skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We are not planning on investigating individual bloggers."...

...but we'd sure like to leave the door open in case any "troublemakers" should crop up.

Non-enforcement does not turn bad laws and regulations into acceptable ones. Its just lazy. Like all lazy half-assery, it will be regretted in the future.
For what it is worth, Memcachedb and Tokyo Tyrant have used the same trick. I think I came across anothe key/value store this summer that also offered memcached protocol support.
Any suggestions for approaching communities, once I've identified the ones that exist for my target market? Signing up for forum accounts just to post "Try the great thing I made for people like you!" messages seems a bit spammy...
"Google solves a lot of them, but not all."

Interesting that you would say that, as I have a friend who works for Google who would like to use machine learning techniques to make a better command line.

It also seems to me that Google's "one box" interface for Chrome, where pretty much no matter what you want to do you just start typing something in the address bar, is maybe the best approximation for what you would want a really good command line interface to look like.
We opted for very stern and serious photos.

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I agree. All subjects interviewed in the article view this as a change in their diet. And calories and diet are not independent. The topic is very interesting. I searched for the original research paper but could not find it.
This sounds like market research :)
Wow, xargs can parallelize commands? That's amazing, and could be extremely useful.
Obviously offering one of everything isn't what Apple does.

Offering the _best_ of everything is. So shipping a crappy SSD is dumb. (Personally I strongly suspect it's because they can get closer to that 100% hardware markup they love on a lower-end model, than because it's greener. But I'm sure "green" sounds better.)
My opinion is that crackers and hackers are to distinct sets, but there is an intersection (though I think it isn't overly big). Hacking needs to be creative, nothing about that says it can't be malicious.

That isn't to say that I approve of hacking in that context, merely than it can exist.
Shazam is the song identification app on the iPhone. The real question is whether they're actually making money off of their iTunes referrals; KPCB seems to think/know so.
Thanks for the nice article. I read magnetic monopole and I became utterly confused.
Exactly, I thought that was the point of the article. We need "indexing by meaning" - for unix utilities, for iPhone apps, for words.

For instance, I'm looking for an iPhone app that let's you take pictures of people, add names and details, and let's you browse them by picture. I bet something like it exists, but I can't find it.
Hmm,

Do you know if there have been any studies which made an effort to distinguish average-weight and average calorie intake? Hight calorie intake is associate with obesity and obesity is associated with many health problems. But what is the cause and what is the effect?

Do, say, long distance athletes, who consume and use massive calorie levels, suffer the same health problems as overweight sedentary people? Seriously, I'm curious if people have looked this.
Wow. And here I was thinking it was just a shitty excuse for a Wiki, and I've used it for months at past jobs.
James Hamilton referenced this in a blog post today. He was pretty skeptical. He's been a proponent of SSDs in some applications, but he can't see how their cost can be justified yet on the basis of power efficiency alone.

The power efficiency + higher overall iops justify the up front cost in applications where there is a high ratio of iops/GB stored, but most data is not accessed frequently, and Im sure that social nets are no exception. It totally makes sense though to reduce the need for RAM caches, since it is both cheaper per GB than RAM, and draws less power.
Google docs is pretty much just like Sharepoint, except you don't need a massive install of Microsoft Office (read: bloat) to edit the documents. I don't see how Google docs is more difficult than Sharepoint, the interface is the same. You navigate around a list of documents, you click on one, and it spawns the editor for that document type.
It is something that managers love, and admins hate. It is an over-engineered mess that doesn't do what you'd expect it to do, but does a lot of what you don't need it to do. After supporting it for two years, I was happy to drop it for several other solutions that combined did what Sharepoint is supposed to do properly. I know, this was a non-answer.
Is Apple Going to Support Augmented Reality, After All?
It allows companies to build knowledge portals for their organizations. It provides building blocks in the form of wikis, forums, and knowledgebases to achieve this goal. If you've ever used Community Server you'd find Sharepoint very similar.

