skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I suppose Lifeguards should spend their time writing predictive drowning software?
I'm worried about the same things that you are worried about. They are legitimate concerns, and they need to be addressed. No one is saying they are unimportant. This legislation is a vehicle for addressing them. This is also why I personally believe that the extra protections found in the Senate version of the bill actually make it more relevant than the loosely-worded HR2930.

No one is saying that regulation isn't important. And I didn't blindly throw my support into this without doing my research. I don't want to see individuals get into things they don't understand, but I do want people (who are properly educated and who understand the risks) to be able to make up their own minds, support their neighbors, and help bring new ideas to life.
Mobile first means Web second, not Web never
OpenStack isn't an open source AWS, it's also vm management. It works with XenServer, KVM and ESX. I can't speak for Aeolus, but OS had 3 components last I checked (Nova - the app server, Swift - storage, and Glance - image catalog). I think they were working on an auth module (Keystone?) and network virtualization (Quantum).

I don't think they support migrating between heterogeneous cloud types (which is a complicated beast), though. Does Aeolus really do that?

Love what you said about code + contributions vs. lip services!
I'd just e-mail them and ask them. (And hope that your email doesn't fall into the spam box :) )
UFC President Hacked After Going toe-to-toe with Anonymous
Facebook is much more lenient with fake names, and it's much less of a risk for a user to have a fake name on Facebook--all that get's deactivated with if a fake name gets caught is the Facebook account, not their Gmail or any other services.

True, if caught with a fake name, your @facebook.com e-mail will probably be deactivated, but not as many people use @facebook.com as do @gmail.com
True, I guess I am just floored by the fact that if I would fancy to start working on the next IBM Watson, I would actually now where to start. Whereas if I fancied trying to develop a new vaccine or other medical cure, I would probably have to study for several years first.
The ten pence/cent, split second, decision-making tool you already own.
Blind spot of software development methodologies
Zynga Accused of Ripping off Another Competitor's Game
I would have liked to see some other factors weighed as well such as type of CPU used for systems, disk IO, service APIs, management tools. Considering that ~10Mbps was considered to be "blazing fast", I find the internet IO benchmark to be spurious. I just ran the same test from a Linode in Dallas and 18Mbps.
Why should the FBI be able to shut down a company without proving that the company is illegal first?
Does the Sqlite database in Google Chrome support any text search?
Eh, I'm not sure I'd call him "serious". He's definitely pretty good on some civil liberty issues. Rather less so if you happen to be female, non-white, or gay. Even if that wasn't the case, his understanding of economics is sufficiently loony as to exclude him from serious consideration, at least in my view.

In any case, a belief in civil liberties shouldn't even be a discrete political position; it should be the bedrock on which all political positions are founded. When one candidate defines themselves as "pro-liberty" -- as opposed to all those other guys -- the game is already lost. Should they win power, they'll need to claim extraordinary powers in order to reinstate "liberty" -- undermining democratic institutions in the process, and thus the actual mechanisms that guarantee liberty.

In fact this is more or less exactly what happened with both Bush and Obama, and I'm pretty sure that the same thing would happen with Paul. His message is: "I will give you liberty" -- not "I will ensure that the institutional checks and balances which act as guarantors of liberty are maintained and reinforced". In fact he rarely shows anything other than contempt for those institutions. Therefore I do not believe he would be a friend of liberty.
Surely you don't want that. Only terrorists use it to share their evil plans. ;-)
The "spam" and "ham" IMAP folders correspond to a certain file or folder(1) on the server. Email users have the learning commands in crontab. These are as simple as "sa-learn --spam /path/to/spam_folder; sa-learn --ham /path/to/ham_folder".

(1) file if the backend is mbox, folder if the backend is Maildir.
MegaUpload was taken down because they hosted their email in the USA
Listen: National Archives Releases Newly Discovered Post-JFK Assassination Audio
> When you require massive concurrency and very small response times, SQLAlchemy simply requires too many resources. There is no way to avoid that.

For the loading full objects use case, you can stretch it much more by using query caching and hopefully Pypy will help a lot here as well. But you can ditch most of the object loading overhead by just requesting individual columns back, then using just the abstraction layer as the next level, then finally feeding your query into a raw cursor. But these are optimizations that you apply only in those spots that it's needed. You certainly don't have to ditch the automation of query rendering, the rendered form of a query can be cached too.

I also certainly agree that data access or service layers are a good thing, and perhaps you have a notion that "using an ORM" means "the ORM is your public data layer" - I don't actually think that's the case. But in my view you still want to make full use of automation in order to implement such a layer.
Venture Capital is one of the standard exit opportunities for I-Banking analysts along with Private Equity, Hedge Funds and Corporate Finance.

