skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always assumed Service Packs were a way of "resetting" the version of Windows. Instead of installing Windows 7 then needing to immediately endure 2 hours of updates/restarts, you could simply install Windows 7 SP1 with all the relevant updates and patches already applied.
I would rather not have byzantine relations between fragments of code make up the policy of my file system's metadata resiliency thank-you-very-much. I would rather prefer that stale journal replays be no-ops, even at the expense of making journal replay slower.
Choose mid-size fast growing companies over startups.
Sorry, I'm only referring to new money: every 2 weeks I put $1000 into my brokerage account to buy whatever long term stocks/funds on my watchlist look good that week.

Lately that's been nothing but Target, but it might switch to nothing but Amazon next month, or 50% AMZN 50% something else, and so on. So it's just the new money coming into the account getting divvied up, but doesn't reflect the actual holdings of long term account as a whole (which might only be 20% TGT and 80% other stuff)
That's a smart question. I hope simonsarris means 100% of his incremental dollars (new savings), and that he already has other other 'long-term dollars' in a broader range of investments.
Every customer facing app is required to have full documentation with images, etc. The most popular ones contain the videos. They can be reached by hitting <F1> (<Help>).
1878 Edison tinfoil recording
Or maybe it should really be &accept=2 ... (inspired by [1])

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4695587
btrfs is shipping with OpenSuSE and Oracle Linux apparently as stable. Not sure I trust it yet. If they ship it with Debian stable I will consider it.

ZFS still uses FUSE AFAIK so is going to suck.
Jailbreaking now legal under DMCA for smartphones, but not tablets
A byline would be helpful, here...
A Romney-Biden administration? It's possible [video]
Not sure about windows, but VIA is making something somewhat similar but with a x86 processor: http://apc.io
The economics of cybercrime: video of Prof Stefan Savage's talk at Yahoo
His quote was not in response to that question, because 1) That's not a question, and 2) That's part of the article. If it were a question taken from the call, it would be in quotes. It would also be the weirdest "question" ever in an Apple earnings call.

Investor: "So, Mr. Cook, Windows 8, of course, features both the standard desktop interface and the new Windows 8 UI (formerly known as “Metro”). The surface, runs Windows RT, doesn’t offer the full desktop experience, but it does run Microsoft’s Office suite in the old-school desktop mode."

Tim Cook: "What?"
Nothing is published, because it would most likely be obsolete within weeks. Nearly any docs found online are produced by universities/libraries and are ancient. The platform itself serves up all documentation internally, which can obviously be kept up-to-date as the apps change frequently.
A lot of doubters when this was launched! Albeit not a jetpack, it's exciting to see the future slowly arrive!
They need to sell around 1.5 or 2 iPad minis for every iPad they are replacing. They've already sold 100M iPads. They sold 14M ipads this last quarter, can the market support 22M to 28M iPad minis? I doubt it, but my guess is that a lot of people will go for the iPad mini because people don't want a tablet, they want an iPad, and they don't care which one it is. The fact that it's exactly the same but smaller and cheaper means most people will buy this, in my opinion.
Congratulations! Now if you can do the same thing for my gas oven, that's the next 2 mill!
Worth the read just for this:

The pizza place was very confused by this, but they send the pizza guy without a pizza, Kyle answers the door, and the pizza guy says, "The site is down."
@Lockitron, I recall the original story going: "We decided to host our own "Kickstarter" because investors did not seem interested and Kickstarter changed their policies."

