skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, its the nature of science. That's why theory is so important and why physicists pay as much importance to non-experimental features like "beauty" when judging theories. Experiments cannot be trusted unless explained by theory!
Any comment on the patent application that jandrewrogers pointed out?
Since they compare it with redis, I wonder if this can handle data bigger than memory. The other properties seem nice :)
I double the welcome! Love the product and glad to have you as part of the team
my response to the article and many of my friends who've had a similar experience with online dating boils down to 'ur doin it rong'. here are some tips:

* CAREFULLY write your profile so that it will attract the kind of person you'd like to meet. be playful, fun, and funny.

* DO NOT BE OVERLY SERIOUS: unfortunately there's still a bit of a social stigma against online dating so people are often already on their guard and will already be wary of everything they read. so keep the profile and messages light and playful.

* okcupid has a great feature that lets you see who has visited your profile, use this to your advantage. you've already carefully written your profile to attract your ideal partner, so see who it's attracted. if someone has visited your profile a couple times already, the chances that they'd be receptive to a message are much higher

* do not get hung up on a single person. "OMGZ my soulmate didn't reply to my message! IM FOREVER ALONE!!" well, if you two were truly compatible, don't you think they'd find your profile and message interesting?

tl;dr be playful, have fun, and don't take yourself too seriously
Drones and Privacy on Scoop.it
I'm obviously against any quizzes in an interview; it puts the interviewer and the interviewee on unequal footing, but that's not the point in my comment. I'm not optimizing for fizzbuzz here. I'm optimizing for "I'm not some guy off the street here, here's some proof". I'm optimizing for "let's skip past the bullshit".
Just yesterday. go watch the videos now. I imagine the next lecture will be out on tuesday.
This was an interesting point in the context of comparing YC to a large company:

Comparing himself to an air-traffic controller, Graham says much of his time is spend making introductions and helping the YC community solve problems within the network

Most of the large companies I've worked with are missing somebody in the "air-traffic controller" role. It can be very difficult for individual employees to understand all the resources that are available within the company, or who they should contact with a particular question. YC might actually have an advantage in this area.
Why Codecademy is Doing it Right
EInk Screen Acts Nearly Like An LCD Screen
Hmm....you act as if you have looked at it, but you haven't. You simply lie.
I doubt they would be using your IP address to track anything, since a house full of people can be behind the same IP address. I don't know if they use cookies to track you if you're not logged in, but to be safe I would use incognito mode if you are worried about that.
I once got caught up on sleep over a period of several weeks. I then started falling into the segmented sleep pattern like in the article.

I didn't get out of bed when I woke up, but I found I was extremely lucid. As soon as I could use the time for problem solving, I stopped waking up :(
Being part of community of talented people is a great thing. In addition to having a large pool of people to ask for help though, I think a great benefit is that YC companies help each other out without being directly asked. For example, other YC companies might try to make a conscious effort to use Hipmunk to buy flights, or Airbnb.

In addition to trying to use each others' services, YC companies will probably often give each other feedback about what could be improved about each other's services.

Compare this to the alternative of trying to launch a new service, gain customers, and get feedback on your own.
The point was - you can't check everything beforehand. No matter how hard you try, there's always a non-zero probability that a bug will "prove Einstein wrong", or drive people into a ditch, or find horribly mismatched partners on a dating site, or explode toasters and kill puppies.
Here's another, different concept:
https://github.com/jnelson/Sublime-Text-2-icon---buddha-halo
[EDIT: comments/critique welcome, it's mine, I'm not a good designer]
I think it is probably you-DAH-city
youtube.com/html5
"Gaug.es for Android is built on top of the awesome Gaug.es API as well as several great projects for Android development that are also available on GitHub:

JakeWharton/ActionBarSherlock for a consistent, great looking header across all Android platforms.

JakeWharton/Android-ViewPagerIndicator for being able to swipe between content, traffic, and referrer pages.

