skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BTW, while I'm not entirely sure what this article is saying, here's one of the best explanations of "Quantum" I've ever seen. Unlike most, it doesn't start out from physics, but from a mathematical/probability framework ... that allows for negative probabilities. Yeah.

http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html

I'll quote a bit:

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So, what is quantum mechanics? Even though it was discovered by physicists, it's not a physical theory in the same sense as electromagnetism or general relativity. In the usual "hierarchy of sciences" -- with biology at the top, then chemistry, then physics, then math -- quantum mechanics sits at a level between math and physics that I don't know a good name for. Basically, quantum mechanics is the operating system that other physical theories run on as application software (with the exception of general relativity, which hasn't yet been successfully ported to this particular OS). There's even a word for taking a physical theory and porting it to this OS: "to quantize."

But if quantum mechanics isn't physics in the usual sense -- if it's not about matter, or energy, or waves, or particles -- then what is it about? From my perspective, it's about information and probabilities and observables, and how they relate to each other.

Ray Laflamme: That's very much a computer-science point of view.

Scott: Yes, it is.

My contention in this lecture is the following: Quantum mechanics is what you would inevitably come up with if you started from probability theory, and then said, let's try to generalize it so that the numbers we used to call "probabilities" can be negative numbers. As such, the theory could have been invented by mathematicians in the 19th century without any input from experiment. It wasn't, but it could have been.

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Greatly recommended. I can't say I understand it all, but the concept of a "qubit" and why it's so different from a regular bit is a lot clearer to me.
or you could just use the old html version of gmail, and open as many messages as you like in different tabs.

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html
One datapoint (the Instagram purchase) does not mean the industry is in another bubble.

Instagram was actually valuable to people at least, compared to the startups getting funding in the 90s. The funding of Color on the other hand was a bit reminiscent of those days though.
Show HN: My first iOS app using RubyMotion
One key difference between now and "the early '00s" is the number of people using the web.
The problem, then, is that the OS is interested in helping you multitask.
I encountered a DNS Amplification attack recently and was confused how the VM I was using could be involved given it wasn't running BIND.

It turned out that a VPN was implemented using `dnsmasq` which was responding to the DNS queries.

I ended up using firewall rules to drop the queries because it seems like in certain situations it's not enough to just configure `dnsmasq` to not respond to the requests: http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2012/CVE-20...

Just incase the information is useful to anyone else. :)

(I Am Not A Network Engineer.)
It still isn't. They have some antennas up, but not nearly city-wide.
I actually missed the Hamlet reference to be honest. Now it seems much less obnoxious. Thanks for clearing that up. My apologies to the parent for that portion of my comment.
You might as well say that the Bohm interpretation is "like religion" then, rather than saying that the MWI is.

If your assertion is that we might never know which is true, the Many Worlds Interpretation or the Bohm Interpretation, then you might be right. But, if it comes down to these two, most scientists are going to go with the Many Worlds Interpretation by Occam's razor.

There are many other theories that we reject by Occam's razor that we can't disprove, and yet we don't typically consider these rejections to be a matter of "religion".
Lately I've been thinking that this should be part of the login process. Enter username and password. Just below the "Login" button there's the "If you click on this button..." text with a link to the TOS. Every time someone logs in they are accepting the TOS. If your login events are recorded you even have a record of when each user logged-in and, effectively, accepted the TOS.
I'm not sure. For what I can tell, it's a difficult and delicate topic, as intrinsic incentives tend to be overrided by extrinsic ones (e.g. pay someone for doing what he loves, he might soon start doing a worse job at it). See the RSA Animate talk about motivation[0].

But hey, we're a clever species, I do believe that someone will figure out how to structure reality so that we get more of the things we really want without using proxy incentives that backfire when overdone.

[0] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
Robot Chicken was right. We ARE going to get Star Wars Musicals. Oh Dear.
A year ago, Apple was asked whether the iPhone 4 or even the 3GS will get Siri. They said no, to do good voice search, you need advanced tech - several microphones, special noice canceling DSPs, fast processors - so get out and buy a new iPhone.

