skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that's interesting. It was harder than average to guess your background. In fact, I didn't guess it. Africa, politics, and programming is an unusual combination.
Looks like they had an admin update panel that was "secured" through obfuscation:

http://img.skitch.com/20090106-p2dughwb2yujxdutfh55ixxajn.pn...
Rather than notice the trend of story submissions I would be more concerned about the latest trend of one-liner jokes at the beginning of each story. If you all would like to see HN degrade into Reddit or the unintellectual abyss known as Digg, I suggest everyone keep on up-modding these crap jokes and give people more incentive to try and give their stab at humor. HN has seen quite a spike in users lately and it seems as though we are at the tipping point. If the trend is not acknowledged and responded to accordingly, HN will go down the same road these other sites have.
original link: http://specials.rediff.com/money/2009/jan/05slide1-want-to-s...

though pg should have posted source link with his note, i dont think that even rediff.com is the copyright owner - to what i understand pg did it in the good faith to help HN readers and that's what it matters ...
Does the size of your database regulate the features?
At rates that good HN will be the first victim of the great karma rushes. Spectators will establish threads and mine each other for karma until so much has been generated that even diggs will purchase multiple hackerbucks.
Git deals in (source) trees and as a project their goal appears to be gobbling every tree in sight.
Is it that people die because there isn't enough food or because the people don't have access to enough food? How many people experience a lack of food because of political issues rather than total-food-supply issues?
No, that's not what the guy said at all.

He cracks the apps (which he first buys) because he perceives existing Apple Store buy-then-try model unfair, and that's a damn good point. It's not about the price. It's about a rampant false advertisement and Apple's unwillingness to deal with it.

Apple has a clear conflict of interests. They should switch to try-then-buy model, but that will affect their revenues as the $1 cr@p will simply stop selling. They should also deal with poor quality apps better, but again that will affect their revenues. If something sells now, there's no reason for them to change a thing if it will make the same thing sell less.
Researchers hack Intel's vPro
My favorite bill gates quite from years ago was something like: "on average we make more money on each Apple computer sold than Apple does." MS wants to protect Windows but they are not willing to let someone else create a dominate office sweet for a popular platform.

PS: IMO Red Hat has little to offer Apple over OS X.
It comes bundled with a sample database, so you can still try it out even without a PostgreSQL database available.

Also, thanks for the suggestions. I will definitely expand the website with more information - this is just an early release for a limited audience.
LiveJournal Lays Off San Francisco Staff, Will Operate From Moscow
Interesting idea. I wonder if they will be preferential to Google packets!

Between that and all the dark fiber Big G is waiting to light up, one wonders about those rumors of Google wanting to own your entire Internet experience.
wait, but this one had a point! Post-madoff, everything that somebody doesn't like is a Ponzi scheme, because it's now a concept that everybody thinks they understand. So it has jumped the shark.

I mean, I just killed the joke by explaining it, but this is not just a reddit pun.
"revocable, fine-grained access to whatever subset of operations is required for the service in question"

This is exactly what is needed, and what the current "OAuth doesn't solve Phishing!" response misses.
Given that everything's running in one direction, couldn't you manually take up the play in each section during construction, working back from the concrete block, so that the whole thing's at tension when you connect the motor? I appreciate that wouldn't affect the elasticity much, but the air gap would be taken care of at least...
Also, for those who don't notice. This article is 12 years old. It doesn't take anything away from the article, but I first read it three years ago and got excited about the topic before I noticed that it was a bit aged.
3 Simple Steps to Being Lucky
I agree, with one caveat: I'm not sure I see a difference between having enough food but not having access to it v. not having enough food. People are still dying, whether quickly or slowly.

An issue is that we live in areas that cannot locally sustain a population, thus relying on a supply system to survive.
Yeah, my guess is it looks domains up on Google.com, and points to the Google cache...
I didn't think that craigslist sold part of their company to ebay. I thought it was a disgruntled employee that sold his private shares.

