skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cloud Drive is one thing, but I think that Cloud Player has the really interesting, disruptive potential with respect to services like Pandora, Last.fm, and even Youtube and ITunes.

People listen to a lot of music on each of those services. The way I see it, each is just an approximation of the holy grail: the ability to listen to any song, anytime, on demand, for free.

Youtube comes close, but it has quite a lot of music that's only available in low quality and quite a bit that's blocked on copyright grounds.

ITunes fulfills the other requirements, but is not free.

Pandora is free, on-demand, and high-quality, but you have limited control over what you listen to and they have fairly disruptive audio ads.

Cloud player could come closer to goal.

I think Cloud Player could benefit indirectly but massively from the fact that music piracy is common. Many people I know (and, I'd venture, many people on HN) have music libraries in the tens of GB--obviously not obtained by paying $0.99 per song.

How could Amazon offer, say, 100GB for a small enough price (much smaller than the current $100/year for Cloud Drive) ? You mentioned that Dropbox does deduplication.

There's huge overlap between most people's music collections. Quite a few IPods I've seen contain exactly the same 500MB Beatles' discography. It's an awesome use case for deduplication. I think that as long as they restrict uploads to music (and, perhaps, movies), they could pull this off for surprisingly little storage cost on their end.

Combine it with the aggressive CDN strategy they already have (to reduce bandwidth costs), and you could have the the next killer music app. Imagine your own curated, high quality music collection, streamed to you anywhere for a buck or so per month, with the app available for free on all the major platforms.
Almost all (if not all) entrepreneurs thrive on the creation process, but not all thrive on the nurturing part once a company reaches a certain level. Sometimes, the creative process just isn't a big enough part of the process anymore when the day-to-day stuff starts to take over a bigger part of a founder's time. Better to leave openly than to stay and not really have your heart in it.

These types of people don't have the DNA to run big companies long-term. But it's always interesting to see where they go next.
Maybe they leave because they don't have the skill sets or experience to do so? It's one thing to get something going and make it successful, it's totally something else to make it huge and successful.
You're right, getting sued for pointing this out would be absurd. But where you're wrong, is that just might've happened. There are more ridiculous lawsuits out there. There was a story on here a couple of years ago where a US Government real estate web site was using JavaScript for their authentication, with the password stored in plain text. When it was pointed out to them via email, they responded with allegations of computer fraud and threatened to file charges. Obviously they weren't 100% serious and I'm sure nothing official came of it - but yes, people this stupid are that ridiculous.
I'm a WP developer - just today, I started thinking that I'm getting tired of WP magic - magic that reads php comments, makes it so that you can't connect to a custom database without messing up $wpdb, and generally does things you don't expect. It's the best thing out there that I know of, but there's room for improvement.
I'm 25...Einstein didn't publish his theory of relativity until he was 26. Give me a year...but seriously, I'm trying. I may not be mother Teresa, but I volunteer at shelters and I've donated a fair amount to the acs and relay for life. And I know my blood was uses to save someone's life. Baby steps. Change one life at a time. Rome wasn't built in a day, but I'm pretty sure ifart was (zing)
I may still have my AudioGalaxy t-shirt from back in the day.
Edit: High-five to jazzychad, didn't see your response.
I think you're missing the point. No one is arguing that a high rate of child mortality is not an issue in and of itself. But if you're going to claim that life expectancy in Afghanistan is very low vs. the West, therefore the Western diet is healthier than Afghanistan's, and in the process ignore child mortality as a factor then you're entirely disingenuous.

As an example: if you take 2 groups of 10 people, 9 of which die at 70 of natural causes in group A while 1 dies at age 1 and 5 of which die at 90 of natural causes in group B while 5 die at age 1, the "life expectancy" of group A is 63.1 and group B is 45.5. But the average lifespan of adults is 70 in group A and 90 in group B. The health of adults is significantly higher in group B. The health of children is significantly higher in group A.

When many children die, the often touted "life expectancy" number plummets. And subsequently gets used in comparisons of health/activity/environment/etc of adults when in fact that "life expectancy" number is completely misleading when applied to adults.

Additionally, if one adult in group A lives to be 105, that outlier doesn't indicate a trending statistic.
This.

For most of my hobby projects, learning a new language is the main goal.
You might be thinking of Zed Shaw's "Learn Python the Hard Way", which started a spat between him and Mark Pilgrim over the best way to teach Python. It was also ripped off to make a Ruby version later, which Zed got pretty annoyed at (FWIW, the Ruby version basically replaced the Python examples with Ruby, while not changing the explanations - which were very much tied to Python).

