skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In other industries, such as petroleum refining, pipelines and nuclear power, their are structured methodologies for determining root causes. Some of these take into account equipment failure, and modelling is often done on equipment life cycles to determine replacement and inspection schedules in oil refineries.

These industries also employ strict management of change processes so that an ad-hoc decision or improvisation doesn't cause an incident.

What puzzles me is why you don't see these kind of practices applied in data center operations.

Are data centers really more complex.. then say.. a nuclear plant?
Hospedaria Convento la Parra - Badajoz
Socialize your search on mobile
Then the conversation should center around whether they got the springboard right, not if it hasn't changed. Whether or not it looks different is the wrong place to start.
You should be able to send data using passive checks. As far as I know, that has always been the model in Nagios.
This is a court filing by a litigant. It's hardly an unbiased source. The assertions of an interested party should not be an excuse to avoid critical thinking.

But hey, it's in line with what most of HN thinks about patents, so we're all willing to take it at face value.
How is it different from Dropbox?
The spider trees of Pakistan: a tale of two photographs and the web
MS has no obligation to license their patents at a reasonable price or even at all. You may say the patents should be overturned, but that's a question for the USPTO and the courts. Their job is to maximize profits using their patents.

It's still very unclear to me what MS is doing that is illegal. They have no mobile monopoly. And "demanding" design guidelines certainly isn't illegal.

BN can sue because MS isn't nice to them, but that's about all I see.
I'm in a similar situation - comfortable with the product, uncomfortable selling. These tips were excellent, do you have further information or some more examples?
The Road To Reality - Roger Penrose. Slowly, step by step.

Neuromancer - William Gibson. 6th or 7th time through. Coming to it now after having read Delany's Nova, and the influence is clear.

Little Heroes - Norman Spinrad. All that's good about Spinrad and all that's bad. He does write well about Hollywood.

History Of Film- David Parkinson. A short survey text, sort of a review for me.
This is a legal denial of service attack (assuming B+N's story is substantially accurate). I wonder what kind of penalties are for that behavior - I assume being ordered to pay the other side's legal bills is a possibility.
The sales clues people will reveal by their website visit
In that case I should read the documentation a bit better.
Thanks.
Having recently ended four years working in a neuroscience department at Harvard Medical School...

No.
CNN Reports Diaspora's Ilya Zhitomirskiy Committed Suicide
Is Starting A Business Safer Than Your Job? (Infographic)
could not access qminder but campalyst looks good...!
I think you (and the author) give the average user too much credit. To most people on HN, it's probably pretty obvious that downloading applications directly from sketchy sources is a good way to have your device become infected by malware, but the average user might not realize this. They might not even realize that a source is sketchy.

This is anecdotal, but after about the 10th time reinstalling my parents OS, I finally discovered that the root of all their malware-related problems stemmed from the fact that they were downloading music using Limewire. It hadn't crossed their minds that perhaps this was not a very good idea.

I'm sure they genuinely believed that their computer was repeatedly being infected "through no fault of their own".
Apple releases iTunes Match
Does this work if you only wait till you have a problem to upgrade to the paid Google Apps version?
There aren't profit-oriented 'managers', there are 'administrators'.
I realize AV software applies heuristics to identify some attacks, but in the absence of intent, it is impossible to do it effectively. One man's botnet is another man's legitimate computing cluster.

Unless you warn about everything going on in the system, you are not really aware of everything. If you do warn about everything, the user will start to ignore the warnings.
That's true, but it's not mutually exclusive. Lots of businesses use Adwords to generate leads that are then pursued using phone sales, and it also means you're no longer making "cold calls", because you're calling in response to a request. Adwords doesn't always have to funnel directly into a checkout.

I'm also not sure how you're defining "conversions." Do you mean people being willing to meet with you, or are you saying you had 10-15 sales from the cold calling (cash in bank account.)?
The definition of Overtime is actually getting paid, yes? The law I am referring to over in the E.U is actually working, full stop - paid or not. I am at a position where I am not paid any overtime - I'm still not allowed to be present at work for more than 70 hours a week.
Does nothing like this exist in the U.S? As in, you could technically work 168 hours with no legal ramifications?
X for Xerox? When can I expect futuristic visualizations from Google Design?
Will Cloud Computing Make Everything (and Everyone) Work Harder?
Hobby projects and hobby research. It has some pretty intense features if you're into type theory.

IMO the library support isn't yet there for production code (e.g. no or only rudimental GUI/networking code). But if you're just using it for computation (e.g. AI or compiling or some such) it's pretty solid, and its FFI is the most straightforward I've ever seen.

FWIW I hear that these people: http://www.missioncriticalit.com/ and these people: http://www.princexml.com/ use it for production code, but I don't know much about them, beyond that Håkom Wium Lie (of CSS and Opera fame) is the Director of the latter.

