skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a commentary on a presentation. The actual slides (linked to at the end of the piece) are at http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/kbanker/mongodb-schema-desi...
The authors are now GPG-signing their releases to allow their customers to determine the validity of an archive.

I'm inclined to mistrust an article that calls users of an open-source IRC server "customers".
As long as I can change it back they can hypothesize what's best for everyone else as much as they like.

I still use a plugin to make Firefox 3.6 look like 2.0
Excuse me, why is this being downvoted?
An Amazing JavaScript Port of HNTrends.com Using Raphael JS
If you assume no more profits and a fixed cost to winding the company down (you can't actually get all the cash back) then buying back stack reduces the cash to required expenses ratio, so it would make sense for the stock price to go down. At the point where cash equals the remaining expenses then the stock is worth zero. But this shouldn't happen for a profitable company, even if they are "out of ideas".
I suspect the use of Flash cookies will decline gradually as the use of HTML 5 increases, since a great many of them are just used to store volume settings for commonly-used Flash-based video players.

That's not to say the use of Flash cookies by certain ad networks isn't completely obnoxious.
The author voluntarily removed the applications from the Market prior to the remote removals.

I'm having some difficulty making the leap from this incident to being worried about Google removing "any and all applications from the users' handsets". Yes, of course they can. But do we have any basis for worrying that Google will wield this power arbitrarily and in a manner which developers should be concerned about?
xz-utils deprecates lzma.

$ dpkg -s xz-utils|grep Replaces
Replaces: lzma
$ dpkg -S $(which lzma)
xz-utils: /usr/bin/lzma
I was assuming they're going to be including data from the like button.

EDIT: > What's stopping someone from putting metadata tags to say it's a page for a hotel somewhere or a movie, when they are really selling Viagra?

Facebook isn't going to blindly put things into its index because someone tagged a page. I also doubt search results are just gonna be everything tagged with that page but based on how many likes they page has, how simliar those people are to you. In my opinion, Facebook has the potential here to make this into the first innovation in search since Google.
Maybe people don't see a particular need for this to be a blog post?
Growl To Notifo - push Growl notifications to Notifo when you are idle
Engineers are frequently ADHD (citation?) Can Engineers be called creative? Or is it an entirely different mental illness?
Suzuki Sx4 Recalls | Suzuki Sx4 Problems - Old-Articles.com | Old Articles
It wouldn't surprise me if the pornography industry didn't completely ignore this TLD. The nature of pornography means that it's possible to be very creative in naming your site.

If you look at Alexa's list of the top adult web sites you'd see the following names: livejasmin.com, pornhub.com, xvideos.com, youporn.com, xhamster.com, tube8.com, ...

It doesn't look to me like the .com namespace is running out of room for pornography.
Many iPad parts found inside Apple iPhone 4
Well.... proteins play an important role in how DNA is expressed. And you get your initial set of proteins, like your DNA, from your parents (mom mostly), so they set the starting conditions. Then during your life what you do has a methylation effect on your DNA. Thus the total information that makes up a human is actually quite a bit bigger then the information contained in his or her DNA.
That's a really interesting point.

I sometimes do ask what people were making, but you're right, it doesn't matter. I already know what I want to offer.
Refreshing to see a newspaper take up this stance.
Performance/watt is still increasing, though. This helps Amazon's margins.
Are you really complaining about a lack of blogspam? Dear lord.

I'd prefer people say as little as is needed to spur thought and conversation without directing me to some ghetto blogspot page that lurched into existence a week prior.
The whole point of the cloud is that you pay for a set amount of computing power. If you want more computing power get the high CPU instance. Everything is virtualized down to the incremental unit of computing power that is desirable. It's pretty optimal in my opinion and I really appreciate the price decreases overtime.
Don't ask meta questions like that please, distracts from the conversation at hand.
Marco Arment also has a solution: http://www.marco.org/733115343

For those who want to make a clearly visible statement about their antenna woes. :)
What's the terrain? Apparent technological supremacy isn't a guarantee of superior warring ability - recent history should have taught us this at least.

