skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shame on you, edw519. Where does he infer that Mr. Grass had such intent? Your inference that Hanson would prefer to denigrate rather than elucidate is speculative and insulting. Better you should forsake your sacred horse of generous people are beyond reproach and 'STFU'.

Hanson mentions "folks like Alex trying to 'do good'", and that his proposed alternative of funding innovation "wouldn't have looked so good for Mr. Grass". He notes that Mr. Grass "[showed] loyalty to his clan", but parents also show unfortunate baby dribbling, whether they like to or not. Even the quoted line fails to show whether Mr. Grass is of the former or latter group.
Hanson laments the social structures that promote and reward "looking good" in lieu of "doing good", implying that someone with the goal of "doing good" may accidentally "look good" instead.
Ask HN: Can a poorly presented startup website do well?
Does a startup website need to be highly professional in order to be successful?

Have we passed the day when websites like these[1] can be looked at legitimately?<p>[1]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6125914/How-20-popular-websites-looked-when-they-launched.html
Getting a Fair Toss From a Biased Coin
Bhojpuri Songs
Bhojpuri songs are very popular not only in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh but all over the Hindi speaking heartland of Bihar.
Need help using social media to promote causes
I drink about 2-3L of green and/or wulong tea a day. It has no sugar and about 100-120ml of caffeine per 600ml bottle. Every convenience store here in Taiwan sells at least half a dozen teas that fit this profile, they're as cheap as soda and I love them!

Soda (or worse, diet soda) just grosses me out, though. It's just too sweet and too acidic.
I've known about it since I encountered javascript.history.back(). I figured if js could find out my last page, then it could probably read my entire history. Since then my browser does not have any history saved.

Edit: I've never really thought of it as an exploit though.
I'll take the downside. The ability to move capital outside of nations is, in my opinion, critical to freer government and society.
It's not a GPL "success story". You preferred the GPL, you were going to write the code anyway, and you did. At no point in this process was the GPL somehow conveying an advantage beyond satiating your desire to lock out external users/contributors who were potential 'thieves'.

The analogy I gave earlier still fits -- you could have just as easily called new code style conventions a "success story", despite the fact that they aren't the primary driver behind getting something done.

The most audacious aspect of the story is that by locking up future work via the GPL, you've done what you accuse external entities of doing: locking out previous BSD-licensed contributors from your future improvements to the project.
Good points, and regarding velcro, nature had it long before we did :)

And I agree with you on the bravery when just looking at th e money side of it.

I wasn't really thinking as much about the money alone though your cut & paste made it look like that as on the combination of expense and technical obstacles to overcome.

Especially the latter will have lots of challenges, a project like this will require a fairly advanced degree of space assembly and/or manufacture.
I was cut from the winner's circle at the 11th hour last year according to one of the judges. This was not my first attempt. They do it a little differently each year, but if you have questions about my experience, holler.
You understand that it's an exploit that takes advantage of the browser's CSS :visited pseudoclass right?

The JavaScript history object is specifically designed not to give 3rd parties access to your history info...
eMusic are spamming scum. More details here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=566825

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=emusic+spam

I urge you most strongly not to use them.
Server Makers Go Retro as Sales Plummet
What an asshole. I hope the author never needs medical care he cannot afford. I hope he never gets in a position where he has to rely on another person's charity.

Or maybe I hope he does .... I am not sure about that yet.
Warning, a very "newb"ish question: I completed his tutorial inside my browser. Buw what now? How do I do that permanently on my shared server which allows me to create a rails application via cpanel. How do I "populate it with [my] code"?
No, the problem is that the US government taxes activity by its citizens (and even ex-pats) outside of its borders, and is fairly unique in doing so.

It seems clear to me that someone who isn't deriving any benefit from the "protections" of the US government shouldn't be required to pay for those protections. Otherwise, it really is just a protection racket.
Doctorow appears to be warning 'punters' that someone giving them a service may be trying to make some money (shock!) and that we should all just store our 'encrypted bits of state information' - meanwhile I just thought we were trying to provide a useful service to users. Doctorow's slide towards Troll continues...
Exploitation? Elle Mag Hires Homeless Blogger for Pocket Change
The Tragedy of The Yangtze River Dolphin
Haha, there's no shame in answering 'No' people! I'll admit I did (and so far I'm the only one!)...

I know the HN crowd are way more aware about issues like this than the average person, but to have your fingers this firmly on the pulse of the 'net? Impressive?

EDIT: Now I'm not the only one. Misery loves company! Thanks :-p
Agreed, however my only point is that this makes more sense strategically than just commercially. It may not make sense either way, but it could. There are other interests that could cut off Japan if the US didn't choose to step in. This includes China and OPEC.
They weren't retweets, though each tweet was the same. Macheist was using OAuth to actually post a tweet on your behalf.
Even if their argument was _only_ that one tax issue, its still a legitimate U.S. tax. Allowing non-U.S. citizens to participate in transaction without taxation of U.S. property, yes, private property, amounts to forcing U.S. citizens to carry a larger part of the tax burden.

