skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very good points, and we agree. We're going to bridge more Identity Providers. We're working on native implementations (though I suspect that those are less pressing than the other two angles.)

As for big web sites... we've got some things in the works. But that's where you and others on HN can help. If you like Persona, if you like the vision we have, then help us. Pick one site where you can implement it. Ditch social login, which users hate, and pick Persona instead.

As cliche as it might sound, I think I have to say this: Be the change you want to see in the Web. Help us make Persona, the one login system that respects users, truly successful.
He would no longer be referring to Lean Startup. He would no longer be implying that part of the business model was being held constant.
I definitely can see a use case for this if it had some type of integration with MS word.

Unfortunately I'm currently stuck working for the big corporation, and we have so many meetings reviewing documents, etc over fairly large teleconferences across the world-- so not face to face meetings. Currently, usually only one person drives the edits in MS Word and screenshares with the group via a WebEx or LiveMeeting... if there could be some sort integration with MS Word so multiple people could edit at the same time and view the same thing, there would be no need for the LiveMeeting/WebEx screenshare and the collaboration would be much more seamless. Would remind me of a SubEthaEdit mashed with MS Word.

Regardless, well done.
Well, here's one story on the web for you about SSD failure without total data loss: I've had an SSD that just refused to write anymore, but all the data was still readable. All I had to do was buy another SSD, dd the old SSD's data over to it, and go on my merry way.
Groundkeeper removes forgotten console and debugger statements in JavaScript
One thing you should care with consumer SSDs - is always to have a backup battery for power loss. Due to large write cache it's easy to lose a large chunk of file system.

Enterprise SSDs usually have supercapacitors to take care of cache flushing.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?278816-SS...
My first, only, and last-until-hell-freezes-over SSD went crazy last week, after a series of bizarre kernel panics that now appear to relate entirely to the SSD (machine is fine after a reinstall). Following a final reboot the Macbook's firmware displayed a "missing startup folder" icon. On flying home I discover that several GB from the start of the drive has gone missing entirely (check out http://i.imgur.com/riK4CBt.gif -- grey is good, black is zero blocks). Never again relying on a disk technology that doesn't respond to a hammer when it's dying.
Since this is HN, there's quite the possibility that malkia means the authors of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns .
"Your position is 1 out of 1 queued migrations in this Linode's datacenter." 8 minutes later, the system was copied and powered on. Also got a few upgrades that had been delayed due to the necessity to reboot.

Linode is very painless, but as always, that convenience comes with a cost. I am very sad that they do not allow for extra IPs anymore. I let my service lapse one month and lost my extra IP.

(Don't forget to increase swap sizes, change configurations to deal with extra memory, etc)
> Wait. So, my email provider (Yahoo) can now keep track of every website I login to, if he wants? How can I stop Yahoo being the middleman?

Nope.

Architectures like OpenID "phone home" and report your movement across the web.

Persona was explicitly designed to be privacy preserving.

> Second question, if an attacker knows my Yahoo password, can he potentially login to _all_ Persona-powered websites with my email then?

Yes, if an attacker has your yahoo email address and password, they can log in as you. BUT, you can take advantage of two factor auth from Yahoo as well as other security features they provide, to keep yourself safe.
As a Hetzner customer I think this is more than fair. If someone reports abuse from my server, hetzner should forward me the report. They do not have access to the server, so why in the world would they do anything but forwarding it to the person or company that does in fact have access?

Protip: Don't put your credit card number in the abuse report. Just put the logs or whatever is required to prove that there was in fact abuse from that server.
Ever tried working in BigCo since they've been a part of the world for any extended period of time?

I only know one person that successfully lived without a cell phone in the modern world for a while.
or lupins, long live Dennis Moore.
Anand Lal Shimpi has done his usual superb job tearing this one down:

http://www.anandtech.com/print/6884/crucial-micron-m500-revi...
Pay for exposure already exists within the app store. Large companies pay around $10-$20K a day depending on the category on crap ad networks (won't name them) that incentivize the users to download the companies app in order to "get to the next level" or something like that. The downloads are incredibly cheap and you get thousands and thousands of them. The app store ranking is almost entirely based on download velocity, so your ranking goes up. Once you get in the top 12ish the organic downloads start pouring in just from being near the top. The value per user of those organic users is so high that it more than off sets the cost for the crap/incentivized downloads. Almost everyone who can do this, does this.
Cool. I am going to check this out. I was planning to work on a document site like github but for non technical people (http://www.rubberdocky.com), but have put that on the back-burner for now. One of the projects I recently came across that I thought looked awesome was Substance (http://www.substance.io). I like the idea of collaborating on documents in a way like github but only more accessibly for anyone.
Infographic to help you figure out HR-related vendors/issues for your startup
AppGratis is a pay-to-play platform. About $20k per app. If you watch the performance of one such AppGratis recommended app, Recorder Pro. The $20k couldnt even keep them in the top-50 in the biz category for a month. Seems a waste of dev mkting $$$ imo.

