skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article itself was blogjacked from its original source:

http://www.megapanzer.com/2009/04/15/the-inner-structure-of-...

edw519, please link to the uncredited, working original source please.

[Edit:

People interested in this might also like the Honeypot Project's take on Conficker.

http://www.honeynet.org/papers/conficker/

Or SRI's take on the same:

http://mtc.sri.com/Conficker/

and to get your feet and hands into the pond:

http://blog.fortinet.com/the-art-of-unpacking-conficker-worm...

]
I pretty aggressively re-tag my classical collection, since AFAIK there's no online store or CD database which comes close to getting the information right on a consistent basis.

So, for example, right now I'm listening to the first movement of Dvořák's cello concerto; I've tagged the track as follows:

http://static.b-list.org/files/itunes-classical-metadata.png

When I bought the CD years ago, of course, CDDB filled in the "artist" as "Antonin Dvorak".

Keeping all the metadata correct has been a royal pain, but worth it in terms of being able to quickly find things and generate playlists keying off things like the composer field.

As an aside, I notice that Amazon's MP3 download page for the above recording does actually seem to display the right data for at least some fields -- I don't plan to buy it again to find out whether they got the whole thing right, though. And sometimes iTunes gets the "grouping" field right for multi-movement works, though not with enough frequency to avoid the need for lots of manual re-tagging.
Is there anything good about men?
I haven't experienced this and my library is around 100 GB. Could it be something with your disk? Is the library on a local disk or remote disk? What's the speed (rpm) of the disk?
The Flawed Terms in VC Deals
As a former university employee, I'd say what's odd here isn't that 3 people committed suicide at CalTech, it's that they did it so closely together.

These things happen at schools. I don't the stats myself, but thousands of times each year doesn't sound too far off.

But at a place like Cal Tech, when this happens once, the school DROPS THE HAMMER on the student body for a time to try and head it off from happening again. At Princeton, where I went to school and worked, that meant a flood of counselors, town hall meetings in all the dorms, a spate of articles in the papers, etc. Wall to wall discussion to make sure that if you know someone who's struggling, they get some help. This emphasis fades of course, and who knows how effective it really is, but I do know that numbers at the counseling centers would shoot up for a time as students were encouraged and felt comfortable seeking help.

So if you run a school and this happens three times in 3 months, I imagine the administration would be pretty upset and worried.
http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_to...
I'm not convinced language snobbery is something to be encouraged personally :/ If it was lisp it'd be 200,000 lines of parenthesis, if it were python it'd be 200,000 of significant whitespace, perl? 200,000 of random punctuation characters etc etc.

It's not the language, it's what you do with it that counts.
If someone is writing countless getters and setters, in any language, they're clearly doing something terribly wrong.

my 2c.
If BENJAMIN FRANKLIN isn't entitled to boast, I don't know who is.

(Note: I've read his autobiography a couple times and don't think any of it was inappropriately boastful.)
Isn't the talk about feminism mostly useless? I think technology is what really drives things forward. Frozen food, washing machines, dishwashers, industrially produced cheap clothes and stuff like that is what "frees" women, not some philosophical discussions.

In former times it was not just evil, suppressive men that constructed society as it was. The role models were necessary for survival.
For those that don't know what a drag along clause is:
http://www.investorwords.com/6495/drag_along_right.html
Our Preposterous Universe
Interesting read, but I would have liked to hear more about which terms are generally put in as boilerplate, and which the VC will most often invoke in order to manipulate situations they don't care for.

Also, hearing that the original founders make for the best exit is very interesting indeed, obvious as it may seem. I'm very curious about how he defines "best exits"...
Or you may have simply shown that India does the same thing I do: types "java" into Google to find the quickest link to the JRE download.

Of course, the same could be said of .NET, though the fact that Windows Update pushes .NET Framework makes me think a lot fewer .NET searches are for downloads on client PCs.

