skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At 40, I'm surrounded by Generation "Me" kids from friends and siblings and in my view the main motivator is laziness. The problem is the spoiled kids of today are being raised by spoiled kids. Our generation started the sense of entitlement and it shows in the parenting style. Generation X is used to having it all and having it easy. Actual quote from a thirty-something mother the other day: "I always let them have their way because their whining gives me a headache".
Just wanted to let you know that I'm getting a flickering on my laptop as well, a MacBook Pro, using Firefox 3.6.6.
I guess you want to make sure you can really convince people that your BnB is safe, especially when using something like AirBnB.
Personally, I find the OpenStack Object Storage component more interesting than OpenStack Compute. I like the idea and implementation of S3 for saving important data. Similarly, the same sort of lazy replication of EBS just makes life easier.

I think that there will be a real sweet spot for smaller organizations who would like an internal system like S3 that offers robust data security with using really cheap disk drives and servers.

Hopefully OpenStack Object Storage will have good support for multi-datacenter replication.
If you are going to use Terracotta you really do need to design for it - even if it could in theory wrap a naive design, you'll probably thrash the network.

Some ideas for Terracotta friendly design I can think of, right off the bat:

1. If this node is the only one using this particular shared data structure right now, it gets to operate locally without network transactions until it's done.

2. If you consistently use a small part of a large data structure (eg: a hash), you'll only have that small part "paged in" on that one node. The whole data structure can be larger than RAM. Thus, node affinity can be important.

3. Be careful how much work is done inside a synchronized method of a shared data structure. It should be a medium amount. Too much, and you'll make other users wait, too little and you'll thrash the network.
Really nice, and it is linux (Debian) based, and provides ssh access with root privileges.

https://www.excito.com/bubba/products/technical-specificatio...

And is silent (even 0db with a SSD)
Really nice. Needs plugins, so my specific business needs can also be aded.
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No. Most data is already compressed so compressing it again won't improve anything.

One way that it could work would be having the server (really) near the client and pre-cache most links from the visited page.
Thanks, I'll make sure this is addressed.
Firefox 4 beta released. Time to dump your other browsers.
In early May, a few mock ups released by Mike Beltzner got the public wondering what the next generation of Firefox would look like and, more importantly, what features it would support.
as a little request, it would be awesome if you could connect to salesforce.com in some way, so we could have a widget with sales numbers
Looking forward to hearing what you need so that it works for your business. We have a fairly lively feature request room over at our help and support forum (http://geckoboard.zendesk.com/forums/176685-feature-requests) or feel free to shoot me a mail (see profile).
UI suggestion:

I'm in the "add widget" pop-up. Currently, I select a widget, then have to hit the green "select widget" button. I think that step could be eliminated? I actually went through the different service categories on the left, and for the ones that I wanted, I just clicked on the small gray box, and once I got the green dotted highlight, I thought that I had maybe added the widget.

Not a big deal. Just a thought.
I read news sources -- such as HN -- at least as much for the comments as for the news.

If one of the UK's newspaper websites had a good way to filter comments and allow me to more easily see the comments I'm interested in, make my own comments, and engage in conversations, then I would probably read that newspaper a lot more.
Might be especially convenient if the system you're using worked seamlessly with the Time Machine's automatic backup. What's been your experience?
This is awesome! I will definitely be using this.
Is this some kind of subtle ploy to prove to the government that the BBC has an unfair advantage?
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I usually do that. I can't remember where I found that headline, but perhaps it was changed after I posted it. I'm not sure what happened, and I apologise for the brain pain.
Among other things, they could easily blackmail any public figure who used Google search (or mail, maps, etc.)

There are various ways they could frame this to retain their image...one would be to announce a campaign to crack down on the use of gmail for lawbreaking. Then sweep email for selective incidents involving politicians (and reporters!) threatening Google with regulation, and report to the authorities.

They already do this with child pron, so this would just be moving the bar back towards things that 99% (as opposed to 99.999...%) of society opposed. Escorts are probably a good place to start if you wanted to take down politicians.
"This is the idea but in practice doesn't pan out. The government has to approve changes in the UK TV license fees so you find the BBC makes attempts to mollify the sitting government to get its funding increased."

I agree that the BBC has tried to ameliorate the current government by changing the visibility of some services in light of the coming changes - but I think that it's understandable, considering the way that commercial entities can (and do) lobby the government to make their will known. It is far easier to strike a deal with a commercial entity, and I think that Conservatives are very aware of this fact. I think it's a case of 'you scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours'.

