skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A company as large as Google might be able to use an algorithm to derive a correlation from Google employees' annual performance reviews (positive and negative) back to their original resumes and interview feedback. There might be some interesting correlations, such as Google employees that graduated from some university X and worked at company Y are in the 90th percentile of performance reviews. Or every Google employee who ever worked at company Z was fired in less than 12 months. :)
I wasn't really judging the Ruby ecosystem. I don't actually know enough about it to know, though our Ruby on Rails and RoR application installers in Virtualmin have been destroyed beyond repair on all but the very latest Linux distros, by the dependency chain and the very rapid change to new Ruby versions; mostly due to how crazy fast Ruby gems evolves and how eagerly it breaks backward compatibility. I was speaking more in general terms. Every major ecosystem I can think of, from languages like Ruby, Python, PHP, and Perl, to CMS like Joomla (which is horrific) and Drupal, to Linux desktops, spend a lot of time reinventing wheels, usually badly.
I would be interested to know with the odds already stacked against single founders, what the likelihood of a non-technical single founder getting accepted is. I can't imagine it is high. Has there ever been one in YC?
yes a paid plan still gets the free quotas.
You understand that he left his CEO position because he's dying, right?
This is a little bit of a No True Scotsman fallacy, no? The problem I see with religion (Christianity in particular, but thats mostly due to where I live rather than the religion itself) is that everyone has their version of what a "real Christian" does.

The problem is that the Bible is not very internally consistent. At some points it tells us to love everyone regardless. At others it tells us certain people deserve to die. As far as I can tell, there is no objective definition of what being a "true Christian" entails.

Every consistent guide to life via some religion is just going to be cherry-picked from the grander whole of the religion's beliefs and texts.

While I'm inclined to agree that unconditional forgiveness and following WWJD is probably the better Christian (well, one I'd like to share this Earth with), keep in mind the crazies also believe they're standing on solid scriptural ground.

This generalizes to just about every religion, for what it's worth...
Re: Haskell it would probably look a lot like (exactly like?) Happs-State: http://happs.org/
Don't take this the wrong way, but when you are presenting yourself as a representative for a company (when you are using "we" to mean Google) you may want to use proper capitalization and grammar otherwise it makes your company seem like a popsicle stand instead of a Fortune 500 company.
Hah. Good point. There was something else that I launched 100 years ago at that domain. Gotta update pud.com with the new infos.
Yeah, I'm being slow to adjust...
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>Believing a "Scientist" isn't always harmless either. History is full of people who used this or that pseudoscience to justify their actions

a "Science" that requires believing is by definition not a science, it is a religion.
They gained root access. So some one could do

sudo su - linus

cd /path/to/linux-2.6.git

modify/exploit code and git commit

I for example do a daily git pull - I will get the the tainted code and not notice it at all.

NO?
If you don't have the confidence to go after something solo, maybe you shouldn't be in charge in the first place. Having said that, personal experiences have taught me that a great partner can help innovation through the checks and balances that occur during brainstorming.
One app I manage is going from $0.05 a day to as high as $4.00.

That's really too much.
Yup, it's a Debian derivative, but I like how light weight it was and how easy it is to get it going from the liveCD.

I'm still on the last LTS, so haven't experienced the non-Gnome version yet.
Seems balanced enough. Good luck!
For those who enjoyed this talk, Corey Donohoe gave an awesome presentation at Cascadia RubyConf that goes into more detail about what they use Hubot for, and also mentions deploying branches to a subset of their boxes. It was one of the best talks of the conference: http://confreaks.net/videos/608-cascadiaruby2011-shipping-at...
When you say old-school DB do you mean something like mysql?
Or they could charge for both services. Or charge a fee fr total poundage of passengers and their luggage.

Yeah, it has become more awkward to board since they imposed these fees. I switched to a smaller bag so I could carry it on.

And I fly Southwest when its possible. They don't have fees for the first few bags and their boarding process has actually gotten better in the last few years.
> No, I can’t sue anybody because nothing that has been done publicly is in violation of any enforceable law

I'm not specifically familiar with Canadian law, but isn't its legal system descended from and greatly influences by English common law (well, except for Quebec)? There should be a few common law tort causes of action that would work here.
I would be insulted but his CSS is all jacked up when I look at it on my screen.
There's still a difference though - he's not a vegetable; he's very much alive today. Pseudo-eulogizing a person who is still alive isn't good taste - save them for when he is gone. It's not like the story will change, or will be any different then.
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We wrote a testing / continuous integration service for all 3500 npm modules. It saves you time you would have spent agonizing over broken code.

The billboard (http://hollaback.no.de/billboard) shows a gigantic list of the test results for the node modules we’ve tested.

