skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenVZ (because it's closer to bare metal performance), which limits it to Linux distributions currently. We've had requests for FreeBSD though, and we're adding Xen support soon which should allow that.
That thing is ugly.
I have to say I'm really surprised that they've dropped the tablet specific ui tweaks. Seems to me that some especially the centered home, back, recent apps buttons are a step backwards for usability on larger devices. Given the great focus they've had in android on making apps that adapt to device size smoothly its a surprising they wouldn't follow the same logic with the navigation ui, etc.
Anyone know if the PostgreSQL data connection will work for Vertica?
How to shave 150ms off content served from EC2
So, what's next?
The FinCube
Google reject a Reconsideration Request for a non-English language site.
Show HN: Turning a subreddit Into a store
same here. so long as there are some easy entry price points $25k is a no-brainer for hassle-free 'makes me look good to my boss' software
Vuzix Smart Glasses will take on Google Glass in 2013
>"we want someone who can take large amounts of data and do something awesome with it". What do you call that?

Analyst
What I don't understand is all the attention to technical risks of exposure. Ultimately his physical activities would surely have raised suspicion anyway? I find it hard to believe that the CIA and FBI rely solely on intercepting electronic communications to catch spies.
I'm not going around advocating doing this, I was just pointing out that AirBnB used this technique to acquire it's first users...
I'm trying a new idea on Referly to help unlock awesome recommendations inside of community sites and turn them into storefronts. What I'd really like is feedback on whether you'd be interested in Reddit doing this themselves? If you'd shop a store like this of the best curated stuff recommended by Redditors I will pitch the idea to them.

And before you kill me for the affiliate links, the commission for every purchase through this profile goes to Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Update: I wrote a more complete blog post on my thoughts for creating this: http://refer.ly/blog/turning-recommendations-from-the-reddit...
Big trend in this batch of YC applications
Extra-corporeal life extension machines
Going one further, if you really do have to maintain doing writes, what you do is you modify application code to do simultaneous writes to both databases instead of one (i.e. "fork" your writes).

This is where you are super glad you did the right thing (did you?) and your DB layer is abstracted and your SQL is standards compliant, and this saved you hours of headaches. Anyway, you maintain reads from the old db.

Then, as the site is running, you migrate all data pre-fork, to the new database. Finally, after validating that you got it right, you flip the switch again to have reads come from the new DB.

But you're not done yet. Keep the reads forking for a while, till you're sure everything went okay. If not, you can flip back to pre-migration instantly with zero data loss.

Presumably, all this flipping between dbs is done through some kind of flag that can be modified at runtime, so you don't have to do more code deployments, because you're dancing with the devil here already.

In any case, with proper capacity planning and good code, this is also doable, but not super required unless writes are mission critical for your customers 24/7.

But the last thing you want to do is to flip the switch, pray, lose customer data.
I don't know how anybody spends 11,000 seconds on TC, but love NYT and ARS. Also pretty interesting to see the bias in users that use lookmark. Hopefully having your friends use it helps.
But in such a case, engineering trumps social.
I've read some of the literature on sensory deprivation experiments, and... let's just say you are more of an optimist than I am.
Sending Google a fake court order won’t help
Should teachers assign projects or recipes?
Thank god I got the MSc in Finance instead of the MBA when I didn't get that PHD in finance.

I would say Most people get MBA's in order to change their job. Either they want a promotion or want to switch industries and MBA programs are great for doing that. For a startup that just isn't the profile of person you're looking for.

In that heap of MBA's there are some people I'd call business nerds. They love to learn about how business works and are cluefull if you talk with them. Hire a business nerd if you can find one.
Our brain can do unconscious mathematics
Sorry, was proposing both as one kind of. I didn't realize there was a term for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodal_freight_transport

IIRC, this is what made it cheaper to mass produce overseas, definitely a huge impact on industry.
This sounds awesome, NYC anyone?
> its known

Can you point to any references?
They left messages in the draft folder - no traffic analysis possible, at least from the messages themselves.
The Demise of Customer Service and why that's OK
Hello my name is Uros and I am the founder of the project you are discussing. I'm very happy to see that you are all curious about the project and I understand and perhaps even share some of your concerns. However being part of the project from the very start untill now, I can assure you this is actually a perfect example of a Kickstarter project and I mean morally AND technically... Please read the below I posted on our Kickstarter page after following your blog.

