skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about iterating on your idea?

Here's an idea of mine for free (I came up with this as I was reading your comment, so feel free to critique it):

Instead of uploading a text file, a user can type in an artist and song title on their smartphone. This gets added to a playlist that's displaying on a large monitor/TV/projector screen. This could pick songs from YouTube/iTunes/Winamp etc.

Uses:

- Nightclubs. People can offer track selections for the DJ. These are displayed on the wall. Or maybe there is no DJ at all. Users can vote on their track choice that are coming up next on the screen, as well as offering their own track pick - like HN voting/article submissions. (This would be the geekiest nightclub of all time.)

- House parties. As above.
Inside the mind of the man who fired Steve Jobs
...and?

If you don't want a felony, don't illegally stream? You don't get to do whatever you want just because it's easily done sitting in front of your computer without pants on.

As much as the media companies have done to villify themselves in the past decade (and more), that doesn't change the fact that their claims to material are real, and are worth some amount of money. Those are facts. In many cases, such as PPV fights or sporting events, much of the value comes via exclusivity.

By illegally streaming such shows, you are, in real terms, diluting the value of their rights to that material. I realize this isn't a popular opinion among many people. However, it doesn't change the reality you're not entitled to take whatever you want from companies simply because it's socially acceptable. There are consequences to your actions. In this case, the consequences turn out to be a felony charge.

One final edit before this post becomes completely invisible:

Read the amendment, for fuck's sake. The vast majority of respondents here are having a knee-jerk emotional reaction that doesn't actually reflect what's in the amendment.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s978is/pdf/BILLS-112s9...

You're not going to jail for watching Hangover 2 a couple of times. You're going to be facing potential jailtime and fines for streaming it to a sufficient number of people with the intent of making a profit off of it.
Thank you. I understand things a bit better now.
The improve lives through startups meme is a valuable idea, but finding tunein.com has improved my life in a small but delightful way.
I definitely don't have trouble finding queries that are 50x slower on PgSQL than MySQL so I don't think it's as simple as saying one is more mature than the other in all ways.

That said, if you're doing N-way joins with N big you probably want bitmap index support too, which is another thing missing in MySQL, although I've written libraries that, for certain specialized cases, can fake it.
Memory Implant Gives Rats Sharper Recollection
For most startups, there's only 12-15 potential acquirers - so doesn't it make sense to reach out and start relationships with the lead product and corp dev guys?
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Sega was hacked, personal data stolen
Ask HN: Startups in Europe
What are startups like in Europe? Are they as common as they are here in the United States? Where is the Palo Alto of Europe? Please feel free to include other information one might find useful!
Do you think this would also work with Grooveshark? The problem with YouTube is that most music videos are geo-blocked outside the US, or at least for my country they are. (So are Pandora, Spotify, etc.) Furthermore I believe that Grooveshark's song library is bigger anyway, so it would be an improvement for everyone.

Grooveshark offers widgets, so in theory it could work.
http://widgets.grooveshark.com/make
Wow, I just watched him give a presentation on reddit architecture at Velocity yesterday. Shame to see him go.
Carmack goes on to say that he prefers NaCl (as in Native Client) for webgl like applications.

Any thoughts from someone who's more informed than me?
He was employee number one and I think the last remaining link to the founding team (not sure). I've got a lot of respect for him, especially after meeting him in person when I toured the office earlier this year. His commute was over 2 hours each day, and he had to deal with all the scaling issues with amazon almost single-handedly, not to mention the Saturday nights that were devoted to keeping the site up.

I wish you the best, dude. Hopefully you'll join hipmunk! :-)
IMHO, this is a major, major loss for reddit. Jedberg, I know you read HN -- you were a hugely important part of that community; any time there was about to be a user revolt, it seemed like a red-lettered Jedberg would pop up in the thread to calm everybody down.

I don't think you were technically a community manager (were you?) but you did a damn good job at it anyway.
Being a victim of a random person with a gun with no particular affinity for shooting you isn't easily avoidable; being a victim of a random person with Burp Proxy and a couple hours of work is. That's the key difference here. Security is hard, but we have great processes to make things secure and keep them secure against all but the most dedicated attackers.

Mind you, these processes aren't perfect. Things fall through the cracks, and effectively nothing will keep out a significantly determined attacker, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't follow well-established security methodologies. In the vast majority of cases, they hold up well.

