skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh wow. Remember those "submit your link to these search engines" sites back in the late nineties / early 00s? Or "site of the day" sites?

What is old is new again.

Genuine question: how many of these sites (except for resources like Crunchbase) are actually visited by real people? I'd love for someone to test the impact of submitting to all of these.
You can actually download your entire order history as a CSV (which is kind of fun -- on the account page, find "Download Order Reports"), which could then be uploaded into this service to get a report on everything you've purchased. The only sensitive information included in the report is name and address.
I'm not aware of any mainstream economic theory that describes a limited network in which everyone is both a customer and a trader.

(I suspect 'hamsters on wheels' comes closest, but it's not very mainstream.)

I think of YC as the modern equivalent of the old music business model: money gets advanced to potential talent, most of it disappears, some of it returns as a big hit.

The fact that the talent may be trading with other talent doesn't appear to alter that dynamic, because the money stays in the system, and you don't get a big hit until money starts coming in from outside the system.
I understand the article as making the argument that in the past companies tried to make a business out of the open source project itself while nowadays the open source project is more often a byproduct or a basic infrastructure component for other commercial projects.

I don't think the examples and quotes used by the author are great, but I do think that there is some truth to this argument.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light

Its value is exactly 299,792,458 metres per second because the length of the metre is defined from this constant and the international standard for time.
Even more impressive when you consider that the world's largest country of internet users doesn't even have access to Facebook.
How could a cracker own my Android? I bought an unsubsidised Moto E. It has no carrier bloatware, and prompts me when there is a new version of firmware available. If it's not rooted, and I only install apps from Google Play, what are the known attack vectors?
The war made defense contractors rich, and drove up the price of oil, which continues to this day to make oil companies rich. The Bush administration had strong ties to defense contractors and the oil industry. Dots = connected.
This is a really nice example of a project post/build log.

Related, I think it would be a lot of fun to interface the Pi with the original (not very good) LCD. Then you could make some kind of 'alternate history' nextgen gameboy where the processor was massively upgraded but the screen was not - enabling low res 3D, temporal dithering to expand beyond the 2bit palette, etc.

(I guess you could also simulate this on a regular computer or even the mod discussed here, but that's somehow slightly less charming)
Honestly... I hope it was pure realpolitik and long term strategic thinking. The alternative of "spreading freedom" and taking the fight "over there" weaves a narrative that is harder for me to accept.
No G+ in China either.
Yes they can, and here is one more example: according to the World Bank the lowest remittance costs to send 140.00 EUR from Italy to China are 12.00 EUR (this is 8.6%!) see http://remittanceprices.worldbank.org/en/corridor/Italy/Chin.... However thanks to Bitcoin exchanges existing in both Europe and China, and with their low fees of typically <1% (so <2% total), the costs with Bitcoin would be less than 2.80 EUR, which is much lower than 12.00 EUR.

So do not say that Bitcoin "would not" make remittance costs cheaper. It does.
The very next sentence says 'Watchlisting an individual for engaging solely in constitutionally protected activities is prohibited.' The paragraph goes on to talk about the critical importance of considering information in its proper context, something you might want to work on yourself.
What's really funny is that you turned an article completely about an Apple security problem that they should probably fix, into a completely off topic rant about Android.

Well played.
Can you give me more information about them? They seem to be based in Tennessee.
I can think of reasons why a pure cache would impose costs that are too high -- namely, the device would then be writing during times of very read load.

But: I agree with your bigger point, that it's an interesting programming problem.

We're all familiar with CPU caches, so it's interesting mental exercise to think of this as the same system, but optimized for a different part of design space.
The answer is in the question:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2099421/report-malwareinfecte...
What this article is describing sounds like a colocation agreement which is a quite common service offered by ISPs and is typically paid for by a monthly rental fee calculated by storage size, dedicated bandwidth use and power consumption.
America’s most-hated social media company is…
As of June last year they had hundreds of thousands of machines. As for the architecture it is basically a PHP app in front of a massive fleet of Memcached instances and a few databases here and there specifically for different apps e.g. photos, messages etc.
Tekmira is furthest along in development of a vaccine/cure but is stuck in Phase I trials with FDA regulatory hurdles. Ebola is not always fatal this guy cured himself http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/07/22/333628899/e...
"Why doesn't such a thing need a pin code or iCloud password entry?"

It does - any passcode/fingerprint locked device needs to be unlocked before granting trust.

I would like a 'don't ask again' option though...
It's a real thing, and there has been some news coverage indicating that the effort has been helpful. Here's a blog post with a little more detail, and several relevant links:

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/osm-ebola-mapping/
I knew the other co-founders were trying to rewrite history, but I didn't expect TechCrunch to let them get away with it.
I tried your service until I discovered you want 4% per invoice. That's 4% of my income. For comparison, California taxes (effective) were 5.8% of my income.

