skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://37signals.com/svn

http://37signals.com/bootstrapped <- not a blog but a lot of useful examples

http://unicornfree.com

http://kalzumeus.com

http://blog.asmartbear.com/

These are the best I've ever read.
Ask HN: how was your startup school experience?
I tend to use the phrase "Of course there are some people who do X, but we don't care about either of them."
Seeing the same. Amazon RDS in us-east-1, no connectivity although AWS console shows all green.
How high can PHP "fly"?
Coursera down to AWS outage, many assignments due today
They learned with Windows Phone 7 apps, that smooth (long) animations and colorful splash screens can make under-powered hardware seem a lot more responsive. Instead of doing nothing for a few seconds and then popping up your app, it immediately plays an animation, shows a splash screen, then shows your app. It's better than nothing but it would be nice if they just threw better hardware at the problem.
Somebody is mad about their book being read. Cry me a river. If you didnt want your book to be "stolen" then dont write it. You, as author, will not control what I read, how I read and where. So yes, I am gonna "steal" that book from you, just to steal from you, and then delete it from my computer. Its probably not worthy of being read anyway.

And furthermore, nobody is sharing your book illegally, they are sharing a digital copy of your book as a data-file, which is very quite different from a real book. You cant hold it you see, you cant smell it, you cant borrow it to your friend, only make another copy.
Working Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiren%27s_BootCD
"Human is the only animal who dreams about social interactions."

How could we possibly know that?
Disagree. Up front warning - I work for MS.
I've been using it on my desktop as my primary OS for a while now and I heavily prefer it over win7. The keyboard launching functionality is what sells it for me, and honestly I become pretty frustrated when using win7 now because of it. It's still the same OS, just with a different way of launching programs. Coming from a CLI/vim background, I really appreciate how keyboard oriented it is.
Yup, my sites are down. I'm sure it's something new and complex, like a ferret or a leprechaun got into the 7th backup power switch which overloaded this and that.. as usual something impressively difficult to plan for, but come on! Virginia you're killing me...
Funnily, I had asked this question awhile back on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4880402/
Screen: 1366x768 vs 1920x1080
Storage: max 64GB vs max 128GB

Different storage, different screen, different architecture, different battery life, different capabilities (run x86 vs Metro-only), and yet you fail to see that they are very different...

> The issue is that Microsoft is selling the same device with two different operating systems.

How can you call it "the same device", when everything is different, and they are targeted for different people?

I'll tell you what happened to me last week. I was talking to a friend of mine who is a dentist (he was showing me his new dental office). He told me that he wanted to buy a new Windows Tablet, so he could keep using the software he uses today in his dental office. He read about the new tablets, and wanted to buy a $500 Surface. I warned him that those $500 tablets won't run his software (a desktop application) and he seemed to be really confused about why a Windows tablet won't run a program he currently uses in a "Windows PC". I had to explain him that the lower-cost Surface running Windows RT is similar to an iPad, and that what he really wants is the higher-cost Surface running Windows 8.

So, when you say: >the only real difference is the CPU architecture, which is really nothing that any consumer should have to think about.,
You are very wrong, they NEED to understand that before they buy the device. Otherwise, a lot of people will be very disappointed.
> It's true that kindle books don't work like regular books, but being ignorant of that fact isn't an excuse.

I very much doubt there's a plain english clause that goes a little something like:

"If we think you have violated (our?) DRM policies, we will delete every book you've ever purchased, and close your current and future accounts. If you think this is done in error, you may not ask us why we closed the account. You may only sue us to get an answer"

To call out a consumer for not being prepared for a no-warning, no explanation ban (and removal of all legally purchased content) seems extreme.
Affecting PHPFog/Appfog too - I think their MySQL services.
Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others
How much does Mitt Romney make?
I'm affected. Site is down, no servers are accessible.
The post is 3 years old. The issue was created today.
Us too. RDS bit the bullet for us.
Also affecting Coursera: https://twitter.com/coursera

It's rather annoying as the first assignments for the Alex Aiken's excellent Compilers course are due today.
The goal isn't to get it taken down, it's getting some publicity. So writing a witty bug report and submitting it to HN isn't surprising at all.
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Apparently Amazon didn't wipe her Kindle: https://twitter.com/webmink/status/260432600814981120
Dashboard is now reporting "degraded performance"

10:38 AM PDT We are currently investigating degraded performance for a small number of EBS volumes in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region.

http://status.aws.amazon.com/
What was really interesting about that figure was that among Apple users, about half still think they're overpriced.

