skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they are like weathermen. The best they can do is make an educated guess.
I (we) use Google Apps. I'm assuming this would be another service. If we ever see it. Right now, it's vaporware.

It took me months to "train" everyone in the office on how to use Dropbox. -Ok stop laughing. I'm dealing with doctors here. :) I know doctors who can perform open heart surgery but can't use iTunes.

Anyway I'd rather not go through that training nightmare again. Google is gonna have to do something really impressive.
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Without knowing the exact details of your case, this sounds like the correct explanation. The friends you saw were probably ones who have used Facebook's contact importer, and so their accounts had a record that your email address was a known contact. All of your wall posts, photos, friend lists, and other activity were actually dropped from Facebook's databases.
Single page printable version:

http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.asp...
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Probably not.

In a recent thread[1], the consensus seemed to be that introducing monetary rewards for community participation was a bad idea, that would largely cause people to game the system. I should think that your idea would encounter similar obstacles.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2986681
Typically this is true as the only performance hit will be due to the initial lookup, and then your resolver will cache the record. However, if your DNS record uses a low TTL (required for things like DNS-based monitoring/failover) like 30 secs or 1 minute, DNS lookups will have a larger impact on site performance because user resolvers will have to frequently re-query the authoritative DNS.
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my dropbox account was deleted without warning or notice, so i guess im ready for something new
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See if you can get to Level 5 ;)
Benjamin Franklin advocated making the turkey the national bird instead of the bald eagle. I assume that if he were successful, people wouldn't care quite so much about eagles these days ;)
I've been a linux desktop user on and off since Redhat 5.0 and usually take a year break between attempts to give it time to catch up.

Recently I installed Fedora 15 because I love the new Gnome3 desktop and was disappointed to have all little sorts of niggling stupid things on my 4-year old ThinkPad T60... like recovering from sleep and now sound doesn't work or the iwl3945 being buggy.

I tried out ArchLinux and love the distribution, but found that building my own Gnome3 desktop with all the little applets and gadgets Fedora build in (like advanced touchpad controls, etc.) to be a pain in the ass of hunting down exactly the right modules I needed.

I almost gave up, but decided to try out Ubuntu 11.04 after swearing it off when I spent a year with 8->9 and decided Unity looked horrible.

Boy... I was surprised.

It is more polished than anything else out there I tried. Runs well, everything worked out of the box and the first thing I noticed right out of the gate is the Add/Remove software has gone from being a simple UI over Synaptic to being what looks like an app store already.

As soon as I saw that it dawned on me how brilliant canonical was being with taking Linux desktop a step forward by giving a direct sales channel to people wanting to work and sell on Linux.

11.10 and 12.04 behind it are going to be excellent user experiences and with the addition of the app store I think Canonical is making all the right decisions to take Linux on the desktop to the next level.

You factor in tablets and tablet-friendly apps in the next few years and this is a really smart/aggressive move on their part.

Big congrats to that company and team for always pushing beyond the scope of what "Linux is known for" and shoving their way in to realms dominated by other consumer OSs.

It is nice to see the ambitious and gusto.
It's still a sign of the decreasing signal-to-noise ratio. I could get a Tivo and fast-forward through commercials on TV, too, but it's not worth it.
Google X: Is the Y party Over?

I think I seen this on HN about 4 times in the last year.

Is there any front where google managed to beat a good established product (except Android) ?

Only good thing to come out of this, is a hopeful price reduction on Dropbox..
Very cool. It makes the code snippets look weird, but otherwise the extension seems great. Thanks!
Awesome, just what I needed!
...and another good explanation why.
I suppose for you it doesn't make sense but for someone who owns a kindle, paying $80 a year to get 2day shipping for any item regardless of price, a library of video titles available for streaming and if the rumor is true a library of relevant ebooks to read without driving to the library seems like an extremely good value.
Private offices can solve the headache of a bad co-tenant, but have their own headaches as well. The obvious one is that it's more expensive. A less obvious one is that you loose the access to outside people. If you're working near someone else, it's fairly trivial to go ask them what they think about something. You're likely to talk to them anyway, so it's an easy way to get an outside perspective by someone probably in the same industry. It's a natural form of networking as well. There are certainly benefits to having a private office, but it's not nearly as cut-and-dry as you're implying.
OSX isn't prevented from running on commodity hardware though a secure boot process though. Non-secure UEFI motherboards can boot and install retail OSX mediums (in fact, most hackintoshes are made possible through UEFI emulation boot discs). The biggest hurdle is driver support for peripheral devices: graphics, network, sound, wifi.
Notch apparently hoped that it was just "lawyers being lawyers" early on, but I doubt it would have gone this far without important people at Bethesda/ZeniMax noticing and (presumably) supporting it.
repro steps: 1) have a dropbox account 2) join a company that uses dropbox teams 3) leave that company 4) poof, account disappears
The thing is that this trader isn't saying anything that people don't already know. Milton Friedman predicted this when the Euro was first created, that it would last only until its first currency crisis.

