skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are bubbles so rare?
There are many factors to consider but the most important are these:
First Bad investing - i've seen ridiculous startups that were funded with millions of $.A company that created an app to organize ads received 1 or 2 mil.$ and a startup who was creating a really smart cloud app got nothing.Are you kidding me?
Second - why are US investors not encouraging europeans to participate with the startups.Do you have any idea how much potential is in Europe?There are people with great ideas and they just don't have a chance.A bubble can come from anywhere in the world not just US.

Third - Investors are not reachable.If you go on linkedin most important investors are unreachable.How do you want to succeed when you don't let people talk to you?
To be clear, the file format for Keeppass 2.x has always been different from 1.x, and then just this past April, they released 2.15 which is a slightly different format. from the previous 2.x version.

KeepassDroid is updated to read the 2.15 format.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.android.keepass

What's in this version:
Support for KeePass 2.15 database format changes.

UPDATED:
April 11, 2011
CURRENT VERSION:
1.9.2
The Bold & Bizarre: 8 Crazy and Real Interview Questions [Infographic]
Surely it's not SAP (maxDB)? Never heard of it before I did some googling. Failing that the only DBs I can think of are Oracle, DB2, SQLServer and Sybase before going to the open source ones.
A conversation about this from two weeks ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2468422
China, the cash triple trillionaire
>It will be my fault if I don't tell you.

...

>asking me "cover your ass" questions.

sounds like she didn't believe you.
Yes, that's quite true. Most people are by nature reactive - even many high-level engineers. I've known many great programmers who can do amazing things once they get started, but simply can't seem to get going until they're told what to do. Employees who actively identify and solve problems are incredibly valuable.
He's off by an order of magnitude. It took about 10 years for my cable internet to go from 100KB/s to 1MB/s where it stands now (this is in Canada). That's a 10 fold increase in 10 years, not 100 which he is predicting. So by 2021 I expect to have 10MB/s, not 100ish. And unless some anti-UBB legislation gets passed I also expect my bandwidth cap to still be where it is today (90GB/mo).
That may be so but the ability to also modify the feed is a huge problem. It jeopardizes our law enforcement system by bringing into question the chain of custody for the evidence presented in a case.
Fast internet does very little good when we have 250 Gb/month transfer limits imposed on us by Comcast (Xfinity) and AT&T. Those companies are preventing progress with such caps.
Wall Street's Cult Calculator Turns 30
Interview with Sulia CEO, Jonathan Glick, on curation of Twitter
Interesting. A friend of mine used to be an amateur cyclist, at the highest (non-pro) level. Through his club he could buy a bike for very good prices. So he'd buy it for 2.5 grand instead of 5, use it for a year, and sell it half price...so 2.5 grand.

It's a one-off big investment, but from then on he had a new bike every year, practically free.
consider if you want to run lots of https and support browsers that don't support https on one address

Then Linode expects you to pay more money for the privilege of doing that. They got paid per-https-site over IPv4, they want their cut on IPv6 too.
Considering Linode's main datacenter is he.net in Fremont, CA I don't see why they are billing for ipv6 as it's free for them. Also he.net in fremont has ridiculously cheap bandwidth and colo pricing with routes a bit better than cogent which isn't really saying much.
This is what I love about Netflix, both their CEO and from Adrian Cockcroft.

They are visionaries who are really thinking in terms of 5 and ten years out.

Their business model WRT IT is fantastic, they KNOW that computing is a commodity utility that Netflix has no business being in - they are a content provider.

They are effectively and very successfully both consuming cloud computing and driving its direction.

If you look at Adrian's presentations on the subject - they clearly have a solid understanding of their technical needs to support a visionary content delivery model.

This is why Netflix will succeed and dominate in the future.

They can focus on the way that content is successfully delivered via IP -- they are already YEARS ahead of other players in this perspective, where CATV broadcasters have lots of legacy debt.

We have already seen the first small battles in the space with respect to net neutrality/QOS manipulations from carriers such as Comcast.

Further, the added benefit is that companies like Amazon benefit from the input and partnerships with Netflix allowing both offerings to co-mature through situations like last weeks outages.

What will be interesting is to see the product offerings from Netflix expand.

Wait till we hear they bought a movie studio. They are doing a show - other content creation ventures are sure to be close behind as the biggest issues they have are licensing.

When they own the license to content delivered over their amazingly efficient delivery infrastructure a new content era exists.

Wait until they offer content hosting and delivery via enterprise accounts. Imagine when they can host and deliver content for channels with a whitelabel service -- or they create a video CDN for content.

