skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, they could be, but it's still a pretty blunt alerting system.

Depending on the organization, though, you'd have to get purchase approval on the overage, etc. That will depend on specifics. Makes for sticky questions to answer there as well, which is another argument for putting better management tools at the cloud level.
At least you understand how important it is. I graduated from engineering school in 1999 and I still marvel at the classmate in my data structures class who complained that there were too many code reading exercises on the exams during the semester-end course evaluation. It was like he thought he would spend his life writing code and never reading it, I was amazed.

I recently started programming at work after at least a decade of mostly not programming at work. My experience so far has been that reading code is easier than writing it, at least when an unfamiliar SDK is involved.
Amazon.com: Send to Kindle for PC (Mac also available)
I already have. They recently gave me the source code and I pointed out the problems. They agree that there are bugs in their code. I just haven't approached them about publishing a comment on their paper because I feel bad about it.
Did you read this: http://clojure.org/compilation
"Google owns search, but Facebook owns you. Which is more valuable for selling advertising?"

I disagree with this frame and this his implicit answer.

Facebook's advertising model is sort of inherently adversarial. Their ads have to distract you to be successful. That means there's always a tension between user experience of the product and the revenue stream.

Google's meaningful innovation was capturing your intent, so that it can give you relevant ads when you're actually looking something, often to buy. All the social stuff is in service of making that relevance part better, but it's an inherently more constructive model of advertising.

I think it also works a lot better, and is much harder to replicate than Facebook's.
I really like the design and simple UI. You have done a great job. Added the website into my "Nice design" bookmarks folder. If it was for Android I would buy it.
Reminds me of Swapshot.
Why choosing between Google Drive or Dropbox when you can use both?
Really? I was actually coming here to post how I thought this was just a well-written take on what is now a tired and pervasively rehashed "Google is dying" meme. The point is apparently that having lots of little products is bad, which stated in isolation sounds kinda dumb to me.

What is the damage to Google if, say, Reader or Blogger is never merged into Google+? They're useful standalone products and successful in their own niche, and they won't stop being so. Facebook doesn't have them, so clearly they're not "required to compete with facebook", which seems to be the core assumption.

Obvoiusly Google (like most tech companies) faces constant pressure from industry change, and IMHO they've stumbled over the past two years or so (which amounts basically to having to settle for "credible second place" with Android and G+ instead of the huge success they achieved with search, ads or gmail). But really: this article is just more piling on.
Former Terrorists and Neo-Nazis Get Their Own Social Network
Come on, really? This is clearly an edge case they simply didn't see and will probably solve once the right people know about it. The sky may be falling, but it's not because of Google Spreadsheets...
Because its a waste of everyones time if they write up a bill thats just going to get killed
Those (regional or generally crappy) places can actually be better for some people -- true, bullying for the select unlucky few can be far worse, but on the other hand in my experience the rest of the students tend to be less cliquish compared to the "a little better than average" places.
Sensory overload, from the founder of Omniture (infographic)
I'm not familiar with the STL implementation, but it seems the pop would need to be coherent with the push in an empty stack. Like if a thread was trying to pop the only entry while another was trying to push, 'intuitively' there'd be a race condition there if STL isn't thread safe (which is the whole point of the article I think).
There's a really nice jQ plugin for this called http://code.google.com/p/jquery-in-place-editor/

It takes a callback function, which I use to populate the _actual_ form, which is hidden, and Ajaxypost it to the server.
Bunnie has written some great posts about the adventures of hardware manufacturing: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?cat=7
I don't think the point is that Google is dying - that is far from the truth. The main point is simply that to "be social" Google has to add more than a layer on top.

There is nothing wrong with a bunch of separate products; the problem is that unifying them under a social umbrella involves more than doing + social.
"Facebook is the single largest threat to its long term business."

Okay, so I keep trying to wrap my head around this, but I just genuinely don't get this idea.

Facebook is huge, at the moment, but it has one public facing product. What does that product let you do? Be social, within its confines, and connect to everyone you ever knew, sharing links, photos and text snippets. Yeah, there's a lot of end-user value in that and, for as long as they can ride the power-law effects, Facebook will be an ad-revenue generating monster.

Google, on the other hand, has a suite of tools that lets people do almost everything else in the online world. Search is moving ever so slowly into the 3D/"real-world" through maps and product searches and now the goggles project (if it stands the test of time, of course).

In short, google helps its users manage their worlds whereas Facebook manages people in the Facebook world. Without significant expansion and diversification, Facebook has a much more precarious position, at least as far as producing end-user value goes.