Well, I just did the test. Google voice search on a 40 month old iPhone 3GS is more responsive and much more precise than Siri on the latest and best 1 month old iPhone 5.

Apple has so much egg on their face.
My company uses Rackspace with Cloud Sites with their DNS. Very few issues and great customer service.
Look what I just read:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/04/pixar-d%C3%AD...

Grim Fandango the movie, anyone?
Then wouldn't having a paper trail of your genome published on the internet provide reasonable doubt?

Plus, I can't imagine it would be too hard for a disgruntled former lover to get a DNA sequence done with an old toothbrush or comb. Not to mention you have the right to an independent paternity test.
> Among other things, it suggests that the best way to increase knowledge might be to shut down the education system and implement a police state.

Actually, an easier way to reduce the crime rate to zero is to repeal all categories of crime. Make it legal to steal and murder. Then all you have are existential crimes: "How could you let this happen!?" types: where crime is a metaphor rather than a fact.

> (For the cost of the current education system we could increase the number of cops/courts/prisons by a factor of 6.)

Citation needed.
I dont really see what Facebook overpaying for Instagram has to do with there being a bubble or not. I'm also not sure why you think that THX and ILM should be a part of Lucasfilm's valuation considering the fact that lucasfilm has not owned either company for a decade.
Simple app yet fills a need I had when talking with people about fitness/training/health. RubyMotion is awesome and I highly recommend using it if you don't want to venture down Obj-C land.

Gems I used: Bubble-Wrap and Formotion
Thanks for the heads up. Updated.
If somebody's from Google is reading it, please fix your blog theme! It's the most unusable theme, period.
I found the other examples very useful as well.
If some signed driver is found to have an exploit, is there a mechanism to revoke the signature?
Great question and project. As young teen, if I'd had to choose between the internet as it exists today and going to school to learn, there'd be no contest.

I'd like to see many more websites for self-directed learning arise. They'd let students see and explore the whole scope of a subject so that they know whether they're missing anything they'd want to know more about. That and access to people who can answer their questions, and they'd only be limited by their motivations.
relax mate. I don't think the majority of humanity is so dumb enough to be bought into the whole social hype, each time someone creates another "Facebook for ABC" online. Sure, it doesn't help when senseless media and VCs hype it up even more so, but most of us don't really buy into it. FB, Twitter etc should be just natural extensions to our real social life (plus a little bit more). Taking things too far as you did on your blog assumes that we'll just buy ourselves into these crap.
Obama created 'Frankenstorm' to ensure reelection (according to conspiracy nuts)
Yeah. The attempted cold-read really killed the article for me, both because I didn't agree, and because frankly, having an article seemingly attempt a carny fortune-telling trick on me didn't make me want to read on!
Sounded pretty cool.

Just one gripe. He forgot the 'like' button.
the whole premise of his post is completely flawed. he talks like he misses 'the old days', but in the old days nobody gave a crap about ads. he's complaining that he's too weak to make a living of blogging while back then nobody even thought of that. 'the blogosphere' meant linked blogs of friends and foafs, not cross-posting every piece of turd to 10 social networks and upvote sites so you get more likes and clicks.
In theory? The use case is simple: we already trust the DNS roots a very great deal - aside from the fact that most of the Internet doesn't use HTTPS, getting a HTTPS certificate for a domain essentially comes down to proving to a neutral server that you control it - so if DNS responses could be verified and could include SSL certificates, which DNSSEC allows, we could obviate the need to trust the CA system, which has lately been proven vulnerable, without having to trust any new entities in exchange.

I don't know much about the issues surrounding DNSSEC, so I wouldn't be surprised if they make this not worth it in practice.
Yeah, that's true, I think it's perfect to have deadline postponed, when PG asked in the poll I votes Yes. The problem here is that people who don't have any problem are more interested in having the deadline pushed to Friday than those who really are having problems.

