skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Point: Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust

Counterpoint: It’s not just about growth rate. It’s about acceleration and how much fuel you have in your tank.

Are you guys debating business or desert road racing?

Exactly when did we replace discussions of compelling business propositions, market share, revenue, capitalization, and profitability with metaphors? Both points of view could use a little more meat on their bones for the rest of us to see past the cat fight and understand the real business issues at hand.
Are you also done installing any future OS's or Browsers?

I mean it's up to you what you want to do, but why do you need to throw in strawmen?
Data vs. Interpretation
I only read the comments. Usually the number seven is the magic number of steps. There are many ideas and few paying customers for then. So there must be some magic. How to transform sand into gold in five glorious steps, with an introduction by Harry Pottter.
Once the 10 min was over, it worked perfectly fine, and scrolled fast too. But memory usage went up a LOT.
vaccines are safe, every child should be vaccinated, and to do otherwise is unethical

I have a friend whose son is mentally handicapped, apparently [1] because, as an infant, his vaccination was both (a) done incorrectly and (b) massively overdosed.

I say this not to advocate against vaccination, but to remind that no medical procedure is without risk. Accidents happen, and there are also individual circumstances that would make some treatments unadvisable.

A statement as categorical and sweeping as yours is taking things too far.

[1] Nobody will ever be able to prove it, but the evidence is convincing to me.

UPDATE: forgot to mention about the (very small) inherent danger in using attenuated virus vaccines, such as the OPV (Sabin, not Salk) polio virus. It seems that in this case, it mutates and reverts to the virulent, paralyzing form in 1 / 750,000 cases [2]. This is tiny, but you can't categorically call it safe.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Iatrogenic_.28vac...
That's great, but why compare it to "Python"? If you just wanted to write about what you liked, why not do that instead of trying to offer an empty comparison that isn't even on target any way?
Can't reply to trunnell's response to this, so I'll just leave this here:

The categorical imperative is a nice heuristic to determine whether some behavior will benefit the greater good, but it's also nothing more than that. There is nothing inherently 'ethically dubious' about deviating from a rule of thumb, firstly because the heuristic returns false positives and secondly because you may disagree whether something is a 'greater good'.

If you want to argue that this deviation from this rule of thumb is 'ethically dubious', you'll have to argue exactly that and not argue some blanket claim that everyone should disagree with.
FYI: I also just discovered that Felton is making an iPhone app. I look forward to it. http://daytum.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/backend-upgrade/
$38/year or per month?
This is really just a symptom of the magnetism of Silicon Valley.

To put it into context, here in the UK there is no where really quite like it, in terms of supporting tech startups and harbouring a community that has such prestige and heritage from over the years. From our perspective Silicon Valley is always going to be seen as having greener grass than ours.
Ask HN: Did anyone record Jason Calacanis being an a**?
Damn..
Could you clarify what you mean by: "upgrade everything all of the time" and "the whole toolkit is in a constant state of flux"? What toolkit, and what upgrades? And how is it different to you than the Linux side of things?
It is however, hilarious.
Fx4b6 does not include the new JaegerMonkey javascript engine, so the lack of a speedup compared to Fx3.6 is not terribly surprising.

JaegerMonkey is in Fx nightly builds at the moment and is supposed to be featured in Fx4b7 (to be released later this month).
Ah, interesting idea!

I looked at the apps you recommended, and it seems like at least Paraben has some BlackBerry support already.

How might we distinguish ourselves?
Yes, according to the FAQ, it is a digital simulation, with no delays.

Notably, the description of the 6502 was reverse engineered from die photographs.
That's a big part of why it's reassuring. No dodging blame, no useless half-answers. That, and that your safety-first decisions existed at all and worked is excellent news to any of your customers.
Particularly on mobile browsers.
Thanks. By the way, if you really are about privacy you can use https instead of http. That problem has been solved.

What do you mean by "integrating"? You mean no one would actually host streams like they host websites?
It will get shot down due to legacy requirements. It boggles my mind they didn't start Powershell "legacy-free" and just emulate/re-implement the existing command line commands.
Before clicking the link I thought "Meh, another lame .ly startup" ...

But, that's seriously cool. It reminds me of Rocky's Boots for the Apple ][
Here's my (user oriented) folder structure on Arch Linux:

AUR
Books
Desktop
ISOs
Music
Others
Photos
Retrieved
Screenshots
Wallpapers
The fact that he's the public face shouldn't make you think that he "built" it.
now imagine having a job where you deal with outages all the time and putting out fires and having to listen to stressed out people all the time...welcome to my world :)
Ha Ha! Fantastic! I want to use this!
Yeah I can see this going both ways, really. (That is, similar sales volume or drastically reduced sales volume.)

