skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are your using for db access? If you are using SQLAlchemy or Flask-SQLAlchemy, that should automatically do connection pooling.
Having official public contact information, well, public, is fine - that's the point. But having the email addresses associated with merchant accounts isn't. Hence the phishing concern.
Ask HN: So, Bitcoins - would you still buy them?
I am fascinated by Bitcoins. I set up my wallet last year, but never bought them (yeah, I know. Idiot). But I am still fascinated by the whole concept and I'm thinking of buying one or two.
The only thing is - I have no experience in trading stocks and this rapid growth looks to me like some kind of bubble. So, HN, what do you think - is the growth somehow sustainable or will this thing burst?
(edit, somehow only half of my entry was posted. Sorry for that.)
Abed from Community explains what makes something sarcastic
As others have said, those 2088 hours a year in my job aren't deliberate practice, and as a software engineer, I spend about 2 hours a day or less doing software development. However, after 8 years of professional software development, I'm finally reaching a point of not only being highly skilled, but also establishing a track record of influence and communication due to my increasing confidence. The project experience and successes have been a huge help, but only when I spend the mental energy to engage in my "meetings" and "email" that relate to my new projects.

In other words, I can see the benefit of taking all aspects of my job seriously, even meetings, because they are the backbone of influencing others on your ideas/design as well as fully understanding all aspects of a project.
One minor point: “Money ain't got no owners – only spenders” … see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWbq-WgE6yo

But yeah, great reaction piece, +1 for excellent fulminations.
I'm not sure I understand the pricing. I get you got twice the amount of memory compared to a 1X dyno. But still the rest of the resources is the same. For instance they will share a single queue (which is the point, no problem here), so they don't have really any added complexity or new resources. But the price is doubled.
I guess there would be some serious benefits for uses with Puma too!
Disallowing a link in robots.txt will not stop google from indexing the page. Google "reserve the right" to index the page if they see links going towards it to stop webmasters shooting themselves in the foot, they however won't fetch the page in accordance to robots.txt.

The recommended way is to allow google to crawl the page but explicitly "noindex" the page via the robots meta tag (or even the x-robots header) - http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

Edit: Matt, explaining in a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBdEwpRQRD0
SEO friendly: yes, human friendly: no

Sure, the URL

http://www.amazon.com/Bioshock-Infinite-Premium-Edition-Xbox...

leads to the Bioshock article, but so does

http://www.amazon.com/flux-compensator/dp/B009PJ9L3Y/

or

http://www.amazon.com/hackers-and-painters/dp/B009PJ9L3Y/

In my opinion the only reason for the slug is SEO, everything else is a side effect which I personally find
borderline dangerous.

BTW stackoverflow.com URLs work the same way.
> To pull it off, you have to focus on it so hard that it just becomes work, and you miss out on a lot of the reasons you travel in the first place.

Most obsessions are like this, I guess. Find anybody doing a "collect all the X", and you'll likely find a person who long ago stopped really enjoying X.

I think you have a good point, but at the same time, I think it's possible that for some combination of person and hobby, you really can avoid it becoming "work".

For instance, my primary hobby right now is cycling. The thing is, I train pretty hard and sprint up hills every day, and suffer through various aches and pains (the latest being a blister on my right palm of all things).

Many of my friends ask me, "Why are you making yourself suffer during your `hobby time`?" I get their point, and I even think that in a vacuum, they have a good point. But I genuinely enjoy the process of getting better at something like this, and even the suffering becomes part of the whole package that makes the pursuit rewarding and enjoyable for me.

So while it is true that "something that seems like play can become work if taken too far", the converse(?) is also true that something that seems like work can actually be play for some people :).
I can't seem to get anything to load when I visit the site.
I'd set minimum idle to something like 16 or 32. php-fpm will not create more than 32 workers/sec.

