skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
for what it's worth, delicious was del.icio.us for 4 years and only became delicious.com 2 years after yahoo bought the site for many millions of dollars.
I should have answered this in the post.

1. These kind of things are trivial and most likely will not be put in a will

2. The people that have these kind of needs do not write wills.

3. I do not want to leave this herculean tasks to my loved ones. With a click I want my last blog post, Facebook update and Tweet to be put up.
I think you might have misread kbob’s comment. I think he was talking about upgrading from one SSD to another newer SSD — not from HDD to SSD.
Just curious. You can also just write down the logins on a piece of paper, and tell a family member to open it just in case. Isn't this simpler/safer?
"The patience to make something work in all versions of Internet Explorer."

Ouch. You might lose a lot of candidates with this stipulation.
Of course, a label! That explains it, thanks! I didn't have a JS reference handy at the time (and couldn't find it in the Mozilla ref in the short amount of time I had).

I have actually used labels in JS before, which resulted in a lot of questions from my colleagues.

I think the loop: for(...){break loop;} thing is acceptable (if for can not be avoided anyway).
Establishing a BHAG per se does not mean you've selected a good goal or that you will achieve the goal.
But people change carriers a fair bit. Churn is huge in the US. And yet almost no one picks one carrier over another due to this feature. The big CDMA carrier is bigger than the big GSM carrier. And the little CDMA carrier (Sprint) is bigger than the little GSM carrier (TMo). It's really a non-issue.

And even the Samsung Galaxy S phones... read the reviews. While people talk about some differences on the phones, I haven't seen a single review mention the voice/data issue. And they just announced selling 5 million units in just a few months -- so its not exactly a niche phone.

And a quick search brings up a ton of "Android Fragmentation" issues. They talk about everything from 1.4 vs 2.2. of Android to screen resolutions to keyboard/no keyboard to camera support, etc... I haven't found a mention of voice/data fragmentation.

So if this is a problem that Apple would have it would be one that no one else in the industry has had to explain. I fully expect Apple's magic would make this the same non-issue it is for everyone else.
The reason Apple was successful at coming back from the dark period is because of Steve Jobs. Here is my question. Is it more important to have a CEO that has an innovative vision or is it more important to have a employee base thats is innovative?

And I would argue that the former is the crucial sauce for success... which makes it hard to be sustainable...
I've got an SSD that I use as a boot drive (40 gig). I bought it on one of Newegg's previous shell shockers for under 100 dollars.

My recommendation: if you're going to use SSDs, jump in with both feet first. Budget SSDs are ok, mine nets a 7.0 on the Windows Experience Index. It's actually the only technical bottleneck in my system that has an i7, 8 gigs of RAM, GTX 480, etc..

If I were to build my PC all over again I would have invested in a real SSD instead of dilly dallying with a budget SSD boot drive.
Apple isn't "most companies". That's kinda the point.
I can't remember where I read this, but this service already exists. I searched around and couldn't find it either though. so there is probably opportunity in the space.
are they raided?
Returning an object from a function was not the problem - it was "returning" from a Script (as executed by the NodeJS Script class). So essentially the last value in the script, I suppose.

I like the ({x:1}) shortcut, thanks!
Instead of having a service deliver your last thoughts to your loved ones upon your death, tell them yourself, right now. You should be doing this anyway.
Very nice article. I must say -- I think the "Describe the Problem, NOT the solution" and "document your existing workflows" are EXCELLENT tips.
I'm not using one in a production web environment, but my Macbook Pro has one in it now and it's phenomenal. Photoshop boots up in quite literally 3 seconds or less (cold startup) and every other action imaginable is noticeably quicker. I used to feel like browsing files in the Finder was slower than it was for me on my old Windows XP machines but eventually I got used to it. I use keyboard navigation as well, so it felt even slower. (For anyone interested, arrow keys, and command+downarrow to open a folder, command+uparrow to go to the parent folder).

Now that I've got an SSD as a boot drive, navigating the Finder is significantly faster. It feels so quick. Folders open instantly. When I got my development environment up and running (nginx, uwsgi, django, mysql, etc...) I noticed that code compiles wayyy quicker too.

Love it! For the record... I've got the Intel X-25M, second generation. It's only 80GB (they're pricey!) so I also picked up an MCE Optibay which is basically a hollowed out superdrive that lets you mount an additional HD where your DVD drive sits. It also includes an external enclosure so that you can put your otherwise useless SATA DVD drive to use via USB. So now my MBP has two drives in it, an 80gb ssd to boot off of and a 320gb regular drive for bulk storage (media, photos, etc..)

