skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any know solutions to preventing this behaviour?
Yeah, that's the point. Legality and the sale price of $5 are the distinguishing features, not the fact that it was potentially available for free, as the article implies. It would have been available for free regardless, just as all of the other albums on that list are. From the consumer's perspective, downloading over a file-sharing network is the same whether it's legal or illegal. Making it legal to share it that way does not induce significantly more people to do so (some, yes, but not many); it only means the people who would have anyway are not infringing.

So I think that factor is less significant than the sale price of $5, which does induce more people to buy it than a higher price would.
Salesforce.com Crashes
LTO4 holds 1.6TB (or 800GB if the data is already pre-compressed - ie JPG's or MP3's). Write speed of a theoritical 120Mb/sec (about the speed of gigabit ethernet). So unless you're running 10gigE these days - if you try and backup a server to tape through a network connection - the tape speed's probably not the bottleneck.

So slightly better than the QIC tapes.

I don't think anything compares cost wise (per TB) to a fitted out SL8500 / TS3500 or similar with LTO4..

Also - 10TB isn't that huge these days in terms of a backup environment..

All that being said - For anything under about 2TB/night I would be still be looking at getting away with just using disk (and replicating the backups to offsite).
This whole "must follow speaker with camera" thing has _got_ to stop. Just stick the camera on the slides and leave it there. _At least_ get both in the frame. This is pushing unwatchable with him pointing to the slides all the time, the audience laughing at the slides, he's referring to code on the slides... Kill me :/
He draws an analogy to faculty hiring at universities in his post. Is his description of faculty hiring accurate?
I plan to get this one soon: The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
I have a lifetime account on livejournal. An LJ friend actually bought it for me (I was very surprised). I love the service and use it as an online diary. It has novelty to those of us who want that. Plus some of us started with it many years ago (2001 for me) and never left.
I really enjoyed that essay; might I suggest you post it as its own item (if it's not already well known amongst the crowd here)?
wasnt one of the non-technical reasons dalvik was chosen so as to not having to pay royalties to sun over the JVM (and related technologies)?
i think an even more important "class" would be economics and the basics of principal agent problems... managing risk is just one way of managing the problems that can be explained by economics!
This looks great, bookmarked it, but I am surprised that neither Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs or How to Design Programs are there.
Just to clarify, from the comments: this is not the default GC in the latest build of JDK 7 but can be enabled with

-XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseG1GC

It's also reportedly slower than the default GC and likely to crash so it's not a good candidate for benchmarks just yet.
Start-up Opportunity
Hello Hackers.
I've been planning and networking for a prospective business since last summer. We're going to be a new kind of media company, and I'm happy to say I've crossed the line of researching and making connections and it is now time to GO.

I'm looking for someone who wants to build a website. It doesn't need to be pretty, and it doesn't have to scale. It just needs to work. The site will integrate three web applications under one domain, leading users down a linear path from one step to the next. The apps already exist, two are open source, and none of them have yet been brought together the way I envision they could be.

Pligg.com is the benchmark for the skillset I need. Pligg is a news aggregation, social recommendation template which is very related to what you'll be working on. Could you have built Pligg? Can you break it down for me and explain how it works in conversation? Would you know how to expand on it? If I needed you to do the same for Reddit, which is open source code in Python, could you?

Since nothing states a serious intent like cash, there will be compensation for your work. I won't be paying $250 an hour, but you can expect several thousand dollars for each completed phase. Perhaps more importantly, we'll see if we like each other and want to continue developing the project together after the prototype is finished.

I'm happy to sit down with anyone who is interested. If you're a hacker and want to build something new, you should hear what I have to say. You can reach me at my e-mail below.

startgig@hushmail.com
Macworld keynote features iMovie creator, who Apple refused to identify last year
Let’s kill the password anti-pattern before the next web cycle
Announcing DebGem (beta), the RubyGem-to-Apt conversion service
I think one of the best things that has ever happened to me was running into people at university who were unquestionably, irrevocably smarter than me.
"... wiki what? ..."

ahh forgot you can edit, thx.
You Clean Up Well How To Be Best Dressed At A Cocktail Party
I honestly had to check the URL twice, because I was shocked to see articles from The Onion here.