VC is in large part a sales job (selling potentail limited partners on your future returns) and anyone who can survive two years as an analyst is both intelligent, conscientious, has a prodigous capacity for work and is likely personable. All of these are helpful for being an entry level VC, who acts as coffe boy, secretary, research assistant etc.

But that's not the prize, the prize is impressing somene enough to actually make partner, for which the roadmap goes Here Be Dragons.

And remember, over 90% of VC funds lose money. I would be mildly surprised if the prestige (and return) funds didn't have more diverse backgrounds than the money bonfires.
Memristors will have a major impact on hardware architecture in the near to medium term. They promise permanent storage not just without the costs imposed by SSD (much slower performance than DRAM), but also random access without the costs imposed by hard drives (variable seek times depending on how data happens to be laid out on physical discs).

IMHO the impact on software architecture is likely to be much less pronounced at first, because software ecosystems -- OS kernels, libraries, utilities, applications, etc. -- can evolve only gradually over a period of many years. Consider that Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie reportedly created the /usr directory because they ran out of space on a 1.5MB hard disk (!) more than 40 years ago (!), yet we're still living with this directory ( see http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074... ).
This story really shocked me. That's a tweet I could easily imagine myself sending. I would seriously think twice before making a trip to America now. And with the recent stories about the FBI developing software to monitor social media I can only imaging this getting worse.
I think something like what Goldman Sachs did with Facebook would work.

You create a Startup Mutual Fund...where regular folks can sign up and deposit money into.

The fund then uses that money to invest into companies. i.e. they'd issue a notice that a week from now they'll be investing into Startup Z and each share would cost $X(actual cost per share + 10% fund operating premium)

If the round is limited, the shares would be assigned on first come first serve basis.

Essentially a venture capital company but without requiring huge investments to participate.

Then also create a marketplace where shares can be sold on the secondary market.

Fund's revenue would come from a) fund's fee when purchasing b) fund's fee for secondary sales c) yearly membership fee.

And this way you essentially just have the one investor and those who want to invest small investments won't need to get accredited to get into the game.
Paying $140-$190 per month is already ridiculously expensive.

I pay about $3 per month for a very low-end xen VPS. Sure, I'm not running anything at all resource intensive on it.. but if I was maybe I'd spring for a higher-end VPS for $6, or if I really wanted to get crazy I'd find a really solid one for about $20 a month.

At $140-$190 a month, you'd better be getting a bunch of high-end dedicated servers and fantastic support, or you are getting seriously ripped off.

Hell, given the very modest needs of most small startups, having to shell out even $20 a month is a ripoff.
I use www.glesys.se, they have hosting at two locations in Sweden, but also New York and Amsterdam. I'm quite happy with them for the 100 SEK i pay per month for some MFA sites.
Squirrelmail is indeed ancient looking. Years ago when I last ran my own mail stack (postfix + cyrus) I wondered why there wasn't a gmail-clone mail webapp. Perhaps there is now?
> First they say that 56% of companies started in 2004 were still in business in 2010. Then they reference the VC rule of thumb that 4 of 5 companies will flounder and dismiss VC companies as being "riskier".

The fact that having VCs lowers your chance of success seems lost on them.

It is perhaps due to a conflict of interest: Harvard is invested in several VC funds.
I am aware. Still rather amusing however.
IANAL, but isn't this situation equivalent to a drug ring bust?
Democratizing startup investing is a much bigger problem than democratizing very simple speculation, so simple & straightforward a child can figure it out. Look at google. Its trading around $580. Just 2 weeks back it was well over $610. So you say, okay in a month it'll be back above $610. The 1 month otm call on goog is $10 for a 600 strike. You check your pockets. You have $10. You figure, you plonk down $10. Then check back on March 17th. If goog crosses $610 you make the difference. Here I'll even do the math for you: (580,-10),(590,-10)...(599,-10),(600,0),(601,-9),(602,-8),...(610,0),(611,1),(612,2)....(650,40) etc. so that's the list of tuples, one has the google stock price & the other the money you make. So you break even at 610 & after that the sky's the limit. So can you bet $10 ? No. Why not ? Beats me. You can put down $1000 for a 100 bets. But you say, I don't want 100 bets. I just want 1 bet. 1 bet is $10. I have $10. Let me bet. Nope. Sorry. You think this will change anytime soon ? If you can legalize single option trading, you can structure any startup investing on top of that. Many people will lose many $10, but some people will make $10 too, and life will go on.
What I meant was that Jennifer Granick posting an article to a blog hosted on a Stanford server is different than Standford Law posting an article.
yeah, thats what i meant
Google is the New England Patriots of the Internet
If your business is destroyed the moment they seize the servers, then you've already been "judged". I'm not a law expert, but I'm pretty sure a big part of modern judicial system is that you have separate people investigating and giving the verdict. Right now the FBI, for the business itself, was judge, jury and executioner.

