skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having used ZFS on my servers for a few years, it's a bit disappointing that it's not available on my Mac OS X desktop.

Not necessarily because it's ZFS, which is no longer state of the art. But because I've come to consider strong cryptographic checksums, free snapshots and trivial administration of storage as a bare minimum of what's required in a filesystem.

While ZFS may not be completely suitable for a consumer desktop, it is available now. Plus with the hierarchical storage features, imagine how wonderful it would be to have your multi-TB disc accelerated by a few GB of flash on the motherboard.

It's taken ZFS a long time to get where it is in terms of features and stability. It may be over five years before Apple can produce something tried and tested enough to be their new default filesystem.
It helped that most of the party crashers were girls!
The Economics of Pick-your-own Orchards
Related, PG's "On Lisp" to Clojure: http://blog.thinkrelevance.com/2008/12/12/on-lisp-clojure
Well, I thought he would bomb hard, I expected heckling — and I was pleasantly surprised that nothing of the sort happened.

I do wish he talked less about the obvious price structure / customer interaction stuff and more about the actual process of shipping such things.
PSP Firmware 5.50 Released
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60357
I already have (asked them) :-P

http://twitter.com/swombat/status/4965038124
Caffeine addiction transference?
Robert Scoble making an ass out of himself repeatedly.

He actually interrupted Tony Hsieh in mid-sentence in the middle of his talk, and with an obviously stupid question that Tony shot down without really missing a beat: "What specifically do you ask people in interviews to see if they're egotistical?"

A few minutes into Zuckerberg's talk he started raising his hand, and then spent the remainder bouncing up and down in his chair. From all that buildup I expected him to ask a confrontational drama-queen non-question about Friendfeed, but instead he nervously asked a nonsense question about how he's managing his employees as he wanders their offices. It seemed to me that it was some veiled drama, or something only a company-tour addict would give a shit about.

In one of the later talks someone thankfully took the microphone back from him before he could try to ask another question after the final one (he was standing and approaching the stage!)

At first I was thinking that he should be actively disinvited from future events, but I had a long productive conversation with him afterwards (though not about his recent asshattery, his face is pink enough as it is). I've come to the conclusion that his presence is useful, but that he should never be allowed to ask questions — the best that could happen is irrelevant softball non-questions that waste everyone's time.
I don't see the problem as a scientific one if the vaccine is effective against what is't supposed to be effective against.

If the problem is that "people" believe that a vaccine against one flu strain will protect them from getting sick from a variety of other viruses, it's a marketing problem.
I bet most people don't drink two bottles of fine wine every day ;-)
There was an absolutely fantastic question from the audience (rms?) for Zuckerberg, followed up with a perfectly elucidated back-and-forth reparté between them (though Jessica was freaking out a bit).

The TechCrunch transcript is just a teaser, the video clip could easily turn into a meme:

Q: Can you talk what it’s like in order to speak publicly so people don’t
pounce on you? Seems like you’ve changed since 2006.
A: Have I not said enough offensive stuff? Is this less interesting?
Q: Yeah… probably less interesting (oooooh from the crowd)
A: Maybe we need more controversial questions.
I accidentally insulted Mark Zuckerberg. I asked my question about PR lessons and he kind of put it back to me.

If I had had Zuckerberg's PR lessons, I would have more deftly answered his yes or no question with an explanation, but I was kind of uncomfortable since I wasn't expecting to have a dialog.

I do think that going through the process of PR training makes one less interesting. It's not that he and other high-profile CEOs aren't honest, it's that they are hyper-aware of their words and are most comfortable sharing thoughts they have already had, the particular talking points that they know are ok to repeat in public. To me, candor is always more interesting than old thoughts.

Anyways, that's what I was thinking; I'm aware I kind of looked like an asshole. Sorry about that; didn't want to create any question drama. I apologized afterwards and he said he didn't care and thought it was funny.

