skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't sound like a cloud utility to me at all. Cloud computing is on-demand, and allows other users to share resources when they are not being used by you.

1 dedicated encoder = $99 / mo.

"Unlike other video encoding services, Panda doesn't charge you per video encoded. Your dedicated encoders can be used to their full potential encoding many thousands of videos a day."

This sounds great if you have thousands of videos to process a day. What if I have only a few (like most small sites do initially), but they exceed the 10 MB upload limit on the free plan?

$99/mo is a high barrier to entry for most bootstrapping startups.
I'm an Italian living in the US and I studied English in middle and high school. For a total of 8 years. It was very valuable: I learned all the grammar and studied some literature. I did not learn any conversational skills. BTW I was required to attend class. It made my relocation to the US (happened several years later) much easier. In high school I also studied French for 2 years.

I found the article very short sighted. It seems strange to me that a high school kid can choose not to attend a class. If I had to choose, I would have spent all my time in the CS lab. Forget about French, Latin, philosophy, Italian, History! Now, instead, I regret having studied too much CS and only 2 years of Latin.
I use this as my default way to browse HN from my phone. Typically I don't vote much while on my mobile, so sometimes I'm not logged in through the app. I think it works well. My biggest request would be Instapaper support.
The problem is it's not really valuable to you or your friends. It's valuable to people who want to sell you crap.
I'd argue that this is what makes 23andme interesting. Without that capability, it's a toy for rich people.

First of all, today, this is not full genome information, just your genotype. Second, if we want good molecular medicine, information like this is essential (some might argue the only way) to get good sampling and do the appropriate research.

Addendum since I can't reply to the comment. They don't quite have the technology on hand today to do full genome analysis today. I am not sure there is enough material to do whole genome sequencing with current technology (I could be wrong).
:) I'd call this a community. You can find my real name and the real names of others on our profile. I've also met many people from here and have had people reach out to me through this site. It's the most real online community I'm part of. It's this way because most of us act sensible most of the time.
In a far off future, where enough DNA data is publicly (!) available, that may be the case. Until then, to which data set should any company compare my DNA to find out who I am?
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As I recall, Perl didn't start with a machine-readable syntax description, either. But they've got one now, and Python doesn't.
I'm not in the US at all, but in the Netherlands.

edit: Maybe that qualifies all of this as 'minor league C lister stuff' ;)
Like most monocultures operating on 20th century logic, FB will fail. I'm not saying they won't make a ton of money in the process (ala MS) but in the end, the system will innovate around and past them (as it is already doing).

The 21st century is all about UX, i.e. power to the people. Entities who do not recognize this will not thrive in the long-term.
Tasteless.

Sometimes I wonder why there are so many people having fun of Christians and none of Muslims?

Not brave enough?
the compatibility issues between JPython and CPython are because python isn't implemented in itself

Didn't say that. Said that self-hosting is one solution (one Perl 6 uses), not the only one.

[Ruby's secret] isn't self hosting, but rather a very comprehensive unit testing suite for the language

No, Python also has a comprehensive test suite. The difference between Jython and Ruby is that Jython isn't as well maintained as the Ruby branches. Self-hosting the syntax is an architectural solution which requires zero additional effort to implement syntax upgrades.
Mike Cariaso, who does SNPedia (http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/SNPedia), and knows what he is talking about, says that 23andme offers the best SNP/$ ratio of the DTC providers
> this is not full genome information, just your genotype.

That's what they give you. But you give them your full genome.
Maybe they somehow convinced investors they were going to be the new "twitter".
Yelp's data would seem to indicate that users with a positive experience are more likely to write a review: http://www.yelp.com/press
vtail has already done a good job of proving most of your statements as false, but I would like to drive the point further:

"If any open source implementation of anything like this happened, I can assure you the comitters and developers would be appalled and embarrassed (in public), and significant lessons would be learned all within users view."

There is no merit to this argument as the open source development model hasn't proved itself capable of delivering a competitive anti-virus solution. The most well known open source anti-virus software has consistently been ranked as poorly performing.
Dear Apple Fans...
> In 2009, McAfee spent $839mn on SG&A and $325mn on R&D. Sure, the R&D number is less than SG&A, however:
- SG&A number includes administrative expenses, paying rent for buildings, providing customer support etc.

Building rentals, fixed assets depreciation, services and energies used can go to COGS (R&D) if it is possible to allocate them to specific cost center. If you have building (or part of it) dedicated to developers, it will go to their cost center & COGS. Similarly their equipment and other items.

