skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When adding a single user add more costs than revenue, all growth is negative growth. That's part of the problem with many companies. Page views, traffic, and especially "users" do not necessarily translate into money.
Would the CPU really be the bottleneck for HN?
I'm glad to have donated to B612 (b612foundation.org) which is working on a private mission to detect earth-threatening asteroids, a first step.
It took them a while to even take patching security vulnerabilities in a timely manner seriously. I can understand that secure design (e.g. not running everything as admin) could fall under "backwards compatibility."
I use a makefile. Only rebuilds the pages that have been added / modified (which, of course is the point of a makefile in general).
S Corps are referred to as "Professional Corporations". Their intended purpose was for Doctors, Lawyers, Consultants etc. and other people looking for liability protection for services they provide. I believe in some states they even restrict the number of shareholders.

Take that for what it's worth.
"(c) <DATE OVERFLOW>"

Oh dear!
How does honesty come in if there are two frat boy thugs standing outside to prevent anyone from going in?

The inmates are running this particular asylum.
don't you dare mention alexa stats here
If you plan on taking the money out of the company immediately, the LLC/S-Corp is better because the company doesn't pay any tax on that income – it "passes through" to the members as regular income. Therefore, it's only taxed one time. With a C-Corp, the corporation pays taxes on its income for the year, and any money paid out to the shareholder is taxed at 15%. Thus, the actual earnings of the corporation are subjected to double taxation, which the LLC/S-Corp can avoid. The potential problem with an LLC that he's referring to is that LLC members are taxed on their share of annual income, whether or not it is actually distributed out.
I've had a little over a hundred open at one point... I go browsing on HN and reddit a lot. I click on a bunch of different links to open in new tabs, and once the tabs start overflowing, I move them to different tab groups, and eventually and forget about them. Since I usually close my browser when I am done browsing and reopen it when I want to browse again, it does not make much of a difference in terms of snappiness.
I have a simple blog engine that can be readily deployed on Google App Engine - https://github.com/prakhar1989/CS253-Blag

It features Stvtle like blog post editing (distraction free), supports markdown and a draft system.
"What isn't mentioned here is that an LLC is relatively straightforward to set up, an average Hacker News reader could set one up in their state with a few hundred dollars and no lawyer."

This is true but it should also be noted that in some states you can get taxed a significant amount of money per year on your LLC. California, in particular, has an $800 minimum tax per year on LLCs, regardless of whether you've earned a single dime.

$800 a year isn't much if your LLC is an actual money making venture, but is pretty significant if you are just using it for what amount to basically side projects.
Yes, however both of those bombs were specifically targeted, and were detonated at 2000' (Hiroshima) and 1500' (Nagasaki) above ground level, vs. 20-30 miles (105,000' - 158,000') above ground for the Chelyabinsk meteor.

Blast effects trail off markedly with distance. For Hiroshima, most blast damage was confined to a radius of 1.6 km from ground zero, roughly correlating to an overpressure of 5 psi. Glass will fragment at much lower pressures, generally 0.14 - 1.4 psi. Blast damage falls as the inverse cube of distance.

The difference between mother nature and a human adversary is that Mom has zero fucks to give for where she does her work. Asteroid impacts are randomly distributed around the planet, for the most part (latitude may play some role). Most impacts should occur over oceans. Russia, being the largest country, and Siberia, being the largest region of Russia, will tend to see more impacts than other areas, though on an area-normalized basis the maths should work out. So while we may see larger energy releases from space impacts, they'll typically be targeted away from populated regions. Not that a large enough impact couldn't still make for a really bad day.
That's true, of course. But time is still a finite resource and it's possible to have a theoretical race with a window so narrow that it can't actually be exploited in feasible time. The fact that the proof of concept had to artificially open the window is evidence that this might be such a situation. It's still a hole; it just might not be big enough to push a hack through.
Add me to the list - I'm in for $100 if we can make it a one week outage. $250 if we can stretch it out to two weeks.

I'm sorry, but 10 minutes on a saturday morning does nothing for me.
Just a nitpick. A "flat file" database suggests encoding all the data to a single file.

Using a files system as a database is a little different as file systems are databases in their own right.

The question to ask is "is the data I want to store in my 'database' enough like the data stored in a filesystem that I can just use the filesystem as my database?"
"atomic bomb" is often used generically as a stand-in for 'nuclear weapon'.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/atomic%20bomb
How can anyone make this kind of promise?
Why? (genuine question)
Amazon's Data Warehouse Redshift Pricing
If having to take a test is a tragedy for you, maybe you shouln't have enrolled in the class for starters. For me it is a normal outcome and presenting it as if it is a huge disaster everybody has moral obligation to help avoiding is nonsense.
> Do you just kill and relaunch periodically? I can see that being stochastically effective.

