skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Security by obscurity in the cloud cannot last as the gold standard
If I like ugly things, great. I can find art I enjoy for cheap.

People are weirdly insecure about their taste in visual art. Nobody worries "Uh-oh, what if I like music that's actually bad?" I guess at least with bad music, you feel like you have company. If you're into Eminem you'll meet other people with Eminem T-shirts, but you don't see people with Thomas Kinkade or Jeff Koons T-shirts.
Sounds a lot like Kwanzaa =)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa
Googling "myisam vs innodb" gives a lot of pretty informative results, including (http://tag1consulting.com/MySQL_Engines_MyISAM_vs_InnoDB).

The big turn-off for me with MyISAM is that I can run a script to create some tables and setup for FK dependancies, and it will happily run it without errors, but won't enforce the constraints I created. Terrible behavior. I need foreign keys, transactions, row locking, etc...

Of course I now happily use PostgreSQL:)
I'd read about Listia before and never got it. For some reason it made much more sense this time.
You can talk to friends and family without making it public.

Increasingly, you can't. I understand your decision to avoid making your own comments public as a rule, but once you've said something to someone, it may go public through their use of twitter, facebook, et al. As more people start lifelogging and vlogging, it will become likely that you're effectively in public at any time, even in the "privacy" of a friend's home or your own.
For a much better take on releasing late, try Dick Costolo's (FeedBurner founder) Launch Late to Launch Often:
http://www.burningdoor.com/askthewizard/2007/03/launch_late_...
Why ? Tomcat costs just as much as apache/php/python/perl costs.
Darn, I thought this was something to deal with people sending you stuff that was addressed to somebody else they know with the same name and nearly the same email address. I'm not talking about people who have me in their address book, just random people who fat-finger an email address.
This is really cool. Is this something that has an API so you can build it into your own apps?

Are there any objective reviews of the Numenta HTM stuff?
MyISAM is like the ext2 filesystem. You crash and you end up spending a long time doing an fsck, where you have to verify the consistency by walking all the data structures. InnoDB is more like ext3, where you can make things consistent by replaying the changes in the journal. Doing repair on a large MyISAM table can take hours and hours.
What if it all made perfect sense and you were, in fact, the clueless one?

I'm just saying...
Why I switched use X?
Ward's Wiki (The Portland Pattern Repository) has a short list of "Programs to Read" at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ProgramsToRead.
Should there be a word? "NIH mentality" is close, but not exactly what's claimed in the article.
For some people I'm sure it's a thicker fog.
The MPEG group should license their portfolio for free for HTML5 browsers. That will cement them as "the" format

This is akin to the faux pas of asking someone to work for free because it would look good on their resume or in their portfolio. It would only be plausible if h.264 weren't already very successful.
I think this completely missed the point of the article, it wasn't that 'makers' were unwilling or unable to work under a managers schedule it was that 'makers' are more productive when they are able to work straight through their problems for long periods of time when they have gotten into a groove.

If say you are in a groove and really starting to understand and solve a problem and then you must take an hour or two hour break to listen to a meeting on productivity you can completely lose focus and have to start thinking anew when you go back to work.
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FB should be more difficult as well because they aren't just showing streaming information. They're making (supposedly) intelligent decisions on what information to show you. Twitter is just showing you a "dumb" stream.
But is also has to do with how frequently the information is changed/accessed.

e.g. If Oprah only publishes 3 tweets a day, but her one million followers each check 100 times a day (just to be on the bleeding edge of gossip), it's much less effort to push the change.

On the flip side, if you post status changes several times a day but your followers rarely check (daily/weekly), pull may make more sense.

Although, I suppose that a push inherently requires an update/write, while a pull is generally a read. Seems like this might need to be taken into consideration as well.
That is a great-looking site. (Although if you happen to know the designer, you might suggest making the voting statistics chart more clear. You can't tell which choices correspond to which colors unless you vote.)
Thanks - glad you found it useful! The intro was there because writing about degrees is a departure from my normal topics. (I write predominately about business principles and self-education.) Didn't want my audience to think I went completely off the deep end. :-)
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A power supply designer would be super-useful. I've designed at least a dozen onto PCBs in the last several years, all pretty similar to a few reference designs. It's a constant pain in the butt to keep up with obsoleted capacitors. I'd love to see a fully general-purpose power supply designer, where I enter a voltage & power and it spits out a working schematic complete with intelligently selected minimum-cost part numbers.
Just because Twitter and Digg don't operate at the same scale as Facebook doesn't mean they don't face similar issues.