The SG&A part will have depreciations, rentals etc. only for sales & communication, IT, finance, HR, management and other support functions.

Well, my point is, that R&D in their PL is not only cash out wages. It includes all other costs incurred by R&D.
During the beta we're focused on the dedicated encoders side of things. For people with a large volume of videos this can provide huge savings. We are aware that the base plan we currently have may be too high for some, and we are looking into smaller shared encoder plans.
Phishing "Education Test" is blocked...for phishing
I would think the biggest issue with Groupon is the type of customer they send to your business. Is the Groupon demographic likely to produce valuable long term customers? I am skeptical, because the trait being selected is price sensitivity.
At least for once, we are exporting to a country like Japan other than just our food. Even tho I dislike the totalitarian regime of Apple, I am happy to see U.S. Technology in another country.
McAfee has now changed their estimate to "[...] a small percentage of our enterprise accounts globally" http://siblog.mcafee.com/support/mcafee-response-on-current-...
Only if you want to attract them away from Facebook. There's no need for that. All one has to provide is an alternative channel for communications that can effectively use Facebook as a directory, but provide private communications and updates under the user's control.
Please please please add Instapaper support for this.
Saying you don't store CC numbers and are PCI compliant makes no sense.

Yes I know, that's why I didn't say that.

I'm wondering why you would ever (as a startup) choose to write your own gateway and not outsource this to a company that can be PCI compliant (i.e. the Gateway)
And this affects me as a Python user how, exactly?
I had problems with the spacebar of my eee; I ended up following the advice on http://forum.eeeuser.com/ and detached the space key, and thickened the raised part that activates the switch (I think they suggested glue; I just used some layers of sticky tape. Still working perfectly after a year of heavy use). I think I ended up doing something for some other keys; I also disabled caps lock (I'd press it instead of tab). BTW I use vim all the time.

It was annoying, but the hacking was fun.
There is a technological aspect that the user can or should be able to control, although it by no means addresses all the concerns. Simply firewall your Facebook access away from your other online access. It's annoying that browsers let so much information bleed between connections and provide either poor controls of same or poor promotion of such controls where they exist.

Currently, I have my Facebook access running through one browser that is doing nothing else. I use other browsers for other access. I would disallow Flash "super cookies" except that that borks a few other sites I access, so I wipe them at each shut down. (I'm also not entirely trustful of Adobe's online control panel and "black box" implementation.) I'm now considering controlling them yet more aggressively, as I see them as a means of cross-browser communication during the course of access that takes place between wipes.

All that aside, I too am becoming quite uneasy with Facebook. Opera's Unite continues to intrigue me, and if I can shake some time and energy free, I'd like to look at that more, not just or primarily for myself but also for friends who may want something "simple" to implement that places their data under their own control.

Most, however, won't want to leave the convenience -- and the "games" -- of Facebook. At least their browser should keep Facebook locked up in its own little pen, segregated if and as they wish from the rest of their online access.
I just purchased at $99, so the deal is back!
Not exactly. This is something that could be built on top of Opera Unite. There would have to be a lot of functionality implemented to make it viable.
Biking drunk should be legal, or at least a far less serious offense than driving drunk.

If you're looking to minimize injuries or deaths (which is the ostensible reason for drunk driving laws) it makes sense to provide an incentive for people to not drive drunk. A cyclist is extremely unlikely to kill or injure a pedestrian or another cyclist--and probably incapable of injuring a driver--while drivers kill tens of thousands of other drivers and thousands of pedestrians every year. Cars are incredibly dangerous.

If someone wants to ride a bicycle drunk, they are realistically only endangering themselves. If people are going to get drunk anyway--and they will--allowing them an additional relatively safe, legal method to get home would make the streets much safer for everyone.

In Portland, people bike drunk all the time. There are extremely few arrests. Cops drove by my obviously drunk friend the other night and chose to do nothing. I guess it's not an enforcement priority here.

In this case, it sounds like the guy probably deserved it. Pedestrian-bicycle collisions do occur and people are occasionally injured or killed. But it's not common.

I got these stats from http://bicycleuniverse.info/transpo/almanac-safety.html. Not the most unbiased, I know, so if someone wants to take issue with them let me know.
23andme is collecting data at a fair rate, there are other companies like them. Pooling the data between all those companies is going to allow you to fill in a bunch of 'blanks'. At some point that will reach critical mass and you can map the remainder.