I am curious, have you found that investors have changed their tune due to your successes so far?
Yes, it's a horrible idea. That's basically playing a lottery, since unexpected things happen all the time, successful companies go out of business (Yahoo, and AOL looked pretty damn good 10 years ago).
Unrelated to USB, but if would Be great if someone added the recent source release to show 'bare metal' use of the VideoCore services...
i highly disagree that women aren't "as interested". I, myself with many of my girlfriends, read techcrunch, hackernews, pandodaily, etc. consistently and find us fascinated with this information. However, it's hard to "fit in" with a group of hacker guys. It's like writing with your left hand if you're right handed. Is it doable? yes. but everything feels more awkward and uncomfortable because the community isn't what you're used to. i'm not sure what it's going to take for women to feel more welcome, but understand, that women control more than 1/2 of the purse strings in families, are the social media addicts, and generally like to shop. if you don't create products that cater towards this population, you are missing out on a great market.

but it's not different from being a minority in any other situation. you're going to have to work twice as hard to prove yourself, and there's going to be twice as much pressure to be that 'role model' for others.
Having started riding this roller coaster I particularly enjoyed a view of what pitfalls to be aware of in the future.

Also, since I just survived a dual-founder breakup (company intact), it was encouraging to know that this was probably a bigger bullet to have dodged. (For those curious, post-breakup I reached out to an old friend with whom I've shared some tenuous situations and we have applied to YC for the next batch)

Edit: I forgot about the pizza comment! When she asked how to contact someone in Lake Tahoe, I audibly said pizza (in my empty apartment). When the solution was pizza, I had a celebratory moment.
I know what Microsoft's attempting to do with Metro. What I don't know is what benefit it will have for desktop users. Merging their touch and desktop visual styles might strengthen Microsoft's brand, but I've yet to hear any plausible theories for how it will benefit (or even not harm) usability for desktop users. There's decades of HCI research that says touch interfaces should be different from desktop interfaces. So what's the upside for users? Why should they accept Metro, if not just because Microsoft has a monopoly?
My bet is C&C instructions.

IRC traffic is commonly blocked, but HTTP traffic directed to Twitter is generic enough to get through most locked down networks. I doubt whoever is behind this cares if it's public data and that people see what's being posted. Public access just means any newly compromised computer can access it without anything more than a single HTTP request.

If we had access to the IP(s) posting the tweets, it'd be pretty easy to get an idea if they were malicious or not. But where's the fun in that
The link assumes that you know who is speaking. But it doesn't give that critical piece of information.

Founders at Work was written by Jessica Livingston, who is a cofounder of ycombinator. She's married to Paul Graham. But do not think that she's in there just because of the personal connection. Her book is truly excellent. And in previous articles I've seen Paul say that the #1 thing that they want in a founder is determination, and the person that they rely on to spot it during the interview is Jessica.
I'm being elliptic about why here because I don't think I can talk about the internal architecture of that system in public, but warning people off one particularly stupid third party bug that we fixed in our internal fork is not, I believe, a problem. Anyway, we certainly did use it to manage daemon processes, although not deliberately; we had a daemon that communicated with external software about system events, and running shell scripts was part of that. We didn't necessarily anticipate folks running 'service httpd start' in those shell scripts, but it was not an inherently unreasonable thing to do.

And this isn't "arbitrary use cases"; this is an explicitly supported function that is completely contrary to good practice and sane behavior and, to boot, has the ability to arbitrarily kill programs for impenetrable reasons and block for significant periods of time (the central sin of event driver programming). You can't tell me that if you saw something like this in a random crypto library you wouldn't immediately tell everybody to stop using it; why should EM's developers get a pass for their, yes, incompetently written popen? I would actually be considerably happier if it wasn't in the library at all; at least then it wouldn't be wrong.
Here's a link to the video version of Jessica Livingston's talk from Startup School: http://startupschool.org/2012/livingston/

It really is great! I encourage everyone on HN to read or watch it if they have not already. As a not-yet founder, it has a lot of interesting advice that I don't think is documented anywhere as concisely and practically as it is here.
Congrats gents. :)
Have you used one? Or are you echoing what other people have said.
I recall something about Bezos planning for the decade or longer, so any time they think the net present value of running a no-profit quarter is higher than the returns of profit-taking.

Could be another 20-30 years.
All you say is correct, even down to the "it's who you know line", but I disagree that we should exploit it or even tolerate it. It's just Cronyism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronyism) and my personal moral compass rejects it.
Relationship Tips for Co-Founders
>It started out matching students and employers — and has placed about 20 people in new jobs, total. But what really seems to be working is sponsored courses, Thrun said.

