skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't ordered a wakemate. I'm not the target market but I'm always amazed at the level of vitriol that follows their posts here on HN.

There is no doubt that their overall communication strategy is a bit "rough".

I'm always surprised and bit disappointed at the beating people give these guys here. This is a community of tech entrepreneurs who know how unbelievably difficult it is to ship product and a run a start up. I'm not suggesting everyone should get a free pass. I'm all for pointed thoughtful criticism but the verbal beatings seem unwarranted.
Well, that and the facebook customers are not the users, they're the corporation buying adds and information..
And its so very buggy...
While that might work on a small scale, I think at larger scales it starts to just turn into excessive noise. It also becomes hard to distinguish between "marginally interesting" and "karma whoring". I think long term its much better to encourage the behaviors you want. Besides, you can always lower the threshold for "interesting". The point is to encourage the creation of good content and ignore (as far as rewards go) the creation of bad content. The h-index stuff is interesting, though, and I'll definitely be looking in to it some more.
Gark, after reading this comments I was scared to click.

My screen is bright... I'm still blinking. The apprehension was justified, the warnings were valid and sadly were not heeded.

Anyone want to rig up a quick alternate CSS we can apply with greasemonkey? Or are those horrible things images?

ps. shade 3 welding goggles would do the trick
One thing I like a lot about it is that you don't get the "first post" effect, where the first few people to say something get page top and all the attention. That's how it is on Slashdot.
Why Scholars and Programmers Need to Talk
What are some other sites that lay people use and that do as many things as Facebook does?
It seems kind of odd that the Times ran an article about how the Da Vinci is awesome written by an employee of the company that makes it. This seems a little like asking an employee at McDonald's HQ to write an article about the health effects of fast food.
off-topic, but his little comment about interstellar travel is wrong. Even with exponential growth in propulsion technology, there is an optimal departure time for arriving earliest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_Calculation

(that equation was published long after this article was written though)
How Malicious Code Reaches Your Network
People who want to try this should see the FAQ about problems using note-level syncing with file-level syncing:

http://wiki.github.com/scrod/nv/faq-synchronization
Still loads results in a frame. So annoying.
Original wristband: too big, too heavy, not something I want to wear to bed and the electronics bulge out too far.
New wristband:much smaller, much lighter, made of "pillowy" material and hides the electronics.

Overall it is a much more comfortable wristband and a much better user experience.

While the original may have been a little "flashier" we did not want to sacrifice UX for looks, especially when you are only going to be wearing this to bed.

As for our homepage - we need to get the final version of the wristband photographed and then we will be implementing a full design change of our homepage.
The indy bundle had a marketing appeal to it in that they were indy developers (not a big corporation), and that they were giving to charity. They had a ton of press coverage because of this, and not for any other reason in particular (the game bundle selection was OK).

I think short term factors like media coverage skew results. How effective would the next Indy bundle be? And the one after that? And after that? It would be a fallacy to then say that as sales and donations dropped, consumer behavior somehow changed.
> It would seem that AT&T won a few of those battles.

If AT&T won the battles, it may have been more due to lack of suitable infrastructure, than to telling Apple not to implement something.

I live where AT&T has no 3G (only EDGE). The microwave backhaul link speeds are documented in the FCC database (service type CM). Where I see Alltel (now Verizon) having a link speed of 133Mbps, a similar nearby AT&T link is in the 27-40 Mbps range. Obviously AT&T doesn't have a use for the higher backhaul rate, because they have not upgraded to 3G yet.

Does anyone have decent bandwidth utilization numbers for Facetime ?
The Blogosphere - how big and profitable it really is?
I disagree with the idea that the average person is unconcerned with privacy. Only celebrities and up-and-coming rock stars want to share everything.

The average person might not know much about how privacy leaks happen and they might be willing to assume this or that thing they do is private, even without any evidence. But the average person is mortified at the prospect of their private business going out to the world at large. "The Internet" is a bugaboo to many, many people with privacy violation being a part of that bugaboo. This same dark, nameless fear is starting to rub-off on Facebook.

