skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can only speak for myself, but the arguments you list aren't things I would really consider at the time of purchase: I've never yet wanted to buy a book anonymously using cash, though I won't rule out wanting to do so in the future; the lack of/limited lending is a concern, but if the cost of the book is low (e.g. ~£1 like a lot of self-pub books are) then I would be happy to buy a copy instead of borrow one, and if I'm buying a book (of any sort) the lending potential of that book doesn't figure into my decision at all anyway.
there was higher demand for the shares than anticipated?
Why not indeed: after hearing that the FBI could remotely activate microphones on mobile phones when no call was even active, of the story of that school that used webcams in Macs to spy on students at home with a special system that disabled the activity light, and knowing the ability for malware to do any of that: Why do I have this camera facing me all day, when I use it three hours a week?
yes, once enough of the country buys in to electronic voting machines with wifi. i dunno, does that already exist?
Probably a PR stunt, but I'm still happy they're going to fight it.
Why can't we do all this NAND controller magic in our filesystems? Two layers of abstraction trying to cleverly allocate the same resource seems like a recipe for pain in general (c.f. TCP over TCP).
Or, Religion causes an "Apple" reaction in believers brains. I don't think it's fair that a certain brain activity is named after the stimulus that came first.
SendGrid & Rackspace team up on email infrastructure
Ahhh, thanks Ed! You rock!
IPhone almost but not quite dead in the water
Pretty sure fabric tents are cheaper in every way.
Haha, good job!
Thanks Ed, I always enjoy your comments and almost always nod in agreement! I look forward to reading this. Happy birthday!
Those who downvote the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
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Not sure if the Kindle works the same way as an iPhone. I can see iPhone users buying lots of apps to show off their phone's capabilities, but ebooks look pretty much alike. So one is enough to show off the capabilities of the reader.
That's like trying to compare the freedom of a car vs the freedom of a bicycle.

It's not "taking away freedoms" if you buy The Catcher in the Rye Kindle Edition vs Print Edition

It's purchasing a completely different thing.

They have the same end, a lot of the time. You end up reading The Catcher in the Rye.

One is cheaper and is easier to travel with, the other you can lend to your friends a lot easier. One dies if batteries die, the other gets warped pages. One can be taken into the bathtub with just a zip-loc bag to protect it, the other runs the risk of getting rippled pages.

So it gives the "freedom" of being able to travel with ~500 books instead of 4, gives the freedom of easier bathtub reading, takes away the freedom of lending to friends, etc.

It is simply a different product.
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Everything I've heard (haven't actually TRIED it, mind you) all the various eBook DRMs are easily crackable.
I don't think you've actually tried to write re-entrant or evented code in C before without help from libev.

There's a reason* my day job is Python.
I talked to NetFlix about streaming in 2004 and I got the impression that they'd been working on it for some time. (Thinking about streaming is no big deal - there were pre-99 startups working on streaming and Hastings surely knew about them.)
except that's not how shorting stock works. it's not a person-to-person deal.
Ask HN: Free Neighborhood Boundary Data?
I'm working on a directory project and would like to allow users to search within various city neighborhoods. I have the lat, lng for the various businesses, but was unable to find any freely available neighborhood data sets to correlate the geo data with neighborhoods.
I think it's only rare if you make that 1-dimensional characterization. The PVV has similar populist origins as the labour and socialist parties and have fairly similar views on most societal issues. The main difference is that, unlike the socialist parties, the PVV does not support the equality principle. In fact, they actively oppose it. This is more commonly associated with liberalism (the "right wing"), which despite its best intentions, usually becomes a vehicle for corporatism and aristocrats that have no interest in equality. Nonetheless, the inequality that the PVV promotes is of a very different kind.
It continues to surprise me how much IT/sysadmin work is done by heuristic rather than actual measurements.

Applications slow? -> Add RAM

Database is slow? -> must be network/load

Service failures? -> reboot

It becomes very problematic in large IT organizations. Teams will play hot potato with issues, and all use excuses. Desktop support will blame the DB team, DB will blame the server team, then they all blame the network. All the while no one is actually measuring anything.
Obama isn't a hacker, but he appointed people who made our government more transparent by using technology. Opening government data up a little for hackers to play with - data.gov, usaspending.gov
This is going to be interesting, seeing as how the European Parliament has something to say on the matter as well ...

Ultimately I am happy that my fellow country men see that net neutrality is the better way to go, and to just charge by the data used, not for what type of data it is.
Yes, and not only the moral context. A school's job is to help turn little animals into citizens by introducing them to the broader world. How does shoving them in a box for 8 hours a day where they have to sit in one place make any sense if that's your goal.

