skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I didn't write a blog-rant, but maybe I should have.

Yes do. Everytime I tell people how Mongo can lose their data and silently corrupt it. They say "ha, but you never experienced it, how do you know". Well, apart from explaining the way write work in theory I have the "There is this one guy on the internet,... let me find his blog". But I suspect there is more than one guy.
I feel bad for them. I mean, at least they're trying.

Maybe I'll make a pity app.
Best to sweep this under the rug. This kind of unbounded optimistic futurism only serves to aggrevate the "where's my jetpack" curmudgeons. Mark my words, and get off my lawn!
mobile version works pretty well. This fb virality thing is nuts.

are ads enough to support your operational costs? Any more ideas moving forward?

i think there's some potential in anonymous feedback for large brands. Build a business development team and go after them.
"...then RIM can then market them in the store, and easily push you over the $10K line."

I don't quite agree with the assumption that their app ecosystem will be popular enough to make this happen "easily". First let's see if BB 10 is released successfully...
Take professor Thrun's course on building self driving robots at Udacity, and then you'll see why this requirement is necessary at this stage of the development of this technology.
Does anyone know how Spotify royalties compare to radio play royalties on a per listener basis? I see them as a very similar service (excluding talk radio, of course), just with spotify being far more convenient and better for discovering new music.
Hopefully some of this turns out to be illegal:

The software, known as Detective Mode, didn’t just
secretly turn on webcams. It “can log the keystrokes
of the computer user, take screen shots of the
computer user’s activities on the computer, and
photograph anyone within view of the computer’s
webcam. Detective Mode secretly gathers this
information and transmits it to DesignerWare, who then
transmits it to the rent-to-own store from which the
computer was rented, unbeknownst to the individual
using the computer,” according to the complaint.

and

The software installed on the laptops also enables the
companies to automatically disable computers of renters
behind on monthly payments and to secretly track the
computers’ whereabouts.

and

the rental stores would force a fake popup for software
registration on computers they rented. The window would
not go away, the FTC said, until the computer user typed
their contact information, including address, phone
number and e-mail. The rent-to-own store would use that
information “to try to collect money” from renters in
arrears, the FTC said.
I don't think they'll ever be able to stretch past $10-$15 a month with a streaming music service. Companies like Spotify/Hulu/Netflix might be better off combining their package to charge a solid premium price (Complete fantasy, I'm aware). It would be like the new cable tv subscription for this generation.

$90 a month?
He said they just need to 'hire a real designer and/or front-end guy' - which basically translates to 'add your custom styles' and you're both happy. And I agree with you both.

The problem is so many people don't do that. They just leave the stock bootstrap there. If you can't even be bothered to change the colors from the templates, how am I supposed to take your company seriously?

Re: pricing. It depends how awesome you plan to make this. As it stands I'd probably pay $10 a month, maybe a bit more. If you fully pimped it out like Balsamiq has done for mockups - the sky is the limit. And if you had no competition for a bunch of your features - I'd actually prefer you charged more and had fewer customers, so everybody doesn't roll their eyes when they see something I built with Jetstrap, like they are doing now with Bootstrap (that assumes you get around to LESS integration...hint hint!).
Force users to give us their email address before showing them our site?
At my old day job, my boss literally instructed me to pay $200 rather than rand(10..40) because otherwise he would have been committing to a minute of work every month updating an ERP entry. Plus, not his money, but certainly his minute...
Scott McNealy: The World Lacks A Major Corporate Sponsor For Open Source
They did it more when it first came around. Redis wasn't in the same category. It was usually compared to CouchDB, another one I don't remember, and then traditional SQL DBs. Couch for example looked much worse in benchmarks because it tried a bit harder to take care of users' data and didn't just fling it over the fence. But it mostly lost out because OMG benchmarks!
If I was a CSS-Jedi I wouldn't need jetstrap or bootstrap :)
I think this is a really smart move for Deadmau5.

During this period its not on spotify, diehard fans will pay for the album through itunes (or other means). After its released to spotify they will benefit from spotify distribution.
I don't think you understand. Your email address is not a secret, but I sure hope access to your email is secret. This scheme sends you an email with a single use link to login.
Looks like a major win for Fred Wilson. It is testament to the value he brings when a company doesn't need to raise money (and probably is not even looking) - but takes your money anyway.
Yahoo’s Choice of New Chief Financial Officer Suggests a Plan for Deals
There was a similar case with such "security/spy software" installed on high school student laptops, back in 2010: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/webcamscanda/
I think the point is that Spotify is so convenient that you essentially own any music on it, especially if you have premium, potentially making it pointless to buy the album for many customers. Prior to Spotify and similar services, if you wanted to listen to music legally (which piracy doesn't give you) and conveniently/on-demand (which the radio doesn't give you), you had to buy the album.