And of course, searches for Ruby and Python can also be about jewels and snakes.

Gut feeling, though, is that Java search results are more skewed by this than some of the other ones.
Probably saying in your listing that you only want to rent to Startup School attendees and then confirming with them is good enough.
Ensure VCs don't drag you out of your venture
Watch directories is the big one.

Virtually every other music manager supports watch directories. Its omission from iTunes isn't due to them overlooking the feature. Rather, it's a coercive measure to try and push users towards acquiring all their new music through the iTunes Music Store.

It becomes the "path of least resistance" when you intentionally omit features to make all other paths harder.
"see if anyone's posted about a need"

I think most people just accept the status quo of living, so few would be likely to post about needs. Unless you read between the lines, like people complaining a lot about certain things (mostly the weather and late trains?).
860MB of spaced repetition learning/memorization statistics
In a comparably sized codebase at my job, there's connectors to this and that idiosyncratic/complex external system (some of which require for example extinct dialects of SOAP), there's legacy cruft, there's systems that draw together multiple providers and present a unified interface, or that distribute commands to the proper subsystem, and there's a ton of reports and front ends and back ends for multiple years of customers, which get remixed and reused.
people in here give motivation start my own startup
The ASCII Million Dollar Page
Blog Designs
There is a lot that could be done regarding library management: It should be a lot faster, support bulk operations a lot better and implement fragmented libraries.

What I mean by that is that I use a MacBook with a 240GB hard disk for media stuff. I'd like to have a part of my library on the macbook (including stuff I listen to regularly, podcasts etc.) and a second part (my lib is around 200G) on an external HDD or AFP mount. At the moment I can only do that if I don't have iTunes manage my lib and then, still, the handling of missing files isn't too great.

IMO they should also get serious about supporting movies (as in: .avi, .mkv) - I'd love to use iTunes for that and helper apps demonstrate how much can be done here (epg guides etc.). Again, that'd require splitting my lib over various USB and AFP drives.

I really think there is demand for a well-made iTunes clone on the Mac, as long as it avoid feature creep: player software should manage and play music, I'll take care of getting it - keep your BitTorrent portal stuff to yourself, thank you.
So wait, you stress half the rats by changing their diet suddenly, and the other half you leave alone, and the stressed half under-performs, and you're surprised?
"Just curious what everyone's process for turning an idea that you just thought of into a real opportunity. Essentially the period between idea generation and actually executing on that idea (if there is a period of time)."

Live my life. Solve my own problems. Go talk to people and discover that other people have the same problem(s) and their solutions suck compared to mine. Discover there is tremendous need (demand) and some folks are strongly interested in what I do. Spend a lot of time helping people for free. Get burned out on that and on being so freakin' controversial. Take about 2 years off from that while I get myself well and also try to figure out how to package threatening/controversial information so it's palatable -- so it's taken as an opportunity instead of a criticism/personal attack. Work on figuring out how to monetize it without killing it because you can't pay someone to care about your welfare. Either they do or they don't. Realize that the only effective way to commodify what I do is to uncouple the income stream and the output stream -- ie not charge directly for the thing people really want/need from me. Currently pursuing those efforts as a "hobby" and working on monetizing it.

Not exactly a get-rich-quick scheme. But that's roughly the process I have been going through.
Better video/media files support. It's such as hassle ripping my tv show or movies DVDs and getting it work with iTunes. The meta tags they do for tv seasons or movies don't even work that well. For example, trying to setup a 1 gig file with a movie poster always crashes iTunes for me and my tv shows can only be organized alphabetically.
The implication in this article is that Rental DVDs actually cost _less_ than Retail. The Studios are cutting off the supply of DVDs to redbox, forcing them to pay "Retail" prices.

