skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bottom line is that if you work hard enough you can compensate somewhat for lack of talent. You probably won't be the next Mozart or Einstein of your field, but the good news is that you don't have to be inorder to be very successful.
I love the way he captures the total destabilization of the country. I don't believe I've encountered another book that paints that kind of image so well.
Social Networking: Past, Present, Future
> One thing that's fascinating me is how they're letting this update deploy virally, by itself.

Are you saying it's opt-in only for everyone? My friend got the new profile automatically, though I did not. I see that I can choose to get it manually, but the FAQ also says you cannot revert.

Perhaps I've misunderstood your comment. I would be really impressed if the feature had total viral deployment (i.e. opt-in only for everyone), and if it allowed you to change back to the old profile at will.
Yeah, it's downright incredible. It feels much more like reading a well-written history book than a fantasy novel.
AdSense, to my knowledge, doesn't only optimize for maximum CPC but rather for max earnout for Google, a large part of which is the likelihood of you clicking the ad. This is a fair determination of the quality of the "deal"/ad, I suppose.
Can anyone explain what this hosted zone part is, I must be too sleepy or am just missing what it is.
Currently a chapter away from finishing Bill Bryson's new one, At Home. It is basically the same style and formula of A Short History of Nearly Everything but applied to a walk around his home in England. I am a sucker for a good history of science and technology and Bryson is really, really good at it.
I did this, partly as there were no solutions to the frontpage I wanted, and partly as I wanted to implement better caching than any of the current platforms offer ... My site queries the database once per day, unless I post an update. So it's fast, (~100ms on $20 hosting).

What I enjoyed was making software that isn't bulletproof and distributable, but safe, secure, fast and fun to build. What personal sites should be, imho.

http://www.beseku.com/
Just to be sure that I haven't misspoken: I'm not using the word evil to say that Jason is in some way similar to the devil. He's a smart guy who I'm sure has done some really nice things. I'm using evil in the context described above.

As for the turnstile of staff at Mahalo... I don't necessarily think that this is a bad thing either. I bet that without planning, groups of staff have naturally come and gone as the product has iterated. If you're in a long iteration right now, that's great news! Maybe this is the one that will "hit". The problem with turnover like this is that eventually, products start to evolve in circles. I think that Mahalo itself is a good example of this.
Tai Pan, King Rat.
A corollary: The best way to learn a language or framework is to solve a problem with a known solution.

When you're building a blog for the nth time, your only focus is on the language/framework features you'll be using to express your solution, not the solution itself.
Also his "Cryptonomicon", a phenomenal novel.
> Rat King

It didn't stand out enough for you to get the title right though ;)
Linchpin by Seth Godin.

What Made this so valuable to me was that it introduced for the first time the concept of what Seth calls the "Resistance", the part of the brain that prevents you from taking risks and putting yourself on the line. I also love it for introducing me to The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.

Since reading those books I have been much better at doing important work that actually matters without putting it off or making excuses.
The CSS Inch
How Mark Zuckerberg Fooled ‘60 Minutes’
I think a huge missing prediction is real-time apps. We've seen some very cool node.js demos and projects here on HN, but I thinks we've yet to see a truly compelling use case for real-time interaction online. With more people using the internet for longer periods of time than ever, the time is ripe for large groups of people doing something amazing and cool all at the same time and place online.
Fantastic book. Either that, or Eliezer Yudkowsky's fanfiction "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" was the best fiction I read this year.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_M...

HP&TMOR didn't sound like the kind of thing I'd have liked... massively mistaken. Very good. Highly recommended.
I take it Wikileaks won't be using this as their DNS provider.
I believe a hosted zone simply corresponds to a single domain you want to host the DNS for.

If you've ever ran your own DNS server this would be equivalent to a "zone file": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_file
There is not enough energy in the sun to perform the instructions necessary to break AES256.

Source: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/01/2141226
Yeah, I know what they do - eg. ||= being a Ruby idiom for 'set if this currently evaluates as false'. The point is that because I don't often program in Ruby, it's less readable (for me). Similarly, if you're not used to list comprehensions they'll seem opaque - but I use them all the time, and find them far more readable than equivalent expressions using map/filter.

That said, I do find the more "squiggly" languages (Perl, Ruby, C) to be less readable than the equivalent Scheme or Python, and I suspect that it's because there are fewer weird characters, so it's closer to English.
Usable is a bit debatable: http://whalesalad.com/blog/incredible-vs-nexus-one/

With that being said, Peep is fairly awesome. It's one of the best Twitter clients I've ever used.
Reducing confounding factors in experiments comes under the heading of Science! (exclamation mark optional).
Not right now for sure, Maybe 1 hour later..
"A device that could check a billion billion (1018) AES keys per second would in theory require about 3×1051 years to exhaust the 256-bit key space." - wikipedia
The best book I read was a work of fiction.
"The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, Day" by Elie Wiesel.

