skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't as though there weren't Slashdot, Digg, Reddit and a million similar sites before Hacker News. If he wants his own codebase, that's his prerogative.
Norton detected some virus in the installation file! What's going on? I was just going to try out this awesome pad! Btw, the "threat" is something called "WS.Reputation.1", anyone having the same issue?
One key aspect of statistics is randomly sampling, this poll has bias for sure. It is still interesting to see what HNers make with respect to where the live. It would also be interesting to see salary data compared to hours worked per week and self-employed or not.
Just pushed this to prod about an hour ago, thanks for the suggestion!
In addition to reserved instances, there are a couple of other ways you can achieve cost-savings for common situations. If you need to run background tasks (like video encoding, reports, etc) you can try running spot instances at a fraction of the cost of an on-demand instance. You run the risk that the instance is terminated, but you can always spawn a new one without affecting the main service, since basically you do not care if the task finishes a couple of minutes later. Another one is scaling up and down base on demand. If you run, say, a SugarCRM instance for your sales team, you can have it run in a Large instance during the week, 9-5pm, when it is going to be in full use by multiple people. Then, the rest of the time you can scale down to a small or micro instance. It is still going to be available, but at a smaller cost.
Hmm.. it's Mou (http://mouapp.com/) with bad typography and the usual Windows clutter :)
You know, buddy, I think from FB we could all use a little more "thanks for pointing out this problem that we at FB should have prevented or refused to implement" and a little less of sarcastic "if you are truly concerned...jump through our hoops."

Preventing harm to users is your job, not ours.

Associates of mine have made SEVERAL complaints to FB about security concerns through your standard "hoops" (including /whitehat), and have received exactly ZILCH, NADA in response.
This is done, thanks for reminding me to do this!
Just finished this about an hour ago and pushed it to prod, thanks again for the suggestion.
I think his intent was to say it takes one person to make that final choice on the design. If it wasn't then you are clearly in the right. Usually design by committee ends up being a total disaster because the UI feels disjointed.

Ultimately I believe it was in reference to Jobs being the 'taste guy'.

Sidenote: While the Mac is certainly inconsistent in design (mostly iTunes), iOS is far less so. I guess you can attribute it to Jobs always being interested in the next new thing. In the last WWDC appearance by Jobs, one could clearly see that he was more excited by iOS than Lion.
Conceptually, git is simple and elegant.

The porcelain, however, is incoherent and riddled with special cases. This makes it a hard sell to businesses and developers who struggle to understand that version control is a process, not a button.

So, articles like "Git for CS" are great and all, I guess, but what I'd really like to see is an article on "Git for junior Windows developers" or "Git for Your Boss" or "The case for git: delivering business value in IT" or "git vs TFS: how not to cripple your development team" or "git: because you don't just need to know how to program in language X, Y or Z".
surely there were no computer programmers, social media marketers, or logistics experts 100 years ago...
Man, I thought the iPod was damn stupid when it came out, and here I am using all Apple stuff.

Lots of people are "ahead of their time" - few people can force time to move forwards the way Steve Jobs did.
You seem to be arguing against something I didn't say. I'm not arguing whether paying 5 guys to dig 5 holes is a good or bad way to create jobs; only that it does, and people in a lot of the world need that because they have no other way to make money. You can't just pack up and decide to become a subsistence farmer in the US or Europe.

Now, if the government goes and decides to redistribute wealth from rich to poor (enough for them to survive), then the whole jobs thing is no longer a problem. (I don't think I ever said something about the economy fundamentally breaking.)

As for jobs disappearing because some people no applicable skills - where, exactly, should a person who spent their life as a cashier at Safeway, is now in their 40s or 50s and has no real skills look to find work today? I know someone who graduated intent on becoming a pharmacist a few years ago - I'm not entirely sure what she's going to be doing in 10 years, given the way the field is about to be transformed, but even if she makes it, I suspect a lot of people like her are going to be dropped into jobs well below their current pay grade because there is nothing else for them.

