skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Dude for realtime SNMP monitoring, plus some custom software on projectors. Logs by email + custom software on other servers.

Could do with a more comprehensive, more revealing monitoring solution, but unwilling to look at Nagios and found Zabbix quite closed looking and Zenoss a bit less pleasant than I was hoping.
I think a little bit of javascript could go a long way into making it very handy.
http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1808

http://www.google.com/search?q=ramdisk+osx
Currently a split plug is in use in the UK (eg with ADSL router-modems) where the pins separate from the plug body. These require a sliding connection of the form needed here. They use a strong spring to ensure firm contact. I don't think this is a great barrier to production of the plug.
The YouTube Martyr
before we start worrying about making the web faster, how about organizing a standard for all web browsers to follow?

Maybe when developers no longer have to make 5 different versions of their websites, they'd have the time to optimize them for speed .
He already had a paid magazine gig, he just changed it for another one.
Engineers Are The Best Deal - So Stock Up On Them
If the CEO is not driving strategy and goals, then the company probably doesn't have the right CEO.
It's not just that though. At all large organizations handling data, it is processed into several databases, statistics, aggregations, archives. There aren't any systems that can keep track of all this and purge all the data correctly.
Is Joseph Stalin's brutal calculus finally ended by the cell phone and twitter? Have "statistics" now become a million little tragedies?
Andrew, you have a great idea for a site. The only thing missing is transcripts. Asking viewers to watch an hour long interview is way too much (I didn't watch it). Transcripts will go a long way towards making your visitors happy and keeping them coming back more often (I know I'd come back if you added transcripts).
When the tools get a little friendlier. MySQL is still much easier to start working with. I prefer Postgres, but it is more difficult for the n00b.
When I wanted to improve my writing I started with grammar after I realised how effectively my school education had failed to teach me it. I highly recommend this forum http://absolutewrite.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=111 if you're interested in that.
Some feature requests that would make this VERY useful to document-centric companies like the one I work for now:

- Allow me to specify reviewers via e-mail. The reviewers should have roles (whose names the admin should be able to specify). Some should be required, some should be optional.

- Let me export a CSV or similar of the review comments, their owners, and the location in the document where the comment or change occurred.

- Let us run it on our own servers. Provide a downloadable version.

This would easily be able to replace our Excel review log/Word doc e-mails that I get every day...
Ironically I had performance issues streaming the video on the page. Youtube performance has really gotten spotty over the past year or so. Too bad Google isn't in charge of that...oh wait...
It's not Gmail popping up that warning, it's your browser.

(Although yes, it's gmail generating the links to both insecure and secure content, but distinctions are important to make)

By the way, just bookmark the https version of the site. Then you never have to worry about secure/insecure.
I definitely consider it an overreaction to call the described approach over-engineering. Separating simulation and presentation in to separate threads is common and very practical in many games (2d or 3d). It is also common and easy to support a single threaded mode that just runs both simulation and presentation update from one thread. The single threaded mode can make debugging certain issues much easier, but it is rare to have a desire to ship single threaded.
Yeah - I wasn't sure what the Hacker News approach was to sensational headlines so I left it as is.
In web programming the things that will really give you perceptible speed boosts aren't even optimizations so much as "do it the right way the first time".

How hard is it to configure Apache to gzip your textual content? That takes, what, four lines? And it will deliver huge, perceptible boosts to probably six nines of all websites without perceptible downsides? You should require a note signed by your doctor to NOT have that option turned on.

Putting all your JS/CSS in one file takes almost no thought in Rails. (:cache => true) If you require multiple sets of included Javascript, you have to make the terribly difficult optimization decision of giving them different names (:cache => "purchasing_scripts") If you're not using Rails, then you might have to actually write code in your build/deploy script, once. (Then you copy/paste it to every project you ever do, because there is never going to be a time when including 6 CSS files individually is a good idea.) Looking at our repository it looks like an ANT script can do it in a dozen lines, so it can't POSSIBLY be that hard in your language of choice.
Agreed that it's not the same sort of situation. MySQL is obviously well known and has significant market share, and although Oracle is a competitor to some extent, Postgres is probably much more similar in terms of who the typical customer is.

And anyway, how many people here have heard of Virtual Iron, much less used it? There's good reason for that -- it's really, really bad, or at least it was 6 months ago. We had it for a while because our MIS group was too cheap to buy VMware. Its Java-based frontend was clunky and unstable. VMs would frequently hang when powered down or rebooted through the console, stuck in a "shutting down" state that could be resolved only by rebooting the physical box. On a number of occasions, the server inexplicably got in a state where none of the VMs would power on until the box was rebooted. Snapshotting was based on LVM, totally different (in a bad way) from how every other virtualization product I've ever seen works. The "console" feature was based on VNC, and as you might guess, extremely slow.

