skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would badly like to sit this guy down with 'young poker hotshot' expected lifetime net worth graph, median lifetime net worth graph and 'likelihood you will go broke' worksheet, and convince him to dump $3mm into T-bills.

Oh well. I wouldn't have listened either when I was his age.
The worst part is you can't tell them to fuck off because that would just be 'ungrateful.' They're only being patronising for your own good!
"didn't cut corners and are using servers they control"

That seems a little out of place. If a lot of companies fold, demand for compute resources would go down, putting downward pressure on pricing.

And the "free" web services are functioning more as a business prototyping tool than as a long term infrastructure strategy.

Finally, no one hosts their servers at facebook, so it feels like the op is conflating a few concepts and weakening whatever point he was trying to make.
How about asking for my email so you can notify me when the results are ready. Chances are I, along with many others, will forget to check back.
That also caught my eye, I thought this is either some prolific 2 hour work or there is some sort of bias he doesn't want us to know about?
I like his point that it's the young entrepreneurs and their employees who will be most affected. Massive revenue generating companies such as Facebook, Zynga, Groupon etc., will weather the storm but that won't be the case for smaller companies that are doing little to no revenue generating.
Marware SportGrip Fitted Silicone Kindle Case
The EMR/EHR market is actually a collection of different markets.

The institutional one is a lost cause -- you are not going to get Kaiser to back out of its $5B investment in Epic. These are enterprise systems with ancient cores who are largely sold on the golf course, under cover of RFPs and checklists so buyers can compare "apples to apples". No usability or modern technology considerations apply. You will take your Citrix and love it. Like most enterprise apps they have to do it all (billing, HR, compliance, security, and on yeah, some sort of medical charting) simply to be competitive, and as developers we know how that works out.

The small-practice market is where a lot of innovation is happening -- PracticeFusion, DrChrono, athenaHealth, eClinicalWorks, etc. It's competitive but the dollar amounts tend to be fairly low and the small-practice market is drying up as doctors ally themselves with hospital groups in advance of the freight train that is health reform.

The really bloody (and interesting) battle is in specialty EHRs, as others have mentioned. Generic records just don't fit for optometrists and dentists and therapists and the like. There's huge opportunity here for competition and the markets can be small and cozy enough that UX, SaaS, good service, etc becomes a big differentiator.

Jae doesn't get into constraints against ground-up reinvention too much, which are almost comically enormous. For example HIPAA (and "Son of HIPAA" from ARRA) is married to a wide variety of state-specific privacy regulations that go above and beyond the Federal regulations. The biggest constraint of them all is something called "Meaningful Use" (ONC-ATCB EHR Certification), which determines if your software makes you (the doctor) eligible for federal incentive dollars. It's the primary driver of EHR sales at the moment and creates a bunch of onerous and potentially user-unfriendly requirements on the part of the vendors who have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to comply, taking R&D budget away from actual innovation. Just to give one example, Jae says "Your EMR does not need to have every single drug and its dosages installed in its database, with an automatic checker to make sure there are no negative drug reactions" -- as a matter of fact ONC EHR Certification (which, again, is driving the industry) calls for exactly that.

While I certainly agree with almost every one of Jae's suggestions, it's difficult to see them getting adopted under todays' market incentives. Clinicians don't buy EHRs. Administrators aren't interested the things he lists. And even when clinicians do purchase the systems, the game is heavily rigged towards large, legacy vendors pushing shitty, ugly software with their huge sales forces who can spend money complying with complicated regulations.

In closing, it's all sort of a clusterfuck.
OK, we bought Rapunzel.

The good -- my five year old daughter loved the illustrations, she thought they were cute and rated the book '5 stars' when I asked her to rate it 1 - 5.

The bad -- the illustrations are placed in funny spots from my perspective; many of them give away bits of the story, and are placed before the text. This is fine for an adult who knows the story, but it ruined some of the fun for her, since she only kind of knows the story.

The weird -- one of the illustrations, the one showing the prince's eyes getting healed -- showed up once, then disappeared and would not re-render; I tried changing fonts, orientation, etc. No go; he's missing. But I'm sure I saw him!!

Overall, fun, and we'll buy another one. A little more time on the layout side of life would have made it a more fun experience. Thanks for getting the artists together, I'm glad to have some classics with fresh illustrations.
This works great with chrome and you can search by title as well
Some truly bad graphs there, displaying response time on same axis as responses per second? Leaving in a bracket probably to contain outliers and flattening the rest of the graph?
Yeah. And it's Java and all but I think there is something pretty odd if the mean time per request for Play is 1.5 seconds.
Decompilation of native code for x86 and ARM has gotten pretty damn good these days. I still prefer to read straight disassembly, but Hex-Rays has raised the bar in recent years. For all intents and purposes, you can decompile non-obfuscated functions back to effectively original source, barring type propagation issues (which still plague Hex-Rays, sadly).
More beers will added soon
The logic behind this posting (or lack thereof) makes my head hurt.