>So, for instance, Google will offer an HTML5 game development course co-taught by two of its employees. HTML5 game development is a skill that’s useful in industry but not deeply academic, and something slow-moving universities are unlikely to offer for a while, Thrun noted.

I am really curious to see how this works out.

Does anyone know if udacity is modeling for a connected-learning experience? From the course requirements for the above course[1], it seems to be going this way:

>Basic knowledge of HTML, Javascript, and how the web works is necessary for this course. There is an optional unit on HTML and Javascript to help get you up-to-speed. If you have a basic understanding of how the web is structured at the level of CS253: Web Application Engineering, you should be fine.

[1]http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs255/CourseRev/1
Have you more details? I tried to find this kind of module but no dice.
It think this should be extrapolated as follows: "If you have a particular personal hygiene habit that drives your SO crazy, then avoid it, for their sakes."
Wal Mart's profit margins are only a few percentage points, maybe 5% if they're lucky. That's the nature of retail. There definitely seems to be some utility and efficiency gains being made by Amazon. I doubt investors are seeking the kind of explosive growth or profits seen in tech companies like Apple, but rather a steady gain in market share from companies like Wal Mart, Best Buy, and whatever else you can deliver to a home.
>You will not see a single mention of the competition on Apple's site

It's not explicitly mentioning the Nexus 7, but this is at the top of the iPad Mini's 'design' page on Apple.com: http://i.imgur.com/7Mg92.png
Nice that you find this useful :)
It's a good idea if and only if you believe your personal access to information and ability to perform analysis is greater than the aggregate capability of the market as a whole.
Deep link for the lazy http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
What your app needs to do to win me over
Do you have other examples of how badly constructed EventMachine is, or is it just that you can't use their process I/O stuff as a daemon manager?

I was using Adam Langley's net/ssl code in Golang to build an HTTPS proxy, and only after several hours of hair-pulling did I discover that Langley hadn't implemented the compat SSL2 handshake that Firefox uses with proxies. net/ssl in Go was, for no good reason other than an omission, unsuited for use as an HTTPS proxy. Should I say net/ssl was incompetently written? That seems like a bad idea to me.
From the ssh man page:

Agent forwarding should be enabled with caution. Users with the ability to bypass file permissions on the remote host (for the agent’s UNIX-domain socket) can access the local agent through the forwarded connection. An attacker cannot obtain key material from the agent, however they can perform operations on the keys that enable them to authenticate using the identities loaded into the agent.
Not quite, their operating income steadily grew until 2010, when it was about 5x higher than in 2003. That said, it makes sense. Amazon has very lofty but realistic goals, which are an intriguing combination. These goals would be impossible without all that investment.
Apple consistently ridicules form factors and products it doesn't have an offering for.

Steve Jobs famously ridiculed the idea of smartphones before they released the iPhone.
This seems more like a play at the advertising revenue rather than an altruistic way to support Candidate A or B.
Doubt ZFS is going to be anything but FUSE. Mandated by licenses. ZFS can be used with *BSD of course.
CEO of the largest competitor to the Surface calls a product he has not used 'compromised and confusing'.

STOP THE PRESSES!
insane!
Is it possible that I am using reviews and turns out I have specific things I enjoy or don't enjoy which isn't identical to everyone else?

For example, let's look at some of the highest rated games of all time list and see which ones I've bought and didn't feel I got my money's worth (just looking at the first page of metacritic top all time):

PS3: Assassin's Creed, Rock Band 2 (enjoyed Rock Band 1), Dragon Age: Origins, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare,

PC: Bioshock, Diablo 3 (big fan of Diablo 1), StarCraft 2 (big fan of StarCraft 1), Civilization IV.