;0)>
Am I the only one confused by the combination of "this happens to every phone" with fixes, including both this and the official one(s), which are workarounds to prevent shorting the exposed antennas, which no other phone has?
Toronto HackLab member arrested by G20 security forces
Furthermore, with fake accounts, it becomes even easier to game facebook pagerank.
Companies perform stock buy backs when they don't have any ideas in how to invest their cash. A recent example is an Australian company called "CSL". A year or so ago it held a massive share raising and was proposing to use the cash to buy out a US pharmaceutical firm. The US regulator thought it would give CSL too much market power and stopped the deal from happening. What CSL did was initiate a stock buy back to return the cash to investors. Link: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wealth/upside-for-c...

It's not necessarily not good.
I should have use scare quotes. I didn't want to say that users are idiots. They are ignorants, or just don't want to bother. What I did want to say is that most developers do take users for idiots. Software that doesn't need a manual and takes 5 minutes to assess is made for idiots. A nice side effect is that it works very well for everyone else.

Now, using Gmail won't make you an idiot by itself. But it may be an idiocy, depending on whether you know what you are doing or not. By default, I strongly suspect that you don't. Here's why:

First, there's the obvious privacy issue. Much of your private correspondence is stored on Google's servers. Google makes semantic analysis on your e-mail, so it can send you ads. They could do many interesting things with your e-mail if they want to. They are an interesting target for internet based attacks. They could make mistakes that affect all users. Do you really trust them that much?

Second, there's network issues. Web based mail is hurting the network in two ways.

The first is that their ubiquity lead people to believe that to send e-mail, you only need the 80(http) and 443(https) ports. Thanks to that almost nobody noticed, or cared, when ISP began to block the outgoing 25(smtp) port. They pretended it was to prevent their customers to send spam. Because they took them for idiots whose Windows computers are full of botnets. They may be right, but the real effect is that their customers can no longer send e-mail by themselves, and have to rely on third parties instead. That makes web-based mail much more attractive. The loop is closed.

The second network issue is the way data flows: from Gmail to your ISP's network, and not the reverse. The effect is even more pronounced with sites like YouTube. This asymmetry, which you could have avoided if you ran your own mail server and hosted your videos yourself[1], makes hard for your ISP to get good peering agreements. And now, they invoke this asymmetry to argue that "content providers" should pay to send their data.

[1] Oh, you can't. I forgot the "A" in "ADSL". Sorry.

Anecdotally, don't you find silly that all your e-mail goes through the silicon valley before it reaches your neighbour? That's not very efficient.

As far as I know, JavaScript only serves 2 purposes: eye candy, and doing remotely what could have been done locally (meaning using web apps). Both purposes are dangerous idiocies (without quotes, this time). Using a Turing complete thing to do eye candy is idiot because of the needless potential security breaches. And using web apps is idiot because you lose control and help creating an unnecessary centre. (Note however that doing web apps is not idiot at all. See Facebook.)

The current trend of webifying and centralizing everything terrifies me. If we don't pay attention, they will shut the internet down. No server at home, only clients (preferably webkit based ones). And what could have been the voice of the people will go back to the propaganda of the powerful.

I don't want that.
Ignoring early monetization and counting on exponential growth is a big gamble as mentioned. But sometimes the goals of the founder are more aligned with a certain philosophy that shuns larger monetization possibilities, see craigslist and Wikipedia.
Well geez, sorry for ruining your morning.

My post was approx 20% meta question, 80% substantive, by word count.
Is this a joke that I'm not getting? Scotch tape? Really? "This problem isn't real, but here's how you fix it."

