skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a writeup here:

http://www.korokithakis.net/posts/using-mongodb-for-great-sc...
> The people who visit your page with the problematic version of Firefox will get to see the message. The others don't need to know.

Obviously, this is not true when you're providing a web application as a service to a large corporation with big IT departments, business analysts, armies of project managers and complex contracts with all sorts of requirements.
"well, the system's working fine, isn't it!?" is analogous to "I haven't hit the limit on my credit card yet".
Very nice. Anyone aware of something like this for Linux?
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Google Apps users cannot use Google+, invite or not.

http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/16655/is-google-p...

We are used to it though. Not getting access to any of the new Google services is an intrinsic part of the Google Apps experience...
Password grids are a good low-tech alternative to password managers. Here is a good explanation:

http://www.vvsss.com/grid/

And here is a javascript (client-only) program that I wrote that can generate printable grids:

http://purevirtual.com/~anthony/password-grids.html
Pretty much, the amount of times we've had issues with new storage vendor arrays from a 3 letter company that starts with an E, and ends with a C, is a bit too much to count.

Firmware bugs that affect anything on a fabric, that affect how it distributes its cache slot locks on writes, issues with the entire array acting funny, which are blamed on either the server hardware or os itself until proven to be an issue with the array (this is far too common to be honest, yay for "support" contracts), etc....

Yes you get "support", and I use the term lightly, with big vendors, but you also have to take a machete through their support organization to get to someone that can help you with a problem. At times rolling your own solution will end up being both cheaper and less problematic. The old adage of "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM" may soothe managers minds, but wait until you do end up buying those fancy pants high end arrays and find out how much snake oil turns out not to work on them.
Kind of an off topic rant, but can we at least avoid url shorteners that point to other url shorteners? Here is the original link http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/experiences-porting-kvm-...
This is not initiation of force. It is enforcement of contract, in this case an explicit social contract. Many libertarians make a big deal of "men with guns" enforcing laws, yet try to overlook the fact that "men with guns" are the basis of enforcement of any complete social system. Even if libertarians reduced all law to "don't commit fraud or initiate force", they would still enforce with guns.
Everyone is focusing on mobile patents, but what impact does this have on the lawsuit with Oracle? Didn't Motorola have a Java license? Would that protect Google?
Facebook offers a service that is still tolerable by the average user, therefore no service will be able to overtake.
Even worse, there isn't a hard limit on technical debt. You can't plan for it. When you do hit the limit, you're up against the wall.
I think you're missing the point of Buffett's argument. He's not paid a huge salary, he's making the vast majority of his money off of investments, and because he invests for the long-term, it means that when he does take profits, they'll be taxed at the long term capital gains rate, which is 15%, instead of the income rate of >35%. To "choose" otherwise, he would have to go out of his way to create short-term capital gains while maintaining a long view, which doesn't make any sense.
Ask HN: What is your information management workflow?
For a little while I've been using successfully a workflow to manage my read-watch-keep list.

Here it is:

Sources of information:

- Tweets
- Hacker News
- Google Reader

If I'm using the computer or iPhone I usually add stuff first to Read It Later list using Chrome and Echofon plugins respectively. Later, when I get some time I:

- Read/Watch it if it's fast enough and use Delicious to bookmark for future reference if appropriately
- Add to Instapaper if it is something I want to read in Kindle (big article for example) and to Deliocious if is also somethin I would like to keep
- Remove from Read It Later list

I'm using RIL mostly as a staging area for stuff I wanna see later and Instapaper as a way to send big stuff to Kindle. However I do not have any kind of system/app to keep an updated list of books to read or videos/presentations to watch. Looking for something to help in this area.

What about your workflow?
That doesn't actually guarantee the write was written to disk unless an fsync was issued. Of course that comes with a significant effect on MongoDB's famously marketed write performance.
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he derives his income from investments that get taxed at the capital gains rate. Everyone else is free to make the same decision, but they don't. They "invest" in houses, cars and other lifestyle purchases and then rely on their daily job to provide their income...hence their tax rate being so high

The average citizen making $50k a year doesn't have the cash to buy that house and car (or even the other lifestyle purchases). They have a mortgage, a car payment, and a few thousand dollars in credit card debt. You couldn't use the money used to fund those purchases to invest in something that would allow you to draw income taxed at the capital gains rate. You'd need a lot more cash for the amount of investment that would net you enough to replace a salary.
You conveniently ignore the huge wealth discrepancies that allow the mega-rich the ability to derive the majority of their income from investments, rather than payroll. If you read Buffett's op-ed, his co-workers, who presumably make a good salary and are probably very savvy investors, pay effective tax rates nearly twice as high as Buffet. The only reason that Buffet and the mega-rich have a "choice" to pay lower effective tax rates is because they are mega-rich to begin with.