Greece is in really, really bad shape. The normal way a country gets out of this problem is by devaluing its currency, and enacting fiscal policy measures. Look at Iceland for a recent example, and the Asian currency crisis back in 97-98.

However, Greece is stuck. It can't devalue its currency, because they are part of the Euro. The only way to get this to work is by getting the other European nations to pay for Greece through Eurobonds, but NO ONE WANTS TO. In fact, if a politician did so, they would get voted out. So there is no political will to pay for Greece, which means that Europe is in between a rock and a hard place.

They can do handwaving, etc, but it seems really likely that this European debt crisis will bring down Spain (20% unemployment, 40% youth unemployment and a housing bubble burst), Portugal, and worst case Italy. It's confidence contagion and it will continue to spiral out of control until they eject Greece out of the EU.

So now, we know that Europe is screwed. Will their plan to give 50% haircuts work? Or will everyone leave Europe entirely? This is the question, and I frankly doubt it, just like the trader said. YOU CAN'T SOLVE A DEBT CRISIS BY ISSUING MORE DEBT!!!

Once Greek bond holders get 50% haircuts, what about Ireland and Portugal? Will there be mass selling of those sovereign bonds? It will be a big domino effect, and the outcome is completely unpredictable at this point, but the one predictable thing is that the politicians will likely screw it up, because they lack political courage.

So the advice the trader gives is essentially right. Stay in safe havens for now, if you have money you can't afford to lose. I would stay in short-term US Treasuries so that you don't need to worry about interest rate issues. Don't try to catch bottoms unless you're playing with money you can afford to lose. Right now, the choppiness in the markets are unparalleled, so unless you really know what you're doing, safe havens are the best.
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Does that include putting hideous adverts across the slides in 'HTML5'?

(I miss the early scribd & slideshare, before they started trying to make money to survive by plastering the place with adverts)
Malcom Gladwell talking about innovation? No thanks! This is the same dude who thinks Intellectual Ventures is an innovation machine.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_...
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I wonder if the gridded road construction of Manhattan, with almost all roads about the same size, (save the Avenues), is a solution. Instead of a few big roads, build many smaller roads, which will then allow for efficient travel to many places.
Not having apps install command line tools is a reasonable security compromise for the Mac App store. Anyone who buys BBEdit from the app store can use BareBones’s installer to install the command line stuff: http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/cmd-line-tools.html.
If 10 authors wrote 10 versions of the page
called /Bill_Gates

it would still be upto a group/committee/public to decide
which version is the most relevant/highest quality.

The chosen author would then be entitled to whatever
percent of the total ad revenue the site generated.
Ask HN: How long do founders need to stay at companies after acquisition?
This is really a two pronged question.

1) How long are people typically required to stay at a company that has acquired them?

and

2) How long do people usually end up staying?
In the context of the actual iOS, it indicates one missed call. (Which is pretty sly considering they're announcing the phone everyone was expecting in June)
I know what you are saying, and you are correct, but average people do not expect Facebook to be able to track their movements when they are logged out.
> And that, according to scientists from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is an Achilles’ heel — or Achilles’ proboscis — through which the pests can also be poisoned.

This thread presents a great opportunity to discuss the Arab-Israeli conflict. Who wants to start?
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You missed a call.
RMS made this prediction in 2003. Most people called him crazy and fringe at the time, but he was 100% right. Here's a quote:

"Some versions of treacherous computing would require the operating system to be specifically authorized by a particular company. Free operating systems could not be installed."

Source URL: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html
The argument probably goes something like this:

1. Ben Franklin wanted the wild turkey to be the national bird/symbol, not the bald eagle.

2. DDT is particularly devastating to bald eagles (due to transmission through fish which concentrate the DDT and makes the shells of bird eggs too thin to properly allow full term hatching (bald eagles really like fish)).

3. Since the bald eagle is the national symbol of the US this was a major rallying cry of the anti-DDT folks

4. If the turkey was instead the national symbol, presumably fewer people would have cared about the DDT effects on eagles, causing a weaker response to DDT dangers (e.g. not putting in a blanket ban on its use).

NOTE: point 4 is pure speculation on outcome, but not unreasonable. Also, the argument I present is just me speculating that is what the GP meant.
I understand that it is cool to root for the little guy, but with $20 million in the bank[1] and something like 20 employees (I am trying to remember from the docu about them), Markus isn't a guy sitting in his dorm room trying to hack his way to future success, and as andrewingram pointed out, if Bethesda doesn't defend their claim on the "Elder Scrolls" name, they can lose it.