Please mention this up front!

When you add a calendar overview and a more sane pay structure, I'm happy to look again. Thanks.
Was the phenomenon ever independently reproduced?
The Shield has been out for almost a year now. It was released July 31, 2013. You might be thinking of their new tablet version, which has a detached controller.
I have an app (written in go) that can serve 200 req/sec on the smallest instance.

App engine works very well for me. I like not having to ever think about scaling. If i was anal about penny pinching (and if I was out of the free tier) then I could stick it in conpute engine and still have access to the data store but would have to manage the scaling and instance starting myself - at a reduced cost).
nice new update on the Scheme generator.
This is not the Terrorist Watch-list, but I found it interesting nonetheless. I found this while taking a training course for my large-corporate employer. It's a list of persons & organizations with whom my (or any) American employer is forbidden from doing business.

http://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/sdnlist.txt

While reading,...
[FTO] = Foreign Terrorist Organizations Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 597 --- [SDT]​ = Terrorism Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 595​ --- [SDGT] = Global Terrorism Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 594​
(full list of tags here http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/P...)
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Ugh, don't remind me. That was the worst. Why can't shows just acknowledge that makeup and effects change over time, and leave well enough alone? Augment Virus was Enterprise's attempt to cave into fans' demands that Star Trek offer an explanation for the TOS Klingons. If you ask me, Star Trek should've just hand-woven that subject indefinitely.

DS9 handled the matter much more effectively in "Trials and Tribbleations." Someone asked why the old-school Klingons had smooth foreheads, and Worf replied "We don't like to discuss that with outsiders." Boom. Perfect explanation. Funny, clever, and hand-wavy. Done.
Newer revisions use 4 or 6 TB drives and such 15K SAS drives does not exist from what I can find.

See http://oc.nflxvideo.net/docs/OpenConnect-Deployment-Guide.pd...
I actually think that's an important aspect of capitalism's success. It only (metaphorically) claims to be a good global organization scheme. Within that framework, experimentation and variation is permitted. Do you want a hippie commune? Sure. Coop? Sure. Conventional corporation? Yup. One dude in a garage? Sure. National-scale non-profit? Go for it. And they're all different organizations that can freely live and die as the situation warrants. It may not be perfect, but it can evolve without breaking.

Contrast that with a State-Uber-Alles philosophy like Communism, and you get a situation where you've got what is putatively the same organization trying to organize the strategy for keeping the borders secure with nuclear weapons also trying to manage the local school bake sale. It's a fragile setup if it isn't perfect, and of course it isn't perfect. And lo, Communist governments that fall tend to fall hard and shatter their whole society, economy, country, and all in the process. All the eggs, you might say.

And let me highlight the issue of resiliency and fragility as being my main point, rather than any particular local issue of efficiency on this point or that. Capitalist societies hardly blink if a 100-person organizations proves unable to make a profit. It might be locally annoying, even devastating to some people, but globally it tends to work out for the best. (And those 100 people tend to be able to move on to something else too.) By contrast a centralized command-and-control system may keep this net-negative organization going for a long time for any number of reasons, but all of them, in the end, meaning that a net-negative organization lives on, draining the society it lives in. (Bear in mind the meaning of "net negative"... the entire point is that whatever benefits it may have, it is still net negative in my discussion here.) The summation of such decisions is incredibly destructive.
> he has to instead consider inefficiency in relative terms

And I pointed out that, relatively speaking, the (big!) company I work for seems to have eliminated those inefficiencies, and that it does seem to perform better than companies that haven't.

From what I've heard, Microsoft is one that hasn't, for example. With up to 18 layers of management and mountains of deadwood middle management at this point, it seems the classic example. And Microsoft is thrashing at this point; I won't say death throes, because they have so much market power still, but it may be early indications of eventual failure.

No one (but you) is saying that a group of unmanaged freelancers (i.e., ANARCHY) should be compared to good management. All of the items in the list are things that can be changed in a traditional organization; they just often degrade to the state described in the list.

Seems like you're building up and tearing down a strawman. Sure the terrible state of companies like Microsoft is better than 40000 freelancers in a loose organization, but the state of Microsoft isn't as good as a company that size could be. And that's his point.
I've tended to take the darker view: that the war's planners knew it was going to be a tar pit, but lied us into it with promises of "quick in, quick out" and such (as well as the active WMD program hoax). Possible motives range from religious nuttery to just wanting to line the pockets of contractors.

I've suspected religious nuttery for a while because there was just so much of it in the Bush administration. I think a lot of more secular minded folks and religious folks who aren't fundamentalist Bible-belter types just don't get how seriously those people believe in that stuff. The end times are just around the corner. Jesus is coming back. Oh, and the Earth is 6000 years old. They really absolutely believe every bit of it. It's not just a rationalization or a smokescreen, at least not from the point of view of the true believers. (Others may certainly use it that way.)