They should, if they already are not, work to foster and host indie movie/docu content and in return get a better voice on the licensing models of such content.
I think it's worth pointing out that, like all autism spectrum disorders, there are varying levels of severity for aspergers syndrome. It's entirely possible for a highly functional adult to have a minor form of aspergers and never be formally diagnosed or treated.
Here are some recommendations from True Ventures: http://www.trueventures.com/recommendations/

Disclaimer: I am not associated with True Ventures in any way.

However, I have been a long time customer of Wells Fargo and would vouch for them. I love their customer service and have done both personal and business banking with them. They're headquartered in San Francisco as well and are available almost everywhere nationwide. Hope this helps.
The only problem being that it is Bertrand Russell's view of the history of philosophy
Robo-Bums (Seriously, You Need More Than That?)
None of this is actual philosophy.
In order to actually address the total energy consumption of the world using solar energy, based on 2009 consumption numbers (~500 EJ), we'd have to convert 30% of the total incident solar energy (~1600 EJ) to a usable form.

Doing this would cool the earth by about the same amount as moving it ~12.5% further away from the sun.

Solar is not a viable long-term solution.
MAYBE an energy company shouldn't use unlocked 3G cards to insecurely transmit data and allow anyone who gets their hands on a card to rack up $200k? Just saying.
In Australia we may have it some time in the next 30 years after our multi-hundred-billion dollar FTTP program is complete (I include modest 400% time and cost overruns in my prediction).
I disagree - We already have +10Mbps offerings from Comcast etc.

The issues is moores law - we will be at multi terabyte backbone links in ten years.

The access port in most environments is already 1 gig. (Enterprise environs)

You will have a 1 gig link - but you will be metered to some <1 gig feed - and, as we do now, pay for bursting.
I see a future where the country is increasingly segregated in terms of bandwidth and connectivity... we're already seeing this in some areas, but expect it to accelerate.

Large cities will be wired for gigabit connections in the home and LTE wireless while rural areas will be increasingly left behind with connections averaging in the single megabits.

As computing power and bandwidth requirements accelerate, these areas of the country will be affected disproportionately.
Nixe article! As much as I love mongoDB, when reading articles like this I really get the urge to think about how my data might fit into riak, cassandra or elastic search.

I really dislike architectures that force the setup and monitoring of those "specialized" roles onto the user although they seem to belong to the internal protocols
Thanks for the syntax help. It's been awhile. ;-)

For anyone curious, here's an old article on the interface I'm talking about: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/shorten-development-time... Just so you don't think you have to memorize the above syntax.

I'm not sure what's used these days, but I assume it's fairly similar if not simplified a bit. If it's not broke right?
Windows generates less than a third the profit of iOS + OS X
You're mostly talking about the free git Software by Junio Hamano and Linus Torvalds [1] not the commercial GitHub [2] system, by GitHub Inc., right?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)
[2] Of course, free software on github is hosted for free.
For any western country, $2-3k pre tax is still quite low for a good programmer.

I would argue not to take this route, as many of the clients on these websites are a pain to deal with.

An example from personal experience; when I was in college I wrote a Win32 application that ran in the background and did some stuff. I spent a couple of days on it (including research for some obscure things) and made $100. Flipping burgers would've been more profitable and the experience that I had with that client was all but 'fun'.

There are plenty of clients out there that want to pay good for good programming work.
Moore's law is an observation, whereas Shannon's law is basic physics. Shannon's law dictates the maximum bandwidth over a physical communication link. Telephone wires and over-the-air solutions aren't going to cut it. The only two was to get Gigabit Ethernet to the home are optical fiber and coaxial cable. Most communities won't be able to afford fiber installations, so Netflix and other streaming sources will be 100% at the mercy of Comcast and Cablevision. The future of home entertainment is the cable companies, not Netflix.
My background is Bavarian, my grandfather served in WW2. He sacrificed himself for his country, but the sacrifice was not in aid of humanity. My family spoke openly about the disdain for the gov't of Germany and what they made everyone go through and the tough choices that need to be made between their allegiance to their country and their allegiance to humanity.

I never got to speak to my Grandfather about the details of it how to juxtapose service for one's country but against humanity. Suffice it to say that my father refused Canadian citizenship because he felt the idea of swearing allegiance to a person (the Queen) was abhorrent and that no person should be regarded in that esteem. To swear allegiance to the Queen was to undermine every reason why my family left Germany. It was very difficult for me to sign my passport because I knew that to do so would be to bind myself to the Queen and the idea that not all men are created equal, but I also knew that after 9/11 I could never leave Canada with out doing so. So I swallowed my principles like my grandfather before me and went along with the system.

The lesson to me was you don't ally yourself to a country, you ally yourself to humanity.