You can call technicalities and process and mandates and whatever, but the facts stand: Megaupload is dead, and there was absolutely no trace of a fair trial.
There is nobody becoming programmers because it is a poor profession to get into.

Locally (outside the US), I see job postings that require "programming gods" for the job, that top the pay scale out at $70K. The US is reported to fair better, where programming deities can earn over $100K, but mediocre programmers still do not earn that much from what I gather.

It takes a lot of work to become even a mediocre programmer, and when you get there, there is no room for advancement. The programmers job is to automate itself away, yet, unlike the commissioner, the average will never see residuals on the gains from that automation. They say most programmers leave programming by the age of 35 because it is a dead end.

Don't get me wrong, I love the field and have no regrets about entering it. I started programming in high school because I was fascinated by it, and the fact I can make a decent living doing what I love is amazing. I do, however, recognize that I could be much further along professionally if I would have poured all those hours into other pursuits.

And that's the kicker. Most people are not going to naturally love programming like me and, I'm going to assume, you. Why would they want to spend their formative years on interests they do not particularly love, to find themselves in a job that pays decently, but has no real room for advancement beyond leaving the act of programming entirely?
The history of the internet is contained within this post.
I've only ever designed one casual game, but most of the award screens look pretty similar in every app.

IMO this is just a lame attempt at gathering some press. Though, admittedly I haven't (and most assuredly won't) play either of these games so I suppose my opinion isn't authoritative.
What if the recipient's user agent does not display images? At least with a text-based signature, the message still goes through, even if it isn't fancy.

Actually, as a recipient, I'd be annoyed to have this trigger gmail's "show images?" dialog, only to find upon choosing "display images" that the only thing I get is... a marketing message from the sender.

That said, I still love the idea!
How the hell is the on the front page of HN?

The Sun is a rag newspaper from The UK, it is barely factual at best.

I have for some reason lost my ability to flag stories, but..."flagged" in spirit.
Yet financial institutions are flocking to Django like everyone else. My goal is to try to keep the relational flame alive, I guess.
When I am trying out/learning a new library or framework, I do a lot of tinkering, looking around and reading the source code. Coffeescript output is definitely readable, but you need to take a tiny bit of time to translate the coffeescript output, to the actual source so you can read it, checkout the comments etc to understand how you are supposed to do something. This added bit of time adds up quickly for me.

For example when I was first learning backbone, which is only around 1000 lines and very well documented. I was constantly reading the source code to understand why something wasn't working for me or how to implement something. Projects typically aren't nearly as well documented as backbone, making understanding the sourcecode even more essential.
Ironically, I just spent a bunch of time this weekend looking for MtG apps for Android. I installed and tried M:tG Tracker (only used it as a life tracker so far, but it worked well) and couldn't find anything else useful.

I wonder how much trouble it would be to build something like Decked Builder (OSX) for Android tablets?
That idea sounds pretty far-fetched. 3D-printing is another step closer to the ideal of self-sufficiency; similar improvements in agriculture and energy production all put us on the path toward resuming a kind of modern homesteading, allowing us to eliminate the role of institutional middlemen in meeting our basic needs.

Apart from the dubious economics of a Guaranteed Minimum Income, such a program would maintain the role of institutional intermediaries in our lives just as self-sufficiency again becomes possible.
I'm not quite sure what happened to the Bill of Rights, perhaps it's been confused with the bundle of toilet paper..
I have a quarter rack at the same place for many years now. I make a point of stopping by in person to get the feel of how they are doing business wise from time to time. Just by walking through the office, talking to the employees things like that. They are actually on the expensive side but I like that it keeps out the riff raff that could tax the network or create problems (when I say expensive I mean for bandwidth..)
Neat idea, but their bandwidth overage charges are brutal. .80c/GB?
Spacing of facts or study does help understanding and generalization, though, in those studies which specifically looked at that: http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition#abstraction
Audio engineering Abeltron live can get down and dirty and I rember a high end reverb in sound on sound where you efectivly implimented custom reverbs in asembly language.
US Customs is famously stupid.

One journalist wrote that he had border troubles in America before 911, Ireland during the Troubles and East Germany during Communism and both the Brits trying to suppress an insurgency and the communist secret police were more polite and professional than US Customs and Immigration.
Thanks. I have resubmitted it, assuming that is ok to do.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3529536

I have also been spending some time reading over the Viacom vs YouTube case. The parallels between it and Megaupload are striking - the difference being that Megaupload is a criminal case while YouTube was a civil case. I found that the YouTube internal emails were much more incriminating than the MegaUpload emails. I plan on writing up the details of the emails and other parallels between the two cases sometime this week.
That is my thinking. However, I think the proper analogy would be a drug bust where one of the drug ring's warehouses' lease was up. Now, the government is perfectly within its rights to go through the warehouse and log and dispose of any illicit drugs found, but I don't think the government is allowed to do a wholesale liquidation of all the materials found in the warehouse. The materials should be held in escrow until the end of the trial.
We did this for my old company, with Cyrus IMAPd and spamassassin. The mail directories are regular directories on the server, and then it's just a cronjob. I regret that we didn't think of Google's priority inbox, which would have been trivial to implement!
While I agree with what you're saying, I think that the main issue here is that the US does not have a sense of humor. This is a major disappointment for upcoming comics hoping for a cushy job with the Fed.