Best regards to all, Uros ( FOUNDER )

A word on the project:

The Boomerang has been so far funded entirely out of 2 main sources:

- the amazing selfless support of friends who are professionals (in fields of design, mechanics, video production, etc.) or other professionals we met along the way that simply believed this could be a big thing some day. Together we invested a total of about 3700 working hours (of 40 individuals) from the start till now. (many of them are in the team shot in the end of the video… some couldn’t make it that day unfortunately ☹ )

- the rest was the founder’s more or less entire life’s savings + extra money from 2 friends and family who blindly belive in the product and the team

We are extremly happy to have come this far , however we are at the point where our belief alone cannot fund this project anymore. We have come to Kickstarter to prove to ourselves and convince others that this product really needs to exist. Of course, if we only reach the $40k goal , the earnings would cover only a fraction of the costs we already put it. But we have come far enough that we know the $40k will certainly cover the costs of fulfilling the rewards, it will boost our belief that we are doing the right thing and hopefully bring new investors in. We saw no reason of setting the goal higher and risking the project never getting funded at all. It would disappoint a lot of backers not to mention ourselves. … But luckily your support has been amazing so far an if we only continue at this pace we will exceed the goal more than two or three-fold
*An MRI can read brain activity from a dead fish bought at the market.

not sure if that is humour or real? If real that's really interesting. Redefines the idea of a dead fish really.
marshallp needs to get off his pony. DHH's is not gloating about the piles of cash he surely has on this essay. He's talking about the unprecedented and amazing opportunities unregulated internet gives businesses.

And about your career counseling, I'd rather have DHH building niche web software with nice UI than have him build life supporting medical equipment.
No because
First, because you might know someone who WOULD be a fit for what they are pitching.
Second, you can let them know if your company is looking or will be looking for someone with a skillset.
Third, if they are someone in your industry there is the chance to learn a few things if they are a GOOD recruiter.

I wouldn't put a lot of time into dealing with them, but a minute or two won't kill you.
Whilst this isn't the common use:

I'm a film director.

I would very, very much like to be able to carry a backup of my life's work around on a memory stick.

We're getting there. Give me 500Gb in portable form and I'll be able to do it, at least for a while. But much less than that ain't doable.
Um. This is like... Copyright 101.
Disable (fake out) the browser back button
I absolutely agree, I work in bioinformatics and everyone I work with fits the bill blog-post describes.

I would add that hunting people in the relevant communities should work, as well, for example biostars.org or seqanswers.com for bioinformatics, and then check out the posts of the top-contributing members.

I also see more bioinformaticians storing their work on GitHub! So far I can name about 5 but I think that's going to grow in the next few years. There's no central point storing these (not sure how to structure that) but at some point there will be.
How can one of the most globalized companies and one behind google translate not have support in your language? The point here isn't about violating some guideline its in the email that google somehow has no support for any italian language websites.

This is embarrasing for them, you think that a company as large as google and with this kind of money (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=GOOG+Key+Statistics) and one that's primary deals is search, social networking i.e. communication would have better communication channels, especially with end users.

I've known people to whom google owed ad money and simply didn't pay, google made it so hard to contact anyone that collecting was basically impossible. For adwords, a couple months ago a collegue asked to talk to a reps boss and she said that was impossible that only per written request would they be able to do that. But then this was from Germany (in English) and as far as I know google's only european support is Ireland/English based. It seems kind of odd really if you ask me and out of sync with the high quality of their products, or maybe this has only been my very limited bystander view of google?
Just don't use it for big, long-lived work queues and you'll be fine.

If the queue gets badly backed up, you're probably fucked.

Larger, longer-lived work queues are really more of a Hadoop thing, not an in-memory queue thing.
I agree, the font is terrible in Chrome on Windows 7!
What will Intel Xeon Phi do to the GPU market?
Guard your codebase against bad code
It would be easier to make that case if that site owner had had "clean hands", so to speak. It seems you are faulting Google for enforcing its own rules.
How does Cuban make money these days?
This suggestion always drives me batty, because it sounds like a good idea, but either my acquaintances are just spectacularly unhelpful or it requires some great skill that is always omitted from the suggestion.
Thanks for the update, much appreciated. Couple of extra days of chewing my fingers off waiting in anticipation ;-)
I would claim that you are mistaken here. Ianala but I'm fairly sure there is actionable bad behavior going on.

You may find it surprising but it is actually illegal to trick someone into agreeing to something that harms them. You can't just say "Can I do this to you" if the person you're doing something to can't reasonably be expected to know the implication of "this". That's why we use phrases like "informed consent".
Given it's 50 minutes, the numbers don't have to be incredibl good to make a really impressive-sounding rate.

Let's say they had a quarter million units for sale for their first run (given their Nex7 sales, totally reasonable). That means they're selling ~80 phones a second.

Now did Apple sell more? Sure. Does that mean these numbers are bad, even in a relative sense given the obscurity of the Nexus brand, the troubles during launch and the location of sale?