Zuckerberg was probably my favorite talk. In a room full of entrepreneurs, none of us will probably achieve what he has achieved. Most of us aren't even trying for something like that.
I'm surprised how controversial it is to demand placebo trials. The whole thing about ethics is ridiculous as the participants could be told about the uncertainties, about the majority and the minority views.

It shouldn't be hard to find enough educated people to volunteer in the interest of the billions potentially affected by the flu.
JL's interview with Mark Zuckerberg (~transcript, not word for word)
How to recover deleted files
Online advertising doesn't compete against traditional broadcast advertising on a level playing field. You can directly measure a lot of the effectiveness of an online ad. That's much harder to do with traditional ads, so everyone uses statistical models for pricing. Except those models are probably mostly garbage.

Likely online advertising meets or exceeds the actual performance of traditional ads, but people have yet to admit out loud that the emperor has no clothes. That's only a matter of time though, and the result won't be any different than the current reality: to maintain the production levels people are used to, business models are going to have to change, whether it's subscriptions like Hulu is going for, or something else entirely.
Had a similar scumbag slumlord who, when I attempted to push the rate at which our under-renovation once-beautiful brick building on the border of open air drug markets was being renovated (it wasn't even in compliance with codes, no certificate of occupancy, when we moved in) by offering an advance on rent. I was at home rather frequently as I telecommuted to my webmaster/tech lead job at the city newspaper, but still, similar BS attitudes. Renting sucks.
The quality of service issue had nothing to do with Justin.tv. The problem with streaming big events is that the connection is always saturated. In this case, the auditorium tech who was supposed to give us an independent line accidentally hooked us into the same connection as the wifi router.
The ATC example is probably fairly bad one - because the real reason they would want it in C++ is that there are a bazillion very good C++ programmers they can grab to fix stuff in emergencies.

Finding a solid Scala programmer in a pinch is less easy

(we do some work on Bank software and they do the same thing pretty much)
I don't think it's a failure as much as it's a case of the market not being ready yet.

Hulu, last I checked, reports about 370 million streams a month which lines up with Compete.com's numbers which puts them at about 7 million viewers per month (around 12 streams average per user per week).

That number puts their entire audience lower than most single TV shows (CBS manages to get at least 8 million viewers on Friday night at 10pm which is the worst time slot in existance for broadcast TV). Couple that with the fact that Online TV shows only being able to support a few commercials per show and you have a very tough market.

But as Online video reaches critical mass and the audience grows I think you'll start to see a more sustainable ad based revenue model
Poll: What bug tracking software do you use?
As requested by tmpk: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=901314

"Which of the following do you use in your job/start-up: Also, if you could provide the rough number of users that use your particular bug tracking system installation that would be helpful."

(I added a few extra of my own too)
Other (please provide name)
> PS: If someone with sufficient karma can kindly re-submit this as a proper poll, that would be great.

My pleasure: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=901451

(I added a couple more options too - hope that's cool)
Dylanz personal experience alone isn't helpful, true, but what happens to the unvaccinated as a group -- the control group compared to the vaccinated -- is absolutely significant to determining the vaccine's effectiveness.
Summary: The point stands - the customer sometimes demands C++.

(Note: I am the OP - it's my example.)

I think you are supporting the example - the point you make is a large part of the ATC reasoning. Customers demand that their systems are written in a language that they feel confident they can, in a pinch, take over and hire programmers to fix. They believe they can do that for C++, they don't know anything about anything else.

We also have to put code in escrow for this very reasons. We have to provide a package that can be put on a stock piece of hardware and then build the deliverable. Then the auditor checks that the code "looks reasonable," at which point the repository is put on some external device and locked in a safe.

They believe that if it's in a language they've heard of, and have heard is popular, then they can go out and hire programmers to work on the code if they ever have reason to do so.
The £10,000 playlist
I'm on Linux, and even if I do have Flash installed, I vastly prefer regular video files since the performance of Flash is far from optimal on my slow CPU:s.
It would be intensely difficult technically for Apple to port XFS (perhaps not as bad as the rewrite to make it actually use Linux's VFS instead of implementing its own). It's also GPL — never going to happen for that reason alone.