I'm not good enough at math to give you the percentage of a certain population in order to be able to infer the rest, maybe someone else here can do that.

But given a population size 'n' if you get a random distribution of individuals and you know their genes and you know have a graph of relationships (say through facebook or some other means of tracing links between people) you should be able to make a formula that tells you what kind of 'coverage' you can expect based on how large a sample.
So, if a user has a laptop on a coffee shop wireless network, access to a log of the MAC addresses registered at the coffee shop could be cross referenced with Google's data to find out where that MAC address was at the time the street view car went by. If you assume that the street view car happened by that MAC address while that user was at home, you could then look up the residents and figure out the identity of the user of that MAC address.

Honestly, it doesn't concern me that much, but I'm trying to figure out what has other people worried.
I understand. "Fully loaded cost" in my calculation above includes office space, equipment etc. - usually it ~30% on top of annual salary.
Send your $99 to me. I'll pick a disease at random and you likely have a better, if not, as good a chance at getting it based on how they calculate risks. Today only, I'll do it for $9.
yeah. I might actually have made the same mistake. I'll be going over this during the weekend.
I don't think that learning a foreign language is a waste of time, but high school classes of foreign languages may indeed be a waste of time and money.

I'm a Mexican. All the way through high school I attended English classes. I learned nothing from those classes. Nada.

It wasn't until I started getting into the net and finding that most interesting stuff is written in English, and that I wanted to contribute to Open Source projects and that everybody there speaked English that I started caching up in the language.

I'm now trying to learn Italian using the same method. Skip formal courses and just start watching subtitled Italian movies, reading stuff in Italian and hanging out in Italian speaking IRC rooms.
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If that's what you're looking for here's a blogpost I wrote that explains how to use some basic statistics to arrive at exactly the price that maximizes your profits.

http://www.maximise.dk/blog/2009/01/getting-product-pricing-...
In general, having the wrong CVV code will decrease the chance of the purchase going through, not stop the transaction completely. If you have, for example, the wrong CVV but the correct address and name, there is a good change the transaction will go through any way.
I'm going to do just that
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I wasn't implying that you were, I was just trying to be clear.

Why is simple. It's the economics. If you're a startup that does lots of micro-transactions you're paying a good chunk of overhead in gateway processing fees. If you feel it's worth the continual development effort (because don't kid yourself, writing a secure internal gateway takes a long time and essentially never ends) then you do it.

In Blippy's case they probably had to write their own because I don't know of any 3rd party gateway that has an API to return a list of user purchases when you give them a credit card number. I'm actually surprised the banks even support that kind of request.
The real red herring is the idea that this is satire with a message and not just a joke.
Of course - if you give equity for workers, it is simply a form of salary. If they don't get equity, they should get a higher salary than workers who get equity. I agree to that. I just don't see why equity should always be a part of the compensation.
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Blippy's response: http://blippy.posterous.com/blippy-and-credit-card-numbers
I will concede one point to the article, which is that if you wait until high school to start learning a foreign language, you won't get much out of it. According to modern theories of cognitive development, you switch from language "acquisition" to language "learning" sometime around puberty (usually cited as age 13). The two models of gaining knowledge and skills are qualitatively different both in how they operate, and in the benefits they give.

I don't have a link, but I've heard that there's solid research saying that kids who grow up bilingual have a better basis for abstract concepts. This makes sense to me: having two symbols for everything makes you more aware of the difference between the symbol and the thing it stands for, and having two ways of expressing a concept makes you more open to hother ways of expressing (and perceiving) it.

The main point is, if you start taking your first foreign language in high school, you're only acquiring the single skill of speaking that one language, and I agree that skill may not be utile for you. If you start learning foreign languages earlier (even 2 years earlier!), it has an impact much larger than gaining a single skill. Language is fundamental to human thought, and being able to speak more than one language makes it easier to think in different ways.

I would say that teaching kids a foreign language early on is as important as math skills early on, and programming concepts should probably be given the same treatment. Not that I expect every kid to grow up into a programmer, but that style of thinking is useful.
I think Google has some responsibility here. Credit card numbers can be validated with a simple checksum[1]. I don't see why Google can't detect them in their index and obscure them. It's not like they haven't gone to that kind of privacy effort for faces and license plate numbers in Street View.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm
I'm right up there with this guy, the only problem: I'm writing the software and I can't design an interface anyone would enjoy using.
This is only upvote worthy if it's premise is true. For that, we need evidence.
To down-voters: this is a valid question, and something I cut from the original post (trying to keep to meta-discussion).