Of course there are plenty of games where I did get more than my money's worth: Minecraft, Fallout 3, everything by Valve, GTA, WarCraft 3, Diablo, Elder's Scrolls, Baldur's Gate, etc etc. I'd say in any given year, there's probably at least as many games I've bought that were meh and just didn't grab me as there are ones that were amazing. That reminds me, I should probably send another donation to the Dwarf Fortress brothers.

It's not all about reviews, and not all games have demos on launch day (or even weeks later). Fact is, games are high-commitment (hours) and comparatively high-cost.
Or because his economic positions would be bad news: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-25/the-presidential-ca...
China’s foreign press office falls victim to hackers
Just go through tutorials, e.g. ,on pygame.org
Saw a good roundup of the MBaaS providers, here:
http://apievangelist.com/2012/08/22/mobile-backend-as-a-serv...

We use Parse for some apps and roll our own Rails backend too. Of all the MPaaS providers we've investigate, Parse seems to be getting things right: SDK's are solid & the documentation is up-to-date, 3rd party integration with Twitter / FB / S3 work great. It's a joy to get started.

The biggest problem we've seen so far are on caching, user models, analysis and emails:

- Local native caching on devices seems capricious, and we've often reverted to writing our own caching schemes on top of Parse (had to do the same for server-side, too, but maybe that's a given...)

- User data model is pretty basic, and although the ACL capabilities are nice, it's not easy to build (FB invite requests work, but outside of that framework you have to roll your own invite / accept / reject / exit logic)

- Custom emails on User model CRUD / password are supported, but not for any other user interaction (ie., weekly roundup emails, status updates, etc.)

- API introspection is tough, it's not easy to optimize (ok, minimize) API calls and some form of introspection & analysis would be helpful (eg., just when do the SDK libraries synchronize, and how often?)

All that being said, I don't think any of their competitors have done a better job on these topics and certainly Parse seems to be pulling away from the MPaaS pack.
i.e. Windows 8 got a good score, Windows RT not so much.
Check out the WePay API - https://www.wepay.com/developer/platform/authorization

What you described is a bit vague so I'm not sure quite what you need, but it allows you to basically spin up merchant accounts for your customers on the fly in a way that's basically as seamless as legally possible.
exact duplicate (only "view all" triggered)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4699962
Scripted: node.js-based Editor
Code on github: https://github.com/scripted-editor/scripted
I think they stated the main point really well:
“I don’t think this is about putting universities out of business. Educating millions of individuals, to me that’s a radical idea, but a positive radical idea.”

Most people taking these courses are not college-aged students. Universities continue to be valuable, but it's important to constantly renew your skill set and make this knowledge and resources accessible to as many people as possible.

I'm thrilled to see VC funding go into this. I've taken 1 Udacity and 1 Stanford course and both have been a great experience (although I prefer udacity). It might not help me get my next job, but the structure is excellent and definitely promotes more hands-on learning than I have seen in the classroom.
this browser extension removes all quantifying counts from the Facebook interface. friend, like, and comment counts all disappear. '16 people like this' becomes 'people like this'. 'View 8 other comments' becomes 'View other comments'.
I thought they had a kernel module or something bypassing the need for fuse.
5 things Tech should steal from the fashion industry
Code on github: https://github.com/scripted-editor/scripted
> The biggest breakthrough is upgrading the touchscreen revolution to the next generation. The new flavor of Windows uses large, animated tiles to convey when and where your new information, apps and services are updated. It’s a giant leap.

I really hate it when people use a banal description of the Metro interface as some kind of self-evident proof that is is better than Apple/Android and "the future".

You like Metro? Fine. But stop pretending that just because it is different it is necessarily better than everything else.
You know, I was not impressed until I saw the guy playing the bananas to unlock his door. Now I must have one.
Parse should offer a dedicated enterprise solution to run their stack (as source code) and warehouse your data on your own servers (or own AWS account). That would offer a real migration path for apps that anticipate reach critical mass in their user base.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrooculography
Cloudera makes SQL a first-class citizen in Hadoop
This is all really great, but my ISP and router situation is not at 100% uptime and about once a week I need to reset them both. I wouldn't be able to rely on this completely :/
Create and share resume on Twitter via Twitume
When is a 7-inch iPad mini Not a 7-inch iPad?
That's what I thought as well.