Thus far, that innovation and expansion has been what? Facebook connect? Putting "like" buttons all over the web and tracking my every move? That's not value for the average Facebook user (for advertisers? sure, very much). So, what else? Letting me share all of my activities like what music I'm listening to, etc? All of that happens within the facebook walled garden – and that tactic makes the whole thing a bet the house gamble. As long as people stay with FB, it works, but once they drift away, it all falls apart just as quickly as it grew. (The power law can cut both ways)

I don't deny Facebook has a lot of value, but I just think that the more open framework/platform presented by Google is going to play out much more strongly in the long-run...
If you enjoyed that trailer, check out Dark Integers, by Greg Egan: http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0805/DarkINtegers.shtml
> I'm wondering if that modulo value has any meaning

It's a prime number, close to 1 billion
This sounds like what the movie puncture was about. It doesn't end well.

Still worth seeing.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1582248/
I completely agree with you, which is why the very next sentence is, "I think the next generation of finding things on the internet is going to require the use of both ends of the spectrum..."

You need both intent and relevance. Intent comes from search, relevance comes from you and your social graph.
I think the Send to Kindle for Mac is new (released yesterday?) but I only just noticed it for PC... how late am I?
I personally don't think so based on my observation of the company over the past few years. I think they're in it for the long haul, as are their investors. However, I don't have much to back up my statement, other than Matt's ideals.
Clog magazine debates new Apple building's design
People choose what to focus on based in part on the expected benefits.

I was very interested in biology in high school. Part of the reason that I ended up working with computers instead is that the feedback is much faster (compile and run) and the leverage much greater (e.g. Bill Gates got rich with a software company, not a life sciences company). Needless to say, I don't regret choosing software over biology.
"I visit a number of public and private hacking-related forums to get wordlists and hacked passwords. I often pay for VIP memberships (usually the lifetime ones) so that I can access premium content areas. "

and when the men with no sense of humor invite you for an interview with out tea and biscuits what would you say to that.

ok the are grey areas and I have on behalf of a FST100 organization broken in to a system with explicit permission and clearance from v senior manger and I also had far better contacts at BT's board level to lobby in case or security dept threw a hissy fit than most people
what do you mean here? ("pre-compiled header")

I don't know all the details, but consider that the compiler has to read the header file, parse it, make a map of its contents (its declarations and #defines and type definitions and so forth). And it has to do that over and over, for every source file that includes that header.

So if the compiler stashes away a binary representation of the contents of that header, then it can skip the slow bits of reading the text file and figuring out its contents and all. It only has to do that the next time you change the header.

edit: See http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Precompiled-Headers.html

Java, I believe, essentially does this already, because it turns each .java file into a .class file (or whatever, it's been a while). And that .class file contains all the information that other java sources need in order to know what's in that java file.

Fortran-90, a language that gets no love on Hacker News, has a nice module facility that also enables this. Module information can get stored in a binary form that other sources can look into without having to re-parse the original text file.

Going back to C/C++, though-- if your root problem is that you have big header files that appear everywhere and slow down the compilation of every module, then you may want to think about reorganizing your code to reduce dependencies. Pre-compiling the headers may remove one of your symptoms, but not the real cause of the problem.
It is a representation of the amount of commits at certain times of the day during the week.
Vendor prefixes have turned out to be unsuccessful, but letting browsers move ahead before standards is the best thing that could have happened for the web. And the web apps we see today are evidence of it.

XHTML shows what happens when you try to agree on everything upfront. You mention agreeing on a basic syntax. The browser developers generally do discuss ideas for new features in basic terms before they release them, and hopefully there's some vague sense of agreement between at least two browsers before a feature goes alpha. But agreeing on anything more than that, instead of just hammering out a working implementation, means developers end up with APIs that are hard to use and don't address their users' needs.
I'm going to get murdered for saying this, but lack of Windows support has kept me from casual tinkering with Riak.
I agree auditing isn't a silver bullet, and I honestly don't think the federal government should be doing anything here. If they care about the security of "critical infrastructure", whatever that is, they can provide funding for compliance and then demand accreditation before the system is deployed.

But CISPA, is just a way to funnel data about every person in the world into a giant government database in secret. It dwarfs the NSA wiretapping scandal and it allows companies to violate their own privacy policies and shelter them from justified lawsuits.
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What about when your deed might inspire/put pressure on people of similar stature to do the same? Ie: Gates or AH?
I don't know anything about hardware startups, but I'm curious to know if it's easier for them to recruit people than it is for software startups.
We are already testing a billing charges monitor that works through CloudWatch. Here's some more info:

http://blog.bitnami.org/2011/12/monitor-your-estimated-aws-c...
Monitor your site, and do it for free...
> That's because once the president says he is going to veto a bill, it almost never makes it to his desk.