I actually think having a bunch of large sites tackling similar issues will present a whole bunch of neat new technologies for addressing these sorts of issues in the near future.
Uber Cool (TM)
I get stuff from Google for free, why not let them get something back?
The real trick is gauging your audience. I think that's where perhaps some techies (and some subset of any profession) fall down. If you assume the person knows too little about tech then you can come off condescending, if you assume they know too much then you go right over their heads.

Actually it's no different than any conversation on any topic you might have with someone, it's just that in tech the jargon can tend to get thick fast.
Internet coalescing into lump of Google
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At the same time, facebook can simply drop messages on the floor if they're bottlenecked, so they have less strict scaling requirements.
I found that by telling people outright that your the CTO and sole developer let's you off the hook from having to actually try to sell them anything. Often they will relax and actually have a real discussion with you about your product.

Only salespeople should do a 'sales' pitch. Technical people are best off with an 'innocent' reach out to talk about the product to see if they might be interested in it (or just have constructive feedback). Tell them about your product, what you find most applicable to their business, then do what sales people don't often do.

Listen.

Then, at the very end, if they are interested, close with a prepared line about a demo or ask if you could go over pricing or something. A good line is "are you interested in being a customer of ours?". If they are interested figure out ahead of time a commitment they can make that proves it. Perhaps it's an opening order. Maybe it's a followup phone call to review a price sheet you're about to email them. Define what a successful call is before you make it as you don't want to be caught off guard and you want to have the appropriate commitment for your industry and product.

Some people just get so excited about an honest conversation with someone knowledgeable about their business concerns they'll be your customer because they believe in you first and your product second. But make sure they know there is a price to this insider information in the form of a commitment or a purchase order!

Another 'get out of jail card' is if they ask for something you aren't aware of, like can they have longer terms or pay in a lump sum always say 'I'd have to talk to a sales guy (or CEO) about that one'. Even if it's your final decision, it gives you time to figure out if it's a good deal for you despite our innate desire to say 'yes' to anything to close the sale.
User statuses should never touch hard disk? What happens when your server restarts and everything you were storing in memory disappears?
.NET Version Penetration From Past 6 Months
Well yes, but I have been unable to find a host for tomcat the way you could find a host for, say php.

Quite understandable for the market they operate in, but a bit unfortunate for the hobby projects that might benefit from them.
Comcast customer service
Comcast customer service is available to customers around the clock all day everyday.
This article assumes that "the public" is a homogeneous group. In reality, if you want to release a polished, useful app to "the public" (i.e. a median target user), you probably need to release early and often to early adopters first.
Wikipedia In Your Pocket for $99
> Every profession has its own jargon.

Exactly. Just switch to bloomberg or msnbc and listen to how "cable breaks out against yen out from consolidation range which was a result of previous head and shoulders resistance level." I made that up, but could be true and make sense.
I'm not talking about absolute scale. Facebook is small compared to Google scale, but in my (probably poorly) informed opinion it's not as impressive.

All these sites have scaled to multiple servers, which means they've all had to address some of the hard problems, and no doubt that many of the issues are very similar. However even if Facebook's traffic were half of Twitter's it would still be a much more impressive architecture. They support a full-on integrated development platform for crying out loud. That is orders of magnitude more impressive than Twitter's lightweight API whether they're serving 100 or 100,000 requests per second.

I'm not dissing Twitter either, it's just that what Facebook has going is pretty incredible. Consider that failing to scale is basically what killed Friendster.
Idea: Reversed news
First of all pardon me in advanced if my english doesn't make sense to some but i try to define my ideas that got struck me yesterday the best i can.

Here is it:
news/articles based on people comments, contrary to traditional way which the news/articles that people comments on. In other word, comments that produced a news rather than news that generated comments. It work like this: people will given a specific topic (or any topic at all) to comment on. from all that comments then a selected few that relevant or the best in that sense will be a based on or references as to produced the news or an articles.

I dont know if this make sense, but if anybody got what i mean, please describe it better. Is it something like that?
Ah gotcha. I checked the definition at a few places but the context still seemed unclear.

I agree, one way or the other is fine. Do you use 'self' because you're a Ruby coder? That actually the reason I would stay away from it! But then again I'm easily confused :-p
Introducing Brick: 100% less power than air conditioning.
Another blog post that would have been better off as a tweet:

"Follow the path of least resistance and be part of the system or ride your own wave instead."
Just so you know, the "Cost" link on this page is broken:

http://octopart.com/api/documentation
Gallatin program at NYU - highly individualized doctoral programs.

Streamline reporting to "outsource" the crap normally required by you in the manager role - use work pipelines with highly detailed drop down representations of work status/problem status. Have your mentees/workers complete so that you can review & tweak where necessary to get the greatest amount of detail without having to review much -
On the hp I don't see what makes it special.