Simon should stop whining and just shift to Android. God knows it needs curation. The amount of filth in goog play is unbelievable.
"All it takes is one headline on CNN like "Joe Blow selling Anthrax and Cyanide on Silkroad/Craigslist for Bitcoins" for the general public go to fucking apeshit and cause some real 3 letter organizations to shutter most bitcoin exchanges with secret subpoenas and such."

Why would any TLA need a headline to get engaged? They tend to create their own.
Exploiting "Magic" for Fun and Profit
No, because Persona mediates, and Yahoo only knows that you're using your Yahoo identity with Persona, nothing more. That's a key privacy property of Persona.

However, if you use the "login with Yahoo" button (or Google or Facebook), then yes, they can track all of your activity.

To your second point: great question! No, the attacker cannot. We still protect your other email addresses with a Persona password.
> they can push a new firmware package to your router and reboot it easily, without you ever knowing. And they log in every day and confirm the hash of the firmware you're running - if it's not on the approved list (which is generally just the current one they have you set for) it automatically re flashes.

This is pretty standard practice for cable providers. The cable company I work for does this to cable modems.
Re (1): Well-disclosed paid-promotion should be fine: Apple does it (iAds), Google does it (AdWords). If that's the issue it should be fixable.

Re (2) If a notification that "today's [no-additional-cost] deal has arrived!" counts as "advertising, promotion, or direct marketing", then it seems every other push that aims to improve app usage, by announcing new content or features, would also be verboten. Is that what Apple is saying? If so, a lot of other apps are going to have to go...
Fascinating discussion. Restores my faith in HN to have these sorts of threads.

#1 To edw519 on Elon's failed marriage, I'm reminded of that economist joke about "is that expensive or is it valuable?" For me, my family is priceless I cherish them with all my heart, but for others I know their work drives them. I don't begrudge them for having different reward structures in their brain, and I would never go so far as to suggest that one set of choices is "better" than another. I share the opinion that making a vow of marriage is a pretty huge promise, but that is because in my context it was a huge promise that I made. As opposed to folks I've known who got married but made a different sort of promise. I attended a wedding where the vows were not "until death do us part" but were "for as long as we both shall love." To which I said, "Seriously? Until you decide you are tired of it?" But my point is that we don't know what promise Elon made when he married.

#2 on the "where are they" question, the author (jnp) doesn't take into account that first you have to be a billionaire and then you have to care about "sci-fi stuff". When I sample the general population I find that people who care about science fiction type technologies and making them real is a small fraction of the general population, so I am not surprised that only a small fraction of the billionaires have similar ideas about interesting questions. What I find even more amazing is that none of them have apparently taken any of the 'unconventional' fusion projects under their wing (which is almost thematically Tony Stark).

The last bit I'll add is a bit I've added before which is that I have observed that "rich you" is a different person than "not-rich you" for most technologists I've met. (sample size isn't large but I think over the years I've known/observed on the order of 200 people who have gone from "not rich"[1] to "rich"[2] and in most of the cases there was a pretty big shift in what they valued and who they were. Because of that one has to add that someone who is interested in sci-fi stuff now, needs to still be interested in it post-change. And as others have pointed out, Elon has put everything on the line to advance sci-fi stuff a number of times, and that willingness to risk being "not rich" again is perhaps the rarest trait of all.

[1] Defining "not rich" as having debts that they would have to forfeit if they lost employment and future obligations that are not yet funded.

[2] Defining "rich" as having no debts for which forfeiting them would change their lifestyle, and having a source of income from passive investing that is sufficient under both optimistic and pessimistic economic scenarios.
Conjuring Bullshit for Fun and Profit
Great concept. If your employment situation is something you're interested in changing, you might consider putting contact info or Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. for the team members.
Ask HN: I need to film a few testimonials in the bay area - recommendations?
I have a client that was so effusive I want to capture what they said on video for our site. Is there someone who does hourly filming and can travel that startups would recommend? Is there a startup that does this?
Even in an active DF system you don't need to flash the phone's programming (not exactly firmware, more like settings, the short list of instructions the phone regularly receives from cellular networks that `hack` it to work within it's operating environment)
What? That's absurd. A bubble crashes when people LOSE confidence, not when they gain it.
Oh wait, I misread your point. Yes, the attacker can log into all Persona web sites if they know your Yahoo password. But that's the way the cookie crumbles with federated identity. It's the same thing if you pick a Yahoo email address as your recovery email. Pick your identity providers wisely!
Really? I still see "add extra IPs" option for my Linode
Your point is very valid but only on the realm of web games using browser's native support of svg.

For instance, you would not have DOM-related problems if you use svg files in a native mobile game.

