skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true, I do mention my startup a lot. It's just that we are a small (aka unfunded) startup with lots of dev and little marketing.. when I see an article that is relevant and I have a thought on it I link to try and reach out. I don't have much time to really get into comments as I'd like. I read a lot though. I will try and find other ways to contribute.
David, you are so right on the point here:

"Some distance can be assigned to effort, skill and luck. But past that, it's indicative of a flaw in the system or a crime. Let's change that. It's time."

I am reposting this on my website: susansayler.wordpress.com
This is the main filing of Comcast. They should see this as an _opportunity_ to move a high value customer to a business plan.
Remember that jury nullification was often used to acquit whites of killing blacks in a time and place when killing a given black could often have been seen as something akin to shooting a raccoon or other vermin.

(This is why violating someone's civil rights is a Federal offense in modern American law: Homicide is a state offense, and the juries in the relevant state courts of that era would not convict for certain kinds of homicide. Federal courts were not nearly as prejudiced.)
It has been a known issue for years, yes, but it is getting worse. Presumably an increase in HN users is making it hit whatever threshold triggers the closure flush much more quickly than it used to.

These days the links often expire for me within a couple of minutes (YMMV depending upon how close to 'prime time' you read Hacker News).
Maybe they didn't offer that level of service in his area.
I'm saying $100/month for 22 megabits is terrible, it doesn't have to be this expensive.
The article is mediocre at best, but it does reinforce my belief that Panda was the most effective Google update so far in whittling down internet spam. HubPages became a magnet for SEO spammers wanting to create backlinks to their sites. In fact, here's a HubPage detailing the practice: http://hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Create-Backlinks
What's the big deal? I'd really like to know too. I'm not just asking that to be snarky. :-)

AWS and a few other hosts[1] have had this for a while. Is Linode doing anything differently, or is this just an instance of another (big name) hosting company joining the fray?

[1] like contegix: http://www.contegix.com/infrastructure/load-balancing.php
I am leaving a full time and very good IT job with the federal government at the end of August. I don't have a super solid alternative income lined up but I am going after my dreams and that feels right. Having several layers of management and "bosses" has been so wrong for me in the last decade that it began to affect my health.
Or alternatively I'd do this: spend as low energy on this absurd project as you can, read about new stuff at your work if you can and grow your normal skills at home. Have a project on a side, help real people to solve real problems.
Have no pity when you leave this boss and the company behind.
And if you have good reason to conclude nobody is going to do anything? (Law enforcement has 'real crimes', the ISP is effectively bought off, nobody else cares.)
GoGrid-hosted server hacked between provisioning and first login
H-1B visas really do drive down salaries and deprive U.S. IT workers of jobs
http://ww2.cox.com/aboutus/policies/limitations.cox Full list of Cox's limitations by area. If available in your area, you can get the Premier service, which has a higher transfer cap.
> guys who did gmail or Youtube and say yes, they got a good exit

as far as I know gmail was built at Google internally, it wasn't an acquired startup.
From Lore Sjöberg:

My former server host, GoGrid, tells me (via my business partner) that it's my fault my server was hacked fifteen hours after they installed it, because I didn't log into it before it was hacked.

To paraphrase freely, GoGrid is admitting that their security is so shitty that I should have known not to trust them to install a safe server. I should have been so suspicious of their policies and practices that I should have rushed to log into the server to lock it down as soon as they made it live, knowing that their default setup is such a screen door that hacking within a matter of hours was inevitable.

And, because of this, GoGrid is not refunding a cent of my year of pre-paid money.
Ah, but you use your computer, your books, the plane, and the plow...but I'm afraid that it is the boss that uses you most of the time.
Unicode issue with Google+ notifications?
In the UK we've had runs on petrol and bottled water in the last couple of years. Basically when a government spokesman says "don't panic the country isn't running out of X" then everyone rushes out and buys X immediately.
Eh not necessarily. Someone in high school or college could be reading this article because they want to work on AAA games in the future and need a decent starting point, not because they want to start making indie games right now. You have to learn somehow and the game industry still hires junior programmers.
YouTube introduces a new video player design
Security Alarm Company ‘s Charity Trip 2011  - Titan Alarm
Titan Alarm is thrilled to announce its 2011 charity trip to Africa. This trip will launch the first of many trips for the Titan organization and will establish a tradition of charitable donation that defines the core values of the Titan Alarm family. It is an integral part of Titan’s mission to share its success with those less fortunate. The trip to Kenya will provide the ideal opportunity for all one hundred and twenty participants to demonstrate their spirit of generosity and hard work in a place where it is so genuinely needed and appreciated. Titan Alarm was not content to simply contribute financially to important global causes. Instead, the one hundred and twenty participants insisted upon going above and beyond by both donating significant earnings from their sales but also giving their time and energies by traveling the globe and working on important projects within the local communities in rather primitive conditions. This level of devotion and sacrifice is a source of inspiration not only to the people they are helping, but even more to the participants themselves. For most of the participants, this experience will be a welcome return to the uniquely rewarding work that can only come from making a difference in the lives of those in genuine need.
Not to mention that publication bias leads to incorrect results. See http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-dam... or the PLoS paper: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.... I am most hopeful for Google Scholar or Mendeley (mendeley.org) to open this up, but who knows?
I've always felt that PG uses his essays to flesh out ideas, thinking out loud. By putting it out there, others' can question things and draw their own conclusions (plus they provide a feedback loop). It's like overhearing a really intelligent person talking at a bar; you don't have to agree with everything they say, and they might be wrong, but it does get you thinking...

