skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first, I was surprised to see Apple in that list since they tend to do things their way. But it's true that they've used the iPod connector for ages and that it's been very nice to be able to use any iPod cables laying around to charge pretty much anything they've built since.

As Erik pointed out, it'd be nice to see something super easy to plug. I've never had much problems with the iPod connector, maybe due to the build quality. But USB (of all sizes, but regular USB in particular) has often times been a problem. It needs to either accept to be plugged upside-down or to be very simple to identify which side is up. USB is super frustrating on the latter.
I wonder how many cases it is going to detect that would have disappeared on their own, given how sensitive the test is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_ratio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_multiplier

The banks are only required to hold reserves of something like 10% of what they've lent out, depending on the country. That means, effectively, that when you deposit $1000, the bank then turns around and lends $10,000. Most of the money in the world exists only on balance sheets.
Being as big as possible seemed to work out, though.
Do you know about gem2deb ?
https://github.com/thwarted/gem2deb
'Takes a URL to a .gem or tar'ed gem and does the brute force work of converting it to a .deb package'
Any prospectus put together by Goldman will have significant disclosure and results of their internal audits. Despite the hoopla, this is a pretty regulated area of commerce.

As to who will read such a prospectus, that's likely a different beast altogether.

It's my belief that FB is more likely to be in a pre-IPO Google situation right now, that is, that they're sitting on more than people realize, not less. I recall Google routinely requiring academics to cut the server and request numbers by a factor of 10-100x when giving talks about what was going on, pre-IPO. A luxury I'm sure they would appreciate still having.
It comes across inappropriate and immature. Regardless of the content, a VC in his mid forties shouldn't be quoting rap lyrics at the head of business articles. I can't imagine having a conversation with this guy about business where he casually offers a quote about douchebags and assholes from Kanye West to explain something.

Kanye belongs on your iPod, not in your Forbes opinion piece.
Unfortunately doesn't work with Cyrillic characters. I got this in the calendar

"=C7=E0=EF=EE=F7=ED=E0=F5"
So I worded this poorly but I was disapproving of his Kanye quote, not the lead-in from the blog owner.
First up, there's nothing wrong with immutable objects; indeed, immutable objects have benefits that mutable objects don't. So not having mutable state is not a good argument against modeling them as objects in an object-oriented language.

Secondly, rules do have state, in so far as one rule is distinct from another. Perhaps a rule has preconditions (which could be represented as a binary tree and evaluated through recursion) that must be true before the rule is "active". Perhaps rules have effects, a list of state changes that they impose on the rest of the game world. You could model these as functions, or alternatively again as trees, evaluated through recursion. If the rule system needs to be flexible enough, they could be serializable and deserializable from a text or binary format.

If the game is a simple one, with a fixed set of rules that never change, there's little need for this. But if you look at a game like Monopoly, there's a lot of complexity that comes up in real-life games that isn't so simple to encapsulate in rule lists, such as making complex deals, haggling, borrowing money from other players, even receiving charitable donations from other players to prevent the game ending prematurely.

Move further into business rule systems and the need for flexibility increases again. I've architected systems which needed a generic rule-based system for data validation and workflow transitions; and these rules had themselves rules for when they applied, as older rules needed to be grandfathered in to older data, but expired for new data.
During the bubble 'mindshare' was considered the most valuable thing you could get, more than money.

Hence, superbowl commercials for Dotcom startups.

Scaling has gotten far, far, far cheaper in terms of hardware, software and staff. This opens up a new class of possible businesses and returns. Remember that Google didn't even exist during the first part of the boom; monetizing with advertising was difficult... Everything cost tens of thousands of dollars back then, phone systems, servers, development environment licenses, ... Anyway, memory lane.

Now you can git push to heroku and launch a web app. That's definitely valuable. Heroku probably would have been worth well over $1bn during the boom, though. At the time, you could legitimately spend a year building out a web application.
You mean, if a bank lends you money, then you deposit it in the same bank, then they loan it to you again, then you despot it again (or something equivalent) then that "creates" lots of money even though at any given time only one guy has each of the dollars...?
Chrome is advertised frequently if you do a search on Google using IE.
https://github.com/codebutler/firesheep
Actually, they would have been more impressive if we did Dec to Dec. Our traffic is usually down in Dec.

We did it that way because we were reviewing 2010.
They would have been more impressive if we did Dec to Dec. Our traffic is usually down in Dec.

We did it that way because we were reviewing 2010.
No, we get diluted like the founders.
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Though the author doesn't seem to be malicious in any way, he really should have reported it to the PHP core team as a security vulnerability before writing a blog post. This could easily lead to denial-of-service attacks.
We're almost ready to hire a couple of really awesome folk. Then we have to train them. Then they can be useful and help us make the site faster and more stable.