And that's probably one of the most notable effects of this; when a group of people with a high degree of skill are partially automated, they may not be able to adapt effectively and be pushed down to easier, lower-paid work - where they will displace the people that would normally have those jobs. And when that starts happening on an increasingly large scale (accelerating technology etc etc) you'll end up with people that have no skills people are willing to pay for pretty fast (within reason; you could scrap the minimum wage laws, but it doesn't fix the issue of people making enough to survive).
I do not.

First, those comment threads were often toxic; for instance, they tended to host deliberate and pointed efforts to unmask companies that hadn't launched yet.

Second, I think it's totally reasonable for YC to provide HN perks to YC companies, and if that's going to happen, I prefer the overt perks to the more subtle ones.

Third, public comment threads are a crappy venue for having conversations about a job. If you want to know more about a job, contact the person who posted the ad. If the ad sucks, let them write better ad copy.

Finally, for the HN demographic, these are some of the best job advertisements on the entire market. They're a clear win-win.

It is possible that I have hired more people directly off HN than any non-YC company, and probable that I've hired more people from here than most YC companies have. I don't feel like I'm getting a raw deal at all. I'm perturbed by the degree of entitlement on display on this thread.
It's a cool piece of code, and an extremely valuable example application for Redis, and a useful package. But instead, let's definitely talk about the drama that's attached to it.

It's obvious that for a lot of HN participants, the site isn't fun unless we can divide everyone into heroes and villains, or at least shirts and skins.
I'll look into this, its a similar feature another user wants to filter our the words "and" and "with". I've noticed its a problem if you search for something like "Nine Inch Nails Acoustic", a lot of junk shows up that im not interested in. Thanks for the suggestion.
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It's not only a good read for hackers, either: it's a good read for almost any group who have an intellectually demanding task that can't be easily parallelized. I talked about The Mythical Man Month in a blog post about grant writing: http://blog.seliger.com/2009/08/23/one-person-one-proposal-d... , because in the grant world nonprofits will try to divide writing tasks among a group. The result is a proposal that, even if it hits the deadline, is probably a bad proposal.

I find books that cross their putative genre or field very interesting. Chris Matthews' Hardball is another; it's about politics, but it's really about life.
+1 to linode - in the past I opted for cheap options, and suffered, but after experiencing the management tools and infrastructure linode has in place, I'll stick with them at the more premium price.
Thats pretty sweet, for the hell of it I've searched stupid shit such as "people falling" or "lol". Glad ya like it!
I'm still hoping he'll release that geographical data...
Widely used XML Encryption standard is insecure, say experts
> They appear to have resolved this issue in a timely fashion.

Not for the guy who was outed, they didn't.
I see lots of people giving a full 5 stars. Would results be better if people were more accurate, giving 3.5; 4; 4.5 or 5 stars?

What happens if you ask people to rate 10 movies with either a thumbs up or thumbs down? Would that give better results?

It's quite interesting, although I could see more use for it as part of other websites. EG: dating websites could use the tech to match people?

Good Luck though!
I find green tea or oolong. Basically the only prep is adding hot water so it is easy to refill and keeps me in the zone (and with a warm drink) longer.
Exploring how to write a code analyzer with Roslyn in C#
Hello rkalla,

I must clarify that my experience was related to their regular VPS offerings.

They do offer a premium VPS (notice how its product descriptions mention "1GBPS port" and "Less than 50% load of budget VPS nodes", in contrast to just "XXX GB/MONTH" for the regular).

I didn't try their dedicated servers. They may have fatter pipes. I just had very poor latency, consistent with all their locations, being Florida the most stable for me.

If you do any sort of data crunching, you can get a good value for your buck. Certainly cheaper than AWS.

For my taste, Linode's latency has been pleasantly consistent.
95% of the time, it equals 142ms from Atlanta to South America (so far, the best I've found). I just wish they had a smaller offering.

