skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have found that large production databases do not appreciate having frequent full SQL dumps taken from them. We offer an automatic daily snapshot option because we believe that for a production database it's really not wise to take dumps more frequently than that, though there's nothing stopping you from rolling your own.
Ah, here it is: http://www.erialproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ACRL-...

Ish. PP presentation with no data.
You don't remember it, you develop muscle memory. I couldn't tell you what most key combinations are in Visual studio, but I'm always able to press the right buttons in the right context.
I somewhat see where you are going and I do like it. Employees should work in a company where they believe in the way of working and feel comfortable doing the job. Agreed on that.

But I see the problem arising on how to define what's evil and what is not.

There are lot of things which can be thought as strengthening existing imbalances of power in the world. Even the Google search could be considered to be such.

I can't figure out why "real names" policy is evil. I don't see it harming people. From what I have been using Facebook and Google+, I actually enjoy and prefer it so that people use real names.

Not all products are suited for everybody and alternatives for different use cases exist. I'm sure that Google has lot to offer for people who don't want to use their real name publicly.
Is the Elevator Puzzle a Math Paradox or a Paranoid Delusion?
Updates to the Bug Bounty Program
I'd call it safe if it only failed when it no longer mattered - if your power plant does not contain the nuclear waste in case of collision with the moon, it's a non issue, because there is nobody left alive to matter.
Well, they own a stake through Justin.tv. If Justin.tv makes a good deal, it will naturally be a good deal for investors.

An example might clarify it. Let's say Justin.tv thinks SocialCam is worth $1 million. So, those 100 shares are worth $10,000 each. In the scenario above, SocialCam might:

- Sell 50 shares to an outside investor, for $500K. (So there are now 150 shares. But the company is worth $500K more, or $1.5 million. $1.5 million / 150 shares = $10K per share, the original price).

- Grant options with a $10K strike price. This would dilute existing investors, and thus slightly reduce the value of their stake. But a) this is standard for many companies--they issue shares to managers, and figure that the equity incentive pays for itself through higher performance (see http://paulgraham.com/equity.html ), or b) SocialCam's founding team might exchange their Justin.tv shares/options for SocialCam shares/options. As long as investors agree on the value for both companies, that's a fair deal.

I hope that explains it. This kind of thing is usually done with board approval, after discussion with the board, so it's unlikely that anyone did anything underhanded.
The HP saga is like watching an episode of "Intervention".
There is no big secret here, just a general lack of awareness of how the government works. Here is a press release from the Department of Justice's Antitrust division from 2009 indicating that it approved the Sun/Oracle merger, that it was disappointed to see that the European Commission did not approve, and that it was going to to be advocating on Oracle's behalf: http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/press_releases/2009/251782...

"After conducting a careful investigation of the proposed transaction between Oracle and Sun, the Department's Antitrust Division concluded that the merger is unlikely to be anticompetitive. [...] At this point in its process, it appears that the EC holds a different view. We remain hopeful that the parties and the EC will reach a speedy resolution that benefits consumers in the Commission's jurisdiction.

[...]

"The Department and the European Commission have a strong and positive relationship on competition policy matters. The two competition authorities have enjoyed close and cooperative relations. The Antitrust Division will continue to work constructively with the EC and competition authorities in other jurisdictions to preserve sound antitrust enforcement policies that benefit consumers around the world."

It would be a surprise if the government - or indeed, any government - was not lobbying on behalf of its domestic industrial concerns. The basic purpose of embassies throughout history has been to promote trade. There were embassies long before there was any such thing as tourism.
Ha they dropped 9.1% compared to the market's 8.4%? So the only dropped 0.7% below market average. That's really not so much. Sounds like they are trying to make it seem larger by phrasing it that way. The whole article seems a little sensational. A lot of this stuff doesn't have so much to do with him.
The article mentions his concerns about Oracle's legal battle with Google, and the use of Sun's patents for that matter. It doesn't mention Android in any way.
Yes, it's the real deal, just like blog.heroku.com and all our other services.

In order to reduce this ambiguity we are gradually moving towards placing user apps on a different domain; because we approach these kinds of issues very gradually this will probably take quite some time to fully complete, but as of today all new Cedar stack applications are hosted on herokuapp.com.
They'll make it up on volume, eh?
How Big Is the "Social Discovery" Opportunity?
"How about storing waste for a period of time longer than recorded human history?"

How about naturally occurring uranium? Isn't it just as unsafe as nuclear waste, it radiates too you know. You just need lot's of it to be dangerous.

Now let's assume that we have 1 sievert natural occurrence of uranium. Then let's assume we have ten times as bad pile of nuclear waste, so it emits 10 sieverts. Now, let's bury that waste in ten different locations, and it's no more dangerous as natural occurrence.. Am I right?