My father also spoke of the generosity of American soldiers and giving him candy bars, and always held America in high regard for things like the Marshall Aid plan. He also told me about hiding during bombing raids, but always felt it was a necessary evil, even when a bomb landed in the front of his apartment block. It was never in anger but it was an unspoken understanding that this was a necessary evil to eliminate a greater evil. Especially since my dad lived in Regensburg at the time and it had a ball bearing factory so it was essential that the factory be destroyed.
>This is a problem with job listings in general: They don't seem to describe an actual day's work. They're heavy on skills but not actions.

Ya. Job listings should detail exactly the work that the person will be doing.

I think part of the reason why this isn't done is because it may not sound as good.

But an employer should want someone who will enjoy their work.

So be honest and open about it. Employers should leave out the buzz words and marketing speak and just be straight forward. I wouldn't be surprised if doing so made hiring easier and better.
I'm still in law school, so I can't claim expertise yet, but my understanding is that accidentally killing someone while purposefully injuring them would be 1st-degree murder.

When you get excused is if you didn't act purposefully... e.g. if you drive your car recklessly and kill someone you'll be guilty of manslaughter. If you purposefully hit someone with your car you'll be guilty of murder even if you only meant to break a few bones.
Arguing for Immortality
Oh, Yahoo would dearly love for its customers and investors to believe that it actually has a secret weapon.
A number of GNOME applications (including Banshee, Ubuntu's default music player) are written in C#.
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Didn't Rackspace just give up indymedia's servers with zero fight?
People should try the sensory deprivation tank. It is a really great experience. You'll have to try the tank many times and just let your mind go before you start tripping. The tank is the best way to get your creative muscles going without actually using drugs.
[Ask HN]: Cheap Bulk Storage - Part 2
There was a HN thread a few days ago on Cheap Bulk Storage: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2503552

BackBlaze Pods are interesting. Here is an updated link where Harvard recently built one of these: http://cleanenergy.harvard.edu/index.php?ira=Jabba&tipoContenido=sidebar&sidebar=science

The total cost was: $6,377.00 for then entire POD, 90TB.

Someone recommended a Super Micro Chasis: http://www.provantage.com/supermicro-cse-417e16-r1400ub~7SUP92AE.htm

The cost on the Super Micro chasis is $2100.00

Factoring in all the parts required for the BackBlaze POD (excluding drives, ram, mobo, etc) isn't the SuperMicro a good solid start for the price? 72 bays instead of 45 too.

Doesn't buying the SuperMicro eliminate a lot of work and parts needed for the BackBlaze style POD?

Can anyone help me analyze which way builds the best system, cost is a factor. I am starting an NPO for information archival.
You say what you mean with people that you have some bond with. Drinking together, even just one or two beers, can help build that bond. You could also build that bond by playing soccer, and talking afterwards.
I'm happy for John, and this is great news for the Khan Academy. But I have to admit my reaction was mixed about his initial plans to focus on the iPad. On one hand, this is tantamount to saying you want to ensure that rich kids have better access to educational materials. Relative to the rest of society, children of parents who can afford an iPad are probably the least needy re educational tools. On the other hand, they're probably the ones who will make the most use of the tools.
Why should it not be renewed? I ask because, frankly, I am skeptical that you have the technical or legal backing to have an informed enough opinion to legitimately hold such a hope--and there's a surprising amount of FUD (no small amount perpetuated by Groklaw) about it.
<i>I want a non-profit, quasi-military like organization operating plants in a transparent manner.</i>

The lack of people who can reliably operate in a perfectly incorruptible governing capacity, whether governing people, budgets, or nuclear power plants, is precisely why we had to invent democracy.

If you find a non-profit, quasi-military like organization working in a transparent manner, give them the freaking world.
So in short it isn't a misunderstanding and they want to charge you per item for something that, for all intents and purposes, is like a single drop of water in an ocean.
I just take a standard photo with the iPhone camera and add the image to Instagram from my library when I care about preserving the original.
I think the fundamental mismatch is not between OO and relational, or the application layer and the relational layer, but between reads and writes.

In the database world this conflict has been studied for decades under the headings of OLAP and OLTP. All you get taught in a university course or a beginner's book is OLTP-focused. Great if you're storing thousands of credit card transactions per second. Less useful if you need to read thousands of records per second.

Lots of NoSQL looks like it's actually dimensional modelling minus some of the really clever bits.
Hey, I've done it. :p I can understand why others may not, though. It may just not be worth the hassle.
This was written in a wildly confusing manner.

Summary: Jessica Dovey, a Facebook user in Japan, wrote the first sentence. She then tacked on an MLK quote. People then treated both her sentence and MLK's sentence as if they were one, continuous MLK quote.

Unless I managed to still misunderstand...
Microjs. A directory of JavaScript micro-frameworks curated by Thomas Fuchs.
It may have a cult-like following, but it* is* a damn good calculator.
I'm confused whether to feel elated, sad or hopeful at the 10 year timeframe.
"All" is just a wee bit hyperbolic.