(I'm assuming your point was that Spotify probably pays at least as much per listener as the radio.)
Looks very "android-y" from that video. I'm not sure how they going to differentiate.

So far it seems like the Windows Phone stategy of "cool and different" isn't working, so maybe BB's strategy is to have consumers thinking that BB 10 and Android look and act similar, so they might as well go with either one!
Memorial: Composer Ryu Umemoto
Teardown of Apple's A6 Chip Reveals Manual Layout of Custom Dual-Core CPU
Isn't that the generic tradeoff between a larger vs smaller city too? I'll also be cursing the longer international travel times too.
I think the style is different. I blame the brogrammers.
Python On IBM i: Why?
Let's say that I fire someone, and I absolutely can't afford a severance package, leaving him out in the cold. Let's also say that the following are the options:

Um, you think that people are forced to "butcher [their] entire family in a murder-suicide" because they get fired? Do you grasp the fact that the government gives unemployment benefits for months at a time? Here's this for an "alternative": stop being a giant douchebag and tell the truth on your resume.

[edit: I'm not implying that you personally lied on your resume, I am using the abstract "you"/"your" in keeping with the example.]
The emails contain single-use links. Each time you login you need a new email. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4572031
Looks good! Chrome 21.0.1180.89 OS X 10.8
The only novel part of this seems to be that you issue realtime queries over the batch view AND realtime view together; otherwise I don't see what else is interesting here. And I think that novelty is unneeded (and therefore only additional complexity).

Why don't you just:
1) Master your data in "normal form" (graph/entity-based data models like Datomic or Neo4j are perfect for this) in a scalable database (e.g., Cassandra)
2) Use Hadoop for offline analytics
3) Index all of the data needed for realtime queries in a search engine (e.g., elasticsearch), smartly partitioning the data for performance

As for "schema" changes -- you don't need them in an entity-based model because you can always be additive with the attributes in your schema. (You may wish to have a deprecation policy for some attributes but doing this allows you to as slowly as you'd like update any applications and batch jobs that depend on deprecated attributes.)
attempting to argue that returning a kidnapped child to their parents may NOT be regarded as a success because of the "cost of the initiative" is morally indefensible.

You're saying that any and all possible attempts at finding / returning a child would have zero costs associated, or that whatever the negative cost is irrelevant and should be disregarded. Imagine the government shifts a massive amount of spending towards finding missing children, and suspends the 4th amendment, hires a massive army of investigators and searches door to door to find missing children. Of course this is an exaggerated scenario but it's at least arguable that the negative costs associated with this plan could outweigh the benefits, and that this would be morally undesirable. I don't think there is ever a scenario where costs can be completely ignored / discounted to obtain any amount of beneficial outcome. If you agree with my point in the extreme case, but not in the original scenario, then the disagreement is one of degree not principle. i.e. "well it depends on the costs.." Exactly.
Another similar application but to you mobile instead. Acts like a physical key. http://launchkey.co/
Windows 8 said to be a necessary gamble for Microsoft
Think about those for a minute.

I rather doubt a self driving car in the hands of a 7 year old could possibly be more dangerous than a manual car in the hands of a 7 year old. It's fairly trivial to keep kids from using an iPhone inappropriately. A simple password would easily stop it, or we can keep using physical keys.

7 year old kids can be kidnapped in non hacked vehicles. It's considerably easier to track down a stolen car from 2012 with OnStar than one from 1992 without.

Relavant HN article from today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19660765.
I don't see why DDOS would be the attack of choice for vehicles, but say it were to happen. DDOS attacks happen. They can be defended against (see http://blog.cloudflare.com/65gbps-ddos-no-problem).

For the foreseeable future cars will have manual overrides, and I can't see any attack or series of attacks, no matter how horrifying, resulting in 32,885 deaths over the course of a year.

Certainly there are many scenarios and details to consider, but the typical objections seem to be red herrings, strawmen, or just totally bogus.
I'm surprised services like Spotify and Hulu haven't divvied up their content into special subscriber packs like Cable companies do.

Spotify Premium costs $10? We have to assume the average listener listens to less than $10 worth of music. Find the amount each genre listens to, and charge just a dollar over that (but less than $10) for, say, the current top selling 100 albums and the genre of the subscriber's choosing.

Say, $5 for hip hop, $7 for rock, $3 for country, etc. Hulu could do the same with scifi, drama, comedy, film, TV, and documentary packs all at cheaper prices, all along with their current "everything for the top fee" charge.

