skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a few of these types of articles here - I'm just wondering... since this is one of the most intelligent communities I know of, how many people here have given up everything for one reason or another, and pushed back from rock bottom?
Really? The standard host hardware for the place I work was 128gb/16 core for the longest time.
Prior to that, it was 64g/8 core.. which did suffer of memory overcommit for a while. The 128/16 balances quite nicely. 128/16 leaves plenty of room for over a dozen reasonably sized VM's (8gb/2vcpu) without even approaching oversubscription of memory. Sure, if you want to go crazy and stack more than 15-20 VM's on a host you might need more memory, but I find for most app server work loads, you end up overloading your storage i/o (even 4Gbps HBAs have their limits).
Patent troll Lodsys now after apps with 'More Apps' links
Doing something like entrepreneurship is, on the face of it, irrational. Not to say that there aren't plausible sets of values which would rationally take on that much work for such a low chance of large reward--but most real people who do it overestimate their chances of success.

The net effect seems to be positive for the world, but you'd need everyone to be extremely rational (basically TDT level) before they'd do something like flipping a coin five times and doing a startup if it comes up all tails.
Exactly. I've never understood the hatred for "targeted advertising." I, for one, prefer advertising to be targeted and relevant! Those ads actually help me and make my life better, as well as helping the producer...

Example: The advertising emails Amazon.com sends me... they usually have a pretty good idea of which artists I like, based on my history of CD purchases. So when those artists release a new album, Amazon emails me. Win-win... it saves me the effort of constantly trawling the Intarwebs to track down "new album" info, and it gets them a few sales that they probably wouldn't have gotten otherwise.

Same deal on Facebook... I list a lot of the bands I like in my profile, so I recently got an ad displayed in Facebook, for the new Motorhead album. Great, I didn't know Motorhead had a new album out. But I love Motorhead... now I'll buy that album and (most likely) be very happy about it.

Yeah, sure, I get that some advertising is obnoxious, over-the-top, annoying or whatever. But I think RyanMcGreal is spot-on here. Make it so I only (or at least mostly) see ads I care about, and I'm not going to complain.
Assuming you want to save the data you need to look into databases. MySQL is tried and true, but NoSQL database (MongoDB, for example) are hot right now.
By my reading of this pdf, each physical CPU requires a license and each license allows for 24-48GB of guest ram. It seems they're specifically trying to limit licensing by vRAM, rather than CPU because there are more cores in CPU's now.

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf
Aye, this stuff is quite exciting. I've always wanted to start a company but never really had the cojones/motivation/ideas/etc to do it :|
How is something this vague "directed to systems and methods for providers of products and/or services to interact with users of those products and services to gather information from those users and transmit that information to the provider" patentable?!
> I'm surprised people aren't spraying women's perfume/pheremones on adverts for Lynx

The liability for this is a lot higher than you think. I have asthma and a coworker's perfume set off an attack yesterday that could have ended me up in the hospital despite having an inhaler.
Cheaper? Maybe -- but people like VMWare for the management interface and often the other addions like DRS/HA, vMotion, vStorage.

Certainly smaller hosts with DR capability can be done for lower capital spend, but you need more capable admins to manage it. VMWare does that for you out of the box.
Not all languages will be as simple as s/his/their/ and s/her/their/.
Are there any examples of corporate networks that would reject this approach? I worked on a project in a Wi-Fi environment in a warehouse and the network admins of the company pored over sniffer logs in great detail. Excessive ARP probes and non-standard DHCP behavior was especially frowned upon. I'm pretty sure the early ARP requests would have caught their attention.

It gets really problematic if you have several APs servicing one network. What to do if the client roams from one AP to another AP with the same ESSID? Assume it's the same network, in which case you can keep your IP or do you have to redo your ARP or the whole DHCP thing? In our case the client wanted to suppress everything including the ARP but in a general case that's probably not good, especially if the network is called 'linksys'.

Might be interesting to try with a Mac.
I love you PuTTy. Even though I haven't used Windows in a few years I occasionally have to sit down at someone else's machine and .... there you are! :)
See this is why I hate the NY Times.

I get the fact that they hate Rupert Murdoch. I don't much care for him either. But you can't skew your reporting based on that.

In this case Parliament was about to pass a law forbidding Murdoch from buying the stock out and the Prime Minister personally appealed to Murdoch to drop it. That fact deserved to by higher than paragraph 7 of the article since it was cited as the main reason News Corp withdrew its bid.

Murdoch isn't retreating he's being forced out by the UK's government and BSkyB shareholders are suffering because of it.

