skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. It's clearly the popularity in high school. It's amazing what sort of effects your early years, and especially those people around you in your middle years can have. What happens is, basically, everyone in your high school class calls up your future employer and says either "raise his wage" or "lower his wage". The future employer uses their consensus to decide your salary. It's really fascinating.

In other news, ice cream truck drivers now on trial as accessories to murder during summer time.

[edit: So it doesn't come off as otherwise, I'm not snarking you. From a preliminary glance, it certainly looks like they might be doing that whole "correlation == causation" bug that can happen very frequently. Your analysis seems reasonable to me]
One solution that I've heard about, but never used, is a personal chef that cooks for you once a week, and packages meals to be trivially reheated during the week. That way, you have control over the ingredients, preparation methods, and the details of the menu, and it's a few hours of labor cost.
Feedback Fatigue
Something the article didn't cover but should is the upkeep over time of whatever algorithm you use. We can argue about todays algorithms. But what do we do when those algorithm are superseded? Or when the minimum complexity factor needs to go up. If you're an app dev or devops, will you know when that happens and how will you update?
By your convoluted logic, the entire stock market is a ponzi scheme.

Buying a share does not give you the right to future profits in a company. It gives you ownership and control over a percentage of the corporation, and does not guarantee a dividend.

By selling shares to the public, the shareholders are trading control of the company for money with the public investor. Whether or not they bought a lemon is the fault of the public investor.

It is _not_ a ponzi scheme, it is the exchange of assets.
I don't think you are understanding. Of course there are big costs in acquiring more product to sell. The question is: Do you have to pay those costs for each customer, or can you pay them once and amortize the cost over many sales?

For example, Adobe Photoshop probably costs a lot to design. It has really high fixed costs, because you need to hire good developers and implement a bunch of advanced operations. However, once Adobe pays the fixed costs, the marginal cost of Photoshop is pretty minimal: packaging, printing a DVD, maybe some marketing. It still costs a lot because the fixed costs are so high, and there's not much competition.

Conversely, a plumber has relatively low fixed costs: a truck, some tools, and some training. But plumbers also cost a lot, and this is because they have really high marginal costs: they have to spend an hour at the house of each and every customer.

So I agree with you, there may be high costs in acquiring email addresses to sell. My point is that they are in no way marginal costs.
yeah WAKE UP SHEEPLE

(christ, dude)
Enough with this nonsense. It's a link. You click it. It takes you to a page the original author referred you to. What's the big deal?
It sounds like a huge improvement over my current workflow of having my OS and Apps on the SSD and then having symlinks to my old larger hard drive for all my photos and videos.

Has this sort of thing really existed on Windows for years or are people just seeing the words "flash" and "cache" and oversimplifying it?
The PC Isn't Dead: Education Perspective
Zynga Cutting 5% of Workforce, Shutting Down 13 Games
Sounds like most people think I should keep going. I'd appreciate any other comments people have...
The 680 came out really quick, but was pretty much out of stock for about 2 months after it came out consistently.

But I'm talking more about the 77xx vs the 66x lines, which are the most mainstream discrete cards in the series, where the 77xx came out in February and the 66x cards came out in August. So about 6 months.

For all the hype around the 7970 vs 680, in the end the vast majority of their OEM card sales will be with less expensive hardware, which is why I think AMD "won" even if the 600 cards give better FPS for lower power usage in video games. They just basically controlled the market for mid-range cards for almost half the year, and by the price cuts they have been making they have been making a really sizable profit off sales until Nvidia brings out a competitor.

