skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one point I do agree with is that PG is probably the worst person to ask if there is a bubble in startup tech right now because he has more than almost anyone to gain from high valuations.

I understand Paul wants to be unbiased, but he cannot realistically do so. It's like asking the head of the Realtors board if home prices are stabilizing or asking Ben Bernanke if we're seeing an economic recovery. They will only ever give one answer because they have nothing to gain from giving any other response.
Update for my post. I was sort of right the first time:

But then what does the EHCI talk to over the Thunderbolt-PCIe? An EHC? Where? On the Thunderbolt device?

It appears from details emerging that Thunderbolt really is just an encapsulation connector/protocol. Don't think of it is a USB competitor - it's a USB encapsulator. Think of having a Thunderbolt connector on your laptop but then also in your monitor at home. The monitor has an USB EHCI, a SATA HBA, etc to support a bunch of integrated USB ports and maybe an eSATA connector or two. You get home, connect your laptop to your monitor via Thunderbolt, and new USB and SATA adapters appear in your laptop's PCIe configuration.

Thunderbolt is more of an external PCIe bus than a peripheral bus like USB. It doesn't compete with USB for mice or keyboards. But given that eSATA is a far superior connector for storage devices than USB 3 is (NCQ, DMA, RAID, etc), and that Thunderbolt will be able to encapsulate SATA connections, Thunderbolt might compete with USB 3 on at least that level.
I'm fully aware of the reasons why things are as they are, and what the limitations of the different solutions are. My point still stands though, just because something is Python, written in the One True Way, does not guarantee readability.

To be absolutely clear, I actually like Python. I just strongly disagree with the belief that Python magically ensures readability. Particularly because my impression is that people who think that Python magic pixie dust automatically makes for good code are actually more likely to write bad code. (Because they have not thought deeply enough about what makes code good.)
That's just one kind of money. There are other kinds.

Like Fat Money. Money that drags you down and makes you slower. This is money from that investor that refuses to change.

Or Sweat Money. This is money you’ve worked hard for to earn. This is the best kind. You value sweat money much higher than any other kind of money.

And of course Ramen Money. The minimum amount of money you need to survive each month.

More kinds of money here:
http://blog.opportunitycloud.com/2010/06/30/different-kinds-...
Not Just Slacktivism: Youth Become More Engaged Offline Too
Why the Ok Button is No Longer Okay
Inflation over the same period was 4.1%.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CPIAUCSL

So no, not "double inflation" either.

Wages and salaries went up 4.9% over the same period.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/ECIWAG
I can't find any mention of testing HTML4 features in the article. Their HTML5 testing is limited to <audio> (somewhat works) and <video> (doesn't work), and they don't mention what codecs they used. Most of the complaints are about missing or incorrect CSS3 support.
It depends on how you eat. In my efforts to lose weight and get more healthy in general, I shop mostly along the outer edges of the store (produce/meats).

In these areas, prices have shot up way beyond 6.7%. Onions and potatoes are easily up 100% or more since 2006/7. "Cheap" cuts of meat like chicken, roasts, pork chops, skirt/flank steaks and beef briskets are easily up 15-20%. Milk is up. Butter up 150% of more since 2006/7. Beer is up 10%.

If you eat processed stuff, those manufacturers can blunt price increases by using lots of subsidized commodities like corn and soy products.
It's disappointing that this has been lacking, it's a very important feature for proper use of modern SSDs and it's been in Windows since late 2009 and Linux since early 2010.
You sure are pretty prolific in the Clojure community. I look at my Clojure code and then I look at yours and I wish mine was as elegant as yours.
What would be best to know, is assuming that groupon's take is 50%, what revenue impact they had on the businesses. Is that 750MM that would not have otherwise been spent on those goods/services?

Or did groupon hasten the expenditure of that money on them?
Social networking sites and the Internet have shown many people the way they could (and should) be living. Even if the Internet is blocked, people always find a way to get around it. Dictators of the world should be worried, because they can't hide the truth from their people forever.
With Android being an open platform, I would expect the marketplace to be open as well.

What google needs to be doing is making the marketplace billing implementation competitive to companies building their own billing service.

As a developer, we're already making decisions on what platforms to build on. If you select iOS and Android (likely), you are now forced to then implement a separate billing solution for each bundle.

I guess there is a big opportunity for somebody like appcellerator to build a api to the billing systems. But billing systems are often complicated enough.

I'm beginning to think the best solution is find another way to monetize.