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/biz-topheadlines/304047
Sure, but at the same time all languages were not created equal. Some are better designed and more powerful than others. They're not all just equally great at different things and let's sing "Kum ba yah" together now.
http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mancuso5
http://delicious.com/pskomoroch/dataset
The solution to the problem that laptop user consume not enought ist not a ban of laptop, but a change in serve. Ban self service and laptop user will order more coffes.
That is real old school coffee house feeling, much more inspiring anyway.
$20 per character

Good luck with that ;)
Interesting, that suggests that there is a sawtooth curve to the number of suicides. If that's true the conclusion might be that 'preventative counseling' is at too low levels where there has not been a recent crisis.
Want an eye opener? Copy paste "入試" without the quotes in. Two alternatives to scope it are "大学入試" and "センター入試". They are Japanese for, respectively, "entrance examination", "university entrance examination", and "Center Entrance Examination" (long story short, most entrance exams are administered by a particular university, the Center one is shared by many universities, so it is a closer analog to the SAT than the other options).

Quick preview of coming attractions: 入試 is more popular in Japan than any of your terms were worldwide, by a wide margin.
what's odd here isn't that 3 people committed suicide at CalTech, it's that they did it so closely together.

Actually, it's not odd at all. Robert Cialdini mentions this as "Social Proof".

From Page 146 of Influence: "Phillips also found that this tendency for suicides to beget suicides occurred principally in those parts of the country where the first suicide was highly publicized and that the wider the publicity given the first suicide, the greater the number of later suicides."

On Page 148, there is a chart that shows "Fluctuation in number of suicides before, during and after month of suicide story".

So, apparently, the right thing to do is NOT TO publicize the first suicide!

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion on Amazon: http://bit.ly/yXKwu
The most important thing you can add is the ability to sink between two computers, so I can sink my iphone to my work computer, and my home computer.
Hilarious!

For those who aren't familiar with it, it's a spoof of this page: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

Which although seems pretty pointless, got a ton of publicity a while ago.

EDIT: and apparently actually made its author a million dollars!
.. unless the expected suicides are a lower cost to society than the preventative counseling. Perhaps the clamp down is an overreaction. I doubt it's an efficiently designed mechanism to keep the costs even.

There's always some limit to how much we'll spend trying to prevent things from happening. For instance, you could tie people together in groups of 3 to reduce the successful suicide rate. I think most people would rather allow some suicides than take 2 people to the bathroom with them, or for that matter, getting dragged into monitor 2 others' trips to the bathroom.

You could also argue whether all suicides cost society.
60000 applications, according to the article, 90% is junk. That leaves us with 6000 apps. Its near impossible to go through so many apps, how did they pick the top 35? Just based on sales/downloads?
X Could Learn a Lot from Vista, Windows 7
Tell that to a burns victim or a kid with a harelip. Or a breast-cancer patient post mastectomy...
The poor thing about the actual million dollar homepage is the creator (a university student trying to make some money to pay of his student debt) then got DDOS attacked to oblivion and had to spend a large amount of the money trying to keep the site up. The DDOS attackers obviously knew he had come in to a large amount of money and held him to ransom.
Erlang functional language supports concurrency inherently and seamlessly
I am baffeled by Erlang, a functional programming language that inherently supports concurrency. This is a language that has been out since 1992 by Ericson and Swedish CS labs but only recently is getting some attention.
This shows two problems:
1.	That despite this has been long needed, since multicores were out, but we did not know about it until recently. And still largely in the dark compared with other popular languages.
2.	This draws us to more pressing question: how many technologies out there, are still under publicized, eagerly needed, can be true economic drivers, and still obscure?
3.	We can not revive the economy or create a better world unless we truly think outside the box and get VC support properly
I have cooked up something like that in house, using a faux "Virtual Private Database" implemented in the application layer. You can look at Postgres' Viel project or Oracle's VPDB functionality to see record and column level fine-grained authorization. My system implements a flat RBAC system in Lisp and I will be implementing OAuth as the inter-app authentication module. That way a user of our site can grant fine-grained access to an asset of theirs, with the ability to grant read/write/delete permissions, and expiration by time or times accessed.