That's not a figure that I'd think is consistent with the "fanboy" and "reality distortion field" memes. To the extent that you can glean an image from a single survey result, this one does more to suggest a sober, perhaps even skeptical customer base. Folks who think their brand of choice is overpriced aren't slavish devotees; they're people who are presumably ready, willing, even eager to switch brands the moment they see a better value proposition.

And it suggests that perhaps the failure of other brands to eat further into Apple's market share isn't something that can easily be waved away with frantic pleas about fanboys and reality distortion fields.
It's vietnamese.
DRM isn't exactly great for authors or artists either. Here's a Doctorow article on DRM implications for book authors:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blog...

Why use DRM? Demand an alternative, buy a physical copy, or holdout. Hopefully the ship will begin turning around soon.
This looks really useful, cheers!
I'm also having trouble accessing RedisToGo.
Good for you. I also categorically refused to buy anything with DRM on it, until I caved and bought a Kindle last year. I figured the DRM on the Kindle was at least easy to crack, so I could make backups of my books to keep Amazon from stealing them from me. But I must confess that I haven't been diligent about backing up my ebooks.
> the budgetary problems the US is facing due to the privatized healthcare system

Wait, the what?

Did you really just try to pin the blame of US budgetary stupidity on the PRIVATE healthcare system?

So, wars, enormous unfunded liabilities of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid (both public healthcare systems), and the general welfare state don't dominate the "budgetary problems the US is facing"?
Entry(or Discovery) of a player into the market essentially validates your concept and is a proof that their is a demand for your product in the market. Nothing around is perfect and there is always room for improvement ;)

A Competitive Density Matrix(http://www.khaitan.org/blog/2010/10/competitive-density-matr...) to size up your product against competitors will help.
Weren't cars advertised and sold in malls for years? This is just returning to that tradition.

You can clearly see the dealership in the mall in the Blues Brothers for example ("The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year!")
Well, it did rain today. So obviously AWS is down.
The problem hasn't been solved. Apple's use of the screenshot is a design trade-off.

Apple's design

Pro: You see the previous state of the app, and have the perception that the app has loaded quickly.

Con: Many times the UI is blocked while the app is loading data, or if the UI isn't blocked you are still waiting on data to be able to actually do anything.

Microsoft's design

Pro: Consistent splash screen experience on all apps. User understands that the app is loading during this time. If app needs to download a lot of data, the splash screen presents an animation to indicate it is working.

Con: Have to view a splashscreen on app load. May not be perceived as having loaded as quickly as Apple's implementation.

I don't think you can necessarily state that one is better than the other.
The only cross-compatible apps (other than things like browsers) I've worked with are matlab and mathematica and although they had some differences between windows they both performed well on any linux version I was on from Slackware to Ubuntu provided underlying libraries (libc) existed in the right place.
Samsung will no longer supply displays to Apple starting next year
To me it sounds like most of the value prop of amqp was thrown out the window and it has just become the opposite end of JMS.
Yes, responsive e-ink has already been achieved with Vizplex technology as displayed in PocketBook linux based e-readers.
Wow, this is quite clever, particularly the ASCII art stadium maps. Color me impressed.
Hands down, my favorite phone ever was a 5000 yen prepaid Japanese cell phone with free in network video chat from 2008.
Don't forget to share Hollywood blockbusters and AAA video games. The rebel alliance is counting on your support.
Amazon, those masters of tactful understatement, say:

> 10:38 AM PDT -- We are currently investigating degraded performance for a small number of EBS volumes in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region.

http://status.aws.amazon.com/
FF 16/Linux is very slow, but works and looks great on the iPad with its hw accelerated CSS.

