skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brilliant - an infinite number of bugs might confuse hackers so much that they don't know where to start and just give up.
Sharein Launches New Features, Becomes Must-Have for Social Media Marketers
Totally true. Just figured I'd mention it.
Please give the public origins of the notion that security through obscurity is broken a closer look. Until you understand what that means, you will keep making arguments like "keeping your key" (such as a password) "secret is just security through obscurity".

I recommend starting with Kerckhoffs' Principle.

Basically, you can regard "security through obscurity" as any violation of Kerckhoffs' principle -- which translates to any reliance on keeping secrets beyond the key itself.
Any industrial designers out there?
Erlang is cool. I agree, but what about Haskell? It scales very well too ! (provoking a discussion)

Oh and btw. the article is pretty content less at least if you know Erlang a bit.
"and, stripped-down theme or no, about Zed's So Fucking Awesome"

I agree with this. Zed's persona has really not changed all that much since dropping the ZSFA theme. Fewer swear words, but the same basic philosophy and outlook on life shines through both before and after.
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While posting another reply, I just saw that the abortion-stance euphemisms make the same appropriate analogy here as the analogy you chose.

People who value life are pro-life in the same sense that people who value choice are pro-choice in the same sense that people who value civil liberties are civil libertarians in the same sense that people who value women are feminists.
Free-market liberalism has been the dominant ideology for almost 200 years. If it hasn't solved poverty yet, there must be something wrong with the argument that it will inevitably solve poverty.
You can ask for these records and they should give them to you.
Maybe, but I don't qualify for all points, especially number 6 -- I'm a terrible snob and will avoid the Windows platform whenever I can. Also, I don't see the need for Transactor Code Agent if you have good version control (e.g. git).
We're a team of 2 applying to YC and willing to bring in a third founder. E-mail in profile.
Yes. Code Agent is written in C#.
An insightful essay, as always, but I think Aaron both overstates the extent to which persona is manufactured on Twitter and understates the extent to which persona is manufactured in interpersonal exchanges.

That is, we're always giving a performance of ourselves to others, but to the extent that we are what we do, we are the personas we choose to present.

Twitter as a medium obviously has some specific characteristics that both enable and constrain what kind of communication can take place across it; but again this is true of all media - including face-to-face conversation.
Dustin's got one of the best-looking web sites out there, bar none. I love the effort he spends on each of his articles.
Microsoft Visual Studio upgrade holds dynamic language capabilities
You might want to read through to the very end.
Bloggers beware? Google forced to identify anonymous blogger
Okay, maybe I was wrong. I'm terrible at developer matchmaking :D

As an unrelated point, what's the startup scene look like in Seattle?

I'm looking to start-up and willing to relocate, but my wife hates San Fran, so unless I can find a SV suburb that's more midwestern (read: strip malls and yards) then I have to look elsewhere.
Erlang articles on HighScalability.com
How often do you commit to your git repository?

Once a day? Once an hour? You are still vulnerable to any mistakes you make in between checkins. The laws of the universe state that the one time you forget to commit is the one time you will need access to be a backup. Or, you might revert the wrong change.

Also, even if you checked in every 5 minutes, the big question is why? You shouldn't have to.

Source control should be used for what it was meant for: managing change.

Backups should be simple, automatic, and easy. You shouldn't have to work to make sure you stuff is backed. It should just be handled for you.

That's what Code Agent does.
The end of the phone as we know it... Startups and disruptors
His Name is Robert Paulson
If a community is splitting into two factions, the ideal would be for them to geographically separate. If a few people look down on the whole rest of the group, the few should go find a like-minded group. Obviously, "just moving" isn't as easy as one would like, but the benefit is opting into the homogeneity that some want.
If you don't like the behavior of some others, you can tolerate it, leave, or attempt to make them choose to change or leave. Communities should be small and should be allowed to have stupid rules as long as they're all willing to follow and enforce them. There just needs to be a place to go for those who don't like the rules, and going to that place needs to not be too inconvenient.
FWIW, the new O'Reilly "Erlang Programming" book also seems pretty good (the several chapters I've read, at least). I'm not sure which I would recommend first, though.
since the 'net made the world small enough that you have to deal with the opinions of those you've offended
Poorly written. I think he was trying for mockery of the Palm and iPhone privacy concerns, but simply wrote something that sounded like clueless paranoia, with a last-minute "Oh, wait..." revelation at the end.

