skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed... Only real enterprise alternative is Hyper-V - I have used it quite a bit and do like it, but, I just don't feel as happy using it as I am ESX.

Like Windows is dominant on the desktop, ESX pretty much owns the (paid virtualisation) ecosystem through many third party programs.

Microsoft is getting there, it is just much slower, but, a price increase like this could be (but I doubt it) VMware's undoing.
Do Consoles Stifle Innovation? Trip Hawkins Think So
On the original page's comments some people mention it might even be cheaper to buy hardware instead of licenses, anyone have a take on that?

Example:

a) 1 x Large Server + VMware licenses

-or-

b) N x Small Servers

If b) is more cost-effective then VMWare definitely dropped the ball here...
To me, 24GB per cpu seems very low for a VM host.
I've used one of the nightlies with GSSAPI for at least a year.
Thanks! I didn't know about that option.
I agree. Reading books and materials can only take you so far. In my experience, after reading an iOS dev book for countless time, you think you get it, but after a few weeks.. you tend to forget all about them. Eventually, i decided on a project to work on, and when i get stuck, refer to the book and continue working on it until it is done.
I think the concept sticks better that way, plus you get a sense of satisfaction of a finished product..
hmmm - "try checking your settings of perception of objective reality." - a bit geeky and out of touch I think ...

I would have said: "remember, you're alive, now take a deep breath, count your blessings, and make the best out of today and every day"

but everything's ok :)
Yes of course. But you can choose certain colors, not gray that look faded to the eye but are not in rgb values. In any case, captchas are always mediocre solutions.
To Rebound, RIM Courts the Carriers
Immediately reminded me of '1-bit Symphony': http://www.1bitsymphony.com/
Generally there's two points to an interview.

1) Is this person knowledgeable and capable of performing the job I need them to do?

2) Is this person a cultural/personable fit for my team?

I think the point of this article is that when you're a "famous" developer with known traits, number 1 is dispensed with. The 15 minute chat is just to determine number 2.

I myself have gotten several jobs after just a recommendation from a friend and a quick drink with the manager.
Nice and funny.

Being at OK buttons, the Donate button, is not OK

Raising money for a joke? Come on!
Code To Give Users Time To Read Feedback
That's a good point. I don't know all languages, so I can only speak for the ones I know.

I also suspect it's a PC thing.
I fail to see the relevance of how one makes one's money to the class discussion and 88k is an arbitrary number.

The classic "American Dream" lifestyle is typically defined as home ownership, two cars in the garage, three squares a day and sufficient disposable income to be able to comfortably afford to raise children and save for retirement.

So, assuming this works as a definition of "middle class", anyone not capable of all of the previous due solely to financial constraints is therefore "lower class".

Based on my experience, $120k annual household income in a low cost of living area barely squeaks over the bar if you use this metric. $175-$200k annual household income seems more realistic to me given the retirement clause.

Where the line gets drawn for "upper class" is harder to define, but I think we can all agree an upper class exists.
Social Media: To Outsource or Not to Outsource
It's my impression that those voting things are a way to make money for the company that initiates the voting. In your concept it's the other way around.

I'm curious who your customers will be.
Seth's Blog: The arrogance of willful ignorance
Keep Your Social Media Strategy Simple
I've got two daughters 9 and 11 and so far they've built projects just like the one in the article (although our stuff ends up looking a bit less refined at the end).

It seems like our girls turned less "girly" once they started school and of course it helps both my wife and I are engineers. Pink spray paint is always an option...
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How Google+ is Built
I wouldn't expect people to buy these in their thousands in shops. They're more about:

1) Sharing - giving them to other fans who will listen and pass them on.