I agree with some others that the animation speed is a little slow to give that suspension of disbelief, and the menus are a little too static once the animation has finished, but I have useful suggestions there because they would stop being very useful if they moved around. Maybe the effect would work best in the form of a dropdown menu?
He certainly presents a calm and thoughtful reply to dealerships, which they will certainly ignore. I can't see how Tesla can expect to afford free supercharger stations forever though.

Maybe there are more failures that I'm not aware of, but generally I've noticed that full-size franchise automotive dealerships tend to last forever and are somehow tremendously profitable for their owners despite what looks like a tiny margin between "factory invoice" and what people pay for a new car.

These are wealthy, highly profitable legacy businesses and no doubt they're going to go out fighting any disruptors in court.

Next up, someone please give us the killer app that disrupts and dismantles the real estate racket and their 6% commissions...
They might as well not :/

http://img6.imagebanana.com/img/g9pzoo8j/Selection_021.png

Would really like to watch this if it were offered in a better quality.
Apple iPad mini to be aimed at educational sector
ARMv7

Major competitor to the Raspberry Pi.
My More/Real Year
JRuby 1.7.0. Released
'"Quotably" shares the most highlighted quotes from the Amazon Kindle'

^ excellent tag line. Explains exactly what I'm looking at. Good job. Nice idea.
I checked out the AWS status page, it says EBS is busted in NoVA, yet the status is still green. I think someone needs to fix their UI problem statte...
I took our Web sites offline (RadioReference.com / Broadcastify.com) so our back end processes (audio archiving, audio serving etc) don't crater.

Our Master MySQL server uses EBS (striped RAID across 4 EBS disks) and it is getting killed due to severely degraded EBS performance. There is definitely a major problem with EBS at this time.
I was planning to launch our startup in a few hours. Oh well.
for the record: the last major of milan was, for lack of better word, "impeached" after it was found out her son had built an abusive "batcave".

The current governor of lombardia and the whole council is in a corruption and vote marketing scandal.

The head of the secessionist party for the last twenty years left his role after it was found out he and his son had been using the party as a revolver bank account.

And, noticeably, the Dear Leader Silvio Berlusconi is from milan.

There is a lot to say on the north vs south in italy, but saying "northern italy is not corrupted" is as silly as it gets.
It is from a few years ago, but there is this:

> The question came up about whether it matters which TLD (top level domain) you’re using. For example, do .com domains carry more weight than a .net, .us, .info, etc. He said that TLD doesn’t matter–that’s the way Larry and Sergey originally designed the Google algorithm. The algorithm doesn’t care where the page is located, it’s all about pagerank (LINKS) of the particular page. At the end of answering this question he did admit that they might have started to look at particularly cheap (and spammy) TLDs differently than other TLDs–or they might start considering TLD in their algorithm if they’re not already doing so.

https://www.seo.com/blog/conferences/matt-cutts-does-domain-...
I find it really hard to hate Heroku with a status page that gorgeous. There is something to be learnt about UX there, I think.
I can attest to this - any average user I witness using a computer, maximizes everything. And then minimizes. And then maximizes. And exactly that, complains about wasted space.
I wish I'd thought of this.
It also helped that Arrington was a brilliant writer with a real nose for a tech story.
Blogspam.

Original post --- http://tekwalk.blogspot.in/2012/10/varnish-sometimes-fails-b...
Glad it may have helped, all learnt the hard way.

One thing that's hard is having a dialogue where both people can speak openly and feel heard and understood and respected.

Often when relationships degrade, it turns into monologues crammed down each others throats and jumping to conclusions, instead of giving the benefit of the doubt and asking "what else could this mean?" in a positive way.

It's that much harder with coders who aren't always socially aware or developed as we might need to be.