I would not find it that unreasonable to think that ES fans likely refer to the game as "Scrolls" and not "Elder" when discussing it online, nor that in RPG groups if a year ago you said "Have you played Scrolls?" most people would realize you were talking about ES.

This seems reasonable to me... like if I created a new game called "Warcraft" that let you build siege weapons and launch attacks against castles filled with orcs. I would fully expect Blizzard to come after me.

It isn't like they named the game "Frostraven Scrolls" or something clearly different.

Just my 2 cents. Just communicating the fact that I am not weeping in agony for Mojang and their poor plight.

[1] http://www.warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussi...
I've always found that economists for the most part have been extremely unreliable in forecasting things like recessions. (Also stock analysts are useless too) Case in point, an article from 2007, pre-recession:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/business/yourmoney/04view....
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Guh, one of the few times I do so on my phone, and I fat fingered the upvote attempt. Wasn't there discussion about separating the arrows? Sorry.
This was published in the New Yorker, and there was some discussion about it when PARC posted something on their blog responding to it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2548325

An interesting letter was printed in a subsequent issue: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letters/2011/06/27/110627m...
whose author wrote a longer blog post about this: http://dorophone.blogspot.com/2011/07/duckspeak-vs-smalltalk...

I find that whole story a bit poignant, especially given that the MIT Scratch app (Smalltalk based programming for kids) was not allowed into the iPad app store.
I'd imagine capacitive buttons. iOS doesn't work without a home button. And as for the obtuse undiscoverable gesture concepts that go along with the no-button ideas: Apple has to be the last company that I would expect to ship a phone that cannot be taken from any state to making a phone call while held in a single hand.
Ask HN: How does the non-technical type contribute to open source projects?
I've seen this exchange time and again, both on Hacker News and around the web. Someone asks "How do I develop my programming chops?" and the chorus answers "Contribute to an open source project."

It's obvious to even a non-programmer like me that there are as many reasons to contribute to an open source project as there are projects to contribute to. But what room is there for those of us who work on the requirements gathering and application analysis/design side (re: the business side) of software development? I'm looking for a role.

In a fluffy sense this may mean brand ambassador or evangelist, but in a more functional (in my case preferred) sense it could mean contributions to the vision document and ongoing requirements management. Anything concerning project management. Are there such roles in your typical open source project? If not, how would you advise the technical-but-not-really-technical individual such as myself volunteer his or her time?
Sendgrid would not reliably send our emails fast enough. We were getting queued for any gmail address we were sending too and sendgrid told us that there was nothing they could do about it. Since we have a requirement to get into peoples inbox ASAP we bailed on them as they couldn't help.

Then we went to critsend, which was great until we ran into a problem and couldn't get in touch with customer service for a week (and they never got back to us).

Then we tried Dyn since they called us up after reading a press hit and offered us a free trial period. Things were good there until we found out we couldn't deliver to comcast.com email addresses. Again, they were no help.

So we switched to Postmark and things have been awesome. Yes, you pay more than some other places, but your email gets to you recipients and it does so fast.

And yes, we had our DNS configured configured correctly for each of those services.
This is like the ABC of SEO, BUT there is a robots.txt that may keep those crawlers away..
Other things that may help:

- Promptly remove addresses that bounce back (mail to dead addresses is a red flag).

- Set up feedback loops with the major ISPs so you can remove people who report you as spam.

- Track image opens and clickthroughs and unsubscribe people who haven't read your emails in a year.

- Make your unsubscribe link prominent.
It just makes installing Linux twice as hard, that's all.
But do you think there are many designers who think that they are anything less than a Rolls Royce? (Just like most programmers think that they are much better than average)
You're right, it would be cheap to colocate two boxes to run DNS. Unfortunately you still have to:

- Purchase the hardware

- Receive the hardware

- Install an OS on the hardware

- Harden the OS from intruders

- Decide how to manage the servers and setup that infrastructure (puppet/chef/cfengine/ssh/etc)

- Install BIND

- Load in all your zones

- Ship the server(s) to each of the colo facilities

- Pay for smart hands to install/configure the hosts

- Setup a procedure to reliably sync zones from your RCS to the hosts and safely load zone changes without crashing BIND

- Monitor the service and hosts

- Setup alerting and escalations for when there are problems

- Subscribe to BIND mailing lists and keep up with the community

- ~once every couple years perform an ASAP update to BIND after a massive security hole is discovered (without getting compromised during this time)

- Update BIND regularly

- Deal with occasional outages at facilities

- Configure anycast routing for your IP's

Route 53 reduces this to:

- Make an API call

- Go back to developing your actual product.
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The whole friends of friends setting was never really an awesome way to limit sharing, in my mind, since it isn't possible to know how many people that actually is. Facebook's definitely phased it out recently, so that's why you only have 'Friends' and 'Public' now (or 'Custom', but the average user won't use that). This article is really sensationalist, and contains some incorrect information:

> Custom means that the post will be safe to comment on with no leakage to strangers via the ticker/news feed.