(For the record I do own BSkyB shares and am about to see them drop like a stone thanks to this so I'm a little biased myself)
I just downloaded this tool and it is incredible. Thank you for the suggestion!
Back before torrents and Internet my main interest in pirating software was intros, .nfo files, bbs adverts, and the rest of the ephemera rather than the actual software.
Beamforming your data: how WiGig will offer 7Gbps speeds
The secret part is that enums are under utilised even though they have been around since 2004. I would assume that many people don't realise how theyc an be used. Its no secret they exist. ;)
Having worked with VMware in the past and spent literally millions of dollars in licenses, I had the opportunity to meet lots of VMware employees. My observations is that the company had some very technically brilliant people, but also a lot of people that epitomize the super smart MBA that but naïve MBA that can understand high level business models and financial cleverness, but that are terrible business people because they are completely oblivious to the skill that all great business people have and that is empathy for your customer. This is ridiculous. I'm glad I'm not in a position where I am their customer anymore.
S Korea schools to put all teaching materials into the "cloud".
multiple clicks break it
You are the definition of "Internet Troll".

If you don't like it, move along. If you don't want to donate, move along.

You don't want to be a troll, but you are?? LOL. Idiots on the internet.
Also a fan of PuTTY tray, but just like KiTTY, this 0.61 finally supports the windows 7 screen splitting and resizing shortcuts. That's too useful to pass up.

I hope the Tray guys will release an update incorporating these 0.61 changes.
The Wall Street Journal is definitely toeing the Big "IP" line in this article. No mention of the difficulty of tieing IP address to a human, no mention of the percentage of false positives, or indeed, the possibility of false positives. 470,000 warning must include some false positives, and the consequences aren't mentioned. There's also no mention of how many people have filed appeals.

But most telling is that "Some copyright holders" are wondering if they're getting bang for the buck. Who pays for Hadopi? The French MPAF and RIAF? Doubt it. It's taxpayer money, probably. Nice of the "copyright holders" to make it their own money.
It works fine. Get over it.
No, this is complete bullshit. And the fact that it has gotten so many votes is ridiculous.
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This is well written and fascinating but it's an intro, not an article. It's not ready for HN until it's all there, but when it's ready I look forward to reading it!
Awww.. I was reading the list of new features and on ever 'Windows:' my heart stopped a beat. Unfortunately no cookie for me..

I was really hoping for a way to have a windows equivalent of ssh controlmaster.

On the bright side: PuTTY is part of my toolbelt for ages and I cannot live without it. I'm glad to read that it's still alive and being developed.
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Power of Intention - even for geeks & techies
the difference is that proggit is opt in, while reddit.com is optout....so it's selection bias for quality
Wow, what a jerk if that's true. Do you have any reference?
I would not even consider that a proper infographic.

I believe proper infographics should use non-textual content as an _alternate_ and _efficient_ representation of informations, the one in the article is simply adding pictures to raw data, and using a couple of ice sticks for histograms.
I've seen Polish software use "pracował/a" where male and female forms of "worked" are "pracował" and "pracowała", respectively. It's not terribly elegant, however, and things get progressively hairier as you try to gender-neutralize things like an adjective-noun combination ("new student's" would become "nowego ucznia/nowej uczennicy" at the simplest).
WiFi-hacking neighbor from hell gets 18 years in prison
Hands on with the new Android Market (and a link to the APK)
And selling/monetizing stuff is even harder.
Ask HN: do you try to design remote control system for your house
Hi HN,

Do you try to design remote control system for the house? For example, setup the webcam and you can browser it by web page. Or turn on/off the lighting through clicking some buttons. If you did that before, could you please share some experiences?

Thanks!
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You're mixing up the weight of the threat (that you could get sued for this) with the weight of the C&D itself, which at best means "I cared enough to pay a lawyer some comparatively small fee to write this for me" and in this case means bunk. You could even pretend you owned the image and that I broke a million laws, if you wanted - it's not legally binding.

Besides, sending a DMCA takedown doesn't bar the sender from suing you if you aren't an online service provider (e.g. you're a blogger using Wordpress.com, rather than Wordpress.com itself) or if you knew you hosted the supposedly infringing material in the first place. Both of these apply in this case.
Every Startup Needs a Reality Check Now and Then
This isn't new news if you've been following this business since the start: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2552563
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Red Hat and Oracle should start making some sales calls, right about now. They should capitalize on this opportunity to convert some disaffected VMWare customers, and fund software development for migrating off the VMWare stack.
In some ways, I'd like to keep SEO's awesomeness a secret from the HN and startup community.

As a developer (I'm not a engineer or computer scientist), I love to build stuff and see people use it. If you build things that are usable by Googlebot (as in, easy to crawl, easy to perceive the content's quality, easy to categorize and associate with keywords) and worthy of citations (links), then your reward can be astronomical...