We're just really constrained on human time right now.
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He asks "Is this serious?" halfway down the page, so I'm guessing he just didn't think about it. I'm sure it will be patched shortly, and equally sure some PHP core team member is like "F--!" right now.
We saw about a 30% increase right after v4 was launched, and about most of those (25% of the 30%, or 83% of the increase) stuck around a week later. It's been basically normal growth since then.
Google Chrome has already won the browser war... by re-igniting the browser war. Google wanted to raise the game by fast-tracking browser innovation and enabling development of next-gen web-apps, and they have.

Would CSS3/HTML5, canvas, etc. have the momentum they have today without Chrome having shaken things up? Would Firefox, Opera, and IE javascript performance have improved to the degree they have without Chrome? Would the IE team have finally knuckled under to pressure to improve standards compliance in IE without Chrome?

The fact that the Chrome team has been able to put out a top-notch browser that continues to gain market share hand over fist is just a side benefit.
How is their alarm clock implemented?
Yeah -- the first time you go to google.com on IE you see a large advertisement for Chrome in the top-right corner. That is of course the only ad on the homepage -- web property doesn't get more prime than that.
I can't reproduce.

ubuntu@ip-10-130-57-139:~$ php -v
PHP 5.3.3-1ubuntu9.1 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Oct 15 2010 14:00:18)
Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
RSS is dying from its overuse (too many blogs) and misuse (spam and pointless feeds).

Also the lack of innovation from RSS reader apps isn't helping.
Sorry, that last line was for @zandorg.
no no, I don't mean stealing someone's cookie through some kind of Man-In-The-Middle attack.

I mean impersonating someone else simply by logging in and then changing some javascript variables before posting to the server.
Not everything will go according to plan
that's why I use DDG with !so
We weren't really begging for money. We needed money, we let people know that, and then we let people set their own price because we had no idea what the price should be, so we crowdsourced it.

We can't talk about our revenue, but I'll just say, we're still here and will be here for a while yet.
The ad appears with Firefox as well. I believe visiting Google with any non-Chrome/Chromium browser triggers it.
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Both are unfortunate bugs. The iPhone one is the one that burned me and my wife and many people at work. I'm sure the Android one is real too, but I don't know anyone who has been affected yet.
Fine if you know that ruby here is the important keyword.
I thought of something to do with Debian and package management done different then elsewhere.
About 12 million last month. About 5 million last January.
Moderate inflation is actually a good thing. Without inflation, there is no reason to invest your money -- the incentive is to hoard wealth, like in the Middle Ages.
> Given that HN was originally supposed to be part of Reddit, that's not surprising.

What makes you say that?
Ouch, this hangs if PHP is run from the command line on Lucid Lynx.
Adblock et all: By advising users to use Adblock, once again you are encouraging users to do something that can cripple the web as we know it.

That's the point.
I find myself more & more use blekko to replace my RSS feeds, maybe this is the future of feeds.

But then again maybe blekko doesn't have a future....
Had to take my daughter to the airport this morning and her iPhone 4 alarm didn't go off. My iPhone 3G alarm did.
I do have depressive cycles where I'm not sure I'm doing any good by showing up; I come in anyway. After a while the cycle swings the other way and I get heroic coding done

I think all creative people are like this, bipolar or not. The problem with the programming world is that a lot of non-creative types want to be programmers, and so they set soem "standard that assumes programmers are people that show up at 9am, click shit in Eclipse for 8 hours, and then go home. Unfortunately, in the history of the human race, clicking shit in Eclipse for 8 hours has never produced a working computer program. Programming is creative work; treat it like a 9-5 job and the result is shitty software.

The sad part is that there is a huge market for shitty software. I bet the car makers and bridge builders wish they had it this good.
I very rarely click through Reader to view the underlying post and I never stay subscribed to blogs that don't push their entire post through RSS. I don't have a problem with ads and the smart ones will embed them anyway. I just find it more convenient to read everything from a centralized setting. I like to avoid opening superfluous tabs on my crappy windows machine at work if I can help it, it needs all the free memory it can get just to stay unfrozen.
Same:

PHP 5.3.2 (cli) (built: Aug 7 2010 00:04:41)
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies

Mac / Snow Leopard
It happens for me on nearly the exact same:

PHP 5.3.3-1ubuntu9.1 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Oct 15 2010 14:17:04)
Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies

The build time differs, for some reason.
Doesn't hang for me:

[1:26am:~/Downloads] RIDGELAND:root [0:16]# php -v
PHP 5.3.3 (cli) (built: Aug 22 2010 19:41:55)
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
Facebook is aware of the rule in question. The Facebook restricted stock plan was designed so that the participants are not considered stock owners. I doubt that Facebook went ahead with this deal without carefully examining the issue.
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It does hang on my Ubuntu desktop:

PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.5 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Sep 17 2010 13:41:55)
After reading this, I can believe GS & Facebook are hoping the 'Special Purpose Vehicle' lets Facebook get further liquidity while staying private, while remaining ready for the SEC to rule against them, forcing public reporting.

