skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You get a huge performance impact if the OS doesn't align the clusters to the sectors. From the wikipedia article:

The translation process is more complicated when writing data that is either not a multiple of 4K or not aligned to a 4K boundary. In these instances, the hard drive must read the entire 4,096-byte sector containing the targeted data into internal memory, integrate the new data into the previously existing data and then rewrite the entire 4,096-byte sector onto the disk media. This operation, known as read-modify-write (RMW), can require additional revolution of the magnetic disks, resulting in a perceptible performance impact to the system user

Most of the OSes correctly align the advanced format sectors.
depends on the type of website. I do not mind using facebook connect for non-critical websites but would obviously not use it for critical ones. Usually, I prefer email+passwd which lets me choose which email to use.
I think the core issue was that Uber was planning to introduce a cheaper service than they have currently and the amendment would have effectively prevented it from working.
Right, and that's an insanely common idiom in Java, where state is A-number-one best friend.
> Development time is a one off (for a given feature set)

Indeed. With a feature set dynamic enough, the lead will mount up.
Ubuntu is the name of a product. The company is Canonical. I know nothing specific about their marketing department, but it's common in larger companies that the internal marketing staff plans and oversees branding and campaigns but often they outsource the development of the assets themselves to specialized firms or designers. One of the reasons is that you can't always have the best talent in-house and available when you need them.
But would you welcome living in fear of being killed at any moment ?
How about saying just that then? If you want the person to create a culture, then giving them a $2.5k budget sends the wrong message there too, as to how much leeway they have. I don't think this will attract the right kind of candidate. Just my $.02
Motorola's Montage Javascript app framework
How is this different from what Avvo and RocketLawyer already do? There's another competitor, from a law school dropout that also launched to much traffic last year (I forgot what it was called).

What does this site/service do better than existing, established players?

What unique benefits does this site/service provide that the other sites do not?
Does this plan let you access other people's account without a password?
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You are not insured in a radio car unless the trip was booked. Yes, I stand next to the car and phone in, just in case. The drivers are cool with that.
>The offer is limited to 1 per household entity or business.

Bummer.
I love that capability, but it's not quite everything I want - I do want a way for people to loudly interrupt me in the case of a genuine emergency, but I want them to have to reaffirm that most of the time. The hands-off scheduling would be nice, too. But for what it is, it's rad, to be sure.
It's actually 10°C (18°F) hotter.
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I agree. More and more people are latching on to the richness of graph-oriented thinking, but I don't think anyone has a good theory of graph-oriented UX.

Although I wouldn't be too surprised if someone found the solution at Bell Labs in the 80s and we're just waiting to rediscover it.
I've yet to see a startup or any company for that matter that signs over ownership of assets bought with company funds to rank and file employees.
yes, I'll do that. I'm learning a lot along the way (I'm not a programmer, just learned some things from Udacity and Codecademy), so it's not wasted time :)
Maybe it's just me, but I think apps like this need (NEED) to focus on tablets / touch screens if they really want to stand a chance.

Don't get me wrong. It's an impressive tool and I'm sure it will work for a lot of people. But there is nothing Moqups does that I myself can't do more quickly with pen and graph paper.

What I want is a intuitive experience for touch screens, instead of yet-another app that requires a bunch of clicking and dragging.
I guess it all adds up, you can easily shoot 1GB of photos on a weekend with current cameras.
Yeah but you can opt to only use encrypted volumes for certain files that don't have to be accessed daily.

You don't take advantage of Dropbox fully, but it's still pretty convenient to be able to sync that small encrypted volume containing tax reports etc.
Problems for developers as I see it

Distribution

Data Sharing

Privacy

Offloading to the GPU

Encryption

UI/UX when delivering across differing platforms natively

Localisation, especially when you involve bi directional languages
My exact thoughts when I first saw his screenshots.
At the risk of sounding like Scrooge: I would assume most people think of Penny Arcade as the thrice weekly "content drops" (while viewing the rest as peripheral) and it certainly doesn't take 14 people to draw a comic.

Asking the community for $1 million every single year to draw a comic seems a bit steep.

I'm not saying it's not worth it. I probably will contribute, but it feels like a lot of for a small thing.
Looks pretty cool, although I don't know how useful this would be for games.

Isn't the only real bottleneck for large-scale real-time MMOs the network bandwidth needed between the server and client? While this tech would improve the efficiency of handling data on the server, it wouldn't be able to solve the inherent problem of network limitations.

Major props for making it open source though, I'll enjoy looking at the code.
p.s. the Public folder is going away.

http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-really-removing-...
I must be missing something in your comment. Because something may have legal errors in its statement, you make some wild blanket statements about what computers can do. Wow. Just wow. I could probably find thousands of similar statements before the Federal e-sign law took effect.