JakeWharton/NineOldAndroids for the AirTraffic view animations.

jayway/android-maven-plugin for building the app and running the integration and unit tests."

A fine demonstration for how important Jake Wharton's work is for the Android community. If you want to use modern Android design patterns across older platform versions, it is hard ignore his projects.
edits don't seem to work so here:
Think of what happened to RIM in India.
No, it actually doesn't (or this discussion wouldn't be happening).
Do you really think someone is going to fake a GitHub account, including thousands of commit messages? I just don't buy that. To me that's definitely enough.

If you take a look at my github account you might think it's nothing special. But what you'll also see is that I have several commits per day, despite working a 40 hour/week job and a 15 hour/week job. So at minimum it should be obvious that I really like coding. If you think my code sucks I'm fine with that, please don't invite me to your interview. But at least the company I apply for will know who I am going in.
Hey, Katherine, congrats and best of luck to you. Once I get me hands on that beta invite I'll have a better view of the product, but I think ShopLocket and similar will do great things for the little people.
We compared it to Redis as it is one of the many key-value/document-database systems that provide the high throughput and low latency properties that make it comparable to HyperDex. We are expanding the systems we benchmark against, aiming to compare against as many systems as possible.

HyperDex is designed for bigger-than-memory data.
What are the odds that your MVP needs load balancing and auto-scaling? It's far more likely that your app could run in a single process on a single box for a very long time.
You should spend a second on http://www.uservoice.com/helpdesk. We've never said that UserVoice was a replacement for a support system, and we've actually very clearly stated that we think customer-powered support doesn't work as a standalone solution for 99% of companies (blog.uservoice.com/entries/customer-powered-support-doesnt-work).

UserVoice Feedback is a tool for getting prioritized feedback from your customers, not providing customer support. And how actively you respond to feedback is not something controlled by the tool, it's controlled by the company. We encourage our customers to actively respond to feedback, but we can't force them.
Novelas colombianas
Novelas colombianas capitulos, episodios de novelas colombianas, german es el man, cafe con aroma de mujer, pasion de gavilanes.
They didn't claim to have proved Einstein wrong. To continue the weird analogy: They looked for the bug themselves, and couldn't find it, and then asked other people to find the bug.
they sort of have this with extended permissions (which can be turned off by the user), but he's right in that its too complicated and not communicated to the user well enough to actually be useful
This is awesome, finally they have implemented real Word Highlighting (a lot better than the current ctrl+d feature), now you don't need to rely on half working plugins!
And they presented this openly for it to be checked. Einstein was not proven wrong because of this and Physics textbooks were not rewritten because of it. This was a great was to handle something that seemed very suspicious and trying to find out if it was correct. They did everything on their end and then presented it to the public for further scrutiny so I am not sure what you wanted them to do.
Devil's advocate: The app doesn't get traction in the first place because it's slow and lacking features (because you spent time scaling instead of coding features).
Very cool. I just switched to a Galaxy Note and this had crossed my mind.

I'm also open to any GNote stuff like this if anyone has!
I view DRM as a toy or trinket that has been used to get content providers to agree to digital distribution. It would kind of be like securing your house by placing a sign on the front door saying, "sorry this door is locked"

I think the real intention here is MS, Netflix, etc, wanting to distribute & sell video to iOS users without paying Apple a cut, and they need DRM outside of apps.
A fairly good example of the confederated system running website hosting using CPanel. By default every machine hosts its own mail servers, web servers, databases, ......

Surprisingly (or perhaps not) its actually very effective for cheap hosting. Machines can handle quite a lot and rather than having many points of failure and failovers, you have one, and only one, single point of failure for the system (excl network connectivity/power/etc.)