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Yes, one, if I remember correctly... but he had considerable experience running companies previously in a related space. I have to think that is super rare, though.
Just a relevant anecdote from the trenches -- a friend of a friend was a co-founder in Israeli start-up and they were approached by a Redmond company with an investment inquiry. An inquiry which was backed by a patent that would've been used to sue the startup should they not enter negotiations. And so they "negotiated" and in the end took the money. The end.
Right, article is unreadable (doesn't scroll) on iPhone.
There was one in the batch that just ended - Hamilton Chan, Paperlinks: http://mashable.com/author/hamilton-chan/
We wrote continuous integration for node.js.

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You should only care in legacy mode.

That's exactly my concern. That they'll slap on a Metro UI layer and leave the abhorrent system of UI kludges intact beneath.

Microsoft has more than enough engineers, PMs, etc. to solve this. But they're more interested in things like adding thin UI layers, reinventing data access for the nth time, and making a mediocre search engine. Maybe they need to form a committee to have a meeting about forming an initiative to consider this.

(I'm not just MS bashing for the sake of it; I use and like their products, I just see the company continuously avoiding tough decisions and doing rebranding/repackaging exercises that shaft their users)
Know supplier of LED Programmable T-shirts?
I am seeking advice from the community regarding a promo for a product I am working on. Anyone know of a producer for a shirt found in the example? (LED Programmable Scrolling Message Badge Area)

Where can I source this for a small batch (< 100)

Example:
http://www.fatwallet.com/HandHeldItems-coupons/offer-528267/
The lock doesn't need to just cover one write. It needs to cover the whole transaction. The canonical example is that of incrementing a counter. Replica synchronization aside, without a transaction lock (or some other guarantee of transaction consistency), at some point you will read a counter value which another client is in the middle of updating.

The first "fix" to this that comes to mind is timestamping data, rolling back transactions which try to write having read outdated data. Do extant NoDB systems do this?
There's Intel appup but I don't know how popular it is.
http://www.appup.com/applications/index
"Fact is, an idea is an abstract concept, not a physical good or a services. One cannot own an abstract concept - the very notion of that is completely nonsensical. If somebody has a an idea, and tells (gives) that idea to somebody else, both people will have that idea now. You cannot say the same of a physical good or a service."

Actually that holds true for all digital content and also partially for a lot of hardware as well: if you release all the production documentation of some physical thing, it might cheap to produce a large amount of copies. Development of something like a modern car takes money in the billion dollar category. There might be all kinds of innovations that required lots of trial and error there to make this or that part reliably.

You could develop new chemicals or medicines that might in the end be producable by simple processes, ie they might be simple ideas in the end, yet you might have spent a lot of effort to discover them. If you can't patent them, then that means it's not a viable business anymore to try to create such new things, or then those new things must be hidden very well. These are exactly the problems that patents were created for to solve!

I know there are for example individuals (let's say a professor) who provide a service for money: they offer to create some algorithms to classify some customer's data. Then they give that algorithm to the customer in exchange for money. The algorithm can be seen as just an idea, it's not anything that can be touched. It is clearly valuable to the company as it is willing to pay money for it. The company saves money by not having to employ a person with that kind of expertise, since it doesn't need it full time. I's a bit the same how some company like id can buy a license for an image compression algorithm from Microsoft since it's not their core business to develop such. Both parties win. That's ordinary business.

That being said, I do think that really stupid things are given patents and it certainly is a problematic thing in the "idea" and software world. But there certainly was a need why the patent system was created in the first place, and if it's just destroyed, we'll see that that need hasn't vanished. We'd go back into a much more secretive world.
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> Correct. For the fraction of a millisecond the transaction is executing, anyhow. Since transactions only deal with data hot in RAM, transactions are very fast.

Transactions don't just read and write. They sometimes compute things, like joins, which can take several milliseconds. These computations often must run within the transaction and would thus need to acquire the lock for several milliseconds.
Koelman's response is now up: http://www.science20.com/hammock_physicist/entropic_gravity_...
jazzychad is clearly a smart guy, and capable of running things early - people like pg know that he has what it takes to get the company to a certain point, but also knows that jazzychad knows when he needs help, and isnt afraid to say so, a very important trait for successful founders.

9 times out of 10 you've come up with this idea on the crapper, in the shower, or at the bar with your friends - spend more time thinking at a high level, who will use this (target market), how much money could i make (market size), and what will it need (design, development[mobile, web], advertising, sales team, support, infrastructure), and how long it will take. After running through these things, the result is not likely to be you deciding to apply to YC as a single founder. [see last paragraph of comment if you just can't find a co-founder, it happens]

People who are capable of executing as a single founder will do so, and people like pg can see this by looking at the individuals history, and talking with them about their new idea.