I'll go back to watching the presidential election, have a nice day!
So create your own poll for the region you're interested in.
The Relationship You Need to Get Right
I know the Spreedly guys personally (and have been using them for years). Honestly, they underpriced their services and need to make more money if they are going to add features and build a better product.

Doubling their prices certainly seems like a reasonable idea, I wonder what other models they looked at.
Haha, well I guess what's to remember is that it works ^^
I make the links inactive to ensure spammers get no traffic, and thus give up spamming us. HN gets so much traffic that otherwise they might get a significant amount just from people clicking on the dead link. Anyone who wants to see the url of a story can see it on the edit page, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=3146776

As for your specific examples, the first was killed because that user is banned from submitting, and the second I killed myself because when I tried the link it was broken; it's since been fixed so I unkilled it.
Valid feedback. I have made that change..there are other services that I am working on that will be part of this. Having said that I accept that till its not ready to make it explicit.
Stanislaw Lem wrote a pointed satire [1] on what might happen when new technology destroys all jobs. I think it's a brilliant distillation of the issues. (Alas, deploying Strong AI to solve the problem doesn't work out so well in this story.)

[1] The Twenty-fourth Voyage: http://www.scribd.com/doc/37246256/Stanislaw-Lem-The-Star-Di... (starts at page 9)
A good broker in Manhattan is like a unicorn.
Have never written a whole book but back in the day I contributed a number of chapters to various Wrox books on ADO.NET. Glad I did it but the Wrox editorial process was a bit of a shambles and it showed up in many of their books at the time.

If nothing else it means I can refer back to Amazon every now and then to remember what I looked like with hair.
http://www.amazon.com/ADO-NET-Programmers-Reference-Adil-Reh...
oh dear, thank you (fixed)
Tesla has already done that to Model S: http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/2615-Model-S-D...

Except that the interface is... kludgy, at best.
The idea is very similar: you create a set of jails that behave as independent systems. Then every process started from a jail is tagged with a jail ID corresponding to the jail that the process was started from. All processes run in the same kernel and the jail ID gives the kernel just enough information to tell whether or not a process should have access to a given resource when sys calls are made.

I've never used OpenVZ so I don't know how they compare in practice but I can say that FreeBSD jails worked beautifully when I was using them heavily (about 2 years ago). They are super easy to manage and were as stable as you'd expect in FreeBSD (you'd have to be trying really hard to knock them down).
The German company Cargolifter AG [0] was set up to develop a large airship with a freight capacity of 160 tons. This is a lot, 10 tons more than the freight version of the Airbus A380. The hangar they built for it is one of the largest buildings in the world and houses a water park.

They went bankrupt during development. I've heard that they couldn't find a solution for controlling the buoyancy, which is critical when you need to drop 100+ tons of cargo and don't want your airship to lift off into space. There's a video on Youtube in which they use water to control buoyancy of a smaller balloon [1].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargolifter
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lralh-LwcJQ
Just doing a quick Google search, that appears to be a popular false positive generated by Norton.

Clarification on the false positive and a workaround: http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Nort...

You can report it as a false positive here: https://submit.symantec.com/false_positive/
Actually neither site is banned.
Not all startups are of the internet application variety. My old boss did a startup in his late 30's, early 40's. He drew on a PhD and more than a decade of experience in wireless communications. That was a prerequisite for the type of startup he wanted to do. Heck, 19 he probably wouldn't even have known about the problem that the startup was trying to solve.
How to get Google Reader articles delivered to your Kindle
Since we're talking IE6 here, we should note that SYNC is made by Microsoft. Don't panic.
Fully 12.4% of nearly every American's income is going to Social Security, which is a national pension scheme. (er...national Ponzi scheme)
Jobs never had comments. They're not ordinary items like stories and comments; they just get displayed similarly on the frontpage. You may be thinking of times when people posted jobs as ordinary posts.
Why not (for future polls) just have everyone lookup and subtract the cost of living from their gross salary?
> I'm perturbed by the degree of entitlement on display on this thread.