"Not exactly. The Conservatives have a minority in the House of Commons in a coalition with the Liberal Democrats. I wouldn't exactly say the Lib Dems are partial to any such leanings you may attribute to the Conservatives regarding the media."

The Conservatives have the majority stake in the Con-Lib coalition. I think most would agree that the Liberal agenda is not at the forefront of this new government.

"The Conservative philosophy is traditionally one of smaller government and lower taxes so many such services are paid for in a more "user pays" kind of system."

I disagree - I don't think that 'user pays' is the most visible result. Historically, private enterprise puts profit before all other considerations. Some services are essential to the entire population - and access needs to be granted regardless of the wealth of each individual citizen.

The fact we have the BBC is an amazingly good thing - and I think dismantling of the organisation by this government would be unforgivable.

With the sweeping changes across the public sector, the restructuring of the NHS and the latest threat to the future of the BBC, I think the UK is going to end up being irreversibly changed. At the route of all of these changes is a pretty standard Tory philosophy; they're now able to do what they'd like to do, but under the guise of 'austerity'.

I do have have a bias - but, as a UK citizen, I have a right to a point of view.

Anything _may_ potentially happen .. but I'd argue there's a very specific agenda in place. Remember - up until recently, a lot of Murdoch's publications actually supported Labour ... the situation isn't as straightforward as you make out.
This is beautiful. I've just played with it for a few minutes. Only comment so far is have defaults wherever you can, instead of asking the user to fill in a value. For example, "label" for the email widget can be "email" as default instead of blank, so that it doesn't fail when i just want to add it quickly. I can always edit to relabel it. In a similar way, you could probably reduce the number of clicks it takes to add a widget.

Fantastic idea and pretty good execution so far. All the best!
I think it's more about the worry that if your chosen provider goes away you have no way to run the service yourself. You would have to rewrite everything using google storage to S3 instead of just migrating data centers.
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I made one for my company a few months ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SpYMCVnvMk
I wanted to work on something similar so I'm very curious about the pricing of this app. If it's not what I expect I might consider trying to work on it with a different approach so it wouldn't be just a copy. :)
I think that's rather missing the point entirely.
Cast your mind back to recent history, and consider the pure hatred that has been expressed for Microsoft over the years.

Corporations don't need to be loved - they need to be kept in check.
3d is a little overrated. The most recent Ubuntu has gone with a very plain 2d look for icons and it looks very clean and polished.
and their parents caused the great depression of the 30s ...
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I like the Intel Atom's. I have a mini-atx case with MSI Intel Atom board with two gigabit ethernet ports.
Still tempted to upgrade to newer Atom to be able to go completely passive system. Combine with SSD drive and totally silent server.
this is my understanding too, even if someone breaks into the db and gets the list of salts and passwords, they can't use rainbow tables because of the "random" salts, so finding the plain text passwords becomes computationally too expensive to accomplish.
Or perhaps if you had "taken charge" you would have gotten caught up in the Silicon Valley startup mania, and done very well for yourself, but made your wife unhappy in leaving San Diego. Would it have been worth it?
So... do they makani power?
Do all the comments seem to agree with each other? Creation of a microcosm of like-minded views?
I have a problem with worrying whether this is 'real commerce' or whether subjectively a lot of money is being made. If someone makes money, largely it's none of my business whether this a significant amount or not.

If your concern is zoning, that's a reasonable concern if people were turning residential properties effectively in hotels. That criteria can be left to local lawmakers. However it seems in most cases people are simply using small-scale property they live in and previously would rent.
I can really recommend lenovo thinkpads, my school has been using them as student laptops (t60p, t61p & w500) and the wear and tear ive seen these laptops go through is amazing. They are fast, robust and decently priced.

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imagine Amazon came up with a really good payment
services platform, and then said that in order to
use it, you had to live in their cloud. The market
would have to interact with their cloud to get access
to the payment services. Rackspace would lose access
to the segment of the target market that needed
this functionality.

Good example, but I thought the idea with OpenStack is to allow anyone to take this and run with it, customize it as they like and eventually end up with their own platform, potentially distinct from Rackspace's. In your example, Amazon says "in order to use the payment system, you have to live on the Amazon cloud" but I don't see any parallel restrictions in OpenStack, simply because it's open source and can be tailored unpredictably.