1. If people who say no do so with hesitation, but people who say yes do so without, why would you jump to the conclusion that there's a bubble? I know it may be a stretch, but perhaps the people who say no are hesitating because they put more thought into saying no than the people who say yes?

2. The article seems to be saying "Are we in a bubble? All I know is that when people stop saying we're not in a bubble, it will have popped." Of course, the article takes for granted that we're in a bubble when in fact we clearly aren't. Bubble's are just as much psychological as they are economic. If you can see a bubble happening, then it will cease to be a bubble.

Seriously, we haven't even recovered from the last economic disaster. How about we do that before we start worrying about the next one?
I was speaking Russian to her ...
50+ years of living under dreary communism can do that to you. I see the same throughout Eastern Europe. Some countries came out of it better than others.
There is a difference between basing your business on commodity offerings (say, Linux vservers) where there is active competition, and basing your business on a walled garden of harder to replace services (say, Appengine, or S3, or Twitter or Facebook).

Appengine is hard to replace, but there are some immature alternatives out there. Same for S3. If you rely on Twitter or Facebook, you are completely locked in.

His point is, the more proprietary the stack you rely on, the more likely you are to get the thumbscrews when people start more aggressively monetizing - or the more likely you are to lose everything if the tech you are building on disappears or locks you out.
Convincing robotic seagull/spy drone
Binpress - The source code marketplace
The math in these algorithms is not the vulnerable part of the process. It is almost always the implementation or the implementers that are exploited.
I'll add for the un-initiated that the ability to read and reverse engineer assembly dumps doesn't require witch craft or use of the force; it's pretty easy. At CMU, it's taught to sophomore Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering Majors [1]

[1] http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/public/bomblab.pdf
Do you really think Monty had anything to do with coding the website anyway?

The guys that write the actual database have nothing to with the web team. They didn't in MySQL days, they don't now.
Is that really Wandi on your site?

And fill out your "About" page. That's always one the first sections I look at.
I may have missed the point, but if so, so did a lot of other people. If you meant to say "this is true but trivial", the phrase "unscientific gumf" was a poor choice.

I gave you some citations for your other question. I'll assume you meant to thank me for clarifying the matter and just forgot.
Not to be confused with Gitmark(s?), the Chrome extension for bookmarking GitHub repos, I suppose.
A Law Against Lying on the News: Why Canada has one and the US doesn't
> Learning how to read people in-depth is incredibly valuable.

You think that playing poker teaches you how to read people past the poker table? In what context? This sounds very delusional to me. In business, if you are doing anything with a lot of money at stake (that is not illicit), then the cards are always face up if you do enough work.

> Also learning how to stand your ground and unflinchingly bluff (or deliberatly avoid telegraphing your hand) is also a great skill to have.

You think this is a "great" skill? I think its valuable, but not as valuable as learning code or understanding how the economy works.

Also, you didn't even mention discipline or emotional control. Those are real values that poker will teach you. Bankroll management, dealing with long term variance, and getting bad beats make you either toughen up or break.

How old are you? How long have you been playing poker? I don't mean it derogatorily. I've played A LOT of poker and I've done a lot of other things. Poker has given me less skills than organizing soccer games.
Barring deliberate obfuscation, it is equally easy to find embedded usernames and passwords in compiled C/C++ as it is in .Net and Java. You simply run `strings' over the binary and look/grep for likely values.
Biotech investment tanked in 2009, and has barely begun to recover. Every statistic I've seen says that valley software companies are still getting the lion's share of VC investment:

http://www.fiercebiotech.com/story/biotech-vc-investing-grow...

http://www.siliconvalley.com/venture-capital-survey/ci_17416...
There is no magic in a C compiler, it's not like the string literals in your source somehow disappear. An ELF executable has them sitting in the data (or text) segment, so it's not a feat of engineering to pull them out. objdump, or even just running "strings yourbinary" will display them.
Isn't that what Microsoft is trying to do with its Nokia partnership?
As a VC, how is a $41 million investment in Color justified?
He sounds like a douchebag because he thinks, he is awesome after hacking a CA.

The most stuff is just lame, but I still appreciate the way how he infiltrated the system.
Agreed. My standard recommendation to those interested is to read the book Reversing by Eldad Eilam (Amazon referral link warning: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0764574817/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... )

I'm also always willing to help people out here -- if anyone is interested in reversing, feel free to email me.
My analysis: This Comodo RA got hacked by a script kiddie, and it probably happens all the time.
I crossed paths with the guys behind globaltrust.it years ago. I ended up auditing a code project they had written for a co. in the financial services industry that required good security, audit trails, client authentication etc.

