skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I left Bank of America for that. It charged me $90 for over draft fees on my checking account for 3 cups of coffee, when I had a savings account linked to it with 5k in it.

Perplexing. I couldn't even stay on the phone long enough to hear their ridiculous explanation.
Yeah, but if they destroy all other browsers again, then they don't have to do any work on improving browsers. Making browsers actually goes against their business process, they want everyone on the desktop, not the web. They have been dragged into the web, and hated every step of it.
Yes it was thin, but it was pitched at college kids who may not have heard it before. Many of us got way past college before we read any of this stuff, regrettably.
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Is that a quote from something?

I remember back in grade school when I asked my Mom what the penalty for not paying taxes was "Do they take you to jail or something?", and this simple fact dawned on me and me mother simultaneously.
The idea is fascinating, and the code is well designed. However, I don't find this scroll clock to be nearly as attractive as the words only clock that was posted on here about a month ago.

Browser version:

http://www.andreehansson.se/code/wo-clock.html

For Mac OS X Dashboard:

http://experimentgarden.blogspot.com/2009/10/dashboard-text-...
The difference is that you really should. Oh, and I'm not talking about terrorists. I guess that's what it looks like to an American.

Are terrorists known for holding protests on London's streets where they shout they'll destroy Europe? No? What are those people then?

You call it scaremongering, I could call it trying to dislodge heads from asses, or just "trying to spread awareness" as I said earlier.
"7. What’s your secret sauce? ... We hope to come up with Something Big in 2010."

Hmm. I harbor hope that he's kidding. I'm more and more a believer that the only secret sauce that matters is relentless execution and incremental improvement over many years. Sure, some companies will happen upon the magical product-technology-market puzzle piece that ends up being worth a billion dollars, but that's playing the lottery, not running a business.
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But also hint at your ability to withdraw that confidence in someone if they don't live up to your expectations. Talk up someone's abilities while showing your high hopes in them are conditional on their actions.
Also interesting that the real author of the fast InvSqrt ( Greg Walsh) was working at Ardent when he invented it, which is the same company that Steve Blank has been blogging about recently.
My guess is that they didn't push them beyond the level where fitness mattered. Sort of like having a group of people run a couple of laps around a track - which even sedentary people could probably manage without much stress on their bodies. In the article it was stated that rats do not like swimming in cold water and so they are apparently testing the affects of that kind of stress rather than just the stress of physical fitness.
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We're trying to focus it on specific data sets that users have more control over. We're not using the "keyword" approach like a Kontera or Vibrant allows you to link a lot, but creates a lot of crap. In Seat Geek's case we started with a simple database of the remaining NFL games; there's a limit on what can get linked so it doesn't get out of hand. We have another data set of product names that link product names to retailers and create affiliate links for people who do reviews or have users that talk about a certain product category. The goal is to focus on uniform data sets that can keep the links specific and relevant.
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The vulnerability was due solely to users running SSH (which is not installed except by jailbreaking) without changing the default root password. It's surprising that such a gaping security hole took as long as it did to be widely exploited.
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Based on a quick glance, SeatGeek is far less of an affront to my eyes than Kontera, but Kontera would look just like this if they used the same CSS styles. (Not literally, but you get my gist.)

I don't think in-text advertising is leaving us anytime soon. So, I think the best thing you can do is to make the difference between normal links and ad links very noticeable. The little pop-up should not be very large, slow to load, or look like it might be some type of legitimate information source. It should totally say in big letters at the top: "Advertising by SeatGeek." Black background, white bold text.

I've thought about this a couple times, trying to see if I could come up with something that the established companies haven't. I really can't wait for some clever person to figure out the perfect way to put in-text ads in content.

Maybe there should be no ad links at all, but a little icon to the right of the phrase, that upon mouseover will highlight the phrase and display the pop-up.

Ultimately though this method of advertising gives site owners the opportunity to deceive their visitors into clicking ad links. Less so than Adsense, I would think.

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This is one of the stupidest thing I have read in a long time. Sorry, but someone had to tell you the way it is. Having hissy fit over a trivial issue such as feed burner?

Create a new feed to the account you wanted to transfer. make a post about the update. Readers from all feed will still get your post, because the changes are not instant. Wait 24 hours. Problem solved.

Assuming you are not the one who made a mistake and deleted your feed. I have been using feedburner for a long time and transferred my old feeds to google feeds with no problem.
> The whole point of creating a successful business, of course, is to have it generate money.