"there are a lot of situations where things cannot be done through a computer"

I hope you meant a huge "yet" in front of your ridiculous blanket statement. Or were you working in the patent office last century and thought all the inventions were finished?

Something about a little post from a new company has people flagging an entrepreneur's story. This story is of interest to me as a hacker (I have a good friend in the notary business, and he wanted me to do some integration for him with the state) and I'm sure it's interesting to many other hackers. I met another guy at Microconf doing notary services online. But because you have some universal grasp of the complex and changing legal situation, and must take it upon yourself to protect consumers from actually learning about a new way to notarize documents, the entire topic should be flagged for removal. Heaven help us all if this is what Hacker News has become...
Those are spot on analogies. I forget the name of the particular synthetic security case, but from the emails it was clear that the bank knew they were selling junk to their customers. From their sales materials / ppt / brochures its equally clear that they made no mention whatsoever that they thought it was useless/terrible/ and that they were shorting it.

When a bank shorts something, and then turns around and sells the counter position to a client while promising them that it will go long, what else would you call it?

Edit: I'm providing a reason only to why the Analogy is correct.

Finance discussions are always complex, and the rest of your points I have no real beef with. I am only pointing out that the banks are playing asymmetrically. In these cases it would not be possible for the customers to avail of the "informed / educated investor" clause.
I agree with you. While the tone of the message matters in terms of how effectively it is conveyed (and how receptive readers will be to the ideas presented), it's not something to get too focused on.

I find that people are much more likely to perceive value judgments and look for hidden meanings in things when they are feeling insecure. Did that guy just insult me? Is he trying to imply that I don't move the industry forward? How dare he?!
Usually I rather create new account instead of giving my facebook info for the site I do not trust.

We went with approach A and B for our site http://jackpotbuddy.com. We kept the Email+password signup to just 4 fields (Name, email, password and confirm password)
Except that the metadata on your MP3's is likely different, whether you've purchased them or just edited the genre in ID3 data.

I've often wondered if backup services "parse" MP3's into data and metadata for backup purposes, just because it can enhance deduplication so much. I've never heard of them doing it, but it's the first thing I would do...
Until you have more than one app running on the same machine with different dependencies... like say on a development machine. This is the point when bundling shines, because it elevates you off of the os-level dependencies.
Ah, I see. I'm no Java developer, sorry.
At the very least, the question of whether out-of-state notarization must be accepted is disputed. Here’s a document on the FTC website by the National Notary Assocation, which states that “[b]ecause of the Full Faith and Credit clause of the U.S. Constitution, notarial acts performed by a Notary in one state have the same force and effect as if performed by a Notary in the respective state.”

http://www.ftc.gov/os/comments/factaidt/FBI%20Evid%20Memo1.p...

I couldn’t find any federal or other court decisions that state that a notarial act is not considered a “public act” under the Full Faith and Credit clause. Can you provide a citation?

Here’s testimony before a House of Representatives committee which states that out-of-state notarizations are often rejected, but usually for formalistic and not substantive reasons:

http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju26412.000/...
"The world needs C not Lisp" is like saying "the world needs English not French."
I like the fact that they have instruction on how to run your own tournaments. I what I didn't like about a few other AI games I have seen is they require either the use of someone elses server or they have no easy way to set one up.
Maybe I'm reading too much into the specifics, but how did he invest $7,000 to build a timer app? Is that just the development time x his old job's hourly rate? Is that including marketing? I can't fathom how an indie dev could spend almost 10k on a very simple application.
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Thanks. I love Dropbox. What is the UI like for a batch restore? I can't find anything on it or it's features.
#1. Install xcode for free
#2. /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(/usr/bin/curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/master/Library/Contribu...
#3. curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails

IT's not hard people!
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Even easier, RAW photos at 8MB each. Just 125 per gig.
That first bit isn't quite true. At a given altitude, a specific attitude and thrust setting will maintain constant altitude and velocity.

Obviously it's much more complicated than that, but this is taught to pilots (although not included in their re-certification tests, as noted by the BEA). With properly trained and tested pilots, loss of airspeed indication is a completely survivable incident, and in fact many planes have suffered such incidents at altitude without accident.
My original comment was to the poster that said "Having to fake an exchange rate sounds like the economic conditions in badly run countries like Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Russia, etc."
I'm really excited to see this concept made real.

Based on comments here, multi-factor (non-wallet) authentication is used to identify the parties. This method of ID verification is a technique that I helped pioneer at Equifax many years ago, and I've been disappointed that it hasn't ever really seemed to take off before. I occasionally see it in use here and there, but now really expect it to be recognized for its value. Not perfect for every case, but a useful tool nonetheless.

