skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got the solution: cloud media! You must stream your product from a central server as you use it, and the server can ensure that you aren't reading more than one book at a time, nor are you reading the same book in multiple locations.

I guess we are good ways away from that...
That is a wonderful introduction. Any tips on making site introductions like that?
Looks great! Any chance this service will support Fedora relatively soon?
This is ridiculous. Final Fantasy 4 did not have "more depth" than Fallout 3. Go play it again. Go roam a town. What's that, an entire kingdom capital has 6 single story buildings and a castle with 10 rooms?

Most of the NPC's have 1-2 lines of dialogue with NO interaction with the PC?

You are viewing those old RPG's with MASSIVELY ROSE TINTED GLASSES.

Seriously, just go play one of the old games. Look at how little character customization you have. How little story option you have. There is no variable dialogue, no choices to make, it's simply a story on rails.

What a ridiculous claim to make.
Choose a live tree
Or Rage4 DNS
Democrats Prefer Popeye's, Republicans Prefer Sonic
> humans are merely the first step to the true masters of the planet - genetically engineered immortal mice. King Dangermouse will soon take his rightful place.

That was actually mentioned in a Cracked.com article yesterday

http://www.cracked.com/article_20090_6-creepy-things-you-nev...
>Accessing your Gmail through Tor and thinking that makes you "anonymous" is just going to tell everyone that you failed at being sneaky.

Thats a great slogan for a T-shirt :).

Oki, for a bit more seriousness... One could in theory create an account on google through tor, verify the account with a burn phone, and be rather unidentifiable. Its just kind of costly, so just bad guys with anonymous cash that can do this and not journalists.
Treatments with "DNA-modified virus"? Looks like we're one step closer to the Zombie Apocalypse!
True, but I despair of it ever actually happening. If even companies with sales people can get it wrong, where getting it wrong makes a difference, then what hope to companies who stick employees in little fabric colored boxes have?

Of course, 23 years in the cube farm might have left me cynical.

I had a brief glimmer of hope back when I first worked for Lands' End. They encouraged their employees to care about the customers to the extent of the whole company culture reflecting that care. After they were sold to Sears and then K-Mart, the whole place began the slump into the typical corporate bean counting contempt for the customer that we have all come to know and not love.

Personally, I shop where I get good service even if it means I have to go out of my way or shop there slightly less if they're higher priced.
Ask HN: Best practices when recruiting usability participants?
Even with substantial screening, Craigslist brings in professional testers so I wanted to experiment with Google and Facebook Ads.

I have the time to screen, but getting enough people to express interest and apply for the test is what concerns me.

Anyone have advice or tips when trying to recruit participants for usability tests?
you guys should just provide RPMs for nginx/apache etc. vs having me manually compile then with the required submodule
Location Analytics Startup Calls American Eagle Black Friday Winner
Show HN: We made a site with business book summaries to save you time.
I am still using this to host DNS for some sites and its pretty good.
Dell releases powerful, well-supported Linux Ultrabook
The only way to make a server 100% secure is to grind it into dust and fire it into a black hole.
Add multi-tab (like Google Chrome) for Windows Explorer with Clover
Inbound emails are with the help of the lovely guys at PostMark - http://postmarkapp.com. They have webhooks. That'll post inbound emails as JSON to your app.

Other than that, Rails + Postgresql + Nginx + Redis
Well the SSL certificate isn't valid so that's not a good start!
I also use PointHQ.com and have been for about 2 and a half years now. Brilliant service. Built by the guys at aTech Media who make Codebase - http://codebasehq.com and a few more useful apps =]
A friend and I thought this would be a fun side-project and save people time. We'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback.
Needs support for PO number
You mean like getAbstract?
By the way, all the summaries are manually written to ensure that they're high quality and match the book as faithfully as possible.
Yes, but free.
It's so rare Europeans get to be superior -- let them have it. They do in fact have superior motorsports. It's okay, whenever an American feels bad, they can just look at the moon or Mars and smile.
Just an FYI, there is no way to tell how much of that article is machine translated since Google Translate allows anyone with a Google account to "Contribute to the translation".

