skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but it isn't wizardry. Given the right kind of access, it's actually pretty easy. Take a look at http://www.bortzmeyer.org/dns-routing-hijack-turkey.html for more technical details.
Many HN users know Daniel as gruseom, though now he's going
to switch to the slightly more legit sounding dang.

Hah, not sure that worked. :-)

Would love the ability to change username without having to email the mods.
Though it seems states used to act more publicly ashamed of it, espionage has been a part of the interactions between states allied or not since the beginning of time. Suggesting otherwise is incredibly naïve as is supposing military alliance with the United States is worthless.
We are mostly comparing EUROPE to the US , Europe also has big technology poles (Grenoble ,Berlin, Paris ...) , the problem is that big tech giants in europe work independently of each other or work with US firms!, the UE must create one single technology pole where all the firms will be implemented! Paris can't handle more than what it handles now !
This makes more sense for SaaS where there are no marginal costs I think. Drivers are expensive and they don't really need you to use them more when they can barely keep supply up right now.
and why is that ?
I like stack overflow
How Sleep Deprivation Drives The High Failure Rates of Tech Startups
Cut him some slack guys, I would assume a topic like this gets to be a little more lax than the other threads.
Second on: completely arbitrary.

If someone shows up in early days before a company has product market fit and is one of the people that truly shapes the business, call them whatever you want.
As PG's wife, I think I am the only person who knows exactly how much time, energy and thought he devoted to Hacker News. More than most HN users would guess, that's for sure. I don't think he ever planned it that way and I'm certain this site stole valuable brain power that could have been focused on writing essays. So thank you Paul for spending so much time making Hacker News such a great place to visit each day.
Strangecoin: a proposal for a nonlinear currency
Thanks JL, he's a good man with good plans and thank you for sharing him. Now you folks have some personal time, you over earned it on many levels, smell those roses.
When the barrier to entry is 0 this is an ineffective strategy. From my experiences moderating a fairly large geographic area forum negative influences on the community do and will just recreate a new account immediately and resume when you do that. At least this way you delay that from happening for a while and force them to expel effort on nothing.
On HN you have access to the world's experts on pretty much any tech (and some non-tech) topics you can think of.

The only other community I've posted to is Reddit, but... It seems like what sets HN apart is the ability to craft and hone your reputation. If you want to become known as an expert in bitcoin, all that it takes is time, intelligence, and writing good comments on HN.

You can gain a reputation on Reddit, but not as easily as here, I think. And it's usually a lot easier to get a negative reputation over there than to gain a positive one on here.

You can also write a profile for yourself, which a lot of people will read. Reddit doesn't have an equivalent of that. Even if you just provide contact info, you still gain value. For example, after I rather publicly lost a bunch of money on Mt. Gox, someone emailed me to see if I was okay. It was a really nice gesture, and in hindsight I'm not sure I'd get that kind of experience out of some other community. But I'm of course biased, since I've spent my time here and not in other communities.
Only thing they've achieved is starting a unwinnable game of public DNS whack-a-mole.
I've been planning to start a blog for the same reasons you listed. I'll probably use a static site generator like Pelican [1]. A lot of people use Disqus for comments on static blogs, but I'd rather not rely on external services when I don't need to. Do you find linking to Twitter to be an adequate replacement for comments?

[1] http://blog.getpelican.com/
A Carmack Comment on the Oculus/Facebook Deal
Posted here for quickness:

I share some of your misgivings about companies "existing and operating only to be acquired". I am a true believer in market economies, and the magic of trade being a positive sum game is most obvious with repeated transactions at a consumer level. Company acquisitions, while still (usually) being a trade between willing parties that in theory leaves both better off, have much more of an element of speculation rather than objective assessment of value, and it definitely feels different.

There is a case to be made for being like Valve, and trying to build a new VR ecosystem like Steam from the ground up. This is probably what most of the passionate fans wanted to see. The difference is that, for years, the industry though Valve was nuts, and they had the field to themselves. Valve deserves all their success for having the vision and perseverance to see it through to the current state.

VR won't be like that. The experience is too obviously powerful, and it makes converts on contact. The fairly rapid involvement of the Titans is inevitable, and the real questions were how deeply to partner, and with who.

Honestly, I wasn't expecting Facebook (or this soon). I have zero personal background with them, and I could think of other companies that would have more obvious synergies. However, I do have reasons to believe that they get the Big Picture as I see it, and will be a powerful force towards making it happen. You don't make a commitment like they just did on a whim.