Irony - if you don't know what you're doing, leave it for the pros.
_why's potion guide
CheckedProfile is out to verify that fake dating profile of yours
Flagged. This has already been submitted, flagged and deleted.

http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=774895
I'm working on speech stuff as well but geared towards telephony. Its a hard task.How far along are you?
Does anyone know if the Cabal is still practiced at Valve? I know they've become a much bigger company with a larger scope since then.
Can I ask what would this research prove? The beauty of randomness I guess....
I have used both Zed's code and _why's code and have benefited a lot from both. That being said, I would much rather that Zed had left the Ruby community in the same way that _why did than vice versa.
Yahoo Recommends Firefox Users To Switch To The "New, Safer IE8″
Yup!Probably! No love lost here for MS either :)
What the hell does this have to do with "hacker news"? Go pollute the politics subreddit, please.
James Cameron's Avatar trailer posted
Yes it's the old "fixing the signal to noise ratio by adding lots of noise" gambit.
I appreciate the attempt. Thanks.

Seattle has a very healthy startup scene. If you want to you should come into Seattle and checkout Startpad (startpad.org). That's where I have my office at. They lease office space specifically to software startups. There's a good mixture of early stage and later stage companies there. The "biggest" company there is Rescue Time (I think they were funded by YC).

In any case it's in Pioneer Square, which is basically startup central. I'd be happy to show you around (and of course try to convince you to come work with me).
To get more done, slow down
Talk about a hyperbolic title. How is this even remotely "realistic"?

It's nice, but there's a million animations just as awesome made every year. Are we going to post all of them here?
I would not trust the "word on the street" about auto-focus. And by "word on the street" you probably mean "word on the internet". There is a lot of misinformation out there, because most enthusiasts have significant investments in other interchangeable lens systems and would be rather unhappy if a new system took off.

If you are worried about AF speed, go to a store and give it a try. It's probably too slow for serious sport photography but I guarantee you it will be faster than two seconds.

Regarding the screen, the resolution is probably lower to make it brighter. Higher resolution often reduces brightness (it requires more non transparent and semi transparent elements), so they probably could not get the 900k screen bright enough. Again the only way to check if it is a show stopper is to try it.

BTW I have not tried it myself, but that is because I cannot afford it right now and am afraid that if I try it I will buy it.
Role of youth in america politics right now - Search
Audio White Paper - Acceleration 101
> It's not Flickr's job to adjudicate copyright disputes or have any "interpretation of copyright infringement."

Indeed, but clearly they are adjudicating, so to say it is unfair to hold them to the standards of the position is ridiculous.

> No, the point here is that Flickr is not infringing some "fair use" right. That right doesn't exist.

No one has used the term "right", except yourself. The original poster's intention was to point out the baselessness of Flickr's actions. Due to the political and parody aspects of the picture, the general public would assume that this content would not result in a lawsuit. If there were documentation to the contrary, Flickr's actions would have some merit.
STS-111 is the Flying Sperm
I live in Southern New Hampshire (Nashua, NH), on the border with MA.

Anyone in the area looking for a hand, or at the very least someone to talk to about their project?
Steven Chu: This Might Surpise You...
I would be interested to meet you for coffee and a Startpad tour.
Grant's Interest Rate Observer (August 21)
Swombat missing?
Wait, no, I'm right here.
Scalable XMPP bots with Erlang and exmpp, part I
The email field in profiles is not publicly visible. You have to enter it in the "about" box.
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This is exactly why programmers should not try
to be web developers ...