For a fantastic critique of institutionalized schooling, check out Paul Goodman's Compulsory Mis-Education.
http://www.amazon.com/Compulsory-Mis-Education-Community-Sch...
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Imagine having an eager young pupil who would watch you code and point out simple mistakes (spelling errors) while you explained to her what you were doing and why. The pupil would learn much faster about how code works and what the 'work world' is like than they would in college, and you get valuable programming help. They used to call this sort of thing an apprenticeship - why don't we do that any more?
The email attachment scenario is a great example of efficiencies gained by de-duping. The problem is that the application needs to be depdup-aware and needs to write data in a dedup friendly way. The other more important problem is that there are two cost drivers in storage -- capacity and performance.

Storage systems are unaware of the context of the data they store -- it's just a stream of bits in blocks. The email attachment may not be written in a way that allows a dedupe app to detect the duplication.

Microsoft "solved" this particular problem (email attachment bloat) back in Exchange 2003, by using Single-Instance Storage for mail objects.

But in Exchange 2010, they abandoned this technology completely! Why? They reduced overall I/O load enough to allow the application to work on slow SATA drives, and engineered the application to be able to scale out dramatically.

So while single-instance storage is more technically elegant, some an operations standpoint, there are more cost savings opportunities in replacing a $900 600GB 15k SAS/FC disk with a $400 2TB 5.4k SATA disk.
These are difficult to find. In the past, I have found these in individual city GIS department websites, but haven't found a single source that aggregates lots of cities. Quality and formats tend to vary as well.
> There are no vehicles in the world that can top the overall performance of an F1 car.

The dragster folks might disagree.

I'm curious why you think that the number of gears is significant. My Crossfire has 6 - does that make it "better" than a Nascar COT? How about the cars with CVT (effectively infinite) - are they "better" than F1?
Apple support reps do not attempt to remove malware
This is a phenomenal article. After wading through bullshit "X HTTP server beats Y HTTP server at serving 40 bytes of static content!!!" articles this is a breath of fresh air. This is clearly written by someone working in the real world.
That would prevent insiders and common shareholders from selling their shares, but it would in no way prevent an investment bank from unloading their shares through some sort of intermediary.
Progressive enhancement starts at the API
The chart at google finance displays the price was $83 on 9:30 when the volume was 0. I can understand the price rising due to higher demand but not the discrepancy in google finance chart when the volume was 0.
The Apple iPhone 4 in white is finally available. Yay!
It poses a question I suppose. Does it makes sense for FB to go public ASAP? Wall street obviously seems bullish on social networking websites.
So to boil that down, it's not the same because you can't sell or trade a diploma, and you can't go bankrupt to get out of the debt.

... Doesn't that just make it worse?

Oh wait, there was one more. He claims that a degree is a 'guarantor' of better wages your whole life. That's obviously not true. On the average, people with degrees get paid more. But there are plenty who have lesser jobs than those without... And even some that have no job.

I personally went over a year jobless, and then half a year working as a stock clerk, after I graduated from college. In the end, my degree did not get me the job. My skills did. Skills that I had before I got the paper.
In all seriousness, is there a shorter "cheat sheet" of this document or something similar? I'm sure I'm not the only one here working on building a server side app but has little security experience. "Security" is tough to give top priority to at a startup and implementing a 200+ page security protocol isn't realistically going to happen anytime soon.
LinkedIn is not likely to make money out of job seekers. Their fastest growing income stream is LinkedIn Corporation Solutions. I'd assume that headhunting is harder during good times, thus I think they are more cyclical than counter-cyclical.
It's called pair programming and it's very much alive and well.

Personally, I think it works better between equals, but many say it works for master and apprentice as well.
Great! Was planning to buy it but couldn't do it because of scribd (tired of having services requiring US credit cards)... Happy birthday!
Would a hacker win be immediately suspect? Or would an openly hacker friendly president's win be suspect?
> 87. What got you "hooked"?

Loved this story, and I enjoy coding the more I do this.

The problem is to keep it focussed on "productive" output - otherwise you end up like that guy who wrote TeX instead of The Art of Computer Programming; or Blart Versenwald III¹; or

6. It automatically classifies unread comments based upon similarity
to classified comments and some rules. (The idea was to classify the
first 300 comments and have the software classify the remaining
3,700. I realized this capability was unnecessary when the book
would only contain 256 entries. Oh well.)

Not to look this wonderful gift horse in the mouth (all the bits I looked into at random were actually great), but it would be nice if titles linked to their comments.