No. Supply or Demand, this is good for Nexus.
TalkTo Lets You Text Message Businesses So You Don’t Have to Call Them
That's stated in the "Caveats" paragraph of this article. I guess the Lookmark blog scores low on "engagement" for you (friendly teasing).
At first, I thought this was a french post complaining about the 35-hour work week ... looks like nobody will ever agree.
Ah. Perhaps my point was too subtle then. More bluntly, I was trying to say that there is no ethical duty to pay employees solely based on the value they produce. If there were, markets could not function. There is no conspiracy to "divorce employee's compensation from the value they create" as otakucode states.

By definition, free trade happens because each side believes they are receiving more value than they are paying. In my example, the manure owner who pays his laborer $15 an hour and the board of directors who pays the Steve Jobsian figure $500,000 an hour both believe that what they get in return is worth more than the money they pay. This is why they enter into the transaction.

>This accumulation of wealth is typically backed by hierarchy and authority structures that maintain that the employer continues to get more value out of someone's work than the employee(s) participating in that work.<

And from the other side, the laborer who exchanges his time for $15 per hour and the Steve Jobsian figure who exchanges his time for $500,000 an hour both "continue to get more value out of" the money the employer is paying them than they would otherwise get out of their other options. Again, this is why they agree to exchange their time for money.

Again, this all boils down to supply and demand (plus value). If there are millions of laborers that can perform any task, the price to perform that task will always be low, no matter how much value the task ultimately generates. (I say plus value because, even if you're the only person in the world that can do something, if nobody wants that thing done (i.e. no value is created) then no one will agree to transact.)
I bet you or a friend of yours chats on facebook[1] or Watsapp[2]...

[1] http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/31/Eugene...

[2] http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/01/1-million-is-so-2...
"He said he was aware of the violations"

So, your friend willfully and knowingly violated the guidelines?
Why should he keep building nice UI's. He's proven himself as a can-do hacker and has millions in the bank. He could spend his resources saving lives instead of polishing what's a tiny hill in the global landscape of ideas.
Windows 8 Design Handbook
Our story of how we hustled for our first ever investment from 500 Startups
Brain-Computer Interfaces in the Coming Years
Read this and bookmarked it in Diigo as part of the reading for Howard Rheingold's "Think-Know Tools" course (socialmediaclassroom.com/host/think
You'll notice that most successful systems empower the common man (or unit) (capitalism/democracy/distributed systems/self-policing/bottom up ideas) and the most "ivory tower"/"top down" like systems don't perform nearly as well (totalitarianism/communism).

There are limits of course, and always complexity, but distributed incentive based systems appear to empirically work rather well.
> an affair that comes about due to genuine mutual interest and is the seed for a strong, lasting relationship is pretty much non-existent outside of fiction

What are you basing this on?
He's not faulting Google for enforcing its own rules. He accepted responsibility, but the fact that he's not even allowed back in because Google doesn't support his language is ridiculous.
Has anyone else noticed that when you repeatedly click between the two different models in the play store, the seems to change randomly from "Coming Soon" to "Out of Stock"?

As much as I want to like Android, this is the type of experience that just makes me want to head straight back to Apple. If Google can't even get their their flagship product's launch day store working properly, do I really want to trust their customer service if I break my phone, or their ability to manage an entire mobile ecosystem?

After owning early Android devices and being incredibly disappointed at the experience (crashes, incompatibilities, lack of software, poor battery life, lack of promised updates) I swore off getting another Android device for a long time.

In the meantime I've owned apple products, and always been extremely happy with the overall experience. With the Nexus 4 announcement, I've decided to give Android another shot. As I said earlier I really want to like Android, but it's stuff like this that makes me have second thoughts, and reconsider just getting an iphone 5.

In my opinion this is a huge failure on Google's part.
Local messaging - what do you use?
What tools do you use to communicate with people around you (friends or not) in near real-time?

Has anybody had any success with Highlight's "Post nearby" feature?
Which countries? I can think of no more than 5.

Also, a trade sanction is sometimes limited to certain types of trade.
And Tickle me Elmo on fire was 2006. youtube.com/watch?v=xLaHpl7CmRU
It's been a while since I've been so stoked about a piece of tech!

I returned my Galaxy Nexus, mainly for the poor camera, and for the fact that not one week after getting it, it was discontinued and replaced with this much nicer phone.
I believe, issue was not the final numbers - % of Jewish people/Jewish population was the highest compare to other nations in the USSR. Number of Jewish professors, academics and billionaries with academic background is amazing.

I understand why USSR did that. Government sponsored education. Number of places in best universities was very limited, it was nation's genome and capital. People who supposed to develop new weapons and economy. Soviet government did not trust Jewish people - as we see from the history, Jewish people were often the first who left the country in case of problems. It was hard to imagine that they will become Soviet patriots. That's why USSR came up with artificial barriers in order to give more places in universities to more potentionally patriotic students. USSR wanted to save its intelligent capital investment and feel more save.

