skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never really expected—nor do I know anyone who expects—a lack of bias from Arrington. People have been accusing him of playing favorites for a long time.

I would be less upset—though it's not like I'm upset about this anyway—if he hadn't sold to AOL, because this lessens his incentive to nurture TechCrunch. If I were him, I'd be staring at the countdown clock that keeps me in my golden handcuffs. One of the things I learned about starting a company is to know when to disengage emotionally. And I'm guessing Arrington's is way disengaged.

And if he's disengaged, it probably doesn't matter whether he invests in companies or not. If he doesn't, it doesn't mean he's going to give attention to the companies he considers boring or losers or whatever. This basically allows him to place bets on the companies that he probably would have have been a cheerleader for anyway.

Yeah, it's hard to get too worked up over this.
Surely The Donald knows.
Time to invest in a DD-WRT router to be sure there aren't any backdoors for ARP requests to map IP addresses to physical hardware.
The GDrive is here.
About time. Identifying people by IP address is like identifying people that live in a certain house. A house can have many people living in it. It's not a one-to-one mapping.
Does anyone know whether this will impact business accounts? I haven't been able to find any information on that.
Push notifications mean native apps win.
Well, it would be really cool and confounding if gravity made antimatter move sideways. But I don't think that's likely.
That reddit post (and admittedly it is just a reddit post) actually says the opposite: there is no theoretical basis for antimatter not to behave exactly like regular matter in the presence of a gravitational field.

The null hypothesis (and, in the absence of any strong evidence to the contrary, the stronger hypothesis) is that antimatter and matter respond to gravity in exactly the same way.
If you want to shut down shady websites in China selling Lance Armstrong branded DNA tests, be my guest.

But what does that have to do with the regulations being proposed, namely requiring a doctor's permission/interpretation to get DNA tests from reputable sites like 23&Me?
Http://umake.me lets you send anonymous txt msg to the person your crushin on
http://umake.me, is a new website that lets you send anonymous txt msg's and lets you know when that txt msg was read. Try it out!
Ask HN: Please Test My Startup's Minimum Viable Product
Every feature that's on my video sharing website works. Use registration is temporarily unnecessary while I work out the core product.

The startup lets you curate custom playlists (channels) of videos from other websites. You can then view the playlists in a clean and simple interface with few distractions. Right now, though, it only works using videos from YouTube . Video channels have clean, obvious, simple url's. You can also share channels by sending an email about them from the site itself.

Please test it by:

* creating a new channel

* adding some videos from YouTube (copy/paste the youtube.com url for the video's link)

* customizing the channel icon that automatically gets resized

* customize the channel background with an appropriate picture for that channel, and

* send an email about the channel from the website.

Please give me feedback, bug reports, and suggestions in the comments. Thanks!
Switch to Sonic.net if you use AT&T in the bay area: http://corp.sonic.net/ceo/2011/03/23/drilling-through-the-ca...
8 Ways To Eliminate Distractions When Working On A Computer
This guy is definitely correct.

Information Awareness Office
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office

I am pretty sure something similar to this exists now. The new threat to america are not from soverign nation states, but from non state actors. Solving the data fragmentation problem by combining sources of personal information about behavior and life will make it easier for the gov to stop attacks or catch a person. Combining sources like your facebook, financial transactions, credit card bills, websites you visit (by using facebook connect), travel history (past plane tickets that are linked to your credit cards) can all be combined together and a predictive analytical tool can be developed for automated red flag for things that are deemed suspicious.

Facebook can do the same thing but use the information to predict who you are as a consumer, who you influence, how popular you are, etc to deliver targeted ads, etc.
Clickable link: http://avsquid.com
People use it because some people see a large block of text and don't feel like reading it all (TL;DR = too long didn't read)
Ugh. Oh well.
Nothing is fail-safe.
I agree with this. Having A-players, recognized and respected as such may get the best of everyone. Lots of very capable people simply have had the bad luck of reaching teams without this kind of references and never were forced out of their "comfort zone". It's shocking when, having formed a great concept of yourself after years of practicing your craft, suddenly you find someone that outsmarts you in such a massive way.
Facebook pretty much has the right to do whatever it pleases, which is why I don't use it.
It's not the scrapers you should be worried about - it's all the people in your address book. See ending comments here:

http://www.exratione.com/2010/10/javascript-obfuscation-of-a...