Why are these sorts of terms legitimate for the marketplaces? They wouldn't be permitted to restrict advertising to come only from iAds or AdSense, would they?
In a new post from antirez directly addressing your scenario, he suggests starting with a fixed but large number of shard instances on the same machine, then migrating the instances off to other machines using master / slave replication as needed.

http://antirez.com/post/redis-presharding.html
Fwiw, How To Design Programs is also available free online:

http://htdp.org
477 page slide show vs 1 pdf
If your database is in the wild and you give a discount based on password strength they could look at the first order for each account and start working on the hashes associated with the smallest discounts first knowing those would be the weakest passwords.
Re-submitted later, and that got more traction:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2263367
$50K is listed as the absolute lower bound for middle class. Any lower bound is debatable, but it's about right when there are almost as many that don't fit as do. Many households at $50K aren't middle class, as you demonstrated, but there are lots of households with $40K of income that could be considered middle class. Most single guys/ladies with $40K of income are probably solidly lower-middle class. And families with an $600 mortgage payment instead of an $1800 mortgage could also be considered middle class at $50k. And with current interest rates (3% floating), $600/month will buy half of the houses in the midwest because $140K is the median house price in the midwest.
So, as a loyal alum of a lab studying tumor vasculature, I'm contractually obligated to tell you that, alas, once you have built a biomolecule that sticks preferentially to cancer cells you must still deliver that molecule to the cells. And that is hard.

It is hard because tumors have lousy blood vessel networks. Normal cells have nicely designed blood vessels an optimum distance away. Tumors do not.

I'm not surprised that this study was for stomach cancer biopsy alternatives. Presumably it's relatively easy to deliver antibodies to cells that are sitting there on the lining of the stomach. And this much is a big win, no question - nobody who has actually had an invasive gastric procedure would fail to applaud the invention of a better alternative. But other cancers may be harder. Plenty of work left to do.
Especially so given Apple's early adoption of SSD.
I'm not even sure if I believe this.

10k works out to be 40 new contacts per business day( 5 days per week, 52 weeks minus 2 for vacation ) for a year. Let's assume this guy has been "at it" for 4 years. That's still 10 new contacts every day.

Nobody who has actual work to do is going to contact, establish rapport, communicate enough to know the contact would be valuable, and then most importantly, maintain the relationship with 10 NEW people every single working day for 4 years straight.
It used to be a star.  Now it's a 10 billion trillion trillion carat diamond.
Maybe what Mr. Feld should've said is "First!" and yes, then moved on to another solution, but they're paying $50/yr/user so I can see how a common sense approach would probably solve this for the limited number of +10K contact-having users.

That being said, I'm probably one of those 10K contacts and say what you will, Brad has always responded to email and been a helpful resource to myself and the community without asking for anything in exchange. Not exactly a contact whore. Or a lightweight.
Considering the article cites Census data broadly collected across the country - not sure where you are getting those mortgage/food price numbers?

$1800 would buy you a 5 bedroom/2.5 bath/2400sf house in Houston.

A "small" house for a couple making $50K gross would run easily under $1000/mo.

While prices are higher, I'm not paying double over 2008 prices....otherwise I'd be paying $6 for a gallon of milk or $4 for a loaf of bread.
We have the same need at Disqus, and I talked about our solution here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2247132
I consider that spam.
Two of my site's traffic dropped by 40%. One of them is 6 years old.

Both have original content. I never even thought about gaming the system. I couldn't figure out what triggered this.

One of the site has the perfect landing page that user is looking for the queries. I don't understand how this change could improve the quality.
"I'm hoping the knowledge we've shared about it can help others learn how to do similar things."
"The blog post is from June, but the code I'm talking about predates redis by about three years."

@dippsy what exactly are you insinuating here? It sounds like your suggesting #Redis somehow has borrowed/learned from concepts in your unreleased code?? It's actually quite rude.
Partly it's API familiarity - clojure and clojure.contrib have a LOT of functions to offer, and a lot of the time may have higher order functions to do what you might be doing the hard way :)
"uses antibodies and magnetic particles to seek out and flag cancer in cells, which are extracted with a needle"

So, we've got specialized biochemicals, nanoparticles, medical equipment, and the need for someone to remove tissue.

Note that the article didn't say whether it was a blood test, or removal from a specific tissue area which could be complicated. Not to mention the fact that these devices would have to be manufactured to a specification. I couldn't guess at the price, but I assume the American system will jack up the cost 10x compared to other countries.

Hopefully it'll be a blood test with chemicals on a strip like a blood glucose tester. An hour turnaround sounds like the cells would have to be centrifuged and processed, though.
Maybe? I have been basically living in gmail since the start of the beta and I have < 500 contacts and I have never deleted a contact and use my email very heavily.

I'm sure in 5+ years I may get to this point, but in a year or 2 or 5, who says what this arbitrary upper limit is. Google seems to increase capacity on just about everything else, I dont see why this would be different.
Which so far as proven not to be so important, especially as Apple has historically been using SSDs very resilient to that issue (according to Anandtech's tests of the 2010 MBAs).
The US health care wait times myth
Hah. At the very least problems with his formmail.pl gave many sysadmins job security for a solid 10 years.