I'm fine with those postings, what with it being PG's site and all, so that's not really what I'm talking about. I just think the postings would be better with comments for the same reason everything else is. They can have bright purple headings to make them more visible to everyone for all I care, if some method to make them stick out is desired.

I don't recall those threads being nasty, but perhaps that's been crowded out of my head by the two or three things in my life more important than a particular variety of posting on HN. I think nastiness should be rooted out in a fairly blunt way: if people are being lame/immature about companies' job postings, they're likely going to be lame about other stuff as well.

#2 is something we're in agreement on.

> public comment threads are a crappy venue for having conversations about a job.

Yes and no. I think there are some kinds of questions and answers that might be useful to all applicants, and I think most people here are smart enough to figure out the difference between what ought to be public, and what is best addressed to the company in question via private email. For many of these companies, it may be the first time they've ever sought to hire someone, so it's entirely reasonable that they don't nail the posting 100%. A helpful comment or two might also help the companies.
What? That is insane. That is more than my mortgage and I have property and a big house in the East Bay.

I also live in a nice neighborhood.

Do you live within 2 blocks of UC Berkeley?
Thanks Dan!

Well, we will see how things evolve. You are correct in that it seems like people are more likely to give 5/5's than lower ratings; but I guess that's just one way of matching people: they can be similar in their way of rating things (they could love everything or be big time haters), deegr will match them.
Also, it's not like we can't interpret ratings over 3/5 as thumbs-ups and lower ratings as thumbs-down; we can still change, only time will tell us what the best scale is.
As of now, the current system seems to do a great job.

And yes, of course, we're thinking a lot about implementing it on other websites; we're already working on an API ;)

Thanks for the feedback!
Four Horsemen of Financial Apocalipse
> I think this is untrue simply because smart people who are good at their job are very likeable in general. Who doesn't like the smart productive guy? Conversely, who can stand the dumb guy on the team who never does any work?

I think in practice if you're in the middle 80% of the productivity spectrum, how well you interact with other people matters more than your technical ability.

You're not always just interfacing with other nerds. And in a startup context, as a founder you'll spend as much time talking to MBA types as you will on technical details.
Yes, that's what I'm talking about: submissions to HN with the Text set to a job ad and no URL.

As I recall, YC companies were allowed to submit those, but (for example) I couldn't for Matasano (I'm fine with that).
And if some kid OD'ed on ecstasy inside a school (I'll bet that's already happened), would she want to make running a school a crime?
It's upvoted because, after people post a comment utterly destroying it, they want their comment's unique wisdom and intelligence to be visible to others. Even (maybe, especially) when the original article is garbage.

It's a perverse incentive problem in social news.
Any plans on supporting the extensions from PHP Markdown Extra, specifically definition lists, tables, and abbreviations? A good Markdown implementation that supports these is Discount (http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/).
10 Healthcare is expensive

20 Technology is good

30 So we use technology to make health care cheap

40 We announce massive NHS-IT project

50 We spend $20Bn

60 We discover project totally useless and abandon it

70 goto 10
It holds up "in court" (figuratively) when: It's cheaper to pay a couple of grand than to pay a lawyer; A three -- or six -- strikes commercially-initiated and/or arbitrated policy kicks you off the Net; Private, commercial database records haunt you indefinitely.

I think that, for a majority of people, this will end up being about "clout" rather than the rule of law. And they will feel/find themselves on the short end of that stick. And the more they fear, the more that entrenched interests win by default.

I would guess that we're in agreement. I just become a bit... I don't know what word to use, when I read "in court" these days. Because industry is doing everything it can to ensure that "in court" (literally) is precisely not where the battle is fought.
Great! Pandora(-ish) for the rest of us.