I wasn't personally involved in any of the negotiations -- I spent an afternoon talking technology with Mark Zuckerberg, and the next week I find out that he bought Oculus.
Dept. of Mixed Bags: MY TINY LIFE Is Free At Last(2008)
Five ways Tesla Motors pushes technology change in auto industry
What is so bad ab out Unix and what would be an alternative?
These are rather out of date though. E.g. it says "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait", which does not really reflect the current policy of "use original title no matter what".
Instead of assigning person-to-person debt relationships, my company just tracked the sum of each person's net debt on the whiteboard, with a circular buffer log so we can go back and fix things in case the sum doesn't add up to 0. The trouble with that is when people are too lazy to update the sum, so they end up hoarding a bunch of receipts and then update it way later. Eventually some numbers got really big, so I put some offsets on the board so that infrequent participants' contribution to the sum was zero. And then people left the company with nonzero debts...

Another option that we've started doing is to just randomly assign the task of paying for a meal, weighted by each person's proportion of the cost.

Once somebody has a debt to a coworker, though, the most efficient way of paying it off is to bet double-or-nothing on a coin flip until the debt is zero or the debtor is uncomfortable increasing it further.
Threatened by China, or your own politicians?
http://functionaljobs.com/ seems to have a few postings. It is strange that there seems to be a huge desire for Clojure programmers but I have seen very little in the way of wanted adds.
I not only moved to NYC, I most definitely, very emphatically left France. That country is doomed, the culture there is viciously opposed to success and ambition.
Some of the most fun in Alice Corp. so far is the ACLU amicus arguing that software patents have first amendment problems: http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supr... Less surprisingly, the Software Freedom Law center and OSI present a similar argument: http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supr...

It's unfortunate that the EFF brief (http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Ali...) spends all its time whining about NPEs and hardly touches the subject. Especially in contrast to the Google and Amazon amicus (http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supr...) which goes nearly as far as the ACLU.
I'm curious as to why the sheet recommends 'ps aux | grep' without bothering to mention the self-match (and tricks to avoid it like doing grep '[f]oo') instead of just presenting pgrep with the -f flag.

This reads like a naive user primer rather than a particularly detailed cheat sheet. I'd highly recommend that anyone interested in improving their nix-fu beyond what is presented in the article look at something like the Unix toolbox[1] (which I personally still find useful and recommend frequently) and take the time to dig through the man pages in order to learn how to use and chain these tools.

[1] http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml
I don't consider myself in any elite minority for it, but I feel I have strong familiarity with everything on that list. While maybe a bit of curating might be necessary, _every_ developer whose code comes anywhere near a Unix descendant should be just as familiar to be considered anything above 'junior'. Most teenagers are perfectly capable of this understanding.

I find my job wearing a DevOps hat to be very often much more difficult than it ought to be because so many programmers clearly don't understand the OS layer they're running on (both when supporting internal developers at various places which I've called $work, and using OSS and commercial software in that role)

There's no shame in running `man xargs` to get the syntax just right (we're not dictionaries) but general knowledge of what those tools are and how to use them are _essential_ to being a good developer... this is an essence too often neglected by universities and professionals.
I'd love this for OS X.
I'm not defending the parent topic particularly, but it's worth noting that you're not entirely correct.

If you download any complex project, there will almost certainly be a meta makefile generator (autoconf, cmake, etc) or a set of about 30 makefiles for different various specific situations (lua, etc).

...because make is terrible at doing complex tasks on its own, and terrible at code reuse on it's own.

To be fair; async I/O isn't a magical button that makes gulp better than anything else, but it's a bit off saying an entire community is ignorant. Don't be a dick.

The important points about gulp are:

- Better syntax
- Plugin system (code reuse)
- Functional programming style
- Faster than its main alternative, grunt

shrug I wouldn't use it to build c code. ...but then again, I'd never use make to build a c project either. Ninja is significantly faster for the same low level build process.
Right! Let me try to set you at ease, at least a little. Yes, we will make an effort to make moderation more transparent.

In fact, we already have. It was my decision that PG should out me as moderator, and that was mainly so I'll be able to answer users' questions.

I think your points are mostly correct and entirely understandable. Qua user, I feel pretty similarly, so I don't anticipate much trouble seeing eye to eye about this in the long run. I'm optimistic that we can eventually please both the bulk and the core of the community—though that will still be far from everybody.

Also, there's no one on the team arguing for secrecy. The question is not whether to be more transparent, but how.

A few points from the moderation side.