It's scary to think that our economy was so strongly based on financial irresponsibility.
...I hope I never become so enthralled by money that I value it above my (or anyone else's) life.

You need to be rather fond of money to became a billionaire.
I'm surprised there is no group in the Washington DC area.
Those thousands of dollars went to pay for the time of the people who created the work that I paid for. Kind of like people pay me for my time.
I have a 5d and use flickr, where I typically upload jpegs at full res and the highest quality settings. It's not uncommon for me to run into flickr's 10 meg limit. I'd say the average jpeg size that I upload there is more like 7 mb.
Ask YC: Is there a chart for iphone sales based on the price?
I remember seeing an article (I'm 95% sure it was on news.yc) that had a graph showing how popular various apps are at different price points. Does anyone remember what the link was?

I've searched for it for about an hour but haven't found it yet.

Thanks and happy new year everyone.
Great reply. We also heavily use S3, and one nice advantage (although not free) was the recent enabling of their CDN named Cloudfront (http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/) helped latency on requests for assests from S3. It was nearly turnkey to enable & benefit from.
hmm... 10 years ago I don't remember thinking that fondly of JITed runtimes - sure they worked in a server context with long running apps that had time to warm up, but not so much on the desktop.

I guess its a tradeoff - to a user a JITed app would appear a bit slow at first, but get faster the more you use it (plus you would then need to probably persist the JIT codes, as you close/open apps all the time in android) which has more complexity. A fast runtime like dalvik is the same speed pretty much all the time.

Yes, it is conventional wisdom, but I am not sure if phones are as fast as we think yet. Sure my iphone runs at what, 450Mhz ? which is quick, but we may forget that JIT'ing of client side apps only recently became fast enough (at least to my taste).
Yeah, it's quite a sketchy methodology. I know his stats are false because I come out with a 150 IQ, which I definitely do not have. Plus, Mensa doesn't consider the modern SAT or GRE to correlate with IQ.
In the UK, all channels are typically transmitted from all transmitters (with some regional programming on some channels) and except for some locations where there's too much spectrum overlap and some channels are missing. Right now, they're in transition to digital (DVB-T) so that's probably not quite true anymore, as some transmitters don't have analog channels anymore. Transmitters are usually also too far apart to be able to receive a good enough signal from more than one.
Comparing job growth to population is a really poor measure.

What you are measuring is (on the books jobs) / (estimated population). An illegal immigrant contributes to the denominator (perhaps fractionally, depending on how accurate the census is), but not the numerator if his job is off the books.

Jobs/people fails to account for demographic change. We are getting older, and old people work less. Our bubbleicious prosperity also allowed women to stay home if they wanted.

Unemployment is a much better measure; unemployment is (# of job seekers) / (# of workers + # of job seekers). It excludes people who no longer want to work from the denominator, which counting the population does not. I don't know if/how it addresses illegal immigration, however.
Good point. But, don't these grads also focus more on the effect of words than their meaning?
actually the same extends to the iPhone SDK, which is virtually unusable without a mac.. i use the word virtually since you COULD run OSX on a PC by doing all hacks yourself but not really a headache free process...

sure apple is not forcing anyone to pay a tax, but then what IS a tax? technically apple's antiques are causing a reduction to the consumer surplus... is that better?
Is digital TV immune to these analogue problems?