It was likely a mixture of the two: contractors manipulating the belief systems of the fundamentalists in the Bush administration to profit from a long drawn-out war.
Ironically, I was just learning this morning how it's done on the PDP-8, which has a disturbingly similar flavor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8#Subroutines
You could actually have quite a bit of fun with this kind of wordplay.
why is the author so reluctant to agree these inefficiencies exist? is he afraid of biases in his own list?

Also "smart sincere people" is not a notion I am used to hearing in academic discourse. If he is going to be critical, I wonder how he characterizes this notion Is it purely from a game-theory perspective?
> I'm assuming whatever file system is on the disks...

Netflix uses UFS+J on FreeBSD 10.

Here are some notes from their talk at NYCBSDCon 2014:

- 400,000 stream files per appliance.

- 5,000 - 25,000 client streams per appliance.

- 300 - 500 streams coming off each disk all the time.

- Attempt to buffer 1MB ahead, but caching is futile.

- Result is completely random disk workload.

- System becomes limited by disk latency and CPU load.

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL5U4wr86L4
Could be - I think my memory of the non-Page account dates to mid-2011, and that's plenty long enough ago for my memory to play tricks on me.
What vendor lock in?

You can download the data from the data store and import it into another database. Sure you would need to write some code to interact with the new data services, but had you not deployed to app engine in the first place you would have had to write that code anyway. All the other APIs are optional and if you are worried about vendor lock in then implement them yourself (again something which you would have to do if not on app engine).
The guy that posted it on twitter acted like a child. He acted on pure emotion and then had to suffer the consequences of getting booted off his flight. It was in poor taste to mention the women by full name (and the exact terminal in which she worked). It won't take long before her personal information is found. He put absolutely no thought into this..only about his inconvenience.

You don't seem to care about the consequences. You are only acting on pure emotion, like him.

"Company threaten refusal of service due to a complaint"

I'm sure he complained at the airport..and they never refused his services. It was only when he put the safety and well-being of the airport employee in question that caused a problem.
Interesting way to use to git to find a bug by process of elimination.
Horizontally Scaling Node.js and WebSockets with Redis
It would have limited application in satellite-to-ground links, as the photons would soon be outside the atmosphere. It is a neat idea though.
It wasn't meant to imply harassment. A stream raid is just what they call it when one streamer tosses to another at the end of their broadcast.
It can be somehow remedied a bit by adopting two strategies:

- Cherry-pick hardware, in this case cards

- Use very recent software stacks

I just plugged in a Huawei 4G LTE dongle. I spent some time making sure this particular card worked, and discarded many others. I'm running the most recent kernel, systemd, udev, etc. It was a plug & play experience. If I had proceeded otherwise, it'd have been a nightmare.
If you're going to deride my native language, at least spell Portuguese right.

Portuguese is actually quite an interesting native language. It is Latin based, so you pick up French, Spanish, Italian and Romanian easily. Plus, since it is a periphery language, it has evolved less and is thus complex. Impossible grammar, irregular verbs all around and lots of phonemes. Top it off with a stress timed prosody and unstressed vowel suppression. If you grok European Portuguese, you can grok anything.

(anything other than German. "Das Mädchen". Seriously? Das???)
No. For all rintones.
I've been using it for ages.
I think integration IS a cost.
Vint Cerf explains ICANN
"Hmm... so you think it's just pure realpolitik and long-term geostrategic stuff."

Yes, I don't think you have to look much farther than that. The prospect of a nuclear militant Islamists is bad enough to be worth deterring, even if our current administration does not share this view.

History may yet judge the Iraq intervention as not enough rather than too much. I hope not, because the sequence of events that would take is not pleasant to contemplate. Unfortunately the very act of ignoring the possibility brings it that much closer.
Arriving via "Nepalese UN Aid workers" is not "sprouting at random" and completely natural, surely?
You can open sockets.
Sorry, but what I'd take from that article is "Product management: It's No Country for Young Men." Perhaps the writer is in fact bemoaning "Caught in that sensual music all neglect / Monuments of unageing intellect" but it's just not a winning treatment.

The entire article seems to be about the assorted pitfalls that the inexperienced won't know to watch out for, and as the article references, costs to fix problems increase exponentially the further along you get in the development / distribution / deployed product lifecycle.

Product development and management for the physical world (including electronics) is not a place for the "bright shiny" - it's a place for planning, covering everything, knowing where your new item fits within the company, product line and the world (customers, competition). In other words in a lot of ways it's exactly the place for "old men."
That is interesting. I like Mises' work on economic calculation, and I tend to use that model to interpret most large-scale government regulation and economic planning, but I never thought of its application to firms. It's perhaps the most obvious and fundamental example of a diseconomy of scale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseconomies_of_scale
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It doesn't necessarily mean that. 2/7ths of the world's population logging in to FB once every two months would result in the same MAU number, even with zero people logging on _every_ month.

