skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they only get 5% of that $20/user/month. That being said, here are two options for how to use $150,000:

1. Hire an engineer for a year

2. Sign up 15,000 users and generate $15,000/month in revenue. Hire an engineer permanently and net an extra $30,000/year in profit.

I know which I'd choose.
The hard part here is the nature of the craft.

Developers have rules. Code has syntax. Everyone follows the same rules and code comes out the same. One developer can pick up where another left off. It's very clean cut.
Designers are different. There are "rules" of design, but each designer is different and have their own styles. That's not a bad thing, but when you get multiple (hundreds, even) of different developers with styles and no "strict" rules of design, it can make for a very hodge-podge project that...well...looks like 100 different people designed it

[Not a designer or developer but I work with both and serve as a "translator" between the two]
I don't understand the move to one window. I don't think the confusion is due to two windows, but rather because your library window looks like a player by default.

There's a 90/10 rule - only put the stuff you use 90% of the time in the UI. The other 10% goes in the drop menu.

In the case of your mockup, I doubt people are EQing every movie they watch. They don't really use the library, so prev/next/loop/shuffle and lib are all unnecessary in a player view. I expect in most cases people use VLC to play a single video, something that a native player won't.

Further, your time display doesn't show total time - only position. Most players show current position and a total time/countdown toggle. The best include an end clock (i.e. your movie will finish @ 1:32am).

What new type of user are you trying to attract? Once you know that, it's pretty obvious what to do. Ping me if you wish to discuss (radley@ cloud.tv / vj.tv). I'm a big fan of VLC and build/design UI/UX & media players for a living...
maybe the solution is a set of design rules for project/community/development that everyone agrees to.
Once all browsers in use by everyone support CORS: no.
Blocks - memory address space sections? What's ambiguous about this term?

Actually, you said it earlier in the thread: the motherboard is addressing blocks on its model of the SSD. These can map to different physical blocks on the SSD. You don't specify which you are talking about at any given time.

Here's more information about what TRIM does:

You keep on mistaking your misunderstanding of what I'm saying for mine of TRIM. I understand what TRIM does.

Once the disk is full, "dirty" blocks have to be re-used.

So, all this time, you were imagining a full disk? Savvy SSD users leave 20% of so space so that wear leveling works better.

So, the OSX "solution" is a temporary fix.

For me, it lasted exactly as long as it had to.

However I'm pretty sure SSD write leveling behavior is standard across all other operating systems.

SSD write leveling isn't implemented by the OS. (Take some of your own medicine.) If, however, the OS prefers to "dirty" blocks and doesn't have TRIM, you more quickly get to the point where there are very few blocks the SSD can use for wear leveling.
I'm guessing that millions of Flash developers didn't descend on their device as their saving grace like they were hoping, and they're now in the position of having pissed off their developer base of Java programmers by trying to replace them with different developers.... have realised that failed, are now running around Waterloo going "oh crap oh crap oh crap we're screwed", and are now desperate to get back some love from the Java devs (hence Android).

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An alternate view, as presented not so long ago by one pundit is that RIM doesn't even realise how bad their position is, because they are still making a lot of money and still have a lot of market share. The thing is that if you drop from 30% market share to 20% market share that is bad, right? Well, what if the market tripled in that same time? You would be losing market share, but actually selling twice as many units as you did in the previous time period!

And RIM has had some gangbuster sales figures. Profit? Not so much. The pundits argue that the gangbuster sales are blinding RIM to the fact that their margins are rapidly disappearing.

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So here's some scenarios:

(1) it is entirely possible that they have no idea how bad things are for them.

(2) they know, but they don't know how to fix it (because it depends on the whims of external developers, and yea forsooth we art mightily fickle beasts)

(3) they know and there are no quick fixes. The iPad was in semi-secret development long before the iPhone was announced. The iPhone was announced in 2007 I believe. You do the math. No wait, I'll do the math for you. This means that everyone else is 4-5 years behind Apple. The problems RIM are running into now are problems that Apple was solving back in 2006 or even earlier. Some things just take time.

(4) They have been surprised by the lack of enthusiasm/rate of abandonment from their old devs. RIM has a history of short term kludges to try to fix their developer relations. E.g. instead of maintaining their IDE and modernising it, they let it fester and rot, and then when it started to smell too much they jumped on the Eclipse plugin band-wagon (which was an ugly kludge at best). But my estimate would be that of any random sample of Java devs, at least 60% of them actively dislike Eclipse. So the band-aid solution just slices their pool of potential developers even more finely.
Should the universal browser plugin be Flash or NaCl?
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What do you love about this response? What actual value does it convey besides snideness toward people that actually care about what they work on?
Something I've long wondered, but which doesn't seem to be testable given currently available public data-sets: If we're going to be doing this sort of large-scale, rubric-based grading of essays, perhaps it should actually be done by computers? Given some training data, I would hypothesize that a modern statistical classifier could assign an essay a score with at least as good accuracy as a human employee doing such huge volumes of essays. It would also be more consistent, whereas it seems like there's a huge amount of person-to-person variance in the current scoring process.
I like the sudden advert to Groupon lumped into the Ad-based business model.
Feel free to try and make (400 Bad Request, {"details": "whatever"}) work when your Javascript code is injected into someone else's code running on their own domain. If you can - and not require users to be using a particular browser version - you will make mashup and browser extension authors very happy.