It will be hard to have conversation about anything if you guys aren't comfortable with each others presence to begin with. What's needed is some form of an emotional breakthrough.

To that effect, maybe starting with a conversation saying sorry, I hope i haven't been short with you unintentionally, I didn't mean to so let me know what I mean if I come across in a way that doesn't seem positive or productive because that's what's most important. Hopefully you hear the same back from him, and if you don't you can say I want to make sure either of us can talk about how we're working together as well as what we're working on...

Feel free to connect offline if you need. It sounds like you care and that's a good thing, if you can confirm your partner does too there's a chance you can come out of this stronger and have each others backs. Instead of facing each other, you have to face the world together at each others side and let 1+1=11
Yeah, we've had failovers on RDS and Heroku is having trouble as well.
Shock Value: The Meat Dress
Came to say something similar. We've not really felt the impact that ARM is going to make in this space yet but its here.

It is fascinating to see what the various ARM chip makers have included (or not) on their chips and how. The ST Micro guys seem to 'get' that a lot of RAM is a good thing for prototyping. I've got one of their Butterfly boards (STM32F4DISCOVERY [1]) and the 192K of RAM is nice for doing development work. It doesn't have the Arduino software stack though.

The Stellaris parts seem a bit more resource constrained (I've got one of those too :-) Basically there are a number of different ARM parts that make for easy to use, inexpensive, embedded systems.

On the Due I'm glad they brought out the JTAG connector because you can get a nice JTAG debugging pod (SAM-ICE) which is a relabeled Segger pod for not much money. Getting debug support on something other than windows for some of the other parts is a bit dicey.

[1] http://www.st.com/internet/com/TECHNICAL_RESOURCES/TECHNICAL...
Whether IQ exists or not, students definitely self-select for their mathematical aptitude when choosing the "scientific" track.

Also you said there is a minimal math grades cutoff. Math grades have high correlation with IQ test results.
I'm not sure what you find funny about "we'll suspend you, but only for six months." "Basic plan" typically means "cheapest plan with a certain minimum quality of care", which is the only kind of plan that has a chance at full or partial subsidization; whether that's head-only or not depends on what the market costs for the procedure would look like if people started taking death seriously.
This is bullshit, so many critical sites offline.

Talk about having all your eggs in one basket.
So... can I run Linux on it?
Not only that - the "information" icon that they use makes it very hard to spot issues quickly. Even on a minor issue it would be useful to have some kind of different icon.
That's a nice app you have come up with. I like it. Here are some suggestions to create a better experience:

1. Use of arrow keys to navigate between the quotes will deliver a much better experience to the users.
2. Providing the users with a filter to browse books by different categories, authors etc. will prove to be a better discovery platform.
3. Use AJAX to load the quotes instead of reloading the page every-time.
Isn't Berlusconi from Milan ?
Show HN: Typing events - Know when your users start and stop typing
British Engineers create petrol/gasoline out of thin air
'Parasite' porn websites stealing images and videos posted by young people
Reddit is down as well
Thanks, edited the original.
"If you didnt want your book to be "stolen" then dont write it."

If you didnt want you car to be "stolen" then dont buy it.

If you didnt want you wife to be "raped" then dont get one.

If you didnt want you computer to be "hacked" then dont have one.

Very compelling argument.
I think you're looking at the DOM, not the Source. Javascript adds CSS to the style attribute.
I'll second this recommandation. This kit became is my go-to choice for prototyping more complex microcontroller projects. Plenty of peripherals, flexible pin muxing, good documentation and the ARM core is quite fast.
Finally, I almost forgot about the open source HW debugger to GDB bridge[0].

I actually wrote a set of drivers, libraries and a build system to allow easy prototyping (like Arduino) but also enable access to the more complex features of the SoC.