Moreover, these MAU numbers probably include people like me, who receive a push notification of a message sent to a group, click it once to view the message, and quit the app after 2 seconds.

It's still a large number, though!
What stops an unscrupulous ISP from making a timely copy of all his favorite movies?
https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/pci_dss_v2.pd..., PCI DSS 3.3 would seem to be the most applicable section here.
> the woman was rude

How do you know this?
... and was I ... the only one ... reading it to myself in the Shatner voice???
Todo app using *native* Web Components working in Chrome 36+
and MS is a backlog-centric company because they still support a "back catalog" of programming languages like C++ and C# version 1.0.

lets stop with the stupidity.
I've had the exact opposite experience, and the experience you speak of is the one I had with Microsoft Azure PaaS.

The only discontinued runtime was Python 2.5, and admittedly because of the lack of threading support it's cost went due to the way billing was changed. Upgrading to Python 2.7 was a piece of cake, and enabling thread safety returned the expense to reasonable levels.

App Engine was built for massive scaling, and anything like that is going to have tradeoffs and idiosyncracies. There's always going to be tuning and optimisations. As long as my sysadmin is kept to a minimum, I don't care. I'll leave Google to deal with outages and scaling, since they are an order of magnitude better at it than I am.

If you want exorbitant pricing with a good dose of headfuckery, deploy to Heroku.
Fake accounts != Duplicate accounts
That is probably the easiest way to get data and meta-data from all Americans without a warrant (since they can gather everybody's data on that list 3 levels deep[0] (used to be 5 levels deep less then a year ago I believe))

0: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?t=276718
> They were not a "backlog of games". They sold old games. Now they sell old and new.

That was my point :)
That's the part I don't get about the grandparent's post. I've never had problems with outages on App Engine. It went down during the massive outage where half of Google's services went down. Other than that it's rock solid, and features get put in slowly.
Yikes. Let me see what the deal is.
Soulja Boy also used the 'Miley Cyrus' model, except he would release a short, easy to do, dance video for everyone to dance when his song came on!
I'm also a DIY person. Using networkd already along with systemd and wpa_supplicant. It's very simple and reliable.
It is essentially the same thing in terms of competition for labor.

In one case you are sending the work to the workers, in the other, you are bringing the workers to the work.

Competition within the country is fair. Companies exploiting the ability to outsource/h1-b their work is not fair. Workers that were grown and educated here cannot go back in time and move to a different country with cheaper living costs and education.

If society is being replaced by people that aren't you, society can benefit while leaving you in the dust. It is not a win-win situation. It is easy to feel that you or your descendants will never be marginalized when you are making 100k+ in silicon valley.
I probably didn't make my point very clearly. I'm thinking of groups of companies like Virgin (I'm not sure if it's properly considered a "syndicate").

I doubt any of the companies are formally bound to do business with any other by virtue of being in the Virgin group, but it would make sense that the companies enjoy some kind of (if only informal) "preferred vendor" relation with each other.

There's no need to describe it in theory as anything else than a number of independent companies, only with common ownership and perhaps a slightly above average interconnectedness.
I hope this doesn't sound insensitive, but I've heard that Ebola kills its host too often and too quickly to pose a worldwide threat.
Well I saw it pop up twice within a matter of minutes.

Popups cause a huge break in my concentration especially when I am coding so it is unusable to me.
If Not Google Plus – Where Will We Find a Facebook Alternative?
Youth-mode
right, and valve is also a backlog centric company because it continually adds games that are not coming out at the time it adds them.

This is just stupid word play to try and get it to say what you want. They have from the get go been a company that sells the service of selling games.

That's it. GAMES. This has not changed, was anyone really shocked when they started selling indie titles?

Having a catalog of old games doesn't make you a company with a "backlog", it makes you a company that sells a product that happens to be old games.

Because under your criteria, Vavle is a backlog company because it puts old games up on steam.

These absurdities result because of the stupidity of trying to define it that way.

They are a company who sells a product. That product was originally selling older games repackaged for new OS's, and as they've grown they've started selling more lesser known games, indie games, and finally, current games.

Their only real hard claim is that they're DRM free and that's always been the case.
After much pressure, Twitter releases its diversity figures
What did Aviato do?
For those of you that watched HBO's 'Silicon Valley,' was wondering if anyone had theories on the products or services offered by Aviato.
Ouch, I need to schedule an optician to check my glasses prescription. %-)
Except that influencing government policy isn't terrorism, unless it involves intimidation or coercion, or assassination/ kidnapping/ bombing....