Elie Wiesel is a Nobel peace prize winner and he is a survivor of The Holocaust. The short novel Night, talks about his experiences in the concentration camp. The Dawn and Day are fictional works by him .

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809073641?ie=UTF8&tag=...
If Tumblr typically (or ever) posted posted post mortems, you'd be right. Usually, it's odd for them to tweet about issues.
Soccer Or Football (USENET 1990)- Rasmus Lerdorf
Amazon got a lot less interesting in the last couple of weeks, I hear they will take down your site without so much as a warrant.
Does anybody else think $1/Mo a zone/domain is high? Sure its nice that a million queries is only going to run you $0.50, but I suspect most people have a lot of domains, but little queries. Makes sense if you have a single domain, that gets a boat load of DNS requests, but if you have a lot of domains, with very little requests, its not cost effective.
Only WikiLeaks Can Save US Policy
The Diet Solution Program Review
As someone who uses Nettica for Dynamaic DNS (which this seems to be targeting) I think it's great that Amazon is creating some competition in this area. Not enough web developers consider Dynamic, programmable DNS and that's a shame because I think it's a must. I monitor every site I have from an external location and if there's ever a host outage I have the DNS re-routed to a backup host within 10 minutes (it doesn't always propagate as quickly as I like but there's little that can be done about that)

I'm happy with Nettica but Amazon's offering will draw attention to this important point. Plus competition leads to more features, better service and so on.
It won't be long until we get some lab that tries to replicate the findings to publish, I would guess that at least several of them are in the race right now to be #2 to either conclusively prove that it is real (which I doubt) or to be the one to solidly nail the mistakes.
For your own good, domain registrars should contact you, by email, well in advance of an expiration. Worst case scenario, the name is held by the registrar for the grace period and the former owner has exclusive rights to it during that term.
Oh for God's sakes let it be. If you want to boycott Amazon then Fine. Do it. No one's stopping you. But don't spam other threads with your political views.
Could you point to a US lottery that uses this system? Every system I see does not use this system. They distribute by a normal annuity schedule with a fixed amount each year. http://www.usamega.com/powerball-jackpot-annuity.asp?state=N...
Very interesting. We currently use DNS Made Easy but I see two huge advantages to Route 53:

1. It's API-driven, so we can modify our DNS entries programmatically. You can't do that with DNS Made Easy. (They've been "planning to implement an API in the future" for a long time now.)

2. At our scale, it's exactly 1/4th the cost of DNS Made Easy. That'll be a nice chunk of change. Plus, like other AWS services, you only pay for the number of queries that you actually use.
They have a Terms of Service, and like (literally) every hosting provider on the planet, they will take down your site if you violate the agreement that you agreed to when you signed up.
The pricing is $1/zone and 1 billion (!!) queries per month.

Which seems quite good for a globally hosted DNS service.

Only potential limitations are that its listed as "beta" and that as far as I can tell you have to use the scripts in the Route 53 developer tools (or write your own) to manipulate the zone and do the initial set up.
Richard Feynman: Science and Chess
Conversely, OCaml allows you the pleasure of a ML-style language without being shackled to .NET.

It is a very, very nice language to work with. Its performance when compiled is nothing to sneeze at, either.

Basically, short of any intensive bit twiddling, I'd take OCaml over C. You get the speed of of native code with the expressivity, type safety and memory management features of a higher level language. It is easier to write solid apps with, since it's harder to screw things up in OCaml.
This is the single best reason to have a toaster oven.
Just go to the actual site! There's live cams of them frolicking.

http://firefoxlive.mozilla.org/

Now I just have to find a way to run these streams side by side the kitty cams and then I'll never ever have another productive minute in front of my computer again.
I definitely won't be making use of that. I go out of my way to keep my professional contacts and info far away from my Facebook profile. I use LinkedIn for professional contacts, and I keep that decoupling quite intentionally. My privacy settings on Facebook are cranked up about as high as I can get them, while my LinkedIn info is largely public.
I made sure to watch this interview and its being discussed energetically on Hacker News, so if Zuckerberg fooled 60 minute he's fooled everyone else too. I found the interview extremely interesting - Facebook is becoming a gargantuan and Zuckerberg is on the level of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates now. I know that they got their share of interviews done on their terms in their heydays.
"This makes me think they are probably working on some giant code bomb that will fix everything, and don't want talk about stuff until they have good news. I understand that, but don't agree with it."