I believe it also includes document repositories, collaboration, and syncing, and is tightly integrated with the Office suite.

Its clunkly and Microsoftish to be sure, but its here, it works, and its been deployed across many huge organizations. Implementing a knowledge portal is often a culture and process problem more than a software problem, and its here that Microsoft has excelled with Sharepoint.

Its easy to write off to be sure, being made by MS and decidely "1.0", but this is the big brand alternative to collaboration tools like Dropbox, Etherpad, and yes, Google Wave.
It is the Microsoft Access of web applications.
No, I think "decent" is the word I wanted, and of course it is a subjective opinion.

For comparison, a game that is not particularly AAA (certainly not by today's standards) would be something like Civ 2; this is another decent game that has huge replay value. If WoG had replay value similar to it, then I would have really gotten my money's worth, from my perspective.

But then you go on to make a rather odd argument, which seems to me to be moral in nature, suggesting that I should feel bad because I like getting lots of stuff for very little cost. Well I'm sorry, I don't see it that way; the key advantage of software in a global economy is that marginal cost is tiny, so excellent content should be cheap.

And the experiences I've gotten out of games like Far Cry, Thief, Civ 2, etc., have been infinitely more memorable than the gameplay I've had from WoG.

Thief: once, when looting a room, I was surprised to hear a guard say "what's going on here then", and I was just able to avoid detection by nipping into the shadow behind a pillar. When I was playing it, it affected me so deeply I walked down the street differently after sundown.

Far Cry: the experience of coming out of the cave where you wake up, and into the lush Pacific island environment, was amazing; one of the first things I did after I got my hands on my first jeep was drive through at relatively high speed past most of the mercs on that first level, all the way to cliff looking towards the aircraft carrier, and jumping out at the last moment, and watching my jeep sail over, crash and explode at the bottom. It was cinematic, unscripted, and I was in control.

Civ 2: Well, every time I get into that game, and I can still get into it now over a decade later, I build a country that becomes part of me, the names and locations of the cities familiar. It becomes my own territory, a place I feel at home.

WoG: it's a puzzle game, it's a bit like those ad-sponsored flash timewasters, only drawn out and developed a bit more. But I just don't see it as being particularly valuable. Sorry for feeling happy about having that judgement.
I think it serves a very real need: discipline. By making it the most basic wave feature, they're committing to making sure that the system can always handle a constant stream of realtime updates from every user. If anybody breaks it or introduces a performance regression, everybody will notice. It also means that people writing robots and extensions can assume that they can deal with updates in realtime, on such a fine grained level. If extension writers had to worry that per-character updates might introduce too much overhead, it would hamper their creativity.
Seriously? This wouldn't have been +1 Interesting on Slashdot in 1998.
The U.S. Can't Manufacture the Kindle and That's a Problem
Will Cloud Computing Ever Be Up to the Challenge?
If you are one person, no. Don't promote the fact that you're a one-person shop.

If you're multiple people, plenty of startups (Kayak and Meebo come to mind) put pictures up.
box.net seems to be squarely targeting sharepoint users.
If there's an afterwards, you're doing the meetup wrong :)
What about network shares?
Goes to show that: urgent need + simple solution = home run.
Digg vs. the human hand: Why the world needs an editor
I get where you are going, but my personal experience has taught me otherwise. A 10X gain on nominal value after 3 years of work isn't atypical. Doesn't make you a millionaire, but it does help pay the mortgage.
This is something of an extension of a rant I posted here last night: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=880792

Between that and the (very funny) Digg parody, it helped me collect my thoughts a little. Would love your thoughts on this matter. :)
It seems like there is growing interest in integrating products with it (non MS products) - might be a market growing for add ons, who knows. I only hear screams of pain.
Nice. Thanks for finally getting Chicago organized!