I just want to mention I'm not an AMD fanboy - I have an i7 920 and a gtx 285 right now. My "last" build was around 2006 and was an Athlon x2 with a 1950.
Welcome to Apple's SSD pricing. Want to upgrade from 128GB SSD on a laptop to 256? $300 for that please. How about from 128GB to 512GB? $800. All the way to an astounding $1,300 for a 768GB drive. It's insanity, but since you can't open up the laptops to add one of your own it's insanity that you have to pay for.
The best advice I could ever offer on this topic is to know your audience. If you have a server in the U.S. and you have a large customer base in China you will generally be better served by fewer larger requests than several smaller requests as the latency on each request is often the biggest killer of performance.
On yesterday's Apple Keynote (mostly on the iPads)
Apple charging more than the stand-alone market price for storage upgrades... just like they have done forever?

It's called bundling and price discrimination.
Processor, memory, keyboard, touchpad, display, storage, and build quality. Well, and price.
That's how rails stores it in the database, so trying to be as transparent as possible.
"Insinuating"? You just assume, without justification, that he's making those judgements at a distance and doesn't know those people personally. You've got the argument backwards: he's not claiming that everyone with "unconventional style" has low self-esteem and is looking for attention. He's observing that attention-seeking people with low self-esteem do flashy things to get attention.

I know a goth girl (real goth not poser goth, for those who care) and she told me that she dresses defensively because she gets bullied a lot. That's not an assumption or judgement by me, that's what she told me. I also know a former Wiccan girl from a broken home, and a satanist who has anger management issues and a drug problem. That does not generalize to all goth/Wiccan/satanist people but that doesn't mean it never happens.
I'd love it if they would introduce support for it outside of the BTO option. I'd like to rip out my optical drive and put in an SSD, but the pain of having to transition everything over has so far kept me from doing so.
Working as a dev in east bay? (SF bay area)
I live in the east bay, moved back to the bay area about 8 months ago, thus far have been working in SF doing the commute each day which is getting to me. From job searches it seems there aren't many options out here, at least not with smaller companies. I'm looking to get into doing node js so looking for a company that uses this. Just curious if anyone has any advice, info on whether there are many companies in the east bay. thanks
> The only plus I see is that it's right before Burning Man, so maybe they'll get a caravan travelling from one event to the other.

That's a helluva caravan if you are driving. It's about seven hours from Vegas to Reno and another two to three hours out to the blackrock desert from Reno. That doesn't include any stops which you'll have to do twice for fuel at the least.
Meet the Amazing Robots That Will Compete in the Darpa Robotics Challenge
I don't mean to derail the conversation, but irregardless isn't a word.
Surfing Productivity
This is a hilarious and informative read.
>70k fps

what?
Sexy: Small change and you manage DNS as well
"...can you guarantee that the server itself won't go down?" No, but neither can I guarantee that the hard drive in that Macbook you've been abusing for the last 3 years won't suddenly fail and wipe out your work.

One nice compromise that I'm sure Pike has used is to have your "dumb terminal" be a laptop with Plan 9 installed. When you boot a Plan 9 terminal, you can tell it to get the root from the network or from the local disk. If you select one, though, it's quite easy to also make the other available, and sync your data back and forth.
Why Indian Kids *always* win the spelling bee competition
Here in Vancouver, practically all retailers use chip and PIN.
Look I can understand the "oh it's so convenient that you can now pay to promote your posts" but the "turning down the volume" on the Newsfeed was done because our Newsfeeds were getting overrun. People added too many friends, thousands more than the 150 it's been proven we can reasonably empathize with, and people were doing more and more on the network.

You can STILL see posts of your favorite bands by going to their pages, which is how you used to have to find updates: by checking for them. The Newsfeed is new, and it's not a right.
About food, I remember reading a post on HN some time ago about how someone had found somebody on Craigslist to cook for him and his family. The lady would bring food three times a week or something like that and everything was homemade and of the season.

Personal chef makes it sound like it would be somewhat fancy, and thus expensive, but in that post it was just somebody who was cooking at home but make more and bring it to them. That could be something to look into if you're really interested.

edit: I believe it was this post http://sidsavara.com/personal-productivity/the-price-of-my-d... At least that's the idea. (I can't believe there's no date on that post)
I'm curious for a side-by-side comparison of your linode vs the wpengine host: cpu, ram, etc.