After some time, we finally shelled out for VMware ESX/VirtualCenter, which isn't perfect, but still a much better product. I don't know why Oracle bought VI to begin with, but I'm not exactly sad to see it go.
This feels like a troll, but I'll respect anyone with a Karma of 996 and try my best to answer the question. First, it's important to watch the Google Video in which the product is introduced. Wave creates a new family of application categories. Etherpad is just one _instance_ of one _particular_ application category.

My elevator pitch (probably inaccurate, but it's mine) - "Real Time multi-way fedreated communication that creates secure rich-format conversation." It's the Real-Time element + the Multi-Way + the fact that people can drop in on conversations later on that make it exciting. What got people excited was the open-source nature plus (if I'm not mistaken in my memory) the decentralized aspect - multiple organizations could run their own wave server, so these conversations could be kept entirely internal, or interoperate with external Wave servers. It has elements of IRC, Instant Messaging, E-Mail, Lotus Notes, and WIKIs all rolled into one.
Providing an outlet for it might be pretty much the same thing as encouraging it.

Now, if you could reliably identify kids who needed the outlet and have them do it, but leave the rest of us alone, that would be fine. But I shudder to think how I would have turned out if I was subjected to the kind of thing you're proposing. I was a pretty impressionable kid.
But is it the lesser of 2 evils that Tesla get some that would have otherwise gone to say, GM?
I do this too. But tmpfs (why do you want to use ramfs?)

I call it /tmp-ram and I give it the same drwxrwxrwt permissions as /tmp.

I use it as the default place for all downloads.

Another example, I listen to streaming radio, and I rip it to disk (so I don't have to deal with buffering, and so I can skip songs). I put it in /tmp-ram, it rips from one end, and I play and then delete from the other.
Er, but are they controlling for other environmental risk factors? In other words, I would guess that most kids from the suburbs learn to use weapons from authority figures- but they were probably never going to fall on the wrong side of the law anyhow.
You seem to be correct, they can't replace Tom as the default friend. They'll have to do something really clever for that to happen ...

The other day I was talking to my friend and she was telling me that facebook suck's because it does not support layout changes and allows auto music play as soon as you load the page. So, in the process I told her about the layoffs and Facebook has crossed over Myspace in terms of monthly visits... she was totally surprised.
It seems to me that the entire key to having this whole thing work out is if we have as many of these as possible. I think it's great that these guys were willing to put in the effort before Google even brought their product to market. We're looking at a parallel dual network effect here: the product/client (ie, barring any unforeseen, giant occurrences, Google's client) will only take off if it manages to establish a large userbase for an unproven product. BUT: Wave, as a protocol, as a server type—as a web technology rather than a Google tool—will only take off if it manages to establish a large codebase of clients and servers for an unproven protocol. As far as I can tell the one thing that will have the biggest effect in a) ensuring Wave's success and b) actually IMPROVING Wave and shaping it according to the needs of the web at large is if as many people as possible do what PyGo has just done first.
first, what exactly is meant by wall street here? big finance companies in NYC, hedge funds in china, venture capital firms in SF?

second, 'wall street' serves many roles. i assume what's meant here is the early funding of the so called creative classes. here there maybe a larger trend toward diverse sources of financing or simply the absence as more firms achieve ramen profitability.

but i think overall, it doesn't do any service by viewing wall street and the creative classes as mutually-exclusive monolithic entities locked in a death-match.

if anything wall street is undergoing its own internal revolutions as we speak.
Bill Joy after Sun (2003)
A Simple Twitter App with Ruby on Rails - Messages With Ajax
Dancing plagues and mass hysteria
Book of Mormon Geography 
The Book of Mormon story
happened somewhere. It had to have a
location. But where? It is our assertion that
the heartlands of the Book of Mormon
peoples—the Nephites, the Lamanites, the
Jaredites and the people of Mulek—were
located in what is now the peninsula of Baja
California.
No they don't. I had the T-Mobile Sidekick for 2 years before the original iPhone came out. One of the best features of the sidekick was the AIM app. I used it constantly and it was totally free.
Mac Dock Icon Spelling
based on current stats 60% of twitter's quit after the first month. Using the theme of the the article its probably because twitter doesn't do enough to fulfill their narcassistic needs. For instance, on facebook when they update they get comments and responses the make them feel good and make them use the service more. On twitter not so much because twitter hasn't experienced the network effect yet, where all the people's friends are not on the system and other users don't see the value in following you since you are a nobody. This means you have no followers and no one commenting on your boring life and ideas.

This explains why the people with the highest amount of followers are celebrities or famous brands. Regular people don't use it because they don't get responses back bec. no one knows who you are and why your tweets matter.
Google Dreams Turn To Nightmare For Many
While HTML is not a network protocol, it is still a data format that is standardized and to which many implementations need to conform -- a "protocol" in layman's terms.