1. One of the greatest benefactors of all lifekind. http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~soundarm/book4.html
That's what I'm finding as well. I searched through the Census site and found PUMA references and was able to find some neighborhood data and various local university library pages, but no single source with everything -- besides expensive commercial data sets.
Read "The Wolf on Wallstreet." Don't know if it's still happening that way, but the author made it sound like "pump and dump" was (is?) a pretty common game.
you mean the underwriters of the IPO are not subject to a lockup period? that seems unusual, but I'd believe it I guess.
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Finally a voice of reason amid the hysterical hyperbole. No, higher education is not a bubble. It can't be, because there is no market for degrees. They can be produced and they can be bought, but they cannot be resold. It amazes me that so many otherwise intelligent people can't grasp this glaring difference with the housing market.
while I agree with the guy, I was pretty amused by the edit to the opening line:

"Before you go and buy LinkedIn (LNKD) shares at the IPO price of $45 - a $4 billion valuation (Ed: Shares are now trading hands at $83)"

Oh man. ouch.
There is also an engine kill switch (safety add)
LinkedIn is not even trying to make net income so it's erroneous to perform much analysis on that number. Yes, it's a lofty number but LinkedIn has been around for quite some time and has very solid and very rapidly growing financials.
I actually have a couple years of experience with Java. I'm looking into Ruby and Python not only because of their popular frameworks, but also because I feel like I need to broaden my horizons a bit. Do you think its worth learning Ruby/Python, or does Java/Groovy get the job done?
Actually I tend to differ with that statement. Latest software is always more secure and less buggy. I would personally prefer having my workstations with all the latest software.
An understanding of this isn't complete without reading the Gawker take on the original NYT article.
As long as people are going short, banks have incentive to keep the price high and rake in the interest, using it to keep inflating the price. Only when everyone has stopped believing the price will go down and stops short selling, then the banks can no longer inflate the price and will let it go down. See oil for an example.

Welcome to the rigged game.
You should have gone for the long comment.
that's where it opened. the $45 price is where stock was bought before it started trading publicly; once the stock opened on the nyse it first changed hands at $83.
Tell HN: I'm a peacock, you've got to let me fly
I've always read other people's proclamation here on HN. Today, I am doing mine:

I'm 28 years old and my wife thinks we should have kids in a few years. I've been working for a few startups and started a few trivial things; but today, I've told my current employer (who is one of the best places to work for!) that I am going to pursue my own startup dream.

The feeling is NOT mixed. I am not worried nor I am scared. I strongly believe that my idea will work for the market I would like to be in. I have 3 months to do it and I WILL make it happen.

Destiny, bring it on!
No. It's a-cyclical...even better.
Yes, Linux has code to do deduplication in RAM; it exists primarily for the benefit of virtual machine host systems, so they can deduplicate common pages across virtual machines running the same software. (If you run a dozen VMs from the same base image, you'll end up with a dozen copies of pages from libc.so.6.)
In addition to the argument for keeping your styles together, CSS is declarative while Javascript is imperative. There are just less moving parts in CSS, and the browser keeps track of any "state" that you would be tracking in Javascript.
So could Beanie Babies. Or comic books. Or baseball cards. Or tulips. Or any given penny stock. But they won't, and neither will bitcoin.
Being at a race in person gives you a very different impression than TV. For one thing, video doesn't convey the incredibly ability of an F1 car to change direction.

But maybe the best illustration of your point is obvious at a race. When the pace car is out -- and mind you, this is a top-of-the-line Mercedes sports coupe -- it's going around the track just as fast as it can, tires squealing and the whole works. And the parade of F1 cars is following as if it's a walk in the park, swerving left-and-right in an effort to keep their tires warm at such "slow" speeds.
I think I know what the first weekend project should be...
Specifically, the problem is braking.

In normal use, a F1 car will never be driven gently. It will be driven very, very quickly by a professional, racing against other professionals who are also driving hard. So the tires have a lot less traction when they're cold, and the brakes don't work enormously well either.

Hammond needed to be going much faster, just so the car could work properly; but alas, he's a television show host, not a driver.
What is funny is agents are trying to become digital publishers to survive the shift.

No, really.
They probably are, but what I mean is they could use some 3rd party to short their own shares. We're talking about people that can rob the US government of a trillion dollars in plain sight.
How LinkedIn Just Got Screwed Out Of $130 Million
Why is this disappointing?

If the IPO window's open, it's time to try and climb through it! I couldn't be more excited.
Everyone here should be ecstatic about this development. Perhaps the most talented, savvy and generous angel investors now has $1 billion.
Happy Birthday Ed! Thanks so much for all the inspiration.
I've been reading this book for the past week each day during my bus commute. You have no idea how much pumped I get and can't wait to get to office and start hacking.
Thanking you so much Ed for this.
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That still isn't a very good answer to the conventional wisdom of "Don't worry about telling people your ideas."

