skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Platform, language(s), location etc?
There was definitely some "controlling of the message" going on- every headline said "Force Uber to charge 5x the price", when the actual amendment enforced a $15 minimum- probably less than 90% of Uber rides.

Not supporting the amendment, of course- just saying.
The legal market is certainly open to disruption but one issue sprung to mind when reading the post.

I appreciate that personal vetting is something which you feel necessary to ensure a good service but what about the risk of opening yourself up to legal issues if an attorney you have vetted then provides negligent advice?

I would argue that personal vetting has created a duty of care which would not otherwise be present if you simply relied on the State Bar's database.

I imagine you have thought about this and the risk of the above is outweighed by your desire to ensure a good service but just something that sprung to my mind.
Social discovery service Bitly raises $15M round led by Khosla Ventures
Thanks very much for those. Probably the two most interesting industrial/work-related blog posts I have ever read!
Oh look, AndroidTV.

Prediction: Sidelined by the AppleTV in 6 months.

EDIT: More detail: What do you think will happen when Apple comes out with an SDK for AppleTV, folks? I suppose the only thing missing is the controller. :-)
Figuring out how to make a living without having to get a traditional job.
It would probably be more accurate to say this is the first hard disk for NAS sold to a consumer market.

All storage vendors sell NAS specific hard drives. Typically called 'enterprise SATA' or 'enterprise SAS'. They have similar enhancements as this, but they work with the storage vendor to tune the firmware in the controller to the expected workload pattern (vs. a general DAS workload)
Well, technically, everything is auto-synced using Dropbox to 2 computers at all times, so I do have a backup.

Unfortunately for my peace-of-mind, if Dropbox ever decided to go wonky and delete all my files, it could do so from both my computers at the same time without me being able to stop it in time.

Not too worried about this, but it is something I think about once in a while. I do occasionally do a complete backup to a hard-disk, but only very occasionally.
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Interesting take on the crowd funding issue.

I expect to see more of these sorts of creative things. Advertising debt is annoying. And sadly people like PA with their 2 ads get nailed because people have been so massively inundated with ads all day that even one more is painful.

Another experiment they haven't tried, but would be good to run, would be to make the site subscriber only with the long tail free. So imagine a site where if you subscribed it was ad free and every few days you got a new comic. There is the 'free' site which is content that is a year old and has advertising on it, and there is a totally free site which has the two years old or later and its got no ads on it.

Of course its not as useful for topical content but its an interesting experiment.
It's DHH, did you really expect anything other than smug superiority?
I agree that comfort is the issue. The airlines squeeze so many seats now into coach that for tall or larger passengers it's very uncomfortable for cross country flights. I'm 6'2" the space under the seat in front of me is always taken up by someone's carry on bag.

Two hour flights are no problem, the five hours cross-country is ok, but any long haul in coach is pretty miserable.
I would say Apple going out of business is
unlikely long term!

This is true. Apple has reached a Microsoft level, where it would take an act of god for the business to completely go under at this point. If it does go out of business, it will be gradually over the course of many years.
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This defeats some of the uses of Dropbox, but 1.+2. can be worked around with EncFS. I am using http://www.boxprotect.com/ as a frontend, but I will try to replace it by directly using EncFS soon. I already do the latter on Windows.

I still get some of the benefits like having everything everywhere, even when I'm offline, and LAN computer-to-computer sync.
I don't think their costs are unreasonably low.

Fair enough. For me, though, there are so many possibilities for things going wrong when it comes to storage, I'd rather not trust it to a company trying to squeeze a profit from taking in a few dollars a month - and that's before processing costs.

Also, why would I go for the cheapest option when I get so much greatness for the equivalent of buying a few coffees/beers? It's not mega money by the majority of people's standards.
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Volume discounts and long term contracts will bring the price down.
wouldn't be so sure..
There's a free 200MB download of the command line build utilities. Xcode proper (4+ GB) is also free ...
It could be in a cookie Wikipedia looks at. You specify the name of the app you want to launch in the cookie, then the site redirects you to that app.
I agree with a bit of this but I think this is more about managing unreallistic expectations than about start-ups. I wrote a rebuttal to this here - http://wp.me/s2ikdZ-startups
I think one book you might want to read is: "Selling in a new marketspace: Getting Customers to Buy Your Innovative and Disruptive Products"

http://www.amazon.com/Selling-New-Market-Space-Innovative/dp...

One other book that is considered a classic is "Crossing the chasm"

http://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Chasm-Marketing-Disruptive-Ma...
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Here is my simpler version: function calls are the fastest RPCs. They are faster to run, faster to write, and faster to debug if something goes wrong.