I like to think that the whole point is to make something awesome/memorable/useful/meaningful/worthwhile that also creates jobs and produces wealth.
The main problem here IMHO is that, like other in-text ad providers, there is no separation between real links and ad links. As a content producer this means I really can't use inline text links ever again - it will just cause confusion and frustration for my users. For consumers it's the loss of a valuable and oft-used feature.

Have you considered an icon like what Wikipedia uses to mark external links? It would go a long way to establish user trust if ad links were clearly labeled as such (without having to find out after mousing over) - different color, iconography... something.

"We're okay with Google scanning our personal emails to serve relevant ads on Gmail"

Because Google doesn't mix ads in with our email text. The ads stay in a limited area of the screen where they are clearly marked as ads, and never stray. There's no chance that I'll get sold flowers or exercise equipment when I read my email.

People are against this in the same way they are against product placement in movies - it reeks of dishonesty, and compromises the authenticity and integrity of the content in which it was inserted. To be honest, I do not believe you have done anything (that we can see from this demo) to significantly improve on this. You've made a somewhat less scummy implementation, but you have not fixed the broken model underneath.

Sometimes I wonder what's so insufficient about Google's format: well-targeted ads, relevant to the contents of the page, served in a fenced-off ad area. Why is it that we must invade the main body of articles?
I'm sure you had good counter-arguments for everything I said too.
The problem is that they are going way beyond just protecting users from the "malicious or malformed" to dictating what content their users are allowed to access. Since when does a rejection for "limited user functionality" protect anyone from malice? How about a dictionary with the word fuck? And they are doing it in an inconsistent manner.
If we're using the pharaohs as a guide, then perhaps we should make a massive monument, mark it with the most creative signage we can think of, and then bury the nuclear waste somewhere else.
Hmmm...so help me understand something. As a publisher, if I'm using in-text advertising, I'm going to want to: a) increase my revenue, while b) keeping the links relevant. In the case of a), I'm assuming that more links on more keywords is better (at least up to a point), whereas for b) I'm guessing that advertisers on Kontera probably want to link relevant keywords. Apple doesn't want links for a sports team, even if it gets them traffic, because it's not relevant and won't convert. So I'm assuming that Kontera's relevancy issue would be self-correcting to some extent, in which case I'd actually prefer a broader array of options, rather than focusing on one data set. I guess I don't understand how this is better for anyone, unless Kontera really gives you zero control over what can / can't be linked, how many links there will be on the page, etc.

Regardless, this all sidesteps the primary issue IMO, which is that in-text advertising sucks.
Sigh.

Thanks a bunch for the info.
We have it ridiculously fortunate selling software/services relative to folks whose IP requires a physical embodiment. If you think the publisher is a waste of money from the perspective of the author, why not consider what retailers get out of the transaction? Like most retail products, books need to be keystoned to make money, which means 50%+ of the price you pay for the book gets absorbed by the point of sale.

This has truly perverse effects such as an affiliate for Amazon who generates one marginal sale of Bad Vampires And The Librarians Who Love Them getting just about as much as the author does out of the marginal sale. (I mock but I spent $50 this month on "urban fantasy" on my Kindle, so it is good natured mocking.)

My little brother is trying to break into writing. For authors below the tip-top, it requires endless participation in book signings, tours, and whatnot to build a fan base and, essentially, move books at retail scales. This is, not to put too fine a point on it, insane. Authors need to get savvier about marketing their books on the Internet, and disintermediating as many players as metahumanly possible.

(I've got high hopes for the Kindle bringing book readers kicking and screaming into the mainstream. Granted, at the moment it makes you about as dependent on Amazon and your publisher as you've always been. However, if it goes iPod and moves the core book buyers from buying paper to buying bits, then you could have alternate business models like "Thanks for buying Vampire Loves Sarcastic Female Mechanic last week. It is the first book in a planned series of seven. For only $49.99 you can buy a membership in the VLSFM fan club, which in addition to our exclusive newsletter gets you the next 6 books of the series -- each delivered a month before street date directly to your registered device. Be the envy of your friends!")
Why can't I pick the technology I use in the office?
There's also the small matter of whether they should be using tax payers dollars to fund the development of a proprietary product. I realise that most people use Windows but it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. And I'm not even American!
If PyPy is making progress this quickly, apparently matching Unladen Swallow in most cases, then why is Google supporting a separate implementation rather than working on PyPy? Is it just that PyPy wasn't advanced enough when the Unladen Swallow project began, or is it insufficiently compatible with existing Python libraries?
My impression is that fedora isn't really for production boxes anyhow. We have centos for that.
I have loved all of the okcupid linkbait.