Gotta give credit where credit is due... Paul Stamatiou's blog came in handy a few times with aiming me in the right direction with this. Here is a nifty article from his blog, which describes most of what I did other than the RAID part (which I did not do). http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-apple-macbook-pro-raid-0-arr...
Without it, they will probably lose a lot of customers.
I'm not even convinced of that. Use MobileMe? Your address book gets synced with Apple. Have an Android phone? It gets synced with Google. Maybe Plaxo? Same deal. This should be treated the same as those solutions, as near as I can tell.

I should note that, unless I am missing something, the claim from the article that anyone can view your Facebook phonebook seems incorrect to me. The only way I can find to get there is to go to "Edit Friends." Even when I view the profile as my fiancée, who has access to everything in my Facebook profile, I can discern no way to get to that area.

This seems like a completely fabricated story designed to scare users, which is annoying to me, because it's the boy who cried wolf: whenever a nothing story like this about Facebook surfaces, it's that much harder to people's attention when they do something legitimate.
The dangers of USB drives (Stuxnet-related)
The force of gravity is not instantaneous. It "travels" at the speed of light. The Earth is not attracted to where the Sun is "now", it is attracted to where the Sun was approx. 8 minutes ago (the length of time it takes for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth), and vice versa.
ho hum.

you're always competing with the person who'll try to "copy facebook for $15/hr"

once you've got more than one customer you'll inevitable get in the situation where, if you were honest, you'd have to tell Customer A that his project is late because you've been working on Customer B's project. If you are honest, Customer A will freak out and odds are 50% or so that he'll dump you right there.

I joined the project management institute, and one day looked at the code of ethics I signed onto and I realized I'd be violating it all the time if I was doing typical freelance work for the typical freelance client.

So I won't.
No conspiracy theory necessary. There are only a small number of people who can design and build things of nuclear reactor level complexity from scratch and they mostly work at government labs and for major engineering firms. The government wanted these people to focus their attention on the designs that would be useful for the cold war weapons programs so the thorium reactors just didn't get built.
I feel like for myself and the front end engineers I know it's just a begrudged reality of developing consumer facing products.

I envy my friends who can stand to lose IE6 traffic, but my company can't and besides -- it's always a point of pride when the site looks almost perfect the first time you check it in a legacy browser like IE6.

That being said, I hope they don't mean 5.5. :)
yeah, this is an unfortunate thing we have to deal with. A non trivial number of accountants (who are happy to refer inDinero to their clients), use internet explorer for some reason. Google Analytics shows that while < 15% are IE, in-person customer validation showed that our influencers were in that 15%.

But on the bright side, someone who has the patience to do IE compatibility is someone we'd probably love to work with!
The majority of the content online is not created by startups, I would wager that the majority of the internet couldn't care less about your little startup circle jerk. To suggest that any single country "owns" or contributes most to the internet is laughable. I never use content created by china, that doesn't mean it's non-existant.
I blame James Gosling for a lot of this garbage. The whole stupid dance with Apache and the field of use restrictions from trying to make money on mobile is the cause of all this.

Gosling's stewardship of Java was awful. From EJB to J2ME to JavaFX it was one failed initiative after another. I always thought it was obvious how Sun could make money from Java, sell a JVM with extra enterprise features and tools, keep it simple! They might still be alive if they had.
Yep, sure does. That said, as I explained elsewhere in this thread, I profoundly don't get what the problem is. It's no different than syncing with Google, unless you have a hangup about Facebook.
They're targeted toward small business owners... not companies with IT departments who won't upgrade IE.
I'm sorry, but I still think you are thinking small. Let's assume the type of site or query is not shopping or research related where a user must scroll, click, etc. for the site, and it's news type editorial. You're thinking users will prefer to squint and experience the page/article with the preview version instead of simply clicking through to the site? What about comments? Hacker News is a great example of just how much value comments add to content. I think you're guarding user behavior that doesn't need to be guarded. The only sites that have anything to fear from this are ones users don't want to be on. If users want to be on your site, they will be.
Not necessarily better. It reduces the number of calculations per unit time, in some cases. Unfortunately changing the step size dynamically also increases error in the system (because of the way most integrators works). It's a trade-off between CPU time and accuracy.
Are you sure it's your diet? I'd investigate lack of exercise before worrying about diet.

In my experience the act of sitting in front of a computer all day just makes me feel lethargic, no matter what I eat. I went on various forms super healthy diets and none of them really changed anything. I generally felt much better when I went to the gym for 2 hours before going into work. However, I felt even better on the days I didn't go into work at all.

I can eat garbage like nachos, beer, french fries and go snowboarding all day and feel on top of the world. I determined that sitting around all day is a slow death, and my body was letting me know.
http://www.deadmansswitch.net/

You can encrypt your passwords or just say "I've left my passwords in a locked box, the combination is X".