By all means conceive of your application as a bunch of well-engineered little pieces. But for now, write them all as modules that you're making method calls to. Should you some day want to, you're free to replace one by a facade around a remote service. But for now it works and you can move on.
The consoles are 7 years old. Mobile games are getting pretty close to their performance. All the new ARM GPU architectures coming out this year and next year will support OpenGL ES 3.0 (OpenGL 3.2 features) and OpenCL 1.1.

Next year's hardware should also be 4-5x faster in GPU performance than Tegra 3 (that includes Tegra 4, as well as other chips), and around 300 gigaflops each, which I think already surpasses the Xbox 360 and PS3, or it's around as powerful.

If Google and many of their partners would put these chips in $99 set top boxes/consoles, and let them play 3D Android games, it could disrupt the console market, simply by flooding the market with the help of multiple manufacturers, a low price, and a decent gaming platform, that could only grow bigger if it takes off, not unlike how Google dominates the smartphone market through the sheer number of Android devices released by many, many manufacturers.

I just hope Google is smart enough to recognize this and actually go for it, instead of focusing solely on their "smart TV" strategy with their Google TV boxes.
I think specific flavors of unlimited make sense. It sounds like Corkboard can offer unlimited storage but with a cap of 50MB on files. The number of people willing to jump through the hoops required to make that truly unlimited is likely very few.

We do a similar thing at LayerVault. We offer unlimited storage and versioning of design files, but only for design files we support.
But we have a great, robust way to see exactly who modified a file and when; it's the file system. Why reinvent it?

That's a strange statement given your background.

Since when does editing a file change the owner or leave an audit-trail behind, on stock linux?

If you're running auditd then that's a different story but I've never seen that used in production for this purpose because it's hard to get right and because there are so many
simpler options much better suited to the task (version control, puppet, chef, etc.).

Auditing or not, in my experience you inevitably end up in permission-hell when multiple users mess with files that need to be readable by a common gid (sticky bits, umask, something is always off).

If you really found a way to make this work at scale, a detailed write-up would be interesting (to me).

In my experience that way lies unmitigated madness. I've had to clean up multiple such "sudo-style" deployments in the past.
Why doesn't the plans page say how much storage the free plan has?
Each of those users would be running it 45 days sooner so that cancels out.
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No, I don't think so. There's a tendency in tech circles to act like programmers etc. are just men. It's not malicious but it makes women feel invisible, which is a factor in the gender imbalance in tech. So as part of the effort to get more women into tech, we're self-conscious about thoughtless (not generally malicious) actions that make women feel less welcome. I would definitely consider a serious headline saying "grab your speedo, we're sending you to Brazil" as unintentionally making women feel forgotten. But again, since it's a just a joke about a photo, it's not really a problem in this case.
Our lives may well be significantly better. Almost certainly, they will be significantly different.
r = F/I = (1+f)/(1+i) according to what I have defined. So inflation of 3% and return of 10% means r = 1.03 / 1.1 = 0.9363, not 0.3.
Interesting tool! I'll definitely give this one a shot next time I'm mocking up. Having said that, if you need to explain something by saying "This is a bit tricky to master until you get a hold of it", that's probably because it's a bad idea.

It's confusing that you have "click" "click, then click" and "doubleclick" as three separate actions. They are too easy to mix up or accidentally activate. Why not take a page from Apple's design patterns and put a context-sensitive inspector panel on the right or top to hold things like fill, stroke, alignment etc. This is the way Omnigraffle, Illustrator, Keynote, Sketch etc. work and in my opinion it's a much more effective pattern than what you have now.

Impressive work. Hope to see more of this!
Not necessarily. If they increase DPI to reach that resolution, I'd have to switch custom graphics to UIKit controls, or create them for the 7" form factor.

Starting to look like image.png, image@2x.png, image-ipad.png, image-ipad@1.5x.png, image-ipad@2x.png
I have to throw in that TrueCrypt runs quite well on Linux and Mac OS, too.
Added bonus: running sudo gem install rails spins for 20 minutes then dies with some cryptic error message.

At least that was what happened when I tried to install rails on my brand new macbook air.

To be fair though, open source software hates me. This has been pretty much the same experience I've had every single time I've tried to install anything with gem install, apt get or yum install. On every flavor of linux/unix on any box I've ever touched.
It's probably the utilization rate.

The average person on the 50GB Dropbox tier might only actually have 25GB of stuff. Now they're on the 100GB tier, but they still only have 25GB of stuff.
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The php interpreter isn't used by system processes. I'm not sure how essential the stock Ruby interpreter, but I know that on Linux the system Perl & Python interpreters are used by system processes and upgrading them could potentially break things.
> I really wish there was a plan between free and 50G (now 100G).