Is XMPP a protocol? Yeah, it specifies a machine-machine communication system but it also specifies the structure and formatting of the messages it sends.

Where do you draw the line? If it were a technical discussion, you'd be right that HTML isn't a "protocol". From TFA, I got the sense that they didn't mean a network protocol but something more like a "standard" (without the nasty connotations of that term).
Check out how a Turkish boy had a miraculous escape after being hit by a car
Sounds like you found a bad group and/or your presence wasn't obvious in a place like that. If it was a one-off, swap at least one of those problems and try again, otherwise I defer to more experienced persons...
Yes, I meant the browser. Under Gmail Master there is a tip on how to always access your mail via https. I have that on, and always use https://www.gmail.com/ in my browser, but there are still some elements that display insecurely, at least in Chrome. I just checked Firefox 3.5RC2 and IE8 and dodn't get this problem anymore.

Update: I just cleared Chrome's cache and now it works.
Buy/read founders at work.

Edit:whoops, imp4 already posted this!
No, but that's not the point: anyone can be cajoled into making a graph (and I love ASCII art as much as anyone), but the fact that there wasn't the culture of putting a pretty ribbon on nice results, that's the problem.
"We have bedroom rock stars like Kid Mercury earning money just by recording songs on a cheap camera and uploading them to the web."

"Published by kidmercury"
"[Submitted] by kidmercury 51 minutes ago"

I've got no problem with evangelizing your own products, but could you keep the third person self-references to a minimum, rock star?
"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week." -- George Patton
There also exists the possibility that they were assholes -- most good businesspeople I know are good about letting the new person in.

But in that case given they were who they were, one tactic if you see your friend there is to walk up next to him, loudly say hello and shake hands with him (which opens a crack in the circle as he turns), and then turn to the guy to the left of him, extend your hand, and introduce yourself -- which will force him to open up to you, breaking the circle on the right and left. Then you can do the introductions proceeding from that guy back around the circle up to your friend.
Use few words, and eighth-grade English. (Easier for anyone to understand, but also better for foreign colleagues.)

E-mail is a great place to start being clear and concise. This encourages people to read everything you say, without skimming. Plus, they can always mail you back if you left out anything important.
Microsoft has decided to acquire Yahoo one employee at a time
Not knowing any specific details, but it makes me think: why do you need a card for this?

Maybe this is the fatal flaw in their business. The UK has a similar system in place on a much larger scale, called, unimaginatively, IRIS.
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/managingborders/technology...

It does the same, but all you have to do is look into the scanner, and the gates open.
"i am a conspiracy nut... web platforms need to develop their own legal system that will challenge the nation-state in order to grow... so the political nature of the last paragraph was wholly relevant to the thesis of the post."

kidmercury from his only comment on Hacker News
It's like legalizing marijuana, I'd almost wish they'd just do it already so people can stop talking about it.
Interesting article (for an American who didn't even know about the UK scandal).

How much of a coincidence is it that the main Guardian developer is also one of the co-authors of Django? Article reads as a very nice endorsement of Django.
Ask HN: Do you use Wolfram Alpha?
I'm curious about the usage of Wolfram Alpha. How frequently do you search with it?

I think I'll use Wolfram Alfa

a) once a month
b) once a week
c) dayly
d) hourly!!

[have you found a killer application of the engine???]

(also have you found a use to it?)
> Driving is regulated just like prescription drugs.

No it isn't, I don't have to go renew my license every third time I fill my tank. If long term prescription came with unlimited refills that didn't require more trips to the doc, I wouldn't be complaining.

> It is the government’s job to protect people.

From other people, and from outside invaders. Situations where there is a victim. It is not the governments job to protect me from myself, I cannot be my own victim. Well, this is how it should be in a free country, something we clearly aren't anymore.

> Mixing the drugs people take for fun, with drugs people take for their heath is a straw man argument.

Drugs are drugs, and what you call recreational drugs many of its users would absolutely say they take for their health, both mental and physical. It's not a strawman, you just don't like it. The fact is how the drug is classified is irrelevant to the issue of who owns my body and gets to say what does or doesn't go into it?

> Total heath care costs in this country have little to do with how doctors prescribe drugs.

It's one of many factors, I didn't say it was the biggest.

> Changing how that works on a fundamental level is a high risk change for little payoff.

Gaining the freedom to control your own body and not have a government decide for you is not a little payoff, freedom is worth any price.
The problem is not in the protocols, the problem is in the pipes.
I wonder if the world is ready yet to build web apps out of other web apps.

They sure are, if you don't make it obvious that is what they're doing. The guy who makes the Thingys does fairly well for himself last time I heard.

Technical gloss: embeddable widget to provide SAAS-like functionality within your own branding.

Non-technical gloss: here's a magic spell. Copy/paste it to give your website a built-in (e.g.) project tracker.