At which point, they mock-begrudgingly reveal numbers better than anyone had expected, setting up a monster IPO as a consolation prize.
If you have any thoughts on what the bug is, please let me (or PHP) know.

Here's what you do. Step 1: compile PHP with debugging symbols. Then run the test case in GDB:

$ gdb `which php`
(gdb) set args testcase.php
(gdb) run
<program hangs>

Then hit C-c, and see where the program is:
^C
Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
0x0000000000703898 in ?? ()

#0 0x0000000000703898 in ?? ()
#1 0x00000000006aae40 in execute ()
#2 0x00007ffff4400116 in ?? () from /usr/lib/php5/20090626/suhosin.so
#3 0x000000000068290d in zend_execute_scripts ()
#4 0x000000000062e1a8 in php_execute_script ()
#5 0x000000000071317a in ?? ()
#6 0x00007ffff5475c4d in __libc_start_main (main=<value optimized out>, argc=<value optimized out>, ubp_av=<value optimized out>,
init=<value optimized out>, fini=<value optimized out>, rtld_fini=<value optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fffffffe9c8)
at libc-start.c:228
#7 0x000000000042d4b9 in _start ()

Now you have some idea of where to look. (Note: this is not the actual bug, as I can't reproduce it on my machine. This is <?php while(1){} ?>, which is just as good for demonstration purposes. Also, no debugging symbols, so we don't really know what's going on.)

No offense, but this is like programming 101.
Their example phone (the HTC Evo) has the worst port arrangement of any phone I've owned. Not only is the microUSB hard to figure out which way is up, the micro-HDMI port has a nearly identical shape as the microUSB, only upside down. I wouldn't be surprised if I some how damaged the micro-HDMI port in the first few weeks of owning the phone from trying to get the microUSB to fit into the micro-HDMI port.

I've actually found the microUSB port to work pretty well in terms of charging reliability (better than the miniUSB on my old blackberry at the very least), but it certainly doesn't help that the side the USB logo is on seems to vary from cable to cable.
Aren't a huge percentage of software bugs potential security vulnerabilities by this standard? I understand the wisdom of trying to get patches pushed out before publicly disclosing major exploits in mission critical software, but it seems unreasonable to expect users to not make statements of the form "program X crashes when I do such-and-such" in public discourse.
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Thanks; I didn't know about that book, but I just ordered a copy.
I don't know that I would go as far as saying that. DHH has a point, in that the deal - as reported by NYT - will be part market making (through the SPV/SIV) and partly equity purchase. Sounds like FB put the $450M requirement as a gate price for GS to get the rights to do the other transactions - plus also handle the IPO when they are ready. Plus they get to keep the upside of the equity.

Sounds like a pretty sweet deal - if you asked me - for both FB & GS.

GS pushes the bulk of the risk on to it's investors, while potentially participating & handling one of the most anticipated IPOs in Tech since Google.

Win/Win/Win.
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If you think that Goldman hasn't done their homework, and consulted with their very close buddies at the SEC, then you're crazy. These guys have proven over the past several years in particular that they are the gods of finance, and if there are rules and regulations in their way, they will either find a path around them or convince government officials to craft a new hole instead.
http://www.reddit.com/r/seduction/
The law does not apply to the Goldman Sachs. Facebook will not be forced to disclose anything.
And so, the race after affected websites starts...
I can't reproduce under Debian:

PHP 5.2.6-1+lenny9 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Aug 4 2010 03:25:57)
Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies
Ask Jason Fried: Do you angel invest even though 37S would not take?
I noticed in some SEC filings from Groupon that Jason Fried is one of the investors.

Assuming that it is you, brilliant investment by the way, how do you resolve that dichotomy within yourself?

I am not trying to bash you, but am seriously curious.

You guys are famous for shunning investors, and encouraging startups to not take investments and to live within the constraints.

So, given that it is you that invested in Groupon, how do you reconcile what you say - with your financial interests? What is your rational?

I hope you don't take offense to this, but I would be interested to hear what you have to say.
If that isn't your bag, I will push back and ask why you're programming on a star-nix platform?

I pretty much disagree with your whole point. I mostly program C, C++, and Prolog on *nix, and I rarely have to compile anything except for my own software (obviously). Debian provides nearly all libraries I'd ever use as a package.