The name sounds awful to me and combined with the design it inspires associations with unpleasant business products.
Time to start collecting the millions of variations on the "standard" orange RSS logo, and 80x15 badges, and social network follow buttons, et cetera.
Is it really so wrong to block people on social media networks?
I don't think the problem with the old guard is merely greed. Lets face it the new guard is pretty greedy too. I think the problem with the old guard is the notion that they can make money simply by virtue of their connections.

This is something that is embedded in new york finance and business culture. You make connections and get rich by introducing people to one another and taking a cut for the privilege. Thus, investment banks are not really banks in the traditional sense of the word but are more like brokers that connect investors with people that need capital.

With the internet, this model will change and is changing. It is not that hard for people to connect and one does not need to pay hefty fees to do it. So the old cliché about the internet cutting out the middleman is actually slowly happening in the world of finance after it happened in the worlds of computer sales, book sales, automobile parts, music sales, etc.

I think intermediaries will still be important but they will have to bring more to the table than merely having a fat rolodex. They will probably have to be able to do much more filtering and the like. For example, I-banks can still make a lot of money if they are able to select good investments for their investors. But lately they have not done well in that department.
I like 960.gs a lot. I've also used both YUI grids and blueprint with compass which are also great. To the OP, any combination of a grid system with Sass will make CSS much more of a pleasure to work with.

I would recommend using code folding over single line CSS which can easily get cluttered. By using cold folding you get the benefit of having one line per style, but you can jump down into a particular declaration and still have the readability of multiline styles.
nice find! Check out these guys as well:

http://www.wikipock.com/
Twisting your definition of luck? Obviously the "lucky" people in the experiment considered themselves lucky based on a different metric than yours. The "unlucky" people seemed to be using a similar metric. This experiment addressed that metric. So what's the problem?

I will use this example again. If I learn how to prospect for gold, does this count as increasing my luck since chances are higher that I will be able to find gold?

How did you learn to prospect for gold? How did you decide where to prospect? If you're "lucky", you saw someone at the bar buy a round of shots because of a nice day prospecting, you struck up a conversation with him, became acquaintances, and joined him on his next prospecting trip. If you're "unlucky", you thought, Man, that guy's so lucky. Everyone's luckier than me, as you took the shot and ordered another beer.
Yes, and technically this could also generate

* Why I don't switched use to X
* Why I don't don't don't to to to to X

etc...

I think we need:

Why I (don't use|switched to){1} X
How Thinking Goes Wrong: Fallacies That Lead Us to Believe Weird Things
A low-end Linode box is only $20/month and has plenty of capacity for Tomcat and company.

Alternatively, you Rackspace have a 256mb VM for $11/month, though you have to add bandwidth ontop of that.
Good idea. By the responses, it looks like there are several Chicago HN'ers!
Many of us are simply not interested in WYSIWYG front-ends.

Plain TeX/LaTeX can be generated programmatically, used with a version control system of one's choice, and edited on just about any machine.
Oracle OpenWorld - A RAC Connection Management Solution With Chris Akker
Hard Work's Overrated, Maybe Detrimental
slicehost:

http://www.slicehost.com/

$20 / month, full root access. Install tomcat and off you go.

That's cheaper than most bad habits ;)
Yes. Here's one that is very good (and also has a pretty good website). Spend a little time surfing it to get an idea of the kinds of things they do and what you could get out of it, maybe not now, but someday. I know the next time I launch, this guy's time will be in my budget if for no other reason that to get my concerns addressed by an independent rational mind.

http://ashdalegroup.com/
Perhaps additionally, it's because there is always counter perspective that, for somethings, ring true.
Um, it's none of YOUR business how these firms run their deals. Not that I find the practice equitable, nor a lawsuit meritorious on the available information, but if that's THEIR business model and the founders are willing to fork over the cash, that's THEIR CHOICE.

If you really want to FIX this, offer up a viable structured alternative to aggressively pursue their business. It's easy to throw spit-balls from the back of the classroom. I'd expect much more from somebody who's been down that road--on both sides of the table.

Instead this whole affair comes across, in gestalt, as a series of public ad hominem attacks on other parties and a plea for personal attention in the minimus.

If your ambition is to be a "shock podcaster" and garner a Dave Winer-esque reputation, you're, sadly, headed down the right track. You complained about being publicly "berated" at Gnomedex '07. Kettle. Pot. Black.
Well, anything touched by Ilya Zakharevich is going to be hard to read, even by the standards of the Perl source code. That means that the regular expression engine will be particularly hard to read.
who else wants a "web 1.0" holiday?
Or for $1.99... http://www.appsafari.com/searching/3506/iphone-wikipedia/
It hink it really depends on product. Even within the world of software, as always - it depends.