Much of it conforms to the old wives tales or intuitions of people, but "The women who are subjectively rated the most attractive get disproportionately less attention from men. No, really, we're not making it up, we can demonstrate this with SQL" is a whole lot more fascinating than the equivalent finding justified by, ahem, wild speculation. (Or its close cousin, "We surveyed 18 men and 22 women who happened to be enrolled in psych 101 at this campus! Sweet, sweet empiricism!")
I'd really like to know if they have had any success with this. The article says they can try 4 million passwords per second, though it's not clear if that's per machine or for all 20 machines that they currently have. They also state that a six-digit password has 256^6 possible combinations, or 282 trillion. 282 trillion combinations at 4 million / second is still more than 2 years, but I'm guessing that they're smart about how they apply the algorithm since most of the characters in a password probably fall within a set of 100 more common characters. Throw 20 machines at it and get smarter about your guesses and I'm sure that gets down to maybe a few days, but what about 10 or 12 digit passwords? Just wondering if this has been at all effective.
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Some day I will also have a million dollars. Then I'll write a guide on how to make a million dollars as well.
PyPy is fully compatible with CPython2.5, however it is not compatible with C extensions.
A friend and former colleague used to work there. He was pretty parsimonious with the details, unfortunately.
Thanks for the feedback Ryan. Good luck on your startup.

Chris
Treat this as an exercise to get expectations straight. Have each person write down what they expect the other should do/own. Then compare and discuss.
I too find statistical confirmation to be interesting, but even moreso is where OKCupid's data have contradicted common wisdom:

- Women rate 80% of males as less than average looking. The graph is completely off-kilter from what you might expect (a pretty usual normal distribution around 50%-attractive)

- The reply rate between sender/receiver attractive is also a really interesting social phenomenon. The unattractive recipient who gets a message from a very attractive member of the opposite sex is unlikely to respond. Self-esteem at work!

I love this sort of statistical drivel (I mean that in the absolute nicest way), it certainly beats reading pop-psych books.
While technically correct, using anonymous inner classes makes code more verbose. Closures are a more elegant solution.

If you look at it that way, anything from generators to continuations can be 'simulated' using enough layers of class definitions.
It'd be interesting to see a memory usage comparison as well, especially considering that last I checked unladen-swallow's memory usage was less than stellar.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but, I think it was less of "tacking on closures" and more of getting the lexical scoping issues right.

i.e, there was issues with scoping that had nothing to do with closures per-se. When they fixed it, closures automatically became possible.
Total agreement. That's the beautiful thing about metrics. Anybody can convince you of what you already believe is true. The real value is when you can demonstrate that reality is different than what you think it is.
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Bignums, my friend. BCD is also good for real-world numbers, like money or eggs.
Bingo, you got it Stanley. I tried it several years ago to see what all the buzz was about. It wasn't until I got flooded with over 600 emails in two days that I could see how effective Gmail was at threading, organizing, and search.

At MSFT it is risky to openly use an iPhone. That and the fact the reception is terrible in my area really made it impossible to go with an iPhone. With Android available on Verizon it is a very viable option for me.

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To be far. IE8 is vastly better then IE7 and IE6 but Microsoft is not aggressive about getting it's users to upgrade. Whereas Firefox, Safari and especially Chrome are.
- Women rate 80% of males as less than average looking. The graph is completely off-kilter from what you might expect (a pretty usual normal distribution around 50%-attractive)

This is very interesting. It's always been almost impossible to get my gf to point out other guys she finds attractive - this might point towards a reason, although it still doesn't really provide an explanation.
I found this particular comment on the post to be poignant:

"I love that both the males and females are completely delusional but on opposite ends of the spectrum."
sure it's easy to create a business, but that just means there is more competition. For every Walmart, there were thousands of mom and pop stores that crashed and burned.
Packagekit allows LOCAL users (who already have been given an account, by definition) to install software.

More to the point, LOCAL users are likely to consist only of a single user, ie: the owner of the machine, in a the vast majority of installs. If you want a server, don't use Fedora. Fedora is bleeding edge redhat style desktop, end of story. If you want to use fedora as a server, go ahead, just disable this feature.

Is it so weird that the Fedora engineers wanted to make life a little less painful for the kind of user that has no idea what sudo is, never mind the wheel group, or how to configure PAM? I think we all fall into this trap (myself included), where things we had to learn seem easy now. They aren't. Not by a long shot.

Besides, Centos 5.4 is right over there. Right tool for the job folks.
If the thing is allow more simplicity for regular users, I think this is OK, unless someone finds a way to trick the system so it lets someone install something that isn't signed, and someone will. Probably.

For boxes that need more security, this could be an opt-out feature.