If other people want to use my software, I can tell them to install dependencies such and such, or even provide a Debian package of my software. I don't want them to need to put the effort in reconstructing my build environment.
'Move fast and break things' apparently applies to finance as well as programming.
With MicroUSB, the parts that wear out are in the cable rather than in the port. So you probably just need a new cable.

With MiniUSB, it was the other way around... which meant throwing away the whole device when one spring in a tiny USB port wore out.

I just hope they standardize on port orientation. I have an iDapt i4 charging station, and my EVO goes on backwards, but my blackberry and mp3 player are fine. Clearly a standard is needed here.
This new bubble and the dot-com bubble of the late 90s are very different animals. This time around the companies have actual earnings...
Doesn't seem to hang on my desktop lucid install.

booi@booi-desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux booi-desktop 2.6.32-27-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 00:51:09 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
booi@booi-desktop:~$ php -a
Interactive shell

php > $a = 2.2250738585072011e-308;
php > print $a;
2.2250738585072E-308
php > print $a/2;
1.1125369292536E-308
Maybe it means that many readers don't want to read every article that TC puts out, so don't subscribe to the RSS. When there's an interesting article forwarded from a friend, they go and read it.

Personally I love Reader. I use it for high signal-to-noise writers only, where I want to read (or be aware of) almost everything they write. I regularly remove blogs who feel they need to put something out every hour, just because.
What happened Facebook? - you used to be cool.

Steve's argument is about usability - which is sensible. But ultimately Facebook will lose it's awesome power before it even really deploys it, because it'll cease being cool. Choosing a suite of social software is just too much (and increasingly so) - a question along the lines of: 'What social network shares my values and will define me appropriately as a person'.

Actually - it makes me think that the decline of Google fervour as so much hype. Google never really was cool. They were always just nerds running algos to make stuff easier for folks. I use google not to signal to others my social status. I use it because I want to know stuff. Sure they can always stuff that up. But at least they don't have Facebook's Achilles.

Good learnings...

Value != Cool
Ask HN: Is it possible to sue a software company for bugs?
Have you encountered cases that people sue software makers for bugs? Is it common? Is it even possible?
For those interested, this is the SEC filing I saw:
http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1490281/00014902811000000...

By the way, I am assuming that you invested - although now that I read it over, I realize it could just be an advisory role where you got equity that way. But even then, you aren't a fan of giving away your own equity, so the question still applies - how do you reconcile the two?
I don't quite understand how he gets a 10,000x speedup from a 100x transistor count decrease. Does die area increase with the square of transistor count?
Check out the last lines for

strace php p.php

lstat64("/home/ubuntu/junk/p.php", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=59, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/home/ubuntu/junk", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/home/ubuntu", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/home", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbfe51238) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=59, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 68, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb78d1000

The next thing that should be hapenning is munmap for that very same address, but something hangs...
Memes like this bother me ala the whole declaring things dead. The problem of subscribing to content still exists. It always will.

When RSS came along did that kill email newsletters or email subscriptions to content? No. RSS was just another solution to that problem. Twitter, FB, social,etc. is just another solution to the problem, it doesn't mean it kills RSS.

Is RSS used less now? Yup, but that doesn't mean it's dead.
RSS has become a background technology. I haven't clicked the subscribe to RSS feed orange thingy in a while. I do use Pulse and get updates from key sites there. I bet that uses RSS to get the content. That's fine, that's probably how RSS should be used. Now everyone wins.

If we're talking about direct syndication and subscription and not complementary tech ala fb/twitter, then I don't see anything killing it currently.

Until the problem is no longer there, it's hard to say a technology ala solution to that problem is "dead".
Ignoring the larger article, I got the impression that he was just listing the sort of people that a woman wouldn't want to be in a relationship with in general: Assholes, douchebags, scumbags, people that always put work ahead of their loved ones, and the sort of person who constantly finds fault with you and belittles you.

Considering that West himself has a reputation for endless work on his projects, I stand by that interpretation.
PHP Version 5.3.0 via a default WAMP install on Windows 7 hangs as well
Of course it is -- Facebook and Twitter are nothing but aggregators for the masses, aggregating information that the masses care about in a centralized, simple way. The user doesn't have to download a reader, look around for an RSS button, copy the URL to an XML file, or anything like that; he just has to click "Follow" or "Add Friend".

Facebook and Twitter are not new concepts -- they are aggregators for their consumers and publishing platforms for their producers, and your mom uses Facebook or Twitter to follow the things she cares about for the same reason you use RSS to follow the technical blogs you care about.
There must have been something special about the 6809 - I recall doing my Digital Design course on that Chip. And yes, we didn't have an assembler, everything was entered via opcodes either. It was a very enjoyable experience for someone like me who wasn't a gear head, and got to play around with SB555s, NAND Gates, and lots, and lots of wirewrapping.
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