Cheers and way to go!
The saddest thing is that these people might actually be able to be successful, but the scrutiny of the camera and the public is a huge mind fuck.
so, it's 2x of Amazon cloud's price?
Nice job! I was looking for something like this for a project I'm working on. Just FYI - If I resize the window to the width of the paddles I can play forever :) http://imgur.com/ukxi8
Judging by everything I have read, listened to, and watched of them over the past decade, I think they would have zero interest in any model where people only get content if they pay.
What about the increase in average temperature. A well documented and statistical fact.No doubt this has a global effect on a complex system as the Earth. You don't have to be a climatologist to feel uncomfortable about this, yes maybe to explain or put in perspective.
1. OpenID

2. Email+Password

999999. Twitter / Facebook.

haven't used BrowserID enough to comment.
I don't understand how this topic comes up so frequently, but HN is configured to allow reposts after a certain amount of time. That isn't really a problem for old posts with excellent information, so I think a repost is warranted for this.
What about the increase in average temperature. A well documented and statistical fact.No doubt this has a global effect on a complex system as the Earth. You don't have to be a climatologist to feel uncomfortable about this, yes maybe to explain it or put in perspective.
Yes. The side-sticks not moving in sympathy is a hindrance to monitoring the handling pilot.
I used to use Mozy and then switched to Backblaze when Mozy upped the prices. I see your point about pricing and data security, but for me I'm willing to risk it to save some money because it isn't like Backblaze is the only source of my data.

I've got the local active copy, a local backup to a home server and then Backblaze for off-site. While Backblaze could theoretically disappear any day as far as I know, the chance of all three of my data sources being lost simultaneously is very small. Small enough that if it ever happened I suspect I'd have bigger problems to worry about than my data backups.
Ask: Researcher looking to interview Mobile Developers
Greetings.

I'm a Ph.D. researcher writing on the process of mobile design and development. I'm presently looking for mobile designers and developers who would be willing to be interviewed.

The interviews would take place via skype, in person, or via email and should last around an hour. If in person, I would happily provide beer. :)

If you are interested, or if you know someone who might be, please do put them in touch.

If you're curious about the project, you can learn more here: http://singlebrook.com/blog/phd-candidate-interviewing-mobile-application-designers-developers

And my own web site(such as it is) is here: http://jimthatcher.net

Cheers.
I've used Postgres.app recently on Lion. What problem did you have?
Fact of the matter is that, other than EVE online, there aren't any "large-scale" MMOs out there. Most of them are limited to one server per world/shard/instance (and even EVE is limited to one server per solar-system AFAIK), and the number of concurrent players that entails. This is a first step in helping them build bigger worlds with more players, that seamlessly scale over a cluster.
Tim Schafer said “That much money for Pax Prime?” when discussing the budget (more specifically, which non-wage stuff to cut or leave in) for the Double Fine Adventure in the latest episode of the documentary.
Yeah, hence the pilot error since they trusted the computer. AFAIK some of the issues have already been adressed (training and the like).
I cheer for that possibility, but the outlook is gloomy. The taxi industry is so heavily regulated in many major cities, that they might as well make the drivers government employees. The supply of medallions/plates are very limited (drivers don't even own the car, in many cases, having to lease from one of the cartel members that have a medallion), and they often can't set their own fares. It has to be one of the least-free markets in North America.
The wireless controller won't be that expensive compared to the rest of it. But this is all assuming large scale mass production. Doing a small batch of controllers like that would be very expensive.
When they have to change the rules
Context Aware Actionable Email - Convention over Invention
Email+password. As a user with a password manager (LastPass), I can log in with one click, use a unique password everywhere, and never forget a password. Can't beat it in terms of usability.

From the developer's perspective, there's a bit of boilerplate to be done, but it's nice to own the data and not rely on third party platforms.

I think there's an unfulfilled need for identity management by password managers. Why do I have to enter the same information everywhere? It would be nice to be able to click a "Create Account" button on a website and have it get my name, email, and new password from the LastPass plugin over a standard protocol.
This is non-news. Company politics.
Can you put your audit results and/or certifications on your web site?

We would like to use you but having been in the cash gaming business in Europe and to an extent in the US, we won't touch a vendor unless we know they are some way to GLI-19 compliant.
Good to know. I read here on HN that during the storm event in June, the same thing happened (no auto fail over for those who paid for it).
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According to his blog post he didn't build it - he hired people to do it for him. I agree the figure seems rather high, although it does include a designer and developer.