I maintain a blog about Mercury's features for interested users: http://adventuresinmercury.blogspot.com/ if you're interested.
The idea is that you have a set of chores that need to be split up evenly. The typical use case is a household. The app will take all of the chores you define for a group and split them up evenly and randomly among the members of the group.
Apple Releases iTunes Match
Unfortunately, I think a lot of people may miss the most useful point of this article: blocking out days by themes as a productivity booster.

The big headline is about working 16 hours days, but that headline grabber will distract from the most useful nugget of information: how he does it.

The really cool thing about this article is theme-blocking his days. Has anyone tried that? If so, how has it worked?
> Apple is using designed in house, relevant and modern patents against what it feels is intellectual property theft.

You must be kidding, right?
HTC might dish-out Tegra 3 powered tablet in February 2012
The answer to nearly any marketing question is 'it depends.' My experience in a couple of markets suggests that it does for me. You will have to test it for your context.
How to Use Webinars to Market Yourself
Perhaps this is actually the time he spends using each service ...
How is that even possible given the number of times he speaks at events?
Yeah, Google is pretty loose with their rules, and the Market structure passes a lot of complexity (ie, sales tax responsibility) on to each developer.

I'm seriously considering using something like BMT Micro to sell upgrades to a free app. The classic shareware model, more or less. I'd really like to sidestep all the annoyances and time overhead that come with selling stuff directly. I believe the iOS App Store is set up that way already (where you're effectively licensing them to sell your software and they're paying you royalties), but unfortunately not the Android Market.
Haha yeah because WP7 will do really well...
This is a separate question. The URL can be updated without creating browser history.
More /dev/audio hacking:analysis of C oneliner algorithmic music [demoscene]
This panel was great fun, but was unfortunately cut about 20 minutes short on accident. For the curious, here's an additional link to last year's panel: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Future-of-Programming-Lan...
Interesting data points, but you need more before you say "no matter what price we choose, we make the same revenue."

I agree with some of the posters who suggest splitting into 2 levels of the app at different price points. (Usually, it's better to have 3 levels, but it seems in the App Store, most companies go with 2 to make it easier on customers. I'd love to find some data with evidence that one way or another is better for the App Store.)
Humans lack the education to understand modern, high-tech media
It’s a place where your refrigerator could be connected to the Internet, so it could order groceries when they ran low. Your dinner plate could post to a social network what you’re eating.

The stuff that could have been invented 5-10 years ago but was not interesting enough to warrant the effort
Generally not. There are some rules for people who work on an hourly basis, but I think those vary by state. For some jobs there are also safety regulations. E.g., airline pilots and truck drivers. And many union contracts have substantial restrictions.

I think here we rely more on a liquid labor market than on government regulation to encourage sane working conditions. Which definitely has its drawbacks, but has the upside of not indulging the "lump of labor" fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
The OP said he's pulling the data from MDN (Mozilla Dev Network I think?), which means all the comments are only going to be Firefox-related. What I would want is for it to show all browsers and what version the feature is available in (but if he's automating the data pull, this probably isn't going to happen I imagine).
(pssst, andrewpi, I think theshaddow's parent comment is tongue-in-cheek.)
I see no reason why they wouldn't provide you with the support service after you've upgraded. But do take notice that the upgrade process itself might fail if you have problems. Therefore, it's a big gamble to only upgrade after problems appear.
I'd say "success" should be measured in more broad terms... "How much work do I put into my marriage/children/etc", "How much fun am I having?" etc

I'd agree, his lifestyle seems as out of balance as someone who does no work at all.
I hate that Chrome has modified the fullscreen support so that it is no longer possible to have "fullscreen", mean "fullwindow" mode. It was my absolute favorite. Tiling WM or even manual, along with "fullwindow" mode was the best of all worlds. You were an F11 away from fullscreen, but had the flexibility of having just the video in a window to do with what you pleased.
From my experience with iPhone and iTunes connect (also not a great application) I don't spend a lot of time in iTunes Connect. Are you spending a lot of time in the App Hub? What I'm getting at is that this sounds like a pretty minor thing in the grand scheme.
Stupid criminals 2011
Working on fixing this...looks like the scraper croaked on that MDN page. Thanks for finding this.
Apple: Perfecting Imperfection
Acountability- You Must Find a Support System for Weight Loss
Chrome has this and I truly and completely hate the way Youtube uses it. The only reason I switched to HTML5 video on YT was the fact that it resized to the browser window, therefore not wasting massive amounts of screen estate on my 24" monitor. The way I'd use it was to have the video on 2/3 of the screen and Vim on the other 1/3.

