skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gmail exposes personal email addresses.
Earlier this month I posted on the Who's Hiring thread on HN and today I was setting up a phone interview with a candidate for next Monday. During the process I have used my work email address exclusively which is hosted on our own internal Exchange server.

As a courtesy, I sent a meeting invite to the parties here at my company, as well as to the applicant, whom is using a Gmail account. The problem is that when the applicant responded to the meeting invite (initiated from my work email) it sent the response to my personal Gmail account, marking that account as the meeting organizer.

I confirmed with the applicant that he sees my personal Gmail account as well and this concerns me. I have no expectations of Google not knowing who I am and linking those accounts together on their side - it does bother me that they would simply switch the email address out for my personal one. In this case I don't really care if the applicant has my personal email address, but at the same time, what if I did?

TL;DR Google exposes personal Gmail addresses when meeting invites are sent from Outlook on accounts it knows are linked together.

(Edit: Changed title to be less tongue in cheek and more to the point)
Good point, not to mention the fact that sending people to Japan or other disaster would require additional logistics planning or add strain to a damaged local food supply chain.
Google Maps’ Google android application now routes drivers close to traffic
Grumblechat: free/oss web based chat for Appengine (like campfire/talkerapp/etc)
I'd recommend looking at http://www.jformer.com/demos in IE6.
Flight search engines rank by price, not by amenities. Add $3 to your fare, and you are instantly at the bottom of the search results.

I think airlines should just let you use frequent flyer miles for this. "Watch DirecTV in flight and earn 700 miles instead of 1400 miles." But this, I imagine, would be bad for load factors.
R.I.P. Microsof company Zune, 2006-2011
The dream is still alive!
Amazon.com is not hosted on EC2. It's entirely separate.
It doesn't have to be NLP gone wrong. It could be a bad algorithm based on web traffic, picking up accidental clicks from Anne Hathaway fans (or some similar shared metric).

It's also possible that this is a natural effect of the market -- that people seeing Anne Hathaway headlines are subconciously reminded to do something about their stock holdings. In which case, bad NLP would actually work better than good NLP. :)
I think the telling thing in this article is the author doesn't mentioned how he chose that flight. From his narrative, it seems he only learned about the DirecTV as he boarded.

If he went to a travel site and chose the cheapest one, then he already knows why this is a bad idea.
Heh, I appreciate the quote of my tweet.
Marketing fundamentally is about matching up a solution with a need, and convincing that the solution being provided is better than others.

The problem is that often there are solutions with no need, thus the need is manufactured (becomes a want).

My wager is that celebrity coverage, and the products that advertise on that time are nearly all in the category of wants, and often frivolous/stupid ones at that.
These are pretty dumb traders if this article is true. Bigrams are not hard, and who the hell refers to Berkshire Hathaway as just "Hathaway".

More likely explanation: there're spurious correlations wherever you look, and The Atlantic just happened to run across one.
What is extreme javascript programming?
Wow, Pfizer is involved with taking down botnets. I would never have guessed that, but the explanation in the article makes perfect sense.
Are you sure you want to start a company? (A Letter to Y Combinator Applicants)
Hmmmm, the connectED button is a bit misleading but worth a look anyway.
"The Newest Google Plane Is A Fighter Jet"

http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/10/the-newest-google-pla...
Love the new concept. My mom gets frustrated that the Groupon deals aren't truly "local", and that makes her want to unsubscribe. You guys are in a great position to solve this. Congrats Lloyd, Jason & Jeremy.
I've been working on this for two years now. We launched 10 months ago, and we've got 5000+ users signed up and just under 100 paying subscribers. I've had help off and on over the years, but the I've been shouldering all of the long-term responsibility.

I've learned a lot going it alone... and I'll keep going alone as long as it takes. The basic concept is proven, a lot of the technology is in place, and I think we can grow a lot faster than we are, but not if I'm doing all the work by myself.

So, I'm cutting back on development a bit, and I'm putting my energy into finding co-founders. I'm looking for tech, biz, and gardening people, so please get in touch if you're interested.