However, this is just their stated issue. The real reasons are much larger than this one taxable interest.

If Swiss citizens (or any other doing biz with this "neutral" country) don't want to pay U.S. taxes, they can buy and sell property in Switzerland or some other country that doesn't mind its citizens carrying the tax burden for non-citizens.
I don't like the theme. It was built in. I'd like to work with abby to make things better. Feature request #1 is bigger media. The column is too thin.
Many of those japanese cars are physically built in the US.
Where does he infer that Mr. Grass had such intent?

Did you actually read the article, req2? If you had, you would have noticed among other insults:

But when folks like Alex spend their later years trying to "do good" with the millions they were paid for actually doing good, they usually end up pissing it away.

Pretty explicit to me. It's stunning that OP, or anyone else for that matter, would question the motives of those giving charity. His total lack of class completely overshadows any other message he may have had.

What you said to me was either a personal insult or a bad joke. Doesn't matter. Either way, this conversation is over.
Absolutely:

http://yarchive.net/physics/effete.html
How to Turn a Kitchen Utensil into a Battery
Amazingly Amazon did not change much.
It is useful (I won't agree with critical) in some respects for overall wealth creation. For example, leveraging outside wealth into our stock markets. It does amount to U.S. citizens paying tax on the same transactions that non-citizens avoid.
Where did I say that Apple's app store process was identical to Google's? Or even close?

The original article quoted a post endorsing the idea of no approval process while saying the person writing that article was right. To me that's an endorsement of no approval process and I was responding to that by saying even Google has some kind of approval process in place.
My point was that it is possible to become a tech millionaire in a couple of years - this is of course unlikely - but there are many examples of people doing this. It's almost impossible to become a millionaire in a couple of years as a plumber.

Whilst like you can do the process you point out, it's likely to take 10+ years to do that. You could also do this same process as a tech consultant and then grow your consultancy business the same way - but that wasn't my point - that's all.

People after all play the lottery every week - though on average they would be better off putting that money in a savings account and waiting 30-40 years...
I seriously hearted appjet. And amen for javascript over PHP. Now, about releasing appjet as OSS? Maybe on AppEngine? :)
you'd have to go back to html 3.0 in 1997 when the vlink property was introduced to the body tag.

that would be the origin of being able to specifically color links you've visited, allowing you to set a bizarre color to visited links and let javascript traverse the dom to find links that are colored weirdly.
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There was no web at the time, though. Apple may have used that domain for other internet services, but saying they launched their website in 1987 is absurd.
Tarsnap has reached profitability with a website that has no style. http://www.tarsnap.com/ Of course, the crowd he is catering to doesn't really care about frills. Heck, frills can actually be dangerous in the security world. And Colin's got the reputation to back his company up.

For your average case though, a lack of presentation is going to hurt you.
You have to be careful when doing this not to violate Google's TOS. I don't think they like people using AdSense just for "market research" because the users who actually click on the link get taken to a useless landing page. Unless he had a pre-order form for the book as the landing page, that's not generally accepted. I know Tim Ferris kind of popularized that technique, but if all of Google's Ads lead people to worthless landing pages, their CTR across the network would go down. Just an FYI for those who can't afford to get a Google Ban because they also rely on AdSense.
Why bother with hashing? Why not just append 'version numbers' to the JavaScript files? (e.g. sht.1.js sht.2.js sht.3.js )

This way you have a 'better' history because the numbers are in order and you can immediately tell which JS file was the previous one. While you're at it, why not just make this a commit/push hook rather than needing to generate it on the first page load? It would still be automatic for you.
that is what it knows about you.
Look at that sentence. It says he tried to do good, not that he tried to look good. This is in direct contradiction to your claim.

It's pretty stunning to me that you would think any motives are beyond reproach. Your reverence for men who do nominally good things is the very thing Hanson is trying to limit in preference of actually good things.
According to Wikipedia (haha), he was tortured in his device, but it didn't actually kill him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull
Fourier Transforms in Javascript
Yes, if the people making the malware were complete idiots and ran down people's batteries it would be noticeable. But, as on the PC, I'm sure they could find a way to make it just subtle enough to not be noticed. Estimates place the number of personal PCs infected with some kind of malware as high as 89% (http://www.webroot.com/resources/stateofspyware/excerpt.html) so I have to believe they could find a way to con a good percentage of cell phone users if given the chance.
It does not have to be highly professional, but it isn't that hard to make something that's not half-assed these days. Even if you don't know HTML.
It depends entirely on your audience. My parents hate almost every web site they go to, and the only ones they like are clean, clear, spare, minimal graphics, minimal color, and have a real "empty" feel. Anything that current people call "professional looking" sends them away almost instantly.