Alas, those days are gone, unless I figure out a way to override requestFullscreen to always return false.
I absolutely agree with this. Interestingly enough though, while ad tech is at the core of Groupon's customer acquisition strategy, its actual revenue is still very much dependent on traditional email marketing – which has been around since the dawn of the internet.
I agree with your first point. I left it out in implicit agreement.

In the article I am talking about meetings...essentially just warm lead generation. I called it conversion because that was the goal I was attempting to convert them to.

I don't think cold calling can be as effective for instant sales as AdWords because with AdWords you are targeting people searching for a solution to a problem (you already know this). I still don't have a system that can tie networking efforts to later sales (cash in bank), but maybe someday I'll pursue it.
On the contrary, they build specialized products for their clients; they just don't build consumer products. They build very complicated, extremely expensive products based on cutting edge research that they perform in their own labs, which is why this investment is solid.

I heard an IBM guy give a talk at a research conference recently, about a 1U rack system that processes 8 live feeds of traffic, automatically classifies vehicle color and type, and optionally registration, so you can ask queries like "show me all red sedan cars traveling north on monday the 8th". It was part of their better cities initiative.
Blog post on someone using Seed Edition. They sound pretty happy...

http://mcftechnology.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/seed-edition-f...
Ask HN: Is there a market for design + html/css for budding startups?
I see a lot of you guys posting your projects are using the twitter bootstrap or trying to come up with a design on your own.

I am a freelance front end developer that knows a designer w/ an open schedule. So I'm wondering if there is a market out there for a design and build out in html/css?
A Proposal for Null-safety in Dart
Heh, I do the exact same thing. Especially with Ikea furniture - I would tape the wrenches, manuals, etc somewhere not easily noticeable.

Another thing I do is behind my TV, or in the back of my computer, I create little paper tags that I tape onto the power cables. So, in case I need to unplug something from the wall, I don't need to trace the connection to know if I'm going to unplug the TV and lose all my presets, or just the floor lamp.
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In case the other thread won't bubble to the front page (though I expect it will):

CNN confirmed it was suicide: http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/14/technology/diaspora_cofounde...
The second link looks a lot like a refinery of some sort to me. The buildings are all linked together as though material is being passed from one to another during the process, and then I'd say the huge blue areas are pools of sludge left over.
Brevidy.com, a video social network, is looking for RoR designers / devs
Placing the licensing fee for these patents at the same cost as licensing WP7 seems: 1) extremely anti-competitive and 2) unreasonable.

This seems like Microsoft is still trying to stay relevant via patent litigation rather than actual innovation. If WP7 tanks, then they are still getting the same amount of licensing fees for every Android handset sold, so who cares (from their perspective) that WP7 tanked...
Sounds nice for all the people running off-grid up here who get so little precious sunshine in the winter.
Can you provide more information on where I might be able to buy such a Sterling engine? Are there any companies actively making them?
How to make your own feral raccoon suit
ITunes Match Blocking New Registrations
I don't know, man. I would rather give shares to someone who can keep my teammates and I on the brink of starvation. Does nobody remember the motto "stay hungry, stay foolish"?
Tuning Embedded Linux: When Less is More
that's the video that prompted me to ask this question! Max also said, 'Where there is doubt, there is no doubt.' which I generally agree with...but maybe entrepreneurs have a tendency to believe that they could be the exception to any rule.
Works great in Firefox for me... the screenshots on that post were taken in Firefox.
What do online communites like Reddit and Hackernews do so well?
... and the Bill Gates borg icon. ;-)
When will Mobile Safari support it?
Someone should send him a copy of bash for beginners so he can learn how to use the open command and rm -rf effectively.

When you use rm it does not put things in the trash, but removes them directly. The open command can open anything, even "hidden" things.
Ok, you've convinced me. Now what? I have time and money, so give me a call to action dammit.
One of the first things you learn when you run a company is that you own your mistakes in public. In other words, it doesn't matter who f'd up, you own it and you can't pass the buck.

Regardless of who did it, you should have proofread it, or you should have had someone else proofread it.

And even after that any mistakes would still be yours to own in public.

If it was in jest and you were the typist then apologies for responding in a serious way.
Like AdWords, cold calling has its place. I am sure that cold calling about deer hunting was more effect than Google AdWords, as (forgive the stereotype here), I am assuming, your audience preferred high touch and is not all that tech-oriented.

I would like to see the effect of cold calling vs. AdWords when you are marketing an app for an urbanite and cold calling in a major city, like New York or Chicago.