DVB-T uses QAM, which is susceptible to phase problems. However, given that the information is digital, a decent tuner stands a much better chance of filtering out the weaker component. You definitely won't see ghost images: either your bit-error rate is too high for the built-in redundant coding, or it isn't. So either you get MPEG decoding errors, or you don't.
I'm not saying that most people would commit suicide in that situation. Just that the loss is more about social concerns than lifestyle.
a tendency towards suicide in these cases would be more prominent in societies where a lot of emphasis is placed on social status.
Why do you need a tv license?
I think your example is a little too limiting for this paradox to take effect. The paradox is based on people guessing what others are going to do given a set of options, where your example basically sends them through in the most efficient manner possible by suggesting that one person is going to be willing to wait 80 minutes when that person knows that others are able to do the trip in less than 10 seconds.
I personally haven't seen a lot of 7+mb JPEGs from a 5D but I'm sure it's possible. When I output images from a wedding at level 10, they generally range from 2 to 5mb. My editorial work usually gets exported as tiffs, so those are huge.

I'd consider saving your JPEGs at level 10 in Photoshop (max is 12). It's unlikely you'd ever need or notice the difference. In fact, my print lab specifically requests this.
I thought it was almost impossible to corner the market? Isn't that exactly what Porsche did to the Volkswagen stock market?
Here's a collection of links about the puzzle, including various methods of solution and other self-referential puzzles (the author's link in the article is broken):

http://faculty.uml.edu/jpropp/srat.html
He's in the UK, like me, hence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Uni....

See, Bush was right, we really are all socialists in Europe ;)
Just curious, do you keep your own backups as well?
Do you have any contingency plans for if Amazon's services go down?

I'm not trying to be cynical, but I'd hate to be in the position where Amazon has your business by the balls if something goes wrong. How do you guys deal with this?
Unfuddle does it. And I love it.
Obama Will Announce America's CTO Tomorrow
Investors Strain to Sell Start-Up Companies
recalling what he wrote about the sale at the time, it seemed like he enjoyed the coding, but was not happy about all the administrivia it took to keep the site running. he felt he was passing off all the boring parts of the job to six apart.

must not have worked out that way though, because he didn't stay at six apart very long. i vaguely recall him writing something about how he'd been doing livejournal so long that it had finally gotten tedious for him, and he was ready for something else. could be true, or it could be that things didn't work out with six apart the way he'd hoped.
HN Idea: Hard limit 5 comments/day, 2/day for new users
As the site grows, you lose signal:noise ratio.

So, perhaps setting a maximum number of comments per day would help keep comment quality high.

Perhaps 2/day max for a new user, and a limit of 5/day total regardless of age or karma? You would give up some good points, including the occasional good back and forth. But it'd cut off arguments and I think people would be hesitant to write a silly quip, "good post" noise, or argue/flame if they know they're using up their limited breath by doing it.

Personally, I'm for quantity over quality - I'd rather learn five interesting points across fifteen good comments than ten interesting points across 70 comments, less than half of which are good. There'd have to be some testing on the numbers, but experimenting with some kind of comment limits might help hold back the tides of mediocrity.
Ono
So a good blog would offer a methodical or comprehensive approach to assessing the merits and weaknesses of a product/startup. It would present coverage that blends facts and opinion based on critical analysis. These sound like good goals: who do you read that aims for and achieves them?
Well, the minis have used mobile versions of the "Core" CPUs in the past, and the "P" (25W TDP, 3M cache) and "SP" series (like "P" but socket-less, 6M cache) were only recently released to accompany the "Centrino 2" platform. There's even a quad-core mobile Core2 out. (except it's got a TDP of 45W, so calling it "mobile" is a stretch) On the desktop side, the Nehalems (Core i7) are brand new.

I doubt they're waiting for yet another iteration.
Ask HN: Which suggestion manager
Hi.

Anyone have any pros/cons for the following:

www.SuggestionBox.com
www.CrowdSound.com
www.GetSatisfaction.com
www.UserVoice.com

Thanks!
You can upgrade it for 30¢ a song.
This one may be:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/15/free-apps-no-longer-dom...
David Seah - Compact Calendar 2009
In the long term we plan om providing an REE package which replaces the one provided by Debian. By then we'll also offer DebGem repositories with packages compiled against REE.

