skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd be great to let users download plugins. There might be small communities that do regular searches where certain instant answer hacks might not make sense to the vast majority of users.
I desire something along similar lines, TonidoPlug plus a rich app store. Owned by me. Plug in and log on simplicity. The option to mirror it up on a VPS rented by me if/when it needs a fatter pipe than my home connection. And mmoc (massively multiple online collaboration) instead of Facebook et alia sounds great to me. If someone wants to buy/use data about me, I would like them to have to come negotiate with the source.
Picking Apart Malware In The Cloud
Great article, these metrics are much better than those provided by the PerfMon. The "Signal waits" metric was new for me.

I'd really appreciate it, if people stop calling MS-SQL Server just SQL server. This way the title is a little misleading (to me), I was expecting a more generic article about obtaning SQL server metrics.

PS. I do realize that this name is more or less accepted among the Microsoft oriented DBAs.
In the video, no vision/bundle adjustment is used, just GPS, IMU and other sensors.
"- But why do you want to get into YC?

- Are you kidding? It’s an awesome opportunity: you get to mingle with smart people, work on something exciting, get funding and mentorship, investors will chase you to give you money, and you’re much more likely get acquired in the future.

- That’s not what I meant. I know YC is a great place. But why do YOU want to get in?"

"why do YOU want to get in?" The question was answered.
Exactly. Also, the idea that you have to have higher ideals to become an entrepreneur is laughable at best. It's about business, not self realization. If anything, this piece made me sympathize with the friend who approaches YC with irreverence and gusto instead of fear and angst of not doing a startup for the "right" reasons.
Call To Action: Make LESS Native in Modern Browsers
Anyone who has been through an incubator has probably heard this line:

"Most of your companies will fail. And now that I've said that, you're all feeling sorry for everyone else in the room."

Honestly, I encourage my friends to take risks and try new things, even if I have inner doubts about their ability to pull it off. I do so because I think that trying something really, really hard improves you skill set -- even if you end up failing.

If a friend said, "I'm going to try and get into the Olympics!" would you tell them all the ways they're likely to fail? Or would you encourage them to try and achieve a dream? The key is not understating the risks; be both encouraging and honest.
Revenue could be fatal: Troll Advice for Entrepreneurs
It saves the local copy after you apply a filter, so at the same time it is uploaded but probarbly before the user is "finished" with the upload process (screen 2 after applying filter is to add a caption, and while that is happening the photo is uploaded).

But then again that is like writing erotic short stories in your twitter apps drafts and be outraged that they are saved online.
Would this fall under wiretapping? Other IM services have blanket statements on monitoring all and any communication in their TOS, this just takes it to voice and video.

I guess what I was thinking of was something akin to Google AdWords, not the "they want to control the world" conspiracy theory edge.
Uhm. What?
Gitorious is a rails app. Open-source, you can deploy it internally for free.
Gitlab, last I checked, ditto.
Inspiring, though short on details.
Hope they do a Mixergy interview.
Cloud in a Box? Meet IBM’s PaaS in a Box
I LOL'd when I read this. It is for this reason I try to talk to my wife about my projects as little as possible.
How nice. On my first day 27 years ago as a programmer, I followed the team to the bank op center cafeteria at lunch time. I loaded up my tray and went to join them at the long table. As I sat down in the only empty seat, someone said, "That's Linda's place." I looked around and saw no Linda, but they were all staring at me with hostility. I dumped my tray and went back to my desk. Some years later during a review, my boss nailed me for not being more sociable with my colleagues. I told him I did not want to upset Linda.
Never tried Rescue Time but sounds interesting. Masterbranch is gamifying the experience of working on a software project, focusing the metrics on your software rather than where you spend your time (of course this helps with your productivity too)
Diamonds, Rings, and Waves: Why Correlations Aren't Enough
Sort-of. Gitorious the web site sells stuff, but gitorious the server software itself is free (AGPL): https://gitorious.org/gitorious
That test is very cool. A better test may be to count down from 10 lights changing and try to click exactly and time when the last one changes. Under perfect timing (no variation between each light lit) I would think the average person could get the last light much better than the 250ms I am getting on the rttest01 test.

Now, to expand this scenario, add random delay between each light. first 10ms, 15ms, 50ms, etc. Then see how well a person can click when that last light lights up. This could be a better test for measuring 'Human Response Time vs Jitter Delay' or what ever the appropriate term is that we inherently use subconsciously in FPS games.
I guess that one application would be camera tracking to implement automatic compositing of 3d models into videos.
GW2 is probably an attempt at that, but the problem with "work smarter" is the Internet.

I remember the early, early days of EverQuest. I had little directional notes and constantly referenced the map that came with the game. Then EQAtlast came out with beautiful hand-drawn maps and key NPCs. Then things like Illia's Bestiary, &c, continued to lower the bar of entry. MMOs have been democratized, and it makes "work smarter" much harder.