In the mean time, coddling is required.

This is indeed why we can't have nice things.
Well first, pretty much every tech is 20+ years old before it is packaged for the general public. Remember Douglas Engelbart?

Second, this has been Apple's post NeXt philosophy, and it is much better than the Not Invented Here philosophy that preceded it. Many OS X features are simply a better user interface for some Unix feature or other.

Apple should be applauded for this. Too much great technology has failed to make a difference in the lives of Muggles because of the incomprehensible incantations required to invoke it.
Google says that the issue "affects less than .29%..."

I haven't looked for a source to the total number of Gmail accounts, but presumably engadget know/believe it to be around 170m.
This is a really smart move for them. The value of unity has always been in the authoring environment and not the runtime.
http://www.joyentcloud.com/about/policies/cloud-service-leve...

For clause 2:

2. Service Level

Goal: Joyent’s goal is to achieve 100% Availability for all customers.

Remedy: Subject to Sections 3 and 4 below, if the Availability of customer’s Grid Container is less than 100%, Joyent will credit the customer 5% of the monthly fee for each 30 minutes of downtime (up to 100% of customer’s monthly fee for the affected server).

So probably you can get this month for very little (Takes only ten hours for getting full refund if SLA is signed)

But at the same time their exceptions list are pretty long, things like emergency maintenance and upgrades are considered as exceptions.
I remember trying to get a quote / get a few details about buying large quantities of bandwidth from Joyent a couple years back.

They consistently took days to answer simple questions via email. I generally take it that if a company can't even get its sales people responding quickly there's a snowballs chance in hell it's techs will.
172,413,793 gmail users in total? According to wikipedia there are 193.3 million users monthly (as of November 2010).
And we have every right to draw conclusions about TED based on how they react to such pressure.

(On a meta note, rights are a pathetic red herring pulled out when people don't want to defend something on other grounds. Should we refrain from criticizing anything unless we want to ban it? Should we refrain from praising anything unless we want to make it compulsory? If you condemn all criticism as a slippery slope towards taking away people's rights, we don't have much left to talk about.)
This reminds me of an episode of the (IMHO excellent) "The Good Wife". In one episode, it was pointed out that people are much better at identifying and describing members of their own race, basically the cross-race effect or own race bias [1].

I'm glad there was finally justice in this matter, even if it was far, far too late. To Mr Towler's credit, he doesn't seem to be consumed by the obvious injustice.

The one part missing from the story was any mention of the (other) victim, Brittany, who would now be in her 40s (if still alive). What were the circumstances behind her identifying Mr Towler? What are her thoughts on the matter now?

As must as we can chastise the judge and the prosecutor in this case, there was an eyewitness account and the alleged perpetrator was identified (albeit wrongly). How would you react to an accused child rapist on trial?

I wonder what happened to the real perpetrator. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he is now dead and was probably incarcerated for other attacks.

So this man spent 30 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. At the other end of the spectrum, Roman Polanski plied a 13 year old with alcohol, raped her, absconded to France prior to sentencing [2], remains free and is treated as a cause celebre somehow hounded even victimized by the authorities.

It's hard not to look at that and see two different justice systems in play.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-race_effect

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski_sexual_abuse_cas...
+1 for Linode. I've literally never had a problem. I'm a huge fan and I'm picky as hell.
> Apparently OS X now supports supplying DNS servers through SLAAC

i thought this was done via router-advertisements only. slaac is used to configure
v6 host addresses, and once that is done, other network parameters e.g. rdnss etc. can be obtained either via RA or DHCPv6 (the 'O' flag in RA messages)
I've been looking as well. I'm an electrical engineer with focus on HV electrical power systems and been working with the power utility for a decade. Development in this area are mostly on renewable energy. The only experience I have in coding is creating Python scripts to automate Siemens (PTI) PSS/E software for load flow, fault, dynamics simulations, etc. Since you are interested in control you may want to look at SCADA systems and perhaps develop a cheaper system or a better implemented one than what the major players like Siemens, Alstom, Schneider, Areva and ABB offer.
They got the Storm to market pretty quickly too, and that was beyond horrible.