2) Signifying - showing who you are listening to.
Yes, this exactly. Donald Rumsfeld got no end of flack for his comment (distilled here) "there are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns", but it's actually a great statement - in this case, there are some people who know they know how to make captchas, some people who know they don't, and some people who don't know that they don't know.
Gender isn't just about how you look & what your name is. It's a much more personal construct. Google+ is respecting that, and should be commended.
Something like this is extremely useful for language learning especially for languages like Japanese and Chinese. Put a kanji character, and have it bring it up after a certain period of time. Maybe gradually show it to you less and less frequently as you guess the correct meaning.
This is rather cool, however I was alarmed when another user was able to inject javascript and throw up an alert window in my browser. This begs the question, does this wrapper site do anything to protect me from XSS? Does it prevent someone from stealing my cookies?
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/08/protecting-your-coo...
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Why we are crazy enough to build another Help Desk Software
In Retreat, Murdoch Drops TV Takeover
I think there was more to it than that. It also came to the conclusion that a $130 video card (Ati 5830) can earn $540 a year.

A system costing $1710 could earn $5300 per year.

Assuming a $14 bitcoin that represents a 210% return on investment.
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For the same reason why everyone else should open-source their infrastructure and why others do - Yahoo's Hadoop, Facebook's Open Hardware, Rackspace's OpenStack. Because others are building similar technology and cross-pollination (and honest trials) of BigTable with, say HBase, or their web stack with node, would mean that they break out of NIH and start improving both the state of the industry and their own code.

That said, I'm not saying that they need to, but that nobody should credit them with transparency or open-source goodwill in terms of actual core stack when what we're actually seeing is zero transparency and lots of in-house closed code. To the point that even what they're using is a question mark, and our guesses like BigTable often meet with a smirk and an 'oh, no, we're on to InternalProjectX, which is so much better.'
Would be nice if it linked to Ze Frank's Chillout Song: http://www.zefrank.com/chillout/
And stay off my lawn!

Community? Maybe this kid will be fixing your house when you are too old and gimpy to do it.
This isn't the attitude you should have.

It's not that bad. It's like school. Work on your own stuff on the downtime.
I don't see a problem with that. It's completely unobtrusive and doesn't distract at all. I spotted it by accident. I don't thing they're raising money, they're just allowing people who want to to show appreciation for their work.
Gavel Report: Disproportionate Rationale
Typical enterprise developer:

1. User knows exactly what he wants.
2. User can only express that in his own language.
3. Data flow diagrams, best practices, structured design, etc.
4. Dev still doesn't know what user wants but builds anyway.
5. 2 years later, project scrapped.

Scott Nesin:

1. User knows exactly what he wants.
2. User can only express that in his own language.
3. Developer patiently encourages user to express himself.
4. Eureka!
5. Much learned; happy ending.
Great story. Two comments:

- I think the people at our Home Depot would not have been as irritated and would have led the way to the paint department, maybe it's regionally different

- My girls go for spray paint 10 out of 10 times

My daughter had a 4th grade "invention convention" project and she chose to build a anti-kick board for her desk so the boy sitting opposite couldn't kick her. It also had comfy footrests. The boy's side had an Italian and her side had a German flag (the respective nationalities) spray-painted. It ended up looking really nice and the teacher let her keep it on her desk for a few days. That project encouraged her to build some tables for her room.
Proxmox.com integrates OpenVZ and KVM virtualization with a decent Web GUI. Might be just the ticket for those not needing all of the ESX features.
This story has a great moral, and from a younger-person's standpoint, I think it's something every parent should consider: enable, and don't obligate.

Encouragement itself is a dangerous path, since it can lead to an unhealthy zeal and interest. Unless you're parenting in an unique way, parents usually are seen as an authority figure by the kids. Because of this, over-encouragement could be seen as forcefulness, and act to discourage the child by creating a sense of obligation. This is exactly what happened to me on multiple occasions. I swam breast stroke competitively when I was younger, and stopped training completely when my coach and my parents decided I should train for higher level competition. I also played badminton on a provincial level, and basically the same thing happened. This isn't me being lazy. I trained 9 hours a day last summer at the Shaolin temple on my own will.