Personally no, but you easily could.

> It really depends on what your cost/benefit tradeoffs are.

Well, realistically, to facilitate automated deployment and testing of multi-machine systems you really do need to be operating at this level of abstraction. (ie. to declare your desired state). Once you reach this point, a configuration file for some version of a package within some node is really a distraction rather than a help; it should have been abstracted to some known-good state and taken out of the equation if you are to have any hope of staying sane. Many people use entire system images coupled with service monitoring as the de-facto segregation point for management purposes.

> Do you just kill and relaunch periodically? I can see that being stochastically effective.

While that's entirely possible and probably a reasonable approach in some cases, the corosync/pacemaker de-facto/spiritual approach is to detect issues with a given resource (roughly: 'service instance'), automatically destroy it and fail over to another instance thereof, and then potentially start another instance to replace it automatically on the same, or some other cluster node. To facilitate rapid failover, the master/slave paradigm allows you to have live backup nodes running and promote them as masters easily. Any type of hardware or software can be scripted as a managed resource. The type and frequency of resource health monitoring checks can be custom defined.
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An LLC may be easy to set up, but maintaining the personal liability shield is non-trivial. I'd recommend getting advice from a lawyer no matter the route taken.
Looks like it’s in the works.

https://github.com/dherman/asm.js/issues/4
You are free to hold yourself to any standard you like. It still does not create any obligations on others. If you give to charity, that doesn't mean your neighbor is obliged to match your donation. If you think he has - this is a clear sign of entitlement, you feel entitled to control his actions and have hin behave the way you like.
Ember.js 1.0 RC1 released
Good software
First, this is local exploit. Second, most distributions do not allow access to realtime scheduling by regular users. In particular, a simple for(;;); at the highest SCHED_FIFO priority will lock the box. You can check

/etc/security/limits.conf

to see which users / groups are allowed a higher than normal rtprio.

That being said, often pulseaudio and/or jackd are given realtime priviledges, so I assume people will be looking at them.
Author is likely incorrect about the C Corp retained earnings taxes, the tax owed for 100k of profit for Federal only would be more like $22,500 as the 15% rate is only for your first 50K of profit.

The corporate tax rate is very high and should really be thought of as 35% if you have meaningful profit.

You may also be able to defer profit if you're delivering service after you're paid for it (and you should be doing this), this keeps more money in the company without paying the taxes immediately. A far more important lesson.
Why not just use docpad? https://github.com/bevry/docpad
I think we're seeing a trend, common in politics already, where the masses are much more susceptible to propaganda put out by special interests, simply because they're listening directly to the special interests themselves, rather than to a reputable third party who can filter out cheap tricks and attempt to disseminate information for the common good.
<blink>As long as your site still works in Netscape Navigator 2.0, I don't give a crap what you use on the backend.</blink>
profile, procrast settings use them! they are amazing!
> However, I do find that bringing it up on a “first date” is a great way to separate the curious from the close minded.

It does seperate the curious. Ironically, when a date finds the magnet, he's the close minded one.
Just make sure you upload to the cloud in real time and you'll be fine :)
You need to learn about android intents.
Yes, this will definitely be in the product and supported 100%.
From where I'm sitting, you hit the nail on the head.

They COULD have monetized, theoretically, but not once the die was cast.

Yes, lots of people have built CMS platform businesses where they charged money. But Posterous was probably, as you say, bleeding money, because they were not designed from day 1 to subsist on $12-49/mo subscriptions.

The choice of the "grow big or go home" model of startup results in a catch-22 when you cannot grow big, nor do you want to go home. The only thing you can fall back on is (if you're lucky) a 7 or very low 8 digit acquihire. Which is what this always has appeared to be:

http://unicornfree.com/2012/the-startup-graveyard-continues-...
Again, there are two general avenues here that you can take assuming you want to receive the "benefit" of having taken the test.

You can do it in a way that benefits you but completely fucks over a bunch of other students, including others who may have been "bullied" against their will. Or you can find a way to do it in a way that benefits you and has zero impact on others.

Knowingly and stubbornly committing to doing the former is a dick thing to do, and kind of makes you an asshole. Not the type of "asshole" that acts to further their own self-interest. But the type of asshole who actively acts to subvert the interests of others.
Ask HN: Do you meditate? How does it influence your startup?
Striving to live a conscious life doing meaningful work and would like to discuss with the HN community for their experience.