However, none of that has anything to do with Learn You a Haskell, which looks excellent and will probably mean I don't make my savings goal next week :<.
Have you heard of any major deployments of software directly on top of Xen? I know that HaLVM (http://halvm.org/wiki/) supports doing that but I haven't heard of any production uses for it. Some things, like stateless web servers, seem like they'd be a great fit for deploying on top of Xen.
With a process like this (based on this story as well as others), does Google actually consistently employee competent talent? Obviously Google has landed some serious rock-star talent, but of the scores of college graduates they hire for internships or entry-level positions, does anyone know if their hiring process is working for them?
Without the flashy salaries they supposedly offer to entry level CS graduates, and perhaps a bit of the clout their name still carries in the tech world, there's no way they would have any success with recruitment. I wonder if their process is working for them as it is.
but wait I thought apps were all the rage? :s http://mashable.com/2011/03/23/mobile-by-the-numbers-infogrp...
I enjoyed your quip about TDD. I always thought the same thing about mandatory "rough drafts" in high school.
Exokernel was basically a very early form of a hypervisor. It's not totally novel as hypervisors have been around for a very long time but what makes the Exokernel interesting is that it doesn't try to run unmodified guests but rather runs paravirtual guests.

It's basically a very early (pretty much a full decade) predecessor to Xen.
We really dislike RFPs. Usually RFPs are a procurement requirement and the team has already decided on a solution. Typically they will be worded to favor the incumbent. We have never won an RFP, but that may be because we suck :)

Im not that good with inbound marketing, but we have been improving over the last few years. To get sales, people who are looking have to be able to find you. These days that means email campaigns, blog, SEO, adwords and conferences. Go to conferences and use them to start building a mailing list, before the conference identify who you want to meet and try to setup meetings beforehand.

Personally I hate all that and in my startup Im trying to do pure inbound marketing via SEO, blog etc.

Selling to large corps is hard, read spin selling and getting to yes for once you get in. The getting in is hard and the sales cycles are long. Basically you have to find someone that acts as a toehold to get you in and keep get referrals to eventually find the person who wants what you sell within the company.

If there is one thing I would recommend, that is go after small to medium businesses instead. they have their own issues, but you will have small dollars from a large number of companies.
Where Games Go To Sleep: The Game Preservation Crisis
Yes, the bubble was in real estate. "People believe the value of X will rise indefinitely" is pretty much the definition of "there's a bubble in X". A lot of dumb things, not just selling exotic derivatives, were done based on the assumption that house prices could not fall. For example, people used crazy leverage to buy houses, figuring its value had to go up. Now they are underwater on their zero-down adjustable mortgages.
Or maybe there was a lot less industrial food around in the 60ies?

Seems McDonalds only started to grow in the early 60ies, and frozen pizza didn't take off till the 90ies according to this:

"through the 1980s, frozen pizza occupied an increasingly tight niche. Sales growth averaged a sluggish one percent a year, even with innovations such as French-bread and microwaveable pizzas." http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/2005/3/...
In correct. You are overly simplifying a fairly complex industry. There are many other dating sites and similar alternatives, like eHarmony, which has carved a powerful niche for itself as the PREMIER dating site. There are also tools in alternative outlits, like skoutmob that have hundreds of thousands of users, or Grindr, the largest dating social network/dating site for homosexuals. I would generally caution you away from making large sweeping generalizations. Match.com is a big player and they are very well funded.
he can't support it.

you're discussing the concept of "empty calories", just like alcohol has.
I agree. Any specific hard-skills that you would recommend as a good path to consulting dollars?
Thank you, Jack.
In honor of Frans Kaashoek, I suggest porting Hurd to XOmB. http://wiki.xomb.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Everyone who cloud hosts? From Amazon to Linode?
http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/PV-GRUB

I was talking about client workstations in non-technical environments where central command wants to be able to patch your OS. The Hypervisor downloads OS of the day and runs it, the OS downloads personal settings from some shared server and you have your environment on a disposable workstation.
"What is wrong with that?" Umm.... Different folks, different strokes.
"Regarding obesity, exercise is far more important than diet."

When Gary Taubes surveyed the literature to find the evidence that exercise is useful for losing weight, what he found is that the scientific literature itself proves this statement is either not true or even slightly false. There aren't any studies where exercise has lead to persistent, significant (which I would define as taking someone from clinically obese to normal weight, not merely shaving 3% off of someone clinically obese) weight loss without a diet change. I have not seen any evidence to the contrary, I am not aware of any evidence that exercise on its own actually works for weight loss, let alone that exercise can wipe away making your diet even worse.

He also observes that it is pretty rare for people in practice to get serious about exercise, but leave their diet completely unchanged. If you start exercising consistently and cut out sugary soft drinks and lay off the potato chips, how you do know which thing did what?
You want to do it with a professional therapist. There are self-help programs but they're usually done in conjunction with therapy. There are therapists and psychiatrists (the latter are medical doctors and more expensive, like $250 vs. $70 per hour) and you can usually do it with the former, but you want a person who is skilled in that type of work.