Your pitch may be carefully crafted, but between people like myself who'll hang up before you reach your first breath intake point and Do Not Call Lists (in Canada), I think that the success of your marketing campaign was a little circumstantial.
Microsoft/Nokia partnership paying off as developers eye Windows Phone
You must use an IP address in the US for book and software purchases, but, from that point, the items get downloaded to your device regardless of where it is.
Planet Earth time lapse photos from the International Space Station
And how many hours with his PR agent?
I've been running AVG for a month now on my Android and actually don't mind it. It doesn't appear to be draining my battery or affecting performance, and I like the thought that should I download something from the Market that IS in their database, it may catch it before I install. Even if it is a 1 in 10 shot.
Here's a page for Haskell: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blow_your_mind

It isn't exactly the same--some examples are two or three lines and it's more about coolness than practicality--but it's in a similar spirit, and, more importantly, also interesting.
Just add a short delay between the keypress & the search/url push, and add a check to see if the query is the same. If after a ~second or so the query is the same, do the search and update the URL.
Kent Pitman wrote a pretty thorough history: http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Condition-Handling-2001.h...
I think the the dislike of technology is just the surface of the Unabomber's views. His more interesting view is that our world is incongruent with the environment we evolved to thrive in, which causes mental illnesses and insanity, and the general discontent we all feel. Technology is just 1 of many of those incongruencies. If you read his Manifesto, there's actually a lot of things that make sense, it's just that his ways of trying to instill change was kind of lame and ineffective.
Tape Media and Disk Media: Which Backup Solution is Right for You?
News Showcase: US-Russian crew blasts off for space station
Good point. Any alternative currency must first achieve a level of legitimacy on par with FDIC-insured institutions and governments. By the time they do achieve that, I assume their board of directors will include enough ties to existing economies to make them no more an alternative (as in, capable of defying SOPA) than any existing institutions or governments.

I simply believe this is the only chance to retain freedom of speech. SOPA must be defeated.
Google Launches 24×7 Phone Support To ‘Apps For Business’ Customers
From the US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division: http://www.dol.gov/whd/flsa/

> There is no limit on the number of hours employees 16 years or older may work in any workweek.

So, disregarding overtime, yes: you could technically work 168 hours a week with no legal ramifications.
Have you considered using Ruby's throw/catch instead of exceptions? I did that for Atomy's condition system[1]. They worked great because you can just use the restart names for the throw/catch tags.

[1]: https://github.com/vito/atomy/blob/master/kernel/condition.a...
hipster is the new scenester, there is no comparison to a hippie. There are still a lot of counter-culture types out there, I consider myself one of them. I think we're just a lot less in your face and loud than what you're thinking of which is in some ways rather unfortunate.
The modern day hippie is focused on real local food, reducing waste, anti-consumerism, labor issues, etc. Look at everything that's been going down in Madison, WI to see lots of examples.
B&N's Nook used Android. MS claims to have patents that cover Android stuff. MS wanted B&N to pay licence fees for that patented technology. B&N wanted to find out what exactly was covered. MS claimed that to disclose that information (which is in a public patent) they'd have to get B&N to NDA. Eventually, a list of patents arrive, and they're all for tiny stupid trivial stuff or for really old stuff; yet MS was trying to charge for them as if they were worth a full OS.

See this PDF for a list of the trivial patents:

(http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/675085-463533.pdf)
Blue Waters Supercomputer Back On-Track
Some of the tricks behind Google+'s frontend stack
Tell everyone you know. Share it on your favorite social network. The first step is getting as many people as possible aware of the ramifications of this bill.
OK, this is an awesome idea, great to see it started. I hope it succeeds wildly - ohours.org looks like a great site, definitely plan on using it.

My background is in economics, so my concern is this: There will almost always be more mentors than mentees. So we have an immediately supply/demand problem. How do we end up limiting the number of mentees available for a mentor? Just by chance? That's rarely a good resource allocation strategy.

How to resolve this? In economics, the answer is to price the mentor's time, but paying a potential mentor is really like business coaching and it kind of removes the "feel good" aspect of this.

How about having a mentor select a charity that the mentee donates to in exchange for a meeting with the mentor? This helps to solve the rationing problem by filtering potential mentees by willingness to pay, but doesn't turn it into a completely commercial transaction because the mentor is still in it for the right reason.

I don't know how to solve the problem, just throwing that out as an admittedly half-formed possibility.
I think the success of (nearly) every marketing campaign is circumstantial, but your points are valid. Marketing is highly dependent on context.
He's still building Twitter and Square. Jobs never stopped building Apple.

Building companies goes well beyond building apps.

This comes up frequently on HN and seems to polarize people. The more it polarizes people the more on the fence I seem to find myself. I have worked similar hours split between two companies for four years. At times it sucks and at times it's great. Everyone is different.

From what I have learned from others, exceptional results require exceptional work and passion. Working 16 hours days is how it works for Jack. Ben Hogan was reported to work with a similar ethic when he started his golf career and he's now known among many as the greatest ball striker ever.

To me that's admirable, to others it isn't. Both positions are acceptable.