skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem here is that frameworks all operate on different levels, with differing amounts of abstraction, and at some point, you do want that generic, powerful functionality.

To perhaps extend the metaphor, if I want to build a spice rack, I don't want to go out into the forest, determine which kind of tree will produce the correct kind of wood, cut it down, trim and plane my planks, and all the other steps which are entailed by wood acquisition. I just want to go to my local hardware/home improvement store and request precut wood.

This poster has gone ahead and made assumptions about the nature of resource acquisition which massively simplified his workload and which people normally take for granted in modern life, and as a result, his spice rack will get assembled much quicker. I'm choosing the networking stack as a reasonable example of a framework niche which generally fulfills people's needs without getting in the way and causing the problems he's talking about. Node, Event Machine, Twisted, MINA, etc.
Email is free and open. Anyone can implement email according to standards, and differentiate their service any way they want. You don't have to have a gmail or facebook or twitter or whatever account to use email; you just need an account somewhere. You do need one of those accounts to use gmail/plus, facebook, twitter etc.

If G+ is replaced by something as open as email, implementable by anyone, then yeah, maybe. But not until.
Should I tell an angel investor I'm doing due diligence on him?
Due diligence being just talking to people who know him. He let me know before talking to people who knew me, should I return the favor?

EDIT: I'm hesitant because I want to talk to people that he is not introducing me to (ie. not references he would give me). I'd find them myself. He asked me to make the introductions to my references, so I'm concerned about seeming overly paranoid and/or rude.
While I appreciate Mr Summers's role in repealing Glass-Steagall and making sure that securities derivatives weren't regulated, I wouldn't have nearly so much admiration for him if he hadn't also lent his support to massive taxpayer bailouts for the banking sector. I'll admit I was a little nervous that he might show some introspection when the idiots of the world challenged his world view, but he convinced me of his bravery and righteousness when he openly mocked Raghuram Rajan's paper that warned of a potential financial crisis.

I was hoping to see some of the ol' Larry Summers come out of hiberation, and I'm glad he showed some of that wit and vim when he was asked about the Winklevoss twins. What a fun and funny guy!
First Artificial Neural Network Created out of DNA
Molecular Soup Exhibits Brainlike Behavior
well to be fair Groupon was actually generating cash...Twitter generates god knows what
"network connection required" is still an external to me. I guess also that it's going to require a wired network connection - or have they really incorporated a wifi detect-select-and-password system into the internet recovery version?

While it's convenient for certain unusual situations, I'd rather have a USB stick than internet recovery, simply for speed reasons.
I think they do need this amount of money in order to stay competitive with the big guys Google and Facebook. They could be more easily outbid in acquisitions if they weren't competitive with capital.
I realized recently that I know exactly Zero engineers working in the automotive industry.

Granted, I live in Houston, but I do know enough people that I could produce a stack of business cards for any other major industry. In fact, I know more people who build satellites, stealth fighters, or submarines than consumer vehicles.

What is the state of automotive R&D in this country anyway... has the industry been turned over to the marketing department wholesale or am I just in the wrong spot?
The resize border in GNOME 3 is one pixel wide. There's even a bug about it:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644930

Great snippet from the report summing up all that is wrong w/ GNOME 3 devs:

"I propose to remove the ability to resize a window by the 1px border. The current behavior requires super precise positioning to achieve it willingly, while still poses a good chance to do it accidentally."
We need better productivity tools, not less technology. Much easier to just sign up for RescueTime. And try LazyMeter to focus on your to-do list one day at a time - we believe one of the core causes of procrastination is people not knowing what they're doing (it's easy to trick yourself into thinking you're productive when you're not).
This is probably a bigger news and also sadder as Microsoft labs does great research and really hardcore stuff that never sees daylight. Google labs on the other hand though is more consumer oriented.
I'd say this is well known with anyone working with open source video tools. And yet it's still in use all over the place, sadly.
It leads to terrible neck problems, like the pinched nerve I have. It causes significant discomfort, then intense pain and, eventually, numbness in one or both arms. Recovery is on the order of several years (and counting).
Ultramon does a pretty good job. But I always wonder why MSFT didn't just clone the ultramon features. Why not? How hard could it be?
Strongly Typed Markup Language
A markup language that appoximates XML, but differs fundamentally in that strong data types are present. This was designed to be a quick way to serialise program data (types) into a string format. It is NOT designed as a replacement or superceder of XML. It is rather designed to be able to quickly, and expediently transform types into human-readable and program-readable form. Licensed under the MIT license.