Craigslist doesn't like being part-owned by ebay. After all ebay sued craigslist for diluting its ownership by granting more shares to new employees.
It's OK, I'll start the Karma Currency Market and they'll reach equilibrium soon enough.
The break hasn't been published yet (it's a Black Hat DC talk), but it's very likely to be real, since Rutkowska is credible.

vPro/TXT/LT is (for the most part) the trusted boot in the Intel chipsets. If you don't know about it, it's because nothing really uses it. It's a crypto coprocessor tied in very restricted ways with your CPU core. Its most important job is to allow you to run crypto-signed code blocks in a crypto-signed execution environment.

In other words, it can boot a VM safely on a machine that's owned up with a kernel backdoor.

If I had to bet on what this break generally involved, I'd say CPU synchronization on multicore systems.
<Brain Explodes>

Not everything is a dang Ponzi Scheme! Sheesh.
This looks like a very nice front-end-

Right now we're using a combination of navicat and pg_admin for administration, particularly adhoc queries for reporting, so this looks nlike a nice alternative.

I'm a little confused, however. It seems like it's a web-product (Snappy, web-based interface), but you're still offering downloads. If I were to guess, I'd imagine that the download is for the server install?

What are the requirements?
Also, I know it's a nit, but if possible, it's nice if you can provide packages for the Linux platforms, rather than just a .sh script. It makes it easier to standardize do upgrades.

Do you have any estimates on release pricing?
IPhoto '09 and Domain Language
TicketStumbler has your extra
Just to speculate: Perhaps self-sabotage allows someone to maintain a high self-esteem ("I'm great at everything") while ignoring subjects which are difficult ("I'd be great at that, too, if it weren't for X").

This self-delusion has direct benefits; people with high self-esteem are more attractive. But it also makes it easier to ignore a pursuit, which perhaps encourages people to spend more time on fewer pursuits, and with greater enthusiasm. Such specialization may help a male stand out from other suitors.
Venture firms find turning investments tougher
Does Amazon S3 really save money?
With a price tag of $0.150/GB/month, storing 1TB of data costs around $150/month on Amazon S3. But this is a recurring amount. So, for the same amount of data it would cost $1800/year and $3600/2-years. And this doesn't even include the data transfer costs.

Consider the alternative, with colocation the hardware cost of storing 1TB of data on two machines (for redundancy) would be around $1500/year. But this is fixed. And increasing the storage capacity on each machine can be done at the price of $0.1/GB. Which means that a RAID-1+redundant copies of data on multiple servers for 4TB of data could be achieved at $3000/year and $6000/2-years in a colocation facility. Whereas on S3 the same would cost $7200/year and $14,400/2-years.

Also, adding bandwidth+power+h/w replacement costs at a colocation facility would still keep the costs significantly lower than Amazon S3.

Given this math, what is the rationale behind going with Amazon S3? The Smugmug case study of 600TB of data stored on S3 seems misleading.

I do see several services that offer unlimited storage which is actually hosted on S3. For example, Smugmug, Carbonite etc. all offer unlimited storage for a fixed annual fee. Wouldn't this send the costs out of the roof on Amazon S3?

If your startup is using Amazon S3 for its storage needs, for the benefit of the startup community, can you please elaborate your rationale for choosing this service?
Also, Sarbanes-Oxley is not the reason companies aren't going public right now

It's not the sole reason, but it's a big one. Sarb Ox crap can add 1 MM - 10 MM in yearly expenditures let alone the countless man hours.
It was going to happen eventually just like with everything else they use at the googleplex!
Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog
Thread in 4Chan where it was "hacked":
http://www.webcitation.org/5dd9iJFVY

Pretty interesting to watch it unfold. The first SQL the guy posts is a SQL injection waiting to happen:

$query = "select * from sms_users where authentication='".$_GET["auth"]."'";

Edit: Changed link to use webcitation because 4chan link went down. Original link was at: http://zip.4chan.org/g/res/3118906.html
Nor I. What a pleasant surprise.
I wonder if the dalvik VM is optimized for regular computer architectures or only for the G1.