Though I imagine it is mostly machine translated and it requires several agreeing "contributions" before it accepts them as accurate.
Good suggestion. Also as a warning, don't (!) just use TOR as a proxy, through your everyday browser. Your everyday browser has probably enough configuration to be easily identifiable. That's why the torproject now emphasizes the use of the whole tor browser bundle.

For more information:

http://browserspy.dk
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Suggestion: make the "me" section optional after the first email.
I do wonder why such a powerful language such as Lisp has such a small community and number of libraries. There may exist some trade off between the level abstraction and number of users for languages. You may have to 'hang around' long enough before the penny drops and you're a proper Lisper that can use the language productively. What other languages have for them, in my small experience at least, is that you can grasp all the essentials and get a general feel for the language very early on- allowing you to 'hit the ground running'. With Lisp, it takes a while (I started learning a few months ago) to grasp concepts such as macros, closures, and continuations, which really give Lisp its power, and then effectively implement them on the fly. A few bloggers out there write about the 'moment of clarity' that they get once they understand Lisp macros, etc.
VC consumer investment trends by sector and stage
Stock market analysts do the same thing as game critics, and never, ever give sell ratings: http://www.cnbc.com/id/42790061/Stock_Analysts_Too_Scared_of...

I'm guessing in both cases it's because the best raters get the best access from companies.

Same problem probably exists in other industries too.
Like the semplicity
First off, best of luck with your project. Secondly, kudos on writing the post-mortem, as I know it takes some guts to own a "failure".

I think, however, the need to write something like this speaks to an incorrection assumption: you need a "launch". Of course, TC and HN can give you a nice bump in traffic and even signups. However, in the long run, this really doesn't accomplish much for you. It gives you the kind of traffic that will likely leave and move on to the next article, skewing your metrics. There's certainly qualified prospects in there, but it's hard to decipher with all the noise.

Again, the concept of a "launch" speaks to poor business models. It really benefits businesses where the word "traction" is more important than "revenue". Build a business that provides a service that others will pay for and grow as fast as the business can bear, bringing in those visitors that are truly valuable to you.
That's a really slick UI. Your presentation of data is really good. there are lots of features you could add to this to make it even more useful, but I really like the ability you give now.

Is your retention period limited to three months or is that just the amount of data you have on hand ?

Also configuration seems to be a bit lacking, is there a way I can change the graphs I have on the screen or select different metrics ( for example I want things like Swap or CPU Wait time ) , and I don't see a way to ad din my own devices. Are those just limits of me only looking at the demo or is that work pending ?

Either way great job looks really slick.
This looks nice. Are you supporting APM for Java containers (Tomcat / Jetty / JBoss) as well? JavaAgent approach could help get a lot of detailed analysis for JVM apps.
Extra points for pointing out that SGI used a lava lamp as a seed source for a RNG!
The intro text is nice, but is there some way to stop it? I just wanted to click around in the interface and then read about it afterwards.
Congratulations to the team for a beautiful product and a very beautiful site! I look forward to see more support of other platforms and frameworks (I use Django/Python).

I have to think about it a bit more deeply to make a thoughtful comment regarding the product. However, I did catch a few little things that you can fix:

1) http://www.graphdat.com/pricing, "Don’t need history, than it's all free." should be "Don’t need history, then it's all free."

2) I appreciate your tag line: "Remember all servers get all features, always." but I think punctuation would really make it sticks: "Remember: all servers get all features--always!" I'm not sure, but I love it it and I want this to be even more impactful.

3) https://dashboard.graphdat.com/landing page, other than signup/login perhaps a "learn more" button/link? I am a paranoid guy, especially when it comes to installing stuff on my server, so I would want to learn more about the product before even hitting the signup button.