Let's then wind 100 years to the future. Unsurprisingly the natural occurrence radiates somewhat less than it did. And any one of our ten hideouts of radioactive waste radiates less than the natural hideout, because they originally had relatively big percentages of isotopes with half-lives less than 30 years.

If you just put the waste back where you took it in the first place what's the problem? (there are abandoned coal mines and mineral mines too, so there should be enough places).
Darn it. I was just writing an article saying that the combined value of YC-funded startups is $4.7 billion (the number @pg gave a few weeks back). Guess I have to update the text. I wonder what it will be next week.
I've been thinking about this lately as I use Dropbox more and transition from working at home to an office and find myself using 2 computers more.

A Dropbox competitor just needs to sync my app settings and stuff on top of what Dropbox does. I am gone the instant someone offers me a way to turn on my laptop and have an almost-replica of my workstation. Or upgrade phones, tablets or anything else.

Sync my <breed of device> is a lot better than just syncing some files across them.
Interactive Canvas-based stripe generator
At its core, our networking layer uses long-polling, but we added several modifications to attempt to keep the requests alive. We also drastically changed the timeout values based on testing directly on the mobile devices.

We found that vanilla long-polling works sometimes on iPhone and some Android phones. But it often introduces huge latencies, and it often just fails for no apparent reason on some Android devices.
We have a feed that brings in data direct from brands. It gets updated on a nightly basis.
> There is nothig I can do for them

You can focus on one topic at a time, to avoid being labeled a crank.
Improving the worst experience
Apple iPhone 5. Simply Speechless
I played around with this framework this afternoon and it's pretty slick. I am especially fond of the examples that it ships with, which include, but don't stop at, the ubiquitous calculator.

It suffers from Yet Another Build System syndrome but it's a minor inconvenience compared to the gains from the actual software.
We have everything you would see on a Nutrition Label. Calories, Fat, Vitamins, etc.
Why would they start another production run for a discontinued product sold at a loss? Am I missing something or will HP come out next week and say "Surprise! Here is a great new update for the Touchpad" and start selling them for $200?
I'm sorry I didn't get that right. I should studying where I study.

Anyhow I don't think "50 more and double the cost's" is exponential?

// And I still would not think exponential is impossible function for the cost's. When you get about one kilometer high, the stuff just gets shit expensive. I mean humankind-scale expensive.
The lives of Iranian dissidents (a) really don't† and (b) shouldn't depend on browser CA configurations. In reality if your adversary is a hostile government, you should be taking steps beyond verifying SSL certificates.

† but not for reasons that will make you happy
Gotcha. So this app is for authenticating account holders of the Mailchimp product, not for authenticating subscribers in your Mailchimp account. That's where my confusion was.

I do a lot of development with Django and MailChimp, but most of it is for implementations against a particular account -- so it's a lot easier just to stick the API key in a settings file and skip the OAuth stuff.
I think you're onto something as that is the only theory that fits.
Otherwise, why would they take more loss as I'm pretty sure this thing costs more than $99/$149 to make.

Another, rather remote theory is, there is a buyer for WebOS, perhaps Samsung per some rumors, and that is funding this batch to get more devices in the market before it is able to bring its own device. But, it seems too far fetched.
Going all the way in the airport bathroom
1-3 remind me of a great "I Can Has Cheezburger?" anecdote about being a successful CTO: http://www.scottporad.com/2010/11/12/what-it-really-means-to...
This is actually the question the product answers. A lot of graphic designers like to start designing on paper, then move to Illustrator or PS for the final work. The classic way to do this is to scan in your sketch and make it a layer, and essentially start over with digital art on top of it.

Inkling lets you split your sketch into multiple layers as you're sketching it. Say you're drawing a character for a game, and the character can be carrying things. You can sketch the two together, with overlapping lines, but keep the character and the carried thing on separate layers. All without having to find the boundaries and snip carefully to separate them in PS.
What are they thinking!? They are losing tons of cash on each unit and I can't believe that their app store is making up for it.

That said though, I bought one and never thought I'd love it as much as I do. Maybe I'll be able to get a 2nd.
they've probably bought the parts or some such.
On a related and more positive note: Microsoft also released a preview of changes they're making to the actual copy/paste process. And it's kind of cool.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows8-file-copy-win8-win...
Fun fact: In the forgettable geography game Mario Is Missing Bowser used a network of pipes called the Portably Operated Remote Transport And Larceny System, or PORTALS, to invade the world's cities and steal their artifacts.
Whoever made this decision should be fired.

"We took a $100m loss on the first batch of TouchPads, what's a couple million more?"
I used to stress about making my apps look good. Now I just use Skeleton (http://www.getskeleton.com/) to cover the basics and when my app is ready I pay a designer to make something that looks awesome.