I am both looking forward to and dreading meeting tptacek in real life ;)
Yup. This nails it. The biggest problem with wave is I think they took it just one baby step too far in abstraction. The thing needs to clearly separate these two uses (collaboration, conversation), and all of my main gripes of the thing will disappear. Not sure of the best way (one could imagine a fixed layout as you suggest, another way would be to allow users to filter things more easily, whatever) but without this Waves (at least, the big ones) degrade to the least-common-denominator of the various use cases: chat rooms.
Glad you got it, I actually thought it was a sound legal argument. I don't expect many of my fellow HN readers to agree, but I thought they might find it interesting.
A few points:

* The worth of something to an individual isn't an intrinsic value; it's either a use value (they'll consume it) or an exchange value (they'll buy it, and perhaps sell it at some other point).

* I don't assign monetary value to my time out of habit, but sometimes quantitative tools are useful for analysing decisions. That's how economics works: it's about analysing choice.

* You persist in talking about generic FPSes. I am specifically not talking about generic FPSes.

* You can empathise with one group of developers all you like, but I can guarantee you there are lots more, and larger, groups of developers elsewhere that you are explicitly choosing not to empathise with. It sounds like you're making a moral argument, but I would posit that the utilitarian balance of your position is unsound.

* I'm cheap enough to regret mistakes, because if you don't regret mistakes, you won't learn from them, and you'll end up losing far more than $20.
OK, I apologize in advance, but that's a funny one.
I can't believe nobody's mentioned The Matrix yet ... this is precisely the film's whole point.

In particular, that the most interesting system to which these ideas apply is your own mind. "Free your mind, Neo."

So, then, spirituality, meditation, prayer, rituals, shamans, placebo effect, etc. = humanity's mind-lisp macros, passed down through the ages?
"Black hole" is misleading since the usage is a fairly significant departure from the usual definition. It's really closer to "black body" for a particular chunk of the spectrum.
The Wired bit confuses matters further by talking about things being 'sucked into' the 'black hole'.
You work for a large company with IT locked down, and this is the one "collaboration platform" available to you. Oh, but no Sharepoint Designer for you, my friend, if you want to make it do real tricks it will be with emacs (assuming you have jumped through the nine rings of fire to obtain permission for cygwin).

But I would leave out the "love it" part.
The traffic and pedestrian system has grown organically into what it is now. That includes cars that make noise, and that fact is taken into account when we learn to be pedestrians in the traffic system.

So we have a system with noise as part of an evolved safety system, and now we're going to randomly sprinkle ninja juggernauts into the mix.

No, cars don't have to make noise. Unless they're going to coexist with the current system and its users. I certainly don't think municipalities should have to cut (and maintain) grooves in crossings, and blind people should have to get dogs when none were needed, merely so cool kids can go "whoosh!"

I'm not blind, but I'm sure going to feel endangered when most cars are silent and we still mix pedestrians and cars the way we do now.

Not only should cars be required to make noise, but the noise should conform to traffic safety regulations, similar to how headlights and brakelights must conform in their way.

Edit: I don't think unregulated "ring tones" should be allowed, but if they were, man I would feel so cool going down the road as my car cried out "Bring out your dead! <clang> Bring out your dead! <clang>"
makes a born and bred Linux person have panic attacks trying to support it.

Stay far away if you dont know MS products. I deal with it now, im not an MS person, its rough.
I believe once DNA decoding become seamless there will be major changes in Banking.

http://tr.im/BPh9
It's like none of these people have ever used Unix talk. You try that for about five minutes before you go back to using write.
i used to work for the company that now owns the music recognition algorithm that shazam is using. it's staggering how much hardware it takes to make this stuff work. they have a database of millions of songs, all of which must be kept in ram at all times, to make recognitions fast. it requires hundreds of linux servers.

despite my preference for stuff i've actually worked on, i think the midomi app works just as well or better. but they were late to the party, so they're having trouble getting the eyeballs.
that unkept youngster might be onto something!
Does anyone remember video phones ... from the 1950s??

Obviously, Google Wave isn't the same thing but anyone following communications media over time should draw the conclusion that more information, more quickly, is no always useful.

