skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pay Employees What They Ask for. Here's Why
Yes. I was describing the best case scenario. Which is that only the people who take images have access to them. They will still publish a small number of them of course, like people already do with normal cameras.

This is opposed to the worse case scenario where all images are automatically uploaded to a central database. If this is going to happen, that central database really needs to be encrypted such that only the user can access the images, not even the company that controls the database.
I wish Ubuntu (or other distributions) would give out numbers how many people install the proprietary drivers. So many Linux guys seem to dismiss games and 3D (which is certainly also used for VR, architecture, 3D modeling, simulations - and not just for games), so I'm somewhat curious how much it matters on the Linux desktop. At least personally I know more people using proprietary drivers on Linux than not using them, but I guess that's to be expected for a 3D developer ;-)

For me the thought of losing nvidia driver support on Ubuntu is rather scary given the current state of all other 3D drivers (and certainly other Distro's might follow with Wayland). I hope the status of other drivers improves a lot before that switch or 3D on Linux will be set back a lot.
Media->Open Network Stream... works for me, but click the playlist repeat button to deal with occasional connection loss.
Job: Disrupting Finance
I see that ViewVC link seems to have problems showing the diff at the moment, here are elapsed seconds (without invokedynamic and with invokedynamic)

jruby 1.7.0 (1.9.3p203) 2012-10-22 ff1ebbe on Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM 1.7.0_09-b05 [linux-i386]

invoke-dynamic=	false	true
binarytrees #1	290.08	252.55
binarytrees #2	290.34	252.92
binarytreesredux #2	289.64	262.04
chameneosredux 31	39.85	32.73
fannkuchredux #2	1720.70	1481.23
fasta #6	372.59	418.07
fasta #5	294.54	270.02
fasta #1	278.98	260.14
knucleotide #2	428.75	377.28
knucleotide #1	470.40	461.46
mandelbrot #3	1404.58	1149.08
mandelbrot #1	2301.81	2167.50
meteor #1	17.59	17.42
meteor #2	13.19	13.37
nbody #1	678.62	568.72
pidigits #2	3.10	3.22
pidigits #3	25.89	25.73
pidigits #1	50.80	51.03
regexdna #1	78.76	78.60
regexdna #3	44.29	45.33
revcomp #2	24.05	24.49
spectralnorm #2	462.09	387.54
spectralnorm #1	496.94	438.55

YMMV
I really like the design; kudos on that! Clean and delivers the message just right. The pages also load really fast which is a nice addition.

I also second itsprofitbaron's comment on changing the domain name. I couldn't find it so I'd like to ask: Is there any way I could integrate the reminders with some sort of a calendar, maybe Google Calendar?
I fail to understand your sarcasm. It is, well, a normal situation when employers compete for employees the same way employees compete for jobs. I fail to see how IBM managed to be in tech but extempt from it.
Xkcd-style plots in gnuplot
My reaction too, then I realized that's what people do when they have an internet access. But they do some other things if the device lets them : on a desktop computer, they use office software and on a phone... they call and send SMS. To me a tablet is essentially the least capable internet connected device.
It seems like the unification of hardware and software (as Apple has done) is where a lot of real value lies. I'd love to see more startups selling innovative hardware/software products.
The price is not low because of supply and demand, but because it is not a very useful list. When you pay a lot for a list it is because it has been curated and you are buying a list with X user having Y attribute[s]. Y='Facebook user' here, that is hardly worth anything. The network is too large for it to be significant for any real marketing campaign. Essentially you have a list of 1,000,000 VERY loosely related users.
I'm not well versed in the history and context of TechCrunch or CrunchFund, but isn't the very notion of a startup investor writing (supposedly unbiased) columns about startup news an incredible conflict of interest? Am I missing something?
No, I wouldn't see any reason to. Having a union that endorses members will create a professional body that is superior to non-unioned workers, making being part of the union a clear advantage.
BTW the "applying" link is 404.