I live in a rural county outside of Lawrence, KS. The fastest 'net connection I can get is Verizon 3G. In a decade, I'll be lucky if WiMax has made its way out that far, but there's absolutely no reason why a telco would run a physical pipe out to me. It'd be miles of cable/fiber with me and my chickens on the other end of it.

People who live in cities and tech hubs forget the fact that there's a lot of open space in this country. Much of the population may very well might have gigabit in a decade, but there'll always be a portion of the population who just live too far out in the sticks.
^ This.

I generally see most providers going this way.
How is this exclusive to apple products in any way? A smart buyer can do this with ANY form of non disposable product.
I would highly recommend Stanford Encyclopedia on philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/). Reading original texts of philosophy are hard and require patience. At the same time, it also requires an understanding of previous era philosophers, since most philosophy is built on what was said earlier. Philosophy for the most part, evolves as ideas are built upon gradually by one philosopher after the next, so reading something from the middle and subscribing to it is pretty much baseless and akin to believing in some sort of cult ideology.

The more important part is to understand different arguments, and see which ones really stick out to you; the framework that you choose: metaphysical, analytical, phenomenological etc. should be something that truly inspires your way of thinking.
With one exception: joining over database links is terrible. I admit that it's a hard problem to solve, but still.

Just yesterday I rewrote a view that used a database link to act as a materialized view (which makes me feel icky). It ran approximately 10,000 times faster. For a 100-row result that only joins 4 modest tables, there shouldn't be that kind of a difference IMO.
Alternative title to original post: I LOVE APPLE! ALL HAIL STEVE JOBS!
With Leiningen, my Clojure project (http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen) I make an effort to periodically publish any "low-hanging fruit" TODOs that are suitable for newcomers to implement. There hasn't been as much recently since most of that kind of thing has been implemented, but explicitly calling out those places has helped a lot in the past.
This will redirect you to the wikipedia article of your country
http://glnk.it/1u

(I only added a few and chose a fallback for the rest of the world)
It is good to keep this in mind. China as VC of last resort? They could fund the equivalent of the entire 1995 - 2001 tech bubble.
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You don't plan for today, you plan for five years down the line. Tablet computers are likely to become as ubiquitous as desktops or laptops, it's purely a matter of time.

Tablets are a much more useable form factor in classrooms, etc.
Been in this exact situation myself a couple of times - one instance that has stuck with me was when >300 sites crashed within around 5 minutes of each other due to a time-sensitive bug.

This was my first job out of University, so I had the unpleasant pleasure of seeing both sides of the coin; my manager panicked, but the senior developer didn't. I got roped into a pointless panic-driven hunt for viruses / corrupted installs / whatever by my manager (at one point we were analysing the assembly code in DOS debug, for some reason), while the senior dev calmly reverse-engineered the crash conditions, reproduced the problem and found the root (a negative index into an empty array, written by the MD of the company).

It was on that weekend I decided to renege on my old panicky habits, and become the calm center of reason in the face of a crisis.
Did Apple jumpstart the USB market?
Wow, demo day seems so long ago.
Of course they can, especially in individual cities where they have an effective monopoly. For instance, my uncapped DSL in 1997 in Iowa was faster than the AT&T DSL I have in San Jose right now in 2011. Why is that? It's not technical limitations, I can tell you that.
I can sympathize, as I'm in a similar boat.

I love the CIA credit union, but their branches are all around DC, and I'm planning on moving soon.

I keep checking the BankSimple web site to see if they're any closer to launching, as I'm hoping to avoid having to open an account with Citi or Wachovia after I move.
Alternatively, maybe attitudes like yours are the problem.

Look in the mirror.
I have to admit that when I hear "relational doesn't scale", I usually rewrite it in my head as "MySQL doesn't scale".

Because people have been running massive systems on Oracle, DB2, Sybase, TeraData etc for years now.
The author misses the point of Instagram, and it's no surprise, given that he self-admittedly has only posted one photo.

Instagram is about the community, not the filters, and not curation. The filters are just a fun way to stylize a photo as you post it.
The modern web developer and open source licenses
Related:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2010/08/twenty-minutes-to...

"If you only had 20 minutes, what would you do to convince an intelligent (college educated or professional) audience of the significance of life extension beyond 120 years?"
The article did say at the end that they've put in measures to stop it happening again. Presumably something along the lines of monitoring usage per SIM. I would guess that it just didn't occur to the power company or Telstra that someone might steal the SIM and put it in their phone.

If I stole a SIM card and used it to download movies, I would fully expect to be liable for the cost of the data at whatever rate the SIM owner had agreed with the telco.

In this case the thief (or really the recipient of the stolen SIM) was unlucky that the data plan was a B2B contract designed for small quantities of data.