You're being vague. The truth is, once the president says he's going to veto a bill, it never makes it to his desk in its present state. In fact, all of the veto threats outline the parts he has a problem with and those parts usually go away.

But some laws can't be fixed. They can't be fixed because they're based on a false premise.

Enough with these threats of fix this or fix that! Garbage shall not pass. As simple as that.
Profiling locally in VMware is possible, but I can't get SmartOS to work on Rackspace or Amazon.
I am confident that you've heard of us and others like us, and know how to apply.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying, too. E.g. I think your insight into Google's main challenges being design problems and the "Innovator's Dilemma"-type of problems that Google has now are very significant.

Personally, I would have preferred Google to have gone in a different direction, pushing more open protocols and standards, letting the Web bloom entire rain forests and sorting through those jungles for the rest of us. Creating yet another silo seems like "now you have three problems".

But I don't really see how Facebook's any better off.

I sort of see now that you were just responding to Page's sentiments, it seemed a bit one-sided.
If it looks terrible, it's not professional quality. Right?
There are a billion dollars worth of research money for group-think infested alarmist journals for every million dollars available from the fossil fuels industry. Your life as a climate scientist is MUCH easier if you shut up and find a hockey stick than if you take Exxon funding.
Of course, there are also tons of verses exhorting you to lead by example: http://www.openbible.info/topics/lead_by_example
In your account settings, the option is named "showdead."
That waste of time is what keeps the nation vibrant. That's the entire premise behind the checks/balances system.
I feel the same about music instruction, except that there is essentially only one language it is written in. I hated music classes as a kid because I hated (still do) they way music is written down. But I found out later in life I have a decent intuition for music and melody. From what I've read of the Suzuki method, that sounds like the absolute best way to do it. Start with the ideas, and only later worry about how they are written and read.
Task 1: Tell us what it is.

Task 2: Tell us why it's better than Redis.

Meanwhile, at least they spell "key/value" correctly (it's not "key-value").
the first thing I thought when I read the summary pricing page was that it does 2 checks for free and then stops. that obviously can't be the case - but that was what I thought.
Introducing the home computer terminal (1967)
A pretty good comparison of Dropbox to Google Drive
US DOE $100k contest for best Green Button energy usage apps. Due May 15th.
Two checks means you can have two checks running at a 60 second interval for free, forever :-)
Right, but the premise of your last sentence is that "unifying them under a social umbrella" is a requirement. Is it? I mean, Google's talked about that, but not in the sense of unifying literally every tiny product. Yet the linked article seems to be arguing that if you can't do that, you can't succeed at "being social".

Basically it's circular: Google can't be social because unifying to be social is too hard because social requires complicated unification. Where's the demonstration that "being social" requires "complicated unification". What if they cherry picked the 8-10 things that make sense for social (e.g. Docs/Drive are obvious candidates, Reader/Blogger not so much).

Like I said, it just seems like a weak argument that happens to look strong only because it aligns well with the current "Google is dying" zeitgeist.
Manuel Neuer Biography
Agree completely. Optimizing for some fictitious hourly rate doesn't sound very meaningful.

Personally I try to optimize for "overall lifetime impact". Sometimes that means picking up pots from my parent's house. Most often it means going without pots.

I guess you can also optimize for "likelihood of success in current venture" or even "present value of future earnings" and get similar results.
It looks like only commits on branch 'master' are reflected in these graphs.
Isn't that what Google Buzz was doing? That didn't turn out too well...
To try and shine at least something of a positive light, there is a wide difference in overall fuckededness among different government agencies.

Yesterday I was sent the testing methodology requirements document for a specific agency that was littered with footnotes pointing mostly to TAOSSA. That was good to see, at least.
(Careful with the link)

This page https://github.com/torvalds/linux/graphs/impact freezes FF12 on W7/x64 for several seconds, and then FF asks if to continue running the script or if to stop it. Continuing re-freezes Firefox.
Yes. In general as a teacher, I've found that those that love a subject are tempted to teach it by presenting conceptual overviews they arrived at after they actually understood it themselves. They have these "holy shit" moments where whole areas of seemingly disparate ideas converge, and they think that presenting that first will help others get to their level.

But in fact, you have to figure out what will bring people to an understanding (and it differs depending on what type of thinkers they are), not what their understanding will bring them to. Or at least, you can't just do those overarching explanations.
Essentially Apple could begin treating the developer program as a "University", where acceptance is based – at least in part – on merit. Given how much money they have in the bank, it's certainly doable.
Launch Culture Gets Toxic
Crisp and to the point. Likes it.
And here it is: http://www.iangilman.com/software/seizetheday.php

Link from the bottom of a technical interview about the pics: http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Q_A_w...
Nike Shox
A Web Retailer Buys The Perfect Domain Name. Then Comes a Letdown.
Who is living off their (bootstrapped) startup fulltime?
This is a spiritual successor to this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1924909. However, I am hoping to just hear from bootstrappers today.