Every couple of years something goes horribly wrong, but it turns out most users can deal with (or rather -- have no choice and are willing to accept) a five-ten hour downtime every couple of years.
Look, This Is What It Comes Down To
Big successes and sustainable businesses aren't necessarily the same thing. This is an important distinction because a sustainable business is a viable option for many, and "big success" isn't. And the biggest ones are going to leapfrog such schemes anyway. It's like American Idol for programmers. What you're doing is interesting, but it's questionable whether it's promoting the right values.
Building a culture that counts
You’re not paying the tax rate you think you are
My Kobo Touch, released last year, can do the same stuff. What's so special about not refreshing an eink display?
Beginning OpenGL ES 2 on iOS
Hopefully they weren't applauding the dubstep, rather the compelling notion that with a tool like Overtone they can trade in their programming skills for musicality. That and the other million cool things that simply fall out when your synthesis, composition and performance are all representable in a formal language...
Human males 'won't go extinct'
That's what I was getting at. It's appears to be a CP system. I wish all new distributed databases would have a nice little badge that says, "CP", "AP" or "CA".

Whenever they claim to be distributed but not subject to CAP, I automatically become skeptical.

There's nothing wrong with a CP database; HBase is a CP database and it's quite popular.
I love ASCII-IPA. But I'm hopeless at remembering the pronunciation.

It'd be great to have a simple thing for pronunciation; maybe a plug-in that lets me highlight and right click ascii ipa or even unicode ipa.

(http://alt-usage-english.org/ipa/ascii_ipa_combined.shtml)
Google helps me live like an Englishman among savages
GitHub is the best resume. I've been saying that for years! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1472985
Still not fixed as far as I can tell.
The TC story doesn't seem to back up the headline "It's Nonsense," it just shifts the blame to the car owners.
I don't get how the story remotely supports the headline. Nothing in Tesla's long-winded statement says the bricking story is not true.
This is why I'm gunning for BrowserID and so should you. At least someone is trying to solve the problem and doing a good job of it.

It doesn't abuse user trust and when it is fully integrated into the browser (I imagine it as a replacement for those lame http auth dialogs), it'll be a no brainer.
Ok, I'll bite Mr. Corporation Replacer. Where does the long-term R&D investment come from?

Microsoft Research alone outspends Y Combinator by a factor of 50,000,000. And they're thinking 10+ years out. Money aside, their internal expertise and contact network far exceeds "the guy who made Django."

Kudos for what you've done, but when you start talking this way I feel obligated to point out that you're a grain of sand on the beach compared to the Fortune 50--or even CMU/Berkeley/MIT.

You're doing something totally different. Own it. Say what you're for, not what you're against. Say what you're building, not what you're killing.

The fact that people who interview you keep painting you into these corners means that the general public still doesn't understand what's going on with YC. Less hyperbole, more concise vision. Your essays often achieve this, your PR should too.
Wondering if Myrtle Beach has Master Baiters...
A Wowser Moment in DNA Sequencing
If anything, this confirms the other post. Making the parallel between standard automobiles and the Tesla makes some sense to me, as does comparing motorcycles to the Tesla. I feel like even given these comparisons, it does not seem acceptable that they can permanently brick in the way that they do. I can understand why the owners would feel upset.
I like the idea of replacing traditional corporations, and YC is certainly good at what they do, but how much of this success is just a result of internet startups having no physical products?

I'd like to see more places like Incubation Station come about - http://www.theincubationstation.com - or hear about similar incubators for consumer products if anyone knows any.
First you fail over to another server, then you repair the original failed server; this takes repair out of the critical path. This generally requires no changes to an app as long as it's crash-safe. There's plenty of software to do this (e.g. Heartbeat, Red Hat Cluster) but because it doesn't work in the cloud people forgot about it.
It looks like business-as-usual in Barad-dûr, but don't let the looks deceive you. It seems that Isengard grew up to be a formidable enemy - without Mordor admitting much weight to it until recently.
Research suggests that it does. The book "Spark" by John Ratey goes into this in depth. http://www.amazon.com/Spark-Revolutionary-Science-Exercise-B...
This is a pretty nice implementation of an old design concept that has merit for modern distributed problems. It is worth studying as a model for distributed systems.

