skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would recommend Rackspace over GoDaddy anyday. But if you dont want to spend as much at Rackspace, a cheaper option (unless you require significant amount of resources) would be to go with Dreamhost.

For a brief period, I hosted a site with SSL (about $4 additional per month for the SSL) with them and was happy. They did all the set-up or maybe they explained how to do it but it was enough that I forgot. You can also SSH into the server which can be quite helpful and they have options to use a whole instance with full administrative access and their support is remarkable.

PS. I do not work for dreamhost - I just have had my best experience among webhosts with them for almost an year.
"It has come to our attenton that our name may be misread by some"
Well, by definition it's true for all trades that would occur without your help. In those cases, you're taking a couple cents and making it more expensive for at least one of the other participants. That would cover, say, any institutional investor who is moving into a position.

In terms of you justifying HFT activity, of course not. There have always been advantaged participants and HFT traders are simply those today. But the article was trying to justify HFT as manna for all participants, which seems unlikely considering how much money the industry is extracting for their liquidity-providing services.
Like most high-schoolers, Benoit gets gift cards for birthdays and holidays and puts most of them to use. But, if it's a bookstore, it'll just waste away in her wallet.

This makes me cry.
You are hypothesizing a conspiracy between industries that are basically unconnected to each other. It seems a far more likely explanation that people want cheap homes now and don't buy based on energy efficiency (which costs money), and that builders want to save money by not installing things that won't make the home sell for more. No conspiracy seems necessary.
Sure, if it's my vesting schedule I'm pushing for single-trigger acceleration. ;)
Is it really legal to install something like that on a customer's car without their knowledge? Or did the customers willingly submit to that deal? Over my dead body would I let someone put a remote-operated controller with web access into anything I own. (Hence I'm not going to buy an iphone or a kindle that you use at the pleasure of the corporation...)

This is worse though, it's like the physical manifestation of malware!
Not talking about escaping. I'm talking about the fact that there doesn't appear to be anything like an authenticity token backing the POST that's used to create a new item.
Interview with Martin Zwilling, VC and advisor
Coincidentally, this just came up: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1199230 It is almost exactly what I mean. Unfortunately, if the results are sufficiently bad there's actually no salvaging the science; meta-analysis can improve things but still requires good data to start with.
This is definitely agreed to by the customer. These are the "sub-prime" of used car dealerships. Charge 30% interest rates, accept weekly payments for people with bad credit, and Lojack their car if they don't pay up.
Thank you for standing up for design; it takes a beating around here.
With that "should end in X" idea in mind, Linus chose to name it Freax (because it was a /free/ UNIX).

When he uploaded a very early version to an FTP server at Helsinki, his friend, who administered the server, changed the directory name from "freax" to "linux", thinking the latter was a much better name. Linus at first thought it would be too egotistical to name it that, but he let the name stick. I'm glad he did.
awesome to have you in this community Ryan. Legal stuff is my least favorite part about operating a startup. It is great to have the perspective of someone who is passionate about it. Also, this is great away for you to get involved with great startups.
A hunger for organizations that are doing some good for society.
oh well, it's ok to be treated that way because he's a good teacher

Whether you think it's sad or not, I have known people who felt exactly this way. e.g., my senior year EE lab partner was a woman who couldn't stand our Theory of Communications prof, but put up with him because he was the only person who could explain the topics in a way that made sense to her.

I'm pretty sure she wasn't alone in that sentiment. Fortunately or unfortunately, we all have to make compromises.
Another question is with gift cards that are redeemable online with just the unique id number.

How do they stop me from sending in my gift card, getting the check, then buying something online?
Hacker News is the sound of silence.
Nice side project. Your investment in the coding really shows off.

In case you did not see Dan Grover's response about the work breakdown on his Etude sheet music iPhone app:

"Were you the only one developing it? How long did it take? Love the app and the video on the webpage, by the way."

"Luckily, I have a precise answer to this because I have this weird habit of tracking every minute of my time on my own projects. Here's the breakdown on Etude in hh:mm

Actual iPhone app: 210:11

Song converter: 72:52

Store (UI + server side): 82:23

Building site and designing marketing materials: 44:52

I did most of the work, but I did contract some of the graphics I had trouble with to a designer, and I've taken someone awesome on board to work with music companies and other "strategic" stuff for the future."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1196308
For the sake of system admins everywhere who are made to gather stats on what sites people go to, please take any chosen domain name and have it reviewed by a teenage boy at the local high school. If the kid bursts out laughing, don't use the name.
Design credit goes to Dave Onkels, co-founder of Magntize. (http://daveonkels.com)
What I Learned at SXSWi 2010
You got downmodded because the first part of what you wrote seemed silly.

