skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
dmenu from the suckless tools package can provide some of the 'invoke an application by pressing a meta key and typing its name' functionality you are missing. Not pretty but it works.
>“If one individual would like to watch high-definition films of what one petabyte means, it would take 13 years non-stop,” he added.

I'm not sure what this means.
The notes are nice, but this seems like a highly relevant detail: "I'm lucky to be friends with Scott VanDenPlas, who was director of dev ops for the Obama reelection tech team"
For those interested in articles like these, there's a really great course on iTunes U (and YouTube, among other places) from UC Davis titled "Graphics Architecture", taught by John Owens. [1]

I clicked on it being tangentially interested in GPUs and ended up watching all the lectures within the next few days with rapt attention. The topic ended up being far more interesting than I thought and was delivered in a very approachable way.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/graphics-architecture-w...
It seems to me they tried to buy a young and hip userbase. MySpace was once young and hip. It was where all the bands were. Tumblr is young, but not hip in any way. It's full of strange and not particular "social" (as in communicating and influencing the mainstream alot) people. Tumblr is full of (besides pron) homestuck fandom and feminists. It's full of some subcultures that are ridiculed by the mainstream (like MLP fans) and passive aggressive tweens. I'm not sure if Yahoo wanted that.
Google+ for Android 42
Sorry, to clarify -- I was suggesting that it was possible that VMWare (a sponsor of Redis, correct?) leaned on someone. I didn't mean to besmirch you or redis, antirez, and I enjoyed your response.

It wouldn't be the first time a reputable news site was forced to bury a story by a litigious company. Sponsoring FOSS does not make any organization beyond doubt. Especially if they, say, have a history of suing anyone who benchmarks them.
Kai, thanks for the straight answer, this is very educational. I hadn't thought about spaghetti effect ever before.
Pinterest, Whatsapp, Viber.
Perhaps that 13 years of HD video data can fit in a petabyte?
Welcome to the cloud, where you need to rely on a third party service to keep your other third party service online. Of course, what happens when setcronjob.com goes down.... well you then use pingdom to check that it is up...... down the rabbit hole we go!
I've seen RDS have significant per-query overhead, and some very, very variable read times - in particular, some simple SELECTs randomly taking > 10s every so often.
"To date, she has used the supercapacitor to power a light-emitting diode, or LED"

This is getting a lot of press where the reporters apparently can't even read what they wrote. This is in no way developed enough to charge a phone. It's cool that she was able to get Intel's award but the hyperbole is over the top.
Ask HN: Building a Game of Chance Website
I was recently hired to build a website that seems VERY much like a game of chance. The company is US based, and I'm concerned about legalities I might face if the gaming commission comes after the site.

When I voiced my concerns, one of the co-founders said they've never heard of any company being sued for what they want to built.

Is anyone aware of some nice articles I can send their way?
At least a bit of the knowledge has now been shared via this article.
Mayer is a product person, so it will be interesting to see how things work out.
AWS is great. We use it a work and I spun up extra server capacity for a once a year open studios event.

That being said as someone who's been in the Unix world for a while figuring out which AWS services to use is not obvious at all. It took me some time to figure out the alphabet soup of sevices and I was familiar from work. I ended up using "cloud formation" which builds you a server (LAMP or other) and optional database/loadbalances configuration. Its was that or selecting a LAMP ami (Amazon machine image). They have a lot of documentation but its hard to get an overview of what everything is (S3, elastic storage....) Plus configuring web server/ database servers for best performance can be non-trivial.

I get better speeds from our organizations cheap "shared hosting", during low loads. I was pretty sure the one week of very high loads would have crushed the shared host, thus AWS was perfect.
Yahoo to Bring 'Native Advertising' to Tumblr ]
That's really interesting, i had a look at your test images and they look great (http://pornel.net/lossygif for the curious :) definitely something worth implementing

As for the transparency trick, do you have some example i can have a look at? I didn't know you can layer gif frames on top of each other like that
It took about four full days of work, spread out over a couple of weeks. It would have taken me much longer had I not been helped by Scott (my friend mentioned in the post).