He also completely dismisses public perception. Did everyone forget Toyota's mess so quickly? If there's a perceived problem with your product, then there's a problem with your product.
URLs as Sentences
Presumably you can already buy "likes" from someone who has amassed a large number of FB accounts? If not then it won't be long at all.
Linode is VPS, EC2 is cloud computing. Although I agree that Linode is probably the best VPS provider around, EC2 provides a lot of cloud features that Linode does not including CloudWatch monitoring, autoscaling, external EBS storage, greater memory and compute power options, AMIs, virtual private cloud. So Linode vs EC2 is not exactly an apples to apples comparison. If all you need is VPS, then Linode is really the best option available.
Sure -- but I've also seen reports that the effect is much more pronounced in areas of spotty coverage (as measured by bars). Perhaps, even though over and above, the degradation is still acceptable with areas of good coverage.
It is always a good thing to be wary of, even if no wrongdoing has happened yet.

Not to drag Apple/iPhone into this, but Apple also has this same capability and has used it previously, correct?
I don't know about most people, but when I want to learn about the merits of a product or company, my first thought is to search for a variety of independent opinions of it, not the product/company's own marketing.

Thus, the last thing I would want to do is go to its Facebook page. I might want to go to its website first to understand what they themselves are trying to do in their own words, but Google can do that just fine, thank you. Thus, I don't really understand what niche they're trying to fill.
For small investors (< 1000 shares), the transaction cost will be higher than the tax on dividends.
I've always held my 2G at the top of the phone, primarily to avoid attenuating the wi-fi noticeably, but also to reduce the energy being absorbed by my hand.

Carrying this over to the iPhone 4.0 appears to completely avoid this 'problem'.

It's a shame, because the phone is fantastic and in the areas of magazine-like screen quality, running multiple apps, speed and build, has exceeded my expectations wildly.
"The Apple marketing machine created a tribe, giving to the rise of superfans whose identity/self-image hinges on being one of the first to own a new product. I don’t know if it’s Apple you should really blame, though. You should blame our culture for allowing the media to manipulate us, brainwashing us, shaping the behavior to work jobs we hate so we can buy things so we can be happy. Media conditioning plays on our innate drives, associating positive possibilities (sex, social acceptance/popularity) with consumer products."

The media isn't some conspiratorial, Big Brother type industry out to make us all unhappy. The image the media provides is simply the one we most readily accept. The enemy is not the media, the enemy is us.
Another article:
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/Wife+suspect+arreste...

Interestingly, Byron maintained a special blog that up until august, exposed security measures in and around the G20 zone and they're nailing him down because of it. http://torontogoat.blogspot.com/

Also note officials quietly passed a legislature on Monday that essentially gives the Police an absolute authority for the duration of the G20 in the Downtown core.
Except Google won't be interested in nation building. :)
This is a perfect example of the effects of "optimization by proxy" that was discussed in the lesswrong article posted here yesterday.

The examples are really countless, auto crash tests and insurance safety ratings is a pretty good one, whereby "safety" has come to mean "safety to the occupants without any consideration of the risks to others".
Simple arithmetic. If you hold 100 shares of 100,000 outstanding shares, you own 0.1% of the company. If they buy back 5000 shares and you sell 5 shares, you still own 95 shares of 95,000 outstanding shares (0.1% of the company) + cash.

That's exactly what a dividend would do.

Silverlake is correct to point out that this doesn't apply to small investors, however.
Actually, if prices are not increasing, then they are falling. Prices fall by the inflation rate. Let inflation rate = 3% then the price is falling 3% per year. Not major but still a decrease.
...minifying XHTML documents (given that they’re actually served to clients properly, with “application/xhtml+xml”) doesn’t reduce size as much as if they were HTML.