Edit: I want to note that, in all likelihood, no amount of secure development and review would've kept people out of Sony -- there were just too many people that wanted to attack them, and too large an attack surface. It could've diminished the number of successful attacks, and it could have reduced the amount of data stolen, but in all likelihood attackers would've still made it in to some extent. However, things like the Brink attack might have been stopped entirely, since they didn't seem to be terribly determined to get in.
Ah, whoops. My mistake. So much for a simple example to illustrate my point :)
HitPredictor.com has been doing this successfully for years without the brainwaves.
"Thanks for coming to our focus group. Now if you can relinquish all metal objects and stand below these really large hats..."
TDD Kata in C++: String Calculator
This missive strongly reeks of teen spirit. Guess we'll find out when the FBI perp walks them in front of the cameras.
Considering there is no standard "valuation" except what the content owner says it is, that entire clause is useless. Any stream can likely be valued over $2500 by some shady accounting.

Copyright infringement should a civil issue, not a criminal one. The Corporatocracy is here.
Check HackFwd http://hackfwd.com/ .
As sad as it sounds, I really think it's preying on the weak for profit. So much of society/economy/whatever very much depends on taking advantage of those who are don't have much other choice in the matter.

I don't think it's as visible to us as it used to be, but I think it's still very much there.
With more than $70B in cash, Apple could buy Nokia, RIM, HTC & Motorola
> I definitely don't have trouble finding queries that are 50x slower on PgSQL than MySQL

I would love to see an example of this, given the same data, schema, similar tuning params, etc.
China's ethnic groups are small, weak and concentrated in remote areas. They really are probably not a political factor. I really can't see this ever being the dividing line of a civil war. They might demand autonomy or independence but that's not really a civil war.

Any serious civil strife that could effect the political direction of the country is most likely to be of the revolutionary kind. The most likely (though still not that likely) scenario I can think of is post economic downturn combined with political scandal. It would probably be a nebulous combination/coalition of demands/factions. Pick a basket of anti regime, pro peasant, anti corruption, pro democracy, human rights. Maybe Christianity or religion in general plays a role.

I think you need to draw a line though between civil strife and revolutionary agitation. I think the urban/rural divide will most likely manifest in the latter.
The gunshot analogy fails hard. LulzSec pre-empted at least half of it, by stressing how harm occurs quietly all the time. Data gets stolen or destroyed and we just don't know it.

Unlike gunshot wound, where a person lands in a hospital, or morgue, or goes missing, data can be, and indeed is, copied quietly. Of gunshots, people are informed most of the time; of security breaches, barely ever. Cops investigate most gunshots, but do they know of most security breaches?

The big hope is the press will at last start paying attention to (in)security of our data. Thus the headline-grabbing tactics.

The other half is that corporations don't shoot people, people shoot people. And to the wit, people don't store 200.000 bank accounts on a web server, corporations do. You can -- and should -- hold corporations to a somewhat higher standard when it comes to affording decent protection for customers. It's no coincidence LulzSec weren't after granny-loves-her-cat blogs, but after commercial services.
Or pay more taxes and help reduce the national debt.
I think that's called Schadenfreudefreude, or perhaps Schadenfreude^2
No, maybe we should add something to the page about not working on oldfox/chrome/ie/etc.
Kill Screen - Infinity Blade Review (the text "evolves")
Of course the cops on a TV show are going to say that. They know that many cases hinge on what a defendant says to them prior to getting a lawyer, and often that the defendant is his/her own worst witness. If no one spoke to the police without a lawyer present it makes the cops job much harder (as it should be) and prevents them from tricking people into self incrimination and/or flat out lying.

Consider this. Many police interviews are still not video taped. If you and a cop have a discussion by yourselves and what was said comes into question who will the prosecutor, judge and jury believe? That reason alone means you always want a 3rd party present.

If you are innocent and don't speak to he police without a lawyer then fine, let them try to connect the dots.
Would have been great if it worked on mobile Safari!
Social Media playing a big role in Vancouver Riot Aftermath
The article itself is mostly about twitter--and to be fair it's not necessarily a life shattering article, but I think it's culturally relevant, especially given what has developed in my country. I wanted to point out that for as much problems social media has played in this issue (it's being reported that Facebook riot groups were set up prior to Game 7) the great things being done using these same devices are of redeeming quality and shows that it isn't so much about the tool--but how you use it, and it's good to see so many Vancouverites putting social media to good use to help restore the city after it's shameful evening.
google cached
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TN1Cg1X...
When I've worked hard on a project that could fail, I've usually had the mindset, "if it fails, at least we'll know it wasn't because we didn't try".
A guy with so much knowledge about running such a huge site probably has hundreds of job offers. Best of luck Jedberg, wish you all the best!
Really? It's working on Chrome 13 for me, though because of how Chrome slows down JS execution when you switch to another tab, things can get... funky.
Still not worth a felony.
Once I thought of something like that too, but in the environment of a park with speakers and wifi (yeah, far fetched, I know). People could go to a website available on the wireless network with their smartphones and pick a track to play (from a library such as Spotify). Then everybody on the park would be able to up or down the track using their smartphones. If the track had enough up votes, that person would be able to pick another track to play.