Single founders that fail are founders who are overly confident, execute badly, or are scared of 'big scary investors' and negative feedback (yea there are more, these are just examples). Folks like pg can see these things in people, and will deny your application, rightfully so.

If you have an idea, and you think that YOU as an individual are the perfect 'team' then apply to YC that way, if pg agrees you'll get in. I can't imagine it happens very often that people who are humble and grounded think to themselves "I don't need anyone else, I am a baus!", if you do, step back and rethink things.

If its a matter of you just not being able to find a co-founder, why not just disclose it, and ask for help rather than trying to manipulate your app, or your idea to appear as though you don't need help?
If your app can survive on 1 instance, but occasionally uses 2 or more, you should immediately change your "max idle instances" to 1 so you won't be charged for the extra instances.

The new free limit for frontends is 24 CPU hours, or 1 instance. I was seeing my frontend time in the 25-30 hour range each day.
Honestly, I think the neighborly thing for the author to do is to allow Steve his privacy.
> I also refuse to participate if asked by my company to help create a patent

What if it covers an actual invention?

What if it is meant to be used defensively, i.e. not for the litigation, but rather to discourage other companies from suing based on their patents?
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This would be the url to use http://subjot.com/explore#friends

You can find it via Explore in the header and then People on the sidebar.
Was it one of the publicly-launched companies?
I used to work on an application that did all the typical insert/update/delete operations on the core data tables and retained a journaled event stream in a separate audit database sufficient to regenerate the entire database from scratch (which was done at least a couple of times).

I suppose it would be equally possible to think of the main data tables as a "reporting view" in the sense you use here, except that the application was 1000:1 or more in update frequency to read frequency, and all the reads were performed on the main data tables, so that's kind of a "tail wagging the dog" view of the app.

For an application with different requirements, your view of things might be quite useful, of course.
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I'm gratified by this news, but there are a lot of dead blogs (5+ years with no posts or more) and some squatting going on. I'd love to be able to petition Google for one of these, but apparently the policy is that whoever registers it has it for perpetuity.
Part of the problem is that the negative impact of patent trolling doesn't yet register with the general public as an issue comparable to the frivolous med mal suits that necessitated tort reform. We need Michael Moore to produce a documentary on the harms caused by patent trolling (and bad patents), so that the full extent of the problem is presented to a wider audience.
I'll give you a Shopify account for $15 a month if you want it.
I think it's still in the works. They don't mention it, but Heroku Cedar will happily reads and install requirements as defined in requirements.txt when you push to it. Server setup is just a simple Procfile calling whatever Python web server you want to use.
But you repeat rhygar.

"My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god." - Linus Torvalds
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
Well, bonus points for including SQL that doesn't suffer from SQL injection issues, but every one of the suggestions is wrong.

I'm personally confused by this comment:

Note: Using MySQL's password() function in your own applications isn't recommended - the algorithm used has changed over time and prior to 4.1 was particularly weak.

So.. if you know it's not recommended, why even include an example of it?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-immigration-a-step...
It's more related to having multiple users with system access. Your security policy now extends to the security policies of all users and user systems. Password strength, system integrity (keyloggers, etc.), token security, and the like.

Hard security is hard.
But that's just HEAD. No offense, but so what? Clearly anyone (sane) running off of a development branch isn't doing so on a security sensitive system. It's an exploit, but only of development systems and a tiny handful of hacker's personal boxes. The value there to an attacker is very low.

What you can't do is inject code that ends up in 3.1-rc5, because before that gets tagged Linus (and a lot of other people) would have to do a merge that would fail inexplicably.

But to be clear: yes, with access to the repository you can (for a brief moment until it's noticed) inject exploit code that will be picked up by anyone building and running an untagged branch HEAD.
Greg Young, himself, asserts that CQRS is NOT an architecture. And also asserts that CQRS itself has nothing to do with Event Sourcing.

http://codebetter.com/gregyoung/2010/02/16/cqrs-task-based-u...

"CQRS is not eventual consistency, it is not eventing, it is not messaging, it is not having separated models for reading and writing, nor is it using event sourcing."

It is gaining a lot of traction simply because it seems like a complicated and cool way to solve an uncommon problem. I fear that Event Sourcing will soon become a over-engineered hammer for the wrong nail.