And, as I say, I think there's a real benefit to taking something like this and opening it up, I'm just not sure I'm willing to risk it - for now - especially since I'm already competing against _one_ free alternative.
did something just happen? i like to know. thanks.
Lean Startup is a Rigorous Process
Super insightful, it's like the quote "you don't know what you've got till it's gone". Humans seem to have to feel pain/hit rock bottom before we can go back up, instead of visually processing what the future holds in store and proactively changing it. It's an interesting cognitive process.
I'm comparing my experience learning Rails to my experience trying to find a Python framework or arrangement of tools. The problem I've had with Python is that I need to spend a lot of time picking exactly the right subset of libraries to get something that suites me; then I need to spend a lot of time gluing them all together. I haven't needed to write any glue code at all to use everything I mention in the article.
All they need is distinguishable errors when decrypts fail. The contents of the error are irrelevant. You can send a bare 500 with no content and still be trivially vulnerable to this attack.
Hello, I was going to post independently, but HN don't allow me to do it (you are submitting very fast, slow down).

Here is what I would like:

Find a precise title for a post, that is a program that receives a url, a document or any text input and outputs a precise title for that information.
The problem if you do that, as soon as you run a console EXE, you're hosed, weird things will happen.
I thought that the main topic here was about whether or not vaccines cause autism. It seems petty to try and point to other risks/side-effects of vaccines when the main point of the discussion has been disproven. i.e.:

Person 1: Vaccines cause autism!
Person 2: No they don't! Here's proof!
Person 1: Well...it's still not 100% safe, so *there*! I win!

The risks of being vaccinated are less than the risks of not being vaccinated.

I have acquaintances who refuse to vaccinate their kids and you really can't argue much with them (though thankfully, they are not the type to be preachy about it). If someone wants to look it up, there is apparently some book about the problems with vaccines, but (from my experience) the logic goes something like:

* Vaccines aren't 100% effective. There are people that receive vaccines that still get the illness.

* Vaccines can give you the illness you are trying to prevent.

* There are various other side-effects associated with vaccines.

* [I added this one, though I've never heard anyone use it, and I still vaccinate my daughter] The companies that make the vaccines are immune to prosecution, so they don't have an incentive to produce a quality product.

* [the really crazies like this one too] The 'man' is putting things in vaccines to make poison us and/or make the 'lower classes' sterile as part of some sort of population-control method (See chem-trails and various other 'theories').
My question is - does GPU mean nvidia/ATI, or will the Intel Integrated graphics also be leveraged for these performance boosts ?
Looks like a way to test drive some new code that will eventually become part of Google Me.
When I went to orientation when I entered college, they were very explicit not to start intimate relationships until a month or two in (after the first chem test). One reason was we would find out how hard college really was and could judge whether we could afford that commitment, but another reason they gave was that you wouldn't develop friendships with other people nearly as much, and you needed that broader support group to help you in college. Plus heaven forbid you break up, and find yourself with no social circle at all.
From xterm's main.c:

/*
*	W A R N I N G
*
* If you think you know what all of this code is doing, you are
* probably very mistaken. There be serious and nasty dragons here.
*/
I do not disagree.
Note that it's an "user drags something in the UI and we measure something" benchmark, so it's potentially suspicious if the things measured are comparable at all in different runs and browsers.

For example, in games, frames per seconds are measured under basic assumption that the game has the mode in which there's no limit the increase of frames per second other than the speed of rendering and that that mode is always identically reproducible.

Are we sure about that here?

And as others noted, they are using the old version of Opera, 10.53 instead of 10.62 which is current.
I have. I've gotten bit by the hidden char and char translation issues with Cisco configs. Often, it would cause units to halt on bootup -- quite annoying when said unit is 42 km away.
Isn't the point of a video sharing site so you don't have to worry about the overhead of transcoding, building a player, and distributing/debugging your videos?
Ingenuity vs. Inefficiency: A Tale from Tianjin
I think you got it the other way round.

X is a really bad name for the windowing system, considering they used it for generic variable name for centuries.
Very thoughtful post. Everyone who wants "more" banking regulations should look more towards the capital reserve and other leverage measures instead of trying to nit-pick things like banning X fee, Y technique or Z instrument. Markets work when risk is priced at its real level - as opposed to the governments bail-out moral hazard and bankers' group-think.

His conclusion that there are still problems with how risk is weighted is certainly true as well - though I'd say that a lot of this could be solved using super-transparency.