Cognitive-behavior therapy is a lot more intensive than, say, reading a self-help book or two. That said, there are some quacks out there, so if you have any reservations, get a new one. And don't try any approach that makes you feel uncomfortable; some of the "new age" shit is bizarre, untested, and flat-out doesn't work. That said, don't fire a therapist if the results aren't immediate. It really takes time and there are no shortcuts. (Try meditation; it takes years to develop skill.) Just to develop basic rapport with a therapist is 6 months.
"Unfortunately, I only know how to design something that works, I don't know how to fake a bad design"

I was once given an interview project where they wanted to see how I did with their current code structure. They gave me this really horrible template of data that could never be used in the real world or for anything other than this project. I decided to restructure the template so I could make a useable application for it. After turning it in they were astonished that I reformatted it to look exactly like their production data and code.

The problem was that they didn't like that I didn't use certain basic function like require_once, autoloading or something else which i forget (this was in php). Instead I used c style programming in php which ends up being faster. They chastised me for not using the builtin php functions because they assumed they must be better and didn't hire me. The company (well whoever the recruiter worked for) sayed in the email that I just wasn't the right fit because I wasn't up to the skill level of the guy giving me the test and they needed someone "that good" because they were way behind on their deadline. I sent them an email back basically saying that they're retarded (in a MUCH nicer way of course) and showed them some benchmark results I made comparing the different ways of doing it (which showed my methods as being much more efficient).
Don't blame Apple for the app. Originally they wanted people to develop web apps and not software that runs on the phone. The people demanded it and they went with it.
The exercise theory doesn't make much sense. Old people would all have to grow fat because they can't exercise well anymore. Also I think most systems in nature are optimized for saving energy - humans would be a strange exception if they could only be healthy by wasting energy.
cough php cough
If you can, track down somebody who has done a lot of these interviews before to give you a test one and some feedback. I do that for the undergraduates at our school (I went back for my Ph.D. after retiring from MSFT), and they claim it has helped them prepare.

I don't claim any responsibility for their success, though! The University of Chicago undergrads are a hard-working bunch. Much more so than when I was an undergrad :-)
At 25 Zuckerberg was a billionaire. ;P
> In your life, approximately how many people have gotten to pay for something?

Is this part of the test, being able to understand this question?
Twitter Co-Founder Ev: On to Startup #3
A paper written with the goal of providing the minimum amount of information in the maximum amount of words.
I meant deployments of software without an operating system other than Xen. Running an operating system on Xen means that you now have the Xen kernel and guest kernel that can have bugs.
>Would an open source programmer do something like this?
Why not? http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Oracles-Suncom-Hit-Along-w...
Why does this make you upset?

I've noticed that few people can be both a "starter" and a "maintainer". And even fewer actually enjoy it. There's a reason why only the really big names stay on for so long.

The people who start the company usually get bored when it comes time to go into stabilization mode. The people who maintain the company once it has stabilized usually don't like the uncertainty that comes with building a new idea.

In short, I don't think there's any reason to lament the new way of doing things. It's better for the company and it's better for the founders.
We made Squeaker about 18 months ago. Must be exactly 14 characters!

http://squeakertime.com
Saw that you were having some issues. Took a look, and everything seemed to be working fine. Let us know if we can help out with anything.
Anecdotally, my experience is that exercise has very little to do with it. It's almost all diet. I switched to a paleolithic style diet just after Christmas. I did not cut out any meals, or reduce portions, and I did NOT start exercising (I work at a desk and drive to work, my exercise is virtually none). I lost about 40 lbs in about 3 months.

I say paleolithic "style" diet because I'm not being super strict about it. The main thing I did was totally cut grains and refined sugar out of my diet. I eat fresh meats (mostly beef), eggs, fresh vegetables and low sugar fruits (berries, mostly) and some nuts. I cut dairy as well, except for heavy cream in my coffee and butter which I use for cooking (I also use ghee). I try to avoid seed oils though I do use a olive oil for salad dressing.

I admit I miss good fresh bread but I can't argue with the results.
Another day, another LFTR post. I'll be excited when any company not in China starts the ball rolling on actually building one.
Tom was very much an IRC guy. He begrudgingly moved to Campfire after Chris and I told him for months it was a better solution.
Exactly. To clarify: a transposition cipher is one that just scrambles the letters in the plaintext according to some algorithm to get the ciphertext, which would cause you to get the same letter frequencies as the plaintext.

The problem is figuring out the rules of transposition so you can reverse them to decipher. There are tons of possibilities and you can't exactly plug a corpus this large into an anagram solver...

That said, the fact that there are also several repeated sections ("words") does make me wonder if it's a hoax, that's not something I'd expect to see with a transposition cipher, unless the transposition rules somehow preserved repetition in passages?