As a developer, I love the product and your presentation. http://www.graphdat.com/images/img1.png should be replaced with new screenshots from the current look. What graphing tool are you using? Definitely love to learn more about you guys. Perhaps a developer's blog?

Again, congratulations on a great job well done so far and looking forward to seeing and learning more about you guys.

-V.
Your project, Cucumbertown, is a cooking/recipe site/platform/network. Hacker News is not your audience/customer. Any "launch" on Hacker News is a fail, regardless of downtime.
A very interesting post on mathematics education at the secondary school level by Timothy Gowers, a Fields medalist. He writes, "memory works far better when you learn networks of facts rather than facts in isolation. If you don’t really understand what differentiation is all about, then the fact that the derivative of x^3 is 3x^2 is a completely different fact from the fact that the derivative of e^x is e^x. But if you’ve derived them both from first principles (I’ll come back to what I said about e^x in a moment), then they are related: we have a process we do to the functions and and this is what comes out." This is a really good example of mathematician with a deep understanding of mathematics listening carefully to a student to understand how the student thinks, the better to explain mathematics to a struggling learner. "Of course, another reason is that if you forget something, you have a chance of rederiving it, but that’s a slightly different point. Your knowledge of a piece of maths is far more grounded if you know how it is derived, or at least have some memory of the derivation, even if you have no problem remembering the fact in question. Even if you forget the details of the derivations, just having seen them has a major effect on binding together the facts you know." Hear. Hear.

P.S. The comments on the submitted post are very interesting, and include a comment by Fields medalist Terence Tao.
Implementing VisiCalc
Two thoughts.

The first is that taking control of a new group is easy. Just start; people will fall into line. I can't remember where I first learned that, but I do from time to time consciously take control of groups to speed up the process.

(Being a tall white male is, um, helpful when pulling this stunt ... YMMV).

The secret to leadership, apparently, is delegation. It helps that I am naturally lazy.

The second thought is: avoid the MBTI. It's not a very good psychometric system. The current best classification approach is the "five factor model".

... and even then it's only weakly predictive and only for certain kinds of behaviour.
Perhaps you could also have a text submit page (form), and then allow people to download the generated pdf? (Allows people to try out anonymously)

Also, generating in some kind of editable format, may be a good idea. For any minor edits I want to do, on the generated invoice, or fix any errors in generation because of its interpretation of the text.
The intention isn't to say that all people should have to live in homes like this, it's an art project that also happens to be a livable space. It's an outlier, a novelty, and that's what's it's intended to be.

From the article:

“It requires a sense of humour, as you cannot stay long in a place like this,”
joked Szczesny.
I can understand patenting the creation method of the line, but please tell me the line itself won't somehow inherit protection from that patent.

But I have a sinking feeling that it could.
It seems to me that a government sponsored virus would look for a fingerprint for something like Tor. Whose to say the virus isn't a virus but rather a part of a retail product placed there in cooperation between industry and government.

If you want true security you need to use open products.
What about sharing secure notes via LastPass?
For smaller deployments (they have a 50 domain limit on the free accounts), Hurricane Electric DNS has been great. The business case is straightforward and they have top notch IPv6 support.
Researchers Exploit Cloud Browsers to do Anonymous, Large-Scale Computing
Instead of managing your own grid, you can use saucelabs.com
Ask HN: Are there any startups that work on the ms excell/access killer?
Syrian Internet Is Off The Air
Running with swap enabled is a terrible idea. The authors mention how it was only once solr crashed that they were able to actually log in and start fixing problems; having swap means that rather than the OOM killer terminating processes, instead your whole system just grinds to a halt.

(it's strange that they recommend enabling swap when they also recommend enabling reboot-on-oom, which is pretty much the complete opposite philosophy)
If anyone owns a blog or site that they suspect may appear on HackerNews (especially if you're posting it), then please take the small amount of time to put an instance of Varnish in front of the site.