As a longtime XFS user, I can tell you that it has pathological problems when used anywhere near a user's desktop: unlinking is abysmally slow (and even worse under rm -R). It also has a habit of delaying flush for way too long, both using up piles of kernel memory and making itself extremely vulnerable to power loss.
I think the point was that laws that are meant to protect some categories of people can end up hurting them more.

Most people's instinctive reaction would be "let's add another anti-discrimination law". The post gives an example of how that approach can fail.
I use Target Process for managing the entire development process. We're using Scrum as our process, and surfacing bugs within the same tool is a no-brainer. I like that I can identify bugs from changes (product backlog) effectively, and that I can take a bug and convert it to a user story if the scope of the bug justifies it.

It also comes with a helpdesk that allows features and suggestions be fed in.

In my opinion, whatever is handling your development process would ideally handle your bugs too. If the bugs aren't up there and visible as something you need to do before anything else then you don't have control of the quality of your products.

http://www.targetprocess.com/

Requires .Net, ISS, etc.

We have:
Users: 7
Feature requestors: 8
Product owner: 1
Bug reportees: Thousands (anyone from any of the clients where our software is implemented).

Used in the past: Trac, Request Tracker ( http://bestpractical.com/rt/ ), FogBugz.
I remind those interested in sailing about this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=809060
I use FogBugz for customer support and Fossil (http://www.fossil-scm.org) for actually tracking bugs. Users: 1.
Lucid programming language
I use lighthouse ( http://www.lighthouseapp.com ). We are in 6.
Retired at 35 and sailed around the world? this guy is my hero!

Well worth the paperback I should think. Another similar book I've read is Dove by Robin Lee Graham which is well worth checking out if you're into sailing. Things like this really make you re-evaluate your goals/path in life.
You are high as a kite. UFS is more comparable to ext2, except with more data loss and not even a pretense of a stable disk format even within the same platform!
Not perfect, but better than nothing.

http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2009/10/journalists_si...
The biggest barrier for beginners is usually getting an environment working that is transparent, to allow you to get to grips with the actual programming ideas (which, in the beginning, are relatively simple).

For that reason, you might consider playing around with JavaScript, where the effects of your changes are just a "refresh" away. Get hold of jQuery and play with the tutorials, maybe. (Install Firebug so you can see what's going on in your code)

Javascript can actually be a real app since you can store information in an SQL database on the client (in the latest browsers). My first iPhone app was actually a JavaScript page that stores data in SQLite, and uses a CSS template to look just like a native app (it's a Hacker's Diet implementation).

But fnid is right: fundamentally, you need a problem to solve. It's most fun if you implement something that is directly useful to you.
Dude, I didn't take it that way - the tone with which you asked the question seemed more like genuine curiosity, as opposed to trolling. Hopefully Mark took it that way as well...?
Oops, got below 0 for the first time. Sorry, I was joking a bit, didn't mean to be offensive.

I didn't mean to offend python (this time). I think learning different languages helps the mind, and I try to experiment with at least 1 new language every year. So I was thinking if more people have time to learn new languages, everyone will be better off. I hope this makes more sense.
Only a film I know, but http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100318/ comes to mind, was just watching it the other day.

From what everyone is saying about the specific laws in SF it all makes more sense.
Hm, I just saw this question, sorry. I should definitely clarify. I witnessed NO racism or xenophobia at Apple. I was treated very well throughout my internship.

To the best of my knowledge (2006), Apple does H1 visas, but they don't sponsor green card applications. When your H1-B expires, they'll have you work elsewhere until you're eligible for an H1-B again. This is based on a small sample (rumors).
Hail Paul G. Atreides, the Muad 'Dib.
At least Russian space-flight only requires guts, American space-flight also requires a good life insurance.
Same here. 4-5 people, at most 3 / project.
I use FogBugz at Justin.tv. It's well made.
That theme/website looks really good. Stunning.

