skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was using mobile maps with the buzz layer to get an idea of which parts of town had the most smart phone + social tech adoption. Pretty interesting. (The freeways are always popular...)
already been done, search for internet speed dating or something along those lines .
The thing that has disappointed me about Evernote forever is their complete and total lack of Linux support. This is a product that has Palm Pre and Windows Mobile clients but for whatever reason has decided that developing a Linux client isn't worthwhile.

A recent Hacker News poll of OS used day-to-day, Linux finished second in frequency behind Mac OS: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=687267 . People who do dev/database/IT work frequently need snippets of text like IP addresses and passwords and API keys and this sort of tool would come in handy for us. But a lot of us run Linux as well. Even ignoring the nerd market, Linux is increasingly run by regular people on their netbooks.

I guess the reason I don't get this is that tech savvy folks seem like a great market to go after with your software, as they tend to be very influential in their social networks' decisions as well.

Apples and Oranges, I know, but I use and love Dropbox in large part because it works with 2 of my 3 computers. On the other hand, Evernote runs poorly on my mac and can only be accessed via the web on the others. I actually use dropbox now as I would evernote, by keeping .txt files in my dropbox.
I would consider an opt-in system. For example, if I were paid $x for every 1000 iterations run, I could see myself offering users a choice between running an iteration of GP on every page load or viewing one more ad of equivalent value.

Of course, I'm sure there are many others who would see nothing wrong with using a few milliseconds of the unsuspecting masses' time. I'm just not one of them.
I still don't know what it does...
if Apple ever relaxes their idiotic policy on interpreted code.

There's a simple solution to that: buy Android tablets instead, and encourage your friends to do the same. Blog about your reasons for doing so.
Coping automatically with hardware failures is feature #1 to me so I compared them all on that assumption, apologies if that wasn't clear. I couldn't quickly find an affirmative reference to shared storage on Lustre's so I gave it the benefit of the doubt.

I'm not convinced that getting acceptable performance out of a distributed system that maintains POSIX or near-POSIX semantics is even possible in the real world; as you say it's decidedly nontrivial. The path of least pain in the real world seems to be glorified key/value blob stores i.e. MogileFS.

Thanks for the writeup, I feel like I do the same round up every few years when someone suggests "so just run $LEGACYAPP on top of a distributed filesystem!" and I have to reiterate in detail why that's usually a Bad Idea.
I find it veeery interesting that she "accidentally" killed her brother when she was twenty. Casts some doubt on that situation too.
If you create a standalone client yes. Otherwise domain policies and firewalls will prevent this.
Yes, and this is what chatroulette does.

I did a TCP dump of the traffic and the data sent to the central servers is very minimal, mostly short plain-text messages containing little bits of information - your partner's camera status, number of users online, next button pressed, etc.
they are backed by PayPal?
It's only hard to spell if you have no clue about french ;-)

Here's a memory hook:

- "ou" because that's french for "oo", as in: douche.

- "l" since it comes from "roule" or "rouler", as in: joule, boule (there is no "ll" between "ou" and "e" in french, ever).

- "tt" since it's a female noun, as in: cassette, baguette, couchette.
Check out the demo (it's currently on a virtual host so it might get destroyed :-)

http://demo.leemba.com/
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Is it not possible to have flash directly connect with another flash user instead of routing all the traffic through central servers?
i agree with you because the pundits should og told them to get a proper job on the other hand the product is a massive succes so really its 50/50
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Amusing read. The one thing that broke the suspension of disbelief was the Velociraptor reference, which was based off of a movie and not history (God would know the difference).

http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/dinosaurbasics/a/velofacts.htm : "There's no evidence that Velociraptor hunted in packs" and "Velociraptor wasn't the smartest dinosaur of the Cretaceous period"
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That struck me as very odd too. PayPal is not an independent company, they can't be an investor, can they? I wonder if "backed" means they ran their idea past customer service and got an OK to use PayPal to do whatever they're going to do with billing.
Tell that to the billions of religious people.
I don't even know what I expected. Maybe something real, seeing as it was so high on HN.
I was pretty impressed with the app when I tried it a while ago, but was immediately turned off by the lack of secure uploads for the free version. That, and the $45/year cost and the complete inability to import / export anything means it's a lock-in tool designed to get them more money, not to improve my workflow. This is all in spite of several postings I've seen of the owner claiming to strongly support open standards. Put your money where your mouth is, and just maybe I'll believe you, instead of your application doing everything possible to show the opposite.