It's for this same reason that I question whether the benefits to Rackspace that you pointed out above really are such a sure thing for them. Seems like it could just as easily turn against them if someone else turns their open source solution to better advantage (assuming the open source license permits this).
I'd feel a lot more comfortable if I knew what you were doing with my Pingdom password (e.g. securely storing it), and if you used an input type="password" when entering it.

Also, I'd would be cool if I could choose to show only stats from Gmail with a certain label. That way I could show stats about unanswered ticket/support emails.
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Plan B: buy a shotgun, a motorcycle, lots of fuel and fresh water.
Hmm.. so will this subsequent post gain tsondermann a manpack too?
make sure you get one with high enough resolution
Thanks for the suggestion and sorry the instructions aren't what they should be. We'll address both.
The speech you point to does not support your point. My reading is that he is trying to cleaning up the toxic legal spill that the previous administration left behind (while trying not to give his Republic critics ammunition).

Re. the assassination of a US citizen, that hardly seems notable given that the guy is very actively involved in putting together terrorist attacks. Surely any president would make the same decision.
I wish I could give you more than one vote - that's one of the most insightful comments I've read on here.

(NB I've always been fascinated by prehistory and how our ancestors experiences shaped our own behaviour).
I agree that that's how things are now. My argument is that software development today is not an engineering discipline. You're right that I know almost nothing about "real" engineering. However, what I do know seems to suggest that commercial software development, even in the best of circumstances and with the best people, does not possess necessary characteristics that are relied upon in commercial engineering.

The thing is, so much of what software developers do could be systematized, or at least codified into what would often manifest as what we'd call "tools" that are then used to far more productive effect by those domain experts.

I've mentioned Matlab and Mathematica elsewhere as an example of delivering domain-specific notation, but they're also a great widespread example of delivering a domain-appropriate environment. What if these tools didn't exist, and any time someone needed to do some math, they had to cajole some programmers somewhere to help them get the job done? That'd be a disaster in relative terms, but that's the status quo of so many other "domains" where software development is regularly involved.
I bet this contraption is trivially circumvented for less than $100 of gear. It's just microwaves, and there are many ways of shielding and rending them inert. But it's fantastic that DoD spent billions to create this high PR weapon that they will probably never use effectively.
One could easily imagine a registration including a
computer-readable logo, that when one points one's phone at
it, produces reviews of whether that registration is good
or bad.

Which just opens the door to abuse from anyone with an incentive to game the system. This is a complex problem (in the sense of Menken's rule) and probably a fabulous business opportunity if you can find a good way to solve it.

You might have better luck than me. Every month or so I try to solve it and so far each solution runs into one or more of: privacy, chicken-or-egg, incentives-to-use, internet-dickwad, or some kind of abuse from the various players.
Not sure if you're only looking for input from the funders themselves? Well in any case here's a fun idea I'd like to see implemented:

A music-making marketplace. What do I mean? Somewhere online that lets people sell simple musical components (like melodies, beats, lyrics, chord progressions /backing tracks) and musical services (like singing parts, mixing, playing, sequencing, arranging). Whole songs could be assembled in this entrepreneurial fashion.

How would the transactions work? Let people set there own terms (maybe support auctions), but one idea I had was everyone involved in the final track gets a cut of the songwriter royalties. If it's a hit, everyone could get rich! And sell the finished products on the front page, obviously (unless people opt to take it offsite).

If nothing else, it'd be something a bit different. Songs are often made like this anyway... Like the latest Eminem song was a beat from Alex Da Kid, probably using samples of something else, which Eminem put verses to, then a hook from an unknown singer was added, which was then rerecorded by Rihanna, etc
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There was a list of areas for ideas they would like to invest in on the bottom of the last YC application for funding round.
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Many regular users - and younger members of society especially (like my younger siblings for example) - have absolutely no concern for privacy or the potential for abuse by companies like Google.

What will it take before the general public understands kind of dangers involved? Or are privacy concerns largely theoretical musings by geeks, which simply aren't as important as we imagine them to be?
No trolling, just a supposition: I'd like to answer this with a movie quote (I just can't recall the movie for some reason) - "...and like it or not, they're going to build you a new civilization, under a new world order."

What can't be done when a single company in the world has, with a multitude of "free" services, crawled into every crevice of your private life? They know who you e-mail and what you mail about. They know your calendar and schedules. They know your economy. They know your medical history. They know who your friends are and what you do on your vacation. They know your hobbies and interests. Traverse the list of Google products and you'll quickly see that every single aspect of your life can now have a Google tag on it.
Make a girls-only social network.
UL is private company that sets safety standards and tests products that
manufacturers voluntarily submit for (and pay for) testing.