No one is 'punishing' the mega-rich. We are asking them to pay their fair share. They derive much greater benefit from the social stability provided by a strong government than does the average person. As such, they should be required to contribute accordingly.
If I'm out with my friends, you're damn right I'd want to pay for the ones struggling with a minimum-wage job and consider that to be my fair share.
Well said. The guy also makes a good point that Buffett isn't clear what he is advocating. Does he want to raise the capital gains tax only on the mega rich or raise capital gains taxes for everyone which would have a disproportionate impact on the mega rich who get most of their income from capital gains? The former wouldn't raise that much revenue. The latter would encourage people to consume instead of investing their money.
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I've contacted some local places, but haven't had much luck. Some already have a website they are "happy" with, but most others only want it if they don't have to pay a dime (since they don't feel they need one anyways) while the reality is that there are costs involved that I don't think I should cover like domain, hosting, etc. Seems dumb to me, but that has been the case.

I'm going to keep looking though. Maybe I have just approached the wrong kind of places.
Password management with Truecrypt and Dropbox
version numbers have been completely de-emphasized. go on the mozilla website (the public site, not the ftp) and find me where it says a version number...
I think this post may understate the economic impact of low taxes on high incomes. While I agree that in the short term, the deficit actually isn't the biggest threat to the US economy, I do think we need to close it long term, and the main options are 1) spending less and 2) raising revenues. If you can get the second through growth, that's much better, but you have to be realistic about how much growth you're going to get.

If you agree that some revenues are an inevitable part of good governance, then taxes become inevitable. So while I'd agree that taxes (usually) deter desirable behavior such as work, investing, saving, spending, and so forth, it doesn't really make sense to talk about how taxes are innately bad. You need to think about what level of taxation you can get away with, and where taxation will do the least damage.

This is where I tend to part ways with most fiscal conservatives (though I like to think of myself as one).

My take on it is: estate tax? No, I don't like it. I'd much rather allow a person who has created great wealth to decide who to give it to.

Payroll taxes? No, don't like them. I'd much rather not deter work and put an immediate regressive tax burden on people who get off their asses and work poorly paid jobs.

So which is worse. A 10% tax on estates above $5 million, or a 13% tax on the lowest income workers in America?

Which tax cut provides more benefit to the economy? A decrease in capital gains from 15% to 10%, or a decrease in marginal tax rates for the middle class? Which one would lead to more spending if you need to jump start the economy?

You can tell which way I lean, I'm sure, but I consider these good questions for reasonable debate. But I do think that a higher tax rate on very wealthy individuals that enables a lower tax rate on low income individuals (through, say, a reduction in the payroll tax) could bring a lot of tax relief where it is needed most, and might be a better jump start to the economy than "trickle down" economics.
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Which is why dynamic languages are compiled to machine code nowadays. I'm not sure about ActionScript, but both JavaScript and Lua are compiled to machine code when speed matters.
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many deaf people prefer to type

I can see that. It's my understanding that it's common for deaf people to be mute or have difficulty to speak, but they would need to know what is being said on the other end, which I can't quite provide at this time. (though I'll look into it)

most hearing people don't have TDD/TTY machines

I guess you're saying that it could be useful as a TDD/TTY machine on-the-go, is that right?

Thanks for the feedback, I figured that it could be useful in that use-case, and will look into that more.
Buffet says the mega rich aren't being taxed enough.
Daniel assumes this means "raise the capital gains tax" and argues that it'd hurt a lot more than the mega rich.

If there's anything government can do well, it's the ability to tax creatively. A simple solution (and I'm not saying it's the best solution) would be to expand the income tax to cover all forms of income (lowering it in the process) and eliminate the capital gains tax.
No, we're definitely disagreeing. Because a mess -can- be cleaned up, and it can be chosen consciously. In fact, it always is.

People like to think they didn't make a decision like: "I know this code is shit, but I'm going to push it live anyhow." But they DO. Every time. They just lie to themselves about it being shit.

I'm even going to argue that there IS a time and place for shitty code. Startups are a great example of this. Get some barely working code up and going (incur debt) and then fix or rewrite it (pay the debt off). This gets the business earning money and moving forward as quickly as possible, and there's time later (if you don't put off the debt too long) to clean things up.

The problem is that it doesn't have a $ amount attached to it, so many business types can't see it. They just see a working system and can't imagine why you want to spend more time and money on it. (Not that I really blame them... They can't see it.)
By that argument, you might as well push for a 99% capital gains tax. After all, people invest by choice. They're free to make money by other means, or not to make money at all.
No, I'm not kidding. And the comment you were replying to already explained that.
I would not be surprised if they don't keep to patent and software assets and spin the hardware off into a non-Google company.
She? :)
Further discussion at http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.usability/browse_...
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I can't decide if that would be awesome or scary.