I am aware of a couple commercial distributed systems that use it (not this implementation but the underlying algorithm). Several organizations seem to have reinvented it over the last five years.

Organizing data in this way was studied in the 1980s but was poorly suited to the computing systems of the time. Relatively little was written about it because it was viewed as a dead end and modern literature has all but forgotten about it. Most of the research was done by companies rather than academics. Designs like this have fallen into the blackhole of "if it is not on the Internet then it doesn't exist". Back when I was studying these models I found more crusty old patents related to these types of models than relevant papers on the Internet. It will be valuable to have some modern literature pertaining to these designs.
Seems more like the big goal is to become a big success in their own right. If that doesn't come about then either a fairly big exit or a talent acquisition is much better for all parties than calling it quits.
Can you clarify the phrasing of your cloud issues? Do you mean there is no solution for trust/privacy issues, or do you mean there is no solution for licensing?

As for paying, this is a non-issue, you are going to pay either way.
The only scenario. In essentially every case of a node failing in an active database, clients will be communicating with it. When talking about durability, you have to assume things are failing in operation.
Every time I Facebook Connect to an app, I check my profile that nothing was posted. Even if Facebook does say if the app will post on my wall or not, I am just confused on what is going to happen next.

It is one of those things that prevent me from signing up at all.
Where's the nonsense? This doesn't seem to debunk the claim that if the batteries go totally dead you are screwed, out a $40K battery pack.

> Tesla batteries can remain unplugged for weeks (or even months), without reaching zero state of charge.

Maybe I'm trying to find a conspiracy here, but the batteries generally aren't unplugged; they are connected to the car and it's drawing a small current. That drain from the mostly-idle Tesla's electronics are enough to flatten the battery faster than if it was truly unplugged.
Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag
Here's one:

Rather than brick the battery, if it is parked and below a certain level, release a normally open relay that completely disconnects the BMS from the cells. Recovering from this state would require special charging and recalibrating of the BMS (possibly done at a shop) but it would be better than bricking the pack.
Modern science - open source before Open Source was invented.
Big successes and sustainable businesses aren't necessarily the same thing.

I'm not sure what you mean by "sustainable businesses," but if you mean profitable businesses, big successes necessarily are that.
I-voltmeter bluetooth voltmeter for under $50.00 via kickstarter
Thanks for the book reference. Looks interesting. If it's one thing I believe it's that there is not a single approach to anything. This seems like a good book for me

I do believe there are things that large corporations can do well and they do have their place. I hope that with technology advancements smaller companies can compete is some spaces traditionally well suited to these larger organizations.
The Y Chromosome Now A Fraction of its Original Size
Rather than denying that being old is a real thing, and that there are downsides to it, I like to try to identify what those possible problems of aging are and address the ones I can.

Decrepitude I address by running regularly and trying to curb my over-eating. It's a cliche but I really am in better shape at 33 than I was in my 20's. This is mostly because I didn't take care of myself at all until I was 30, but most people can improve their eating and exercise habits.

Another problem is your mind and/or memory fading. Well it's been shown that this can be staved off by playing games and staying mentally challenged. As a developer this isn't a problem so far, I still play games every day.

What about social isolation, and losing friends and family until you're alone? I've always been a bit of a curmudgeon, so this is one I need to watch out for. I have to make sure to maintain a healthy group of friends as I get older. So far, so good. It helps that I have a lot of younger siblings, and it's unlikely they'll all die before me.

How about getting out of touch with modern society, arts and music? I don't like Lady Gaga or Nicki Minaj, but there's still new bands and new albums coming out that I do enjoy, and I stay aware of even the things I don't like and can understand why other people do. I may shake my fist and say "You kids today have no taste!" but at least I know why it is that I feel that way, and there's never been a time where I liked all new music anyway. Same goes for movies and TV.