It's linking to <http://ycombinator.com/apply>; instead of <http://ycombinator.com/apply.html>.
This might be a good strategy - the skill set required to get a company off the group is very different from long term growth and sustainability. By exiting, the skills are compartmentalized. I worked for a company that made networking products, at the time they were ahead of Cisco's tech, but Cisco had by far better penetration into the CIO world. The sales cycle was too long for a small startup and we practically ran out of money just waiting for companies to evaluate our product. It was clear that the company would do far better inside an existing sales infrastructure, so we exited and moved on to things we did best.

Not building a company for the long haul isn't necessarily a bad thing, provided the business itself has the ability to grow elsewhere.
Unity and Gnome3 had maybe a year of shitstorms before it died down to some grumblings here and there. Metro has been around for two years, and one year for desktop Metro. It's getting on time to move it along.
> why include metro in the PC version?

To leverage the Desktop monopoly to force users to get familiar with the interface of Microsofts mobile offerings, which had no success to gain user acceptance on their own.

> Why would I use anything but the Desktop mode?

Because the start menu will be removed to force you to switch to metro to start desktop applications. You will use it (and get familiar with it) whether you want it or not.

> So what advantage does Metro have for a desktop user?

Nobody claimed any such advantage in the first place.
And can be turned on like this:

/usr/local/src/jruby-1.7.0/bin/jruby -Xcompile.invokedynamic=true
I like the casualness of the Metro apps. It's easier and faster to click on the Netflix app than to open Firefox and then load the Netflix webpage. I also like some of the News apps, again it's fast and easy to catch up on some of the headlines, I also like the weather app, in two clicks(1.Hot corner start screen, 2.weather app) I can quickly see the forecast for the whole week. I also like some of the casual games.

I am about as a hardcore Desktop user as it gets, I have a custom build pc with 3 screens, custom mouse & keyboard shortcuts, steam, Photoshop & Dreamweaver user, etc...

I've been using Windows 8 since the Developer previews, and while some things have taken a while to get used to(like the hot corners), I'd have to say overall Windows 8 is a step up from Windows 7 in every way, I would hate to go back to 7. The Start Screen makes the Start Menu seem archaic.

Some pics of my setup:

http://i.minus.com/iqRDyV3Cdz4M3.jpg

http://i.minus.com/iUyzL0SkQgSD5.jpg

http://i.minus.com/ibsaj7IkT3usDj.jpg

http://i.minus.com/i2xfTeTriMwQ8.jpg
GroupOn had also this ridiculous idea that small businesses can earn return customers by offering them extremely huge discounts.
+1, I stopped following them on Twitter, I stopped reading their blogs, and I read less TechCrunch.

Call it strife, call it drama, call it whatever you want, I have much less of it without those two. This is just a reason to avoid TechCrunch now.
Restart != shutdown. Yes I read.
The open-id login does not and works great for me.
FTA:

Are they conflicted? Yeah, of course they are, and we will be transparent on that issue at all times. But, we also believe our readers are smart enough to put these columns into context and understand the impact of CrunchFund’s investing on the editorial.
Hey jrarrendondo, I've been using Rackspace for a few months now, using some of your servers and Cloud Files and I'm loving all of it. So what you're telling me is if I sign up for Cloud Block Storage, I could potentially "attach" it to my server as another hard drive? I know you guys are really great with your documentation and announcements of potential ways of using the storage, so if you could point me in the right direction, I'd be interested in getting this set up.

Thanks!
Apple's iPad mini liveblog
Eating the Ruby 1.9 Elephant
I can only offer my opinion obviously, but I like the information that can be available at a glance. Launching my most often applications are also 1 click away instead of 2 or 3. However, that being said, my favorite part of Windows 8 (so far) is how keyboard friendly it is. I use OSX, Ubuntu, and now Windows 8 daily and I think they have all gotten to a state where if you like your hands to rarely leave the keyboard you can work within all 3 very well.