Either way, I remember reading that Dalvik (or, well, Java) was chosen for the constraints it places on the programmer and access to verification tools? Security or some such?
Did Steve Jobs just sacrifice Phil Schiller?
I just read the MacWorld Keynote on TechCrunch, and maybe Phil just isn't the showman that Jobs was, but I'm thinking that Jobs didn't host the keynote because there wasn't anything to say?

What do you think? Was there just nothing news worthy? or was it that Schiller just didn't carry the event?
Design Issues for the World Wide Web
imo, its all about gathering your ingredients and waiting until the right time. its not worth heavily stressing about location, because location and ingredients are connected. you move location and it tends to drain ingredients.

prepare yourself for an opportunity and go looking. thats luck.
Google is a pretty strong proponent of net neutrality.

The router will probably be preferential to Google packets, though, in the sense I assume these routers are for Google datacenters and not for other people to buy and stick in their house...
Copper prices are still up 50% from 1998 to late 2003.

There was just a huge bubble on the LME. http://www.lme.com/copper_graphs.asp
I'd love to see a bibliography of the papers he likes on the recommender problem.
I think a LOT of the things they said were newsworthy.

Jobs said yesterday on Apple.com that he was spending the time recovering with his family. I think that's the main issue here, nothing else.
Frankly, I think they just needed to build some hardware that could handle their loads without choking. Preferential treatment be damned. There simply isn't hardware powerful or reliable enough for their needs. Or, conversely, there is such hardware but it costs $10 million a box.
Does anyone want ~23,000 balls for a ball pit? One careful owner.
Thoughts on the Friendfeed interface
...kind of like that 37signals design post a few days ago, no?
I think it's also likely to be an implementation issue that will be able to be patched by Intel in some time frame. Plus, as you said, nothing really uses it yet.
A lot of people (myself included) were expecting to see a revamped Mac Mini. Instead, about the most exciting thing was the non-glare screen option for the new 17" Macbook Pro.
The Day I Got Git (with some help from github)
Thanks for the read--now, how 'bout another? http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/papers/gpugen.pdf, another Haskell-embedded GPU DSL, claims to work at a higher abstraction level than Obsidian, but still provide high performance general-purpose GPU programming capabilities.
The 4chan page is gone, FYI.
> so I decided I was terrible at them wouldn't ever be any good. Anything that would clash with this self assessment was something to avoid.

How often do we make excuses to avoid doing something or taking an action that might benefit us? e.g. what if that girl actually wants to talk to you..
Ask HN: Should email providers add "UNSEND"?
No matter how careful you are, there have been a couple of times when you wish you could "Unsend" that email to your coworker, your girlfriend, your client......Instead of asking us to be more diligent shouldn't email providers (gmail)add an "Unsend" button? Or if this in fact exists would you forgive my lack of knowledge and please let me know where it is hidden?
I've had the same behavior as a kid. Starting middle school I stopped doing any homework whatsoever partly to better fit in by not seeming too serious, partly to prove to myself that I could succeed without (and have a convenient excuse if I didn't)...

On the other hand in sports, I behaved exactly the way you describe... The fear to be a normal average person is powerful...
Encouraged Commentary (cool use of jQuery to enhance blog commenting)
Well I just voted with my dollars and upgraded my whole library. It finished surprisingly fast considering their servers must be getting hammered right now.
I remember this article now... was quite interesting. And yes as a kid I remember my parents complimenting me for being smart much more than they complimented me for my effort
I've read a few decent Wired articles, but none as good as this one or the Mazda-ship one. Do you remember any of the "etc", perchance?
How to ask for a favor
Did you watch the keynote?

* A 17" MBP with an 8 hour battery.

* iWork.com for document sharing

* New Pages, Keynote, and Numbers; Pages links with Numbers now, which is huge

* Garageband has guitar and piano lessons built in (!)

* iMovie stole a bunch of features from FCP and has real camera stabilization

* iPhoto has face detection

* And oh yeah they got rid of DRM on iTMS

This keynote is bigger than any number of Stevenotes. Snow Leopard didn't even rate.
I'm sure it does, it's just out of reach of most small developers due to its commercial nature so is less likely to have as big of an impact as the others.
On a tangent: Gdgt's liveblog (their first this year but it's run by the folks that sorta started the liveblog trend) was the worst in that it kept dying. Meanwhile Engadget had the best coverage and Gizmodo the fastest. VentureBeat had the most innovative by integrating FriendFeed.
You are paying a premium for scaling, bandwidth, operations and lower capital cost.