The problem was the rude way how artificial barrier was created by USSR. Instead of organizing super-complex writing exams for Jewish people, or making ideological interviews they tried to eliminate them with fake oral exams.

See below how US handles the same issue with asian students (reposted from user continuations).

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2011/04....
"Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade and researcher Alexandria Walton Radford examined data on students applying to college in 1997 and found what looks like different standards for different racial groups. They calculated that Asian-Americans needed nearly perfect SAT scores of 1550 to have the same chance of being accepted at a top private university as whites who scored 1410 and African-Americans who got 1100. Whites were three times, Hispanics six times, and blacks more than 15 times as likely to be accepted at a US university as Asian-Americans."

In Russia a minority like Jews are asked special questions in admission tests to make it harder for them to get in, while in America a minority like Asians are hit with a penalty of 450 points in SAT to make it harder (15 times harder) for them to get in. There's no difference.
You might also try running a contest at NameStation. They're cheap and you'll get hundreds of name ideas and their respective available domains:

http://namestation.com/
(Firebase Founder here)

Saurik - We're glad that there are people like you searching for holes in services like Firebase. Hopefully it'll keep making all of us better. Please keep doing it.

As ivolo noted, we do have a security feature set we're testing. It has taken a little while to build something that is both functional and usable. We're pretty confident we've got something that our users will love.

Excited to show you soon!
Full disclosure: I'm the founder of Howler, http://bit.ly/PsuFDX, candidate for this YC batch
Just signed up. I would love to have an alternative to Tableau. I will add comments/issues here as I find them:

1. Give me a demo. A real sandbox I can play with. If it exists, I couldn't find it. I took the http://chartio.com/product/tour and it wasn't mentioned in there. There is no mention of demo on the front-page either. EDIT: Took me forever to find a demo ( linked from: http://chartio.com/uses/excelcharts ). This should have been front and foremost because it is awesome!

2. No mention of Windows-based tunnel anywhere on: https://chartio.com/project/4095/settings/source/add/MySQL. Companies that don't mind paying $2500/mo for BI often use Windows.

3. No MS-SQL support. No ODBC/JDBC.

4. Export as XLSX, not just CSV. It's very easy to do these days. Make the columns pretty, auto-filter etc.

I will pay $20-30k easily to have a good BI solution within my own network that is easy for me to setup and manage and can handle a few tens of million rows of data (don't even need billions). Your site is not speaking to me. Your site is catering to eBay store owners and Wordpress site operators who embed Google Analytics. It's not the text-copy of the pages but the focus. Talk to me about a VM I can host locally. Mention Windows even though we all use OSX and Nix in our personal and web-app lives. Mention cubes. Speak to me as if you are in the same industry as I am (medical, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, communications).

Having just played with the dashboard for a few minutes, I think you have a great product and wish you best of luck.
I'm not the author, so I don't know any further details of this situation, but as I understand it:

The Reconsideration Request is _explicitly_ for use by people who knowingly broke Webmaster Guidelines or (as in this case) who used the same (albeit spammy) techniques that loads of other people were involved with and then later realized that these were outside the guidelines.
Mark Benioff on Sinofsky's departure
While this comment may not contribute much because I didn't read the article yet I would like to complain on the font size way too big for me to read comfortably without resorting to zoom. Not just the text but the "Stay Updated" area in the bottom too.
Commercial Freedom: For DHH
I sort of wish the news reporter would do their own damn job and ask a security consultant.
How Hot Dogs Are Made
Thanks for the comment. I managed to snag a 16GB at 6:08 EST and I'm crossing my fingers that the order doesn't get lost.
A year ago, I would have no idea what this was about. I'm very thankful that I live in a world where I can take high quality classes from Coursera that have given me the foundation to at least understand the abstract. :)
The problem with SELinux (still)
Along those lines, saw this tweet earlier today:

"Entrepreneurs take note: The going rate for a 'yes' to your ideas is roughly ten 'no's. - @neilpatel"

https://twitter.com/johnsonwhitney/status/268411928408363009
"We knew enough Italian to punish you, but now that you've redeemed yourself, and written us ever so nicely in English to tell us about it, we don't know enough Italian to unpunish you." Let me count the ways I love thee, unregulated internet.
Rejected by Kickstarter; Lumawake opts to Selfstart
Design, hack and ship an iPhone app by Christmas in NY
By 2014, China Will Become the Main Consumer in Robotics
It won't kill it, that's for certain.
App.net bookmarklet to share the current webpage
I don't know how you'd get that from the article. He's very explicit that if Google turned the guy down because they thought he was sleazy, he thinks it would have been reasonable if inaccurate. The specific complaint is that Google has a process to get a second chance but completely excludes sites that are primarily in Italian.
I'm pretty happy about the support for nested fragments. Even better, they've back ported it to the compatibility library so I can start using it in apps I'm writing now.