I personally don't like it that much, but I think it's good for people who don't want to think too much about it. But then again, people not thinking too much about stuff is why spam is thriving.
If I had a million dollars I think I would hire a graphic designer to craft me a presentation template that did not look like it came from the ass of PowerPoint, ca. 1998.

Otherwise, good slideshow :-)
Women rate 80% of males as less than average looking. The graph is completely off-kilter from what you might expect

It doesn't completely surprise me; it's always been my impression that the average female is more attractive to the average male than vice versa. Although I wouldn't have expected the difference to be so large.

The unattractive recipient who gets a message from a very attractive member of the opposite sex is unlikely to respond. Self-esteem at work!

And the effect is much stronger for males writing to females. I can believe that; an ugly guy who gets an email from a hot girl may suspect it's a setup, but is probably more willing to take the chance.
My guess is that they're actually using dictionary (or pre-generated rainbow tables with near words) attacks.

Pedophiles don't tend to be the sharpest tools in the shed so I'm guessing dictionary words do the trick 90% of the time.

When in doubt make your password something like j3vm#sdq-oj3ew7!d. I call it an "8 by 8" and have committed myself to memorizing a bunch of them for everyday use.
This is more a question along the lines of the above but with a specific example. Tferris' 4Hww, for those that haven't yet read it, the basic process is this;

Build an end to end business in which you control the distribution channels for a product that has high demand as evidenced by various keyword search tools, then outsource all the parts of that business so you're just pulling the strings of everyone else and they're making money for you.

Aim for price point per product of 50-200$ and 8-10 markup on initial costs to cover both your outsourced operating expenses as well as a significant profit for yourself, then minimise your personal cost of living and maximise your quality of life by employing various other strategies.

It sounds in principle, plausible, however.. markup of 8 - 10 times per item? Those margins seem extremely high, I understand that they're being maintained by virtue of you controlling the entire distribution chain + having picked a niche which has significant demand and not high competition, but still?

I figure someone here has at least tried it? Enlightenment appreciated.
I laughed at first but then realised that it was a genuine problem and that buying an offset will not actually offset bad lines of code. So now I'm annoyed that they wasted the opportunity of a great idea/joke.
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> but what about 10 or 12 digit passwords? Just wondering if this has been at all effective.

Most passwords out there are very insecure because they use words that look, sound or are composed of words from dictionaries, that increases the likelihood of cracking the password quite a bit. They can essentially split the load, let some machine brute force sequentially and others perform a dictionary attack.

Even better they should generate a custom dictionary by dumping the strings from any non-encrypted data from the same user. That is what I would do at least.
I'd say "unreasonable" is not answering the reasonable, banal questions of people employed to protect travellers and the nation at large.
Favorite quote from the other posts on the blog: "This is what 'dying alone' looks like as a png." Lots of fun statistics, and some humor to boot.
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i think the outrage stems from the fact that this is being introduced into a distribution that many users are already using (or will be after a release/upgrade) and is drastically changing the way it has always worked.

if a new desktop linux distribution were to come out touting this feature, i doubt anyone would really care.
Yes they get 40% less and no they don't have any say, that being said 40% off at pragprog is probably still more money to the authors then the 40% + cut that Amazon or other retailers take.
Every time I see an article like this I wonder if the writer recently went through a break-up, purchased a sex toy, and wasted most of the day playing with it before churning out a quick 'how about those sexbots then' piece.
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I get where you're coming from, but let me play devil's advocate. The NSA has a possibly unique position of being able to protect the United States' information infrastructure from emerging threats, on account of their well funded, top-secret research in this field.

Now for better or for worse, Microsoft Windows plays a major role in US business infrastructure. So isn't it a good thing for the NSA to use its position to strengthen the USA against new attacks that, perhaps, only this agency has the ability to see coming?
This would also explain why having multiple wives is much more common than having multiple husbands.
I have to assume they're using some sort of extremely broad, relatively intelligent dictionary attack--a large dictionary, mixing numbers and symbols in with words, trying misspelled words using things like Levenshtein distance, phonetic spellings, etc.

In other words, brute force using the sort of mnemonics and tricks that people are advised to use to help them remember a "strong" password. Password strength is a spectrum, and there's a fair difference between "strong enough to make a random criminal go find an easier target" and "strong enough to keep out a determined, funded attacker targeting you personally".

Or it's possible that a lot of these suspects just used really crappy passwords. People are silly that way.
Most of the fiasco, as most fiascos are, is caused by ignorance and not understanding that PolicyKit gives this privilege only to people that are on the machine locally. These are the same people that could reboot the machine into single user mode and do whatever they want.

One analogy involved the fact that we already allow users to automount devices and this is no different.

I congratualte Fedora on questioning the status quo.
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