On the other end, everything I've built (or done, other sports included), I've done so on my own accord, either with no support from my parents, or just a slight tinge of interest. I guess every child is different - just make sure not to make them feel obligated.
As far as I can tell its not hurting internally at all. The tools here are miles better than the competition. Colossus, btw, has no open source equivalent (which the article seemed to suggest might exist).
Learning to Program: How Should I Start on This Project?
Hi HN,
I've come to the conclusion that I need to learn to program. (Know it's debatable whether bix/mkting folks should waste their time learning, but I want to learn anyway.)

I have a pet project that I’d like to build, but could use your help determining which language is best for me to start with and what online resources I should prioritize. Should note that I’ve done some homework here: I took MIT’s Intro to Computer Programming (Python) class via Udemy and I completed the Rails for Zombies tutorial.But, while I can go through those exercises OK enough, I’m stuck when it comes to putting it all together and building something useful… that’s where I could use your help.

I want to be able to build a form with multiple data entry types that automatically emails certain groups of people based on data submitted. Simple, yeah? (I hope.)

Any recommendations on where to start with this project? Know Railscasts has a series of episodes all about forms … but is that better for this project than Python or some other language/set of resources?

Thanks in advance for your help – know the “how do I learn to program” question gets asked quite a bit around here…
Laura
Copy and paste is the easiest thing in Putty! Just select anything and it is in your clipboard. To paste in Putty use Shift+Insert or just the right button of your mouse. So what are you talking about?
34% of iPhone owners think the 4 is 4G
> I've seen multiple studies that show parents who withhold praise raise higher achievers

Ok. I don't like that either.

I'd rather raise a healthy, curious, creative, passionate, and happy child.

I couldn't care less about what he achieves.

If he achieves nothing, so be it. In fact, on average, he won't achieve much ... but when he does achieve something, it'll blow your mind.

And that little drone you raised, who is desperately trying to catch your attention? He'll focus on titles and milestones. He can verbalize that. He can quantify it. He can get others (and you) to easily recognize his "achievement" ... more to the point, he will always be trying to put you in a position where you MUST give him praise, because you constantly hold it back.

You want to know what that looks like? BA, BS, MS, Phd, JD, 100K salary, BMW, etc. etc. ... easily quantifiable status symbols that can be placed in a study and can be easily used to force the parent to render praise. Is that really achievement?

I'd rather my kid start the next Apple.
A few other links which I found useful:

http://secondverse.tumblr.com/post/5840343627/so-you-want-to...

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/122/Joining-A-Startup-T...

http://www.careerrocketeer.com/2011/03/5-questions-to-ask-be...

http://www.mint.com/blog/how-to/guy-kawasaki-startup-tips/
Next generation DS software is obviously a massive competitive advantage. I think they would be crazy to publish it openly.
^this. I wasn't trying to insinuate that you were a spammer. Just that this could be a common perception when someone goes to your site.
What does the power supply look like? I would have thought a standard micro-usb power input would make these better for distributing to others.
Those people help make the web possible, and the web is a beautiful, world changing thing. I hope it won't be this way forever, but right now ads are part of the web's infrastructure; they pay the bills.
Good call. I'd had it default to newest queue for the front page. But most people who arrive probably aren't going to be interested in the newest recipes, but rather the best recipes. Made the change.

Yeah, we do have the same problem pretty much. It's definitely a chicken and egg thing. That's why I demoted it from startup to side project and got a job. There's way too much competition and there's too much of a chicken and egg problem for one guy to make this fly.
The article clearly says that the 4-year-old's mother saw the incident, for what it's worth.
canvas + sinatra + redis = social drawing
Ask HN: Borrowed from bcrypt into the SHA2 crypt() schemes. Now what?
I am maintaining a portable password hashing framework for PHP. Initially it was bcrypt-only, then I adopted the SHA2 crypt() schemes. I said to myself: don't put all the eggs into the bcrypt basket. Then CVE-2011-2483 ( http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/20/2 ) hit me, so I knew I was right. However, working with the SHA2 salts from random seeds (nonces) is a pain for everybody who tried those schemes with proper random seeding.