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1001108
I'll agree that's been annoying. However, I've been happily running OS X with a Crucial RealSSD 300 on an original unibody Macbook since last December. Everything still seems zippy and instant. I'll let everyone know if Lion seems to make things faster. (More like prevents things from slowing down.)

I hope Apple adds a "secure erase" option that just overwrites files with 1's exactly one time. From what I've read, this is plenty secure for most people, and some SSDs can use this as a signal that a block is no longer in use. (My drive doesn't need this, but some people with older SSD would benefit from this.)
This is a great finding. I'm doing braincancer research myself and that's where my main concern comes from. By reading the abstract (on a train, no time for the full article yet) I understand they are using fineneedle aspiration to get their samples. That would work for most easy accessible tumors but for braintumor the human skull will be too big of a barrier. I'm still hoping for methods where samples from the peripheral blood will be used.

Secondly I wonder what the costs willbe when antibodies for more than just one specific tumor will be used. Now they scan for one tumor by using 4 proteins. Scanning for more types of cancer will increase costs dramatically thought.

Nevertheless great finding and hopefully available in clinics all over the world soon (but it usually takes an other 10 years).
Yes, there would be consumables. You would need something like nano Fe2O3 attached to biomolecules that specifically bind to the cancer cell type you are testing for.
Thank you again for your thoughtful reply.

No, of course they have to have a CEO. And maybe he adds value, maybe not. He gets what he negotiated, same as the workers.

Management doesn't have much power? You're saying that an individual manager doesn't have much power and can be replaced. Sure, that's true.

As for Ford, let me clarify. No, I'm not saying the unions deserve any credit -- after all, it's the same unions as at GM!

But if you're going to give them the blame when things are bad, don't you have to also then give them the credit when things are good? The truth is they are just assembly line workers for the most part, and the quality was engineered out of the cars starting in the 1980's.

And regarding the "harm" that workers do by raising the cost of labor, why aren't management's salaries also "harming" the business by raising the cost? Why the double standard?
just wanted to share with anyone interested in cancer.. I finished reading this amazing book "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" Great for anyone but specially those outside the field who want to know abt the history of cancer.

http://www.amazon.com/Emperor-All-Maladies-Biography-Cancer/...
I always liked this list of money metaphors. The difference between "renewable resource" and "fuel" or "building material" really hit home with my own bad perceptions of money.

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/03/02/fools-and-their-money-m...
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You don't understand. You're thinking about this like a systems programmer. The problem is not that anyone cares about your OS binaries. The problem is that it is theoretically possible that customer data could have wound up in /sbin (maybe a script broke and did something stupid as root). Obviously customer data could routinely end up in /. Unless you can promise that there is no customer data in any unencrypted volume --- not assure that it is extremely unlikely, but promise --- then the assumption is going to be that the data was compromised, and stakeholder disclosure has to happen.

WDE solves that problem. If your disk is block-level encrypted and you carry your laptop around powered off, you can make an attestation-level promise that a stolen laptop didn't compromise customer data.

Along with an audit regime that makes sure it's configured properly, WDE allows you to promise that not one block of data on a device is readable without a key.
Seems to be behind a paywall and my university only gets Science, not this sub-journal, unfortunately...
Safe to say that anyone carrying an iPad while talking on an iPhone sipping a Starbucks is middle class.

In many, ways middle class is better defined as access to disposable income (at least from a marketing/retail perspective). What defines disposable income varies at all income levels, regions, social situation, etc.
I had massive problems with finder. Then I de-installed all sync apps (dropbox, zumodrive, etc) and it's as snappy as any other program now. I will say, zumodrive was a bear to completely un-install. 3 or 4 deep hooks in the system as I recall, and finding one didn't obviously point me to any of the others. I reinstalled dropbox and still don't have problems. Never re-installed the others, so I don't know which one it was.
I would argue that all those things I listed do in fact comprise much of what we understand as usability. Proper layout and good information architecture are built hand in hand with good alignment, consistency, readable fonts, and colors that work well together for the overall design. In order for interfaces to be understandable and easy to use, as well as enable the user to complete the desired objectives, all of the factors I mentioned have to be taken into account.

You may say that these factors aren't noticed by the 99% but have you ever heard somebody utter the phrase, "I don't know what's wrong with this, but I just don't like the way it looks?" That's a "99% phrase" but it comes from a very real place and can be easily avoided.
Chisimba: A Web 2.0 enabled rapid application development framework
> That a fundamental human right is being denied to a company? Which one?

The right to freely trade with whoever they want on terms that are mutually agreeable to both parties with no coercion involved.

>Why should companies have fundamental human rights? They are legal entities, not humans.

Companies are not necessarily legal entities. The only companies that are legal entities are corporations. I won't defend corporations, but I will defend the rights of the people that work for them.