What kind of meditation? How did you start practicing?
Ask HN: Anyone looking for some help writing Python code?
I have about a years experience messing around with Python (built a Django based facebook app, and a few hobby apps), but am relatively new to software engineering. I'm looking to contribute to open source software, and I know the best way is to pick a project of interest on github and contribute to that, but I was really hoping to help out someone who's building something from scratch. Basically looking for a mentor, who I can learn from :) (and I promise to put in the hours and be productive!).

Here's hoping I don't get killed for asking this on HN :)
I own a few Swiss, German, Japanese and Chinese watches, including some with the ETA movements mentioned in the article.

But the high end remained, because men's fashion is about storytelling, and the story goes like this: This highly precise, beautiful timepiece that you are wearing around on your wrist is put together by hand, powered by what amounts to a crazy microscopic wind up toy, and is a prime example of craftsmanship and mechanical engineering.

The very fact that it's not as precise as a $2 quartz watch is the whole romance of it. Sure, I could use the inelegant solution, but I'd rather have the cool solution.

When people make adders and ARUs in minecraft, we clap and say well done! The inelegance and extraneous effort is itself the appeal.
Well, I guess we can agree to disagree. HN is is popular for me because of the participants. pg, as epic and central as he is to ycombinator, doesn't play that much of a role on HN in terms of moderating and directing conversations, or even, in recent years, participating that much.

With regards to the commenting site itself, I can think of no more viscerally enjoyable a forum I've ever participated in, with the possible exception of *Forum on MTS. There is nothing whatsoever that I would change about it, with the one possible exception of tweaking the markup so you could add fixed-width text/lists that wrapped over multiple lines. It's the only additional feature I've ever wanted out of HN. There is beauty in it's simplicity. [Edit: Okay, I would also move the upvote/downvote arrows a bit for mobile usage. It's almost impossible to hit the right one without a lot of zooming]

And, with rare exception of a MSM hit, the performance is more than adequate for an environ that should be encouraging reading, digesting, and composing.
I don't think comparing RedShift to Postgres is accurate, RedShift was not designed for transactions, it was designed to store/query billions of rows using a columnar storage format...it's more like an analytic database (Greenplum, Teradata). Also, these databases are designed to scale out, and so you usually don't really see compelling performance gains until you start adding a few nodes to help influence parallelization.

With that being said, I'd be interested to see how RedShift compares to Impala.
For me a lot of it feels like noise. Back when I was in charge of security at a payment processor I was subscribed to all the relevant mailing lists (as required by the PCI DSS). Now that I'm working with something less valuable I just rely on apticron + nullmailer to notify me of important security updates to system packages, and the rails security mailing list for rails.

It'd be wonderful if something similar were implemented for rubygems. If security updates were marked in some way, a cron job could scan my Gemfiles periodically and then check each gem to see if any security updates have been released.
This is an aside, but needs to be said: if you're going to offer a mobile specific layout for your website, test the damn thing first. It's extremely jarring to have share buttons on the left side covering up the first letters of each line. I can't even zoom out so that the text fits. If you're really so desperate for people to talk about your post that you'll cover up the post in order to achieve that, at least put it at the top.
Geez, could we stop posting these 'site X is down!' threads? Its gotten so bad that they're being posted preemptively. ;)
It's not that you don't think for yourself. You just move up the ladder a notch - now you are in symbiosis with Google and instead of doing the low level work you do the high level work. You can still enjoy life just as much in different ways.

The same kind of argument has been brought by people against cars, telephones and recordings. "I like to walk on my own feet, or ride a horse." "I like to speak to people face to face, not on that contraption." "I prefer to play the song on the piano, no need to use recordings!"

And especially agains Google Search & Wikipedia - many have voiced that we have become generalists and don't remember anything anymore, instead relying on Google to bring information to us all day long. Well, instead of learning dates and places and APIs by heart, we learn to efficiently search for them on Google. It's like meta-learning vs direct-learning, it's not worse, just one level up on the abstraction ladder.
Drones are a relatively new technology. I'm sure some agencies are presently interpreting old laws very loosely. It's certainly worthwhile to spell out exactly what can and can't be done.
I usually just block it in my hosts file, but that's a good idea! I'll try it
Ah yes, his one page letter where he says "We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive." In notabug he says child porn should be legalized and he supports the overthrow of the US Government - are you also saying then that he is a child porn user and terrorist since he advocates for both?