An elaborate piece of pain though.
Super Mario - Nintendo goes forward
Hacker News — Where pun threads are not even tolerated in meta-discussions.
I hadn’t heard about that. Sounds like the attack itself and the resulting investigation weren’t very successful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage#DDo...
'Easy work-around' could solve Microsoft Word's legal woes, says expert
Scarky - puzzles and riddles on your site
Yep, I went to one of these kindergartens. They were highly functional, rather pedagogically rigourous (compared to American daycare / kindergarten), and kept your children from about 8 AM until about 7 PM. You could start sending your children there at about 2 1/2 and it was provided free by the state. Very convenient and good for all.

EDIT: Some of the most enjoyable moments of my entire life played out there. And I only went until I was 6 1/2 and we left for the US. Now I'm 23. So, the fact that I still remember them should tell the reader something; they were anything but drab in the way that Soviet institutions are sometimes imagined to be.
Get a waterbed. Sleep on it with only a sheet between your body and the cold waterbed bladder. Keep the waterbed covered with a blanket during the day.
The high school I attended (10 years ago) has had 4 students commit suicide in the last 6 months. Western Heights College in Geelong, Australia has a student population of around half of Caltech's.

This has made major headlines in the Australian press and has raised concerns about the education systems ability to deal with student depression and the effects of it. Copy cat behaviour has been suggested also.

Unfortunately, apart from the obvious grief the students have experienced, they have also had to put up with TV crews trying to enter the school and taking every opportunity to speak with students who are quite likely not equipped to deal with the difficult circumstances they are faced with.
It's a classic PID controller issue, not to put a technical slant on a tragedy, but if a mechanism oscillates like that chances are that you can 'dampen' the oscillations by choosing your parameters with more care.

I find it hard to think of this in terms as 'cost to society', there is something very creepy about that.

Every death is a tragedy, and suicides because of a lack of counseling (and for instance an excess in pressure to perform) seem to me to be a total waste.
The Case For a Universal Basic Income
I'll summarize for those who don't want to actually watch the entire 17 1/2 minute video (the last six minutes of which consist of a Piano Rendition with the word "LEAP (R)" on the screen)

A keyboard with two keys dedicated to CMD-F, CMD-Shift-G .
Except for present company, of course.
The original fitted in approximately 1 browser screen. This ASCII one involves scrolling.
Well don't lose hope. Look into a high deductible catastrophic policy that will cover you for the god forbid large events. That deduction requires you pay out of pocket for wellness care, visits for shots, strep throat, etc., but if you can buy one for a year out of savings it may be a cheaper option.

Never underestimate the kindness of strangers and don't be ashamed to let your doctors know your situation. Offer to trade services, presumably your reading HN so you can work with computers. I know a good number of doctors who get a lot of severely discounted home maintenance services from folks who got free or reduced payments for care.

But above all don't ever hesitate to sacrifice the mortgage payment for the sake of your children. They come first. You can swallow your pride and keep the mortgage and bank wolves away from the door for a good period of months by knowing a bit about the law.

I agree with you about ideology. This "healthcare" debate is really about a lot of issues boiling over in our society and it's not really a debate or discussion. There seems to be no common sense left.
Yeah, and WebIRC = Google Wawe.
With reference to point #2, I would respectfully submit that Erlang is not an "economic driver".

Personally, when it comes to concurrent programming I'm more inclined to look at Clojure than Erlang but, when I surf the job sites - I don't see any job postings for either language.

That's not to say there aren't any places with a need for these two languages, I just think there's a long way before a critical mass level is hit to even match Ruby on Rails.
That's a typo. Sorry. 'fanbois' == Fan Boys.

Thank you.
Erm, yeah, about that.

You understand the the US is atypical in the way that it treats health care? The implication that pretty much the rest of the western world is communist because they ensure that everyone has access to at least some kind of health care is completely insane. You're using the "labelling it" technique, which is essentially, "If I can give a name to the thing I'm arguing against, then it's wrong!" (see what I just did there?)