You should know that what appears to be HN's "secrecy" has in reality mostly been extremely limited bandwidth. For most of HN's existence, PG ran it at the same time as he was building YC plus having two kids. That made for an awful lot of dropped packets. One might argue that he should have handed HN off sooner, and one would in my opinion be completely wrong about that. So without HN's "secrecy" there would have been no HN.

Second, it's been true for a long time that you can get answers by emailing info@yc. (We're going to change that to hn@yc, but that's not up yet; I'll add it to my profile when it is.) I'll be taking over the HN-related emails from Tara, who has been valiant but will soon be relieved.

I intend to be a lot more responsive in the threads, partly because we know that community concerns around transparency need addressing, so we'll make a priority of it, but also for two non-obvious reasons: (1) I've written software for navigating and moderating HN very quickly, and (2) I type faster than PG.

Beyond that, there are a lot of questions about how to get this right. Many of the factors aren't obvious. I have more to say about this, but this comment is long enough, plus I'm tired and my brain hurts, and we'll have lots of opportunities to discuss it further.
A good list will mention the alternatives (even if it doesn't explain all of them), but still include them.

There are a lot of tasks which one ought to be familiar with which aren't anywhere near cross platform, and keeping your list to very widely available tools will leave huge gaps in your knowledge and makes for rather short lists.
Trans-Pacific Partnership: On sovereignty and international agreements
SurveyMonkey meets social analytics and retargeting with Pick1
> Secondly, I (and I believe a number of others), whilst appreciating all the efforts that you guys are making to keep HN a great place to be, frequently feel baffled, hurt or just insulted by the way that moderation is applied.

Could you give some concrete examples? Articles can get dropped off the front page when many people click the flag link (i.e. it's not always driven by the moderators). Also, I believe submissions with a high comments to up vote ratio are weighted down (the rationale being that it usually signals a controversial topic prone to flame wars). There have been cases of questionable hell banning, but this can usually be resolved by contacting the mods privately AFAIK.
Well, I come from a CS master's of the university of Nantes and I don't feel _at all_ like I have a lower level than if I went to one of those schools. It's clearly the other way around.
North Korea's realty market soars: Buying, selling becoming more sophisticated
Woman's entire cranium replaced with 3D-printed skullcap
In Denmark, the biggest bank have made an app where you sign up with your bank account and payment card. Then you can transfer money between friends (sending, asking and splitting). And it only requires you to login with a PIN code, and then you just use peoples mobile nr.

There's obviously limits on how much can be transferred, but it's ideal for those small purchases.

It's available on iOS, Android and even Windows Phone.
Link to Android version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.danskebank....

Currently free to use, but in some years there's a minor percentage fee.
Credit card roulette is the only sane way to pay group tabs. It's also much more fun.
so if you wanted to make more than $1/day with this, could you do it personally?

it sounds like the more people running it will essentially reduce the number of arbitrage opportunities available to everyone else. is this true?
A bit tangential to the Main post, however, taking a quick look at the so called "REST API" of Tesla:

/vehicles/{id}/command/charge_port_door_open - Open the charge port.

/vehicles/{id}/command/charge_max_range - Set the charge mode to max range

/vehicles/{id}/command/door_lock - lock doors

These are all GET Methods.

I am a bit surprised that the company that claims to pay so much attention to detail has used Blatantly incorrectly principles (Using Idempotent & Safe designated HTTP methods for actions that change the state of the Car) for their "REST" API.
This Is What Google Glass Looked Like 3 Years Ago
Digital overload: How we are seduced by distraction
Show HN: Curratd read the news without distractions
Here is a small project I have been working on for a week or two. Basic concept is that wading through all the random tweets on a twitter timeline is time expensive, so let this site collect the most important news for you and don't worry about missing important news.

http://alpha.n.myrpi.org/index.php
They've got three well known investors. How'd one of them not catch this problem?
I'm currently pushing 13 seconds a page load (for just the HTML), clearly caught in a super-clever (albeit comically cowardly and childish) slowbanning.

I've said absolutely nothing controversial or mean-spirited, aside from perhaps questioning Paul Graham's dubious "hidden until approved" moderation scheme.

Truth be told I've derived little value from the site for quite some time, so as Cartman so oft said: "Screw You Guys, I'm going home!". Or at least to Slashdot or something.

Cheers.
20 rounds of PBKDF2, there's tears in my eyes.
> John Carmark: The experience is too obviously powerful, and it makes converts on contact. The fairly rapid involvement of the Titans is inevitable, and the real questions were how deeply to partner, and with who.