That said, I would agree that the other compulsive aspects of Facebook you mention probably also are factors. And the two factors work together rather than being dichotomies. A person may feel a need to have "friends" but simultaneous fear of sharing their information given the possibilities that it could go "anywhere".

Twenty years or more, I saw a Sci-Fi which described a future in which people had to pay not to be connected to the net.

I'd agree that the ads probably aren't a big factor though.
http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2006/07/31/frogs-water-bugs-and-... original in context
I lived in the Middle East for years. One learns frustration tolerance (patience) there by design. There are generally no queues for anything in the ME - not for the post office, or to pay the electricity bill, or much of anything else. It's bad enough having to wait when you are in a queue, but what if there isn't one? Find the longest queue you can and get in it (even if you are not attending or buying whatever is at its end). Stay there until you either get to the end, or have to leave. Repeat this whenever you can.
You didn't mention exercise but I have found over the course of 33 years of regular physical activity that "lashing out in anger" is a lot harder to contemplate when the body is physically used.
Good Luck.
I was but not anymore.
Yeah, I once asked about that kind of review at a company that didn't have it, and everyone automatically assumed that I hated my manager and wanted to get her in trouble. In fact, the opposite was true. For some reason people think that the only purpose of upward feedback is to rat on your boss.
This is great! Font size is a bit large though, otherwise pretty awesome.
Shouldn't that by "...under successful attack by 4chan users" ("under attack by anonymous" isn't journalistic enough, even for Village Voice)? I don't think "4chan" the site officially endorses the attack.

Is this because of gawker's criticism of the "You don goofed?" affair? Jessi Slaughter, the face that launched a thousand rootkits.
Very lively note! No wonder this fellow was drawn to working an on a project by _why.

I've never before felt interested in using a Ruby framework, having recoiled from Rails in consternation (though to be fair, I wasn't quite ready for a framework). I really like the idea of a mnmlst framework. I've looked at the Sinatra and camping websites before... now I'm intrigued enough to try a project in each.
> It was preceded by the Utah Teapot

Teapotahedron, please. It's the sixth platonic solid.
The last time I visisted, ~20% of the posts on /b/ were malware, botnets, and various other goodies to probe. 4chan users basically use their own community to attack sites. There's self-servicing ddos web apps/downloads and the infected, uneducated browsers of the site. Its actually quite ironic to see an user utilize their own internet connection in an organized DDOS, eh?

Its not too far-fetched too imagine a certain percentage of their community also has some type of access to botnets to assist in attacks.. I mean that's what they do, sometimes, so, why not be prepared?
Clojure: Composing Functions
Why the hate? I check t-nation on a regular basis and I have to agree, most of the time the articles aren't what you'd expect to be exact quality. But there are those little articles and tips, that just work. This is a great example of one. If you're interested in fat loss, why not try it out and then judge? People judge and critize before they put the ideas into work, that's why the sports forums in general are filled with "experts" who can't show you the results, but definitely know how to critize.

I understand your point, but if you don't like it, don't read it :-)
I would bet this has nothing to do with Facebook itself. Look at the other things people hate: Airlines, insurance, the cable and fone companies. Like it or not these companies are infrastructure, basically things people are forced to use to function well in society. This breeds resentment, people hate the things they have to do whether that hatred is fair or not.

I don't like phones, and I hate that I have to pay to have a phone to maintain a large chunk of social interaction (there are alternatives, but they suck). This means I am far more demanding of what I want from the phone company, and far less tolerant when they do things I dislike. Yet I keep giving them money.