The closest you can probably get to "work smarter" is "work skilled". And there are gamers who pursue that route. For instance, Skunkworks was a guild that was 81st in the US to kill Heroic Lich King. This was on an 8 hour a week raid schedule (compared to 'hardcore' guilds that raided 2-3 times that long, in a week). So there's definitely skill there. But those are the exception rather than the norm.
Ask HN: Oracle patent claims
Would it be possible to create a standard that fits the API that Oracle is suing over? Similar to how EcmaScript is the standardized JavaScript.
Many frameworks overload the POST operation and allow the desired verb to be specified in the data.

Rack::MethodOverride does this for Rack-based apps by using the value of the _method parameter as the http verb.
How The Third World War On Debt Will Influence Your Business
Massive offshore wind turbines to float in waters over a thousand feet deep
Time to get a new server
The Socially Awkward Founder
>It worked for Thoureau, Ghandi, and Jack Dorsey.

Its Gandhi, not Ghandi.

I don't understand why so many people misspell his name.
Make you own DuckDuckGo plugins
Except they also have confluence,crucible, and fisheye, which is very useful for my organization because we can't force everyone to be on git, and we have tons of people on subversion and cvs too, some who want to play around with mercurial and people on git too, in addition to using crowd/jira/confluence currently. No other company that I know of offers that many solutions, and it's a shame you think atlassian should only focus on jira, because everything already works together really well.

Also, Atlassian is battling github on an entirely different front using bitbucket.
This works until your VPN provider gets an order "please start logging for user PaperclipTaken and turn over all logs for the coming 30 days to $BADGUYS".
Zendesk's design got ripped off.
I was checking out some property management software for a friend and noticed the buttons looked familiar. Oh yeah, I thought Zendesk. I inspected the element and found they stole the sprited image from Zendesk and didn't bother changing it.

https://skitch.com/lessallan/8ar7f/sprite-home.png-1000x3225
https://skitch.com/lessallan/8ar7j/vacation-rental-software-complete-guest-management-and-online-bookings-for-vacation-rentals-inns-bandbs-and-hotels
https://skitch.com/lessallan/8ar7q/sprite-home.png
> Automatic differentiation

This is extremely cool. The documentation seems to be a WIP on this, can anyone comment on what kind of cost functions are supported by automatic differentiation?

EDIT: it would be also interesting to see how this compares to Theano [1], which also does symbolic differentiation and can JIT to native code and GPU. It is a largely more generic framework, but I'm not sure how well it can handle large sparse problems.

[1] http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/
Thomas Kuhn: theories are whole systems and therefore they are not true or false
Religious groups don't have much power here and the rules still exist.

But blood donation rules are fucked. I am banned for life from donating blood in the US -- because I spend more the 3 (or is it 5) years in Europe (I was born here). Apparently every european is considered so likely to have mad cow disease that you are better of not getting our blood at all.

Like I said, the rules are ridiculous.
I am sorry, but I do not care about that.
Neither would anybody in thirty years.

Universal does not equals "millions of people all over the planet". It means transcendence.
This is against many poplar MMO's EULA's. Specifically since World of Warcraft is the MMO with the largest player base you would get most of your users form there. The EULA for that game specifically prohibits setting up any sort of match making service. I would expect a C&D if this venture takes off.
You can define define arbitrary functions. You are only limited by the operator overloads defined in jet.h. Let us know if you think something is missing.
Here's bandwidth pricing: http://drpeering.net/white-papers/Internet-Transit-Pricing-H... Let's say 100x drop in 10 years. (But broadband upstream certainly hasn't gotten 100x faster!)

Determining the cost break-even point between P2P and client-server is more complex and I haven't seen any public analyses of it.
Who has ever said IP6 didn't need firewalling? That sounds insane... And where is this IP6 NAT you speak of??
> I didn't see many folks on HN complaining that Facebook/Google/etc. shouldn't take an advocacy position on SOPA, so it strikes me as odd how controversial Facebook taking one on organ donation is.

That's because Facebook and Google had legitimate business interests involved in SOPA. Unless Facebook is getting into the organ donation business, I don't see how your example is relevant.
Y'know, it's funny, but I was actually thinking that big orgs aren't going to take Stash seriously priced so low.

At least at all the 'big orgs' I've been with, $9000 a year is going to get them laughed out of the building for being too cheap.
If funtrepreneurship doesn't work out, there's always the more time-tested consulting version, the funsultant. Or, when all other options fail, the default, funemployment...

(Yes, these are all actual words people use, though for different things. Punning on "fun" seems irresistible. With apologies for the self-link, more on the 2nd one: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/funsultants_and_gamification.html)
If it is possible to be smug while telling someone "you're worth more than you're charging clients", guilty as charged.