See the README for a TL;DR-compatibly concise summary.

All comments welcome. (provided you aren't a troll)
Ah cool; it looks like that clarification was added in an update. I had assumed that those were part of the overall "Google Labs" project, but maybe that was just a (now-obsolete) branding strategy to tie together all the "labs" stuff.
They were generating losses, that's like saying at least pets.com was generating cash. Twitter does generate cash but like Groupon not enough to pay their expenses.
Conservative (risk aversion) and slow to change are not the same thing. By being slow to change law and lawyers introduce excessive risk in their offerings which, ironically, makes them negligent at their stated purpose.
What do you expect, some kind of point-by-pint list of how the design targets children? Why don't you think of one yourself?

Can't see how it could be regarded in such a light? Too bad.
For anyone wondering, I just did this on OS X to adjust the throttle overnight:

> crontab -l
0 1 * * * sed -E -i .bak 's/net_throttle="[0-9]+"/net_throttle="100"/' /Library/Backblaze/bzdata/bzinfo.xml
0 10 * * * sed -E -i .bak 's/net_throttle="[0-9]+"/net_throttle="40"/' /Library/Backblaze/bzdata/bzinfo.xml
I don't see why you wouldn't. He should know (and be happy) that you are looking for a good investor as much as he is looking for a good entrepreneur.

I suspect the best outcome is that he takes you very seriously. The worst outcome is he thinks you don't trust him, but you can say the same thing about him.

What did you think when he told you he was doing due diligence?
I like doing a brief mid-afternoon nap. It'll keep me productive well into the evening. Unfortunately, this is incompatible with the American work style.
Wrong spot / wrong network.
Yeah, I think I finally found that tip after trying quite a number of things.

And hooray, lxml and PIL both appear to have installed successfully on Lion + Xcode 4.1.
According to the post above, they were using three PCIe and one PCI.

"In the first generation storage pod, we ran out of the faster PCIe slots and had to use one slower PCI slot, creating a bottleneck."
I don't think it needs to necessarily "go away and die," the method works. I lost 40 pounds last year counting calories to the tee. I'm talking about 6 months of not cheating a single calorie (I wouldn't even have a bite of someone's ice cream, etc).

I will say that following that mantra is unnecessary for weight loss unless you're very serious about it. Following my diet plan I lowered my body fat percentage to < 9% (It was the strangest thing, I was a computer geek with abs).

Everything works, some things just work better than others.
Nah, humans can thrive with eating a huge variety of foods. The atkins-type diets, as far as I've seen, are followed by panda-bear-shaped folks who maintain that panda-bear-shape no matter what.

If we really understood (as a society) what truly makes for a good diet, people would be getting slimmer and not fatter.

IMHO, the most sensible diet advice comes from Michael Pollan: "Eat real food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
the only thing that motivates me when the work is uninteresting is knowing that someone is expecting it.

I find that to be a real problem in the workplace. An awful lot of employers/managers seem to think that they simply have to hire engineers, and everything will sort itself out. No clear focus or direction is provided, and no feedback is given on tasks completed. Soon, one feels that all work is going into a black hole, the engineer(s) become disinterested, and end up leaving.
There certainly are intelligent people in any community beyond a given size. You'll find intelligent Christians, Muslims, Jews, atheist, and Hindus. You'll find intelligent evolutionists and creation scientists. You'll find intelligent Republicans and Democrats. There are smart people who listen to Mozard, and smart people who listen to Limbaugh. You'll also find idiots in each of those communities as well. The ratios will be a little different in some cases, but in all cases, there will be both smart and dumb.