Facebook reaching this point means that facebook will be harder to unseat, due to it having "but whatcha gonna do about it" status, not easier because people hate them.
$29 for tehnical support can be a good deal.
I'm not sure, but I don't think the pictures are correlated to the article. There are just some pro bodybuilders, go for the content! ;-)
According to the IRC chan, they're also going to release the lucene based search interface to Riak.
In that case, you'd have a fault-tolerant, easily scalable datastore that allows fulltext search (among other things).
Can't wait :)
Who has the blog with the best design? Interested to see what peoples thoughts are on the Links & fonts...
The Mathematics Stack Exchange Site is Now in Private Beta
Learning Python is one of my personal goals this year, so while we're on the subject of Python, has anyone done a review of Zed Shaw's Learn Python the Hard Way (http://learnpythonthehardway.org)?

One of the biggest mistakes I used to make was reading programming books start to finish, and then coding. I would read in a comfy chair and code at a desk. Laziness would kick in, and I'd sit and read, instead of popping over to the desk and coding what I just learned.

The second mistake I used to make is wasting time (and $$) on crappy books without researching reviews first. I like the philosophy behind Zed's tutorial - learn by doing - but I was wondering what Python programmers thought of it.
Assuming 10000 visitors to the park

Flat Price No Charity:
10000 * .005 * $12.95 = $647.50 to park only

Flat Price Half Charity:
10000 * .0059 * $12.95 * .5 = $382.03 to both park and charity

Name Price No Charity
10000 * .0839 * $0.92 = $771.88 to park only

Name Price Half Charity
10000 * .0449 * $5.33 * .5 = $1196.59 to both park and charity
Attention Disorders Can Take a Toll on Marriage
Is there a concise document somewhere that explains why one would choose Riak -- i.e., what unique features or characteristics -- over, say, Cassandra or another DHT-style key/value store?
I'll probably add a stylesheet switcher, and have persistence so that pages in history that have been already viewed are shaded down. Thanks.
Well, then there's no such thing as altruism.

But generally I think such quibbling is silly. It's impossible to completely suppress the ego.
Personalizing your email subject lines can drop your conversion rate . . .
Like almost everyone else around here, I used to when I was a kid. Finding hard copies of software was hard. Even if I found them, I couldn't afford most programs like Turbo C or Visual C++ so downloading was a must.

Console games were super expensive and buying a game was rare. On the PC it was equally expensive ,plus the lack of HD space was very limiting. Not being able to fit a full install of 2 or 3 games made downloading a 'rip' a must.

Today: The feeling of opening Visual Studio or a new game box is as awesome as 10 years ago, but now I do it way more often :)
I think users have real concerns about privacy - but not in the way that geeks tend to believe. The problem with Facebook in its current state is that it has no consistency, and is often a non-deterministic system.

To be more specific: what the hell makes it onto my news feed, and how? If I click this button, will it be broadcast to the world? I (and a few friends) were concerned when their use of the "Find a Friend" feature was openly touted on Facebook on my feed (e.g. "Mike found Bob through Friend Finder!") - where no notice was given.

People realize that whatever they post on their status, Walls, etc, are essentially public knowledge. But they do not expect simple clicks to be broadcast to the world (potential e.g., "Mike viewed Jane's profile 20 times this week!")... and while we'd like to think Facebook is smart enough to tiptoe around these use cases, evidence suggests they are not.
Learn Python the Hard Way was excellent. Best free PDF I've found on Python
Apple beats Q3 consensus
building the code in the bug report as a 64bit binary and various system information: http://gist.github.com/483494

and

testing harness, scripts to build it, and to run it: http://gist.github.com/483524 -- yes i was too lazy to make a makefile.

you will still need to construct some command line fu to separate the results into separate files so you can load it into whatever maths program you want.
Riak search is coming. But in the meantime, there is elasticsearch, http://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch, which is also very nice.
I think most people will say they dislike Facebook, mainly due to the time commitment involved, but they would feel quite disconnected if they were suddenly unable to use it to keep up with their friends.