Let require releasing a programmatic model for every instrument that will determine pricing for the underlying assets (i.e. all the mortgages in a MBS would be individually modeled with real data inputs). Then we can have a real idea of the risk from the sum of the underlying assets.
How to Keep a Correct Posture
Froyo is great. Too bad most Android users still don't have it.
And this is what always happen. The choice between security, maturity and dancing bunnies is always skewed in a wrong direction.
My grandparents are old (mid to late 90s) and still have an incredible memory. I find their descriptions of the world they grew up in to be fascinating. Some examples:

* his amazement when he learned that somebody had received a radio signal that was bounced off of the moon

* he worked on a trans atlantic ship in his teenage years during prohibition, and had his first beer in Germany at the age of 16

* depression era job prospects

* walking home from a "picture" after his car was stolen, he and a few friends heard his horn (which was somehow identifiable). They were track runners, so they ran down the car and it turns out it was a young guy who had just borrowed it to go visit his girlfriend, and was on his way to return it.

* his godfather was a civil war vet
> Dishonest consumers are the problem here, though
> this is a problem that Groupon could do more to curtail.

This is what I was talking about. Groupon is not billing their subscriber list as a group of cheap-o's that will only use the discount and never return to the business and try to use the discount multiple times -- which they obtained by registering for Groupon multiple times under different names/aliases -- while they are there for their single visit.

If Groupon were to describe their subscriber list as such, then I could see their business start to decline, no?

It would be interesting to see what the average conversion-rate from one-time to repeat customer is based on Groupon coupons.
He trashed an employee, live.
As any of us who run resource kit, support kit, or development kit tools have found ;)

Thanks for your unofficial input throughout the threads. They've been great nuggets of info and insight from the inside, so to speak.
Great overview. If I sold on Etsy, I would be more confident that they are proactively striving to reach 100% uptime and quickly addressing actual downtime.

I love the structure of their problem solving references: root cause analysis, time line of event post mortem, single point of failure. And, of course, the fact that they actively measure the real customer experience from multiple places around the world. Customers may not realize it's a local infrastructure problem when they go to Etsy so being able to proactively find and address these issues makes for fewer customer support calls and more satisfied customers.

Kudos to Etsy for the post.
The Importance of Open Source in Education
It is always a good idea to be in the chain, one gives other receive and we take some benefit from it. But the difficult point is how are we going to be in the middle?

You should be around, helping that communication or action to happen but the prize is for the person who find the way to be around and not only as someone to reject.
> Unfortunately, my fair use claim was denied without explanation by the copyright holder.

Wait, what? Why is it the copyright holder that gets to decide what constitutes fair use? The present system seems subject to abuse.
Not if you're the most awesome friend they have though... So if your friend starts falling in love, step up your friend game ASAP. Getting in good w/ the new significant other is probably also a good move.
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The way I read it was the problem was corruption inside the database and the warm backup was corrupted during the automatic mirroring before they noticed the problem. So at that point, both the PROD and Failover instance are busted once the issue was determined. To resolve, it looks like they had to rollback to the last valid full DB backup from Sunday and then apply the log backups iteratively from Sunday to catch up the DB before bringing it back online.

At my shop we had a similar issue (but at the SAN level, not the DB level) where the corruption issue was data that exposed a bug in the system. The data was automatically mirrored to the warm standby machine. When PROD crashed, the standby was brought up and immediately crashed also. We had to rebuild from tape backups which was stupid-slow (trademarked term there ;-). All in all it was a horrible mess that was root-caused to a bug in vendor firmware. Eerily similar to the JPMorgan Chase issue in the OP.
I don't quite understand your first sentence. How can you learn anything new if you don't run into your own limits?
If Microsoft could deploy a decent unix on top the NT kernel, that might not be a bad strategy. But the fact remains that there are a wealth of unix tools that you can compile and run on an number of unix variants, but are practically impossible to build and run on Windows without heavy customization. I'm arguing that is eventually going to be a problem for MS because they are forced to invent everything internally and can't really easily incorporate what's going on elsewhere.
I don't get the part about not trusting your doctor. When aP vs P was made it was rolled out nationally.

You will probably find that anything you discover in your research is already being done.

All the things that are marginal and maybe won't be "good research", although of course you may considers the "possible" results enough reason to act, but you need to be very knowledgeable on the subject, and few people are.
I feel a little silly replying to this comment in every story about Android, but hopefully I won't always have to (as it will become a non-issue);

but you can't download non-market store apps from numerous Android devices (all of the ones sold by ATT for example), as the carrier has disabled the ability to install a non-market application.

Hopefully this trend doesn't spread to other carriers (although if Verizon is launching its own app store, they may very well implement this in the future).
Those all seem like things that left a lasting impression on your grandparents (i.e. stronger memory). I wouldn't associate remembering those things with a lack of mild memory loss.