A lot of applications could learn a thing or two from the design, and the OCR is impressive. But it's an expensive lock-in, and I'm not touching it any more.
So a country that depends on foreign polititians more than almost any other country at the moment is supposed to be a safe haven for wikileaks?
A "hold" by Adobe at the same time Adobe is embroiled in a battle with Apple over Flash support for iPad (etc.)? Sounds to me like Adobe is going for the "commercial filibuster" to delay the release of HTML5 (as if anything was necessary).
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I am trying to learn German and I would love to chat with people from Germany in German. Is there a service like that?

I wonder if he could modify the randomness to at least just a single country.
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This reminds of a "proof of God" that appeared (I think) in Seven Ages of Madness by Svend Aage Madsen:

If God exists, then there must be some way to realize what the true religion is. Some hint or pointer that would make it clear, and this hint would be available to all humans. Some people would not understand it, or ignore it, but everywhere in the world, a few people would choose to follow the correct religion.

There are many religions in the world, but only one is universal: non-belief. In some places they are few and far between, but everywhere you find a few people who don't believe in God. For all other religions there are places in the world where that religion is simply not present. But every place has a few people who don't believe. These people must have correctly understood God's hint.

Hence, if God exists, atheism is the true religion.
The LB that was performing well was getting more traffic. I initially wanted to break out response times by LB because I thought maybe that was the underperforming machine, but my intuition was wrong and the opposite was true.
The site is also accessible at chatrt.com.
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Ba ha--You guys have never worked with your own company's compilers. At Ticketmaster my boss wrote our PASCAL compiler and I would find bugs.

I wrote my C+ compiler for LoseThos and I find bugs. http://www.losethos.com

Generally, you should suspect your own code before the compiler, but it depends on how much of a work-out the compiler has been put through. Even with me, though, I sometimes doubt my own compiler wrongly.
There are language services like this that utilize skype or video chat. Names of which I can't remember.

My friend used to tutor Korean students in English over skype for some company.
I use Craigslist. I don't give a crap about any of those things.

I don't care about them because the only thing I need it to do is to help me find a roommate, sell my stuff, or maybe find a date.

When I post a roommate opening to CL, I get responses immediately. If I write it up well, I might get 10-15 responses with 4-5 being good ones. That's all I need to do. I don't give a rip about search or flagging or monopolies. When I post something there, do I get e-mails in my inbox? Yes. Mission accomplished.
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That's a good point Mark. Systems that aren't as sensitive to latency won't be affected as much by these types of issues. When you begin to require a certain level of network performance the lowest-common-denominator network configuration that cloud hosting offers may not be sufficient.
Maybe there just needs to be some good, brief "Java for sysadmins" docs that address some of the issues raised in this article and the comments in this thread.

A bit of googling found this:

http://stefanparvu.blogspot.com/2007/08/java-for-sysadmins.h...
Don't you wish there was an app that reviewed "review my app" submissions and posted what it did on HN?
It's just that people with resolutions like that usually don't maximize their browsers (wasting 600+ pixels with nothing but white).
Oh, please. If someone has the time to write kernel/driver patches and muck around customizing his gdb config, he's clearly getting paid to be a developer, not a sysadmin.

Very, very few sysadmins have the luxury of spending time on this sort of thing.
So how do the people wanting something (poster and voters) find out about it when it gets made (or told about it if it already exists)? Am I missing a feature?
What? What does 'TSA security' have to do with some kid saying he wants to visit the US? Can't believe this comment was upvoted.
From my experience a couple of years ago, no, not without installing an extension to flash.
I think a big reason people are more focused on Facebook Apps (and consumer web apps in general) to the exclusion of more pressing world problems is because those problems are hard.

I think it's well understood that one of the driving forces behind the boom in internet software entrepreneurship is that the barriers to entry are extremely low- historically low compared to other developing fields.

For most of the readership of this board, "barrier to entry" does not just mean financial resources but also domain knowledge. I would find it enormously rewarding to work on many of the "grand challenges" listed here, but I lack the basic science background to do so. Maybe if I had been a physicist or a bioengineer and picked up hacking on the side. I may be able to find a scientist to collaborate with, but I would still be a little out of my depth, and they certainly don't hang out at the same startup gatherings.

Or am I being too defeatist? Does anyone have success picking up biotech or solar cell design or neuroscience on your own, like some people pick up programming or sales on their own? What resources would help you do so?
Are you absolutely sure about that? I don't think Flash supports that natively, so it would involve some real weird hackery to do something like run an RTMP server on both of the client machines in a Java applet or something, plus NAT traversal hole punching and other disgusting hackery.
That would be an interesting advertising model.

Keep the main application advertisement free, but buy up all the doppelgangers and advertise on those.