It also goes for technology; I don't cling tightly to the tools I use today or used yesterday. I keep abreast of new technology and am ready to move to new platforms, languages, etc. when something better comes along. I'm not going to be caught with an obsolete skill-set because even for things I don't use every day at work (Ruby, Node.js), I stay at least familiar with them. And this is easier and easier to do the more disparate technologies you have under your belt.

So yeah, aging is a thing that can suck. But you can do what you can to minimize the bad parts.

And there's still more good than bad if you're doing what you want in an environment that rewards you.
Actually I don't consider lack of exposure to fizzbuzz a problem. The whole point of it is that it's trivial to implement, even if you've never heard of it before. But a non-programmer (or a "programmer" with no grasp of simple algorithms) will struggle with it.

It's basically a "secret handshake" that non-programmers simply cannot do, and competent programmers can figure out in less than a minute.
Two reasons:
1. Logs filling up with login failures from drive-bys masks legitimate/focused hack attempts.
2. If there's a security vulnerability found for sshd, non-standard port choice reduces the risk of drive-by scanners.

Non-standard ports don't stop dedicated attacks, but they do reduce noise that can obfuscate a dedicated attack and can reduce your exposure to uncommitted attackers.
So you're saying that he would be a better prospective employee if he spent less time working on his primary job and instead spent more time writing other code? That seems totally counterintuitive to me.
I agree with you that FB Connect has tremendous potential, but I disagree with you regarding how negative people view it.

Using FB Connect for Greekdex has (seemed) to be effective. You must consider your audience--Greeks, even at UPenn, are less worried about their "sensitive" data in comparison to a startup that targets techies who are very aware and paranoid about their data.

I wrote about how companies should "stand on the shoulders of Facebook," feel free to read about it here:

http://blog.greekdex.com/post/17396768249/stimulate-the-econ...

EDIT: I made a bold statement out of pride that was relatively unrelated to the discussion.
I thought the story was a bit overblown when it was first posted, and still do, but I don't see how you can call out another article as "nonsense" without refuting a single factual claim it made.

"The Tesla Bricking Story? It's Overblown"... okay, yeah... but "Nonsense"? Prove it.
Minor nitpick:
Fonts render weird on chrome/win7. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/OXJUn.png
I think maybe only certain versions of Ubuntu are supported? It won't install because I don't have a repo that provides libgoogle-glog0
That makes sense. I was starting to wonder if this was the end of flash for Mozilla on major websites like YouTube, but 5 years is a really long time for support. Hopefully, we'll see an emergence of widespread html5 use by then and not have to worry about having proprietary web technologies working.
Joyent whitepaper on File System Latency
This story, in general, deserves some love. I'd love to see telemetry results from other judges--I've heard mutterings that this is pretty endemic, IGF and otherwise.
I was just following an online calculator, will plead ignorance on the physics but I think the basic point holds for some gauge wire.
The not-so-nice disadvantage that your cold spare can't actually do any work (like serve read traffic) and that if your application itself corrupts data DRBD will dutifully mirror that corruption. Hopefully the spare can still perform well with cold caches, but I guess a slow site is considerably better than a dead one.
Ask HN: Why am I still writing server-side code?
This may be a crazy question, but I'm getting an increasing feeling that every time I write a new web app, I am writing the same server-side code over and over again. On the other hand, the JavaScript-heavy client-side needs careful control to get the interactions just right.

So, why do I still have to write server-side code?

Isn't there some service out there which I can spit data at from the client, and then read data back? Perhaps set some kind of data integrity rules? Some basic built in user auth system and permission control would be good.

Does this not already exist? If not, why? How hard can it be?

If it doesn't exist, and is possible, lets build it!
Where does the long-term R&D investment come from?

Mostly from the same place Microsoft's R&D budget comes from: the companies' own revenues.