You're not against weekly billing. Ok. I am against hourly billing. The logic I perceive in your argument is, "the client is paying me for X amount of code". I'm telling you that that's not all they're paying you for.
I had lots of problems too. Even after getting my confirmation number on my second try, I saw no sign of the ebook, and when I tried to login the site didn't have me registered.

The fourth try finally worked, and the confirmation page was slightly different from the second one (which looked like it had gone through but hadn't.)

On the working confirmation, my order number was a link and there was another link to print my confirmation.

I wish the checkout page was not "single page" with tons of AJAX. I felt like I wasn't making progress that way.

It's more of a long article than a book. Only one sample app is explored. Under "Source Code / Downloads" here, you can find the source used, which is probably about as good as the book itself for at least learn-by-example-source coders like myself:
http://www.apress.com/9781430244882

The link to download the source in the book is wrong and so is the table of contents pagination in the PDF version at least.
This unquestionably lowers the barrier to entry for crunching large data sets. I'm looking forward to messing around with it. Are there any other alternatives to this service? Something like a PigAsAService or HiveAsAService offering?
>This also seemed to me an example of the opportunism of HFT, where the HFT shaves the spread by a penny or two during calm markets, but withdraws (and exacerbates issues) during volatile and troubled markets, which seems to me the point in time at which liquidity provision is most valuable.

HFTs thrive in volatile markets. not calm markets. Those HFT firms that stayed in the market during the flash crash made a killing.
The point with Skype isn't that its doing something a Cisco device won't do, but the fact that its highly ubiquitous. Maybe IT managers aren't the target for Skype, but when a customer or someone else wants to do a Skype VoIP call... you need to use Skype.
This is interesting. Is it worth it for individual persons to purchase $1000 conference tickets (plus travel) in the vain hope of meeting new contacts?

I was in a somewhat similar situation a few days ago: I'm considering re-joining the startup community after five years of practically doing nothing and I found myself looking at The Next Web conference tickets. They were comparatively cheap at about EUR 500. That's not a prohibitive price tag for me, but it's big enough to trigger thoughts like "is this really worth it or am I throwing time and money out of the window here?" In the end I didn't go to TNW, watched a few keynotes online and I have to say it's probably just as well. On the other hand, who knows it might have been awesome ;-)
Awesomepreneur in me says you should take that inner voice that makes you doubt because of public opinion out back and shoot it. Do what you need, to get the job done in whatever plan and stay focused. Most will fail, some will last but wounded, few will stick around and all of them will blog about it. Just focus on getting the job done, even if it's a local-centric social network for pets with sepia instagram avatars. Well, maybe I went too far, but keep focused on your own work, not others.
Gitorious is AGPL. You can find the source code at https://gitorious.org/gitorious/
Ask HN: Where do you find good podcasts?
I'm always on the prowl for new tech podcasts to listen to but I'm not sure where to find them. Some of the best podcasts I listen to have come as recommendations from friends and are shows that don't rank highly in iTunes or come from 5by5.tv. So HNers, where do you go to find good podcasts?
Streptococcal Infections
same here. I hope linux boxes save Microsoft some money and stability.
Great edit. I was starting to wonder what all the opposition to PATCH was about.
This is absolutely true. People are prone to think that if you start a company and it is "for the wrong reasons," three years later you will be bankrupt and want to kill yourself.

Likely, if you start a company for the wrong reasons, you will find out very quickly and will quit within a couple months. You will pursue more standard forms of employment and be FAR happier about it.

I say, if you want to start a company for whatever reason... do it!
Okay, Atlassian, we get it. You think that GitHub is your biggest competitor. You're worried about the idea of source control being the focal point of developer productivity, because it makes issue tracking a secondary feature, and not a primary ure. And this threatens your biggest product, Jira, which is already kind of a mess to configure for source control. It's the reason why you want to own BitBucket and directly compete with Git, and it's the reason why you're adding this to your ecosystem -- so that you can own these aspects customers' projects. Customers who need source control hosting first would start with BitBucket, and customers who need it after they've project-managed and roadmapped everything in advance would realize late in the game that they need something like Stash.

It seems like trying to capture every kind of use case with a smattering of different products will ultimately be Atlassian's undoing. Yeah, you capture more of the market in total by taking this approach, but it also means that you have to maintain additional products, many of which are at odds with each other. There are so many technology businesses failed that tried to be "everything to everybody" that it's not even worth getting into here. I think they're better off identifying a strong, unified voice and promoting a single right way to handle end-to-end software productivity. But if it works for them, whatever.
One of the points of this kind of art is the discussion that you just participated in actively yourself.
Rumble - SF Bay Area (Redwood Shores)

Lead/senior/mid-level engineers, data scientists, BI, producers, artists, designers, writers, and more:

http://www.rumblegames.com/careers

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We have an all-star team of game industry veterans from Zynga, Activision, BioWare, Blizzard, Playdom, Electronic Arts, Turbine, FooMojo and RockYou. Check us out:
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We are backed by Google Ventures and Khosla Ventures, and recently announced our first title, a Flash 11-based 3D multiplayer action RPG -- check out the trailer:
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My account finding tip would be to avoid focusing on the amount that they charge, but get references and find out how much money they saved their clients. Cheap accountants generally provide less value in my experience.
Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (Chef Edition)
Even if a startup fails helpfully everyone involved learned some lessons. I know people who have been founders or have worked in startups that didn't succeed, in-spite of that have gone on to do a variety of interesting things.