I don't know the details of your app, but $170/month sounds high for that server arrangement. If you set up a few auto-scaling Amazon micro instances, it would give you more capacity and be cheaper. Of course, the tradeoff is that you'd need to either learn how to do it or hire somebody. :-/ Good luck!
Is there any particular reason you prefer dogmatism to pragmatism in choosing your Linux distribution?
What happens in HN with this bashing of famous scientists who have a lot of merit?

In the reverse I can say that nowadays a PhD in math can know more and in much less time than Newton on calculus. Or, I can also say that software engineering can do amazing things without needing to know how a transistor works.
Well, yes, if it's the same company across the different countries, but supposedly there will still be a lot of carriers that only serve a country or two, so roaming will still be common, no?
Good design is almost invisible.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1050627/pornhd.html No, porn definitely was going to be on HD DVD, it just lost the war.
So far the successful examples seem to me to be in 2 categories:

- a clearly separate product allowed to more or less continue its trajectory, perhaps with some light integration

- in google's case, there are a few examples of a piece of core tech that had a clear application to their core business and a clear integration point
What's driving your architecture?
So that's why his nickname is in green! I always thought they were like very important persons.
The Five Most Exotic Cars On The Road Today - High Tech Point
I was hoping for the camera to go down the bear's throat. Disappointing that it didn't.
I doubt you're dealing with these guys. The original APT1 report seems to indicate the bad guys are a little more clever with their phishing, and I doubt they would get sloppier post report.
It happens in Objective-C:

NSString *pattern = @"\\d", *string = @"੧";
NSRegularExpression *regex = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:pattern
options:NSRegularExpressionCaseInsensitive
error:nil];

NSUInteger numMatches = [regex numberOfMatchesInString:string
options:0
range:NSMakeRange(0, [string length])];

numMatches ? NSLog(@"%@ found by %@", string, pattern) : NSLog(@"%@ not found", string);

// 2013-05-20 09:38:42.650 Regexperiment[17848:c07] ੧ found by \d
> ... I should move to silicon valley. Things seem much easier out there.

I go back and forth on this myself. The biggest thing keeping me from doing so is the cost of living. In South Carolina I rent a 1200 ft^2 (~110 m^2) 3 bedroom house on a third of an acre for less than $1,000 per month. I live about 10 minutes from the beach (Atlantic), and 15 minutes from work. My wife's a marine biologist and a yoga instructor. She'd be able to teach classes there, but it will take a while (if it's even possible) for her to get well-enough acquainted with the orgs in the area to continue her career as a biologist. That means to keep the same disposable income I'd need to cover both our salaries, plus the increased cost of living, and all the risk of our livelihood would be on me. The last time I ran the numbers I figured out that in order for us to have the same disposable income I'd need to make over $200k/yr or trade salary requirement for long commute times.
I was responding to GP's sentence "I wonder if anyone has done a study of porn as a predictor of platform success/failure". Apple prohibits porn on their platforms, e.g. the App store is pretty conservative in what they allow.
Don't waste your time sending nice articles. It never works. If you aren't comfortable, find something else to do, bid them good luck, and quit.

Trying to skirt anti-gambling laws doesn't get you a lawsuit, it gets you in jail.
> jQuery has a considerable performance cost for the abstractions it provides ... add 500 lines of javascript code on every method call

But how much does this really matter, with modern high performance JS engines? The simple (and somewhat dismissive, I'll grant you) answer is of course it comes at performance cost, and it may be considerable. Comparatively. After implementing using jQuery, if some component is too slow, optimize. Rewrite using underlying core JS if you have to. Or better yet, reexamine what you are attempting and see if there's a better way.