So I made my own re-engineered schemes: https://github.com/SaltwaterC/PasswordHash2/wiki/Proposed-SHA2-crypt%28%29-schemes along with a reference implementation that fixes the common issues. However, in order to get some adoption, what should be the next logical approach? I can safely asume that I am not the only one bashing his head against the wall when the (original) SHA2 schemes are involved.

PS: I know that scrypt exists, if you're asking why I bother with SHA2 crypt(), but for the moment there are no PHP bindings. My C-fu isn't strong enough. I highly try to avoid being the one that screws up a password scheme implementation, especially against my employer's database. See what happened to bcrypt.
Cute. I think the main market is for promotional items - freebies, giveaways.

Have to bring the price down as low as possible for that to take off. A regular button costs maybe 10-25 cents.
In my experience, good design is critical in getting people's attention. When I redesigned http://trackjumper.com, the bounce rate went from 60%+ to 40%. And it's not even what I would call "good" yet. Just a lot better than it was.

That's 50% more people sticking around to find out if they like the product.
I think you should put 'Part 1' in the title, as I was really getting in to that story when it ended abruptly with "This post is getting extremely long so I’m going to break it up into a series type article. In the next part I’ll talk about the joy of making tens of thousands of dollars in the lead up to Christmas, the daunting phone call I received while at school that would eventually lead to the collapse of ZOR and the realization that I could be in very serious trouble. Stay tuned."

Great read so far though, looking forward to part 2.
Also it has to be un-rippable, which i don't think is even possible.
Just because things are OK doesnt mean you wont be doing anything
Really? Per 10-core cpu or per core?
How could having more choice possibly be stifling?

"I think we actually had our golden age when game development was using floppy disks and it was an open free platform when we could all make games like we wanted to make."

It's -still- called a PC and that still works the same, except now you can 'ship' your game to your customers in seconds, instead of days or weeks.

Anyone who thinks creativity has been stifled should take a good look at all the indie games recently. Steam has tons of games from developers that have never been heard of before and they're making some pretty amazing games. And they're cheap.
The point is that she will find her own way, but she needs to see what different paths exist. So, don't hesitate to show her hackerdom, she can help so many people with hackerdom and even better show her this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYSmp3bjP_0&feature=relat... and the really cool woman who made that http://web.media.mit.edu/~cynthiab/research/research.html . That's what made me realise I wanted to build robots when I grew up.

The thing is that kids in general tend to be pushed into stereotypes. This isn't just an unsubstantiated hypothesis I actually remember how adults used do this, for example they don't play with you if you pick up the wrong kind of doll, they don't look at you properly and so on. It's just subtle cues but a child picks them. (every child depends on these cues to learn and develop)

What worries me is that if you continue treating everything with the "over the gender divide" attitude she will get attuned to it, and it will kick off a pretty vicious cycle. So, please do realise that labels are for jars and just let her be, like this awesome dad did for his son.

P.S. - There is this comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2758516 right above that might answer your quandary in a definite manner
Ctrl-H Find and Replace doesn't seem all that hard.
The ones I've seen don't ask you to identify one single puppy. They ask you to identify all the puppies, making it rather harder to brute force:

http://thepcspy.com/read/the_cutest_humantest_kittenauth/

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/asir...
I hope that the music industry does not think that this is a cure for their problems with digital distribution. Having a separate optical medium for each album of music is wasteful enough (compared to storing the content digitally in your hard drive), but having a ROM chip, a DA converter, a headphone amplifier and a battery per album is insane waste of resources.
Suggest HN: Google Should Create a Write API for their Notification Bar
I was just googling, switched tabs to github, and noticed I had 2 messages for me. Made me think of how great it would be if google let me authorize sites to notify me through their BigRedSquare.