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I was hoping you'd give some login information in the comments, too, so curious ones could take a look.
Yes, good point. And I wonder how it would look with other music.
I remember MS Bob being enjoyable when I was a kid. I loved the characters, the rooms, and the feeling it gave me. I'm installing it in a virtual machine right now so I can relive it. I'm sure I'm going to be disappointed, things just aren't as magical when you grow up.
My point is complexity is often used to hide people being fucked over. An example of this is the US tax code.

If you include SS, Medicare, and Tax breaks a single person in the middle class is totally fucked over by the tax code. Warren buffet has even said his secretary pays a higher tax rate than he does. But, by hiding specific truths you can make it look like the tax code says just about anything you want.

PS: I think most people would look at my suggestion and think, they would get a worse deal, which says more about how little they understand the tax code than it does about what's actually happening. Lot's of people would be worse off, but plenty of people who think they would be worse off, would actually come out ahead.

Edit: Back to his original essays, devoting a lot of time and money to an ivy league education is risky. So, is starting a company. The average ROI might be good, but the worse case is horrible. Ignoring outliers is disingenuous, because not all people find themselves on the happy path to heath and wealth. And it's hard to separate drive and intelligence from luck.
To erlang or not to erlang: That is the php question.
So others will obey the government when it asks them not to infringe on your freedom. It's not like the government is immune to change. If you don't like it, get involved. If you're in the minority, that's why the United States Federal Government wasn't originally supposed to be very big. States rights are supposed to exist so that you have the option of going elsewhere and gelling with likeminded individuals who will have their local government enforce your will.
Zed, as much as I love you and your work, that also was a dickhead thing to say ;(
Necessary Games reviews 2005's Super Columbine Massacre RPG
Erlang Comprehension: Rock, Paper, Scissors (Part 1)
Agreed, I was a bit perplexed by that too. I do like it (because I hobby in After Effects myself) but it didn't strike me as especially realistic. I presume the TNW writer was referring to the pretty degradation of the colored smoke, but I couldn't help noticing the heavy use of blur and particle systems, especially as the material got more complex on screen.

It's a very fine piece of work; maybe the blog author just got a little carried away by his emotional response to it.
NASA Wins Emmy for Apollo 11 Moon Broadcast
Ask HN: Are we intentionally voting on Erlang articles?
I see way too many Erlang articles on the front page today. :). Is it some kind of improv?
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Would making it googleable also result in making it viewable as static pages? Under konqueror (3.x), I just get a javadoc looking thing with "Loading..." on the left pane and "welcome to erldocs.com" on the right. I would never ask anybody to write js to support an ancient and unpopular browser, but a static view of the site would be cool.
You mean like Twilio or lavarockhq.com? I know it's hard but I consider that an advantage. But I'm still brainstorming, exploring existing solutions, and working on a very basic demo to see if it can be done with open-source software.
Not a bad gambit actually -- I'll sometimes turn on my air conditioner to drown out the sound of my neighbour's music.

The analogy only works if, like me, you consider Erlang articles to be a sort of white noise that you hardly notice, and the-programmer-formerly-known-as-_why articles as being slightly annoying.
Yes, let's! Or if there are too many, let's make a nice repository for beautiful videos.
It's the second time this is happening. Helps, hopefully, to keep away a torrent of new users that are here because of _why's thread.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=775727
EgitimTUBE
There are so many things ... do not know what not to wonder that?
I think the problem then is that everything around it presents it as science fact (to those who don't know better).
Okay, I just decided I was a dumb ass kid. MS Bob is lame!
Hey man, swombat can like... do whatever he wants to do, okay? But he was a total dick for making us wonder.
If it hasn't solved poverty yet, there must be something wrong

Or, perhaps it hasn't really been tried. I would challenge you to cite an area where the market really is free. I don't think there's any industry for which you could make this claim. But the areas that have come closest are also the ones that have shown the greatest advances, and the most productivity.