While I'm certain that sophisticated DOM and Javascript aware web spiders exist and are presently operating - at Google at the very least - the computational requirements mean that in comparison to simple scrapers they are slower and more expensive to operate per page examined. The important question is whether or not they remain cost effective in terms of email address discovery: does the additional effort pull in enough email addresses per unit time to make it worth it? That is interesting to speculate on, a line of thinking that touches on changes in hardware cost and the spreading use of DOM-manipulating Javascript on the web, amongst other items.
Now consider that amongst the people who have your email address in their address book, half a dozen have probably already cheerfully uploaded your address to a one or more of grasping online services, or fall victim to some other address book pillaging scam. Most of the people you send email to will have no incentive to keep your address private, and will hand it over to third parties without any conditions placed upon its use. From that starting point there are a hundred ways for an email address to make its way to the black hats and spam houses.
Mount this space as a filesystem:

http://code.google.com/p/google-docs-fs/
All of your incoming email has travelled through so many insecure servers on it's way to you that encrypting it on receipt is like closing the barn door after the horse has bolted.
"Real artists ship." - Steve Jobs

"The product is expected to be released later this year." - RIM
Not defend either JC or MA..but when you are sued by someone you probably are told my your own lawyer not to go to events held by the person suing you..
I don't think this is webkit specific. Chrome uses a different JS engine than other webkit based browsers.
This is the same thing that has been happening in Canada for a while now with the exact same rhetoric: "it will only affect a small proportion of customers, roughly 2 percent of all subscribers", "[we are] looking at usage caps and usage based billing as a way to rein in heavy data users" [1].

[1]http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20058933-266.html
Many users only have ready access to one broadband provider. If that provider happens to be AT&T, they're now SOL.
I am a webdesigner and I am currently creating a website for a client. At the beginning the client told me that he wants a nice design, really ease to use, etc. Two days later he sent me a spreadsheet of 'What a top 5 marketing website looks like' full of ads, facebook like boxes, etc asking me to do something like that.
As a designer, I like doing "what feels right", not "what it must have" especially if these requests are ads. I emailed the cliend that I would not work on a webiste like that and that I needed much more control over the final design. It helped. He now lets me do what I want to do and most of the time he likes it. He gained trust in me. I also enjoy more adding "must-have features".

While this is the reverse story of yours, I believe what you need is more trust in your designer (or your designer needs more trust in you). It is possible your designer is not enjoying working on your website and he needs more freedom. Maybe you should tell him to design it like he things it should look like, and if necessary remove anything that he considers useless.

Tell him to take a few hours and draw a sketch from scratch. Let him experiment. Then, once the quick sketch is complete arrange a Skype meeting and talk it over. Ask him questions, but don't be rude ("We really thing we need to include this feature"). Maybe he simply tells you "It doesn't feel right". Believe him, most probably he is right.

Finally try to reach some agreement. "OK, we will remove feature A, B, C, but we must have feature E and F. Is that fine?". I am sure he will like this and try harder to create a better user interface.

In short: Ask him to make decision. Trust him and give him freedom.
I worry that we will be missing out on the category of new design ideas that are developed while building something. Out of a factory full of people intimately familiar with making a widget, a few of those people should have some pretty good ideas for a better widget or a better way to make the widget. But these days, if the factory is in the US, there are almost no people in it.
I haven't seen them around, I mean I can buy a Playbook at Indigo ( a bookstore in Canada) but good luck finding a Xoom. Plus for the price it's hard to justify I guess for non android nerds like me.

But whatever, the Xoom is one devices, like the HTC Dream, this isn't a big deal in the Android big picture.
I concur. With 4.0, C# and the platform has really matured from its origins as a Java clone. All the work to add dynamic language support in the CLR has made C# very enjoyable to code in. The addition of ASP.NET MVC and Razor were both long overdue, and highlights Microsoft's awareness that it now competes more with Ruby and Python than Java.

I hope the departure of the Gu doesn't slow down this progress or shift it in the wrong direction.
Unlike the overage charges for mobile telephony, the charges for exceeding your monthly bandwidth aren't that unreasonable:

Overages will be $10 for every 50GB over the 150 GB or 250GB limit they travel.

That's $0.20/GB, which is about twice as much that you'll pay for bandwidth on Amazon's EC2.
I'm not so sure that there's any useful conclusions to draw from this article (even assuming that the numbers they cite are correct).

If the Xoom turns out to be unsuccessful, there's no shortage of possible explanations as to why that was the case. At this point, I think we need to either have a successful non-iPad tablet, or a longer period without a successful non-iPad to make any kind of useful analysis.

If another Android tablet launches and is successful, than that may tell us something about what Motorola did wrong here. If the Playbook becomes successful, that might also tell us something, but again, these would be things specific to Motorola's product.

The only meaningful conclusion that this seems to suggest is that just launching a tablet doesn't guarantee success (which shouldn't be a surprise, as that's been the status quo for the past decade at least).
The law already knows how to deal with that. It's called a search warrant. When many people are living in a house, and you have sufficient reason to believe that one of them has committed a crime, you can get a search warrant to do search the house.