My last site was a SEO-driven UGC site and I sold it for $10M before I turned 32. I never paid a dollar for marketing, I was the only owner, and I never had more than 5 employees. And with my help, it doubled in revenue after I sold it. It was a fantastic business. Now I'm pretty much free to work on what I like.
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The UK Parliament was not about to pass a law against the takeover.

It was about to vote on a motion opposing the takeover, but nothing that would have any formal consequences, even in the Government's handling of the takeover.
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You might want to read this article first: http://www.shubharamani.com/wordpress/?p=31

It summarizes some of the challenges you will face as you go about building your vision into an actual product.

The hardest part is getting started, and it's great that you have already crossed that bridge. I know a lot of people on HN here will disagree with me - but if you want to just dip your feet and start hacking around - PHP will be a very nice option for you. PHP is rather simple and will allow you to start building things and getting basic stuff like how the web works (HTTP requests, responses, page loads etc.).

As mentioned in the article, you also need to know a decent amount of HTML and CSS for basic formatting of your page. Or, you can find a template (plenty online) which you can modify.

Finally - if you want to do something like emailing people etc. - it involves learning a bit about how web hosting works. This is another place where PHP might be helpful as most web hosts support PHP by default.

There is no one true way to go about learning stuff. Be prepared to be patient and learn by exploring rather than trying to read tutorials and trying to get a hang of everything at once.
I don't buy this at all. In fact, I don't buy the conventional wisdom that developers are what makes and breaks a platform. Developers do what Deep Throat suggests: they follow the money.

People often complain about the unpredictability and capriciousness of Apple's App Store policies yet it's still where developers flock to. Why? Because they make money. Those same policies arguably hurt developers but they definitely help the consumer, which ultimately does help the developer. Tae that as an example of developers not knowing what's good for them.

You see the same thing particularly in tech journalism: people often say the problem with, for example, Windows Phone 7 or WebOS is a lack of developers. No. The problem is a lack of users (and thus money to be made). Developers follow the money.

In the case of Twitter, I think it's downfall is that it is simply a very marginal product and has missed its opportunity to change that. Its usage is a lot lower than the number of accounts suggests [1]. I believe it was envisioned as a way of people sharing status updates in a more public fashion than Facebook. The reality of Twitter (IMHO) is that it's a way of following celebrities.

Twitter clients were doomed before they started, doomed to commoditization then cannibilzation that is. It was naive to go into building on someone else's platform any other way (yet many did seem to believe that Twitter was somehow "different").

I don't believe the existence of these apps is the reason for Twitter's success either. My personal opinion is that people decide to use Twitter and then look for an app to do it. Twitter lives and dies by the success of... Twitter.

[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-how-many-use...
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In a state machine, all the state should be in the context rather than the code blocks. The Java Tutorial on enums talks about fields and constructors.
Hi, thanks for reporting this. Something weird happened. I don't if the hacker news traffic caused it or something else. My main website database is with Mediatemple and it went down. They are still fixing it and not sure what caused it. I have restored the demo link and it should work now.
You can even customize that a little (Window > Selection).
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I humbly disagree. For all those figuring out click ads & revenue generation, I think the light at the end of the tunnel is the example of a gentleman named Salman Khan of KhanAcademy.com. We're just buying our way to freedom until this generation's talent can break free enough from material needs (enough to cover living expenses at least) to truly be able to give the best of themselves to the world. Call me overly optimistic or a dreamer, but that's what I'm all about anyways :)
To be clear, I was talking about physical cpu's, not cores.

But honestly, that's not the right way to think about the licensing. Sure, you need a license for each physical cpu, but beyond that you're just licensing for vRAM. So the real question is, is 24GB vRAM per license low.
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It helps if the majority of sites you visit don't pull bullshit antics.
I've never heard about that before, but checking the site..

- Windows only?

- Features like 'Protection against unfortunate keyboard input', 'Transparency', 'Background image', 'Send to tray' sound like useless gimmicks to me. Not even mentioning the 'bonus features'.

Protection against unfortunate keyboard input is especially weird and seems to be targeted at root users that have cats and no clue about programs like vlock.
Using this approach could be more logical, esp as the number of methods per state increases. As you have more complex events and you want to group as State/Method rather than Method/State this approach is more appealying.
I have to ask - how did you do it before?
I think it's semantics but I'll concede the point. Murdoch wouldn't have been outright forbidden by the law (or whatever you want to call it).

But when the government of a nation expressly attacks a specific future action a company would have to be insane to then pursue that action. It isn't like the Congress censuring one of its members or the President because in that case it's two parties of equal power.