Also, for anyone who has ever considered doing NaNoWriMo, I strongly suggest you give it a try. It's an amazing experience that not only seriously improves your writing skills, but it also helps you appreciate the craft of storytelling when you read books or watch movies or whatever.
Apple’s Q4 Mac Sales: Setting New Records
Quick, if you send me $10 via paypal in the next 24 hours, I will send you an amazing, short ebook describing "How to make TENS of dollars on hackernews in 24 hours, with almost no work!"
So, can I get one even though I incorporated 2.5 years ago? It's just lead gen...
That would require a goroutine for each socket to hot potato from the socket to a channel, right?
It really pays to check how ones company name sounds in different languages. Because in some cases connotations could be not even funny :( For example in russian, lockitron sounds very similar to 'lohotron' which translates as con game, scam etc.
"If you use an iPhone 4S or iPhone 5, you can enable Lockitron to sense when you walk up to the door and unlock for you using Bluetooth 4.0. We call it Sense."
Actually, Google DOES have data export features.

They can be found here:
https://www.google.com/settings/exportdata
relevant > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Munster
Tim Cook: "We Would Never Make a 7-Inch Tablet"
The title of course is not really true. As a company of enormous proportions you always care about your competition.

But i actually agree with some statements that are made in the article itself.

Though It actually doesn't explain reasonably why Apple doesn't care about competition, it explains more how many (especially die-hard apple fans) view Apple and what their relationship toward the company actually is (and why therefore this relationship is hard to break).
Marissa Mayer's Yahoo testing New Logo
So now instead of carrying my keys around I get to carry a phone charger...terrific?
I dont understand something. Why should I sign up to changemakrs? What do I get/do once I've signed up that I couldn't do before?
5 Luxury Brands Owning Mobile Marketing
After heroku's most recent outage, I've been trying to find a way to replicate my heroku database to a non-heroku server and so far haven't found an easy way to do this. Has anybody gotten the log streaming to work with a postgres box that is hosted somewhere else (in my case on Rackspace)?
Crafting a bamboo phone: ADzero's journey from concept to crowd-funding reality
From their FAQ: If you have an iPhone 4S or iPhone 5, Lockitron will work even if the internet or power go out. And of course, you can always use your original key

I guesss it also uses Bluetooth for manual unlock and not only for Sense.
Indeed there is: http://zfsonlinux.org/

There's more than one ZFS port to Linux, which might be confusing some people.

There's also the more dramatic option of using FreeBSD or one of the illumos derivatives, which work fine in my experience too.
I really need "data" here? All I allege (to clarify the "proved it out" bit) is that the Kindle Fire/HD and Nexus 7 are (IMHO, undeniably) successful products in a market Apple wants to enter. You seriously disagree?
I think you're conflating two stories. Eric from Pebble originally went on Kickstarter because of investor interest. We created our own crowd funding platform because Kickstarter changed their policies. Both stories are detailed here: http://www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2012/10/what-goes-wrong...

In both cases, investor interest is a barrier but the core problem seems to be 1) making something people want, 2) finding a platform to tell them it exists, and 3) being able to deliver it. Kickstarter is wonderful for 2).
"How much of the closed source binary is due to the GPU ?"

The Pi team addresses this on their site. I think the answer to your question is "a lot."
I'd try to make him curious on implemeting your own (simple) game.
Looking back through Apple keynotes and product launches, they have often compare their products to an incumbent. They did it with the iPhone, Macbook Air and now the iPad mini.
>It is up to the cafe owner whether they want to do this, or whether they want to put a political sign on their windows for that matter.

His point wasn't about whether or not the owners could or could not support a candidate, it was whether or not they should support a candidate.

You're absolutely right, it is up to the owners. And this seems to be pretty cool. But most coffee shop owners (which seems to be the target) will not want to alienate part of their already small group of customers.