If it were me, I would use CQRS principles, with a relational backend as my source model. Then when the need for scale arises, use ETL to either non-relational db or no-db for queries.
You don't even know what you're talking about.
What kinds of publishers have been using TinyLetter, and how did you find acquire them?
Congrats. I recalled when you posted this project launch on HN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1829101

Not bad for a "lazy Sunday afternoon" worth of work.
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Thanks, it's assuring to hear that tuning will likely reduce the price spike. Looking through the most requested handlers on our site, one that serves an embedded widget is currently not using memcache. I'm hoping tuning that handler alone will make a big difference.

Btw, a dashboard showing handlers sorted by average latency would be a big help! I can use appstats to get close to this, but given that the concurrent frontends are the dominant factor in pricing going forward, having it build in would be great.
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It's not just independence, but international recognition. Croatia for example became independent in 1991, but got recognition from the UN, US, UK, Germany and Russia in 1992.
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Pierre Omidyar was a single founder when he started eBay in 1995. He brought in employee #1 (Jeffrey Skoll), in 1996, and Meg Whitman in 1998.

Jeff Bezos was a solo founder when he started Amazon in 1994. Employee #1 (Shel Kaphan) was brought on before incorporation, but says Jeff was the founder (http://www.geekwire.com/2011/meet-shel-kaphan-amazoncom-empl...)
If I was unable to get the multiplier down so that our ultimate hosting cost is < $200 a month, I'd probably switch. But we have revenue to cover the hosting cost, so then again, it would be a big deal to divert or limited eng resources (me and one other guy) towards a big migration project. I'm guessing our hosting costs would be at least $100 a month anywhere else, and I've grown fond of a lot of the services provided with app engine.
the problem isn't Anthony, or at least he isn't the biggest problem here. The main problem is that there are people who would listen to and act (for example by doing or not doing business with the victim) upon the Internet gossip. It doesn't really matter whether Dave and the author had or didn't have the affair - even if they had it would be their private life that is of no concern to anybody else.
I think you could come up with some sort of patent truce, you use a search engine that finds overlapping patents. The truce comes with a constitution/trust that declares some metrics for that search engine. Any patents that go over that metric are not to be used for litigation by members of the truce.

You can require members of the trust to invest in the trust at level relative to market cap. Breaking the trust results in loss of the assets/cash invested. The trust can also fund a defense pool/lobbying budget to protect the interests of the trust. Namely that members outside of the trust cannot successfully litigate on patents the trust hase agreed are frivolous.

edit: obviously transparency, open membership and some high profile members are useful for such a plan.
Apologies - it's actually SR that's key to the whole idea (though GR corrections are also very important to the accuracy). Without the observed SoL being independent of the relative motion of the user and the satellites, the entire concept is pretty unworkable.
Aye, my mistake. The article was so poorly structured that I missed that detail in my skimming.
I created http://observer.no.de/ as solo entry for NodeKnockout. It allows you to follow your site's users in real time (or watch a automatically generated recording of it). You can see the mouse movements, scrolls, clicks , JavaScript errors and much more (if you are following them in real time you can also start chat conversation with them :))

See demo: http://observer.no.de/demo
Votes: http://nodeknockout.com/teams/speedo

<3 It was an epic competition
in addition to AppScale also look at the TyphoonAE project... these are open versions of the App Engine backend that claim to be fully-compatible to the SDK/client-side.

also to fight vendor lock-in, Python developers can create Django apps then run them on App Engine using django-nonrel or on any traditional hosted stack supporting Django; or move between then w/minor (settings.py) changes; don't forget data migration as well.
I was referring to bribes (and I expected to be down voted). Like in-direct bribes. And mark my words, in 6 months this will be a done deal.

It's an election year. Easy pickings for ATT.

Also I did not mean to single out Republicans. I admit TARP, was a lousy example. Both parties are equally "for sale".
Stop writing Twitter clones.
That's it. That's the whole story.
It sounds like they got in via a regular account and somehow escalated themselves to root: "how they managed to exploit that to root access is currently unknown and is being investigated."

Simple social engineering of mundane user accounts is not worrisome. Escalating any old user into root is.
As far as I know, Indonesia and East Timor are two different countries.
You obviously aren't going to compete with Twitter.
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Advertising could be considered hacking the brain. ;)
What a fun competition. Tons of great new ideas and some really amazing examples of the future of the web.
I don't understand how one would defend their patented innovation without suing someone else? Or are you suggesting that the patent only be used as a counter-suit after being sued for infringement of a different patent?

I mean, the whole point of a patent is to be able to sue people who are competing with you. How can that ever be defensive?
Somebody might not notice a malicious commit when they pull the tree, but the maintainer will definitely notice the next time he pushes to that tree. Having a push rejected because it's not a fast-forward gets your attention every time.
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Oh hey, also via http://twitter.com/#!/semenko/status/109047299207987200