Example: Blizzard Entertainment. They are well known for releasing "When it's Done." or fixing things "Soon". It would be hard to argue taht the strategy hasn't paid off for them. I'm not sure if a large MMO or RTS is really the kind of software that can best benefit from having a minimal feature set.

I think it's important to know your audience when writing something,and this article seems somewhat out of context without knowing who the intended audience was.
Can't you get an iPhone for $99 now? Seems like a much better deal with more functionality.
It's like a slightly-less-but-still-awesome Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy :)
If possible, meet your prospects in person. Go to industry events, shows, etc. Have a 20 sec pitch NAILED. Practice it incessantly on friends and family--anyone should be able to "get it" no matter how technical the product. Tailor it to their needs, not features. Make your goal to get an actual meeting with someone. Prepare a very short written "pitch" presentation. Make it look good.

Rinse and repeat. As others said, let rejection fuel--not discourage--you.
Not that this is really relevant to the article or invention itself, but there was one line that made me instantly dislike the product (knee jerk reaction, I know.)

"But most important of all the blades give a buffeting when they come on. It's uncomfortable and you don't enjoy it."

My initial reaction to this line was "don't tell me what I don't enjoy." From that point on, I didn't want to like his new fan.
"But in the end, they won't call me a rebel. Because I wasn't ... I was just being myself. "

ego much?
The thing is that you need a data plan for an iPhone to work. This doesn't require anything. (I assume they have something similar to the Kindle)

edit: nevermind. The store page shows this:
"Annual Update Subscription $29 for two updates per year
Receive content updates for your WikiReader delivered to your door."

It seems to say that the content is loaded once and for all? Surprising… so, it doesn't require a subscription but the content is not live.
I agree the Wikipedia device is priced way too high, but you cannot buy an iPhone for $99, or even $199. The money you give Apple is just a down payment.
You can't store everything in memory all the time. There simply isn't a computer built which can do that. Horizontal scaling with commodity boxes and layers of cache are the most cheap and effective method of returning a high rate of requests as quickly as possible.
what about the itouch then?
The greylist daemon I wrote (http://www.x-grey.com/) keeps everything in memory, with a checkpoint (everything gets written out to disk) every hour (the main process forks, and it's the child that does the writing). A similar approach might be applicable here.

It could very well be a RAM based approach might be viable once memristros (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor#Potential_application...) are used for memory.
Or iPod Touch + Patrick Collison's offline Wikipedia app: http://collison.ie/wikipedia-iphone/
Isn't that called a forum?
Fox shenanigans.
Let me clarify my initial comment. The author critiques the notion that the God of the Bible created a "natural world" in which there are mutations and other observed travesties. One would expect, as the author points out, that a world created by God would be perfect. The creation account does in fact describe a creation that was perfect and in complete harmony, physicality and spiritually. When an imperfection (SIN) was introduced into a perfect world everything changed. One could argue if it (the natural world) was perfect how could an imperfection be introduced. This leads into the topic of free will. Could there be a perfect world where there exist no free will? As the account goes free will was part of creation so the imperfection was allowed to be introduced and the rest is history.

I am not attempting to arguing that the creation account is accurate, I am pointing out that the author is not describing the Creation account accurately.

It seems to be an effect strategy when trying to win an argument to tell a half truth about the apposing idea or position then attack that idea or position based on the half truth. By truth I mean the "true" creation account not the accuracy of the creation account.

I was away for a few days so I could not respond in a more timely manner.

On a completely different subject regarding down voting. Does it mean that one does not agree with the content, that the content has no insight, or that the content adds no value? The third is the area that I/We are trying to solve in a web application solution soon to be deployed.

Using my initial comment as an example had I not posted that comment what "value adding" content would have never been created. If my content resulted in "value adding" content is it not then "value adding" content? Is a good proxy of "value adding" content, content which produces or causes other content creation?
Study: Most Internet traffic bypasses tier-one networks
Posting people's personal experiences in dealing with these organizations, with the willingness to publicize contrary opinions (ie positive experiences), and letting individuals decide for themselves is a tribute to the community. The inner-workings of these groups are generally clandestine - exposing information not readily-available to the average entrepreneur about them can't be a bad thing.
I'm all for calacanis for ratting these guys out. They're no different for those spammy cash4gold programs out there. They exist for the sole purpose of fleecing money from people who don't know better.
Polladium is a cross between a polling site, and a social network.
And um... how big is the screen?
IPhone App lets you do work alongside Kenyan refugees
$99... and a $75 a month bill for two years.

Sure, you could pick up an iPod Touch for $199 but that's twice as much, has worse battery life, looks like it'd be far more fragile, and no way to prevent kids for accessing the more adult Wikipedia areas.

This looks like a great device you could give to your 9+ kids to help with homework.
Microsoft a "Bunch of Clueless Idiots," Says Danger Source