skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the no-login model the future? As application developers what do we lose by not requiring accounts? In most cases, isn't the account the doorway to income? How many more applications that don't have a revenue model out of the gates (including Twitter, Facebook, etc.) can the VC community support?
> 5. Stalk someone: The fine is $175,000

In case anyone on HN suddenly got worried, stalking under US law requires repeated harassment of the person in question. Intensive Googling isn't a criminal offense.
It just means a single photodector without a lens. So it can only measure overall brightness, but not an image.
How will this affect the illegal smuggling operations into the US? Probably not at all. If the US legalizes drugs that would bankrupt the drug cartels in Mexico.
I read a lot of articles on startups, and the take away is usually a few small nuggets of value. I think this is first article I have read in a while that has a lot of value. It was good. Read it.
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How are we defining "web developer" here?

This is from our friends at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_developer

A web developer is a software developer or software engineer who is specifically engaged in the development of World Wide Web applications, or distributed network applications that are run over the HTTP protocol from a web server to a web browser.

and

Modern web applications often contain three or more tiers, and depending on the size of the team a developer works on, he or she may specialize in one or more of these tiers - or may take a more interdisciplinary role. For example, in a two person team, one developer may focus on the technologies sent to the client such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and on the server-side frameworks (such as Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, .NET) used to deliver content and scripts to the client. Meanwhile the other developer might focus on the interaction between server-side frameworks, the web server, and a database system. Further, depending on the size of their organization, the aforementioned developers might work closely with a web designer, web producer, project manager, software architect, or database administrator - or they may be responsible for such tasks as web design, project management, and database administration themselves.
Shouldn't you include (jailTimeInYears * annualIncome)?
It's still nefarious. Websites should not service any hostnames that aren't whitelisted. It's a good way to get linked to and traffic and so on.
255 IPs is a drop in the ocean.

Companies with Class As (16,777,214 addresses) are the problem.
Wow. What a ride it must have been. I wish to be part of such a ride someday. :)
0.015 mg = 15 μg. According to erowid.org, the threshold dosage for LSD averages around 20 μg. It sounds like this isn't enough to significantly effect a human, let alone elephants. Am I missing something?
Little David got high [video]
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Tusko, the elephant from the famous LSD experiment, was injected with 297 milligrams. 0.015 milligrams, on the other hand, is only about 1/10 of the usual dose one would take for a "trip". I suspect this might be a typo since 0.15mg is the about the amount of LSD you can usually expect to find in a single tab of blotter or a drop of liquid LSD.
Is it appropriate to compare fines to settlements and judgments?
In June, he was sentenced to 11 years in prison

What is it with the US justice system throwing the book at hackers. Is there something deep and Freudian that I'm missing?
Why would thick wall be a problem? (I'm not being sarcastic, I really don't know)
Goog is much better than Twitter at serving relevant content to me. Are they so far ahead of the game that no one else can join? The #diabetes hash at Twitter has a lot of not-so-relevant material to weed through. The same search at Goog gets some pretty relevant material in front of me. If Twitter does make some search changes, won't users abuse the ability to capture the search queries? Great article though and I agree with the writer, it is going to be a great show to watch.
Is this really news? I mean someone very very confused might actually believe that ancient man was magical. But doesn't everyone know about the Mammoths and all the other giant fauna that went extinct when man arrived? Only Africa still has giant mammals probably because they co-evolved with hominids.
Icon and Pike are two programming languages that I probably didn't need to learn. Griswold's book on the Icon implementation was OK; it describes a complete compiler, intermediate instruction set and a VM in a compact book, but so did "A Little Smalltalk", in a far smaller frame and with class.

Icon is a "modern" SNOBOL, if you want that sort of a thing. Most Icon books and publications are online as well:

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/books.htm
Probably will have no effect. It should give a small boost to Mexico's tourism business though
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Philip's writings were definitely ahead of their time. He changed my life.

"It is because these guys were the best programmers who understood the problems of their customers." sums it up.
The article states that people will not be arrested for possession, but says nothing about sale. It sounds like this wouldn't allow Amsterdam style "coffee shops" only allow the police to ignore minor infractions as they apparently already do.
Some of the biggest reasons to learn a new language are the features that you can take back to more domestic ones; almost nothing that makes Icon special (backtracking, generators, string scanning) can be used in other languages
This comment from the article raises a very good point...

Go Twitter?

Twitter is the first company in years that has the potential to disrupt Google in their own game - Search.

No. They are not going to be the new general query search engine, but for certain queries they could be much better.
For example, a couple of weeks ago I thought of going diving near Cancun. But I was afraid of the weather and the Hurricans in the area.
All I needed to do is type “Cancun diving” in Twitter search and in seconds I got real time twitts of people who are actually there, talking about the dives they did just a hour ago.