And if you like the service, you think it's a good idea, you think gardening SHOULD be easier and you want to help us succeed.... please help spread the word.
Congratulations on the launch (and welcome to HN, since I see that your account is just 3 hours old :)

That said, your post suggests that you acquired domain knowledge at Zendesk, then decided to use that knowledge to immediately and directly compete with Zendesk with price as your only differentiatior.

I suspect that the folks at Zendesk aren't going to sue you on any non-compete or trade-secret agreements, but I'm curious to know if you think that your competition raises any ethical concerns or not.

[edit] Thanks for the correction, Aditya and apologies Girish for reading the post too fast and confusing Zoho with Zendesk
Interview with Leti Games Founder
Most algo trading is going to use Bloomberg or Reuters data, since they are very "clean" datasources that tend to be more focused on finance sectors, and not a ton of hollywood gossip. Generally they are tagged with the actual stocks in the articles, so you would have to be doing it on purpose.
I found a benchmark from 2008 that details the problems with RAID10 and sourced it in a comment above [1]. These are just raw disk transfer numbers, though. I can only imagine how they would change as CPU usage/postgres load climbs. IIRC disk IO is network traffic and network traffic is CPU dependent, so as load increases, IO will suffer greatly.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2341425
Great Android security apps from Whispersystems.
In the USA dryers and electric stoves are connected to 240V, and use different plugs. I have never seen an electric dryer that operates from 120V.
Thank you for understanding what Mozilla is about!
Agreed, but if I were in those industries I would market the superior experiences those low-costs allow us to deliver, with price merely as an enabler (makes product a viable alternative to commodity/free option, or an accessible entry into something previously reserved for kings).

Example #1: Zappos has low costs vs. bricks and mortar so they can afford to do free shipping overnight.

Example #2: Southwest has low costs so they don't have to charge for bags.

Example #3: ING Direct has low costs so they offer a better interest rate.
It's about the same with the I-90 bridge too, and you don't even need a storm to see the cool effect of wavy water on the south side and calm on the north side. It always fascinates me when I drive over it. I've only had a spray of water hit my car once so far, I'll make a note to avoid either bridge during an earthquake. ;)
If you're interested to see how sites perform on EC2 and Rackspace over time:

https://www.blamestella.com/vendor/ec2

https://www.blamestella.com/vendor/rackspace
Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots
Build-out Script for Postgres/PostGIS with RAID 10 on Amazon EBS volumes: http://sproke.blogspot.com/2010/12/build-out-script-for-post...
If the QR code simply links to a short URL, why not just print that URL in plaintext?

One of the problem with such a minimal designs is that "assuming you forgot the context of your meeting", the card itself provides no clues (and the "dynamic" info on the website might not match the context, if it really does change that often).
Charging for our service is not hurting the Irish language
Great point! I feel like smartphones were like this too. When the iPhone first came out I scoffed at my buddy for paying $600 for a phone (in an age when a large variety of phones were available for free with contract). Now I can't live without my smartphone.
I don't think the disaster victims care much for more reporters. Total non-issue.
HBGary's Hoglund discusses lessons from the Anonymous hack
/me adds an episode of PodCastle(.org) to PodCastle(.us)
http://podcastle.us/e/kbQub

Namespace collision proved non-fatal, but still a bit confusing.
"Does Working at a Startup Ever Get Hectic?"
Coming from the EU to India might be easier than from the EU to Colorado. If the visa situation was different, maybe, but if the problem can be redesigned to use average coders as explained by the earlier comment, it might be a better idea to opt for India. The cheaper living costs + office space + salaries means a lesser burnt rate, and thus more time to succeed.
Anything but the jet: Perks shrink, but tech CEOs aren't ready to fly coach
I've always disliked the idea that a physical good has more value than a virtual or knowledge good.

It's about creating value. A pet-rock is as valuable as a virtual rock.

If a competitor to wakemate was able to monitor your sleep without the wristband and was only a piece of software, would that make it any less valuable to you?
MIT prof finds startup in family experiment
I met some guys recently who had exactly this printed on their biz card.

But then they also wrote a bunch of stuff on it...