> I very much dislike the spaghetti code that over reliance on jQuery plugins results in. You have pieces of code that rely entirely on jQuery and can't be refactored out or reasoned with clearly. It is terribly unidiomatic in any case.

Can you provide some examples of what you mean by this? Especially about it being unidiomatic (programming language idioms are a topic dear to my heart :)?

Personally, I find jQuery allows me to structure my javascript in a more coherent way, but that could have been greatly influenced by my relative experience with javascript before starting to use jQuery.
Thanks. I like sifter. Going to check if it is available.
Link bait...

For more context, the real title of the article is "Facebook, One Year Later: What Really Happened in the Biggest IPO Flop Ever."
I could definitely see myself using something like this. It needs some more complex loops, but it's a great MVP. Cheers.
Next acquiring Apple worked pretty well.
U.S. Air Force plans $50M savings over 10 years in iPad rollout
I'm not the OP, but the thing that's always scared me off from those types of services is that I think there would be high latency, where in a DB you really need low latency. Is that not true?
Seamless has better design and more options. GrubHub has funnier copy. I use the former for convenience and the latter for the laughs.
To Each His Own
Unusually structured deal too :)
You could host your apps easily with a $5 a month digital ocean VPS.
Near-Earth asteroids are the low-hanging fruit, almost literally.
Emacs Conference 2013 (several videos)
Very interested as well!
Yes, I think that's basically it. Right now the valuation of companies with little or no revenue is based on future cash flow from users. That makes the calculation of how much one user is worth much harder since 90% of users will just drop off and use the next free service.

Also, it's really hard to predict how much users are willing to pay for distraction and entertainment. There are some sites I get value from (e.g. buying/selling or booking things) but the vast majority is just entertainment.
Finally, an INTERESTING article about the Yahoo/Tumblr thing.
I use a yahoo.com email address (created mid 90s) to subscribe to mailing lists etc. But I check it thru Thunderbird or K-9 email clients. I just visited the Yahoo website after several years and it looks like it could have been designed in '99. You'd think with a billion dollars to spare they could hire a couple of good designers who know their CSS. I guess Google's website has also looked the same for a long time but Yahoo.com hasn't the elegance or the sheer usefulness of Google.
This is great. I see many important points in this declaration:

* animated gif and posted on tumblr : Yahoo gets it. Its CEO as well.

* "We will operate Tumblr independently" : I think this is exactly what everyone hoped, and what all big acquisition should be like (Facebook did that with Instagram and it's great!). That means NSFW will stay NSFW.

* "David Karp will remain CEO." The most qualified people to grow Tumblr are the people already in place. This is great, everyone's relieved.

I really think Yahoo's back in the game now. I would never have used yahoo before. Now hundred thousands of people are. And they are from the new generation.
What about all the others, namely Planck? Mach? Doppler? The geologists doing seismology int the era (namely, same university)?

It was the spirit of the times (zeitgeist), for which he successfully claimed credit for through tedious propaganda (the old guard deceased with time, which also helped "new physics" to emerge)
Speed limits in most areas start out as defined by engineers then manipulated to fit local opinion on how fast the road should be. I believe many areas allow public comment and petition to change the speed limit of local roads so if someone lives near by and is scared of the cars going 45mph then might raise a fuss enough to reduce it down to 25mph. (Obviously this isn't as much of an issue for state run/maintained highways)
Lorem F***ing Ipsum (NSFW language)
Hey, I'd love to join! I'll buy the beers if you two guys just teach me all the sysadmin stuff you know. :-D
Yes, it seems to be a very confused way of saying "watching a petabyte of HD video", and completely fails at giving a sense of scale for a petabyte.
By using innerHTML you lose event bindings of all elements in the container you're appending data to, and the state of inputs.
Show HN: Spectre - Our product from Angelhack Seattle
So I worked on a project at Angelhack called Spectre. We basically got the initial prototype finished but there is quite some work to do on the UX side of things. You can view the project at http://spectre.apphb.com. There currently aren't any user accounts so you just have to log in. I used Angular.js and Asp.Net Web API for this project.

