skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well... The Systemtap userspace probes seem nice, as does the ext4 metadata checksumming, CODEL queue management and the connection repair (albeit I have only played with the idea of moving a live VM from one box to another).

Yes. They are significant. Not as significant as the delta between Solaris 10 and 11 or Windows 7 and 8, but, considering the time elapsed since the previous significant improvements, I'd think it's quite impressive.

Incremental improvement is good.
Hi, perhaps you'll find value here: http://coursebacon.com/ This is a side project of mine.
http://www.techshop.ws/ - usually there are minimum age requirements for a lot of the machining classes but as far as I have seen very kid friendly.

http://randallmuseum.org/ - classes for kids through adults and they also have a woodshop.
I'll have one posted in the next day or two.
chatroulette 2.0 - conference calling with strangers without the dicks?
Facebook log in only .... meh.
File-sharing sites aren't illegal either.
Similar. I never bought into idea that my social friends are a good source of knowledge on topics that interest me most. For professional questions I use RSS and forums, while many of my old buddies can't tell RSS from SSD. For shopping, I google reviews and check prices online. And for keeping track of lives of some 10-15 people that I care about, facebook is too noisy.
Lower priority does nothing to throttle activity unless there is a higher priority thread available to run; if the machine is otherwise idle, lowest priority threads will use 100% of CPU resources. If you want to avoid high CPU graphs, whirring fans from increased heat, etc., you need to make the thread or process sleep occasionally.

For a thread, that's best done with explicit coding; for a process that isn't sharing resources with other processes, you can get away with more invasive freezing from the outside.
What do you mean "safe"?
Thanks for the heads up. I had not read the article yet and now I definitely won't.
That is a great explanation, thank you. I think it's what I was really aiming for, but didn't quite get there.
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It would speak to their personal skills, the difference between "Justin Bieber, Venture Capitalist," and "Justin Bieber(tm), Venture Capitalist."

Frankly, I think stories like this are PR designed to muddy this exact distinction. Forbes.com is certainly not above that kind of thing.
I have ADD, and my diagnosis comes courtesy of a leading researcher in the field. I like to think that I am also interesting and clever, and there are aspects of the condition that are a positive asset, but these are offset by considerable disadvantages. I can tell you meant your comment positively, but it comes across as ignorant and obnoxious.
Why RIM could and should bounce back: Mobile needs to innovate
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I forward them to my fogbugz account which literally converts my email to a todo item.
It's great the option is there, and thanks SO much for pointing it out. Now for me as one of the 5-8 tab people, restoring tabs will be a good experience. You get 39 hero points, and 72.55 gold stars.

However, I'm of the opinion that options are bad UX too (until you find them :). It's better when the experience is just good. I know that's asking a lot... but I think it's possible with some combination of the ideas mentioned in this discussion to automatically do the right thing for most users.
I believe that this was the experiment discussed at http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/87/54K53/inde... which I saw from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4065233 on here.

The details are different than Michael Lewis remembered them, but the gist is the same.
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If Windows 8 gains traction (which let's be honest, it will just by virtue of being Windows), apps will follow. This might not translate into more WP sales, but it can't hurt the Windows Phone Marketplace. Some developers will go the extra 10% required to move their app to Windows Phone.
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Thanks.
Added a vote for Microsoft Account (LiveID)
Are you sure there's no anonymity? Check out the Airtime video [1]. The first few seconds clearly indicate that names are anonymous until you 'add' each other.

[1] https://www.airtime.com/about

Edit: Of course, I do agree that the FB link will deter exhibitionists.
107% of available shares being shorted is NOT a physical impossibility. Let's say there are only 10 shares of OSTK outstanding. I own them all and make them available for borrow by short sellers. Short sellers borrow all 10 and sell them. I buy 1 of the 10 shares shorted. I lend that out too and it gets shorted. Now 110% of all issued shares have been shorted. Nothing impossible or illegal here.

This is a situation that would be EXTREMELY unusual because it's very, very dangerous for the short sellers. I could recall all my lent out shares and unless I sell one of the shares I own there is no way for the short sellers to deliver so the price will spike into the stratosphere due to a short squeeze.

The fact that short sellers were willing to short stock despite the massive short interest (which is a publicly available number) means the market as a whole believed that OSTK was wildly overpriced, which in hindsight it was.
For a website created to get people into the service, its terrible that I have to click the tiny-ass 'About' link at the bottom to learn anything about the service.

"Create shared experiences with people you know,
and people you want to know" sounds like social web buzz-word bullshit.

My advice to the web designer - put some real info on the front page, and don't require me to watch a video. If you can't explain it with text, then you probably don't have a product.
A Social Media Game-Changer? Facebook Quietly Launches Promo
Maybe I should file a bug report then?