But your point about handling them with care is correct. You can use n-hexane, but only if you handle it properly.
The "couture"/"bespoke" thing is a just a metaphor I introduced on this thread. I'm trying to communicate about the middle ground that exists between "consultative" design (where I meet with you for several hours, tell you about my spirit animal and the colors most associated with my industry segment, and then previous several stages of rough comps before OK'ing a final design) and off-the-shelf competant samey design.

Let's agree on one thing: nobody wants total crap. Nobody wants a beveled logotype set in Arial with a lens flare behind it. That quality of design exists and it is bad and most companies cannot get away with it: it makes them look unprofessional.

But then let me suggest --- controversially, I know --- that most companies don't want high-end design either. They aren't particularly well-served by poise and restraint. They don't need to communicate a feeling or mood outside of "we are the established, trustworthy financial services in this office park".

What they need to do is take one of a couple proven, shopworn concepts off the rack and have it tailored to their business. They don't need to think about it. They don't need to waste weeks of time looking at roughs and having internal contests to pick a winner. They can get away with looking at a book for 5 minutes, saying "that one!", and getting on with their lives.

(The rest of it: not only do I not own 99designs or a competing spec work firm, but I actually don't use spec designers at all; we contract with local designers, and we do the whole consultative design dance --- we're geeky that way, and this is a luxury we give ourselves. But we don't kid ourselves about the business value of that luxury.)
I'm not really sure this is Hacker News, but I'm gonna respond anyway. He also confuses a lot of terms. This is definitely someone from the outside looking in.

Sexting, for example, is something only done by high school students. It is a "hey, I'm sitting around with no top on, why don't you run the 2 miles to my house and I'll sneak you in the back door so we can fuck."

"Hooking up" is nothing like he believes. People in relationships don't hook up. Hooking up is when you go to a party with a bunch of people, find someone who you dance with for a little while, make out, then head back to $place and sexile $roommate.

I don't even want to get into Greek life.
The obvious fix is to (a) require raw data to be published; (b) require journals to accept papers before the experiment is performed, with the advance paper including a specification of what statistics were selected in advance to be run on the results; (c) raising the standard "significance" level to p<0.0001; and (d) junking all the damned overcomplicated status-seeking impressive nonsense of classical statistics and going to simple understandable Bayesian likelihoods.

Suggestion b is both radical and very thought provoking. Which, at this point, I expect from Yudkowsky.
Especially when one considers the variety of items most bookstores have. Barnes and Nobel has a music section, calendars, magazines, trinkets, comic books and a cafe. I think all big bookstores are the same. It isn't like one would actually have to read to shop there.
For "c", I think it would be interesting to compare it against housing prices.
99 bucks to get your company name and a piece of clip-art? I think people who go for this just don't deserve any better.

One should probably just automate this. Pay $20 to istockphoto for a piece of vector art and put the company name beside it. That's an easy made $79. So if easterbunny inc. needs logo, just license http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-11054108-rabbi... and you're done. The quality would be comparable to those logo templates.

Many people obviously have started to believe that a logo is a bit of illustration plus your name.
This shows an increase in household debt, not a bubble. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_bubble
Let users submit their own quotes.
Yeah. I did web development before I went to school for design so I've seen both sides. I even took a CompTIA A+ course at one point and run Ubuntu on my Mac.

Developers and designers both have the same anal-retentive tendencies, this need for organization and perfection that we should get along so much better. And quite often we have to work together.

I'm guessing a lot of the hate comes from developers having to work with "those" designers: the ones that should have just become an artist/painter instead of designer. That's a whole different story.
They almost had me. But it's clearly a ruse to sell shirts on Cafe Press.
I might have a proposition, email's in my profile.
We just set up virtualpbx.com. The web ui is kind of clunky, and the automated text-to-voice for the message is terrible, but it had the options we needed: setting up out toll-free number to be routed to sales and support and send out emails if the call went to voicemail. We didn't care about setting up actual office phones at this point - everyone just uses their cells. We mostly wanted a way to avoid people having to give out their personal numbers or a single office number as a point of contact. This gives us the flexibility we need as we hire more people, reassign people, or have people leave.
Maybe I prefer a life with a little bit of risk and whimsy mixed in for good measure? Also, my software firewall would detect the dubious outbound traffic if it tried to call home. The Python source is also included in case you really wanted to put your detective hat on. Relax, it is fun.
NYT Corner Office CEO interview index
The sorry state of Avira anti-virus heuristics
I find the whole "spirit animals" B.S. a little passive-aggressive and quite offensive. That has nothing to do with the effect of design on business goals. And if you have a problem with your designer dragging things on then find somebody else.