And of course the obvious ad model is to now show me ads and deals for diving shops in Cancun.

This is the real promise of the real time search.
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It sounds a lot like one of the Mafia games. I know Mafia Live awarded points for sharing codes... think iMob did same.
Super cool. Gonna play with it later tonight. Thanks for the link.
Local exploit sendpage()
They did mention that in the murder point. But they should probably also mention (criminalRecord * yearsLeftInYourLife * declineInFutureEarnings).
An interesting passage from the article:

He still doesn't [own a computer]. He says he got sick of adjusting to new operating systems and noted, after not using computers for several years, that "nothing bad happened to me. And I said, 'Well, I could either learn the current system or learn differential geometry. I think I'll learn differential geometry this year.'"
Clearly the cheaper-overall solution is to murder the RIAA execs?
What's in a Name?
The growing scarcity of domain names is creating a new language.
Completely agreed based on the fact that we are seeing new technologies and new uses of technologies impact the amount of wealth available. Think of all of the money that Google is generating? Where did it come from? Did it exist before Google? Is that money being taken from somewhere else or is it new money?
Not very accurate since many of those include jail time. Murder is also not capped at 15 years. You can easily get life or in some states, death.
Game theory and ad-hoc networks
Thanks for the insight. I've actually found a fairly comprehensive listing of colleges in the US, so formatting the submission for MT would probably be the toughest part.

On a similar note, has anyone ever had any success with having end-users populate data like this? For instance, ask them to "Add a school" or "Add a department" and such? I only worry about having to fact-check all of the incoming information with this method.
Everybody prefers Firefox / Opera
Am I missing something?

You are missing 0.015 mg of a sense of humor.
This sounds like the exploits of someone who hasn't learned to watch what he clicks, and then doesn't look at his credit card bills.

Not exactly a great strategy in the world of online commerce.
Article in NYT has yesterday's date, but I cannot find any similar note on Mexican news sites.

An immediate consequence could be harder, longer times crossing the border from Mexico back into the U.S. For labor day weekend coming up, it's traditionally a 3 or 4-hr affair to get accross by car, it can only get worse with these news.
A reference, perhaps?
Make it "a rake like task management written in Haskell with a nice DSL for everyone" and I'll take a look. Why would a want to use a task management tool that is explicitly targeted at a single language?
Does this include Bowie?
Using The DMCA To Stop Patients From Rating Their Doctors
I've thought about this one too. I think I can write less than an essay, though: the solution is basically tagging in reverse. Comment threads aren't attached to individual links, but rather to tags (thus there is a 1:1 correspondence between "tag" and "discussion"; the words can be used interchangeably.) Discussions keep a list at the top of all the articles that go into them. The score of a link isn't an independent variable, but rather the sum of the "relevance" scores for each link-tag pair (that is, the weights of the graph edges.)
Did you read the article? Obviously, this is a rhetorical question since your quote is from near the end. But seriously, after doing all that stuff, is your suggestion that he should... what... get off with a stern verbal warning? Because that's not just hacking into the local payroll computer, "poking around", and harmlessly leaving. Those are, like, crimes. In fact, if you fill out the quote you cut off:

"Last January, he pleaded guilty to two felony counts of conspiracy to commit fraud and intimidate a federal witness. In June, he was sentenced to 11 years in prison."

He didn't even plead guilty to any computer-related change, though perhaps he plea-bargained them away (article doesn't say). He was warned before he was of age.

What more do you want, exactly?

"Throwing the book at hackers" was when you could get 400 years for (essentially) "annoying the phone companies", or get hit with a umpty millions in "damages" for hacking into a computer vaguely in the vicinity of valuable data. Or get hit with that for trying to report a vulnerability, or even just accidentally stumbling onto something. Those days are, if not over, certainly on the wane. It's not being charged with things you actually did, then convicted of them, then sentenced in accordance with that just like any other non-hacker.
Chances are that said elephants would be pink. They might also fly. Depends on your trip…
I'm going to agree with another commenter, however, that the "saving fuel" premise is flawed.

Personally, I like MPG because it makes the range-on-a-tank-of-fuel calculation much easier, and I care much more about range than about fuel economy.

I was sad when it turned out the original Honda Insight didn't get 70MPG, because, otherwise, it would have been interesting due to the 700 mile range.
If the world were perfect then no one would have to be paranoid.

The Helsinki syndrome has nothing to do with this.

>Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in abducted hostages, in which the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the hostage-taker, regardless of the danger or risk in which they have been placed. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome]
I'm open to talking about whatever people want to hear. I'm going to divulge as much as I can, which is most things assuming they don't amount to criticism that can be tied to any particular person. I'm not interested in playing the blame game.
The bit about preferring hypothetical questions over past achievements in interviews sounds dubious to me. The current practice seems to be "behavioral" questions like "tell me about a time you had to deal with <specific type of problem x>, and how you personally contributed to solving it", the idea apparently being that what someone claims (or imagines) they would do in a given situation is a much weaker indicator of their realistic future behaviour than what they actually did in that situation in the past. In other words, actions speak louder than words. However, this is different than simply letting someone brag in general terms about some project they were a part of - the more specific nature of the questioning allows you to get at what the person's real contribution was.

I haven't seen the actual research though (I think behavioral interviewing at least claims to be based on research evidence).
"Your experience has allowed you to do your job better. [...] O'Reilly is a [...] pundit"

Well the thing about pundits is, they know people, and people listen to them. Now don't get me wrong - I see inefficiencies in IT infrastructure everywhere I look - government, healthcare, even large areas of science - but nobody asks me my opinion. Maybe if O'Reilly could inflict me on those people for a couple of hours, they would learn something.

[for "me", read "people in our position", not personally me]

I have a lot of sympathy for what I think you are saying - that certain classes of people have a gift for self-promotion and get a lot more credit for things instead of the real technical/systems talent, which makes us feel they don't "deserve" it, but that doesn't mean they bring zero to the table, either.
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"In all PR firms" was a little too much inclusive... :-)

My comment was based on my experience when I was working for PR firms. Old school partners struggled to understand social media and asked to interns and employees to astroturf. Theses experiences made me more cynical of PR firms.

It doesn't help that many businesses in Montréal got caught doing exactly that. For example, BIXI (self-serve bicycle renting service) created a supposedly fan made blog and the two authors (which were supposed to be real fans) didn't even exist. The press had a field day with this.
"Some basic, undisputed facts: ... he and his wife are shutting TipJoy down and returning what’s left of the $1 million they had raised to their investors."

Do you have any sources, documentation or other reason to believe that TipJoy raised $1 million?
That works when your aim is to find out the behaviour of character of a person, which is not the aim of a technical interview question. Basically the aim of the technical question is to find out how the person thinks and how creative a solution he works out, and how his thinking process works, not to find out his behavioral characteristics.

So it doesn't depend whether if it is an actual situation the candidate has gone through or if it is a hypothetical situation. In the case of a candidate applying for a first job for instance, this is a pretty good way of questioning I think !
kids today are learning just as much... at higher levels of abstraction

When the learning begins at a higher layer of abstraction, some knowledge is necessarily left-out. Perhaps it is done so for valid reasons such as relevance as you mentioned. However, to master a point at a high level in any stack you do need to understand or appreciate the lower levels as well (which might be harder for kids today).
The best I could find is http://www.chelsea.dyson.co.uk/

Click on "Water Fountain"
You could always build a 255 site SEO network and interlink them all for SERP purposes. Class C blocks are big for people building link farms in order to take over the top ten results for different search terms.
"for" as in, the software is written on top of and in Haskell. As in, it's exactly what you just described.
Sometimes nytimes.com forces me to login to read articles. Only if it's interesting enough (the title at least) I'll bite. For these cases I recommend BugMeNot: http://www.bugmenot.com/view/nytimes.com
This is very true; when I got rid of my TV my productivity nearly doubled.

Note: I am measuring productivity in terms of my velocity on pivitoltracker.com
No, if anything they'd become the opposite of the 'Friends of Privacy'. I've browsed /b/ a bit; they like few things better than exposing the personal information on some personal vendetta or merely 'for the lulz'. I like lulz as much as the next guy, but phone harassment and impersonation are not so much lulz as simply criminal.
The trouble is that to run more complex operations, it's nice to have a high-level language to write your tasks in. Rake uses Ruby for this, and Nemesis Haskell.

Either app can be used for other purposes, for example, I use Rake to compile/run tests on my C# projects as an alternative to NAnt.
This would be trivial for Google to detect, no?
SIGGRAPH 2009 Realtime GPU Raytracing Demo
I was about to say the same thing. Not nearly as bad as unnecessary Flash but in this case, for a website so simple, it's just as wasteful.

That being said, cool site!
And cool domain name!
I'm curious - why the fixation on range of a tank of gas?

If we're talking about serious off-road vehicles, then I can see why you'd want to max out your range to make trip planning easier. But thinking of the majority of drivers doing the majority of their driving (especially in cars like a Honda Insight), they'd be hard-pressed to end up going somewhere that didn't have a gas station at least every 200 miles.
This law was vetoed by the president of Mexico in 2006 and sent back to congress for review:

- http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/137975.html

Then it was finally approved on April of this year:

- http://www.tribunalatina.com/es/notices/mexico_despenaliza_l...

Edit: corrected description of links. Thanks PieSquared for noting the veto.
???