Seriously though, what they said was stupid, and obviously not protected speech (if said here in the US), but it seems a bit overzealous to ban them from the country based on a bad joke. This, to me, seems analogous to those unfortunate people who mention 'bomb' or something while in line at the TSA - usually saying something to the effect of, 'I really can't take my cupcake through security? It's not like it's a bomb or something.' I think that we should be spending our resources dealing with serious threats, not people with a poor sense of humor.
Another thought occurs to me, does this along with the signing of NDAA mean that you can be indefinitely detained for something that you tweet?
Thats a good point. Wow imagine how many harddrives they must use, Megaxxxx was huge. Must be a decent % of their revenue gone.
How is it that Kickstarter has managed to stay mostly free of fraud? What's to stop someone from raising $50k with a slick video and then disappearing?

Crowd funding is a good idea, but Kickstarter has the generally right approach: small amounts, framed as donations rather than investments, and reward(s) rather than an ownership stake.
Clear: A To-Do List App With A UI From The Future
There are multiple ways:

* use a service like http://mailgun.net/

* install http://lamsonproject.org/ on your server and define a forward from your hosted solution to your server

* run your own mail server and use something like procmail to execute scripts or combine it with lamson/something similar
If anything, OpenStack is more of a competitor to oVirt, though there are significant differences between the two.
I didn't mean to imply that OpenStack was "open source AWS", just that it's analogous. Of course OpenStack does more, is more interesting (because it's open source), and is only going to get better.

Migration is an interesting point: The aim is definitely to do non-live migration, possibly using Snap[1]. At the moment you can recreate configurations on different clouds[2].

[1] http://mo.morsi.org/blog/node/356
[2] http://aeolusproject.org/about.html
How I kept myself organized while creating PostWarden
PLC's i would imagine
Show HN: Track who has viewed your Facebook posts
What if you got a 'startup investor license' with the same effort and cost as getting a real estate license? That way only the motivated who prove some basic knowledge can participate. A side industry of investor courses and test study materials would spring up. Even as someone trying to raise funding I would like to educate myself with such a course.
Solving Unemployment using Quantitative Easing
Sorry my mistake, I was talking without looking at the datasheet.

From the datasheet

>all quiescent operating current is
returned to the output terminal. This imposes the
requirement for a minimum load current. If the load current
is less than this minimum, the output voltage will rise.

I've used an LM317 drawing less than 2mA, so I assumed it was possible (in hindsight I must have used the solution, below).

The solution is very simple however, make a separate parallel circuit that will draw at least 2mA. This can be accomplished just by placing a resistor of appropriate value between the Vout and ground.
Redis now uses the same journaling for durability that Mongo does. What you get with Redis is complex atomic ops and transactions, but at the cost of not having sharding.
WalmartLabs Cultivates Startup Culture Within The Walmart Mothership
Apple, Google, and Facebook all make around $1m revenue/employee and employ around 100,000 people. (Profit/employee is about $300-400k, incidentally.) While the average SV engineer isn't working at one of these companies, doesn't this mean that there are perhaps tens of thousands of engineers who are on average producing $1m/year in revenue?

(If not, it seems like you need to argue for an extremely skewed distribution of the value that individual engineers are adding based on quality or area of expertise.)

If one of these $1m revenue/year ("1MRPY") engineers starts a company with n 1MRPY engineer friends, is it so crazy to suggest that they might produce $x * n million worth of value over x years? (Even if they just build infrastructure and never turn a profit?) Or that they might be worth $4 * n million in revenue over a four year earn-out to an acquiring company?
Idea for GNU's /bin/true new option: --false, that would make it exiting with 1.
The tech IPO everyone's (not) talking about
The Enterprise Cloud Is, Well, Cloudy
Another excellent argument to use encryption. It seems every couple of weeks there is another high-profile incident where a lot of trouble would have been saved if people had taken the time to set up Enigmail.

I would also love to see some advances in client-side steganography that could be usable as easily as GPG. Probably the closest thing we have now is TrueCrypt hidden volumes but that doesn't really work for email.
How fast does that site load?
Programminsg is easy its working out what you need to program to solve the is the hard bit.
Poll: Do you want start-up investing democratized?
Since the petition page (http://wefunder.com/petition) assumes you are for the argument, I wanted (them) to take a step back and first democratize the decision of petitioning itself. Original post on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3529045