Agreed. For those of us who use less storage (and especially 30 GB or less), Google Drive is clearly the better deal. Although others seem to have experienced problems with Google Drive, it has worked essentially flawlessly for me and, because of that, I plan to let my Dropbox subscription expire.

For every person who wants to keep 100 GB of data synched, I bet there are at least five who want to synch 30 GB or less.
This sums up my feelings for the benchmarks:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=fa...

Note that the "alternative" Lisp SBCL and Java 7 programs both outperform Fortran.

Of course I agree with you on wtf-moments. WTF makes Ruby take an hour, and SBCL take 10 seconds? That's two orders of magnitude! But no matter, I imagine a more clever Ruby programmer could reduce that, or just call out to a native library.
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I also found the double-tap-to-delete counterintuitive. If a single tap expands a node, then a double-tap should open the article. Tap-and-hold to delete is a bit more intuitive, too -- it's the same gesture you'd use on your iOS home screen to delete an app.

That said, this is a beautiful app!
I briefly considered switching to Google Drive when it was released. I copied all the files in my Dropbox (57GB) to the GDrive folder and waited for everything to sync.

After syncing, the GDrive client constantly used almost 500MB (yes, 0.5GB) of memory while Dropbox was always under 50MB (Windows 7)[1]. That's a huge deal for a program that's supposed to be always running.

Also, the GDrive client often crashed while syncing and had problems syncing some weirdly named files that Dropbox handled perfectly.

I hope GDrive gets over these issues soon, since they have some cool features (e.g. webapp integration, content-based image indexing).

[1] https://twitter.com/jtuulos/status/211702650109046785
"Even as a tiny, mostly nonprofit niche, American private education is substantially more efficient than its public sector, producing higher graduation rates and similar or better student achievement at roughly a third lower cost than public schools..."

And that's because private schools can choose their students. They're not required to accept every applicant regardless of their ability to pay (i.e. just because you can pay the tuition doesn't mean they'll take your underperforming student.) The purpose of the public education system is to guarantee everyone access to minimal education, regardless of ability or cultural heritage (e.g. that culture that does not value education in the least, sends their children to school to get them out of the house for a few hours or because the law says they have to attend.) Privatize it all you want, but as long as there's a requirement for every student to be accepted, you'll see lower scores overall.

tl;dr - there are cultural aspects to successful education. I didn't say 'racial' or 'genetic.' I live very close to rural, white, low-income families and they just don't value education. That needs to change. On the other side of the county, it's mostly white, upper-middle class families and they do value education.
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See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4217645
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It's fairly common in acquisitions for one or both sides to agree to a "break-up" fee to protect against one side getting cold feet, regulatory risks, financing risks, and more. http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/04/25/facebook-ipo-whats-wit...
I imagine it's not US corporate law per se, but rather that as part of the agreement, even if the merger isn't cleared, FB still has to pay the $200m although at roughly 20% of the fee it seems a little steep to compensate Instagram for the cost of having to reverse the transaction (not that I'm particularly familiar with the deal terms and associated costs!)
That example is full of state. There's nothing to prevent you from calling any of those setX methods at a later point in time and changing the object's state. That interface very well could avoid state, but Swiftmailer doesn't seem to be implemented in that way. [1]

The stateless way would be to return an entirely new Swift_Message instance with each setX method. In languages that aren't built with immutability in mind, like PHP and Java, you end up instantiating and throwing away a lot of objects. Sometimes it doesn't matter, but when it does you use a mutable Builder to create the immutable instances.

[1] http://swiftmailer.org/docs/messages.html
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While this is technically true, it's important to note that it's not usually desired.

You should be running a fairly recent version to keep up with patches or match your server, you should be running RVM so you can keep a gemset and use bundler, and you should use homebrew to make installing other packages easier.

Not that any of that is difficult, and you're right to a degree: you can get started learning using one command and go from there.

It's really not that complicated.
This; the search is beyond terrible.
I've been wishing there was a layer between my phone and me that said, effectively, "You've reached David's phone - if this is an emergency or he's expecting your call, press 1; otherwise, press 2 to set up an appointment for a later call, or 3 leave a voicemail message." Where 2 would talk to my calendar and ideally their calendar and figure out a time that works for both of us without my involvement. Sure, people could just mash 1, but people always have an option to be rude when there's interpersonal interaction going on, and at least this way they have a way not to be rude while still reaching out to me by phone, and a way to actually get through to me in an emergency.
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Ergo, the cables are not strictly only fiber optic. There are metal power lines as well.
I agree with the concern for cascading failures but I'm not sure I agree with the comment re: Air France. There was no error cascade there as far as I can see. The pitot tubes froze and the when the aircraft lost airspeed data it did what it was designed to do, turned off auto-pilot and gave control back to the pilot. The pilots were the ones who failed to understand and manage the situation from there on, relying on a computer that was unable to provide data.