As I said deadline has been postponed because of the problems de hurricane has produced, but I don't understand why people who don't have any problems with 'Sandy' are waiting for the last minute to send their application.
Agree. However this article makes me dead angry because of dozens of self-called overcoders who would love to (or do) believe this is how it should be in reality. ... Aaaargghh.
Awesome! Finally a way to mash my two favorite things, musical numbers and Star Wars!
How is this a "startup" that needs VC funding? It looks like a cleaning company, just like the millions that are already out there. What am I missing? They have an app?
Funny. Because I specifically remember 3 instances where I walked by people (in two different countries in fact!) and saw them checking Grindr.
ouch, sh*t happens when you have it on for 10.0.0.0/24 or so and then set up Varnish in front of it...
Steve Blank launches Startup Super Group
Every single demo on this page is buggy in my browser! (OSX, latest chrome).
Comparing the acquisitions of two companies in different industries fallaciously assumes there is an objective measure of the "value" of a company.

Acquisition value != societal value.

Instagram wasn't worth $1 billion to society, it was worth $1 billion to Facebook, which works out to $30/user. Facebook can reliably turn users into gold, therefore it was a reasonable purchase for them.
Nikola Tesla's lab: fans to buy Shoreham facility
Is there evidence that drugs can help programmers produce “better” code?
the hardware probably just worth $1000~$2000.
meraki was promising, until ubnt came along...
If it were some other industry other than movies I would be concerned. Disney is building themselves up to be a competitor to Universal.
"People" as in "some number of people somewhere"? Sure.

But people in general? I strongly doubt it. Hang out with some "non-technical people" (they will often helpfully describe themselves this way for you) while they use the computer sometime. If they didn't have Google, they might be able to get to Facebook, but that would be pretty much the boundary of the Internet for them.
XAML is very vector orientated, most apps will (should) not include pixel based art-work unless really necessary.
8.82 Gigapixel mosaic of the Milky Way
> Basically the idea is that you take sites that perform too well on search metrics and remove them.

Some of the results remind me of the Web from the late 1990s: Definitely more than just the original group of geeks writing pages, but the mega-popular sites (Wikipedia, about.com, etc.) aren't there, like they weren't there back 15 or so years ago. It's almost homey again.
Marble mazes, edge detection and an iPhone 3g : the birth of an entrepreneur
Why? Windows 8 isn't as bad as people think, speaking as a developer using it just now. If you only use the Desktop, you'll be fine. You can search the homescreen the same way you searched the start menu in Vista, and it works as you'd expect.
Define buggy. The guy who wrote the new modal code is pretty responsive to fixing any issues.
I'm not exactly sure what the OP's point is, but the price/employee ratios do not make any sense outside of acquihires.

Take US Air for example, they have 30k employees and are worth 2B. That ratio is meaningles. It is even more meaningless when one programmer can eliminate 100s of jobs using automation.

I'm sure it is a useful metric for some analysis, but it doesn't seem to be in the case of instagram which seemed much more like a play to remove a question mark from institutional investors minds prior to an IPO.
If anyone's particularly interested in the online contract issues highlighted by the Zappos User Agreement, Stanford Law had a great hour long session on online contracts at their 7th Annual Stanford E-commerce Best Practices 2010 E-commerce Best Practices Conference.

http://blogs.law.stanford.edu/stanfordebp/files/2010/07/2010...
I'm tired self-evident "bubble" statements.
btw, Instagram recently hit 100 million users.
Not a relevant comparison... At all
It's all a matter of perspective, e.g an accurate sexual behavior network would be of tremendous value to epidemiologists and public health practitioners, not to mention when people need to notify former partners about disease diagnoses.

The core argument here appears to be the "cheapening" of experience driven by "social", without any acknowledgement that social also enables new experiences. Sure, facebook has cheapened the value of remembering a friend's birthday, but it has also enabled more immediate involvement with friend's who you don't get to see that often (geography, parenting, loner-ism, etc).