DISCLOSURE: That app is mine.
Suppose you want your website to behave consistently in the latest three versions of the four most popular browsers. You have two choices: 1) try to do it yourself, 2) use a Javascript library.

Option 1 has the following drawbacks: a) you'll need to set up an environment in which to test 12 different browsers, b) you'll need a few years to learn the nuances, annoyances, and bugs in 12 different examples of badly written software.

Option 2 has the following drawbacks: a) you'll need to know where to find the library documentation, b) you'll need a few days to learn how to use the library.

The likely outcome of option 1 is that you will eventually get your site to behave consistently in the two or three browsers you have tested. The likely outcome of option 2 is that you will spend your time working on interesting things.
A problem with this: The majority of the death-prone population (the elderly) are not tech-savvy and thus have no (perceived) need for such a service. Call back in 25 years.
Confessions of a Used-Book Salesman
Ask HN: Gentle Introduction to Open Data API?
I've been asked by a non-technical person for suggestions on a gentle introduction to the concept of open data and the mechanisms of an open data API. Any suggestions on a good resource?
IA(ALSO)NAL, but it looks like the patent [1] was filed in Feb '07 - 4Sq didn't exist until '09.

Doesn't mean I Like it - or software patents in general - any more, but it doesn't look like they were as late to this game as their actual launch implied.

[1] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...
Resting the elbows only helps certain parts of the body. For example, if you're still breaking the straight line from your hands to forearms, it's not ergonomic.
France is using some of their nuclear plants to provide peak load, and they adjust the power output of most of their plants over the day to better fit the actual usage. Their reactors are not ideal for this; there are better ways to design nuclear plants for load-following. But it can certainly be done.

Alternately, you could make enough nuclear capacity to provide your peak power levels all the time, and dump excess energy into some energy-hungry industrial process, like aluminum smelting, or synthetic fuel production, or ammonia synthesis.

So yes, you can do the math. It's just that there are a bunch of different ways to do that math, and most of them involve a lot of cleverness, large budgets, careful engineering, and a fair dose of uncertainty.
When I add someone to follow I just get a blank page (if I go back I see them added)
There are a number of inaccuracies in this article that I'd like to correct:

> The Facebook app also appears to share numbers for contacts that you don’t have, but your Facebook friends do.

This does not happen. After syncing, the Facebook Phonebook only displays contact information you have access to. This includes:
1.Phone numbers your friends have manually added to their profile.
2.Phone numbers already in your address book.

> Facebook does this without your knowledge or consent.

Also inaccurate. To enable the syncing feature you must:

1. Open iPhone app. 2.Click "Friends" 3. Click Sync 4.Turn "On" (this page could probably be more clear) 5."I Agree" to the notice explaining what information will be transferred:

"If you enable this feature, all contacts from your device (name, email, address, phone number) will be sent to Facebook and be subject to Facebook's Privacy Policy, and your friends' profile photos and other info from Facebook will be added to your iPhone address book. Please make sure your friends are comfortable with any use you make of their information. [I Don't Agree] [I Agree]"

> the Facebook iPhone app seems to ignore Apple’s rules on user consent, specifically point 7.1 which states: “Apps cannot transmit data about a user obtaining the user’s prior permission and providing the user with access to information about how and where the data will be used.”

Inaccurate. See above. That said, it's possible the app could be more clear. I will create an internal ticket with new suggested language.

> To be extra secure, I recommend removing yourself from Facebook Phonebook though this link, which appears to be down at the moment - possibly due to high demand.

Accurate. I pinged the engineer that is working on this. Turns out they took the page down for some scheduled downtime. They're working hard to get it back online in response to this article.

Disclaimer: I'm not directly involved in this feature at Facebook (but I am somewhat familiar with it).
Didn't watch the video yet (I'm at work and no ear phones atm), but I think it depends on your personality type.

Announcing your goal might work for some people, probably the extroverted ones. For me I think it won't work.

Announcing my goals always drains my energy; I will have to argue with people and tell them how full of shit they are, and I have to listen to them ridiculing my ideas, etc. I just hate doing that.
I just confirmed that it does affect Android users as well.

I'm using the Facebook application on a Motorola Droid running Froyo, and all of my numbers have been synced to Facebook.

Note: I selected the sync all friends option, since almost all my Facebook friends are in my contacts anyway. I don't know if it would do this if you only selected sync with existing contacts. I'd guess that it most likely would, but I can't confirm it.
A little miffed here at what seems to be the HN consensus. Stealing is not okay. It's not sound ethical reasoning to point to the fact that someone is wealthy, technophobic, or might not otherwise have fame to justify not paying for their content.

Piracy is not the only way to sample content, nor is it the only way to acquire DRM-free music online.