What happens now is 256 workers running and 256 simultaneous requests occur. So php-fpm sees 256 workers busy, 0 idle. The minimum idle is 256, so it attempts to start 256 additional processes.
Don't you think it is worthwhile for founders to know an investor used to do seed and follow on into the A round, but doesn't appear to be doing so anymore?
According to the TinyMCE, you can use aspell. http://www.tinymce.com/wiki.php/Plugin:spellchecker

You can get a windows build of aspell at http://aspell.net/win32/

Instructions are on the wiki on how to wire it up.
I wish there was a way this information could be used to update thefunded.com (assuming they're consistent)
I don't think a crowd-source monetary policy is a good answer. There is a reason why the US Federal Reserved is somewhat separated from the normal political process. They often have to make unpopular decisions that are in the best interest of the economy. The issue of deflation is a perfect example.

As far as I am aware there isn't any real debt owed in Bitcoin. So everyone who uses it has some positive value of Bitcoin. That means each and every one of them would individually benefit from widespread deflation, but that would have a negative long term impact on the currency as a whole. I am not sure if I trust the public to make the right long term monetary policy decision over something in their own personal interests.
I think it might have something to do with this: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Sorry you're having problems. That's an odd one, haven't seen it before. Probably resolved with a refresh. The site seems to be struggling a bit right now, so probably related. Looking into it.
No one's done it before, so there are no examples.
Except mainstream economics doesn't do that. It makes dramatically unrealistic and sometimes contradictory simplifying assumptions. For details see Steve Keen's Debunking Economics.
Stay Close: a tool to remind you to stay in touch with friends and family
A big reason I'm coding more in Python 3
Something to keep in mind: Google was never really interested in the idea of "open" — yes they love "open" when it helps them, but it's actually a very opaque company which has a "my way or the highway" mindset. Honestly I prefer the honesty of companies like Apple that don't pretend to be anything but a huge company.

But chalk it up to a good learning experience! And be glad that you didn't start to make real money, hired employees and then watched it all implode in a minute because of a small call at a big company.
Chosun Ilbo broadcast server accesible via remote desktop globally
http://112.170.78.145:50000/chosun

http://s24.postimg.org/n74sdss44/epic.jpg
You use it when you don't know the material (because you're surveying an old house) or you don't know the delta-T (because you're looking for a hidden fire, grow op, etc).
ShiVa game engine maker Stonetrip in liquidation
The app seems to have pretty large customer base already. And I thought Show HN was for people to show-off their new products/features/hacks. Anyway, I still don't understand what it does that is unique compared to competition. From its description all I see is all kinds of adjectives thrown around without concise use-case. Is it like a market place for planners and service providers?
I liked the article until he got to this point...

"Bitcoins, like gold, are beholden to no government; they can’t be printed by any central bank, and they certainly won’t be subject to hyperinflation, since the global supply of bitcoins will never exceed 21 million."

This defies everything he previously wrote. If there is a bubble, and it pops, you have inflation. If each Bitcoin can only purchase a tenth of what it previously purchased, that's heavy duty inflation. If people stop using it outright and the value drops to zero, then you have hyperinflation. Just having a finite money supply isn't enough. (And this is coming from someone who has read Milton Friedman)
"(funny that Microsoft contributed most lines of code to the Linux kernal)"

is not quoted in the source material and isn't true. Please provide some proof for this claim.
Also, she included angel groups like Angels' Forum, Keiretsu Forum and Sand Hill Angels that do not have official funds, as well as, including strategic funds like BASF, who do not have an investor or die model. Finally, she lists Ron Conway and Chris Sacca's Lowercase Capital, who are not out of dry powder.
Correction- from the comments:

"2X dynos contain twice the capacity. Memory and CPU shares. It's a new option to experiment with vertical scaling: you may get better performance from one 2X dyno than two 1X's. In that case you'll get more value. As explained in the post whether or not that's the case depends on the app. If you find that scaling 1X dynos works better, you are free to keep these instead."
Python3 is the only thing keeping me away from Flask.
note:im only spreading the word, i have no relation whatsoever to whoever did it
Nokia Music Released for Windows 8 and Windows RT Hardware
Krugman's "expertise" in economics is akin to an Alchamist's "expertise" in chemistry.
So financial journalists have no idea how these things are made, used, or what place they have within transactions, economies, etc. and you expect masses of people to eventually feel comfortable with the stuff?