Carmack is correct in saying the Titans will get involved, but I think many people (including the post author) are disappointed that Oculus has forgone becoming a Titan themselves. Committing to such a deep partnership at this stage feels like a big misstep. Imagine where Facebook would be if they had sold out to a company like Apple right before they allowed non-college kids to use the service.
considering that 8.8.8.8 was widely graffiti'd across Turkey, it stands to reason that informing people about alternative dnss might be a labourious task.
There is a very high likelihood of collapsable threads coming to HN.
Multithreading: C# vs. Java
> This system is for the "owners" not for the "creators"!

Nor the consumers, who end up paying for this mess.
This is probably why Intelligence analysts steadily rank as highest in job satisfaction [1], you literally can't take your work home with you.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/best-jobs/2011/caree...
Charlotte Laws' fight with the internet's revenge porn king
Gay marriage legalized in England and Wales
I'm gonna play the devil's advocate here. Obscurity might actually be a good thing for this community.

> The point is, without any transparency, we don't know.

But either way we are told to use flagging functionality, so we should continue doing it. Just because you or I, think that an article should be flagged and therefore taken off the site, doesn't mean it should. We cast our vote and move on. I'm curious as to what your expectations are of the people on the site when more transparency is involved? That to me is the glaring question - how do we create an environment where the behavior of the community is consistently following the rules?

My increasing frustration with HN has nothing to do with the technology or the moderation, but more so about the other 20% of the people whose contribution adds zero value (whether that be they are upvoting terrible comments, submitting unrelated material, or not following guidelines). I believe you and I are in the same boat - we are extremely passionate about seeing HN succeed. Our environment dictates that if we continue to follow the guidelines and promoting the same values, the community will thrive. If everyone does this, then the community succeeds, regardless of whether moderation exists. Perhaps we should be focusing more on educating bad actors on why they shouldn't act out of line, rather than question the good actors (mods) intentions?
Mozilla Supports LGBT Equality
5 Tips for protecting Windows XP machines after April 8, 2014
So, just to summarize and understand this article:

Basically, the Tesla software has some holes that need to be patched and some security settings changed. However, there has not been a proven method to penetrate the cars' software yet.

I see this becoming a concern the in the coming months as more people purchase a Model S and more people start to tinker with it. I am intrigued to see if systems such as propulsion and braking are easily hacked considering how the whole car is basically networked. We shall see...
Pretty cool. Good job man. Are you planning on working on this a little more? I'd definitely use this for sports if it updated more often.
Might be worth a try to publish all the stuff affecting ranking, like site/domain-specific penalties, (hell)bans etc.
More like tumors in old people who did not die from the cancer are tumors which grew slowly.
reading the title-even i was wondering about the same :)
WTF Happened to Movie Posters? [video]
If the book is written, it might be a little too late.

Security would be a good topic to cover though.
If there was a page that logged all moderator actions, that's where the discussion could take place. I don't think it was noticeably affect the signal-to-noise ratio of the rest of the site.
You are probably better off with the ebook. They are DRM free so you can print it if you like.
What are the two senses of the word thoughtful? Is it a Cali thing? :)
Thanks for clarifying - I always suspected this to be the case, but I wasn't sure.
reference to main thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7493856
I-H2GO | Horizon Fuel Cell Online Store
Yea I plan on doing a ton more work, currently I am trying to get past Twitter's API limits but once I solve that it can refresh every page load.
This may just be the cache headers. Most sites have caching that tells browsers either "never cache this site" or "cache for a short time, but after that you must fetch a fresh version and can't use the cached version." HN's say "always try to fetch a fresh version, but if that fails, it's fine to show the user the cached version." So if your connection is actually down (vs. just slow), your browser's old cache of HN may still display, unlike most other sites.
Crazy or what?

"... written recently about French entrepreneurs leaving France because it was a terrible place to start and grow a business but ...... if your users, partners and possible future investors are here, you have to consider having at least a foot here."

And why do you think that is the case Einstein? The reason your users, partners and future investors are not in France is that France is no longer competitive.
"Using VPNs seems like the only valid solution"

But a government like China interferes with even VPNs (more so outside of the greater Shanghai and Beijing metro areas, in case anyone is sitting in those areas saying "My VPN works great"... they permit it and can block or interfere with it anytime they like) so I don't think they are really a solution. In China, nothing really works if the authorities don't want it to. VPNs are degraded to the point of being unusable, SOCKs proxy over SSH is the same, TOR is unusably slow, etc. Unfortunately, I don't think there really IS a solution in the face of determined governmental interference.
Looks like a good learning resource.