skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alarming, I'd imagine:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/redis-db/ZTSm-1w-6AQ

To quote from the end of the post:

so, to sum this up -- after a while, you are stuck with an
in-memory database that you cannot backup, cannot replicate to
a standby machine, and that will eventually consume all memory
and crash (if it does not crash earlier).

conclusion: redis with vm enabled is pretty much unusable, and we
would really not recommend it to anybody else for production use
at the moment. (at least not as a database, it might work better
as a cache.)
Yeah, see, I've been running Flask on App Engine. It works fine and all, but it feels like I'm jumping through a lot of hoops for Big Table.
No problem! In fairness, this "pick a random chemical component" idea was at least moderately retarded, and most worthy of criticism.
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Do Laws/Legal System get Tested & Debugged against Reality?
Everyone here suggesting you start coding is correct. You definitely should start coding because it's the only way to truly learn. However, if you actually want to get a good job (the bad programming jobs are likely just as unsatisfying as what you're doing now) you also have to read books. Not blog posts (those are good for staying current with trends or figuring out a specific problem but bad for truly learning) but actual books.

For the specific task of getting through a programming interview you should check out the list I made here:
http://www.7bks.com/list/610009

I highly recommend you start with The Algorithm Design Manual and do all the exercises you can at the end of the chapters. They're excellent because they start off easy and get harder and harder. If you've written some small programs and scripts I think you shouldn't have too much difficulty.
Corollary: if money changes hands, you can't call a customer a guest.
I believe it's been vandalized (anyone can edit it).
Are there any single, common word domain brands that have been successful? I can't think of a single one.
Qs1 :What about when authors give out free pdf copies of books in advance requesting that they not be circulated?

Qs 2: Does that mean the UMG has lost copyright to songs on those CDs? Can the dude now make copies of the songs and sell them? I dont understand how the medium gets ties to the copyright
I think you're missing the danger that a lack of growth involves to Facebook.

Facebook isn't monetizing their existing customers and their customers are there because "it's the thing" - all one billion of them or however many they currently have. We aren't just there because everyone else is, we're there 'cause it's like a new club, a new experience, new thing. NEW. If everyone's on Facebook and it's just that dumb place that everyone on, then... the appeal shrinks...

If Facebook growth visibly stalled, if I'm no longer having that interesting experience of old acquaintances becoming newly visible, then suddenly the process of Facebook shrinkage appears. And if this is the moment Facebook is visibly trying to get more out of me, then the shrinkage might really accelerates.

I've seen just a couple friends quit FB recently. Not a big trend but I also haven't seen more people join.

Imagine if ... it was ... the most ephemeral $50 B ever...
Becoming more clear every day that either the site is short a few, maybe a dozen plus, servers. Or the design has reached an inflection point of some sort.
You've oversimplified the DMCA. The "safe harbor" you're referring to includes the requirement that the provider "does not have actual knowledge that the material or an activity using the material on the system or network is infringing; [or] in the absence of such actual knowledge, is not aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent".

You have to be able to say with a straight face that you couldn't reasonably have known the material was infringing a priori to be eligible.
Record labels don't invest in artists, they loan them money while taking a very substantial percentage and ownership. If you take funding and fail, you don't have to pay it back. Make an album and fail, and they own you.
If these guys precipitate a bubble burst we should all hate them.

2011 is the year Facebook growth (users, hours, page views, pick one) plateaus, it is inevitable it will happen as some point, and this is very likely the year.
This might be a stupid question, but that's exactly like the OSX/OS9 switch, right?
Amazon's approach to product development and product management
I'd go with a daily blog style page, something like "Today's Big Thing," but sex-related. Fresh daily content guarantees you a recurring audience and makes it so you potentially only need one employee, the editor.
Well, "support" doesn't imply "creative control". I doubt a language designer would contract under terms which let companies simply pay to add to the language roadmap.

He likely would let them pay for:

* advice on how to work around the lack of their proposed language feature (as a subset of "advice on how to solve problems in or with the language").

* some influence over prioritisation of the roadmap. If there are two language features Rich was planning to add anyway, pushing one that a paying customer desperately needs up the priority list wouldn't interfere much with the creative direction of the language.
No-show Apple still has a dominating presence at CES
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In ASCII? Really?
You forgot drop shadows.
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This is primarily about what's known as "first-sale doctrine". Basically, if the copyright owner gives you a legitimate copy of a work, you are free to pass on or resell that particular copy without needing to ask permission from the copyright owner.

So no, you're not allowed to make copies of the disks and sell them, but if you buy a stack of 50 promo disks second-hand, you can resell all 50 of them. I'm not sure how it works with purely digital goods, but presumably (IANAL) you'd be in the clear if you deleted "your" copy when you passed it on to someone else.
It may simply be that he's heard from others who do run public companies how much it sucks. It dramatically changes how you run things, and you wouldn't want to be CEO of a public company. He knows that much at least.

