skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can have a option of installing your platform on our own server like Wordpress, most of us won't hesitate to sign up
Nvidia support on Linux has been primarily focused on the commercial applications (e.g. rendering farms) and not so much on consumer uses.
*SoftLayer. ThePlanet is no longer, but a lot of their reverse DNS entries still point to .theplanet.com.
> No, it makes perfect, quantifiable, empirical sense

i disagree. the reality of a criminal entering someone's home where guns are involved is much more complicated and unpredictable than that argument implies. and i've also read of other studies that show the opposite conclusion of that study

now that the research ban has been lifted, we will get a better picture eventually
I originally wrote mine in 1999-2000, when there were very few options (if any). It works, so why not keep using it?
Just install the totem-mozilla package. Should provide you with /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so

Or if you'd rather watch outside the browser, see instructions above.
Do you think you could go down for a week?

That's generally how long I need to break an addiction
Good idea, maybe they should even set it up under a trust right now?
Same, Steve Yegge doesn't use facebook.
Box CEO Aaron Levie: ‘We’d be fine to lose’ IPO race with Dropbox
In our projects' README.md we have a section for installation. It's about 7-12 of terminal commands. It takes us less then an hour to get someone setup. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's easy enough at small-scale. We also get some good knowledge transfer out of this process. I'm put off by the whole "let's throw puppet at it", but github is not small-scale.
Trivial is perhaps the wrong word for them. A more accurate term might be "inevitable" (in the short-term). The reason why patents exist is to protect inventions which are difficult to come up with and which may not exist without patent protection. Pharmaceuticals are a good example, it takes a lot of research to design a new potential drug and even more painstaking research to prove that it works and is safe, if you can't guarantee some sort of market protection that gives the developer a chance to recoup their R&D costs then it's questionable whether or not you'd have as many new drugs.

But on the other hand, if a patented invention is something that several other folks in the industry would have invented within the next 5 years regardless then patents start to become a drag on progress. It's telling when you see a burst of progress happen after a patent runs out, and that sort of thing happens all the time. The question is how do we strike the right balance. Unfortunately right now there are some very strong forces intent on keeping things very much off balance.
SexyPHP: A Fun Way to Learn Object Oriented PHP [Kindle Edition]
Why the third mobile ecosystem is a myth
the founders of Posterous who sold out and then shuttered their service

Seriously? Just gonna throw 'em under the bus like that? Friends like these..

Its time to stop trotting out this meme that the alternative to an "aquihire" was a sustainable business. Sometimes you've got to fish or cut bait.

Ad hominem aside, trust should never be required for a good agreement. PostHaven has made a great start by killing any acquisition value from Day 1 by making their defining feature a promise never to sell. If they follow that up with e.g., transferring control of posthaven.com to a well-regarded foundation like Wikimedia, the EFF, or archive.org they could further remove the trust requirement from the contract they are forming with their users. That'd be great.
I am not here to 'kill' those services. Previously with Posterous we were very aggressive about that. I think people should use the service that is best for them. For some it will be wordpress.com, self-hosted Wordpress, Squarespace, and others.

We're making it for ourselves. It's a long-term project. If we make good software, then it doesn't matter if there are 500 users or 5 million.
Swiss watches are (mostly) a male jewelry a status symbol to tell others how much money you have, they are not about telling the time.
I think you hit the spot. The reason why so many devs go for mac nowadays, is to have a good laptop that you don't have to babysit / configure much yourself and that's well integrated with a unix toolchain. On a desktop, many of these advantages go away when you compare to a linux workstation, therefore many go for that.
Interesting read.

I'd love to see my median karma on my profile. Much more robust to outliers than average.

https://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/lib/news.arc#L2613
The (Digital) World Is Getting Flatter
Oh, very nice, thanks!
Looks like Google will open its own retail stores this year
I think you may not have read the linked post. Scroll down to the bottom and you can see the device he built, which he wears on an armband.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_morning_cartoon
> If I provide the wrong password on purpose, it shows the usual error. When I provide the right one, it is like an infinite loop.