No one wants their boss to see their undone hair, no one wants to have to respond in real time to some document and have their keystrokes visible. The delay of email as compared to chat, has it's advantages, otherwise some form of chat would have 'won' already.
SharePoint does everything.

Think of it as a document posting, storage, and workflow system, where documents can be plan text or html, or any kind of office doc.

So, for instance, you can easily set up a web form for people to fill out to get a service, then set up the routing for that form to get approved, checked, and added into the corp database.

Or a doc could be a blog, with threaded comments. Or a catalog system, with ordering and inventory.

It does everything. SharePoint is love.
Netware: the sequel.

And another nice opportunity for lock-in to ms-centric document formats.
I suppose that you could type into another text editor and then cut & paste into wave once you've made your edits. Really kludgy, of course, but if you had to use wave for some reason and were worried about it, then that'd give you the necessary buffer. If the instant-relay proves unpopular I bet they'll offer a way to disable it (or someone will release a plugin or whatnot.)
That's because NVidia uses nonstandard terminology. A real Fermi core looks quite a bit like a vector processor with 32 FPUs.

http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT093009110...

I also found Andy Glew's perspective interesting: http://events.berkeley.edu/?event_ID=21533&date=2009-08-...
your second cto (second cto? there are only three of you!) looks like he's about to cry.
That's not to mention the dozens of us who grew up on BBSes. :)
$9 for a screencast?
if it were 15 months ago, it would be. I still have no clue what it does.
Program-Transformation.Org (decompilation and other goodies)
You could say the same thing about CouchDB!

It seems less pejorative somehow, maybe because in its case the emphasis is on the web, not Access.
It's tricky placing yourself in the "loser with sociopathic tendencies" category. Most people see themselves this way. No one identifies with Michael. Everyone identifies with Jim.
100 years of Big Content fearing technology, in its own words.
I think Google Wave will succeed...eventually. I'm not sure if they are aiming it as a replacement for GMail. Most non-technical people I talk to have no clue what Google Wave is and when I explain it to them, they usually could care less.

The concept is a big change from what we people are familiar with today and I think the only way for Google to try to make it a household name like GMail is to slowly merge the features into GMail. Once they get a large enough population raving about it, these people will usually make their friends/family/colleagues try it out, and from there adoption will gradually increase. But if Wave is not a replacement for GMail, I'm not sure people will go out of their way to use another service that most of the time their email program will do just fine.

Now, if you like the Google Wave concept, I ask you to give MooGroups (http://moogroups.com) a try. You get the power of centralized discussions directly in your inbox, without ever having to leave your inbox, without having to create an account, and while using any email program. Plus a polls gadget based on free-form text.
Yes, by the description it sounds like a blackbody. But it doesn't look that black in the picture... ;-)
It's hard to give a definite answer without knowing who your target market is or who you are. If you are a B2C, connecting personally is good, everyone loves the underdog startup. If you are a B2B, it may be difficult to land large contracts with that sort of persona.
The eye is drawn to motion, which is another key problem with instant typing.

I would bet you actually spend more total time & mental energy reading a sequence of characters that keep disappearing and appearing than you do an IM conversation, where you can scan several (complete) lines in a second.

You can also multi-task and multi-convo on IM without being rude, which is why it's so much better than a phone call for technical conversations w/ colleagues.
xargs + ssh = poor man's hadoop.
40 years ago I'm sure email seemed like a "niche tool" used by only the technical savvy. I'm not saying that Wave will replace (or even that it should replace) email, but I do think that, especially as a younger, more technically savvy generation grows up (I'd gander that less than 10% of the students at my high school don't actively use Facebook), and as that younger generation enters the workforce, technologies like this will rise up and become a popular standard. Whether or not it will be Wave remains to be seen.
GROUPWARE!!!! that's ancient marketing!