It would be the interactive/social/sound park. :P

But since I don't know that many parks with speakers, on clubs it would probably work better. They could do it as an experiment on a tent of some festival like they did with the concept of the silent disco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_disco).
Perhaps I am using the term to loosely, and I do see people use an acronym with a D for document now. There are still plenty of relations in Mongo, particularly when you expose them through Mongoid, rather than being enforced in a schema: http://mongoid.org/docs/relations.html

The MongoDB docs do say that I am supposed to use the term "ODM". I will update my post. thanks.
Hey guys this was my first submission on HN, but I wanted to add this-- The article itself is mostly about twitter--and to be fair it's not necessarily a life shattering article, but I think it's culturally relevant, especially given what has developed in my country. I wanted to point out that for as much problems social media has played in this issue (it's being reported that Facebook riot groups were set up prior to Game 7) the great things being done using these same devices are of redeeming quality and shows that it isn't so much about the tool--but how you use it, and it's good to see so many Vancouverites putting social media to good use to help restore the city after it's shameful evening.

Hopefully someone else will find this interesting.
A Grave Issue: Property Rights of the Deceased
"Poor comment" is very subjective; I think that people are downvoting you not only because they disagree, but because of the type of argument you made: you imposed a value judgment on a certain kind of decision-making without really backing it up. You just said, "People who do X are 'wrong' and people who do Y are 'right'." There was no logical basis or evidence for what you wrote, and on HN, I feel like people value the rationale behind opinions as much--if not more--than the opinions themselves.
Horowitz's initial argument basically ended with "OK it's a bubble, but it didn't pay to think that way when the NetScape IPO took place" which is in exact agreement with Blank's stated position "we're entering the mania phase". So, I don't see a need for a rebuttal -- Horowitz effectively conceded straight out of the gate.

It's a bubble, but there's still time to make money from bigger fools.

I rant about this at greater length here: http://loewald.com/blog/?p=4238
Requery - A failed business idea
but you're at higher risk from technological obsolescence unless you diversify.

For the same reason that a developer can produce something using a new technology on spare time, the same developer can pick up a new technology, at work, in a brief period of time.

In other words, I think it's largely B.S. to talk about 'obsolete' developers. You could only be obsolete if you entirely forgot how to learn, which I think is impossible, barring something like singularly maintaining the same COBOL system since the 70's.
I'll put a positive spin on this: Replace "fail" with "not successful yet". Replace "not talented" with "not as skilled as I will eventually be". Now working hard uncovers weaknesses and things to improve.
You know, if we were standing around at an artist's gallery opening, or at a home having dinner and discussion, or just walking down the sidewalk in the flesh-and-blood world, that comment would have been considered a small, but useful and positive contribution to the discussion. In fact, you'd probably know that F_J_H is a successful business owner with 50 employees, so you'd note that that's how successful people behave and try to emulate him. But here, since there's "upvotes", it appears to have gotten a -1 (based on the shade of gray text).

And I want to take the opportunity to say that I think comments like this don't merit negativity. Treat them like you'd treat them in the world: polite comment, move on. It's like walking down the road and there's a purple thistle flower in all its spiny glory. Purple. Pretty. Move on. You don't have to go stamping it out just because there's a social belief that lawns should only have grass.
LulzSec claims that it isn't fighting Anonymous
That was a good point in the presentation I thought, but I objected on the slide that suggested you wouldn't learn anything from it either (slide 28). How could you not learn something from the experience, even if you fail hardcore?
Honestly, I'm more worried about companies like Citi allowing users to change the uid param in the URL to access someone else's account data than I am about kids in it for the lulz.
Just like advertisements don't convince people to buy stuff.
4 years, I wonder if his shares just fully vested and he's been waiting for it.
Therefore you can take any 10 good logos or designs, or even well composed photos, and you'll probably find in 7 out of them the golden ratio implemented somehow!

Sounds like a testable claim to me.
You mean the foundation of Taliban and Mafia society. You know, it is quite possible to make money by being good. It just doesn't grab headlines as effectively.
Interpretations don't change conditions; conditions exist regardless of perception or interpretation. At the point where interpretation becomes so obtuse as to try to revise the immutable reality of death (and taxes?), something is wrong. When this kind of relativistic, obtuse, "subjective" argument is brought to bear it is usually driven by a political bias(I.E. "Our" history versus "Their" history.) Certainly interpretation can play a part in communication but more often misinterpreting reality leads to consequences of a nature not interpretable, such as the loss of a work situation. What I mean to say is, the limits of the subjective stretch only so far before playing with them leads to consequences in real life. Play semantic games with a spouse or boss and see how far it goes.
The headline from the Guardian was one of their masterstrokes:

"Rust tarnishes Soviet ring of steel"
Something I've noticed over the years is that my productivity and ability peaks don't correlate with time spent programming, but rather with time spent reading other people's code.
A long time ago I read/watched something about a group that works with ISPs around the world to nail down the source of DDoS attacks and stop them, but I don't remember anything else.
They need to bring in someone who can write without seeming like a 12 year old who grew up on 4chan.
Air France black boxes raise questions about in-flight control systems
He confirms he isn't in the thread:

> Not leaving to work at Hipmunk? Breaking tradition eh?