I have nothing else to say to you. I've made the value of design, real design, quite clear. If you don't understand that value, it's a personal problem.
Seems to be one of the few cases where I would recommend dashes in the domain name.
I'm in a similar boat right now. I haven't pulled the trigger on anything but I'm taking a good look at Fonality (http://pbxtra.fonality.com/products/standard).

Anyone else hear anything about it?

Edit: Now looking at FreePBX.org / Asterisk as well - thanks for the suggestions
Yes, such as experts-exchange.com
"Is your business in the right hands?"
Yeah, I think the "Is your business in the right hands" is also just over the top enough to suggest it's a fake. On top of it, if you google the name of either people you come up with basically nothing.

Very well done though, solid entertainment right there!
I have been out of High School too long. Thank you for the smile.
For me that page has nothing at all in the middle. Maybe one of my addons is interfering.

I clicked the rss feed and read it there.
"The amount of data created by humans in 2009 exceeded that of all data created by humans prior to 2009."

Wow, cool. Also nice to see a post on the front page that isn't bashing what is overall a conference like none other.
All along through the interview he does not say anything new, alway repeating that Zimbra was a great open source product which spread virally. Unfortunately I could not find any piece of advice there. 40 minutes wasted.
Summary: People now consume fewer grains, fewer potatoes, less milk, more processed fruits, more meat, far more poultry and far more cheese.
Ferrets have paws.
The real problem is "scientists". What is a scientist and how is he selected/trained ?

Scientists are hands-on technicians, theoreticians/statisticians, fundraisers, and team leaders/project managers. Four distinct skillsets.

They are usually selected bassed on their ability to do bookwormish things such as ace tests in their teens and early twenties.

The profession goes against the basic principle of capitalism - division of labour.

I'm kinda amazed anything gets done by scientists, and this article is validating my intuition.
There's an Economist special feature on data which has other interesting facts about data generation:

http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displayStory.cfm?sto...
Which libraries do you consider well designed? I'll let you know how I think that they could be improved.
Chronic lower limb ischaemia
Peripheral vascular disease commonly affects the arteries supplying the leg and is mostly caused by atherosclerosis.
There is a list of domains that share this problem.

http://whorepresents.com/ is my favourite.

A couple others:

http://www.penisland.net/
http://www.therapistfinder.com/
They said from the beginning porn wasn't allowed, they loosened a bit, there was a flood of soft-core porn apps into every conceivable category, and they nuked em to prevent them from taking over the entire App Store. I'm all for porn, but that was just largely a matter of spam prevention.
My favorite is http://rim.jobs
I've seen you say this here and on Twitter. Who cares that crowdspring got their logo designed on your site? Steve Jobs used another computer before Apple. Sergei Brin and Larry Page used other search engines. The fact that you keep saying this over and over shows that you're threatened by them and your other competitors. And while you introduced a $99 logo, crowdspring has an $80,000 LG phone design competition. They're swimming upstream and you're bottom fishing. A bit of irony there.
Funny, I didn't even notice that link until several F5s later. Nevertheless, yours is a good suggestion.
As a recipient of the holiday bonus, my opinion is that it will amaze anyone who has never had a smart phone before. But the iphone still has better responsiveness. Further, in urban areas, the iphone has had better reception and download speed.
I agree... fake.

Domain was registered Oct 3, 2007 and archive.org first crawled it Oct 13, 2007 with the page being the same. Seems too much of a coincidence and just a t-shirt opportunity.

But a fairly creative ploy... if its still up, must be making a few bucks off the t-shirts.
Far too short an article for such a topic, it should be at least 6 pages. There is far more that needs to be mentioned to even give half the picture.
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough - I meant municipal steam heat that comes to you in a pipe as a byproduct of electricity generation.

http://www.coned.com/steam/

Steam heating in homes is common, but the energy source is gas or heating oil that is used to generate steam.
G.M. Tinkers With Augmented Reality System for Cars
A challenge, identify this user, I tried twice and failed
This possibility is made even more likely by the inconvenient fact that pager networks are unencrypted. It basically amounts to a gentleman's agreement between service providers that pages sent by one provider's customer do not accidentally appear on the device of another provider's customer.