While I'm afraid of derailing off the topic of solving poverty, I think it's important to point out how the free-market fallacy is central in the current healthcare debate. Those in favor of universal healthcare argue that the free market system has failed. The funny thing is, the current healthcare industry is just about the least free market in America. In particular, bizarre insurance regulations, following salary controls (put into place by FDR, but doesn't it sound familiar today?) set up an environment where it's virtually impossible for an individual to obtain health insurance, with insurance now being almost entirely provided by either the employer or the government. This wasn't because of the free market -- it's because of meddling of government.
yeh, I just need to build a static index page, apart from that searchable index the rest of the site is static, as one of the main things I wanted is that the documentation should work offline (which it does including the searchable index)
He doesn't, really. If things got bad enough, he could disable comments and ignore us all.

I think we're a mature enough community, however, to learn not to get ourselves enraged over one man's personal blog, and to let him keep to his own circle. We can just not upvote the things he writes that we decide offend us.

It would be a shame if the shrinking world led to alienation and hatred rather than to communities selective enough not to start flamewars with all the other ones.
I might have a phone number (have to check my emails). I would feel comfortable calling him.
Flooding HN with erlang articles to keep away non hackers? Nice.
I'd be happy to talk to you about my project.

I'm based out of Seattle, but with the magic of the internet, I don't think that would be a big problem.

Would you be available to talk on Skype sometime?
Sorry dude, I won't do it again. Promise.
your doing a 700 split test? can't wait to see the blog post on that!!!
i somehow feel like hacker news is tail-recursive, and we've been unrolled by the compiler and are now back at the top of the loop.
There would be a few hundered people here on HN who would be glad to hosts _why's code/site/whatever.
guilty as charged...
Is unit testing overrated?
can somebody make this into a Leopard screensaver?
How to make Windows blue screen with a keyboard shortcut
That's fine, but the joke's over now, and I see a bunch of other genuinely-interesting articles in the queue which could use some upvotes.
Erlang - Mnesia Reference Manual
You should check out my company:

www.transactor.com

Also, take a look at my post about the type of person I'm looking for.

If you are interested, please feel free to shoot me an email and we can setup a time to talk.

-Scott
for all you know, we do... the U.S. has stopped measuring/publishing collateral damage for wars.
Poll: Erlang Innards Better?
Which language or platform do you think has the best innards?
.NET/CLR
I think that the hacker crowd believes that a large part of the spirit of the internet is itself an online education.

And HN is a part of that.

That being said, I wouldn't discount college education. I felt it was an excellent choice for myself, both academically and professionally, but I am one anecdote of many. It's a very situational thing and I would hate to try to make the decision for anyone but myself.

I would prefer that my children learn as much as possible online about what kind of career they want before going to college. Of course, I would let them ultimately decide. Even if they wanted to go to the most expensive college, I would mortgage the house just so they could go, if that was what they felt was right for them.

Let me also point out something: College isn't just about academics, strictly speaking. One meets a lot of friends and professional contacts that one may keep for life. One learns a great deal about society. And of course, the proximity to hundreds of innovative peers can really spur creativity.
Perhaps a different topic is appropriate this time. I wasn't here when we did Erlang the first time, but I'm assuming that those who were are now tired of it. I think (though I may be wrong) that I'd be more interested in seeing some clever brainf and other esolang entries.
Front page full of Erlang... did HN make it to a major publication again?
Suppose someone offers to sell some poor sod a supposedly productivity-enhancing perpetual motion machine ... Is it incorrect for me, as a third party, to say that this would be a foolish investment

Since you say "perpetual motion machine", I assume that you're saying that the purchaser is being defrauded, since we know that there's no such thing as perpetual motion.