If you can perform the comment sort in memory without hassle, what is is about the size of RAM provisioned by wpengine that makes this impossible?

My opinion, but for for $3000 per year, you should have been provisioned with as much ram as a linode VPS.
At what point does he attribute any unicorn-like properties to bcrypt? All he says is that SHA2 is worse, which is completely true.
Small Change in User-Agent String of Firefox
Which chipset does the new imac use?

Intel has SSD caching support built into the Z68 chipset now, it sounds eerily similar, they could simply be using that. Both reads and writes are cached.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4329/intel-z68-chipset-smart-r...
Understood. Thanks a lot for the feedback. I'll keep this in mind.
Ah yes. I saw a few of those too. It's certainly not perfect. I actually skimmed the article rather than reading the details; and I was honestly impressed that I could skim the article.
Why not? You'd rather have inferior security than wait a minute and a half[1] to access your accounts?

Shame on you, Thomas! I thought you were a professional!

[1] Based on a remarkably unscientific test I just ran on an Ubuntu 12.04 VM on my laptop. 87.8 seconds.
Anybody notice that www.square.ca has been hijacked? I have it redirecting to a page with an iframe from areasnap.com . I have tested this on two different networks near Vancouver.
I resist the urge to say "don't be silly" here because not everyone is intimately familiar with the evolution of Facebook. I can understand believing that full access to every single one of your fan's, even the ones who have been ignoring your posts, is a right you have as a Facebook user.

The only right you have is to control content on your own pages, for the most part, not what other people see in their Newsfeeds. If you thought about it for even a SECOND you'd realize that's exactly how it should be and that what these people are arguing for is for self-serving reasons only.
How to get to YC interview - Insider's Guide to YC W13 Application
It usually takes a while before new apps can be found with the full text search.
Why?

Those kinds of games are perfect for mobile devices. It's fun playing several games with complete strangers, there is always something to do.

I absolutely love Lost Cities (http://lostcitiesapp.de) which is similar in the way and situations it's played (it's a very different game but it's also turn based and uses Gamecenter for matchmaking. It's also best played with several people at once.)
This is something that I don't see Apple ever doing on their own. I don't think you'll ever see a blue shirt sporting genius with weird looking camera headgear trekking around the Grand Canyon.

But, maybe they'll buy a company who would? What do you guys think?

P.S. I'm not an Apple hater at all, writing this with a Macbook Air, Cinema Display, iPhone 5, and an iPad on my desk. But I do feel like as far as this much dedication to their mapping service, it's not going to happen.
Were they your friends or your customers? Or were your customers our actual inventory, what we sell to advertisers?

You built a business inside someone's shopping mall, they started charging rent, so you complain. And at $4 CPK for promoted posts[1], you'll find FB advertising to be slightly cheaper.

[1] CPK aka CPM aka cost per 1000 views. Calculated from: To reach 100% of of our 50k+ Facebook fans they’d charge us $200 per post. Edit: $200 / 50 = $4, thanks Ryan.
Azure Services for Windows Server: Cloud services in your own datacenter
I had hoped this article was going to be able how to convince your friends to communicate with a medium other than Facebook.
That's not uncommon on less urbanized parts of the world.
But yeah, we can't tell for sure.
A big list of Resources for Bootstrap
Very very very poor french translation.
A lack of interest in marketing is partly why you don't have a plan9-esque userspace available to you by default.
Totally Agree! I wanted to keep the scope for this narrow so it didn't turn into a total beast. The guys over at Cloud Passage have some great content on server security (http://blog.cloudpassage.com/) that I think is really well informed, and we're going to do a followup on backend security.
I thought they just had a broken website. Saw the same thing from home in Vancouver this morning.
I gotta say your first paragraph really went under my irony radar. Thanks for your clarifying edit.
RAID-install Ubuntu Server on large (GPT) hard drives
Using ssh and screen gives you a 1975 interface to the computer. You've just made your own dumb terminal, doing EVERYTHING on the remote system except printing out a stream of characters to the local screen. It's not even as smart as the Blit that Rob Pike designed in 1982; at least that had the capability to fetch configuration from the server to set itself up.
Do we know how long ago it was launched? Sometimes it doesn't populate in the app store at all for the first few hours, even though it can be accessed and downloaded from direct links.
Would be interested to develop the same app using rubymine/rubymotion and natively with jetbrains appcode http://www.jetbrains.com/objc. Would the code wrangling ability of appcode make the experience easy enough (e.g generating boilerplate class definitions) that the benefits of rubymotion aren't that great?
IPad mini Pricing is Too High for Our Schoolkids
But they all support swipe as well, if there's an issue with the chip (or if you put the card in backwards so it can't read the chip, and repeat until it gives up on you).

