skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The jsonp method causes older browsers to use a ton of memory if you leave the browser window open for a long period of time. You'll see that there's a whole bunch of script tags in the dom that aren't cleaned up. Given the way people use facebook & how many old browsers still exist, this is probably the reason facebook decided against it.
Same here. It was supposed to be credited by 4th Feb, but nothing till now. The response I got from support was they can initiate a trace after 2 weeks. But that wont work too I guess since they have suspended all bank transfers.
I don't know about the US (I suspect it will be the same) - but the chains in the UK compete with each other like a bunch of hyperintelligent velociraptors.

Quite good for customers though - in the (rather affluent) area where I live we have a Sainsburys, Waitrose and M&S food store and they are clearly locked in polite but vicious competition.
Some speculation about RBI documents and stuff going on there. If that's true then it might take months before the suspension is lifted.
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Ask HN: Check out my YC app demo - rip away
I posted this earlier but all the traffic crashed my basic test server - Im new to HN and under estimated the traffic. So I set it up on an powerful ec2 image - lets see if this can handle it. Since Im paying for the ec2 hosting by the hour, I will on leave this link up for a few days. Thank you for your feedback.

Original message:

This is a VERY EARLY demo of a web application I am building. Im trying to put statistical software on the web (almost all stat software is desktop). The first page is a document management module (similar to the one on Google Docs)-you can drag items into folders, share folders with other users, trash them, etc. Double clicking on a data set takes you to the data analysis module, where you can do statistical analysis. Right now I have only a simple bivariate regression module up - I want to keep it simple for the demo/proof of concept.

I dont expect to be accepted by YC but still want some feed back from the YC community. Please dont be kind - tell me everything that is wrong - but be constructive!
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Homepage doesn't tell me what it is. Start what?

Might not matter for YC demo; might matter lots to prove awareness of landing pages or whatever.

I'm a total number retard so I'm afraid I didn't last long in the application.
I'm inclined to take Eric Schmidt's blog post on this at face value, i.e. Google had a YouTube video with an overwhelmingly positive response and $20B cash in the bank, so they figured they might as well run it as a SuperBowl ad.
yep, that definitely must be it.

if the reason they're advertising is to sell the brand, and it's a brand competition with Bing who claims Google has sometimes irrelevant search results, then of course they need the most relevant search results possible in this ad

even though the focus was on the flight status up top, the search results for sound parts are bad results. so i guess they switched it up in case anyone noticed that.

interesting find!
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> It feels like just the right mix between Python and Lisp

I'd have to second that. As Peter Norvig once said, Python is Lisp in snake skin (something like that I think), so it would make sense why it is somewhat of a comfortable move. I personally still use both.
I can imagine two situations where GitHub uptime is critical:

1. You're hosting websites via GitHub pages.

I'm hosting both my business and personal websites on GitHub. (Despite the recent outage, GitHub's uptime beats my previous el-cheapo host by a wide margin.)

2. You host client code and issues in a GitHub private repository.

This becomes an issue when clients want to add a bug to the issue tracker, etc.
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I did manage to see it before it disappeared first time around.

It mostly worked nicely for me but crashed somewhere in datamanagement.nocache.js

As a proof of concept demo is ok. However, it would be better to have a demo with the full interface even if some parts are not working so that you can demonstrate the full workflow. (Upload file - manipulate data for example throw away a row, choose statistic, plot save, print). Looks like is build using EXTJS are you using R for calcs?
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I don't think it's all that useful. There are a ton of spammers out there and to have to block them 1 by 1..
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"Looks like is build using EXTJS are you using R for calcs?"

yes and yes. Also Im also using some python along with R (im also using a R-python interface). Django is the web framework.
That's a silly question. I am a computer conservationist proud of a growing computer collection. Of course I would, just for the kick of it!

I would like, of course, to run it on an IBM /360, or, if that were not possible, an emulator. You would access it via your own 3270 terminal. It would be made to look specially cool on 3290s - wouldn't be hard: anything looks cool on a 3290. I would develop it while wearing a white lab coat.

A Burroughs B-series would also be considered ;-)

Now, seriously, no. I wouldn't start a new product (I can conceive lots of maintenance projects done in whatever was already done to maintain code commonality) in COBOL.