"Social" changes all kinds of things. It's consequences are far-reaching, and we're just barely starting to figure them out. The advent of the automobile "cheapened" travel experiences, but also made travel accessible to the masses, not to mention a slew of modern conveniences. As a society we're still trying to find the right balance for how we use cars (greenhouse gases, near-surface pollution, exurban isolation, etc). People who write "cars are ruining society" essays don't actually contribute to the conversation in a meaningful way. To be dismissive of all things social based on such a small sample of human experience feels short-sighted (and out of place in a technology-oriented discussion community).

Aside: The closing reference to Philip Larkin is amusing, as he was a racist and misogynist. He decried the "backward" steps post-WWII society was taking with regards civil rights.
Brad Bird would be amazing. He did great with MI4.
Bell's theorem only shows that local hidden variable theories cannot be true. Non-local hidden variable theories, such as Bohm, are still possible.
Agreed.

For a company the size of Apple, to get into content production it would be less expensive and quicker for them to acquire than to build it in house.

And for any good partnership, there needs to be a Win-win on both sides. If Apple were to sabotage it's content agnosticism, would probably hurt it's mobile market share.
Even under single-threaded applications, with a custom allocator that suits your workload, it's possible to get significant speed boosts over the system malloc. One of the assignments I enjoyed back in college was writing a memory allocator. By the time I was done optimizing (including replacing all structs with raw pointer arithmetic using #defines), IIRC I was getting over 10000 single-threaded allocations per second vs. ~3000 from malloc().
Similarly, if you are using nginx in front of apache, watch out.
I don't know how many of you have internet, but you could use Google Hangouts to record a video. My new Co-Founder happens to live in Chicago (I'm in San Diego) and that's how we got it done.
I've heard this argument against the Surface ad, and it really only came from developers. As far as I know, the reception has been pretty positive about the commercial. The purpose of the commercial is to build awareness about Surface, and I think it does a pretty good job at that. Remember, there are commercials specific to Windows 8 that explain the OS and how it works.
Sure, but that invalidates the complaint of it being infeasible to scp out 4 TB of data before your NYC DC runs out of power. Those 4 TB of data are already out of NYC, safely in some other DC where you have hardware. You just need new servers/VMs in/near that DC to restore the backups to.

I'm not trying to 2nd guess your ops team, but the whole point in having off-site backups is to facilitate a your RTO plan in case you lose your primary DC with no warning. I guess I'd be surprised if you don't have a < 24 hour RTO plan in place. With how quickly you can get VMs and even dedicated server provisioned by many hosting providers (minutes to a couple hours), the idea of physically moving servers off-site into a new racks, with new networking, etc... seems kinda nutty...
DNSSEC replaces one hierarchical PKI (the CA system) with another hierarchical PKI (the DNSSEC tree).

Ironically, the dominant provider in both PKIs happens to be Verisign.

One difference between the two PKIs is that the CA system admits to many different CAs, and to browser and even end-user control over which CAs are trustworthy. On the other hand, DNSSEC bakes its authorities into the core of the Internet. Don't like Verisign? Tough shit. A pithier way to say the same thing: Ghaddafi's Libya would at one point have been BIT.LY's "CA" in a DNSSEC world.

The role of any PKI authority in the HTTPS/TLS ecology will diminish soon with something like TACK, which integrates key continuity with the TLS PKI. TACK doesn't require DNSSEC, but allows websites to "pin" their certificates into browsers so that even if Iran or China hacks your trust anchor, your site can overrule them. This is exactly the scheme Google uses today to protect its properties: no DNS record or CA signature will convince Chrome that you are the real GMail.

The short answer to "replacing the CAs" as a use case for DNSSEC is that DNSSEC doesn't change the model or the security characteristics of HTTPS/TLS; it's at best a lateral move. But there are specific ways in which it makes HTTPS/TLS trust problems worse, and even more ways that it introduces reliability problems.
There will always be outliers; extrapolating macro trends from anecdotes is not very informative.