Diabolical.
PayPal did provide some seed money to billfloat, but we’re not disclosing any specifics. This is in line with what Naveed Anwar and Osama Bedier talked about at our developer conference in November … to encourage developers through guidance and resources to build innovative payment applications. Developers have the opportunity to secure support from PayPal and VC partners including seed funding, coaching, market insight and strategy. We also announced a developer challenge and a VC Network.
Thanks for your reply. You have a clarity of thought in your comment that is actually very helpful. I feel a bit foolish asking dumb questions sometimes, but it gives me an opportunity to learn from people with better thinking on a subject.
Some things I find odd:

A) There is something different about this site. In a craigslist (no high production value type of way). It also has very strong network effects because as more people join, the whole site becomes even more valuable.

B) I feel like I need a friend with me as we play. It's odd that it feels like going into the city or a bar (never know what I'll find), but I'm also totally safe.

C) This kid ABSOLUTELY needs to meet up with PG, Craig Newmark, or somebody before he's taken advantage of by a crazy VC.
Is there anywhere I can play Monkey island right now? Online perhaps or download to Linux?

I've never played it and would love to see what the fuss is about.
Yes, you seem to be one of the few who isn't offended by joking at how people behave on the NYC subway. The Arabic thing was a dig at the people who irrationally fear Muslims, not Muslims themselves (as if that wasn't obvious.)

Of course, it's always easier to twist and contort statements involving racial stereotypes to paint the person posting them as a racist, than try to actually get the joke, so I expected that to happen.
For an app like this, the cost is pretty negligible. First you build the site so that it's functional (but not necessarily all that polished) in straight HTML with no JavaScript. Then you add the JavaScript to make it even easier to use. It falls out naturally of your incremental development process (you do develop incrementally, right?)

I've done a lot of the works-without-Javascript polishing for google.com, and it's very far from being our most expensive feature. It's mostly just a matter of remembering that you have HTML + CSS under all that JavaScript, and that the HTML does what you intend.
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If someone was a weak enough candidate for special forces that all it would take is some guy telling you that you are not good enough then you are not good enough. Special forces requires mental toughness.
I think you misunderestimate the animosity many people hold towards the TSA.

The upvotes likely reflect that animosity as much or more than simple agreement with the implication that there's some sort of connection between the TSA and the kid's inability to travel to the US. Not to mention the rest of the comment regarding giving the kid a grant.
Ugh. I wish I hadn't learned that he was behind them.
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I guess I don't pay attention when other people ask the question. Thanks for putting up with my repetition.
I don't believe personality testing is intrinsically flawed so I can't speak for those that do but ...

I think the answer to that question could be that the first exposure to the field is MBTI which is blatantly nonsense and generally promoted by people who wouldn't know science if it bit them on the ass.
Create another Sub-Reddit, name it 'web20' and invite your friends.
I think two, maybe three are within reach of a programmer - secure cyberspace, personal learning, & scientific discovery.

Anyway some problems might have relatively easy solutions. I'm reminded of the mosquito-laser article on slashdot yesterday
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/12/176220/Directed-E...
Steam, Xbox Live Arcade or iPhone.
None, which leads me to say what the hell is the point?
I'm only sure because I saw a bunch of RTMP and Flex messages going to the central servers (they all have similar IP addresses) and a lot of UDP traffic going to a pretty much random IP address that changed with every person I talked to.

Also, Fogbugz copilot does something similar. It's described at a high level here:
https://www.copilot.com/tech/ which links to http://nutss.gforge.cis.cornell.edu/stunt.php
It is a good idea & there is definitely a potential migration path to a market place for software development. It won't be trivial but having an automated classifier to unify similar/duplicate wishes would be very nice.
I'm outside the US (São Paulo, Brazil) and could skip the paywall by clicking via the google search link (although by now the article is way down in the list).
Dotcom startups, no. But in general high tech, just one example, Airbus gives Boeing a run for its money. And those Boeings BTW are designed with CATIA, French CAD software. And Boeing runs its business on SAP, German ERP software.
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He'd be a lot easier to pack as a carry-on without the xray machines
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And of course that's assuming a completely random date of conception.

If you try to conceive on the same date every year then it's much more likely.
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This. Maybe you can get away with useless HTML for a solidly non-technical audience, but I for one judge it more harshly than broken images and typos. It's not even hard, just a basic display of diligence and competence.
Well I think most visitors don't know French, as the article indicates most are from the US. Even I misspelled the domain on my first try. doh!
How do you guys do your note taking? I'm surprised there's so many people. I'll probably be getting an ipad so I'm curious if there's any iphone experiences.
You and your facts have no place here. hush!
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If thats the case, and its using stratus:

1: He is either misquoted or lieing about bandwidth usage in the article.