[Note: I literally just downloaded it, upgraded, and had this experience.]
I would be fascinated to find out how you protect against SQL injection.
He says text and email, and still FB, but not updating as frequently, and mostly updates from apps, like instagram.
Very cool. Reminds me of Heroku's Data Clip [1] service released as part of their Postgres as a service offering.

[1] https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/1/31/simple_data_...
I think this is more perceptive than people appreciate.
Here is our introductory video to give you a taste of the product:

https://www.airtime.com/about

We're still working on our team page, we've been a bit busy lately.
I've been meaning to start a journal (will start now), but I've been using Daytum obsessively for the last year and a half.

At this point I have over 24K+ data points about my life including what I've done, consumed, people I've seen and the good and bad things that have happened to me. It can be a pain to keep up sometimes, but I have a hunch that the data becomes more valuable as time goes on.
and my feed is full of rage faces and memes.
The best forms of advertising don't give a user what he is already looking for, they give him what he doesn't know he needs. By manually curating what ads you like, chances are you'll miss stuff that is actually relevant. I'm a developer, but I have no desire to "learn javascript", because I know it already. Someone who is really into vintage cars will ignore car ads all the time; they have an existing network of sources and information and aren't as interested in changing that unless the story is very compelling.

Contrast that with the idea that FB knows about a 55-year old man that makes ~90k and has few hobbies, but has recently started reconnecting with all his buddies from high school; that type of person is now a profile for someone in whom an advertiser might create a NEW interest for vintage cars. The best part is you don't have to use forensic psychologists to create these profiles; simple statistics would be enough.
Having strong opinions is different from having an opinion on everything.

Being in a place full of opinionated people is nice, so long as those people are able to discuss their opinions rationally and are okay with not getting their way every time.
"pushing out 80 companies a batch “demanding” that each of those raises a seed round at 10m pre is just wrong and unsustainable"

I see these types of comments all the time from people who did not go through Y Combinator. They are incredibly frustrating because anyone who has done YC knows that the partners constantly hammer home the message that founders should NOT optimize for valuation but instead look for great investors who really understand the market and will add value to your company in the long term.

The fact that many YC companies do raise at high valuations is a function of investor interest, not because they are being driven to do so with a stick by YC.
On a typical LAMP web site the hottest bottlenecks are usually PHP is waiting for database I/O, it's not typical that slight code optimizations will produce a dramatic improvement.
Congrats on passing step 1 - identifying your goal.
You want to expose all of POSIX to some page with a one-time POSIX permission click? I can see a very limited need for raw TCP and UDP, but even in those there is a tremendous potential to have single pages knowingly or unknowingly (with the number of JS scripts people embed from 3rd party sources these days) leverage their users into a terabit DoS bandwidth weapon.
Absolutely right. In the case of the short-sellers, it's well known these guys flood the media with fake rumors in the hope it triggers a selloff.
Answer is simple, a bigger population will require pruning and leaving few people behind, natural selection through standardized test. In a smaller popular, individuals will get to decide their interests and future.
Social-video eyewear project on Kickstarter, cancelled
> AH transactions do not provide instant gratification, but take up to 48 hours to process(!)

Because of this, most Auction House transactions completed are buyouts. Bidding on almost-expired items happens, but most people (especially under max level) are only buying items.
Great idea, and very well executed! I ran a few queries and got this: http://demo.oculusapp.com/queries/204
When you are chatting in the "public" area anonymously with other users, we take screenshots to monitor for abusive behavior. When you direct call someone from your buddy list, that is a private conversation that is not monitored (like a phone or Skype call).

Also, legal says we should cover our asses :)
SPDY is not something that Google just implemented and froze as a standard. Mozilla and others are still working on the SPDY spec in the IETF, and we're happy to see improvements. Mike Belshe continues to work on evolving the SPDY protocol even though he no longer works for Google. The latest development builds of Chrome and Firefox have just been updated to SPDY draft3.
While I'd definitely not call this enterprise, I am impressed by how elegantly all of the features they do have are implemented. Yes, it's a simple product, but I actually quite like that (so many project management systems are bloated with excess features for edge cases). I'm particularly pleased with how easy it was to grab everything from Google Calendar and Google Docs.

Most of all I was blown away by the new user experience. I'm making all of my co-founders go through it simply so they see what a great new user experience is like, and understand why I obsess over such things (as well as to see if they might like using this over say, Asana).
Why can't we have both? It can be easy for "normal" people to install while also giving "advanced" users the control they desire.
Like many things, it's not so black and white. Fred Wilson and Paul Graham are probably both right.