Then, ensure that Varnish is actually caching every element of the page, and that you are seeing the cache being hit consistently.

You should expect over 10,000 unique visitors within 24 hours, with most coming in the 30 minutes to 2 hours after you've hit the front page on HN.

You need not do your whole site... but definitely ensure that the key landing page can take the strain.

Unless you've put something like Varnish in front of your web servers, there's a good chance your web server is going down, especially if your pages are quite dynamic and require any processing.
That's one of the coolest "features" of Bluetooth LE: Apple has decided that the risks to battery life and overall system integrity are low enough with BLE that they've left it quite wide open from an app-developer perspective. There's even an officially-supported background mode.

It remains to be seen exactly how far they are willing to go with unregistered protocols and custom hardware, but this type of "electronic leash" is an officially blessed protocol, so there should be no issues with their app.
I was talking about adding the sensors to the bluetooth sticker device, that's why it'd add cost.

The sensors in your phone won't help to work out where the sticker is. The bluetooth receiver in it is built to detect signals from any direction, so even if you rotate your phone, that doesn't help to work out which direction the signals are arriving from.
Is there a "comments" possibility for a note to the customer?
Not sure how you can claim that when their non-free plans are listed as "Coming soon".
no mention of the University of Michigan?
I like the general idea of making email a human api for web services.

Email based invoice generation service, markdown renderers, tweet/blog from email, post to forum etc. seem to fit into this category. Services like event/reservation booking can also be used from email if the service has a forgiving parser (like WolframAlpha) for the human input.
ARM Cortex-A15 vs. Nvidia  Tegra 3 vs. Intel x86
1. So nginx didn't cache because of cookie?

2. Isn't swapping bad? I don't think I've ever had a situation in which swap more than say 100MB was helpful. Once the machine starts swapping, a bigger swap just prolongs the agony.

3. If you couldn't ssh, why didn't you just reboot the machine?

Edit:

1. What did you use for the graphs?

2. What is the stack?
Is there any chance this is a production driven cost increase versus a demand driven increase?
Venture Capital: Just a middle-class dole queue
Ask HN: How can I acquire earning power in 6 months?
I am 30 years old. For the last 5 years I've had an illness which made it impossible for me to work. In the last few months I've recovered to the point I can start working.

I have a degree in computer science and completed one year of a phd before being forced to drop out. In the time since I have done no programming at all.

I have somewhere I can stay for the next 6 months rent free, but after that I need to be making enough to live independently.

My illness prevents me from working maybe one day in five. The rest of the time I am ok, but the unpredictable nature of it rules out a lot of desk jobs or even a job at e.g. mcdonalds which I would gladly take to get started working.

My initial thoughts are to devote the next 6 months to becoming as proficient as possible in Ruby on rails and look for contract work. Does this seem reasonable?

I am trying to figure out the languages/area I should specialize in over the next few months that will have the greatest return on the investment of my time.

I am very interested in anything you have to share.
Are we so ardently lazy, so passionate about sloth that we should feel entitled to warnings that we might inadvertently devote ourselves to something? Would someone make a similar claim were they to accidentally sit down at a free, seven course dinner?
Carmageddon: Reincarnation has already been released on iOS. They just put it as a free game on day 1 on the iOS store as there isn't a simple way to only give backers a game due to Apple's rules. Mac version coming soon maybe.

What bothers me reading through this is the rather pessimistic tone vs an objective one
I'm not sure about that, the trouble is if you flip it around you end up saying people are poor because of their own failings.

Modern society looks down on poor people, labelling them as losers when they are really a product of unfortunate circumstances. Unfortunate because they had no books in their house, unfortunate because they were surrounded by family who derided learning, unfortunate because they had the wrong colour skin or wrong gender for the career they wanted.

I'm not even sure I buy your argument that they feel better about themselves. Being constantly reminded of your supposed failings isn't a great place to be.

