skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He also didn't describe much of any of his technical requirements. I'd say it's a fair assumption his setup was enough different to cause an issue. Whether or not that's a fireable offense is up to the company.
It can happen without incestuous relationships.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Im_My_Own_Grandpa
My dream setup, then, is a computing world where I don't have
to carry at least three computers - laptop, tablet, phone, not
even counting cameras and iPod and other oddments - around
with me in order to function in the modern world. The world
should provide me my computing environment and maintain it for
me and make it available everywhere. If this were done right,
my life would become much simpler and so could yours.

Wow that sounds like a dream!
Should Startups Limit the Product or Service Options They Offer?
Square Arrives in Canada
Uh uh.
Steve would never have released the Cube! Or an ibook shaped like a toilet seat!
Judging by the comments and my own results, it really was just him.
With such an open stack, could the Pi be used as part of a GPU password cracking cluster?

From what hermanhermitage said above, I'd guess no. You've now got full access to the OpenGL API, but you don't have full access to the hardware running the binary blob which is what is running the OpenGL code.
You're right that the data is still stored in HDFS, and you can access the data that was originally accessed in Hive. However, because of the way Impala works, it does in fact provide a real-time query interface for data that is sitting in Hadoop (HDFS). The back-end is written in C++ and accesses/processes data much differently than MapReduce which allows for some pretty awesome performance numbers :-)
No.

Don't worry, 57 blogs will distill it down to the core 5 points and post them in a bulleted list with a link-bait title by Friday. But writing is much more than 'get to the point as fast as possible'. These kind of stories are far more interesting than the quick summary articles found on most shitty websites. If you don't like the style, then don't click through to the New Yorker, New York Times, etc.
On the assumption that someone from Yelp sees this, the link on that page to 'Ireland' is dead (points to yelp.com.ie instead of yelp.ie)
It's generally too easy to game dividends - you can do lots of Hollywood accounting to make money without ever "making money."

Companies also aren't obligated to pay a dividend even if they're profitable - see Apple up until about a year ago.
Show HN: JackDB — Database development in your web browser
Recently I had an experience on another website where one of the founders basically insulted me personally because I made a sarcastic quip.

Another founder contacted me by email and apologised. It was dignified and mature of them to do that.

And so I consider that matter closed, which is why I am not going to name names here.

The contrast is unflattering and it's a shame.

I really, genuinely, wanted to like WPEngine.
JackDB was created to solve a personal itch of mine for better database developer tools. We'd love your feedback. If you're interested signup or email me at sehrope [at] jackdb [dot] com.
Password Security The Right Way
I removed the aff link since a few people think it's detracting from the message of the post. I could care less about the referrals, the point was to get my readers 50% off by using the link.
Are you saying that 1) anti-spam is not about about security and that 2) DKIM, even if properly implemented, doesn't make spoofing harder and security better?
Jacksonville, FL store is not on the affected list though this does explain the sudden removal of all their card readers with no explanation given. I can find no mention of method of attack - must be fairly well thought out to affect so many stores over a wide area.
Square Expands Outside US for First Time
My personal opinion is that all email should be considered from a random person.
To be fair, tattoos are permanent :)
what an eye opener
>It's possible but not so likely

There are a lot of people, so it's pretty likely that a handful will be misdiagnosed with terminal illnesses, but never find out they were misdiagnosed. Those handful are the ones you'll hear about.

After all, you aren't going to read the amazing story of the guy who was given nine months to live, and then died nine months later.
It's not that I'm mister "New-York-City always pushing to not waste a minute". My complaint is primarily that the structure pretends to be human-centered, in fact it's nothing but a formula.

Modern news reporting dictates that the journalist kick off with something personally identifiable, and only then ease into the facts. The reasons for this are obvious, I think: readers are more likely to connect with, and thus read, a story that they find strikes a chord with them personally; so let's try to cast about with some pathos, and maybe we'll hit some notes in that chord.