Back to your original point though, I would suggest trying it out for a week or so. I was hesitant as well, but so far it seems very natural and fluid to me. Even scrolling sideways to see more tiles just feels very natural.
I would think that the problem is that one of the reasons people like Amazon want to use DRM is to ensure that no DRM free copies of the media exist. One DRM-free copy can multiply into 1 million DRM free copies very quickly.

Of course in reality this is laughably unworkable unless they release a future version of the kindle which requires DRMd media.
Rebel: a Framework for Improving AppKit (by GitHub)
Don't forget that github saved us from sourceforge. If github starts sucking, something better will emerge.
VMware’s Serengeti – Virtualized Hadoop at Cloud-scale
The usability of Metro is there for the tablet market. The people who don't need a PC and have decided they will not use a PC anymore. PCs are complex and confusing to many casual users. We thought it would get better with education, but we still have millions of young adults who grew up with computers yet are completely unable to function with any slight change. It's easier for them, for one reason or another, to completely jump ship to a tablet.

The Metro interface on a PC is designed to stem or reverse that trend. Why jump to a tablet when you can stay with the PC and use it like a tablet? Or better yet, when your tablet IS your PC, and your PC is a tablet. Metro is useful. Maybe not to me, maybe not to you, but we're a small subset of users. There are many who don't tolerate the desktop.
It clearly is, hn is about startups and tech, and that's exactly what MA writes about, he's a character in the SV world, just like CEO's of companies and 'star' programmers (Torvalds et al)

hn is as much about the personalities as it is the products and companies.
Things They Should Have Taught In My Computer Science Degree
Twitter's 'favorite' button renamed 'star' for a few users
Nitpick: Cost per unit of digital goods is low, but not zero. Servers, bandwidth, CC fees, sysadmins, etc.
Time to resurrect and rethink hardware Lisp Machines as a servers of content like this site?)

Hardware machines are much better than Virtual ones..)
It might, but you'd have to argue against IBM's lawyers to prove it. They seem to have a reputation for effectiveness, so that might not go so well.
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Maybe they thought italicizing it made it seem more realistic.
The very concept of work/life balance is an artifact of unionization. You hate everything about unions? Fascinating. How many have you worked for?

Edit: upon reflection my original comment left a lot on the floor so I'm circling back to pick some of it up.

Here's what a "typical" union experience looks like:

The union hall staffs individuals that find work for you. The bulk of back-office paperwork and other hassles (including wage negotiation) are handled on your behalf by the hall. When you first hire on it's typically as a pre-apprentice (no prior experience) or apprentice (some applicable experience to the trade). OJT and training/certification materials are provided for you.

Your coworkers are trained, experienced craftsmen. All applicable safety guidelines are rigidly enforced. From day 1 you are presented with the kind of benefits package that is no longer available to your average worker. In addition to credible health insurance this includes pension, annuity, on the job training and certification, and death benefits. In addition to your wage you are guaranteed additional compensation for overtime and hazardous work.

By way of comparison, working in the trades for a non-union shop is at best a crapshoot. There's no guarantee SS and other taxes are being taken out correctly or at all. I've known several subcontractors who've gotten royally screwed by the IRS come tax time when they found out that they (unexpectedly) owed thousands in taxes. Safety guidelines are routinely ignored, it's nothing to get shorted on your paycheck (or go weeks without pay), benefits are typically non-existent, no guarantees of overtime, and you're working sink or swim with whoever the boss could scrape together to form a crew, typically for less money than you'd make in a union shop and that's after dues. General contractors also tend to maintain a good-ol-boy network, so you go rocking the boat about substandard pay or unsafe working conditions and it's a very real possibility that you could find yourself blackballed in your area.

TL;DR: Union: guaranteed pay, safe working conditions, training provided for career advancement, benefits, retirement plan. Non-union: good luck, buddy.

Full disclosure: I worked in the trades (both union and non-union) for several years before changing career tracks to become a programmer. I do not regret my time with the Union and would go back in a heartbeat if for some reason coding was no longer a viable career option.
I trust Scott Hanselman - WinRT is built on top of Win32 - http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToCallWinRTAPIsInWindows8Fr...

Another blog that says the same - http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/sasha/archive/2011/09/15/...
I avoid TechCrunch at all costs. I can always find the story somewhere else, and it almost always has more substance than TC's article.
Ask HN: Where will mobile web apps be in 2-3 years?
Today we have seen the announcement of Zend Studio 10 that lets PHP developers build iOS and Android apps. We also see platforms like PhoneGap.

In 2011 Techcrunch published that Facebook has more than twice as many visitors in their HTML5 app than on their native apps. I actually don't know how it is now!

But my question for you is, where will mobile web apps be in 2-3 years?

- Will it beat native apps?
- Will native apps in the future be build with web languages?
- How will we access mobile web apps in the future? Download through App Store and Play etc. or from the mobile browser?

The discussion with mobile web apps and native apps will never end, before we have the result. But what do you think?
My main issue with Windows 8 updates is that, yeah it's nice that it tells you when it needs to reboot for updates and when that is going to happen, but I don't feel in control of it at all. I was taking a test online for a class, and the notice popped up that it was going to reboot in 15 minutes. I explicitly did not reboot before the test because I figured I could delay the reboot. It didn't give me that option. I started flying through the test in the hopes that I could finish in time. I didn't. Halfway through the test, the PC reboots without ever giving me an option to make it wait.

There might be an option in the settings menu, but most time I want it to reboot automatically. Occasionally I would like to defer that for another 15 minutes.
They must be trying to sweep http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2269329 under the rug. It would take six millennia with 100% uptime for that outage of days to average down to to 30 s/y.

Edit: And allegedly three hours without SSL today, which would put them over 30 s/y for a few more centuries.
I am coming to a similar opinion with respect to the music and movie industries. For example, there are a few long since syndicated and no longer frequently broadcast TV shows that I and my family would gladly pay for. But there is no option to do so. We have purchased a few others, to be greatly disappointed when we found all the music changed, in cases where the music was closely tied into the plot.

Every item I purchase from these content owners contributes to the efforts they are making including to privatize and balkanize the Internet. Therefore, I will no longer spend my money in a fashion that contributes to this.

A fellow in... France, I believe, wrote a very pointed and eloquent article/post on precisely this point, some months back.
Which a RAID style system probably won't achieve. HDDs start ahead of tape drives in performance. So it's reasonable to assume that HDD + RAID is also going to perform better than tape drive + RAID.
It can be much better than that. The ion thrusters in Dawn have a specific impulse of 3,100 seconds (30 km/s exhaust velocity). Later thrusters designed for the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter achieved 9,600 seconds in a lab (94 km/s e.v.) JIMO itself is designed for a delta-v of 40 km/s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Power_Electric_Propulsion

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/jimo2003/hartman.pdf

delta-v is proportional to the specific impulse (or exhaust velocity), and logarithmic in the propellant ratio. For instance, with a propellant ratio of e = 2.7, you can get a delta-v equal to the exhaust velocity. For a delta-v twice that, you need a propellant ratio of e^2 = 7.4. Obviously it's not practical to go much faster the exhaust velocity; the propellant demand grows exponentially.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation
The problem is that the employee-employer relationship is imbalanced: you only have one employer (in the vast majority of cases) but you have many employees. If for example you are in an area with only one company in your field, you're very vulnerable: quitting would mean having to move yourself, your spouse, your children, sell your house etc... Some will use that to exploit you.

Unions are a way to redress the imbalance. Think of union membership as a mutual defence agreement.

You shouldn't evaluate the worthiness of unions based on the average HN situation of a young professional with relatively little debts/commitments working in a specialised and in-demand field.

What I do find outrageous is the way certain unions start getting heavily involved in politics. They should stick to protecting employees from abusive action by specific companies.
I'm a software guy at a hardware company so I know a little about this. From my perspective I think there's room for a startup that acts as a kind of project manager for the actual "making the physical stuff" part of a hardware company. A group of people that knows the companies who do make circuit boards, design the enclosures, produce the plastics, get FCC/UL/etc. signoff if needed, all that kind of thing. It's all well and good to have a great idea for some piece of hardware but you're going to get screwed on price and timelines if you don't know the right companies to make the stuff for you and it's a pretty complicated process.
To leverage the Desktop monopoly to force users to get familiar with the interface of Microsofts mobile offerings, which had no success to gain user acceptance on their own.