The downside of using SVG in a game is that the render is slower in comparison with a rasterized image. However, all graphics formats have pros and consts, so it always depends on how are you going to use them.
1 BTC = 100M satoshi, not 10M

Shish2k's point stands, only with "430 BTC is as many satoshis as there are US pennies".

But this is irrelevant anyway. If 1 satoshi ever becomes too coarse-grained, the whole Bitcoin community would obviously agree to revise the protocol to further subdivide satoshis...
It could be that laws in general need to be more flexible, and to keep in mind the end goal more than the boundaries of strict limits in the language of the rules. That way, you don't have this one-or-the-other decision.
For those who are phallus measuring, here's the biggest i've ever seen: http://bjk5.com/post/30813320623/what-traffic-from-60-minute.... Yep, that's per second.
List of predatory open-access journals
I suspect it was meant to be sarcastic.
Maybe the op is German. In some jurisdictions it's required to give your postal address if you publish content publicly. Germany is an example, the fine is up to 50000 EUR, but the real risk is that any lawyer can send you as cease and desist in the name of consumer protection, typically this will be about 500 EUR.
They have even higher rates for free apps with in-app purchases.n. We were told $3 per install or $100k flat rate for 1 day. This was roughly a month and a half ago.

Unfortunately that didn't fit out budget.
Who I Want to Hire
I sort of hate to continue this thread, but that is definitely my rule for email. I decided a few years ago that, if it came down to it, I'd rather come across as an over-exuberant (can't think of a polite word for 'idiot') than come across as an asshole. Most of the time, at least.

The upside is that if you add an exclamation point, you can get away with much shorter messages!
I'm a Software Engineer in a company with 500 employees, and I have not had a cell phone for > 7 yeas.

Granted, I live in a town of only 40k people, though I previously lived in a city of 1.5Mil, and before that 3Mil, both without a cell.

It's extremely liberating.
Choose your identity providers (and thus email addresses) wisely. They should be filtering spam for you / letting you control things. And they shouldn't be doing it by forcing you into their silo, the way "login with Twitter" buttons work.
Ask HN: Anxiety while programming
Hi,

I don`t think I am cut out to be a programmer (electrical engineering background), I got moved from a role where I was performing support & operations into a programming role after a bit restructuring. The group is pretty hostile (though highly experienced), and will comment when tasks are not completed fast enough. We are not really a team, everyone eats lunch at their desk or with other groups and people raise their voice frequently (and management does nothing about it...I think they see it as passion).

We are using Agile where we time-box everything and commit to its delivery. And if I say a task needs to take 7 days, the team will say no, it should take 4. After 2 months of struggling to deliver (working weekends but still delivering in the ehnd) I couldn`t take the constant anxiety attacks, I checked my blooodp ressure, and It`s very high (160+/90+)...and I am 28, turning 29 this year.

I went to the doctor, and got prescribed anti-axiety medecin, which is actually an anti-depressant (Citalopram). It's my first days on it, I feel mellow and I no longer feel my heart pumping away while I am sitting on my desk, though I think it is affecting my decision making (causes drowsiness) and it has slowed me down considerably.

What should I do ? Others with similar experience ? Am I not cut out to be a programmer (or at least unable to become a good one -- I feel its almost like I am allergic to it, even though I like the "idea" of becoming a professional programmer) ?
I wonder if they can skip the host migration after half of the linodes have been migrated and let the people who are not in a hurry just reboot to double the RAM.
Facebook just recently started doing this as well. You can now pay to get your app promoted in people's news feed.
This is strictly true, but doesn't account for the fact that errors tend to cancel one another. For instance, if 2 of the 5 independent estimates are high, one is right on, and 2 are low, you can end up with a number very close to the actual number. And, by "very close," I mean usually within 1-2 orders of magnitude, depending on the quality of the component estimates.
Rounding from x9.95 to x0 is a welcome change. Less game playing.
very well done landing page. nice job guys!
Polychart.js: An Interactive Charting Library
I wonder how hard it would be to use the reflect package to make this work in Go?
I recommend The Little Schemer.
I believe Malcolm Gladwell was the guy who came up with the "10,000 hour rule". [1] Norvig's article actually quotes Gladwell as the source of the 'rule'.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)
Is there anything like this for Ruby?
A 1400€ metronome, gently offered by Dell
Don't be an entrepredouche
Genetics of Lifespan Extension By Calorie Restriction Determined
Yep but it's not automatic. I believe they still require you to file a ticket justifying why you need the extra IP address. I always found it weird needing to jump through those hoops if you are only trying to add one additional IP address (if you are adding a bunch then I can see) when you can create a new node and have a new IP address instantly (obviously it would cost 20x more in this case).
I should probably mention that I'm not affiliated with this app or website in any way besides being a fan! :)
This got popularized by Malcolm Gladwells "Outliers" and is based on a study by K. Anders Ericsson:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_%28book%29#Synopsis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Ericsson
Google here is doing what they do best which is sticking to their core business of advertising/search while spending a bit here and there to disrupt businesses that they see as threatening to their core business. It is to Google's advantage to have fast pipes to their users.