- Hongli Lai (Phusion)
Exactly, not everyone will willingly comply. You (ars) have found an optimal solution, but it is not a nash equilibrium - cars will cut out of the line to make it through faster.

The constants in the example are arbitrary and were probably chosen for simplicity, a (thankfully) common thing to do in these sorts of examples.
I didn't realize that still went on. I remember reading a long time ago about license inspectors driving around in cars with a directional antenna on the roof looking for unlicensed TVs. I thought that went out in the 60s or so.

The model does explain those painfully dry sitcoms from the 70s and 80s that our PBS imports from you. :)
To get TV without adverts and programs that don't depend on being popular to be shown.

Alternately, because the law says you have to have one if you have a device capable of receiving TV signals (in the UK).
I do always use 12, in fact I generally crop first before reducing the quality. I probably don't notice the difference, but since flickr rescales to make several copies I always felt that uploading at the highest quality was a good idea.
Vint Cerf is already under Google's patronage. I am pretty sure TCP/IP is not exactly Google's "core" business! No matter how far the "whatever" is, it is clearly helping and supporting search and advertising.
Time to ‘Guitar Hero’ the Guitar?
I am wondering if Google may decide to (truly) open the router OS?
Software will continue to be bad

Not bad. As Randy Pausch said in the lecture that was on the front page yesterday, "There's a reason we have the phrase 'good enough' - for things that are good enough".

Companies will continue to buy bad software as long as it's good enough. (That is - maybe they aren't even looking for demonstrably better software).
Here Come The 12 Inch Netbooks, And Intel Isn’t Happy About It
They just do everything by database checks these days. No more (or virtually no) mysterious black vans driving around...
Before the Levees Break: A Plan to Save the Netherlands
-1 I would rather not. Sometimes arguments or inane remarks are an annoyance, but I would not want a good post because someone hit an arbitrary limit.
Do you want hacker groups or entrepreneur groups? They're different beasts but also useful. Perhaps a different page for the entrepreneur groups.
Fascinating! This is a modified version of the idea that I'm using for my own start-up! Glad to see that the highlighting idea is spreading: I've seen similar ideas used elsewhere before.

The modification that our system uses rather than this one is that it creates the comment box on the left-hand side, rather than scrolling all the way down. The idea is that you then make multiple posts as you read down, rather than one single one that disrupts the reading process, and that they all bundle together again at the end. (Of course, blog commenting is a little different than content critiquing, so perhaps merely quoting once is sufficient here.)
Is the DRM gone for movies and tv shows too?
Summary of the article: English tongue-in-cheek humor.

One could say that the Akai MPC is the "button guitar" that the article claims for. It's not as nice-looking as a Stratocaster, though.
I'm comfortable not being a billionaire.
The problem with threaded threads is that there's less of a feel of permanence. When everything is linear, then you've got a very real spatial sense of where, say, the second comment is on a page. Depending on how important the blog community is to the blog, linear comments may hurt more than they help.

Actually, the better model comes from forums, where conversations were threaded early on and then switched to linear as forums evolved. Linear threads let you follow the progress of a conversation. Threaded ones lose that same sense of time.
Indeed there is; http://hacdc.org/

I'm thinking of checking it out in the spring .. if they'll have me.
I feel like around '03 or '04 there was the introduction of GarageBand which I recall as being a pretty well put-together event. That may have been at the summer MacWorld expo.
Industrial design from a pig farmer with her back to the wall
Wow. So you found the twitteresque transcript pounded out by some guy desperately trying to keep up with live events from his seat on his laptop little dry, and you blame Phil Schiller? I thought Phil was positively engaging. The audience was on the edge of their seats for almost the entire keynote, and the "Ooos", "Aaas", and gasps were abundant. The products Phil highlighted all showed how Apple, once again, is innovating where everyone else is still working on getting a usable v.1. There's no one in iPhoto or iMovie's class, Keynote's iPhone integration just put another nail in RIM's coffin, and every laptop designer in the world just slapped themselves on the forehead, realizing that if they had only put some investment into stores and service, they too could have an 8-hour(!) laptop with no increase in size or weight.