Gives new meaning to war-driving.
When is lying not bad? White lies? When they "protect" someone? Is an inability to receive honesty something we want to protect?
Micropayments and Subscriptions: How Business Models for Startups are Shifting
you are right about incentives being misaligned.

In Europe, when you buy / sell a home, you get an energy report of how much you'll pay for utilities, so people are starting to take energy costs into account.

This is becoming true in the US, with New York, Austin, DC, and Seattle passing building benchmarking laws in the past year. Many are focused on larger buildings, but it's a good beginning.

This is especially important for larger buildings, esp. low-income housing, where owners pay for much of the energy, and thus are incentivized to be more efficient.
Interesting that there are charts for most major food items but not for the sweeteners, and that the data for HFCS vs other sugars is masked by lumping all sweeteners together.
IStockphoto to begin selling stock logos
A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
i've wondered if they track how many applicants come through this entry point
If you get acquired, the payout schedule gets renegotiated anyway. So what's the point?
But via built in apps, not an app from the store.
Wow, sorry to hear that. I thought this interview had great advice in it.

Wrt to Zimbra

--Decision to go open source and how to create/manage/promote that community, e.g. don't handicap it, etc.

--Decision to launch at a big conference to jump start that open source community, which most people don't do.

--Decision to go stealth and launch with a slew of features previously unseen in the market, which most companies don't do.

--Decision to seize upon trends upon launch, in this case Google maps.

Then in general

--Focusing on finding the engagement in product and iterating on it, as opposed to 1000 other areas where you can focus

--Focusing on finding a good idea in the first place, which is a contrarian argument because most people think ideas are worthless

I could go on...

I've seen these types of comments before. I don't know if it's because I've watched this three times now or I'm just reading between the lines or what. I'm not sure what you're looking for and would be interested to know, but there is a lot here!
The future of publishing - a palindrome
Ignore the subheading "Declinists have always projected America's imminent demise. For a change, they're onto something.", it's not supported by the text, reality, or history, which this author seems to know a fair amount of (e.g. the late '70s, when things looked much worse).
Obnoxious drivel like this is perhaps one of the most powerful arguments for having downvote arrows available.
The best part for me is the enhanced road lines. I drive in fog and snow a lot in Denver and being able to see the road better would be really cool.
that's why there is equity compensation

And as little equity as possible, for identical reasons.

An employee is responsible for making sure the terms agreed on are ones they're happy with, not an employer. An employer has a legal obligation to shareholders to minimize the costs of her business, one in direct conflict with "being generous in compensation" to her employees.
I am wary of trying to contribute to this (a little knowledge is a dangerous thing) but hopefully someone can correct my mistakes.(And what better way for me to learn...)

A typical controlled science experiment is designed to take measurements of multiple groups where one variable is different between the groups and others are controlled. We wish to see if the variable of interest has an effect.

Therefore the commonest statistical test is to determine if the mean value of the groups are different (t-test for two groups, anova for multiple groups) e.g. does mean blood pressure increase when on a high salt diet.

If I understand the CLT (big if) then the distribution of the _mean_ of a sample is, by the CLT, going to be Gaussian, regardless of the distribution from which the actual measurements are drawn. i.e. for comparing group means it it doesn't matter if my data is sampled from Guassians or not.

Of course that leads to the question of if a significant difference in group means is really relevant in a given context.
Submerged Servers: Green Revolution Cooling
I wonder how many of the car owners knew there was a remote disable switch in their cars.

Also, I suspect this is a small outbreak of The Future we're all about to inhabit.
My definition of "deficiency" was intended to consider only levels that can be obtained through food or created by your body from food. The definition still isn't completely right since given the same inputs, different people will produce a range of values. You get the idea, though.
I'm self-taught -- bought Frontpage in 1998 and a PHP/MySQL book from Sitepoint a couple years later and did all the examples. Building a successful web business has very little to do with how well you know the newest languages, fanciest design patterns, or fastest algorithms. Those considerations are way, way far behind 1) does it work 2) is it usable and 3) did I ship it?

Things that were non-obvious to me in the beginning: version control, database normalization, query optimization, and the importance of reliable infrastructure and testing your backups.
I think a really simple and sort of bash-you-over-the-head means to get this across to homebuyers would be to tack on the monthly utilities to the mortgage+tax number that people see.

If you were comparing the price of two houses, you often look at the monthly cost of mortgage and taxes... so throwing utilities on there would make it more apparent which house will actually be cheaper over the long term.