2: He is breaking adobe's tos for stratus, as you are not allowed to run ads along side any tech using it.
Wrong conclusion. I think that she must have been emotionally scarred by the accident.

Did the accident make it easier for her to kill those faculty members yesterday? That's really hard to say. Would it be easier for the former first lady to murder someone because of the deadly car accident she was involved in? I'm inclined to say no.
I would suspect Dr Bishop has a personality disorder, such as Borderline Personality Disorder.

I find it interesting that they have a 6 year rule, when the average is around 10 years to get tenure.

I think that people missed warning signs, that she was feeling stress, and that there is a stigma against seeking help, and people often deny they have a problem.

I agree with most of your comments, except the bit about "requires her death". She was possibly suffering major depression at the time of the incident, and other mental health issues.
Ah. This is so much in the "I want to believe" dept. :/
I believe that Gridspy is helping at least partially with 2. Make solar energy economical.

It helps like this:
Gridspy can measure the power usage of a building, helping you to specify a system that will satisfy that particular building's energy footprint and timing. Choices such as size of the battery bank, size of the battery array and capacity of the inverter bank depend on how power is used.

The Array itself needs to generate enough power over the course of a week or so to power the building for that week. Knowing exactly how much power is used helps you to specify the correct size so you don't spend too much on panels.

The Batteries need to be large enough to handle any difference between the power used when the sun is poor and the solar array's yield at that time. Knowing exactly when during the day power is used helps to specify how many batteries to install.

Finally, the peak power usage of the building determines how large the bank of inverters should be. Inverters convert battery power to usable mains - if there are not enough inverters, you will need to fall back on other power sources (generators / the grid) when you need lots of power for HVAC or lighting.

Gridspy can help you choose the right amount to spend on each of these different subsystems since it monitors your power usage at high resolution. Once the system is installed, Gridspy can monitor the solar yeild, the battery levels and the current demand to show you how well your solar installation is performing. This helps to prove that the investment in solar power was financially sound.
Sounds like the circumstances of that case are more like people not having adequate respect for firearms. In fact, having killed her brother in a firearms accident, I can easily see her spending the rest of her life as a desperate overachiever, and feeling unable to take credit for her success because she "owed" it to her brother. Imagine the depression and motivation that would induce. Finally, having hit such a dramatic obstacle, her previous experience with death would lower her visceral revulsion to the idea of further death. The effects of repetitive exposure to death are well studied in soldiers and healthcare workers.
This is exactly why I quit playing video games. However I haven't been able to shunt that effort into something productive so easily..
Turning off the optimizer can also hide memory barriers you forgot you'd need, by doing extra loads or stores rather than keeping an outdated value in a register.

That said, I have seen exactly one optimizer bug that I know of. Back in 1993, Borland C++ completely omitted one of my inline destructors from the binary. I had to review the assembly to convince myself I wasn't imagining things.
For stats, I use Ganglia. The newest versions, which sadly have to be installed from source on most Linux variants, have support for Python modules. So, in addition to the out of the box stuff, I monitor a whole bunch of other stuff related to how my applications are doing (signups, item counts, etc).

For daemon monitoring and watchdog-ing, I use monit. It emails me if there are problems with the server, and can automatically restart processes if they fail or get out of control.
I believe you mean, this particular Atheist believes that. Don't generalize.
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You can simplify your query by letting Google do the units conversion. Eg, search for:

86400 seconds/day + 1

To get the same result as your link google:

0.7 gigabit/second * 30 days

Or even:

0.7 gigabit/second * 1 month
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I'm not entirely convinced by the presentation here, but I certainly agree with the general view that we spend too much time working (often unproductively, because of the paid-seat-warmer effect) and not enough time on the genuinely valuable things in life.

This has been brought home to me over the past few months, since I switched to contracting and mostly working from home. I had originally hoped to gain more independence and perhaps increase my income a bit, but not particularly aimed to reduce my working time. In practice, I worked a much lower number of hours for several months, due to some third party problems reducing the pace of the project below what my clients and I had wanted. Of course, this hit my income pretty hard on an hourly rate. However, it also gave me a lot of spare time to relax and offload the past few years of work stress, learn about new things, get back into some hobbies I'd been missing, spend more time with family and friends, and so on. Last year was probably the most enjoyable time I've had since I started full-time work, and many friends and family have commented on how much happier I seem these days.

I'm happy to be pushing he hours and income back up again now, so I can consider things like buying a nice house and supporting a family, because those things matter to me too. But we did just fine on a lower financial income but with more free time for a while, and I'd happily do it again from time to time rather than be the live-to-work guy for my whole life.
I asked this on HN a few days ago and didn't get any feedback. I hope this time I'll get some comments... otherwise I'll have to admit it isn't such a great idea!