EDIT: Interesting that some folks are acting like they are not advocating privacy, only revolt over how stringent the fines are.

1) That's clearly not what the consensus is. Most of the top comments to this forum are ad hominem attacks on KISS over the quality of their music, or their somehow "not getting" how piracy HELPS them (which is hilarious).

2) The expected value of your fine is reasonable. It's the probability of you getting caught times the fine. That in essence is your calculus when you decide to download an album for free instead of paying for it, that your expected loss is still less than the cost per CD. Seen in this light the fine is set appropriately.
I haven't seen any after a year of using my MBP with the stock Apple 128GB SSD.
I'm reasonably sure I predicted this: http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners.html
I'd just like to leave a comment here, but I wonder if you misunderstood him. It seems more practical to me that every employee in a startup should dedicate time to metrics, and probably more than 10%. For instance, at the last startup I worked for, the CEO put together metrics useful for VC conversations/sales metrics etc. The CTO put together metrics on bug fix flow/hardware throughput etc, the VP of CS put together metrics on turnaround time on customer issues etc. Our architect kept metrics on time based data throughput.

I think it's a poor use of recources to dedicate one person to do all of that. The people steering the company at that stage should have a total hands on feel for the data and a level of indirection seems unnecessary.

I'd like to hear back from founders on this. Were you tracking metrics yourself? Do you think you were more or less effective that way?
I have a 4 year-old MacBook Pro (model identifier MacBookPro2,2). I bought a 48gb expresscard SSD and now use it as a boot drive, with my user folder living on my old internal. Time from start to having a usable system (logged in with all of my menubar apps running) went from 3-5 minutes to 45 seconds!
Entrustet.com and Legacylocker.com are chasing this to some extent.

Lifehacker had a similar post recently: http://lifehacker.com/5617683/what-should-i-do-about-my-virt...
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My point is that I don't think the following conversation happened:

CFO: "Hmm... we get an extra $30B in profit if we support Verizon, and effectively end Androids short run and block WP7 from ever breathing.."

Jobs: "Screw it. This will mean that some customers will have voice/data and some won't. And while our current users can't touch their phone and make a call at the same time, and the fact that we're selling a neutered product in AppleTV, this is where I draw the line. Even if it means that we completely dominate the mobile space for here to eternity. I draw the line here."

I just don't think it happened at Apple or at "most companies".
You may want to consider testing the LSI 9211-8i for a very fast JBOD controller or the 9260-8i for an equally fast RAID5/6 card. I've been very happy with these controllers and they are typically much cheaper than the equivalents from ARECA. Just make sure to use the latest drivers and firmware as LSI has been improving SSD performance by leaps and bounds in the last year.

On thing I noticed with the X-25M G2s is that if you are in a write intensive environment they will degrade in performance dramatically. The SandForce SF1200/1500 drives seems to handle garbage collection much better and run with lower write amplification levels. I've found that the SandForce drives do a much better job at maintaining acceptable random write performance after months of being beat on. That all being said a beat to hell X25-M is still 10 times better than a spinning disk.

If you want I can run an iometer batch or figure out tiobench if you'd like some runs on the 9211 or 9260 to compare with your ICH and Adaptec runs. Ping me at gomeler at gmail if you are interested.
Murder is also not okay.

No one's talking about murder or stealing, though, they're talking about copyright infringement.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure estoppel only applies to legal facts and promises. Merely stating that you think things should be a certain way and then changing your mind when something else would be more beneficial is not grounds for estoppel. Unless Oracle successfully sued for openness or told somebody that it would not do this, I don't see how they could be estopped.
I may be wrong, but can't you essentially patent anything you want so long as it's unambiguous and no similar patents exist? Since Gowalla and Foursquare have been around for so long prior to this I'd expect the patent to be invalidated if it were ever asserted against those companies, who seem to me to have an abundance of evedence for prior art.

IANAL.....
New e-paper may send e-ink running for its e-mommy
This experiment illustrates the potential for Google.com to evolve into a cloud-based Chrome.

They can own the browsing experience regardless of the browser or platform used.

Think about the potential this has as browsing from televisions, set-top boxes, mobile etc continues to explode.
Not much I can offer in the way of practical advice here. Mostly all I can say is, you're not alone on this one. I'm going through much the same thing right now, and I suspect there isn't much for it other than time. About the only thing I've noticed is, cutting out extra time in front of the computer - e.g. browsing mindlessly at home - seems to help a bit.
Same. In fact, I'm still rocking a Rev A Mac Pro (c. Aug 2006). Aside from adding a bunch more memory after market, the machine is incredibly capable to this day. I'm considering upgrading the video card in a few years, but I'm expecting to get at least 3 more years out of it before even considering upgrading to a new machine.