By that token, there are, without a doubt, plenty of smart people on reddit. They are, as your comment implies, a tiny minority, confined to a few subreddits (and those are mostly characterized by groupthink -- e.g. any conservative comment on most liberal subreddits will get voted down, no matter how intelligent and well thought out). The front page is defined by what most people vote for, and that's rage comics, misogyny, with the occasional sprinkling of anti-Christian bigotry (this used to be more prominent, but the average IQ has dropped to the point where r/atheism is beginning to look smart). That's representative of the average reddit user.

All that said, I'm not looking for anything on the front page beyond a way to waste a bit of time. When I first joined reddit, I looked to it for intelligent articles. Later, I looked to it for amusement. Now, I look to it less and less, since memes aren't the same thing as wit.
Was there every a time where we considered the laptop market separate from the desktop market when reporting numbers?

Much of this talk about tablet vs pc I suspect follows the same trend as desktop vs laptop. As devices mature and we see new form factors, that is going to change the industry slightly, but the core component and manufacturers shouldn't see a huge change, as long as they are in the first wave of the new innovation.

is that right?
Because of the size of the market. I had to experience it for myself: back in 1999 I founded the first flower and gift ecommerce store in Germany, at about the same time similar stores launched in the US. Within the following years the US Stores grew tenfold compared to us. We had the same products and comparable set ups, but the stores in the US had the market advantage by far.
Mostly because good names are hard to come by, and WebPutty (if you unstick your brain from PuTTY) is a pretty decent name.

We would have loved to incorporate transmogrifier into the name, but that's hard to type and spell.
I don't think there's been any implication that they're cutting people related to this change... I read it as the reverse - they're trying to focus the headcount they have on projects they consider more core to their business, which is probably more effective than adding headcount and keeping labs.
Fewer arrows? Is that how you say "fewer sharp people"?
Are you referring to the TextMate that still can't undo more than one character at a time? Or that doesn't include file (much less Multi-file) comparison?

Now for your points...

Granted it is an external tool, but I always used AutoPairs to balance in BBEdit (and other apps) http://www.jwwalker.com/pages/autopairs.html

Auto-indentation? I think BBEdit has always had that. Preferences > Editor Defaults > Auto-indent
Sounds like a recipe for being hungry all the time.
Actually you need to notify the FAA not "near by" airports.
A little OT, I was scrolling/reading the paragraph "We opted not to do the “likes” because..." and suddenly a black panel slid down and hid the entire paragraph. Clicked on it to dismiss, nothing. Clicked on the page to dismiss, nothing.

I'll have to bookmark this for textbook UX bad practice.
Guess so.... is it a Michigan-only affair?
XCode 4 requires:
OS X Lion, which requires:
OS X Snow Leopard
AppStore Account
Upgrade fee

I haven't paid any developer program fees, and I have xCode 4.1 installed.
It is ridiculous, because:

• asks user to perform task manually which is trivial to automate: `tell application iTunes to quit`. Apple even has sudden termination API that iTunes could use to make it safely killable most of the time.

• needs to quit iTunes in the first place. Why can't it take advantage of versioning of libraries and frameworks? Why can't it update files in place? (running application should see old version [inode] until it closes the file).

• and the usual ridicule: a music player is a critical piece of device sync and development infrastructure.
Apple licensed an encoder. I forget the company that made it - it's mentioned in the dll somewhere.
The blog post provides some fascinating data, thanks Backblaze!

$2100 per month for an entire rack worth of Pods (space, power, connectivity)
$74,000 is the cost to build 10 Pods to fill that rack.
If the Pods are assumed to have a lifetime of 3 years (most will last longer, but lets depreciate at this rate), and if the cost of capital is 20%/year, this equates to a monthly "payment/amortization" cost of $2750. Thus leading to a total cost per rack of $4850 ~ lets say $5000.

1350TB of raw storage is provided by this rack, which can be scaled to 13/15 to account for RAID6 (as revealed by brianwski here) - thus leaving 1170TB available for use. FS overhead etc, lets take this to provide 1PB of storage.