Here is a bit about it from our press release:

Spectre makes the creation of documents such are business requirements (BRD) and technical specifications "ridiculously" easy. The goals of these documents are to assist the project management and implementation process. This is critical for companies that have organizational objectives while remaining solution independent. A BRD details the business solutions for a project that helps business people communicate their technical needs to the ones developing them and vice versa.

Not only does Spectre make this process easy, but also by using guided questions and project templates, it makes your documents collaborative, so that the right experts are able to contribute. In addition it will create living breathing documents that can evolve with your project, so that your requirements are not a tomb of good intentions. "You will answer project specific questions, and end up with a document that you can use to begin your project. This is akin to TurboTax meets Microsoft Project." says co-creator Aaron Bronow.

tl;dr; http://spectre.apphb.com
The Squarespace link goes to /squarespace/c instead of /squarespacec, and incorrectly shows the profile for Cage.
perhaps not.

“I treat my wife as an employee whom I cannot fire.”- A.E.
I never, ever would have predicted that Tumblr would beat Posterous in the blogging platform wars.
Can everybody build his personal Crowd-Network? What is this about?
What do you think is this about? They say it's completely free, where do you think the money comes from?!
Last week, I literally spun down an EC2 instance and signed up for Digital Ocean because I couldn't figure out how the hell to make stuff work on EC2, but have lots of VPS experience. As a dev and not a sysadmin, it's much easier to go with what you know... but I want to learn.
I always make a point of reading comments that start with "Not to be a dick..." :P
You can do that. FDE commonly means an encrypted partition even though that's not what the name implies. It's never truly full disk as you have to have an unencrypted partition for the boot loader. There's also no restriction on having other unencrypted partitions. I've had this set up this way since Mint 14. I'm not sure why you're having an issue. You just set this up when you're creating your partitions (manually).

I have three main partitions: the unencrypted /boot partition, a LUKS encrypted partition that contains my / partition, and an unencrypted NTFS partition for Windows. Works like a charm.

The way to do it is to run `sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade` (or `apt-get upgrade`) before running the installer when you're in the live environment. There's a newer version of the installer in the repositories that has the option for FDE. I can't speak for Mint 15 because I didn't do a fresh install, just did an upgrade and never saw the installer. I expect it'll be something similar, or perhaps included by default.
I created an app that showcases Android libraries and lets you run their demo with the press of a button. It is called DevAppsDirect https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inappsquar...

You may also find this interesting. On May 6th we hit 50,000 demos (we are at over 70k now) so to celebrate I created a site that lists libraries in order of their popularity in DevAppsDirect: http://www.inappsquared.com/devappsdirect_library_ranking.ph...

I also booked marked DroidParts. I will see if I can get it added soon
Agree. Horrible article hook to take a 'poor teacher' and her life savings going up in smoke .. (instead of going 10x in a few days?)
And the suggestion to make a blog post about it, then submit that, is really just encouraging blog spam, which typically gets flagged into oblivion. I know that I will do so - a one or two sentence blog post should not IMO be submitted in lieu of the article itself. I personally thought the ability to editorialize with only flamebait titles being changed by the mods was way better. Yes, it led to arbitrary decisions by the mods, but I see two problems with the current system:

- Information is often missing from the original, as it is here

- The mods are not always so quick to rename, and it's frustrating to see an article that I previously read changed to another title, resulting in confusion when I see it.

Further, The current system actually incentivizes over-editorializing the title to get a post boosted onto the front page, knowing it will be causally re-titled by the mods in due course.
I suppose so, but putting it in to perspective, if you were earning $200,000, you would be earning 10x my current wage.