There may be other reasons as you say, certainly having to deal with the scrutiny would not be fun, no matter how above board you may be (or likely not).
> No, I would have had to have just $1B

You're right - I misread.

> Also, the Fed doesn't need the $1B, it can create it and then destroy it when it's deposited back.

It's not quite that simple. Everything is okay until it isn't deposited back. Then there's an extra $1B in the economy.
'friendships' FTFY.
+1 for a well-put argument.

However, I admit to asking a lot of trivia questions when interviewing candidates at Apple, partly as a culture fit, and partly because I could use them to segue into a chain of questions that dealt with the consequences of seemingly innocuous design decisions made by engineers long ago. This was something my group had to learn to foresee and deal with when we thought bad things would happen.

One of these questions had to do with 0xCAFEBABE.

That said, getting the trivia part right was a +1, and not knowing the info was a +0, so no harm if the job candidate didn't know it.

I'd also use them as a shortcut to validating their experience in an area. Again, a +0 if they didn't know the trivia, but if they do, I can move on to a different line of questions.
> I guess a lot depends on how much developers embrace .NET; .NET apps are compiled to CLR bytecode which presumably could run on ARM devices just as easily as on Intel.

The only problem I think would be with mixed assemblies, those containing both native and managed code, which can exist for PC applications. XNA games for example run on PowerPC (Xbox 360) and ARM (Zune/WP7) but their development is much more constrained than PC applications.
This makes sense. "Dead end" is probably defined as whether it connects to any other roads. They wouldn't want to define dead-end as whether it connects to any _non-dead end_ roads.
Probably because nothing discussed in the article is actually something her employers would be worried about. The whole secrecy seems to be there to add sexiness and authority to the article. In fact the way she and her personal work and values are presented I would be pretty happy if I was her employer.
Actually, that is talking about the existing virtual-memory (VM) implementation, which swaps data in and out to disk, and doesn't work so great.

The change being talked about here is all about replacing that exact flakey VM with a more solid disk backed approach
It was supposed to be announced for 2010 Q4. Some think it might get delayed until 2011 Q2. Best to wait to see if it gets announced at CES in a few days.
Since you know Linux well get a job as a Linux sysadmin running servers for a tech startup. Any great sysadmin spends a good portion of his time programming. Transition over time to full-time development if you want.
I'm actually somewhat mystified that the number of IIS instances is that high.
I love watching a new technology go exponential. By this time next year we'll be talking about 1TB laptop SSDs, and from there it won't be too long until their capacities outpace platter tech.
Wanna swap job with me? We can train each other.
Hmm, a company acting on a legal loop hole, must be a first.
If Bob buys a beer and hands it to Larry who then gives it to underage Tommy, we still say you can't do that. But if I leak confidential documents to one person who then goes on to publish them, it's not wrong to publish them?

It's still wrong, and should be against the law, no matter how many times removed the action is. Just because people don't like or trust the government does not make it okay to go around publishing documents in the name of free speech.
While I've experienced some of the same issues as the author, and came to the same conclusion (that we couldn't use Redis in VM mode in production), the subject line is unfairly alarmist.

We are using Redis in production (we had to adapt our usage patterns to the demands of an in-memory database, rather than relying on VM to give us unlimited storage) and I would recommend it.

"Considered harmful" is not warranted here: see http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
The iPad seems to be doing ok with that limitation.
Yes, and MS already has something similar to Classic mode.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Virtual_PC#Windows_XP_M...
First, before you start, take a backup of the laptop. If you make a mistake during your rebuild, you could lose your drive contents.

For Windows, the best way is to have an image based backup solution like Acronis, Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery, or just the Windows Backup built into Windows Vista, or Windows 7. This will restore a working copy of the OS from a time when it was previously working. If this is not possible, you'll most likely be in for a reinstall.

When you've reinstalled your OS, make sure you implement an automatic backup solution, so that you don't have to think about doing that backup each day. For your files, consider a solution like Dropbox, this will keep a version tracked copy of your files off your computer that will be easy to restore. Depending on your choice of dev tools, and how much you've customized them, it may be worth exporting a copy of the settings to your Dropbox.

This may not all help for this particular rebuild, but it can significantly lessen the pain if you ever have to do this again. Good luck!
Can't help you your suppose to laugh if you don't well then you don't find it humorous. I mean millions of people love family guy I think that show is moronic and dry.

To each his own your doing going to like everything that everyone else likes because your an individual nothing really to get buddy.
Amusing to think that Apple was criticized as being a "vertically integrated advertising agency" and Google really is one.