I'm kind of off-topic, sorry about that guys.
Sun isn't just that small RDBMS...
Sifter: http://sifterapp.com/
In Soda Hall, no-one can hear you scream.
This has nothing to do with high-frequency trading.

Insider trading has to do with with knowledge of important and undisclosed facts about a company. Stuff that, when disclosed, might cause price swings (several percentage points).

HFT works with disclosed information: prices and order books are public. Just because someone has access to this information 10 milliseconds earlier doesn't make it "insider" info. Also, HFT profit margin is usually tiny (measured in basis points).

You're stretching the definition of "insider trading" so much that it's almost meaningless.
http://flyspray.org/
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We use Drupal project_issue for all of our projects (including Webmin). It's not perfect, but it serves our needs pretty well.
Yet another reason why NMDs should be soylent green
"It turned out his research team had about the same number of people working on their FS as Apple had working on HFS, HFS+, UFS, NFS, WebDAV, FAT, and NTFS combined. I think people don't appreciate how productive Apple is on a per-engineer basis."

The thing is that's not quite right. The comparison there is between the crew maintaining file system support versus the crew implementing a new fs from scratch. The Author pays lip service in saying it normally takes more than one OS release to implement a FS, but still underestimates the effort it takes to make a completely new production ready FS.

Yes ZFS is not the be all end all. BtrFS, distributed FS's like Hammer and Venti, as well as the occasional complaint about ZFS are exhibits A-? for that, but that doesn't mean Apple can create an FS of the same sophistication in the 18? months that they release in.
this is textbook "freemium" model.
An unnecessarily foul rant, with a shell-variable fail to boot.
PT shines where most other options fail. I don't want to organize my priorities by setting fields in some dreary form, I just want to drag&drop. (If only it had sub-stories.)
Im very surprised, that people fail to see Yelp mobile as a location based service. Their location based services, finding restaurants and reviews are probably the most I use right now. GraffitiGeo ( purchased by loopt, and y comp), offers almost the same feature set as Yelp as well. Just wondering what is the distinction ?
They could strip out DTrace and easily get away with it, even the sturm und drang among blogger fanboys would subside pretty quickly, even among the ones that had ever actually used it instead of just pontificating about it.

There's nothing any less like that than a filesystem. They'd be totally fucked.
:) I thought Jessica looked a little horrified. And I had some people mention it to me later how I "insulted" Mark. Mark himself was definitely not offended or insulted.
We used the tracker in GForge AS. We used it on two sub-projects, one with 2 developers and a manager and one with around 8 members of varying technical expertise.

The problem I have is how do you your tracker data out at the end of the project, for archival or moving to another tracker?

Do any trackers provide a simple export to XML?
Wonderful Indian Temples Abroad
As a guess, I would imagine most of what is on the site is along those lines, given the tagline "Colorful and not very shy" and the expression on the drawn face in the header. Presumably, that's some attempt to represent the author in both looks and attitude.
Complete paraphase, but when Jason Fried talked about a company's relationship with customers:
"'We apologize for any inconvenience we may have caused' - What do you mean may have caused? You f-ing caused it."

Companies need to be more honest, open, and transparent when dealing with their customers. Make your products easy enough that anyone can use them (sort of "assume a dumb customer"), but when you deal with your customers, treat them with the utmost respect and appreciation for their intelligence.
Could you give me some examples please ?
Jira

Internally - 10,
bespoke project stakeholders - up to 100 at a time,
community developers - 100s (we've open sourced our core framework).
Previously it was called Telelogic Change. Now it's called IBM Rational Change or something like that. Users in the thousands. For personal projects I use whatever the hosting service provides me (GitHub, BitBucket, SourceForge, etc).
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Http://www.orkut.com.br/Main#Home.aspx?hl=pt-BR&tab=w0
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Hey yr,

This isn't great quality - I was there live and people were tweeting that the audio quality on the stream was awful up until the first break, but I haven't watched it myself:
http://www.justin.tv/clip/2493eb6f993f6e24
Thekinggun
Seconded. I recognize that he's an influential member of the tech community, but interrupting Tony Hsieh with his lame question? Totally unacceptable.
Retinal Implants With a New Design
With all due respect to/admiration for Scala, I would not want it anywhere near safety critical systems, simply because there has not been a lot of code written in it.