[0] https://github.com/texane/stlink
Yes, you can either create a new account, or put it into developer mode and install another OS on it.
ReadWriteWeb is now ReadWrite
Front page is up but sub-reddits are down
I think Windows 8 is a long-term proposition for Microsoft. I doubt they are expecting any remarkable change in the short term; there just won't be enough compelling Win8/touch-enabled devices out there to make a difference. They need to grow market share over time. They are practically giving away the upgrade to consumer users which a big change from the past.

This is similar to the early XBOX strategy, which took quite a while to come to fruition, but the XBOX division is now doing very well in terms of market/mind share.

Microsoft clearly wants to enterprise market and that takes time.
How the Blind Run Marathons
I absolutely agree that certain key numbers are always simplifying the complexity inherent in an economy. But it appears to the outside, that fundamentally there are no particular reasons that would make Chile any different to other Latin American countries (e.g. historic trade positions, natural resources, etc).
Many of Weebly's customers would otherwise have a terrible Intuit or YellowPages site. For them, it's a big improvement.
AWS cleverly designed a very informative status dashboard: green means "things might work", green with a little speck on it means "nothing is working, the entire datacenter is down".

Effectively, this is exactly how it is.
What they "said" they were was not what they became (by current definitions).

There are a lot of European countries ruled by socialist parties, and they are not communist by any stretch of the imagination.
All they had was a little information icon by the green circle with a hover message letting you know what the problem was. They need to make that circle red!
Maybe the companies have too many car models for that to be feasible anymore?

It looks like Tesla will specialize in a handful of types with iterative improvement which will work in perfect tandem with this approach. Kinda like Apple's hardware.

As an aside, it's really, really weird to see comments allowed for what is basically a press release.
Russell Means, American Indian Activist, Dies at 72
Ask HN: Which tech/startup related book you wish existed?
Is there any technology/startup related book/tutorials you wish existed. Tell us here and may be someone among us can find time to write it.

Here are some of my wishes :

1. A book on single page web application development that teaches it through an example project. I would prefer it to do so using python/flask based REST API for backend and HTML5/CSS3/jQuery/Angular.js for frontend.

2. Books that explains popular open source products/platforms in detail from a developer/contributor perspective. For example, I would like to have a book that can get me started on firefox/gtk/linux/etc.

3. A book that teaches you how to develop your own framework.
Cool UI.
> spends far more per capita on healthcare and has a noticeably worse life expectancy

This is a demagogued political point that I've never seen backed up with evidence.

The US has a high death rate from murder, car deaths, and other factors... but from point of application we have the best healthcare in the world.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2011/11/23/the-myth-of-amer...
Pivot to a PaaS with a focus on uptime?
Amazon hosts so many big sites that when it goes down its a huge disaster.
Sorry to hear that. Maybe you can get an extension.
> I can't see how Tesla can expect to afford free supercharger stations forever though.

Because they sell more power back into the grid than they use up. I'm guessing they'll just add more solar panels (a fixed cost) as the number of charging stations at a given Supercharger goes up.
This is also a great example of how far behind gecko is from webkit in the performance game. Look at it on Firefox as opposed to Safari or Chrome!
It happened two times against "Météo France" (French national meteorological service) by an insurance company in 1996 and winegrowers / farmers in 1999 but it has been dismissed in each cases.
You have to put this into perspective to Alende's approach:

Allende's program included advancement of workers' interests, replacing the judicial system with "socialist legality", nationalization of banks and forcing others to bankruptcy, and strengthening "popular militias" known as MIR.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile
FWIW, CSV upload for ACH payment is a typical feature of online banking for business accounts in the US.
Corp to Startup in 13 Hacks
So the lesson seems to be, if you want to do AWS, don't use US-EAST? Seems like that's always where these big meltdowns are.
Do you have to pay that fee even if you self-list on mls? I thought it was only a flat fee if you went that route. (I've never sold a house so this is from stuff I've heard)
Oof. That would be horrible. I need to crack the DRM on my books and move them to a safe place ASAP.
Apple, VMware Team On iPad Microsoft Office Killer
>People rush to find scapegoats after every disaster

They have had ample time regain their composure, this happened in 2009.