But just as with seeing reported gore or pr0n on reddit, repetition of the same formula over time loses its valence with the reader.

I'm tired of that formula in article after article. I want the journalists to find new ways to accomplish it.

It's not this article specifically; this is just one example. It struck me at this time, though, because it's pretty long, and I got through a pretty good chunk of it without a single direct reference to the article's thesis, so it was quite egregious.
Cashing out at an IPO isn't a ponzi scheme - it's selling assets directly to new investors.

Just because the new investors were not smart in their investment does not make it a ponzi scheme.
I tend to agree, and further suggest that DKIM shouldn't really change that calculation.
The Adaptive House
Sometime oversimplification can kill startups.
As a startup you should never forget to be agile. If something does not work, you should be ready to change.
Building Communities Through User Experience, Interview with Alex Hillman
I'm saying that DKIM is an anti-spam mechanism, and that there are real ways to authenticate the actual sender of a message, like PGP or S/MIME. Calling a cracked DKIM key a "massive Internet security hole" is like calling a bug in SpamAssassin a "massive Internet security hole".
MapR and Google Compute Engine Set New World Record for Hadoop TeraSort
What Male And Female Scientists Say About Women In Science
Props to Wired for disclosing that their silly phony photo setups are phony. I found that comforting.

Props to Google for fixing the problem instantly.

Weird that he thought the email was phony based on content. Who wouldn't want a computer savvy math genius on their team? Google has lots.
That might make sense, but perhaps the securities agency considers that preventing insider trading and market manipulation outweighs letting employees hedge their companies' stock. Besides, in Japanese companies non-execs typically don't get stock options anyway.
Xbox Smartglass (tablet companion app) explained
Stanford alumni create nearly $3 trillion in economic impact each year
I can see the benefits of riding on the back of somebody elses' brand, never the less I find these kinds of projects really bad fanboy'ism.
Very very Essential : Improved font rendering on Fedora using Infinality patches
I was so sick and tired of the font rendering in Fedora (currently using 17).
Downloaded and used MS truetype fonts, but still, it sucked. I used to boot to Windows, just so I could read Hackers News without wanting to gouge out my eyeballs.

Today, randomly searching on setting the best terminal font, I stumbled upon the Infinality patches.

I did not expect much, judging from how little people have mentioned it, but after a restart, now the font rendering is so, so beautiful. The fonts look a thousand times better.

I would specifically like to mention that the first thing after installing Fedora should be to install these patches, and that's what I'll be telling everyone to do. I wonder how I even managed to work on Fedora 13-16 with the default font rendering. :|

Link: http://www.infinality.net/blog/infinality-freetype-patches/

Edit: removed <p> tags that automatically replaced blank lines
Sidebar: A List of Design Links
Scenes from World War II Photoshopped Onto Today's Streets
So this is one key, used for all a domain's email for a long time, right? How lazy must you be to use an under specced key?
Google very rarely hires pure mathematicians AFAIK.
From the article comments:

> It’s a quiet backwater. Collectively the sites would have maybe 20k unique visitors a day. 50k is a big day hereabouts.

I'm not quite sure why this blog is such a huge problem to host. It appears that the author has some customizations (plugins..) that are really slow. In fact, I would suggest to the author to hire a good developer, fix those core issues (say slow SQL queries, etc.). It might cost him a few thousand dollars upfront, but he can continue running the site on $20-$60/month hosting.

Paying $250/month for that kind of traffic sounds over the top to me.

I know that Wordpress can be slow but it can also be quick. Why not route your traffic through cloudfront ? Why not leverage full page caching for anonymous users ? These are things worth looking at IMHO :)
Great idea - I'm absolutely in. However it will be even greater if we take inspiration from Seth's post: building for "beauty", "wonderful", experience, uniqueness etc. That's why we should start with overall design (not only graphics). You code is nice sign of effort and engagement. Now let's use it build something extraordinary. Especially as it's nice, ambitious case: how to make something so trivial like blog reader into valuable thing. So let's start brainstorming the 'problem' we're going to solve with that app. I've got two: 1. Seth's posts are often burned by truckloads of other posts in my 'Favourite' stream. 2. His insights deserve better (than typepad, gReader) visual presentation. What other can we identify?
12 months pushing...
Using Selenium to automate testing Google Maps in your application
About 50% usage on two cores here when the tab is open. Still, I think this is way too much for that sort of effect.