Have they actually started selling Playbooks? My understanding is that it has been in a state of "we'll release it real soon now" for quite some time.
wow. i remember those. never did know anyone with one, though.
Ask HN: What's the worst that could happen?
With this trend of sharing private data, say Facebook won the social network / identity war, what is the worst that can happen if they continue to share my data with websites? Ads, is one thing I can envision, but that isn't too bad is it? More relevant ads are alright. Less than honest employees snooping around in their databases and blackmailing their users? Possible, but long shot.

I'm aware that the government can track me with much more confidence, but with server / ISP logs, I think they're much more "dangerous" than some background FB personalization.

Other than people being offended by FB not asking them about sharing data, are there any real downsides to it?
"You just have to add the IP address and give it a name, and you have to have an IP address to connect on OS X too."

I will be curious to see if you actually need to know your IP address. This seems like exactly the kind of thing Apple would abstract away for the user, which is one reason why many people are willing to pay a premium for OS X over Linux.
The listing of new articles is what I always read. It's what I check the most. I'll skim over the top articles once a day, or so.
"I wouldn't blame the jury on this one. They were treated to heart breaking testimony from a small child who was violently raped at gunpoint which culminated in her pointing at the defendant and saying "That is the man who raped me, he is sitting right there." What jury wouldn't convict on such evidence."

Evidence? You wouldn't blame the jury on this one?

Fuck that. That's not evidence. That's ignorance.

I blame the jury 100%.
most complaints about gimp's multi-window UI are really complaints about window management.

window management should be handled by the window manager, not by each application.
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It seems like you don't really have a direction and you're just using the "anonymous" buzzword and hoping to hit something.

You're limited in terms of monetization as no one will be paying you and leaving a money trail to themselves if the entire principle is to be anonymous.

What's special about this as opposed to just creating a tumblr account using fake information? There they already have control over the styles. How are you obscuring user information on your end. In other words, is it anonymous, but you have records that could identify every user on your server?
joyent had this sort of failure regularly about 4 years ago and continues to do so. Avoid.
i quit following djangy once i quit using django. i had been signed up for an invite for what seems like years, though. too bad i never got one. :(

edit: feel free to continue down voting, but this was not meant at sarcasm. i genuinely looked forward to using it. i still seek a high quality python app cloud deployment solution. although, now i'd ideally like it to not be tied to any particular frameworks.
Git and similar tools are designed to track multiple revisions of a file. Imagine the history feature (undo/redo) from your favorite editor, but for saved files, and with the ability to point to two arbitrary versions and ask, "What changed between these?"

On top of this, Git added the ability to merge changes together automatically. Imagine that one person changed a bunch of stuff in the first paragraph in a document, and someone else changed a bunch of stuff in the second paragraph, and the computer could automatically merge those changes into one document.
I've not been myself, but if you have a car I don't think you need to travel too far off-island before you get some clear skies. My bet would be to head up towards Mt Tremblant.
It's a trust thing. Also a "better the devil you know than the devil you don't".

The most depressing thing I've ever seen in maintenance was a project that got sent into prod with 300+ known defects, they hired other people to fix the defects, when the defect count got below ~50 they bought back the same guy who had screwed up phase 1 so badly to do phase 2 for them.
Don't use a blacklist to filter out XSS attacks.

Here's a valid title:

"></title></head><body onclick="a" ondblclick="a" onload="alert(1)" onmousedown="a" onmousemove="_onmousemove_" onmouseout="a" onmouseover="asdf" onmouseup="a" onkeydown="a" onkeypress="a" onkeyup="a" onunload="a">

The other stuff is just there to mess up your filter. Just escape <, >, ", and '. And then test it to make sure there aren't other clever attacks.
Agree with this one. Try to start the project with a designer. Design is something best consulted from the get-go.
Aw, that's too bad. Can we at least get a quick overview of your stack and how everything worked now? I'm always curious to hear how people design these setups.
Why didn't they just start with Android and write apps for all the BBM services on top of that?

This is surrendering before even firing a shot.
according to node-requirements rfc-4294, dhcpv6 is infact optinal. however, for an enterprise network, the fact that any v6 capable device can get a legit address is probably not such a good idea (it can be argued the other way also ofcourse).
I was hoping to not see a comment like this. I, too, bought the lifetime account back when I was active with Textpattern CMS and joined in as part of a drive they had to raise funds (managed by Dean Allen, the originator of Textdrive and then at Joyent, who has seemingly disappeared into the ether since then). At the time I knew it was a bit of a risk but I had my fingers crossed that their word would be good. So far, my sites (on the Pendrell server) have been doing fine but I always worry about it... thus my fear at seeing a comment like yours.
That can probably be arranged.
Awesome! I love the ease in which you can send other people your creations using the urls. I wonder if anyone would be up for developing this same type of project, but centered around Conway's Game of Life instead (one of my favorite cellular automata).
Hmm, Joyent migrated my TextDrive lifetime account to their newer stuff at no charge. Did you ask Tech Support if there was a migration path for you?
Past a certain point, I doubt they gave out any more invites via signups. I think everyone I knew who had an account got invited by an existing beta user.