Paul Graham is right that the Facebook IPO being seen as negative (whether that's correct or not) could reduce larger startup valuations which trickles down to early-stage startups as well. The advice in his email is sound regardless of whether the IPO does trigger any type of "downturn" in startup investing.

Fred Wilson also makes great points that Facebook still has an insane multiple while providing a huge win for all its investors and employees, which will bring more money and hope into the startup ecosystem. Not to mention more acquisitions made by Facebook, etc.

Chances are both are partially right and partially wrong, and a number of other factors from macroeconomics to small things in startup world could prove one of them to be "more right" over time.
I find posts like this disheartening. I'm sure this strategy works great for the upper echelon of developers and quite possibly the vast majority of self-selected readers of this very site. But there are many companies and developers that are way down the bell curve that probably could not survive in this type of environment.

I wish more posts would take into account more factors like sub-optimal talent or office politics.
That number would be still too high for us. We want virtually zero.
Really appreciate all the comments here. We have been focusing on making the service more intuitive so a lot of your feedback reaffirms our need to to that. We are connected to open graph but have not fully built out the Twitter or Google+ share yet but that is a great idea. Thanks again for signing up and look out for some changes in the near future. Until then any additional comments are more than welcomed!

-Andrew
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Seattle startup Donuts, Inc. raises $100M+ in a huge series A round
It's designed to be used within a team environment, where you trust everyone. (Although even then, I highly recommend using it with a readonly SQL account!) I would be skeptical of any situation where you could run raw untrusted SQL without any risks, at least without reimplementing MySQL's AST parser.

As for the demo, it's isolated, and locked down as well as MySQL will allow. (For starters, just SELECT privileges.)
The difficulty in a consulting company is that (unlike a SaaS company) there is typically a 1:1 ratio between hours worked and money earned.

Our company does many of the same things, but in the end, we're still tied to the billable hour. I talked about it briefly here: http://lincolnloop.com/blog/2012/may/31/lincoln-loop-everyon...
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Array, list, set, map, tuple, record literals in Java
I'm more curious why a "secure" PIN is simply left, automated, as a message. A more "secure" option, I would think, would be to require some sort of input from the person who answered (say, "Press 1 for the PIN" where that number is randomized, or something).
Well I don't quite follow this behaviour. But thanks, I hadn't clicked there before.
It'd be nice if they also handled ACH transactions from checking accounts.
So from the About video it looks like it's intended to help you meet people based on shared interests and... showing off neat tricks. That's... nice... but who exactly was asking for this kind of service? Isn't this just a terribly shallow way to make friends - judging by some attractive feature of them instead of how they think or who they are?

My hope is one day we have a social network which contains no pictures. I know, it would never make any money, but they have had them for a while in a format called 'forums'. You would have discussions about a variety of topics and over time form friendships based on content, and not if someone looked like they were having tons of fun on a beach with other hot people, or if they could play the ukelele.

edit: rephrase
Thanks! (Sadly I think the demo cron job will delete that after an hour or so :))
Read your posts: allow us to prepopulate your video library with YouTube videos that you've shared on your wall in the past.

XMPP permissions: we are deeply integrated with facebook chat. Your friends online on Facebook can send and receive xmpp messages to you on Airtime.

Agreed that we could improve the messaging. Thanks for the feedback.
Yes, that would be great!
Generally, if short interest gets very high many, many professional investors get interested in buying the stock for precisely that reason. Buy enough and recall your stock, ie make it not available for borrow and you create a short squeeze sending the price into the stratosphere and then you can sell into the squeeze making a tidy profit. If you are short and your stock gets recalled you could theoretically lose your entire net worth. Something similar actually happened in Germany with Porsche trading VW stock and VW shorts getting killed during the financial crisis.

The fact that no one was willing to do that to OSTK stock tells you how shitty the company is and how overvalued the stock was.
North Carolina tries to wish away sea-level rise, proposed ban of projections.
Hey idoh!

We are looking into the Facebook sign up user flow right now but thank you for bringing that to our attention and for the recommendation to go the publish_actions route.

In relation to Open Graph we actually do have that built out and there is Facebook timeline on and off feature in the top right. Was it not working properly for you?

Thanks,
Andrew
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You refer to it as a single incident; she does not.

"My colleague started making inappropriate sexual advances towards me. He singled me out and would not leave me alone, even when asked. I tried to shake it off, change the conversation and even moved away. He would not stop."

I'm not suggesting laws were broken, but there is no question in my mind that harassment is the proper term to use here.

"FYI" was an unproductive way to begin my comment. My apologies.
Ick! It requires Facebook.
This is potentially nefarious to everyone.

1. People perform poorly, creative and intellectually, when there is a reward at stake, specially if it is cash. This is proved by multiple studies.