Something you might want to address : I've searched for The Prodigy, and I got "Amanda Bynes' 2010 Maxim Cover Shoot". I'm not sure where that came from!
Here's the brand I came up with:

http://www.fixwallstreet.org
Perhaps you've had different experiences, but the issues raised in the book are things I've encountered repeatedly in new companies, and I've repeatedly seen new companies fail for exactly the reasons the book describes.

For many of us on HN there is little new information in the book. However, we have to recognize that the concept of experimenting with an MVP is completely foreign to many entrepreneurs, and even among those who know about and pay lip service to it, they very frequently can't commit to it in practice. I've seen this issue come up time and time with both new and seasoned, successful entrepreneurs. They think they know what customers want and cling to unproven notions irrationally. They get hyper focused on unnecessary features. They delay launches over fear of launching with an "imperfect" product, and also don't recognize that their vision of perfection is unproven and frequently flawed.

In fact, as a developer, this issues have come up in every project in which I've paired with a less-than-technical stakeholder. As someone who has been very active in startup communities, my observation has been that the tendencies the book intends to fight are rampant among non-technical founders.

I'm happy this book exists, because it's finally an easily digestible introduction to some baseline concepts that many entrepreneurs have a difficult time understanding and putting into practice.
Absolute goodness of jails and the simplicity of making a small bootable readonly CDROM image made FreeBSD a clear winner for me in the late 1990's & early 2000's. In the 2010's... the world moves forward, now it's about having a standard virtual image.
I love recommendation engines so your service sounds really interesting. Some impressions:

* I LOVE that you don't require a sign-up to get started. The fact that I can start rating right off the front page is equally good.

* I don't grok how the right side "Recommendation Summary" widget works. I rate stuff and they... disappear? Wait, aren't these supposed to be recommendations in the first place? So where are the ratings (starts)? Also, what's the relation between this widget and the content to the left (my "circle")?

* To the left, I'm seeing some dude's ratings. Maybe you should change the graphics for dude's ratings and my ratings? Because both are in blue.

* As I mention I already use several recommendation engines. I would really love to submit my Criticker profile page and have the ratings imported. Because you know I have spent hours rating stuff over the course of several years.

* I don't see the purpose of "You both rated : (20)" In the left content pane. Also, it takes up a lot of visual space.

* This is pretty fun to use.

* Some of the UI - sub-items of the Movies tab; the hover for the Register link - are still in French.

* I've seen most of the recs I'm getting. Again, if there was a way to import ratings from other sites it would make a huge difference.
Silly semantic question - when you 'delete' your facebook account, do they use the word 'delete' or just 'disable' or 'shut off' or something similar?

A friend of mine ragequit facebook a little less than a year ago, came back, and it allowed him to reactivate his profile. I don't think it ever said 'delete' though.
Yep, only thought of it when composing the reply but a small mirror attached to the edge of the screen would also work.
I have been using a 15$ vps from www.tektonic.net since 2004 and have been happy. I run a few personal sites and sometimes test code. They have been down 1 to 2 times a year which IMHO is fine for the price.
Thanks! Ya, sometimes unrelated videos will slip in, I'm always thinking of ways I can mitigate this. I'm sure you didnt mind the Cover Shoot video though ;)
Just wondering, virtual machine running XP/IE6 then a new desktop for other newer things for some staff who need them?

Too hard to manage?
When YC cos did that it was by mistake. A job listing submitted as if it were a story would not end up on the jobs page. We're now careful about telling everyone to submit jobs as jobs.
I've been following the project since it was first announced, and while it's interesting, I don't find it particularly useful... I mean, I got a laptop for its mobility, I knew I was sacrificing a bit of graphics performance (although these days the performance loss compared to desktops is unsubstantial). I also don't want a device bigger than my whole computer, with its own power source, sitting on my desk...

As for extending the life of old laptops, well, laptops get old and cheap so fast these days that it's not worth it - the difference between a Quadro FX 770M and FX 880M (which are what, 1-2 years apart), for example, is more than 50% in performance...