I'm on the other end of the scale - if I did move to Silicone Valley, my income would at least triple within the first couple of years... Assuming success and a visa.
A month or so ago I thought about starting a hosted Postgres service on top of EC2, since lots of people seem to want "RDS for Postgres." I think if you specialized you could beat Heroku's offering, but ultimately I decided there was too much risk of Amazon simply adding Postgres themselves. But if anyone is more daring than me, perhaps there is an opportunity here.
we're not equating them, the magazine itself is.
Inside joke : https://twitter.com/marissamayer/status/336483778153295872
This is absolutely bonkers! 1 Million dollars!
I just finished listening to Walter Isaacson's biography "Einstein" (on CD). What was distinctive about Einstein was not how he thought but what he thought about.

His special theory of relativity is a solution to the contradiction between Newtonian dynamics and the new (at the time) Maxwell's equations of electrodynamics. It was a creative solution to a difficult problem.

Today we have a similar theoretical contradiction between Einstein's General Relativity (large, galactic scale) and Quantum Mechanics (small, sub-atomic scale) but no one is able to reconcile these two theories and it has been shown that, as formulated, they are mathematically incompatible.

For years physicists ignored this problem because satisfying, productive careers in physics could be based on pursuing all the implications of Einstein's ideas and the parallel developments in Quantum Mechanics. This period is now ending and I believe that somewhere in the world is the modern equivalent of a "patent clerk" who is working on a new conceptual approach to physics that will allow the reconciliation of GR and QM.
>>He watched a couple of slides and thanked me for the input. I asked What about my chief architect role? He told me that was something they told me to get me to do the deal.

I'm probably naive, but couldn't something like this be put into the acquisition contract, maybe even with monetary penalties if certain objective criteria (like reporting employee count or C-level meeting attendance) are not met? I realize that is not by any means bullet proof, but couldn't this kind of treatment at least be made harder?
When you say contracts, do you mean as in a repeat service agreement or more a paper contract?

Customer service is really easy to improve & easy to forget to do. Look at what's stopping you from providing awesome customer service consistently. Can tech help with this in anyway?

How do you define poor customer service? Is it a case that you promise you'll come on Monday but other jobs get in the way (schedule organisation) Is it not calling people back when they enquire (consider a voicemail to email service) or is it more that you just don't have time to form a friendly relationship with the customer e.g I'm done here's the invoice. (Look into delegating to a part-time assistant)

If customers expectations are incorrect (zero pests) then that needs to be communicated more loudly & your controllers should educate the correct expectations & emphasise the importance of noting frequency/numbers of pests seen & when is the right time to call you back - by teaching the customer what to expect they'll be happier even if they do see 'some' they were forewarned.
Yes, I did try it.
Three Reasons I Hate Laptops in Meetings
Nope. UK have Orange, Italy have WIND. They are the same company, have the same branding - same everything - but it still costs me an arm and a leg to use my phone when I'm in Italy.
I expect they will do at the EU level what many countries already do internally: cheap "handoff" between operators (where one operator essentially becomes virtual in a zone where it has no physical coverage), so the user isn't impacted.

FWIW MVNO (operators with no physical network and leasing network time) are already very common in the EU.
AWS OpsWorks is another reason to move to AWS. It is not good as Heroku yet! But is it evolving...
Ask HN: Best Books On B2B Selling? 
Looking for recommended reading specifically on B2B selling.

Am considering "SPIN Selling" and "Major Account Sales Strategy" by Neil Rackham although I'm wondering whether the advice may be out of date as they're quite dated

Also "The Challenger Sale" by Matthew Dixon & Brent Adamson.

Any other recommendations or thoughts on the above books appreciated.
This will save me so much time, thank you!
Two quick Heroku recommendations that wouldn't fix all (any?) of these issues, but would at least make them more palatable.

1. Change your default heroku error pages. From this: http://s3.amazonaws.com/heroku_pages/error.html and this: http://s3.amazonaws.com/heroku_pages/maintenance.html to something else (in the app settings tab).

2. Keep a staging instance up and running with a cloned database so that you can avoid random heroku-created errors in production.
Show HN: careless rm - revertible removals