Personally, I'm hoping Square adds a new dongle with tap-to-pay (Paywave/Paypass/Interac Flash), which would be even more convenient.
Nvidia's Green Light Program Overclocking Limitations - Origins and Implications
My bachelor buddy does that. Two ladies come every couple weeks, cook and freeze dozens of entres, chat and leave. Everybody happy, he doesn't frequent Wendys any more.
Completely agree. I would also be surprised if this weren't done at the block level, as ZFS does SSD acceleration, rather than at the file level as the article claims. It's just so much more efficient than caching at the file layer, for not that much more RAM cost (for indexing).
Hmm. Maybe they should make screen protectors with built in screen protector protectors. Each time something gets messed up you just peal off one of the several layers, like some sort of flaky biscuit of screen protection. :)
Dangerous Minds is probably the best blog out there on the history of pop culture. (If there's one that is good or better, I'd like to know about it.) I started reading it regularly after running across it from three or four different angles. The main author can be shrill about controversies, but he's vastly knowledgeable about every nook and cranny of the last 50 years' worth of hipness.
PayFirma is pretty pricey (and via Twitter I was told that they're 'aiming for a different market' than Square). Intuit's Gopayment seems like a better option for smaller businesses or craft fairs: http://gopayment.intuit.ca/
Nope, not the same. From the descriptions you give above it is very similar (a modified B-tree with heaps of delayed insertions in internal nodes), though the analysis in the paper does not use CO techniques.

This tweak to B-trees to support fast insertions works so well I am really surprised it has not become more common in practice. The only downside I can think of is that flushes down the tree when internal buffers get large may cause lower-level pages to become overfull, but if you allow more than one flush operations at each level you can avoid this problem. Of course, that's only important if you are paranoid about internal nodes actually fitting in a page; if you don't care about that, then the worst-case analysis picture looks much better since a flush operation causes at most one flush in the pages immediately below it in the tree structure.
They're doing the same thing with non-fan pages. If you want your content to go to your friends you now have to pay for the privilege. It's nuts. I haven't been on Facebook since I saw this, they can keep their social graph.
With the iPad Mini, Tim Cook Has Rebuilt Apple in His Image
Put a dentist in a van and drive to wherever you'd need?
Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits
Thank you. "Ability to read the source code" is amazingly low for knowing if the code is trustworthy.

And don't forget we have to trust the compiler that compiled the compiler. EDIT: I see you mention "trusted toolchain" in your second point.
Great questions.

With regard to CSPNG, this SO post answer is good: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/536584/non-random-salt-fo...

As for bcrypt/scrypt vs iterations, there is a difference, but it's minor. Bcrypt is not demonstrably any more secure than SHA-512 for example - the difference is in computation time (the Blowfish key schedule is _slow_ by nature). With enough iterations (1 million? 10 million? It depends on your CPU/GPU architecture targets), the same effect of slowing down the attacker is achieved. Increasing the number of iterations (and using the output as the next input) is similar to increasing the BCrypt cost factor. You just have to know your target threshold and pick a number accordingly.