After the third remote exploit that I found, my recommendation was that they throw it out and start again, it was a huge jumble of PHP. This hurt their feelings, and a 6 month long argument ensued where they defended their competency.

When I heard 'Italian certificate provider' last week, I thought it could be them, because they went on to launch a certificate project. I am more surprised that Comodo didn't do any due diligence on their resellers. All they had to do was to email my client to ask how their project went, and they would have found out about the clusterfuck.
I'd like to see a heatmap for the website. I think you can do it with google analytics.
I'm quite surprised that RIM is making Android apps that run inside the "player" have to be manually ported and then submitted to their own store and signed. I know that personally the chance of me investing the time and effort to do that is pretty small, especially from what I've heard about their signup process. To me the entire point of having an Android player is to ensure there is a large pool of apps on day one. It seems like they've done all the technical work to achieve this and then killed it stone dead with dumb bureaucratic hurdles.
Tyler Winklevoss invests $2M in Color. Cameron:  "It's just hype"
I once responded to a "hi how are you" with a one-sentence reply of how I actually was rather than the usual "I'm good". It took the guy by surprise to the extent he stopped with a quizzical look and said "you were ready for that, weren't you?". It's possible to greet someone warmly without an empty question being involved.
It's Time to Fix HTTPS
I think you may be romanticizing things slightly. While it seems like this may be the case, the reality is people who play like this are both rare and glamorized such that they attract others to the game. The glamorization of poker was nothing but a marketing ploy by online sites. Is there more to poker then money? Sure, but this could be said about industry that is primarily about money, to the point were it loses all meaning.

Sure poker teaches you a lot, but you could get the same thing running a lemonade stand. You have to realize that the "skills" poker teaches is nothing but marketing fluff. This is why you see people coming from other skills and going into poker. I haven't heard a lot about going the other way (of course I am sure it exists). The fact is it is just about money.
Usenet post from February 2000 offhandedly refers to Electronics Boutique as "basically a PC app store". Arguably, this is meant as ((PC app) store).

Not that it's particularly surprising someone would use the term; most etymology references I can find for "app" put it about 20 years old, in line with the term "killer app". ("Killer app" seems to make an appearance on Usenet in 1989.)

But Apple has the trademark, and they're going to defend it regardless of, well, anything.
That was true for a moment. They did the Google/Bing firehose deals before they had promoted tweets/trends program.
An analogy would be a Tsunami alert given for massive water coming in. However, the alert will still be the same even for high tides which occur often but doesn't affect more than the beaches, leading residents to ignore it until the big diaster comes.

I believe FF's generic warning is a cry wolf that puts the hidden messages of lapsed security (expires recently) with the lack of security (certificate is not valid). I do understand that there might be users who'll second guess, but if the UAC experience results has said anything, users may eventually assume it's a generic message albeit with technical details and quickly skip over the warnings to get to the website.

Either way, I wish the Internet would default to encrypted rather than unencrypted because generic warnings like this encourage the latter.
Wow. What a spamblog. Not even the domain name is spelled correctly.

The infographic was blatantly stolen from http://blog.geekaphone.com/2011/03/21/iphone-worlds-most-pop...
Up until the Nokia partnership, I though RIM would be a good pickup for Microsoft. Both are strong in the enterprise and could do a lot of common sales. Integrating Blackberry's message services with Exchange would provide a pretty good solution for enterprise.
amazing job identifying something that is really hard to express and describe, especially in words. +1
I think you're getting to the point of it: the smile vs. no smile decision is about the default "communicate with me" or "don't communicate with me" posture.

This is much like how midwestern and southern visitors perceive northeastern cities in the US. Although I've found strangers in Boston perfectly accommodating, they tend to be rather less ebullient about it than elsewhere in the US.

Well, this is all anecdotal, so these are my observations as a Soviet-born, Israeli-raised, now-American.
TL;DR: Sequioa is awesome and invests after due deliberation. Color's next release is going to fix UI issues.
Paper link from first author's website: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~ahoningh/publicaties/convex_sca...
The standard with scary messages (even a 5 minute expiry) with encrypted connections? Or the one where the standard is unencrypted connections?

This is Wikipedia. Not a bank. I prefer some security over none.
In fact the only advantage you can have in the lottery is of decreasing the chances of hitting a winning number that was also chosen by someone else and thus having to split the Jackpot. Many people let the computer choose, which helps limit duplicates, but if you want to choose numbers then be sure to select numbers over 31. Many people select important dates and so don't have any "lucky numbers" over 31.

That said, if you really want to increase your return for playing the lottery, sticking your money in a cookie jar is a far better investment, provided you already ate all the cookies in the jar.
Brilliant, I only wish I knew enough about music to use that knowledge to do or make something really cool with it.
Is It a New Tech Bubble? Let's See if It Pops.
"Enjoy being alive" is not something most people in the modern world are capable of doing... Being in the now and being without false desires takes quite a bit of awareness, self-reflection and meditation.