Anyway, food for thought.
It would be useful if TFA would acknowledge that their opposing opinion is from a "nuclear analyst" employed by an organization which is founded on the opposition of nuclear energy in general. Just sayin.
They admitted there was a problem with conversion to webfonts, which replaced the original hinting with auto-hinting.
By not identifying themselves, they cut themselves off from the best talent. Nobody worth their salt will waste their time applying to a mystery company when there are many other companies who they DO know about and can get passionate about.
ie, in every non-trivial or legacy-supporting use. Such as everything in existence for a non-brand-new company.
I got a prepaid SIM at t-mobile recently and they asked for id. You can buy unused sims and such although.
Just trying to help somebody get used to the community norms.
I actually recommend them in reverse order. Good Calories, Bad Calories is information dense and the consequent fact that essentially nobody has actually read it and everyone is working off of third-hand summaries of summaries, even the people here on HN, is plainly obvious every time the topic turns to that book. Start with "Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It" and back up to GCBC if you still want more history and a list of citations longer than your arm (and slightly older science).

Also, I would adjust some expectations. The common "science" understanding seems to be that it's Gary Taubes, crazed whacko, against nutritionists, bearer of the holy and uncontested Peer Review. In fact it's Gary Taubes advocating that we take mainstream 21st century endocrinology seriously, with its actual biochemistry and explanation for the behavior of fat accumulation in the body in general, beyond mere obesity, and discard a scientifically unsupported nutrition philosophy unchanged since the 1960s that can not explain the matter of fat accumulation except in terms so broad and vague (and, ultimately, wrong) that I can't hardly even understand why it is still taken seriously when there's another branch of science that utterly subsumes it. This juxtaposition becomes much more clear and refined in his second book, though it is technically pretty much all there in GCBC if you go looking for it.

That is, not "nut vs. science", it's "science vs. science", and yeah, I make no bones about which science I think explains a hell of a lot more than the other.
Ten years from now, you'll be buying them as toys at Wal*Mart
Why the downvotes? It is common sense to not run software with more permissions than it needs. Your production app shouldn't connect to your database through the root account, for example, unless it needs full, complete permissions to function. Not likely.

Of course, this does not eliminate the need for solid code-based prevention of injections...
10 Reasons why PHP is Still Better than Ruby ;-)
Another possibly more plausible explanation is that he could support her at the time, and now due to circumstances can't.

I applaud his efforts in trying to figure this out, and while it's not ideal, I'd encourage him to not to worry about justifying his marriage.

At the end of the day life choices are just that life choices and we have to live with the consequences of them, not justify them to others.
I think it would be more accurate to say "Western life style" is making the world sick. Meaning work all the time, mostly sitting down, and have no time to exercise or prepare a healthy meal. This leads to eating fast food and high preservatives foods that last a long time but aren't really healthy.

You could eat healthy but still not be healthy without a proper life style change. Meaning exercise, lowering stress and other harmful habits.
Facebook is actively hiring government insiders in the hopes of gaining more political influence, and so they are changing in order to become more in-line with US foreign policy and thus further improve the relationship.
Activists slam Go Daddy CEO for elephant hunt
Alas, while caring can continue into infinity, zero is indeed the lower bound.

See also: http://www.incompetech.com/Images/caring.png
Last year or maybe two years ago a bunch of Redditors, physicists and engineers, were talking about getting together and actually making a LFTR or doing something along those lines.
Former Lala CEO says Apple bought them 'for the people'
I hope that if you eat the right things, it isn't a matter of discipline. As Taubes writes in his book, you can eat carbs indefinitely, but eating arbitrary amounts of fat and proteine is much harder - at some point the body says no.

Carbs are supposedly "habit forming", they make you crave more carbs sooner.
Fat also satiates the appetite. You tend to not overeat when you eat fatty food. Starches and sugars do not, you want more.
I hate to see EV continue to use the word luck because it makes me think that he just happened to be there and didn't really do anything. He needs to step up and take credit. Hopefully in #3 he can do that. "Once your lucky, twice your good" (Book title of Sarah Lacy's book about silicon valley's rise)
Also see: http://www.violet.net/_mirror-give-powers-to-your-objects.ht... (Violet also frequently uses "The Internet of Things" when marketing their products). I wrote a hacker-friendly app for the mir:ror at http://mirlite.heroku.com
Looking for a 7 letter word from this list: http://www.world-english.org/english500.htm

gives 27 hits. Could be a name as well though. I realize this might appear as unsophisticated brute force, I'm just thinking aloud really.
There is evidence that people have followed the advice of the "experts" in the past 4 decades: eat low fat, more carbs, industrial oils and margarine. The big problem is the experts were irrational and wrong.
What about lentils and beans? Are those in or out?