Why do these manufacturers do that? Perhaps just as a lawsuit hedge: they can always claim to have been 'certified by the de facto testing standard', in which case it's the reasonable expectations laid down by the law that drive the interest in this 'independent' testing. I.e.: the government.

Another explanation is that large brand A initially wanted to distinguish itself as 'the safest' and brand B just followed the lead so it didn't seem less safe. When they control a substantial part of the market, others will soon follow. After that, the actual contents behind the logo don't matter anymore. It's a perception-driven protection racket, the actual value of which cannot be determined by consumers. But it doesn't even matter how it comes about: after most of a market sports a certain logo or association, what's to stop that organisation from growing lax and pleasing their clients? There is hardly any room for competition in that market: who's going to start a UL competitor and why on earth would a brand be interested?

Or, the more fundamental question: who tests the testers? How do you know the UL is not theoretical and actually working? Even the government suffers from corruption; I doubt such companies are any better.
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More importantly, it will delete all data on the device after 10 attempts if the user was paranoid enough to set this option. I am.
"Google blamed the collection on a rogue bit of code that was never removed after it had been inserted by an engineer during testing"

I've seen this quoted before. If it's accurate it's pretty damn weak, in fact totally unbelievable. There's absolutely no way this data could have been collected unless deliberately.
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I've also found the netbook route an excellent choice. http://www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/ runs beautifully on a Dell Mini 10v with Ubuntu Server.
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So what's the answer? Revolution?

I'm honestly at a loss, when I try to think of solutions. The most sensible reaction might be to break Google up into smaller companies - which would mean that the benefit it gains from being interconnected would be reduced - but I don't think this would currently be possible.
Microsoft is not a monolithic entity. Might one of their famous executives hate certain competitors? Yes. Do their employees, on the whole, hate the competitors that exist in their myriad markets? Probably not.

So if Steve Ballmer = Microsoft, then sure, Microsoft hates their competitors. But if not, then no, they don't.
This is really slick & feels especially solid, especially given that it's an MVP.

I'd love to see Clicky integration.

Also, thoughts on pricing? Flat rate, per widget, other?
Also, Buffalo didn't happen to design it, did they?
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A very cool one: real time website analytics:

http://demo.hummingbirdstats.com/

http://rdelsalle.blogspot.com/2010/05/real-time-web-analytic...
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What are the dangers? What could be done with this type of information?

There was a similar shift in privacy when banking went electronic and we all got credit cards. Now businesses have vast repositories of extremely detailed purchasing information, and we all accept this surrender of privacy without question.

What's the difference? What has been the impact of the loss of privacy via e-banking?
Bug note: The "What is this?" button doesn't work

Mac OS X: 10.6.4
Chrome: 5.0.375.99

No errors in Javascript console, sorry
How does openstack compare to Eucalyptus?

http://www.eucalyptus.com/
I did downloaded it, looked at the source, but did not install it. OpenStack Object Storage looks like a very interesting project.
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Nope. Especially on controversial topics (such as anything regarding BP), there are some quite heated arguments.

Politics threads do tend to clique somewhat though. I tend to read the comments on those less though :).
Thanks for digging further, I read most of the site and I missed the 10KW prototype thing (it is the sensible thing to do, and I'm glad they did it).

The reason why I'm skeptical is because systems that are 'far out' in wind power have been proposed over and over again during the last decade each with even better on paper performance than the last one. Then as soon as a full scale model is tried it turns out the economies aren't there any more for some subtle reason (and sometimes not so subtle).

The wing tracing out the movement of the tip of a turbine makes the wing a turbine, there is no way around that, and as such it will be governed by the same laws, there are no exceptions from that. 1MW is not just 2 orders of magnitude more complicated than 10KW, it is probably more like 3 or 4. I've hand built a 2.5 KW machine, I'd be very careful to extrapolate my hard-won knowledge to a machine that is only 4 times as powerful.

For lower power levels a slipring arrangement is customary to avoid twisting up the cable inside a windmill tower, at higher power levels the mill is usually steered in such a way that the cables will not tangle.

I'm very curious how this will develop, I'm a huge fan of renewable energy but I've been around the awea boards long enough that I'd like to see some longer term results and at higher power levels before getting really excited. I do sincerely hope they succeed, time will tell, and google backing these guys is simply awesome.
Why don't any of these articles put blame on the users, for broadcasting their data without any encryption set up? I guess that's not the exciting news story. They could at least use the opportunity to educate people a bit..