No it doesn't. It means you don't know the privacy of the post, and it may be more or less limited than the 'Friends' setting.

The best advice from the article:

> And don't forget - next time you leave a comment on someone else's Facebook post, don't say something that you may later regret.

Never do this on HN either. Same concept.
True, but without Anycast you wont' be able to control which server users query, and your latency for EU or APAC users will probably be in the range of 200-800ms. Route 53 uses Anycast network infrastructure with many geographically dispersed POPs so users will hit the closest POP dramatically reducing latency. For $200/mo you could host a hundred domains and billions of queries with much better performance using Route 53.
YC has expanded, but in a centralized fashion.

When it comes to expanding to NYC (which amounts to doubling the number of offices), here are some considerations off the top of my head:

* To have double the # of locations, you would need to hire a bunch more partners in order to double the sum talent/experience in your pool for Office Hours (lest the talent/experience density be diminished, harming YC and all its companies). But it's not just about sum talent/experience, because there's a big chunk of experience that no startup vet out there has: experience being a YC partner.

* YC dinners are about connections. To maintain the same quality of connections in a second location, the new partners would of course have to be as connected and as trusted in NYC as are the SV partners in SV.

* Launch emails (AKA the YC "press release") are typically written by PG. There is only one PG, and perhaps he can't or doesn't want to write twice as many launch emails every year. For all we know, going from ~8 potential launches to ~40 may have pushed him to the limit. If PG were made to write twice as many, he would only be half as intimate with each company.

* One of YC's most valuable assets is the reputation of its selection filter. If YC were to accept twice as many startups (assuming twice the # of applicants, of course), the partners and advisors running its current selection process would need to be either mirrored in NYC or overworked remotely. Again, this is a finely-tuned machine, and it's not as simple as "hire 5-10 smart startup vets and stick them in NYC to start interviewing candidates".

TL;DR: While I'm sure YC has considered (and are perhaps still considering) expanding to NYC, for you to claim that you understand their business better than they do is presumptuous. To suggest that "elitism" is YC's rationale for staying in SV is insulting, and to suggest that it is the sole potential rationale is woefully lacking in vision.
"Too bad you leveled wrong. No stat points for you."

Meh, leveling was pointless anyway because when you leveled up, so did the enemy. I hear the next game is keeping this mechanic, so its lost its appeal to me too.

Regarding this case: I have never ever heard of the elder scrolls games referred to as scrolls. Its either The Elder Scrolls or its Oblivion or Morrowind or whatever.
The Linux community should incentive it. RedHat should say to HP, Dell, and Acer -- "for each UEFI Win8 logo machine you ship, where you enable the ability to disable secure booting we give you five dollars". Or letting them keep a larger percentage of RH license revenue, or whatever.
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The issue with that is the ability to disable secure boot is not included in the spec, and therefore is not required by any of the OEMs to include.

Edit: reply to comments on spec and disabling boot loading.

FYI, I haven't read the spec, and I based my statement from the other article on the home page: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/26/uefi_linux_lock_out_...

The relevant quote is: "Garrett said that Windows 8 certification requires that hardware ship with UEFI secure boot enabled. A feature allowing secure boot to be disabled – necessary to run Linux and FreeBSD on certified systems – is not required for certification."

And further: '"We've already been informed by hardware vendors that some hardware will not have this option," Garrett writes in a flow-up blog post to his original critique of the technology.'
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I have a strong hunch that the response to "Have you played Scrolls?" would be "What?" "You know, Oblivion/Morrowind/Daggerfall" (choose the right one) "Oh yeah I've played that, maybe bit too much."
Yes, I had the same thought. By appearing on BBC with this powerful message, he's created a viral campaign for his services.
The CORS php proxy file is nice to have.
From what I've heard, Scrolls is a fantasy... something(could be turn based strategy, role playing, or something completely else) game currently in development by Mojang. The Elder Scrolls is a series of fantasy role playing games developed by Bathesda.

Bathesda's lawyers probably felt that the two titles are similar enough in either gameplay style or genre that it could be infringement. Unfortunately, there isn't any other way of resolving this than suing the people you believe are infringing on your trademark.