His usage of metaphors paints a more vivid picture of the point he's trying to get across. If you read enough of his essays, you begin to adhere to this tone. Interpreting the metaphors literally would be the equivalent of doing the same towards sarcasm. But like a sarcastic person you just met, it can take some time to figure them out and "really" understand what they're saying.

PG did work for Yahoo after they acquired ViaWeb in the late 90's. He doesn't mention this in most essays, so it's understandable to question that here.
> Hopefully they eventually have the time to implement one of the solutions I suggested to alleviate the problem.

Making the site so slow most of the users leave? No, tried it, didn't work. ;)

Reddit has cat pictures and /b/ memes because most people who use sites like Reddit like that. The only corollaries you can validly derive are that any site above a certain population is going to be like that, and to prevent a site from going that way you need to keep the userbase small enough to be focused.

You know, like how you cultivate that circlejerk echo-chamber hivemind everyone complains about. ;)
Yeah, me and my friends are using BillMonk and are quite content.

On a side note, the problem of shuffling debts among a group of people, so that the total amount of checks written is minimized, is NP-complete.
Thanks for details! I just booked my ticket to RubyConf and look forward to your talk on OpenSSL, definitely a topic I have very little knowledge of.
"Emerging market" is a euphemism for "developing country" which is a euphemism for "third world"

Brazil is technically part of the 3rd world.

I enjoy visiting poor countries as much as the next guy. But I don't want to raise my kids there or work there for very long. (Maybe as an adventure in my early 20s)

Like every other normal human, including Brazilians, I want to have a good life. As a highly educated, highly intelligent person born and raised in the 1st world, why should I sacrifice all the comforts and enjoyments of civilization that my ancestors worked so hard for to please some bored blogger?

Would Brazilians sacrifice for me? No. They don't give a fuck about me, and neither does this blogger lady. So I am unconvinced by all the appeals that I go work some unprofitable job in some shithole country because Silicon Valley isn't "exciting" enough.
Tech Boom Drives Turnover At Popular SOMA Address
You are correct. I was thinking of Google Maps.
Also: http://i56.tinypic.com/20qjgjt.png
I was assuming that the article was suggesting a system that is similar to reddit, but with important differences. For instance, requiring real names and public voting records. Or, you could reduce a person's vote importance if they are voting on an article outside their area of expertise. There are probably other things you could do to.
Do as we say, not as we do

This sub-title says it all, with respect to Zuckerberg (with reference to his past comments regarding privacy -- or rather, his desire for a complete lack thereof -- and online social presence).

I point this out not just to be snarky, but because, REPEATEDLY and in whatever domain, it ends up being critical to observe what leaders DO rather than what they say.

I'd say they collectively just demonstrated -- regardless of what is said -- the need for online privacy.
Spotify Music Streaming Service Comes to US
Yup. I noticed it too and filed a bug with them in the send feedback box. It would be good if everyone who notices this did the same.
Spotify launching in the US at 8AM tomorrow, open to all pre-registered users
I didn't understand what you meant when you said using mathematical constants, so for those who didn't know as well:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/02/us-dealtalk-nortel...
I disagree. MVC is quite good, but as both a Django and MVC developer I'm still more productive with Django. Certain niceties of MVC break down once your project falls outside of the mold of a cookie-cutter CRUD app interfacing with a 100% Microsoft ecosystem. People have levied a similar criticism against Django (once you color too far outside the lines, things get hard fast) but with MVC it can creep up on you much faster.

MVC shines if you treat it like a lightweight MVC framework and don't get caught up in doing things the "Microsoft" way -- this is massively counter-intuitive to anyone coming from a Python or Ruby background, who prefer to code in an idiomatic way by default. You can take advantage of its powerful routing system, various helper functions, and a decent templating language: Razor - which I hope Microsoft keeps and doesn't replace like it did to the 2 or 3 other templating syntax systems that proceeded it.
Yea,I did that.. :-)
I'm in the Maritimes and I also believe that is correct a person cannot have their power shut off not only in the winter but anytime without at least 30 days notice.