Other options include Less Framework (http://lessframework.com/) and Twitter's Bootstrap (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/)
Selling at a loss works when every game costs 50 dollars.. for 1/2 dollar apps, it's a much harder ladder.

I hope that's the case, though, bcse I still love Palm, and would love to see WebOS succeed.
I'd really, really, really advise you at least check out a framework :) Spend 10 minutes reading the documentation behind CodeIgniter (http://codeigniter.com/) and you'll see that you can have more time to spend developing, e.g., features, as the framework has taken care of the routine and mundane stuff.

As a note, I would recommend Kohana (http://kohanaframework.org/) over CodeIgniter, but if you're pushed for time, you don't want to deal with a sparsely-documented framework ;)
What's wrong with pgAdmin ?
HP should do what they should've done a while ago: promise to make WebOS well-supported and well-stocked with apps, and bring the TouchPad into production at $200 or $250 to still undercut the competition but not bleed cash so profusely. I'd buy into it as a user and a developer.
I'm pulling these numbers out of my ass, but I suspect if ONE major restaurant chain were to sign them after a pilot, they'd be making at least 3-4 mil in revenue a year and would have exceeded whatever 15-20M valuation they just received.
Hey Boris. Your approach is exactly what my teammate and I did for Node Knockout also. We did end up using Browserify, it worked like a charm. It had only one flaw which is it had a noticeable delay in reloading pages, someone had pointed out that browserifying jQuery is likely the cause, haven't had a chance to move jQuery out of it into being regularly included.

We're going to clean up the code and split out the multiplayer aspect. Hoping to keep it really clean, would like to abstract it to have multiple multiplayer strategies: Turn based oriented, action oriented with lag compensation et. al, soft real time(RTS games with lock step style).

It'll be here: when it's ready. Just moved the code from our project there, we just broke the code but it should be fixed shortly.
http://github.com/francoislabe...
and
http://multiplayerjs.com/
Here in NYC there are many stores which advertise 'Going out of business sale' throughout the year to target innocent tourists. Wonder if someone in HP marketing thought that this would be the best way to jumpstart an initial pool of users.
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They sure can't monitor your email if you're using SSL...

That would have been my gut feeling until I saw this yesterday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2938516
Ever heard of a devining rod?
The analogy doesn't hold. Try to use a TouchPad without buying apps and you'll find that it works pretty well.

Try to use a console without buying games. Hope you enjoy navigating menus!
Warhammer 40,000? Surely you meant to reference Isaac Asimov's Foundation? ;)
No can afford macbooks - something with Ubuntu please..
No, probably not. Console games average price is $50 USD, what is an average tablet app cost -- $3.99? Even if they were selling millions of first party apps, it wouldn't recoup the amount of money they lost on the tablet + app development.
They could proxy the SSL connections and still let people log in while monitoring the traffic. Of course, your browser will complain if they rewrap it in SSL unless they get a cert like Iran did.
Because it's big. And dirty.
Unlimited calls, texts and many more with Net10.com.
It's possible that HP could sell the parts alone for over $100. But if they view the parts as a sunk cost (worth $0), it's possible that assembling TouchPads and selling them for $100 is rational.
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Flickr now lets you geofence your pics for improved privacy
$20K is NOT a lot of money. Consider that hiring anybody will cost you at least $40K/year. Hiring a senior level programmer will cost you $130-180K/year (counting his salary, benefits, taxes, accounting, work place).
Looks to me like HP is fattening up WebOS for a resell.
Except the PS3, which is a pretty good Blu-ray/Netflix/DLNA player and probably had problems with low attach rate in the first few years.
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How is this vision the same with what you encountered 89'?
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Web App for $5K
Hello HN,
I am bootstrapping my startup and in that vein, rather than raising money I figured I would try something new.

I will create a web app for you, for just $5K. Better yet, I will try and have it done for you within a few weeks of beginning.

We agree on a reasonable scope (I know that a flat rate can be risky for me, which is why scope is important), you pay a deposit and I get started.

That's it. No muss, no fuss.

If this sounds like something you might be interested in, feel free to email me: marc {at} compversions {dot} com or leave a comment with your contact info here.

Look forward to your feedback.

P.S. I will do the development of the back-end and a 'simple' front-end. You need to have the graphics done.
Nope. When something is exponential, a fixed increase in the input causes a multiplier in the output. So, for example, if I have the exponential y = 2^x, an increase of 1 in x, from x to x+1, increases y by a factor of two.
That's not a bad strategy. I also believe in "Just get it out and done ASAP and brush it up like heck afterwards". Worry about injection attacks, efficiency issues, scaling after you gain some traction. You can always rewrite later when it becomes an issue.
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SSL works in most ISP's in Pakistan, though anti-state and very bad for the children websites like the Rolling Stones are blocked. Nice, Pakistani friendly sites like redtube or child porn remain unblocked of course.