Perhaps (said with a little tongue in cheek) it wouldn't be a bad thing if the computers flashed up a big "I don't know!" on the screens so the humans would know to look elsewhere for their information. Just a thought. Then again the humans need to know how to get the data in other ways too.

As my auto racing instructor used to say, "It was a failure of the squishy bit between the steering wheel and the seat".
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There's an interesting commentary about the acquisition by James Fee. http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2012/07/10/esri-eliminates-geoi... He argues that, "...there is one company in that (geospatial govt contractor) space and it is Esri. Either you work with them or you don’t work at all."
I just learned about imapsync, imapcopy, OfflineIMAP and Archivemail on linux. I haven't test them out yet. Have you tried any of these utilities? They seem to address the "Syncing on multiple machines" bit of your post.
I'm excited to see online notarization occur. Traditional, pen-and-ink notaries really shouldn't exist in today's age.
Please don't trust Dropbox as a journaled backup solution.

I powered up a virtual machine that had been down for a while and had dropbox installed. I tried to SSH in. My password kept being rejected. I verified my key through the console, and then it dawned on me that the VM's clock was off, and that's why SSL didn't work. So I set the clock. I think I set it a couple seconds into the future.

Fast forward a couple of days and I tried to open a project on another computer, but half the files were missing. What gives? I logged into the Dropbox web interface and saw that three days ago, "2311 files were deleted"!!! That's individual files from all over dropbox. How do I restore them??? Luckily I had a local hard drive backup and got most of my stuff, but it was hell to merge.

Did I screw up? Maybe, but I came to realize that that little blue box running in my task bar which has permission to delete my important files whenever it's algorithm thinks it needs to scares the hell out of me.
r stands for F/I which is (1+f)/(1+i). This terminology seems to be creating a lot of confusion. I will add a clarification. :)
I was unable to find free versions of either of these, for Snow Leopard, when I looked a year ago. At that time, Lion was utterly unusable (not sure if it's any better), so I just gave up and got a Linux VM for that laptop.
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DropZap developer here, might you be interested in beta testing Chainphoria?
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGEQCxxz5yU

Beta testing URL: http://tflig.ht/L2WTlE

Chainphoria site: http://www.chainphoria.com

Any feedback would be appreciated!
i found this article very encouraging. first i started developing on a windows 7 machine, before "railsinstaller.exe" was around. It was a pain to setup. soon after i was able to get my hands on a mac. still being pretty new to rails it was a whole new world of learning; git, ssh, .bash_profile, unix commands, figuring out gemsets on rvm, why one rails app would install rmagick, but another would error out, what the hell is GCC?

working through these things was a huge help and eye opening experience for me. being new to OOP and web app development it seems like there is a never ending list of things to learn, and everyone out there with their computer science degree has the knowledge already that i am missing. so i guess it is encouraging to see a list of things that this "engineyard training provider" is struggling with, and i worked through it all and have a pretty good grasp on now.
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I would just be worried about them going away because they cannot pay for what they promise. Or because of bad press. I have for instance around 8 TB of log analysis PDFs which are around 20-30 mb per PDF. I know that's a special case but this is then a lot 'cheaper' for me to share with everyone who needs to see that growing amount of files than the way we use now.
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Yes... and maybe a supervolcano under Yellowstone will destroy half the USA. But there's no evidence that will actually happen anytime soon.
You don't consider Amazon/S3 or Redis NoSQL databases?
https://developer.apple.com/downloads/

Requires sign in, but free otherwise.
No it doesn't. Development time is a one off (for a given feature set). Usage is recurring, so savings in running time catch up and eventually dwarf development time.

But I don't think this calculation makes much sense in the first place. It's simply not that linear and depends on many other things, for instance whether it's a throughput or response time problem, the relative value being the first to market versus being the best, etc.
So do I, and I think 99% of all Dropbox users at some point.
Why then, don't they do it?

I think, its because this makes getting "free additional space" so very attractive. You envite lots of friends and colleges in order to grow to a few GB [1]. I would guess this is one of the biggest reasons for Dropbox's success.

[1] For instance, I have 8.4 GB by now, without cheating. This more or less meets my needs.
Good to know, thanks. Where did you learn about that?

BTW, did the stream suddenly die? Or did they finish or go into recess when I wasn't watching?
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Valve doesn't have the sales data of games that are not on the service though.