Companies fail for all sorts of reasons that are often well beyond their control. Being part of such a team is hardly the kiss of death provided you can explain what you did and what you learned.

You lose 100% of the games you never play. Go into it with your eyes open that more than likely you won't be the next instagram, but you will develop many skills can be broadly applied outside of starting a company. With the right attitude it doesn't matter if you strike it rich, because frequently good ideas(supersonic air travel, concord ) lose and a lot of seemingly bad ideas have made people wealthy(pet rocks).
from what we get from the article: no, they are replacing the bit about connecting over NAT, which went through some random people, making it go through some servers they own directly.

If you and your peer are on mutually accessible networks the data will still be p2p in the same way (or not, as before).
I wonder what examples one could dream up where manipulating that thread data structure in an application-specific way would be a win. i.e. some kind of domain-specific threading model.
But that is a pretty atypical usage pattern. So, not the rule we should expect when we are talking about the general "future" of technology.
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I guess you mean arbitrary expressions, just using arithmetic operations and the overloaded functions (I see that abs, log, sin, cos, ... are supported).

What happens if I try to use an if-then or a for loop depending on one of the variables?
Angry Birds trip to space tops 50 million downloads
JavaFX 2 vs. HTML5 for RIA
Salt Lake City, UT. - http://www.lucidchart.com

LucidChart is an HTML5 diagramming application that proves web apps don't need to be pale imitations of their full-featured desktop counterparts. Real-time collaboration and full versioning history aren't our only advantages; users tell us they like LucidChart because it's faster, easier, and smoother than Visio and Omnigraffle.

We need great engineers who want to work in a Silicon Valley startup, but would rather live 15 minutes from the ski resorts in Utah. We have one of the largest Javascript codebases on the Internet supporting LucidChart's client, and are using Scala, PHP, node.js, MongoDB, and MySQL to power our servers. Experience in one or more of these areas is helpful, but we're most interested in people with inhuman problem solving skills.

We currently have 14 full-time employees, including 8 engineers. That ratio reflects the focus of our organization -- we are a software company, and we live or die on the strength of our engineering team. We think we have the strongest engineering team in Utah, and want to add at least 3-5 people this year.

All hires are made by unanimous decision of the current team. If you join us, you can know that everyone here wants you here.

Send resumes, github profiles, or whatever else might be relevant to jobs at lucidchart dot com.
Is this available in SF only?
Exactly. Good way to put it.
Creativity and the nautilus
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They are trying to solve the awareness problem for their customers. They are not trying to solve the awareness problem for the whole world. (Since this is impossible, I do not hold it against them.) You do not have them caught in a contradiction.
Zmags CEO Talks Future of E-Commerce and Marketing (Think iPad, Not Amazon)
Back in the day they had a finger up on some random id Software server. They were just as present back then as they are now, it's just that the people without knowledge of usenet and Unix can interact with them :)
I'd love to see some original guitar/music technology. Guitar Center and distribution of creative music technology could be a lot better.
MetaLab is very high on my list of "people who do awesome work". They've been plugging away at products for years now, I remember Billy He / Ali Bosworth announced one of their first products on HN - ballpark (http://getballpark.com) + (hn thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=557028).

You can catch an interview with Andrew Wilkinson here: http://5by5.tv/founderstalk/28

I've had the opportunity of having the Flow product lead (Luke Seeley) speak at my conference - seriously smart guy.

Congrats to them for growing to $500k+ per year on their own!
Well, that's certainly something I won't be participating in.

Without debating the organ donation issue (which is complicated beyond what most forums can effectively discuss), this is blatantly using Facebook as Zuckerberg's personal platform for social change and a lot of personal information can be inferred from the response to this question. I find neither of those facts acceptable.
Because your 'we' in this case assumes your reader is male. Again.
That's quite similar to how it is with C# and F#. Writing C# code just feels _so_ verbose and cumbersome to do even the most trivial tasks.

And yes, the F# compiler is around 1/8th the speed of the C# compiler, at best - possibly much worse.
The Pink Collar Future
Not really an SEOmoz fan (nor do I have an opinion on them), but the insight into their deal was very welcome and it's good to see that they've got big plans.