Show us what is paying your bills. Inspiration for those that are not there yet.
Not that it excuses this so-called security, but for the insecurity question, you could just lie. Only problem is, then you have to remember your lies.
You were right that it is artsy though...

(And in your defense, having humans manually describe images in the image recognition domain seems so...unmodern, that your assumption was probably fair)
"a design philosophy of sending data to apps, not rendered pages"

I think we need to invent a term for this. How about "AJAX"?
"Google+ is difficult design; it is not difficult engineering."

Either dcurtis@ isn't an engineer, or he's a much, much better engineer than the rest of us. : )
Not master but the selected default branch. A dropdown or so would be nice.
That's simply not true. C.f. the clever hans effect, or all of the recent research on drug dogs:

http://www.erowid.org/freedom/police/police_article1.shtml

I think that should be sufficient to prove that beliefs can be transmitted non-verbally. You are trying to argue there is some distinction between belief and action, but the only reason any 'action' has an effect is because it transmits a belief. What you are saying is that the non-verbal transmission of a belief could not have an effect on outcomes, whereas the verbal transmission of a belief can. This makes no sense.
Free full text of the 1991 article by David Lykken, "What's wrong with Psychology, anyway?," can be downloaded from an online reference link.

http://cogprints.org/371/

The article shows how many of these issues have long been on the radar screen of psychologists at the minority of universities (for example, the University of Minnesota) where the psychology departments train graduate students in the general scientific method. There are some very amusing, thought-provoking, and shocking examples in the article.
Steve Jobs building NeXT
I have a VPS on buyvm which includes 2TB/month for $6. Each extra TB is another $2.50. This is not a special case, you can other providers with very good pricing for data transfer. I don't understand how the difference in bandwidth pricing can be so large. I'm also certain that Amazon doesn't pay as much for bandwidth as the guy from buyvm.
This hack does not date from the 90s, but from the 80s.I have seen this hack first in a Computer Chronicles episodes presenting the Amiga 1000 in 1984 or something. It's way older than 90s.
The Low Risk Way to Start a Business
These guys are brilliant, and a lot of people respect them.

Do you really think they're going to go from being amazingly smart about investing money in companies to being morons about using the capital for charity?

I suspect they'll act like Bill Gates, not like the UN, in how they deploy their capital for charitable purposes. They will invest in things which have huge returns, just not necessarily returns they can directly monetize.

Ending polio, malaria, etc. probably creates bigger returns than even their Instagram investment. It's just that the returns go to to a billion poor people, vs. being concentrated in a company.
Looks like you are :P

To be honest, some charities do annoy me, but not the idea of charity in and of itself.
I believe that was in reference to what she USED to do, to avoid the slacker stigma. Now she works less hours, proudly.
I would say yes, In fact I don't think I can recall the last time I went for a job and they didn't give me that waiver to sign.

And that isn't just software jobs, in fact even if you are just looking for jobs most recruiters will encourage you to sign it before they put you forward for vacancies.
Designing a Chat App for iOS - Nice walk through visual design
clearly a PR ploy. it's a waste of capital imo. Reduce your management fee and carried interest income and return them to your LP. or re-invest that capital in start-ups to create even more jobs.

edit: it's their money and what they do with it is their business. but they're in the venture capital business, not in the charity business. their job is to deploy capital and maximize returns to their investors (they create jobs and companies in the process).

Horowitz shakes off the potential for such troubles at Andreessen Horowitz, saying that half of firm earnings will be more than enough to satisfy its partners' lifestyles. "We don't play polo," he says. "And our skills are better suited for doing this than working full-time at a non-profit... I think this works out better for both us and the nonprofits."

Again: If they think they're earning too much. reduce their management fee and carried interest income and return the money to their LPs.
When "Changing Behaviour" is your value proposition
This doesn't invalidate anything I said. The sections which were removed were designed to compel the executive branch to take certain actions. The Obama administration believed Congress should not have the power to compel the President to take action. Instead, the administration is only allowed to indefinitely detain citizens without trial in the final bill's section 1021. Unlike section 1021, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld only applies to citizens arrested overseas like Hamdi (in a literal battlefield) so long as they may contest their designation as an "enemy combatant".

A veto threat is not a veto promise. Just because most Americans oppose a certain provision doesn't mean the veto threat is conditioned on removing that same provision. The proof is in the handling of the NDAA bill text.
Value Created versus Time Spent - The trouble with interruptions