The only reason Instagram sold for $1B was because Facebook was willing to pay that price (especially in stock).
Who uses google to find current news articles though? I think this is mostly a non-issue as people use aggregators like HN here or Subreddits or other news reader apps to filter top stories.

Google is used for what I would call "archive search" and research these days (how to do X, etc) in my experience, not current news.
One was purchased to prop up an IPO price, the other for long term revenue. In both cases, their purchase was appropriate.

To be accurate, final purchase price for Instagram was $710 million.
When I started drinking beer, long ago, the American options were pretty limited, and mostly to light lagers. They lost a lot of ground to imports and microbrews when younger consumers discovered that beers didn't have to taste like Bud/Schlitz/Miller (and when those consumers developed the earning power to pay for them). We'll see how the InBev model holds up if they damage brands.
Agree. That's the definition of a "acquisition bubble": when acquisition value is so far higher than societal value. For the record: I'm not disagreeing with you. Putting things like this in perspective just makes one wonder what has led us here… :)
Maybe, summarize the text of emails for people who receive lots of email each day.
> Millions of kids saw that episode and went on to pirate movies and music anyways, because kids don't really derive their ethics from cartoon series

The point of such propaganda would not be to ensure that people don't pirate, but to plant the idea that doing so is morally bad, so that lobbying efforts in favor of IP protection laws seem morally legitimate.
Facebook paid $1 billion for Instagram in part because of the opportunity cost Facebook faced by not getting the page views from engagement stemming from photos posted to Instagram that wouldn't have been seen on Facebook. When you consider how much engagement Facebook could have potentially missed out on, $1 billion doesn't seem so irrational, even though Instagram had to yet to monetize the service themselves.
I was a child when the original Star Wars came out, and I was never under the impression that the entire triple trilogy had already been written, though it was always supposed to be nine movies. If anything, he had an idea for its direction, but in hindsight I think that was more salesmanship on his part.
Wait, what?

How's this different from any other platform? The same thing can be said about rails, django, php, or any other platform.
Steve Blank & Suster on "Y-Combinator is a cult": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUD2gxU5LPM&t=37m45s
1v1 or team vs team?
I'm going to channel my inner patio11:

* Charge whole numbers, not 4.95. No need for the confusion. Makes the service look cheap.

* Double or triple the price (to $10-15/month). $5 vs $10 is nothing to the average dev, but it halves the number of people you need to get to ramen profitable.

* Have an expensive pro plan ($99 - $299/month). With email support, etc. If nothing else, it makes the less expensive plans more attractive.

* Don't "delete" the free scripts. "Archive" them after 7 days [it's a 7-day free trial] and you can get them all back when you upgrade to pro. If someone wants to "abuse" the system by recreating their scripts every 7 days, fine.

99% of devs will be more familiar with javascript than Lua, so I'd greatly encourage supporting that.
Virtual Mailbox Services. How I freed myself from the hassels of snail mail.
Then the evil forces of Disney are in league with PBS to deliver that message.
Yeah! After all, it isn't like this comes up every (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4070192) single (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3767025) time (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4196833) a official Google blogpost is submitted or even is brought up.
My concept of "bubble" stems from over-valued acquisitions, based on everything but revenue. I'm not saying that "Instagram is the bubble". All I tried to do was to put things in perspective, considering a new and upcoming brand versus a very established (and profitable) one.

PS: I did know about Instagram hitting 100 million users… I actually chose to put the number of users at the time of acquisition, as whoever had bought them was bound to increase their user numbers exponentially (if nothing else, for the sheer publicity such an acquisition provides).
Right. I actually agree with you, but sarcasm doesn't translate well to every reader.
If you're a technical sort, offlineimap is quite a good tool, although I don't think it compresses downloaded emails.
A reboot is more likely to be gritty given the fashion of the times. Expect to see Han Solo made into a heroin addicted jazz critic who's not a smuggler.
I think they are referring to your downvoted comment about downvoting.
All of that's correct and I agree with it. My point was that not everyone would, and those are their arguments.