Right now they are getting their intended result from people in the USA. If Kansas City can have gigabit internet for a low price why can't I? The consumers then will pressure their provider to do the same. However it is not as easy for every other telco.

1. They need to be profitable.
2. They cannot cherry pick areas with high density yet low costs of rollout/living like KC and Austin.

So I do not think Google will ever do this nationwide as it is a bad business to be in with enormous red tape, capital expenditures and geographic distribution. It is a smart move on their behalf to do this but people should not get their hopes up for a nationwide distribution, it will never happen.
The most annoying is the 'Staying alive' response when you ask how someone is. Really common from Stanford grads. Basically they are trying to say they are soooooo busy and important. The most successful people I know all get the balance right. They focus and work hard, but also know when to focus on play (and keep them very distinct)
These two devices (external TB RAID vs. internal PCI SSD) operate in somewhat different parts of the (high end) of the bandwidth/capacity plane.

Anand (http://www.anandtech.com/show/4489/promise-pegasus-r6-mac-th...) found ~700MB/s sequential read/write performance of the TB RAID. He didn't test IOPS directly, although he did put SSDs into the TB RAID and test that (~1000 MB/s). You have to give him credit for that.

In short, the sequential performance is pretty close to the real-world sequential performance of the OCZ unit. Which is quite impressive.

The Promise RAID-6 I use has 8TB usable (and I got it 2 years ago). The units you mention have just 1TB usable (and no redundancy, which is a problem for big data sets).

All this is somewhat academic for my use case, because I dropped my desktop two years ago when TB came out.
You should tell them you'd like them to :)
I had an Intel 32G X25-V value drive that failed and lost all its data. And then a Corsair drive that failed and I sent it back and they sent a replacement.

I have a bunch of OCZ drives but so far I don't think any of them have failed. Just bought a 'refurb' SATA 2 OCZ for $62/120G.

Never lost any data because I used the SSDs as boot drives, not for data storage.
Yup! https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/new
I don't know the state of the project, but while researching OT stuff for Firepad, I came across https://github.com/sveith/jinfinote. It looks like a peer-to-peer OT implementation (I think it requires a server to set up the initial session, but after that, everything could be peer-to-peer [as implemented, the server just relays messages with no processing]).
So would you inherently trust a native GTK+ app containing some client-server functionality over a JS/HTML/CSS app running locally on an offline Chromebook?

You (and the originator of this comment thread) seem to be conflating the client-server model with the platform an application is developed for. "Being a web app" and "relying upon some server" are two entirely disjoint things.
...and I'm interested to know what the state of forensic-style software is for SSDs. (Not for recovery; people should have back-ups. But for investigations.)
Oh totally agree, I just think more care could be taken since these are obvious issues, and have been for relative ages now. I just hate how easy it is to slap together an apk and throw it on the market, though Play Store's vastness is nice for the keen users.
Newark and Atlanta are now able to be upgraded as per the blog.
I think the analogies you make to other types of sales aren't terribly strong. Walking through a brick and mortar store without buying anything takes effectively no time from the business - they can handle many customers in parallel. By contrast, calling prospective business or test driving a car does involve at least acknowledging the seller. You might not tell them you've bought a different car, but you also don't hear the proposed price and hang up the phone without a word, which is a closer analogy to getting an offer and replying with nothing, not even a form letter.
I like it, but I wonder what happens with the prepaid ones. I paid for 2 years to get the 15% discount...
It's all fun and games until an American technology company leverages their market share and business model to decimate a European technology company. A couple more of these and the EU will start dragging them in front of committees with little need to be concerned about a backlash.
or until we give you a library you can audit and host yourself, which we're working on.
Facebook, Apple, Google...
I just asked a friend of mine who works at a major information vendor which keeps data bases of this type of stuff. Here's what he said:

> So from our records, which is a little skewed because it lists anybody who was at some point a billionaire (just shy of 2k in our records); of the people who went to college:

> ~ half were STEM related in their undergraduate. I excluded business studies but included math, applied math, etc.

> ~2/3 of the STEM undergrads went on for a business masters, these are more recent than say the Rockefeller generation.

> Many of the other half have a note for a major relationship with wealth (this could be family or friend or marriage).

> ~ 4% of our people have a PhD which I think is above the average.

> The interesting part is what are the other degrees: Many were/ are philosophy or law degrees of some sort. The next popular masters degree after business/ finance is law.

Very strong evidence that the lack of more Elon Musks (if there is one) can not be explained by billionaires being predominately educated in business rather than STEM subjects.