In this case the Parliament has power over News Corp and is specifically saying "don't do this". So in my view it is effectively a law against the takeover
But in English it is. It's acceptable to develop faster for certain (popular) languages.
finally, a company willing to say it. I felt like I was an emperor getting sold new "clothes" ever since the iPad came out.
This is a cool concept and I want to like it. Right now it's absolutely useless for me if the iPhone client doesn't work without an internet connection.
Even before programming, general IT knowledge seems to be very useful for hacking. Operating systems, hardware, and networking are great topics (and they are more concrete than most programming).

Great book he might want to read:
http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Exposed-Network-Security-Solut...
There are a lot of adjectives thrown around here that don't have sufficient explanation to say whether consoles are good or bad for innovation.

"I think we actually had our golden age when game development was using floppy disks..."

I'm guessing by this statement that when he says golden age, he's talking about new ideas and innovative game play.

"Nintendo came along and software licensing came in and we’ve been in a dark age since then."

So this must mean that the arrival of Nintendo and software licensing introduced restrictions that limited game innovation and "killed" gaming.

"...there are no great companies that have been built on the back of Nintendo."

So now we're on to great companies. Are great companies the same thing as great games? No doubt, great companies can make great games, but "great companies" can mean a lot of things. If you're talking from a business perspective, you might be talking about strong profits and a good pipeline. EA is living proof that you can build a "great company" where product innovation takes a back seat to a "re-hash and re-release" product cycle.

Plenty of companies found a way to build great games on the Nintendo platform. Particularly in the early days when the NES reigned supreme. Some of the best games ever made were built for that platform. The question of whether the companies that made them were "great" is irrelevant.

Fast forward to today, and I'd say we're about to come full circle. Yes, it is more difficult to gain access to a gaming platform like the XBox, Wii, or PS3, but they are huge markets with huge incentives. The Wii brought a whole new round of innovative game play concepts, and the Kinect is doing the same on the XBox platform.

In the end, whether or not console stifle innovation may not matter all that much. The internet and mobile devices are the new floppy. Anyone can build a game for Android. Developing for iOS costs you $99/year; hardly a high threshold. There are already billion dollar gaming industries built atop Flash-based gaming. As WebGL progresses, we'll see a whole new round of creativity well up.
Truereddit is too much of a pretentious circlejerk of uptight myopic hipsters. I would rather recommend reading and joining subreddits on topics you acctually care about or which have a bar set for discussions but allow actual dissent and discussion.
Other than a general comment that .app is a solution looking for a problem...

These are domains that are likely to be reserved for shared community use.
angrybirds.app [...] google.app

I can't see that reserving these for "shared community use" will work out well.
Me too, but on PuTTY Tray's download page:

"Last update: November 25th, 2007.

Please note: I have decided to stop development of the PuTTY Tray patch, and I have no plans to resume it at any point in the future."
Your assertion that VMware is too expensive is just plain false. The company I work for (Virtacore) offers vCloud Express and we have come to great terms with VMware and our pricing reflects that. While we don't have all the features EC2 offers (because we are only a couple months old and still building out the product) we feel they are extremely expensive. IMO they like to nickel and dime users while we keep it very simple.
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Toshiba hacked, admin, reseller logins exposed
Silly patents. TIL it's possible to patent cross-selling methods.
Visual.ly launches as the home of data visualization and infographics
So Google may release G+ APIs, and every developer is going to drop Twitter for G+? Come on. Even if they did, who's to say Google won't pull the exact same stunt and leave developers in the cold?

Come to think of it, don't you think the importance of external developers in the Twitter ecosphere is ever so slightly overstated?
1) The link above

2) Some discussion:

http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=399736&ts...

3) the case, on public record:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030822002640/http://www.courtho...

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Wolfram Research Inc. v. Matthew Cook

8/31 CV00-9357 CBM

Notice of joint stipulation and join stipulation re plaintiff Wolfram Research Inc.’s motion to compel the production of documents from California Institute of Technology.

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My experience with VMWare is that they do a very good job estimating the TCO of N physical servers and then they charge you such that it's ~90% of that cost to virtualize them.

I.e., VMWare is usually a better deal, but just barely. Drives me insane.
Trees grow in woods. So does wood. It is an elaborate lie fabricated by the home making industry that wood grows in home builder stores.

Really curious about your situation. How can there be nothing you can do?
Absolutely, but I would be surprised if they didn't have some code in the production version right now to support doubtlessly upcoming translated versions - perhaps not a full blown declension engine, but it seems unlikely they'd go English only at the start and retrofit everything later. The code might not be optimized to just let them do a simple find/replace for English.
What solutions did you suggest?

I've actually been showing up regularly at NYC's reddit events, and made quite a few friends in the community, but I don't really load up Reddit anymore - too much junk.
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