A legitimately elected government providing services that its citizens may choose to use or not use is not communism. It's also not nazism or the boogeyman.

See, I would consider healthcare a much more basic service than a huge standing military, but nobody seems to question that that should be government-operated. The USSR also had a 100% government-operated military! Wow, so does China! And North Korea! And Iran! My word, the USA must be the most terrible country on earth!
Coming from C++, if you do not want to become crazy using untyped languages you might be interested by the haxe programming language.

A nice inference typed language which can be compiled down to neko bytecode (much like java bytecode), JavaScript (for the client side), Flash movies (idem), and even C++

Plus, haxe has a mod_neko for apache and lot of libraries to manipulate databases and templates.

http://www.haxe.org
Google Caffeine: What it really is
Thomas Jefferson is allowed to boast, but Franklin didn't build his own house.
You can send your children into Ясли before they reach 2 1/2 - just another part of the same kindergarden. I don't remember being there, tho, but I doubt I could remember anything at that age.

I didn't really like kindergarden - I didn't like food and how you was supposed to sleep for a hour near noon. Toys were fine, tho.
One of those articles where the author has a preference and justifies it because something on the other platform doesn't work well. Then does the dramatic the-whole-stack-is-wrong routine making the other system look next to godly. Then the comments turn into a battle of who's opinion matters more and why.

No real content apart from perhaps a few bug reports.
Reminds me of http://www.starringthecomputer.com/
Why do you want to switch to git? Agreed, I don't know either.

Any sort of branch/merge problems I encounter are mostly coders working on mutually incompatible versions of the base system. Not on a file level but rather on a protocol/format level

No mere source control system will be a hurdle of the same size as the hurdle of co-ordinating all the developers who broke each others preconditions.

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So a switch to git will be best for projects with extremely stable interfaces where the branch/merge mechanism is the most time consuming part. Think: linux kernel, stable protocol services.

But where developers have to collaborate while modifying a shared framework git makes little difference. Think: early stage GUI frontends, or server components which inter-depend on message formats which are evolving.
I can't speak for the GP but I agree it's a bad idea. Maybe not for everyone, but for a certain type of person, definitely.

The problem is psychological. When you talk about an idea, you feel like you've somehow accomplished something by doing so. You hear other people's positive reactions and instead of validating that your idea should be done your brain interprets them as satisfaction in and of itself. You feel that little less "hungry" and yet you haven't even done anything.

Also, talking too much clouds the vision and you tend to expand the scope even as you talk. Your companion will have their own opinion and their feedback and ideas will merge with what you think until you're left with a union of both party's concepts, your version 0.1 getting that little bit harder to ever reach. Or worse, that person might later claim you stole their ideas.

I come from the school that believes that with very few exceptions mere ideas are nearly worthless in themselves. Anyone can imagine anything. Actually doing things is much, much harder. Talking is not doing. Don't talk to anyone until you've got at least a prototype, IMO. With modern web frameworks you should be able to whip up at least a crappy, incomplete prototype outline in a day or two. Sitting down and doing that will hone and focus your thinking. And if you can't be bothered spending a day or two implementing just the skeleton of your idea - then you obviously don't really believe it's a good idea at all, so go and think harder : D
The Weinstein brothers are flailing. Why? Lack of focus.
Classic case of a once successful company losing sight of what originally made them great:

"SO what happened? In part, the Weinstein Company is coping with the same problems facing every other studio, most notably the grim slowdown of the DVD market. But plenty of the Weinsteins’ wounds are also self-inflicted. Instead of using their lush, Goldman-fueled pile of start-up money to focus on filmmaking, the brothers ventured into such new realms as fashion (buying part of Halston, the once-storied label), online social networking (through A Small World, known informally as MySpace for Millionaires) and a piece of Ovation, the cable network."