Meaning what? Does it prompt for a login name and password again?

Have you tried to enter runlevel 1 and edit the system files? Runlevel 1 basically logs you in as root but without any login required.

If the above isn't practical. have you tried to boot from a bootable CD or DVD and edit the system files from the CD/DVD hosted session?
So what? You just need to come up with a policy that biases in one way or the other and does so in a way that is the most beneficial.

Look at the criminal justice system. You can't always prove guilt or innocence in many trials, many times there are cases that sit on the fence but our system is set up with the assumption of innocence.
Really sad story. The professor, of course, should not have walked out, what should have happened instead he should have continued teaching (even if only one student remained in class) and then have as much as possible of these topics on the test. And when people that walked out failed the course they'd have to consider if they want to retake it, this time properly, of choose something else instead.
Why Chivalry Needs to Die
They're super conductors so shutting them off involves draining all the liquid helium and nitrogen which is very expensive.
Adobe Photoshop [v1.0] Source Code
If even rtm, tenured professor of computer science at MIT, can't escape from sysadmin duty, I really have no hope.
Today's 2012 DA14 Asteroid flyby Images
Yeah, I read that a few weeks ago, I can't remember the source. It will be really funny in the next year or two if the security experts encourage everyone to use IE to ensure a safe browsing experience.
Sort of. Not "whatever you want", but certainly a huge chunk of what has passed as patentable inventions in software. But some inventions truly are novel and difficult, even in software, though they are incredibly rare.
Higher speed mirror: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/378267/2012DA14-BOOTES4-20130215214...

Thanks to the Spanish-Chinese BOOTES-4 robotic observatory
Google once required you to put together factual trivia with technical knowledge.

One question in an interview was something like: How many possible IP addresses are there per square meter of the Earth?
Here are some metrics and simulations:

http://archive.mises.org/18812/andrew-torrance-patents-and-t...

"""

Patent systems are often justified by an assumption that innovation will be spurred by the prospect of patent protection, leading to the accrual of greater societal benefits than would be possible under non-patent systems. However, little empirical evidence exists to support this assumption. One way to test the hypothesis that a patent system promotes innovation is experimentally to simulate the behavior of inventors and competitors under conditions approximating patent and non-patent systems. Employing a multi-user interactive simulation of patent and non-patent (commons and open source) systems (“The Patent Game”), this study compares rates of innovation, productivity, and societal utility. The Patent Game uses an abstracted and cumulative model of potential innovations, a database of potential innovations, an interactive interface that allows users to invent, make, and sell these innovations, and a network over which users may interact with one another to license, assign, infringe, and enforce patents. Initial data generated using The Patent Game suggest that a system combining patent and open source protection for inventions (that is, similar to modern patent systems) generates significantly lower rates of innovation (p<0.05), productivity (p<0.001), and societal utility (p<0.002) than does a commons system. These data also indicate that there is no statistical difference in innovation, productivity, or societal utility between a pure patent system and a system combining patent and open source protection.

"""
Redshift is built on ParAccel, not Postgres. It speaks the Postgres API, but the storage engine is not Postgres.
Quitters Never Win: The Costs of Leaving Social Media
I cobbled a system together from existing options. I may however - build my own 'alike and open source it after all this.
Show HN: A lambda expression visualizer for the web
At least on the small scale, I'd expect realistic "local" hosting to outperform any offering from Amazon.

For example, until your data scales above 20 GB, you'd be able to host it on a $5 SSD-based server from Digital Ocean. Most databases are bottlenecked by I/O. So switching to SSDs gives you the biggest performance boost.

On the high end, Amazon's offer probably will be better. (After all, the major draw to Amazon is "automatic scaling", so that you don't have to worry about Replication or other server administration duties at the high end). But considering how powerful a $5 SSD-virtual machine is today, I think a more realistic test would be with some sort of SSD-based cloud server.
I wouldn't say performance of HN is anything to brag about.