Tell people, then execute faster? If you're in stealth mode it wouldn't matter.
If you want to know, I tried shorting it at 110 just for the heck of it. tdameritrade says 'this stock not available for short sell'.
>You could control against these confounding factors, but they evidently have not

How do you know they haven't? I would presume a team of neuroscientists would know better than not do that unless I find reason to believe otherwise.

From the article:
> Previously, the scientists had studied the brains of those of religious faith

It would be interesting to see the results of that study to see if it contains details of controlling for the factors you mention.
Rabid F1 fan here. What do you think about the introduction of DRS? (DRS is a "drag reduction system" which allows drivers to move the rear wing to reduce drag when passing.)

I like that it's making the race more exciting with more passing, but it doesn't really seem like a fair race at the end. For example, a driver could lead the whole race and then get passed in the last lap due to the unfair advantage of the DRS.
When a new issue is offered to the market, after it is priced but before it actually starts trading, all of the buyer and seller interest is consolidated to determine what price point would result in there being an equal amount of buying and selling. And that becomes the opening price.
Much of that is more token transparency. A better description IMO would be technology enhanced disemination facilitation seeing as much of the data was available previously only in a less readily available format or simply in a different location rather than a centralized repository. Obama isn't substantively more transparent overall
And what lessons are they?

People should educate everyone on why we have a bubble with arguments instead of shouting "bubble! bubble!", every time people discuss the finances of start-ups.

Hitler! 1984! Communism! Statements aren't arguments.
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My own, and favorite, idea: you could buy one thousand early-stage startups valued $4M each.
It is likely that the CoT actually costs around $250k but the R&D budget is reduced. NASCAR teams also build a lot of cars for a year.
It's a matter of differentiating between a) what we recognize as the real earnings potential (which some see as fairly limited), and b) what John Q. Sharebuyer and Joe C. Fundmanager will probably do (buy buy buy, it's the interwebs!). The reality of 'b' means that shorting is not wise.
I should have pointed out in the title that these features are available in Chromium and not yet in Google Chrome.
what 3rd party? banks usually are the third party in these sorts of transactions.
I wonder how much this is true. I'm not doubting it, per se, but this is always argued when digital vs. analog comes up and I think it's a little presumptuous to say so. Let's consider this example:

1) It takes a big infrastructure to manage an eBook store. Amazon has to be able to deliver books at near instantaneous speeds. They have to deliver magazines and newspapers at a scheduled time (time is critical).

2) Amazon provides 3G delivery to (many of) its customers for free. It's not free for Amazon.

3) Amazon already has built up warehousing/delivery infrastructure and must maintain it because their retail business isn't going away. The cost of delivering a single book is not the same as for Barnes & Noble.
There is another reason to do this as well, when at Lockheed - we changed all SSH ports as we were scanned literally continuously in real-time from chinese IP blocks.
Update: Just find this page from Zillow (http://www.zillow.com/howto/api/neighborhood-boundaries.htm). It's in the shape file format.
Ask HN: Have you ever spent money on a site you first saw on HN?
I'm curious how many HN readers have actually shelled out cash for something they first saw on Hacker News.

If you've paid for a product or service that you saw on HN, would you mind sharing:

1) The site / company
2) The product / service
3) How much you paid

If you've bought multiple products/services that you first saw on HN ... share the one that you spent the most on.
I don't think it is a matter of if, rather "when". Recruiters I know much prefer to find candidates on LI vs Monster and other services and I have a feeling this is only going to broaden and the appeal will continue to rise as future offerings and updates to employers likely roll out.

And, agreed that a price tag of $100 a head, if you will, is cheap in terms of value for marketing and recruiting/employment services.

On a side note, how I let this fall from my radar to get in on the rush at the bell and sell by lunch is beyond me. I hope others here weren't so lazy and picked up some cash.
I think the word "ever" denotes too much absolution. Sure, never say never (arrgh! Beiber); Obama definitely isn't a hacker in software, but he definitely hacked the ways presidential campaign are done for a long time. Now that I think about it, most elected officials ARE Hacker in some way as they have:

1) build a product (their image)
2) build a product (themselves)
3) deal with competitors
4) innovate with new messages
5) change the ways certain things are done
etc.

Also, might be elected, but probably never "electerd" :)
Good point, although the original point still stands: $352.8 million on last year's $15 million. Of course, stock price is a prediction of the future, not necessarily a comment on the past.
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