The case at hand is a civil case, where the option of a search warrant is not available. If it were a child porn case, the police would still be able to get a warrant to search the house where the IP address is assigned.
It will never be the case, fortunately, that humanity will have to navigate a missile or spaceship across the observable universe (or the galaxy) with fixed point or otherwise.
As for (1), unless you specifically go purchase a quality PSU, the PSU you get in a pre-built machine is usually utter trash as far as output quality is considered. (This is probably a fault of the ATX standard, which frankly allows too much leeway. Many parts that could otherwise use the voltages provided by the PSU have to include their own power regulation circuitry simply because the direct PSU output is too noisy) It's a good idea to build your own computer from newegg or similar just to know the PSU you'll get.

Other than that, there's no difference if the SSD is plugged in by "a trained professional" or yourself.
And, FWIW, I am not saying you have no reason to complain. But keep your chin up. If this one doesn't work out, you've learned a ton, and the next one will be better.
Sony may be clueless in PSN hack
"All Mail" is accessible over IMAP, but not POP. POP doesn't have a concept of 'folder.'
> One obvious takeaway: letting total strangers use your Internet connection for any purpose comes with some risk.

Really? My takeaway is: allow open access to anyone, but limit the bandwidth. This way nothing can be proven about my actions. (could be anyone) It actually reduces the risk for me if IP is not identifying people anymore.
It's true, I've known a couple of startups who went the mobile web route only to continually hit the "I can't find your app in the store" support question. Using Phone Gap or a wrapped mobile web app in a native app mitigates this though.
The thing google, and apple need to protect is there distribution channel, not there platform. If you lock down your distribution platform you can charge 30% for recurring subscriptions. This incentivizes companies like Apple, and Google to not optimize the experience of packaging, and installing mobile apps over the air. They don't want to hobble there web experience though, as that is something many people do on their phones. Things like WebGL will make it into phones eventually, standards are just slow. Google has already started to implement the Device API in honeycomb.
The good news is that I care enough to say what I really think despite the definite collateral damage to my reputation by saying something negative and going against the grain of what everyone here is saying?

The social consequences to my statement make me think of pandas and lobsters -
http://ifindkarma.posterous.com/pandas-and-lobsters-why-goog...

and I was eager to hear responses to my comment - perhaps related:

http://cognitivesocialweb.com/home/2010/12/19/on-facebook-an...

btw I've been rejected by YCombinator multiple times
Chrome, Firefox, OneNote, Sharepoint, iTunes, Windows Media Center, Camtasia, VMWare, Git, Garage Band, Final Cut Pro, CS5+, True Crypt, Visual Studio 2010, ... The list can go on and on (although some might be slightly older than 10 years old).
Sorry about that. We weren't looking for free karma. Just an easy way for people to indicate their use of git.
Hmm. This article claims 25-125,000 Xoom units sold. Last week Motorola said that they shipped 250,000 units in the first quarter [0].

I'm aware of the difference between "shipped" and "sold", but the figures in the Forbes article should be taken with a grain of salt.

[0] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384615,00.asp
Google has done everything it can to hamstring this launch. The software sucks. Buggy, Crashy, Beta quality. The emulator's performance is so bad it's unusable. The tablet section of the market is empty of real tablet apps. The Android Market can't even handle reorienting itself.

The Android team doesn't seem to give a shit. Ask anyone who has tried to support Android is an Enterprise how bad the Exchange, VPN and 802.1x stacks have been since day one. Business as usual. Their public issue tracker is obviously intended as a space for frustrated users [1] to shout into a bottomless pit of who gives a shit.

I used to be a major Android fan but screw this. If only WebOS was open source...

[1] - Edited to substitute users for customers. Real users are not Google's customers. And the experience shows.
I really wonder what life is going to be like in this new world we're heading into where there is going to a large increase in the number of children and parents who find out that the children aren't the offspring of their live-in father.

Related to this, see Robin Hanson's call for mandatory paternity testing.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/11/require-baby-paternity...
Thanks mark... We were thinking of a similar timeline.
Bogus numbers, the report is based on an analyst who predicted between 25,000 to 120,000 sales. The company reported 250,000 shipped in their earnings. Not an iPad killer for sure but not as dire as reported either. Most importantly, the wi-fi version had been on sale starting only March 27th. The initial sales were predominantly for the overpriced wifi/3G model.
Show HN: Show and/or highlight new and edited comments
Hi HN,

This weekend I wrote an extension for Chrome/Chromium to show and/or highlight new and edited comments.

This is what the home page looks like with the extension enabled: http://i.imgur.com/LguqO.png

The comment count for a story is saved when that comments page is loaded.