Most people live very shallow, materialistic, egotistical, narcissistic lives. They also smile to seem happy, friendly, and desirable. It does not represent the real person inside.

Take what you have written: it's judgmental, borderline racist, and narcissistic.

There is little chance that you are truly enjoying life, except in the typical / selfish ways (I'm not that much different).

No one can "suck all the life out of a room." If their behavior affects you in such a way, it is only so because you require / desire perceived positivity from the rest of the world. It's like a drug / an opiate that keeps you from screaming inside.
List of things Apple didn't 'invent':

* WIMP GUI
* All-in-one PCs
* Laser Printers
* USB
* Hard drive audio players
* Online media/software marketplaces

List of things Apple made wildly popular with the general populace:

* WIMP GUI
* All-in-one PCs
* Laser Printers
* USB
* Hard drive audio players
* Online media/software marketplaces
Maybe your goal is to increase your "hourly rate", but I find it crazy that you think increasing your "hourly rate" is the only valuation for self worth.
I imagine that the writer is saying a smile loses meaning when it is given so readily.
Totally different stages of business and incomparable. Google revenue is growing steadily, since $30B p.a for a single revenue stream is about as big as you can get.

If you want a proper comparison, Google's PE ratio was 150 at IPO (and 300 at the high range of estimates, and it eventually reached that)

A lot of smart people thought that was a bad buy at the time, as well:

http://nikcub.appspot.com/the-google-ipo-skeptics
From a quick skim of the two sources, the difference in sizes can be attributed to:

1) The GNU version has MUCH more verbose commenting
2) The GNU version reads input in blocks in cooked mode, rather than a character at a time as the BSD cat does. This is MUCH faster, but it leads to a lot more complexity, and thus more code. It also carefully calculates the optimal block size to use for this; this is also quite complex and carefully commented (see, eg, the 20 line comment at line 736).
3) The GNU version has to be portable to multiple unixes, and thus has a number of places where it has to test for multiple error codes, and/or missing features
4) The GNU version has a very verbose --help output, which consumes a good page or so of code by itself.

I don't really see any 'bloat' there. Sure, it's okay to have a simple cat, but it's not a bad idea to optimize a tool that's used so frequently. And the verbose --help output, verbose commenting, and portability are all part of the GNU coding standards. You can argue about whether you want to spend all that effort on it, but I don't think the sheer volume of code is a good measure for whether the code is good or not.
The 'haters' have died down a bit? Really? Judging from this (epic) App Store review, they're only just getting started.

http://mike3k.posterous.com/best-app-store-review-ever

Field. Day.
http://i.imgur.com/yKHTP.png

I sure hope the original source code does not resemble this.
Fake job reference service
Now that made me curious...

Can you say when/where I could read about that?
Actually, being a good poker player can help you get into YC. From Andrew Warner (of Mixergy.com) interview with Paul Graham (pg is the interviewee below):

"Andrew: What kind of things does an entrepreneur do to fool you into thinking that they’re really determined?

Interviewee: Well, being seeming really tough and calm during the interview. I mean, why am I telling people about this guy?

Andrew: Because you guys are going to get better, and as long as this information is out there, you might as well get it all the way out there in even playing field.

Interviewee: There’s the danger of life. Matt Maroon of Blue Frog gaming. He was a professional poker player, talk about pokerfaced. So, he came in for his interview and he just seemed like absolutely unflappable. We thought, ‘Boy, this guy is tough. This guy is not a wimp.’ Actually, we were right, he was really tough. But, to this day, he is genuinely unflappable. I probably would want to fund more people who are really good poker players. I’ve noticed, empirically, there seems to be a high correlation between playing poker and being a successful startup founder. That’s how he seemed tough."

http://mixergy.com/y-combinator-paul-graham/
First, this is cool. As someone who studied Sound Engineering it's not often that you see this type of post on HN.

Second - The scientific journal that published the article looks really interesting - The Journal of New Music Research. I wasn't aware of this. Now to find out if the local college library subscribes!
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t71381...

Also, looks like a future issue in 2011 will be a special issue on 'Music and Machine Learning'
http://www.auditory.org/mhonarc/2010/msg00428.html
I'm 24. I'm certainly not a pro, either. I'm not arguing these skills are the best skills anyone could have, I'm trying to convey that the intuition and instinct built up over time playing with people has some value, and that value isn't insignificant.

I failed to convey this, though. I totally agree with your points about disciple and emotional control. I just can't help but feel the skills I've gotten from playing poker with people are valuable. Who you play with matters a great deal, of course. I've gotten job offers based on my poker game not because I was a star or anything, but because I successfully illustrated my ability to execute strategy well. Etc. Etc. I turned down the jobs, by the way.

End of rant.