Makes me remember when I was young and windows 3.11 for workgroups was the sh*t ;)
hey dave, good to see you on news.yc haha (I met you at ACM & HackU) Pity we can't make it monday. It would have been cool :/
Zigbee, a simplified successor to Bluetooth, has become pretty important to industrial and power grid computing; WPAN wifi was around when those standards were drafted. I don't think direct wi-fi is an automatic win.
A great movie on corporate darwinism:

The Method (2005) Spain/Argentina
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427582/
For one of my 'hobby' projects I messed around with a plasmacutter, first manually, later by computer control ( http://ww.com/plasmacutter/front.jpg ), if there is one toy every boy should have this is it.

A plasma knife sounds a little limited though, given the amount of power you need for this.

The torch in the photo makes a 3/4" (18 mm) cut through steel and uses about 10KW of power while it does that.
We are using Confluence Wiki, Jira Issue Tracking, and Greenhopper for release planning and love it but I can attest even with only a few users Confluence requires more memory than a small 256meg slice can offer. We are on a 512meg slice with Chunkhost and are planning to upgrade to a 1gig slice due to performance issues.

Still, $10 each for 10 users is a great offer.
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I've never been up around the Berkeley area before. So, I'd like to know if you guys had any tips/recommendations/etc about good cheap hotels/restaurants/etc in the area that should be worth checking out. Also, tips transportation wise would be great. I've seen BART mentioned a few times and although I am unaware as to why a cartoon character is relevant, further explanation and suggestions would be really appreciated.

Also, anyone planning on having any meetups or events for the weekend?

Hope this helps others as well.
I'm down. This should be awesome.
You can't build an entire application from within a user interface with CouchDB. Access was both a crappy database and a simple interface for putting front-ends on that database.
SVK a decentralized version control system based on SVN
It is a very, very easy way to build document-centric internal applications for enterprises that use .DOC and .XLS files (meaning, every enterprise). It's popular for exactly the same reason Access was popular: it drastically reduces the cost of basic business applications.

Normal everyday people don't get much direct benefit from it, although they do benefit indirectly:

* They don't have to implement business processes by "mailing form 3021-C to Clara in Purchasing"

* It sets a lowest common denominator for bizapps that is better than what enterprises get from bespoke .NET and J2EE dev.
I'm the principal author of one of these example apps (Insoshi, a social networking platform developed as part of YC Winter '08). It's a bit out of date (running on Rails 2.2), but still quite decent. I'm currently working on a Rails tutorial book that will include a fully up-to-date and (I hope) high-quality sample Rails app; keep an eye on http://www.railstutorial.org/ for more details. You should follow the project on Twitter at http://twitter.com/railstutorial for all the latest news. Note: some major announcements are coming soon. :-)
check out Wiggio (www.wiggio.com)... very simple!
Stories of natives performing spectacular feats well beyond those of modern athletes have been told for ages.

Every single one of them turned out to be false.

These are most likely no different.
yup: http://sites.box.net/simple/
$9 for a single screencast is a little pricey, but over a year ago I bought the one-year option, and don't regret it at all. They're all high quality and worth it, I think. But, they haven't added enough new screencasts to make it worth me renewing since my subscription lapsed.
I'd just use any Wiki that allows hierarchical divisions/namespaces (e.g. 'webs' in TWiki) and file attachments. Check out TWiki (http://twiki.org) or a comparison between wikis (google >wiki comparison matrix< and I think you'll find it).
BART will get you from San Francisco to Berkeley. (and other places of course) It might or might not be useful depending on where you're staying. It is recommended though because the parking situation will most likely be pretty bad. More info at http://bart.gov/
Diffie Hellman Parameter Validation Attacks Explained
I don't post my own stuff often, but I just rescued this old blog post from our database dump, read it, and kind of liked it. It's short, tight, and is a pretty good example of why it's hard to build good crypto (and why you shouldn't use SRP as your authentication protocol).
Well that was a let-down. I didn't know about this gimmicky fan. I thought someone had put fins on a Dyson sphere. That would be way cool.