30+ seconds to login is not exactly fast.
> Meaning what? Does it prompt for a login name and password again?

Yes. I get Password Incorrect message immediately.
Unlike the other case, which the the screens goes blank fore few seconds before I get the login again without any error messages.

I can edit all my system files right now, either locally (on tty1) or from remote using ssh. But have not idea which files I should be editing and to which values.
Ok, so I upvoted it. I like the idea.

But, my Mac is retired for a long time now and, if you really make a Mac app, I won't be able to use it.

You should consider... ummm... air? This way we can all enjoy your app.
Simulating the impact of patent law on innovation (2011)
We offer new employees Apple hardware, on which they are free to use OSX or Linux. Apple hardware is the best hardware out there, so that's a no-brainer. We avoid Windows for security and compatibility reasons.
That's why is the highest grade were to be 0, everyone would get infinite marks that caps at 100.
Wow, I never saw that coming :(
I'm also here to answer questions.
Report: ‘Meteorite-Like Object’ Explodes over Cuba
I've been running Chrome (on Windows) with adblock, https everywhere, and ghostery. With the adblocking HOSTS file. And javascript, flash, and java are disabled unless whitelisted. Also each web service has a different 30+ char random password, stored in a password manager.

I have 2 problems:

-My gaming friends have pulled me into Farmville, which won't run on my above configuration - it crashes when trying to post to my wall. I've began using vanilla Firefox for these games only. (Yes, I told them of the evils of Zynga, they don't care so long as the game is fun)

-My friends laugh at me and call me paranoid. I don't have a workaround for this.
I get a warm and fuzzy when I know what that method does, that it's not some random filter that could mean something totally different. (And yes, this does mean that my code is not very object oriented at all!)
I went to Basel World in 2006 as part of a day trip, which is the huge Swiss watch exhibition they hold yearly in Basel. I'm not really into watches, but Swiss Rail sold a nice day trip package so what the heck, right?

All watches there were like $50K+, lots of Chinese and Arab buyers, I found it kind of crazy. They really are selling an image, and its something the Shanzhai copiers can't really provide. They also had part exhibitions, which I though were the most interesting part of the show; these are buildings that just specialize in watch part, many of them from Chinese vendors; tons of crazy stuff for watches that made me feel like I was in Akihabara.

I find watches to be kind of archaic, but I never really "got" them. I think disruption will come more from finding a better use for wrist real estate then making some sort of abstract fashion statement. An iWatch (assuming its useful) would be something to watch in that area.
My main gripe with Macs supposed 'toolchain' is that clones are nowhere comparable to 'apt-get'.
The ‘Preserving American Privacy Act’ would ban weaponizing of drones
Steve Yegge is usually a talented and entertaining writer. Having said that, his strengths lie in writing about computer science and far less in actually creating real systems. These predictions aren't very good (as time as shown) and are on par with the poor judgment he exercised in bashing his former employer in a 'private' post.
* Windows desktop will still thrive on Enterprise and BigCo's, as politics and bureaucracy will ensure data will not live in the cloud

* Return of the dumb terminal: The home desktop will die out in favor of tablets connected to a keyboard, mouse, and monitor, and your ISP will double as your Desktop/Amazon AWS provider.

* If above scenario happens, NVIDIA/ATI will no longer produce consumer level hardware

* Death of the thick client gaming console as cloud computing and faster networks will be able to stream Crysis 3 at 72FPSin 1080p. The Steambox-like devices would only be periodically upgraded with a faster ethernet connection.