Oh and I was humming it as well ;)
I can't speak for Windows 8, but I'm a 'hacker', and I'm using Unity right now, I don't see what's the fuss about it.

I hate the sidebar, just like I hate the Windows Start Menu, but I can't see any reason to use it(then again I'm a vim person, and keyboard/shortcut oriented).

I love being able to call up the search window and select the app or document I'm looking for in two/three keystrokes, tops, much faster than looking it up in a menu with a mouse.

If I want to see which apps are active or switch on the fly then I go ALT-TAB and ALT-tilde.

You can use the interface like a power user or a general user, you are given the option to do both.
Has anyone compared Ericssons tech with Huawei?
Honest question. I feel like if you're setting up infrastructure, take it from the countries that does it the best. Ericsson is Swedish and _THE_ first country to roll out with 4G (around my parents place, even).
You can't use ECC for DKIM.
Haha. I'm happy someone saw that. I wish I could say that it had something to do with my theory of Social Catamorphism, folding our disparate talents into a better future, or something. Unfortunately, no such theory exists, and I just picked a piece of code that I enjoy and looks attractive.
EU antitrust commission charges Microsoft over browser selection 'breach'
The biggest discovery I made in my studies to become a hypnotist was in being able to discern other people's metaphors and use them in communicating (rather than my own).

Personal metaphors are jam packed with information and emotion.

For example, when someone talks about being part of a "club", it seems like an innocent word doesn't it, but to them the club metaphor may mean the inclusion or ostracization of a social group.

Of course, some metaphors are universally understood (especially archetypes) and can be the transport system for new instructions to the subconscious mind. I used the Warrior metaphor for my eyes-open self hypnosis: http://summonthewarrior.com and people seem to respond really well to it, myself included!
At what odds? This is an easy bet to make: just short-sell the stock or buy a put against it.

Markets are anti-inductive. http://lesswrong.com/lw/yv/markets_are_antiinductive/
New Globus Itineraries & Local Favorites for 2013
Dynamic Web Development with Ajax, jQuery, and JSONP
The real question is whether aquaponics can create higher quality food than organic produce, which is not subsidized. Subsidies are also unsustainable in the long run. The major costs in aquaponics are in the technology, which will inevitably get cheaper. If aquaponic agriculture truly represents an order of magnitude improvement in water use and space use, and can produce better food, it's only a matter of time before not even subsidies can keep traditional agriculture economically sustainable.

This is just what I needed to see after the front page of HN was dominated by bullshit about Surface and iPad mini. Finally, technology used to make something other than toys for bored rich people.
There site may just not be worth optimizing, as i's not as popular as apple.com
with the Amazon subscribe and save, it is automation. I use it for diapers. The arrive automatically every month!
We are continuously improving Phusion Passenger, and we strive to be the best application server out there when it comes to stability, reliability, performance and ease of use. Not just for Ruby. If you have any feedback on how we can improve, please let us know.
Jimmy Wales: For whom will Jimmy Wales be voting in two weeks?
I find it cute how clueless mathematicians and physicists are about how clueless we (programmers) are. Weak crypto? Assume it is a puzzle!
Focus matters on a landing page and here's why: 22% increase in sales
Re-Enable Apple provided Java applet plug-in on OS X
I've found MT results quality to be a problem. 95% of the workers are great, but you do have occasions where you get a bot completing the task or someone being deliberately careless in the hope that the HIT will get automatically approved. To combat that, I give the task to different workers until 3 answers match and that works well. It's worthwhile once you've automated, but that's worthwhile only if you've got a fairly large number of tasks.
> Perhaps China should comply with basic U.S. law if they want to sell things here.