Being able to smoothly scale from 1TB to 2TB (or down to 500GB) is nothing to sneeze at. Nor is having a metered 250mbps connection (shop around -- hard to get less than $30/mbps at low volume), or having someone else handle the pager 24x7x365, or paying $150 at the end of the month instead of $5,000 up front.

There are systems and scales for which S3 is actually too expensive, and of course Amazon is making a profit off of all of this.

But there are a lot of hidden costs to DIY. Ask anyone who's tried to get 6 more servers flown in on the weekend, or had to cut short a holiday to drive to the damned colo at 3am, or overbought capacity, etc.

(edit) As for the "unlimited" option -- SM et al know to the byte what their average user uses so they price the unlimited option to make a profit on the average case.
in my opinion, no. it raises a lot of concerns about misuse.
This has me wondering if doing a startup is (often) itself a form of self-handicapping. You can always claim you had brilliant performance, but failed due to the impossible odds. Food for introspection.
such grand news!!

Tonight at the super table, think about being the hackers on the opposite side of this, trying to make a company around viable DRM technology. Gotta pour a little drink out for them... :)
They had a part of their library drm-free for a while now. I find it more surprising that they changed their position on their pricing scheme. Didn't they even cancel their deal with NBC because they were not willing to allow flexible pricing on their videos last year?
How does the upgrade work?
Does this seriously make sense for them to do? To me it seems like they're acquiring a terrible case of NIH syndrome.
Looks very cool on first glance. I'll be sure to check it out in the (near) future. Any price estimates when it comes out of beta?

Also, offtopic: your header image links to http://www.teampostgresql.com/home.html which gives a 404.
While it's not impossible, email just does not work that way. Email has no sense of state on the other end of a message. The extent of the feedback it gets is a bounce that may or may not have a descriptive error attached to it. Some systems could implement a recall option (Exchange may allow this, but I'm far from an expert) if the accounts are housed in the same system, but it is rarely done as it is against the stateless aspect. Email as a protocol(s) is very simplistic, which is why spam and spoofing are so prevalent. There is little room to have complex extensions on top of the existing system.

If, say, gmail implemented this, it would likely require an ACL from the receiving user that specified senders that were allowed to recall.
A really good friend of mine works on Blu-Ray BD+. I don't get the feeling he needs any of my sympathy.
She might be dying to talk to you.

She might think you're the coolest guy in the room.

But no. You're the smart guy who tragically never gets any play. You're a tortured soul of epic proportions.

Having a fairly pretty girlfriend would be...normal
DebGem (beta), Ruby packages for Debian
With AWS i don't have to buy, set up, maintain or upgrade the
hardware... or manage employees who do. Nor do i own the hardware. Nor do i have to travel to and from a datacenter.

For that service, the cost is very reasonable.
All this does is show how antitrust (and the fear of antitrust legislation, which has no objective criteria for prosecution) cripples a company's ability to fully compete. Instead, the (market-wise) leader was forced to prop up it's competitor by virtue of the fact that they were unable to compete.

Yes, Apple makes good products now and can compete on it's own terms, but it floundering when it accepted money from Microsoft.

This isn't a good example of how to compete with your competitors at all, unless by compete, you mean "get money from them and constantly poke sticks at them, while they have no real recourse for fear of getting prosecuted."
The DRM-free portion of the iTunes library cost extra money, and most tracks didn't have that option.

My uneducated guess is that the 1.69 pricing tier is a trade for stripping DRM off the backcatalogue.
Canonical have done it, so have Mandriva, the netbook vendors are just making crap choices.

For example, Gimp is not in the repos that the Eee PC comes configured to use, presumably because they think it is not powerful enough for the job. However a lot of photographers (especially amateurs) seem to disagree (because they do not really want to carry a full size laptop around in addition to their cameras etc.