/edit: Similarly, as they've done with StarTrek.com and SouthParkStudios.com, I can't imagine why every show hasn't offered their full series online. Especially those brands with many shows and fan-bases that could be brought together.
I have done code reviews in a scrum team setting. Often there are tasks that only one team member will implement, it would simply be too many chefs to have two developers on it, and the others are needed to implement other things.

What we found very useful is to do a pre-review of the existing code to discuss how it works, but this after everyone have done their own one-hour self-study of the code (actually, self-study time tends to be until one guy interrupts saying he grok it and can describe it). Then we discuss the approach for implementation, but only one guy go ahead and implement it. The other developers have similar reviews on their areas.

Afterwards, when it has been implemented, we all come together and look at the implemented solution, again first with self study of the commits, then review sitting in front of the developers desk.

By only being involved as a reviewer, you get a very good understanding of the implementation. You understand not only how it works, but why it was implemented that way. It also leads to more "talk about the code" in the team. Everybody gets a common understanding of some area, you can talk about code improvements.
The great OpenStack balancing act
1: I understand rent control, and I understand the auto month-to-month. Rent control, and eviction are 2 separate things. And under SF eviction law if the only subtenant in a spot is not approved by the land lord then that subtenant can be evicted; Independent of rent.

2: Subtenants do not assume the lease of the original tenant. A lease is not a license, and can not be transfered in that manor. However subtenants are offered the full power of rent control, and a master tenant can not raise rent.

3: we agree? you must pay rent while being evicted or else you will owe the back rent upon eviction.

4: If your lease specifies then your landlord will recoup whatever legal fees they wish. If the lease doesn't specify then under California law your landlord would be able to get "reasonable" fees. Either way your going to pay something.

5: I think your blog post shows that you are participating int the 5 rules that make up fraud.

(1) a false statement of a material fact
(2) knowledge on the part of the defendant that the statement is untrue
(3) intent on the part of the defendant to deceive the alleged victim
(4) justifiable reliance by the alleged victim on the statement
(5) injury to the alleged victim as a result.

6: WebMD is not giving medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.. You should read there articles more closely.

7: I agree on both counts.

8: Evicting roommates is different that evicting a single tenant; as in California they have master tenants.
Fragments of Fukushima
I suspect this is the case almost everywhere in the world. A car's purchase price + gas + maintenance + taxes easily surpasses what you'd spend on taxis, even in a 5 year period. The keys to car ownership are convenience and the emotional aspects.
Ah, my Family Game, how many hours did I invest in it while growing up? Those "999 in 1" cartridges were awesome :)
Modularisation dropped from Java 8
Yeah. My other comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4573711) gives some thoughts on this. For me personally, a good music service (the Spotify catalogue is good, but has nothing on iTunes, for instance) would be worth $50 a month alone, whereas I wouldn't pay anything like $90 a month for streaming TV/movies unless it included live sport. But, I think I may be an edge case.

The problem at the moment for music and artists, is finding a feasible business model in a world where streaming music is worth nothing (I'd argue that the Spotify subscription fee pays for convenience, rather than the music itself for most customers).
Well....always something to keep in your back pocket. You never know when you can come up with a way to leverage that list powerfully.
> Google said in a Tuesday statement that it rejected the decision by Judge Flavio Peren...

That is an interesting response. What other judicial decisions has Google issued statements rejecting?
Ask HN: Thoughts on measuring software teams? Hate it, love it, not sure?
There's a book out there called "Codermetrics", the community site is at http://codermetrics.org/.

Here's the premise:

"Many of the ideas borrow from the use of advanced statistics to analyze sports teams, such as sabermetrics in baseball, and the book Codermetrics has even been referred to as “Moneyball for software teams.” Codermetrics seeks to define a clear and objective way to identify, analyze, and discuss the strengths, weaknesses, successes, and failures of software teams and their individual members."

What would your reaction be to something like that being implemented where you work? Assuming you are self reporting your data, do you see benefit in being able to replace (to some extent) subjectiveness with real, quantitative data that reflect your performance, or would you rebel against this as bureaucratic nonsense that should be shut down at once?

One advantage could be taking the emphasis away from misleading metrics that many managers probably use right now, such number of code commits and/or lines of code, and replacing it with something (hopefully) more meaningful.

I think a lot would depend on implementation, too. If management tried to use this as a way to strictly monitor performance I think it would be doomed to fail, but if the aim was to empower teams to improve themselves then perhaps it has a brighter outlook.

NB. I am not in any way affiliated with the book, just interested.

Thoughts?
Why OpenStack owes its success to Amazon
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OK, where's the source?
I don't think this would appeal to many people who aren't already subscribed. Unlimited streaming is such a minimal cost as it is - $5 or $10 for mobile, that I see this maybe moving some people to a cheaper plan, but not getting any new subscribers. Music is different to TV, the appeal is being able to listen to whatever I want, to discovering new music based on what I listen to, or instantly listening to something that's well reviewed on Pitchfork or The Guardian or Triple J.
Has anyone come up with a good explanation for why, given the recent proliferation of databases, nobody seems to be making anything more relational than the SQL DBMSes?