> Jedberg: Nah, they're full up on awesomeness already.

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/i29yk/all_good_things/...
Right, but "the best" being a very misleading term for anyone not in the know. It too has failed to do the job.. But, of course, no code is perfect. Just keep that in mind.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/2295000...
Payrolls Dropped in 27 States, Led by Cali.
Industry Defined Problem
hi I am a final year computer Eng. student. and we are having a major project this year as a IDP (Industry Defined Problem). So can you help me by suggesting some recent problem which IT industry face...
Got any data to back that claim up?
IMF cuts U.S. growth forecast, warns of crisis
Really, a takedown order? Under what authority?
Agreed. It wouldn't be very hard to find a query on a tuned MySQL box that outperforms Postgres on an untuned system. Postgres's base configuration has always been on the conservative side of tuning.
To be fair, life would be a lot worse if Microsoft had to patch every hole WebGL would open if their assessment is right (and lots of people smarter than me think it is).
How Many Agencies Pitch “What You’ll Learn From This Project?”
using other services would be a future request. we will consider this.
That may be so. I see the real value of YC as being mentorship from the team and the connections that follow rather than just funding and a stamp of approval for connections. Then again I haven't been in the business as long as most older entrepreneurs so I'll withhold judgement.
AOL Exposed: A Former AOL Employee Speaks Out
Grading on a curve
Reading ~german~ words in an en conversation always strikes me as interesting. That we brought you this fine word is kind of telling..
Every trader knows black-scholes doesn't work. According to black-scholes the volatility curve should be flat, but it is actually a smile. Believing black-scholes works is like believing the earth is flat.
Hey, if people really want a secure internet I believe the government would be more than willing to lock it down for us.

That's all that's going to happen as kids like Assange and Lulzsec keep up with their criminal shenanigans. Governments are going to say, "Enough is enough!" and lock it down like in China.
A good landing page video can double your conversions, it did for inDinero
Well sure, if you don't change its default configuration and leave Postgres tuned for a 486.
ah, okay, missed that bit :)
Corporations most definitely shoot people... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military
Have they? The website doesn't seem to show any actual evidence of efficacy, or indeed any data whatsoever.
SEC could file civil charges against some raters: report
it needs a serious development time (and probably investment cause you will need hardware, space and time) but i think this could be the future of public music.
Eventually there will be some extinction event anyway. Is it more important to maximize number of humans who ever lived, or more important to maximize the age of the species? Your stated desires could mean either, but they prescribe very different strategies.
Ever wonder how Voyager 1 and other satellites get their power? Plutonium
Another interesting twist: When the research subjects were asked to rate the songs on a scale of one to five, their answers did not correlate with future sales of the songs.

I think the fact that the fMRI data predicted success, but that the explicit ratings given did not predict success is the interesting part of this. It would be totally uninteresting if you could predict the song's success just from asking people what they like, or how good they think something is. That an fMRI can tell you more about the goodness of the song than the people in the fMRI listening to the music, is pretty cool.
On what basis do you justify laws which illegalize socially acceptable behaviors, and why do you start what people are entitled to at the law?

Surely the law should follow society, rather than society following the law.
To get it working on Chrome 13+, enable 'Web Audio API' in about:flags, then click relaunch.

It should then work - more or less :)
Ask HN: How did you Quora get its star users?
Was there a specific kind of marketing strategy they followed that got them so many successful startup founders as users?
The biggest question I have is: why are so many people leaving Reddit?

Over the past few months, the site has grown continuously yet the people that have been the driving force of the site seem to be leaving just as the site is hitting its peak. What has changed?
Life Before the Dinosaurs
It is much better security/performance-wise to only run programs you intend to.

There are sites you visit every day like HN, and there are those sites you rarely if ever visit. Perhaps a link from a link to one of the stories here.

Not allowing those sites to autoexecute code is very powerful. Hell, not allowing tracking code to run at trusted sites is just as powerful.

With Flashblock et all, I can go to strange urls and not have to worry about dangerous, performance sapping shit getting loaded. There is a whitelist for sites/scripts I choose to enable.

If you've never used NoScript/Ghostery give them a try. Your eyes will be opened to the sheer amount garbage loaded even on "trustworthy" sites.