The fear that is engendered by a non-tangible, value-containing set of bytes of data on a computer in the age of hacker doom-dom is quite likely the extent of what you need to know about its foreseeable viability and should put the current "value rollercoaster" into perspective.

How does the layman NOT lump the early adopters/hype pumpers in with the same crowd vandalizing paypal and credit card companies? So these kids created a currency to reject the system and they think this is the future?

It's like watching some unruly teenagers with a very large potato gun mounted to their friend's back and saying... "This is the future of the postal service. Buy stamps while they're cheap."

It's the emperor's new clothes. That's not a currency. It's barely a digital promise to anonymous posters on 4chan. As long as there isn't anybody with a strong incentive to pull the plug, this thing will continue to eat up every online "watering hole." It's great for silk road, but spare us the hype machine. The only people with incentive are adopters.

They shut that zeek's reqards down in NC and now everyone is hopping on the p2p currency train. Start your own business! Invest in the peoples' coin!
Why Tesla survived and Fisker won't
I have both and find the XBox more annoying personally. I feel like it has more system-wide updates, but I think we're splitting hairs here, both are bad. We're talking about a market where it's normal to go out and buy a game, wait 10-15 minutes for the console to update, the game to update (maybe twice) before you ever get to play the game. I would consider that to be ripe for disruption.
economics boil down to human behavior.

what does it say about a person who is dismissive about the way technology can affect/influence human behavior?

what makes him an expert?
is it because he panders to what is the status quo (the ever-present monopoly of sorts)?
is it because he engages in thoughtful exploration of ideas and notions with a larger community and helps bring about great discussion?
is it because he has a degree?
is it because he has done something notable for humanity?
> PHP has been designed from the get go to be super fast

PHP was never designed to be fast. As far as execution speed goes, PHP will be in the same ballpark as Perl?Python/Ruby. PHP comes up as faster in these tests because of all the extra things the frameworks are doing. See the_mitsuhiko comment above regarding flask for an example.
Paul Krugman was mostly right on both accounts...but for the wrong reasons.

The fax machine was a sea change when it was introduced. It absolutely was the one communications device every business had to have. It revolutionized white collar businesses and the sales process (imagine! transcontinental signed sales agreements within minutes!). Hell, the catalog industry (upon which the founding laws of e-commerce rest) owes its existence to the fax machine! Krugman misunderstood how important the fax machine was to businesses.

And he was right about the number of jobs for IT specialists, which has been declining for the past decade as IT operations are increasingly outsourced (even as other technology-related fields programming/design/etc have vastly grown) to foreign countries or specialized operators (i.e, Google Apps, Office 365, Amazon AWS, Salesforce, etc).
It is, and each one has been very useful, at least for some of us.
"2X dynos have 1024MB of RAM and double the CPU share."
Maybe this is evidence of the series A crunch more than it is evidence of zombies... some of the names on that list are not what you normally think of in the zombie context.
I'm pretty sure Ron Conway is not a zombie VC.
no, the lesson people should learn is "stop building your business around UNPUBLISHED/PRIVATE APIs." If you do, you have no excuse for complaining when they go away.
It's almost like there's an IRC channel devoted to dispatching those invested in the scheme to flood the online community consciousness with fanciful ideas of wealth and splendour.
Thank you!
I checked out https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_von_Hayek and it is very interesting!
I admit that I have no idea at all about all that UEFI signing stuff, but the only thing in the "Keys" directory that does not look completely like random data is this, and "DO NOT TRUST - AMI Test PK0" looks more like something I'd distribute among my development team for testing, but would definitely not be the real thing:

$ strings Ivy_Bridge_018s/Keys/Variables/db

4}7Ve
0%1#0!
DO NOT SHIP - AMI Test KEK0
110823215243Z
120823215242Z0%1#0!
DO NOT SHIP - AMI Test KEK0
(...)

$ strings Ivy_Bridge_018s/Keys/Variables/KEK

4}7Ve
0%1#0!
DO NOT TRUST - AMI Test PK0
110823215221Z
120823215220Z0%1#0!
DO NOT TRUST - AMI Test PK0
(...)