I myself share many of his views and more. What does that mean for me though? Here are some examples. I believe US patent law is very dysfunctional, and that copyright privilege has been extended far past the length that they best serve the public good. I agree with Aaron's statement that child porn laws are used to torment people who don't actually harm children. I also find that drug laws are used as a tool of persecution against minority communities, the US engages in terrorist actions against innocent people using drone strikes and targeted assassinations, that there is extensive corruption in the judicial system. I agree that everyone does have the right to republish both papers out of copyright, and those explicitly in the public domain. I agree that it is absurd that the academic journal system is dysfunctional and often takes publicly funded work, for which it has paid the author and researcher nothing, and seizes copyright and places it behind a paywall, which is an abomination.

I am not the only one with these beliefs either, each of them is common enough among the public as to be a normal and reasonable position held by many.

Despite all these beliefs, I have never uploaded copyrighted material to bittorrent other than works I personally own the copyright to. I have never engaged in terrorist action against the government. I have never done illegal drugs. I have never looked at, possessed or transmitted child porn. My positions that certain things that have been criminalized which should not be, and that the law is not working well in some areas, is not evidence whatsoever that I have engaged in any of these acts. You however make the claim that because Swartz advocated "to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive." and because he actually did take public domain legal documents and legally place them in public archives, that this means his analysis of the JSTOR archive was not analysis at all but was to steal the copyrighted material there.

That is an absurd accusation. You might as well accuse him of distributing child porn and being a terrorist, because decriminalizing child porn and overthrowing the government were also things he advocated in his writings. Making the claim that people who see the injustice in US drug laws and call for drug law reform are obviously drug users themselves is a non sequitor argument.
Check your SSH fingerprint
I somewhat disagree with homebrew being thrown in with Fink and Macports. The benefit to homebrew is that it doesn't require having package maintainers to babysit packages and make sure the binaries work and are updated. You basically just take the raw source and someone throws a patch on it. It's actually a thousand times better because you don't have to worry about compiling binaries that work on everyone else's systems no matter what crazy config they have.
iOS and Android are successful because they offer a great selection of powerful APIs, not because of the particular binary representation they use for applications.

NaCl actually offers crappier APIs than the Web platform, and it runs in a box where it can't directly manipulate the real Web APIs. asm.js is intriguing because it offers a very natural path to a foreign function interface to all the stuff exposed to JS.
Wow--the author wasted five years of his life trying to get into YC? Talk about a huge opportunity cost. He could have founded multiple companies in that time and learned air more by year 2013. Sometimes you just have to stop making excuses for procrastination ("I'll do that hard stuff once I get into YC") and just start doing.
I assume it's CPU and cache/memory bandwidth.

If I were specing a machine for HN, naively, it would be a competition between a Xeon "enterprise" CPU with huge cache and memory bandwidth (interleaved up) and a gaming/desktop CPU with maxed-out single-core performance. Xeons can do single-core turboboost now, so E5-2690 which goes up to 3.8GHz is probably the best bet, but a desktop i7-3970X 4.0GHz might be an option if you don't need ECC (which also gets you slight speed improvement on memory).
I feel like we need an enforced Single Responsibility Principle for legislation. I sometimes wonder how effective it would be to require that all bills be less than, say, ten pages long. Banning armed drones except for the military is probably a good idea, but as anigbrowl pointed out[0], it doesn't have much to do with privacy.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229999
> Neither am I, I'm just trying to describe the majority of humans, based on my own experiences.

Oh, that makes your impotent intellectual assertions suddenly defensible again. My mistake.
I think, as some others have said, it's best to ship ASAP by going with what you know.

...BUT, If you're really just looking for something new, and you already know play, why not scala?
It launches it in app mode (no tabs, no URL bar). I'm not sure if that's the same thing as launching the FB app.

In windows you copy the chrome shortcut and then edit the shortcut to add the command-line arguments. Then you add the shortcut to your launcher bar.

Alternatively, you could create a batch file for each site that you want to isolate somewhere in PATH and launch it from the Start -> Run menu. In other words, you'd press the start key, then type "facebook", then press enter.

(Please correct me if my instructions are incorrect, I haven't used windows regularly for a long time.)
They are known to be very wrong.
I know where you are coming from but I feel like the exploits that do make it to the front page are pretty saucy.
Do you think IBM employees ever sang "Let's talk about Rexx" to the tune of the famous Salt-n-Pepa's song?
Coach bags are made in China since 2009 and the price actually went up when they moved production there.
I don't have that data, but you could probably get it by parsing all the irc logs that are around.
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YES! It's so annoying how few people understand this. People are never "in a tax bracket" -- only money is!

Your first $40k may be taxed at 10% and your next $20k may be taxed at 15% or whatever, but you are not "in a tax bracket".

The idea of being "in" a tax bracket gave rise to the dumb idea that making more money can net you less after taxes, which is virtually never the case.
keeps his machine cool by using only 1 of 32 cores on his AMD bulldozer dual socket server board.