Of course they want to increase eyeball traffic and ad impressions. It is also very clear to me that Android will be the most widely used mobile OS at the bottom end of the price structure, and therefor in the direct-revenue-per-subscriber numbers. So it makes sense that the apps that will do best there will be ad supported.

The experience of the Angry Birds developers bear this out already.
Ask HN: I'm an unknown indie developer. How can I promote my web app?
I launched my first major web app, http://grapev.in, a few days ago.

Since then, I've been iterating on the app to improve the user experience. However, this is difficult with few users and consequentially little feedback. I published some info about the app to a few sources, including HN, but it's difficult to get a voice heard as a completely unknown developer.

I'd really like to generate awareness of the app so that I can get some feedback and understand how to improve it. It's not a business by any means, so I'm not financially incentivized. Just trying to make something good. How can I go about this?
Anyone got any recommendations for SSDs for a MBP? Should I wait a few months for one of the new ones?

I've got a 80GB SSD in my MBP, but it's feeling a little small.

The whole TRIM / garbage collection stuff got me feeling confused.
What's a CFP?
Are you hoping for a response from a tumblr engineer or just some idle speculation and gossip?
Your domain name seems extremely sub-par for how high quality your site is.

I messed around for a few minutes and came up with:

funtickle.com
meowsex.com

Not sure if those are any better, but just wanted to see what was out there. ;)
Major sites do what I'm saying guys they just have a team and I don't! Only real major diffrence.
I never said I spent 25 a day on adwords I actually don't advertise the site using adwrds. I used adwords for testing I user various (more than one source) and spread out my campaign. Knowing this data took hundreds of dollars in testing and weeks.
Again I don't use adwords I use various other methouds of buying traffic.

Your confusing Adwords with Adsense buddy.
I wonder if Amazon's EBS will support SSD anytime soon. That would rock.
According to everyone _except_ memory manufacturers, 1/2 Terabyte = 500 Gigabytes = 5*10^11 Bytes.

See: http://www.tarsnap.com/GB-why.html

I can't find a single other example, other than Memory where "Giga" isn't 10^9.

The question is - SSDs - Memory or Disk? :-)

See: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2010/06/25/sandforc...

In addition to the GB vs GiB, the use of NAND disk over-provisioning and partition formatting further complicates issues - the punchline:

"The 100GB SandForce-based drives use a massive 28 per cent of over provisioning, leaving just 93.16GB of formatted capacity despite their 128GiB of NAND storage"
what were you doing to drive traffic to your survey app?
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The most obvious ideas are porn site, adult dating site, etc. The biggest challenge is figuring out the highest and best use. I think the best use is turning sex.com into the authoritative site for sex questions / videos. With this approach, you can get a captivated audience and build a lasting brand.

Sex is something we all want to know about, but it is still taboo to publicly talk about in the US, UK, India, etc. I notice other posts mentioning developing a porn site, or adult dating site, but those seem like low hanging, 1-off sales. By building a brand, you can generate a higher customer LTV. If the owner of sex.com can afford to pay $13 million, he should be able to afford several million to develop expert content, products, and a long term business.

To give you insight in the value of creating a product company, look at Bill Phillips who acquired EAS in 1996, and solid it for $160 million in 1999. http://www.ergogenics.org/231.html
See http://github.com/manuel/cyberlisp and http://github.com/manuel/ell for my takes on the subject. Judging from my experience, a full - but slow - Lisp compiler+runtime that does most of the stuff I wrote about should take about 5 KLOC.
Hm I like the idea of the email this to a friend feature and yes the site gets tens of thousands of visits and my ctr and traffic is changing as I'm analyzing data. Also majority of major publishing sites do what I'm saying they just have a team and I don't! Only real major difference.

thanks for the comments & suggestions :) greatly appreciated. It can be constructive but build upon data just don't say your a poopoo face your lying blabla I want my mommy be an adult thanks Andrew for doing that and your figures are not 100% accurate but they are in that ballpark.
To ingest, use as cosmetics . . you name it they tried it. A long history of use is neither a sign of safety or efficacy, but try telling the non scientific public that.
There was another recent case that touched on the related question of whether violation of a license agreement attached to software could give rise to copyright infringement:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/mixed-ninth-circuit-rul...

Interestingly, the same three Ninth Circuit judges heard both this case and the OP case.

EDIT: Also, there was the Vernor v. Autodesk case a few months ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_v._Autodesk,_Inc.

Again, the exact same three judges! They seem quite interested in these first-sale/license issues (or else they wouldn't have published all three opinions).
Grooveshark is not equivalent to the Pirate Bay.