But I think winter certainly adds to the drama, for example cutting off the power to a home when it's -20C outside would be a death sentence if the home was electrically heated.
You do have a good point. I mean, deep deep deep down, Evernote is just a glorified Notepad. Most of their users are free, and I can't imagine them being a $100 mil company selling glorified Notepads for just $5/month when they aren't that popular in the entreprise market.
"There's a flaw in the argument that most people miss, namely that since it's so easy to create and distribute information everybody does it, making it so much harder to create a viral effect."

An excellent observation. And you have to consider that not all information has the same value and that its value varies over time.

Brad's scheme does have the flaw you describe (and it was another of the rat holes people would fall into, "Well Gee, once he sends out a joke what is to stop anyone who got from sending the same joke out to everyone but making them the recipient of the penny?")

The mechanism is valid, but, as you observe, won't work with easily reproduced information.

Google sells information that is both 'rare' and temporally relevant. They sell 'a person is looking for X right now' and advertisers buy access to that information with their AdWords bids. The nice thing about this information is that its very valuable to certain people (people who think they have a product for people looking for X) when it gets created and a couple of seconds after it gets created it is worth 100x less (maybe even 100,000x less, basically only as trending data).
Our LightSpeed ORM product does schema migrations between a whole pile of databases and includes Visual Studio 2008 & 2010 integration for seeing the migrations, executing them, generating the SQL files etc.

I haven't seen anyone else really pushing Migrations that hard yet in the .NET space. Would be nice to see others trying to improve this space.
If the US starts limiting highly skilled immigrants from coming to your country, you really have no chance to establish the US as the hub of the information economy. I actually think the reverse should be the case.
Convinced of his rights, and completely oblivious to his obligations, particularly the one that involves reading the details of any contract he signs. Sounds like classic Entitlement Queen behaviour. I'd sympathise more if I weren't paying AUD$90 (about USD$100) for 200Gb -- granted it's with Internode, one of the most magnificently customer-focused businesses on the planet, so I'm not complaining...
LLC's are usually the cheapest and easiest to set up especially for an individual. The LLC does exactly that. Limits the liability to the corporate entity.

I don't think a dba does this. If any of your products incurs liability, the assets from the entire parent are on the line automatically.

Lawyers always try to get through the corporate barrier and get at your personal assets, or connect your companies to get at them all at once. (This even happened in the tiny trademark case I was involved in)

Having this done, and done right, its a big impediment to that happening. Don't mix your accounts, pay yourself a salary from each company and keep your papers in order.
Terrible compared to what? Go back 10 years and it's great. Go forward 10 years and it's terrible. Today, there's nothing better.
this is mostly because the best robotics labs are in that area (MIT and CMU) and guys like Rodney Brooks and Hans Moravec live in that area.
I just said don't be idle. Be an entrepreneur. You are neither listening nor solving the problem, just idly complaining.
Maybe I'm just the odd one out (ok, I KNOW I'm just the odd one out in general, but still), but I find that I use my boss too.

First off, it's hard to play good cop, bad cop to get someone to change their mind if someone isn't willing to play the bad cop.

Second, my boss has been at the company a number of years, and so can tell me what my sponsor is going to be looking for, and any political landmines I might run into.

Lastly, my boss is the one who goes toe to toe with upper management to get the raise that he thinks I deserve, not just the default raise.
Or rather, a large organization could only avoid slowing down if they avoided tree structure. And since human nature limits the size of group that can work together, the only way I can imagine for larger groups to avoid tree structure would be to have no structure: to have each group actually be independent, and to work together the way components of a market economy do.

That might be worth exploring. I suspect there are already some highly partitionable businesses that lean this way. But I don't know any technology companies that have done it.

This is the most interesting bit in the whole article, to me. I honestly believe firms can be organized like this, and probably should be organized like this. Interestingly, there was a book that I read a few months ago.. I think it was this one (http://www.amazon.com/Adaptive-Enterprise-Sense-Respond-Orga...) that argued for something similar, and went into a lot of depth about how it could be done.
I started coming to a similar conclusion about pure-JavaScript templating in terms of ease of writing and maintenance after getting most of the way into implementing a templating plugin for my DOMBuilder library, based on this speculative API extracted from a sample Django template: https://gist.github.com/958838

Once you start piling on the mixed, nested content and a mix of elements with and without attributes, it takes some diligence to ensure you've put all your commas and parentheses in the right place first time, and the resulting code isn't all that pleasing on the eye when you compare it to the usual HTML with placeholders for logic/dynamic content.

