spy_who_billed_me_twice
I Quit TechCrunch!
Ray Anderson is one of the very few people at the top with an amazing sense of ethics. Quite a man.
Lots of web programmers here you could team up with.

If you mention what city you're in, you might find someone who's interested in working with you.
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I created a callback from PowerBuilder to C++ by using some PBNI (like JNI, but for PowerBuilder) trickery. Basically, the PowerBuilder application ran and loaded the external C++ library to handle expensive calculations. From the C++ DLL, I hooked into the PowerBuilder virtual machine, looked up a particular custom object and method, and then used the method as a callback. This wasn't the evil or immoral part though.

The hack was cool, but utterly stupid and pointless (the C++ was used for speed - calling back into PowerBuilder defeated the purpose). The only reason I did it was because the consultant who originally created the C++ DLL managed to convince my boss that the application would run much faster if PowerBuilder supported callbacks. So naturally my boss instructed me to do the impossible. I didn't complain because it seemed like a fun challenge at the time. I didn't tell him that it actually slowed the app down a bit though >:)
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Overkill. Something really simple like Common Lisp's block/return-from would do...
I find i can write almost anything never having to use more than two loops.
There should be no extradition for British nationals. It should be handled according to our law.

The US already have a seriously bad reputation when it comes to handling things like this so I'm sure he'll end up bagged and tagged within a year.
When I buy a linux server at work, or one of those Linux Dells home machine (not sure if they're still around - I got this end of last year), I feel like I get a raw commodity. I wipe whatever crap the idiot manufacturer put on it, install my OS on it with ease, and then it does what I want for the rest of time. Server or desktop. Or both if I want. Multi-user from that moment, apt-get takes care of my problems. When I buy a mac it's about the same. It's a little harder to get new packages and some of the unix decisions are brainless but it's better with drivers.

The commodity feel is not remotely the case with Windows. The manufacturer may have left all sorts of crap over the install (toolbars and the like). I'll need to download or even buy a bunch of stuff to get it to do stuff that for a geek is basic (a pdf viewer and all of them stink, expandrive to be able to mount drives effectively, virus protection in case I get compromised but this makes my system less nice to use, putty so I can get to a real console). It doesn't come with anything approaching an adequate text editor or basic development tools. If it's a reinstall on a Dell the driver situation is very painful, and product activation might require me to make phone calls.
Michael Arrington does know how to keep things interesting. Even if we resist, somehow articles from TechCrunch reach the front page of HN. Not that I have any real problem with it, but can we somehow filter the front page to contain a maximum of 5 or so sensationalist articles?
Unfortunately, no. Go to a blank line inside a code block that's indented a bit and hit tab. Nothing happens :/

I wasn't clear above, I have been able to have it never insert a tab, but it's that and the "don't try to 'intelligently' prevent me from indenting" thing that I need.
So he's been using the perfect phone for two years then a new service comes and gets rejected and he drops the best mobile computing platform ever?

I know everybody is milking the GV fiasco, but this borders on stupidity.
Everything about it is cool, but you still look like a huge dork running on it. (Except, possibly, if you are doing back flips or jumping a car).
Actually, the notation is confusing even to professional mathmaticians. The notation used in differential geometry is the archetype of this phenomenon; it's sometimes incredibly hard to work out what the simple-looking notation means.

In fact, differential geometry has been described as the study of objects "invariant under a change of notation" playing on the lack of clarity in this field, along with the standard description of a tensor as an object "invariant under a change of coordinates".

See, for example, the introduction to this piece: http://www.math.jhu.edu/~yrubinst/RiemGeom/Thesis-pp-23-30-a...
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Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=733667
Instead of fixing a MySQL query that took minutes, I wrote a mechanize script that logged into the host admin and deleted the query warning.
Steven Frank "quitting" the iPhone is a bigger deal. If the rumours are to be believed then Arrington is about to be a competitor to Apple (in the tablet space). That plus his history of histrionics kind of tempers my interest in his opinions of the iPhone.
He's got a phone that drops calls, doesn't work well in his home and can't run the apps he wants to run. Stupidity eh?
"I am voluntarily going to make my own life a bit worse because I believe in certain principles"

Strangely, if people say things like this before they are, and I quote, "getting fucked" then they get called names like "zealot" and are looked down on for not being rational or "pragmatic".
Would you stop flying the concord just becausse they don't serve pepsi on board?

More propaganda retardness.

The iPhone is the best mobile computing platform ever and everybody on the street loves it, they don't care about GV or your personal vendetta against Apple.

Switch to nokia and be happy if you wish.