So, essentially, storage costs backblaze about 0.5 cents ($0.005) /GB-month. There are other costs ofcourse, Sean (amongst others) needs to get paid, etc. To go by a common thumb rule, for a minimum sale price, one third of sale price should be profit, another third should be org expenses/marketing/everything else and the remaining third should be the actual cash cost of the building/providing the product/service.

So very roughly, Backblaze could provide storage at about 1.5 cents /GB-month. Factor in 3-way software-level redundancy of data, and you are now upto 5 cents/GB-months for a very high quality storage service.

Contrasting this with 15c/GB-month that Amazon charges (in addition to transfer charges), I do have to wonder why Backblaze wants to stick to the "unlimited desktop backups" business. Even Google storage charges 17c/GB-month, in addition to per-request charges.

Its quite possible I have some factors wrong here and If anyone can spot anything wrong, I'd like to know. Nevertheless, it seems from the numbers provided that backblaze could make a killing in this market. I know I would be interested in using a pure storage backend - equivalent to S3. I use tarsnap and if tarsnap could reduce its backend costs by two-thirds, I know I'd be very happy.

What am I missing?

edit: wrote PB instead of TB. Numbers remain correct, though
(Just FYI, I'm sure you guys have already thought of or experimented with this...)

We've had good luck so far with using small USB flash drives for booting big file servers. We keep the drive image pretty generic and if there's a problem with one, we just replace it with a cloned USB flash drive and reboot, no problem.

It doesn't seem to hurt performance at all for these kinds of uses -- although we do set it up without swap to keep the life of the USB flash device reasonable, which might or might not work in your case.
Intent is the key. Making you do pushups isn't intended to make you quit, it's intended to be fun. It's a dumb idea, but it's not hostile.
Why would anyone use a year and a half old browser? Firefox, Chrome, and Opera all have free updated versions of their fine browsers.
Actually I mostly see the skinny guys doing this.
I interned at NPGroup last summer. They specialize in custom web development and also work with Open Source such as Drupal.

The website is www.npgroup.net and you can tell them Michael sent you.

They have developed sites for companies that have raised several million dollars in the past year.
Not only does this sound random and awkward, it also occurred to me that there are probably no women at this company. Or if there are, they always wear pants.
Brainstorm video: Dick Costolo on Twitter's business model - Fortune Tech
Yes, you can archive Gmail messages now (and in ios5)
Maybe, if you can see it done in movies like "Pumping Iron" or "Blood and Guts" -> "meathead", otherwise not.
Google+ Statistics On Overdrive: Round 2
They probably asked them how many dvds they had purchased in the last month. It should at least give an indication of their purchases.
Why is this surprising? Summers is just part of the revolving door posse, having passed through Goldman after his Harvard tenure.

I actually like Summers' style from what I've seen of him, and I've always been pleasantly surprised to get emails back from him when he was at Harvard and I would email him about issues that concerned me (as an old-time ('76) alumnus). I liked what he did while president, actually standing up to some of the rampant political correctness among the faculty.

But we shouldn't expect him to rise above his obvious role as one of the banksters.
I'm considering putting a few of these together. Do you have any sources you'd mind sharing (preferably not shady :) for the harder-to-find parts?
I think people regularly underestimate the inertial power of established technologies. Once something gets built into a technology stack, it becomes hard to change, even when you have complete control of your stack. When it is built into the general "stack" of technology and culture at large, it becomes monumental to shift it even slightly.

Coincidentally, I believe that this will be the greatest drag on the "singularity"-- legacy systems, and the cultural atmosphere which stifles the adoption of alternatives.
Yes and ask for references. Shows you care.

You can't earn respect without self-respect.
Power users go with the "Combine when taskbar is full" option.

What sample size do you have here?
Live From the Launch Pad: Lessons Learned From the Shuttle Tweetup
I'm going to agree here. It's a good idea to go to a running shoe store and run on a treadmill with a variety of shoes. I only discovered this after injuring myself with shoes that weren't supportive enough (a neutral cushioning shoe). Now I have to stop running for two months and go to physical therapy twice a week. If I had gotten the right shoes in the first place, I could be running now.