I don't understand. Why can't the size of XHTML documents be reduced as much as HTML ones? And why would the MIME type matter?
But it's unnecessary since you already set the Flash cookie.
Lunar eclipse 'magnified' in US
Facebook's got a My Band app, works just as well and Facebook has a much better feature for promoting the page to personal friends.
New Film Visualizes Our Wireless World
I saw a demo of their stuff at Joel's stackoverflow.com tour in sf last year. They were a sponsor and were recruiting. I got a save the shire t-shirt, anyway, It's a really cool product. At least then they were going after defense and government markets primarily. It sounded like they had oracle prices since every installation is basically a custom setup and their system is infinitely customizable. I don't doubt the valuation if they get traction. I know the big financial guys are also a prime market for this kind of product.
Security Trade-Offs in Crayfish
Awesome! I know Palantir from when I was learning Groovy. Their dev blog was extremely helpful. Good to know that they're doing well.
Having a cover letter is an extra, your resume is the center piece. You can have a resume without a cover letter, but you can't have a cover letter without a resume. Not including a cover letter helps me to get in the door, if a potential employer is serious about hiring me, I have no problems preparing or giving them past writing samples. I am an individual , and I'm not bound by EEOE rules, that's another reason I can disregard time honored industry practices, and how its a bigger deal if a company ignores resumes.
Note to HP: Put a great big honkin' light visible from both front and back that blinks obnoxiously whenever the web cam is getting power. Trust me on this one.
follow up interesting question - do you trust the compiler you use to build from source?
How about something substantive? WHY is it superior? Or are you just trolling?

There's an effort going on to get Adhearsion running on FreeSwitch anyway.
Java 4-ever
Liberman/Collins Cyber Security Bill Approved by Senate Panel
"One in 25 years" is far too optimistic (see e.g. http://secunia.com/advisories/product/2719/?task=advisories - the NULL pointer bug was exploitable only from programs already running on the host, so most of these "count" by your criteria), but yes - the article is nonsensical.
I was just thinking the exact opposite of this in the shower this morning.

Amazon is one of the few businesses I'm aware of that goes out of its way to keep its profit margin consistent, to the point of regularly lowering the price it charges for its AWS offerings.

It's in their best interest to do so in the long run. Sure, they could fix prices and watch as a 1U EC2 instance gets more profitable over time and 100GB S3 bucket does the same, but eventually somebody else would build a business by squeezing in at a lower price.

As it stands, Amazon has the Cloud game beaten. They're just miles ahead of the next guy. Since the only reason to consider switching is price, it's a genius move on their part to keep walking the price down. If you want to beat them, you have to figure out how to build a better product and squeak it in cheaper.

I just don't see that happening.
Fred is just wrong on this. Companies exist to enrich the shareholders. A buyback is very much like a dividend, and should be viewed similarly. Is he saying that companies shouldn't pay dividends? That's insane. A company with too much cash is wasting it's investors' money.
- How will we show them the tab placement?

- How will will show how App Tabs work and how they will look?

- How can we explain to the user that the tab display preferences are not locked?

- Show users how App Tabs will work and look with UI overloading.

- Why we choose to use internal UI over platform.

All of these can be displayed with some JPGs/PNGs and a bit of sultry text, but it probably made more sense to compile a video since some of these elements are best shown, rather than described.
See? You keep getting downvoted. Exercise some self-control and dignity and focus on the topic at hand. I'm violating my own habits here to try to show you what you're doing.

And getting back to the subject, are you aware of any companies that have been upgrading their servers beyond just RAM (such as linode)?
π% of 1337 ≈ 42
First semester Corporate Finance. Try Brealey & Myers or Copeland & Weston.

The author may have a point that he was signaling they had nothing better to do with the funds. But, it's hard to say the share price would not have been worse, since this happened in a downtrending market. There is a potential confounding fallacy in that the author doesn't seem to get.
Last Sunday, I took the ferry with two buddies, to Sandy Hook. It is a 30-40 minute trip from the Wall Street pier and then you're on the beach.

Lying in the sun, having drinks, and occasionally venturing into the cold Atlantic (I grew up spening my summers on beaches against he Indian Ocean), for an entire day, was incredibly rejuvenating.

I wasn't thinking about tomorrow or yesterday. Lying on the beach (don't forget sunscreen) has one of the most relaxing effects, and the best is it lasts for one or two days afterwards.

So my suggestion would be, at least now that we have hot weather, go to the beach every weekend and soak up the sun, have a beer/vodka or two, and chill.
All of the (few) successful projects I've been on have been ones where the team whole-heartedly rejected agile practices.