They got their users needs wrong. They may also lack experience with Linux.

The end result is that they think that its really hard to install software that matters on Linux.
I will share this as it seems relevant.

A few years back, I signed up to be a counselor at a wilderness camp in Southwestern Colorado. Hiking. Climbing. Camping. Living in a log cabin without plumbing at 12,000 feet for three months. I was very much not in my element.

I had a great time. No one there knew me before, so there weren't any preconceived notions about who I was. It was liberating.

However I also was at the bottom of the "coolness" ladder among the counselors, because I had no background in the outdoorsy skills that "mattered" out there.

So doing things that I normally would shy away from was good for me. But yes, as you say, it screwed up my "game."
To upgrade your library go to the iTunes Store. On the right side you'll see iTunes Plus (x). Go there and you can upgrade.

I'm not terribly excited about paying again for the same music, but I hate DRM enough to make this 1-time upgrade.

It looks like we might be in the middle of a pricing war between Amazon and iTunes:

iTunes: $.99 + DRM

Amazon: $.89 + No DRM

iTunes: $.69 + No DRM

Anyone care to guess how low online music will go?
You think the Mac Mini, a product that accounts for a tiny sliver of all of Apple's revenue, rates a slot alongside a new rev of Apple's flagship computer?
no, it's ordered by score.

Also, students applying to medical school don't take the GRE. They take the MCAT. If you are interested in medicine and taking the GRE, you already failed, which may explain the disproportionately low score.
If he's been losing weight continuously since the last keynote --- where his appearance scared the press --- you can imagine the reason why Schiller did this keynote instead.
Go to the music store. There is an iTunes Plus link under quick links.
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Sorry for the confusion, this is definitely one of the points we should make clear.

You are right, it is a web application and the download is the web server with the webapp on it. The common use case is that you would put the server on the organization's intranet so people can access the application using their browsers.

Requirements for the server are fairly pedestrian: ~150 MB disk space, something like 200 MB free memory. All dependencies are bundled with the server so you should not have to install anything on the side.

Point taken about Linux packages, we will definitely provide them, as well as simple archive downloads.

We haven't thought about pricing yet except that we don't want it to be some super-exclusive-enterprisey offering :)
I do not understand what makes Tim O' Rilly think that he has any authority to express an opinion on such an issue.

I belive this is endemic to the internet as a whole. I say why does he not stick to technology an let scholars who have actually studied the issues he speak of enlighten us on them.
Took me about an hour or so using only logical reasoning - no guessing.
DRM free tracks have not cost money for the last year.
This is a really slick setup from the highlighting to the interacting with previous comments. Ideas like this really can enhance the effectiveness and/or frequency of commenting.

It reminds me a Jack Slocum's old blog where comments were tagged onto a line of the article. I think combining these two designs would be great.
$0.30 a song. A significant amount of money for me (and it doesn't detect most of my tracks; I've run one too many ruby scripts on my iTunes Library file). Not worth it.
I-did-not-know-that. (Stop upvoting me for being an idiot!)
Engadget's coverage was definitely the best, IMO. Informative and humorous!
-10 evil point for apple!
Only if you insist on letting some dorks in Redmond regulate what software you run.
Of course, this totally ignores the problem (a larger one, IMHO) of negative producing management.

It is also possible to teach many net negative programmeres to become net positive, through code review, mentoring, and pair programming.
the D word! gasp
Please get well or just die soon please so we can stop reading about it. Thank you, have a nice day.
Hope to hear your feedback. As I just now posted in another response we haven't settled on any price, except that it should not be some super exclusive thing for corporate whales :). Fixed the link.
They were using the Mosso cloud too and the problems seemed to happen at the Mosso end which is rather disappointing.
Or, my favorite, "there were some zeros and ones mixed up."
Zed Shaw: Joe Hill of programming. Though rather than organizing workers into unions/factions of the IWW he is advocating people reserve their "real" programming/creativity for themselves unless they stand to make a profit (which they would if labor conditions were equitable). I can totally get behind that.
Apple keynote: Phil vs. Steve…it’s no contest