Or, more likely IMO, they could be struggling to keep up with their growth and letting all the fixes and improvements slide.
I just got done reading "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis. Well written, does a good job explaining what bond traders were doing before 2008 and why this downturn started. Well worth the read, IMO (I was recommended the book by a hedge fund manager when I met him at my school).
It appears the new macbook air no longer includes the motion sensor since it was originally designed to protect the hard drive, and the new air is lacking one.
And like every other webhosting provider on the planet they'll have to decide when they think it is time to stand up for their customers and when to let it go.

Suppose you have a newspaper and you want to co-locate, Amazon is suddenly no longer an option.

Really, the speed and ease with which they rolled over after some political pressure is quite amazing to me, I had them pegged as 'solid' before.
The pricing is $1/month and $0.50 per million queries for the first billion queries.
I have it on very good authority that this is serious and totally legitimate.
Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health

Not really the audience here (it has a very anti-libertarian message), but I found this book to be eye-opening. Basically it's about how companies create uncertainty, delay, litigate, whatever it takes to keep extremely harmful products from being made illegal (most of the methods were pioneered by the tobacco industry). I found it eye-opening.
Random note. Those with young children should check out http://www.noradsanta.org/.
Currently, I work for a company with 25k+ employees, but I know that down the road I would like to work for a startup. The author raised some good points that got me thinking about exactly what size startup I would like to be a part of.

The author's description of a startup that has "taken a decent-sized round" with about 15-30 employees (including senior engineers) who "will be less focus on getting things done NOW, and more on getting them done correctly" sounds great.

Is it typical for a startup of that size to offer competitive salaries? I would love to get my student loans paid off before I join any startup where I have to live in a closet with 3 other people and eat spaghetti every day.
My mistake - you are correct.

Its a shame - it would be nice for them to throw in a the first billion!
Perhaps it's more prevalent in programming?

Me: 'So, do you have any personal projects that you'd like to talk about?'
Candidate: 'Not really, no.'
Me: 'None?'
Candidate: 'No, I prefer to have a life.'

I hear some variation of this nine interviews out of ten.
Geez. One more thing they screwed up.
A really good read. I am currently a senior in college and working for a startup has been something I feel like I want to do after I graduate. This article doesn't really do much to scare me away from that, because I am sort of expecting that sort of thing out of working for a startup.

And I agree with conorgil145, the description that the author of this post gave about a company with 15-30 employees sounds like it would be a great work environment.
OK, that's what I meant. I presumed the grandfather was complaining about the lottery being split over multiple years rather being awarded all at once (like the UK or Irish lottery for instance).
This is true but does not conflict with my assertion. The Declaration of Independence was an act of political power and influence. This is an idealistic essay that might spur actual acts of political power and influence.

Veneration of a document must be earned.
The Line in the Sand
Be forewarned. If you don't deal with cliffhangers well, it may be better for your mental health to wait for the series to be finished. The author is thoroughly committed to the quality of the series, no matter how long it takes. At the current rate it will probably be a decade before the final three books are finished.

On the other hand there is an HBO series in the works that looks to be very high quality.
My Mom pointed that out to me too, thank you!
Actually, there's only one camera and lens; his hindsight is just 20. Unless it's a crappy camera, or poorly focused -- then, perhaps only 10.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1973961
Most companies know that there will always be inefficiencies and even seriously dubious stuff wrapped up in affiliate programs, but accept them anyway.

I think there are is a counter-argument to be made because price discrimination is almost always sloppy, yet better than none at all. But your point is basically right -- most companies wouldn't want to do this. And yet the craziest stuff happens in affiliate programs...

Actually, I would love to hear more from folks out there (spez?) who have a perspective on affiliate programs. I ran experimental campaigns with Commission Junction and Expedia a few years back and found insight on the affiliate marketing business hard to come by. Any readings on this topic are appreciated.
I did this for my blog[1]. I get complete control over how everything goes together, which means when I mess up the atom feed (again) and my friends complain about it (again) I can go fix it and not worry about getting patches accepted upstream.

[1]: http://bugsplat.info
Why I love solo programming (and why I hated working for Pivotal)
I hope they eventually build in the ability to do location based DNS load balancing. For me that would be a killer feature.
I was thinking the same thing upon first inspection. We have about 200 domains with DNS Made Easy. We don't even get close to the allotted queries for the account. I think we pay about $180 per year for all 200.

I'll need to read up on this a bit more. It does appear to be significantly more economical to stay with DNS/ME.
needs more RRSIG - I don't understand why you'd launch a new DNS product at this point without DNSSEC support.
Thanks but it was over a year ago, I committed a fair bit of time trying to sort out these issues with them. In the end, I voted with my feet.

But thanks anyway.
If you sell me twelve months, cutting me off at eleven is fraud. If you want to offer a "reminder" that makes me look like an idiot in public (when I haven't even screwed up!), make it opt-in.
Breaking the Silence Around Premature Quantification
You are laden with 1455 Tweet Load Units per week.
This is equivalent to following Robert Scoble 3.3 times.

hilarious! you should add an unfollow button
And get sued for doing so.
This is a good article.