It looked really lame: Here are pics of it: http://imgur.com/a/q6u0z
Add a bit of personal experience here. Google gave its employees unlocked Android phones (not once but twice :-) and some of us (like me), put our AT&T sim card into them and used them instead of our plan phone. There was a 'feature phone' data plan that was $15 unlimited and there was the $10/month 'tax' if you had an iPhone.

Using the cheaper unlimited plan worked for a long time, and then AT&T started 'automatically' switching people to the smartphone tax if their IMEI indicated they had an android phone. I did what any reasonable person would do, cancelled my AT&T contract and signed up with t-mobile :-)
There's a pretty good howto for that at http://www.mnxsolutions.com/security/two-factor-ssh-with-goo...
Human-Computer Interaction - Augmented Reality For the Blind using Kinect
A great use case for Kinect
Configure Rails 3 to use MongoDB without MongoMapper or any other OMs
Teaching FP to freshmen (instead of Object-oriented programming)
What's the failure rate of EBS versus having direct access to physical disks? My guess is that at scale, it's probably similar.

Although you would hope that the storage components of AWS's cloud were highly reliable, I think the main benefit is not single instance reliability but being able to recover faster because of quickly available hardware.
At the end of the article:

Object-oriented programming is eliminated entirely from the introductory curriculum, because it is both anti-modular and anti-parallel by its very nature, and hence unsuitable for a modern CS curriculum. A proposed new course on object-oriented design methodology will be offered at the sophomore level for those students who wish to study this topic.
This is awesome! Going to front page of my Pulse app.
Does Japan need any more foreign reporters who don't know Japanese to report on the tragedy?

They encumber Japan less by sending fewer reporters. I see this as a win-win.

They can send more, in-depth, reporters when things have settled so they can do their investigative stuff and give some insight.

Sending people right now would be more or less taking advantage of a fresh disaster story and riding it till it had no more to give.

I don't see how it's a bad thing that they're not sending more reporters to Japan. Keeps the sensationalism down, puts less strain on a strained infrastructure, etc.
Exactly, Newspapers are in a prime position to leverage local confidence in the paper "brand" to reach out to otherwise disaffected local SMB website owners.
Mobile Rails Applications with jqTouch - A Primer
He used 6 dates:

Oct. 3, 2008 - Rachel Getting Married opens: BRK.A up .44%
Jan. 5, 2009 - Bride Wars opens: BRK.A up 2.61%
Feb. 8, 2010 - Valentine's Day opens: BRK.A up 1.01%
March 5, 2010 - Alice in Wonderland opens: BRK.A up .74%
Nov. 24, 2010 - Love and Other Drugs opens: BRK.A up 1.62%
Nov. 29, 2010 - Anne announced as co-host of the Oscars: BRK.A up .25%

I'm not a statistician, but 6 dates could hardly be considered a correlation. I would also think that no Anne Hathaway news should result in no positive price changes for a correlation to exist.

Seems like the article confuses correlation with "funny coincidence".

And it certainly doesn't "drive" the stock, as the headline states. That implies a causation, which is even stronger than a correlation.
How would the figures have differed if the earthquake was properly announced six months in advance?
It looks nice and clean.

A quick note though: Hitting the 'Change' button in the modal dialog does not get rid of the page overlay, making everything inaccessible. (Chrome 10)
More like you can never get reservations there. They're constantly eluding you, if you will.
Beautiful introduction to Backbone.js
It's a great post. But I'm posting here to gripe: why oh why do so many blogs never have a direct link to their business front page? It's always to the blog front page. You see a blog article posted, interesting read, the next thing you want to do is visit the front page. grrrr.
How Google Could be Empowering Indie Developers (And How They’re Hindering Them)
We looked at RDS and had a call with some of their engineers, but we basically had our EC2 + raid'd EBS set up almost the same as they did, all best practices already being done.

Since RDS really is EC2 + EBS, they couldn't provide any real assurances it performed better than our own installation.

We ended up moving off of AWS as a whole. After several discussions about how we can continue to scale, the ultimate answer was without AWS.