Don't get "barefoot" shoes unless you are an experienced runner.
Apple - OS X Lion - The world’s most advanced desktop operating system.
Obvious Answers to Simple Questions
Most people don't smell bad after 5 minutes of mild exercise in an air conditioned building. Just saying.
New Roku players add gaming, subtract power
It is possible to specify that some column values must be unique together, which makes this point pretty moot for any new project.

That said, if you are planning to work on existing schemas, this can really be a headache.

About other nasty surprises, I have been using Django a lot extensively over the last 4 years, and I can honestly say I haven't find any and I dare you to find a web framework that will allow you to bootstrap a project much faster than Django .
That doesn't make any sense. How is the "deal being underwritten by by US taxpayers"? Toyota is paying Tesla for equipment. Equity is typically not exchanged for a loan (that's why it's a loan). By slightly better, are you meaning 97% verus 96%?
We've had a backup server running for a client with FreeBSD's ZFS for about a year now, also with zero hiccups. We first tried to get this kind of stuff working about three or four years ago, and went the OpenSolaris/ZFS route -- what a pain that was. OpenSolaris somehow corrupted its own boot partition one day and just completely refused to start with a totally cryptic error code.

The last time we tried Linux for this, it couldn't do it. Maybe that's gotten better though.

We also tried DragonflyBSD, but it had hardware support issues, and OpenBSD, but unfortunately OpenBSD just simply cannot do large filesystems. At all.

ZFS-on-FreeBSD is the way to go at the moment, I think.
Yeah, it should totally have been Winklevoi. Doesn't he know the difference between Latin and Greek?
How easy is it to get ahold of a list of Tor exit nodes? In a nightmare scenario, would wikimedia's list of blocked IPs be something an oppressive government might covet?
Safari and Internet Explorer have been 64-bit for quite some time. Why does 64-bit browsing come of age because of Firefox on Windows?
Almost everyone would naturally eat at least something during the work day, team building or not.
A small minority would naturally incorporate physical activity into the work day. I personally prefer to do it before or after - changing clothes twice, shower + workout itself does not fit naturally into the lunch break.
Um, why does the link in the article go to a login screen for an MS Exchange account? Other than that, congrats to Earbits on the deal!
A fair point. I normally don't use the term myself either, but I hear it thrown around a good bit.
Wifi selection and authentication in the bootloader was already part of the old Macbook Air. So I'm sure it works here too.
How does Perkville work?
Are those reward points redeemable at any of the registered businesses or only at your own?
What is the revenue model here?

Looks interesting.
They weren't getting much more than the shell from Lotus.
From the GM careers site: apparently there is an R&D job in Palo Alto, but it would involve concentrating on 'infotainment' and social media, among other similar things... troubling.
Only with Xcode 3. As I mentioned below, Xcode 4 does not include support for PPC. Also, there are really four architectures (i386, x86_64, ppc, ppc64), but Xcode 3.2.6 does not like compiling for ppc64.
I keep reading about Firefox 7/8 and their improved memory footprints, speed, and now a 64-bit version. Firefox 6 hasn't even been released yet and it's all ready a let down.
What is the revenue model? Are the points redeemable at any registered business, or merely at your own?
"This time is different" because people have learned a lot from the first bubble. For the most part, investors are people who really understand the economics of technology, the economics of the deal and the mistakes of the past. I think there is a long way to go before any major burst. Granted with the amount of hype in the market and massive over-subscriptions (i.e. greed) there's bound to be a correction at some point. But, I don't think it will be as bad as before.
Yeah - this works well and there are no catches. The data is in a few human readable files and there's a path in the config file (.taskrc) pointing to the directory where they live.

So you just move the data folder to your dropbox and edit your .rctask file accordingly. Of course you need to do this for every computer, so it makes sense for the few machines that you usually use but you don't really get the available-anywhereness of an online app.