It's not that people are using Facebook "because everybody else uses it" (that is, because of peer pressure), but because people have come to need a service that "everybody else uses."
https://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Riak+Comparisons
Direct link to one of the demo pages http://aloha-editor.com/demos/960-fluid-demo/
I would sooner believe that Obama has been captured by little green men flying on dragons and nobody noticed because of clever interference run by the Illuminati than believe any of these statistics.
May be a bit dated but right from the horses mouth: http://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Riak+Comparisons
Digital publishing: Ebooks vs Web Fiction
This is what the irridium system does, as well as Milstar, and other commerical telecom systems. Irridium is a medium orbit, where milstar and the commercial telcom are in geosynchronous orbits. A geo satellite is typically a few thousand kg with kilowatts of power.

But for the low cost option consider how much bandwidth can the onboard transmitter they provide handle. How big will your ground station need to be in order to pick up the signal? I suspect a tracking dish and hardware will exceed $8k by at least an order of magnitude.
I was forced to buy a "license" for Windows when I bought the computer. I wiped it off at first but had a use for it a year later, so I downloaded it and ran it in a VM. Should I answer yes or no?
These departments in every state have been getting slashed for the last 10 years, actually.
I feel like this is a YC start up in the making.

AirBNB = Couchsurfing/Craigslist rentals

Daily Booth = The "Pic a Day" meme

Along those lines a startup where people can trade their "junk" in a slightly competitive aspirational way. A more social eBay, based around local and some competitive game mechanics that reward big scores.
Wakemate continues to say one thing and do another, moreso than nearly every other company that has come out of YC. And they nearly always had the option to say the right thing instead.

Personally, I'm far more amazed by apologists like you, who claim that because starting a company is hard, I should forgive lousy project management and shitty communication.

Yes, it's hard. But they suck at it. They're lousy project managers and lousy communicators. If they don't go belly-up it'll be a miracle, because they've done everything possible to destroy their own business.
Apple delivers blockbuster earnings on revenue of $15.7 billion
Node Knockout: a 48-hour node.js coding contest
Isn't that kind of the definition of peer pressure? You need to do something to stay in group A. Do it or be removed.

Or maybe an addiction? One can dislike what they're addicted to, and still be strongly pressured to use it.

Except this group A is the biggest & most connected group the world has ever seen => potentially the biggest & most powerful peer pressure the world has ever seen (depends on what value you assign to those connections, and what value they assign, and the availability of other options (i.e.: none, for most people, however incorrect that belief is)).

What people want is something like Facebook. Clearly. But that doesn't mean they have to like Facebook to keep using it; it's just the only real option.
Apple Q3: Best Mac Sales Ever And Huge iPad Numbers
Where was it hosted before?
Apple Obliterates Q3 Earnings Estimates: Best Mac Sales Ever, Huge iPad Numbers
Most likely, nosey NIMBY douchebags like the person described at very unequivocally not section 8.
https://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Riak+Compared+to+Cassand...
Not exactly. Arbitrage is exploiting mispricings of the same item in different markets.

For example, say you buy an iPhone from Craigslist for $100, then turn around and sell it on Ebay for $150, netting you $50.

Or conversely, you get an iPhone for your birthday for free, sell it on Ebay for $150, then buy a second one from Craigslist for $100, netting you an iPhone+$50.

That's arbitrage. It sounds like makeramen's Pokemon trading all happened in basically the same elementary school market.
Facebook Lawyer `Unsure' Whether Founder Mark Zuckerberg Signed Contract
I would like to see the servce ingboo.com used on this site. Their tool allows you to take rss updates to any channel you want like facebook,twitter,email,igoogle,etc. Its a free tool and would make readers lives easier.
Yes it was more of a guess than anything substantiated. Feel free to down-vote it. It deserves it.
TrueCrypt 7.0 released, now with hardware-accelerated AES support
NotifyWire automates Craiglist monitoring. I don't know if it would help the barter system, though, since that relies on judging each trade opportunity.
Well, the plural of anecdote is not data.

Maybe we should reconsider the laws, rather than the organization. If we didn't have a different standard of "guilty until proven innocent" that immediately kicks in when someone's accused of child abuse, the organization might be much more effective. Or less effective. I don't know. Let's not overgeneralize from a few bad stories though.
Lebron James or Foursquare, what's hotter?
Spilling has nothing to do with this. GCC has the chance to pick another GPR that is caller saved but instead picks a callee saved register.