* Conventional phone lines will go 'dark' as everything will be TCP/IP based, with redundant Wi-Max like networks

* SPAM will be finally completely eradicated

* Car2Go will transform into a legally approved self-driving car rental service

* You will still need a several years of experience to be a decent developer, regardless of how much languages evolve

* The Roomba will dust as well as vacuum

* New York Times will go bankrupt and Tesla will become a huge force to reckon with, as electric cars become commonplace, their technology patented and licensed out to major car manufacturers
No, it's quite clearly supersonic. This is a different design than the tube they talk about first.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I...
Mathematics at Cambridge is graded in a similar (but far more complicated) interesting way[1]

(This is a simplification) - Questions are graded out of 20 and can also be awarded a quality grade. Answers scoring 15 or more are awarded an alpha, those between 10 - 14 inclusive a beta. Alphas and Betas are extremely heavily weighted - the score for the top students is 30 alpha + 5 beta + raw score, so a single question scoring 15 is potentially worth 45, quality is much more important than quality, the pass/fail line is 2 alpha + 1 beta

[1] http://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/undergrad/course/schedules.pdf
I should have graded my political science classes this way; would have saved me an awful lot of red ink.
Additionally, people with magnet implants have successfully had MRIs, too.

http://stevehaworth.com/main/?page_id=871
Failed to create random directory /tmp/pulse-CcctT9RwKSB1: Permission denied

Looks like something bad has happened to file permissions? As root, "chmod 4777 /tmp" and reboot. If a recursive chmod has gone awry and messed up permissions everywhere, that might not be enough.
Same here, since the Great Delicio.us Exodus. The really great thing about pinboard is its twitter integration: if I tweet a link, it gets automatically bookmarked for me with the tag 'twitter'.
Ya! Its way too easy to get caught up in a crowd/mob even if its not something you really believe in. There is just pressure to follow. The really brave people is the one who boycotts the exam on his own without any expectation that others will follow them, and with the expectation that nothing will really happen and they'll just get a zero. You know, real consequences with little upside. Then you are being principled!
He's not going to invent a new cancer drug or a cooling mechanism for jet turbine blades, unless you fund him with a few hundred million dollars while he's at it. Or even something like MP3 that uses psycho-acoustic models built on empirical testing.
Does that both specify the custom profile location, and also launch the FB app?

I'm looking at this, trying to think of how to do the equivalent in Windows.
You may have a point that I didn't consider. So if we wanted to unlock the car, would we perhaps post new a version of the lock resource (in json, xml, or whatever serialization format the system uses), representing its new state, to the uri representing it?

Exampe: POST {"state": "unlocked} to http://doors/front-left/lock

I realize I don't understand this, so your comment, and any further points you have, are sincerely appreciated.
>> Meaning what? Does it prompt for a login name and password again?

> Yes. I get Password Incorrect message immediately.

So boot from a bootable CD or DVD and edit the system files to remove the offending password. Detailed instructions:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/what-is-the-best-way-to-edit-e...

Or, enter runlevel 1 and reset your password directly using "passwd". No editing required in this case. Detailed instructions:

http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-recover-root-password-under-li...
How about just put exception handling around the whole thing, then assign 100 to everyone if there's a DivideByZeroException?
Re. your Lyrica example, is it probably true that the research that lead to the discovery of that drug would never have been done if not for the carrot/stick of a potential sale of the IP?

Perhaps the discovery would have been made regardless and the laws are set up for a few to make a buck to the detriment of society at large (playing devil's advocate here, not convinced this is the case).
Just like Viaweb.
I believe this bug applies to all devices running 6.1, which includes the iPhone 4; we have a permanent jailbreak for the iPhone 4, due to the limera1n bootloader exploit, and thereby have had people using jailbroken 6.1 iPhone 4's (which are quite popular, even still being sold new) for a while.
If I read it correctly, you can pay only the months when you write a post. If you don't plan to write this month, you can avoid paying.
Not many Facebook engineers, though, I suspect.

And it's worth noting that even less technical users aren't so likely to click through all of the warnings when they're not expecting some kind of interactive game to play. That also reduces the risk.