$ strings Ivy_Bridge_018s/Keys/Variables/dbx

4}7Ve
0.1,0*
#DO NOT SHIP - Microsoft Test KEK CA0
110506224835Z
121106224834Z0+1)0'
DO NOT SHIP - Microsoft Test KEK0
(...)

$ strings Ivy_Bridge_018s/Keys/Variables/PK

4}7Ve
0%1#0!
DO NOT TRUST - AMI Test PK0
110823215221Z
120823215220Z0%1#0!
DO NOT TRUST - AMI Test PK0
)MCn
D5g(
(...)
Movie studios issue takedown notice on takedown notice
I don't see how PE firms such as Warburg Pincus/Tiger Global belong on this list.
Twitter Just Became a Games Platform
I might be asking myself these questions...
How important would that feature be? Would having the feature make a lot of difference? With this feature would your product be better? Will that feature alone allow you to sell better? How long would it take your competitor to add the feature? Would having this feature help your competitor to sell better?

If competitor will take time and will help him sell better then one option if you develop the feature is you could sell it to him if you can't compete
You mean Google Now?
> It does not really matter if you use ... a unique salt per user.

I agree with the other points that you make on this aspect but I do not quite understand this particular point (quoted above) can be true. If you use a strong unique salt for each user's password, then you are padding the length of actual password hashed and thereby effectively reducing the possibility of a successful dictionary attack to virtually zero. If this is so, then how could one mount a successful dictionary attack ?
Thanks for your comment. That is an interesting story and something to think about. What is the loophole at the moment? Not that I want to get involved in anything shady.
A lot of the time with start-ups there is a lot of risk with the possibility of massive rewards, however there has to be safer options(medium risk) without getting a corporate job or being a contractor.
You hold up "all this data is from Crunchbase" like it's a shield, and basically say the same about your Alexa web numbers for YC start-ups - don't blame me, blame my methodology!

Why not try and come up with a more robust method than pouring over CrunchBase and appending "Na ni na ni boo boo VCs, if this data is wrong, contact me,"
Good response. A++. Will buy (from coinbase) again.
Some people I know will search for "google" using the browser's search box to get to google, then type in "yahoo" into google to find yahoo's website, then click the "mail" icon to get at their email /o\
If you're in excel, R^2 values is just a couple check boxes away.

The actual math is:
If you have a scatter of data (x, y), then you can get a measure of the variability of your data by taking the sum of squares of (y - avg(y)) for all your data points. Call this V

Further, if your doing say a simple linear regression, then for every x, you can have an f(x) which is suppose to be an 'estimate' of y. So then for all our given data points, we can find an error, which is basically the distance of y from the fitted line (y-f(x) basically). Then we can take the sum of squares of those errors get what is sometimes called our residual sum of squares. Call this W.

The R^2 value is defined as 1 - (R/W). So we can see that for very good fits of data, R^2 will be near 1, and for poor fits of data, R^2 will be near 0.