You'd better hope they don't start with labour law or you might not be able to afford to buy any of their stuff.
Neat! I donated.

This semester I've been volunteering to teach middle-school students how to "program a game!" with the very wonderful Citizen Schools program[1]. We've been developing a curriculum that takes elements from the Bootstrap curriculum[2], using the Khan Academy CS environment[3]. (Yes, we've been following the back-and-forth with Bret Victor carefully.)

It's been challenging, but very rewarding, and I hope other engineers take seriously their obligation to apply some of their good fortune and education for the benefit of others.

[1] http://www.citizenschools.org/

[2] http://www.bootstrapworld.org/

[3] http://www.khanacademy.org/cs
Intelligent Automation
There's the slideshow on the main page but since it's free I didn't build in a way to try it without signing in. Is there something keeping you from signing in? Just curious. Thanks.
Investment in Software Companies Tops $3 billion in Third Quarter
"Cloudera Impala: Real-Time Queries in Apache Hadoop, For Real"
http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2012/10/cloudera-impala-real-t...

Impala source code: https://github.com/cloudera/impala

Impala documentation can be found here:
https://ccp.cloudera.com/display/IMPALA10BETADOC/Cloudera+Im...
Joe Queenan on the special appeal of paper books
Ben, one of the co-founders of WP Engine here and as someone wrote below[1] - yes, this isn't the most wonderful thing to wake up to in the morning and sort out while still in your PJ's ;)

Ok, so first and foremost I am incredibly sorry, Jacques, for the experience you had. I can say with confidence that your experience with WP Engine is out of the ordinary, but no excuses. I’m writing this as a way of owning up to mistakes that were made on behalf of our company, as well as transparently engage the discussion here. There's a couple of points I'd like to make, if I may...

We're in the process of moving to complete 24/7 support right now (we do have emergency 'site down' 24/7 cover) - as any entrepreneur on HN will tell you, getting your startup to take off is hard and scaling the human aspect is perhaps even harder. With mostly US-based business customers it wasn't as much of an issue to begin with but we're now addressing that.

Obviously if we'd had that 24/7 support in place we could have addressed this more immediately.

However, one of the reasons that your site experienced problems was that there were some aspects of the site development that simply didn't scale. Like any scale-orientated PaaS, we can provide the infrastructure to enable you to scale but your code needs to work in partnership to fully achieve that.

As Sean, my head SysAdmin wrote on a ticket to you, some of your pages were performing a sort on 188590 rows in memory each time. That just doesn't scale. From your post, I'm guessing this is the issue that also occurred when you tried Pagely. While it's awesome that the good folks at Pagely were able to work with you a little to try to address your problem, like most PaaS providers (eg AWS, Heroku) we don't provide consultancy services - there is an amazing WordPress community of consultants and dev shops out there and its just not what we want to get into. Just like Heroku won't fix your Ruby code.

We have many, many clients who are very happy with WP Engine but as a growing business there will always be customers who find that the service isn't right for them, and even occasionally have a bad experience.

So lets try to make this right. I can see that we've already refunded you all the hosting fees you paid for your account, and I'll also make sure we pick up the $500 migration bill that you incurred. If there is anything else we can do please let me know.

I will also take time once I've finished my coffee and out of my PJ's to analyze your case further and see what else we can do internally to ensure this doesn't happen again.

Bests,

Ben, co-founder WP Engine

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4692775
Show HN: Mashrd - Real-time News with node.js and socket.io
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4692789
Send free web #SMS worldwide with your own number.
One of the success of plan9 was to reduce the number of tools (and the number of command line options for the tools). For example ftp and the option -r of cp have been killed.

Plan9 is marvellous. The only reason I do not install it for my everyday use is that it is not a mainstream OS (with up to date chrome, openoffice, XBMC and virtualbox)
It looks really cool, and I'm extremely impressed that you did it for less than 5k.