It was a great keynote. You should try watching it and then come back if you have nits to pick.
The more people you're competing against, the less motivated and competitive you are
Skin Laboratory
Skin Laboratory manufactures a line of aggressive, results oriented products with specific protocols that target all skin types and improve a variety of skin conditions. Savvy consumers, who are no longer willing to age gracefully, are demanding solutions to maintaining a youthful looking appearance and many of these consumers are finding solutions with Skin Laboratory products.
Here's the academic paper:

http://www.sitemaker.umich.edu/stephen.garcia/files/the_n-ef...
JobSyndicate Alpha Launch
You should check out Macroeconomics by Mankiw. It's very short and sweet. You really shouldn't judge economics by a few articles aimed at lay audiences just as you wouldn't try to learn about quantum mechanics from the NYTimes. Economics is filled with clever little insights that makes you go "Ahh!".

I'll take the time to explain some of your complaints:

"spending causes prosperity": well, obviously if you don't spend any of your money obviously you don't have prosperity. If you borrow money to spend economics assume that you are rational and that it is because you prefer having a good time now to later. This seems more like a value judgment though, which most economics tend to avoid.

"conflation of trade deficits with indebtedness": well, if country A wants to consume something produced by country B, it can only do so in three ways: 1) give B something A produced, 2) give B a chunk of A (e.g., real estate) or 3) borrow from B. Since most countries don't like 2), trade deficits are settled using 3)

Most economics will say that a higher savings rate will be beneficial in the long run but if people suddenly saved more because of government policy there will a aggregate demand shock and the economy will go into a recession since the price level cannot easily adjust in the short run. (When people save more they have less money to spend and thus all prices become "too high" for them.)

Check out the book for more information. You will find that while economics may have flaws, it is internally self-consistent. It just doesn't take into account that most people are not rational :(.
Tragedy of the commons. Simple solution: congestion prices. Singapore is an example. Any others?
Congrats on the alpha launch!
Umm... They started talking about this a while ago. It was in the SVN builds. Its nice.
~30 mins. Its really a game of organization and considering the possibilities. I think the SRAT should replace IQ tests and the SAT. Just have a set of these in increasing levels of difficulty and grade people by which ones they manage to solve.
Frankly, lexing and parsing is boring. Custom tags can be easily accounted for by treating them as a symbol as is done in other programming languages.
No. Some music videos are though ($.60 upgrade fee according to the conversion page.)
The trick is to slowly narrow the choices. After the narrowing, you can start making simplifying assumptions and see if these assumptions are self-consistent with the test. Like a sudoku, but not boring and trivial.
Atheist buses denying God's existence take to streets
When I was in the UK I tried out "quorn" - I think that was how you spelled it. Basically a fungal/mushroom grown substance that is high in protein. All the vegoes I knew loved it (actually it tasted good to me), that and lots of beans/legumes.
hmmm... the text gets fainter and fainter the more a post is down-modded, but the urls stay just as dark as any text. Is that deliberate, or a bug? Shouldn't the urls fade out, too?
What a phenomenal gesture towards the interest of consumers.
Are our UK friends going digital next year too?
Looks great! Is there going to be a public database of all job postings?
I was just thinking about you guys recently wondering what the status of your startup was.
I think the large bounties are going to be very tempting to affiliates. Getting a check for $1,000 out of the blue will make anybody's day.

Great model. In fact, surprised someone hasn't tried this yet.

This may work especially well for tech specific blogs. (Assuming tech related positions.)
How Apple Made a Non-Removable Battery Sound Awesome
We're definitely focused on tech, design/UX, and PM/startup marketing-focused blogs for now.
alive and kicking
I think a central repository of the jobs would compete too directly with our affiliates. We want to get them paid.

We also don't want to rebuild the [startuply] wheel with another destination site - JobSyndicate is about distribution.