FUD.

Because the start menu will be removed to force you to switch to metro to start desktop applications. You will use it (and get familiar with it) whether you want it or not.

FUD.

Nobody claimed any such advantage in the first place.

Incorrect.

Edit - While you're downvoting me, I'd like to point out the statements that I quoted from the parent. They're a slippery slope argument at best, and patently false at the worst. There is no indication that Microsoft will be removing the desktop. There's no indication that Microsoft is trying to unconscionably leverage their desktop monopoly into the mobile world via Windows (any more than any other company hopes to). And yes, people have claimed (and I think successfully) that Metro is useful for end users. Ask yourself if you agree with his statements, and then if they're backed up by any actual facts. I believe he's spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt just to settle a personal vendetta.
That's a very bad translation - although I'm still impressed because it's programmatic and the technology has come pretty far (and I am grateful to Google for providing Google Translate in general!).

So "Amazon did an about-face" actually means "Amazon did a change in direction" or even "Amazon did a 180 degree turn".
It's not the "old one". Actually, the green logo was made by Igor Sysoev and it is the oldest and the only official logo.

That one from "wiki.nginx.org" is made by Cliff Wells, creator of the wiki: http://www.enemyofthestatement.com/page/view/about

btw, it's funny, @maratd who wrote "Placing communist imagery in the logo isn't amusing" doesn't even imagine that it actually was done by US citizen.
They're both TOXIC. I was so glad when these two departed & the rest of their ilk self-exiled to Pando Daily (Sarah Lacy & Paul Carr, to be specific). & now that ! SIGH
Your comment is at odds with itself. On the one hand, you say that if you don't like the working conditions, leave, on the other hand you point to one of the most unskilled and exploited labor positions (mining) as a good use for a union.

Which union do you think has more power: The AMA or a union for miners? In one, the employees are scarce, limited, and irreplaceable. In the other, the employees are numerous, easy to train, and very replaceable. Why would you try to justify a union for one and not the other when it's clear that there's no value in dealing with a mining union - it's cheaper to just bring in new employees.
I really don't think the return of two seriously biased writers to an already biased media company is important. Sorry.
Why should the grandparent jump through the hoops though?

Also, isn't stripping DRM from Amazon ebooks against the TOS? Potentially exposing him/her to some legal trouble?
This might be useless feedback, but those big orange buttons to me looked click-able, but they are not. I clicked 'search' (2) to try it out - the "get started" button was below the fold on my screen (22" widescreen)

Even after clicking get started, I find the interface unintuitive to use.

The main problem though is the same as here in the US, nobody but craigslist has the data and everything else just has stale data which no matter how well or conveniently it is presented isn't useful. You have the same problem in London where the existing real estate agents are not in anyway motivated to share their data.
These people seem to have found my wish list for a distributed content system and implemented it for me. Or rather, started to implement it. I will be looking into this.
Ask HN: How to get contract jobs in the beginning?
We are two college graduates trying to get some contract work (web development, rapid prototyping, web design). What is the best way to get these jobs? Is there a proper way we can contact startups in need? Or potentially post an email to our school's alumni lists? Is there a more efficient way than contacting people through Craigslist or Elance or similar sites. We're open to all suggestions.

Suggestion tag: "Contract HN"? Or does something like this exist to leverage the HN community.
In case anyone is interested, in Chrome (Mac at least), it's under Settings > Show advanced settings > Content Settings (under Privacy) and then the checkbox "Block third-party cookies and site data". http://www.evernote.com/shard/s8/sh/eb3a23ef-8902-4ae1-87d8-...

So I guess this is one reason why people leave that enabled: not quite obvious.