I'm hitting one related issue right now at work: we want to switch to Jython to take advantage some JVM features, but need to weigh the risk that it might never move past Python 2.5 syntax [1]. That's not a deal-breaker, but I'm an enormous fan of where Python syntax has gone since then, so it pains me especially. With a self-hosting syntax interpreter, even a minimally maintained project like Jython could keep up with most changes.

Another less-practical issue is that of syntax evolution: like Apple, Python has taken the route of benevolent-overlord to make design decisions. Thanks to the good taste of Steve and GvR, I think that's worked out really well. But neither is perfect, and especially in the case of programming language design, I'd wager the end product could benefit from having a market system of minor syntax features competing in user-space, not just in Guido's head. Just as "from __future__ import print_function" changes the syntax of a file, so could "from __macros__ import anaphoric_if".

1. The Jython project lead is no longer working on it full-time: http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-new-job-at-sauce-...
Needle-in-a-Haystack Problems
I read it differently. They had an agreement to get funding for NewCo with VC One. When that fell through, A and B got funding for OldCo with VC Two (and VC One as well). I don't think there was ever an agreement to get funding for OldCo, and C had previously left OldCo to become a contractor. Therefore, C does not have standing to receive compensation from OldCo.
Except not at all. Your example doesn't handle a clean URL like "/hi" (it would be something like "/hi.php" at best in PHP). Furthermore, it doesn't force the GET http request type, which is a major part of the Sinatra microframework. I can setup a Ruby script that outputs "Hello World", but that would miss the point entirely.

EDIT: Also, the original ruby example could be condensed to one line as well:

get "/hi" { "Hello world" }

Run with ruby -rsinatra script.rb
potential for what though?
Because they didn't read the agreement when they signed up.
Obviously this is bad, but are you able to make a purchase anywhere with only a CC number? Don't you need the expiry date and CSV and full name?
They've responded here: http://blippy.posterous.com/

Not as apologetic as one might expect.
Blippy And Credit Card Numbers - Official Blippy Blog
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Yeah, it did. I had a chance to talk to these guys at NAB a couple of weeks ago and the said the camera was destroyed by that beam.
Yeah, I think "brevity" isn't the perfect word because it seems to imply shortness. I mean it to be more of making every word tell, which I think those writers do.
Two words people: BOOK MARKS

Or if you want to get fancy, there is delicious.

(Yes, I'm being sarcastic)
Virality is overrated
Blippy series A $11.2 Million announced yesterday @ valuation of $46.2 Million
Way too many people taking this far too seriously as an attack on liberal arts. It's just absurd humor and could be flipped for equally funny effect - some movie astronaut/action hero in a tense meeting of academics who all consider his input weirdly vital.
I don't understand python is dead or hurting because jython isn't keeping up with the latest branches?

Edit: Only in a language group like rubyists do you see quick adoption and change and for many applications this isn't always great I'll take stable libraries over ever changing applications any day.
Perspective texture with 6 lines of SVG = MarioKart-like graphics in the browser
The potential upside of this type of research is worth the risk of loss of anonymity. I would post my genome to a public website if it would help advance medical science.

[Disclosure: I participated in public health genomics research in grad school.]
I'm not happy by Google's dominance of search & email, and yet it is there.

Here the matter is even worse due to the network effect: if most of your friends are using facebook's social tagging service, you'd have to be connected to it one way or the other.
I think it's a pretty solid response.

The question is, why would banks put your credit card number on the description of transactions in the first place? I've never seen that done before.

I think they're perhaps not as apologetic as you'd like because the premise (Blippy publishes credit card numbers) is incorrect. They made a mistake in a beta period which they fixed.
I am still amazed by the kind of thinking that even allowed a site like Blippy to get funding.

"I've got a great idea. It's a web site that tells people what you just bought."

Talk about solving a problem nobody has.
I was specifically referring to their non-enterprise customers. For them, their statement says that "a fraction of our consumer base–home users" [is affected].

Enterprise customers are in a different league: even if individual users are extremely unhappy, it's the IT department who makes the final decision about switching vendors.

I'm extremely unhappy about using Lotus Notes for email/calendar where I work, but can do nothing about it, other than whining on the internet.
yeah it basically boils down to "oh it's no big deal"