Your summary of Level 5 is not quite right - Level 5 is about storing separate chunks of ciphertext - not chunks of the hash's MCF text (MCF = Modular Crypt Format). You can't even start to brute force a hash if you can't decrypt the ciphertext to begin with.

Finally, Stormpath doesn't do anything 'secret' and we go through diligence on these matters with our larger customers. We're happy to divulge all of our techniques (e.g. how we use multi-factor authentication, how we secure firewalls, etc). That information is just outside the scope of a password-related blog article.
I'm having trouble seeing the value in Phusion with nginx and python/django apps - I just use uwsgi.

Any big reasons to use it over said config?
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I heard tell or a similar tale in he Med. where he natural hot springs were a trace radioactive. It was thus hypothesized that this small, consistent dose was partially responsible for the almost zero rate of cancer on the island.
The mousing is what adds a crazy amount of power. You end up with dozens of files on screen, some showing text, some just displayed as the "tag" line. You use the mouse to rapidly jump around them, select text from one, paste into another, etc.

The mouse is a pointing device, why not use it to point at things? If I have 3 columns in my acme window (which I usually do) and I'm working in the 3rd file down in the left-most column, it's faster to get to the top file in the right-most column by just grabbing the mouse and clicking than by futzing with key combos.
I've been using passenger's wsgi support for close to two years. (I transitioned from ruby to python for web dev so it's no surprise that I stayed with what I knew best). I would love to see Mono support as it is in desperate need of a good webserver - especially now since the ASP.NET stack was open sourced.
It takes 3 minutes to log into your application?
There's actually nothing built into the chipset; Intel RST is a Windows driver (it just refuses to run on any chipset that it doesn't like). RST behaves fairly differently from descriptions of Fusion Drive.
What's funny here is that wireless networks already use FEC at the physical layer. This just adds more, less conservative, FEC higher up for apps where it makes more sense to reduce throuhput and increase some average case latency to avoid worse case latency and worse case throughput.
> The only right you have is to control content on your own pages, for the most part, not what other people see in their Newsfeeds

Unless you pay the vig. Spam away as long as Zuck gets a taste.
This post misses the biggest logical point that is vitally needed: there was no Newsfeed in the beginning. At all.

Then there was a Newsfeed. Then it showed more than just wall posts. Then there were TOO MANY things on it, so they scaled it back. The Newsfeed was an experiment, and it worked, but it needed tweaking. That's why this happened.

That they now allow you to pay to promote is secondary to the original origin of why the Newsfeed works like it works. I'm glad to have the option to pay to promote and I'm glad larger fan bases need to pay more. Now, when I have something legitimate to announce, I can pay to do it. When I just want to engage, I better engage well or else I'll get buried. GOOD!
You make a good point, although we have little control about who links to what: But for those that care, Here's the technology page: http://voxeolabs.com/ameche/technology/

On your question regarding the division between Voxeo Labs and Voxeo:

Since 1999 Voxeo Corporation (HQ in Orlando) has had a very strong IVR (Interactive Voice Response) business and continues to grow and excel in that market. Voxeo's main offerings includes Prophecy (hosted and premise) and VoiceObjects.

Voxeo Labs (formed in 2009, with HQ in San Francisco) is a separate wholly-owned subsidiary focused on real-time communications. Labs is responsible for Tropo, Phono, PRISM and now Ameche.

Two completely different engineering teams, marketing teams, management teams and missions. But every once in a while we all still get together and play softball.

Disclaimer: I'm the Chief Evangelist for Voxeo Labs, so my opinions in here are always true. ;)
There's a saying, "Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement".

It's just possible that a twenty something may not have spent as much time making bad judgements as a forty something. At forty you will look at your twenty year old self and wonder how you could have been such an idiot even though at that time you would have thought all the forty somethings were idiots.

It happens in parent-child relationships all the time. Every teenager thinks he's smarter than his parents. The parents have experience on their side. Wait till the teenager becomes a parent. Now that's enlightenment.