And yes, you would have a hard time convincing me of starting one in Java too. I cringe even when someone proposes one in PHP.
I don't know if I'd call it a game, but there is vimtutor, which is a document that tells you how to edit it:

http://www2.geog.ucl.ac.uk/~mdisney/teaching/unix/vimtutor
That this is a bank policy issue seems to be the consensus on several ecommerce forums. That seems far likelier than the anti-Indian money theft conspiracy so many account holders seem to think exists all of a sudden. eBay's a large corporation, they're not gonna steal a couple thousand accounts' balances and hope nobody notices.
First, a meta-note -- if you want app reviews, don't mention that they're YC app submissions as that usually gets them killed. (Since otherwise there would be a bajillion apps getting submitted here.)

In general it's slick, presumably a good chunk of that coming from GWT usage. However, I kind of lost interest after a couple minutes flipping through stuff. There's no pain point that jumps out at me, i.e., "Oh, wow, I'd love to use that for [...]!"

It's a natural tendency for geeks (myself included) to build platforms to solve problems rather than solving problems directly. Fight that. :-)
The add totally backfired on me. It's like: "Look what we can know about you by just looking at your searches, haha!"
Thanks for the meta-note. Make sense.
Not really too surprising - tech support staff on the front line rarely are trained to actually have a clue what they're talking about. Just ask for a supervisor next time.
If you're just wanting to display video then I'm fairly certain that Firefox will hand off any video you give it to an application that registers to handle it via the object tag.

For example, I'm fairly certain that this how it reacts to stuff that Apple serves directly to quicktime (trailers and product promos), when you're on Linux.
You have a couple of nice earning Niches there.

Personally from experience the hard work is in the research of finding a micro niche, once you have that nailed down then you quickly understand what topics are likely to be winners and which are to be duds. An understanding of SEO is critical though.

In terms of someone setting up, the barrier to entry may seem minimal but theres nothing like getting out there and giving it a go;

Google Product Search + Market Samurai + Hosting&Domain + X Site Pro + Adwords Account + SEO = Done.
Bravo! I hope to find a mate who doesn't like shiny things.

On a related note, I find general obsessions over expensive jewelries a bit annoying. I rather have an expensive vacation with nice memories over an expensive piece of metal/mineral.
I just use git init, ssh, and regular unix accounts, because it takes all of about 1 minute to set up, and is "the simplest thing that could possibly work". Presto, no more depending on external servers.
The same message is here in early December

http://lists.eclug.net/pipermail/eclug/2009-December/008208....

This suggests it was copy-and-pasted either inside or outside AMEX.
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Or it could be a sign that google recognizes that a good portion of the market doesn't care about search quality. It's not 1999 anymore, the web's gone fully commercial, and users are as easily swayed by branding as they are by product quality.

In my book, this was google refusing to lose customers to branding by meeting Microsoft move-for-move. Google's technical innovations are their technical response to MS.
Thanks! Down the line you will need to re-skin the application to give it a bit more of a distinct look.
I'd start with leaving the desktop metaphor on the desktop.

Double clicks, folders, dialog windows, etc. go against the web experience. Try to make the user interface more "webby" -- it will benefit everyone.
jsonp also causes unsightly "loading" indicators in most browsers.
You can also report the variation of CPC if you can access that data, would be interesting.
Is chat a 'concurrent system'? :/
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Thanks. I often wondered about that same point. Suggestions?
[Ask HN] do anyone of you knows a website which offers standard agreements?
Something including:
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etc.<p>I'm positive that I saw it somewhere here, but I bet I'm not only one looking for this kind of resources.<p>Thanks in advance,
In london they have "Yellow Box Cameras" which detect people blocking four-way junctions. I don't know if it's the same in other countries but you're not supposed to enter these yellow marked boxes unless you are sure you can get to the other side, so you won't block cross traffic.

However, my first result of Googling claims that they're actually causing longer jams. Sound like it could be fixed with slightly smaller no-stop zones.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article673093.ece
> So the probability of having at least one bit error in 4 gigabytes of memory at sea level on planet Earth in 72 hours is over 95% .

This is misleading. A flaky machine will indeed see bit errors, and it will probably be visible as random crashes, but that's not even necessarily the case for the average machine. If you look at the quantitative study from Google, which the author links to:

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf

... you can see that in terms of errors per DIMM:

"Across the entire fleet, 8.2% of all DIMMs are affected by correctable errors and an average DIMM experiences nearly 4000 correctable errors per year. These numbers vary greatly by platform. Around 20% of DIMMs in Platform A and B are affected by correctable errors per year, compared to less than 4% of DIMMs in Platform C and D. Only 0.05-0.08% of the DIMMs in Platform A and Platform E see an uncorrectable error per year compared to nearly 0.3% of the DIMMs in Platform C and Platform D. The mean number of correctable errors per DIMM are more comparable, ranging from 3351-4530 correctable errors per year."