Clue #1: My comment was a joke.

Clue #2: Jokes aren't necessarily funny.

Clue #3: Even if a joke isn't funny, it is still a joke.

Clue #4: Jokes, whatever the degree of funnyness, are not appropriately responded-to by "How did you come about such-and-such a miscalculation? I demand citations." My calculations were deliberately fallacious; see Clue #1.

This website is sometimes like a frickin' Aspergers asylum.
Yes, kids now will learn less than we did (my youth was the 80s). They will be taught that low-level details aren't necessary and move on to higher concepts. However, they will have little ideas of hardware and its evolution - like why we have memory cache mechanisms, or what is a boot loader. I still remember writing an sorting algorithm in assembly and feel that my knowledge now is firmly rooted in those my intimate knowledge of those concepts. Though, I still have hope...
It's not targeted at a single language. Just like rake with regards to ruby, I could use this to perform tasks unrelated to haskell code.
Eventually, every grammatical English sentence will have its domain taken, and be tended to by a nanostartup dedicated to answering that one question.
These are what outsiders know: a) Facebook and many acquirers looked at the company and passed b) Company ran out of money c) Facebook hired the developer, who also posts in the blog that his idea would work far better as part of Facebook or Twitter. I am not asserting that (a) and (c) are directly connected. It is perfectly possible that the people who looked at the acquisitions aren't the same ones who made the hire and the two sets of people may not even have talked to each other.

However the one thing no one outside Facebook can really know is why they passed on the acquisition. My reasonable guess is that they figured it would be cheaper to hire (some, not necessarily the same) developers and do it themselves. Are you asserting that it is outside the realm of possibility for them to have thought that way? Or that future acquirers, facing similar choices, would not calculate that it would be cheaper to hire developers after they run out of money?
The point of ramen profitable isn't to eat, of course; it's to extend your runway indefinitely such that your odds of getting rich significantly increase.
"frickin Aspergers asylum ... " - you had me in splits on that one! Upvoted.
I agree that 11 years is stiff. I'd say he needs some serious mental health treatment more than a long prison term, but then I feel that way about many crimes.

He did some pretty heinous stuff. Causing someone's house to be invaded by an armed SWAT team is no prank. And intimidating witnesses has to be taken very seriously or the whole justice system breaks down.
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That's the second "The Wire" reference I've seen in recent days on HN. I like it as much as the first.

PhilG is apparently echoing Mark Twain: ""There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded."

On that note, I just can't resist saying to Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson: "Hi"
I agree. The law is really just reflecting unwritten rules already adhered to there.

I disagree that legalization would bankrupt the cartels. While a good portion of their operations involve non-essential tasks like smuggling, transportation, and security (and bribes, I suppose), the cartels are in the best position to capitalize on legalization. They have the growing and refining operations down on a scale large enough to support the (supposed) increased demand due to legalization. The smuggling portion of their costs will be substituted with marketing and supply chain management costs.
This reminds me of something Orson Scott Card wrote to an aspiring writer once.

http://www.hatrack.com/writingclass/lessons/1998-07-16.shtml

Basically his advice is make sure you have another source of income, such as a rich uncle, before you decide to become a full-time writer. There is no guaranty that you will make enough to support yourself, even in genre writing.
Mobile Office Trailers: Used Shipping Containers  
Used shipping containers have many uses…most of them not known to the general public….and in this article we will discuss one of the uses of shipping containers that most people do not think of.
What is that use? As mobile office trailers! Used shipping containers are a GREAT choice to make your next mobile office trailer out of. Shipping containers have been used for a long time as officer trailers and for good reason.
If Facebook thought there was value, then $5mm for the company + founders, particularly in a stock deal, wouldn't have caused Facebook to make a decision not to buy.

The reality is that Facebook has a fairly large engineering contingent, and that writing a tipping application for the Facebook platform, will likely be a "from scratch" exercise - so there is little value in the codebase IP from TipJoy.

The actual architecture/algorithms associated with a tipping application are probably not so complex as to make Facebook believe they needed to purchase a company to get that knowledge. TipJoy has no patents that I could find on online tipping. And, Facebook wants to leverage its own social network - TipJoy just never really established enough momentum to develop their network and traffic volume to the point at which other organizations saw value that they wanted to acquire.

But, with all that said - it's true that _one_ of the reasons why Companies will purchase other companies is to acquire their engineering staff in one fell swoop. In the case of TipJoy, their small size worked against them. There wasn't much of an engineering staff to be acquired.

At the end of the day, this story probably repeats itself more often than you would imagine - as PG implied when he noted there are other YC alumni working at FaceBook - the only reason we're noticing it right now is that TipJoy is relatively high profile, and it became public knowledge that at least one of the founders is now working there soon after the startup shut down.