He has a stable of them now, but I think the first was UploadThingy.

http://www.uploadthingy.com/
Long long ago, gzip would cause some browsers to barf. Some browsers would lie about what they could handle, and you had to check the UA as well as the accept-encoding header.

JS/CSS concatenation, at least from the last time I had to roll my own always drove me nuts because I wanted to "recompile" on the fly and thus putting it in my build script meant I had to rebuild with every little change.

(I recognize these are excuses. But every action comes with an opportunity cost, blah blah blah)
I wouldn't have heard about it anywhere else. I don't have time to go to a lot of news sites for each interest. I just check this site a few times a day.

Every article doesn't have to appeal to you, nor should they.
Farmers breed docility into their livestock so that they are easier to handle when sending them to the slaughterhouse.
Unconvincing and poorly supported blog, especially when the examples of the new and different business class consists of a blatant self promotion, a system where a recent article posted in HN reveals that even the top earners are unlikely to be able to support themselves (etsy), and a field which I heard summarized on the joelonsoftware discussion forums as "if you can afford their service, they aren't worth paying for" (SEO).

The creative class as he defined it has always existed, and I don't see the current generation working much differently than previous generations. In fact, due to globalization, I'd expect it to be harder for the creative class in first world countries to make a living than before, when a girl in Bangalore can make a bracelet just as beautiful as one in Maine, and sell it on Etsy for a third the price.
>they can't replace Tom as the default friend.

They could make it Rupert Murdoch!!!
Ask HN: Why was my submission title changed?
I am just curious - why was the title of this article I posted today changed from "The Coming Artilect War" to "The Coming AI War?" "The Coming Artilect War" is the title directly copied from Forbes.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=670694
Rules are, if the friend invited you, and in many cases even if not, they are responsible for being overly friendly and inviting you over and introducing you to a couple of the people in the group. If it's a programmer/founder get together, then in the same sentence your friend should also include a major interest or skill or job you have.

Sadly, many technically minded people are not aware how to be good 'hosts'.

I wouldn't give up though. There aren't many programmer/founder organizations out there. Go again but arrive earlier, when people are just arriving, before the joining of the tight circles (loud bar?).
Introduce yourself to the best groomed person you see and then, when your friend arrives, call him over an make sure he knows everyone. It's the right thing to do, and your friend might understand how helpful that can be.
“Facebook: The Movie” Enters Production This Year
You can't say "You haven't seen this before" when you were covered on ReadWriteWeb 2 weeks ago -- that means a lot of us have seen it before. ;)

That said, it is a cool app. Nice work. One critique: There was no easy way that I could see to show the document with out edit marks. I.e., there should be a way to switch between showing the document with edits implemented by each editor.

I make my living as an editor, and when I'm editing in Word with track changes I often like to view final with the edits hidden so I can read through what I've changed and make sure my edits are good. The edit marks get distracting and make heavily edited docs hard to read.

Also, add in the ability to easily push edited documents into Wordpress, and I could use this at work. ;)
It's not so simple as you make it out to be. The Iranian government is a complex mix of democracy and theocracy. If enough mullahs and enough of the populace are turned against Khamenei and Ahmadinejad, Khamenei and Ahmadinejad will fall. The murder of Neda Agha-Soltan, and any murders that follow hers, will turn more mullahs and more common Iranians than a fixed election ever would. (Everyone thought the elections were fixed anyway. That's how Ahmadi got elected the first time--the reformists boycotted the election.)
It'd be straight out of Lord of the Flies without some sort of authority figure.

I generally think it is a great idea though, particularly about throwing them out into wilderness for survival training and martial arts.

Going only by my own memories of being a teenager, 13-18 in our current society is no different than a Milgram prison experiment. That's gotta exacerbate the genetic disposition for violence rather than contain it. Whereas out in the wilderness, violence is simply a part of nature.

Martial arts, on the other hand, explores the edges of natural instincts (for violence) and civilizing influences. Taught carefully, a genetic disposition for violence becomes a resource that can be tapped, rather than an external controlling factor.

I didn't know that about kids who learn weapons training are less likely to use it for violence. I think I can make use of that.
Even though I grew up in the 1980s, I still enjoyed a rather Tom Sawyer kind of lifestyle which most kids can't enjoy anymore. Fighting at school was routine. Never got seriously hurt because the fights were outlets, and we had no desire to truly harm each other. I learned how to shoot and hunt from my uncle who's the only member of my family to have served in the military. I spent my teens doing martial arts and fighting full-contact with guys twice my age.

I was also a pretty impressionable kid, but I think this kind of martial training was educational. I have not become a Marine or anything. Instead, I became a grad student with a burning passion for differential geometry and mathematical physics ;-)

It may happen that, in some cases, providing an outlet is the same as encouraging. In my case, it was a wonderful way of spending my youth.