The worst part of "work hard and you may become a millionaire" is for the majority it is a lie.
Oh wow! I stand corrected, very useful to know. Looks like these folks are even smarter than I thought.

Still hope they tune up the design, though. Even beyond aesthetics, the usability leaves a lot to be desired.
You know what I find funny? The creator of the word meritocracy created it to parody how people think the world is mostly just. Curious no?

I was going to write more on this topic but I'm tired of it like I am with the religious. Instead I will say the following condensed sentence.

Libertarianism/conservatism/Republicans/meritocracy are merely derivations of humanity's sociopathic bias known as the just world fallacy. Furthermore most explanations in all business books, magazines and articles focusing on the people make the fundamental attribution error and are mostly bunk.

Finally once you understand the complexity of the world you live in you see how people have no fucking clue what they are taking about outside of the hard sciences.
In which case the title is entirely irrelevant, no?
I hate to just bust out some stats here, but:

The average murder rate in the US is roughly 5.0 per 100,000 and falling [1]. NYC's population fluctuates between its 8.2 million residents in the evenings and closer to 10.5 million people during the day (due to commuters), but let's go with a conservative 8.5M for this calculation. In that case, we should expect 425 murders in a city this size. At 366 murders in 2012 by the end of November, we're on track to beating that average.

Murders are horrible, and I don't want to in any way say that a nonzero murder rate is good, but I actually do think that NYC's massive decrease in homicide over the last two decades is a cause for celebration. I didn't live here in the late 90s, but I have friends who did who would never have set foot in large swaths of Manhattan because they were simply too unsafe. These same people will happily go to a house party in Bed Stuy.

Are we done? No. Is this cause to celebrate? I think so. Celebrating major milestones on the road to improvement is normal and healthy. The only trick is not to conflate that celebration with you being "done." I don't think we're doing that.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States
Cucumbertown co-founder here. Nginx was serving the cache and our sense was it was caching. But then the day before we put in csrf validation to the login form and it was bypassing the caching.

So in theory we were positioned to serve from Nginx cache.
I enjoy sitting around feeling useless. That's why I choose to work in politics at the highest levels. Thank you so much for helping me achieve my dream of one day getting hired to sit around with my thumb up my ass for months at a time while you have endless fucking meetings. This is my thank you. Because I know how much you love offending people and nonsense. Thank you.
The blog mentions that they did have caching on with nginx (which is what Varnish does, isn't it?). The problems were because of nginx not caching the frontpage (configuration issue) and because there was an unexpected hit on solr.
How Hedge Fund Billionaire Stevie Cohen Changed My Life
I really need to down at least one cup of coffee before I read HN in the morning; I was surprised by the headline because I couldn't imagine someone applying something to their computer mouse to increase its lifespan. {click the headline} OH! Those kind of mice. {facepalm}

This is cool. It reminds me of hearing that tortoises don't suffer from deleterious aging[1]. I sure hope we can start expanding into space, moons, and planets before we have every John and Jane living multiple centuries.

[1]http://io9.com/5618046/the-mystery-of-why-turtles-never-grow...
Interview with 'Father of the iPod' Tony Fadell
It’s Not Just About Raw Data: A New Feature and A Lesson in Usability
Starting a post with a "summa cum laude" humblebrag would be an equally strong indicator of a status orientation versus a results orientation.

EDIT: Jacques, did you notice the last line in Daniel Markham's response to your comment? It will be great to see your awesome startup.
Couldn't disagree more. HN community is the most (brutally) honest and it's feedback can prove very valuable - regardless whether HNers are the target market or not.
Ah, always the kicker... small changes with a big and unseen impact.
I love tiny houses and I would like to live in such one day, I don't want to spend fortune on building a huge house, maintaing it and cluttering with useless stuff. Of course the house from link is too extreme as it's an aristic installation, but I love the idea.
6 Ways Startups Must Match the Pace of Change
Nevertheless, it was Richard Stallman who wrote a hell lot of GNU as a lone hacker.