It should be easier than ever, particularly if you cheat and declare rotational media an unsupported legacy format.
Is that real? O_o
Regardless of whether this will be accepted, users need to be retrained. Any site that offers a password reset via email already effectively lets you login via email. Users should be aware of this so they can be more careful with their email (picking a decent password, ensuring they logout on public computers, etc).

IMHO everyone should be using two-factor authentication for their email.
Yeah, correct on my point, if that's the case.

I suppose it's much like piracy in a way - would people have bought the album if it wasn't for spotify? Is every spotify listener a lost sale?

I have absolutely no hard facts to back it up, but I see a lot more people attending festivals and shows and supporting artists in different ways. I know a lot of spotify subscribers who use it for work and still buy the MP3s for their ipod, or the CD for their collection.

I have hundreds and hundreds of CDs, all in storage. I buy them occasionally at shows but tend to buy vinyl (if I can) to support a band now. I listen to lots of music on Spotify I would never buy, or never have bought. For a fair few of those I'd probably go and see the artist/band live, though.
Whether or not you believe in the climate crisis or global warming, I strongly recommend all proponents of driverless cars to read The Energy Glut[1] in order to get a good idea of one potential scenario of how America will end up if every man and his dog can use a car to get anywhere. If anything, the studies which are referenced in the book are rather hard to ignore.

As a quick example of the sort of thinking in this book: more cars on the road means that there will be fewer people willing to risk being outdoors anywhere near a road (i.e. most residential areas in this day and age), resulting in higher levels of obesity. As more people become obese, fewer people are willing to walk or cycle ever-decreasing distances, so they get a car -- increasing the number of cars on the road. After that, we enter a rather vicious circle. The average weight of the world population will increase rather quickly, and we will end up like the people in Wall-E. I'd rather ride my bike, but thanks for the offer.

[1] http://zedbooks.co.uk/paperback/the-energy-glut
99.999% of what I listen to on Spotify is older than a few weeks, so for listeners like me, no.
Nice work. One nitpick is the "Saving..." text with the spinner is very distracting. My eyes shoot up and look at it every time. I have a personal feeling that displaying "Saving" text represents a lack of confidence that it will actually save. Since it's there my eyes go look every time to make sure it _has_ saved. If you feel it is important to display to your users their work has been saved.. show a subtle timestamp or something with the last save date, but remove the spinner.
From the fine article:

the flaw would be exploitable on any machine with Java 5,
6, or 7 enabled (whether it’s Windows 7 64-bit, Mac OS X,
Linux, or Solaris
[...]
“An attacker could then install programs, view, change,
or delete data with the privileges of a logged-on user.”

In short, you can rag on modern operating system design because whatever permissions you grant to the Java process (regardless of operating system) are the same permissions which get inherited by the exploit. If you run the Java process under sudo on Linux, then the exploit runs under sudo as well.
I think that low-power computers are the future of "always on". I'm migrating the "always on" home computers I use, and those of my family members, in that direction.

I don't think email is a good "host at home" candidate, personally. Anti-spam services benefit too much from an economy of scale that comes from shared hosting. Having said that, though, I've hosted my email (SMTP and IMAP) on a consumer-grade Internet since June 2004. I've had outages because of service-provider issues (Time Warner) once in awhile, but the outages of significant duration (24 - 36 hours) have been either I was using unreliable old hardware. In those outages my secondary MX picked up my mail just fine and I worked from cached email on my personal computers.

Assuming I was using more robust hardware or, for that matter, more simple hardware (a plug-computer that I could swap with a spare, moving an SD card containing all my email and configuration between) I wouldn't have ever had an outage longer than 8 hours since 2004. If the server was in a larger city (rather than the rural setting where it's hosted) I don't think I would have suffered thru than 8 hour power outage, either.

The Tent protocol sounds like something that would work best hosted by your ISP, a third-party hosting service, or a rented platform in a third-party data center ("the cloud"). (It actually sounds like a naive re-implementation of some of the functionality of SMTP.)

The things I'm most interested in hosting at home are things like home automation and Internet-connected appliances / devices. These products typically aren't going to be receiving requests from a large number of Internet hosts, don't necessarily need 24 x 7 uptime, and, most importantly, won't work if the home's Internet connection or power has failed (and, thus, don't gain any reliability benefit by being "cloud"-based).
Don't they take several days? Does the US seriously not having something equivalent to direct credit?
Beware the telefrag.