EC2 is great for distributed stuff, but when need something that is heavy IO, for instance, it is a big problem. Scaling it ends up costing more to work around AWS's performance problems than to go elsewhere.
Huge win for the M Team. Happy to see MSoft is still trying their best to protect their customers. I imagine money spent to do it this way was much cheaper than removing this content from users computers world wide.

They probably found it pretty simple after shutting down Waledac earlier. Same team, different target.
Former Tech Lead at Google joins Songkick
Have you met all of them? It only takes one.
As much as I hate the nickel-and-diming that the airlines are doing right now, I can't see any alternative. The aggregator web sites (such as kayak.com) don't indicate to the buyer that the higher price comes with added value.

Until that happens, price will be the only criterion, and it will be in the airlines' best interests to make it as low as possible.

I believe this very issue was the reason that American Airlines pulled its fares from Orbitz. AA is trying to escape from the race-to-the-bottom price war and focus on delivering different value offerings to buyers at ticket purchase time.
Johnny Wong,

I think your app is a really interesting idea. Ill try it out - but on the site, you have the marketing photo scroll which show notes on pics -- but you dont have screenshots of the actual app anywhere?

That would be more helpful...

If you find a good co-founder - can you come back and submit a post to HN "Found my cofounder on HN and 3 months into it we are doing great, here is some advice"
I am sure Paul Allen gives to worthy causes too, but it does look a tad awkward to me when he's building a museum of old planes while Bill Gates is pouring billions into buying mosquito nets and aids medication for 3rd world countries.
Sorry, I mean an algorithm based, for example, on the number of clicks on Berkshire Hathaway articles on a financial site being influenced by Anne H. fans clicking on the wrong search result.
In my workplace, I'd say that about 20% of the developers run Linux, 40% run MacOS, and 40% run Windows (the Windows users generally ssh or vnc into a Linux compute server to do builds and stuff).

I also run it on my netbook (an Eee PC from Asus), and somewhere along the line someone decided that desktop Linux was alive enough to make the Broadcom wireless chip work in Linux. I think this is actually the first time I've installed Linux on a laptop and had it just work.

I'm not saying that Linux is about to take over the market or anything silly like that, but proclaiming the death of Linux on the desktop is just as foolhardy as proclaiming its resurgence.
Another reason to prefer India is that the food is tastier and the women are more beautiful.
Awesome story Girish, very inspiring and down to earth!Loved the simplicity and the way you approached product market fit! We as tecchies more often than not, deprioritize the part of finding out what the customer really wants. Thanks for sharing and Good Luck!
I completely agree with your overall point - that open source Unix-type tools are better for startups, and that Windows-based tools aren't a good fit. I was simply saying that you used a rhetorical phrase incorrectly.
Cloud = Marketing(VPS);
I don't know of a travel site that presents pricing the way The Economist did in the example from the TED talk. As a traveler I've never seen mention of TV options (paid, free, or otherwise) before booking.

The only way this works is if I already know about amenities. For example, I know Jet Blue has free TV, even though I've never flown on a Jet Blue flight. But that has more to do with word of mouth marketing than it does funnels or pricing pages.
The problem with being hyper-local is that it requires hyper-local sales and marketing. This is extremely time-consuming and expensive with small returns: a hyper-local deals campaign is by definition a small one. Very, very hard to pull off for a small business.
'Groupon Now' app to feature "I'm Hungry"/"I'm Bored" instant deals
Make your startup ridiculously easy to write about. Put together a press pack
UK solar panel subsidies slashed
This is certainly among the best things we can do. We view it as a complement to all the other things we're doing to save local journalism.