I still find this style of templating useful for smaller chunks of content like this sort of thing, though:

function dataTable(headers, objects, properties) {
return TABLE({cellSpacing: 1, 'class': 'data sortable'}
, THEAD(TR(TH.map(headers)))
, TBODY(TR.map(objects, function(obj, attrs, loop) {
attrs['class'] = (loop.index % 2 == 0 ? 'odd', 'even')
return TD.map(properties, function(prop) {
return obj[prop]
})
}))
)
}
Humans also weren't meant to build pyramids, send men to the moon, or write operating systems. Big organizations are needed for big problems. But I do generally agree with the article that big organizations are not the best place to develop as a programmer.
Face.com Face Recognition API
> Or, you could reduce a person's vote importance if they are voting on an article outside their area of expertise.

I see an immediate problem there. There are magnitudes more people _outside_ any given area of expertise than inside. Even small votes add up.
Here here. I have had Speakeasy since 1999. I used to love them with a passion. But over the years, they've basically stood still. My bandwidth has never increased, even when they said I could get 15 MB down. That turned out to not be possible (Major packet loss, unreliable connection). So, here I am paying the same amount I paid in 1999 for the same bandwidth I had in 2000. $100 a month for 3.0/768.

I hate it! But there are no other options in my neighborhood, except Comcast. I even live in Oakland. If I was in SF, I could get Astound, which I hear is awesome. But in Oakland, where I live, it's Comcast or something super inferior.

Speakeasy has had about 10X more outages this year than they have had over the past 12 years, BTW.
And I use a napkin.
I just got a job offer for $17,000 less than I asked for, what should I do now?
Here's the breakdown. I asked for 70K a year and they offered me 53K per year and only 4 days of vacation for 2011. It seems like I have a chance to do some negotiating, but I have no idea how to go about it? I've never been in this type of situation before. According to indeed the average salary for my position is 76 K per year. Can any of you guys / girls with more career experience lend some advice? Also, full disclosure, I also posted this on reddit to get as diverse of a response as I can.

Edit: As it pertains to experience, I have more than enough experience. The position requires 3 years of experience, I have 7. I am actually exactly what they are looking for. In the interview, they joked that I changed my resume to match the job description (I didn't).
You might hear them complaining about medicare reimbursement, because that's (sadly) part of the daily life of a doctor. You don't often hear them talking about Kaiser's quarterly revenue numbers, or who gave whom a loan to go to medical school, or how Stanford is totally dominating the regional market for organ transplants (or whatever).

I know a lot of doctors, and a lot of entrepreneurs, and I'll take the medical shop-talk any day of the week, because doctors are primarily interested in medicine, not business. It's unique and refreshing when you meet an entrepreneur who is primarily interested in something other than money.
That's nothing like what we're talking about. "Targeted" advertising by Mormons would be if they came to the houses of only people who subscribed to a mailing list about Mormonism, routinely logged into a Mormon discussion forum, and had recently purchased a copy of The Book of Mormon.

What the Mormons currently do, as best as I can tell, would better be described as "spray and pray." Or "throw something at the wall and see what sticks."

If they actually did target their solicitation based on some insight about who is actually interested in Mormonism, it would be better for everybody, or almost everybody. The people - like me - who are atheist and don't give a rats ass about Mormonism, would not get bothered by them... the people who were predisposed to join up, would. How is this a bad thing, exactly?

"Targeted" in any way, shape, or form is predatory and disrupts the many for the pleasure of a few.

I don't think "targeted" means what you think it does.
> You can say there "should" be better deals available. But it doesn't do any good. If you think it's so easy to provide better internet then start a company.

Natural monopolies have long been recognized as a good target for government involvement, like public goods: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Natural_monop...
I like to use my boss as my politics filter as well.
That still doesn't justify the 250GB cap. Once the line is installed and maintained, using it more or less doesn't change the cost of installing and maintaining it. At that point we're talking about bulk bandwidth, which if you live in a metropolitan area, cannot cost significantly more than what Linode is charging.
Yep, anyone wanting to do this: PhoneGap.
Fresh out of school? Are you qualified?
Triangulate my position based on driving distance and times.
I would read a research paper-styled startup pitch for Color.
When I first heard of Spotify I was super excited (but it was quickly followed by disappointment when I learned that it wasn't in the U.S. yet). It did lead me to subscribing to Rhapsody which I have been pretty happy with. For those who have used both what does Spotify offer over Rhapsody (better UX, breadth of selection, etc.)?
Get a competing offer?
Using "clss" to avoid a conflict seems really clunky. className? @class?
You say that metered, per-byte billing will impose a significant overhead. For ISPs that already have caps, they are already counting the bytes, so the only overhead would be in the variable billing. Half of the ISPs already do that for their non-IP services.

You also haven't said how much it costs a company like Comcast to pay for transit of their customers' data. You haven't given anyone reason to believe that transit actually is the dominant cost to a residential ISP.