On the other hand, every single "agile" project I've been on devolved rapidly into a sweatshop environment with a hack-ridden nightmare of tightly coupled bad code cobbled together with more tightly coupled bad code.

I've come to the conclusion that "agile" is what the talentless hackers hide behind in order to avoid the scrutiny of being found out as incompetent. As long as "heroes" garner rewards, those folks will be the norm rather than the rule, and any process you use with a team like that will lead to failure.

Making things worse (for agile) is that the most vocal proponents for it are typically the sort of people who would rather avoid the had part of actually doing any sort of engineering, and would rather just jump in and start writing code, even if that means writing code with an actual goal in mind. Managers appear to love this, because they still think that lines of code = productivity.

The result? Agile projects fail.

No process can save a project from its own team, though.
Gotta make a plug here for CoffeeScript, in which semicolons really are optional. CoffeeScript code compiles to neat, legible JavaScript (with semicolons).

http://coffeescript.org
"How do I turn that into 1 million?"

Iterate this last year ten times. ^_^

On a more serious suggestion, try to stick to something a bit longer, make a product, iterate it some times and finally take profit from it.
BTW, What happened to your poker server?
Thanks. I don't know how much luck I'll have negotiating terms this far into the venture, but I suppose it's worth mentioning.
The Aria in Las Vegas has a similar set of wall jacks hooking up to the TV and a USB power port. If only I'd brought a VGA cable, though I suppose for the projector-packing powerpoint presenting set, it's a given.
> But a male in NYC doesn't even have to try

I need to party with you, as I'm a total loser in NYC. I checked the census details on the male/female ratio here, and it's not that good. Overall, F > M. But from age 18-40 M > F. After that the number of males decline, which make the overall numbers appear favorable to men. Unless you're into post-menopausal women, it's still tough being a man in NYC.
This is what I was going on, I checked that man page, incredulously...
When EC2 came out, your only option was 1 compute unit (CU) with 2GB ram. Now they have high CPU and high memory options up to 26CU and 68GB ram.

If you want power, you can certainly get it.
I quite enjoyed it. Maybe it's not HN material but it was a pleasant read and spoke well to people who struggle to figure out what happiness is.
Most people at HN would probably agree that enjoyment would come from creating something. I, being newer here, took longer to figure this out. I realize that for a long while I was taking the wrong cues from society on how to draw enjoyment and this article sums up a lot of what my struggle was with and drew the same conclusions.
I would say it'll fade too. The audience for tattoo artists overlaps with the audience for musicians (or anything else, really) which is quickly fading. Once a few tattoo artists start moving over to other forms of personal/brand promotion, your tattoo artist friend will probably move too.
wow, not bad. interesting product, smart engineers. bombed an interview with them some time ago :P
Yep, this piece really threw me off on the article. He may be an antenna expert but he definitely doesn't know much about product design. OF COURSE reception when being held is a design requirement. Regulation requirements must trump aesthetics and functionality but it doesn't mean Apple doesn't consider stuff like the way the phone looks and how well it works when held.
Can you elaborate on why you think it's not a coherent thought?.

some examples of bad writing?.

and why you think it's lunatic raving ?.

withought these my friend, you are just doing the same you are accusing zack of.

in short, be objective.
Sorry, quote marks were not prominent enough - that was all a quote from the link, not my analysis.
I think you're right that there are some deeper issues here, and no one is doubting that the issues with the uptime need to get fixed ASAP, but I disagree with your notion that because I am taking my grievances public, the venture is over. There is a reason I am anonymous: I want to get feedback from other hackers, not throw my co-founders under a bus.
Add to that that EC2 prices actually are falling, from .10 to .085/hr for linux boxes for example, and it seems like a pretty good deal.
There should be some law against using the law to hinder progress. ;)
Not in the cloud they don't.
Yeah, that reminds me. It's one of the best looking Java apps I've seen. Tech Crunch screenshots not withstanding.