But that's exactly the second point I was making in my first response. For a market to work, there needs to be some protection of the sanctity of a contract. When the buyer discovers that all he's got is snake oil, when he contracted for something real, he should be able to seek restitution. Without this, the market's not going to get off the ground.
“Sita Sings The Blues” Flash Source Files now online
Songs In Code
I agree, the word is extremely mixed - and btw this stuff comes from photo review sites that I have found in the past to be fairly well balanced in their opinions. In fact, all of them are absolutely in love with the concept of the EP-1, but many are disappointed in its execution.

My brother, who is a serious photography nut, is very tempted, but too poor to buy one right now, but he hasn't tried it himself either.

I agree that I should try it - and I definitely will before buying my camera, but if the AF thing turns out to be 2 seconds it's a deal-killer.
I talked to a guy, who talked to his friend, who had a relative who used to work with swombat. They say his REAL NAME is Daniel Tenner!
I was the owner for a number of years of a private College. One thing that became obvious to me was that the student population could be divided into two general classes. Students that 'needed to be taught' and students that were self-learners. I personally fall into the latter part and although I attended University up to Ph.D, I hardly attended lectures. Whatever, I learned, I learned on my own from books. You can self-teach yourself if you want but at the moment the web might not provide you with the correct structured education.

I am also currently working on a prototype for an online education site. Current problems that we have not resolved include things like how much interactivity with teachers we should provide and recognition of qualifications. Open courses by traditional means and mix media are almost offered by all Universities. However, the one element which is so difficult to replicate on the web is the College vibe and the real interaction with people.

Any ideas how to inject such vibe into a website would be very much appreciated :)
Git merge vs git rebase: avoiding rebase hell
Thorough explanation of the difference between a merge and a rebase along with some nice diagrams.
Those people party hard. Lance Davis was there and didn't want to leave either.
Given that "Why the Lucky Stiff" is a persona - a mask, that this guy has worn for a while, and that seemingly, he no longer wishes to wear, what are we supposed to call him? Jonathon, if that's his "official" name, seems as good as anything else, since he seems to have resigned from the "Why" role.
All very good so far...
Only a couple of things:
I found the UI when creating the event to be slightly muddled, my eye followed down the page and i completely forgot about the right hand side panels.
I feel the user feedback on errors could be more noticeable - maybe put it at the top of the page as well as above the field it is referring to.
A smooth looking site none the less...
I think what we really need is a new word for 'IT Drama'.

There's an awful lot of it these day, I'm expecting Oprah or someone like her to realize the potential of this real soon now.

Dvorak, Sethi, now this guy _why (_why not ? _who cares ?)

When Hans Reiser turned murderer I think it was newsworthy, most of the rest of this IT Drama stuff is just as interesting as Britneys latest tantrum.
Does the GPL Matter?  In a Word, Yes.
Performance Measurements of Threads in Java and Processes in Erlang
> Going on about his tweats

I can't even parse that...
Another amazingly awesome feature from Posterous. They're getting so regular, I'm almost bored. Yes Posterous, you're better than everything else. We know.
The article asks for this to be turned into an iTunes visualization plugin. In general I don't think fluid dynamics like that can be done in realtime. Maybe with a GPU.
Newmogul is back up, but:

http://www.newmogul.com/submitted?id=nickb

http://www.newmogul.com/threads?id=nickb
What do you mean by “color depth”, and what do you mean by “quality”? A lot of consumer-level digital cameras these days have pretty wide gamuts and accurate color capture.
Haskell is 4.2x as good as Erlang at lightweight concurrency. Give it some love.
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That sounds a bit more morbid without the context leading up to it:

_why: nailing a small ornate gold shelf at arm’s height above the bed for my cat to sit on. i give you: norton’s perch.

_why: i should probably have little teeny shelves all leading up to it. with their own miniature portraits or doll banisters or something.

strathmeyer: @_why Do cat structures last longer than programming structures?

_why: @strathmeyer hard to say, i guess if this feline staircase falls into disrepair, i’ll swap in a circular queue.

_why: an ascending homage to fish bones. culminating in a delicate canopy of mouse furs.

I will truly miss why's wonderful whimsy. :-(