This could really be a central web-based notification service. (and Gmail could be the first client).

Am I the only one who thinks this could be huge?
Exactly what kind of Social Network is it?

It's a beta/early-release social network that by nature is going to be highly skewed in the beginning. Did you expect to see pre-school teachers, housewives, and elephant trainers among the top users at this stage?
I can appreciate that point of view. Evolution of technology, to me, as a consumer, is much more important.

Apple is one of few companies that are worth copying. I feel that we all benefit in the long term when manufacturers of technology must one-up each other, especially if in order to compete they are forced to raise the bar. You can kinda think of Apple as an incubator of evolutionary technology and design, if you will.

Google is probably Apple's only real competitor when we talk about quality and design. Others may try to copy Apple's designs or technology but I've yet to see the same quality.

Look at the iPhone, for example. Multitasking done right. Folders done right. While other manufacturers were adding these features immediately and doing things status quo, Apple had real-world examples of what to avoid and made those features better while highlighting why they were better.

I think getting involved with these lawsuits serve only as a distraction to their core philosophies. I'm concerned that Apple's shareholders will start seeing these lawsuits as personal victories and demand they are carried out as they see fit.
Well, no, that's a bit inaccurate as well, if we want to have nice analogies, let's go with something like this:

You pay for a cup of coffee at a coffee shop. Nominally you get your own cup, and there isn't a limit on the amount of time you can keep it. However, the store occasionally and unpredictably runs out of cups. Also, at the start of a new day a new barista might occasionally come in, and they might not know which cups should still be considered owned. Because of this, everyone else has for years observed a simple procedure where you look to make sure it's your coffee you're about to sip. It's polite and it's just — what's the phrase — not a big deal. You get your coffee, leave for two days, come back and take a drink from the cup that looks like the one you got previously without as much as a glance inside or around.
Yes, someone may have joined the network at your old IP address but that's ok. That first ARP is going to determine if that has happened already.

Am I right?

The author should try the same ethernet sniffing experiment but put a machine at the old address and see how the algorithm adapts.
It does indeed! Bookmarked and tweeted, thanks again :)
My original thought was just conventions. If you are running a convention and wanted to have a poll on which of the top finalists had the best booth, you would use this.

But I staggered thinking that it could be used for about anything: Beauty Pageants, chili cook offs, etc.

Flame-Bait: Jason Calacanis could use it to find the most popular startup at the next LAUNCH.
Another argument is that neither Cater nor the camera's owner own the copyright. As a result, neither one can demand a takedown.
What? After all these years. Runs off to try it...god damn... all the time i've wasted i could have written a book.
The political system and economic system encourages this. I think as a result, other fields tend to not pay as well.

Basically, I speculate that an average person wants to do good to others, but hardly at the expense to himself. Just because I believe in the importance of great education, it doesn't mean I would be a public school teacher and take crappy pay and suffer in a system that doesn't recognize excellence, if instead I could be paid much more in a job in Silicon Valley or Wall Street with interesting challenges.
An IP primer for gaming
It's certainly reduced my goodwill towards the company and platform, both as a developer and a consumer. I won't use the Twitter API. Same goes for Etsy - if you check out the mailing list, as small as it is there's some serious discontent there. No coincidence some of the same people are involved in those two companies.

Twitter, Fred Wilson et al. appear to have made a calculation that keeping developers on their good side was not as important as their other plans. I don't think a wealth of Google+ apps is going to make or break the service, but it doesn't hurt. I'd certainly consider writing apps based on G+. I can picture the API being a lot more stable and professionally managed than Facebook's API, too.
Is it affordable to give a demo poll, which closes automatically when you get 5 votes?
Adam Sandler – what the hell happened?
Memory is cheap these days - you can get 24GB for a couple hundred bucks depending on speed/ECC requirements. I always try to max out the memory based on the median cost per GB.
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