2. Small cash compensations will shift the focus from the main reason people enjoy to code and contribute. Worst, if the amount of cash reward is inferior to the true value of the work they do (and it will be), people will feel undervalued and loose motivation. Either pay them well, or not pay at all.

3. It will be a constant remainder they should be making real money instead of making tips on github.

4. The system benefits developers by popularity instead of quality. Besides popular developers are those who need it the least.

5. Popularity and profit will poison the minds of the young Jedi's while coding thus decreasing overall code quality, creativity and productivity.
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And you know what? I'll tell you why people get this wrong. It's because their brains turn off. They say "omg microscopes scary! big block of text!" and guess at answers instead of actually bothering to try and read the text. That's one reason why they get poor scores at reading comprehension: a lack of reading with intent to comprehend. Heck, if they're pressed for time and the guessing-wrong penalty is low enough, it's an entirely rational response.

The fact that the journalist is that dense is mostly a symptom of "oh hey I've found an argument against standardized testing to fit my preexisting conceptions of the matter! Screw reading it, it looks complicated, I'll just use it to justify things." Same basic problem.
I understand (and agree) but you really should watch the video [1]. I'd have a hard time putting most of that into words.

Here's an attempt [2] "Airtime is a Web-based application designed to foster spontaneous sharing and interaction with video. There's no download or registration required"

[1] http://vimeo.com/43359572

[2] http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57447417-93/sean-parkers-ai...
This is a valid observation, but maybe you should try making it without all the posturing.
This is even for buyouts as far as I know: https://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5270832522

My buyout on Sunday still hasn't posted today.
The risk of massive short sales are precisely to the naked short-sellers because you can be required to deliver at any time and if you fail to deliver you broker or the DTC can buy you in at any price, and charge you an enormous commission on that specific trade.
There are still applications where welding and making things on the spot from metal are important. Mining operations come to mind.
Ask HN: What did you build or launch in May?
These are some of my favorite HN threads and, hopefully without touching on amoore's toes, I wanted to get one rolling for May before it was too late.
So, for those of us who haven't purchased Diablo 3 yet, is it worth it?
Its simple, but there are often equally simple failures at each step.

1. Do you even know your high level goal (a lot of times people inside larger organizations do not).

2. When you '(think of) stuff you can do to reach the goal, then do it". Is the prioritization of that stuff based on the leverage you expect that stuff to have. Are you actively seeking out knowledge that allows you to prioritize correctly? etc...
Oh, yes, they need to be told.

Most people jump right in to the execution phase without really thinking about what growth and value hypotheses they're trying to prove, how to measure success, have no tools to prioritize between different tactics, and no framework in place to learn.

This post at least outlines that framework for learning. It's a bit different from "do stuff towards your goals".
>FB hardly invented the concept of a page on the internet where events are listed.

They however popularized and refined it, which is what really matters. Look at Apple and the iPod. MP3 players existed, but they were weak and relatively unknown.

Who cares about the page on the internet where events are listed unless all your friends are there too?
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I think the illusion is reinforced by virtue of the square itself being flush with the right-hand edge of the image, but offset from the bottom edge.
Airtime is about extending your social graph one algorithmically-matched individual at a time (one-to-one). Ustream and Justin.tv are about broadcast channels (one-to-many) of which only a small percentage of the browsable directory are active at any point in time.
Looks cool and well designed, but I think Sean has overestimated the demand for video chat and talking to strangers with webcams.
I see your basic point, but in the iOS case, something bad HAS happened -- your personal contacts may have been uploaded to the servers of many different companies without your permission.

The crux of the issue is that the web can't be designed like Apple. The reason the web took off is that it's decentralized. You don't need anyone's permission to set up a web site.

And in fact the contacts fiasco kind of illustrates the point. That happened because a company has monopoly on the (hidden) policies of their ecosystem.

I think one solution is to have programs that manage other programs in a future operating system. You could configure that Berners-Lee mentions by hand. But more likely you there could be a very simple system level app that presents a wizard: "You're running out of storage. Here is a list of all apps and how much storage their using." And it will guide the user through some actions to adjust the capabilities.

It is an open problem to determine whether general users can infer "access to my address book" + "network connectivity" -> "company can permanently store my contacts and spam my friends", and the like.
No, it just means the Goldman salesman was able to find someone who owned OSTK stock and was willing to lend it out at the rate the hedge fund client was willing to pay to borrow it. It's called good customer service.
Wasn't that Pham Nuwen, after the initial attack?
He's not asking what the acronymn stands for; he's asking whether it counts as a 'use' if you use Facebook to login to a third party site, or hit a like button, but you don't visit Facebook itself that day.

I'd like to know as well.
Is WAN consolidation part of IT consolidation?
Game theory and reward system experiments are bogus because some observations have been based on monkeys.