I use the service to stream music that is completely paid for and legal. Allowing other users to stream the music I uploaded seems to be no different in principle than playing it on a loudspeaker in a public space. Do I have the right to let other people listen to my music? This doesn't seem to be a copyright issue because no media has been actually copied. Grooveshark allows multiple users to listen to a single, legally owned copy. Grooveshark not only removes copyrighted material upon request, but also blocks uploading privileges for users who have violated the rules.

It is also not the case that they are acting selfishly and without regard for the industry. They are constantly taking steps to work with the major labels and have already closed a deal with EMI. Only Universal is suing them. They also have a profit sharing program with artists and do seem to care about finding new revenue streams for the music industry.
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Ha I like this guy :) you are the reason I get up in the morning! You let me know that I'm doing something right because you help balance the equation. Thanks mate...seriously thanks :D!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_for_papers
So we should round up most of the reporters in the US, and everyone that's talked about the leaked wires, and prosecute them? Doesn't matter how many times removed they are, right?

The crime is the breaching of an agreement between a cleared government worker and the government. Someone without an agreement with the government is under no obligation to keep anything secret.
Uh, in OpenGL too, if you wish.
Call For Papers

It's an academic thing.
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Good point. I certainly wasn't trying to be misleading — the "slowed to" was based on my observation immediately after the store launched, when I believe some of the paid apps had higher numbers of installs. However, I don't have the sales figures on those handy (I'd have to ask Google) and it may not be fair to base sales data off the initial launch anyway.

I've changed the title to be less ambiguous/misleading.
I can see it being wrong in circumstances, but I don't think just because the government has deemed something confidential should make it wrong and/or illegal, confidentiality != underage (and I'll assume you mean child rather than, say an 18 year old) alcohol consumption. The classification doesn't matter, it's the content. What wikileaks is doing is far different than publishing a list of people in the CIA, FBI, and Witness Protection Program along with their addresses and family's addresses.

Edit: furthermore, I'd like you to consider the case when our own government's illegal action is exposed. Do you really think it should be illegal to reveal the illegal actions of our government?
Well that's your opinion and honestly it doesn't move me...you can scream holler around I'm still going to the bank. You sound like those little boys that keep saying justin bieber is a homosexual but he keeps selling cds it doesn't matter. I know I'm making what I'm making and I wanted advice on how to make the site more social and engaging to increase the revenue...haters like followers are abundant your a clone get off your couch and be a leader!

I also didn't say 400 and it's against googles tos to one post images of my account and state the exact revenue figures which I'm never going to do.

Really do fell bad for you but if I can leave you with anything my friend it's this. Listen to your data and really want to engage with it and test not just daily but in realtime and multiple times a day and tailor it to your needs...I challenge you to do so! Hoping your up to the challenge buddy just as I was.

Best of luck :)
Good point. You can watch the video on YouTube which has the transcribed captions, but I'll look into making this better. Thanks for the feedback! Cheers!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbMxnQJv2zs
It's irrelevant what you call a user. Almost anything a user does with your app is helping you - whether it's consuming ads, talking about your product / service, or giving feedback.
Call for papers.
The organizers for an academic conference will send it out to fill the schedule.
There is a glut of conferences, therefore glut of CFPs.

Although, more problematic are reviewing of those papers once submitted, which is more time intensive.
'What is remarkable about this volume is that the legal academics who make the arguments I have rehearsed are by and large strong free-speech advocates. Yet faced with the problems posed by the Internet, they start talking about “low value” speech (a concept strong first-amendment doctrine rejects) and saying things like “autonomy resides not in free choice per se but in choosing wisely” and “society needs not an absence of ‘chill,’ but an optimal level.”(In short, let’s figure out which forms of speech we should discourage.)'

Depressing.
music being used is opt-out, revenue sharing is opt-in, that to me explains all about their ethos and how they run the service. It would not be at all difficult for them to go legitimate like Spotify with regards to technology and number of employees needed, but it would kill their business because they can't operate "legitimately" like Spotify, that's not their business model.

Also I would eat my hat if you have a license that allows you to redistribute music you "purchased", I'd be even more surprised if that license allowed you to grant streaming rights to a third party. The license terms for an itunes purchase are extremely limited.
It looks like telehash aims to be a substrate for building p2p apps. It basically solves addressing and NAT for you which are always the first things you have to deal with in a p2p system on the public internet.
If the intern finds that he is learning a lot, having fun, and working with a great group of people, I don't see why s/he wouldn't want to spend 12-14+ per day working at a startup.

Disclosure: startup intern who commuted 3-4 hours per day.
The test didn't include the obvious control group: have the subjects pick a door but don't show them whether or not they picked the right one.
I think the DHT is just used to address peers and do NAT negotiation. There is no need for every message to go through the DHT.
Simply brilliant! Thanks for the insight didn't think of this going back to the drawing board this week.
Annoucing cmdfu, roll your own heroku-like interface