Compare that with a largely text-only site that I'm involved with, and almost every other comment is "it needs graphics to interest the students/youngsters/surfers/whatever."

Do you call HN "professional looking?"

Half the problem is that it takes virtually no effort to make something shiny, and most sites have that, and no content.
Cybersecurity Act Returns With a Fresh Coat of Paint
As a U.S. citizens living in China for many years, I still consider the U.S. my home long term. I receive a reasonable tax deduction for living out of the country the majority of each year, and that is a fair tradeoff. The U.S., my home, still needs to survive and invest in its future. Taxes are the critical element for this.

So when you say "protections". Well, if I'm not living in the U.S. "right now" I'm not right now receiving protections, right? Not really. I am. I can go home anytime I want if things get too tough for me in China. I have the safety of knowing their are local police and fire departments in my home town protecting my house, for example, the things that non-citizens don't want to pay taxes to help support.

Even if I were living in the U.S. right now, I wouldn't be pulling money from Social Security or other forms of aid. But the "protections" are their whether I'm currently using them or not.
I left that out of the post because I didn't change it from what Apache was installed with on my debian box. It looks like this.

#

# The following directives define some format nicknames for use with

# a CustomLog directive (see below).

# If you are behind a reverse proxy, you might want to change %h into %{X-Forwarded-For}i

#
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common

LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer

LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent

Format reference: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_log_config.html#for...
http://www.drudgereport.com/ has changed very little also. I rank it as one of the most useful websites on the internet (for me).
The question is how much better it would have done if it had been presented in a nicer way. People sort of expect that.

A layout like that has its advantages though, it is going to 'select' just the right user as well.

Less income, maybe. But for sure less hassle.
It's old and it's somewhat lame, but it is an attack. CSS and the DOM were designed not to allow this sort of information leak. They missed a spot.
Erector: Views In Ruby For Ruby
Erector is a "builder pattern" view framework, inspired by Why's Markaby. In Erector all views are objects, not template files, which allows the full power of object-oriented programming (inheritance, modular decomposition, encapsulation) in views.
Care to point to a wikipedia entry or something on this 'attack'? I can't even access the site.
When Should a Startup Start Charging? By Sean Ellis
It's a public good and should therefore be funded by the government. Note that government funded does not mean government run.
Just pre-ordered my copy.

I'm really hoping that the content meets a certain level of technicality. The fact that it is written by Peter Seiblel and the interview previews on each one seems to indicate that it will be. I'm looking forward to learning what scares Ken Thompson about modern programming and anything with Simon Peyton-Jones will be entertaining and a little mind-expanding.
A domain does not a website make.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/Japan/Electricity.html - About 60% of Japan's electricity use comes from burning stuff: oil, natural gas, coal, being the big ones. All of this is imported.

Outside transportation, Oil is also used for heating homes.

Nuclear is definitely an option for Japan. They also have to import the uranium, having virtually none on the island, but that is still much easier to import and stock up than other resources. That said, it's probably easier to shoot your proverbial rocket or stone at their nuclear plants than it is to shoot it into space.
Site's down. Is it this exploit?:

http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/index.php/2009/08/02/view-remo...
We will figure out this whole meetup thing some time soon. :)
This isn't a small question and is largely going to depend on your shared server.

First generally you're going to do most of your development locally and then deploy it to your server. If you're just starting out then check out the RadRails IDE. It does most of the heavy lifting for you and makes it really easy to get going.

After that look at something like capistrano or vlad the deployer for getting the site onto your webserver.
I wasn't anywhere near the industry by that point. I got my professional start in 2002... Long enough to remember the 'bad old days' though!
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Getty Images Agrees to Be Acquired by Hellman & Friedman in a Transaction Valued at $2.4 Billion
Seattle, Feb. 25, 2008. Getty Images Inc. (NYSE:GYI), the world´s leading creator and distributor of visual content and other digital...
http://www.stockphototalk.com/the_stock_photo_industry_/2008/02/getty-images-ag.html
7zip is the new zip
> except reliably being installed, which vim isn't on Windows anyway.

vim runs fine on Windows
The real annoyance for me is that the 7zip program's extraction mechanism (for all the formats it supports) writes the uncompressed data twice, and in the penultimate step is using 2x the space.

It's just like a naive compressed tar extractor.
This is a quick & cheap pull from archive.org. There's no way twitter.com used times new roman on the frontpage in 2006. The BBC entry says it's from 1997, yet the screenshot clearly says 1. december 1998. DELL has broken images. The flickr.com screenshot is so broken that it makes me wonder if the journalist/intern/whoever made this junk even looked at the images. Telegraph.co.uk says it's launched in 1994, yet the screenshot says 2002 -- and that's the website of the very paper that's presenting this, for crying out loud.