I think I found an interesting problem to solve, and while I'm looking at software-only solutions, I believe that it would be better solved by (simple) hardware.

Your post gives me some encouragement to try it out :) (not right now, but I think I'll be in position to do it next year).

Edit: I see you had both a "Show HN" and a blog post, it's a shame I didn't see them earlier and they didn't get traction here.

Show HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4474132

Blog Post:

http://hwstartup.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/how-i-sold-2000-of...
I don't understand. That statement was part of a quote during the interview. A single, continuous quote. Do you consider reporting what someone said to be propaganda. Should the journalist have left out that part of the quote?
Since our goal for Phusion Passenger is for it to become the ultimate polyglot webserver, which technology would you guys want to see support for the most?

We're looking at Node.JS, Python, Haskell, Mono(C#), PHP. Do any of these tickle your fancy or is there one missing?
Metamarkets open sources Druid, its in-memory database
When I first heard of Amazon Subscribe I really wanted to use it but the bulk sizes are just too large. As a single guy all the quantities they have are about double what I need. 40 rolls of toilet paper, for example, would last me a year or more.
It's a bog ordinary Wordpress multisite installation. The most exotic thing about it was WP-supercache and WPEngine have clever inbuilt logic to safely disable that when you migrate across.
General > Restrictions will give you most of what you want (deleting icons, stopping changes to contacts and so on). Set up a profile in there which you enable when you hand the phone over.

I also tend to enable Airplane mode by default when I hand my phone or iPad to my daughters.
Fusion Drive: Apple jumps on the SSD cache bandwagon
The idea that people can always just quit and be hired elsewhere is not one that exists anywhere in real life, not just the US. Sometimes quitting is not an option.

Many countries recognise this, however, and regulate companies' behaviour towards its employees. IBM's exploitation of its sysadmins would be totally illegal in (most of?) the EU.
This is a modified version of Google's 'WebGL Globe' library. I've created a couple of these myself for Reddit

http://www.webgl.com/2012/09/webgl-globe-visualization-reddi...
http://www.webgl.com/2012/03/webgl-globe-visualization-reddi...
Why would you go slow when you're a youth? You've got hormones and energy the likes of which you'll never see again!
Sure, but that's not exactly subtle.
How to make sure you and your team are on the same page
Embarrassingly, square.ca is rather... bare at the time of posting.

I am super excited for this, though. I have a number of friends who sell artwork at various outdoor fairs, and I've inundated them with tales of how much easier theirs lives would be if they could get a credit card reader for their phone. It really reduces the friction involved in trying to make what is essentially a several hundred dollar impulse purchase.

edit: Is it just me, or are all the thinks in the press release broken? squareup.ca, square.ca, squareup.com/ca/ca/fr, none of these work.
...steep when their competition is racing to $200.

I've been looking for a tablet with a good keyboard recently. The most similar gadget I found, the Asus Transformer, is by no means racing to $200. What did you had in mind?

I'm buying something in two or three months, so I'm genuinely interested. BTW, I don't find the Surface compelling, but that's just another story.
as a follow up:

http://www.themillions.com/2010/01/confessions-of-a-book-pir...

"For some, however, the study may inspire more questions than answers. Who are the people downloading these books? How are they doing it and where is it happening? And, perhaps most critical for the publishing industry, why are people deciding to download books and why now? I decided to find out, and after a few hours of searching – stalled by a number dead links and password protected sites – I found, on an online forum focused on sharing books via BitTorrent, someone willing to talk."

pretty neat insight into the book piracy underground.
There appears to be a huge gap (maybe sweet spot?) in WP hosting. The lower end is well covered by companies like WP Engine, Page.ly, and ZippyKid. The high end is covered by Wordpress.com.

Somewhere in the middle, and probably closer to the low end, exists a need for less commoditized services to support more complex installations.

It doesn't appear like WP Engine is really positioned or resourced to actually support these needs and this is not the first time I've heard of these troubles.