There will always be some people who click the links in their spam or open the fishy attachments, who give permission to anything and everything, and whose computers are so overloaded with malware, trojans, backdoors, etc. that they collapse under the weight.

The main trick is to be sure that savvy users can keep themselves safe, and making sure people doing important things on their computers are savvy.

I think Java is finally in a state now where it's safe for savvy users.
YOU SAVED MY DAY!

that chmod 4777 worked.

Thanks a million!
As a 4 time YC reject I really liked this post. I'm surprised I haven't come across this before given how much research I've done on YC.

On monday we're starting our beta, so we'll finally be able to apply with traction data.

“Be so good they can’t ignore you” are words to live by.
> ballistically destroy stuff

Not just "stuff," people have been killed this way.

http://www.mrisafety.com/safety_article.asp?subject=39
It was said up in the comments.

120k unique IPs per day. 1.3 million page views.

source: http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html
Anatomy of a heroin ring
Ctrl+F, type plugin
I don't mind striking it rich with technology.

But I think a part of me would hate to see my blood, sweat and tears poured down the drain by a large company intent on remaining where they are (not that Twitter did exactly this but you get my meaning).
Ah the good old days, when computers were so simple and yet so mysterious and exciting at the same time.
Too Much. There will be Too Much of everything: music, video, books, social, advertising, etc. Artificial Scarcity will be the New Thing because people still need to pay for non-digital things, like rent and food.
Not everything we work on deploys to Linux.
Buy just one. Any more and all you're paying for is the utter retardedness behind TLDs and domain name system. What are you going to do with the .me and .name? Just redirect them? If someone else comes along and you've not built the domain authority you'll still lose out if they build a better online rep than you, it really doesn't matter if they get the .name or the .org or the .eu or the .xxx or the .arenttldsgreatandnotatotallystupididea.

Preferably not from a really dodgy country.
Despite the problems Google had initially shipping physical products over Play/Wallet, I suspect this will be more polished. The showroom they have for the Google Fiberhood appeared well run when I encountered it.
I think that ad blocking software will become commonplace like spam filters are now. I don't know how advertisers will adapt.
> I don't think you're understanding my point.

The problem is not that I don't understand your point, it's that you don't understand your point. Facebook is a corporation, not an application. Companies aren't software. Some of them use software to accomplish certain ends, but one mustn't confuse the carpenter with his hammer.
On the one hand, you have street cred for building an awesome product which inspires confidence that your next product will be awesome too. I don't doubt it will be awesome.

But on the other hand, you did accept VC funding for Posterous (I'm assuming nobody was holding a gun to your head and forced you to do it), and for whatever reason you then left and moved onto other projects.

Now you are saying you will never sell out, will never lose focus and will stick around forever. Isn't that like a politician promising they won't ever raise taxes? "Ever" is just a really strong word. Life happens. Priorities change. Heck, most marriages don't even last forever.

That said...

I believe you. I think you're telling the truth about how you actually feel right now and what your plans for the business are right now. It's just that right now only lasts an instant.
What about http://imgur.com/BOaFPtn

So compact yet so powerful.
The source is kinda crude at this point, but I hope to eventually allow named abstractions as well as direct manipulation of the tree (click n drag). Supporting types might be interesting as well.
I am personally less than enthusiastic when it comes to puppet-style solutions for their tendency to create configuration drift; running the same command in more than one place expecting the same results is in my view rarely the best solution in terms of maintainability and reliability.
Dear Landlord (2012)
Traction control cost $100 when it was introduced in 1971 which is ~$567 in today's money. A new traction control system costs £500-£800. Clearly those components aren't as cheap as you might think.

When a reporter writes about a cost in a PopSci publication she should be thinking in terms of retail price as her readers will be unless it is explicitly stated.
I've never thought of being shot as a violation of my privacy.
Russia Calls for International Anti-Asteroid System after Meteor Terror [video]
I don't care much about the memory, but having my dev machine match production is great.