You can view a deal going on for The Press-Enterprise (one of our top 100 newspaper clients) here: http://www.pedeals.com
Even the first one? You can actually see the objects on the screen and move them with your mouse.
If you want to hire only 1 or 2 persons, how long will $10k last you? (same question for $5k in case the costs are not linear)

On avoiding permanent presence, do you mean not living in India, or not living in the office space?
That's interesting, so you don't have a server at all? Does that mean you don't collect any usage data? That's key to improving your product and building new ones.
For sure, especially the "we are doing great" part ;-)

Ahh, the screenshots. You are right -- nowhere to be found on the site, but they are at the itunes link (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crumbs-app/id421662811?mt=8&#...). Will correct that at our next site update
Ooh, I like the pulsing glow effect on those buttons (http://dtrejo.github.com/aristo/). Wonder if that could be ported to the linked jQuery UI theme.
We couldn't agree more. That's why we don't go it alone. We work with local publications and organizations to very quickly build a sales funnel out of existing contacts and relationships. This is the way we work for all our products.
For a community that hates FUD about open-source, there is no shortage of FUD about Mono and Miguel de Icaza. It's ironic, really.
My favorite example of this http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ci700332k
It's also slightly tricky (understatement of the year competition) to hook up a 50Hz generator station to a 60Hz grid - if there are still 60Hz generators on that grid.

What happens is that the rest of the country tries to back drive your generator + turbine at 20% over it's design speed - this is a bad thing (tm)

It's hard enough phasing generators across the country when they are on the same frequency. The normal solution for long haul links, or links between different grids is to use a DC cable. The trouble is that people don't have spare Gigawatt AC:DC DC:AC converters lying around
but proclaiming the death of Linux on the desktop is just as foolhardy as proclaiming its resurgence.

Really? Linux has never been alive on the desktop. I worked in a lab that 100% Debian Linux in 1996, and it was dead then.

But honestly if it makes you feel better if I say that Windows, OSX, Linux, BeOS, AmigaOS, and NeXT are all in the running on the desktop... sure.
Impressive they run that site off 6 front-end servers.
It's not a fad, it's shared services. Sharing comes at the cost of flexibility, which can be a pain in the butt.

Personally, if I'm going to be operating a large computing environment, I'd rather stick 80% of my workload in a cloud environment and pay someone to deal with utilities, buildings, hardware, etc.

The remaining 20% may require a "higher touch" setup at a colo or a facility that I control. The smaller I can make that 20%, the less I need to spend on setting up and maintaining infrastructure.
Classroom visits inspire students to pursue CS
Not Zendesk, he worked at Zoho where he built an in-house helpdesk system...
I use it too.

The nice thing is that in the default config you don't need two-factor auth when using public-key auth.

So from your trusted terminal you use public-key auth, and only from untrusted terminals you need to use two-factor auth.
.. told through the specific example of one particular story, then generalized out to the blogging experience.
How do you know they haven't taken the time to learn to read, write and speak the local lingo? Also, those who are still learning can always get a bilingual local to interpret.
Very, very nice. Why has it taken this long for jQuery UI to get a quality theme like this?
Have you tried public transport in London ? Or the local food.
Anti-parallel I think I get (not saying I 100% agree, but I think I know what they are getting at), but what do they mean by "anti-modular"?
I don't think many people would disagree that this strategy has already destroyed CNN's brand. You don't need to qualify that with can. The long-term implications are already here.
The async lib will still be developed, and will aim to be as comprehensive as possible.

This library was created because I often include both async and underscore in client-side projects, which seems a bit overkill when every kb matters.

I've also looked into combining the features of async with underscore in the past. However, I don't believe its possible without backward incompatible changes, or a separate API (one for sync one for async). Nimble is an experiment in how a combined API might work, and uses some interesting tricks regarding function arity to support something closer to the standard map/filter/reduce, while still being convenient to use with callbacks.

For example, you can do the following:

_.map(arr, function (val, callback) {
...
}, main_callback);

but you can also do this:

_.map(arr, function (val, key, arr, callback) {
...
}, main_callback);

And it will still work as expected.
'thomasxstewart' on that page had some good words to say.
Digg used to be my homepage until I got totally irrelevant to me. I tried reddit for a while and got hooked by the quality of the content about programming and python. The funny and pics sections are cool too.
"Zach tracked down a reliable source and put together as comprehensive a report as possible under the circumstances, and got it live immediately. The comments speak for themselves, but to save you the click and scroll, by all accounts, this simple act saved hundreds of people hours and hours of worry."