This decision increases the size of libc by 1% when compiled with -fomit-frame-pointer[1].

[1] http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2010-07/msg00022.htm...
I think people in general, once they start talking about a subject they are passionate about, will start giving way more information than necessary.
Thanks. Big pet peeve of mine. Pretty much all state and local-run services have had a hatchet taken to them every single year for the last 10 years, and then people have the gall to get angry at the idea of paying people for public service, or advocate for cutting more teachers/cops/firefighters/social workers because quote "government is too big". Cut somewhere else, these people actually do things.
Actually this is a huge problem that regularly deters me (and my parents) from donating more. 95% of organizations view a single donation as an all-access pass to send junk mail, emails, and in many cases even phone calls with "updates" and requests for more money.

Sometimes I want to be able to say to organizations: "I would love to support your cause, but not if it means I have to deal with all your crap afterwards!"
Question: Is there a more secure way to set the parameters other than have them in a hidden form field? It appears that the end user can set the parameters just by changing POST values. I'd prefer that not be the case.
I find it curious that I can upvote both options in the poll...
After the Deadline Bigram Corpus... Our Gift to You
You're not alone. I hate that thing, and I hate the fact that when you do actually fill out a suggestion, it forces you to create a login in order to submit it.
I had this discussion once, and was presented with the following options:

Ideally, lazy evaluation will automatically memoize all your computations. Haskell's 'thunk' system does this in part. However, doing full memoization on most functions will result in huge memory bloat. Which brings us to the essential trade off of memory vs. cpu time. By default, GHC will conserve memory and memoize only when it is obvious that you want values cached. If you want memoization, there are a few things you can do.

1) Add 'let' clauses to your function bodies. GHC will automatically memoize these.

2) Add certain compiler flags for automatic memoization (I don't know what these are, but I know they exist)

3) do it "semi-manually" by generating closures.

I'm sure there are other options, but these three are relatively simple to implement without even needing a memoize function (Though I'm sure one can be written).
I do not think they control a botnet- they download that LOIC tool individually, specifically for DDoS purpose. Gawker does not seem to have a serious infrastructure: it looks like they are hosted on DATAGRAM.COM, they do not even have their own IP ranges. So it's probably easy to knock down.
In the article it says he's going to be the next CEO...yeah right! Does that make sense to anyone?
Do it yourself first, the cold-calling will give you valuable insight. Then hire a pro.

Commission should be as high as you can, up to %70 is not unheard of. That's because the sales person makes money from the first payment, but after that, the advertiser is all yours to keep. Make sure to get all the contact information within the company from the salesperson and communicate your intent to them.
Personally, I've always liked the look of eCache: https://ffij33ewbnoeqnup.onion.meshmx.com/

Plus points for the top pun as well.

However, I think if we're ever going to escape the problems mentioned in other comments here, what we really need is a huge PayPal-style system to take off, integrate with common systems etc. Can you imagine the potential if eBay supported this? Shame it won't happen, as that's the kick it needs in my opinion :)
Any suggested cleaners/scans for rootkit infection or zombie trojan?
No, that wasn't an idea, it was a discovery.
Linux kernel OOPS debugging
Alright, can't verify it - but I changed our post : )
Man, I am so proud to be a Montrealer right now. This is an amazing example of the Creativity + Talent + Technology = Innovation that exemplifies this city.

Vive le Montréal! Oh and kudos to Thiago Costa. This is just awesome!
I giggled a little bit when I saw the 6px numbering down the right side. Most people have trouble with anything below 11px or 12px, so to cut that in half is pretty funny. If you don't want the numbering, just remove it, otherwise it needs to be bigger.

Also, the post titles shouldn't be 20px. That's about what you would use on an <h1> tag and you typically only have one or two of them on an entire page (whereas you have 30 of them).

Scale everything down.