With comment highlighting enabled (it is by default), comments that are new or have been edited since you last loaded the comments page will be highlighted. http://i.imgur.com/WUgkT.png

In that screenshot, the grey indicates a comment that has been edited and light blue indicates a comment that is new. These colors can be changed in the options page for this extension (accessible from chrome://extensions/)

If you have filled in your username in the options page, your threads?id=$username page will highlight and show a count of new comments visible on that page. http://i.imgur.com/Irl06.png

Edited comments will also be highlighted, but they don't show up in the count.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kikfikaiccdaabdilgpbcceionekdegl

Tell me what you think! Please post bugs or feature suggestions here or email me.

Thanks!
This is optimistic.
Those drives didn't fail to running out of write cycles -- they simply wouldn't have had time to do that by now. They failed because SSD's are still quite new devices that haven't seen the kind of decades of slow improvement like most other consumer hardware.

Most SSD crashes are because the firmware managed to corrupt something, and thus you can fix most failed SSD's by reflashing their firmware, assuming the drive has a method of doing this without special equipment. (doing so would, of course, erase the entire drive)
Clickable: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kikfikaiccdaabdi...

http://i.imgur.com/LguqO.png

http://i.imgur.com/WUgkT.png

http://i.imgur.com/Irl06.png

I'm going to post the source to github soon after I clean it up a little, but for those of you who would like it now here it is:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3226916/hn-newcomments-cs.zip
How to: Pass a Silicon Valley Software Engineering Interview
GNU Hurd... woah. When did it come back from being (almost) dead?
Hardly. Hard disk failure rates are about 1% per year. For many purposes (basically, anything where this isn't the only copy of valuable data), that's acceptable.

Amazon S3 costs around $1/gb/year. Let's say it has 0% chance of data loss
Suppose I can store something without any replication. Cost drops to $0.50/gb/year, 2% chance of losing all my data.
If the value of my data is less than $25/gb, it makes financial sense to go for the unreliable option.

Much of my data is worth less than $25/gb. photos, video, old mail. Storing it on RAID is a waste of money.

besides, the chance of me deleting everything by human error is often much higher than the chance of hardware failure.

and some decent portion of those failures come with advance warning, so that you can save at least some of the data.
Yes, it's true that unit testing those components of a video game that abstract away the hardware underneath is hard or even practically impossible. But Foo here is not talking to hardware. It uses a model given by GrSubsys and that model can be mocked.
I certainly do not begrudge you your opinion. I completely respect it. Thank you for being honest and not worried about what other people might think.
Will the bandwith caps also apply to video and VOIP data streamed over the same connection by AT&T's UVerse service? Or will those uses of the network be exempt?

The above question borders on the rhetorical because, while it's not addressed in the article, I think we already all know the answer.
Best practices: Versioning and API design patterns
You should elaborate on that so other people reading the discussion can get an idea what you're talking about.
You've already posted this site once already http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2452770 .

Are you really trying to get HN users to be testers for your system? Providing feedback on the product is one thing, but I don't think 'test my system' is a good direction for HN to go.
I am sure some techies are thinking "I can write software to optimize this system and increase their revenue/profit. I will not charge them for the software, and will make money from the money they save.....". Just ensure your software can guarantee an accuracy rate close to theirs.
It's a great defense during a trial, but the cost would likely be associated with being arrested, loosing computer hardware to the local officers for an unknown amount of time, and the potential cost of mounting a legal defense in the first place.
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I had a Super Talent (UltraDrive GX) fail after 2 days and 2 different OCZ Vertex 2 fail each after about 3 months. All of them failed in my trusty MacBook Pro.

I'm now back to good old hard drives, sure it's WAY slower but the current state of SSDs seemed to be a bit too unreliable.
I feel your pain, although I can't say my environment is toxic. But, I do have to deal with past decisions and their reprecussions.

Those include helping feed and house 3 children and a wife, paying off ~$100k in student loan debt, and living in an area that, while generally intellectual, is not a startup haven.

Here's how I have dealt with the challenges:

- Find a position that allows you to meet your obligations and work flexibly -- in my case this means working remotely and without a set schedule (thank goodness).

- Find a group of peope, locally or online, that share your passion for starting something. Luckily, I am close to Kansas City, which has a burgeoning startup scene, and I discovered HN.

- Find and infect with your enthusiasm one friend or family member. For me, it is my wife and a very good friend from high school. This person will not only support you, but often go to bat for you when other friends question your choices.

Good luck!
I took that feedback, made revisions, iterated, and now I'm looking to improve it again. It's a cycle.
Only about 5 years late.
Fantastic! Like others have mentioned, he has done some great work in the past and I hope the momentum he created doesn't slow down.

But, I have to admit that I am very excited to see Scott moving to Azure. We're a .Net based startup running on Azure and I feel that the product and community could really use his help!
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