My grandfather could tell us all kinds of interesting tales in his old age, but then not remember what he ate for breakfast.
Scenes from Street Fighter 3 & Alpha in autostereoscopic 3D on iPad [video]
> Ruby is well behind pip/virtualenv and the environmental isolation it gives you.

I'm not a Pythonista, but are you familiar with Bunlder? Is there something that it does that pip/virtualenv would do?
I don't think Python sucks at all. On the contrary, I love Python. It is the primary weapon on my scripting utility belt; it will probably continue to be for quite some time.

I've used Fabric/Pip/Virtualenv, it required significantly more investment to get up and running. However, those projects are evolving/improving quickly. The Rails Gemfile worked right out of the box.

I could address the other points individually, but I guess I'm failing to make my key point: Things just worked better with less effort. Python has a huuuge set of libraries available. Finding the right subset and putting them together effectively is a laborious process. The end result isn't nearly as cleanly integrated as I'd like.

Overall, it's a matter of preference. I just found it super interesting that Rails seemed to match my preferences in nearly every layer of the stack. This is coming from someone who was incredibly picky about individual Python libraries. I spent months tuning my stack. But with Rails, I feel like I can just get work done. shrug definitely to each his own.
I used to run a startup in Southern California so I know for a fact that there aren't too many technology companies down there (other than aerospace and entertainment). The good news is that workers don't tend to move around too much. Jason has done this before. I wonder if his company were in the Bay Area what would happen. I doubt that anyone will stick around to take his abuse. I know I won't.
Seems like amazon payments doesn't serve Canada yet so I won't have much options.
It was not classical autism, just some overlapping symptoms.

This sounds like a dodge, frankly. I am not encouraged.

EDIT: I am further discouraged by the voting here. I see an instance of potentially non-conformed data. What do you do with non-conformed data?

As best I can tell, nothing can be done with this data right now, since details of the court's decision have not been released. The most you can do is reserve a measure of judgement till further information is available.

Instead, I see a strong desire to dismiss the data. This is poor epistemological form. This is not encouraging.

Two questions, for now:

* What symptoms of classical autism were not present?

* More to the point, why would classical autism be the standard, rather than autism spectrum disorders?
Reminds me of a slightly less-functional version of this (source available): http://www.falstad.com/circuit/
That is the plan.
Your correct, ESRI tools are a de facto standard for map creation. However when your doing dynamic map creation or real time situational awareness the ESRI tools perform poorly. There are better commercial products on the market and free oss tools available such as OpenSceneGraph with the OSGEarth plugin.
I call 1st row to be filled first:
"BDD, Active ____, NoSQL, Monkey Patch, Social Graph"
My boss thinks "All Content is an App" help me prove him wrong...
I'm tired of people calling all content "an app". We all know the definition of an application and I did a followup article to correct him but would love to see HN serve his ass: http://techmediatoday.com/2010/09/16/content-is-not-an-app/
First Conferences, 12 TB, and a Road Trip
Here's a starting point, how to do it with music:
http://www.redcode.nl/blog/2010/06/creating-shazam-in-java/

You chunk a song into small segments and create a sort of "fingerprint" for each piece using Fourier analysis or similar. (So a song segment is represented by a frequency histogram, similar to this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/svartling/4229109164/ )
The fingerprints are stored in a DB.

To match a song fragment, chunk and analyze it in the same way. For each segment, find the closest match in the database. If most of the closest matches belong to the same song, and appear in the same order as in the song fragment you are trying to find, you have a match.

Creating fingerprints from a series of video segments is roughly similar, Fourier can be used for 2D images as well.

Doing it like this, you can reduce the volume of data you need to compare against with several orders of magnitude. Scaling to YouTube volumes is still hard, but that's the sort of scaling a company like Google already has plenty of experience in.
I think the most obvious one, if not the biggest, is auto-escaping by default. I've started with Rails 3, so I really don't know what has changed.
Not true.

http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/health/conditions/id_preventi...

Any parent decline for religious reasons.
A web application targeted toward educational institutions is not enough information. Potential customers for one service or products are completely different for another product. Think about books and sports. If you really want some good advice then provide more information about your application. That is a weak input is not a fountain for a great output.
I have a question - with systemd [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd], do you still need a daemonized message bus ?

OSX's launchd, creates listening sockets and when it receives a connection, it starts the service and hands over the socket to the service.

Given such a scenario, can you not simply work with plain-jane IPC ?
That's no good. What browser/OS? I'm developing with Chrome/Windows7 and have tested in Firefox.

`elm.children("form").bind('submit focusout', function() {`

is the event. Thanks for trying it out!
Where is the _why square?
Maybe you could render the cells when they're visible, similar to how UITableView works on iPhone.