Kind of a shame they shut down - they had a good name to help distinguish themselves from competing offerings.
I have one single client who refuses to move off Joyent. My experience with them has been less than stellar. Frequent problems with no explanations, ask a support question like "How does one do X on your system?" and often get "oh you want to do Y I see, here is a link to the support forum for that." and the link isn't at all related to X or even the Y.

They aren't horrible, but I would never use or recommend them to anyone.
I've said something similar (ie that I think it's a mistake to spend too much time on the "home" page, basically) a couple of times or so, like here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2047397
There is a certain way to use it, just like any tool. And the folks at AngelList helped us out with it.

If used correctly it helps angels see higher deal flow and founders raise capital more efficiently.
I never went to college for engineering but I've worked in the electrical engineering field for the past 11 years doing controls and automation. I have programmed A-B, Modicon, GE and Siemens PLC and HMI/SCADA systems.

The only businesses I really hear about anyone starting is an integrator shop. Not much smaller time software stuff other than OPC servers and active-x or .NET controls for SCADA work.
I did get an invite, shame that I never got around to trying it out...
What exactly went wrong? I might be being dumb, but from what I can gleam from the blog post, the main reason you shut down is that you didn't want to pursue the business, despite opportunity that was there. Was that the case? How can we learn from this?
Imagine explaining how to set this up and run it to an entire incoming class of freshmen?

Much of OS X's value comes from taking Unixy technologies and making them much easier to use.
This is where oversampling comes in, and you get CD players with 196khz 1 bit DACs - we mathematically shift samples to a much higher bitrate (at lower sample width), and then run it through a dac - that allows for a much, much gentler filter, as artifacts are shifted way higher in the spectrum. This is already a solved issue......(even if sales guys a decade or so ago tried to claim it increased resolution - oversampling was all about gentler filters and cleaner sound, not increased resolution, as we know that's impossible)
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Why don't you just study for the AP exams yourself? I self-studied for 4 AP exams (along with other course work) in the last year of high school, and I did pretty well. The AP exams are actually a joke due to the number of unqualified students who take them and the bell-curve system.
I can agree - hearing a well mastered CD on some decent (not super high end, just good) amp and speakers, in a quiet environment, shows there is plenty of detail and dynamic range.
My nice amp and headphones show me that even decently encoded MP3s are often limited by things further down the playback chain (dac/amp/speakers/headphones) than the audio format itself.
It didn't seem to hurt Reddit at all when Reddit lost my account data early in its existence. Similarly, MSN did that years ago when I was a charter member, but that snafu alone didn't seem seriously to hurt MSN's reputation. It's annoying to me to lose a username, and I don't give repeat business to services that trash my account data in a way that causes me to be unable to use my preferred username, but plenty of people sign up for online services based on the recommendation of a friend (or perhaps an advertisement) without doing exhaustive research on the company's record of technical competence.
Really?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2268818
He says in the listing that he was buying social media traffic @ $5 a day so maybe you could try that.

In all honesty though, you're probably just going to have to take the loss. Better due diligence would be asking for 3+ months of revenue figures and google analytics data (even get the login to the account). The fact that he "couldn't get google analytics working" would have sent up red flags for me, because how do you develop that site if you can't paste a couple lines of javascript. Also, about the revenue, it's way to easy to sort of pump and dump sites like this or even fake traffic/revenue. You really need a real track record, not 30 random days of data.
Quite respectable that they knew what they wanted and made the tough decision. Nothing wrong with striving greatly and failing, as long as you're in the arena.

http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html
I'm interested to know this as well. With the success of Heroku for Rails deployment, there's definitely room for a parallel player in the Django market — and probably the opportunity to make a lot of money, too.
no worries. you couldn't delete those emails if you tried. no, seriously: http://www.law.com/jsp/tal/PubArticleTAL.jsp?id=120243445084...
Comprehend Systems (YC W11) Wants To Make Data Analysis Less Of A Pain
I purchased a lifetime account when TextDrive put out its initial call for VC200 investors. That was many years ago, and I still feel like I'm treated well on the rare instances I need tech support, even though I'm still using one of TextDrive's original servers. They always encourage me to move to a Joyent Accelerator, and at some point I may, but I don't need much from my shared host and TextDrive/Joyent generally exceeds my expectations. Of course, a lengthy down time would change all that. I hope this serves as a wake up call for them and no one else has to go through what happened to the OP and others on Howe. My sympathies.