I think I'd rather see carrier/phone independence, which would be much more likely in a phone rental market where your carrier fee isn't subsidizing a new phone every 2 years.
They are removing them because to be at Version 21 next December and still work mostly like Firefox 6 is going to feel silly.

What ever happened to using MINOR version numbers?

Shouldn't Firefox 5 actually be 4.5 and Firefox 6 actually 4.6 ?

What are the huge major changes?
While the register portrays Google's moves as blundering, Dan Lyon's take is the exact opposite. I suspect it may be a while before we know which is true, although I want to lean towards Dan's view:

http://realdanlyons.com/blog/2011/08/15/suck-on-it-applesoft...
"That is why the "mindless bashing" is so important."

Totally fair, but then, I chose the descriptor "mindless" for a good reason. I used it to distinguish a certain type (a subset, if you will) of bashing, i.e., the senseless kind. Not all bashing is senseless, but a lot of it is.

There is certainly justified bashing, of the "Some schmucky MBA I've never met just emailed me and asked me to code his Facebook-meets-Amazon-meets-Holodeck project for $1000" variety. That kind of bashing makes sense.

But the carpet-bashing of all MBAs, or of the MBA-qua-MBA, has perhaps grown a little stale.

(Did I really just use the phrase "carpet-bashing"?)
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“Google was bidding with numbers that were not even numbers,” one of the sources said.

"We bid the sum of --" pinky to corner of mouth "-- NaN billion dollars."
For people saying "It won't make a difference on capital investment" I point you to the Windfall Profits Tax in Mongolia. It was a 68% tax on any mining deposits found.

Well, so what? If you're profitable, who cares if some is taken off the top?

But if you thought that, you'd be mistaken. Simplified example:

You're thinking of building a mine. It's going to cost you $100M. There's a 50% chance the mine contains $220M in deposits and a 50% chance it's a total dud.

With no windfall profit tax, your average return is:

.5(-$100M) + .5($220M-$100M) = +$65M profit, for a 65% return.

Of course, you'll never get $65M. You'll either wind up -$100M or +$120M.

Buuuut, if the government taxes that at 50%, your new EV is:

.5(-$100M) + .5[($220M-100M)/2] = -$40M average return, for -40%.

Those aren't funny numbers. A 50% tax on profits drives capital out of risky-but-lucrative industries, since you're holding the bill if it fails but you're writing a fat check if it succeeds.

It's a simplification. In theory, you could maybe create a conglomerate that averages all sorts of bets like that together. But in reality, there will be some companies that have a 50% chance of losing everything, and a 50% chance of more than doubling your money... that work out mathematically with low-ish taxes, but aren't endeavored with higher taxes.

Mongolia repealed the windfall profits tax a few years ago, by the way, and billions of investment capital went in almost immediately into mining.
Google has to pay a whopping $2.5 billion to MMI if the deal falls through.
I know of a person in the valley who seems to have done something similar. One whom I avoid like the plague! I am happy this doesn't appear to happen all that often.
The way I define technical debt is something that risks wasting someone's time. If you decide to make a change quickly to get something working and create a mess in the process, then it's possible that that mess will waste someone's time when it comes to making other changes. Note this is separate from a mess that can cause bugs. For example a significant lack of unit tests I would classify as a business or data risk - anything that risks losing customers should be given higher priority than technical debt.
Sounds amazing. Jobs is such a remarkable business figure, but I often wonder if people like him are rare, or if people like him are rarely given positions at the top of companies?

Depending on who you ask, people will tell you companies should be run by either MBA types or engineers. Jobs doesn't seem to fit either of these archetypes. Of all the big tech execs, he has to be the strongest systems thinker.

I think outside of the business success and technological innovation at Apple, one of Jobs largest contributions has been to bring the 'design process' to the center of management. Engineering has great models for problem solving, as does management theory, but design thinking is often the most overlooked. Its not given enough credit. Often when people talk about design they are really talking about aesthetics. When Jobs talks about design, he's talking about process. Hope the book sheds light on this.
Ashamed when I read something and learn that I'm causing these perceived issues all myself.
Thanx good post
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There is not a licensing issue here: both KVM and our KVM port remain licensed under the GPL.
Thank you for the second link - I will have to try again later though, the error unfortunately persisted.
I'm from the DC area (now living in NYC), and all of my DC tech friends went into consulting. No one even considered a startup.

I'd love to see a great startup culture grow around the DC area, but NYC is light years ahead at this point. DC makes it too easy to be conservative.
I'll believe that Google wants patent reform when I actually see them lobbying for it. For now it's all wishful thinking.