There are essentially two ways we learn to trust stuff. Either (a) we have it (formally) proved (no one reasonable doubts 1 + 1 = 2) or (b) we rely on tons of everyday experience to note that it doesn't fail (we mostly trust our cars).

Scala has neither. I would not be surprised if the compiler contained serious bugs.
I miss Omnisio, it was perfect for talks accompanied by slides.
Sorry, adding a second comment rather than editing the first ...

It's a fallacy that one can simply go out and grab any one of a bazillion very good C++ programmers whenever you like/need, because we know that hiring good programmers is hard.

It's even harder to hire good programmers who can pick up a large chunk of code they've never seen and make expert changes to fix subtle errors.

I would claim that C++ is exactly the wrong choice, because any Scala (say) programmer already has to be above average in interest and ability, and the code probably won't be subtle or "clever" (in the worst sense).

But that's another rant ...

EDIT: Speeling.
I've yelled at him over the sigil-fail before, but in the process remembered that it is the syntax for CVS variable expansion…
Heh heh... thanks. I of course mean hilarious young hip Bob Newhart from the 60s, not boring old former TV star Bob Newhart of today.
http://studios.thoughtworks.com/mingle-agile-project-managem...

users: 20
Web Sockets specification (IETF Internet Draft)
Sorry... I would have included a link to justin.tv/startupschool, but there's not much there (yet?).
No my point was that if a critical bug appears in the system and you, the original contractor, has dropped off the radar (or whatever) they stand a much higher chance of finding someone to fix it.

This is what we do for Bank software; they find a critical flaw that needs fixing and it is our job to hunter-killer for it and work with their team to nail it and integrate the solution.

I agree with the point you were making; just I felt the example was more driven by a different need (one very specific to that piece of software)

(or look at it another way there is much more likely to be a C programmer with experience in ATC software, an important sub-skill in this case, than a Scala one :D)
You make my point.

Many programmers only have experience of web applications or services, and complain that some dinosaurs insist on 20-year-old languages.

My point is that there are fields in which this convservatism is the correct attitude, and that programmers who point the finger and laugh at such out-dated thinking lack experience.

I work in a field that requires fewer bugs than most (although it's not as severe as ATC), and we don't have much choice about the languages we use.
> It's a fallacy that one can simply go out and grab any one of a bazillion very good C++ programmers whenever you like/need, becuase we know that hiring good programmers is hard.

Agreed; however your still missing the focus of the example. With a critical super urgent bug in a piece of ATC software it is MUCH easier to track down a competent C++ programmer within the hour (at any time of the day) than a Scala one - simply on the statistics of it :D
Well, my comment was aimed more at people who don't have an addiction to the stuff. I like the taste and the buzz. I can drink lots of it but during the times when I don't have access, it doesn't really bother me. (For example, I'd usually rather not have instant coffee if the real stuff isn't available.)
Ask HN: Where can I find meta.News.YCombinator.com
Hi,

There are many (hidden) features which are not documented, at least not in a single point where one can find them all.

I always wondered what is the way to create polls. You know, with the up/down voting options, etc.

Also, how to quote in comments, and how to post code having it displayed in a fixed width font.

There are probably more features which I, and probably other members of the community would appreciate if they were documented.

(although, this poll thing might be risky, if some might misuse it, and will turn this site into a stupid poll site, but I am not afraid too much since the signal-vs-noise ratio has been kept very well ever since).
I added it as an option; seeing as it seems popular.