So the mean rate of correctable errors is high, but the variance is also very high: depending on the manufacturer, 80 to 96% of DIMMs see out a whole year without a single correctable error. If the original statistics of 95% chance of error in 3 days were correct, a single-DIMM machine ought to have approximately 0% (astronomically close to 0%) of living out a whole year without errors - but we can see here that you seem to have between 80 and 96% of single-DIMM machines doing just that.

The moral here is to test your memory for a while - preferably a few days - before trusting the DIMMs. But once you know you have good DIMMs, it doesn't look like you need to be quite so paranoid about bit errors.
Kindof...blackberries proxy all of their web traffic through RIM. One of the reasons (I think) why they do this is so that they can compress images.
I was sure that the mighty filter would have chewed it up

If that happened, you surely could have resubmitted it with a slightly amended title. Something like FCUK, F U C K or F$#@. I suspect most people here would have understood.
Having read the comments I found it interesting that one of the features is to show you which of the features of Office other people actually use. I've had the same experience with blog posts or hacker news submissions about Vim or Unix tools in general. Simply being informed of their existence is a real benefit, otherwise they'd just sit there in my machine unused. (The hefty guidebook Vi IMproved by Steve Oualline was good too)
The result of this translation is quite a bit too formal. "Du bist süß" is less formal.
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This may be applicable to certain markets only. I am in particular more interested about India.

There are plenty of websites bollyfm, smashhits, songs.pk, etc offering streaming for all Indian Movie Songs. Some even offer download. phulki.com also seems to be aggregating music but they store the MP3s on their servers. Is all this legal ? If not, what part is ?
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1. There's a Mutual NDA at

http://www.ipwatchdog.com/tradesecret/mutual-confidentiality...

2. Y Combinator Series AA documents at:

http://ycombinator.com/seriesaa.html

3. Silicon Alley Insider & Cooley Godward Kronish documents at:

http://www.businessinsider.com/legal-documents-for-your-star...
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I love ECC as much as the next guy, but the reality is that the entry overstates the importance of bit-flips by assuming the bits always flip in something that matters.

The simple fact is that most bit flips occur in portions of memory no one cares about. If the error even manifests a lot of the time it'll just manifest as one pixel in some image somewhere changing color by one bit.

With the author's estimate of 1,000 bit flips over the lifetime of a computer, maybe 10 of them cause crashes. Most of those crashes are likely to be a web browser on most people's desktops anyways, so if you just imagine you have the previous version of the flash player, you can simulate an increased SEU rate pretty nicely.

ECC is standard on servers because we assume the data they carry matters the large majority of the time. We assume that server's typically have a larger portion of their memory devoted to "important" things. (I.E. not images, video or stuff a javascript interpreter forgot to free().) On desktops, it is still probably reasonable to purchase non-ECC hardware for the time being.

I agree with the author though, that this is only getting worse. The trends are all in directions where this is going to start affecting consumer-level stuff at some point, but I'm not sure we're there yet.

As always, it's a matter of your workload combined with good risk analysis.
Last year I shopped around for a quad-core 8GB box with ECC RAM. The RAM itself is not much more expensive, the problem is CPU/chipset support. I went with an AMD Phenom - I think that with Intel CPUs, you only get ECC in the Xeon server line.

(Note that besides bunging in the ECC RAM DIMMs, you may have to turn on ECC support in the BIOS.)

Just using increasing amounts of RAM, storage and bandwidth, without adding data-integrity checks, is really asking for trouble ...
Great analysis; however, I'm not sure it's a brand-building ad.

It sums up to "Google was at the heart of all the good things that happened to that guy, and it unobtrusively helped it to happen right". That's more of a "we really are not evil" thing, to balance Eric Schmidt's screw-up on privacy, or Jobs' and Balmer's attacks, IMO.

Google has kept an amazing amount of public sympathy, given their hegemony on the web, and there are now threats that it might change. Microsoft's hegemony is based on corporate customers (the Windows/Office 22 catch), who don't care about their partners' ethics or image. Google's success is based on the public, it can be jeopardized by the loss of public support.
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Sure, there's a non-zero probability. What are you getting at?
the probability of having at least one bit error in 4 gigabytes of memory at sea level on planet Earth in 72 hours is over 95% .