It doesn't take very much to fool 60 Minutes these days, actually. They ceded the crown of investigative journalism to bloggers long ago for better or for worse, and their demographic is rapidly aging to the point where virtually every commercial is for a prescription drug that would only be appropriate for those over sixty. This was an interview meant primarily to encourage younger viewership, but otherwise for the elderly, meaning those who probably don't use Facebook but have heard their children or grandchildren talk about it. It showed.
This timing of this is indeed quite ironic.
esp if flash is involved chrome can get really mean... not saying other browsers are better.
besides that chrome is insanely fast on osx. i compared it with win and its a bit snappier on osx. for whatever internal reasons.
A hidden boycott? Doesn't make a lot of sense.
The DNS hosting service we used in the past charged us $13.95/year per zone.

Slicehost doesn't charge you anything for DNS hosting if you use them for some kind of VPS hosting. We use their DNS for our (dev and staging) servers that aren't even hosted on Slicehost and it doesn't seem to be a problem. It's the one reason why we continue to keep a few of our VPS servers hosted there since competitors such as Linode are so much cheaper now.
Brilliant advertising ploy; it seems kind of stupid that they aren't using this opportunity to push HTML5 / Ogg Theora video.
The book that caused the most external change in my life was Crash Proof 2.0 by Peter Schiff. I've been concerned about the economy and what its direction means for me, my family and my assets, but uncertain of what to do about it. Crash Proof is a practical and pragmatic approach to understanding and preparing for what Schiff predicts to be a virtual meltdown of the US Dollar.

The books that caused me the most mental change were the three volumes of the Gulag Archipelago. It's a harrowing real-life, incredibly human, insightful story of Solzhenitsyn's experience in the Soviet prison camps during and after Stalin in Russia. A real life page turner.
BS, if they hosted the NYT and the NYT posted a leaked document, they wouldn't take them down. It all depends on power relations, perceived legitimacy, etc.; the only thing it has nothing to do with is their terms of service.
Use search (bottom of page) to get more info. This question or one close to it gets asked almost weekly and there's a wealth of pointers.
The team working on it tried to, however it unfortunately wasn't technically feasible (on the server side, at this scale). The pre-made videos all use HTML5 video tags, however.
Good thing they had that trademark problem. Adopting a phoenix would have been tricky. Also, d'aww.
List of facilities worldwide vital to US interests
Suggestion: donate any excess money to a well-regarded charity, perhaps one associated with your condition. I'm sure most people donating will be as willing, if not more willing, to donate if you tell them this up front.
I think the LG Optimus One and LG Optimus T are similar hardware. The price of the Optimus One is pretty attractive, about 200 CAD without contract.

Edit: oops, I guess they are fairly different. The 7 has a larger screen, and faster CPU, for example.
23 devices my iPhone has replaced
Normally this would be a reasonable assumption. And it is possible.

But given that many of these issues have been going on for at least 2 years (since i've been an active user), before their recent spike, i don't think so.

Also, i feel they 'code bombed' the queue issue they had earlier. It was really broken, and they were basically silent until they thought they had a fix. The vibe I get is that they basically only like to give good news. I sympathize with that. (But explain above why i think that's bad.)

(PS: for people who don't read my big post above, please know i love + recommend tumblr even with their issues. please try it when it's back up if you haven't already.)
I too think Amazon wouldn't have taken down the NYT.

On the other hand, had WL not violated the AWS AUP, I also don't think Amazon would have taken them down, either.

The point is, if you don't violate the Amazon ToS, this is a non-issue (outside of personal politics, which is a fine reason not to do business with them, but a bit out of scope for this discussion.)
Think what would happen if this became widespread. Book publishers start charging exorbitant prices because most of their buyers don't care. Employers push back and negotiate deals for themselves with publishers. Do you really want the book market to look like the US healthcare market?
Damn Obama is stupid. The last thing the US needs now is another war in the middle-east.
If they were solid in your experience in the past, perhaps this time there were special mitigating factors in this case we are not aware of, or have not recognized?

One thing that pops to mind is WikiLeaks was promising to expose the secrets of all big businesses everywhere. It makes no sense whatsoever for Amazon to support someone promising to do that, unless Amazon has no secrets they wish to keep.
I'm always upset when I watch tech company interviews on TV expecting them to cater to me - someone who keeps up to date on technology news, instead of a general audience that isn't as knowledgeable.
"60 Minutes overplayed a purely cosmetic change"

It's a purely cosmetic change that affects half a billion people. Does every web startup deserve news coverage when they redesign? No. Does facebook? Yup. The impact is larger. Pretty simple.