VPN's work too, so far. I'm on one right now. As to why - the filtration system the government is using is so brain dead - there is basically one Juniper router and a couple of Cisco routers (last time I looked) - through which the entire country's traffic is routed.

Using a VPN makes web browsing much faster, with no annoying "waiting" moments - which I presume is the routers locking up under massive load.

The day VPN's are blocked is going to be a sad day indeed. I am going to explore for alternatives to VPN's. Way back in the days of super slow dial up I used these services which would take a link and email the page or entire site to you depending on the command you sent, in a zip file.
Yeah the article talks about the things he said after he left Oracle but before he joined Google, but is pretty light on the specifics (the "ongoing legal battle" mentioned is the Android patent snafu).
There are enough enthusiasts out there who would love to play all day and nights with all sorts of robots.
at the scale of HP's finances and bureaucracy it is just a drop in the bucket and any reasoning behind it isn't comprehensible by a single unit of human species.
It may be that it's worthwhile to produce and sell them at $100-$150 given the sunk cost of their leftover unassembled bulk componentry.
Perhaps not, but it sure is ancient.
To add to this: I wrote a simple socket.io demo app for a class I was teaching that makes these issues apparent. Try opening http://node.heyanderson.com/ on your mobile device and in a browser (Chrome or Safari, preferably) and you'll see the difference in latency.
True, the only reason this happened at all is that unlike most state actors, there are no Iranian CA in the browser roots to directly pressure.
Have a look at the Yii framework.
Simple explanation of Steganography: http://www.economist.com/node/17248872
This also assumes that their calculation of what's worthwhile includes less tangible stuff, like being seen as a company that is receiving and meeting a high demand for devices and growing in device market share.
Seems very similar to FileHamster (http://www.filehamster.com)
except I guess LayerVault would be "cloud-based" and available online. I've been using FH for about 3 years for keeping track of all kinds of files .
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Life After Pair Programming
I'm not sure what HP's app market looks like. Do they take 30%?

Also if they can't directly monetize their hardware, this might be a strategy that Amazon (or Google if they ever make an in-house tablet) should look at since they both have large web platforms to extract life-time value of hardware owners.
Yea, this should be a clue as to who likely wrote this.
That confused me too - the https://postgres.heroku.com/pricing page should definitely mention that it's per month. I'm also not clear on the difference between the Ronin and Fugu plans, both of which are 1.7 GB of RAM but one which is twice the price of the other.
Also we get rid of those dangerous mines. Why they are dangerous? People have to work there.

Luckily wind-turbine building and maintenance is not dangerous...
CFML is NOT universally hard to understand. I have been programming over 25 years, and use/have used all kinds of languages. CFML is just another tool.

If you don't like tag based language, you can use pure scripting in CFML pages. Also, nothing in CFML requires or even leads ANYONE to use table based layout. I don't know where you got that idea from.

When i first looked at CFML I had distaste for what i saw. The problem is, what i saw was other peoples bad code. Once i really dove in and started writing CFML myself, i found it is like any other language in that, you can write beautiful, clean, easy to understand and modify code.

CFML has a LOT of things built into it that make db backed web development VERY nice, including:

Db queries and transactions as a first class language member.
Pdf generation, ftp access, email sending, graphing, ALL are first class language features, not to mention native use of java libraries.

Don't get me wrong, i see the value in frameworks like ROR. I just think CFML gets a bad rep when it does not deserve it.
Just to clarify: You're almost right. You can, in fact, create multiple databases of any plan you please, but yes, within each of those databases you can use schemas to implement something akin to multiple databases without resource isolation, but with the ability to share data.
One of the simplest ways to do valuation is to look at Free Cash Flow (FCF) or Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) and then divide it by (discount rate - growth rate). Now, if the growth rate is fairly large, the denominator becomes very small and can drive even a moderate FCF to cause a very high valuation, which is what seems to be happening here.

If interested search for FCF valuation, etc. there's a lot of info out there.
I'm not sure it matters why the devs left. What they did was still a breach of ethics.
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I can't recall the last time I actually used the PS3 to play a game. It's probably been more than a year. We do use it every day however to watch Netflix or Hulu. It's used a couple times a week to stream content using DLNA and Twonky Server. That being said I'd replace it in a heartbeat due to the extremely loud fan, I've not done so to this point because I'm being cheap.
So you're saying that kids aren't outside less than they were a generation ago? That people don't interact with the physical world less, opting instead to interact with their phones?

Are you saying I'm blind?
Am I the only one tired of Zynga? I have pretty much stopped using Facebook because most people are sharing their games' requests (yeah, I can block each game... I just would love to block all games and other mindless apps).