In other news: you can amuse yourself for a while by plugging random addresses into archive.org.
Ubuntu, xkcd, freepatentsonline.com, bing, google, yahoo, mozilla, technorati, wordpress, winamp, posterous, and HN.

I guess the internet thinks I'm a geek.
Still, Cinderella 2.0 ought to be paid at least the legal minimum hourly wage in California by a famous fashion magazine, ought she not?

Not necessarily, if she is a 1099 contract worker, and not an employee. I'm not saying it's right, though...
I'm not sure I agree with that. Especially when you consider Swiss banking history and their willingness to hide money for just about anyone.

Obama is in a tight spot. Tax revenues are _way_ down. The U.S. not only needs to pay for ongoing costs, but for bad debts in our economy. Offshore private banking should have been stopped long ago, before it started. Would Obama be going after them so hard if the U.S. was not in such a tight spot? Its hard to say as its always a hard call to go after this level of wealth. At this point, I think he has little choice.
> "So long and please don't come back."

I'd like to know where they intend to go. No western, industrial country wants their profiteering behinds amongst its citizenry, and certainly Canada and all of industrialized Europe would frown on their shenanigans.

Their only options are tin-pot tropical banana republics or the former Soviet bloc.
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Ask HN: when and how should programmers be judged on their actual written code?
I am checking out great programmers for a project and came across someone with code samples linked from their resume.

I wonder if would-be hirers, if having no programming background miss out on the opportunity to accurately evaluate a potential software professional by being unable to evaluate their code output in a direct manner, whereby another programmer is better positioned to evaluate such output.

Of course there are plenty of other ways to evaluate potential consultants, track record being one, but should codebase quality be a large factor? What would be examined?

This leads me to the idea that a site could be setup for this purpose. Here, excellent judges and code relevant to the client is the key to making any subsequent judgments useful for hiring when the hirer has not clue about programming.
That is because malware is a very general term, since it applies to everything from a full blown virus that destroys your computer to a tracking cookie that reports back to a server what you do online.

The reason malware is able to run rampant on computers is simply because of their versatility. A piece of phone malware is fairly limited. The botnet analogue is an auto-dialer, which completely ties up the phone's primary resource (its phone line). On a botnet, it may tie up a good portion of the computers connect, but enough gets through that the user just deals with it.

Actually, if all the malware was doing was draining the battery I doubt the phone users would notice at all. They would assume their phone was getting old and losing its charge, the same way users now assume the reason computers gets slow is because its getting old.

I just don't see any reason for phone-based malware. There are two types of malware: High intrusion and Low intrusion. High intrusion are things like Botnets and Auto-spammers. They tie up a lot of the computer's resources in order to make a profit off of them. The Low intrusion malware are things like tracking cookies and keyloggers. They exist because they gather data, and then send it en-masse to a server, where it is analysed and sold.

High intrusion on a phone does not have any place. The user will take their phone back to their provider because it doesn't work. You can't tie up just part of a phone line, its all or nothing. You could tie up part of the internet connection, but the user is paying for that out the nose and will notice any sizable use of the connection.

Low intrusion is possible, but users (at least from my experience) don't do anything particularly useful for that kind off malware on their phones. You can steal their browsing history (maybe), or their call logs/messenging, but the second isn't valuable (a little, but not much, definitely not worth the risk), and the first, from my experience isn't valuable. Users just don't go to those high value sites (bank sites and the like) on their phones.
Is it just me, or did myspace.com look better then?
I would only go by track record, not by code samples because it is way too easy for someone to get a chunk of code somewhere and display the sample as theirs.

Track record is much harder - if at all - possible to fake.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean.

file.js?11111 and file.js?22222 are considered separate files and would get redownloaded by the browser.

The URL parameters are significant in browser caching.
If interruption to your career is important to you, don't take a vacation at all. Spend all your time working so you'll get ahead and get promotion.

I used to worry about my career a lot and I ended up burning out easily. Traveling for me was a good way to take a break and get a new perspective on things.

I take a few months off to travel every 2-3 years and then I get re-energized and ready to get back to work.

Yes, when you travel, your career will be interrupted. But what is the trade off? For me, it was experiencing other cultures. Being in unfamiliar places took me out of my element and I believe has made me tougher. Adjusting to different social environments is not easy.
Nothing wrong with the software, it's the user who's at fault.
Wow, craigslist hasn't changed much at all.
This seems like slow news to me: poke about in wayback machine and put it in the newspaper. It's not even accurate.
I was thinking that a user profile could be setup and link to code on Github or Sourceforge. If they had code on a client's server, you'd have a way for that client to positively match what's on their server with whatever the profile is presenting as belonging to it.