Any and all legal expenses and patent royalties in "the short term" would certainly be less than $12B. The Moto Mobility purchase really stinks of long term investment in IP and capitulation before the system.
Pardon the old guy complaint, but the general public always seems to eventually take over the tech sites I visit. I'm not sure you have to do anything to make this slow takeover happen.

It seems like very interesting content from (and for) a small audience, draws a slightly larger audience, and they bring slightly more popular but also slightly less interesting content, and repeat until you have the reddit front page as it is today.
For tech news, mostly HN, otherwise general news sites. Stuff must get read immediately or not at all.

I stopped using RSS/Google Reader/ because there was too much stuff going on there. I'm even trying to stop using bookmarks so much because it just weakens the signal-to-noise and google does a better job (bookmarks usually have lousy metadta, making it difficult to find the stuff you're looking for, even if you use Opera's powerful bookmarking features).
> as you only have to deal with one version of Firefox, work around the problem in your web app code.

Ah, of course, wish I'd thought of that.

And what do you tell them in the interim, while the problem is being debugged, fixed, tested and rolled out?

I guess now its just "doesnt work in Firefox" not "doesnt work in Firefox 7, keep using 6 for now".
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Is it possible to use ipfw / pf to control outbound traffic based on the process that is initiating the connection? I skimmed the man pages but didn't see anything that looked promising.
doesn't seem to work on my win7 machine (command I am pasting in console.
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Are you kidding? It was a beast when it came out.
Very interesting P.S. - I actually am making it with trying to specialize for different types (one I am thinking right now is Med students). The bar exam idea is very good, I should look into how this could help with that Thanks.
With a rigid release schedule, it's easy to figure out the release date for a given version. Luckily, Mozilla has already standardized on development cycles of 18 weeks (http://blog.mozilla.com/futurereleases/2011/07/19/every-six-...) staggered to result in releases every 6 weeks.
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I feel like the uncoolness and suburban nature of much of NJ will work against the success of this.
I wish I could subscribe to adblock style lists for application firewalls. That's something I'd pay real money for.
I just got promoted Sweet Ok, back to work...
I asked someone who is actually a gang member and he thinks this guy is fake. Wonder what his affiliation was.

Problem is these days you could go to up to anyone and say you're from a gang too and now you're an entrepreneur. Everyone would be like "oh my god, you're amazing" because they know no better. Makes a great story, gets published. But then no one would know how or care enough to track down whether or not you were lying or not.

Point is, someone should check on his story and actually verify it.
> bidding with numbers that were not even numbers

What does this even mean?
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Labels are certainly robust and productive signs for your businesses. That is why they can definitely boost up your business effectiveness long lastingly.
Anyone who has the imprudence to argue with Warren Buffett, the savviest investor of all-time, is most likely a victim of the Dunning-Kruger effect. If you can't understand why, then you also may be a victim of the same effect.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
-Sinclair

Regardless of the above quote, I do not accuse them of lying. But there's a strong elementy of hypocrisy and fanboyism, both in supporting Apple almost all the time, and screaming bloody murder and abject criticism of any moves by Apple's competitors.

Do you seriously think analysis by Asymco, Gruber and Marco regarding Apple are the flawless gospel truth?

The fallacy you mention would apply more to the accusations of commenters being paid MS shills, which happens all the time here on HN too.
There are two different issues you're trying to discuss here, and it's getting muddled.

[1] The degree of Motorola's access/influence and the degree of the partners' (HTC/LG/Samsung/Etc) access/influence.

We don't know what will happen, but it's likely that the partners will have the same access and influence to Google/Android that they always did. Google is going to "run Motorola as a separate business".

[2] The non-partners that don't license android still won't have any access/influence.

The fact that non-partners won't gain more access/influence to Google/Android because of the acquisition is a non-story. Also a non-story: pigs wont fly as a result of this acquisition.
Huh. Surprised how tiny the Wikipedia article about Y Combinator is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator

I wanted to read about and see the date of a talk pg gave at Harvard before Y Combinator's first batch (not Startup School 2005; I went to that so I know a little about it).

Anyone have details? Curious.
Awesome product and awesome progress from a small dedicated team with a ton of determination and passion! These are the kind of stories that inspire others(myself included) to work those extra hours on their idea. Keep up the great work Weebly team!
The biggest yay for me is in the fine print:

"SmartOS is comprised of the Illumos kernel (with ZFS, DTrace, OS-level virtualization and next-generation KVM) with __BSD package management and a GNU toolchain__."

Oh god, this makes me happy. I gave Solaris a couple of tries, but I've never felt at home there. These two facts mean that I'll try again.
Motorola had another suitor: Microsoft