Edit: I guess to throw another bit at you. Often in microeconomics, you assume that as long as you can meet a demand at a certain price, then you will in fact sell however much is demanded at that price. So as an lemonade stand, if there is a demand for 100 cups of lemonade at 50 cents a cup, and you have 100 cups of lemonade and are also willing to sell at 50 cents a cup, then you WILL sell 100 cups. In which case, the revenue = price * demand kind of falls out by itself.
Came here to ask for a firefox add-on that disables favicons.
This light interaction is exactly the sort of thing that products like Glass are going to excel at.
Not so fast though. This might just be a quick fix. Any high-traffic sites might still see the same results as the routing alg is still random. Probably the guy who wrote the routing alg simulation can re-run his tests to see what kind of improvements this 2X can make.
My company has been mentioned multiple times on major TV and Radio, the most recent being a couple of appearances on two different BBC shows, with millions of people watching. The clicks through to our site were only a handful - in the hundreds, or less.
I thought about reasons for re-writing for 2 days. But the system is just not reliable or safe. I'm not re-writing it in one sitting, just replacing the buggy/unsafe code with good code until the system is stabilized. Then, and only then will I re-write. Though there are parts of the system that would work very well in Lisp. (:
Which would be damaged if he were wrong. So his motivation is to be right, not to dismiss BitCoin.
The live-ness of tiles is overstated, in my opinion, but the concept of tiles is wonderful. Here's an example: you're going on a trip so you pin restaurants that look interesting from Urbanspoon, a map to your meeting location from Maps, and some sites you want to see from their web pages. It turns your home screen into a todo list, which is interesting to me.
I think the Google Now widget does quite a good job. It tells me the weather, if I have a package being delivered, sports scores, and quite a few other things. Granted, I've used Live Tiles and did find them pretty useful and I like the flat UI so I think my ideal experience would be a combination of both Now with Live Tiles.
I only use golang in the titles so it's searchable. If you read the gist, I call it Go.
I didn't see that. But in fact it is in a comment on their blog (appeared later than mine above). That being said, the answer of Adam Wiggins to the same concern as mine (again on their blog) is not being clearer as he doens't answer the claim of the same CPU share vs. twice.
Capitol Hill Staffers Rage Over Release of Twitter Account Info
Warburg Pincus participated in a $26M Series A in CrowdStrike in February 2012. Tiger Global participated in a $10M Series A in BelezanaWeb.com.br in May 2012 and a $8M Series A in Olacabs in April 2012.
I read the site and still can't really figure out what it does.

What the hell was that "launch party?!" Was that really thrown just for the launch of this simple event app? Am I in another world? What a tremendous waste of resources. This startup craze is truly getting outlandish.
The Real Reason We're Addicted to Social Media
I really enjoy these posts by Danielle. For entrepreneurs head-deep in product and not at the fundraising stage yet, these posts are really informative and paint a quick picture of the venture scene. Kind of wish there was a dedicated site that pulled data like this in from Crunchbase, etc. on an ongoing basis and produced reports/graphs. Side project idea maybe?
If anything, mobile gaming platforms (iOS, Android) have gotten users expecting minimal to zero wait times for decent quality graphics on games. And that's not even in their wheelhouse - other connected experiences like Netflix streaming and browsing are unbelievably better on a mobile device (esp. considering bluetooth inputs).
I agree that it does seem backwards initially to have OP DEST, SRC, but it does match the other ISAs that are still being used these days like ARM or PowerPC. I have found it really hard to go from working one day in PowerPC assembly to the next working in AT&T-format x86 because of the operand ordering. Plus all the other bits and pieces that make AT&T a pain, like the required sigils, LEA format, use of immediates with MOV, instruction size suffixes, etc.
If budget is finite, performant ~= scalable once you get to the point where you're actually trying to scale.
Weren't they warned about not having a secure checkout page like Paypal, and against having an unsecure lightbox on the merchant's site, a few months ago by someone here? Or was that a different issue?
Thanks for this story. I am ordering a fire extinguisher for our server room now.
If tulips had a near-zero storage cost (ie they didn't go bad), and a near-zero transmission cost, and if they supported anonymous ownership, and if the process for generating tulips was more fair, and if the speed of tulip generation was guaranteed to slow down, then tulips probably would have made a decent form of currency too. Other than that though, totally the same thing.
My point is that to secure the BIOS you must latch this WP bit after the "press whatever to enter setup" message is gone and you must not accept SWAWARD as wildcard password.

If you fail at these, your system is insecure even in presence of BIOS signing.

If you implement these properly, your system is secure even without BIOS signing.

Ergo, BIOS signing is pointless as a security measure and author's whining about this leak putting users at risk is unjustified.
Bitcoin DOES have a crowd-sourced monetary policy: Anyone in the "crowd" can try to create their own bitcoin clone and therefore increase the supply (though incompatible with regular bitcoins, of course)
As long as you have the funds to spare. Just don't invest anything you can't afford to loose.

That's what I do. I agree, it's very fascinating to watch a digital currency come into use.

I've bought two cell phones, and a video card using bitcoins. And I've hired a developer for a day with bitcoins. So I see some value besides just investing in them, which also was a bit more incentive.