This metric is only relevant if you read all 4 GB of your memory every second and use the data for something that can't stand a flipped bit. Then you'll have one problem for every 72 hours of constant use of all of your memory.

How much of your memory do you use on average? How many flipped bits will be read, before being overwritten? How many bit flips cause a real problem? If one of the gray background dots of HN turns blue, I don't really care. The likelihood of an actual problem for an average user is vastly lower because of these factors.

The average comment on the blog of this guy and on Reddit is just sad: it's all fine and well that anecdotal evidence and the Google paper tell you he's wrong, but his math makes sense. Doesn't anyone feel the need to get to the root of the error in his assertion?
Neat idea. But I wonder, what are you offering that excel doesn't? So far, the only tool I can see is
y vs x and thats not tough to do in excel. I'm not saying you aren't offering anything, but I don't know what it is.

For the interface, a few things I didn't like, but others can chime in.

1) When I click on "Basic Statistics" I see the tests there. Then, when I click on "Multivariate Statistics" the basic title bar drops down to the bottom. If I were trying to look for a test to use, I would want to scroll through each category. They way you have it makes that tough.

2) When I go to analyze a data set, how do I get back to the list of files? I figured it out (click on Data Management) but that should be easier to find.

Also, something that I think would be very cool would be to allow me to take data sets from different files. This would allow me to use your app as a storage for my data sets. I could organize files however made sense to me and then arbitrarily go there and look for correlations. "Oh, I wonder if there is a correlation between temperature and mortality. Lets take the weather file and the mortality file and check."
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Well, if he used the same strong password everywhere, it would still defeat any automated system. The reason you don't use the same password everywhere is in case someone decides to try it with your email address in a bunch of different places.

If I found his password for this site was hunter2HN, I'm pretty sure I could guess his Facebook password...
Just like to add that once I watched the movie "Blood Diamond", I am all the more reluctant to buy Diamonds. Never know what you end up sponsoring.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Diamond
Well, yes, but I am pretty sure everyone sees the same Superbowl ads.
Thanks for your excellent feedback

"Neat idea. But I wonder, what are you offering that excel doesn't?"

Right now nothing, but excel doesnt do (easily) the more advanced statistical procedures that will be added - for example fitting reliability data to a distribution of failure times, etc.

Thanks for pointing out (1). I will have think about this setup.

You also make a good point above mixing access to different data sets. At this point, its almost as if your asking if I will implement the ability for users to connect to a database. Yes in time.
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If you don't want to start using this right now for a non ipad related web site, you should email the admin and ask for this post to be deleted. With this disclosure public, you are going to lose the upcoming domain dispute and possibly be reimbursed for the cost of the domain registration.
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Figure out how she can show the vacation off to her friends and you can kill two birds with one stone. ("You like it? Its obsidian -- we got in on this fabulous vacation in Honduras...")
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So, once people know the details, they can determine whether or not it meets their requirements. This helps them make a decision, since they have facts not just the imagination of crazy ill-informed pundits.

What is it about the iPad which causes people to disconnect their brains before writing stuff? Surely the massive amounts of hits to web sites isn't a motivation to write rubbish?
30% for the distributor seems high, especially compared to the editors. I'd rather see 20% distributor, 30% editor / producer, 50% author.

For physical copies, the numbers are much different, especially because initial costs are higher.
Has anyone seen an HTML5 canvas demo that uses these techniques?
I’m writing to let you know that personal payments to and from India...

I read this line. But does that also mean that I also cannot send a cheque to myself? If thats blocked too, then it really worries me.
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I can certainly agree with that. Not understanding that a choice can turn out well despite being made for bad reasons and vice versa is a frequent source of annoyance for me in others and, if I'm honest, myself.

Thanks for the follow up.
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Thanks this exactly what I was looking for.
I wonder if this article is going to bring out the the creationists saying "see, scientists have no idea what they are talking about."
Without wishing to get into a flame-war with anyone driving a flashy car, but my two year old desktop running both Linux and Windows has more Lines of Code than that, therefore mine is bigger than yours. LOC should never be used as a metric, is like comparing computing power by weighing computers.
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By the way Im open to meeting another cofounder. My current cofounder who used to work at SAS can only commit maybe 10-20% of his time (he's working on a PhD in stat). If you are interested in statistical software please let me know below.
I have just cut and pasted that into a presentation I am making tomorrow :-) Page 2.