(...before someone chimes in: I do commercial iOS dev for a living. I know that $7k isn't really high at all in the scale of development - but I also know I personally wouldn't invest $7k of my money into an app that was basically a timer)
You can also set it to upload your photos when you plug-in your device. The dropbox client accesses the files on the device as if it was a camera.
We've used gitorious as well, but due to several problems we've now switched to a GitHub organization and Gitlab. Much more happy this way in general, but the team management options for GitHub are lacking. Purely going for the Gitlab route would've probably worked out better. (We have around 50 people with Github accounts now and some of them are changing teams frequently.)
Points for using Day[9] and 1337 in the example.
Why on earth should you have to run a VM in order to run a programming language?

This hasn't solved the problem of Ruby being difficult to install, it's just added ANOTHER problem of having to learn to install a VM manager and a whole new OS, plus using up far more system resources. Seems to me like that's just making things worse.
Twitter iOS client updated. Expanded tweets and other improvements.
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The Nintendo Wii was pretty successful with its much weak graphics for half the price of the other consoles. Actually, it wasn't even half the price of Xbox360, but more like 75%.
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The problem is that you are trying to corral a massive set of different technologies and platforms into a unified 'god UI'.

This already exists to a large extent on my iPhone as far as sending outbound messages. I don't know about you, but when I want to email/call/sms/mms/videochat etc say, my father, I don't goto those apps. I just hit the 'home' button on my phone to bring up unified search, type 'dad' and get his contact page allowing me to instantly choose any one of those options to message him. Email, short message, video, phone call, -it's all right there.

If you wanted to take it to the next level, you'd want to be able to open up the API so you could toss in Fb, Twitter, or whatever other services you want on that page to choose from.

The unified UI is basically there already though.

It gets harder when we talk about incoming messages though, because we've got different senders pushing different types of messages to us on a vast array of different platforms and technologies. But isn't this what 'notification centers' are? A single point that unifies and corrals your collection of different incoming messages? And now Apple is merging their iOS notifications with OSX, syncing through the cloud. I agree it's not pretty yet, but we are getting closer, -like I said, I strictly use a unified message UI for sending outbound messages for most of my day.

I think this merging of central messaging UIs that are synced across operating systems will become more refined (so much room for improvement), but will definitely get there. But at the end of the day we're still funneling data from a wide range of different apps in order to present it as best we can keeping both form and function in mind.
Are we really getting back to the "post everything from 37signals.com" track? Blargh.
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LA Startups: I want to work for you for free
If you are involved with a startup in the Los Angeles area, I want to come work for you for free. No strings attached. Heck, if it comes down to it I will make the coffee and clean the kitchen (really).

Here are some things that I can do besides make delicious coffee:

Development - Most of my recent web projects are written in Django and utilize Gearman for async jobs. I also have one iOS app in the store written in Obj-C. I setup and manage my servers on AWS for my own projects. My current stack is Nginx, Green Unicorn, and Postgresql. Here are some things that I have built:

iOS Shared To Do Lists - http://www.ourtodolist.com

App Store Keyword Analytics - http://www.appstoredata.net

Marketing and Business Development - My background is in the nonprofit world, and for the past 3 years I worked as the Director of Marketing and Development (fundraising in this context) for a mid-sized symphony orchestra. Further back, I was a music major in college. I have an MBA with a focus in nonprofit management. I am not the type of MBA that gets so much flak in the tech world.

Why am I doing this? I want get involved in the LA startup community, meet some great people and learn a lot. I am not ready to be a full-time software developer (I think...) but I want to get there and I can add value in a number of areas. If are in the tech industry and don't have an opportunity for me, I would still love to take you out for a coffee or beer!
I wasn't responding to Google being (or not being) a natural monopoly, I was responding to "Google is what I use, and it's what I use because it's Google".

On your point, it could be argued that Google's overall platform dominance might not be attributed to barriers to entry, but rather barriers to exit. While Google offers some of your data back to you in a portable format it's still quite difficult to leave their services, and even when you do they will still be tracking you for advertising. To form their potential natural monopoly in your mind, you can imagine how difficult and inefficient it would be to have multiple different firms tracking you to the same extent that Google does (search, Google+, Gmail, calendar, Google Docs).

I am not an amateur economist.
It is not. As I mentioned in the post, you need to set aside the money for the year's expenses at the beginning of the year. $1mil provides $90.9k/year because (1m - 90.9k)*0.1 = 90.9k.

Interest is received at the end of the period but we need cash in hand throughout the year to pay for the expenses.
So it'll become a glorified Netflix player. Wonderful?

This sort of our point, it's not useful for anything it purports to be useful for...like gaming.
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