>And they are not allowed, by the way, to violate the human rights of those who work for them.

No, they're certainly not allowed to violate human rights. No one is. That's why it's illegal, unless of course a government does it because they have the guns.

>The people who make up the company != company.

That holds true for a corporation, but not a company that isn't incorporated.

>and I agree with the now well-established fact that it is illegal to have human slaves.

That's somewhat humorous given your earlier statement in support of the draft. And yes I'm aware that you agree with those things. But your agreement does not equate to justification. Nor does their status as being "established".

>Your analogy could be improved, as you are using extortion as your hypothesis. Try this:

Using the definition that extortion is illegally using coercion to obtain property or services of another person, your "plan" is extortion as well. It is illegal (trivially) because it is not currently legal as you pointed out earlier, and it is coercion by any definition I've heard. Yes my example is not a perfect analogy, but it is not fundamentally different. A perfect analogy would be that you have the option of giving me your money and keeping your house or not giving me your money and not keeping your house. Either way, if you owned your house, you would be upset with me.

Your analogy is in fact incorrect in a fundamental way, which is that in your analogy, I am currently violating someone's right. My hypothetical wife has a right to not be beaten. Manning's defense fund does not have a right to use PayPal's services, so PayPal is not violating anyone's rights. (Though I will grant to you that since PayPal is a legal corporation which traded some of its rights to the government for some legal protection, I would not fight to the death for their right to refuse him service)
I am certainly not an expert and can definitely be wrong here. Perhaps you can provide your insights. I just haven't seen many insightful articles on the interwebs.

ps: Had to look up what astroturfing is. No, I am just mostly a lurker on HN.
Http://health.yahoo.net/videos/healthination/shopping-for-health-insurance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushel%27s_Case
LinkedIn Company Search Opens Up the Other Half of the Professional Social Graph
But the 2010 MBAs aren't using their flash storage through a SATA interface - they're directly mounted on the motherboard, probably exposed as a pure PCIe device. TRIM is irrelevant for them.

UPDATE:

BAH! Wrong. The MBA uses a Toshiba t6ug1xbg controller, which seems to provide a SATA interface. So it is an issue.
PS3 hacker graf_chokolo continues after raid and $1mm Sony lawsuit
So far I've been really impressed with the presentations, particularly Viinyl and Kid's Abacus.
This case, and the lawsuit with i2 has firmly put Palantir on my list of "sleazy companies" not to do business with or try to go work for.
How is this going to interact with git and versions (the svn client)? What about my mediawiki install that versions every article already? How deep does this new Versions go?
The article makes a major flaw. It equates income with consumption, assuming that if people are not earning money, they are not spending it. This assumption is utterly false.

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ce/standard/2009/income.txt

Households earning $39,999 or less tend to have consumption exceeding income. For example, households with income in [$5000,$9999] tend to consume about $18k.

Presumably the difference between earned income and expenses is made up for with credit and welfare.
At the bottom of the table humility is marked as a "must have" for everyone. I disagree completely. I'm from the "laziness, impatience, and hubris" school of thinking popularised by Larry Wall: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall#Virtues_of_a_program...

I'm not trying to argue that people are justified in being rude, cruel, or impolite as a matter of course. It just takes a certain degree of arrogance to look at the state of the world and declare that you can do better. Yet innovation would never happen without people doing exactly that.
The Lost Art of Mix Tapes (Why having 10k online "Friends" means nothing)
Recently submitted multiple times:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2192628

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2193377 <- This has a few comments.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2194694
Domain contacts (fed by a GAL sync in addition to domain-level groups created via cpanel) are not counted toward the limit.
TinyCo's Big Opportunity
This. The guy is obviously trying to run a spam newsletter on the cheap, using the trusted status of google's MTAs to ensure deliverable spam.

Nobody can or will maintain relationships with anywhere near 10k contacts. Dunbar indicated that humans are only capable of maintaining relationships with roughly 150 people at any given point in time. This guy is overstating his requirements by nearly two orders of magnitude.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
I think the hope is that with a few mL of blood you can find at least one cancer cell floating freely and detect that one cell.

Of course by the time any cells migrate to the blood you might be at the metastatic stage for a lot of cancers (not an expert though).
Basically: Put something interesting on the landing page.
Intel Plots 'client-aware' Cloud Services
> I seriously doubt any exchange is regularly paying developers multi-million dollar bonuses.

I'd agree with that. Having said that, I doubt many investment banks are regularly paying developers multi-million dollar bonuses.

The people who get those are called quants or traders, even if they have programming skills, just my experience.

> Which exchange did you work for?
I'd rather not say, if you want to know, contact me via email. Not sure how you got my linked in info as it's not attached to my profile.
Marketing Is For Companies Who Have Sucky Products
New pinball company inches a little bit closer to open source pinball software